"Practice makes perfect. Maybe we'll still be colleagues when we go back."

These words brought Meng Ran even closer to the others.

At this moment, Zhang Guochen also asked Meng Ran with some curiosity.

"By the way, Brother Meng, I heard you took care of him for a year, didn't you?"

"Why did you suddenly come here?"

Did you withdraw?

Meng Ran took a cigarette from Zhao Youming, smiled, leaned back in his chair, and waved.

"Don't even mention it!"

"I originally planned to retire, but the army wanted to transfer me to another place as an instructor."

"Can I agree to that?"

As Meng Ran spoke, he noticed that Zhao Youming was holding a wine bottle but hadn't opened it yet, so he took the porcelain bottle, lit a cigarette, and opened the bottle cap.

"Given my lifestyle, why don't you let me go out and explore the world?"

"Or you can stay with us and be an instructor."

"I didn't like either of them, so my superiors assigned me a job and told me to work for Yifeng for the time being."

Meng Ran began pouring wine for everyone one by one, showing no sense of distance from them at all, and quickly became familiar with them.

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Lin Yifeng.

Most people probably guessed it: the person Ye Wuzheng mentioned arranging for someone a while ago was probably Meng Ran following Lin Yifeng.

However, everyone can see this clearly.

This is not only for Lin Yifeng's safety, but also in the hope that Lin Yifeng can help support Meng Ran, so we can find a slightly more suitable reason.

When the time is right, Meng Ran can be transferred back to the military to retire.

As for what Meng Ran actually does, everyone knows perfectly well, and no one asked any further questions.

Lin Yifeng raised his glass and invited everyone to walk around together, as if to welcome the newcomers to this small circle.

Meng Ran felt quite at ease with the others, and raised his glass to drink around the room.

After a few rounds of drinks, Meng Ran was already chatting with Zhao Youming and the others, and quickly became familiar with everyone.

It was at this moment that Lin Yifeng brought up something important.

"By the way, Lao Zhang."

"I'm planning to start a security company, but I'm short-staffed."

"Could you help me find someone over there?"

Upon hearing this, everyone at the table was stunned.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at Lin Yifeng, finding it hard to believe what he had just said.

Actually, what everyone is most concerned about is not that Chet Lam suddenly wants to set up a security company. After all, given Chet Lam's personality, even if he said he wanted to open the rocket tomorrow, no one would be surprised.

The key point is that Lin Yifeng actually thought of poaching people from the military.

Zhang Guochen was completely dumbfounded by this question. In all his years of life, he had never seen anyone reach out to the military.

Seeing everyone's stunned expressions, Lin Yifeng repeatedly tried to explain.

"Don't misunderstand, I didn't mean anything by it."

"I'm looking for someone like Brother Meng."

"Have them help maintain order at Pang Donglai."

Zhao Youming frowned.

"Brother-in-law, you should ask Lao Wu about this."

"He has a lot of people there, so he'll definitely be able to handle this."

"You might as well..."

Before Zhao Youming could even speak, Qian Feng smacked him on the back of the head.

"You really think Lao Wu handles everything?"

"Besides, Lao Wu's colleagues can't possibly help my brother-in-law with his work 24/7."

Zhang Guochen quickly realized what Lin Yifeng meant.

Lin Yifeng's idea was actually very simple: he wanted to find someone similar to Meng Ran, not necessarily someone as amazing as Meng Ran, but at least someone with good skills who had to retire from the military for special reasons.

Once these people returned to civilian life, they were busy with the work assigned to them by the military. Instead of doing that, it would be better to ask some of them if they were willing to work under Lin Yifeng.

The main reason is that Lin Yifeng's current job offers much better benefits than the one assigned by the military. Although there is no future prospect for him either, compared to those who have started families, this is the most stable job.

"There should be quite a few."

"I need to go back and ask for you."

Zhang Guochen handed Meng Ran a cigarette, then turned to continue questioning Lin Yifeng.

"Brother-in-law, how many people are you planning to hire?"

Lin Yifeng pondered it for a moment.

The size of Pang Donglai in Shangdu requires at least fifteen people working in shifts, with ten responsible for the day shift and five for the night shift.

The area around Makino is relatively small, but there is still a warehouse, which requires at least ten people to manage.

"About twenty-five."

“I pay each of them a high salary and pay their insurance.”

"Then the salary depends on the situation, and there will definitely be a lot of gifts during holidays."

After Lin Yifeng gave his answer, everyone felt that there was hope for this.

Zhang Guochen nodded, taking the matter to heart, and planned to go back and deal with it tomorrow.

After giving these instructions, Meng Ran looked at Zhang Guochen and the others with a puzzled expression.

He pointed to Lin Yifeng beside him and asked softly.

"Why do you all call him brother-in-law?"

"Yifeng, you don't seem that much older than them."

This question had been troubling Meng Ran.

Just as he said, most of the people at the table were about three or four years older than Lin Yifeng, especially Zhao Youming, who was five years older than Lin Yifeng and was almost twenty-seven this year.

However, whether it was Zhao Youming or the others, they all treated Lin Yifeng with great respect, without the slightest hesitation. Meng Ran could sense that Lin Yifeng held a lot of prestige among this group, but she didn't understand why.

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