Xiao Cheng frowned: "Didn't you say that?"
Li Si shook his head decisively: "I never told Yun Ruolin about this. She's not the CEO of the building materials company, why would I tell her? We didn't mention it at dinner the night we discussed the cooperation, nor did we mention it during the discussions with her father. How did she know..."
"I heard about this company on the business card yesterday; they do indeed produce very high-end and aesthetically pleasing building materials."
"But the price is ridiculously high, so I didn't get their contact information. Yun Ruolin introduced you to this company, are you going to do some marketing promotion and give you a 'friendship price'?"
Xiao Cheng had no idea whether the price Yun Ruolin had quoted was a "friendship price".
After contacting Li Si one by one.
Surprisingly, it turned out that it wasn't just a "friendship price," but a "friendship price" that was also significantly lower than the factory price of the air conditioner!
"Unsolicited kindness is always suspicious!" Li Si was now even more convinced that Yun Ruolin had feelings for his boss.
After finishing his work on the new appliance manufacturer, Xiao Cheng has been openly and secretly trying to get inside information about the fruit industry.
The task of finding materials will be temporarily left to Li Si.
Li Si's search was met with disapproval from Xiao Cheng, which caused him great distress, to the point that he was constantly running around trying to find suitable partners.
Guangdong Province is not their territory; they have no influence here, so it's difficult for them to find anything of value.
Even if you find something good, you might get ripped off and make it extremely difficult to get a normal transaction.
A "friendship price" for high-end materials is even more impossible; you can't get a deal without a deep friendship that involves some mutual benefit.
Even Yun Ruolin couldn't win it.
Yun Ruolin's father is capable; as the operations manager of a high-end brand, he usually has business dealings with others.
But to do such a huge favor for a partner you're only working with for the first time, without any profit to be made, is clearly not something an operations manager would do.
It was even more difficult for Yun Ruolin to persuade her father to get the "friendship price" from the building materials supplier, which was a matter of personal favor.
But then he gave it to Xiao Cheng for free.
If you say you just want to make friends, Li Si would never believe it, not even if you beat him to death.
Yun Ruolin has definitely set her sights on the big shot!
Looking at his boss's outrageously handsome face, tall and imposing figure, and overwhelming aura of a powerful warrior, Li Si was filled with worry and apprehension.
"Brother Cheng, let's switch rooms. If we stay any longer, you'll never see your sister-in-law again."
"The women outside are terrifying, just like in the TV dramas. To steal a man, they'll go to great lengths, sending gifts in the middle of the night, and even dressing up so nicely on purpose..."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Cheng slightly raised his gaze from the phone, his cold gaze sweeping over the worried Li Si.
"You think it looks good?"
Li Si was stunned for a moment before realizing who the big boss had missed referring to: "Didn't Yun Ruolin dress well today?"
"The dress is similar to the one my sister-in-law wore last time; it's white. Although it's not even a fraction as beautiful as my sister-in-law, it's prettier than all the girls in the town and the city of Heping."
He didn't forget to explain after speaking: "I didn't stare at my sister-in-law on purpose, Brother Cheng, please don't misunderstand! It's just that the brothers all said my sister-in-law is very beautiful, and I only glanced at her once, but I knew she was very beautiful. I definitely didn't keep looking!"
Xiao Cheng's gaze remained cold, and he remained silent.
Li Si felt a chill run down his spine: "I was wrong, Brother Cheng. Sister-in-law must be angry and misunderstood what I said tonight. Let's change rooms quickly!"
"If we don't move to a different place soon, my sister-in-law will definitely run away from home once she finds out that Yun Ruolin is coming to see you again!"
Xiao Cheng delivered a cold, sarcastic remark: "If we change rooms now, how am I supposed to answer her calls?"
The front desk will not transfer outside calls to guest rooms.
Even if there are prior instructions, incoming calls from outside lines must be verified and checked repeatedly.
By the time the front desk finishes verifying the information, Bai Lu might already be so annoyed that she'll hang up the phone.
Li Si, realizing this terrible possibility, immediately deflated: "What should we do then..."
"Zhang San still hasn't called back. I don't know if his sister-in-law is angry and not calling, or if the phone is really broken. If his sister-in-law runs away from home, who will live in your big house, Cheng-ge? Yun Ruolin's 'friendship price' that she gave you for no reason is terrifying..."
Zhang San's mother left home after arguing with Zhang San's father and went to find Li Si's father.
Then Li Si was born.
Later, he argued with Li Si's father and ran away from home again, returning to Zhang San's house.
When she was unhappy, she ran away from home and went back to Li Si's house. If they argued again, she would run away from home and go back to Zhang San's house.
They went back and forth between the two families repeatedly. Zhang San and Li Si didn't have much on their minds, but they often ran away from home.
My life is filled with running away from home.
Bai Lu, whose mind wasn't filled with thoughts of running away from home, was currently in the backyard with Xiao Wei, Zhang San, and the couple who had come to install the telephone last time, all looking for the problem.
Each person held a flashlight, beams of strong light shining onto the lush chestnut trees.
After Xiao Wei replaced the battery, the phone still couldn't be made, so it was clearly not out of power.
The problem lies elsewhere.
After calming down, Bai Lu suddenly thought of the telephone line. Just as she and Xiao Wei were about to trace the fault along the telephone line, Zhang San and the telephone couple came to knock on the door.
"Found it!"
"The line broke here!"
Xiao Wei pointed his flashlight to a hidden tree branch where a white wire ran horizontally across the top.
The telephone line, less than a meter long and obscured by leaves, remained hanging from the branches even after breaking, thanks to the crisscrossing branches beneath it.
You wouldn't even notice where the line broke unless you looked closely.
"Kids are so sharp! Amazing! They found such a hidden spot so quickly!"
Zhang San brought over a ladder.
The couple opened their toolboxes; the male boss took the tools and climbed the tree, while the female boss held the ladder.
The cause of the disconnection was quickly identified.
"It was bitten off by a rat."
A gust of wind blew by, then silence, silence.
This simple and ordinary reason, occurring in a simple and ordinary home, is not surprising.
Surprisingly, Xiao Wei said, "I put mousetraps under the tree before summer vacation, but I didn't catch a single mouse. Instead, it ran up the tree and started chewing on the telephone line."
The female shop owner found the little guy's head-scratching gesture adorable and laughed, saying, "Mice are very clever. They can climb over from another tree or avoid mousetraps and jump up the tree. Other houses have had their phone lines chewed through before..."
Xiao Wei seemed to understand, but not quite. Mice liked to gnaw on telephone wires: "I remember we had rat poison at home."
"Sprinkle some rat poison on the tree and see if it will still bite. Once it finishes biting, it will fall down and run into the rat trap."
The little figure then ran back into the house with great energy.
Bai Lu wanted to go back inside to help, but Zhang San called her away: "Sister-in-law, Brother Cheng has something to tell you."
The two stopped on the eaves of the house opposite the big tree.
Lights shone from inside the house, and the silvery moonlight filtered through the leaves, making it not dark.
Zhang San said hurriedly and nervously, "What happened tonight was a misunderstanding, sister-in-law, please don't misunderstand. It's not what you think. That woman in Brother Cheng's room..."
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