Chapter 41
"Jiashu, are you really going to bid for this project?" At a cocktail party, Gu Heng ran into Li Jiashu who was seeking advice from his uncles.
Li Jiashu looked back at him with a glass of red wine in his hand, and said with a confused look on his face: "What project? How come I don't know?"
Gu Heng touched Li Jiashu's shoulder, motioning him to step aside to talk, and sat down on the sofa in the corner. He whispered, "You want to participate in the bidding for the H City Urban Waste Resource Disposal Project. The news has spread. Alas, this is how things are in the circle. Any news spreads very quickly."
Although Li Jiashu didn't want to publicize this matter, anyone with a discerning eye could guess what the company had been working overtime for recently. Li Jiashu crossed his legs, sneered, and said, "What do you think, Young Master Heng?"
"Well..." Gu Heng seemed to be genuinely concerned, "I'm just a little worried about you...is this a big step? This is the franchise for the entire H city."
Li Jiashu was very casual and said, "I didn't expect to win. I just started the company not long ago. I have to participate in such a big event to practice my skills."
Although he looked relaxed on the surface, he was actually very unhappy. He did it for practice, and never thought that a startup company could win such a project. There was no pressure, and he just tried his best. But it would be different if the news got out. People like Gu Heng probably laughed at him for overestimating his abilities.
"Indeed, it's good to practice..." Gu Heng agreed, obviously not believing that Li Jiashu could win. He continued, "I have a project here that is very suitable for you to practice."
"My chemical plant produces thousands of tons of hazardous waste every month. I heard that the price of disposing ordinary household waste outside is 80 yuan per ton. I will give it to your company for disposal. How about 200 yuan per ton?"
"Sure." Li Jiashu smiled "politely" at Gu Heng and said, "You dispose of it harmlessly first, and I will collect it." Damn, the food waste costs 280 per ton, and they want to force him to pay 200 per ton for the stuff coming out of the chemical plant.
Gu Heng said awkwardly: "If they are all disposed of harmlessly, why are they still called hazardous waste?"
He sighed again and said, "Jiashu, although this is a small project, you shouldn't be too ambitious. After all, this can bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue to your company every month."
Li Jiashu said: "Mr. Heng, you and your father are really alike." Same daddy vibe.
Li Jiashu stood up and said, "I'm a waste resource disposal company, not a garbage collector. I definitely can't collect your garbage. Of course, if you come to our company for an interview, we definitely can't collect it either. Excuse me."
Gu Heng: "You..." Does this mean he is trash? Is this the upbringing of the Li family?
Gu Heng didn't say anything for a while. The person had already left. He could only sneer and said, "I want to see what results your rubbish company can get in the bidding."
Although the Gu family and the Li family were married, after just over two months, the Li family began to treat them more and more indifferently.
So what's the point of Gu Chen marrying him? Even with this appearance, she can't win a man's heart. Li Tingqin went abroad just a few days after their wedding! Now even Li Jiashu can scold him in a roundabout way.
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Li Tingqin's phone popped up a reminder: [Your partner has planted another love chess piece in your heart~]
Li Tingqin: “?” Although he made this small program casually, the copywriting was given to a female employee who is a full-time copywriter at the group’s gaming company. How did it turn out like this?
He was just about to have someone take it and revise it, but suddenly he thought of Ah Chen and thought it was quite interesting, so he decided to just do it.
Li Tingqin opened the mini program and started playing chess with Gu Chen.
The two of them used their free time to play a few chess pieces from time to time, and within a few days, the chess pieces filled most of the chessboard.
The more Li Tingqin played chess with Gu Chen, the more subtle it became.
Achen's chess style is completely different from his leisurely and lazy temperament. His chess is tentative and aggressive at every step. There are many unexpected strokes of genius in his moves, which are very interesting and touching.
As the black pieces probe and attack step by step, the white pieces on the board fall step by step, and the situation is already declining.
At this time, the mini program pops up a prompt: [Your heart can’t hold so many chess pieces, eat them quickly and take some away~]
Seeing this sentence in front of him, Li Tingqin chuckled. This prompt was really interesting.
In that case, let’s start to close the net. He placed another white piece, and the situation began to turn around.
Gu Chen also found it quite interesting. Li Tingqin was really a very patient person. He played chess by luring the enemy step by step. He was polite and well-mannered on the surface. But deep down, he was extremely tough and slowly lay dormant just to capture his opponent in an instant.
Just like now, the layout of the white pieces on the chessboard has been completed, and the black pieces, which are moving forward step by step, have fallen into the trap unknowingly. If Li Tingqin makes a few more moves, he will eat up a large number of black pieces in just a few steps.
Gu Chen did not struggle, nor did he try to fight against the white pieces to save the black pieces from their decline. He just placed a few more pieces at random, and the black pieces were quickly defeated.
Li Tingqin's phone displayed a message: [You have already captured your lover's heart~]
At the same time, Gu Chen's phone also displayed: [Your lover has filled your heart~]
Gu Chen chuckled and said to Li Tingqin, "Boss Li, the small program you made is really interesting."
"Ahem, Ah Chen." Li Tingqin said awkwardly, "I did the programming, but I didn't write the copy."
He changed the subject and started discussing the chess game: "Ah Chen, you lost this game. But I set it up on purpose..."
Gu Chen smiled and said, "Then how does Mr. Li know that the black piece was not eaten by the white piece on purpose?"
Li Tingqin paused and suddenly said, "Okay, Ah Chen, I understand."
After finishing the voice call with Gu Chen, Li Tingqin called Assistant Chen and said, "Please arrange for a domestic designer and construction team. I need to renovate the villa I live in in H City, China."
"Buy the surrounding area and widen the artificial lake in the yard. Ask a professional landscape designer to design the landscaping in the yard and the lake view. Refer to the current style of Songhe Villa and make it more elegant." When he returns to China, there must be a place for him and Ah Chen to take walks together.
"Add a fencing venue, and improve the facilities of the swimming pool and gym." There must also be a place for fitness.
"I'll expand the cloakroom in my living room and add two more spaces to leave them for Achen's storage." Achen's favorite things should also have a place to go.
"Please ask the designer to prepare the design for me in the next few days. I hope the renovation can be completed before I return home."
Assistant Chen nodded: "Okay." Did Mr. Li and Mr. Gu's honeymoon period come too late? They have been married for two or three months. Maybe it's because long-distance relationships make people miss each other more.
Li Tingqin arranged everything one by one, and suddenly thought of something, and asked Gu Chen: [By the way, Ah Chen, I forgot to ask you what kind of flowers you like? ]
Gu Chen was leaning on a recliner in the courtyard of the villa and reading a book. When he heard the message from Li Tingqin, he put down the book, picked up his mobile phone, leaned back in the recliner, and the recliner sank backwards.
He replied: [I don’t have any favorite flowers.]
But as he took the phone out of his sight, he was able to see the wisteria climbing freely on the courtyard wall, blooming brilliantly like a waterfall, from his lying position.
He took a photo and sent it to Li Tingqin: [The wisteria on the courtyard wall is quite beautiful.]
Li Tingqin replied: [Okay.]
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The Gu family, who were paying attention to the Li family, were confused.
Li Tingqin was abroad, so why did he suddenly build a villa in China? It would be fine if he just renovated the interior, but he actually expanded the floor area and started digging a pool?
Is this the rhythm of returning to China? But Li Tingqin lives a low-key life, and large-scale construction is not his style.
Until they saw the spectacular large wisteria plants pulled by a large truck and trailer. It was in bloom, and the flowers were like a purple waterfall. They were transplanted in the yard of the villa, and a professional landscaper was hired to create the landscape for the wisteria...
The Gu family finally understood: this is "A horse gallops through the red dust, and the concubine smiles, but no one knows that the lychees are coming"!
The massive construction and pond digging, and the transplanting of large wisteria plants from thousands of miles away were probably all done to make someone laugh.
Gu Heng shook his head and sighed: "It's over. Li Tingqin found a new love abroad so quickly. This villa is probably converted for the new couple to live in. Now... I'm afraid Gu Chen will really become a mad man locked up in the mountains."
"Dad brought Gu Chen home because he was good-looking. I didn't expect Li Tingqin to change his mind so quickly. Now I really don't know why Li Tingqin agreed to marry Gu Chen in the first place."
Gu Kang frowned and said, "I guess they just married her home as a decoration to comfort our family. I didn't expect the Li family to enter the southern market so quickly through cooperation. Now they have crossed the river and demolished the bridge and no longer take the Gu family seriously..."
Gu Heng didn't want to continue this disappointing topic, so he said, "By the way, brother, have you heard of the mysterious Gu family? Old Mr. Gu and Mr. Li have a personal relationship, and Professor Gu is a leading figure in the academic world. If we can find them, we can ask them to check the family tree. Maybe our ancestors are from the same family. After all, you can't write two Gu characters with one stroke."
Gu Kang thought, "That's right. If we can establish a relationship with this family, it will also help our family. And even if we are not from the same clan, as long as we have common interests and can cooperate with each other, we can also form a clan with the Gu family."
Gu Kang felt that the alliance was feasible, so he told his secretary, "Go and check the details of the Gu family."
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Before the bidding, although he had no expectations, Li Jiashu still tried his best. After all, this was the only way to train himself.
However, people like Gu Heng around him don't care whether you are doing this for self-training or not. They are all waiting for this ambitious second son of the Li family to fall flat on his face.
So despite his good mentality, Li Jiashu was still a little nervous. Before he left, he harassed all his family members: "Grandpa! I'm going to bid!"
"Sis! I'm going to bid!"
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When it came to Gu Chen, he said even more: "Sister-in-law! I'm going to bid!"
"I always feel that your words are magical. Can you just say a few words to bless me?"
Gu Chen said casually: "Come on, you can do it."
Li Jiashu said: "No, no, no, it's not this, sister-in-law, what you say must have specific content."
Gu Chen said: "Actually, I think as a new company, your chances of success are slim, but what if someone happens to want a new one? Give it a try, good luck."
Li Jiashu immediately said, "Okay, thank you, sister-in-law! It's done! I'll report my training experience to you when I come back!"
Gu Chen: "...That's not necessary."
Gu Chen spent the day according to his own schedule, and it was time for an evening walk.
At this time, Li Jiashu took advantage of the fiery sunset, got out of the car and ran in: "Ah, sister-in-law! I won! I won!"
Gu Chen: “…” Shouting like this really sounds like Fan Jin passing the imperial examination.
Gu Chen said, "Oh, very good." To some extent, Li Jiashu was indeed quite outstanding in being able to accomplish this.
Li Jiashu said: "Sister-in-law, can't you be a little emotional? Grandpa is in City A, my brother is abroad, my sister is in the film and television city, and you are the only one in City H. I can only come to share this good news with you in person!"
Gu Chen said: "Well, it's really good."
Li Jiashu continued: "Sister-in-law, aren't you curious about how I got involved? What you said is really useful! City H wants to introduce new harmless disposal and resource disposal technologies! They even really want a newer company to carry out new full-area integration..."
“So the key point is really in a new word!!!”
"Sister-in-law, you really have some mysterious power!"
Gu Chen suddenly asked: "Franchise? Full-area integration?"
Li Jiashu said: "Yes."
Gu Chen sighed and said, "This may not be a good thing. Just for the other companies in H City to withdraw from the negotiations, we will probably have to hold a hundred or eighty coordination meetings this year, and then set a two-year integration transition period for you... You may have to work overtime every day for this in the next few years..."
Real estate demolition is just to persuade the stubborn households to leave the land. Now the whole area needs to be integrated, which means all the related enterprises in the area need to be "persuaded" to leave. Although the government is taking the lead in implementation, the scene of holding several meetings a week and arguing with more than ten or twenty enterprises is still too terrifying for retirees...
"Sister-in-law, how did you know that the integration transition period is two years?" Li Jiashu was still very happy, not realizing the seriousness of the problem at all. "It's okay, sister-in-law. I'm young and I need to exercise. I'm not afraid of working overtime every day."
Gu Chen looked at Li Jiashu who was giving him a headache, and suddenly changed his tone and said, "You are right. This may be a good thing."
I can’t stand it anymore. This kid should just go and work overtime.
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