Chapter 401 What do you want to do?
He leaned over with one hand on the desk and used his other hand to turn off the glaring screen for me. “They calculated that the delay in the construction period would cause the board of directors to put pressure on us. They are here to suck our blood.”
"I asked Lao Chen to check Xinda's transaction records for the past six months. Guess what? They used the same method in the Chengnan project - first bribed the insider, then used the secrets to blackmail and raise the price."
“But this time they hit a wall.”
"What? What do you want to do?" Xu Sisi asked tentatively.
"Here is a vice president of Xinda Building Materials, stuffing a bulging envelope to someone from the Audit Bureau."
"I've arranged to meet them on the top floor of the Hyatt Hotel at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
Then he continued, "You are responsible for playing the good guy. I have prepared a surprise for them."
He wanted to... While I was thinking about it, Song Yang went out.
That night, as soon as I opened the door, the warm yellow glow of the light made the house feel especially cozy, and I smelled a faint milky fragrance in the air.
Jiang Yichen was pacing in the living room holding Xiaoman. The nine-month-old baby was lying on his shoulder chewing on a teething stick, and his saliva soaked the shoulder line of his dark gray home clothes.
"I just coaxed her to sleep ten minutes ago." He lowered his voice and used his mouth to signal me to be gentler.
Xiao Huai in my arms suddenly raised his head, his grape-like eyes lit up the moment he saw me, and he waved his little hands covered with biscuit crumbs and cried "Ah-woo" with joy.
I hurriedly took off my wet coat, rubbed my cold hands, pinched her little face, and hugged her.
Xiao Huai immediately grabbed my pearl earrings and stuffed them into her mouth, and her baby teeth made a crisp sound when they hit the metal holder.
"The nanny told me today that she vomited milk three times and grandma has fallen asleep." Jiang Yichen rubbed the back of her neck and handed over the warmed breast pump.
"The probiotics prescribed by the pediatrician are on the second layer of the refrigerator." Hearing this, I hesitated.
I curled up on the sofa holding the child, and he lifted the ties of my sweater on the back with familiarity.
Xiao Huai played with the necklace on my chest, with her warm cheek pressed against the position of my heartbeat.
I told him what happened today.
"Song Yang wants you to be bait?" He suddenly spoke, and the movement of disassembling the breast pump parts was full of gunpowder.
I held down Xiaoman's kicking feet: "It was just a play, he arranged twelve bodyguards..."
"It's not too troublesome."
Xiaoman suddenly burped loudly, and the sour smell of applesauce exploded in the air.
Jiang Yichen instantly switched to a skilled posture of undoing his diaper with one hand. I took the opportunity to press the back of his hand where veins were bulging. "When we first got together, haha, you weren't like this. You weren't so cautious."
"You and she are the most important people to me."
In the jasmine scent of baby wipes, he suddenly held the back of Xiao Huai's head and pressed his forehead against mine: "At that time, I only needed to be responsible for myself, but now..." Xiao Man kicked his collarbone, leaving a footprint covered with moisturizer.
At two o'clock in the morning, Xiao Huai had already fallen asleep.
I was sitting on the crawling mat sorting documents when I was suddenly embraced by the scent of a fresh shower.
Jiang Yichen rested his chin on the top of my head, his palm covering the Xinda Building Materials scandal that I was flipping through: "Engineer Chen has re-made three quality inspection reports, and I will have my assistant deliver them to the hotel tomorrow."
"When did you..."
Xiaoman suddenly started sobbing in her sleep, and we all rushed towards the crib at the same time, knocking over the file box.
Jiang Yichen rushed to put the pacifier into the child's mouth. I looked at the sweat stains on the back of his pajamas and thought of the back of him coaxing Xiao Huai in the obstetrics ward.
"The weather station has issued a blizzard warning." He suddenly wrapped my cold feet with a blanket, "Why are they so cold?"
"It must have been too hard lately."
I wanted to protest, but he held me tightly.
Xiaoman's breathing gradually became longer.
“We are so familiar with each other now.”
“I am a father who loves my daughter.”
The button brushed my hot earlobe as he leaned over, "Now, lie down."
"Okay, good night."
The next morning, I arrived at the agreed location.
The crystal chandelier casts tiny spots of light on the conference table.
Mr. Zhang from Xinda turned his jade ring, with a half-smoked cigar sticking out of his suit pocket. “Gu Mo, it’s not that we are ruthless, but your company’s plan changes every three days, and someone has to bear the cost risk.”
I secretly squeezed the teacup with my fingers. If Song Yang hadn't gently pressed my knees under the table, I would have almost blurted out "taking advantage of the situation".
"Mr. Zhang is right." Song Yang suddenly chuckled.
He pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses he was wearing today, and the reflection from the lenses obscured his former look.
He has indeed changed a lot since I met him.
"Why don't we change our thinking? I heard that your company helped Wansheng Group deal with a batch of substandard earthquake-resistant steel bars last year?"
Mr. Zhang's hand that was turning the ring suddenly stopped.
"What a coincidence! I just visited the construction site of Wansheng Plaza yesterday."
Song Yang pulled out a test report from his briefcase and slammed the paper on the table like a thunderbolt. "Do you need me to help you recall the honeycomb structure of the 28th-floor load-bearing wall?"
The air in the conference room froze instantly.
The legal officer behind Mr. Zhang was about to speak when Song Yang raised his hand to interrupt him: "Don't worry, I haven't told you how your company tampered with the quality inspection report. Oh, by the way, my friend from the tax bureau asked me this morning if I wanted to see Xinda's cross-border flow..."
"Mr. Song!" Mr. Zhang stood up suddenly, and the mahogany chair scraped against the carpet. "Why do you have to make such a mess in the business world?"
"You were the first one to teach us how to behave." Song Yang slowly opened the contract.
"We will supply you at the original price, plus three months of priority supply. Otherwise, tomorrow's headlines will be about the shoddy construction of Wansheng Plaza—"
The sweat stains on the back of Mr. Zhang's neck spread a dark gray color on the collar of his shirt.
He stared at the recording phone next to Song Yang, his Adam's apple rolled up and down three times, and finally grabbed the pen and fiercely crossed out the numbers on the quotation: "Song Yang, you are so cruel."
"Same here." Song Yang smiled and pushed the contract over.
"By the way, I would like to remind you that Wang Hua took a flight this morning to travel - taking the hush money you gave him."
Song Yang was confronting him head on. The sparks from his cigarette flickered between his fingers.
"Why use such a risky method?" I asked him in a low voice.
"If they get their hands on the net and die..."
He ignored me and continued, "Remember the bidding for the land in the western suburbs three years ago?"
"You insisted on upgrading the building to resist earthquakes despite the pressure from the board of directors. At that time, I thought that someone who was willing to risk his future for a resettlement house..."
He chuckled, "Someone has to watch your back."
"Look, this is the previous cooperation agreement." At this time, I seized the opportunity to speak.
He looked at me hesitantly.
"I screened the supplier list three times and found Wang Hua. You can figure out the rest."
After saying that, Song Yang prepared to leave.
"Wait, we are a cooperative relationship, there is no need to make it so ugly."
As he spoke, the other party motioned to his men to take out paper and pen.
In an instant, he had signed. "Please."
We won.
"Gu Mo, sign it."
After he came out, he said to me, "Your hands were shaking in the conference room just now."
I froze for a moment, then said casually, "The situation was too tense. But we succeeded." My face was filled with uncontrollable joy.
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