Chapter 84 - Dependence
Chapter 84 - Dependence
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong were still staying in the large flat, while Tang Huilan took Ji Yuechi and Ji Xingzhe back to her parents' home.
Ning Fei was surprised at first why Ji Yuechi was included, but that night Ji Yuechi couldn't help but call Duan Yunhong to report (complain). Duan Yunhong didn't even bother to paraphrase this time and just played it publicly. Ning Fei was right next to him, sitting on the fluffy carpet, with her back against the sofa, leaning against his legs, and holding a glass of red wine in her hand, shaking it gently.
Duan Yunhong placed his hand behind his shoulder, and occasionally his fingers would gently touch the end of Ning Fei's hair. He answered the phone calmly: "...So, the Tang family took this opportunity to put forward conditions and want to participate in my personal business?"
"They said 'taking advantage of the opportunity', but in fact the Tang family didn't mention my father. It was just that my grandfather asked me to discuss business matters." Ji Yuechi replied, "He did talk about the Ji family's business in Shenzhen first, but he talked about it to understand my development. I didn't go into too much detail, just some more conventional or ambiguous things. He saw that I was not in a good mood, and kept saying that he had invested a lot recently and was not sure when he would see a return. Later, he gradually changed the topic. As we chatted, we talked about the information and Internet industries, and then mentioned your company, uncle.
"Grandpa initially thought that this was a business you and I started together, but he didn't expect it was yours alone. After I told him about it, he said that he was also optimistic about this blue ocean and could buy shares of your company at the original share price. He also said that the Tang family would not interfere with your business operations and that you could just be a dividend shareholder."
"Do you think it's possible?" Duan Yunhong said coldly, "He wants to be a major shareholder just to read my company's annual report and see what I'm doing. This is my personal matter and has nothing to do with the Ji family. He can forget about it."
"Well, I also guessed that you would say that, so even though grandpa asked me to talk to you, I also gave him a heads-up." Ji Yuechi agreed, "My dad also told me that he is very supportive of your career, uncle, and if there is any investment, it will be made by our Ji family first."
"puff."
Ning Fei chuckled softly beside him. Duan Yunhong lowered his eyes to look at him and pulled the hair on the back of his head lightly. Ning Fei was pulled back for a second without being on guard, and turned back to glare at him.
Duan Yunhong wanted to laugh in his heart, but he held it back on his face. He seemed not to understand Ji Yuechi's hint: "Oh, I don't need the Ji family's money either. I want to make a name for myself. Don't worry, when I need the Ji family's money, I won't be polite."
Ji Yuechi was unwilling to give up: "It's not entirely my father's idea. In fact, I am personally quite interested in the business that you are involved in. Moreover, some of my classmates and friends are majoring in computer science and finance, and they are very optimistic about this industry..."
"This is your own business, young people. I won't get involved." Duan Yunhong said, "If you have something you want to do, you can discuss it with your parents and do it."
"Well, actually I also want to learn more from my uncle." Ji Yuechi was not giving up. "If my friends and I can do something with my uncle in the Internet industry, they can also invest some money. If necessary, we can set up a company ourselves to help my uncle run errands and act as a bridge. The main thing is that my friends' families are well-off. They all said they want to go with you to see the world and get to know you better..."
"No, I can handle it by myself. It's inconvenient to have too many people." Duan Yunhong said, "You young people have your own ideas. You can develop freely. You don't need to learn any ideas from me."
He refused so bluntly twice in a row that Ji Yuechi finally felt too embarrassed to continue talking and wanted to hang up after a few words. Duan Yunhong added a sentence at the end after Ning Fei's reminder: "By the way, if your mother was really just taking advantage of the situation before, do you still need to investigate Lin Shengjia?"
"That's not clear yet." Ji Yuechi didn't doubt him and replied directly, "I asked Xiaozhe to ask, but he said he didn't dare to go yet. I can't ask grandpa directly either. I guess I can wait another two days and then I can go talk to my mom."
The two then agreed to communicate Tang Huilan's movements as soon as possible, and then hung up the phone.
"Hahahaha!" Ning Fei finally laughed out loud, "What do they think of you, the kindergarten principal? Just throw a few kids for you to take care of?"
Duan Yunhong threw his phone away: "They are like jackals that want to grab territory just by smelling the slightest hint of meat before they even see it."
"The Ji family is trying to steal your business again." Ning Fei finished the red wine in the glass and put the glass on the coffee table. "The people of the Ji family are really greedy. Ji Yuechi said he wanted to interfere in your business so naturally, without any tact or hesitation, he just robbed it."
"I never talk to him about what I am doing personally, but people from the company in Shenzhen will talk to him about it more or less. Ji Zhenwei sometimes asks me if I am doing something that doesn't affect the overall situation, and I am too lazy to hide it, so I just give him a simple answer." Duan Yunhong said, "Ji Zhenwei himself may not be very interested in the Internet industry, but if Ji Yuechi wants to do it, Ji Zhenwei will naturally want him to have more help."
"Tsk, thinking about the support of outside forces before doing anything, this is the bad habit of these so-called 'families'. It seems that without these, the children in these families can't take a single step." Ning Fei poured himself another glass of wine and also filled in for Duan Yunhong, "However, you refused so blatantly, and told Ji Yuechi to do it himself if he wanted to get involved. Aren't you afraid that Ji Zhenwei will make things difficult for you later?"
"What can he wear? If he uses his connections to get people in Shenzhen to block me, then the Ji family's business in Shenzhen will be over." Duan Yunhong took the wine glass and responded calmly, "It's his business in Shenzhen that needs me, not me who needs him."
Ning Fei clinked glasses with him and took another sip: "Isn't there Ji Yuechi? Is he so useless?"
"Ha, his arrogance is on par with Ji Zhenwei's. He really thinks that all his achievements are due to his outstanding abilities." Duan Yunhong also took a sip and sneered, "But in the future, Lin Shengjia will take over the information company. It's not certain that his level is worse than Ji Zhenwei's. They may be about the same."
"The strong have their own ways of fighting, and the weak have their own ways of competing. It's none of my business in the future, so let him do whatever he wants." Ning Fei put her hand on the man's knee and said happily, "But if Lin Shengjia's background is exposed, Ji Zhenwei will definitely regard that information company as his own. You can withstand Ji Zhenwei's snatch, but can Lin Shengjia? He won't think that getting the company shares and leaving is the end, right? That would be the beginning of going from easy mode to hard mode, hahaha!"
"I have seen many time travelers who were being chased for debts. After they successfully paid off their debts, the time travelers went downhill as soon as the debt collectors left. A good hand of cards, sooner or later, will mostly become a bad one in the end." Duan Yunhong commented, "You debt collectors say that you are the biggest help to the time travelers, but in fact you do everything for them, making the time travelers so dependent that they cannot walk independently. You said that those so-called 'families' always pave the way and help their own family members, but aren't you debt collectors the biggest external support for the time travelers? You only care about forcing them to move, but you don't care what is best for the time travelers."
"Because the one who entrusted us was the original owner, the creditor, not the time traveler, the debtor." Ning Fei looked up at him, "What does it have to do with us what happens to the time traveler in the end? He agreed to the original owner's exchange conditions, so he should fulfill them. What will happen next? Isn't this something he should consider before accepting the conditions?"
"So, the time travelers are just your work tools." Duan Yunhong leaned forward slightly and looked at Ning Fei. "If you like them, play with them more and give them some sweet treats occasionally. If you don't like them, you keep asking for the debt. You are so cold and heartless, right?"
"No." Ning Fei looked into his eyes, his expression unchanged, and replied calmly, "Whether you like it or not, I will only collect the debt."
"Would you like a time traveler?"
"Yes, I like obedient people." Ning Fei smiled gently, "But at the same time, whether they like it or not, I will give them some sweet treats at the right time. After all, only the combination of carrots and sticks can motivate those who originally wanted to shirk their obligations."
"I like obedient people." This is a really cold and mean thing to say, but Ning Fei said it very naturally.
Duan Yunhong commented: "Your 'like' is very different from Chonglin's 'like'."
"Comparing me with him?" Ning Fei turned back and continued drinking, "What if I compare you with Xie Baolin?"
Duan Yunhong was too lazy to answer this question.
Ning Fei swallowed the red wine in his mouth and turned to look at him again: "Why, are you going to adopt the "loving support" approach to the traversers in the next world to win them over and keep them away from me?"
Duan Yunhong did not answer but asked: "Guess?"
"I won't guess." Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly, "You think that what I said about 'liking' is fake, but you bandits are the ones who really don't take travelers seriously. You guys have fooled the travelers around, and we at least left a good situation for the travelers, but you left a hellish abyss. You said that you were giving travelers more suitable choices, but no matter what beautiful dreams you created for them, in the end, wouldn't you just drain most of their luck?
"So, the nicer you treat someone, the more vigilant you should be. The 'Lucky Bandit' is a man with sweet words but a sharp tongue. Once you start to trust and rely on him, you are stepping into his trap."
"You are so arrogant. Is this the education you give us in your administration? So rigid?" Duan Yunhong reached out and took Ning Fei's wine glass. "Since you are an excellent student with good performance, you should set an example and not rely too much on the Wanderer. I asked someone to cancel the wine you ordered yesterday."
"..." Ning Fei was silent for two seconds, then suddenly stood up with the help of the sofa.
Duan Yunhong watched his movements and thought he was going to say something threatening like "You promised to come and help me, so give the positioning mark back to me." However, Ning Fei stared at him condescendingly and said quietly, "I'm going to poke a hole in the water bed right now."
The water bed was the gift Ning Fei asked for on New Year's Eve, and Duan Yunhong used his "cash power" to get it on the first day of the new year. Now it has been filled with water and debugged, and is placed in a bedroom in the apartment. This shows that Duan Yunhong also likes those little tricks.
But it is a water bed after all. If a hole is really poked in it, it would be a lot of fun if the whole flat was flooded during the New Year. I have to say, Ning Fei’s threat is quite clever.
Duan Yunhong, who had already prepared for the debate, suddenly relaxed. He couldn't say why, but he suddenly wanted to laugh, so he laughed. He smiled and put his arms around Ning Fei's waist, burying his face in it. Ning Fei pulled his hair and said, "Mr. Duan, is it that serious? If you want to laugh, just laugh. Are you afraid of being seen? Or are you so afraid that your water bed will leak?"
Duan Yunhong still didn't answer. Ning Fei stood quietly for a while, and suddenly felt that the man's mouth and hands were not honest, so she pulled the man's hair with more force, and said in a teasing tone: "Duan Yunhong, let go. Go and get rid of your red wine, I'm going to poke the water bed."
Duan Yunhong blurted out, "Use something else to poke it with."
Ning Fei was amused: "'Change something'... You want to stab me!"
Duan Yunhong finally let go of him a little, stood up, and then carried the man on his shoulder.
"Well, if you want to save your wine, you should also change something to 'leak'."
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