311 Small Company Big Boss
Luo Er went to report to Shen Tao the next day. Li Wei had already informed Shen Tao beforehand, and Shen Tao was prepared.
Shen Tao now has two deputies: one is Chen Weiguo, and the other is a deputy manager who was later poached from another company.
Now that Luo Er has come over, Shen Tao knows Li Wei's intention: to train Luo Er. So he arranges for Luo Er to work as his assistant for now, and then they'll see how things go with the Minglang joint venture before making further arrangements.
To be honest, Shen Tao should have felt a little jealous, but he just couldn't bring himself to feel it.
Shen Tao, Li Wei, and Da Luo were childhood friends, and they should have known each other well, which was what he always thought.
When I first came to Minghua, I wasn't really a member of the company yet. I always felt like I was still Lao Luo's subordinate. Li Wei, after all, was also Luo's daughter-in-law and a member of the Luo family.
But when he heard Lao Luo talk about it later, he was quite surprised to learn that Li Wei had funded it herself. Shen Tao had a rough estimate of the Luo family's financial situation, and the Li family's was about the same. As for Cheng Fei's side, he also knew a little about it.
At that time, Li Wei gradually injected nearly half of the funds she had earned from the stock market into the company, which surprised Shen Tao, who had taken over the company from the beginning, about its strength.
At that time, he realized that just because Luo Lihou had asked Li Wei and Li Wei smiled and didn't say anything, he didn't dare to ask further and remained puzzled.
The other part of the funds was left there by Li Wei and managed by Zhou Maosheng. In the same stock market peak in February or March of the following year, almost all of Minghua's funds were emptied and transferred to Shanghai, where they made a huge profit. After that, they almost stopped, leaving only a small portion of the funds for Zhou Maosheng to continue operating. Li Wei only checked the specific returns as a matter of routine and no longer had any expectations.
Shen Tao knew what was going on at the time, but not only him, but most people didn't have much confidence in stocks. They felt that stocks were illusory and gambling, and that nine out of ten gamblers would lose. Gambling was obviously not a good thing.
However, the funds that Li Wei had diverted from the company were quickly recovered. Furthermore, the company had originally planned to bid on two plots of land. He had some concerns about funding, but now it seemed that bidding on a few more plots wouldn't be a problem. Suddenly, the company's strength appeared to have increased by another 20%.
Shen Tao couldn't suppress his curiosity any longer. Instead of asking Li Wei, he went to look at newspaper articles and learned some things through friends he'd met in the business world. The result was quite surprising.
According to his conservative estimate, not counting any other funds that Li Wei might hold, the portion transferred from the company alone was estimated to have increased more than tenfold. This was the most conservative estimate; in fact, he dared not even think about it.
Looking back at Minghua, Shen Tao suddenly had a strange feeling. It seemed that Minghua was just a toy in Li Wei's hands. She would take care of her regularly and wash away the dust. But it seemed that her absence wouldn't matter much.
So, when Shen Tao had some free time, he also made some calculations. He knew Li Wei's personality. Although she was lazy, she was currently tied up and probably wouldn't make any big moves. He didn't believe that once she graduated and started working, she would still be so obediently clinging to her money without doing anything. At that time, his own room for development would be correspondingly greater.
Therefore, Shen Tao, based on his confidence in the future and Li Wei's abilities, wasn't particularly concerned about the possibility of her replacing him.
Luo Er is Luo Er, after all, he is a member of the Luo family. Shen Tao simply doesn't believe that Li Wei wouldn't consider the future of her own child and hand him over to the Luo family.
So Shen Tao should just do what he needs to do, do good deeds and not worry about the future. He should refuse all companies that try to poach him. He has confidence in his own abilities and in Li Wei and Da Luo's judgment.
Although everyone knows that gambling is bad, people can still easily admire the courage and boldness of those who win big in gambling.
So Luo Er was settled down. If he was clever, it wouldn't be difficult for him.
Li Wei entrusted Shen Tao with the entire matter of the meeting with Ming Lang and Chen Juan. Shen Tao was confident in the company's strength and therefore felt confident.
Of course, Li Wei also told him the bottom line: at least half of the shares, otherwise forget it. Whether we do it or not is irrelevant; if we do, we have to keep our word. -_-
So from then on, Shen Tao or Liao Kaiwen would often go to Li Wei's house for dinner, and they would no longer bother Li Wei with 'minor matters' such as meetings.
A few days later, it was October 1st. Li Wei hadn't received a call from Da Luo and was in a bad mood. Even Liao Kaiwen, who had come over for dinner, couldn't stand it anymore and encouraged Li Wei: "Why is your husband away on business for so long, leaving you alone at home with men coming and going? I think you should just remarry and consider me. Let me say it again, I'm thirty-five years old, mature, stable, successful in my career, divorced, and childless."
"Stop, stop! If you say that again, don't come here to eat and drink for free. Or when my husband comes back, I'll just kick you out with two cannons and turn you into a panda. What do you think?" Li Wei quickly told Liao Kaiwen to shut up. She was already annoyed enough; there was no need to be even more annoyed.
As Shen Tao sat on the sofa drinking tea, he chuckled: "Kevin, you'd better think this through. Even if Li Wei didn't like you, and even if she did agree to go with you, when Da Luo comes back, he'll tear you to pieces first. Then your wife will still belong to someone else, and they'll live happily ever after and forget about you in the blink of an eye. You'll be a wronged ghost even if you become one, believe it or not?"
Liao Kaiwen was surprised. He had never really heard of Luo Jianhua before. He had only seen the photos and thought he was a gentle and sunny young man.
Curious, he asked Shen Tao, "What do you mean? Doesn't he care that his wife abandoned him?"
Shen Tao took a sip of tea and said slowly, "The problem is, he will never think that Li Wei will abandon him. He will think that you, this wicked guy, deceived Li Wei, that Li Wei is just a little lamb and that there are only big bad wolves outside. But in fact, they have known each other for almost half their lives. Let alone you, even if someone is ten or a hundred times better than you, it would be difficult for them to break up a family."
Li Wei, afraid of embarrassing Liao Kaiwen, quickly joked, "The problem is that I haven't met anyone ten or a hundred times better than Kaiwen, otherwise I would really consider joining the Guangming Party, haha."
Then she thought, "Shen Tao, stop being so wishy-washy. Have you contacted Yuan Jiawei yet? How's it going? And what about you, Mr. Liao Kaiwen? What kind of woman are you looking for? To be honest, I don't have a high opinion of you. Shen Tao is very devoted. As for you, although you have a brief marriage history, just look at all the pretty secretaries in your company. You've probably had countless common-law marriages. Don't complain about not being able to find a wife. It's so fake."
Li Wei, Shen Tao, and Liao Kaiwen can generally speak freely in their spare time. Liao Kaiwen has some taboos and rarely talks about private matters with others. Once, he said, "You'd better not ask about personal matters."
Li Wei immediately turned hostile: "Don't come to my house for meals anymore. You've eaten so much, don't you feel indebted? You still have the nerve to talk about personal matters? Why didn't you care earlier? Let me tell you, don't talk to me anymore. If you want to discuss business, go find Shen Tao. I don't have time to deal with your little business. Go away, go away."
Liao Kaiwen was kicked out -_-
Liao Kaiwen is, after all, from a respectable family. No matter how well-mannered he is or how much ulterior motives he may have towards Li Wei, he still has a temper. In fact, he has a very strong temper, but he just hasn't had the chance to show it to Li Wei.
Liao Kaiwen returned to his residence with a very embarrassed expression, feeling very angry. This woman was really something. Some private matters are personal privacy, and he didn't say anything wrong, yet she had the nerve to turn on him. He had never seen anyone like her before. He never thought this woman was cute. She was simply rude and disrespectful!
He's never met a woman who talks to him like that before; it's infuriating.
What he didn't know was that after he left, Li Wei jumped up happily and ran to the nursery to play with the children. She was so glad to have gotten rid of that freeloader. Haha.
Who knew that less than three days later, Liao Kaiwen would show up again with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a lovelyly packaged bag of chocolates -_-
The chocolate was from a famous Swiss brand. Li Wei gave it to Xiao Ya, who happily went inside to find her brothers to eat.
The flowers? They're tulips, not bad. Whether they're pretty or not, they're quite expensive. For the sake of the money, I'll let this guy have another free meal.
Anyway, sometimes we need leftovers, and since we don't have a dog at home, sometimes nobody wants to eat them.
Liao Kaiwen said somewhat awkwardly, "You asked me last time why I divorced my ex-wife, right? Actually, it's nothing much. I was busy with work and didn't have time to accompany her to some events. I even forgot her birthday. She is a person who pursues a high quality of life and felt that we were not suitable for each other, so we broke up peacefully. That's it."
Li Wei glanced at him and said, "Let me say this, but your life is really unoriginal, even your divorce is unoriginal. When I saw you like that, I thought at least someone had taken a fancy to some handsome young man, and you were hurt and traumatized. But look what happened, it was just this trivial matter. Why did you pretend to be so polite and sophisticated, especially in my house? Fine, since the flowers and chocolates are nice, I'll treat you to dinner. Chen Tao is here too."
So Liao Kaiwen and Shen Tao basically ate at Li Wei's house and chatted casually. Unless it was something particularly difficult to talk about, there was really nothing private that they couldn't discuss.
Liao Kaiwen was quite surprised by Shen Tao's performance over this period of time. Although he knew that Shen Tao was not well-educated, he was actually quite capable. During negotiations, he was sharp-tongued and unyielding, and his confidence and tenacity were remarkable. He was not like a manager of a small business at all.
In Liao Kaiwen's eyes, Minghua was just a small business, but he vaguely knew that it seemed to have a big boss, though he had no idea how big he could be.
In their spare time, the three of them became close friends who could talk about anything.
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