Everyone stood up and touched their blankets. Su Yourong stood to the side and quietly tugged at Lu Feng's sleeve, wanting to remind him. Lu Feng looked at her and smiled.
Everyone drank their drinks in one gulp. Lu Feng coughed, feeling the burning sensation in his throat, and said, "There's just one problem. I called earlier..."
"They didn't agree, did they? Let me tell you, it's one thing to say when you call from Shenzhen, and it's another thing when you call from here." General Manager Li said with the air of a seasoned veteran, "These are all their usual tricks. People like you are hard to deal with."
Everyone chimed in, practically describing the local government building as a den of dragons and tigers, a place you could never escape once you stepped inside.
"What I want to say is that they agreed over the phone, and it was the same thing they said before," Lu Feng said to everyone.
President Li was taken aback. He wasn't trying to scare Lu Feng. They had indeed inquired about industrial land for many companies this year, and no matter who they contacted, the response was always the same: in terms of attracting investment, large-scale industrial land use was not approved for domestic companies.
How did it become an agreement when it came to Lu Feng?
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" President Li was utterly incredulous, turning to Lu Feng and saying, "You misheard, you must have misheard, or he's lying to you. Did you say you were Lu Feng from Jiafeng Electronics?"
"I already said it!"
"By the way, you already said that they approved it for you. Has he been in that position for too long? Don't you know your own status?" President Li asked Lu Feng with a frown.
"What's my identity?"
The people at the dinner table burst into laughter.
In the land grabbing arena, there isn't a single municipality in the country that doesn't know Lu Feng; he's been specifically named.
"I'm not kidding you, but if he dares to approve 10,000 mu of industrial land for you, he'll be out of a job before he even stamps the seal." President Li leaned back in his chair, smoking a cigarette, and said, "You'll have to watch me. Don't think I'm playing games with you, brother. What era are we living in? Making friends is about exchanging sincerity for sincerity, you know?"
"I see!" Lu Feng nodded.
"We're only helping out of respect for President Su; it's purely a matter of friendship. I'm not trying to scam you. I can guarantee you this: besides me, go all over Tianjin, and you won't find anyone else who can do it for you," President Li said with absolute certainty.
Su Yourong picked up her wine glass and said, "Then I have to have a drink with President Li."
"Come on, girl, let me tell you, I'll take care of this. It's all because of you. Let me be frank, everyone has to earn money to support their family, right?"
"Oh my, Mr. Li, if you can even make a living, then everyone else must have starved to death long ago. I understand, it's all in the wine." Su Yourong picked up her wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"I'm not saying I'm angry with you, but he even went out of his way to call the investment promotion office to ask. There's no way he'd be so shameless. He's only doing this because of you." President Li already had a bad feeling about Lu Feng. He originally wanted to make money quickly and easily, but Lu Feng wasn't cooperating at all.
The more she talked, the angrier she became. She put down her wine glass and said to Lu Feng, "You really are lucky to have this good sister. That's just how I am. If you come to me alone, let me tell you, this is going to be difficult. Don't look like I'm trying to trick you. I'm telling you, I'm helping you. So many people would be eager to help but can't get in, understand?"
"Yes, yes, don't be angry, it's nothing serious," Su Yourong comforted.
"He doesn't understand any social etiquette at all. Is this how people behave? I talked to him, and he turned around and called the investment promotion office. What do I look like?" President Li became more and more angry as he spoke. Everyone present advised him that if he wanted to make money from him, he should just bear with it.
Lu Feng picked up his chopsticks, took a couple of bites, and said slowly, "I also need to understand social etiquette. President Li has gone to so much trouble to help me and told me so much, I am truly grateful. You are clearly a middleman, but you are trying to act like a wise teacher and give me advice. It's not appropriate, is it? Besides, social etiquette is just about putting on an act. When I'm with you, I really can't be bothered to pretend."
"The most important thing is sincerity; we're all on the same side," Su Yourong said, trying to defuse the situation.
"He's not worthy!"
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