Chapter 167: Caught Talking About the Rival Behind His Back
Han Jianwu has always been so straightforward, and there is no change from before. Sun Jian is aware of this, but he also understands why Han Jianwu, a man without any background, can not only marry a wife like Huo Qingqing, but also make his business so big.
He is not pretending and is always sincere in front of everyone. This is something that many people in Sun Jian's circle cannot do, including himself.
Sun Jian and Han Jianwu's acquaintance was purely accidental. The two people were not from the same world. Normally, Sun Jian would look down on people of Han Jianwu's background, let alone become friends with him.
At that time, Sun Jian worked in the Foreign Trade Bureau. All import and export business in Kyoto had to be supervised by their company. Han Jianwu's first imported red wine came from Spain with all the formalities, but the customs refused to give him the goods, obviously for some benefit.
Han Jianwu felt that there was nothing wrong with his stuff and all the formalities were complete, so he shouldn't indulge the customs officials. After giving it to him the first time, there were endless problems afterwards. He had just started importing products and didn't know how the business would be in the future. He didn't have that much money to bribe those people, so he went to the head office of the foreign trade company to report this phenomenon, and it was Sun Jian who received him.
When Han Jianwu arrived there, someone above him was verifying some matters regarding the customs with Sun Jian. Someone had reported that someone had amassed huge amounts of money by accepting bribes from merchants, and Sun Jian, as their leader, was also responsible. When Han Jianwu heard this, he immediately stood up to clarify the matter on behalf of Sun Jian to his superiors, and said that Deputy Director Sun was a good man who never accepted a penny from merchants, and that it was all the behavior of his subordinates, and he came to report the situation to Sun Jian.
After some negotiation, Sun Jian's leader left the report to Sun Jian to handle on his own, saying, "You'd better handle this matter well, otherwise the subsequent work will not be able to proceed."
After Sun Jian's boss left, he received Han Jianwu. After listening to the situation, he made a phone call and released Han Jianwu's goods. That's how the two met, and they dealt with each other frequently in the following years. Eventually, Sun Jian's men still made a big mistake. After the matter was resolved, Sun Jian resigned and went abroad. He was also tired of that job. In fact, there was also a problem that he was afraid that he could not control himself and really entangled with Huo Qingqing, so he just left. This is his secret alone.
Since Han Jianwu had said it so bluntly, Sun Jian stopped pretending. It was tiring to pretend.
Sun Jian licked his lips and sneered, "If I really missed her, I wouldn't have sent you that thing, so as to avoid you causing trouble."
Han Jianwu said, "It's good enough that you know the severity of the situation."
Sun Jian, "A friend's wife should not be bullied, I know this very well! There is no need for you to criticize me. If you really want to criticize someone, I suggest you go criticize that person?" He pointed at the handsome Chinese-French man.
After finishing his cigarette, Sheng Shi slowly stood up, stretched his neck, turned around and looked directly at Han Jianwu and Sun Jian, and said in fluent Chinese, "Are you two talking about hitting me?"
“…”
Do men also feel embarrassed when they are caught talking about others behind their backs? Isn’t it embarrassing? Still, he was caught by a foreigner.
Isn't that right? They never mentioned Huo Qingqing's name, right? You didn’t mention Shengshi’s name either, right?
So how did he know that they were talking about him?
Sun Jian was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to deal with this sudden situation?
Han Jianwu was frank. He looked at Sheng Shi and nodded, "Can you speak Chinese?"
Shengshi was about to say something nonsense, but he still nodded politely, very gentlemanly, "Of course."
Han Jianwu, "Can I borrow a light?"
Sun Jian: “???” Is this even possible?
Shengshi was also stunned for a moment, and then he took out a lighter and gave it to Han Jianwu. Han Jianwu took the high-end lighter and looked at it. Although it was only for a short time, it was obvious that he didn't know how to use it. However, after a brief study, he lit the fire with a "click".
Han Jianwu lit Sun Jian's cigarette first, then lit his own, put out the fire, returned the lighter to Sheng Shi, and shook his cigarette box, "Would you like to try our cigarettes?"
Shengshi was not polite at all. He reached out and took a cigarette from Han Jianwu's cigarette box and lit it. After blowing out the smoke ring, he looked at Han Jianwu without saying a word.
Han Jianwu raised his eyebrows and asked, "How?"
Shengshi, "a little bland."
Sun Jian became invisible, and he felt very unhappy. What on earth was he trying to achieve? Who was wronged in the end?
Shengshi took out a box of cigars and looked at Han Jianwu, “Would you like to try mine?”
Han Jianwu shook his head and said, "My wife doesn't like the taste."
The cigarette that Sun Jian was biting on his lips almost fell to the ground. He was finally convinced by Han Jianwu.
Shengshi took back the cigarette box, smiled, and extended his hand to Han Jianwu, "Let's get to know each other formally, Shengshi."
Han Jianwu stretched out his hand, “Han Jianwu.”
Sheng Shi said, “I know.”
Sun Jian, "???"
Han Jianwu raised his eyebrows, "You know me?!"
Shengshi nodded and said, "Qingqing mentioned you to me."
“…”
We can hardly continue chatting today.
Sun Jian stood aside and watched the fire from the other side, but he still felt disappointed and envious of Han Jianwu. It was one thing to have a good life, but he also deserved a successful career and a happy family. He possessed all the qualities of a successful person.
Han Jianwu did not feel inferior to Shengshi, the so-called descendant of a noble family, and pretended to be surprised and asked, "Do you know my wife?"
"Cough cough~" Sun Jian was choked by the smoke.
Brother, Westerners don’t call their wives daughters-in-law, they call them wives, okay? The hammer is talking about you.
Han Jianwu ignored Sun Jian and continued to look at Shengshi. Shengshi said, "Your wife saved my life. I am also a student at Harvard, majoring in finance."
Han Jianwu actually asked Shengshi for advice on finance. But Shengshi didn't want to popularize financial knowledge to Han Jianwu, he was only interested in him and Huo Qingqing!
Sheng Shi said, "Finance is a broad concept, and there are many details to discuss. If Mr. Han is interested, he can buy some books on finance."
Han Jianwu was not angry at all because Sheng Shi refused to teach him financial knowledge. Instead, he said, "Then Mr. Sheng, can you recommend some books on finance to me?"
Han Jianwu loves reading very much, but there were no books to read when he was in the countryside. He has been reading since he came to the city. When he was in Xijing, Huo Qingqing was not at home, and the Huo family had many books, so he also had books to read. I read a lot of books, and not a single one of them was read in vain.
He really wanted to learn financial knowledge from Shengshi.
Shengshi had no choice but to recommend two of the most basic books on finance to Han Jianwu. Both were written by foreigners and the authors’ names were so long that he couldn’t remember them after hearing them once.
Sheng Shi didn't care whether Han Jianwu remembered it or not. After introducing the books, he changed the subject and said, "I saw you shopping with Qingqing, and thought you were the person she was talking about."
Han Jianwu, "Really?"
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