Chapter 283
However, although Meng Huaiqing said he was leaving, he would not leave immediately. Gangcheng was his base camp, and some work had to be handed over in advance.
The next day, Meng Huaiqing took Qin Xiang to the company, introduced the company's situation to Qin Xiang, and took her to the brokerage firm to find his stock broker. It was the same brokerage firm as Miss Chen, but the person in charge was Miss Chen's boss Qiao Zhixu.
Upon learning that Qin Xiang would be back in a few days to take charge, the other party was quite surprised. "Are you sure Miss Qin will make the decision?"
Meng Huaiqing nodded, "Yes. Just follow her arrangements."
Qiao Zhixu seemed to be thinking about something, but still nodded.
The rumors outside that Meng Huaiqing is henpecked are indeed true. He even wants to hand over his stocks to her.
After the conversation, Qin Xiang went to talk to Ms. Chen about the recent stock market. Ms. Chen praised Qin Xiang highly, saying, "The stocks you added later also saw very good growth. This year is truly a golden bull market."
Qin Xiang curled the corners of his mouth and did not dare to say that the gold bull market was just a precursor to a stock market crash.
If she really said it, would others believe it?
No one would believe it. They would just think you were trying to get rid of her and let her do it herself. With prices soaring, frantic investors were desperately trying to buy stocks. Not only were retail investors, but even wealthy individuals were actively trying to acquire more shares from retail investors.
Qin Xiang just waited patiently, now was not the opportunity.
Coming out of the agency, Meng Huaiqing asked, "Shall we eat something outside?"
Qin Xiang nodded, "Okay, it's rare for Mr. Meng to treat us."
The two found a tea restaurant in Central. While eating, they suddenly saw Jiang Yuqiang and a woman also having dinner.
Qin Xiang was a little surprised, "He changed his sexual orientation?"
Meng Huaiqing didn't even move his head. "Does eating together mean that sexual orientation is normal?"
Qin Xiang was stunned and gossiped, "You mean, this is just a show, telling the public that his sexual orientation has changed to normal, changing his image, and boosting Jiang's stock?" Qin Xiang couldn't help but wonder, "Is his image so valuable?"
"They think this is very important." Meng Huaiqing laughed. "They think that improving their image can increase their stock price."
Meng Huaiqing finished eating, wiped his fingers clean, and then said, "I have asked someone to pass on the news to both companies, saying that the stock value will rise wildly at the end of the month. I also let them know in a roundabout way that I will be leaving Hong Kong City soon. My stocks are all handed over to you to handle."
Qin Xiang was stunned. "You are deliberately letting them know about this so that they will come to me. Then in their eyes, I am just a woman who depends on you for everything. It will only take a few minutes to trick me and control me. Once you get the stocks, they will laugh at you."
Qin Xiang clapped her hands and praised, "Good idea."
Unfortunately, the stock market crash did not occur at the end of the month but in the middle of the month.
She will sell them all before the last day comes.
The buyer has been found, and we are just waiting for the fish to take the bait.
When the two of them went out, they met a few paparazzi who started taking pictures. Meng Huaiqing didn't shy away from it. He pulled Qin Xiang into the car and drove away.
There was almost no doubt that the two of them would be in the headlines of tomorrow's entertainment. Qin Xiang had never imagined that one day she would be living in the vortex of entertainment. It felt really amazing.
The next day, Meng Huaiqing took her to see Zhao Mingqian again to discuss the time and strategy for selling the shares with him. Meng Huaiqing was also about to leave for abroad.
By this time, it was already October 7th.
Qin Xiang had some free time, so she went to find Zhang Nan and Zhao Guicheng.
When these two came to Hong Kong City, they were like fish entering a pond, and everyone became excited.
It is said that they were wandering around from morning till night, starting from Central and slowly expanding outwards, studying, recording and discussing. The small notebooks they brought with them were filled with dense writing.
When they met Qin Xiang, they were very excited and couldn't wait to tell her about their new discoveries. They also took out the base map they designed to show Qin Xiang.
Qin Xiang was in a particularly good mood with a smile on her face. "That's great. Once these details are perfected, I think we can put it into production."
The employees are positive and hardworking, and produce more design drafts. As a boss, I am not unhappy.
Looking at these design drafts, compared with the cost she paid, they are not worth mentioning at all.
Zhang Nan said happily, "No wonder many styles in mainland China are copied from Hong Kong. The clothes here are indeed much more fashionable."
Qin Xiang reminded him, "You can buy a lot of foreign magazines here too. Go ahead and buy some. I'll reimburse you later. As long as you learn something, it won't be a waste of money."
"With your words, we certainly won't be polite," Zhao Guicheng said. "The clothing here is indeed diverse, but I think there are more development opportunities on the mainland."
Zhang Nan nodded. "Indeed, the development here is good, but there is more room for us to display our strengths in the mainland. More importantly, we have the right boss."
If they were still in their original workplace, even if there were opportunities to learn outside, it would be the senior employees who would come out to eat and drink, and it was hard to say whether they could learn anything. The newcomers would only be told: "You don't know anything, what are you doing here? Learn well in the factory first, and you will have opportunities later."
It's not like they haven't experienced this before.
They were extremely envious the last time Qin Xiang brought Fei Qing out, and now they are out themselves, and they stay longer.
But Qin Xiang still reminded them, "You should leave Hong Kong on the 12th, and then go all the way from Pengcheng to Yangcheng, then to Hangzhou and Haicheng for observation and study, and then go directly back to the capital from Haicheng."
The two nodded quickly, "Okay, boss."
Qin Xiang laughed. "Don't be so polite. We can be friends privately. After all, we're both designers. By the way, when you go to Guangzhou, you can look for Jiao Junxi from the Yimei Garment Factory. He's a great designer with a wide variety of styles. You can talk to him."
After leaving the hotel, Qin Xiang went back to her residence. As she got out of the car, she saw a car stopped not far away and two women got out of the car.
Qin Xiang felt that some of them looked familiar. One of them was Meng Huaiqing's stepmother Mao Xinhui, but she didn't recognize the other one.
Qin Xiang watched the two of them approach, and her eyes fell on Mao Xinhui. "I thought you never wanted to see me again."
The situation of their last meeting was still fresh in her mind. Mao Xinhui was so humiliated that she felt it was difficult for her to come to Qin Xiang again and try to deceive her.
This woman is very difficult to deal with. She is not as easy to deal with as she thought with the help of Meng Huaiqing. It may not be easy to convince her.
But we have to persuade them, as this concerns the survival of the Jiang family.
Jiang Licheng had promised her that if this venture succeeded, he would give her some of the shares, so she couldn't let this opportunity slip away.
"Miss Qin is still so beautiful and charming. No wonder Huai Qing likes you so much."
Qin Xiang smiled and said, "If your smile was more sincere, I might believe you."
Behind Qin Xiang stood six bodyguards arranged by Meng Huaiqing. All of them were wearing black clothes and black sunglasses. The scene was dazzling to the two women.
If there were no problems with the company, why would they come to find this northern girl? It's really lowering their own value.
Mao Xinhui's face froze. "Miss Qin, you misunderstood. We said this sincerely. Please don't misunderstand us."
She glanced upstairs and said with a smile, "I wonder if Miss Qin has time. We want to talk to her."
Qin Xiang raised an eyebrow, "What if I say I don't have time?"
After she finished speaking, she went straight upstairs. Mao Xinhui took two quick steps and shouted, "Miss Qin, you and Huai Qing have a good relationship, but don't you want to know about his past? For example, his first love or something like that?"
Qin Xiang pretended to be interested, "Oh?"
Mao Xinhui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Miss Qin, why don't you come with us to a nearby coffee shop to talk?"
"Okay." Qin Xiang agreed. Mao Xinhui looked at the woman next to her and said with a smile, "Miss Qin, we will definitely not let you down."
Several people left the community together and went to a nearby coffee shop.
After sitting down, Mao Xinhui opened her bag, took out a photo and placed it in front of Qin Xiang.
Qin Xiang took a glance and saw that the photo showed two young people, a boy and a girl, who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. The girl was pretty and gentle, her eyes looking at the boy next to her with obsession, while the boy had a flamboyant red hair that reached about shoulder level. He was holding a trophy in his hand, with a wanton and flamboyant smile on his face and a rebellious look in his eyes that seemed to look down on the world, something she had never seen before.
She couldn't help but think of what he once said about his youth, when no one cared about him, no one paid any attention to him, he was unrestrained, and he could be seen on the streets of Hong Kong City.
It was also at that time that he learned to smoke and drink, which left him with serious stomach problems, so that even now he can only eat light meals like an elderly person.
But she never thought that there would be other people around him.
I'm afraid this is also the reason why Mao Xinhui showed her this photo.
But Mao Xinhui didn't understand her. She thought that she would be like other women. When she saw photos of her lover with other women, she would get jealous and go crazy, and would have conflicts and quarrels with Meng Huaiqing because of this.
But who doesn’t have a past?
If she really cared about these things, she and Meng Huaiqing would never be able to get along. She had her past, and Meng Huaiqing had his past. She had never told him everything, and he hadn't told him everything either. This was fair.
This is not about trust or distrust.
But it's not important.
What’s past is past.
The important thing is that they only have each other now, isn't that enough?
Thinking of the situation the two of them had previously imagined.
Qin Xiang couldn't help but smile in his heart.
However, when she looked up at Mao Xinhui, her expression was not good, and there was hidden anger in her eyes, just like a woman who caught her husband cheating but deliberately hid her anger to express her generosity, "Why are you showing me this? That happened many years ago."
Mao Xinhui has lived for so many years and is very good at observing other people's thoughts. She stared at Qin Xiang's face and sighed for a long time. "Originally, I didn't want to show you this, but there has been a lot of news about you and Huai Qing recently. He has been disobedient since he was a child, and we as parents are helpless. But as elders, we can't bear to see you know nothing, so we found you."
Qin Xiang pursed her lips and said nothing with a cold face.
Mao Xinhui smiled and said, "Do you know how they got together and why they broke up?"
Qin Xiang frowned and said in a cold voice, "What does it have to do with me?"
"It's very relevant." Mao Xinhui pointed at the woman in the photo and said, "This girl is Chai Xiuya, and she was Huaiqing's junior high school classmate. They've been classmates since elementary school. They dated in junior high school and were together for a long time. Later, the Chai family moved to America, and they had no choice but to separate."
Mao Xinhui paused and said, "You are young, and you may not understand how important a first love is in a man's heart."
Qin Xiang raised her eyebrows slightly.
Mao Xinhui took out another photo and said, "Originally, I didn't want to tell you this, but now, Chai Xiuya is back. She just arrived in Hong Kong."
The photo was pushed in front of Qin Xiang. The woman in the photo was mature and charming, with long wavy hair falling softly on her shoulders and fiery red lips that were very charming.
Although his style is different from that of his youth, you can't tell that he is the same person.
Such women have a fatal attraction to men.
Mao Xinhui also knew this. She smiled and said, "Some of Huaiqing's company's business is also in America. You said he often goes to America. Is it really for business, or to meet her?"
Qin Xiang frowned and slammed the photo on the table. "Why are you telling me this? I'm his girlfriend now, and we're already engaged."
"You said it was an engagement." Mao Xinhui laughed. "Even if you're married, you can get a divorce, let alone an engagement. If he really loves you that much, why doesn't he marry you? Don't you want to think about this?"
Qin Xiang frowned and thought to herself: You idiot, you don’t even know the system of my university, and you are talking nonsense here. I will just listen to your performance.
She snorted and pretended to be calm, "It has nothing to do with you."
"Yes, it really has nothing to do with me," Mao Xinhui said. "I sympathize with you. We are both women, and I can't bear to see you being deceived."
Qin Xiang sneered, "Are you so kind?"
"Why not? We have no hatred."
Mao Xinhui stood up after saying this and said, "That's all I have to say. Think about it carefully. I have no ill intentions."
After saying this, Mao Xinhui left with another woman who had never spoken a word from beginning to end.
Qin Xiang picked up the photo and put it in her bag, clicked her tongue twice, then got up and went home.
After returning home, Qin Xiang washed up and turned on the TV. Entertainment news is always the hottest topic in Hong Kong.
But the TVB dramas during this period were indeed good.
Qin Xiang watched TV for a while, and then the phone rang.
Qin Xiang looked at the time. It was already afternoon, so what time was it in America?
"Hello."
Meng Huaiqing's voice came from the other side, "What are you doing at home?"
Qin Xiang said, "Watch TV."
"Well, did you miss me?" Meng Huaiqing looked at the sky outside the window, which had not yet brightened, and imagined Qin Xiang curled up in bed watching TV. "I have always missed you."
Qin Xiang chuckled, "Mao Xinhui came to see me today."
Meng Huaiqing was not surprised. This showed that the bait he had laid out had worked. "What did you say?"
Qin Xiang said meaningfully, "I didn't expect Mr. Meng to be so unrestrained and unrestrained in his youth."
Meng Huaiqing was stunned, "Huh?"
"That red hair, wow, so handsome, and those rebellious eyes..."
Meng Huaiqing coughed awkwardly, "That's all dark history, not worth showing off."
Qin Xiang responded, "Mao Xinhui also showed me something good. Two photos."
Meng Huaiqing was surprised. "What photo?"
"I won't tell you, think about it yourself." After saying that, Qin Xiang hung up the phone directly.
After a while, the phone rang again. Qin Xiang knew it was Meng Huaiqing calling, but she deliberately didn't answer it. She went to the kitchen and found a few more persimmons and apples in the kitchen, which should have been brought by the chef.
Qin Xiang peeled the persimmon, sat there and ate it, listening to the phone ringing and flipping through a book.
After a while, the phone finally stopped ringing, and Qin Xiang got up and went back to the bedroom.
When Mao Xinhui returned home, Jiang Licheng hurriedly asked, "How is it? Did she believe it?"
"What's there to believe or not?" Mao Xinhui disagreed. "There are newspapers and news reports from that year. I'll have someone send them over later. As for whether she will verify it... We're not the ones who are afraid of verification. What we told her is all the truth. As the man's parents, we have an obligation to inform him of the child's situation to avoid conflicts between the couple in the future because of this kind of thing, don't you think?"
Jiang Licheng was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "You're really smart. Those two idiots only know how to compete for favor, but they don't think about the fact that without the Jiang family, they'll be nothing."
Mao Xinhui didn't really believe Jiang Licheng's nonsense, but only if Jiang Licheng had a complete break with Meng Huaiqing could Jiang Shi be completely handed over to her son in the future. Therefore, the quality of Jiang Shi was related to how much her son would inherit.
They received word that several stocks would continue to rise until the end of the month.
And most of these stocks are actually in the hands of Meng Huaiqing.
Although she looked down on Meng Huaiqing and was wary of him, she had to admit that Meng Huaiqing had means and ability. The stocks he was optimistic about must be good.
Now Meng Huaiqing was not in Hong Kong, only his girlfriend with a bad brain was there. I heard that Meng Huaiqing had handed over all his stocks to a woman for her to manage. Fortunately, it was not her son. If it was her son, she would want to pry open his brain to see what was inside. He was so uncalm.
Of course, the dumber the enemy is, the better it is for them. She has inquired about it. Although Qin Xiang is a businessman, he is impulsive and narrow-minded. He is not a capable person. His business in the mainland is probably established with the help of Meng Huaiqing, so he is not a concern.
She wanted to take the opportunity to coax all those stocks over.
Qin Xiang woke up from her sleep and heard the bodyguard knocking on the door. "Ms. Qin, Ms. Mao Xinhui brought you something."
Qin Xiang was curious and opened the door. "What is that?"
The bodyguard brought it into the house, and Qin Xiang was delighted when she saw it open.
There are magazines, newspapers, and some photos inside, all of which are about Meng Huaiqing over the years.
Qin Xiang became interested and sat on the sofa to check them out one by one, simply arranging them in chronological order. The earliest one was taken in 1973. Calculating the time, Meng Huaiqing was only 14 years old at that time. The 14-year-old boy was not very tall, wearing a black leather jacket, with a half-length buzz cut and dyed yellow. He rode his motorcycle recklessly on the street.
After that, there were almost annual reports, all the way to 1978, when Meng Huaiqing turned 19. There were no further reports after that, but during the five years in between, Meng Huaiqing was often accompanied by the girl named Chai Xiuya.
Every time the girl looked at Meng Huaiqing, she was infatuated, but she couldn't tell from Meng Huaiqing's expression why.
A single photo couldn't stir up any ripples in her heart, but a pile of photos and newspapers in front of her was much more stimulating.
Qin Xiang couldn't describe how she felt.
It’s hard to say whether it’s bittersweet or not. After all, that was Meng Huaiqing’s youth, a past he didn’t want to mention.
She used to think that Meng Huaiqing was unwilling to mention it because of the dark memories of his childhood, but the evidence now reminds her that this is not the case.
The first love of adolescence is beautiful and easy to reminisce.
So would it be the same for Meng Huaiqing?
She picked up the phone and wanted to dial, but after dialing the number twice, she couldn't help but put it back.
So many years have passed, what's the point in harping on this?
never mind.
Qin Xiang sorted out the things according to time, put the ones for single people aside, and stuffed those with Chai Xiu Ya directly under the table.
After cleaning up and taking a nap, the phone rang. Mao Xinhui asked, "Miss Qin, did you sleep well last night?"
Qin Xiang smiled and said, "Not bad."
Mao Xinhui was startled. "Didn't you see what I sent?"
"Of course I have seen it." Qin Xiang said, "I have watched them all one by one. The photos are very good. It is really difficult for you to collect so many things at once. I am very grateful for giving me the opportunity to get to know Meng Huaiqing better."
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