Chapter 59 (Chapter 059: Eye-Catching)
Sitting in front of the dressing mirror, Zheng Junni glanced back into the bedroom. Her husband was listening to the radio and shouldn't have heard the conversation between the mistress and servant in the dressing room.
Junnie Zheng asked, "Are you sure it's true?"
Ah Jin helped her pull the hair out of the comb and whispered, "That's what the people down there are saying."
Zheng Junni's face was full of joy. If the old man found out, the family would be in chaos.
Ah Jin suggested to her: "Should we tell Da Yesheng about this, and have Da Yesheng talk to the old master?"
Zheng Junni gently shushed him and shook her head: "Then the truth will just be forgotten. Besides, there's no evidence to prove it's true or false. If they deny it to the death, the old man will definitely side with them and cover it up for them, and that'll be the end of it."
Therefore, complaining in private is completely useless and will only offend the Yekaters.
It's not worth it.
This kind of thing needs to be blown out of proportion; the more it becomes known to everyone, the greater the impact on Ye Baoshun will be.
If we can influence Ye Baoshun's standing in the old man's heart, that would be best.
Even if the old man is truly confused, it won't affect his favoritism, but it will still affect the marriage partners Ye Baoshun can marry in the future.
Which wealthy heiress would be willing to marry him?
If Ye Baoshun is brought down, her Baoxian will have a chance.
To make a big scene, you have to rely on the paparazzi. They'll make sure the whole city knows about it, and Ye Baoshun becomes a laughingstock in the industry...
A-Jin asked, puzzled, "So we're just going to ignore it? Pretend we don't know anything?"
Junnie Cheng lowered her voice, "We don't know if this is true or not yet. We'll leak it to the paparazzi and let them follow us. If the paparazzi follow us, they'll definitely be able to take photos. Then, once the entertainment gossip is published, the evidence will be conclusive, and everyone in Hong Kong will know."
"Wouldn't that be huge news?" Ah Jin was a little worried that things would get out of hand. "What if the old man has a stroke?"
Zheng Junni snorted coldly, "Who cares?"
Ideally, the blood vessels would burst!
At this moment, Ye Baoshun was idly playing with a lighter in a small side hall on the third floor of Xihetang.
There were guests in his grandfather's study, and Uncle Xing wouldn't let him in.
After waiting for more than half an hour, he heard voices behind him. The old man came out to see the guests off to the elevator, and Ye Baoshun quickly got up and went over.
"grandfather."
Ye Qizu glanced at his grandson, "It's rare that you didn't go out to play today?"
Ye Baoshun said, "I'm going to the school library too."
"Oh."
Even a ghost wouldn't believe that.
Ye Qizu walked to the other end of the lounge, where a nurse was waiting to take his blood pressure.
"Grandpa, there's something I want to tell you."
"Why did you wait for me? What good thing could it be? Tell me, what's on your mind that you want to buy?"
"I want to go back to my room."
Ye Qizu stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him: "What, your room?"
“The large suite on the second floor that was originally renovated to be my wedding room is now occupied by that... older sister. Please have someone arrange another bedroom for her and give my room back to me.”
Ye Qizu said irritably, "What do you want to do? Are you getting married?"
After saying that, he continued walking forward.
Ye Baoshun followed behind his grandfather: "No, I meant well when I offered to let her stay here. But later I learned that it's bad luck to let just anyone stay in the bridal chamber. There are so many rooms in the house, couldn't I just let her stay anywhere she wants?"
Upon entering the lounge, a nurse was reading a comic book. When the family members came in, the nurse quickly put the book away.
Ye Qizu held out his left hand to have the nurse take his blood pressure before continuing the previous topic: "You know, I spoiled you when you were little. If you wanted the stars in the sky, I would have gone to great lengths to get them for you! You gave your room to your cousin, and now you've changed your mind and want me to be the one to blame you. You're happy to put the label of favoring boys over girls on me, aren't you?"
Ye Baoshun said coquettishly, "Grandpa, she should have stayed in the guest room."
Ye Qizu glared at him: "You can say such things to me, but if you say them outside, you'll be disgracing our eldest son's family. People will say you're stingy and rude, that you can't even tolerate your unmarried cousin! She'll get married sooner or later and vacate the room, what's the rush? If you're really in a hurry, then go find someone to date first. When you get married, you'll have a legitimate reason to ask her to give up the room. If you can't do that, then don't nag here."
Ye Baoshun wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Ye Qizu.
"Alright, go out now. Don't make me angry, or your blood pressure will be high again when you take the reading."
Ye Baoshun had no choice but to go out, and just then he met his mother coming upstairs to look for him at the stairwell.
"Are you really going to go to your grandfather to ask for the wedding house back?"
He disagreed.
Liang Meiyun angrily slapped his arm, "We already gave them away, and you went and chased them away. All the courtesy we showed them before is gone. Bao Ling just came to me crying, and she didn't even go to see the old man, but you went yourself! Let me tell you, Bao Ling was originally on our side, but after you messed things up, if she sides with her father, then you'll only have yourself to blame!"
"Okay, okay, stop talking, it's so annoying." Ye Baoshun covered his ears, not wanting to listen to his mother's nagging, and quickly went downstairs.
Liang Meiyun had no way to deal with him.
She went back upstairs and knocked on Ye Baoling's door.
Ye Baoling is organizing photos in the sitting room.
Liang Meiyun walked in with a smile and said, "Baoshun said he knows he was wrong and won't do it again. I don't know who instigated him, but he suddenly went crazy."
Ye Baoling didn't go to the old man to complain because she knew it would be useless.
Choosing to confide in Liang Meiyun was intended as a way to win her over and distance myself from her, so that if something really happened in the future, I wouldn't associate it with her.
She smiled and echoed Liang Meiyun's sentiment, saying, "I also think it wasn't his own idea; I don't know who instigated it."
Liang Meiyun sat down next to her. "I told him to have less contact with Ye Baoxin in the future."
Liang Meiyun is also a master of cunning.
Instead of stating it explicitly, she used this indirect approach to shift the blame onto Ye Baoxin.
Ye Baoling feigned ignorance: "I knew it."
"What photos are you organizing?" Liang Meiyun quickly changed the subject.
"This photo was taken together on the day Baoxian turned one month old." Ye Baoling took out the baby's one-month-old photo and whispered, "Second Aunt, who do you think Baoxian looks like?"
Liang Meiyun leaned closer to look. Xiao Baoxian was chubby and had very small eyes that were almost slits.
“I can’t tell who he looks like. He doesn’t look like his father or mother, and he doesn’t look like Baolong at all. Look at his eyes,” Liang Meiyun shook her head slightly with disdain, “The Ye family doesn’t have eyes like this.”
Ye Baoling smiled and said, "Maybe it's because they've grown up that their eyes have gotten bigger."
Liang Meiyun held up the photo and looked at it again and again. She didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she felt something was off.
*
The group's senior and middle management meetings are held only once every two months.
This is Ye Baoling's first time participating.
As Ye Baoling entered the large conference room on the 29th floor with Manager Huang, her colleagues from the administration department, eager to curry favor with her, quickly invited her to sit in the front.
Ye Baoling politely declined, saying, "I'll just sit in the back."
If she's a deputy manager, she should be sitting in the deputy manager's seat. She didn't get into this meeting room through connections.
The group, along with its two branch offices, has dozens of middle and senior managers, filling the conference room to capacity.
After Ye Baoling's outburst, the general manager of the herbal tea company, Shen Wanjie, the administrative director, Wang, the financial director, Chen, the marketing director, Liu Tiejun, the logistics director, Qi Yuxiu, the product director, Lu Baohua, and Wan Xiwen, among others, were all dismissed.
Because of his powerful backing, Ye Kaishen only lost his position as the group's vice president, but retained his position as the general manager of Suman Jewelry.
With the departure of old personnel, new ones are bound to take the stage, so the meetings of middle and senior management remain lively.
Lin Zhong chaired the meeting, while Ye Kaishen sat in a rather secluded corner with his hands folded.
Ye Kaishen didn't say a word for thirty minutes.
Each department had 3 minutes to report on their work, but Ye Baoling finished her report in 10 seconds.
"The third group of the herbal tea marketing department is responsible for developing the European and American markets, but there has been no progress so far."
Ye Kaishen glanced at Ye Baoling, feeling dissatisfied and disdainful, but he couldn't show it. She dared to step into such a huge pit as the European and American markets; she really didn't know the meaning of the word "cruel".
His dissatisfaction with Ye Baoling cannot be described in a few words.
Ye Kaishen always believed that Ye Baoling was able to drag him down because he was in the open while she was in the shadows. Moreover, he believed that Lin Zhong must have helped Ye Baoling a lot behind the scenes to make her so capable, and that her infiltration might even be a conspiracy deliberately arranged by Ye Kaimin and Lin Zhong.
After pulling him down, Ye Baoling surfaced. In the marketing department, those without real skills are most likely to be exposed. He wanted to see how long she could hold out.
She'll get married sooner or later and get out of Ye Qingtang's house.
Others didn't understand why the young lady wanted to go to the marketing department to develop the European and American markets, as it was clearly impossible for her to achieve any results.
Or perhaps she did it for her family's approval, and now that she has their approval, she can finally be free to do as she pleases.
After all, the marketing department is the most free department.
As she was in charge of the European and American markets, it was understandable that she couldn't produce results, and no one would blame her.
Her previous achievements were enough to earn her a place in Ye Qingtang's memory.
Her trip to Ye Qingtang was worthwhile.
After the meeting, HR Manager Li squeezed through the crowd, bowing and scraping as he greeted Ye Baoling: "Miss!"
Ye Baoling glanced at Manager Li, who had recruited her. She was surprised that despite the huge uproar last time, Manager Li, who was responsible for transferring the R&D staff, was not affected and was still safely in Ye Qingtang's HR department.
They have powerful backing.
Ye Baoling smiled and said, "Manager Li is such a busy man, is there something you need?"
Manager Li had a fawning smile on his face: "It's nothing, I just wanted to ask Miss, does your department need to hire another person?"
"Does Manager Li have any recommendations?"
Manager Li was afraid that Ye Baoling would think he was trying to bring in his own people, so he smiled and said, "It would be very inconvenient for four girls like you to travel to Europe and America on business. I suggest hiring a male colleague, that might be better."
"Is it more convenient if there's a man around?"
"At least arranging for male colleagues to accompany you on business trips would be safer."
Who knows? Maybe the source of the insecurity is that male colleague.
In her original world, she knew how many male colleagues would take advantage of business trips to harass female colleagues in various ways.
Ye Baoling was too lazy to argue with him about these things. "Our team's performance is zero, how can we get additional positions?"
"If you want this position, Miss, I can definitely find a way to arrange it for you." Manager Li's desire to flatter was practically written all over his face.
Just as Ye Baoling was about to refuse, Manager Li said again, "At worst, let Gao Lizhen from the original product department go back to the product department. She has no experience and is not suitable for marketing. We can replace the vacant position with a male colleague. This combination will be much better in all aspects."
Replace Goryeo-jin?
Ye Baoling stared at Manager Li: "Is this your personal idea?"
Manager Li didn't understand if the young lady's words had any other meaning, so he quickly smiled and said, "It's just my rational analysis."
"We'll handle the personnel arrangements for our group ourselves. We'll let you know when we need to recruit more people." With that, Ye Baoling walked towards the elevator.
Manager Li gave an awkward laugh and said, "I understand."
Ye Baoling returned to her office just as Gao Lizhen brought in her newly completed competitor analysis report.
When they were doing market research on jasmine herbal tea, Ye Baoling taught Gao Lizhen how to do SWOT analysis.
Gao Lizhen is very good at applying what she has learned; she used the SWOT analysis method very well this time.
"You've made great progress!" Ye Baoling praised her with a smile.
Gao Lizhen laughed and said, "I specially bought books on market research and analysis to study. This is just copying what I've learned."
"I'll take a closer look later." Ye Baoling closed the folder. "Don't stand there, sit down and let's talk. I want to ask you something."
After Gao Lizhen sat down, she asked with a smile, "What is it?"
Are you familiar with Manager Li from the HR department?
Goryeo-jin's expression stiffened. "Huh?"
"Don't be nervous, I'm just curious and asking casually."
Gao Lizhen scratched her head: "I'm not very familiar with Manager Li."
Ye Baoling: "Manager Li wants to transfer you out of our group."
Gao Lizhen quickly said, "I don't want to leave."
But that was all she said before she lowered her head and remained silent.
"I didn't agree." Seeing Gao Lizhen's uncomfortable appearance, Ye Baoling didn't press the issue. "Alright, you're welcome to come and talk to me anytime you want to."
Ye Baoling watched Gao Lizhen leave before opening the folder to carefully examine her analysis, which was indeed very well done.
She rubbed her temples, thought for a while, and before leaving get off work at noon, she went to the fourth-floor cleaning staff to find Xia and gave her a new task.
Then he went to the supervisor's office to wait for Wang Simin to go out for lunch together.
Since becoming a supervisor, Wang Simin has been quite busy with work lately.
“Before, you were busy while I was just lazing around. Now I’m swamped with work, and you’re doing fine, only working sporadically.” Wang Simin complained, then laughed, “But if I were born as lucky as you, I’d be on vacation every day playing around with men.”
Ye Baoling denied being lazy: "I don't work half-heartedly. My mind is always on work, not stopping for a moment."
"Tsk tsk. I hope I can be reborn as a fifth-generation rich kid in my next life."
At twelve o'clock, Gu Man'er came downstairs on time. "Come on, eating is the priority. We can get back to work. Wang Simin, I'm getting anxious because you're working so hard."
"Here we are." Wang Simin put a stack of documents in the drawer, picked up her handbag, and followed them to take the elevator.
Today they ate at a different street stall.
Wang Simin smiled and sighed, "Miss Ye drives a luxury car every day, but she has to eat cheap street food every day to accommodate us ordinary citizens. To be honest, I really can't bear to see you suffer like this. Actually, we can make an sacrifice and go out for a French meal with you. You can just pay the bill."
Ye Baoling laughed and retorted, "Dream on. I'll eat your plate of rice."
Wang Simin: "What's wrong with rice on a plate? I never get tired of it, and it's cheap too."
Gu Man'er laughed at her: "Since it's so good, why are you still thinking about French cuisine?"
“It’s not that I miss it, but I can change things up occasionally. If you made me eat French cuisine every day, I would definitely prefer to come back and eat my street food.”
Wang Simin makes a good point.
Ye Baoling ate the mushroom and beef slices with a spoon: "The French restaurant we packed for Xian Bi's agent last time was quite good. Let's go eat together sometime when everyone has enough time."
Wang Simin raised an eyebrow and asked with a sly smile, "Are you treating?"
Ye Baoling: "It's my treat."
"Then this meal is on me," Wang Simin said generously.
Gu Man'er: "You should have said so earlier, we would have ordered the expensive ones."
Wang Simin happily tossed her head: "I told you so, otherwise my wallet would have been bleeding out!"
All three of them couldn't help but laugh.
The square tables of the roadside stalls were set up right outside the large glass window of the electronics store.
Inside the glass window, a stack of three rows of nine television sets were broadcasting stock market news, with a large expanse of green on the screen.
To the naked eye, almost every stock is rising.
Wang Simin said, "The stock market is so hot lately. That hot stock I heard before has multiplied many times over, and now stocks like Golden Bean, Bright Crystal, and Xixi Sheep are soaring. I can't resist buying some."
Ye Baoling couldn't stop Wang Simin from playing either, since some people really do make money. She could only remind her, "Playing with a few thousand or ten thousand is fine, but don't play too much. This stock market roller coaster isn't for everyone."
"Did you buy it?" Wang Simin still remembered making a small profit by following Ye Baoling in stock trading of Suman Jewelry. Now that she thought about it, the young lady might have inside information.
Ye Baoling smiled and said, "I bought a little bit."
What did you buy?
"Golden beans".
Wang Simin's eyes widened: "I want to buy it too. Let me know when you're leaving."
Ye Baoling gave an "OK" sign, then asked Gu Man'er, "Aren't you going to buy it?"
Wang Simin looked up at the sky and said sarcastically, "Some people are so content with just love that they don't know anything about human suffering."
Gu Man'er smiled and said, "If you all buy them, then I'll buy them too."
In the end, Wang Simin bought 10,000 yuan, and Ye Baoling lent Gu Man'er 15,000 yuan. They used all the money to buy gold beans.
*
Ye Baoling was settling accounts with Liu Haonan in Qiyuan's office.
They were selling off their stock very quickly, with the price rising to over 22 times at its peak. However, the price plummeted rapidly, and some of their stock was sold off before no one was willing to buy it. In the end, the price dropped from over 8 yuan to 4 yuan before it was all sold out.
However, this portion is small and does not affect their total profit.
Liu Haonan said, "The investment of 10 million in Hot & Spicy ultimately yielded 191.21 million. As you instructed, 190 million of that was converted into US dollars and used to buy S&P 500 index shares, which are currently performing well."
Including the HK$10 million she previously invested in US stocks, Ye Baoling now has a total of HK$200 million in the US stock market.
Liu Haonan could hardly believe that their initial investment of over 8 million yuan had grown to over 200 million yuan in just a few months.
That's the allure of the financial market.
Of course, if you're not careful, 200 million can vanish in an instant.
Therefore, he is more on edge than ever now, fearing that something might go wrong.
Liu Haonan handed the investment list to his boss: "We've invested ten million each in Jin Dou Dou and Liang Jing Jing as planned. These two stocks are doing quite well right now, but they're still far behind Re La La."
Now that Ye Baoling has money, she is more confident. She said, "I'll take it first and then decide what to do when it's the end of September or the beginning of October."
Liu Haonan couldn't help but ask, "Boss, I'm curious, do you have a stock trading circle where someone sells you inside information?"
Ye Baoling did not deny it: "That's pretty much true. If you want first-hand information, you definitely have to pay."
Liu Haonan nodded: "So, no matter how advanced the technology is, it can't compare to having inside information."
However, Ye Baoling's information is also very limited. The script does not describe the performance of individual stocks after the stock market crash. It is only known that the stock market took more than two years to recover.
She knew that the next opportunity to make money like this wouldn't come until the financial crisis of 1997, 10 years later.
Therefore, she must make enough money during this period, and then take advantage of the stock market crash and the sharp drop in Ye Qingtang's stock price to find a way to buy Ye Qingtang at the bottom and become her grandfather's boss. That is her ultimate goal in stock trading.
Of course, she has two paths: she will continue to advance in her career, and if the stock market doesn't follow the script, she can also rely on her own efforts to gradually gain power in Ye Qingtang.
Ye Baoling stayed in Qiyuan for an afternoon before leaving.
I received a call from Ye Huaizhang as soon as I left.
They haven't been in contact for several days.
"Where are you?" he asked.
Ye Baoling had just gotten into the car and hadn't started it yet when she casually replied, "The company."
Just as she finished speaking, there was a knock on the passenger side window. Ye Baoling glanced down slightly and saw Ye Huaizhang standing outside.
He was caught lying!
Awkward.
He opened the car door and came in. "Weren't you at the company?"
Ye Baoling changed the subject: "What are you doing here?"
“There’s a partner company in the Lihua Building, and I come here often.”
He used the word "also" well, so he probably knew that she frequently went in and out of the 18th floor of the Lihua Building.
Ye Baoling immediately told half the truth: "I run an investment company upstairs. This is the company's underground parking garage, so it's not wrong for me to answer that I'm at the company, is it?"
Ye Huaizhang was amused by her and nodded: "That's right, you're right."
Ye Baoling rolled her eyes at him again.
"How did you come up with the idea of starting an investment company?" he asked again.
Ye Baoling: "Do you need a reason to make money?"
Seeing her impatience, he wisely stopped asking and simply said, "Come on, let's go have dinner."
Ye Baoling glanced at him sideways: "Have you been released from the Cold Palace? Then invite me to dinner."
Ye Huaizhang immediately tempted her: "The best poached chicken in Hong Kong, melt-in-your-mouth liver, and mantis shrimp as big as your arm..."
It was all her love.
Ye Baoling may not have agreed verbally, but her stomach had already given in.
She held out her hand: "Give it to me."
"What."
"A bronze medal. I found it."
He'd be willing to give anyone, even a gold medal, as long as they could escape the cold palace.
Moreover, since she has two ugly jade pendants, he has no use for the bronze medal.
Ye Huaizhang: "I left it at home. I'll get it for you tonight."
He really knows how to push his luck.
Having just left the cold palace, he was already thinking of entering the inner chambers to serve the emperor.
But in order to win the bronze medal, Ye Baoling had no choice but to agree: "Where is the address?"
Let's go eat chicken.
In this day and age, without navigation, it's easy to get lost.
Ye Huaizhang said, "I'll drive."
She wouldn't let me: "You can't drive my car. Why don't you just give me directions?"
Ye Huaizhang had no choice but to give her directions, "Go towards the west district first."
It's a private restaurant located in an apartment building in the old town of the western district.
When they entered, the restaurant was empty, and business didn't seem to be booming, although the decor was quite charming.
Ye Baoling quickly chose a corner seat and sat down.
They ordered half a chicken, a liver, two huge mantis shrimps, a spicy stir-fried razor clams, and a pot of seafood porridge.
The dishes were served very quickly. After taking her first bite of chicken, Ye Baoling couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Authentic! The cooking time is perfect too. The popularity here doesn't match its taste."
Ye Huaizhang laughed and said, "If they brought you here, how could the food be bad?"
How did you find this place?
Ye Huaizhang refilled her porridge: "Dong Jian found this for her."
I guessed it.
The food at this private restaurant was delicious, but the air conditioning was poor, leaving Ye Baoling sweating profusely while she ate.
Ye Huaizhang took out a tissue to wipe her sweat, and she, unusually, acted like a well-behaved cat, tilting her head back and letting him wipe her.
Suddenly realizing something was wrong, she quickly shrank back and whispered, "Don't let anyone see us."
He's booked the entire restaurant for tonight; the owners and staff can't possibly betray them.
He didn't say anything, only that, "You're afraid, but I'm not."
He immediately received a glare from his wife.
Ye Baoling wasn't stupid. Such a delicious restaurant couldn't possibly only have their table of customers. She asked, "Did you book the whole place?"
"Dong Jian booked the entire venue."
Ye Baoling responded with a sarcastic remark: "Why don't you let Dong Jian have dinner with me?"
Ye Huaizhang: "..."
Speaking of Dong Jian, Ye Huaizhang couldn't help but say, "He even asked if we should arrange for someone to play the violin."
Ye Baoling imagined herself sucking on razor clams while someone played the violin beside her. She laughed and said, "Why didn't you take Dong Jian's advice? You look down on this delicious home-cooked meal, don't you?"
Ye Huaizhang couldn't argue, so he tried to outwit her with her own way of thinking: "How about I have Dong Jian make the arrangements now?"
He knew she definitely wouldn't want it.
Ye Baoling chuckled twice: "Your boss is really annoying. Dong Jian must be fed up with you."
...
Meanwhile, another couple, afraid of being photographed but believing themselves to be safe, staged a passionate scene at a cliffside hotel by the sea.
Ye Baoshun pressed himself against the glass window, while Lü Tianyou whipped him mercilessly with a belt from behind. After a series of agonizing screams, Lü Tianyou straddled him...
On the deep sea, on a fishing boat without lights on, someone quickly pressed the shutter.
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Author's Note: Magazine readers: Ugh, this is an eyesore...
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