Mu Chen saw my mood change and he smiled gently, “Miss Yao, it’s not that I don’t want to help you. It’s just that it’s business, not personal. If it was a private matter, I would definitely do it for you, but it concerns the company interests, and I can’t let my team serve Miss Yao. If my staff knew that I had no intention of getting the project and what I do is just for you, then I wouldn’t be able to manage the company afterwards.”
He had a point. It would take a lot of human and material resources for a company to be involved in a project with hundreds of millions of dollars. It would indeed be abnormal if this huge amount of giving was just to help me out.
“Okay, let’s play fair. If you got this project, then I congratulate you for getting it.” I chuckled too.
“Good, Miss Yao is really sensible. The thing is done and aren’t you going to order the dishes?” Mu said with a smile.
Only then did I remember discussing the project with him, I forgot to order food.
“I’m sorry., Mr. Chen, you order the dishes and I’ll pay the bill”
Mu had a mild taste and the dishes he ordered were basically vegetarian. No wonder he was so skinny.
“Actually, Miss Yao, you don’t have to worry too much. I’m not your biggest rival, your rival should be Su Men Su in Yang City.” Mu said suddenly.
“Men Su?” It was a name I really haven’t heard of.
“Yeah, that’s the Su family. They are the largest family in Yang City. In the top five companies in Yang City, the Su family all holds their shares to varying degrees. Nanhe Corporation, the largest company in Yang City, is the most representative enterprise in Su Family and is the first private enterprise listed in Yang City. In other words, the status of the Su Family in Yang City is equivalent to the status of the Hua Family in the Hai City.”
“The Su family is so powerful. If we want to get their business on their turf, they must have gone out of their way to compete with us. The chances of getting the bid are slim”
“You are quite right. Neither one would easily let someone take a piece of meat off their doorstep. But it’s not impossible, it depends on Miss Yao’s ability.” Mu said.
“Generally, we call a group of people who are related Family, so why would you call them Men Su and not Su Family, is there a difference between that?”
“I can’t say what the difference is, but that’s what they call themselves. An ordinary family is either in business or politics, but the Su family is different, being both a bookish family and a business leader. Many people in Su Family graduated from prestigious universities, and some of them are famous in the cultural world. So they’re not just traditional rich people, they have culture and status. Maybe that’s why they’re called Men Su, presumably standing for fame and distinguishing the famous family from the ordinary rich family.”
“That’s awesome, so aren’t they strong in both politics and business?”
“Indeed. It is said that they are descendants of the famous writer, Dongpo Su, but no one knows if this is true or not, but it is indeed a remarkable family.” Mu said.
Hearing what Mu had said , I was with less confidence.
As the saying goes, a powerful dragon cannot crush a snake in its haunts. Now we were not facing ‘a snake in its haunts’, but a ‘dragon’. Did we have a chance to win the bid?
“Don’t worry. Business is not only about a company’s strength, but sometimes it’s also about luck. So you still have a chance.” Mu said.
We chatted for a while, and Mu answered the phone and said he had things to take care of, so he left first. Before he left, he told me to find a chance to ask Ying if that medicine was effective.
Later in the evening, I returned to Maple Villa. I didn’t want to come back, but the thought of communicating with Leon about the project in Yang City and preparing for school’s parents-children activities.
This event was supposed to take place a few days ago and was later delayed due to the weather. This afternoon the school teacher called to tell me the event was scheduled for tomorrow.
Leon wasn’t there, and surprisingly, Alex wasn’t either. I called Leon and he told me that he took Alex out to play. I didn’t know what he took Alex to play with at night.
I took a shower and then changed my clothes. I turned on my computer and started working.
But soon the computer ran out of power, and I left the computer charger at work. I just thought that Leon and I had the same type of computer, so I went to look for his computer charger.
His study door was unlocked, and I found the charger without a hitch.
As I was ready to leave the room with the charger in hand, I noticed a file bag on Leon’s desk. Two words written on the paper bag caught my attention, Nan Lin.
There was certainly something about Nan Lin that I wanted to see. There were a lot of documents, and most of them were some data I didn’t understand. But I saw the conclusion reached at the end. It was a report about plastic surgery identification, and the identification turned out to be that Nan Lin did not have plastic surgery, and even her double eyelids were real.
That was not the same as what Nan Lin’s boyfriend, Bo Ma, had said. He said that Nan Lin had spent all his savings on plastic surgery, but now he had come to the conclusion that Nan Lin had not had plastic surgery. So what Bo Ma said was not true?
Leon concluded that Nan Lin didn’t have a plastic surgery, so he thought I was lying to him and that’s why he kept staying with Nan Lin.
So was this Nan Lin real or not? Was Bo Ma lying?
I really didn’t believe it. It was obvious that Nan Lin was very strange. Why didn’t she have plastic surgery? Did Bo Ma have to tell those lies? And he ended up dying in a traffic accident because of it?
I read those reports repeatedly, but I didn’t find any problem. I just took down the phone number and address of the agency. I needed to verify the authenticity of this report.
“What are you doing?”
The voice of Leon suddenly came from behind me and I was startled. I put down the paper in my hands. I was in his study so long that I didn’t know that he had come back.
“You don’t have to be nervous, that’s what I brought back to show you. You told me she had the plastic surgery, and now you have seen this plastic surgery identification, what else do you have to say? You’d better not defame her. I won’t believe you.”
“Who knows the report is true or not? There’s nothing you can’t do with money today.”
Leon sneered, picked up the report and patted me on the face. “I know you are very disappointed that you did not achieve your goal of slandering Nan Lin. Ten cosmetic experts in the country have made accurate tests of her face, proving that she has never had a plastic surgery. Nala Yao, it is shameless for you to question this report again. It’s a test that I personally supervised and can’t be wrong.”