I carried a bunch of flowers and walked through the passageway made up of the staff to my office.
Leon had arrived there ahead of me and he stood at the entrance of my office door, whose slender body stood straight, with rare smile on his face, saying, “Congratulations to Chief Director Yao.”
I smiled and shook hands with him, answering,”Thank you, Mr. Hua.” He made such efforts to congratulate me just in order to prove to my colleagues that I was not an unpractical “vase” who had no ability and only got promotion because of nepotism, instead, I was the Chief Director with my real skills and potentials.
Leon said,” How about sharing your present feelings with your colleagues?”
Now that he had mentioned this topic, I had to say something to my colleagues.
“First, I would like to thank all my colleagues for your hard working, owing to which, our project bidding can succeed. All the achievements are inseparable from everyone’s efforts. Therefore, I would like to share this success with all of you, and I will keep working hard to make better achievements with you.”
Although I hadn’t really been a leader, I could still speak those kind of showy and not substantial words.
“Fine, everyone get back to work. After your Director Yao receiving her bonus, she will invite all of you to have delicious meals.”Leon said.
All the staff cheered.
Leon said,” Follow me to my office, Director Yao. I have something to say to you.”
So I followed him to his office, and then I noticed that Leon who turned back to me was more serious than just now.
“When Wenbei Su signed the cooperation agreement with us, he only brought up one condition, Nobody but you can be in charge of the execution and the implementation of the project. In order to facilitate our cooperation, I didn’t bother about this condition, so now it needs you to remedy.”Leon said.
“How do you intend to make me remedy this condition?” I was a little confused,”Now that the agreement has been signed, which is effective and can not be changed, you can’t let me break the agreement, and I can only go there to make execution.”
“So you want to leave Hai City very much and make cooperation with Wenbei Su, right?”Leon said coldly.
“What do you mean by saying this?”
“The reason why Wenbei Su would like to lower his posture and make cooperation with us is just for your honor, which we both know clearly. Therefore, the credit of earning this project is indeed yours, and there is no problem because you deserve it. But what I can’t figure out is just why is he so nice to you?”
“What do you mean? Don’t slander me, Leon. The later plan of this project is hided from me, and now you just mean that I have some secrets with that Mr. Su?”
“Have I said that? So now you start to reveal your own guilty conscience? If there is no secret between you and him, then why did he make specific requirement that you were needed to go to Yang City to execute this cooperation?”
“How can I know that, this is his requirement, how can I know on earth what he was thinking?” I asked him angrily.
“So you need to prove that you are innocent.”Leon said.
“How should I prove that? I am completely unaware of this deal, which is agreed by you yourselves.”
“Now we must execute the agreement as the deal wrote, so now you are the person in charge of the project who will be sent from Hai City to Yang City.”
Now I was more confused. Wasn’t he unhappy about my going there? Now he wanted me to go. So what was he up to? If I go to the Yang City, then would the relationship between me and Wenbei Su be more complicated and make it harder for me to explain?
I was about to say something, but Leon gave me a sign to ask me to stop talking and wait for him finish talking.
“If you go there, then we will just complete to carry out the agreement. But not too long, you will make mistakes and then I will cancel your duty in there. Then you won’t stay in Yang City to be in charge, and you will go back to Hai City to work.”
So, he made so many efforts to achieve this aim at last! On one hand, he didn’t want to break the agreement, on the other hand, he didn’t want me to take over the project and make too much interactions with Wenbei SU, therefore, he wanted me to neglect my duty intentionally and so that I could be dismissed in Yang City.
“I don’t agree with what you just said, you either let me go to work there, or don’t let me, why should I neglect my duty on purpose?”I asked him angrily.
“So you want to work with Wenbei Su? And now you still don’t admit that there are secrets between you and him?”Leon’s face became very serious.
“These are completely two issues, all right? So just to prove I am innocent, I have to neglect my duty on my job and be dismissed? What kind of idea are you thinking about? You don’t care my feelings at all, why on earth should I neglect my duty on purpose? I will not do that!”
“If you don’t do that, then we will break this agreement. So can you afford the loss caused by that?”Leon still compelled me.
“What you arrange is not work, but direct acting completely. And I will not act with you!”I said to him angrily.
“Our whole life is just a big drama. If you don’t cooperate with me, well, I will directly dismiss you from the company. And since you won’t work for my company, then naturally I don’t have to perform the contract signed with Wenbei Su. Just you alone, went to Yang City, for just once, and he then asked nobody but you to be in charge of the project, now you dare to say that there’s nothing between you and him? If you are really innocent, why they asked you to be in charge? If you are really innocent, then just prove it in my way!”
I might as well stop talking after hearing his words, because I knew that I definitely could not convince Leon.
Although he had his solution, I also had my own way. It was better to pretend to do as what he said and wait for a solution until I arrive Yang City than to argue and make contradictions with him. After my arrival, I would not make any mistakes on my job. Could he really force me to make any mistakes? Then I would see how he dismiss me even if I didn’t make any mistakes.
“Fine, I agree.” I said without any other choice
“That’s it. A clever person should know how to compromise and change his opinion. Those who don’t know how to change are fast to fall from their position.”Leon smiled with complacency.
“Then when will I head to Yang City?”
“You will leave at noon. When you arrive there, you will pretend to work for a week, then you will be dismissed there and go back to Hai City for the mistakes you make.”Leon said.
“All right.”
I made some preparations and Xuanlong Jiang drove the car to send me to Yang City on ten o’clock in the morning.
In order to show his sincerity, Wenbei Su specially cleared a set of offices in his office building and borrowed it to the team which was in charge of the telecommunications project in Hai City for their work, without being paid. By the time I arrived, I saw Wenbei was directing the workers to install the related equipment for our working.
He could have asked his subordinates to do that kind of negligible things, but his direction in person showed that he attached great importance to this cooperation between us.
Noticing my arrival, he started to smile and walk to me.”I’m glad that we can finally meet with the identity of the cooperation partners. If you have any problems in your work life in Yang City, you can call me directly and I will try my best to make good arrangement for you.”
“Thank you , Mr. Su.”I shook my hands with him, and smiled.
“Don’t call me Mr. Su from now on, just call me Wenbei. I have prepared you a temporary house to live , let’s go and pay a visit of it. If you can not adapt to the environment there, we will change to another house.”
He was so hospital to me that I was even a little embarrassed. Besides, of course I could not accept the house, because if Leon knew that I lived in the house which was arranged by Wenbei Su, then he might come to Yang City at once, took me back to Hai City and not allowed me to come here forever.