When Xu Nuo entered Song Ruyi’s office, holding her head high, with the photocopy of the contract Song had signed with Feng Qingsong’s company and a digital recorder pen, Song Ruyi was overcome with astonishment.
The recorder pen was played, from which Feng Qingsong’s voice was clearly heard, “Mr. Song, you have offered me a really favorable price, much lower than that your company quoted. Many foreign trade companies also have salespersons like you…”
So he not only had to pay a lump sum for the house, but also he could afford a monthly mortgage payment.
“I…I’m wrong in doing this. Please, I beg you not to tell anyone about it. This job is very important for me. or…, I’ll give you half of what I earned, or seventy percent, okay? Even if you could make the deal for the company, you could only get a ten percent commission, why bother?” Song Ruyi implored. He would be under a lot of pressure to find a new job if he was fired by the company. To begin with, the financial crisis was scary enough, not to say he had a wife at home, a mistress, and a baby one and a half year old, for whom he had to spend two or three thousand yuan only on formula milk. He worried so much that he was sweating.
“I can promise you that I won’t tell anyone about it, but you must know what you should do, right? We’ll take it as our eternal secret, shall we?” Xu Nuo smiled faintly. “I’ll see how you can perform in three days.”
Luo Junchang felt a little unexpected at the news that Song Ruyi asked to transfer to the factory for the position of Deputy Director. Hadn’t he done a good job in the Market Department? Not to mention that who could fill the vacancy he had left? And who would take over the clients he had contacted?
“Xu Nuo was a fairly good employee. Although she hadn’t entered the company for long, she had established a client network very soon. And in recent two months the business deals she had done amounted to the total of a half year’s achievements the whole department had performed in last year. A poll in the department showed that all staff agreed to the proposal that Xu Nuo should hold the post of the marketing manager, which was enough to prove that she was a capable and aggressive leader. “I have been the marketing manager for several years and I feel tired now. I’d like to take a rest for a while in the countryside.” Son Ruyi thus said.
Luo Junchang nodded and he seemed to have learned something. Before the appointment was issued, he should talk with her as a matter of routine.
The place for the talk was set in a site suitable for dating, a romantically decorated coffee house with a warm light.
Before the date, Xu Nuo had received a large pack of informative materials from a private detective agency a week ago. As a strong rival, she had got the goods on Song Ruyi and hit the mark. To be exact, she found out his weak points and then hit the right nail on the head. But once he was beaten, he was a kung fu master who had been deprived of his martial arts, it was unnecessary to destroy him for he was not her personal enemy who had killed her father or husband. To be cruel could become a habit and if you had such a habit you yourself would be destroyed by someone else sooner or later. Thus Xu Nuo didn’t report Son Ruyi’s deeds of making private deals-even if she intended to report, she had no evidence. The photocopy of the contract was photo-shopped after scanned and it was as easy as pie to get Song’s signature. Feng Qingsong was still reluctant to hand over the contract. He was a man of principle. The recordings in digital recorder pen were also made by some technician. It was very easy to imitate Feng’s voice, a middle-age man in a little Sichuan dialect, which made Song Ruyi fall for it, for he was initially guilty about the deal. It would be better for him to naturally apply for the transfer than to be given the sack under so many watchful eyes.
Xu Nuo had won the first battle. But there was still the second battle, in which Luo Junchang was the key. The General Manager was also a human. And he was a man. Every man liked beautiful women, especially a single beautiful woman, not to say a beautiful woman with capability, a best brain and a legit and rich family.
The professional detective agency was an expert one in Hong Kong. Anyway it was only an hour’s drive from Shenzhen to Hong Kong.
The detective agency was really serious about the work: his experiences from the primary school to the middle school to the university; from his first love to ex-girlfriend; from the family members to relatives and good friends; from his favorable tourist destination to the adult video actress. They were thoroughly investigated: from the inside to outside, up and down, past to present, present to the future. They spent two months on conducting a complete investigation.
Luo Junchang, the only son of a single-parent family, graduated from a prestigious university. He first fell in love at the age of sixteen but split up because of his mother’s objection. His ex-girlfriend was a customer service supervisor in a bank, who had committed an attempted suicide due to Luo’s mother’s objection and later hastily married a senior high school classmate of hers three years ago. They occasionally contacted with each other.
Luo was good at swimming and tennis. He showed a special preference to shirts with check patterns. His favorite tourist destination was South Korea and the adult video actress he loved most was Manami Suzuki, although the change of only one word in the name of Honami Suzuki, the status of the two were totally different.
The information given by the detective agency was sufficient for Luo Junchang to write a copy of memoirs.
Before she went to the date, Xu Nuo changed her business suit into a chestnut conjoined shirt with check patterns and flounce. She didn’t understand previously why fashion magazines should introduce such peculiar type of conjoined shirt, which seemed very strange to look at. But now when she put it on she became aware of the good effect the shirt took to her figure. The conjoined crotch used very soft lace so that she would not feel it rubbing her sensitive part. The shirt made her look slim and cute and sweet.
As for the handbag, she chose a most simple black motorcycle bag. Although it was plain, its highlight was a decoration of limited version Astroboy. In the information the detective agency provided it was not told. Xu Nuo guessed it by his age. According to his age, Astroboy must be his most favorite toy. If she hung a Gloomy Bear on the bag, he would simply ignore it.
She chose sandal soap for the bath, it smelled more pleasant than the stronger smell of bath lotion. To make an exception, she didn’t wear perfume but searched the remotest corner of the largest supermarket to pick up a bottle of Yashuang cream and put it in her bag. Before she entered the coffee house, she went to the public bathroom first and wore a little on the wrists and the neck. The cream was a little greasy but quickly soaked up-the cream was the make-up Luo Junchang’s mother liked best, he would feel familiar when smelt the flavor of it.
The more you prepared, the more likely you could make it. There were certainly some possible contingencies, so Xu Nuo couldn’t be absolutely sure to get hold of him.