Chapter 6 (2/2)

“It's already late. You should go back early to have a rest.” Yan Mu put on his coat, “It's time for me to leave work, too.”

When Cao Jingshen turned around and saw Yan Mu had already left the office. Then he thinks about it. He folded the meeting minutes and put them in his pocket. He went out of the office and saw the shredder outside. He hesitated and then solemnly put them in the shredder.

The only way to keep something safe is to make sure no one saw it. There are still several commercial spies in Huading that haven't been pulled out. He can't let this potential talent taken by rivals.

Lu Chengyu works smoothly in the next few days. He wonders if he shocked Cao Jingshen so much by revealing his hand in the conference room. Cao Jingshen was being more gentle to him compared on his first day. There was more communication between the two of them in during work. But even so, he didn't have contact with the big boss. All he did was more to coordinate work in various departments every day, or to sort out various doc.u.ments.

After three weeks of work, the car he bought finally got its license tag on. Although it was only a hundred thousand or so, he was in a very good mood. Anyway, he owns a car.

Huading has an internal parking lot, so Lu Chengyu went to apply for an underground parking pa.s.s and went to work by his car.

After more than a month later, Lu Chengyu returned to school to defend his thesis. Only then he knows that Chen Jin had obtained quota to attend Liang's foreign meeting, so he used a video conference to defend his thesis. Maybe it was Liang Deyou who helped him considering Chen Jin's application was easily pa.s.s.

In fact, instead of facing Chen Jin, Lu Chengyu was relieved. Although there is no resentment between him and Chen Jin, there is not much brotherhood left.

His thesis defence was easy. Lu Chengyu had a hot pot with Liang Hong and Zhu Guanglin and they went to KTV to sing.

They went out from KTV after they done with singing. His mind sobers up when he was blown by the night breeze. Chengyu raised his hand and looked at the watch using the street lamp. It was already after 12 a.m., and sadly he said, “I need to sleep, I have to go to work tomorrow.”

“You didn't ask for leave tomorrow?” Zhang Hong patted him on the shoulder and said, “Condolence.”

“Get out of the way.” Lu Chengyu gave him a slap on Zhang Hong hands that he places on his shoulder. “How do I know that I'll be howling with you two till midnight?”

“You speak like you didn't enjoy singing just now”. Zhang Hong pulled out his ears and said, ” Besides your two brothers, who else are able to stand your hideous singing? You have a nice voice but tone-deaf, what a rip-off.”

“If you are saying this means that your sense is dead,” Lu Chengyu stretched his lazy waist, “All right, I'm not going to talk to you anymore, let's go back.”

Zhu Guanglin, who had never spoken, hesitated for a moment and said, “Lao San (third old), didn't you prepare to enter Liang's company before? Then, why did you choose to go to Huading? Was it because of Chen Jin…”?

Zhang Hong frowned and stared at him. “Lao Zhu (Old Zhu, from Zhu Guanglin name), what are you talking about?”

“No reason.”Lu Chengyu put his hands in his trousers pocket and laughed, “I just think Huading has a lot of room for development, so I choose Huading. I'm not gonna spend my working life in Liang Company and let Liang Deyou gain profit from it. You guys might not know that Liang Company was responsible for my parents' accident.”

Zhu Guanglin and Zhang Hong looked at each other face. Zhu Guanglin looked apologetic and said, “Sorry, Lao San, I don't know about it. I just drank too much and talk nonsense. Don't take it to heart.”

“That's just a small thing, I don't take it to my heart.” laughed Lu Chengyu, he really seems doesn't care about it, “Even I know about this recently although the accident happens more than a year ago and it doesn't have anything to do with you. There are a few things I can't tell even we are best friends.”

Zhu Guanglin speechless looking at Lu Chengyu calm face calm. Eventually, he grins to Chengyu, walk to him and they give each other a pat on the shoulder.

Yan Mu sat in his car and watched Lu Chengyu say goodbye to two young people. Then, he saw Chengyu took a taxi and left. He pulled down his necktie and threw it aside. The young man nowadays is so energetic. He has to go to work tomorrow and but dare to have fun till midnight. (T/N: stalker-detected ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

No wonder people say that three years difference is a generation-gap. He's just six or seven years older than these people and yet he feels like they live in two different worlds with these young people.

However, when he was studying abroad, he did not seem to be as leisurely as they were. It seems that it has nothing to do with age and personality.

Realising that he was thinking of something useless, Yan Mu stepped on the accelerator with one foot and a car that worth near ten million flew out at full speed.

Inside the taxi, Lu Chengyu saw a black Maybach pa.s.s by behind him and couldn't help but to look at it more than twice.

“Ai ya [2], that Maybach cost around 10 million dollars. I've seen pictures of this kind of car on the internet, and even its used cars ought to cost more than 8 million!”

The taxi driver carefully drives his car away from the Maybach. “I need to drive carefully when I see this kind of car. If I accidentally scratch it, I, ordinary person, can't afford to pay for it.”

Hearing this, Chengyu felt sad, suddenly he realized that there is nothing to be excited when he got 19 million.

Go to h.e.l.l, rich man! [3]

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[2] 哎呀 [āi yā] : interjection of wonder, shock or admiration

[3] Chengyu said “Go to your sister” but I change to “Go to h.e.l.l” because usually in Chinese, if they want to curse someone, they mention family, like your mom, (ni ma) etc. [On a side note, I don't think Chengyu want Yan Mu to go to someone else, he better go to h.e.l.l if he does that, hahaha, just kidding.]

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