Chapter 15 (1/2)
You never cease to amaze me, Chengyu. (๑♡⌓♡๑)
And also I love how Chengyu and Yan Mu stealing glances to each other…
Chapter 15: Judging a person based on appearance?
After knocking twice at the door of President Yan's office, Chengyu heard Yan Mu's voice to let them in, thus he opened the door and turned around to let Yan Lao San in. When the two black-clad bodyguards were going to follow in, he raised his hand over and stopped them, then he said with a smile, “Why don't you wait outside the door?”
Two bodyguards looked at how Lu Chengyu raised his hand just now and they knew that this man was somewhat skilled. Since it wasn't proper to make a scene on other person's territory, they all look up to Yan Lao San and wait for his instruction.
Yan Lao San's face was dark and gloomy, but he still instructs the two bodyguards to stay outside with his eyes. He takes off the cigar from his mouth, clip it in between his fingers and says with ridicule tone, “My worthy nephew raised a good dog.”
“Dogs have a lot of hair. I don't like them.” Yan Mu slightly wrinkled his eyebrows when he saw Yan Lao San was shaking off the cigar ashes down on the floor, “Third uncle (San Shu), just because you like dogs, don't a.s.sume everyone will like them”
Yan Lao San, who has been countered by Yan Mu's words, choked for a while. Then he sat down on the sofa, he pointed to the man behind him, “This is Huangchuan, mine and your third aunt's nephew and he is your brother, get acquainted with him.”
Yan Mu raised his lower eyelids and looked at the man behind him, who was slightly fat, short and ugly. He silently s.h.i.+fted his eyes and looked at Lu Chengyu several times before expressionlessly saying, “My brothers' surname is Yan and Mu.” (T/N: His dad is from Yan Family, while his mom is from Mu family, don't confuse it with Yan Mu's name and as for why he looks at Chengyu is because Huangchuan is quite ugly, so he needs to clean his eyes by looking at handsome Chengyu)
Instantly, Yan Lao San's face was facing down because of shame, he throws his cigar on the floor and grinds it with his shoe's sole, then he said calmly, “If you say that, you simply don't think much of your third aunt?”
“You are the one who supposed to take care of the third aunt, Third Uncle, don't confused about this relations.h.i.+p,” said Yan Mu while reclining back to his chair, “Third Uncle's joke just now is not funny.”
“You!” Yan Lao San was angry and forcefully rushed forwards as if he wants to attack Yan Mu. His two bodyguards who were standing at the door saw the situation and immediately hasten to enter the office. But before they can do anything, suddenly they felt pain on their lower abdomens, and in an instant, they realized they were kicked towards the office's wall and even knocked down the bonsai tree at the corner.
Such a big movement let the angry Yan Lao San honestly stop. At the same time, several people in the room looked at the young man that standing at the door smiling.
“I'm sorry, my leg accidentally cramped,” Lu Chengyu went to the nearest bodyguard and stooped down to reach out to the man and try to help him up. This action frightened the bodyguard and he shrinks back, his whole body was close to the corner and didn't dare to reach out.
Lu Chengyu stood up and patted the dust on his trouser legs. He smiled at Yan Lao San and said, “Excuse me, I'm disturbing your conversation, please continue.”
Yan Lao San swallowed his saliva. How could he get angry? He was choked back to his stomach by Chengyu's movement. He looks at his two bodyguards huddled in the corner and looks at the Yan Mu's who didn't change his expression from beginning to end, he had to endure his anger. He returns to the sofa and sits down, “I came to see you today for the sake of my nephew.” He didn't wait for Yan Mu's reply and continue to say, “I heard that you are looking for a contractor for a project in Jin Hexian recently. You might as well leave it to Huangchuan. This boy is careful and sure to do well.”
Huangchuan immediately facing Yan Mu to win favour by fawning and give a pleasant smile to him. When he smiles, his five senses [1] instantly muster in the same place, which looks really hideous. Lu Chengyu who stood beside with a smile plastered on his face suddenly thinks to himself, the artists who had been doing unwritten rules with Huangchuan in his past life must have good psychological quality. Otherwise, how could they calmly face such a person?
[1] 五官 [wǔ guān]: five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears); facial features
Huading bought a piece of land in Jin Hexian. Due to the land size is quite small, this land is suitable to build a small residential area and even the construction plan has been designed, but the construction team has not yet been determined. Yan Lao San's trip here is nothing more than to let Huading hand over the matter to Huangchuan.
Although Jin Hexian's project seems small and not worth mentioning, it is still able to bring profit to Huading, and any mistake in doing this project will cost a lot of money.
For Yan Mu, although Jin Hexian is not a big project invested by Huading, it is impossible to hand over construction plan of a small residential area to an unfamiliar person. He looked at Huangchuan, who has been smiling and showing his missing teeth, Yan Mu quickly move his eyes away from this man, “The staff that involve in Jin Hexian has already talked the construction team. Since Mr Huang is the third uncle's nephew, how can he be handling these insignificant small matters?”
“As long as the young people are willing to endure hards.h.i.+p, why not giving it to him?” said Yan Lao San while laughing, “What's more, it's only a small investment in Jin Hexian. What's the reason you can't rest a.s.sured with my nephew?”
“I wonder if Mr Huang has a construction qualification certificate?” At this time, Lu Chengyu slowly opened his mouth and said, “The reputation of Huading's construction of residential communities is known as second to none in this industry. The reason, of course, is that Huading's building quality is good and the residents can trust it, so the choice of contractors is very important. I wonder what buildings Mr Huang has built before?”
In the real estate sector, some people will get the contract for building houses and then spend money to rent other people's construction qualification certificates, so that they can build houses smoothly and make a good profit. Huangchuan probably belongs to this category, because Chengyu knows very well what Huangchuan used to do, which is absolutely not related to architecture.
When Huangchuan heard Lu Chengyu's question, his original smiling face suddenly became stiff and he stammered, “This… I have only recently begun to enter this industry, which requires more support from President Yan, more support.”
“That is to say, Mr Huang, you haven't worked in this field before?” Lu Chengyu smiled meaningfully. While Huangchuan is in trance, Chengyu suddenly said, “I don't know whether you want tea or coffee. I'll prepare it for you.”
“No need,” Yan Lao San looks angrily at Lu Chengyu, and his tone was even worse, he stood up, “Think about what my nephew asked. Since you are busy, I'll leave first,”
He went to Lu Chengyu and looked at the smiling young man. He stretches out one of his hand and pat him on the shoulder and said, “Young man, really brave.”