Tonight, the sky is clear and cloudless, and the revolving restaurant on the Pearl TV Tower is crowded, and there are many more people than usual, and people enjoy the beautiful night view of Jianghai City while enjoying the unique buffet.

The buffet of Pearl TV Tower is a bright business card of the city, with all kinds of cuisines from various countries, and it is a romantic choice to taste world cuisine in the 360-degree revolving restaurant while climbing high to overlook the beautiful night view of Jianghai City.

Li Ting had already booked a dining table by the window, with a white tablecloth, several sets of silver tableware neatly arranged, and a bottle of flower arrangement would decorate the table with a bit of romance.

Li Ting and Tang Wenzhe arrived for more than 20 minutes, and just arrived at the door of the revolving restaurant, the waiter wearing a Chinese-style cheongsam politely guided the guests to the reserved seats and left, and the waiter in charge of the table immediately poured two glasses of white water for the two and sent the wine list.

At 6:25, Lu Minnan appeared at the door of the restaurant in a suit, Li Ting got up and waved when she saw it, and Tang Wenzhe also stood up and looked at the comer.

Lu Minnan is about 35 years old, thin but very energetic, with a bouquet of red roses in his hand, walking quickly towards Li Ting.

Lu Minnan approached Li Ting, the two stood relatively closely, Lu Minnan held a bouquet of roses in his left hand, and put his right hand on Li Ting's right shoulder, so he naturally gave a hug, and then sent the roses to Li Ting.

In Western countries, hugs and handshakes are also important greeting etiquette. To express people's joy in condolences, congratulations, joy, and reunion after a long absence, in China, only men and women who have a very good relationship with each other, trust each other, and have a certain level of cultural literacy will use hugging as a form of greeting.

Li Ting took the rose and said 'thank you', then turned around and introduced: "Wen Zhe, this is Mr. Lu Minnan, my alumnus. ”

"Hello, Mr. Lu, I am Tang Wenzhe, Li Ting's colleague, welcome to Jianghai City, Li Ting just introduced your talent to me, the president of the school's student union, track and field athletes, won the grand prize in the National University Games, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, fortunately. ”

"Li Ting has already told you all my stories, then you must be a good friend that Li Ting can trust, hello, Mr. Tang. Lu Minnan said.

"Let's take a seat. Li Ting said.

The waiter came over and poured a glass of water for Lu Minnan, and asked softly, "The three guests have arrived, do you need drinks?"

Li Ting looked at Lu Minnan, and Lu Minnan said: "I won't drink the wine, I haven't met Sister Li Ting for a long time, let's talk more, I will be incoherent after drinking too much wine." ”

Tang Wenzhe said with a smile: "I don't drink either. ”

"Then three glasses of orange juice, thank you. Li Ting said to the waiter.

"Sister Li Ting knows that I like to drink orange juice, so let's have a big glass. Then let's go get something to eat and talk while eating, I'm a little hungry, I don't have time to eat lunch today, I'm preparing materials, not to mention that I know that Li Ting invited me to eat a buffet in the evening, so I'll focus on the evening, lunch is simple, and the buffet in the evening can be eaten out of the cost, Mr. Tang, are you right?"

"Totally agree, to eat out of the level. After Tang Wenzhe finished speaking, he hooked up with Lu Minnan and walked towards the table where the buffet was placed.

Looking at the way the two big men had just met and were like old friends telling jokes to get the buffet, Li Ting looked funny and said, "Wen Zhe, can you help me get a pot of fruit?"

"No problem, you wait. Tang Wenzhe said without looking back.

After eating the first wave, the two big men ran back and forth twice, and after basically eating in place, they started talking: "Mr. Lu, I heard that you are here to participate in our company's data center project this time." Tang Wenzhe said.

"yes! When I heard that there was such a big project, I brought a team to take the bid. Lu Minnan wiped his mouth with a napkin and said.

"Why don't you say hello to me in advance, I can tell you about the project in advance. Li Ting said.

"I already know from your company's website that you have set up a project promotion team for this project, and you are a member of the promotion team. Lu Minnan took a sip of orange juice and said.

"Then the bidding consultation is going well, is there anything you need my help with?" asked Li Ting.

"I'm sorry, Li Ting, do you want some staple food? I'll go get it for you. Tang Wenzhe saw that Li Ting had finished eating the fruit and was talking to Lu Minnan about the project, so he interjected softly and asked.

"Okay, help me get some spaghetti, the pasta here is delicious, help me get a plate, add some tomato juice, thank you." Li Ting said to Tang Wenzhe.

"Hey, it's hard to say, the world is as black as a crow. Lu Minnan said.

Seeing Lu Minnan's serious expression, as if he had a lot to say, Tang Wenzhe hurriedly left to help Li Ting get the staple food.

When Tang Wenzhe returned to the dining table, he only heard Li Ting saying: "Then why don't you refuse them, you are conniving at their crimes." ”

"Then what can I do, I have been working in Beijing Planning and Design Institute since graduating from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, as a ministerial-level design institute as long as I bury my head in the design work, the work is very stable, in addition to commuting is work, and then the design institute took the road of marketization, to set up a 'Jiahua computer room environmental monitoring company', I took the initiative to sign up for the job and served as the project director. At first, fortunately, they undertook the system design and development of national projects, including construction and future maintenance, and gradually made a brand and reputation in the market, won the environmental monitoring project of the central bureau of the Beijing Olympic Olympic venues, and won the environmental monitoring project of the information center of the Jianghai Municipal Government under the recommendation of Li Tingjie, and the scale of the company has also achieved initial results. These projects are basically government projects, the technical difficulty and requirements are very high, but the marketing is relatively pure, we rely on the accumulation of technology and advantages to do quite successfully, has been recognized by the market and customers, we have also made a brand effect. Then we began to participate in the bidding projects of the society. ”

"That's not bad, it's not easy to open the market in such a short period of time, and it is not easy to enter the torrent of market economy from scientific research institutes. Li Ting said.

"In the torrent of the market economy, there are all kinds of people, especially the bureaucrats of a small number of state-owned enterprises, who are taking advantage of their cards, playing tricks, deceiving the world, and hiding from the world and the sea, which has reached the level of extreme ferocity, which makes people frightened. ”

"Is it so scary?" Li Ting said.

"I believe that Lu Minnan is telling the truth, and he feels the most real on the front line of the market economy. Tang Wenzhe said.

"Yesterday in your company held a project consultation meeting, two dogs and men and women look like the kind of evildoers, in the market people see a lot, at a glance know whether these people's nature is good or evil. Sister Li Ting, you see Mr. Tang Wenzhe's temperament is that he is a scholar, open-minded and talented, and at a glance, he knows that he is a person who can be a good friend of a righteous gentleman. The ancients believed that knowing the face of a person does not know the heart, but the face of a person is the sum of all the things in a person, reflecting a person's inner temperament. Buddhism's "Sutra of Impermanence" believes that there is no appearance in the world, and the things that are visible are actually non-things, and the things that can be felt are really non-things. ”

"I can't see that I haven't seen Senior Brother Lu in a few years, and he has begun to study traditional Buddhism. Li Ting smiled.

"It is not surprising that many of the great scientists in history have ended up being very interested in theology, as Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, once said: 'The world is not only stranger than we have thought, but much stranger than we can imagine.' In my words, the market economy is not only much more complex than we think, but it is much more complex than we can imagine. Lu Minnan said.

"Haha, this is Lu Minnan's theorem, it seems that you are not far from a great scientist now, as for the question you talked about 'born from the heart' belongs to the category of ancient metaphysics or philosophy, Mr. Tang Wenzhe is a doctor of philosophy, and he has the most right to speak. Li Ting smiled.

"I think Mr. Lu's point of view is profoundly philosophical, from a psychological point of view, each person's physiognomy truly reflects their corresponding physical and psychological state, such as a healthy person, physical and mental happiness, and usually in physiognomy there is a full heavenly court, a red face, and a radiant spirit. On the contrary, a person who is psychologically or physically unhealthy, usually gloomy and frowning, the vision is the mental realm, and the physiognomy is the mental realm, and the phase is born from the heart In most cases, judging a person's inner world is valid, with occasional exceptions, but accidental events do not affect this is an axiom that can be universally referenced. Tang Wenzhe said.

"Mr. Tang summed it up reasonably, I have this idea, but I have not elevated it to a philosophical level to understand. Li Ting, you see, when we consulted for your company's data center project, the man and woman interrupted me to introduce the basic situation of our company, and did not answer some technical details that I raised that needed to be clarified, and directly gave me a vivid course on market economics, saying: "Technical details can be solved through communication, I just want to know whether your company has preliminary consideration and arrangement for the business of our project." Then they said: 'Your company should first arrange for senior leaders to meet with our company leaders to enhance communication and understanding with each other, and establish a mutual trust mechanism', and finally asked us to cooperate with Xiaofeng International Import and Export Trading Company to bid for the bid, and this third-party company wants to take 15% of the total amount of our project as a commission empty-handed, and after our bargaining, it is finally set at 5% as a commission, isn't this a blatant robbery?" Lu Minnan clenched his fists and said.

"Wen Zhe, I said that Lu Minnan is aiding and abetting the crime of corrupt elements, what do you say?" Li Ting wanted Tang Wenzhe to ask for a reasonable explanation.

British biologist Huxley said in his book "Evolution and Ethics": "Natural selection, survival of the fittest", in the big wave of market economy, you have no strength to change the status quo in a short period of time, otherwise you will be starved to death and freeze to death, and there is no time window to fight back. Li Ting, I see this matter and let Mr. Lu operate in accordance with the rules of the market, only we can crack down on the arrogance of this corruption from the inside, I also have an unshirkable responsibility as the manager of the personnel department, I can't manage the affairs of the leaders, I still have to manage the affairs of the cadres to the end, I must believe that the country will increase the intensity of anti-corruption and clean government, corrupt officials can be rampant for a while, but in the tide of history is just a wave that will eventually be crushed, and will be ruthlessly swallowed up by the torrent of history rolling forward. ”

However, Mr. Tang should not hit a stone with an egg, and corrupt elements cannot be cleaned up by a manager of the personnel department; according to my market practice over the past few years, the situation of corruption in the officialdom of state-owned enterprises is far beyond our imagination, and it is even a little crazy. Although the third-party partners proposed by your company are not sufficient, there is an obvious suspicion of corruption for personal gain, but it is also a commonly used marketing method in the market, in the socialized division of labor in the market, we cannot fight alone, we need some socialized reasonable division of labor, give full play to their respective strengths, we will consider enduring, Mr. Tang saw the courage to pull out the knife to help me, until the sky fell Mr. Tang, you must not shoot. Lu Minnan was worried that Tang Wenzhe would come to the rescue, and said with good words.

"Wen Zhe, don't make a move, Min Nan is right, now the market situation is more complicated, some marketing methods and corruption do not have a strict dividing line, corruption still depends on the quality of the cadres themselves, relying on organizational education and management will not be fruitful, you single-handedly kill out the enemy may not see it, you will be eliminated, you must believe that the country has the ability to punish corruption. Li Ting said.

After dinner, Tang Wenzhe drove, Li Ting sat in the co-pilot's seat, and took Lu Minnan to look at the famous night scenery in Jianghai City, Lu Minnan said: "I want to go back to the hotel early to discuss the bid plan with the project team, and tomorrow afternoon the company's senior management will visit you Qin Zhigang, we have to prepare a big gift, according to common sense, during the business bidding period, the leader is not to meet with the bidder, your people hint that I want to see Qin Zhigang that must have intentions, we have to prepare a meeting gift." ”

"Is it that complicated? Li Ting asked puzzled.

"Of course, my sister Li, you are out, the leader wants to see you is to reach out to ask for something This is the unspoken rule of the industry, tell a true story, I have a friend in a communication equipment manufacturing company to do the market, go to your province to meet the leader of a company, directly put a 24K pure gold Bodhisattva sitting statue on the table of the leader, and then the project was won. Lu Minnan said with a wry smile.

Tang Wenzhe didn't speak, shrugged his shoulders at Li Ting, who was sitting in the passenger seat, there was silence in the car, the car arrived at the hotel where Lu Minnan was staying, Tang Wenzhe got out of the car and shook hands with Lu Minnan who came out of the car to say goodbye, Li Ting rolled down the window, and Lu Minnan stretched out his hand to high-five Li Ting and say goodbye.

The car left the hotel and continued to move forward, Li Ting said, "Wenzhe, can you accompany me to Linjiang Causeway?"

"Okay, I'll drive the car directly to the underground garage of the Linjiang Long Causeway, and then go up to blow the river breeze. ”

Jianghai Linjiang Causeway is a sightseeing avenue built high on the bank of the river, the embankment pavement is inlaid with marble, there are a number of semicircular platforms protruding outward on the protective embankment, and it is made of classical and elegant iron guardrails that are often visited by couples.

At night, under the reflection of the neon street lamps full of atmosphere, people stroll leisurely on the riverside causeway, enjoying the different scenery on both sides of the river.

Tang Wenzhe overlooked the high-rise buildings on the opposite side of the river, the neon flickering, looking up at the sky dotted with stars, the Pearl TV Tower more than 400 meters high is changing a variety of gorgeous light shapes, suddenly a large dark cloud in the night sky floated from afar, and soon half of the body of the Pearl Tower was drowned in the dark clouds...