Lin Junnan came to Shenzhen Station to see that it was still early to leave the train, so he walked around the square in front of the station with his suitcase, and called Liu Zhibin to express his gratitude and farewell.

Liu Zhibin warned Lin Junnan on the phone: Don't have any pressure after you go back, you should believe that everything will be fine. Liu Zhibin also said that he has made an appointment with several venture capital friends in the industry, and is ready to jointly inject capital into Ningxing Group, and will go to Ningjiang to negotiate in the near future.

Lin Junnan was excited in his heart when he heard this, and he couldn't wait to fly back to Yiyi's side immediately to discuss Ning Xing's development plan.

At this time, a beggar with a big beard and a broken backpack on his back walked up to Lin Junnan and arched his hand to him: "Hello sir, can you please help me?"

Lin Junnan looked at this person from head to toe: because of the scruffy beard on his face, he couldn't see his appearance clearly, and he couldn't judge his age, but although this person was dressed in shabby, he was relatively clean, but the leather shoes on his feet were covered with a thin layer of dust. Lin Junnan felt that judging from the dress and demeanor of this person, he didn't seem to look like a beggar.

"What do you want me to do for you?" asked Lin Junnan.

"My money and luggage have been stolen, can you give me some money?" the man clasped his hands in front of him, making the typical begging motion.

Lin Junnan continued to look at this person, still judging in his heart. He always felt that the other party was a little weird.

"Please help me, I haven't eaten since morning!"

Lin Junnan knew that many people in society had taken begging as a profession, and he himself had often encountered such beggars in the past, and in most cases, he would symbolically take out a few coins to pass away. As he sometimes explains to his friends: since people can pull down their faces and beg for you, then you have to do something for their courage!

But today, his intuition told him that the bearded man in front of him should not be that kind of professional beggar, but maybe a person who was actually forced to beg for some reason. "Maybe he was really stolen?" Lin Junnan thought to himself.

"Come with me. Lin Junnan said to the bearded man, and then walked towards a fast-food restaurant next to the waiting hall. The bearded man paused, hunched over and followed.

After entering the fast food restaurant, Lin Junnan asked the bearded man to sit down in the vacant seat at the door, bought a set meal by himself, and specially added a piece of roast chicken leg, brought it to the bearded man, and put it on the dining table: "You can eat here." If you don't have enough rice, you can add it for free. ”

"Thank you! You are such a good person!" The bearded man got up and bowed to Lin Junnan, and did not sit down to eat immediately, but continued to look at Lin Junnan with begging eyes, "Can you give me some more money to buy a train ticket?" I'm really sorry! I've been at the station for two days, and it's rare to meet a good person like you today......

"Where are you going?" asked Lin Junnan.

"I'm going to Ningjiang. I want to go to a cousin of mine, who is doing business in Ningjiang. ”

"Ningjiang?...... Then you can eat here first, and I'll buy you a ticket. Although Lin Junnan hesitated, he still agreed.

Lin Junnan walked out of the fast food restaurant, walked quickly to the ticket office, and saw that there was only a soft sleeper ticket left, so he bought one, which happened to be in the same carriage as him. By the time he returned to the fast-food restaurant, the bearded man was already standing outside the door waiting for him.

He handed the ticket to the bearded man: "Come into the station, the ticket will start checking right away." ”

The bearded man looked at the ticket, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes: "Soft sleeper?!"

In the process of checking the ticket and getting on the train, the bearded man naturally attracted the attention of the station ticket inspectors, the police and the train attendants, who checked the tickets over and over again, and repeatedly checked his broken backpack, as if they could not find a reason to refuse him to get on the train, and finally almost all with a puzzled expression, watching the bearded "beggar" board the clean and tidy sleeper car. Seeing all this, Lin Junnan felt very interesting.

When he arrived at the door of the man's box, Lin Junnan took out a fifty yuan bill from his wallet and handed it to him, saying, "This is for you, buy a boxed lunch for dinner!"

Because of thinking about things in his heart and the shaking of the train, Lin Junnan didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, the train arrived in Ningjiang. Lin Junnan got out of the car with a backpack on his back, and saw Xiao Xu, the driver who was already waiting there, at the exit. Xiao Xu took his luggage, led him to the parking lot, and was about to get into the car when a voice shouted behind them:

"Hey, wait a minute!"

Lin Junnan turned his head and saw the bearded man standing hunched at the exit, waving at him. Only then did he realize that he had forgotten about this person. He told Xiao Xu to wait in the car for a while, and then walked back to the bearded man himself.

"Are you okay?" Lin Junnan asked, "Can you find your cousin yourself?"

"It's my first time in Ningjiang...... I lost my cousin's phone......" The man looked pitiful.

Lin Junnan thought about it, beckoned a taxi, handed the driver 10 yuan through the window, and told the driver: "Master, please send this person to Ningxing Hotel." Thank you!" opened the car door, let the bearded man get into the car, and said to him:

"I'll ask this master to take you to a hotel, you stay first, and then find a way to find your cousin later. Don't worry, I'll take care of everything. Wait until you find your cousin. ”

The bearded man arched his hand at Lin Junnan, grinned, and left in a taxi.

Lin Junnan returned to his car, did not get in the car immediately, but first called the lobby manager of the Ningxing Hotel, saying that there would be a bearded beggar who looked like a man to come to the hotel in a rental later, don't drive him away, just arrange a room for him to stay. Lin Junnan's move made the driver Xiao Xu confused.

"Mr. Lin, who was that bearded old man just now?" After Lin Junnan got into the car, Xiao Xu couldn't help but ask.

"It was I who met him at the Shenzhen train station, and his money was stolen. ”

"Why do you look like a beggar?"

"Huh, really...... Xiao Xu, let's hurry back to the hotel!" Lin Junnan urged, his mind at the moment all rushed to the Ningxing Hotel. Liu Zhibin's investment will undoubtedly inject huge energy into Ningxing!

After seeing Yiyi, Lin Junnan immediately explained to her the original story of borrowing money from Liu Zhibin in Shenzhen, and also told her Liu Zhibin's decision to invite other investors to participate in Ning Xing.

Hearing this news, Yiyi felt as if she was in a dream, she couldn't believe that Ning Xing would be able to get the motivation to come back to life in an instant. She threw herself on Lin Junnan's body and almost knocked him down on the sofa. At this moment, the lobby manager hurriedly ran in, happened to bump into this scene, stuck out his tongue in fright, and hurriedly exited the door.

"What's the matter? Yiyi laughed and got up from Lin Junnan, she seemed to be very happy, and she didn't mind the recklessness of the lobby manager at all.

Mr. Cheng ...... Uh, Mr. Lin, there is someone waiting for you in the lobby bar!"

"Are you saying someone is looking for me?" Lin Junnan repeated.

"Yes, he's waiting for you at the lobby bar right now. Belch...... Mr. Cheng, that person also said that he wanted to see the boss of the group......" the lobby manager added.

"Who is it, and where did you come from?" asked Yiyi. She worries that she will be a customer who comes to collect debts again.

"I don't know. I asked, but the man didn't say. Before I came up, I had asked Director Huang of the marketing department to go to the bar to see it, and Director Huang said that she had never seen this person, and she should not be a debt collection customer. "The lobby manager is a very attentive person, and he seems to have figured out Yiyi's thoughts.

Yiyi looked at Lin Junnan and smiled: "Is it a new customer? Then let's go and have a look!"

They took the elevator downstairs together and came to the hotel lobby, where they saw a middle-aged man in a dark blue T-shirt sitting on a circle chair in the lobby bar with his back to them. Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, the middle-aged man stood up and turned to them, with a gentlemanly smile on his face, and at the same time stretched out his right hand to Lin Junnan: "Hello! Mr. Lin!"

"Ahh

The middle-aged man looked at Lin Junnan with a funny smile on his face, and there was a smug look between his eyebrows. "Hello, my name is Qiao Xiangdong. He continued to stretch out his hand to Lin Junnan and Yiyi, and the freshly trimmed stubble on either side of his cheek showed a kind of masculinity.

Lin Junnan was stunned for a while, and then slowly eased up, as if he was being teased. He politely shook the other hand, and said tepidly, "Can you tell me what you mean by that?"

"This is the chairman, right?" Qiao Xiangdong did not answer Lin Junnan, but turned his gaze to Yiyi. "Nice to meet you!"

Yiyi looked at the uninvited guest, then turned her head and looked at Lin Junnan suspiciously, as if asking: Do you know each other?

Lin Junnan didn't tell Yiyi that he met and relieved this "beggar" in Shenzhen, but now this "beggar" has unexpectedly turned into a dignified gentleman, and he really can't think of what kind of logic there will be behind this.

"Oh, we've met at the train station before. Lin Junnan said lightly.

Lin Junnan motioned for Qiao Xiangdong to sit down, then gently helped Yiyi to sit opposite, and instructed the waiter to bring a few glasses of lemonade.

Qiao Xiangdong took out a box of "big front door" and handed it to Lin Junnan, who noticed that this was an old-fashioned cigarette without a filter that was almost extinct on the market. He waved his hand and said no. Qiao Xiangdong pulled one for himself, took it in his mouth and lit it.

Lin Junnan always stared at the other party intently, he now believed that Qiao Xiangdong was by no means an ordinary character, and he must have had some purpose to perform this "burlesque" in front of him. He was waiting for Joe to speak first to the east.

"You must have felt strange about my arrival. "Very few people know my name," he said, puffing out the smoke ring, "but—" He paused for a moment, as if to highlight the importance of the next sentence, "I have a nickname that you may have heard: Joe Beard!"

"Qiao Huzi?!You are Qiao Huzi?!" Lin Junnan repeated in surprise. He did hear Liu Zhibin say that there is a famous angel investor named "Qiao Huzi", is it the one in front of him?

"That's right!"

"That ......"

"Liu Zhibin is my brother!" Qiao Xiangdong said, "He introduced me!"

"Oh! it turns out that you are a friend of Mr. Liu!" Lin Junnan completely understood. He hurriedly got up, stretched out his hands and grabbed Qiao Xiangdong's hand tightly, "Oh, Mr. Qiao, I'm sorry, it's rude!

He suddenly seemed to remember something, and turned to Yiyi to introduce: "Yiyi, Mr. Qiao is a well-known angel investor in China, and he has cultivated more than ten listed companies!"

"Oh, is it?" Yiyi got up and bowed slightly to Qiao Xiangdong, and said, "Mr. Qiao, you are our honored guest, please forgive us for neglecting ......"

"Where, where!" Qiao waved his hand to the east, "You don't know, Mr. Lin is not slacking off at all!, is it, Mr. Lin?" he squeezed his eyes at Lin Junnan.

Then, Qiao Xiangdong introduced to Yiyi in detail the process of "teasing" Lin Junnan at Shenzhen Station by pretending to be a "beggar", and apologized to Lin Junnan.

Qiao Xiangdong continued: "Frankly speaking, when Liu Zhibin asked me to join forces to invest in your Ningxing, I didn't intend to accept his invitation at first. He also knows that my investment preferences are mostly electronics, chemicals, etc., and tourism real estate is exactly what I have never been involved in. It's not that I'm biased against your industry, it's purely a personal preference! However, I know that Liu Zhibin is a very insightful guy, and he does a good job whether he runs his own company or invests in other industries. Therefore, since he recommended it, I thought I had to take a look first, so I took Mr. Lin to do a test - don't be surprised, every project I invest in is essentially investing in the people who implement the project, or the character of the core executives of the project, as for the team's business ability, I think it can be cultivated slowly. ”

Lin Junnan felt a little crying and laughing, he said, "It's been a long time, are you deliberately investigating me?"

"If a person can take the trouble to help a strange person who is at the bottom of society, then this person's character must be worthy of respect and trust! What's more," Qiao Xiangdong slowly snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and looked at Lin Junnan with a deep gaze, "Mr. Lin, I see an optimistic and positive attitude from you!"