Chapter 162: The Man Defeated by Reality
This is a rainy weather, it rained for most of the day yesterday, there is still a lot of water on the road, the sky is full of dark clouds, it seems that the rain is still unfinished, the sky is going to rain, it should come or come.
When I arrived at Lanxuan Four Seasons, it was already raining outside, so I opened the door from the taxi and rushed directly to the gate of the hotel, and called Qi Min while walking in.
"Yo, you called me early in the morning? I got up so early after quitting. "Qi Min drove the amplifier and told me that he should be busy with other things.
I didn't explain too much, and said straight to the point: "I'm downstairs in the hotel, and now I'm going to go up to you, are you in the hotel?"
"Yes, but I have to have a meeting with the shareholders right away, why are you in such a hurry to find me?" There were other people next to him, and after talking to me, he said a few words to the others, as if he was explaining the matter of the meeting to be held.
"Then I'll go up first, and I'll talk about it after you finish the meeting. "I pressed the elevator to get in.
Qi Min groaned for a while, probably guessing that I had something more important to say to him, because I had the impression that I rarely talked to him like this, "Okay, I'll ask my assistant to go over and pick you up, you go to the VIP room and wait for me first." ”
"Good. ”
As soon as I got out of the elevator, I saw Qi Min's assistant waiting for me at the elevator door, he crossed his hands in front of him, walked over to me with a smile, and said in a polite tone: "You are Mr. Cheng, right? I am Mr. Qi's assistant Xiao Li, Mr. Qi is in a meeting, I will take you to the VIP room to wait for a while." He made a "please" gesture to me and walked ahead of me to lead the way.
In the VIP room, I just stayed in it for a short time, and immediately someone knocked on the door and came in, it was a hotel waitress, she pushed the cart and served me a rich breakfast, which was simply the treatment of a high-level VIP.
I nodded and said "thank you", and she pushed the cart and went out, but I looked at the nutritious breakfast on that table without the slightest food, I had eaten the buns and came over, plus I was not in the mood to eat now.
I sat on the sofa for a while, got up again and walked back and forth in the room, time passed slowly, until more than twenty minutes passed, and Qi Min still didn't come to look for me. The feeling of waiting was already irritating, so I glanced at the ashtray on the table, then opened all the windows in my room and lit the first cigarette of the morning.
After another ten minutes, I picked up a cherry tomato and stuffed it into my mouth, looked at the time, and couldn't help but get up from the couch and prepare to go out to have a look, but just as I was about to open the door, the door was opened outside.
"Alas, I'm sorry, this will be a little long, no way, these things just take money and don't do anything, I lectured them a few words at the meeting. Qi Min put his arm around my shoulders, sent me back to the couch, and handed me a cigar by the way.
"Why haven't you eaten anything on this table?" After speaking, Qi Min picked up the chopsticks and ate it himself.
"I came here after eating. ”
He glanced at me, thought about it for a while, put down his chopsticks, picked up a tissue, wiped his mouth, and said, "Say, come to me so early in the morning, there must be something in a hurry." His expression became serious, and he knocked on Erlang's leg and leaned back in his chair, waiting for me to speak.
I took a breath and said two words: "Borrow money." ”
"How much?"
"100,000. ”
"Why do you want so much money all of a sudden?"
"Don't ask the reason, I must have asked you to borrow it because of something urgent. "I didn't tell Qi Min that the reason for borrowing money was because of Cheng Yu's bride price, because in my opinion, this is not a glorious thing, and it is better to avoid it as much as possible if the ugliness of the family is not publicized, this is also to take care of Cheng Yu's feelings.
He was silent for a moment and asked, "Are you sure you want to borrow it?"
I was a little impatient with him: "Can I borrow it?" If I can't borrow it, I'll go to someone else." ”
"Alas, look at your temper, how can anyone borrow money with such an attitude as yours. He paused and said, "Okay, I'll lend it to you, but ...... I have one condition. He held out a finger.
"What conditions you say. ”
"Haven't you already resigned, I said a long time ago that I want to pull you over to work on a project with me, everything is ready, I only owe you this 'east wind', as long as you are willing, let alone borrow 100,000 yuan, I will give you this money directly." ”
I fell silent for a moment, weighing in my heart. In fact, I didn't think about joining Qi Min to start a business together, especially the last time he told me about his plan, I was indeed a little excited, but a few days ago I agreed to join the route with Lan Yu to make the dark fragrance bigger, I was afraid that I would not be able to take care of both sides.
However, now that things are urgent, I can't take care of that much. Because, Cheng Yu, he is my eldest brother after all.
I picked up the cigar I had just placed in the ashtray and took a puff, and as I puffed out the smoke, I said, "Okay, I promise you, but the money is borrowed, and I will have to pay it back to you later." ”
Qi Min smiled, and said with an indifferent expression: "Hey, whatever you want, anyway, I'm not short of the 100,000 yuan, let me tell you, you sent it to the door yourself, but you can't blame me! To be honest, I'm also for your good, if I don't force you like this, how can you succeed faster? You say yes?"
With that, he took out a check and a pen from the pocket of his suit, quickly finished writing and handed it to me. At that moment, my heart and vision were violently impacted, or rather, beaten, the phrase "I'm not short of 100,000 yuan anyway" echoed in my mind like a magic sound, 100,000 yuan, in the eyes of rich people, is just a few numbers.
I swear that I will make myself richer in the future! First, when I was with Han Yue, I became inferior because of money, and then I was moved and felt guilty when my family was in trouble and I couldn't help much, I really had enough of this kind of heavy feeling! In the future, not to mention that I want to make myself as famous as the Forbes list, but at least I have to stop feeling powerless and powerless for material things!
"Thank you. I picked up the check and got up from the couch to leave.
He stopped me, "Hey, when are you going to start the project with me?"
"I'll call you when I'm done. With that, I didn't stop for the slightest, opened the door and walked out.
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Back at the rental house, Cheng Yu was eating the breakfast I had left for him before I went out. When he saw that I was back, he turned his head and said, "I thought you didn't get up, where did you go this morning?"
"Well, I went out and ran some errands. I poured myself a glass of water, then took out a bank card and put it on the dining table, saying, "There are 100,000 yuan in this card, and I still have about 28,000 yuan on my own side, which will be transferred to you later, a total of 128,000." ”
Cheng Yu bit half of the bun in his mouth and suddenly stopped moving, stiff
G looked at me with an expression and was silent for a while before he said, "You, where did you get the money?"
"What do you say, no matter how stupid I am, I won't do anything immoral like you think, this money was given to me by my investor, you can use it with confidence, go back and marry my sister-in-law home as soon as possible." As I spoke, I lit a cigarette. That's right, according to what I said, Qi Min is indeed my investor.
"I'm ......" Cheng Yu's eyes turned red, and he was speechless for a while.
I smiled disappreciatively and said, "Okay, what's this, we can continue to earn the money when the money is gone, but if people lose it, they will never be able to get it back." ”
Cheng Yu was still silent, and the inexplicable emotion made him speechless, either guilty, moved, or helpless...... I patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.
"Okay, after breakfast, hurry up and pack up and go home, I'll wait for your good news. I responded with a smile to Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu closed his eyes and took a breath, and only after a while did he open his eyes, and said slowly in a choked voice: "Okay, brother, thank you." He wiped his eyes, got up and continued, "I'll go back and pack my bags first." ”
"Go ahead. ”
I sent Cheng Yu away at more than 11 o'clock in the morning, but at the same time, I myself fell into that low mood, one is melancholy for the 100,000 yuan, and the other is for my lack of money, because I have given Cheng Yu all the funds I can mobilize, and now I am almost "back to before Xie Fang", and I have only about 2,000 yuan left on my body to live.
......
The next morning, I woke up early, changed into a new set of clothes, washed up and had breakfast, and called Qi Min.
"How's it going? Have you taken care of your business?" Qi Min quickly picked up my phone, because it was Sunday, and he didn't have anything particularly important to do.
I replied, "That's it, I've used up the money, when will your project start?"
"When will it start? Alas, this question still needs to be asked, when will you come to me to start, I will take you to see the office space, and choose our base first. ”
"Okay, I'll go to Lan Xuan Four Seasons to find you now, and you can wait for me downstairs directly." ”
On the way there, suddenly I received a text message on my phone, it was ...... The transfer information of 130,000 yuan, I was suddenly stunned, and a bad premonition arose, because this was obviously the money that Cheng Yu transferred back to me......
I read the text message for a while, and then Cheng Yu really sent me a message, he said: "The money is useless, I'll transfer it back to you, you hurry up and return the money to others, isn't it love, there are a lot of things in this world that can replace it, you said to me wrong that day, it should be: money is endless, but fate is a chance to find in this life, Lao Tzu is still young, since people do not compromise, then I don't need to grovel to life, indicating that I can find a more suitable one." ”