"What a difficult guy," Mo Xiaobai said as he drove. "There was a ghostly look in this person's eyes, and he didn't look like an easy one to deal with. ”

"The relationship between Han Yi and Zhanye is more thorough, and what is more worth caring about is the layout of Fengtai for so many years, we want to tear the opening into it and grab a bowl of rice to eat, which is not easy. Ye Zheng put the back of the seat very low, almost half-lying and looking at the sky through the windshield.

Ye Zheng returned to the company, sorted out what he had seen and heard when he returned to Zhanye, and went to Si Xiang's office to ask for a cup of tea.

When Si Xiang saw Ye Zheng come in, the first thing he said was Mr. Ye, I was looking for you, follow me downstairs to pick up a guest.

Ye Zheng, who didn't know what was going on, held back his words, and as soon as he went downstairs with Si Xiang, he saw an A6 slowly stopped, and Si Xiang trotted all the way over and pulled the car door, not at all like the age of fifty, it seems that running is working.

The person who got out of the car surprised Ye Zheng, it was Wu Cankai, vice president of Zhanye Binshan Branch. Although Wu Cankai and Liu Mingye are both vice presidents of Zhanye, with high authority, they are in charge of different directions, and President Wu is in charge of the back-line department, risk approval, credit execution, etc., and has no intersection with insurance and Si Xiang in business.

How did he get here?

Without thinking much about it, Ye Zheng sat upstairs with the two leaders, looked back at the license plate number before going up, and waited for the elevator to text Mo Xiaobai, "Go to my house and get two packs of cigarettes for the driver of Axxxxx downstairs, just say that Mr. Ye will take it."

"I have known your boss for many years, and Mr. Si asked me to come to his office many times to taste tea. Governor Wu sat on the large sofa in Si Xiang's office, picked up a teacup with great interest and looked at it carefully.

Si Xiang only boiled water on the side, and after a while, he took out a tea bag sealed with oiled paper from the cabinet behind the office chair, carefully opened it on the coffee table, and used an ivory-handled tea knife to pry off the corner and put it into the iron kettle that was boiling water. Ye Zheng saw Si Xiang use this iron kettle to make tea for the first time, it is said that it is a famous work that Si Xiang bought with a lot of money during his trip to Japan, and it can be seen that Si Xiang uses the highest standard of reception.

I saw Si Xiang strolling the small tea knife on the table casually, and asked, "President Wu, which cup do you plan to use to drink some of my old tea?"

Governor Wu had almost visited at this time, and picked up a building lamp, "Just use this." ”

Ye Zheng naturally knew Wu Cankai in the industry, but he didn't have much intersection, and he was not personally in charge of this big leader, so he only heard Wu Xing ask: "How long has Xiao Ye been here?"

"I haven't been here for a long time, I'm still familiar with the business and environment, the general manager and my colleagues in the company take good care of me, thank you for your concern. Ye Zheng knew that he was not the protagonist, so he just said a few words.

"Which cup does Mr. Ye use?"

Ye Zheng didn't expect Si Xiang to ask himself this, so he didn't react for a while, and grabbed one casually.

"I'm so particular about it, I can use any of them. ”

Wu Cankai smiled and said, "Xiao Ye, what you say in your mouth is casual, but what you can pick out is not casual." ”

Si Xiang followed with a smile: "Ye is always a young talent, this cup is like a person." ”

Ye Zheng no longer understands tea, and he also knows that the teacup in his hand is an imitation, because the imitation is a Doucai chicken bowl cup in the Chenghua period, the real product is 300 million, and he can't afford to sell the branch. Usually he likes to use this when he comes to Si Xiang, nothing else is because it is big, and the water is more than a mouthful. But Si Xiang's words are not easy to accept, obviously making fun of himself and making Wu Xing happy, so let's leave myself out.

What Mr. Si said is that this "Heisei" period of the Doucai chicken cup, whether it is workmanship or glazing, this reflects the achievements of the second industrial revolution, and it must be better than that year of Chenghua. Therefore, the older the object, the more valuable it is, but the newer the better. ”

Ye Zheng's words amused the two leaders. "Heisei" is the Japanese era name, which is hundreds of years later than "Chenghua", and it is used here to shake a wit.

"You kid, this is a change of tricks, let's withdraw from the stage of history," Si Xiangxiao's tea spilled.

"No, no, the leader's words can kill me, how can we charge forward without the leader. ”

"Speaking of this era name, if you want to say that our Chinese history is more connotative......" Ye Zheng's inadvertent joke aroused Wu Cankai's interest, and he talked about history with Si Xiang, from Ruyao to Dougong, it can be seen that President Wu is a person with a strong interest in traditional culture. What is rare is that Si Xiang has indeed read a lot of books, and the topics thrown by President Wu are all answered.

Ye Zheng finally put himself out of the topic, quietly thought for a while about how President Wu left, how he and Si Xiang explained the situation of Fengtai and Zhanye, and picked up the small tea knife and played with it.

Although this tea knife is small, it is extremely finely crafted. The blade can be seen to be a natural texture forged by skilled craftsmen, and the irregular pattern stretches and relaxes, quite a bit of Damascus steel knife. The handle of the knife is like fat like jade, warm and translucent, Ye Zheng couldn't help but sigh: "Mr. Si, this handle is ivory? ”

"Show me" Wu Cankai took the tea knife from Ye Zheng's hand.

"Don't talk nonsense about this kid," Si Xiang said angrily: "It's ivory, it's just mammoth ivory, it's worthless." A gentleman asks for something and doesn't ask for something, ivory is too cruel, I won't take it. ”

Wu Cankai looked at the tea knife for a while and put it down, "Good knife." ”

Si Xiang said: "This tea knife was given to me by a friend, and I gave two of them, and it just so happens that I don't have anything decent, so you can take this if you look good." ”

"How can this be, a gentleman does not take away the love of others. Wu Cankai insisted on not to.

"There are countless good teas in Wu Xing, this is naturally not a good thing, but it is usually used to cut a tea leaf, I have just used it for two days, and I can't use it even if I put it in your place." ”

Si Xiang said, picked up two sheets of paper, wiped the knife clean, wrapped it, and took out a separate piece of printer paper to wrap it neatly and handed it to Wu Xing.

"Then I can only thank you. Wu Xing put the gift aside and continued to chat with Si Xiang about the technique of dougong.

The two chatted until the end of work, and Wu Cankai still had arrangements, while getting up and preparing to leave.

Si Xiang said while sending him away: "This little tea knife also has a small leather case in the package, I don't know where to put it, I found it and sent it to you when I turned around." ”

"Okay, don't take it to heart, Xiao Yeduo will follow Mr. Si to do a good job, and I'll leave first. ”

Watching President Wu get in the car and leave, Ye Zheng let out a sigh of relief, talking to leaders, especially cross-level leaders, brain cells died too much.

I haven't done anything else for half a day, I drank a stomach of tea, my stomach was empty, and I wanted to vomit when I was nauseated.

"Mr. Si, I have something to tell you. ”

"Then let's continue talking for a while, I have a snack there. ”

As soon as he returned to the office, Si Xiang asked Ye Zheng to wait, turned around and called the driver Xiao Cui to the house, and took out a small box from under the desk, "Master Cui, tomorrow I will send this small box to President Li of Zhanye, and I will say that it is the packaging box of the tea knife." ”

Jiang is old and spicy, and he gave a gift away, and Ye Zheng, who saw a series of operations, was stunned and admired! The only thing that can't be determined is whether this tea knife is really valuable or a stall.

This old fritter!

Si Xiang listened to Ye Zheng's report on Fengtai Insurance, and was silent for a long time.

"Speaking of this Han Yi, he can be regarded as my student. ”

"Oh, do you know him?" Ye Zheng was surprised that Si Xiang actually knew Han Yi.

Counting the one that worked with Qin Dashan in the early days of his career, Si Xiang was up and down in the insurance circle before and after, and Zhanheng was the fifth. During Si Xiang's tenure in the third company, Han Yi was recruited by the expansion of the sales team, and the savage growth of the insurance circle was either death if he couldn't survive. Either get ahead in front of the rules or be forced to be removed.

Han Yi's name is gentle, and he looks gentle, but he is a fierce beast at heart. This kid has been stubborn since he was a child, not an ordinary naughty mischief, he fought every day for two years in high school, his father, who had been a soldier, was heartbroken for this matter, and he saw that if he let it go on, he should die, his father gritted his teeth, and before graduating from high school, he asked for a way to send Han Yi to the border armed police to join the army, at first Han Yi still felt fresh, but no one cared about him, but when he really arrived at the place where the army was stationed, Daxinganling, he was stupid all of a sudden, and the army instructor had a way to "take care" of such a thorn soldier On a dark night, Han Yi jumped out of the window, climbed over the wall, and secretly ran all the way home.

His father burst into tears of anger, I raised you so big, I didn't beat you to death, I just saw that you still looked like a man, I didn't think you were a deserter! Picking up the stool is a cut, although Han Yi is stubborn, he is a filial son, so his father tied up and sent him back to Daxinganling overnight.

When he arrived at the army, he should have been punished as a deserter in this situation, and he was expelled from the army after retiring from the army, and his father knelt down to the company commander with a "plop" sound, and I was still a child who could not be ruined, so I can't ruin his life. And that was the end of it.

The moment Han Yi saw his father kneeling, his head instantly drooped, and a middle-aged man's forbearance and dignity for half his life could be given up for the sake of his son. Since then, Han Yi has changed like a person, from a stubborn and incorrigible scum, to a steel that can hold up the sky, and he has never returned home in the army for three years, with two third-class merits and countless awards. He wants to bring these honors to his father's satisfaction.

But this day he could never wait.

Two months before he was discharged from the army, the old man died of cancer that had spread and he did not wait for his son to come back.

His mother said that his father did not agree to tell his son about his illness, because he was proud of his son's defense of the country.

When his father left, he was holding Han Yi's military medal tightly in his hand.

Han Yi came home and cried in front of his father's spirit, sealed all the honors in the army in a small box, and placed them next to his father's urn, instead of accompanying his father forever. Said to the old mother who was sobbing on the side.

"Mom, I'm going to earn money to support my family, Dad is gone, I'll support you. ”