[Chapter 06: Separation and Merge] (1) Hongmen Banquet
Tang Qingyou and Ming Lan have gotten closer and closer in recent years, and they often visit each other, but the number of times they sit at the same table with Zhang Bingwen to eat is only a handful. Because Tang Qingyou said that her hands would tremble when she held chopsticks in front of Zhang Bingwen, and her whole body was uncomfortable. In fact, it's not that I'm afraid of him, but it's awkward and out of place, for no other reason, it's really where he is present, and the sky seems to be marked with a station mark: "The leader is coming", the kind of 10,000-year-old sculpture-like shelf, it really needs to go to heaven.
So for Tang Qingyou, Zhang Bingwen can only be supplied. She called out her brother-in-law, which was just an honorific title in front of Minglan.
Tang Qingyou was eating carefully, with Zhang Bingwen present, his appetite was greatly reduced, and he didn't bother to speak, for fear of expressing his wrong feelings. She especially remembered the first time she had dinner with Zhang Bingwen and his wife, at the same table there were several of their academic friends who studied news media, as well as Zhou Zhi and a big V, a table of people talking and laughing, chatting about current affairs and talking about their original intentions, I don't know how to talk about the changes after the literati became big officials, Tang Qingyou was also young and ambitious at that time, and relied on Minglan to be a senior sister, and he made an allusion without brains: "The Li Shen who knew how to care for ordinary people at a very young age, wrote about the noon of hoeing and harvesting day, and worked hard, and later became the prime minister, After he became the prime minister, his life style was very extravagant, and one of his hobbies was to eat chicken tongue, in order to supply his appetite, his backyard was full of dead chickens every day, because a chicken only ate a piece of tongue. ”
At that time, a professor also praised Tang Qingyou: "I didn't expect Mr. Tang to be young and have such a deep understanding of literature and history." We have all memorized Li Shen's "Compassion for Nong" since childhood, and he later became the prime minister? I just found out today! ”
Zhang Bingwen, who was sitting on the main seat, didn't say much all night, but at this time, he really gave a superior's point of view: "In fact, many literati still retain their true colors after becoming big officials, and some small feelings and thoughts are inevitable. Let's just say that Li Shen, the chicken tongue he likes to eat may be a little thought of his poor days when he was a child, and when he sits in the prime minister's seat and has to deal with so many national affairs every day, where will he know that the plate of chicken tongue he eats has led to a pile of dead chickens in the backyard? It is estimated that the people below do what he likes, and the people outside can't see him well. ”
Tang Qingyou was stunned at the time because he didn't understand why Zhang Bingwen overturned the case for Li Shen, and continued to publish the high theory that being an official is not for the people, it is better to go home and plant sweet potatoes, Zhou Zhi hurriedly put a chicken head in the bowl for her: "You also try chicken tongues, you will know why if you try it!" ”
Zhou Zhi knew that Tang Qingyou didn't eat his head, claws, and internal organs, and he actually came to such a play, obviously interrupting on purpose, but Tang Qingyou didn't quite understand at the time, so he just sandwiched the chicken head into Zhou Zhi's bowl: "Mr. Zhou likes to gnaw his head the most, don't bear to cut your love if you like it, I am a good subordinate of China, and I will never rob you." ”
Later, she broke up, and on the way home, she drove Zhou Zhi, who had drunk alcohol, and Zhou Zhi knocked her head and said: "Mr. Wen's path is bound to take the career path, you said Li Shen in front of him, what a lot of bad luck!" ”
Tang Qingyou was still relatively lacking in political consciousness at that time and did not take it seriously. But later, she and Minglan became familiar to the extent of drilling a quilt, Minglan explicitly asked her to call Zhang Bingwen "brother-in-law", Zhang Bingwen's attitude towards her was as salty as when she first met, she realized that they were incompatible and began to self-reflect. This reflection doesn't matter, she accidentally found that the story she told at the beginning turned out to be a joke made up by contemporary people and spread falsely, and it has not been studied at all, and it is not a historical fact! Since then, she has treated Zhou Zhi a little differently, and she has become more and more respectful of Zhang Bingwen.
People who can't talk to one place can barely get together to eat, and the atmosphere is really quiet and a little embarrassing, but fortunately, Minglan is a little embarrassed, and Minglan is a good person, happily asking this person for an attitude, caring about that person for a few words of homely things, and bringing out the housewife's money to add a bowl of soup to the root dish for that picket dish, so that Tang Qingyou has to be polite and ask Ying to wash the dishes - Minglan didn't even leave a nanny in order to create the atmosphere of this banquet. Let outsiders see this warm daily life, and really be able to be a family for them.
After eating and chatting about cleaning up the kitchen, the three of them finally sat down in the living room and chatted about business. In fact, Minglan mentioned it at the dinner table, but Zhang Bingwen had his principles and stopped directly: "Don't talk about business when you eat." It was not easy for Minglan to be this broker, so she held back until the fruit time after the meal, and finally leaned on the sofa and told Tang Qingyou the ins and outs of asking for help.
Let's talk about Zhang Bingwen first, who has been in the position of vice president of the radio and television group for many years, and now there is an opportunity, Shangfeng wants to go higher, because of the happy cooperation in the past few years, it is very likely that he will be corrected. But there are several vice presidents of the group, and there are several popular figures at the same level in other relevant institutions in the city, and Zhang Bingwen still needs to strategize. At this time, Shangfeng suddenly threw an event over for Zhang Bingwen to grasp, and the weight was not small, and it was actually the annual international investment and trade fair that has become one of the city's business cards. Accepting the task at this juncture is equivalent to a promotion inspection, and Zhang Bingwen naturally wants to do the activity beautifully in his hands. So, after some thorough research, Zhang Bingwen found a little way and began to make preparations in a hurry. With his all-round hands and eyes, everything is quite smooth, but in the selection of the keynote speaker of the special investment forum at the opening ceremony in October, he made a mistake. You know, Ma Yun, Dong Mingzhu, Rogers and the like are here, except that the Bodian news page is actually useless at all, anyway, they will go to similar activities everywhere, and it is the turn of Boyi Investment, the light of the city's investment community, to refuse to attend the CIFIT? How can this make the face of the local gang hang? A group of high-level leaders, especially those in charge of the economy, beat the drum in their hearts, and directly named the person in charge of Bo Yi to be present to ensure that the prosperity of local funds is not questioned by the outside world.
As a giant in the investment circle, Bo Yi Investment's career territory in the past few years has long been half the world, and it will be chased by the financial media on Wall Street every three or five times, which can be regarded as earning enough face for the city. But the business that really falls in the city, except for the original entrepreneurial sector incubation, there is no earth-shattering move. And what people on the political side want is to shock the world and cry ghosts and gods.
The CIFIT secretariat trembled and contacted Shen Bo and Tu Yiran's secretaries, and contacted the itinerary of the two gods several times that could not be implemented, and the secretariat was anxious and directly handed over the problem to Zhang Bingwen. The current situation is that even the city leaders know that the host of the CIFIT is Shen Bo Tu Yiran, and Zhang Bingwen is directly responsible for this matter.
Tang Qingyou understood this and came to two conclusions: first, it turned out that the workplace all over the world was the same hardship, and the height was unbearable, the more he sat in a high position, the more he had to maintain a good posture, and he had to smile like a person and thank the other party for the warmth of the sun shining on this seat. Second, Minglan really came to ask for a loan shark.
Tang Qingyou did psychological construction all the way, but she didn't expect Minglan to prepare such a "Hongmen Banquet" for her - but who called herself willing.
Tang Qingyou secretly observed Ming Lan's expression, and saw that her eyes were full of apologies, and she knew that she clearly didn't mention to Zhang Bingwen that she broke up with Tu Yiran! Intuition told her that Ming Lan must have a hard time, but this is not the time to talk privately, Tang Qingyou pressed the mountains of questions in her heart, regardless of the first response: "How can I not do Sister Lan's orders." ”
Zhang Bingwen held Emperor Zhang's face and smiled: "Then work hard for Xiao Tang." ”
"It's not hard, it's not hard." Tang Qingyou put on a doggy-legged smile and gave Zu Minglan face. After that, the conversation changed: "There are still a lot of things about Bo Yi, they are both trapeze artists, and they can also represent Bo Yi, in fact, they have acted separately for the sake of efficiency over the years, and they can't get together for an event, if you want to invite them to attend, it's best to decide who you want to invite first......
Zhang Bingwen's expression was stunned, and he said, "If you can, of course, it's best to invite Shen Bo over." ”
Hearing this, the smile on Tang Qingyou's face bloomed more and more naturally. Asking Zhang Bingwen about this decision, she was paving a way out for herself. If Zhang Bingwen's preferred candidate is to circle Tu Yiran, if she doesn't invite anyone, she will definitely not be able to lie to Minglan. But now if Shen Bo is circled first, she can't invite this bigwig in the investment circle who lives in an uncertain place and has a perennial dragon that has no end in sight, which is normal. If Shen Bo is not invited, and then Tu Yiran is invited, it is logical that he refuses to come to such a face-slapping substitute work. When the time comes...... At that time, she still has one last card, which is to throw out Yida Culture, a subsidiary of Bo Yi that controls the shares in the headquarters, and wrap the CEO Zhou Zhi with a bow and give it to Zhang Bingwen to give the opening guests to cushion the stomachs of the gods from all walks of life.
Even so, she was not used to fighting uncertain battles, so she first called Zhou Zhi to ask Shen Bo's whereabouts.
If Zhou Zhi kept hugging Tu Yiran's thighs all the time, he knew Tu Yiran's whereabouts well, but Shen Bo didn't know anything. The current Shen Bo is like the legendary bird without legs, and he doesn't know which sky it is hovering in. Exhausting all means of communication in today's information world to connect to his signals is generally a variety of off-line states.
Zhou Zhiyi's head was big when he heard Shen Bo's name: "Sister You, you don't know, Brother Bo has always been uncertain." If you want to find him, don't talk about me, Boss Tu may not be able to contact him. ”
"Come on, his ace assistant Linda, was the one you recommended back then, right? She knows for sure! You go and ask. ”
"Sister You, I must have owed you a lot of debts in my last life, so I can only make you a cow and a horse in this life." Zhou Zhi finished this sentence, but he still responded.
After a few minutes, Zhou Zhi called back to his life, saying that Linda really couldn't get through to Shen Bo's phone in the past two days, and could only deduce an approximate location according to the itinerary explained before.