Volume 1: Life Mutation Chapter 13: Seeing the Goal
The car turned onto the main road, and after driving for more than 40 minutes, the city was basically out of the window, and it should have been to the countryside. There are still some houses next to the road, and it seems that it should be a suburban place.
After another 10 minutes, the car stopped outside the door of a resort-like building.
Nadi got out of the car ahead of time, ran over and said to Yang Lin: "Yang Gong, we are here, I will ask the driver to take the luggage down for you." After today's event, we may have to go back to Loei, tomorrow the three of you can have a walk around Loei one day, and then fly back to Bangkok tomorrow evening or the day after tomorrow. ”
When Nadi spoke, the two drivers had already taken down the luggage of Yang Lin and others, and the service staff of the resort loaded the luggage with the car and walked towards the resort lobby.
Yang Lin agreed and got out of the car, and Yang Fan and Yang Yan stood behind Yang Lin.
Mao Yunfei also walked out of the resort hall, and began to shout from afar: "Yang Gong, hard work." Poorly cared for, poorly cared for! We don't have a lot of people on our side, so I have to do everything myself. So, I can't go around with you! Poorly cared for, poorly cared for! ”
As she spoke, she shook hands with Yang Lin, still with that awkward smile on her face.
Mao Yunfei wore a suit similar to an evening dress today, with her black skin, slightly bloated figure and an unnatural smile on her face, which looked extremely incongruous, just like her smile, it seemed that it should not appear on her. Yang Fan sighed secretly in his heart, just rushing to the image of this host, today's event will not be too high-grade.
"It's out of the way, Manager Mao, I'm bothering you." Yang Lin responded and walked into the resort hall under the guidance of Manager Mao, with Yang Fan and Yang Yan following behind them.
Walking through the resort, a few people came to today's event. This is an outdoor venue located about 200 meters from the resort's recreation area.
Yang Fan looked around, this didn't look like a resort place. It's a long way from the resort, and the site seems to have been newly built recently, with manicured lawns and roots less than 10 centimeters in size. All kinds of wires and plug-in boards are exposed outside, it should be that they have just made such a clearing in this wood, no wonder Manager Mao and they have been busy these days.
The entire event venue is surrounded by a dense forest, the venue is rectangular and very simple to set up. In the middle of the front is a 50-centimeter-high stage, which is not very large, and is covered with red cloth. Behind the stage, there is a propaganda display board about 3 meters square, on which the slogan "Chinese/Thai Martial Arts Exchange Conference" is written in Chinese and Thai, and some messy background colors are some information such as the organizer, which is written in Chinese and Thai bilingual.
On both sides of the stage are sound equipment, which also looks like they are portable. Under the stage is the viewing area, which has about 50 seats, but it is almost full, and most of them are Thai. There are 4 seats with tables and table cards at the front, which should be reserved for guests.
On the left side of the viewing area, there are shelves for dishes and cutlery, where the noon buffet is located, and at the back is a camera that has been set up. On the right side of the site, through the gap in the woods, you can see a road behind the trees, and according to Nadi, the Mekong River should be further north. So this event venue was built on the border between northern Thailand and Laos.
Yang Fan looked left and right again, although the venue was a little simpler, it was basically the same. Now, he's relaxed a lot.
"Yang Gong, your seat is on the far left of the first row." Under the guidance of Mao Yunfei, Yang Lin sat down on the table in front of him and sat down with the "guest" table cards.
Yang Fan and Yang Yan sat down in the second row behind Yang Lin.
The middle two of the guest seats in the first row should be reserved for the leaders of Beichun County and the representatives of the group's partner companies abroad. Sitting on the far right of the first row was a Thai man who, from behind, was not tall and lean, but sturdy, gray-haired, and looked to be in his sixties. He must have been a martial arts practitioner when he was younger, and judging from yesterday's list, he should be the guest who performed Muay Thai. The man bowed slightly, nodded to Yang Lin, and did not speak.
The time has come, and the music is playing. Mao Yunfei slowly walked onto the stage from the left side, with that extremely incongruous smile, making opening remarks, and saying some scene words.
Yang Fan was very uncomfortable when he saw her, so he didn't pay attention to what she said, his eyes looked at the two empty guest seats in the first row, searching for possible seat owners around.
Sure enough, there was a white man standing on the left side of the stage, who was about 40 years old, 185cm tall, in a suit and leather shoes, and looked like an American. He was followed by a female secretary, who should be one of today's guests, the representative of the group's partner company, Yang Fan's goal today.
Finally, Manager Mao began to introduce the guests present today. Yang Fan listened carefully, Manager Mao did not say the title and position of this person, but only said that he was a special guest from the United States, named Smith. Smith walked over to his seat after the presenter's introduction, greeted the two people next to him and sat down, his secretary sitting in the front watch seat on the left.
Subsequently, Manager Mao seemed to be saying something regrettable today, a certain leader in Beichun County was unable to participate in today's event due to official business, and what blessings and so on. Yang Fan didn't pay attention, he kept observing the Smith and his secretary.
"Is that the one you're going to see in a moment?" Yang Yan asked in a low voice on the side.
"Well, it should be." Yang Fan replied, his gaze not taking off Smith.
The latter was carried out according to the process of the event, and the Thai representative first went up to perform the "Ancient Muay Thai 25 Style" and explained in Thai while doing the movements, because the following are all Thai people, who may know Muay Thai more or less, so it did not cause any sensation.
After a round of applause, Yang Lin took the stage, and he performed the "24 moves of Tai Chi", in fact, this is not Tai Chi techniques at all, it is basically a health exercise for the park masters to strengthen their bodies. It's hard to weave a real martial art into a routine, and the same is true for Muay Thai performed earlier.
Yang Fan learned a lot of things from Chen Jianmin, such as boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, wrestling, Wing Chun, taekwondo, karate, judo, sanda, Jeet Kune Do, and Sambo, Krav Maga commonly used in special forces, etc. It's just that Yang Lin has improved some of the movements, adding a little strength at the end of the action, and looking at some actual combat effects.
Yang Lin is playing while explaining in Chinese what Tai Chi is, the principles and characteristics of Tai Chi, etc., and there is actually a translator below who directly translates Yang Lin's words into Thai. But Yang Lin spoke more profoundly, and the translation seemed a little difficult, and it was estimated that the people below were also confused.
Yang Fan saw that there was nothing abnormal now, and his heart that had been hanging slowly relaxed. I looked at the file box in my hand and thought: give this to that Smith at the buffet in a while, and this trip to Thailand will be over. He just wanted to get out of this place where birds don't now, and he didn't want to see Mao Yunfei's disgusting smirk again.
Finally, after a boring closing word and some tedious processes, the whole event was over. Yang Fan looked at his watch, it was already 12:00 noon, and it was just time for lunch.
All the dishes in the buffet have been prepared, including meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, fruits, main dishes, desserts and Thai specialties. When the host announced that they could eat separately, the audience suddenly came to their senses, maybe this is the real purpose of their coming to the event today.
People line up and start picking their favorite dishes. Yang Lin was gesturing with the Muay Thai performer and talking about something, and the interpreter was also beside them, listening with relish, translating what they were talking to each other.
Yang Fan's attention was all on Smith, after all, this was the purpose of his coming here today. Smith's secretary had already walked up to him, and Smith stood up, as if he didn't mean to dine here.
Yang Fan said to Yang Yan: "Sister, you and Dad should go to dinner first." I think that Smith is leaving, I'll give him the stuff first! ”
"Can you do it alone?" Yang Yan looked worried.
At this time, Anne walked over, took Yang Yan's arm and said, "Sister, my mother has an upset stomach and it is convenient to go to the resort, can I eat with you?" ”
Yang Fan looked at this cute little girl and knew that Yang Yan would not refuse, so he picked up the suitcase and said, "No problem, sister!" I'm just going to show him what's inside and give it to him to take away. You accompany Anne to dinner first, and I'll go over later. After speaking, Yang Fan walked towards Smith.
Mao Yunfei was talking to Smith, smiling all over her face, not knowing what she was talking about. When she saw Yang Fan coming over, she said to Smith in Chinese: "Mr. Smith, this is the Yang Fan I mentioned to you. ”
When Yang Fan heard this, it seemed that this Manager Mao was not simple, she knew that she wanted to see Smith, and she must also know what he was going to do.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Jerry." Smith held out his hand to Yang Fan.
Yang Fan was stunned at first, he forgot that he had also registered an English name in the company. After reacting, he shook Smith's hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Smith." I have something for you here. ”
After finishing speaking, she glanced at Mao Yunfei, Mao Yunfei casually made an excuse and walked away.
Smith put his arm around Yang Fan's shoulders and walked some distance away from the crowd, and into the woods, they could already see the road and the Mekong River, while the diners just couldn't see it.
"Jerry, is it something that Mr. Liu asked you to bring?" Smith lowered his voice and asked in English.
Yang Fan brought up the box, signaled that this was what he wanted, and said in English: "Two samples, both are inside, do you need me to unlock the genetic code lock now?" ”
"Yes, yes. Please untie it now, give me the sample, and then you can go back to your home country on a business mission. Smith said eagerly.