The taxi arrived in the center of the NB city, and the front was no longer open to traffic, and the appointment and Dong Tingtian got out of the car and walked, and the appointment talked about the quarrel between Eddie and his son in the restaurant last night.

"Dong Lao, do you think that on the acquisition, the father and son will have a disagreement?"

"The first goal of every boy when he grows up to be a man is to surpass his father"

Dong Tingtian's simple answer made the appointment pay attention to the relationship between himself and Dong Tingtian, didn't he always look forward to and secretly want to surpass Dong Tingtian?

On the streets of NB City in Country Y, among the crowded crowds, even a figure like the president of Thundersky Group cannot attract everyone's attention, which is the center of dreams and a holy place for dreams to come true.

The busy pedestrians or business tycoons or celebrities in various fields who bump shoulders with you on the street are really in vain.

Dong Tingtian was in front and appointed behind, and the two walked towards the semicircular low building, in NB City, where every inch of land is expensive, and the buildings are towering, the ES headquarters building with a strange shape and poor cost performance seems to be out of place with everything around.

Just as Eddie Underwood's traditional and conservative concept of handmade watchmaking has long been unable to keep up with the consumption views of today's consumer groups in a timely manner.

Entering the semi-circular building, the entire ES headquarters is decorated in a Victorian mechanical punk style, and gear machinery can be seen everywhere.

After the appointment informed the front desk of the intention, the latter confirmed the appointment and took Dong Tingtian and the appointment to a reception room full of clocks to wait.

The clocks on the wall that are adjacent to each other show the exact time in each time zone of the world, in a circle, each with a difference of one hour, and so on.

The cogwheel-shaped seat without a backrest under him made his butt hurt,

"Dong Lao, this ES headquarters occupies such a large piece of land in the center of NB City, where every inch of land is expensive, and the floors are not high, so there is not necessarily a shortage of money, how can it be in debt?"

Dong Tingtian stared at the coffee handed to him by the little sister at the front desk in his hand, the foam was swirling,

"Artists are always insisting on things that are optional and costly"

Dong Tingtian's inexplicable rhetoric always made the appointment unable to understand the meaning of the words, he pretended to nod, took a sip of coffee, very bitter,

The clock on the wall has passed for 3 quarters of an hour, that is, 15 minutes later, the receptionist at the front desk walked into the reception room with a gray-haired old woman.

The old woman has a generous demeanor and an elegant temperament, and it is not difficult to see through her delicate facial features that she must be a beauty when she is young.

The appointment got up and wanted to shake hands with the old woman, but the latter hugged him warmly and said a few words of greeting, it seems that it should be Dong Tingtian's old acquaintance,

"Dong Lao... What did she say?"

"Greetings, improve your pronunciation level, it's imminent, appoint, put aside the book of economics, and report IELTS after returning to the magic capital"

Then the old woman hugged Dong Tingtian, and with a smile on her face, she took the two to the door of Eddie Underwood's office, and she sat at a small workstation in front of the door.

Only then did I understand that this temperamental old woman was originally the secretary of Eddie, the founder of ES,

Entering the office full of trophies and honors, Eddie smiled when he saw the appointment, and the appointment worried about the embarrassment of the two of them not understanding each other.

Unexpectedly, Eddie spoke in a familiar southern accent, "Sit, Tingtian, it's fun to have friends from afar?" ”

Appointments are slanderous, so the president of any group likes such a crepe set, right? Luckily, this Eddie seems to know a little bit of Mandarin, and it shouldn't be too difficult to communicate.

After the three of them greeted each other, they sat in the office, put their hands together, glanced at Dong Tingtian, and after the latter nodded, he went straight to the topic,

"Eddie, we are old friends, I believe you have also heard from the media, I announced that I will acquire the ES brand to the Thundersky Group, this is a win-win cooperation to make the ES brand survive"

The appointment paused, and did not say the second half of Dong Tingtian's original words - it is also an opportunity for Tingtian Group to go out of China and go to the world.

And Dong Tingtian, who was beside him, was expressionless, did not show joy or anger, nodded slightly, and seemed to agree with the words of the appointment.

Eddie didn't respond to the appointment's words, and instead tapped the delicate mechanical watch on the appointment's wrist, "This watch was given to you more than ten years ago when you came to NB City to ask me to cooperate and enter your country's market, right?" ”

Yes, Dong Tingtian remembers that when the Tingtian Group was just starting, he came to NB City alone to seek cooperation with Eddie Underwood, who was a giant in the watch industry at that time, and Yinyu passed the sixth level in just three months at that time.

The past is like the wind, Dong Tingtian has long passed the days of struggle, and now is the stage when he turns his financial resources into fame.

Eddie smiled and unfastened the mechanical watch on his wrist, turned to the desk and took out a screwdriver and watch repair glasses from the drawer, opened the lid of the watch, and carefully examined the parts and gears of the watch.

"I didn't expect that the young guy I helped back then has now become a major shareholder of the largest e-commerce company in Modu, and he will even buy my ES brand"

Eddie took out a few smaller parts from the watch, replaced the new parts that had been prepared, closed the cover securely, put the watch to his ear, and listened to the sound.

"After all, it's an old watch, and if you replace the replacement parts, you may be able to maintain a few years of life."

I am puzzled, the life span of ES brand clocks is almost tens of hundreds of years, and the watch that Eddie personally gave to Dong Tingtian is naturally of high quality, not to mention the quality, why does Eddie act and say this?

Eddie listened to the sound of the watch's gears, showed a satisfied expression, and walked towards the appointment to return the watch to him, and suddenly his smile turned serious,

"Let's go, Tingtian, I'm grateful for the agreement you were able to sign to share the debt with ES, but if it were to cost me the ES brand, I'd rather get through it alone"

The appointment took the watch, a little frustrated and stunned, and wanted to explain to Eddie, but was pulled by Dong Tingtian, who had already said goodbye to Eddie, and it was naturally inconvenient for the appointment to be entangled too much, otherwise it would become a story that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry.

Outside the ES headquarters building, in front of the fast food truck on the side of the road, eating hot dogs and drinking coffee; Dong Tingtian looked at the top of the semicircular building with his hands in his hands, thoughtful.

"Elder Dong, did we really give up so easily?"

"The moment Eddie took off your watch, I guessed that he would not agree to Thundersky Group's plan to acquire the ES brand."

Appointment nibbling on a hot sip and coffee, high-calorie food and refreshing drinks will always bring him comfort when he is depressed,

The appointee muttered, slurred, "Why?" Just a piece of watch malfunctioning? The founder of this ES brand is too stingy."

Dong Tingtian snatched the hot dog in his mouth, squinted his eyes and looked at him with a mouthful of tomato sauce, and threw the hot dog in his hand away.

"My friend with Eddie for many years, that watch symbolizes my friendship, and changing parts means that he has an opinion on some of my actions; That sentence still has a lifespan, which means that if we get another inch, he will not cooperate with the Thundersky Group again."

Dong Tingtian's face was serious, and he was so frightened that he put the coffee in his hand on the bench next to him, and smiled awkwardly,

"Also, I said, when you talk to me, you listen well, don't play with your phone or eat hot dogs, I don't want to say it a third time"

"Well... Okay, Dong Lao"

Dong Tingtian stretched out his hand to stop a taxi on the side of the road, and under the gaze of the appointment, he sat alone in the co-pilot,

"What are you doing? Get in! ”

The appointment hesitated for a moment, looked at the coffee on the bench, withdrew his outstretched hand, gritted his teeth, turned around and ran to the rental,

"Well... Okay Dong Lao"

I thought that Dong Tingtian had no choice but to return to the hotel to re-plan, but he didn't want the rental to gradually leave the city.

"Old Dong, where are we going?"

In the rearview mirror, he couldn't see Dong Tingtian's expression, but he didn't respond verbally, so he was so interested that he didn't ask more, early this morning, Dong Lao had already lost his temper with himself several times, and he had to understand something.

It's just that Dong Tingtian, who was in the co-pilot, leaned on the seat and fell asleep, and he didn't hear the appointment question at all, he was tired all night last night.

An hour later, the taxi stopped in front of an elegantly decorated villa, and from the appearance alone, it was impossible to tell that this was actually the ES brand watchmaking factory, from the inspiration design to the template building, the table, and the packaging were all completed in this villa.

As Eddie upholds, the ES brand itself has never done promotion and publicity, relying on word-of-mouth in the past, and now it relies on distributors similar to Thundersky Group to promote and publicize their own brands, at their own expense.

Dong Tingtian led the appointment through the gap in the fence in the backyard of the villa to enter it, mostly gray-haired old watchmakers, only some young people sat at their small desks to paint and design new watches.

Each has its own busy things, and the only thing everyone has in common is that they are very focused, so focused that they almost didn't notice the appointment and Dong Tingtian who trespassed in.

"Dong Lao, you wouldn't say that this is the ES brand watchmaking factory, right?"

The craftsmen who are too focused have to wonder if the employees of the ES brand are a group of deaf and mute.

Dong Tingtian communicated with a bald old clockmaker with a kind face, picked up a pocket watch as a template, and watched it in the sun, and the 11 gems inlaid on the dial were shining.

"Appointment, do you know how many years of preparation it would take for this pocket watch to be so perfect?"

Appointed to take over the pocket watch in Dong Tingtian's hand, the dial is flat and smooth metal, and various colored gemstones are embedded in the upper 1-11 hours to replace the numbers, leaving only the number 0 at 12 o'clock in the center as the replacement.

"I don't know, Dong Lao, I can't see the deep meaning of this watch"

"In 10 years, it took a lot of people, from the birth of an idea to the first stencil watch, from the designer to the material selector and the watch artist, a whole ten years."