Xiaowei's unexpected request for large sums of cash has led to an awkward stalemate in the acquisition.

As a group negotiator, before returning to the county, I have been very clear that reaching a cooperation intention is the primary task, as for how to pay, how to operate, it is a financial issue and a matter of the second echelon, not my main responsibility.

After a round of negotiations, I gave a brief explanation of the situation to Beijing.

Judging from the feedback from the attitude of the Beijing officials, it is considered to have fulfilled the mission and completed the task according to the established route.

The specific operational things in the future have little to do with me.

Therefore, I took a break from my busy schedule, walked around the county seat, waited for further decisions from Beijing, and after confirming that there was no problem, I prepared to return to the capital immediately.

After wandering around the county town for a while, I found a nearby café to sit in.

The town has changed a lot, the street signs, the way the crowd dresses, are all trendy and modern.

It has been more than ten years since I graduated from my county middle school and left, and the whole city looks like a world change compared with the original simplicity and obsolescence.

I sat in a corner of the café by the window, watching the various people walking, feeling the great changes in the urban environment, and I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

On the street outside the window, a group of children dressed as county middle school students passed by happily and laughing.

Looking at the familiar color of the school uniform, I couldn't help but feel sad.

Familiar scenes, familiar streets.

It reminds me of my friend Dagang, and of the streets we walked together in the most difficult years in the most difficult years.

Now it's all wrong.

Dagang became the hero of the county, and a re-planned alley in front of the new county was even named after him, called "Dagang Lane".

However, the Si people have passed away, and they have a name for eternity, and the pain of missing can only be experienced by those who are close to each other.

Thinking about old things, and old friends who have passed away.

For a while, the mind was obscure.

Even the coffee in his hand didn't taste bitter anymore.

......

A gust of wind blew, and I saw pedestrians on the street quickening their pace.

The sky darkened instantly,

The wind is mixed with moisture.

Looks like it's going to rain.

I stared at the crowd of people coming and going on the street, still immersed in the memories of the past.

......

Suddenly, I was drawn to the figure of two women turning around the corner.

That's Xuan and Xiaoman!

The fact that these two men were so close at a critical moment in the negotiations made me alarmed, even though the acquisition had little to do with me.

"Xiao Man has always been a potential competitor in the county according to Jingguan, when did she get together with Xuan?"

Looking at their intimacy, I was confused.

Xuan pretended to be drunk when she had dinner with me last night, trying to persuade me to join forces with her, but she didn't get a response from me, and she didn't look indifferent, it turned out that she had already had private contact with Xiaoman.

What she didn't expect was that Rao was shrewd and sophisticated, and her small movements still couldn't hide the eyes that were watching secretly.

I really saw the details of her relationship with Xiaoman!

It seems that the county seat is still too small! Either that, or it's too small!

It was raining in the streets, and it was coming very quickly.

The wind swept the bean-sized raindrops on the café window, making a "popping" sound.

Storms drive pedestrians to take shelter from the rain.

The two women rushed into the café together.

I sat in the corner and buried my head in a newspaper.

Due to the rush to enter the door, neither of the two women could find me hiding in the corner.

Xuan turned her back to me and sat with Xiao Man far away in the booth near the entrance of the café.

"What the hell!" , Xiao Man is complaining.

"It seems that the things in the world are really not as good as the heavens."

I thought to myself, the two women must have not expected that they would meet on the street on a rainy day.

Now is the time to hide from the rain, but the key people who want to avoid the most are in the dark to see their every move.

"yes, this rain is coming, it's quite annoying." , Xuan echoed.

"You don't think there will be any more changes in the negotiations, right?" , Xiao Man's tone sounded a little anxious.

"Don't worry, with my understanding of the old guy, he has invested in it this time and used all the resources, if this thing can't be done, he will be completely finished." , Xuan is very relaxed, but her words are categorical, and it seems that she should be confident.

"Your boss is being targeted by the Commission for Discipline Inspection, it seems to be true? Doesn't Xiaowei know his situation? Xiaowei's officialdom is so familiar! If he knew, would the acquisition be in vain? Xiao Man lowered his voice.

"It's true that the old guy's club has been forced to move once, and it seems that he has an accident sooner or later, so the prospect of our cooperation is good, and it will be more exciting later! As for Xiaowei, his network is limited to the county and province, and he can't get higher-level information at all, so his current situation is very passive, and he is completely struggling meaninglessly! Xuan's tone of analysis of the situation was a little excited, as if success was just around the corner.

"Is there any movement over there?" , Xiao Man is still very cautious, she knows that Lan Gu is a powerful military advisor to a certain extent.

"She? She's not planning for herself yet! Xuan's tone was a little disdainful.

"All people are selfish, and now there is no one in the group who does not plan for himself?"

The undisguised ** naked expression seems to have hit the common pain of the two women.

The two men fell silent for a while.

Outside the café, thunder and lightning were blowing and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

I looked at the two men from a distance through the cracks of the newspaper, and they were sitting quietly, watching the various people who were hurrying up to take shelter from the rain in the street, and it seemed that neither of them had any intention of leaving.

I was a little uneasy about the information I had not intended to hear.

Before the acquisition was over, the two men were already coveting the outcome of the negotiations.

It seems that the background of the business acquisition of the Langu Group is so complicated.

A bit of a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches in the back.

In addition, I couldn't help but sweat for Lan Gu's situation.

Lan Gu is very shrewd.

Judging from the content of Xuan and Xiaoman's conversation, combined with my observations in the so-called group during this period of time, Lan Gu does have plans for herself, but to what extent and what effect will be achieved in the end, I still don't know.

The union of Xuan and Xiaoman should be a great threat to Lan Gu.

Xuan holds all kinds of hidden secrets of Lan Gu, and Xiao Man has always been her opponent, and they are both familiar with each other's methods.

If Xuan and Xiaoman fight against Lan Gu, although there are various possibilities for the ending, the pattern of advantages and disadvantages is still clear at a glance.

What could be more terrible than the enemy knowing everything about himself?

"Forget it, let's stay away from right and wrong!" , I thought to myself.

"I have no interest in participating in the bad things of their women, listening to the meaning of their words, the so-called group company can't last long, and it's best for me to slip away early."

I stood up with my newspaper in hand, ready to walk down the stairs beside me to the second floor to see if I could get out of the other way out of the place.

"How was your conversation with the big country yesterday?" , Xiao Man suddenly asked Xuan.

Their topic caught my attention.

I was about to leave, and sat back down.

Prick up your ears and listen to what they will say next.

"Is there anything else going on with me?" I was shocked and angry.

"He? It's a stupid X! Xuan responded with a smile.

"I thought that the person selected by the old guy must have something extraordinary, it seems that I think highly of him, spineless, bearing, and even a little manly!"

Hearing what others said about me, I couldn't help but blush, and my heart churned, and I had mixed feelings.

"You're right, I'll tell you the truth, when I looked for him earlier, he was that virtue." , Xiao Man giggled.

"I thought that after so many years and so many things, he would grow, and if you look for him again and show his background, he would be willing to go to the Tao, it seems that I was wrong again."

"I don't think he's interested in the group's business, he's a bit nerdy, pretending to be high, pretending to be X, and he doesn't want to work with people like us!"

Xuan found a more reliable excuse for me.

I couldn't help but frown.

"Maybe there is some truth in what they say, and I personally do disdain to work with them sometimes, but I actually know very well in my heart that in today's world, who can do things and do great things, who is not unscrupulous to achieve the goal? Xiaowei, Xiaoman, bald, even Ah Hong, whatever you want, everyone is like this, and I myself sometimes do the same! ”

"Since I'm also a businessman who will do whatever it takes to achieve my ends, what reason do I have to look down on others?"

Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"Those who know the times are handsome." , It seems that I sometimes refuse the olive branch extended by others, and I am a little ignorant of lifting!

It's no wonder what others say, it's the same in everything, you can keep your personality, but you can't stop others from judging and evaluating you, whether it's good or bad, high or low.

"You know what? In fact, he still has a leg with Lan Gu! Right in the old guy's clubhouse, I saw it with my own eyes! Although Xuan lowered her voice, what she said still penetrated my ears word for word.

"Giggles, really, just the way he looks? And Lan Gu? ....... You're not kidding me, are you? Xiao Man seemed to smile and bend over.

I couldn't help but blush again, hearing with my own ears that my little was talked about behind people's backs, it turned out to be such an effect.

I couldn't help but be ashamed.

It seems that all stories in the world have traces, but they are told from different angles, different audiences, and different points of view.

The two women laughed together, as if my affair with Lan Gu was the most ridiculous thing in the world in their eyes.

After laughing for a long time, I finally quieted down.

"If they really have a leg, do you think it's possible that the big country has already formed an alliance with that ** of Lan Gu?" , Xiao Man's tone seemed to be a little flustered again.

"I've thought about this and observed it, they shouldn't have joined forces so far, at least there won't be any threat to our alliance!" Xuan's tone once again regained the calmness and composure she had when she first entered the café.

"Why? What are you based on to make this judgment? It seems that Xiao Man is still not very down-to-earth.

"Why? Love is the most hurtful thing in the world, I think the two of them are definitely enemies in a lifetime! Xuan's tone was very affirmative.

"Why?" , Xiao Man's tone is still questioning.

"Why? With a woman's intuition! ”

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky outside the window, and the thunder faded away.

The rain in the streets, after the thunder, quietly stopped.