The proposal started at two o'clock in the afternoon and ended at about four o'clock, Chen Erdong just took out his mobile phone and was about to report his whereabouts to Shen Pei, Mr. Qiu came to the conference room, because the indoor space is not large, she can see every move of the people present, out of professional etiquette, Chen Erdong immediately turned the mobile phone to silent and stuffed it into the inner pocket of the suit.

Chen Erdong was arranged to be the last to appear, for the proposal, this kind of order is the most advantageous, he guessed whether this arrangement was the instruction of Lin Daqi's brother-in-law, but no matter what, as long as it was beneficial to himself.

After looking at the plans of the first two companies, Chen Erdong felt that he was not as thorough as Lin Daqi's understanding of Party A's brand culture, whether from the perspective of creativity or aesthetics, coupled with his own well-designed SLOGEN, which invisibly increased his confidence in winning this business.

Finally it was Chen Erdong's turn, he got up and was about to walk to the projection screen to start his proposal, but accidentally dropped the bag hanging on the armrest of the seat by the representative of an advertising company next to him to the ground, he hurriedly leaned over to pick it up, due to the large tilt of the body, the mobile phone slipped out of the inner pocket and fell to the ground with a "pop".

This little episode made Chen Erdong a little embarrassed, he quickly picked up the bag and handed it to the person next to him, apologized twice in a row, and at the same time put his mobile phone in his trouser pocket and continued to propose on stage.

Chen Erdong in the proposal, deliberately observed the reaction of Mr. Qiu and other Party A personnel in order to prove the quality of his plan, from the feedback he received, as he expected in advance, their plan is indeed better than the other two opponents, Chen Erdong was secretly happy in his heart, successfully completed the proposal.

Usually, Party A will not announce the results immediately, but will notify you after internal discussions. Chen Erdong completed the task, breathed a sigh of relief, and his thoughts flew to the meeting of his parents two hours later, nervous and excited, thinking that he would hurry home and bring the meeting gift and change his clothes to the dinner, and meet his mother-in-law in a suit, just like an insurance company selling insurance.

At this time, Mr. Qiu spoke: "I have seen your wonderful presentation, I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of Siwei Company, this design is particularly important for our brand, we plan to open 100 chain stores in the country in the next three years, so we can not be sloppy in brand positioning, in other words, if you can win our CASE, your company's works will also be widely advertised throughout the country, I believe that for you, it is also a very good promotion." After reading your plan, I found that your understanding of the Siwei brand is not comprehensive enough, but it is understandable, after all, you have not been in contact for a long time, and it is not easy to do this, so I want to delay you a little more time, and further introduce the story of our brand and the industry situation, I hope to give you a chance to revise the draft, and we will organize another proposal next week, and then decide who to cooperate with. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Erdong frowned, this can't be a deception, after the proposal is completed, a company was selected to cooperate, the two parties signed an agreement, paid the down payment, even if it was a hundred drafts, it was their responsibility, and now let him go back to revise the draft before the eight characters were skimmed, this boss is really shrewd.

What's even worse is the dinner with Liu Min at six o'clock, there are less than two hours now, if this Mr. Qiu speaks quickly, the time is still in time, if the talk is endless, wouldn't it be a big delay.

Before he finished his struggle, Mr. Qiu had already started the brand introduction, and the other competitors obediently sat on the field and listened attentively.

Chen Erdong quietly took out his mobile phone, ready to report the situation to Shen Pei immediately, just in case, when he pressed the unlock button, the mobile phone did not respond, he used his right thumb to repeatedly pound on the mobile phone keyboard, still no movement, he realized that the fall just now broke the mobile phone, and now the mobile phone can't even turn on.

His mobile phone is an old Ericsson, thin model, Dong Yuhua once spent a lot of money on Chen Erdong's junior birthday to give him a color screen slide mobile phone on the market as a birthday gift, the brand is Siemens, the mobile phone slide can also emit stereo sound when the slide cover, very cool, Chen Erdong with this mobile phone, vanity for a lot of days, you know, at that time, most people used black and white screen mobile phones, such as Nokia 3210, Motorola or something, but Chen Erdong and Shen Pei when they went to travel, lost the mobile phone, Dong Yuhua felt that Chen Erdong couldn't hold the valuables, so that he later transferred the mobile phone he eliminated to Chen Erdong to use, this Ericsson Chen Erdong has been used for almost a year, a real old machine.

Chen Erdong was restless, unable to leave the conference room, and unable to get in touch with Shen Pei, so he could only hope that Mr. Qiu could make a long story short and end it all as soon as possible, but when he noticed what Mr. Qiu said, an ominous premonition arose, because from between the lines, where is the simple brand story, she can't wait to share the few boyfriends she has made studying in the United States without reservation.

Time passed minute by minute, Chen Erdong became more and more anxious, like sitting on pins and needles, he couldn't hear what Mr. Qiu was talking about, he only felt a rapid heartbeat, and he felt uncomfortable, if he left at this time, it would mean that this single business said goodbye to Daer Media, no Party A can tolerate such behavior.

The design cost of this business is 60,000 yuan, which is definitely a huge amount of money for the start-up Big Ear Media, and the expansion speed and influence of this brand are an invisible wealth, but when he thought of Shen Pei and Liu Min sitting in the restaurant stupidly, he was absent for no reason like evaporating from the world, he could fully foresee Shen Pei's disappointment and Liu Min's anger.

At that time in China, instant contact between people was not only to make phone calls but to send text messages, if you did not sit in front of the computer, the function of QQ was like a pager, and you could only see the message when you went online.

When the time came to half past five, Shen Pei estimated that Chen Erdong had finished his work, so he called him, but he was prompted to turn off the phone, and he called several times in a row, all with the same result.

Shen Pei was a little anxious, and hurriedly contacted Lin Daqi, who said that Chen Erdong went to the customer at two o'clock to make a proposal, and he had not been contacted. Shen Pei thought to herself, Chen Erdong is not an unreliable person, it is estimated that the mobile phone is out of battery, and now she is rushing to the restaurant to meet them, she can only try to think about the benefits, and did not show her worries in front of Liu Min, Liu Min drove to the restaurant with Shen Pei.

In the etiquette of entertaining, the inviter must arrive in advance to prepare for the reception, not to mention that the younger generation has an appointment with the elders, even if it is not the first time to invite the mother-in-law to dinner, even if it is a normal dinner on weekdays, the elders should not be allowed to wait.

When she was in an elegant vegetarian restaurant, her eyes were full of her daughter's anxious figure holding the phone, and her good mood was gone.

It's half past six now, it's the peak of the restaurant's customers, this vegetarian restaurant has a good business, it needs to be booked, there are still guests waiting outside the door at the moment, Shen Pei's empty table is particularly abrupt, and the waiter has come over more than once to remind Shen Pei whether he needs to order, although the waiter is already very polite, but anyone can see how rude it is to occupy a seat and not order, Liu Min beckoned, called the waiter over and began to order.

"Mom, Chen Erdong hasn't arrived yet." Shen Pei looked at Liu Min with pleading eyes.

"I, Liu Min, have never had a precedent of sitting down in the restaurant before leaving, now, either I eat with you, or we go, you choose." It was rare for Liu Min to speak to Shen Pei in such a tone, Shen Pei knew that her mother was angry and had no excuse, and her heart was full of disappointment and sadness.

"Mom, will something happen to him, otherwise it won't be like this," Shen Pei was still worried, although she said that nothing would happen to the customer in broad daylight, but she really couldn't think of a reason for Chen Erdong to miss the appointment.

"Pei'er, if he deliberately didn't come, it was a matter of character, if it was because he couldn't come because he was busy with work at a client's place in the afternoon, it was a matter of ability, that is, what he did today, either poor character or poor ability, I think you should re-examine this boyfriend of yours, the first time I met my girlfriend's mother, few people will mess up, hehe, I was lucky, I caught up." Liu Min's tone was flat, but every word was heart-wrenching, in Shen Pei's opinion, her mother had completely denied Chen Erdong.

Mr. Qiu's speech lasted for more than two hours, and finally ended at half past six, Chen Erdong quickly left the office building, he couldn't care about the gifts and changes of clothes still at home, and he couldn't wait to stop a plane and rush to the restaurant.

In Jincheng during the evening rush hour, it is almost a fool's dream to get a taxi quickly, even in today's developed online car-hailing, it is not easy to call a taxi during peak hours, Chen Erdong ran in the direction of the restaurant, while looking at the taxis.

After running for more than 20 minutes, he rushed into a taxi that was beckoned by someone else, and as the car left, he left behind a series of curses from the innocent passer-by outside the window.

Liu Min only ordered a few dishes, she and Shen Pei were not in the mood to eat at all, Shen Pei had red eyes and fed them into his mouth, like chewing wax, Liu Min saw it in his eyes, and his indescribable distress also increased his disgust towards Chen Erdong.

At this time, it was already half past seven, whether intentionally or not, she at least left enough time for Chen Erdong, but the person who should have appeared still did not appear, so she got up to check out and led the distracted Shen Pei to leave, when the mother and daughter just walked out of the door of the restaurant, a man who was sweaty, with an open neckline, and a backpack panting appeared in front of them, and Chen Erdong finally arrived.

In Chen Erdong's original concept, the brightly dressed genius welcomed the beauty and aunt in a beautiful environment, and the talented man presented a carefully selected brand-name scarf to make the aunt smile, and the three of them sat down to start a wonderful dinner time. But back to reality, it was the first time that the most embarrassed man, the saddest woman and the most indignant mother were in the same frame, Chen Erdong flashed a thought, how good it would be if he came a few minutes late, such a face would rather not be seen.

"Auntie, Pepe, I'm sorry I'm late." Chen Erdong's sincerity at this time did not help, although he was sincerely sorry.

Shen Pei was about to explode with anger, but the moment she saw Chen Erdong, she confirmed that he had no accident, she was both angry and reassured, and she didn't say a word, just tears welled up immediately. Liu Min looked at the down-and-out young man in front of her, and looked at him like this, she really didn't understand what Shen Pei liked about him.

"Aunt, I'm ...... today" Chen Erdong was about to explain, but was interrupted by Liu Min:

"Shen Pei, are you and Xiao Chen still going to stay for a while? Otherwise, I'll go home first. Although Liu Min mentioned Chen Erdong in his mouth, he was talking to Shen Pei the whole time.

"No, Mom, I'll go home with you." After saying that, he walked towards the parking lot alone.

"Xiao Chen, then another day on an appointment, let's go first, goodbye." Liu Min is kind and pleasant, maintaining the demeanor that an elder should have.

"Okay, aunt, you go slowly." Chen Erdong didn't keep it anymore, and fools understand that it is futile to do anything now.