Chapter 45 Chapter Forty-Five

The file bag named "Metric Poetry Company Documents" was placed in a conspicuous position on the computer desk in Liu Bing's bedroom. Liu Bing rested his fingers on the file bag and tapped it unconsciously, staring blankly at a group of mahjong players outside the window. People, listening to the noisy sounds of laughter, quarrels, and shuffling of cards from the mahjong table.Now there are only 3 hours left before the signing banquet, and his heart is feeling the passing of time every minute. He feels that his fate is now counted by minutes. At 8 o'clock this evening, the signing banquet between Shenzhen Lesheng Audio Company and Beijing Metric Audio Company will be held in the medium-sized banquet hall of the Pearl Hotel in the ancient city, and the official signing will be at 8:19.

No matter how the public opinion evaluates this lawsuit, and no matter how hostile Lesheng Company is to Metrics Company, it will not affect a basic judgment: the only way out of Lesheng Company's predicament is to rely on the existing structure and cooperate with Metrics Company.Although the court's rhetoric and Lin Yufeng's falling off the cliff still linger, the need for survival and development finally made Lesheng's top management put aside their personal feelings and bring the two companies together.After 3 rounds of arduous negotiations, Lesheng Company reached a package of cooperation with Metrics Company and Wangmiao Village production professional households respectively——

Lesheng Company exclusively uses the Metrics brand and speaker design patents for compensation, and exclusively operates two-component speakers. The flagship two-component speaker of Lesheng will be named: Lesheng-Metrics. The audio rack products of Metrics Company have entered the sales network of Lesheng Company in an all-round way. Lesheng Company has established Wangmiao Village as the production base of "Lesheng-Metric Poetry" and "Lesheng Flagship" and other high-end speaker cabinets, and Metric Poetry Company will provide paid guarantees for the quality of the cabinets.

Lesheng Company dismantled the production line of high-end speaker cabinets, disassembled the equipment according to the process, converted the price and used the processing fee to repay the debt to the professional production household in Wangmiao Village, and the Metric Company assumed the debt risk guarantee. Through cooperation, Lesheng Company can not only get rid of the disadvantage of high labor cost of high-end cabinets, but also retain the advantages of high mechanization requirements for PVC veneer speakers and ordinary home theater speakers. The company and the professional households in Wangmiao Village maintain a certain degree of containment, which will greatly reduce production costs and enhance the market competitiveness of products.In a sense, Metrics Company and Wangmiao Village Professional Households have almost become two loose associations in the production and operation system of Lesheng Company. If the face factor is not considered, Lesheng Company is undoubtedly the leader of this resource integration Biggest winner.

Some people say that this is poverty alleviation through orders, while others say that it is blood poverty alleviation through production mechanisms.No matter how you describe it, in the final analysis, it was a life-and-death lawsuit that enabled the farmers in Wangmiao Village to obtain more job opportunities. As the founder of Metrics Company, Liu Bing has personally witnessed and witnessed the evolution of Metrics Company, but when the company is about to step into a historic opportunity for development, he himself has become an outsider with the vested interests of Metrics. Without the identity of being able to take out a business card, without the demeanor of a successful person and the envious eyes of the surroundings... to be called around by a woman who broke into the company halfway, with no future and hope in sight, only loneliness, bewilderment and depression.The victory of the Metrics Company threw him into an abyss of pain mentally. Just a wrong judgment made him pass by the bright future that was close at hand. What kind of torment should that be?What kind of heartache?

What he longed for was a life of luxury and elegance, driving a high-end car, carrying a beautiful briefcase, and issuing orders to his subordinates at any time, and the subordinates followed him respectfully and reported to him. A beautiful female secretary handles documents and serves coffee for him... There is music, friends, and envious eyes... When everything seemed hopeless, Ding Yuanying's "New Evidence" portfolio made him see a glimmer of hope, like a drowning man suddenly grabbing a life-saving straw, nervous and full of desire to be rescued. He hinted to himself repeatedly: Everyone is for himself, everyone is selfish, the so-called "friend" is just a noun, it has no more meaning at all, and money is the only criterion to measure all interpersonal relationships.He was dominated by a powerful force, his blood gradually heated up, and his imagination expanded accordingly, as if he had really grasped something in his hands.

He thought and weighed and thought and weighed again.He is not reconciled, and he cannot be reconciled! If Xiao Yawen waited until Xiao Yawen wanted to clear him before using the "new evidence" file, his personality and dignity would have been contemptuous, and what he was protecting was just a chance to work without real meaning. If someone out of conscience and a sense of justice exposed the "new evidence" in public at a critical moment one minute before the signing ceremony, it would be an explosive news. He, Liu Bing, is a figure who rewrites the fate of Lesheng Company. The truth came out to the world, justice was done, and the law was defended. He will undoubtedly become the focus of media attention and become a hero. The biggest beneficiary of the company naturally knows how to repay.

If Lesheng Company's conditions are at the bottom, then all boats will rise, and we can rely on this foundation to ask for greater benefits from Metrics Company.After all, the Metrics Company can't afford to lose now. After all, I still have qualifications in the Metrics Company. If Ouyang Xue and Xiao Yawen want to escape this disaster, they have to offer him a higher price. Trade with whoever gives the most benefits, and solve the problems of survival and career in one fell swoop... The more Liu Bing thinks, the more confident he becomes, and the more he thinks, the more he feels that he can no longer hesitate. There was a sense of tragedy for a decisive battle.He wants to tell everyone that he, Liu Bing, is also a person who can turn the tide, and he is not an idler.

He murmured silently in his heart: The future and destiny are all in one fell swoop. So, he sorted out his hairstyle, tie, and suit, and set off. The Pearl Hotel is a three-star hotel located in the bustling business district of the ancient city. The conference reception of the Metrics Company, the signing representatives of the Lesheng Company, special guests from the audio industry and some journalists all stayed here. Liu Bing got off the taxi at the Pearl Hotel, paid the fare, and went directly to the 11th floor.Yu Zhiwei, the manager of Lesheng Company's Beijing audio store, is an ordinary cadre of Lesheng Company and lives in a standard room on the 11th floor, while two senior cadres of Lesheng Company are arranged in a senior suite on the 6th floor.

Liu Bing pressed the doorbell of Yu Zhiwei's room, and the door opened. Seeing that it was Liu Bing, Yu Zhiwei said enthusiastically, "Director Liu, please come in, please come in." When Liu Bing entered the room, he saw several open documents on the desk, and exchanged greetings, "Are you busy?" Yu Zhiwei said: "Not busy, Mr. Zhao asked everyone to read the agreement for the last time to see if there are any omissions. Your boss didn't greet guests, why did you come to my place?" Liu Bing sat down, shook his hair and complained: "They said they wanted me to come back to cooperate with Ouyang Xue in the reception, but Ouyang Xue didn't assign me a specific job at all, so I just did it. It's not what it used to be, no Welcome to see you."

Yu Zhiwei smiled and said, "Don't say such things to me, don't let people misunderstand me as a tell-tale." Liu Bing said: "I came to see you for something important. I only know Lesheng well. I want to meet Mr. Zhao. Before meeting Mr. Zhao, I have to say hello to you and listen to your opinion. " Yu Zhiwei asked: "What's the matter?" Liu Bing said: "The law stipulates that if there is new evidence sufficient to overturn the original judgment, an application for retrial can be filed within two years after the judgment takes effect. I would like to ask you, if the retrial can overturn the original judgment, is there still any legal action against Lesheng Company?" significance?" Yu Zhiwei was startled, and immediately became alert, and asked, "What do you mean?" Liu Bing said: "If I disclosed the insider documents of Metric Poetry on the spot when Mr. Zhao and Mr. Xiao were about to sign, you would have new evidence, and you could apply to the court for a retrial, and Lesheng Company would win the case. Lesheng Company is meaningless, so there is no need for me to do this. If it is useful to you, what conditions can you offer?" Yu Zhiwei thought to himself: Is this true?Or a trap?Now there are only two hours left before the signing banquet, and Lesheng Company is in a position where cooperation is necessary... However, Yu Zhiwei quickly denied the possibility of a "trap", although Lesheng Company is in a position where cooperation is necessary position, but Metrics Company needs cooperation more, which is the ultimate goal of Metrics Company in provoking a business war.Judging from their character, Ding Yuanying, Ouyang Xue and Xiao Yawen were not capable of doing such a thing. Yu Zhiwei smiled and said, "Brother, you are crazy about money. You know who Ding Yuanying is better than us. Even if there is new evidence you mentioned, can such important insider documents fall into your hands?" Liu Bing said: "You don't know that. I really have a little friendship with Ding Yuanying. Ding Yuanying is going back to Germany, and he also saw that Mr. Xiao might attack me, so he specially left a trick for me to keep my job." , The file bag of the insider documents was handed over to me by himself, and it was sealed and wax-sealed." Yu Zhiwei said, "How do you know that there must be insider documents?" Liu Bing said: "I know Ding Yuanying, he never lies. He just wants me to scare Mr. Xiao with this when necessary, as long as I can keep my job. But, I don't want to just keep working like this." Yu Zhiwei said: "Now our two companies are cooperating, is it appropriate for you to do so?" Liu Bing said: "If you can let Chairman Lin die without doing it, is it appropriate for you to do so? If the judgment is overturned, then the metrical poem will be finished, and everything must belong to you, the music sage. Zhao is always a man of face. , I won’t make it difficult for you, none of us will do that kind of thing of stealing (and bird) petting the dog. On the surface, I stand up to expose the truth out of conscience and sense of justice. It has nothing to do with you Le Sheng. You are It was only after I was moved that I was rewarded. Do you think Mr. Zhao can give me something?" Yu Zhiwei pondered a series of questions in his mind: If he misses an opportunity to overturn the original judgment, he cannot bear the responsibility.If it was a farce that ruined the cooperation between the two companies, he would not be able to bear the responsibility.If this problem is handed over to Mr. Zhao, it is tantamount to dragging Mr. Zhao into a place of right and wrong, without even a buffer zone. Liu Bing can betray even Ding Yuanying who helps him, what else can't be betrayed? Seeing that Yu Zhiwei was deep in thought and silent, Liu Bing patted his clothes from top to bottom and said, "Are you afraid that I have a recording on me? I'm not a villain. It's just the two of us in this room, you There is no proof for anything you say, and no proof for anything I say. You know the situation of Lesheng Company very well, so I want a word from you, what conditions do you think you can give?" Yu Zhiwei said: "Brother, I risk losing my job when I hear you talk about this." Liu Bing said: "I understand, even if I am not a human being, I can't betray you." Yu Zhiwei said: "I know your situation in the Metrics Company, and I understand your thoughts. Let's make a small agreement first. If you are benevolent, I will be benevolent; if you are not benevolent, don't blame me for not being righteous." Benevolence." Liu Bing said, "Don't worry, I'm the most loyal person." Yu Zhiwei said: "If your new evidence can turn this round, the Metrics audio store will belong to Lesheng. If you make special contributions to the company, according to my most conservative estimate, you can get at least 100,000 yuan. With a one-time reward of RMB 100,000, you can serve as the deputy manager of the Gelushi audio store. According to the company's regulations, the deputy manager has a 10% profit commission for the audio store." Liu Bing asked: "That's all?" Yu Zhiwei said: "As I said, this is the most conservative estimate. If you just want money, you can also calculate it at one-third of the lawyer's fee. If you want to be a manager and have a car, then you have to Look at your future work performance." Liu Bing stood up and said, "Okay, I see, I'll think about it when I go back." Yu Zhiwei got up to see off the guests, and said, "I repeat, you are benevolent, and I will be benevolent." Liu Bing nodded and said, "If I'm unrighteous, you don't have to admit anything." In the late autumn season, the sky darkened early, and the street lights on the street were all on. After Liu Bing left the Pearl Hotel, he didn't go home directly to get the portfolio, but walked and thought along the moat.The autumn wind in the evening brings a strong chill, the weeping willows by the river have long lost their summer grace, and there are some sparse yellow leaves on the bare branches that will drift away at any time, showing their beauty in the cold autumn wind. It's a little bleak. Liu Bing walked on the embankment, feeling both the tension of the imminent war and the solemnity of controlling fate.Although Yu Zhiwei's most conservative estimate is not the condition that Liu Bing is most satisfied with, it is an acceptable condition. After all, it is much better than a part-time job with no name and no score.Moreover, the next step is Ouyang Xue's turn to make an offer. Liu Bing knew that even though Xiao Yawen was the controlling shareholder, and even though she was the chairman and general manager, her identity and status were due to Ouyang Xue's support. Surely it will matter role.And he and Ouyang Xue are both from the ancient city, and they have an extra layer of fellowship, which makes it easier to communicate. He couldn't help saying a word to himself: Ding Yuanying, you sometimes miscalculate! Liu Bing walked and thought, and unknowingly came to a small bridge. The open space next to the small bridge was a snack stall, with more than a dozen stalls lined up, including casserole noodles, dumplings, wontons, side dishes, stir fry, and beer. Wait, there is steaming hot steam in the pot of each stall, exuding a tempting fragrance. Only then did he realize that it was already dinner time, and he also felt a little hungry at this time.He stood in front of a booth, hesitated for a moment, found a small stool, sat down, and ordered a mixed casserole, a (again bird) egg-filled pie, and a bottle of beer.He already knew what was going to happen tonight, so he didn't plan to eat any more big dinners at the signing banquet. While drinking beer, he was thinking about what price he should offer Ouyang Xue.Based on the value of 6.5 million yuan of the Metrics Company, he set three conditions for himself: 1. 20% of the shares of the Metrics Company without advance debts.2. Serve as the general manager of Metrics Co., Ltd.3. Equipped with a car with a price of more than 250,000 yuan. He ate a meal slowly, and the time was almost gone. He raised his hand to look at his watch. It was already 7:20, and there were still 40 minutes before the signing banquet. Portfolio. Back in his audiophile house, Liu Bing folded the portfolio and put it in his briefcase, and stood in front of the window and smoked a cigarette to stabilize his mood.No matter how he analyzed, judged, and confidently, he still couldn't control the tension in his heart.He thought, this is how most people who do great things come here, right? The mahjong game in front of the building is still going on, but there are two more lights on the tree, and three mahjong tables are placed under the two lights. At one of the tables, there are Liu Bing's father and several retired neighbors. They are playing in full swing. The most obvious The characteristic of the game is fierce quarrels. Those who participated in the battle quarreled over who played the cards that shouldn't be played, and those who watched the battle laughed at other people's bad hands and quarreled.Liu Bing doesn't like playing mahjong, it's too noisy and tasteless.He is especially not used to the wrestling of cards on the mahjong table, he just plays the cards, why bother to wrestle the cards?The fall was as loud as a storyteller slapping Xingmu, as if not falling loudly was not enough to show the superb card skills. Liu Bing both envied them and felt sad for them. What he envied was that they didn't have to worry about face and status, and they lived a relaxed life.The sad thing is that they have worked so hard all their lives, and what they earn is food and clothing. They don't seem to know that there is a colorful world, as well as elegance and glory. Liu Bing felt that there were so many twinkling stars in the sky, one of them would belong to him. On October 9, 1998, at 8:00 p.m., the signing banquet between Lesheng Company, Metrics Company and farmers in Wangmiao Village was officially held in the medium-sized banquet hall on the 5th floor of the Pearl Hotel. Representatives of the contracting parties, journalists and There are more than 60 special guests from the audio industry, and Gucheng Mingzhu Etiquette Company provides the etiquette services for the signing banquet.The atmosphere in the banquet hall was neither overly warm nor overtly restrained, it was peaceful, cheerful and full of courtesy. Liu Bing did not enter the banquet hall, but stood in front of the window of the lounge and watched Xiao Yawen's opening speech coldly through the glass. He watched Xiao Yawen being photographed, served, and surrounded as the central figure, feeling sour in his heart, even one of Xiao Yawen's A smile, a gesture made him uncomfortable. There were two welcome ladies standing at the entrance of the restaurant. He walked over and said a few words to one of the ladies, then identified Ouyang Xue who was sitting on platform 5, and then stood aside and waited. After a while, Miss Yingbin called Ouyang Xue out. Ouyang Xue asked: "I saw you dangling outside the glass window, why don't you go in?" Liu Bing gestured to the briefcase and said, "It's not convenient to talk here, sit over there." On the left side of the hall is a "coffee garden", surrounded by bonsai, about half a foot above the ground, with four or five exquisite small round tables and high-back chairs, and a wine table next to it.Ouyang Xue walked with Liu Bing, she already felt something happened from Liu Bing's expression.Liu Bing handed 50 yuan to the welcoming waitress and ordered two cups of coffee. Ouyang Xue sat down and asked, "What's the matter?" Liu Bing opened the briefcase, took out the file bag and showed it in front of Ouyang Xue, saying: "This is the company's insider documents handed over to me by Brother Ding. These documents can be used as new evidence to overturn the original judgment. Mr. There is not much time to sign the contract. I don't want to release these documents in public, and I don't want these documents to fall into the hands of Lesheng Company. I want to make a few demands with you. If you agree, everything will be fine. " Ouyang Xue's head buzzed, and she murmured in astonishment: "You... blackmail me?" Liu Bing said: "I blackmailed you? At the beginning, you agreed to withdraw our shares so readily. Only a few days after Xiao Yawen became a shareholder, the Earl Company offered 6.5 million yuan to buy Metrics. Ding Yuanying knew the outcome of the lawsuit a long time ago but didn't say anything...all of this What do you mean? You have never been sincere." Ouyang Xue was shocked, and couldn't make a sound in an instant. Liu Bing said: "I have three conditions. First, I will be given 20% of the company's shares without advances and liabilities. Second, I will be the general manager. Third, the company will allocate a 250,000 yuan car to me. A car with a price above. I have no other intentions, I just want to live like a human being like you.” Ouyang Xue's voice had become hoarse, and she said: "It is said that music influences people. After listening to so much music, you have become like this? It seems that it doesn't matter whether you listen to this music or not." Liu Bing said, "Come on, do you agree?" Ouyang Xue said: "Yawen is the chairman and general manager, and the company's affairs are decided by her. If Yawen asks for my opinion on this matter, I will not agree. I never remember any insider documents in the company. If It's caused by the elder brother, I will go to the elder brother to ask for clarification." Liu Bing said, "Think about the consequences, don't blame me for not giving you a chance." Ouyang Xue said coldly: "I came here for the wonton stall, so I don't want to eat this." After she finished speaking, she turned and left, the indifference in her eyes was enough to tear any kind of self-esteem. Liu Bing was stung. He looked at Ouyang Xue's leaving back and said to himself coldly: "Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous." He knew that Ouyang Xue would go to Ding Yuanying, but it was too late , It's useless to find anyone now. He tried his best to light a cigarette calmly, but just after taking a puff, he twisted the whole cigarette into the ashtray. His slightly trembling hands finally picked up the file bag that ruled his fate, tore it open, and pulled it out. files inside. Suddenly, he was stunned! There are no insider documents in the file bag at all, it is all pure white copy paper, so dazzlingly white, so white that it makes people dizzy.It was as if he had been hit on the head with an iron rod, his eyes were dull, his brain was blank, and he seemed to have been pulled out of his muscles and bones, losing all support, as if his heart had stopped beating, and his blood suddenly froze... He instinctively Realize: it's over! A voice echoed in his chest: Ding Yuanying, you lied, you lied! After a while, Liu Bing recovered his sanity from the extremely shocked state of dementia. How much he wished that everything just now was just a nightmare, but his eyes turned to the coffee table again. The table was still blank, and no miracle happened.He stared blankly at the blank papers, as if looking at a pile of sarcasm, a never-before-seen exhaustion, fear and despair intertwined together, converging into a feeling of hopelessness seeping out from his bones. He understood that the moment he touched the wax seal of the file bag, he had already opened the gates of hell, and his self-confidence and dreams were nothing more than blowing a bubble gum, so pitiful.He is no longer useful to Lesheng Company, he is no longer useful to Metrics Company, and everyone around him will despise him... A waitress noticed his pale face and strange expression, so she came over and asked, "Sir, are you feeling well?" Liu Bing waved his hand and said, "Go away, I'm fine." The waitress looked at the copy paper on the coffee table strangely, and walked away cautiously. Liu Bing put the stack of white papers on the table into the file bag in a trance, stood up, carried the file bag and briefcase and walked towards the stairs, went up to the sixth floor, stood in front of a window, opened the window, looked up. look up at the night sky. The autumn night sky is full of stars, but in Liu Bing's eyes, the stars in the sky seem to have turned into indifferent eyes, full of contempt and disdain.He knew that as long as he lived here, he would be free, and he would no longer have pain and low self-esteem, and would no longer have to face loneliness, fear and homelessness.He smiled sadly, pulled out the copy paper from the file bag, and lifted the file bag upwards vigorously. The white paper fluttered down from the height of the 6th floor, like white butterflies circling and flying. Between the strong and the weak, I am a superfluous person! Between morality and corruption, I am a superfluous person! The world is too big, too big to contain sin, conspiracy, tears... The world is too small, so small that there is no place for Liu Bing to stand on... He climbed up the window and shouted to the night sky like a victor and a wronged child: "Ding Yuanying, you lied! You lied..." Then he jumped. Then, there was a dull sound on the ground. Downstairs next to the water fountain, Liu Bing was lying on the cold concrete floor. The blood flowing from his mouth and head quickly solidified in the autumn wind of the dark night.The wind blew his hair, and also the white paper that fell to the ground.I don’t know where there is a faint sound of music, which is torn into intermittent notes by the wind, scattered in the night sky...