Chapter 11 Chapter 10 The Quiet Before the Storm

It was past ten o'clock at night when Zhang Hongwei, deputy general manager of Yuanhong Group, returned home from the entertainment at Grand Hyatt.He stepped into the house, and as soon as he took off his down jacket, his wife ran over and said that Da Wenbin had already called twice tonight, and told Mr. Zhang to call his home as soon as he came home. Zhang Hongwei was taken aback when he heard this, and thought to himself, from what Da Wenbin said, he was in a hurry to find him, but why didn't he just call his cell phone?Zhang Hongwei quickly put on slippers, slipped into the living room, turned off the TV, and skillfully dialed Da Wenbin's home phone.As soon as the phone rang twice, Da Wenbin answered it. Obviously, he had been waiting for Zhang Hongwei.

"Hongwei, are you back?" Da Wenbin's voice sounded a little tired, "I'm sorry to bother you so late." "It's okay, it's okay." Zhang Hongwei said with a smile while playing with the TV remote control in his hand, "I just entered the house after accompanying those people in the bank." "Well, what else do you have to do now? If it's nothing serious, let's go drink tea, just the two of us brothers." Although it was a discussion tone, but Zhang Hongwei could hear it, and there was no doubt in Da Wenbin's gloomy voice .

"Okay, I'll take a taxi there right away." Zhang Hongwei stood up as he spoke. It's so late, just the two of them?Zhang Hongwei was sitting in the taxi, thinking all the way, what important matter did Da Wenbin want to discuss with him impatiently? Both Zhang Hongwei and Da Wenbin are regular customers of "Ailing Hall".The reason why this quiet side courtyard of the palace in the early years was given such a name is because the female boss of this guild hall is named Zhang Ailing. Zhang Hongwei got out of the taxi, and his tall and burly figure, who was familiar with the road, quickly disappeared into the depths of the alley.He turned a few corners and stepped into the small Xieshan ridge main entrance with two palace lanterns hanging at the entrance. As soon as he passed through the hanging flower gate, he was standing under the Chaoshou verandah, when a waiter in a Chinese-style jacket greeted him.Seeing him, the little girl immediately pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Ah, it turned out that Mr. Zhang is here."

"Hehe, I haven't been here for a long time. Do you still have the good tea I kept here?" Zhang Hongwei laughed and teased this pretty and delicate little girl in front of him like a puppet. "No, sister Ai Ling and I were greedy that day, so we finished our drink." The little girl stretched out a hand, and while guiding Zhang Hongwei into the room, she flirted with him. Zhang Hongwei knew that it was their specialty to be snarky, and if it was compared to this, the eight of them piled up together would not be her size.He just laughed a couple of times in embarrassment, admitting defeat and not daring to provoke him anymore.Walking through the hall and room, follow her into a Japanese-style private room with light pink makeup.Zhang Hongwei stood at the door of the sliding door, frowning: "Tonight, it's just me and Mr. Da. You can find a smaller room."

"There are a lot of guests tonight, and the ordinary private rooms are all full, and there is only one room with a wooden Kang, do you think it's okay?" The little girl folded her hands, raised her face, her big eyes flickered, and she looked cute and lovely. . "Okay." Zhang Hongwei nodded again and again, "If that room is too expensive, I don't have any money with me." Pass through the back door of the main room, turn into the lattice door of the back cover room, the little girl leads him to the innermost room and stops, opens the door, turns on the light, and bows to let Zhang Hongwei in.This is a Chinese-style private room with a full set of rosewood furniture. The most conspicuous thing in the room is a huge carved wooden couch against the wall under the window. .

Zhang Hongwei took off his light coat, sat down on the edge of the couch, took out a cigarette and lit it.Before taking two puffs, a woman's crisp voice came from outside: "It's really rare for you two bosses to come here so late." "Hehe, I just want to pick when you are busy, and come here to make trouble for you." The words came to the fore, and with the sound of brisk and strong footsteps, the boss Zhang Ailing and Da Wenbin, who was wearing a short cashmere coat, had already entered.Da Wenbin saw the smoke around Zhang Hongwei's head, he laughed and said, "How did you choose this room? Isn't this the place where you smoke big cigarettes in old movies?"

"Hey, how dare I engage in such nonsense." The beautiful proprietress shook her arms and said pretending to be serious, "Boss, my guests here are all serious working people." "Well, yes!" Zhang Hongwei nodded with great certainty, "Then make a big tea pot for us brothers, which costs five yuan a catty, and come up here." "Ah, now where are the broken tea leaves that we drank when we were young? If there is, it should be a cultural relic. Five hundred yuan a catty, I'm afraid I can't even buy it." The proprietress seemed to be hooked by Zhang Hongwei's words. Recalling the happy childhood memories, the slender eyes are shining brightly, and the voice is full of excitement.

"Hey, you children who grew up in the city, it's pretty good that you can still drink tea when you are young! We rural children can only drink some tea roots with adults during the New Year and holidays." Da Wenbin looked at the two people happily. The man, while taking off his coat, said to the proprietress, "Please take the basket of old Pu'er that we keep here with you." After a while, the proprietress came in with a small round bamboo basket in one hand and a large plastic pot of Nongfu Spring in the other, followed by another little girl with a full set of tea sets.The proprietress personally boiled mountain spring water for them, touched the radiators under the window one by one, and once again softly told the little girl who had taken off her shoes to get on the bed and was arranging the tea sets, and then retreated out reluctantly.

Da Wenbin and Zhang Hongwei took off their shoes and got on the couch, and sat cross-legged on each side of the kang.Zhang Hongwei said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, I haven't changed my socks for several days. I guess the taste is pretty good. You can just order it." Da Wenbin laughed and said teasingly: "I don't know you yet? When you were in college, in your dormitory, you had a lot of rotten socks under your bed. Your classmates even nicknamed you 'stinky socks'." ,Ha ha." "Hehe, you still talk about me, I also remember that your family was poor at that time, and you could only eat vegetarian dishes for 20 cents per meal, nicknamed 'two cents'." Zhang Hongwei threw a cigarette at Da Wenbin , took out the lighters, lit them separately, exhaled heavily, and sighed, "Twenty years have passed in a flash, and I often think, can the way we are doing now be called success?"

Da Wenbin suddenly became serious, "I've thought about this issue too." He looked at Zhang Hongwei and said in a deep voice, "Our relatively superior living conditions today, with the level of thinking we had when we were in school, even I never thought about it. I was looking forward to when I could eat meat every day, when I could save enough money, and buy a new bicycle of my own. Didn’t there be a saying back then, called “realize the ideal” It should be said that the ideal born from the perspective of survival has been realized long ago.” After the Pu'er tea was brewed, the little girl clamped a small white porcelain teacup full of bamboo clips, and on the folded towel at hand, she skillfully turned the bottom slightly to ensure that no drips were leaked, and put her jade wrists lightly on the two cups. In front of Ren and himself, he smiled and raised his hand to signal.

The smooth and bright tea soup was full of aroma, and Da Wenbin was drunk before he even drank it.He looked at it for a while, then took a sip from the teacup, shook his legs, and said in a hoarse voice, "But I think it's far from being successful. You see, people of our age have Some of them are already members of the Central Committee, and some are billionaires. But we, with the leaders at the top and the masses at the bottom, are under pressure every day. Those who are dominated by others are, at best, high-level wage earners from state-owned enterprises.” "Hey, this person's desires are never-ending. With material things, the spirit wants to be free. When the spirit is free, life will soon be over." Zhang Hongwei sighed, "To tell you the truth, I saw the old director of our research institute who retired in the early years. He said that he lived in Hainan with his wife for half a year. , I took off my shoes the night before, and I don’t know if I can put them on again the next morning.” Da Wenbin felt a little sad when he heard it. After drinking tea several times in a sullen manner, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the cigarette case in Zhang Hongwei's hand, took out one and lit it himself, and said softly, "I'm still troubled in this section. Yes. If you don’t go out at night and stay at home watching TV, you will be sleepy after eight o’clock, and you can fall asleep without knowing it by leaning on the sofa, don’t you think it’s strange.” "It's strange, I'm similar." Zhang Hongwei grinned, and smiled wryly, "It means I'm getting old, and I'm not a young man like before. Do you still remember, when we debugged the circuit, we worked all night, Go back to the dormitory and sleep for two hours, and then you can work all night." Da Wenbin looked down at the white teacup in his hand, a layer of mist slowly clouded his bright black eyes, and said thoughtfully: "The other day I met the boss of a large private company, he was very excited. Ask me strangely, in their and foreign companies, if a person makes a mistake, at most he is let go. In state-owned enterprises, why do people often have to be killed as a result of struggles?" "Yes, then how did you answer him?" Zhang Hongwei straightened up and asked with concern. "I thought about it for a while before I told him that it was because in a state-owned enterprise like ours, the workplace is the officialdom, and the officialdom is the workplace. The power and status in everyone's hands are the same as when we were young, through painstaking efforts and humiliation. It has been accumulated bit by bit, and it can be said that the entire wealth and life are all bet on it. If you want to touch him, you will touch his survival foundation, and he will definitely fight you with his life!" Da Wenbin's last sentence improved He made a sound, and at the same time, a cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes. "Well, the state-owned enterprises are full of talents, and the big waves wash away the sand. They walk and flee. At our level, which one of the rest is not a first-class expert in the officialdom." Zhang Hongwei nodded deeply, and his voice was slow and heavy, " Over the years, have we seen, or even happened around us, few examples?" Da Wenbin propped up his upper body with one arm, leaned back on the back of the couch, squinted his eyes, looked up at the cold and deep waning moon through the half-transparent glass of the opposite window, and said in a hissing voice: "Hongwei, what do you say?" , if someone really attacked us, Xiang Yuanhong, what should we do?" Ah - Zhang Hongwei understood, the reason why Da Wenbin couldn't wait to drag him out of the house late at night was probably to discuss this important matter with him! What is this big event?Da Wenbin couldn't have made it clearer when he borrowed others' words just now.It is now that some people covet the rights and interests that they have obtained through untold hardships and hard work.They want to use a series of means, even administrative orders, to control the basis of their survival - the Yuanhong Group!And these tangible and more intangible wealth are acquired by them who spent the most precious youth in their lives, endured humiliation, worked hard, avoided countless scheming, and defeated countless competitors both in the open and in the dark! It can be foreseen that once Yuanhong is bundled with several old state-owned enterprises in Southwest China, it will be at a disadvantage in the board of directors.More importantly, the position of general manager of a large group directly under Minister Luo's control will never fall into the hands of his old rival, Deputy Minister Lin's confidant Da Wenbin.Once Da Wenbin falls, it will inevitably trigger a series of chain reactions. From Zhang Hongwei to the following people, the tree falls and the monkeys disperse, and their careers are considered to be over.Needless to say, at that time, after decades of development, the huge financial and intellectual wealth accumulated by Yuanhong will gradually flow into several bottomless pits that will never be filled, and finally it will be devastated and the employees will complain.God, the consequences are disastrous! Zhang Hongwei stared at Da Wenbin's cold and stern, stone-like dignified face. Based on his understanding of Da Wenbin, this expression showed that to a large extent, he should have made up his mind.The two of them, tied together for so many years and going through life and death, always think of going together.In fact, Da Wenbin didn't need to raise his head, he has been thinking about this issue for a while, and he already has several immature plans in his mind.It's just that I haven't found the right opportunity to have a deep talk with Da Wenbin.But he didn't say anything, he knew that even if he threw out his conceived plan first, it would be useless if it didn't agree with Da Wenbin's ideas. What Da Wenbin has already settled in his heart, even his old classmate, cannot be easily changed.Since it may not be useful, let's listen to Da Wenbin first.If what he said does have something that he thinks is inappropriate, and pointing it out to him in a questioning way, the effect will often be better. Unexpectedly, this time was different from the past. Da Wenbin heard that he hadn't moved for a long time, and slowly turned his head, looking very tired, with a hoarse voice, and asked absently, "Why don't you talk?" Zhang Hongwei raised his eyebrows, and also said in a flat tone: "I know you've made up your mind, so just say it." "Okay, then I'll tell you!" Da Wenbin straightened his body, put his hands on his knees, sat upright with his legs crossed solemnly, took a gulp of the cold dark red tea in front of him, and made a "pop" , and slammed the empty teacup by the little girl's hand.Hearing the sound, the little girl woke up from her half-drowsy sleepiness, rushed out one and continued it for him.Da Wenbin nodded slightly to her to express his gratitude. "After thinking about it again and again, I still have to be stubborn and think that it is absolutely impossible for Yuanhong to go public!" Da Wenbin said firmly, with a sonorous voice, and he was completely different from a few minutes ago. Have the more than 7,600 employees below thought about it! Have you thought about the future development of Yuanhong!" "Wen Bin, well said, let me tell you now: I completely agree with your point of view!" Zhang Hongwei was infected, his emotions gradually became agitated, his neck was stiff, and he said in a low voice, "If the plan he hinted before Analysis, I think this time, it must be the same as the original, it’s a copy of that bullshit Lalang’s composition.” Da Wenbin couldn't hold back any longer, and before he finished speaking, he spoke very fast, and said in an anxious and questioning tone: "If we, Yuanhong, take away all the high-quality assets, what should we do with the remaining departments! Those employees are still alive! Not to mention that they will be packaged and listed with several old, weak, sick and disabled in the Southwest. I dare to say now that if we really do this, we will be dragged down within five years! Leader, this property that has been accumulated through decades of hard work will be destroyed in the hands of these outsiders who only talk on paper!" "Why didn't Deputy Minister Lin stop it! If he stood up and said something, it might be much better." Zhang Hongwei said hurriedly, "He came from our Yuanhong, and he has deep feelings for Yuanhong." "How do you know he didn't say it?" Da Wenbin looked embarrassed, and didn't answer him directly. After a short pause, he sighed, "You didn't see that on the day of the acceptance meeting, that one was in the middle of the rostrum, and that one didn't care about it." In fact, the posture is to make the conflict public and clearly express one's determination. It's so urgent, who dares to stand up to the wind? Isn't it just asking for boredom?" "Hey, to be honest, at the venue, I heard that you were asked to show your attitude to so many employees and guests. I really sweated for you." Zhang Hongwei was a little tired from sitting cross-legged, stretched his legs and pulled on his shoes , walked two steps back and forth under the shadow of the lamp, twisted his waist and kicked his legs and said hehe, "Don't say it, those two sentences you answered at that time were really good, they can be called classics." "Hey, what's the matter..." Da Wenbin smiled faintly and said with a self-deprecating grin, "The old man is not a fool, he still can't understand what I mean? Resentment, hehe, I'm completely overwhelmed now." The big leader was offended." "Several months have passed since the meeting, and there is no movement in the ministry?" Zhang Hongwei stopped twisting, and sat sideways on the edge of the couch, his voice full of anxiety. "You didn't observe anything, did you?" Da Wenbin stared at Zhang Hongwei, saw that he shook his head responsibly, then nodded himself, and said in a low voice, "I am the same. The more silent, the more terrifying. I think, since the old man has made such a big determination, he is afraid that there will be no result, and he will never give up easily." "That's right, he won't be able to close the show by himself!" Zhang Hongwei said solemnly, with his hips on his hips, thinking, "From his general principles of dealing with people, he should be able to make some moves." Zhang Hongwei looked up and looked dimly. ceiling, and sighed long, as if to say to himself, "The calm before the storm—" The two brothers in the room were speechless... Taking advantage of this moment, the little girl making tea swished up, put on her shoes and landed on the ground, poured out the residual tea, cut another piece of tea cake with a tea knife, and sat down. Return to the original position and re-brew them. Zhang Hongwei sat on the edge of the couch with his legs crossed, took a sip from a small cup, smacked his sweet cheeks in satisfaction, looked at Da Wenbin who was concentrating and meditating, and laughed casually: "New tea is better." Ah, at the end of the old tea, I really can't drink it, so I have to throw it away." "Huh?" Da Wenbin raised his head vigilantly, looked at him with interest, and said with a smile, "The older the Pu'er, the more resistant to foaming, it's not something that can be thrown away casually." "Hehe, that's easy to handle. It's better to muddy the water for him. No matter how old the tea is, I can't hold on to it anymore." Zhang Hongwei leaned forward as much as he could, and stared at Da Wenbin in a slow voice. Da Wenbin lowered his head and said thoughtfully, "I'm afraid that's the only thing we can do now." He stretched his waist as he spoke, "I've been thinking about it for a while. He has a high position and authority, so we can't do it with him." Head-to-head requires both respect and doing things. After next year, I am afraid it will be easy to handle.” "Do you want to report to Vice Minister Lin first?" Zhang Hongwei leaned forward to remind him. "It's better not to tell him. Even if you tell him, he might not be able to make a clear statement. If you know, it's better not to know. Even if you deal with it in the future, there will be more leeway." Da Wenbin thought for a while, very cautious Said, "Adjustment, from the perspective of work, this is a matter within my purview, and no one can say anything." "Well, that's fine, let's keep our voices the same." Zhang Hongwei nodded meaningfully. "The specific method, I have an immature plan, hehe, it must be immature, tell me now, let us discuss it." Da Wenbin said as he got off the ground, slapping his sore cheeks alternately. The leg said, "It's really a bit old. After sitting for a long time, this leg can't bear it anymore, so I have to move around." Da Wenbin's figure is reflected on the frosted glass in the lower half of the window, like a shadow puppet, elongated for a while, shortened for a while, twisted and turned back and forth, looking weird and funny at the same time. At this time, several people came out from another room in the back room.One of them, the first time he stepped into the dry and bitter night wind in the yard, couldn't help shivering a few times.He hurriedly gathered the down jacket on his body with both hands, stomped his feet non-stop, and turned to say goodbye to his companion.He glanced left and right inadvertently, and his heart skipped a beat, yo!On the westernmost window, the swaying figure seems to be Da Wenbin!The man took out his cell phone from the pocket of his down jacket and looked at it. It was almost two o'clock in the morning.It's so late, and Da Wenbin is not sleeping, so what are you still doing here?The man frowned, stared at the window for a long time, and then reluctantly fell behind the crowd, bowed his head and walked to the front yard. "Hey, Mr. Da is here today too." The man looked at Zhang Ailing who came up to see off the guests with a thin old face, and said with a casual smile, "You earned all of Yuanhong's money." "Which Mr. Da?" The proprietress always seems to be so elegant and charming.She smiled like a flower, rolled her eyes and thought about it seriously, "I don't know."