Chapter 176: Chapter 176: Grandfather’s 80th Birthday_1
Just having settled in the CEO’s seat, her butt not even warm yet, Xiao Manlian received a call from her secretary.
Due to product overstock, a distributor demanded compensation for losses from Huanmei Group.
This was a troublesome matter, and Xiao Manlian didn’t know how to handle it.
Thus, she summoned Yu Keqing into her office.
"President Xiao, what’s the matter?" Yu Keqing asked.
Her voice was neutral, neither servile nor overbearing, as if she were attending to routine duties.
"Smack!"
Xiao Manlian slammed a contract onto the office desk and demanded sharply, "Was this contract with the Oceanic Company signed by you?"
Yu Keqing picked up the contract, glanced at it, and replied, "This was signed when I was CEO by Yuan Min, the sales director at the time. However, she has since resigned, and since I was CEO then, even if you consider it signed by me, there’s no problem."
"Since it was signed by you, this debt falls on your shoulders. Now, Mr. Liang from their company, holding this contract, is demanding we compensate thirty million in losses. The reason is our product overstock has put their company in a difficult position.
They took only ten million worth of goods from Huanmei Group, yet they demand we pay thirty million. Because it’s written in the contract that if the products don’t sell, Huanmei Group must compensate threefold the losses. How could you approve such a contract? With such behavior, how couldn’t you bring down Huanmei Group?"
After scrutinizing the contract carefully, Yu Keqing remembered.
At that time, the contract was signed by Yuan Min who ran to Liang Wanliang to finalize it.
Not long after signing the contract, Yuan Min resigned.
Later, it was heard that she was poached by Liang Wanliang.
It was a setup!
She blamed herself for being preoccupied with her daughter’s illness then and not managing the company properly.
So during that time, the company was particularly chaotic.
Many contracts signed by the Huanmei Group during that period were problematic.
"I will solve it."
Yu Keqing took the contract and left.
The snafu with the Oceanic Company indeed was a time bomb she left during her tenure as CEO.
Therefore, she needed to defuse it herself.
Seeing Yu Keqing’s arrogant demeanor, Xiao Manlian felt extremely displeased.
Because she felt that Yu Keqing, this little assistant, did not respect her as President Xiao.
She still treated her like a subordinate as before.
In order to teach Yu Keqing a lesson, Xiao Manlian instructed her secretary to inform Liang Wanliang that her assistant, Yu Keqing, would contact him to discuss the thirty million compensation issue.
Xiao Manlian was laying a trap for Yu Keqing, creating difficulties for her.
As soon as Liang Wanliang received the message, Yu Keqing made the call.
"Hello!"
"Mr. Liang, hello, this is Yu Keqing."
"Yu Keqing? Which Yu Keqing? CEO Yu Keqing of Huanmei Group, or little assistant Yu Keqing?"
"Mr. Liang, I really am just an assistant now, but I’ve been entrusted by the company to discuss the contract issue with you in full authority."
"Then let’s meet at Moon Appreciation Pavilion tonight, we can talk over dinner."
"Alright."
Rose Manor, Villa No. 7, back garden.
Qin Feng had fetched a small copper furnace and concocted some herbs, refining pills.
He filled the entire back garden with smoke and fumes.
Xue Xiaochan’s pretty dresses hanging in the garden were all tainted with the smell of smoke.
Even a white dress got smoked black.
Suddenly.
Bang!
The small copper furnace exploded.
Shrapnel of the concoction flew everywhere, staining many of Xue Xiaochan’s hung dresses.
Qin Feng picked up a pitch-black pill from the ground, sniffed it, and discovered it was charred.
This little furnace was no good, the pill wasn’t refined properly!
What a waste.
"Dog King, this is for you."
Qin Feng tossed the small pill to Dog King, the silly dog who swallowed it in one gulp.
After eating it, Dog King ran around the yard like mad, barking chaotically.
The pill was taking effect.
Qin Feng couldn’t be bothered with it, knowing the dog would be fine after running around for a bit.
Dog King isn’t that finicky, although this pill wasn’t successfully refined, it’s still highly nutritious.
Fengfeng is Dog King, so naturally, he can’t be raised like a common mutt.
At that moment, Qin Feng’s phone rang.
Glancing at the caller ID, it was Ouyang Bingbing.
This woman hadn’t contacted him for ages, what was she calling for all of a sudden?
Most likely nothing good, hang up!
Qin Feng hung up directly.
Soon, Ouyang Bingbing called again.
After hanging up several times in a row, Ouyang Bingbing just wouldn’t give up and kept calling.
Having no choice, Qin Feng could only answer.
"Hello!"
"You deadbeat, why did you hang up my call?"
"Who are you looking for?"
"Qin Feng, that bastard!"
"That bastard is already dead, this number has a new owner, stop calling."
"Are you playing with me, you bastard? Your voice, even if it turned to ashes, I would recognize it! Be at Moon Appreciation Pavilion at seven-thirty tonight."
"What for?"
"To treat you to dinner."
"Why the heck would you treat me to dinner for no reason?"
"If I tell you to come, just come, why ask so many questions? You think I’m going to eat you or something?"
Dudu dudu...
The phone call was hung up by Ouyang Bingbing.
Fuck!
Isn’t this woman too domineering?
Just because she asks me out to eat, I must go?
Do I look like that easy of a man?
At seven-thirty in the evening.
Qin Feng scrambled off to Moon Appreciation Pavilion.
Ouyang Bingbing had booked the Runyue Room, and Qin Feng walked straight in.
Just as Qin Feng entered, Yu Keqing, dressed in a business suit and skirt, stepped into the room next door, the Man Moon Room, in her high heels with a clop-clop-clop.
The two of them, one after the other, didn’t see each other and naturally didn’t know they were in adjacent rooms.
Ouyang Bingbing, dressed simply in a T-shirt and jeans today, still had a stunning figure and was as charming as ever.
Qin Feng gave the woman a faint glance and showed a face full of disdain.
"What’s with that look?" asked Ouyang Bingbing.
"You look better in a dress."
"Little pervert!"
"Just for saying you look better in a dress, I’m a little pervert?"
"If not a little pervert, then what? Like to see girls in skirts?"
"Sister, you’re way past thirty, yet you still call yourself ’girl’? ’Girl’ refers to others, not you!"
"I’m going to kill you!"
Ouyang Bingbing picked up a boiled peanut and lightly tossed it at Qin Feng’s face.
"People don’t hit the face when fighting!"
"You’re not a person, you’re a little pervert! A little bastard!"
"What’s the deal with asking me out to eat? Got something you need my help with?"
"Ask you for help? I’m inviting you to a banquet."
"A banquet? You getting married? Sending me an invitation?"
"Marry your big head! It’s my grandfather’s eightieth birthday next week. At that time, accompany me back to the Capital to celebrate his birthday banquet with me."
"I’m supposed to accompany you to a birthday banquet? Then, what am I supposed to be to you?"
"What else could you be? Of course, a boyfriend! But don’t get any ideas – it’s all pretend. I wouldn’t want you as a real boyfriend, you little pervert!"
"Pretend? So I’m acting, then? You’ll have to pay me an appearance fee."
"Get lost!"
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