Chapter 171: Tianbao Group
Qi Yu urged, “Don’t bicker, you two. The company is now in a critical period and everyone must continue to work hard.”
Su Jing said to Ye Qinru, “For President Qi’s sake, I’ll let you off.”
Ye Qinru: “???” This f*cking…?
Qi Yu gave Ye Qinru a meaningful look and Ye Qinru, silently chanting “Be forgiving and everything will be fine,” very dejectedly shut his mouth.
Upstairs, once they got off the elevator, Su Jing nudged Ye Qinru with his elbow and said something as quiet as a mosquito. He then turned around and waving the crumpled document, said, “I’m going back to work.”
Only when Su Jing had left did Ye Qinru realized that what Su Jing had said to him was “Thank you to you too”. He didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. He shook his head and sighed.
At noon, Qi Yu and Ye Qinru ate boxed lunches that the company had ordered. Qi Yu worked with him for the rest of the afternoon and headed home only towards the evening.
He had rejected Chairman Lei twice, even rejecting his offer of free investment. He didn’t know how he was going to explain it to his father. In the car, he kept thinking about it, brows furrowed deeply. When he got home, he knocked on the door of the study, only to see his father, putting down the phone, a happy expression on his face. “You came back just in time…”
“Dad, why are you so happy?” Qi Yu thought to himself, could it be that Chairman Lei called his dad again and said something?
Qi Yuancheng smiled and detoured around the desk. “I just received another unexpected call.”
Qi Yu stood still and asked, “From who?”
Qi Yuancheng: “From Harbor City’s Tianbao Group. Have you heard of them?”
Harbor City? Qi Yu suddenly remembered how Fu Yansheng had just been there yesterday and how he had asked him for help. He couldn’t help wondering if this was the connection Fu Yansheng had looked for? But at the same time, he felt that Fu Yansheng couldn’t have moved so quickly. Maybe it was just a coincidence. And so, he pretended to be calm and asked, “I don’t know much about them. Where did they come from?”
Qi Yuancheng: “You might not have heard of the Tianbao Group, but you must have heard of Harbor City’s Zheng Holdings, yes?”
Qi Yu: “Them I’ve heard of.”
Zheng Holdings started their business in silk and satin. During the last century, they started buying gold and then later turned to selling jewelry. They progressed to investing Harbor City’s infrastructure, cable TV and media, tobacco and energy and other fields. They were always included among the top of Harbor City’s wealthiest and most prominent families.
Qi Yuancheng: “The chairman of Tianbao Group is Wu Yongtian, the second son-in-law of the chairman of Zheng Holdings. This Chairman Wu owns four listed companies in Harbor City, including FS Clothing, Ellie Hotel Group and others. They also took over Jinfu Jewelry from Zheng Holdings fifteen years ago, which they’ve since developed into the huge brand it is now.”
Jinfu Jewelry? The Jinfu Jewelry, that had counters in almost every mall in the country? Turns out it was owned by the Tianbao Group!
After listening to his father’s brief introduction, Qi Yu then had a general understanding of the scale of the Tianbao Group. He asked, “Chairman Wu from the Tianbao Group called you?”
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Qi Yuancheng smiled and said: “Yes, then Wu Yongtian’s ancestral home is in Ningcheng. In other words, he and I share the same hometown. Though, we have not met before, he and your Uncle Qi know each other well and have even met in the US before. He has heard about the Si Family running into this incident and knowing that the Si Yuan Group was in a spot of trouble, he asked Qi Shifeng for my phone number and gave me a call. It just so happened that his group intends to enter the domestic e-commerce field next year. Learning that our Mei Wei is also building a platform, he intends to invest one billion yuan and wishes to discuss cooperation with us.”
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Qi Yu was startled: “It’s already so late. Can’t you go tomorrow?”
Qi Yuancheng: “There’s no such thing as early or late when it comes to talking business. Besides, tomorrow night is Christmas Eve. If our talk goes well, I can bring back good news for the holidays…”
Qi Yu asked, “Do you want me to go with you?”
“No need, stay with your mother at home,” Qi Yuancheng said as he walked out, thinking about how he was going to convince his pregnant wife. He seemed a little nervous and he kept rubbing the back of his hand, comforting himself, “It’s a good thing, good thing…”
When he got to the door, Qi Yuancheng remembered and asked him, “By the way, I almost forgot to ask. How was your meeting with Chairman Lei?”
“Uh, I rejected him,” Qi Yu explained hurriedly, “but Chairman Lei didn’t seem angry.”
Qi Yuancheng sighed, looking as though he hated iron for not becoming steel. But thinking of his phone call just now, there was a ray of hope in his eyes.
Jiang Ying had been dying of boredom recently and was often found moving around in the living room downstairs.
Qi Yu followed his father out of the study and walked to the stairs. He watched his dad head downstairs and talk to his mom.
Hearing that her husband was going to fly to Harbor City that very night, Jiang Ying was really annoyed and grumbled. Qi Yuancheng put his arms around her shoulders and coaxed her in a quiet tone of voice.
Qi Yu liked this kind of scene. Leaning on the handrail, he watched them closely.
He didn’t know what his dad had said, but his mom finally agreed. She even personally got his coat for him and helped him into it. She then saw her husband to the door.
After the Qi Yuancheng left, Qi Yu took out his mobile phone and couldn’t help but take a look at the location app again. He found that Fu Yansheng had already returned to Shencheng.
…Tianbao Group, Wu Yongtian…
Could that be the person Fu Yansheng was looking for?
But Dad said just now that Chairman Wu knew Uncle Qi. Fu Yansheng also said in their video call last night that the person he was looking for wasn’t as impressive as Lei Hong. Though the Tianbao Group was indeed not as famous as Zhongda, they weren’t really that much worse.
As Qi Yu was pondering the matter, he heard a voice coming from the door. He glanced down and saw Qi Feng and Ling Ke enter the house one after the other.
Today was Friday. The two of them were probably free tomorrow, so they had come home for the weekend.
“Mom! I just saw Dad’s car going out,” Qi Feng said as he changed his shoes. “Where’s he going?”
“Harbor City.” Jiang Ying said.
“Harbor City!?” Qi Feng said anxiously, “Tomorrow’s Christmas Eve. What’s Dad doing in Harbor City at this time?”
“What else? He’s going on a business trip, talking business.” Jiang Ying said.
“F*ck,” Qi Feng spit out, “Dad is too much. Mom, you’re pregnant and all he can think about is his business…”
Qi Yu said as he headed down, “Watch it. The group is facing a crisis because a shareholder is withdrawing his investment and time is limited. If dad had a choice, he wouldn’t be going out at this time.”
When they returned to China together in July, Fu Yansheng had educated Qi Feng on the plane about the possible impact of the Si Family’s incident on the Si Yuan Group. However half a year had passed and Qi Feng felt that he and Ling Ke —–. Except occasionally being mistaken by management students as the investor for some Weeds Team, his life had basically remained the same.
Qi Feng scratched his head and said, “Is it so dangerous for shareholders to withdraw their investment? The companies under Dad’s Group won’t stop earning money just because of this shareholder’s withdrawal, right?”
Qi Yu: “What do you know? If you care about Dad, you should treat his career as our family’s career. You have been separated from him for too long, so you can’t understand his worries. But think about it, if it were Mom who was in this predicament, how would you feel?”
Qi Feng’s face froze, and he was rendered somewhat speechless.
Qi Yu narrowed his eyes him, “If Dad weren’t feeling like he owed you because of the divorce, a laze-about like you would have already been married off at such a time of crisis.”
Ling Ke: “…”
“Married off?” Qi Feng was stunned, “In this time and age? Is there still such an outrageous thing as an alliance by marriage?”
“Why not?” Qi Yu said with a half-smile, “With how good you look, I think you’d be able to bring in a little sum.”
Jiang Ying came over and said, “Alright, your brother doesn’t understand any of those things. What are you doing scaring him?”
Qi Yu whispered, “Just kidding.”
Qi Feng: “…”
Jiang Ying invited them, “Let’s all sit down and eat.”
Maybe Qi Feng had been provoked by his brother’s words just now, he didn’t dare to shout about after that. He and Ling Ke immersed themselves in eating and afterwards said, “We’re going to see Xue Niu” and they ran away like streaks of smoke.
Qi Yu remembered and asked his mother, “How is Xue Niu doing?”
Jiang Ying shook her head and said, “Not very good. She doesn’t recognize people anymore. Qi Feng took her to the vet last weekend and was told to mentally prepare. She doesn’t have much time.”
Qi Yu’s hand paused. He slowly chewed his food, feeling a little distressed, “If she leaves, that kid will cry himself to death.”
Jiang Ying: “Yes, but that’s the fate of all living things. There’s no helping it.”
After dinner, Qi Yu chatted with his mother for a while. Afterwards, he went upstairs to take a shower. When it was almost time, he picked up his phone and made a video call to Fu Yansheng.
The two talked about what had happened during the day and after having said everything that needed to be said, Qi Yu tentatively asked, “Do you know about the Tianbao Group?”
Fu Yansheng: “I’ve heard of them, one of Harbor City’s □□ Group. Why?”
Qi Yu: “I heard that Wu Yongtian, the chairman of The Tianbao Group, is a friend of a friend of my Dad’s. He called my dad today and said that he wanted to discuss cooperation with our Si Yuan Group. My dad just set off for Harbor City.”
Fu Yansheng: “Oh? Really? What kind of cooperation are we talking about?”
Qi Yu explained briefly. Seeing that Fu Yansheng seemed to be completely ignorant of this matter, he felt it a little strange. “I was thinking just now, you weren’t the one who found this Chairman Wu of the Tianbao Group, were you?”
Fu Yansheng: “How would that be possible? My skills aren’t that great… But based on what you said, if your father already has a deal with Chairman Wu, it seems like there’s no longer any need for me to take action.”
“We’ll see.” Seeing Fu Yansheng’s behavior, Qi Yu didn’t continue to probe. Instead, he asked, “Are you coming tomorrow or the day after?”
“I’m going there on a flight early tomorrow. Barring any delays, I should be at Haicheng at half past eleven.” Fu Yansheng raised his eyebrows, “Let’s have lunch together?”
Qi Yu: “Okay.”
Fu Yansheng: “Are you coming to pick me up at the airport?”
Qi Yu smiled and said, “You can take a taxi by yourself. The Holiday Inn on Hebin Road, I’ve reserved a room for you under my name.”
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【Little Theater】
Qi Yu: If you don’t behave yourself, you’ll be married off!
Qi Feng: Ke Ke, help~~~ I don’t want wanna! QAQ
Ling Ke: =_=
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thanks for the update 😊
thanks for the chapter!
Is it chairman Lei?