Li Lin came to the downstairs of Zhang Xu's hotel according to the address Zhang Xu said. He looked up at the several-story restaurant and the neon signs erected high above. What attracted Li Lin the most was the small parking lot of the restaurant.
Near the road, there is a large factory signboard that is more than ten or twenty meters high. Li
Lin's previous company was doing this, and he also knew that such a large neon billboard would be impossible to buy if it didn't cost millions. But now this billboard has Zhang Xu's hotel logo written on it, which shows that this ten-year-old man of his has
How well are the classmates I haven’t seen in the next year doing well now?
After standing at the door of the hotel for almost three minutes, Li Lin raised his feet and walked towards the hotel.
"Sir, who are you?" As soon as Li Lin arrived at the door, the door was opened by the etiquette lady. The little girl smiled sweetly at Li Lin and asked.
The expression on Li Lin's face was a little embarrassed, and he even blushed. It can be said that there have never been many times in the past thirty years that he and such a beautiful girl were less than 40 centimeters apart, and Li Lin could smell the good smell of her body.
Fen Zhiqi'er: "No! I'm not here to eat, I'm here to find someone, your boss Zhang Xu, I'm his classmate."
"Looking for the boss?" The little girl at the door looked at Li Lin with a little curiosity in her eyes, but she didn't show it on her face: "I don't know if the boss is here. Go up to the second floor and ask our manager!".
"Thank you!" Li Lin nodded to the girl and walked upstairs.
The girl who greeted Li Lin looked at Li Lin's back and said to the girl opposite: "They say he is the boss's friend, but I don't look like him at all!".
"A friend of the boss?" The girl opposite was also a little surprised. She looked at her colleague and nodded and couldn't help but say something strange.
In the minds of the two little girls, boss Zhang Xu’s friends are either artists or rich people, and the former category is also included in the latter category. In other words, none of the artists Zhang Xu knows are poor, they are all rich.
Man! After such a long time, people in the hotel naturally thought that the boss’s friends were all rich people. Of course they were curious when they suddenly came dressed like this.
Although today this person is wearing a casual suit, he doesn’t look like a rich person. It’s very simple! How can anyone wearing a suit nowadays be rich? In addition to those who sell finance and recruit people for stock trading, they are engaged in second-hand housing. Otherwise, they are
Doing insurance.
As for what the two girls think rich people dress like, nowadays among a group of people, the ones who dress more casually are generally the richest.
Li Lin followed the little girl's instructions and went to the second floor to find the manager. The manager, who had been reminded by Zhang Xu earlier, heard that he was a classmate and immediately took Li Lin to the office on the top floor.
Ding dong! With the soft sound of the elevator, the door opened.
"Go in and turn left. It's the boss's office. He's already waiting for you inside." The manager who brought Li Lin up had no intention of following Li Lin out of the elevator. Instead, he folded his hands on his stomach and faced Li Lin.
He nodded slightly and made a gesture of invitation.
When Li Lin got out of the elevator, he found that this place was completely different from downstairs. At first glance, it was all decorated with antique wooden latticework. Just by looking at it, there were several ink calligraphy and paintings on both sides of the aisle. And don't look downstairs.
The streets are so noisy, but when you get here you can't hear a sound outside. With the decoration and atmosphere like this, I'm afraid the office of the president of my company can't even match it.
"Li Lin!" As soon as Zhang Xu walked out of the office door, he saw his classmates standing in the corridor and looked around. He greeted him with a smile on his face. Then he opened his big hands.
"Where have you been all these years?" Zhang Xu gave Li Lin a bear hug, then hugged Li Lin and walked to his office, asking as he walked.
He didn't know why, but Zhang Xu's actions warmed Li Lin's heart. His original idea of trying to save face and whitewash himself in front of his old classmates immediately disappeared from his mind.
"It's because I didn't get along well and I don't have the face to meet you old classmates!" Li Lin said calmly.
After listening to Li Lin's words, Zhang Xu looked at his old classmate's serious look and it seemed that he was not joking. Naturally, he was stunned for two or five seconds, and then quickly came back to his senses. He did not expect that Li Lin said so directly.
"If you're not doing well in Nanchen? If you're not doing well, just come back to Shicheng. It would be nice for everyone to take care of you, right?" Zhang Xu said to Li Lin.
"It's absolutely true that people are cheap when they leave their hometown." Li Lin smiled and said: "You are really stylish in your office, and now you are dressed in a classy way!".
Today, Zhang Xu is wearing a silver-white satin gown, loose gray bloomers, and a pair of black basil shoes. He looks like a cultured person now. If he had been dressed like this in previous war movies, he would have been the second best.
Japs and traitors, the kind of people who ride bicycles with a little top hat stuck on their heads and lead the Japanese Japs into villages to raid them.
"I just learned from others." Zhang Xu said with a smile after hearing this: "Every time he sees me like this, Fang Yi always says that I look like a fat translator!" With that, Zhang Xu invited Li Lin to sit on the sofa.
: "What would you like to drink, tea or coffee?".
"Let's have a cup of tea!" Li Lin said: "Now you are also the boss of a cultural company, and your outfit has some flavor!".
"What a shitty cultural company! To put it bluntly, it's just buying and selling. Now we rely on the help of these domestic painting friends to collect some unknown or well-known works, and then wait to sell them. What if we want to make money? Cultural companies still
It’s really not as good as the restaurant I own, or the fast food restaurant. I tell people that the CEO of a cultural company just sounds good in the picture, and it’s just a facade job!”
Zhang Xu walked to his boss's table, which was not much smaller than a billiard table. He reached out and pressed the intercom on it: "Xiao Qi, make us a pot of tea and bring it over!" After saying that, he sat next to Li Lin.
When the tea was served, Zhang Xu didn't let the secretary do anything, and poured tea for Li Lin himself: "You're not going to leave this time?".
"No, I have to leave! I have something to do when I come back, and it really bothers you." Li Lin took the tea cup and put it in front of him.
Seeing Zhang Xu looking at him, he opened his mouth and said: "I have several sketches by Fang Yi, and I want to take some of them and exchange them for hundreds of thousands of emergency funds!".
"Don't exchange it. I told you that some of Fang Yi's things have gone up. You will always lose money if you sell now." Zhang Xu said: "It's only a few hundred thousand, why would you exchange it for Fang Yi's things! Like this
.I will collect some for you later, just keep it and return it to me later!"
When Zhang Xu heard that Li Lin wanted to exchange money, he thought it was a big amount. Who knew it was only a few hundred thousand! Now Zhang Xu, how could Boss Zhang take such a small amount of money in his eyes, and what Li Lin said just now should be told the truth.
There was no pretense, and Zhang Xu suddenly felt like he was in high school again.
"Even if you lend me money, I don't know how long it will take you to pay it back. Why don't I put these things with you?" Li Lin said, "If you can't pay back in five or six years, then these things will be returned to you."
You!".
As soon as Zhang Xu heard this, he knew that Li Lin was not here to borrow money from him. He really wanted to sell his things. He appreciated Li Lin's current temperament a little more. After thinking for a while, he said to Li Lin: "I
I can't take advantage of you, so if you really want to take action, find an auction house!"
"It will take a long time to find the auction!" Li Lin asked, looking at Zhang Xu.
"Are you in a hurry?"
"I'm waiting to get married and buy some things." Li Lin said honestly: "Can you tell me if it can be faster? It's best if I can get the money by the end of the month!"
Zhang Xu said without even thinking about it: "Then let's take the amount from me first, and then give it back to me after I sell it. Do you think that's okay?"
"How troublesome this is for you!" Li Lin was very moved after hearing this and said embarrassedly.
Zhang Xu said: "Hey! What's the trouble!" After saying that, he stood up from the chair: "I called Fang Yi a few days ago, and he was very happy to hear that you were back...
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While talking, Zhang Xu called Fang Yi. When the call came through, Fang Yi chatted with Li Lin for a while.
Putting down the phone, Li Lin's eyes felt a little moist, and he excused himself to go to the bathroom to calm down. Li Lin, who has always been lonely from college to work, seems to have long forgotten the kind of behavior of his former classmates.
It's so warm. Apart from Li Lin's parents, who would care about him when he is living abroad? Besides, Li Lin is still a dull guy in the eyes of outsiders.
The Zhang Xu in front of him had no airs at all, the smile on his face was the same as before, and the tone and movements of his words were the same as in high school. It seemed that only his clothes had changed over the years, but the person Zhang Xu had not changed.
Fang Yi on the phone was now a famous artist. Hearing his own voice, he immediately called Xiao Linzi affectionately! He asked where he was working now and how his work was. He heard that he was getting married.
He immediately said that he would prepare a gift for himself. Such a tone and such concern made Li Lin feel like a classmate immediately.
Li Lin returned to Zhang Xu's office and saw Zhang Xu holding a phone and talking to someone, while he was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
Li Lin waited for three or four minutes before seeing Zhang Xu put down the phone.
"Whenever you have free time, let's go to Mingzhu with your things. I've contacted an auction house here and just send the things over." Zhang Xu said to Li Lin.
"I can just go by myself, so I won't bother you!".
"What's the trouble?" Zhang Xu sat down and said with a smile: "Let me tell you this, if you didn't come, I would have just gone home and took a nap before!..."
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After hearing this, Li Lin joked: "You are so happy, you only eat and sleep!".
"Those were the good days in the past, but they are no longer good now. I have to exercise, otherwise the doctor's wife will keep talking about me." Zhang Xu sighed and said, as if he missed the pig-like days of the past.
Zhang Xu persisted for a while, but Li Lin was no longer polite. After agreeing to the agreement, Zhang Xu asked his secretary to prepare the food and drinks while he and Li Lin drank some wine and recalled their classmates' lives.
Things went smoothly with Zhang Xu and Li Lin. Several of Fang Yi's sketches were estimated by the auction house. The total price of the seven pieces was estimated at 2.2 million yuan!
Li Lin was very satisfied with the price, and after finishing the work, he was naturally ready to treat Zhang Xu to a meal.
"I'll pay for it at noon today, don't grab the order from me!" Li Lin got in the car, put on his seat belt and said to Zhang Xu who was driving: "Choose the best restaurant!".
"Look at how arrogant you are!" Zhang Xu said with a smile.
"My thirty-year loan suddenly disappeared. Do you think I can be unhappy? Thousands of dollars a month is like a big stone to me! I must celebrate today. You are familiar with this place. You don't even need to be guided when driving."
People, you choose the land!" Li Lin said with a smile.
Zhang Xu said: "Then get off the car! Let's walk a few steps from here and there will be a good restaurant!" He looked at Li Lin looking at him and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it is definitely high-end, a piece of her mother's eggs
The fried rice costs more than 30 yuan, but the food tastes good! The budget for a good meal for the two of us is 2,000 yuan!"
"That's it!" Li Lin patted his pocket grandly. More than two million yuan was about to be paid at once. Li Lin, who had been saving money for the past few years, immediately felt generous. It usually lasted him two months.
The money for living expenses is now exchanged for a meal!
The two got out of the car and walked side by side towards the restaurant. After walking for a while, Li Lin turned around curiously and stared at a woman who was burying her head in her bag. The more he looked at her, the more he felt that this young woman looked very familiar to him.
"Isn't this her!" Li Lin pointed at the young woman and asked Zhang Xu. (To be continued...)