There are no teahouses or coffee shops in Xiyang Town that are suitable places for discussion. A middle-aged man who calls himself Shen Lie asked Lin Kun to meet him at a restaurant in the east of the town. This restaurant has a large door with a rather antique door. plaque.
Lin Kun and Jiang Yeli arrived and were led to the third floor by the waiter. The third floor was the private room area. It was already the end of dusk and it happened to be meal time. Business was booming in the lobby on the first floor and the private room area on the second floor. There were also many people eating, but there was no one dining in the private room area on the third floor. Jiang Yeli smiled and asked the waiter and found out that the entire third floor was reserved by the man named Shen Lie. .
When they arrived at the private room with the words "Emperor Pavilion" written on it, the waiter came forward, knocked on the door, and said respectfully inside: "Mr. Shen, the guest has arrived."
A middle-aged man's voice came from inside, "Please come in."
The waiter opened the door to the private room for Lin Kun and Jiang Yeli. To be honest, in such a small town that is not very prosperous, such a large restaurant dares to hang the words "Emperor Pavilion" on the private room. It makes people feel a strange feeling.
However, when I walked into this private room, except for the middle-aged man sitting behind the table and the tall and unsmiling man standing behind him, which was a bit awkward, the decoration and furnishings in the entire private room were very exquisite.
The man sitting in the back left looked to be in his forties, with a traitor-style parting in the middle, thick eyebrows, big eyes and big nostrils. His eyes swept over Lin Kun's body, and his eyes lit up when he landed on Jiang Yeli.
The man standing behind this man has a tall body of more than 1.9 meters, with plump muscles all over his body. The clothes on his body are bulging. It is obviously a hot day, but he is wearing an antique yellow suit. The light in the room was not very bright, but this guy was wearing huge black-rimmed glasses.
The middle-aged man stood up, looked at Lin Kun and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, I am Shen Lie. I just called you."
"Mr. Shen." Lin Kun smiled calmly and stretched out his hand.
Shen Lie did not take Lin Kun's hand, but made a gesture of invitation and said: "Mr. Lin, please sit down."
Lin Kun's hands froze in mid-air and he looked at Shen Lie.
Shen Lie laughed and said: "Mr. Lin, don't mind. I, Shen Lie, have a bad habit. I don't know how to shake hands with people I don't know or have a good relationship with. Our Shen family is from the Wang clan in Dongshan Province. There are too many people who want to cling to our family. If we shake hands when we meet, I will get a lot of calluses on my hands, so please understand."
Lin Kun laughed, took his hand back, and said: "Mr. Shen thinks very highly of himself and has an air of arrogance. I must understand this. Then I won't beat around the bush with Mr. Shen. I just ask Mr. Shen, The mayor’s…”
"Mr. Lin!"
Before Lin Kun could finish what he said, Shen Lie interrupted with a loud voice, "I, Mr. Shen, have come to your Liaojiang Province as a guest. Today I rented out the whole floor to discuss things with you. I will pay for the drinks and tea. There is no shortage of people, but out of etiquette considerations, should Mr. Lin pay the bill later?"
The expression on Lin Kun's face was stunned. When people meet for the first time, the first impression often becomes the key to the subsequent development of the two people. It's hard to say whether they are friends or enemies, but you can definitely tell with two simple sentences. Are you a traveler?
The Shen Lie in front of him thinks very highly of himself, but he is too petty in his behavior. Even if he is a member of the Shen family, he will probably not achieve much. He should just be pulling the Shen family's tiger skin and bluffing outside.
The Shen family in Dongshan Province now has only one son, Mr. Shen, the head of the family. He is Shen Yu's father, Shen Qiu. This Shen Lie must be a nephew from a collateral line.
Lin Kun had no intention of arguing with this guy here. Did the Shen family send such a person to Liaojiang Province to disgust him?
"No problem, Mr. Shen is a guest, so of course he should treat me." Lin Kun said with a smile, and turned around to greet Jiang Yeli, "Sister Jiang, go and settle the bill, and by the way, order the highest-quality wine and dishes here. .”
Jiang Yeli stood up and was about to go out. Shen Lie immediately raised his hand to stop her and said, "Don't bother this beauty. The food and drinks have been ordered. We just need to pay the bill later."
With that said, Shen Lie snapped his fingers and shouted out the door, "Waiter, serve the food!"
When the waiter waiting outside the door heard this, he immediately started serving the food.
The hot dishes are very rich in taste. It seems that although this Shen Lie is stingy, he has a big appetite.
Lin Kun wanted to talk to him about business several times, mainly because he wanted to ask where Mayor Luo's wife and daughter were now, but Shen Lie kept him off by saying that eating was just eating and that he would talk about everything after eating.
After the food and wine were served, Jiang Yeli sneered and said in Lin Kun's ear: "This bastard has a pretty good appetite."
Lin Kun had already clenched his fists under the table, but with a calm smile on his face, he whispered to Jiang Yeli: "You're just bluffing."
Jiang Yeli said: "The man behind him seems unusual."
Lin Kun looked at the man and said with a teasing smile: "It's either that he's mentally weak or that he's mentally weak."
Jiang Yeli covered her mouth and smiled softly, without saying anything else.
The waiter filled up a glass of wine for Shen Lie, and then came over to fill it up for Lin Kun. When he wanted to pour wine for Jiang Yeli, Jiang Yeli refused. Shen Lie raised his glass at this time, looked at Jiang Yeli with burning eyes and said: " Beauty, how can you not drink and give me face, Mr. Shen..." Then, he looked at Lin Kun and said, "Mr. Lin, your friend doesn't seem to give you much face."
Lin Kun smiled and said: "Mr. Shen, she can't actually drink."
"oh?"
Shen Lie disagreed and said: "Then you have to drink some. They say that you Northeasterners are hospitable and don't drink alcohol at the table. This is disrespectful to us outsiders. I am also a member of the Shen family after all. Although I usually think about it in terms of face, It’s not a big gain, but we can’t lose our Shen family’s share.”
Lin Kun smiled forcefully at the corner of his mouth. He ignored Shen Lie, who thought highly of himself, and turned to Jiang Yeli and said, "Sister Jiang, please go out and settle the bill first."
Jiang Yeli nodded knowingly, stood up and looked at the waiter who stayed in the private room to serve, "Little beauty, take me to check out first. This gentleman insists on me drinking. I'm afraid I'll drink too much later and forget my bank card password."
The waiter looked at Shen Lie, and after receiving Shen Lie's nod of acquiescence, he smiled and took Jiang Yeli out of the private room.
In the luxurious private room, Lin Kun, Shen Lie, and the three people from Tongshan standing behind Shen Lie were suddenly left.
Shen Lie stood up, raised his glass and saluted Lin Kun: "Mr. Lin, it's our first time meeting you. Let me toast you first."
Lin Kun also stood up with a smile, but his eyes were full of impatience. Not to mention that Shen Lie deliberately ignored business and put on airs, even the small details of the toast were all showing off his self-importance. High shelf.
When toasting at the wine table, the host always brings the first glass. This Shen Lie is also from a big family. It is impossible that he does not understand these rules. Today, the table is full of wine and food, as well as the money for the reservation. Lin Kun came from Lin Kun, so Lin Kun should be the boss, but Shen Lie stood up first to pick up the wine. This clearly showed that he deliberately ignored Lin Kun...