After listening to Gu Yanzhong's voice message, Ye Chen was very surprised.
If it is true as Gu Yanzhong said, combined with his father's recognition of Chen Zhaozhong back then, it is enough to see that Chen Zhaozhong must have a strong ability to excel.
And Ye Chen also knows very well that the biggest restriction on his current development is the scarcity of talents.
Although the Wanlong Palace is strong, it cannot be seen in the light after all, and what the Wanlong Palace can solve is the problem of force.
In the future, if we want the Ye family to continue to grow in strength, force will only be a small part of it, and more of it will be management.
At this point, even Ye Chen himself is far behind.
In the future, the Ye family will not only need a leader to point the course, but also an experienced trader to help the giant ship of the Ye family sail more steadily, faster, and farther in the safest and most efficient way.
Perhaps Chen Zhaozhong is a suitable candidate.
However, Ye Chen also knew very well that he was not familiar with Chen Zhaozhong and knew very little about his past, and the same must be true for him.
It would undoubtedly be a bit abrupt to extend an invitation directly at this time.
So, he planned to take this opportunity to get acquainted with Chen Zhaozhong.
Soon, Chen Zhaozhong and the waiter downstairs began to walk upstairs carrying carefully prepared Cantonese meals.
After Chen Zhaozhong worked hard and filled the long table with food, he finally stopped working, took off his apron, and came to the opposite side of Ye Chen and Gu Qiuyi.
After some polite exchanges, the three of them sat across from each other.
Chen Zhaozhong took out a bottle of old collector's rice wine and said to Ye Chen: "Master Ye, if you are in the mood, you might as well have two glasses together."
Ye Chen said without thinking: "Okay, Uncle Chen, I'll have a drink with you."
Chen Zhaozhong nodded and smiled, opened the rice wine, and was about to pour the wine for Ye Chen, but Ye Chen took the rice wine first and said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, you are the elder, should I pour the wine for you!"
As he spoke, he filled the wine glass in front of him half full.
Chen Zhaozhong seemed to be a little frightened. He stretched out his hands to protect the wine glass. After Ye Chen finished pouring, he said gratefully: "Thank you, Master Ye. If you don't mind it, just like Miss Gu, call me Uncle Zhong."
Ye Chen said politely: "Okay, Uncle Zhong, but I don't know who you are?"
Chen Zhaozhong smiled and said: "Back to Master Ye, it's the clock's clock."
Ye Chen nodded and asked again: "By the way, Uncle Zhong, are you from Hong Kong Island?"
"No." Chen Zhaozhong shook his head and said: "My ancestral home is Duanzhou, Guangdong Province. My father fled to Hong Kong Island during the war. I was also born on Hong Kong Island. My father relied on the ancestral goose roasting skills to make a fortune in Hong Kong Island.
Later, when my family became richer, they sent me to study in Europe and the United States."
Ye Chen asked curiously: "Then how did you know my father?"
Chen Zhaozhong said: "Your father and I met while hiking in the United States. We were both students at that time. We happened to meet each other during the vacation hiking. In addition, we both had almost the same itinerary plan, so we went together.
Well, we became friends from then on. During those days, we often talked loudly together and pointed out the current problems, and we got along very well."
After saying that, Chen Zhaozhong paused slightly and then added: "However, because our schools are far away from each other, although we continued to communicate by letter and phone call, we didn't see each other much."
"Later, your father returned to China with your mother. Before leaving, he left me a contact information, hoping that I could go to Yanjing to find him after graduation. But I was worried about him, so I returned to Hong Kong Island."
Ye Chen nodded slightly when he heard this.
He actually really wanted to know how Chen Zhaozhong was later ordered to kill Chen Zhaozhong by the boss in Hong Kong Island.
However, after thinking about it, the parties involved in this kind of question are generally quite sensitive and it is really not suitable to ask in person, so I gave up in my heart and said with a smile: "It turns out that you and my father met because of hiking."
Chen Zhaozhong smiled and nodded, looked at Ye Chen, and asked with a smile: "Master Ye, do you want to know how I was issued a fatwa in Hong Kong?"
Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, then he said smoothly: "Uncle Zhong, to tell you the truth, I am really curious..."
"Haha!" Chen Zhaozhong smiled heartily and said: "Almost everyone in Hong Kong Island knew about this at that time... I am not afraid of Master Ye's jokes. After I returned to Hong Kong Island, my father was not in good health.
, so he hoped that I could take over his roast goose shop. Although I helped him a lot when I was young and learned his secrets, after all, I was also an advanced person who had received higher education at that time, and I was arrogant.
, so I cashed it out of the store without permission, and used the money to start my own business, specializing in asset management for wealthy people."
"Later, I helped manage the assets of a well-known wealthy businessman named Liu in Hong Kong Island, and his assets increased five times in three years. He was very happy and called me to his company and told me:
'Ah Zhong, you have helped me make so much money, and I don't know how to repay you. So, if you have any wishes that you can't fulfill on your own, tell me, and I will definitely help you realize it!'"
At this point, Chen Zhaozhong shrugged his shoulders and said: "I saw that what he said was so sincere, so I told him: 'Liu Sheng, the mistress you raised in the mansion on Shi Xundao was my first girlfriend in middle school.
, I love her very much, and she loves me very much..."
"If I hadn't been so focused on studying, I would definitely not have left her. And if she hadn't been desperate because of a sudden change in her family, she wouldn't have agreed to your pursuit as a married woman and become your captive canary...
…”
"Now that I have some abilities, I claim to be able to give her a happy life. So, can you please give her back to me for the sake of the fact that I have helped you make so much money...'"
Ye Chen and Gu Qiuyi were both stunned when they heard this. They never expected that Chen Zhaozhong would be put on a death warrant because of a woman.
At this time, Chen Zhaozhong sighed and said with emotion: "I originally thought that he would not look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face. If he didn't look at the Buddha's face, he would at least look at the money face. Moreover, there were many women around him, and just Gang, who was regarded as a goddess,
I don’t know how many Hong Kong and Taiwan actresses are obsessed with him, and he has been flirting with women everywhere. He is a well-known playboy in Hong Kong..."
At this point, he changed the subject and laughed at himself: "But I calculated everything, but I never expected that he, a playboy like me, would actually love my first girlfriend..."
"As soon as I said this, he immediately asked his men to arrest me and beat me up. After the beating, he put a gun to my head and asked me if I had cuckolded him..."
Saying that, Chen Zhaozhong sighed helplessly: "I, Chen Zhaozhong, have stood up straight and acted upright all my life, how could I cuckold someone else? I just revealed my feelings to my first girlfriend at the time and asked her if she was willing to leave that person and be with him.
I was together, and after getting her approval, I told the truth to Mr. Liu, and it was precisely because I felt guilty that I tried my best to help him make money, hoping that he could help us..."
Gu Qiuyi on the side asked nervously: "What then? What did he say?"
