Chapter 287 Everyone has their own aspirations, no need to force them

Wednesday.

nine in the morning.

Gu Jia woke up from a deep sleep.

She usually sleeps very little and wakes up naturally after only five or six hours of sleep a day.

I got home from get off work at 11:30 yesterday and went out for some skewers with my bestie Zhong Xiaoqin. When I came back, washed up, and went to bed, it was already 2:30 in the morning.

Gu Jia was about to get up, but she found that her best friend was pressing her tightly in an octopus position. She couldn't help but laugh and cry, and quickly pushed her awake:
"Xiaoqin, why haven't you woken up yet? Aren't you going on a business trip today?"

"Ok?"

Zhong Xiaoqin was woken up and dazed for a few seconds before finally remembering that today was not the weekend, but that she had to go on a business trip. She quickly took out her cell phone to check the time, and when she saw that it was only nine o'clock, she breathed a sigh of relief:

"Jia Jia, it's still early. Our boss said that as long as we arrive before 11 o'clock, it will be fine."

"Before eleven? Didn't you say the flight was at twelve?"

Although Gu Jia had never been on a plane, she knew the procedure and reminded:
"You usually have to go to the airport an hour and a half in advance to go through security. For a flight at 12 o'clock, you have to be at the airport before 10:30."

"is it?"

Zhong Xiaoqin was a little confused. She scratched her head, pouted her lips, and asked in confusion: "Did I remember the time wrong?"

"Wait for me a moment, I'll ask Sister Tingting."

As the boss's assistant, Zhong Xiaoqin would never dare to disturb the boss with such trivial matters. If she had any questions, she could only ask her "senior" Lu Tingting.

Soon, Lu Tingting picked up the phone.

"Hey...Xiaoqin...what's going on?"

"Sister Tingting, it's me."

Zhong Xiaoqin and Gu Jia both heard the panting sound coming from the other end of the phone and their cheeks turned red with embarrassment.

I seemed to have disturbed the other person's running.

Zhong Xiaoqin wanted to hang up the phone, but was afraid that the other party would find out, and then the two of them would feel awkward meeting each other. She could only pretend that she heard nothing and quickly asked her questions.

"Oh... the boss has... a private plane... it will arrive... an hour earlier... just in time."

Lu Tingting answered the question while panting, and when she heard Zhong Xiaoqin say goodbye, she threw her phone aside.

Before Zhong Xiaoqin had time to hang up the phone, she heard her boss' voice on the other end of the line:
"Whose phone number?"

"It's Xiaoqin's."

Lu Tingting just answered and then screamed.

When Zhong Xiaoqin heard this, she was so scared that she quickly hung up the phone and threw the phone aside, as if it was not a phone but a scorpion. If she was slow to throw it away, she would get stung.

He looked into Gu Jia's eyes, his face flushed.

"I didn't expect that Sister Tingting and the boss..."

Zhong Xiaoqin stopped talking halfway through her words.

She had been getting along with Lu Tingting for the past two days, and found that Lu Tingting was quite nice to her, at least more sincere than Shen Yue. She had never cheated her and had also taught her a lot of office work skills.

Now, it has been proven that Lu Tingting is the boss's mistress. In the view of Zhong Xiaoqin, who has more traditional ideas, it is somewhat unfair for Lu Tingting.

With Lu Tingting's beauty, ability, family conditions, etc., if she wants to marry a man with good conditions, she can easily find an excellent man without any difficulty, and there is no need for her to be a mistress.

"Everyone has their own aspirations, so there's no need to force them."

Gu Jia has worked in a three-star Michelin Western restaurant for more than a year. She has seen a lot of things in the social world of fame and fortune, so she is not surprised by this.

In Zhong Xiaoqin's opinion, as a woman, it is best to marry a man through a formal matchmaking ceremony and live a life of taking care of her husband and raising children. Only then can she be a truly happy woman.

But for Lu Tingting, although she is just Su Mingzhe's lover, she still feels very happy.

One kind of rice feeds a hundred kinds of people.

Before a lifetime is over, no one can say who is right or wrong.

Then the two girls got up and washed.

I heated up the leftovers I brought back yesterday in the microwave and a few slices of bread, and that was my breakfast.

At ten o'clock, Gao Min called Zhong Xiaoqin, who was waiting outside the Yipin Mansion.

Zhong Xiaoqin quickly said goodbye to Gu Jia, pulled her suitcase, and walked out the door.

"Xiaoqin, you are on a business trip, please protect yourself, don't be alone with men, and try not to leave the sight of your colleagues in the company..."

Gu Jia gave Zhong Xiaoqin earnest instructions. She was really afraid that her silly best friend would be a girl when she left, but would become a woman when she came back.

"Don't worry, Jia Jia, I will take good care of myself. You should also take good care of yourself and wait for me to come back."

Zhong Xiaoqin and Gu Jia said goodbye reluctantly.

In fact, it was her first time traveling far away, so she was naturally quite nervous.

But her job is to be the boss' assistant, so she has to follow the boss wherever he goes.

She had no choice.

Gao Qin was standing at the door. When she saw Zhong Xiaoqin, she trotted over and helped put the suitcase in the trunk of the car.

More than half an hour later.

Ten minutes before eleven o'clock, Zhong Xiaoqin was brought to the waiting hall by Gao Qin.

Airport staff were already waiting.

Gao Qin was sent here and left on her own.

Zhong Xiaoqin was taken through security by airport staff and boarded the plane smoothly.

After getting on the plane, Zhong Xiaoqin was surprised to find that she was the last one to arrive. She quickly bowed and apologized:

"Sorry, boss, I'm late."

"You're not late. There's still an hour before departure."

Su Mingzhe looked at his watch and asked the confused Zhong Xiaoqin to find a place to sit down. He was listening to Shen Yue explaining to him the work arrangements for the next few days after arriving in Yangcheng.

This time I went to Guangzhou because I had to visit six factories in four cities at once to attend the opening ceremony of the branch factories.

The larger the scope, the longer it takes.

According to conservative estimates, this business trip will take at least ten days.

If things go wrong, it may take anywhere from half a month to twenty days.

Shen Yue sat there explaining, and Zhong Xiaoqin sat next to Lu Tingting, taking notes carefully.

But her memory is just that good. When she hears the latter part, she forgets a lot of the previous part.

After Shen Yue finished speaking, Zhong Xiaoqin felt that her boss's next schedule would be particularly cumbersome.

What about Yangcheng, Dongguancheng, Pengcheng and Zhucheng.

Where to go first, where to go later.

Which leaders to meet with, which activities to attend, etc.

Zhong Xiaoqin just listened and felt that her brain was not enough. In fact, Zhong Xiaoqin didn't know that the work arrangement that Shen Yue told Su Mingzhe was already a simplified schedule.

Shen Yue turned down as many invitations as she could.

Some invitations require attendance.

After all, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake.

Su Mingzhe is a businessman from Jiangzhou. He opened a branch company in Yuezhou, which is like a dragon crossing the river.

If you want these local tyrants to help you get things done, it may cost a lot.

However, if you want to make these local bullies do bad things, you may just need to deny them face once.

These local tyrants will take the initiative to help mess things up.

In order to prevent these local bullies from causing trouble, Su Mingzhe had to give them face and attend some gatherings.

This is how society is, with human relationships and worldly wisdom everywhere.

Su Mingzhe and Shen Yue both understood the reason.

At this time, Shen Yue was no longer the child of a high-ranking official, but a serious and responsible work assistant who helped Su Mingzhe study the personal connections and work out an optimal solution.

Soon a flight attendant came over and asked if the plane had taken off.

Lu Tingting ordered to take off on time.

At twelve o'clock, the plane taxied on the runway for a while and then slowly took off.

In the air, Su Mingzhe and Shen Yue continued to talk about work.

Lu Tingting took the somewhat nervous Zhong Xiaoqin to the lounge next door to rest.

Su Mingzhe's private jet is a converted passenger plane and has a particularly large space.

The total area of ​​the business class, entertainment class, and the rest cabin at the back is a full 200 square meters.

The facilities here are also very complete. Except for the lack of a bathtub, it is as convenient as home.

Of course, this doesn't mean that a bathtub can't be installed on this plane.

It’s just that Su Mingzhe prefers taking showers.

And the space freed up by his modifications to the aircraft has other uses.

With Lu Tingting's company, Zhong Xiaoqin drank some red wine and fell into a deep sleep.

When she woke up, the plane was ready to land.

The plane landed safely.

When Su Mingzhe got off the plane, he saw several middle-aged men in suits waiting at the exit.

"Mr. Su, welcome to Yangcheng."

"Sorry to bother you, Mr. Ding."

Su Mingzhe and the leaders of State Power Corporation are acquaintances.

The other party is the leader of Yuezhou State Power, and was previously the leader of Jiangzhou. He was transferred to Yuezhou at the end of last year to specifically cooperate with the construction of Ark New Energy.

Ark New Energy has opened more than a dozen branches in Yuezhou, and all agreements were reached with the help of the other party.

Before this, Guangdong Province was particularly opposed to the entry of Ark New Energy.

"Boss Su is still the hardest-working one."

As the leader of Guodian, Mr. Ding is also in a high position and has great power. He chatted and laughed with Su Mingzhe and introduced the staff on his side.

On the Ark New Energy side, several senior leaders had arrived early and were with President Ding to greet people at the airport, so they did not need Su Mingzhe to introduce them.

The three assistants came on the plane with Su Mingzhe.

It was already past two in the afternoon.

There is no need for lunch anymore.

It's too early to have dinner.

As the host, Mr. Ding should arrange the next itinerary.

The welcoming party was arranged in the evening.

Su Mingzhe simply invited General Manager Ding to accompany him and go to the already operational branch factory with everyone to check the operating conditions.

The demand for electricity in Yangcheng is relatively high, and Ark New Energy plans to build a total of six branches here (each with three reactors).

Currently, one branch has been started, two have been completed (to be started tomorrow), two are under construction, and one project is under application.

The group arrived at the branch factory which was in operation.

Since the reactor built by Ark New Energy uses cold fusion technology, there are relatively few radioactive elements, and after putting on protective clothing, there is almost zero risk.

So after passing the security check and finding no unusual metal objects, the group went around the reactor for a close visit.

There were company experts nearby who introduced the operation of the reactor to everyone.

As the CEO of Guodian, Mr. Ding asked a lot of questions.

Su Mingzhe just stood aside, smiling and saying nothing, allowing several experts to give detailed explanations to everyone.

Then the experts from both sides became interested and did a small test.

After simple calculations and measurements by a group of experts, they concluded that the three reactors were operating well and could operate safely for 50 years as long as they were maintained normally and consumables were replenished on time.

"The technology of Ark New Energy is very strong and mature."

After seeing the test report, Mr. Ding naturally praised it generously.

Ark New Energy's technology has been verified in the past two years.

So far, no unexpected incidents have occurred in the 150 reactors already in operation, including the earliest first reactor.

"Mr. Ding, thank you for your praise. We still have a lot of room for improvement."

Su Mingzhe chuckled and accepted the compliment very reservedly, but the confidence in his eyes did not diminish at all.

Ark New Energy's technology has been verified in the previous world.

There is really no need for me to be humble.

After all, in the field of cold fusion, Ark New Energy's technology is not ahead of its peers by a number of years, but by a dimension.

President Ding chatted with Su Mingzhe for a while, and when he saw that there was no one around, he suddenly lowered his head and came over, whispering:
"Boss Su, a leader has arranged a welcoming banquet in Guancheng. Please come and enjoy it."

"Arrange a welcoming banquet in Guancheng?"

Su Mingzhe paused, his eyes unconsciously revealed a hint of smile, and responded:

"We are all old friends, so we can just have a simple meal. How can we trouble the leader?"

"It's just a casual meal."

President Ding saw that Su Mingzhe understood, and then showed a look that all men understand:
"The food in Wancheng is very special."

(End of this chapter)