20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3828 Visiting Yu Yuanming

The next morning, Zhao Chang'an called Jin Feiyue and told him to finish what needed to be done earlier, as Xiang Yuqing had agreed to return soon.

Jin Feiyue invited him over, saying that the three female secretaries in his president's office admired him, but Zhao Chang'an refused, saying, "We've met before."

In fact, Zhao Chang'an roughly understood the mess Jin Feiyue was in. On one hand, he had been fooled by the old man Jin Guangren, and now things were likely to take a turn for the worse, and he would be expelled from Yinlong Group.

In this situation, he also needed to appease the three female secretaries. During their meeting, Zhao Chang'an noticed that Jin Feiyue had dark circles under his eyes and looked listless. It was clear that he had been exploited by the three female secretaries and was severely overworked.

The girl Jin Feiyue liked, based on Zhao Chang'an's less-than-stellar judgment, seemed rather difficult to deal with. This time, he didn't ask Jin Feiyue how far their relationship had progressed. However, given the constant exploitation he was under from these three vixens, Zhao Chang'an felt Jin Feiyue was in serious trouble.

In this respect, Jin Feiyue's physical fitness is much worse than that of his father, Jin Guangren. These people who rose from humble beginnings in recent years have different personalities, but they are all very physically fit.

Jin Feiyue clearly saw Zhao Chang'an's boundless energy and wanted to shift the blame. Although the three women were all very beautiful and typical high-level white-collar professionals, he was too busy with his own affairs to take over for Jin Feiyue.

Therefore, for women, the timing of their appearance in front of men is sometimes very important. Zhao Chang'an has no interest in women like this now. If it were He Danni or Chu Yanling now, Zhao Chang'an probably wouldn't even bother to look at them.

Zhao Chang'an called Yu Yuanming again. When he was at Taohua Lake Scenic Area, he heard from Liu Mingjie that Yu Yuanming had suffered a minor stroke from drinking before the Lunar New Year and had applied for medical retirement.

Since he was in Zhengzhou, Zhao Chang'an decided to visit him. He called him yesterday and arranged to visit him at noon today.

If Yu Yuanming were still the president of the School of Engineering, he really wouldn't have had the time this time. But since he has stepped down, Zhao Chang'an has to take some time out of his busy schedule to visit him, to show that he is nostalgic and doesn't forget his roots.

For this banquet, Yu Yuanming specially invited Ren Shuzhi and Guo Chengsong, and also asked his son Yu Hainan to take a day off to accompany Zhao Chang'an.

After the vocational school was upgraded to a college of engineering, Guo Chengsong was worried about the school-run wire factory that was losing money. It became the teaching and internship base for the college's cable major. The factory's employees either worked as front-line teachers or were reassigned to various departments of the college, such as logistics, maintenance, security, and canteen.

Ren Shuzhi and Guo Chengsong, who are only a few months apart in age, both retired last year. With Yu Yuanming retiring due to illness, the transition from the vocational college to the engineering institute can be considered a younger generation replacement of the top two leaders of the school to the top leader of the school-run factory.

"Although many people say that I suffered a great loss by selling the old campus to you, if it weren't for this loss, it would have taken at least several years or even more than a decade for the vocational college to upgrade to an engineering college. With money, we can build the new campus faster, and we can do a better job in terms of hardware, software, and talent recruitment."

Although Yu Yuanming was not allowed to drink, he still insisted on pouring himself a full plastic cup of wine, holding it up and taking a big gulp with a sense of satisfaction: "Many people say that I took kickbacks from the Rose Group at the time, but do you, Zhao Chang'an, know whether I took a single penny or not?"

"Not only did you not take a single penny, but you also spent a lot of money and effort treating me to drinks."

Zhao Chang'an didn't try to persuade Yu Yuanming to drink less. Life is fleeting, and there's no need to be so stubborn about things once you've seen them clearly. As a retired university president and a highly educated intellectual, what doesn't Yu Yuanming understand? Does he need someone to explain things to him? If he wants to drink, then don't try to persuade him. Once he puts down his glass and says he won't drink anymore, just don't try to get him to drink another drop.

“My daughter and son-in-law have always encouraged my wife and me to go back and contribute our remaining energy. They say that if my old working-class face were to sell tickets, it would definitely gain the trust of those who buy them.”

Slightly drunk, Guo Chengsong sighed and said, "Sometimes we feel like we're falling behind the times. Those two made seventy or eighty thousand yuan in just over a month around the Spring Festival. You know, they only took half the markup on a ticket. Even with a markup of one or two hundred yuan, people were scrambling to buy a popular long-distance ticket. In the past, that would have been considered speculation and profiteering, something outrageous. I wouldn't do that. I'd rather just honestly collect my pension and stroll around the school-run factory when I have nothing to do and feel at ease."

Zhao Chang'an couldn't really say anything about it. When someone is queuing up at the train station late at night to buy tickets to destinations where tickets are in high demand, the ticket seller can't refuse to sell them to them. If they suddenly realize they don't need the tickets anymore, they can sell them to other people who need them and make a profit. Logically, no one can interfere.

According to regulations, Guo Mei and Su Jun are ticket scalpers. However, given that train tickets are not sold under real names, this practice of hiring people to buy tickets and hoarding them to profit from the price difference is explicitly prohibited but impossible to eradicate.

Once train tickets are issued with real names, these scalpers will naturally disappear.

However, other ticket-grabbing software and acceleration packages have emerged.

After lunch, everyone went to the chess and card room to play chess. Zhao Chang'an and Yu Yuanming played a game. Despite having a mild stroke, Yu Yuanming had been going to the park every day since retiring due to illness to find people to play chess with and memorize chess scores. His chess skills had greatly improved, and he won the game decisively.

Then Guo Chengsong, who had been itching to join in and was not convinced, added his own comment. Zhao Chang'an and Yu Hainan went to the chess and card room and then to the balcony, where they admired the azaleas that Li Ling had planted, which were in full bloom, like a pink cloud.

"Jin Feiyue asked me for help. Qiu Xiaoyu and Xiang Yuqing contacted each other. Xiang Yuqing agreed to come back, but asked me to guarantee the safety of her and her two children. I agreed."

Zhao Chang'an casually said to Yu Hainan, "Jin Guangren's sworn brothers still seem to be very tough on the issue, especially that sixth brother."

"Mr. Zou's secretary told me yesterday that Yinlong Group is a large listed cement company that needs strong support. Such behavior that seriously threatens and interferes with economic development will definitely be severely cracked down on as soon as it shows its face."

Yu Hainan said, "It's not a big deal that Xiang Yuqing is back. There's no conflict of interest between her and Xiang Haiteng. However, Qiu Xiaoyu's parents, they said they would tell the truth, but they're still hiding a lot of things."

Zhao Chang'an nodded. This was to be expected. It was laughable that Xiang Yuhong and her man hadn't gotten any smarter after coming out; they had even fallen out with Xiao Yu.

After all this trouble over the past few months, I can't get any money from my daughter to go on a trip abroad.

What a pair of idiots!
(End of this chapter)