Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 693 Tips
Li Yancheng smiled after hanging up the phone.

That Mr. Fang is really impatient. He only got the contact information yesterday, and today he has already persuaded Cheng Jianwen to agree to cooperate.

He was curious about what kind of conditions Boss Fang had offered that could entice Cheng Jianwen.

He knew he had to ask, so since he had nothing else to do, he picked up the phone and dialed again.

"Hello, this is the China branch of Cheng's Group."

The call was quickly connected, and a pleasant female voice came through the receiver.

Li Yancheng frowned slightly. He had dialed Cheng Jianwen's office number, but a woman answered the phone. She sounded quite young, and he remembered that his younger brother's secretary was a man.

"This is Li Yancheng. Let Cheng Jianwen answer the phone."

"Hello Mr. Li, do you have an appointment?"

Click

Li Yancheng hung up the phone without saying a word.

After putting down the receiver, he reached for a document on the table, leaned back in his chair, and began to read it.

Meanwhile, on the other end, hearing the dial tone, the woman paused for a moment before realizing that the other party had hung up. She curiously took the receiver from her ear to look at it, then casually put it back on the landline, muttering to herself.

"What kind of person is he? If he didn't have an appointment, he should have just said so. He hung up the phone without saying a word. He's so rude."

She completely forgot that this was the general manager's office; people could call directly here without needing an appointment.

Just then, the office door was pushed open from the outside, and Cheng Jianwen appeared in the doorway. He had just heard the last few words the woman muttered, and with a slight frown, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Mr. Cheng, someone called just now. I asked him if he had an appointment, but he hung up without saying a word."

Cheng Jianwen was completely dumbfounded. "Damn it, do you even understand? They called my office directly, not the front desk. Why do they need an appointment?"
But he was too lazy to waste time with pleasantries and asked directly, "Did the other party say who they are?"

"Huh? Oh, it seems to be Li... Li something-Cheng, I think that's it."

Hey!
Cheng Jianwen really wanted to kick this woman out of his office.

His secretary wasn't feeling well and went to the hospital today. This woman is the company's receptionist. She said she was delivering something to his office, but he happened to go to the restroom, and this is what happened to him.

"Alright, that's all. You can go now."

Cheng Jianwen waved his hand wearily, indicating that the woman could leave.

The woman then realized what had happened and hurriedly apologized.

"Mr. Cheng, I'm so sorry, I forgot I was answering a call from your office."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Cheng Jianwen was too lazy to waste words with her and just wanted her to disappear from his sight as soon as possible.

If this woman hadn't come all the way from Hong Kong Island and had no relatives or friends on the mainland, he really would have wanted her to go straight home. How could she be so confused?

After watching her leave, Cheng Jianwen quickly walked to his desk, picked up the phone, and dialed a number.

"Hello, this is Li Yancheng."

Hearing the familiar voice coming from the phone receiver, Cheng Jianwen hurriedly explained, "Brother, it's me. I just went to the restroom. The receptionist answered the phone. She was delivering something to my office. The young lady was a bit confused and didn't understand the situation."

"I thought you changed your secretary."

"No, Kaiyang is doing a great job and has helped me a lot. I'm very comfortable with him, so why would I replace him? Kaiyang isn't feeling well today and went to the hospital."

"In short, just don't do anything reckless. You're different from other foreign investors who come to China to invest. They have one at home and dare to keep another one here. Yu Shi is in Beijing, and her family in the U.S. has been a great help to you. You need to be able to tell what's important and not make a mistake in matters of love."

"Don't worry, brother, our Cheng family doesn't have that kind of tradition."

Cheng Jianwen wasn't exaggerating. Since the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, the Cheng family has never taken a concubine; they have only had a principal wife, and this continues to this day.

"As long as you know what's going on, let's not talk about that. As for what I've heard, Lao Zhu just called me and said that Mr. Fang from Hong Kong contacted him. So, it seems you've agreed to cooperate with him?"

"The main problem is that I found it hard to refuse the conditions he offered. Brother, you know, our family is planning to move to Hong Kong Island, and those big families there think our family is an outsider, so they're making things difficult for us everywhere."

If our family wants to gain a foothold, we need to have a say in some key businesses, but even in the stock market we can't buy many shares, let alone in the primary market.

Mr. Fang's younger sister is the wife of the head of the family who wants to move to Australia. This family holds a lot of shares that our family urgently needs. I contacted them before to buy them, but they ignored me.

Mr. Fang told me that he could act as a middleman, so…

So that's how it is! This condition was indeed impossible for Cheng Jianwen to refuse.

However, after hesitating for a moment, Li Yancheng said, "Jianwen, I heard Chairman Cheng mention this during our casual chat the other day. I didn't respond at the time, but later I contacted him. If you don't want to cooperate with that Boss Fang, I can introduce you to someone else. With his help, you can not only get shares in that company, but you can even get more."

"Who is it?" Cheng Jianwen asked curiously.

Li Yancheng only mentioned his surname on the phone, and the second young master of the Cheng family looked on with delight.

With this person's help, the Cheng family could indeed quickly gain a foothold in Hong Kong.

"Brother, what's your relationship with him...?"

“I treated his illness, so I wouldn’t call him his savior, but I’m not far off from him.”

The implication is that you don't need to worry about owing this person a favor if you ask for their help.

Debts of gratitude are the hardest to repay. After hesitating for a while, Cheng Jianwen spoke again: "Brother, why don't we just forget about it? Let me ask this Boss Fang to introduce me first, and then we'll see how it goes. The person you're introducing has too much of a 'red' mark on him."

You know that even though Father wants to move the family to Hong Kong Island, he doesn't intend to completely sever ties with that place for the time being. If we get too close to the person you introduced us to now, it might trigger the fragile nerves of some people in the Ugly Kingdom.

The Cheng family cannot completely sever ties with Europe and America at present; if they did, the Cheng Group would definitely change hands immediately.

Although the Cheng family's accumulated wealth over generations ensures that even if they do nothing now, their substantial assets will guarantee a comfortable life for generations to come, it would be hard for anyone to accept handing over the company they worked so hard to build to someone else.

Therefore, they can only cut the meat with a dull knife and proceed slowly.

The person Li Yancheng introduced had such an obvious label that if the Cheng family were to get close to that family now, anyone with eyes could see what was going on.

"That's why I've been hesitant these past few days about whether to introduce him to you. Now that we have Mr. Fang, let's see how things go with him first. If it doesn't work out, we'll talk about it later."

"Okay, anyway, thanks bro."

"You're welcome. I'll definitely help if I can, but there's nothing I can do if I can't."

"Brother, I haven't given that Boss Fang a definite answer yet. I'm also hesitating. Is his desire to cooperate aimed at the Cheng family or at you?"

"No matter who you're dealing with, just cooperate with him if you want. If he really has other intentions, with his small size and the Fang family, he can't cause any trouble. Even if we were in Hong Kong, let alone Beijing, we could crush him without breaking a sweat. You don't need to worry about anything else."

Even over the phone, Cheng Jianwen could feel the murderous intent in his brother's words. Even though it wasn't directed at him, it still made his throat tighten.

His father always said that he lacked a certain fierceness and ruthlessness, and that he was prone to indecisiveness and hesitation when faced with important decisions. He seemed to be very thoughtful, but in reality, he was prone to missing opportunities.

Character can be tempered, but so can ruthlessness...

Cheng Jianwen thought to himself, "We can't possibly actually do something, can we?"

As for whether he could lead the Cheng family to new heights after taking over, or even just maintain what they have now, he would have been confident in the past.

But after dealing with his brother and coming to Hong Kong Island hoping to establish himself, his confidence suddenly vanished.

Even with the backing of the Cheng family, he's finding it difficult to move forward; what about in the future?

Li Yancheng, on the other end of the phone, noticed Cheng Jianwen's sudden emotional fluctuation and smiled faintly, saying, "Jianwen, don't think about things that aren't your business. You're not even forty yet, and you're still young no matter how you look at it."

Chairman Cheng's health is still quite good, and he can continue working for several more years, providing support and protection for you. You have a lot of room for trial and error; just take your time.

“But what about you, brother? You had already built a career when you were my age, and you didn’t have anyone to help you. I know very well that the path you took was extremely dangerous, and you could have been crushed to pieces if you hadn’t been careful.”

"Haha, our experiences are different, so we can't compare like that. Besides, who said I have no one to help me? Do you think I'm just a lazy old man?"

Don't suddenly feel sentimental. Time waits for no one. So, sort out your feelings, look ahead, do your best, and leave no regrets.

We are living in the best of times, a time of unprecedented change, with opportunities everywhere; it's just a matter of whether you can seize them.

Finally, I want to say that the Cheng family's plan to shift their industrial focus to Asia and China is excellent, but the pace of implementation is a bit slow. I don't mean to interfere with your decisions, nor do I mean that from my current position, I would hope that you would invest as much as possible in China.

Instead, I sincerely want to tell you, and the Cheng family, that this land beneath your feet will witness an economic miracle in the near future, and if you can participate in this miracle, the benefits you will gain will far exceed your imagination.

You must believe in the ability of the Chinese people to create miracles.

Cheng Jianwen understood that his brother felt the Cheng family was taking too small a step. Just as he was about to say something, his brother's voice came through the receiver again.

"Jianwen, you are now the general manager of Cheng's in China. You need to make your own judgments and decisions. What I'm telling you is just my judgment. Whether you do what I say is up to you."

My role is merely that of an advisor; everything I say should only be taken as a reference. As the decision-maker, you must make your own clear judgments.

That's all I have to say. Think it over yourself. I have other work to do, so I won't say any more.

"Well... okay, thank you, brother."

Cheng Jianwen didn't expect his brother to hang up the phone without giving him a chance to say more. But he also knew that his brother, as the director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, was very busy every day and had to deal with much more official business and worries than he, the general manager. It was already difficult enough for him to talk to him for so long, and he couldn't ask for more.

"You are welcome."

Li Yancheng replied with one sentence and then hung up the phone.

Meanwhile, Cheng Jianwen leaned against his desk, listening to the dial tone from the receiver. Only after a piercing warning sound came from the other end of the line due to the prolonged silence did he snap out of his daze and put the receiver back on the landline.

After hanging up the phone, he bent down, reached over his desk, opened a drawer, took out a pack of cigarettes, and lit one for himself.

He is not addicted to smoking. He can smoke a pack of cigarettes for a week without finishing it. He only lights one cigarette occasionally when he is upset or thinking about things, and it usually burns spontaneously. He smokes very little.

At this moment, he needed a cigarette to numb his senses and carefully consider what his brother had just said.

……

No sooner had Li Yancheng hung up the phone than another phone rang. When he answered it, as he expected, it was the first call to inquire about Jiang Feiyang's situation.

He didn't say much more. The case is under investigation, and relevant information should be kept confidential and not disclosed to outsiders.

Although he couldn't say much, he still told the other party that Jiang Feiyang was involved in a murder case, implying that he wanted to see if they wanted to get involved.

Upon hearing that the young man was involved in a murder case, the other party immediately changed the subject and started talking to Li Yancheng about other things, afraid that if he asked too many questions, he would also be considered a suspect.

The person making the call knew very well that Director Li was no ordinary person. If it were just a routine public security case, he might dare to laugh it off and say something to exonerate him. But once it involved a murder case, the nature of the case changed completely, and few people were willing to get involved in such a mess.

Li Yancheng was very satisfied with the other party's attitude. He chatted with them for a while before hanging up, saying he had to deal with official business. He believed that with this person taking the lead, there would definitely be more calls coming in, but relatively fewer.

This is why he wanted to reveal that Jiang Feiyang was involved in a murder case, to lighten his own burden. As for whether there would be pressure, given his current situation, few people would dare to put pressure on him in this matter.

(End of this chapter)