Black-bellied vs. Black-bellied: Ultimate Showdown

While speaking, the group arrived at the guest room.

There are only eight rooms in the garden, which are distributed around a corridor. The rooms in the west face the courtyard, the rooms in the east face the mountains, and there are independent soup pools on the side facing the mountains.

Si Ze and Qi Yu, who had the highest status, were naturally assigned two rooms with the highest specifications of mountain view. The two rooms were next to each other. Song Puxin and Fu Yansheng lived on both sides as personal companions.

The floor heating was turned on throughout the housing area. After entering the door, Qi Yu took off his suit jacket and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows to enjoy the beautiful scenery for a while.

After a while, someone knocked on the door, it was Fu Yansheng and Ye Qinru. After the two entered the door, they closed the door with their backhands. Ye Qinru said to Qi Yu, "Mr. Yu, please invite us to the tea room for a while, and it is estimated that the first step will be followed. What are your thoughts on the second round of negotiations, Mr. Qi?"

Qi Yu asked them back, "What do you think?"

Ye Qinru: "Their initial round offer is definitely high. What we want is absolute control of Lianxiu. The 53% of the stock is definitely not enough. Neither of them can afford it, let alone Ark Investment."

Ark Investment is the third largest shareholder that controls Lianxiu, with about 20% of the shares in its hands. Before Lianxiu went public, they began to intervene in the company's direction, which is also the main party that caused the current contradiction among decision-makers.

Ye Qinru said: "I will negotiate in a while, and I will lower the valuation to suppress their psychological price."

Qi Yu: "Are they going to be annoyed? I see that after Si Ze said that, the faces of the people on Lianxiu's side were not very good."

Ye Qinru: "General Manager Si has a special status. It's okay to sing a black face. This is also a negotiating strategy."

Qi Yu looked at Fu Yansheng again, and Fu Yansheng said, "I have no opinion. Since we have reached an agreement on the previous valuation, let's try to negotiate at this price now."

Ye Qin nodded and said, "That's fine, I'll continue to grind with them as President Qi's spokesperson later."

After a few people exchanged opinions, they went out to go to the tea room. Huang Junwen and another manager under Si Ze were already waiting at the end of the corridor, but Si Ze and Song Puxin were not seen.

Qi Yu asked, "Where's Si Ze?"

Huang Junwen smiled: "He and Assistant Song have some personal matters to deal with."

Ye Qinru didn't seem to take it seriously: "Then let's go there."

When they got to the tea room, they saw that Yu Lian also brought three people waiting inside, and a few people took their seats. Yu Lian said that Yan Xiu had the habit of taking a lunch break after dinner, and she could not meet them again after dinner.

After tea, everyone went straight to the theme.

Ye Qinru revealed that Si Yuan's reserve price, 250 million, was directly over half, and only quoted 125 million. Yu Lian frowned and shook her head, saying that it was too low and unacceptable.

The beauty frowned and had a sad face, which should have caused pity, but Ye Qinru was unmoved: "Mr. Yu, I didn't deliberately press your price, I met you twice, and I don't care about you. I also appreciate it very much, but one code is one code, your company’s valuation is really not high, if you have any doubts, I can analyze with you one by one how we price Lianxiu.”

Yu Lian has obviously lacked confidence after hearing this. After all, they are only a small listed company, and they are not of the same asset level as Siyuan Group, and they are already at a disadvantage in negotiation.

She said: "The fact is that I can't make the decision alone. When I look back, I will discuss it with Yan Xiu and the people in the company."

Ye Qinru poured her a cup of tea with her backhand, and said calmly, "It's okay, we can talk about any issues slowly, but it's really impossible to talk about it. This time I'll come here as a friend to play, and I'll ask President Yu next time. Have a meal."

After drinking the tea for two hours, the tea was dispersed. Everyone wanted to visit the garden and go back to rest. Those who were interested could follow the farmers in the manor to dig winter bamboo shoots in the back mountain.

After the round of negotiations just now, everyone has full confidence in winning Lianxiu within the expected price. I heard that the back mountain can dig bamboo shoots. Several people feel a little fresh and plan to go out together to join in the fun.

Qi Yu felt a little tired and did not participate, and returned to the room with Fu Yansheng.

Entering the door, Qi Yu recalled Ye Qinru's performance just now, and said with a smile, "This Ye Qinru is really ruthless in cutting the price, and he doesn't pity Xiangxiyu at all."

Fu Yansheng: "This is the first battle he has fought for you since he came to Siyuan, why don't you try your best?"

Qi Yu looked at Fu Yansheng and said strangely, "It's you, why are you acting like a stuffy gourd today?"

Regarding Lianxiu's matter, Fu Yansheng has been following up behind him. Qi Yu thought he could see Fu Yansheng's demeanor at the negotiating table again today, but whether it was lunch or just drinking tea, the other party didn't interrupt much.

Fu Yansheng explained: "Ye Qinru is the protagonist of the acquisition of Lianxiu, and I'm just your business consultant. Don't I seem to be taking the lead?"

Qi Yu was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was the case.

It was hot in the room, Qi Yu loosened his tie a little, walked to the terrace, opened the glass door, and a burst of cool air came in, making people feel a lot more comfortable.

The soup pool is built on the terrace outside the room. It is made of stone and surrounded by meadows, which has a simple and primitive feeling.

However, it was already the end of December, the temperature on the mountain was still low, and the pond was empty and had not yet filled with water. Qi Yu was a little curious about the method of soaking in the hot spring, and was about to go out to have a look when he suddenly heard a strange noise from next door.

He paused for a moment and listened intently. Although there was a wall between the terrace and the terrace, the air was still connected - the humming, the male's breath was mixed with the regular impact, and it got into Qi Yu's ear and listened to it. His face got hot, and he subconsciously took a small step back.

He who has experienced love affairs can of course recognize what kind of voice it is, but thinking about the person next door, Qi Yu raised his hand to cover his lips in disbelief.

He thought a little confusedly, are Sze and Song Puxin also lovers?

But in broad daylight, Size refused to participate in serious business negotiations. Isn't it a bit out of tune to do this kind of thing with his assistant in the room?

...

"What's wrong?" Fu Yansheng came from behind.

Qi Yu hurried back, closed the glass door, and shut out those voices.

"Nothing..." He turned around and said, "Would you like to go out for a walk?"

"Didn't you say you're tired and won't rest for a while?" Fu Yansheng said.

"Rest now, maybe you won't be able to sleep at night, just hold on." Qi Yu said.

Fu Yansheng did not refute. The walls of the corridor of the manor were covered with various ink paintings of landscapes and plants, and the corners were decorated with exquisite works of art, which were worth watching.

The two walked around the garden, watching and chatting, and went around to the back door of the manor. They happened to meet Huang Junwen and Ye Qinru and they came back after pounding bamboo shoots. A few people watched the winter bamboo shoots they dug. The farmers recommended them based on the tenderness of the bamboo shoots. I ordered a few suitable dishes and sent them directly to the back kitchen.

Size came during dinner, but Song Puxin didn't show up, but no one around Size cared about the whereabouts of a life assistant.

Seeing Si Ze looking refreshed, a suppressed and forbearing voice resounded in Qi Yu's mind again - it was obviously not from Si Ze.

He couldn't help but ask, "Where's Assistant Song?"

Size said: "He is not feeling well, so he won't come to dinner."

Ye Qinru was also taken aback when he heard the words: "Is Assistant Song not in good health? Last time we went to Yancheng for business together, he always seemed to stay in the hotel."

Qi Yu: "Go to Yancheng?"

Ye Qinru: "Last month, Mr. Si and I went to Yancheng to see Su Jing."

Size smiled and said, "He didn't eat much when he came, so don't worry about him."

There was also Yan Xiu who didn't come to dinner that night. Yu Lian explained embarrassingly at the dinner table that Yan Xiu was not feeling well and could not accompany her at night.

During the afternoon tea, Yu Lian said that she would discuss the price with Yan Xiu again. Yan Xiu would not come to dinner in the evening, which made people wonder if there was an internal disagreement between them.

Sure enough, at the dinner table that night, Yu Lian never mentioned the price again, and only chatted with them about romance.

After dinner, someone set up a game to play cards. Size seemed very interested. He asked Qiyu if he wanted to be with him. Qiyu was not interested in it. But Fu Yansheng was pulled by Huang Junwen and stayed behind.

Qi Yu went back to the room alone, and saw a waiter standing at the door of Si Ze's room with a tray in one hand and a room card in the other, and seemed a little hesitant.

He asked, "What are you doing here?"

The waiter hurriedly explained: "Mr. Si asked the kitchen to make a porridge with bamboo shoots and lean meat and send it to this room, but it seems that no one is in it."

Qi Yu frowned and pointed to the room next door: "You try knocking that one."

They were all together, and the waiter believed what he said, put away the room card and knocked on the door of the next room, and the door opened after a while.

The waiter repeated what he just said. Qiyu Station was not able to see the person inside the door. After only a few seconds, a weak voice sounded and said "thank you" to the waiter.

Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief and quietly walked into his room. The phone vibrated in his trouser pocket. He took it out and saw that Fu Yansheng had just sent him a message.

F1S: "You take a hot spring to rest early today. I'll play cards with them and go back to my room, so I won't be looking for you."

Qi Yu replied, "Okay." Just now, he told the waiter at the dinner table that he wanted to take a bath in the hot spring. The customer service had already come over and filled him with water. The terrace was filled with steaming mist.

But I don't know if I heard Si Ze and Song Puxin's voice in the afternoon when they were doing that, Qi Yu was sitting in the pool full of things he shouldn't think about, but instead he thought of his feelings...

Qi Yu shook his head and scolded himself "the color makes the mind faint", and quickly got rid of the distracting thoughts and calmed himself down.

After soaking in the hot spring for 20 minutes, Qi Yu was completely relaxed, wiped his body and lay down on the bed, and quickly fell asleep, but due to the jet lag, he woke up in the middle of the night.

Looking at the time, it was only one o'clock in the morning. Qi Yu couldn't sleep. He vaguely remembered that there was a reading area at the entrance of the corridor. He wanted to find two books to read, so he put on his robe and got up. Let's have some conversation.

"...How long have you been like this with him?"

Qi Yu was startled, almost thinking that he heard Fu Yansheng's voice wrong.

"A year and a half..."

Is this... Song Puxin?

"He forced it?" Fu Yansheng asked.

After a few seconds, there was an almost inaudible "um".

Qi Yu frowned, what are they talking about?

"You applied for a transfer for personal reasons before, is that the reason?"

"..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Fu Yansheng's voice was obviously a little anxious, "You can tell the above that you have been threatened... This is beyond the scope of your work, and you don't need to do this at all."

"He took pictures..."

There was another silence, and Fu Yansheng said solemnly, "I will talk to Lao Ren about this matter. Your situation is so wrong now..."

"No need..." Song Puxin's voice paused, tired and weak, "He has changed a lot, and it will be over soon anyway, so let's do it."

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【Interlude】

During the day, I heard Size and Song Puxin making stuffed with sauce.

Qi Yu:  …

In the evening, I heard Fu Yansheng and Song Puxin have a secret conversation.

Qi Yu:  …

Qi Yu: I know too much today!