fish in the financial tsunami

Chapter 45 Su Xiaoyu's Self-Esteem of the Poor (1)
The self-esteem of the poor is that they know that they can't afford it, but they say that I don't want it.

——Su Xiaoyu
1
Jiuguang Backstreet is full of people and traffic at any time. Various vehicles waiting to enter the underground garage of the shopping mall are lined up along the street, moving slowly.There are rows of restaurants from various countries on the side of the street. On a cold and rainy afternoon, there is a layer of white mist near the window, and the two worlds inside and outside are blurred.

When Su Xiaoyu arrived at the coffee bean, Tang Zhongwen was already there, sitting alone by the window, in such a short time, he was still working, looking down at the handheld computer, with a silent profile, against the blurred white layer on the window The fog makes the facial features even more profound.

She had thought about a lot of problems on the subway when she came, but when she walked over, she began to hesitate and shrink back. She suddenly didn't want to go any further, and suddenly wanted to turn around and leave this place, out of Tang Zhongwen's sight.

Before it was too late, he raised his eyes to see her, then nodded to her.

Tang Zhongwen said the first sentence after the two people faced each other, asking her, "What do you want to drink?"

She was in a trance just now, and she forgot to order something to drink, and wanted to stand up and go to the counter, but he was one step ahead of her, stood up and looked down at her, and asked again, "What do you want to drink?"

She looked up at him passively, before he had time to speak, he made the decision for her, "Chocolate, wait a minute."

After he finished speaking, he turned around. The only thing Su Xiaoyu could do was stare at his back in a daze. Tang Zhongwen put a lot of pressure on others no matter when and where, and the lady at the cashier was also a little nervous when talking to him. , In the end, she got the wrong money. From such a long distance, Su Xiaoyu could see that her ears were turning red.

She is the same, she has always been a little afraid of him, she can still clearly remember the oppressive feeling when he said the word deadline to her for the first time, that feeling was so strong that she had no communication with him afterwards In, unconsciously cautious.

In her mind, he has always been the workaholic with perfectionist obsessive-compulsive disorder, her former immediate boss, she thinks so, and she is so sure, so what about him?How have you been thinking about her all this time?
Without time to think too much, Tang Zhongwen had already walked back in front of her, and when he sat down, he put the silver number plate in his hand on the table, next to his coffee cup.

The cup of coffee was full, the rim of the cup was white, without any trace of drinking, when Su Xiaoyu opened his mouth, his eyes only fell on it, as if it was such a beautiful thing worth seeing.

Her first words were, "Vincent, thank you for the recommendation."

It took a few seconds to hear his answer, just a few words, "You don't need to thank me." Then he finally reached out and picked up the coffee cup.

Su Xiaoyu lost the target in front of her eyes out of thin air, but her eyes did not move up with the coffee cup, and remained in the empty spot, silent.

He didn't speak, and waited for her.

The coffee bean is always full, surrounded by chatter and whispers, and noisy, but the two of them are so quiet. When the lady came over to deliver the chocolates, she hesitated for a moment, put away the silver number plate after putting it down, He walked backwards without daring to say a word.

The hot chocolate in the transparent glass was very light in color. Su Xiaoyu stretched out her hand to hold it, and through the thick glass, the heat spread to her palm bit by bit. The taste is worlds apart.

She originally had countless words to say, but just this one sip was bland and tasteless, and her heart was confused. She didn't expect him to get it so fast. After that terrible rainy night, she also vaguely felt some differences from him to her, but every time Thinking about it in the end, she felt ridiculous and didn't want to think about it. Now that she thinks about it, maybe she subconsciously doesn't want to think about that possibility at all.

She has kept her eyes closed all the way, blindfolded, a blind man riding a blind horse, facing a deep pool in the middle of the night, and she is not really blind, if she keeps pretending like this, she will only die.

Thinking of this, she took a deep breath, and continued, "Vincent, I really appreciate your recommendation, but I hope you made this recommendation because I am worthy of ENSEAD, not for other reasons, so that it will be beneficial to everyone. It's not fair, even to me, is it?"

She finished these words in one breath, still didn't raise her head, and couldn't hear his answer. A few seconds later, she saw the white porcelain cup being put back to its original position, and there was a slight sound when it came into contact with the table.

Her heart jumped together with the sound, and she tried harder, Su Xiaoyu forced herself to raise her eyes, watching Tang Zhongwen open his mouth to speak.

He was also looking at her, but he didn't give her a chance to speak, his voice was flat, just a statement.

"You don't have to thank me."

What's the meaning?Originally speaking that sentence exhausted all of Su Xiaoyu's efforts, but upon hearing such a sentence, she suddenly forgot how to continue.

The four eyes intersect, Tang Zhongwen's eyebrows are high, his eyes are deep, and it is difficult to distinguish the emotions in the eyes in the shadows. She has never tried to look at him carefully before. At this moment, she is full of confusion, and she feels that his eyes are complicated and incomprehensible. Essentials.

He didn't look away, stared straight into her eyes and said, "Su Xiaoyu, I don't think you are worthy of such a recommendation, if I can. But ENSEAD only accepts recommendations from senior alumni, so you don't have to thank me, It was not me who made this recommendation."

2
Tang Zhongwen didn't speak fast, and the sentences he spoke were not complicated, but the only listener, Su Xiaoyu, looked dazed, his lips parted silently, and the focus of his eyes slowly faded away.

When she didn't answer, he just kept looking at her straight, almost rude.

Or it may be out of style, and it may make yourself laugh in the years to come, but compared to the expectation of not knowing when we will see you again, these are nothing.

How long?How long had he known the girl in front of him?For such a long time, the time they really spend together is pitifully rare, but he always thinks of her suddenly. In his memory, she has always been the way they first met, and she ran to him with a thick stack of information brochures in her arms. In the office, I looked at him a little nervously; when I heard a deadline similar to mission impossible, I would droop my shoulders, and then take a small breath; and after staying up all night, I would rub my eyes while walking in the corridor, and saw him go Guo also pretended nothing happened, and put both hands behind his back to pinch. Because of the pain, his eyebrows furrowed a little bit, maybe it was instinct, and he didn't know it, and sometimes he smiled hard at him.

When did he notice her?There was no sign of it, so she was allowed to swim by, missing in the sudden change.

He came from an aristocratic family, and his journey was extremely smooth, until that day at the auction house, when she saw Chen Sulei appearing behind her, she turned her head and looked at the man smiling, with a faint light in his eyes, and a place under his chest suddenly wrinkled. After a while, it wasn't pain, just regret.

Regret not telling her about the bits and pieces she left in her memory, regret not letting her know that although he is strict, she is always different in his heart, or those are not things he can say, but At least he could tell her how many times he stopped at one end of the corridor, silently watched her sleepily walk ahead, and finally disappeared around the corner, without calling her or wanting to walk past her, I just don't want her to pinch herself again and smile hard at him.

Su Xiaoyu's voice sounded in her ear, and she finally spoke, calling his name, the blankness in her eyes gradually receded, replaced by surprise and confusion, and even a little nervousness, "Vincent, you, do you know who recommended me?" ?"

He knew that when he wanted to say that person's name, he felt a tightness in his chest before he could speak. This kind of boredom was no stranger to him. He had already experienced it once when he was face to face with Chen Sulei on the 36th floor of Shangri-La that day. He did not expect it to come back again at this moment.

She had been standing beside that man that day, wearing a little white dress, without looking left and right, because it was a kind of beauty that she didn't know, and it shone even more, and when he approached, she felt that her eyes hurt.

It was Fan Wen who proposed to intervene in the equity acquisition project of Huicheng Industry, but he was the one who insisted on it.Ren Huicheng didn't make the news too big. It was too late when they contacted Ren's parents and sons, and Ren Yue always followed his father's lead, so the project was not going well from the very beginning.Later, Fan Wen finally learned through other channels that Chen Sulei had already contacted Ren Huicheng about the acquisition intention. Chen Sulei acted meticulously.

But he persisted.

For this reason, Fan Wen also had a dispute with him, and asked him incredulously, "Are you going to continue? How do you do it? Huicheng Industry has not yet been listed. This is not a public tender. The original stock has changed, so there is no transparency at all." , do you know what Chen Sulei’s offer is? What price do you want to get? Or as long as it’s something Chen Sulei wants, you want to grab it even if you lose money?”

He was silent at the time, and looked at Fan Wen for a long time, but in the end Fan Wen was helpless, shook his head and walked out without saying a word to him.

What else can I say, he understands what Fan Wen means, and he doesn't want to refute, sometimes people suddenly want to vent in a stupid way, and he keeps silent because of self-knowledge.

Later, I met Chen Sulei at the reception. He walked up to him alone, raised his glass and smiled, but spoke simply and directly, "Mr. Tang, you have a good eye."

"The environmental protection lighting industry is indeed promising. Didn't Mr. Chen notice this very early on?" Twists and turns and evasion have never been his strong point, and his answers also went straight to the point.

The smile on Chen Sulei's face was still there, and he continued, "Yes, it's a pity that in business, there are some things that can't be done at the same time. I'm afraid it's more preconceived factors."

"The so-called preconception may also be because there has never been a chance to compare. How can the only choice be called a choice, don't you think?" He answered without any intention of retreating, and looked directly at the other party.

Chen Sulei also looked at him, the smile gradually faded, and finally disappeared, and finally he suddenly said something, turned around and looked at a certain point in the distance, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Tang believes that as long as there is a chance to compare, the so-called preconceived choice , will it change?"

He was a little stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood what this man was talking about. He was silent for a while, and the reception was bustling. For some reason, there was no one around them, or even if someone paid attention, he couldn't understand. "Sorry, you don't have to answer this question. In fact, even I want to know the result, if there is any result."

"The result? How can there be no result if there is no choice?" His words blurted out.

Chen Sulei smiled, looked down at his feet, and he also looked over. They were standing at the edge of the restaurant, the transparent glass floor under their feet smoked jadeite, and there were koi swimming below, which was extremely ingenious.

"How?" Chen Sulei asked instead.

He secretly sighed, this man's speech has nine twists and eighteen bends, but he can understand every sentence, I really don't know how to explain it.

"How beautiful is a glass fish tank?"

"You are wrong." Chen Sulei shook his head, "She is free, she has always been, and she will never be the one waiting to choose."

He didn't expect to hear this sentence. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly sighed in his heart and finally said, "I don't understand you."

Chen Sulei turned to look at him, raised his glass with a smile, and said the last sentence, "Well, how about we make a bet?"

"Winson, Wensen?" The familiar voice was Su Xiaoyu who was still sitting in front of him, calling his name softly.

He turned to look at her, the anxiety in her eyes was even heavier, and she stuttered rarely, and asked again in a low voice, "Well, I want to know, is the person who recommended me, is it Su Lei?"

He was silent, and the voice sounded in his ears again—how about this, why don't we make a bet?

It turns out that there is such a man in this world who waits for a result in a way that no one can understand. Is he really so sure that her choice will always be him?

Su Xiaoyu was still looking at him, keeping her eyes on him for a moment, persistently waiting for an answer, while he looked down at her eager eyes, with mixed emotions in his heart, and finally nodded silently.

3
It's Sulei!
Finally got a definite answer, Su Xiaoyu took a breath almost inaudibly, still confused, shocked and panic came out of nowhere.

Why him?How could it be him?

She still remembered Su Lei's dark eyes when she asked Su Lei that he wanted to take the MBA exam, and asked her, "Really? Then where are you going?" Then she turned and left in her incomprehensible answer, and went to France alone. For two full weeks.

It was the longest separation she'd had since being with him, and it was impossible not to be impressed.

What now?
Now he gives such a recommendation when she doesn't know, he treats her well?Yes, he was nice to her!But she couldn't understand, and she was full of confusion. What was confused was not where she was going, but where he wanted her to go? !
Confused, she hurriedly stood up and said goodbye, "Vincent, I want to go first, I'm sorry."

He hesitated to speak, but she had already turned around, her steps were a little hasty, she almost tripped over the chair leg, her arms tightened, and she turned around to see Tang Zhongwen standing behind her, holding her arm, looking at her with a complicated expression , only said two words.

"Little fish."

She didn't answer, her arms twitched slightly, her shoulders tensed up because of tension, she just watched him silent.

The surroundings were full of talking and laughing, the music was soft, and the aroma of coffee was overflowing, but the silence around the two of them made the air condense. Her whole body was stiff, and his eyes were complicated. It was he who loosened his five fingers and let her go.

As soon as she felt relieved, there was a slight sense of relief on her face, she said goodbye again and turned around, walked hurriedly, and walked out of the door in a blink of an eye.

And he stood there alone, watching her leave until her back disappeared.

(End of this chapter)