Chapter 1600

Chapter 1600

Chapter 1600
He Mingfa rushed into the gate of the inn quickly, took off the bamboo hat, took off the coir raincoat and handed it to the attendant next to him, took a dry towel and wiped his wet face, and then asked, "Where is the young master?"

"Waiting for your reply in the room." Someone responded immediately.

He Mingfa stopped talking, threw out the towel and walked straight to the backyard of the inn.His boss, Li Nai, rented out the entire yard as a temporary residence in Changhua.This is already the third day of their stay in Changhua, and the weather still hasn't improved. The heavy rain has plunged the entire town of Changhua into a swamp. Fortunately, the inn they are staying in is relatively high and has not been greatly affected.He was ordered to go to the pier to see if the sea conditions allowed him to set sail. He went out and turned around and came back. The bamboo hat and coir raincoat hardly helped, and his body was still basically soaked.

He Mingfa is the steward of this group of people, responsible for arranging the daily life and schedule of everyone, including the boss Li Nai. One of the important reasons why he was able to get this position that many people covet is that his uncle worked in Furuifeng. Extraordinary status.Although Fu Ruifeng's old steward, He Qiang, had a foreign surname, Li Jifeng's family did not regard him as an outsider, and this trust continued to the next generation, and He Qiang's nephew and nephew continued to assist Li Jifeng's son.When Li Nai came to Sanya for the first time, he was accompanied by He Qiang. Now that He Qiang is old and unable to go to sea for a long time, but the stewards who accompany Li Nai are still the He family, which is also a special kind. inherited.

He Mingfa knocked on the door and entered the house, then reported to Li Nai: "Master, the seaside is very stormy, it's still not suitable to go out to sea today."

Li Nai sighed, "I've been stuck in Changhua for two or three days... how about the land route?"

"The carts and horses in Changhua were cleared out by the nearby sugarcane plantations a few days ago to grab the harvest. Now I can't find a mule." He Mingfa replied regretfully: "And it is said that Changhua A section of the official road leading to Danzhou was washed away by flash floods, there may be problems with traffic, even if the weather improves, it will take time to repair."

"Oh, what a bad day!" Li Nai stood in front of the window, looking at the pouring rain outside, and said with emotion: "If it wasn't for this rain, I should have finished my work and went back. Before leaving, I specially put the The matter in Sanya was postponed for a few days, and it turned out to be delayed."

Changhua is not far from Danzhou, but in such bad weather, Li Nai is useless even in Haihan Kingdom.Fortunately, after several years of development and construction in Changhua, the living conditions are not too bad. Although the situation in Changhua Town is a bit miserable, the inn they live in is not worry-free except that they cannot go out.The only problem is that there is no civilian telegraph service in this place, so Li Nai has no way to get in touch with Sanya or Danzhou for the time being, so he can only stay here and wait for the weather to clear up.

As for Danzhou, on the day Li Nai left, Xun Pengcheng had already received a call back from Sanya, confirming that Li Nai, the third son of Fu Ruifeng, would come to Danzhou to discuss specific matters in person.Both Xun Pengcheng and Zhang Jinbao were inspired by this news. Zhang Jinbao, who was a dead horse as a living horse doctor, took this as a life-saving straw, while Xun Pengcheng had no hope of success at all, so he sent a telegram to ask for help. It's just a matter of luck.But neither of them expected that Li Nai would give an answer so quickly, expressing his willingness to come to Danzhou for an interview, which meant that the matter of Haifeng Poetry Society might turn around.

For Zhang Jinbao, this is tantamount to the rebirth of the Jedi. These research projects have been unable to be effectively converted into productivity, and his capital chain is about to be broken. If there is no strong foreign aid to intervene, it will bring funds and more to the Haifeng Poetry Society. With a good external environment, it may be difficult for his career to last for too long.If a commercial predator like Fu Ruifeng is willing to make a move, then anything is possible.

For Xun Pengcheng, this was a complete surprise. He never thought that he could get in touch with a big man like Li Nai, but in Li Nai's call back, he was named and asked to be the contact person, and arranged to have a relationship with Zhang Jinbao. Waiting for someone's meeting.This means that Xun Pengcheng also took this opportunity to make friends with real big shots in the upper class.Of course, the premise is that he doesn't make any mistakes in his follow-up performance. This kind of big man often has no eyes, and a few mistakes may turn his impression into a negative score.

In addition, there is another point that makes Xun Pengcheng very excited, that is, Zhang Jinbao promised to give him [-]% of the shares of Jonesy College as a thank you after the matter is completed. If the matter can be negotiated in the end, then he will have another The pen is a windfall, and because of this, he will have a corresponding status in Danzhou. In the future, it will be much easier to settle down here to buy property and develop contacts.Moreover, he was born as a scholar, and participating in the operation of the academy is undoubtedly one of the shortcuts to improve his status, which is much higher than running a plantation.

If it is said that the possibility of getting this return is very slim, then Li Nai's call back has greatly changed the situation. Since the other party is willing to come to Danzhou to have a look in person, Xun Pengcheng optimistically estimates that there is at least a [-]% to [-]% chance of making this happen. thing.Of course, before Li Nai arrived here, he still needed to reconfirm the validity of this return promise with Zhang Jinbao, and it would be best if he could write it down in black and white.

However, Xun Pengcheng may have been too excited and intentionally or unintentionally ignored another matter mentioned in the telegram. Li Nai said that before he arrived in Danzhou, he would notify the relevant local personnel to contact him.Xun Pengcheng subconsciously believed that the so-called "relevant personnel" were the staff of Fu Ruifeng stationed here, but he never expected that there were other possibilities.

After Zhang Jinbao personally came to the inn to confirm the telegram, he took the initiative to express that he would put down the previous promise in written form, which was exactly what Xun Pengcheng wanted, and naturally he would not object.So Zhang Jinbao set up relevant documents in the inn, as long as the current operating problems of Haifeng Poetry Society can be properly resolved, then Xun Pengcheng will get [-]% of the dry shares of Qiongxi Academy donated by Zhang Jinbao.The two got what they needed and were in a good mood, so Zhang Jinbao acted as host and invited Xun Pengcheng to a restaurant in the city to have a big meal, and Xun Pengcheng also let go of the knots that had troubled him for many days, and had a drink with Zhang Jinbao Zhang Jinbao's attendants helped him into the room when he returned to the inn after dinner.

Xun Pengcheng lay down and slept until evening, when he was awakened by a knock on the door.Xun Pengcheng was quite displeased, because he remembered that before he fell asleep, he specially told the buddy not to disturb his rest without being told, how could this man have such a poor memory.Xun Pengcheng got up and lit the candle with the fire folder on the table, drank a few sips of cold water from the teapot to moisten his throat, and then opened the door unhurriedly.

Standing outside the door was not an inn clerk, but a strange man Xun Pengcheng had never seen before.The man smiled at Xun Pengcheng and asked, "Mr. Xun Pengcheng?"

Xun Pengcheng was already a little unhappy to be woken up in his sleep, and he didn't like seeing this man's smile, so he just nodded indifferently and said, "It's me, I don't know who you are?"

The man replied: "I'm Wang Baisuo, following Shangfeng's order, I'm coming to the inn to meet Mr. Xun."

Xun Pengcheng didn't think there was anything wrong in a trance, subconsciously thought that this person should be Li Nai's subordinate, and thought that this should not be easily offended, lest Li Nai be called a small report by him when he arrived in Danzhou, so he let him into the room He sat down in the chair, and asked him casually if he had dinner and if he wanted to have some together.

"I have already had dinner. If Mr. Xun wants to eat something, please feel free to do so. Maybe you can ask the waiter to bring it to the room, so as not to delay our business discussion." Wang Baisuo did not sit down immediately after entering the room, but After looking around the house for a week and seeing the layout of the room clearly, he sat down and made suggestions to Xun Pengcheng.

Xun Pengcheng didn't think there was anything wrong with the other party's proposal, so he went out and called the waiter over, and asked him to go to the kitchen to get some hot food for himself, and make a pot of good tea by the way.The clerk responded and was about to leave, but Xun Pengcheng held him back and said in a low voice, "Didn't I tell you not to disturb me during the rest time, why did you let someone knock on the door?"

Xun Pengcheng didn't mean to reprimand the clerk when he said this, but he had to stay in the inn for a while. If his words didn't work, he would inevitably cause a lot of trouble in the future, so he had to let the clerk know that he had to listen to what he said.Of course, it would be bad for the person in the room to hear this, as it would definitely offend the other party, so Xun Pengcheng deliberately lowered his voice.

Unexpectedly, the clerk had a strange expression on his face, and also responded in a low voice: "Don't blame me, this official asked you which room you live in as soon as he came here. How can a villain dare to push back and block you? You can only lead the way honestly!"

Officer?Xun Pengcheng was immediately shocked, is Li Nai really so grand?Before he even arrived in Danzhou, he was able to force the local officials in Danzhou to run errands for him. What kind of power is this?Since he is a member of the government, he should not be neglected.Xun Pengcheng let go of the buddy and told him to go down quickly to prepare tea, then returned to the room, cupped his hands to Wang Baisuo who was sitting in the room, and said, "I don't know that Brother Wang is an official servant, but I was rude just now. I hope Brother Wang can't be blamed!"

Wang Baisuo smiled and said, "Everyone is serving the executive committee, and the division of labor is different. You don't have to be polite, Mr. Xun."

Seeing that Wang Baisuo was easy to talk to, Xun Pengcheng asked tentatively, "Which yamen does Brother Wang work for? The city government or the culture and education department?"

Wang Baisuo shook his head and said, "None."

Xun Pengcheng thought for a while and said: "Then it must be in the yamen in charge of commerce." He thought that since Li Nai had contacted someone from the government, it would not be a completely irrelevant yamen.There are only a few yamen involved in Zhang Jinbao's stall, and if they are deceived one by one, they can always be deceived correctly.

Unexpectedly, Wang Baisuo still denied Xun Pengcheng's guess. When Xun Pengcheng was about to guess again, the waiter had already brought a pot of hot tea.Xun Pengcheng told the waiter to step back first, poured out two cups of tea by himself, pushed one of them in front of Wang Baisuo, and said, "The high mountain tea in this store is really good. I heard from the staff that Mayor Zhang of Danzhou also likes this kind of tea very much." , but Brother Wang lives locally, so he must be used to it long ago."

The Mayor Zhang mentioned by Xun Pengcheng is Zhang Xin, the local official of Danzhou.Zhang Xin has contributed a lot to Danzhou becoming a famous cultural city in Haihan in just a few years. It is the New Culture Movement and vocational training he advocated in Danzhou that made local academies spring up like mushrooms after rain. Zhang Jinbao's Jonesey College is also one of the beneficiaries.

Wang Baisuo nodded his thanks, took a sip from the teacup, and said, "I heard that Mr. Xun came from Sanya. In fact, this kind of tea is also sold in the market in Sanya, but there is no big name to promote it, and the name is not well known."

Xun Pengcheng felt a little touched when he heard this, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it will be much easier to handle things these days if a big shot comes forward."

What he thought of was that Zhang Jinbao's poetry club was secretly engaged in those research projects. Even though Zhang Jinbao himself was a well-known figure in Danzhou, his energy was still not enough to put these projects on the table.If it wasn't for the coincidence that he met him and got in touch with Li Nai by luck, Zhang Jinbao's projects would probably have to wait to cool down.But as long as Li Nai is willing to come forward, I believe things will definitely turn around. After all, for people like Zhang Jinbao and Xun Pengcheng, Li Nai is the real powerful figure. The person sitting in front of him should be the best example.

Wang Baisuo gently turned the teacup with his fingers, and asked in a deep voice, "I heard that the third young master of Fu Ruifeng came to Danzhou to do business this time, and Mr. Xun was the one who contacted him?"

Xun Pengcheng replied: "That's exactly the case. I am lucky to have the opportunity to serve the third young master." He thought that although Wang Baisuo was a member of the government, he should be running errands for Li Nai when he came to find him this time. Take the opportunity to tout a few words to show your sincerity in cooperation.

Wang Baisuo nodded and said, "Besides Haifeng Poetry Society and Mr. Xun, are there any other insiders?"

Xun Pengcheng said: "That's hard to say, the notice of Haifeng Poetry Club is posted in the city, and there are probably [-] or [-] people who have seen it."

"I mean the matter of contacting Mr. Xun and the third young master Li." Wang Baisuo corrected the direction of his question.

Xun Pengcheng didn't doubt that he was there, and replied honestly: "Should only I, Zhang Jinbao and Zhang Shanzhang from Jonesey Academy know...of course, brother Wang is also counted now."

Wang Baisuo nodded and said: "That's the best. Mr. Xun should not disclose it to others for the time being. We will wait for arrangements after the matter of Young Master Li San is finished."

"Waiting for arrangements? Who arranged them?" Xun Pengcheng didn't remember it for a while.

Wang Baisuo smiled and said, "I will wait for my arrangement."

"Why do you want to listen to Brother Wang's arrangement?" Xun Pengcheng couldn't help but sneered: "Could it be that Brother Wang thinks he is taller than Young Master Li San?"

(End of this chapter)