Chapter 624
: Encounter with Bai Susu
Xu Boan understood Malu's concerns and the friendship between brothers. He put down his chopsticks and said to Malu, "Xiaoyao, to be honest, you have been on business trips since you came to the company, and you don't know much about the company's current situation.
The company is currently in a critical period of reform and merger. After the reform, there will definitely be a lot fewer positions. I know that even if the company reforms, based on my current situation, my position will not change much, and there is a high probability that it will even rise. However, after the company is reformed, the scale will definitely not be as large as before.
Even if I get promoted, it doesn’t mean much to me. The most important thing is that I am still young and don’t want to be tied down here for the rest of my life, so I choose to follow my heart. I decided to leave just when the company was undergoing reform and merger.”
After listening to Xu Bo'an's words, Ma Lu still expressed his confusion and said, "Brother, although the company is going to reform, your rank is here. No matter how much the reform is, you are still a leader, and your salary will not be reduced. It's so hard to find a job now, and you have finally made it to where you are today. What are you not satisfied with? You have to resign. We are almost 40 years old. What else can we do if we leave this industry?"
Malu cares about Xu Boan from the bottom of his heart. He doesn't know Xu Boan's true intentions, so he is a little confused about Xu Boan's choice.
Xu Boan smiled and said, "Xiaoyao, you don't have to worry about this. I made the decision after careful consideration. I am now preparing to start my own business! The reason I told you this is because you just won the Weizhou project, right? If you stay, you should be able to get a promotion and a raise. It's a good opportunity for me to talk to you and see what your plans are next. Are you going to pursue a career as a project manager, or just take a job as a slacker? I can help you smooth things over in advance!"
Malu sighed and said helplessly: "I just came to the company and I am originally a low-level employee. Whether the company reforms or not does not have much impact on me as a newcomer. I originally planned to work hard with you. Now you suddenly told me that you resigned. I am still a little overwhelmed! How can I think so far ahead and consider the next step?"
Hearing Ma Lu's words, Xu Bo'an changed the subject and said with a smile: "If you want to follow me, it's not too late now. I'm going to work on my own. It's not impossible for you to follow me! I will take you in, and you will be freer that way!"
Now Xu Boan has the powerful bonsai world as his trump card. When it comes to entrepreneurship, he is absolutely confident in himself and is sure of success.
Therefore, for a close friend like Malu who knows him inside and out, although he cannot directly tell him the incredible fact that he owns a bonsai world, but he is willing to help him from the bottom of his heart. So Xu Boan simply does not beat around the bush and starts poaching people directly from Malu.
Hearing what Xu Bo'an said, Ma Lu finally began to relax and said, "Tsk, you haven't even started yet, and you're already poaching people? Show some sincerity, or else give me a car and a secretary first!"
Xu Boan laughed and scolded, "I don't even have a secretary myself, you are so flattering! Seriously, I dared to resign from my position as the top boss, you have to believe in my ability! If you really want to start a business, it will only take a few minutes. I guarantee that you can come to work in no more than a month!"
Although Malu didn't know much about Xu Boan's connections, he had a completely different view of Xu Boan since he learned that he possessed superb medical skills.
Combined with the fact that he actually took the initiative to resign from his position as the head of such a large company as Dongjiang Erjian, this series of actions made Malu feel that Xu Boan was planning a big move!
As Xu Boan's brother for many years, Ma Lu knows Xu Boan very well and knows that Xu Boan is definitely not the kind of person who is proud and complacent and likes to brag.
On the contrary, he felt that Xu Boan was a man who was extremely loyal to his friends and was extremely down-to-earth and steady in his work, otherwise he would not have thought of coming to Dongjiang to hang out with Xu Boan.
Malu guessed that the reason why Xu Boan was so confident and dared to resign and work on his own was probably because Xu Boan not only achieved a high position in his career in the past two years, but also made a lot of money with his superb medical skills. Therefore, he made such a decision. The more Malu thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was correct.
After figuring this out, Malu said, "Then I'll have to think about it carefully later!"
Xu Boan smiled and said, "It's okay, just think about it, brother welcomes you anytime!"
While the two were chatting, all the dishes were served. They ate and talked, and both the host and the guest were happy.
After finishing their meal, the two did not think about going home directly, because they were hungry and only walked around roughly, without taking the time to feel the environment here. Now that they were full, they decided to walk around here again, enjoy the quiet and leisure here, and help digest their food.
Just as the two of them were sitting on the chairs on the observation deck outside and preparing to have a cup of coffee, Xu Bo'an inadvertently glanced and saw a figure that seemed very familiar.
Xu Boan subconsciously looked up and found that the person was Bai Susu. Then he looked again and saw that the person accompanying him was Hu Shaojie. How could Bai Susu and Hu Shaojie be together?
Xu Bo'an was really confused. Regardless of what Hu Shaojie looked like, after all, Hu Shaojie had previously damaged the Zhang family's ancestral medical book of Bai Susu's grandfather and wanted to frame Xu Bo'an, which exposed his ugly face. Bai Susu also knew about this and expressed her deep disgust for it.
Therefore, Xu Boan was very surprised when he saw them together, and he couldn't help but look at them a few more times.
Malu saw Xu Boan staring in one direction for a long time without moving. Out of curiosity, he also looked in the direction of Xu Boan, and then a look of immediate understanding appeared on his face.
At this time, Ma Lu said to Xu Bo'an with a smile on his face: "Brother, I was wondering why you are petrified right now. It turns out that you can't take your eyes off the beautiful woman!"
Although Malu had seen Bai Suzhen in the hospital, at that time, Bai Suzhen was not only wearing a white coat, but also a mask. Malu did not see Bai Suzhen's true face, so he said this now.
It has to be said that with Bai Suzhen's beauty and innate temperament, she is definitely the kind of person that can be spotted in the crowd at a glance, so Malu would say this about Xu Boan.
Hearing Ma Lu's words, Xu Bo'an came back to his senses instantly, turned his head and said to Ma Lu: "What nonsense are you talking about? I just saw an acquaintance!"
Malu said with a smile: "Even if he is an acquaintance, it is impossible for him to stare at him for so long. There must be something fishy!"
Xu Boan said helplessly: "Brother, I can't control your brain, you can think whatever you want." Malu looked at Xu Boan meaningfully. Xu Boan ignored the boy who was thinking divergently, but drank his tea by himself.
After all, life is full of different things, and the feelings between people are very complicated. Xu Bo'an has lived in the world for more than 30 years, and he often sees people who were enemies yesterday and became close friends the next day, or who were very good friends yesterday and became enemies the next day.
Although he was surprised to see Bai Su Su and Hu Shao Jie together, he did not investigate further. After all, this matter had nothing to do with him.
However, Bai Suzhen and the others didn't even look towards the observation deck where Xu Boan was, so they didn't know about Xu Boan's existence at that time.
Because Xu Boan was now at the observation deck and not very close to Bai Suzhen, he did not take the initiative to go over and say hello. He just secretly sighed in his heart that Dongjiang City was really small that he could run into this kind of person. Then, he did not take it seriously and continued to savor the coffee with Malu while enjoying the unique tranquility of the top of the mountain.
The two sat for a long time, then saw that it was getting late, so they decided to leave. Just as they were about to get up and leave.
Ma Lu suddenly pointed in a direction and said to Xu Bo'an in a joking tone: "Look, the beauty you were staring at just now has left with someone else. It looks like she's going to the accommodation department behind the restaurant. Give up, kid, and stop thinking about her!"
Xu Bo'an was sitting with his back to Bai Suzhen and the others at the time, so he didn't see anything.
When Xu Bo'an heard Malu's words, he turned his head and saw Hu Shaojie with his arms around Bai Suzhen's shoulders walking towards the accommodation department.
Xu Bo'an was thinking that the relationship between these two people was developing very quickly, when suddenly he saw Bai Suzhen shake off Hu Shaojie's hand on her shoulder and walk forward staggeringly.
When Xu Boan saw Bai Su Su's reluctant look and thought that Bai Su Su was not a casual woman in normal times, he immediately felt that something was wrong with his sensitive sense.
Xu Bo'an said to Malu, "Wait here!" and then he followed quietly.
When Ma Lu saw Xu Bo'an's expression, he couldn't help but mutter, "What a guy who forgets his friends for the sake of beauty."
Then, he sat back in his seat and waited for Xu Bo'an.
Xu Boan knew that although he was very sensitive, this was just his guess. If Bai Suzhen and Hu Shaojie were really a couple, if he went up to question them directly, it would definitely cause unnecessary misunderstandings. So in order not to attract their attention, Xu Boan quietly followed them.
He followed them all the way to the lobby of the accommodation department. After seeing Hu Shaojie taking Bai Susu into the elevator from a distance, Xu Boan walked into the accommodation department and saw that the elevator that Bai Susu and Hu Shaojie were riding in stopped when it reached the tenth floor.
Xu Boan hurriedly took another elevator and followed quietly. The moment the elevator was opened, Xu Boan stepped out and walked towards the corridor. He just saw Hu Shaojie hugging Bai Suzhen and entering a guest room at the end of the corridor. Then he heard the door of the guest room being slammed shut.
Xu Boan also walked quickly to the end of the corridor, and then pretended to stand in front of the glass window at the end of the corridor to look at the scenery outside, but in fact he was concentrating on listening to the movements in the guest room where Bai Suzhen and Hu Shaojie were.
In the guest room, as soon as Hu Shaojie brought Bai Susu in, the alcohol that Bai Susu had drunk earlier began to ferment, and she vomited violently in the bathroom of the room. At this time, Bai Susu felt that her head was very clear, but she didn't know that she was almost drinking to the point of blacking out.
Drunk people are like this, most of the time they feel their minds are unusually clear, but when they wake up the next day and you ask them about what happened yesterday, they probably don't remember anything. But they themselves have no idea. Bai Suzhen had reached this level after drinking today.
Otherwise, she would have been taken to the guest room in a daze, without knowing anything, even though she was about to go to the bathroom.
After a long while, Bai Suzhen finally woke up a little, and then she staggered out of the bathroom. After she went out, she saw Hu Shaojie standing at the door, and found that she was actually in a guest room.
Although Bai Suzhen was still a little confused at the moment, she immediately became alert when she found that she was in the wrong place. She said to Hu Shaojie, "What's going on? Where is this place? Why did you bring me here? Where is Lanlan? Where did Lanlan go? I want to go find Lanlan."
The Lanlan mentioned by Bai Susu is one of her best friends. She originally came to attend a gathering with her best friends, but she didn't expect to meet Hu Shaojie. Although she felt something was wrong at the moment, Bai Susu's mind was really a little confused.
However, what Bai Susu didn't know was that today's dinner was actually a trap set up for her by her best friends Li Xiaolan and Hu Shaojie.
When Hu Shaojie was working at Dongjiang Second Hospital, because he was the apprentice of the famous doctor Zhang Jimin, many people thought that Hu Shaojie had a bright future, so he had a great reputation within Dongjiang Second Hospital.
In addition, he always pretends to be gentle, humble and polite in the hospital, so many young doctors and nurses admire him.
But everyone had heard the rumor in the hospital that Hu Shaojie and Bai Susu were dating, so most of them chose to back off. Only Bai Susu's best friend Li Xiaolan knew their relationship best. She also knew that Bai Susu had never considered being Hu Shaojie's boyfriend or girlfriend. So, Li Xiaolan quickly launched an ambiguous offensive against Hu Shaojie, a great potential stock.
Bai Suzhen is not only beautiful as a fairy, but also the granddaughter of Zhang Jimin. Because of these two reasons, Hu Shaojie has admired Bai Suzhen for a long time, but he also knows in his heart that Bai Suzhen will not accept him for a while. He can't always be single because of her. This is not his usual style.
As the saying goes, "When a man chases a woman, it's like a wall between them; when a woman chases a man, it's like a layer of gauze between them." So soon, under Li Xiaolan's deliberate ambiguity, Hu Shaojie quickly fell into Li Xiaolan's gentle embrace. (End of this chapter)