"There are three stages to being a businessman. The first stage is the primitive accumulation stage, where you earn money by hook or by crook, going against your conscience and morals …"
Xiao Luo told Luo Qi about the three stages of being a businessman that Zhang Dashan had instilled in him. "I'm in the first stage now. Taste Buds is unfairly competing with me, so I'm giving them a taste of their own medicine."
"Big Boss, I suddenly feel that you're really scary!" Luo Qi said from the bottom of her heart.
He was scheming, courageous, capable, and most importantly, ruthless. Although it was not obvious on the surface, one could feel it after knowing Xiao Luo for a long time.
"Then are you still willing to work under me?" Xiao Luo frowned.
Luo Qi nodded heavily. "Of course I'm willing. I was just praising you, not saying that you're really scary."
"Praising?"
Xiao Luo's frown eased, and he chuckled. "Sometimes, I really can't understand the words of creative people like you."
Luo Qi giggled.
"Oh right, how many are left?" Xiao Luo asked.
Luo Qi opened the folder, glanced at it, and raised her head. "There's only one left. It's the boss of Yingtong Plastic Factory, Jiang Yongchun. This guy seems to be hard to deal with."
"Why?"
"Jiang Yongchun is a very loyal customer of Taste Buds. He doesn't have any special hobbies, only cigarettes and fine wine. Oh right, he's still single, and he seems to be very resistant to women. Someone once tried to bribe him with beautiful women, but he chased her out," Luo Qi said.
Xiao Luo sat in the back seat, his hand gently tapping on the window as he fell into deep thought. "He's rich, so he can get any kind of cigarettes and fine wine he wants. These two things aren't enough to deal with him. However, he's not interested in women, which is a little surprising."
"Why do you say that?" Luo Qi blinked her charming big eyes and asked.
"A man can dislike cigarettes, fine wine, and sports cars, but it's impossible for him to dislike beautiful women. This is a trait hidden in a man's genes. As long as he's a normal man, it's impossible for him not to be interested in beautiful women," Xiao Luo said.
Luo Qi blushed and immediately retorted, "But aren't you not interested in pretty girls, Big Boss?"
"Do I?" Xiao Luo asked.
"Of course."
Luo Qi puffed up her chest and curled her lips slightly, showing off all kinds of flirtatious and charming looks. What she meant was, 'I'm such a beauty right in front of you, but you're still unmoved.'
Xiao Luo blushed. He felt as if he had been teased by this little girl.
"Wow, Big Boss, I didn't know you could be shy too." Luo Qi was so happy that it was as if she had just discovered a new continent. She laughed out loud.
Xiao Luo coughed a few times and imitated Xu Guansong. "Don't be so cheeky. Be serious."
"Understood, hehe …" Luo Qi made a salute.
Xiao Luo stopped talking about her and continued, "Normal men have no resistance to beautiful women, unless Jiang Yongchun has a problem in that area."
"Big Boss, are you saying that he can't do it down there?"
Luo Qi didn't seem to find this question awkward at all. She looked at Xiao Luo curiously with her big, black eyes.
Xiao Luo nodded noncommittally. He had probably found a way to deal with Jiang Yongchun.
"Ding ding ding ~"
Just then, a monotonous ringtone sounded.
Xiao Luo took out his phone and looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number that was not saved in his contact list. He pressed the answer button and was about to ask who was on the other end of the line when an anxious voice came from the other end of the line.
"Why aren't you picking up? Why aren't you picking up … Hello, is this Xiao Luo?" The person was overjoyed when the call connected.
It was a woman's voice!
"I am. Who is this?" Xiao Luo asked calmly.
"Come quickly. Mengqi is in the city's affiliated hospital," the woman said anxiously.
Zhao Mengqi?!
Xiao Luo frowned, then smiled faintly. "You've got the wrong person, haven't you?"
He was about to hang up the phone.
"Don't hang up. Mengqi is very sick. The doctor said she's not going to make it. She's in a coma now and kept calling your name. I took her phone and checked her contact list before I found your number. Please come quickly." The woman on the other end of the line was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Xiao Luo was silent for a while …
"What's the room number?"
Xiao Luo wasn't a heartless person. Even if he wasn't in a relationship with Zhao Mengqi, it didn't change the fact that they were university classmates. She was seriously ill and in a coma. It would be ungentlemanly of him not to check on her.
"Critically ill patient, number 306!"
After knowing where Zhao Mengqi was, Xiao Luo hung up the phone. He was speechless. If he hadn't accidentally sent his number to Zhao Mengqi, this wouldn't have happened. Now that he knew that Zhao Mengqi was seriously ill and in a coma, he couldn't just ignore it.
"Big boss, what happened?" Luo Qi asked.
"A friend of mine is in the hospital."
Xiao Luo didn't hide it from her. There was nothing to hide. Zhao Mengqi was just a passerby in his life, and it was time to put an end to it completely. He didn't want her to send him messages from time to time in the future.
"You go back to the company first. I'll go take a look."
"Remember to buy a bouquet of flowers. That's more like visiting a patient." Luo Qi reminded him.
"What kind of flowers are suitable?"
Xiao Luo didn't know much about flowers.
"Sending flowers when visiting a patient has the meaning of care, sympathy, and wishing the patient a safe and speedy recovery. You should choose flowers with a light color and fragrance. For example, gladiolus, orchids, kumquats, roses, carnations, and so on." Luo Qi said a lot.
Xiao Luo felt a little complicated. "Forget it, I'll go empty-handed."
It was too complicated. Besides, he was just going to take a look. There was no need to be too enthusiastic.
He took a taxi and arrived at the city's affiliated hospital.
Xiao Luo soon arrived at ICU 306. He knocked on the door gently.
A woman with slightly curly hair opened the door and asked, "Are you Xiao Luo?"
Her worried eyes lit up the moment Xiao Luo arrived.
Xiao Luo nodded and walked in. He saw Zhao Mengqi lying on the bed with an oxygen mask on. She had become a patient. No matter how beautiful she was usually, she was now as pale as a sheet of paper.
"What's wrong with her?" His tone was light, as if he was asking a stranger.
"Acute appendicitis. The doctor said it had perforated and was accompanied by bacteremia. Her life is in danger. After the emergency surgery, her condition is stable for now. However, the follow-up treatment will cost seventy to eighty thousand yuan." The woman with slightly curly hair said. She was a born talker, especially when she was under pressure.
"Where's her boyfriend, Hua Haifeng?"
"He broke up with her when she was sick. He even called her and told her to die. He won't pay a cent for her treatment." The woman said.
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