At the beginning of April, Ning Weikai went to Taiwan.
To be fair, he really liked this place. It was warm, humid, prosperous, and chaotic. The chaos was spiritual, hidden under the surface of arrogance and prosperity. A place like this often had unlimited business opportunities and possibilities. It was a place to create legends.
However, this time, he wasn't as relaxed and confident as before.
New Bori also had a branch in Taiwan. As soon as he got off the plane, a local cadre came to greet him. Three black Honda CRVs ran smoothly on the airport highway, low-key but eye-catching.
His assistant, Yuan Jun, reported to him, "The sales director of the Huaxia region has gone to see Wang Taishi twice."
"Still avoiding him?" Ning Weikai raised his eyebrows. The Wang Taishi they were talking about was the general manager of Mind Fabrics, the weird old man who used to be a university professor.
Yuan Jun's face was slightly stiff, "The first time, he avoided us; the second time, he scolded our people out. And the news has spread. "
Ning Weikai frowned slightly and said emotionlessly, "Well done. Now the whole industry knows that we wanted to stab Aida in the back. And we didn't succeed. "
Yuan Jun felt awkward and didn't say anything. At the same time, he sympathized with the director who messed up.
Ning Weikai also had a headache. All these years, New Bori had been growing stronger and stronger. But Ning Weikai also slowly realized that he didn't know as much as he used to know about the talents in the company.
As for those outstanding business managers who had followed him in the past and created one miracle after another for New Bori, most of them were now in the same position as him. They were being promoted step by step towards the top management positions.
One's position determined one's position. People in different positions would consider things from different angles and ways. For example, when he was still a sales manager, he would probably overcome all difficulties, do anything, and even be shameless and heartless to help Ning Weikai get the project. But when he became a senior leader, it was different. He thought more about what he wanted and where he should go, and then he ordered his subordinates to get it done. As for the hardships involved, it wasn't something he had to consider as a senior leader.
And the new batch of business managers and key personnel, because they didn't have the experience of the difficult market and didn't experience New Bori's rapid growth and standing at the top of the industry, so their ability and experience couldn't compare to the older generation. This was decided by the environment, and had nothing to do with their own aptitude. For example, last year's Ming Sheng project, New Bori was willing to give up this project in order to maintain its price balance among other state-owned projects. This was indeed rich and overbearing, but for business managers, it was too easy to choose a business goal.
Ning Weikai was even more determined to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the company's talent team now that he had a bad start with Mind. This was the core strength that New Bori could continue to grow in the future, and it was also the capital that he could use to resist the Zhu family.
Having made up his mind, Ning Weikai was not in a hopeless situation. He thought for a moment, then gave the order, "Call two people over." He called out two names. Yuan Jun was a little surprised, because these two people were Ning Weikai's former subordinates when he first entered New Bori as the sales manager. They were all famous and powerful figures in the industry. But now, they were all the leaders of the branch companies, the feudal officials.
"Boss, we're in a hurry right now, and they're all in charge of a branch company with hundreds of people …"
This time, Ning Weikai did not speak in a frivolous tone like usual, but looked at him lightly and said, "Tell them that I want to see Wang Taishi in ten days."
In the blink of an eye, it was already May.
It was not a good choice to come to Shenzhen at this time. In such a big city, it was hot and windless all day long. Even the slightest movement outside would cause people to be covered in sweat, sticky and unbearable. Occasionally, there would be thunderstorms and torrential rain, which looked scary.
But Lin Qian had to come to Shenzhen. Because this was the last stop of the national market inspection that would last more than two months.
Near noon, Lin Qian and a few colleagues finished a meeting with their colleagues in the Shenzhen branch company. They hastily ate some fast food, then took a bus to a few stores in the city.
The scorching sun made it difficult for her to open her eyes. Because of days of hard work, her face had lost a lot of weight, and the two dark bags under her eyes had not faded for a long time, making her eyes look especially big, like a slender panda that had been abused.
Her colleagues made fun of her, saying that she was a desperate beauty. Slowly, this nickname actually spread. Almost all the branches in the country knew that there was a desperate beauty in the headquarters, who was capable, beautiful, and popular. She moved around the branches to guide them, and she was a force to be reckoned with.
Outside the crowded store, a vice president of the Shenzhen branch company accompanied Lin Qian and the others and stopped a dozen steps away from them to watch. The vice president said with relief and pride, "This week, the Shenzhen branch company will definitely take the first place in the national sales. We are very confident."
Lin Qian and the others all smiled and nodded. Lin Qian said, "The business environment in Shenzhen is very good and unique. And the colleagues in the Shenzhen branch company are the most inspiring I have ever seen. " Her words made everyone nod. Because indeed, even when Aida Group was at its lowest point, the Shenzhen branch company still maintained a relatively good performance, which showed the tenacity of the overall team.
Both parties briefly discussed the room for improvement. Several managers from the headquarters pointed out the small problems in the internal operation and after-sales service of the Shenzhen branch company. Lin Qian also said that they could be more flexible in the marketing activities. After the discussion, the guests and the hosts were all happy, and it was a perfect ending to the market inspection of the headquarters. The vice president of the Shenzhen branch said, "We are really happy that the headquarters sent someone over. To be honest, since the company's performance was not good in the past few years, our branches have been like children without anyone to take care of them. Now, the headquarters has produced such an excellent product and completely turned the situation around. In the past, when we saw people from New Bori and SMQ, we would lower our heads and take a detour. But now? They're taking a detour! "
Everyone laughed. The vice president looked at Lin Qian and said with a smile, "Manager Lin, when will you invite Mr. Li to the Shenzhen branch company for inspection?"
He asked because he knew that Lin Qian used to be Li Zhicheng's assistant. Now she was the assistant president of the subsidiary company and was considered a favorite of the leader. Hearing him mention Li Zhicheng, Lin Qian's heartbeat slowed down. She smiled and said, "I will definitely pass on your invitation to Mr. Li." She paused and said, "I think he will like it here very much."
Lin Qian's flight back to Lin City was at three in the afternoon, and she would land at four.
Because they were too tired, when they got on the plane, the colleagues did not speak and buried their heads in sleep.
But Lin Qian couldn't sleep. She sat by the window, looking at the golden light hidden in the clouds and thinking about Li Zhicheng.
Why did she tell the people in the Shenzhen branch company that Li Zhicheng would like Shenzhen and the Shenzhen branch company? That was not a polite remark. He was tenacious by nature and had a strong goal. And this was exactly the business atmosphere in Shenzhen.
She seemed to inadvertently say a few more words on any topic related to Mr. Li Zhicheng.
Lin Qian slightly closed her eyes and leaned back in her seat. Her thoughts were like a flying kite, flying through the clouds and floating to the place she had been dreaming of for the past two months.
After leaving Lin City on a business trip that day, she entered a different state of life.
Busy, completely busy, so busy that she was about to throw up, but she was still busy day and night.
The process was passionate. She was young and held an important position. This time, she followed the senior elites of various departments and traveled the national market. Like a sponge, she desperately absorbed all kinds of knowledge and experience from the market to after-sales, from internal operations to comprehensive management. It felt like she had been remade. After going through a lot of hardships, she had inadvertently been reborn.
She also showed her talent without any scruples. She treated everyone in any branch company with sincerity and tried her best. Because of her deliberate management, she made a lot of friends. Whether it was sincere or not, the friendship had been established. At first, she didn't know what kind of mentality she had when she was being so slick, because she was usually not particularly enthusiastic about this kind of thing.
Later, she slowly realized that the hidden motive in her heart was for Li Zhicheng.
He could only take charge of the overall situation and sit at the top of the pyramid. Then she would go everywhere for him and see what his business was like now. And the relationships she made, whether public or private, and a deeper understanding of the national talent team would always be beneficial for him to better control and lead the whole group in the future.
One is marked by the company one keeps. She had unknowingly thought so deeply and so far for him, but he still didn't know.
These more than two months, more than 70 days, were also torture for Lin Qian. Because she and Li Zhicheng didn't even meet once.
At first, she still hoped that she could occasionally fly back to Lin City to see him on a weekend. Or when he was free, he would come to visit her at the base. Although it was a bit inappropriate for a CEO to do this, it was something he would do. He followed her to America without a word, and in Taiwan he sent her to his side without hesitation. So Lin Qian thought that no matter where she went, they would meet soon.
However, if the high-speed, market-grabbing Aida was a huge machine, then Li Zhicheng was the heart of the machine. If Lin Qian was an important part of the machine, then Li Zhicheng was in control of the operation and life of all the parts.
He was busier than she was. All the market information and difficult-to-treat diseases were sent to his ears and eyes through them. Then he and the people in charge of the headquarters would quickly make a decision. The workload at this time was more complicated and larger than before Aito went public. Like an intricately woven chessboard, he was the chess player standing at the highest point, and he had to weigh the pros and cons at any time.
So he couldn't leave. Lin Qian understood that during this time, he must be completely immersed in the chess game, because everyone was relying on him. And he had never mentioned coming to see her. This fact made Lin Qian feel uncontrollably disappointed. But she also felt that he was supposed to be like this, that this was the man she liked.
So she could only curse in her heart: Li Zhicheng, you're making your woman feel lonely again!
But it was just a thought, and she didn't even mention it to him.
Although they hadn't seen each other, in the past two months, the communication between them was very frequent, such as emails, phone calls, online meetings … 99.9% of it was because of work. But it was enough to comfort Lin Qian.
And in the process, even though they hadn't seen each other, she felt that their hearts, as time went by, as the distance between them grew, they grew closer.
Because they always cooperated a lot. As a superior and subordinate, as well as a commander and vanguard. She was keenly aware of the problems in the market and management, and would report it to him immediately. And he would always come up with a sharp decision after a short period of contemplation. This kind of cooperation made Lin Qian feel very comfortable working. Because Li Zhicheng was a person who could see things very clearly, he would give her a clear direction, and he didn't make her feel constrained at all.
Therefore, every time she listened to his low and warm voice on the phone, she would feel her love for him grow, and her longing for him deepened.
And Li Zhicheng wasn't completely indifferent. The first time he said "I miss you" was more than two weeks after she left Lin City. She was at the Suzhou branch that day, and the communication with the local staff didn't go well. When she returned to the hotel that night, she felt wronged. When she called him at night to report work, she inevitably felt a little down.
Li Zhicheng asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Qian didn't want to mention it to him, and she couldn't. She was very clear about these things, and it was her business to have conflicts with her colleagues. Because her boyfriend was the president of the company, she couldn't mention it to him now.
So she just answered softly, "Nothing, I'm just a little tired. It's been a busy day, but really … every day is rewarding. "Every day … I miss you.
Li Zhicheng just answered calmly, "Mmm. That's good. "
Then she said, "I haven't finished my work yet, so I'll hang up first?"
Waiting for him to respond, he was silent.
Lin Qian said, "I'm hanging up?"
He said calmly, "Lin Qian."
"What's up?"
"I miss you."
Just these two simple words, and these little drops of love, tacit understanding, and lovesickness, had made her spend more than two months unknowingly. Although at this moment, she was sitting on the plane back, thinking of the inextricable entanglement they had in her home before they left, as if it had happened in the last century.
Lin Qian arrived at the Lin City airport at four o 'clock sharp.
The airport was always very busy on Friday afternoons. Lin Qian picked up her luggage and said goodbye to her colleagues. She lied that her friend was coming to pick her up and asked them to leave first. And they didn't have to go to the company today, so they went straight home.
She had called Li Zhicheng yesterday and told him about the flight. He was silent for a moment, and only said in a low voice, "Okay, I'll pick you up." She had missed him for so long, and she often complained to him on the phone. But now that they were really going to meet again, Lin Qian was inexplicably reserved. When she heard that he was coming to pick her up, she only said softly, "If you can't leave, don't come over. I can take a taxi back to the company very quickly." He just smiled quietly at that time.
But this morning, the colleague in charge of booking tickets found that there were still seats on the early flight, so she simply changed the tickets for everyone. They had been away for so long that everyone was eager to go home. And the original flight was at six in the evening, so the traffic would be terrible. This adjustment was very reasonable.
After Lin Qian finished her work at noon, she sent a text to Li Zhicheng, telling him that the flight had been changed and she had to arrive at the airport two hours earlier. He was probably busy, so after a while he replied with two words, "Got it."
Lin Qian walked step by step to the airport entrance. It was crowded there, and many people were holding up signs. She subconsciously looked for the familiar figure in the crowd.
To be honest, maybe it was because she had been training in the market for so long that she returned to his side. At this moment, she was calm and happy, and didn't feel too strong emotions immediately. She also felt that she had calmed down a lot, and could face the relationship with him more calmly.
Only her heartbeat, uncontrolled by her rationality, revealed the truth, and became clearer and faster.
Soon, she saw the familiar figure.
But it wasn't Li Zhicheng. It was Jiang Yuan, standing behind the crowd, looking at her with a smile. "Manager Lin, you're finally back."
Lin Qian walked over with a smile, but her eyes naturally swept to the side next to him. He really did come alone.
She felt a little disappointed, but she didn't show it on her face. Jiang Yuan took the luggage from her hands. "Get in the car first."
The car drove very fast on the airport highway. Jiang Yuan sat in the passenger seat, smiling. Xiao Tang, the driver, seemed to be affected by someone's mood. He played happy and unrestrained music along the way, making people feel at ease.
He probably couldn't leave at the last minute, right? Lin Qian thought to herself, after all, her flight was changed at the last minute, and he was always in a hurry.
After a while, as if he could read her mind, Jiang Yuan naturally said, "Mr. Li has been very busy these days. He compressed the work for the next few days to be completed in these two days. Today is the same. There was an important meeting at six in the evening, which was scheduled for a few days. Didn't it coincide with the time of your original flight? Last night, he informed me that it would be moved up to three in the afternoon. Dozens of people in the meeting also followed him to adjust the time. In the end, Manager Lin, you changed your flight today and came back early. Because of a freak combination of factors, he really couldn't leave and didn't even have lunch. "
Hearing this, Lin Qian was silent for a while, then slowly smiled. "Oh, I see. It's okay, thank you. "
After so many days, seeing the familiar Aida campus again, Lin Qian felt a long-lost excitement.
And many other feelings seemed to be slowly recovering with her return. For example, when she took the elevator to the top floor, his face and every move he made in the past appeared uncontrollably in her mind. Or when Jiang Yuan sent her to his office and temporarily waited, looking at the sofa where the two of them used to hug and kiss, her heart seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, lingering and entangling. Many things that had been buried deep in the bottom of her heart, under the pressure of busy work, seemed to start to sprout again. It was a very comfortable feeling, but also faintly beginning to torture her. Her heart, which she thought was much more experienced, was a little broken.
After sitting for a while, his meeting was still not over. Lin Qian directly walked out and walked to the big conference room not far away. Jiang Yuan, who was sitting in the cubicle outside, looked at her back and directly pretended not to see and continued to work.
She gently pushed open the back door of the conference room.
The evening sun was dim, warming the conference room. Around the long dark brown copper conference table, many people were enthusiastically and attentively discussing. Because there were many people in the conference room, Lin Qian quietly walked in, not conspicuous.
She found a chair against the wall and quietly sat down. There were a few managers who were familiar with her. Seeing her come back, they were a little surprised, but immediately nodded and smiled. After sitting down, she looked up and saw Li Zhicheng sitting at the head of the long table among the dense crowd.
It was already hot, and he was not wearing a suit. He only wore a simple shirt, trousers, and a dark tie. He was the most silent, but also the most eye-catching. He lowered his head, listening to the discussion of his subordinates while reading a document. His dark eyes were calm and attentive, not noticing that she had returned to his side.
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