sjar Chapter 269: Settling the hatchet?
Chapter 269: Settling the hatchet?
Because the office is located in the Zhencheng Building, the employees of Zhixing Company and Zhencheng Company eat in the same cafeteria.
When Lu Xingchen and Zhao Wenjing arrived at the cafeteria, lunch time was almost over, but they happened to meet Chen Xiaolin and her assistant Xu Lu who had just come to the cafeteria.
Lu Xingchen and Chen Xiaolin looked at each other for a moment.
Thinking of Chen Shufen coming to see him, Lu Xingchen spoke first to say hello: "You guys come to eat so late too."
Chen Xiaolin looked at her and answered, "Yes."
Lu Xingchen: "If you are not in a hurry to go back to the office, come and sit with me later."
Chen Xiaolin showed a little surprise in her eyes, then nodded and said, "Okay."
"Then we'll go over and wait for you." Lu Xingchen and Zhao Wenjing went to the restaurant and sat down.
When Chen Xiaolin came over, she placed a plate of stir-fried beef on the table. "This is a dish that just came out of the kitchen. I thought you didn't get to eat it, so I brought it over for you."
"Thank you." Lu Xingchen picked up a piece of beef and ate it.
Upon seeing this, Chen Xiaolin sat down next to her, and Xu Lu also nodded to Zhao Wenjing and sat down next to her.
The four of them chatted while eating.
Zhao Wenjing suddenly said, "It's only us who are like this. Two companies that are going to bid actually sit together for dinner before the bidding."
Xu Lu had this thought just now, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
Lu Xingchen and Chen Xiaolin looked at each other and smiled. Chen Xiaolin asked, "How are you preparing?"
Lu Xingchen: "It's going on as normal, how about you guys?"
Chen Xiaolin: "Because I have you as my competitor, I feel pressured no matter how well prepared I am."
Lu Xingchen thought of what Chen Shufen said. After Chen Xiaolin got drunk, she cried and said she didn't want to work at Zhencheng and wanted to withdraw from the bidding project. She looked at Chen Xiaolin and said, "I'm just the opposite. I feel very motivated because I have such an excellent competitor like you."
Chen Xiaolin looked at her calm but powerful eyes for a moment, then turned to look at Xu Lu and Zhao Wenjing and said, "Speaking of this, I have something else I want to say to you alone."
Xu Lu immediately understood and turned to Zhao Wenjing and asked, "I'm done eating and want to go get a cup of coffee. Zhao Wenjing, do you want to join me?"
Zhao Wenjing was also smart, and she immediately said, "It just so happens that I also want to drink coffee. Xingchen, Manager Chen, what do you want to drink? We'll bring it to you."
Lu Xingchen: "I don't need it."
Chen Xiaolin: "I don't need it either."
After Zhao Wenjing and Xu Lu left, there was a brief silence between Lu Xingchen and Chen Xiaolin.
This time it was Chen Xiaolin who spoke first: "Did my mother go to look for you?"
After she asked this question, she didn't need Lu Xingchen to answer her and continued, "I saw that she made a lot of cakes that you like, and I thought she went to see you."
Lu Xingchen then replied: "Well, she came to bring me some cakes."
Chen Xiaolin: "Did she tell you something?"
Lu Xingchen: "We just chatted about some family matters."
Chen Xiaolin smiled, took a mouthful of rice with chopsticks, chewed carefully for a long time before swallowing it. She looked at Lu Xingchen very apologetically, "I'm sorry, Xingchen, I... do think that you stole my mother's love, and I have bad thoughts about you."
"I understand."
"You don't understand. I hate you for stealing my mom, but I really want to be friends with you. After Wang Silin told me what I was thinking that day, I was really afraid of losing you. I thought if I didn't work at Zhencheng, or didn't compete with you for the same project, would you not misunderstand me so deeply?"
"Whether we are friends or not has nothing to do with whether you work at Zhencheng or compete with me for the same project."
After saying this, Lu Xingchen looked at her.
"Or do you think that if I consider you a friend, I should withdraw from this bidding?"
"No!" Chen Xiaolin quickly explained, "I definitely didn't mean that."
"Then go all out. There's no need to let personal feelings take into account the success or failure of work. As long as it's not malicious competition, you should feel at ease whether you win or lose, and you won't feel guilty."
The two looked at each other for a moment because of Lu Xingchen's words. Compared with Lu Xingchen's calmness, Chen Xiaolin knew that she was anxious. She smiled helplessly and said, "You are still the same as before, taking everything for granted."
"Because I strive to win, but I also allow myself to lose. Life is so long, who can remain undefeated all the time? Besides, there are always people who are better than me at some point in time and in some areas."
Seeing that she was speaking frankly, Chen Xiaolin lowered her head and thought for a moment before finally smiling: "It still has to be you, Lu Xingchen. I understand. I will do my best, but..."
She turned to look at Lu Xingchen, "Two days ago, Lu Yiheng called me and asked me if Zhencheng Company participated in this bidding just to cover for you?"
Lu Xingchen couldn't help but laugh.
Chen Xiaolin, "I told him, no, but I don't know what he would think."
"It doesn't matter what he thinks. If he has the ability to step on me, I will admit it anyway."
"Are you...still thinking about returning to Lu's?"
"When I go back to Lu's, I won't just be facing Lu Yiheng. Why would I embarrass so many people if it's not necessary?"
"Don't you think it's a pity?"
"Unfortunately, are you referring to the Lu family's property?" Lu Xingchen asked Chen Xiaolin.
Chen Xiaolin did not deny it, "Everyone would want to get it, right?"
Lu Xingchen thought about it and said, "I can also earn my own Lu Group."
"That's right. Even if you take a step back, you still have Li Zhen." After saying this, Chen Xiaolin looked at her, "I mean, no matter what choice you make, you have the confidence."
Lu Xingchen returned her gaze and said, "My confidence comes from myself."
Chen Xiaolin smiled: "I have always believed it."
Lu Xingchen: "If you really believed it, you wouldn't tell anyone that I have Li Zhen."
Chen Xiaolin: "Xingchen, I don't mean anything else, please don't misunderstand me"
"I'm just expressing my opinion to you, don't misunderstand me." Lu Xingchen had already finished the meal on the plate. She said to Chen Xiaolin, "Let's meet at the bidding site the day after tomorrow."
As a large-scale public tender before National Day, it attracted much attention because it was hyped on multiple platforms. Visitors, including representatives of companies that had been eliminated before, all used their own laser eyes to observe whether there was any shady dealings, and they were also more critical of the national bidding department and bidding companies.
In such an environment, the strengths and weaknesses of the twelve bidding companies were quickly identified.
The linkage is currently ranked first.
Huiguang's lecture and demonstration are in progress.
Although it was Xie Jinhui, the representative of Huiguang Technology, who was explaining on the stage, Lu Yiheng was also sitting in the seat of Huiguang Technology Company to supervise it personally, which shows how much importance Huiguang Company attaches to this project.
Impeccable, with the Lu Group as the background, the Huiguang Technology plan supervised by Lu Yiheng was visibly high-end from the moment it was projected.
In the audience, at the seat of the Zhencheng Company representative, Zhou Shuheng couldn't help but whisper to Chen Xiaolin beside him: "Fortunately, you had the foresight to not continue down this path. However, although Lu Yiheng has some new ideas and technologies, they seem to be just what you left over from before."