Chapter 39: The Ancient Tree with Twisted Roots

  "Xiao Yang, come with me to handle the necessary procedures. From now on, you must work hard and don't disappoint Director Dai's trust in you." Director Sun looked at Yang Bin with a warm smile, as if nothing had happened during the meeting earlier, or rather, as if everything that had happened was none of her business.

  "Alright, thank you Director Sun. I'll be counting on your continued support in the future." Yang Bin also smiled and nodded at Sun Piaoyun.

  "That's for sure." Sun Piaoyun smiled even more gently.

  Qin Liang's face looked extremely ugly as he gazed at Sun Piaoyun. In this meeting of the Bureau of Commerce, after the scandal was exposed, he was the one who lost the most face. Zhou Xiaoyi had also lost face, but after all, she was just a temporary worker and had already run away without a care, whereas he was an official clerk in the bureau and couldn't run away, so he could only stand here and stubbornly endure.

  He could see the joy in Yang Bin's eyes, and also see the schadenfreude in Qian Dong and Xu Lianghui's eyes. At the same time, he could feel the subtle change in Sun Piaoyun's attitude towards him and Yang Bin at this moment. However, all these humiliations, just like the two front teeth that were kicked out by Yang Bin in the private room of Ziyunting back then, could only be swallowed with blood and endured silently, absolutely not daring to explode even a little bit.

  He used to be like a proud rooster, strutting around in Project Three as Qin Zong, bossing people around and even snatching away a subordinate's girlfriend of four years, with the other party only able to glare at him. But now he has transformed into a dog that has been beaten and fallen into water, covered in wounds and can only lick his own wounds under the mocking gazes of many.

  He suddenly started to hate Zhou Xiaoyi in his heart, inexplicably. Until now, he has not been able to fully succeed with her, but he has paid a lot for her, and even suffered extreme humiliation several times because of this, and this time almost ruined his originally bright future. All these things were impossible before.

  He thought he must have been enchanted by her charm, or else he was possessed by the "essence" of lust and his heart was intoxicated with desire, otherwise he wouldn't have made such a lowly mistake, putting himself in such a passive situation.

  It's just that now it's too late for regrets.

  Qin Liang could only glare at Yang Bin with a burning angry gaze, then constantly schemed in his heart how to outsmart Yang Bin and regain the upper hand today.

  Yang Bin just responded to Sun Piaoyun, not even looking at Qin Liang, but he could feel the hateful gaze cast by Qin Liang, only Yang Bin was now too lazy to look back at him. The future days were still long, and his revenge had only just begun.

  Still the same old saying, to those who are good to Ben Ye, Ben Ye will go through thick and thin, and even take a knife in his ribs. But for those who have provoked or humiliated Ben Ye, Ben Ye will never let them off until one of them dies! This "not letting off until death" when applied to Qin Liang is no longer just about ruining him in the officialdom and making it impossible for him to turn over, but taking his dog life!

  The humiliation of wearing a green hat can't be shared under the same sky! This debt can only be repaid with his dog life!

  "Let's go to my office and talk." Sun Piaoyun extended an invitation to Yang Bin.

  "Alright." Yang Bin stood up and walked out of the conference room with Sun Piaoyun.

  Dai Hongfei's outburst of anger at the meeting just now did help Yang Bin vent his emotions, but after calming down, Yang Bin also clearly knew that Dai Hongfei's outburst had completely set him and Sun Piaoyun against each other. Even if she smiled warmly at him now, it didn't mean she would be willing to help or cooperate with him in the future on Project Four's work.

  Yang Bin did not know that the people he had offended at this moment in the China Merchants Bureau were not only Sun Piaoyun, but also Qian Dong, the deputy director of Project Group 1, and Xu Lianghui, a staff member. The newly established Project Group 4 would undoubtedly receive strong support from the bureau's leaders in terms of personnel, financial resources, and material resources. As a result, Qian Dong and Xu Lianghui were extremely resentful that the power of Project Group 4 had fallen into someone else's hands.

  Furthermore, once Dai Hongfei's cerebral aneurysm enters the operating room, whether he can come out is another matter. Even if he comes out, without one or two months of rest, it is estimated that he will not be able to return to his work position. During this one or two months when Dai Hongfei is not in the bureau, it is enough for these people to join forces and plot against Yang Bin until he is dead, or even kick him out of the bureau again.

  But the worst result has already happened, and there's no need to think about it too much. In the future, work will be carried out as usual, whoever wants to bother can bother, and when the time comes, Brother Bin will deal with it accordingly.

  In the future, after accumulating enough merit points to unleash the many powerful functions of the magical mobile phone, Yang Bin believed that he would definitely be able to stand firm at China Merchants Bank and even rise through the ranks. By then, perhaps China Merchants Bank, this small pond, would no longer be able to contain this true dragon.

  What's most important now is, as Sun Piaoyun said in the project team's early meeting, to find ways to develop enough connections. Only when one has enough connections in the official circle can they be like an ancient tree with intertwined roots, making it not so easy for others to uproot them.

  Even if you can't be an ancient tree, being a radish that grows roots in the earth will still pull out the radish and bring out the mud.

  ……

  "Xiao Yang, in our project department, there is a division of labor. Director Qian Dong and Director Chen Qi are respectively in charge of the work of Project Group 1 and Project Group 2. The work of Project Group 3 has always been personally supervised by me. You can stand out from Project Group 3 and gain the trust of the leadership to be responsible for Project Group 4, which would make me look good too." After leaving the conference room and avoiding Qin Liang, Sun Piaoyun once again congratulated Yang Bin, this time with a more sincere smile on her face than before.

  Sun Piaoyun was a clever person, and she didn't know about Dai Hongfei's brain tumor. In the unclear situation, since Yang Bin had gained favor, she naturally sought new balance between Yang Bin and Qin Liang, and would not provoke her direct superior Dai Hongfei's anger again, which had always been her way of dealing with things.

  At present, only if Yang Bin is handled properly, it is possible to regain Dai Hongfei's favor and trust. Otherwise, once her position in the China Merchants Bureau becomes unstable, any interest exchange she makes with Qin Liang will lose its foundation and become a precarious house of cards that may collapse at any time.

  Yang Bin couldn't help but admire Sun Piaoyun's eloquence and adaptability. In the meeting just now, she was openly reprimanded by Director Dai and her recommendation for Zhou Xiaoyi was rejected. But now that the conversation had reached her lips, it seemed as if Yang Bin's promotion was her own achievement.

  "Thank you, Director Sun. You are my direct supervisor. Without your care, I won't be able to carry out my work in the future." Yang Bin smiled at Sun Piaoyun.

  Although he knew that Sun Piaoyun and Qin Liang were very close, he had not had any direct conflicts with Sun Piaoyun before. Sun Piaoyun's words just now clearly had the intention of actively showing goodwill, no matter what her true thoughts were in her heart, there was no need to refute her face-to-face.

  "Alright, alright, you're my person, I'll take care of you from now on." Sun Piaoyun smiled and patted Yang Bin's shoulder, her voice low as she replied to him. Her expression also seemed to become more intimate. This woman was indeed extraordinary, with just a few words, all the unpleasantness that had happened earlier was wiped away, and Yang Bin inexplicably became 'her person'.

  Just as the two were talking, Qi Haiying, who came out of Dai Hongfei's office, called Sun Piaoyun and asked her and Yang Bin to go to Director Dai's office, saying that Director Dai had something to discuss with them.

  Yang Bin followed Sun Piaoyun to the door of Dai Hongfei's office, Sun Piaoyun knocked on the door and heard Dai Hongfei say "come in", then pushed open the door and walked in with Yang Bin, and closed the office door behind him.

  Dai Hongfei was smoking inside, seeing Sun Piaoyun and others come in, so he extinguished the half-smoked cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, and then fanned the smoke rising in front of him with his hand. Only then did he gesture for the two to sit down in front of his office desk.

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