Chapter 114 Catch a Whale
Municipal Committee Secretary Yan Huaili wanted to see Brother Ye? Zhang Jingshan was stunned, thinking, "What is this for? What does he want from Brother Ye?"
"You said Secretary Yan wanted to see Brother Ye? What does he want?" Said Zhang Jingshan. "You need to ask him about it, I don't know!" Zhang Xingguo smiled wryly. "Time? Location?" Zhang Jingshan didn't hang up for Yan Huaili's sake.
"Nanguo Villa, half past twelve, is that okay?" Asked Zhang Xingguo. "I'll need to check with him first!" Said Zhang Jingshan. "OK, I'll wait for your call!" Answered Zhang Xingguo. After hanging up the phone with Zhang Xingguo, Zhang Jingshan called Ye Chen immediately.
"What's wrong?" Ye Chen looked at the red-hot Panamera at the back, answering the phone with confusion. "Brother Ye, well, Zhang Xingguo just called me and said he wanted to invite you to dinner. Yan Huaili, the secretary of the Municipal Committee, was also coming with him. What do you think about it?" Zhang Jingshan said bluntly.
"I can understand that your dad wants to invite me to dinner, but what does the secretary of the Municipal Committee want? Did I really deserve a dinner with the secretary of the municipal committee?" A playful smile touched the corner of Ye Chen's mouth.
In his last life, apart from the secretary of the municipal committee, even the provincial committee leader, or some foreign dignitaries and heads of some middle and small countries took him as an honored guest. Therefore, when the secretary of the municipal committee wanted to have dinner with him, he was calm about it. But he was quite surprised that the secretary of the municipal committee wanted to see him so soon.
"I don't know. Zhang Xingguo said that Secretary Yan wants to see you! Brother Ye, would you like to go for it?" asked Zhang Jingshan. It was almost time for dinner anyway, so Ye Chen figured that it was fine for him! Ye Chen checked the time on the car display screen, and then asked, "What time? Where?"
"Half past twelve, Nanguo Villa, it's just the right time to go there now! Brother Ye, if you agreed on this, then I will call him back!" Zhang Jingshan said quickly. "Okay." Ye Chen hung up the phone.
Originally thinking of going back to the rental house, and then giving a surprise to his wife and daughter at night, Ye Chen had to change the route. He followed the car navigation and drove all the way to Nanguo Villa.
After about half an hour, the Benz G and the Panamera drove into the Nanguo Villa, which was far away from the bustle and hustle of the city and surrounded by mountains and water.
There was no hustle and bustle, and the quiet environment of Nanguo Villa was more like a holy place for healthy living. Unlike other restaurants, Nanguo Villa, which served the powerful in Jiangzhou, retained enough privacy.
Under the sky, it was full of ancient wooden houses. Zhang Jingshan drove his Panamera and led the way, and then they drove to a wooden house listed as Mission Hills.
"Brother Ye, that's it!" Zhang Jingshan got off the car. "Okay." Ye Chen nodded, and Zhang Jingshanopened the door of the wooden house. Inside the house, Zhang Xingguo and Yan Huaili, the current Municipal Committee Secretary in Jiangzhou with an aura of leadership, were sitting there.
"Uncle Yan!" "President Zhang, Secretary Yan, sorry for being late, we were stuck in a traffic jam! Without being humble or arrogant, Ye Chen also started greeting after Zhang Jingshan smiled and greeted Yan Huaili.
"It doesn't matter, we just arrived here too. Have a seat!" Yan Huaili, who didn't stand high above the masses, looked at Ye Chen and smiled as if trying to catch something from his expression, but Ye Chen was composed without the slightest restraint, which made Yan Huaili secretly nod in appreciation.
At the age of less than 30, Ye Chen could be so calm and be neither humble nor arrogant in front of him... Those high-level officials might not compare with him. No wonder the old secretary thought so highly of him...
"Xiaochen, I hope you don't mind me calling you that!" After Ye Chen took his seat, Zhang Xingguo said with a laugh loudly, which was completely different from his attitude back in the time in Zhang Family courtyard. "So hypocritical!" Zhang Jingshan snorted in disgust. Zhang Xingguo, who had been used to this for a long time, just ignored him.
"President Zhang, you can call me whatever you want!" Said Ye Chen. "Well, well, okay, but don't call me President Zhang. You and Jingshan are buddies, just call me Uncle Zhang!" Zhang Xingguo smiled and didn't cut to the chase right away.
Instead, he asked, "What do you like to order?" "Everything is fine for me as long as it's good for Uncle Zhang and Secretary Yan!" Ye Chen was being polite. With Ye Chen's comfortable and calm expression, Yan Huaili nodded secretly again.
"Well, then I'll order some dishes for us!" Zhang Xingguo smiled and ordered on a gadget with a screen. He didn't need to ask Yan Huaili anything because he knew exactly what he did or did not like. As for Zhang Jingshan, Zhang Xingguo didn't want to be in a fight, so he didn't ask Zhang Jingshan either.
After placing an order on the gadget, Zhang Xingguo was then being serious, saying, "Xiaochen, Uncle Zhang owe you an apology. I had a bad attitude towards you in the yard. Uncle Zhang had thought about it, it was true that I didn't think it through and I held prejudice. This is my bad. I'm sorry!"
The boss of a dignified construction company apologized to a small potato, especially Zhang Xingguo, who didn't have great achievements but with a big vision, was a bit arrogant and self-centered man. Ye Chen had to admit that he was scared of this. "Don't be, Uncle Zhang. It's nothing, and I didn't take it to heart!" Ye Chen smiled.
"Since Xiaochen doesn't mind, I will be relieved! And one more thing, I'm grateful for what you've said to me. If you hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid that everything would be over, not only for me but also for Jingshan and my father. Probably Jingshan had told you that, and I won't go on and on about it. I'll always remember what you've done for me and be grateful, and now I want to say thank you sincerely! Here, this is a thank you gift, please accept it!" After saying it solemnly, Zhang Xingguo took out a bank card and put it on the rotating table to Ye Chen.
"Uncle Zhang, since you said that Jingshan and I are buddies, you don't have to do this! Besides, I didn't do anything, please take this back!" Ye Chen shook his head with a wry smile and was about to rotate the bank card back to Zhang Xingguo, but Zhang Xingguo wouldn't let him.
"Seriously, Xiaochen, you don't think you did anything for me, but it really is a big deal for me. If it wasn't for your words and your kind reminder, both I and the Zhang family would have fallen into hell, and money doesn't solve anything at that time! There is not much money on the card, only 10 million yuan, it's my way of saying thank you, so you must take it!"
"That's right, just take it. You deserve it. In my opinion, 10 million yuan is far less than what you've given us, even 100 million yuan is not much!" Zhang Jingshan interrupted.
But Ye Chen still shook his head, "Uncle Zhang, I appreciate it, but I don't want your money. I was just giving an advice, believe it or not. If I take your money, what am I becoming? I would be the fortune-tellers who ran it as a business."
"Xiaochen.." Zhang Xingguo still wanted to persuade him to accept it. But Yan Huaili, who had been silently paying attention to Ye Chen's words and behaviors, interrupted with a smile, "Xiaoye is right. You should put away the so-called kindness. With the relationship between Jingshan and the old secretary, you are purely hypocritical. Besides, Xiaoye's current assets are probably more than the funds you can run on your account. He doesn't need your ten million, and you need it for dealing with your troubles."
Yan Huaili said these words suddenly, and Zhang Xingguo was immediately stunned. Although Zhang Xingguo was not a very rich man, he still had a fund flow of 400 to 500 million yuan on the books. Ye Chen's assets were more than four or five billion dollars? What a joke!
Obviously, he didn't know that Ye Chen violently made a fortune on the shares of the Heng Da Group. Zhang Jingshan and his father Zhang Weimin would not tell him these things.
Ye Chen, however, with a different thoughts as Zhang Xingguo, sightly relished the words from Yan Huaili. Judging from the words of the Secretary of the Municipal Committee, he was throwing out a minnow to catch a whale!
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