Chapter 27: A Handsome Guy Who Skips Thirty Years Of Struggle
Xinghai, General Manager’s Office.
“Little Li, is General Manager Fan still in the Research and Development Department? It’s been days already?”
Liu Jun held a document in his hand and ran to the door to look inside. It was empty again. He curiously turned to the idle little secretary at the door and asked.
The secretary was named Li Jia. She was neither particularly pretty nor ugly-looking.
At this moment, she helplessly pouted and said, “It’s been two weeks. He’s been in the Research and Development Department day and night. He only returns to the office to sleep when he’s really too sleepy, and then runs back after waking up. I really don’t know what he’s busy with.”
Hearing this, Liu Jun sighed, greeted her, and headed toward the Research and Development Department.
The number of engineers in Xinghai accounted for more than 70 percent. Based on this, one department, the Research and Development Department, occupied 5 floors in the entire 9-story office building.
Liu Jun walked along, asking as he went, and finally found Fan Ren’s figure in a meeting room on the third floor.
At this time, Fan Ren’s hair had grown long, his bangs covering his eyes, with two dark circles under his eyes. He was talking about something in the meeting room.
In the meeting room, there were especially many young faces. Only a few older engineers were staring painfully at their own computer screens.
Couldn’t they just honestly follow the original mature design solution? They had to come up with wild ideas for innovation.
Was that something they could handle?
What a joke. Asking people their age to tinker with mechanical automation and constantly absorb high-voltage radio technology knowledge was really asking too much of them.
Seeing this scene from outside the door, Liu Jun couldn’t help but feel some sympathy for these older engineers.
Encountering such a workaholic boss, you’ve got it tough.
But Xinghai did one thing very well: Fan Ren was very generous with salaries.
Employees working at Xinghai had salaries not much less than those at big factories, and there were also high overtime pays.
Moreover, as long as it didn’t affect work progress, employees could work from home.
Although the work pressure was high and the intensity intense, the advantages in high salaries and freedom still left a large group of talents in the company.
After the meeting dispersed, the engineers filed out. The boss’s thoughts were all over the place. They had to hurry back to arrange and plan, otherwise, there might be new tasks the next day.
Endless work, simply endless!
“Are you free tonight? I’ll call Old Four, and us brothers can have a drink?”
As Liu Jun spoke, Fan Ren gently shook his head to flick the bangs blocking his view to the side.
If he hadn’t mentioned it, Fan Ren would have almost forgotten about Lin Chang.
It was really because this period had been too busy.
“How’s his work now? If not, pull him over here. It’s not like we can’t afford to feed him.”
Liu Jun tossed a cigarette to Fan Ren, lit one for himself, and then smiled, saying, “Then don’t worry about him. Old Four’s life is much more comfortable than ours brothers now.”
“How so?” Fan Ren lit the cigarette, raised his eyebrows curiously, and asked.
“Saves thirty years of struggle!”
“Cough cough cough…”
Liu Jun also raised his eyebrows and chuckled slyly.
Lin Chang, that kid, hooked up with the company’s beautiful boss after just a few days at work. Who could he complain to?
“Living in a luxury house, driving a luxury car. Good grief. I almost didn’t recognize him when I ran into him yesterday.”
“I haven’t heard him mention it?” Fan Ren lifted his chin. He was also very curious about what had happened to Old Four.
“Fifteen years older than him…”
“Pfft.”
Fan Ren choked on a mouthful of smoke. Damn, that was wild.
“He really went for it?”
“Sure did? But there’s nothing bad about it. From what it looks like now, that woman really treats Old Four well. You don’t know yet, but she brought Old Four’s family to Linhai and directly bought a house in the neighboring community to settle his parents.”
Fan Ren listened for a while, and his furrowed brows gradually relaxed.
Although he had some opinions about the age difference between Old Four and his partner, from Liu Jun’s introduction, that woman was really great in every other way besides being older.
He nodded immediately and made plans with Liu Jun to find a place for the three brothers to drink that evening.
Liu Jun finally indifferently handed the document to Fan Ren. It was information related to the cooperation agreement reached between General Manager Zhang and the Linhai Branch of Deli Electric Power.
Fan Ren glanced at it casually and didn’t pay much attention.
As expected. Since Deli Electric Power Headquarters turned a blind eye to this, don’t blame him for asking for a lion’s share in the next patent authorization period.
That night, beside a night market stall not far outside the Science and Technology Park.
Fan Ren, with a bald head, arrived last, fashionably late.
“Holy shit!”
“Damn, seen through the red dust?”
The two brothers who arrived early saw Fan Ren’s new hairstyle and were full of disbelief.
Fan Ren rubbed his bald head. The feel wasn’t bad. He smiled and said, “It’s a hassle, isn’t it? Might as well shave it all off. Gotta say, this thing is pretty convenient.”
“You’re awesome!”
Liu Jun gave him a thumbs up, then turned to Lin Chang and roughly explained that everyone at Xinghai had been working overtime recently, very busy. As the boss and the technology proposer, Fan Ren dutifully ate and slept at the company.
After listening, Lin Chang looked at Fan Ren and was speechless for a long time.
Damn, worth over three billion!
A number he didn’t even dare to imagine had been squandered down to just a fraction in a few short months by these two brothers in front of him. Even worse, according to them, it would continue to operate at a loss until the research and development project was completed.
“Second Brother, we’re not students anymore. No need to push so hard, right?”
Fan Ren punched Lin Chang’s slightly skinny chest and laughed scoldingly, “You think everyone is as lucky as you? Saving thirty years of struggle, huh?”
The teasing remark actually made Lin Chang in front of him look embarrassed.
“Hey, I… this was an accident, an accident…”
“Hahaha, Second Brother, you just missed it. I got some more details. I’ll tell you later. Don’t fuss. With your current ghost-like appearance of being drained dry, you’re no match for me now.”
The few people laughed and horsed around, and Fan Ren’s mood suddenly felt extremely relaxed.
Ever since he proposed applying high-voltage radio technology to the new factory, the entire previous design had to be scrapped and redone.
And this heavy responsibility fell on his shoulders.
The company’s engineers weren’t having it easy either. Just absorbing the high-voltage radio technology knowledge in Fan Ren’s mind was enough to give them a hard time.
Fan Ren was busy with design and solving various problems that arose after the changes.
He often worked until deep into the night and only returned to the office to sleep when he was really too sleepy.
This evening gathering of the three brothers was partly Liu Jun’s idea to let Fan Ren relax.
He didn’t understand technology, and market expansion had stalled too. He saw the company’s operation status and was anxious about it, so he could only do something for Fan Ren in this way.
After drinking for a while, Lin Chang over there started hesitating.
“Spit it out if you have something to say. Look at you, holding it in with that constipated face.” Liu Jun had long noticed Lin Chang’s abnormality and said grumpily.
Lin Chang breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Well, that company under my partner’s name has several parking lots…”
“Get lost.”
Before he finished speaking, Fan Ren interrupted him. After hesitating for a moment, he continued, “Originally, I shouldn’t be the one telling you this, Third Brother, you listen too. See if what I say makes sense.”
Fan Ren glanced at Liu Jun, who looked puzzled, and then said, “This is how I see it. Among us brothers, in the future, when we hang out and drink, we won’t talk about business matters. That’s one thing.”
Seeing the two thinking, he took a sip of beer on his own and continued, “Another thing, like last time when you, Third Brother, said you were going back to find your dad to see if he could help our company. No need, really no need.
Third Brother, I know you have some anger in your heart…
Old Four, I don’t know much about your situation, and I won’t say too much. Just a reminder: ‘Talking about money hurts relationships.’ That’s all. But from now on, no more mentioning these things. Come on, keep drinking.”
Saying that, he raised his glass and downed it in one go while his two brothers were deep in thought.
