Chapter 23
Chapter 23
Early the next morning, the four members of ENERGY on this business trip returned to City B by plane.
Yuan Mei hadn't fully recovered yet, so Li Zhenbai gave her two days off and asked her to take a taxi home.
Both Lin Zhen and Vice President Wang Xirui followed Li Zhenbai to work directly in the company.
During the lunch break, Li Zhengxiao entered Lin Zhen's office with a cold face and stiff neck.
"Why do you say that about Xiaoli? He asked me to help his cousin obviously out of family affection. Xiaoli is a simple person, so how could he think that his cousin would be so treacherous!" Li Zhengxiao slammed his face when they met.
Lin Zhen focused his eyes on the form on the computer screen, not in the mood to perfunctory him, and said bluntly: "Family relationship? If there is family relationship between them, with Wang Youyang's financial conditions, there is absolutely no need for my nephew to be a servant."
"You!" Li Zhengxiao gasped, "Anyway, I asked Xiaoli, and he said he didn't take the money, and he cried for a long time because I didn't trust him. It's all your fault, if you didn't wrong him, I won't doubt him, and Xiaoli won't be so sad!"
Lin Zhen didn't blame him, and frowned slightly: "I'm very busy now, can you go out first?"
Li Zhengxiao thought that Lin Zhen would at least coax him, but he didn't expect him to have such an attitude now, so he couldn't help being even more angry. He reached out to close Lin Zhen's laptop, but the other party grabbed his wrist and couldn't move.
Li Zhengxiao was even angrier now. He wanted to curse, but suddenly found that Lin Zhen was looking at him with extremely cold eyes, and he was stunned.
The corners of Lin Zhen's mouth were tense, and his tone was cold: "There is a meeting in the afternoon, and I'm preparing materials, but I haven't eaten yet, and I don't have time to eat." He stared at Li Zhengxiao, almost saying every word Say something like, "So, can you leave me alone now?"
Li Zhengxiao's body froze, and his face became extremely ugly. After a few seconds, he shook off Lin Zhen's hand on his wrist, turned around and left the office.
From that day on, Li Zhengxiao started a unilateral cold war with Lin Zhen, but Lin Zhen didn't have the energy to coax him.
On the one hand, after the joint press conference between ENERGY and Yunzhi, the delegation stationed in Yunzhi will be on the agenda immediately, and he still has to do a lot of work; For the [-] square meters of float glass, the contract was signed in the name of ENERGY, and the payment had to be taken from the group account. Such a large sum of money must be approved by Li Zhenbai himself, and Lin Zhen had to find a way to confuse this batch of glass.
In addition to normal work, Lin Zhen secretly made several phone calls. ENERGY has a lot of public welfare expenditures every year. This year’s public welfare projects have not yet been decided. Lin Zhen contacted a university that was planning to relocate and expressed his willingness to fund architectural glass. The other party was very interested.He then contacted the person in charge of public welfare projects in the group, and using the identity of Li Zhengxiao's wife, he forced this batch of glass into the expenditure plan. Although the person in charge had doubts about the time when the contract was signed, he still let Tong go. up.
In the evening, Lin Zhen drove Li Zhengxiao back to Li's house, and told him about this on the way, but Li Zhengxiao just snorted coldly and didn't answer.
During dinner, Lin Zhen was in Mrs. Li's room and ate with her.
The weather has been getting hotter and hotter recently, and the old lady has a poor appetite, so she didn't eat much after coaxing and persuading her.
After the meal, just after the helper put away all the tableware, Lin Zhen received a call from his younger brother, Lin Shu. The two chatted for a while, and Lin Zhen asked his younger brother if there was anything wrong. He was talking, but later Lin Zhen asked anxiously, and Lin Shuicai said: "Brother, Dad and Big Brother don't talk to me recently, and they don't allow me to play with my classmates after school or during the holidays. I... I really am I want to talk to someone."
Lin Zhen felt that a string in his heart was broken, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't breathe. He managed to keep his tone calm and comforted his younger brother. On the side of the bed, her face was buried in the soft quilt, her shoulders were trembling uncontrollably.
After an unknown amount of time, a warm hand covered the back of his head.
Lin Zhen's body froze, he raised his head, and saw Mrs. Li's lips were trembling, she wanted to say something but couldn't say it, the skinny hand that was originally placed on the back of Lin Zhen's head slipped to his cheek, Lin Zhen felt With that rough and old touch, tears couldn't help but flow out. He grabbed the old lady's hand and cried to her, "Mom, I feel bad..."
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This week has passed in a busy way, and the weekend is the day when Li's relatives get together.
Although there were no outsiders, Lin Zhen didn't dare to neglect. The Li family had a huge family and complicated relations among relatives. There were not only various petty grievances and grievances, but also differences in personality and status. Just arranging seats was a hassle.
The two brothers of the Li family didn't care about this matter at all, so Lin Zhen could only work with Steward Fang to plan and arrange a little bit at night.
On the day of the party, there were five or six tables full of people sitting in the banquet hall of Li's residence, including the elderly, young and children, who had to worry about "eating, playing and playing", Lin Zhen was so busy that he hit the back of his head.
After finally sitting down and resting for a while, Li Fangbing came over with a bottle of red wine, blushing and said that he wanted to toast the person who worried the most today. Lin Zhen couldn't refuse, so he had a drink with her.
Together with the boss, many younger peers came to toast behind him.
Today is a family banquet, everyone is not as cautious as usual, even Li Zhenbai drank a lot, Lin Zhen naturally had no choice but to drink.
At the end of the family banquet, Lin Zhen was already dizzy from drinking. He leaned his elbows on the dining table and rested his forehead on his palms, feeling nauseated and unbearably uncomfortable.
Someone came over and stopped beside him.
Lin Zhen heard a familiar deep voice saying: "Xiao Zhen drank too much, Zheng Xiao, take him back to his room."
Li Zhengxiao agreed, and reached out to pull his arm.
His actions were rough, Lin Zhen was pulled by him so much that he almost fell down, and was pulled back by a big hand grabbing the other arm.
This torment made Lin Zhen want to vomit even more, tears were about to come out from the pain.
He heard Li Zhenbai criticize his younger brother displeasedly: "How can you be a husband when you're such a grown-up and still have hands and feet?"
Li Zhengxiao muttered: "It's not that I want to marry him...!"
"Shut up!" Li Zhenbai interrupted him sternly, and Li Zhengxiao didn't dare to say anything.
Lin Zhen was lying on the table, although he was drunk, his mind was still a little sober.
He heard Li Zhenbai call Fang Butler over, and let her and Li Zhengxiao help him back to the upstairs room.
Lin Zhen staggered and was helped onto the elevator. He couldn't lift his head up, and he couldn't open his eyes. His shoulders were paralyzed by the alcohol and he couldn't feel any pain at all, but the burning sensation in his stomach was extremely uncomfortable.
When he lay down on the sofa in the small living room of the bedroom, Lin Zhen immediately turned his body to face the back of the sofa as usual, hugged the pillow and curled up with his whole body. This was a posture that made him feel a little bit safe.
There were people moving around in the room, probably Steward Fang took a blanket and covered him, then he heard a deep voice asking: "Why do you let him sleep on the sofa, Zheng Xiao, you take Xiao Zhen to the bed and sleep well. "
It was Li Zhenbai's voice, he actually followed, Lin Zhen thought.
Li Zhengxiao didn't drink less, coming up from downstairs, he seemed to be more drunk, and said vaguely: "What kind of bed do you sleep on? This sofa is his bed."
Hum, Lin Zhen's drunkenness subsided in an instant, and his confused mind suddenly woke up. He listened to the movement in the room tensely.
The small living room was extremely quiet. After a few seconds, Lin Zhen heard Li Zhenbai whisper, "Steward Fang, you go out first."
Steward Fang agreed, and walked out of the bedroom. There was a soft closing sound at the door.
After that, Li Zhenbai spoke again, his tone was too calm: "Zheng Xiao, you... haven't shared the same bed since marriage."
Lin Zhen noticed that Li Zhenbai used an affirmative sentence.
Li Zhengxiao was still drunk. These days he deliberately kept Lin Zhen cold, waiting for the other party to admit his mistakes and make up with him, but Lin Zhen ignored him at all. This made Li Zhengxiao very angry. Hearing the elder brother's question, he Simply pour out all the gourds and scoops.
"I'm not a fool, I can't see that he doesn't want me to touch it!" Li Zhengxiao didn't know what he dropped, and made a bang, and said loudly, "He despises me, but I don't care about him!"
Afterwards, Li Zhengxiao complained to his elder brother how Lin Zhen treated him badly, just like Mrs. Xianglin, and went on and on about the same thing.
Li Zhenbai's side has been very quiet, only occasionally hearing the other party's breathing.
Lin Zhen turned his back to them. He didn't know what Li Zhenbai's expression was like now, but he vaguely felt that there were two sharp eyes staring at his back.
Li Zhengxiao was still babbling unknowingly, but Lin Zhen felt that the atmosphere in the room was extremely tense and oppressive, and there was an invisible pressure covering his whole body.
"enough!"
After a long time, Li Zhenbai finally spoke, and he told his younger brother in a deep voice: "Go to the bedroom and sleep."
Li Zhengxiao didn't dare to disobey his serious elder brother, so he entered the bedroom in desperation, and closed the door with a click.
Lin Zhen clutched the pillow in his arms tightly with his fingers, and his mind was in chaos.
The sound of shoes stepping on the carpet is very soft, but it is still obvious in the quiet room, and the faint fragrance floats and gradually approaches.
Lin Zhen knew that Li Zhenbai was standing beside the sofa, behind him.
He should be, looking down at himself.
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