Chapter 64

"Qin Yan, come and meet your Grandpa Du. He came here today specifically to bring me tea leaves." Teacher Shi stood up and said with a smile.

Qin Yan smiled and called out politely, "Hello, Grandpa Du."

"The girl from the Qin family, oh my, you've grown so big; time really passes quickly." Old Master Du nodded with a smile. "I heard from Linsen, that kid, that he met you, but it seems you were angry with him and pretended not to know him. In the past, you even said you wanted to marry him?"

Qin Yan explained awkwardly, "Grandpa Du, it's normal not to recognize each other after being separated for so many years. However, I'm married now; things said when I was a child cannot be taken seriously!"

"You're married?" Grandpa Du looked regretful. "Alas, it's that kid Linsen who doesn't have the fortune."

Qin Yan lowered her eyes and didn't speak.

She didn't think this Grandpa Du appreciated her at all.

After all, she was a girl from the countryside and wasn't a match for his high-status Du family.

When she was a child, she was innocent and ignorant, speaking nonsense without any taboos, but now that she was an adult, adults had to calculate the costs of everything they did.

Feeling the atmosphere was awkward, Teacher Shi said, "They young people have their own ideas. Old Du, don't make things difficult for my student. The tea has been drunk, and I will consider the matter you spoke of."

"Fine, then I'll wait for your good news." Old Master Du stood up. As a junior, Qin Yan saw him to the door and heard him say, "Qin Yan, have time to come to the house to play. When I took the two boys to your house to play in the past, you weren't this polite."

"Okay, Grandpa Du." Qin Yan nodded with a smile.

Speaking of childhood matters, Qin Yan remembered that when Old Master Du brought his two grandsons to the countryside to find her grandfather, it was because his youngest grandson had contracted a strange illness.

His skin was peeling, and it was incredibly itchy. There wasn't a single good patch of skin on his body from scratching. He was a child who could eat, but he was very thin, his complexion was pale, and he frequently caught colds, which triggered asthma. When spring came, his asthma would flare up, and he was on the verge of death several times. They had looked for all kinds of famous doctors and tried all kinds of treatment methods, but none of them worked.

Later, they heard that her grandfather was excellent at treating asthma, so they came to find her grandfather.

"Qin Yan," hearing the teacher's voice, Qin Yan turned around and walked into the office.

"How did the negotiation for the contract with the Lu Group go?"

Qin Yan took out the signing document and handed it to him. "Please take a look."

Teacher Shi flipped through it, and after a while, he spoke, "Old Master Du came here also for this project, wanting me to continue cooperating with the Lu Group."

Qin Yan pondered, "This is Du Linsen, as the heir, taking on company affairs. This project is very important to him. Old Master Du wants to help his grandson, so he came to you to add fuel to the fire, right?"

Teacher Shi chuckled, found his pen, looked at her, and said, "Then what do you think? Should it be given to the Lu Group or the Du Group?"

"Are you excluding the Gu Corporation entirely now?"

Teacher Shi clicked his tongue. "She is not in your consideration; on my end, she is definitely kicked out. The Du Group can offer more generous conditions. From the perspective of interests, the Du Group has more advantages."

Qin Yan shook her head. "But if we cooperate with the Du Group, our research team will lose the initiative and completely degenerate into a tool for making money. This shouldn't be our original intention for doing scientific research, and this is also your purpose for changing the cooperation partner this time and letting me be the person in charge, right?

If I am in charge, given my relationship with the president of the Gu Corporation, I would definitely fight for the interests of the research team, because you know what kind of person I am."

Teacher Shi's smile widened. He flipped to the signing page, wrote his name, and took out the seal to stamp it.

"The project is handed over to the Lu Group; now the pressure is all on the Lu Group. Being young, I'm afraid they will have to suffer a bit."

The Lu Group has taken on this project that the Du Group wanted. If the Du Group wants to make things difficult for the Lu Group, and since the Lu Group is, after all, a rising star, they will definitely suffer losses.

Qin Yan said with a smile, "Young people are least afraid of suffering. There are challenges and risks, and only then are there rewards."

Hearing her so confident, Teacher Shi was gratified, but his words were indeed a reprimand. "Don't be self-righteous. Commercial competition and capital suppression are not that easy. Communicate well with the person in charge of the Lu Group; if you don't want to be enemies with the Du Group, it's best to give up."

Qin Yan nodded, put the document away, and said to him, "However, can this matter not be made public for now? I,"

"No, all parties are watching this project. Do you think this is playing house?" Teacher Shi scolded angrily.

Qin Yan was helpless and could only nod honestly.

"I won't go to today's class; you go teach well." Teacher Shi's tone softened a bit, and his gaze swept over her body before he started to smile. "This is what has some vitality of a young person."

"Then I'll go to class." Qin Yan turned and walked out of the office.

Since it couldn't be delayed, the method of delaying Gu He'an wouldn't work; she had to change her strategy.

She went downstairs to call Lu Qianchuan. After a while, the call was connected, and she wondered if she was disturbing his work.

"If you have something, then wait,"

"Tell me, what is it?" Lu Qianchuan interrupted her words and added, "I'm listening."

Qin Yan explained the matter of Old Master Du coming to find the teacher. "Holding this project, the Du Group, I'm afraid, will hold a grudge against you."

Lu Qianchuan retorted, "Are you worried about me?"

Qin Yan felt his question was a bit nonsensical. "We are teammates; shouldn't I be worried? Besides, if the Lu Group collapses before the Gu Corporation, wouldn't I be the one losing out?"

Lu Qianchuan laughed in anger. "Competition always has risks. I'm not afraid of the Du Group; don't worry too much."

"It's best if you're not afraid. I called you not to make you compromise, but to make you be on guard." Qin Yan reminded him and said again, "The teacher has already signed it. In the afternoon, I'll bring the document for you to sign."

"Send me a message when you come."

Qin Yan hung up the phone, glanced at the address for the class, and went to the teaching building.

"Teacher Qin!"

Hearing a call, Qin Yan didn't stop her pace, but the other party chased after her. "Teacher Qin, have you still not remembered who I am?"

Qin Yan retorted, "What's your name?"

Du Linze put his hands in his pockets, walked in front of her, and raised his eyebrows at her. "Then I'll tell you again: Du Linze. Some people can also call me Xiao Ze."

"Oh, student Du Linze, good morning." Qin Yan smiled, polite and distant, as if she didn't know him at all, which made Du Linze furious. He stared at her with cold eyes and cursed in a low voice, "Your memory is really bad!"

Actually, she remembered. That year, the Du family's youngest grandson came to her house and took medicine for half a month, and his condition improved. Less than two months after returning home, the Du family's youngest grandson had a flare-up again.

The Du family came to invite her grandfather to the Du family for treatment.

Her grandfather took her to the Du family once to investigate the cause of his youngest grandson's asthma. He discovered that the Du family's madam liked to plant flowers in the courtyard, and her favorite was hydrangeas.

The window of the youngest grandson's room faced the flower garden, and pollen blew into the room with the wind, causing the child's allergies.

When the child was still young, it was hard to check for allergens. After growing up, when physical functions had problems, the illness that manifested was actually a kind of distress signal from the body.

After finding the cause, the flowers definitely couldn't be kept. The old madam of the Du family lost her temper, complaining that the youngest grandson's body was weak and even blaming her flowers.

When her grandfather took her to leave the Du family, he said something inexplicable to her, saying, "Raising a child is the same as planting flowers. These Du family members have raised flowers well, but they can't raise a child well."

She didn't understand and asked if that child wasn't good?

Grandfather shook his head and said, "It's not that the child isn't good; it's that the person raising the flowers isn't good. Alas, the illness on the child's body can be treated, but the heart disease cannot be cured, and this illness is prone to recurrence."

Qin Yan looked again at the arrogant and flamboyant boy in front of her; it seemed he had been raised quite well.