Chapter 2246

"Miss Yuan!" Sakai Toshio bowed slightly, with a warm and polite smile on his face, and issued an invitation very gentlemanly: "We at Sony have carefully prepared an extremely sumptuous dinner."

"At that time, President Watanabe and President Yoshioka will be present, and Mr. Walter Yetonikov, President of Sony Music Entertainment, will also attend."

Yuan Wanqi nodded and accepted the invitation happily: "I am deeply honored and also very grateful for the kind invitation of Sony and President Watanabe. I firmly believe that this dinner will definitely become an unforgettable and beautiful experience, whether for me personally or for my entire team."

While Yuan Wanqi and her team members were attending the dinner hosted by Sony, on the other side, Zhang Xuan and Mitsui Motonosuke were having dinner in a Japanese restaurant with a quiet atmosphere and elegant style.

This Japanese restaurant was arranged extremely exquisitely. The wooden tables and chairs exuded a faint fragrance. Beautiful traditional Japanese paintings were hung on the walls. The soft light spilled on the dining table, creating a warm and tranquil dining environment.

"Miss Zhang, please taste a cup of sake!" Mitsui Motonosuke smiled, personally poured a cup of clear and transparent sake for Zhang Xuan, and introduced enthusiastically: "The degree of sake is not too high. Drinking it in moderation can play a role in refreshing the mind. I believe you will like its unique flavor."

"Thank you!"

Zhang Xuan responded politely, nodded with a smile, and then picked up a piece of salmon sashimi with bright color and clear texture.

"Mr. Mitsui, it has been a full week since I arrived in Japan. If your side cannot give a clear answer as soon as possible, then I am sorry, I am afraid I have to return to Xiangjiang to deal with other affairs."

After speaking, Zhang Xuan put the picked up salmon into her mouth.

Mitsui Motonosuke put down the chopsticks in his hand, elegantly picked up a napkin as white as snow, wiped the corners of his mouth lightly, and then explained unhurriedly.

"Regarding the cooperation between us, there is actually not much worth discussing in depth. The reason why it has been delayed until now without a definite reply to you is mainly because Zhou Jun proposed to me that this cooperation needs to introduce at least five shareholders to participate together."

"Therefore, in the past week, the Mitsui Consortium has been conducting strict screening and evaluation work on potential shareholder candidates. Fortunately, after unremitting efforts, we finally reached the final result today. It is based on this that the chairman specifically instructed me to invite you out so that we can discuss this matter in detail."

Zhang Xuan nodded slightly, indicating approval: "Our Overseas Trust Bank holds 62%, Sakura Bank and the other five shareholders hold 38%, and they jointly invest 7.2 billion US dollars."

Mitsui Motonosuke did not raise any objections after hearing this. After all, there were no objections to the key link of equity distribution, so there was no need to argue about other matters later.

"What do you think of the name of our cooperative bank, Overseas Trust Sakura Bank, Miss Zhang?"

"Okay!" Zhang Xuan agreed: "This name is concise and clear. It not only highlights the two main investors, Overseas Trust Bank and Sakura Bank, but also makes people understand the strength and resource advantages behind it as soon as they hear it."

Hearing this answer, Mitsui Motonosuke nodded with satisfaction, a smile appearing on his face: "I have made relevant arrangements in advance here. At ten o'clock tomorrow morning, we will officially meet with the other five shareholders to discuss subsequent specific matters."

"No problem!"

Completing the cooperation negotiation so simply and smoothly was completely beyond Zhang Xuan's expectations. Originally, the other party didn't give a formal response for a week, and she thought that the other party's attitude towards this cooperation had changed, so she said she would return to Xiangjiang to put pressure on the other party.

But what she didn't expect was that the other party didn't give an accurate reply for a week, and when they gave a reply today, they determined the cooperation. Obviously, the other party attached great importance to the cooperation between the two sides and did not put forward any other requirements.

Night fell, the lights were on, and the noise of the city was gradually left behind.

After dinner, Mitsui Motonosuke gentlemanly opened the car door for Zhang Xuan in the passenger seat. After she sat down, he returned to the driver's seat to start the vehicle.

The car drove steadily on the brightly lit street, and soon arrived at the hotel where Zhang Xuan was staying.

A girl wearing a well-cut professional suit and short hair pushed the door open and walked out, just bumping into Zhang Xuan who came back.

"Boss!" The girl saw Zhang Xuan, a smile appeared on her face, and she asked eagerly: "How is it, did the other party give us an answer?"

Zhang Xuan smiled, nodded lightly, and answered calmly: "The cooperation intention has been reached, no further negotiation is needed. At ten o'clock tomorrow morning, we will meet with the other five shareholders to discuss the specific details of the cooperation."

Hearing this news, the girl was so surprised that her mouth couldn't close, her big eyes stared round, and she said in disbelief: "Ah? Just had a meal and talked about it?"

Saying that, she curiously circled around Zhang Xuan, her eyes sweeping back and forth on Zhang Xuan, and even reached out to touch here and there.

"You wouldn't have used a beauty trap on him and dedicated yourself, otherwise why would the other party agree to cooperate with you so easily?"

"Stop talking nonsense here!" Zhang Xuan rolled her eyes at the girl angrily, reached out and pushed her aside: "Don't block my way, I'm going back to the room to rest."

The girl grinned, revealing two rows of neat and white teeth, and at the same time made a crisp and short "heh" sound, then full of smiles took the room card from Zhang Xuan's hand, moved quickly and diligently to the door, pushed the door open lightly, then turned sideways to make an invitation gesture, and said coquettishly: "President Zhang, please come in!"

Zhang Xuan glared at the girl helplessly, walked into the room, then leaned on the sofa, and briefly introduced the process to the girl.

"Obviously, the other party also attaches great importance to this cooperation."

The girl poured a glass of plain water for Zhang Xuan, placed it on the coffee table lightly, and then shook her head with great regret, saying softly.

"Sigh, we brought a negotiation team of more than ten people, but I didn't expect it to be completely useless. It's really a pity."

"Pity my ass!" Zhang Xuan burst into a swear word without any image: "Do you have anything to do? If not, hurry back to your room, don't bother me here!"

The girl's name is Chen Sijia, Zhang Xuan's best friend, and also dug over by Zhang Xuan from the National Investment Corporation. After the Spring Festival this year, she went to the Overseas Trust Bank with her.

Chen Sijia not only didn't leave, but sat down beside Zhang Xuan, her tone gloomy: "For this negotiation, a full week, I didn't go out to play, and I was buried in the room preparing all day."

"I thought I could take this opportunity to show my skills and strive for merit, so as to get a promotion and a raise. Who would have thought that the opportunity to show my skills was gone, and the hope of promotion and a raise was also ruined."

Hearing Chen Sijia's complaints, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but burst into laughter. She raised her arm lightly, stretched out her slender, green-onion-like fingers, and poked Chen Sijia's clean forehead lightly.

"Look at your money-obsessed appearance. In the short half year since you came to Xiangjiang, I have already given you a raise. Why are you still not satisfied?"

Chen Sijia heard this, her little mouth curled, and she hummed coquettishly: "Sister, you say this very lightly. In this world, except for fools, who would think that the money they earn is too much?"

"This is true." Zhang Xuan stretched out her finger, picked up Chen Sijia's chin, and teased: "This little appearance is also considered decent and beautiful. How about you stay in Japan and serve as the president of Overseas Trust Sakura Bank?"

"Not so good!" Chen Sijia pushed away Zhang Xuan's hand with disgust, and said angrily: "I have a severe Japanese phobia. As soon as I hear the gibberish Japanese, there is a fire in my heart, and I want to take a gun and shoot all the little devils!"

Zhang Xuan laughed loudly without any image: "I said little Jiajia, this is what you kept shouting about wanting a promotion and a raise. Now I kindly gave you such a great opportunity, but you don't appreciate it, then don't blame me."

"Are you still embarrassed to say that this is an opportunity for me?" Chen Sijia curled her lips and retorted indignantly: "I see, you are afraid that I will pose a threat to your position as president, so you want to kill me and let me stay in this fire pit in Japan, unable to extricate myself."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhang Xuan rolled her eyes at Chen Sijia and responded perfunctorily: "Alright, alright, you are right, you are simply the biggest threat I have encountered in my career, is that okay? Satisfied?"

Chen Sijia heard this, and the proud expression on her face could not be hidden. She raised her chin proudly, held her head high, like a victorious rooster, and turned into the bedroom.

Then she jumped, lay heavily on the bed, and then neatly pulled the quilt over her body, muttering: "Sleep!"

"Hey!" Zhang Xuan hurriedly chased into the bedroom and grabbed Chen Sijia who was lying on the bed.

"This is my room. If you want to sleep, please go back to your own room, don't make trouble here!"

Chen Sijia's mouth raised slightly, revealing a cunning smile, and then suddenly turned around, grabbed Zhang Xuan's wrist tightly with her backhand with lightning speed. She just used a little force, and pulled Zhang Xuan, who was unprepared, onto the soft big bed.

Chen Sijia blinked her watery big eyes and said with a smile: "Little lady, today I want to lie in this warm quilt with you and share this beautiful scenery!" After speaking, she deliberately winked at Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan didn't eat her set, and quickly raised her foot to kick Chen Sijia. Chen Sijia let out an exaggerated "ouch", and the cry was miserable, as if she had suffered some great pain.

"It's not working, it hurts me to death! Oh my god, I definitely can't go back to my room now!" Chen Sijia shouted pitifully while covering the place where she was kicked.

Looking at Chen Sijia like this, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but feel a little helpless, shook her head and said: "Alright, alright, stop acting, your acting skills are too poor, it's simply fake."

Hearing Zhang Xuan say this, Chen Sijia immediately stopped shouting, blinked her big eyes and asked: "Then... then you mean, you agree to sleep in the same bed with me?"

"What is sleeping in the same bed, can you use words?"

For this eccentric best friend of hers, Zhang Xuan was really helpless. She was in her twenties, and she was still like a child all day long.

For example, now, this girl was rolling back and forth on the bed excitedly, and muttered: "Oh, my little Xuanxuan, we haven't slept in the same quilt for many years!"

"......"

Zhang Xuan was speechless, turned around silently, arranged the pillows neatly, and then lay down on her side: "I said Comrade Chen Sijia, your Chinese grades in junior high school were not very good. I really didn't expect that you have graduated from university for several years now, and your Chinese level is still so bad."

At this time, Chen Sijia also stopped making trouble and lay down obediently. She pulled her body lightly and slowly turned to face Zhang Xuan.

At this moment, the faces of the two were very close, almost sticking together. Chen Sijia's face was full of grievances, as if she had suffered great injustice.

"Do you know why every time I hear that gibberish Japanese, I feel a nameless fire rising in my heart?"

Zhang Xuan shook her head very cooperatively: "I don't know!"

Chen Sijia gritted her teeth and said with hatred: "When we were in junior high school, there were only two foreign languages, Japanese and Russian. At that time, I looked at it, oh my god, Russian is difficult to speak."

"So, I decisively chose Japanese. But in the end, I found that Japanese is also not easy to learn. Because of this, my mother kept nagging in my ears."

"Saying how good her Japanese is, she can be a translator. So, I now hate Japanese to the bone. When I see little devils speaking Japanese, I want to take a gun and shoot them!"

"Later, I completely gave up and simply gave up Japanese and learned Russian. Who knows, after I really started learning Russian, I suddenly realized."

"It's not that Japanese is difficult to learn, nor is Russian difficult to speak, but I don't have any language talent at all. Except for speaking Chinese quite smoothly, it's difficult to write a small composition of two hundred words, and I can't squeeze out a few words for a long time."

"And those Tang poems and Song lyrics, I clearly memorized them by heart the night before, but after sleeping, my brain was empty again."

Saying that, Chen Sijia's originally fair and tender little face gradually wrinkled into a ball, like a crumpled paper ball, looking pitiful and extremely aggrieved. And

Zhang Xuan saw this, and couldn't help but burst into laughter. She reached out and pinched Chen Sijia's small and exquisite nose, smiling.

"Then I'm curious, how can your English be so good?"

"Who knows!" Chen Sijia sighed: "Maybe it was after I got to university that I suddenly opened my Ren and Du meridians."

"Alright!" Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "Go to sleep, I have to make a call to the country tomorrow morning to report the negotiation progress to the boss." ===== CHAPTER 2247 =====