Chapter 242: Inside Story of the Bidding

Huang Weiwei was like a weather forecast, unpredictable. She ignored me when I came back, holding the remote control and flipping through TV programs.

I leaned close to her ingratiatingly, wanting to kiss her, but she refused me coldly, saying: "Why don't you go back to rest? We have to hurry on our way tomorrow."

I was collapsing! You only opened one room, where do you want me to go to rest? Do I have to squeeze into a room with Professor Xu Siguan? Wouldn't that make me look like I have no sincerity at all!

"Not going?" She looked at me strangely: "What else do you want to do?"

I smiled lewdly and said: "Do the things we love to do."

She rolled her eyes and gave me a cold snort: "Go do it with the manager who was looking for you just now. I don't have anything I love to do with you."

"Is that so?" I smiled sinisterly, and when she wasn't paying attention, my hand reached into the quilt, hugged her weak waist, and forcefully wanted to kiss her. She struggled and bit my arm hard, making me scream in pain.

Rolling up my sleeves, her tooth marks were clearly bitten into a round circle on my arm.

"Does it hurt?" She tilted her head and looked at me with a smile, a look of mischief on her face.

"Let me try biting you." I gasped, pressed my fingers on the tooth marks, and rubbed them lightly.

"Who told you to have crooked thoughts." She suddenly became tender, leaned out of the quilt, pulled my arm, and blew on it carefully.

I deliberately yelled "ouch, ouch," appearing extremely painful. She actually cooperated with my yelling, blew a few times, suddenly stretched out her small tongue, licked the tooth marks, raised her head and said: "Does it still hurt?"

One must know when to stop when things are good! I quickly expressed: "It doesn't hurt anymore. With your care, my dear, I can endure even more pain."

She slapped me and scolded: "Poverty of mouth, right? Still want to be bitten?"

Looking at her appearance of wanting to be angry but shy, I stretched my hand to her mouth and said: "If you can bear it, you can bite again. It's best to bite off a piece of meat. If I, Old Chen, call out half a word of pain, I am definitely not a hero."

"Still Old Chen. Shameless!" She scolded: "Don't know what's good for you, right? I'll just bite off a piece of meat." She made a gesture of holding my arm and wanting to bite down.

I was so scared that I quickly retracted my hand and begged for mercy: "Consider me afraid of you, okay."

Her brows tightened, she held my hand and refused to let go, shouting: "I'm not for you to be afraid of. If you want to be afraid, do it early, it's still in time."

I smiled and said: "You are naturally not for being afraid of, you are for loving."

Huang Weiwei's face turned red, she let go of her hand, and said gloomily: "Good to know."

I stood up and said: "You rest well, I'll go open a room. I'll come to call you tomorrow morning."

Huang Weiwei said: "No need to open a room, you just stay in this room."

I seemed not to have heard clearly, chased her and asked: "I stay here?"

She nodded affirmatively.

"What about you?" I hesitated. She just bit me, and now she wants me to stay in a room with her. Who knows what other tricks she has.

"I'm going back to stay." She said: "Just now my mother called, telling us to go back together, she has something to find you for."

"I'm going too?" I pointed to the tip of my nose in disappointment, my joy suddenly vanishing.

"Yes, go back together. Mom has important things to talk to you about." Huang Weiwei lifted the quilt, walked on the carpet barefoot, found a pair of slippers, put them on, pushed open the bathroom door, turned back to me and said: "Clean yourself up, don't make yourself sloppy, my mom likes clean people."

The sound of dripping water came from the bathroom, making me feel restless.

No words were spoken along the way. When the car arrived at Huang Weiwei's house, Director Chen Yazhi was in a bathrobe, holding a pot of beauty tea, flipping through the "Hengyue Daily." Seeing us enter, she waved the newspaper in her hand and said: "You're both back. Look at today's newspaper, Chen Meng is on the front page again. This little guy, she really has a way with writing."

I approached humbly and respectfully, called out "Director Chen."

She stared at me, smiled indifferently, and said with a blaming tone: "At home, why be so polite."

I had to change my words and call "Auntie, hello."

She nodded, pointed to the sofa opposite, and said: "Sit down, I have something to tell you both. Your dad is not home tonight, don't let him know about this, understand?"

Huang Weiwei and I both felt the heaviness in the air. We looked at each other and nodded solemnly.

"Xiao Chen, the highway has now entered the bidding procedure. I understand that you don't want to come back to help me this time. It's a good thing for you young people to have your own ideas and ambitions. After all, everyone has to walk their own path to know what's going on. However, this bidding involves huge interest issues. I didn't want to find you two, but as a person in charge, I can't come forward to say hello to solicit projects. Do you understand?"

Director Chen's tone was indifferent, as if she were talking about someone else's business, which had nothing to do with us.

Suddenly she changed the subject: "Xiao Chen, do you know why your aunt wanted to establish a road and bridge company?"

I shook my head to indicate I didn't know. I really didn't know! My uncle retired from the army and didn't want a job, but registered a road and bridge company. I originally didn't understand and opposed it. You must know that for a soldier of his rank to retire, the local government must arrange a job, and there is also a small position.

"Then I'll tell you. Your aunt registering the road and bridge company was my idea!" Director Chen took a sip of beauty tea and handed the cup to Huang Weiwei: "Go, help me add some water."

After sending Huang Weiwei away, Director Chen lowered her voice and said: "I'm doing this for your own good. If you don't accumulate some economic foundation now, how can you live a good life in the future? What doesn't cost money now? Buying a house, relying on your little salary, you have to go ten years without eating or drinking. In these ten years, you still have to have children and support the elderly. How will you live in the future?"

She said with infinite worry: "Weiwei doesn't understand things, and she is simple. How could she know these things? She can't rely on us for a lifetime. We always have a time to retire, don't you think?"

I nodded solemnly, and a sense of infinite gratitude welled up in my heart.

"I invested shares in your aunt's company, and it's written in Weiwei's name. Your aunt also invested shares for you. You two each occupy 25%, your aunt occupies 30%, and there is also a boss named Wu Qian, who occupies 20%." I wasn't surprised at all by Director Chen's words. I knew beforehand that I had shares in the road and bridge company, but I didn't know how much. No one told me, including my aunt.

"There is one more thing I must let you know. The 25% of you and Weiwei only paid 20% in cash, and the other 5% are resource shares, understand?" Director Chen saw Huang Weiwei coming over with tea and stopped talking.

"Was your trip to Central Province to find experts smooth?" Director Chen asked me.

I quickly said: "Very smooth. I invited an expert, who is staying at Xinlinyin tonight, and is ready to go to Chunshan County for inspection tomorrow."

Director Chen nodded, put down the newspaper in her hand, stood up and said to me: "Xiao Chen, your idea is very bold. I heard that you originally planned to build a mineral water plant, and the investors were already found. If a gold mine is discovered this time, your future will be infinitely great."

I said modestly: "I am hoping for the best, but fearing the worst."

Director Chen smiled faintly, turned and walked two steps, turned back and said: "Xiao Chen, come to the study."

Huang Weiwei curled her lips and said: "What is it that you have to avoid me? I want to go too."

"Child, too many things, honestly watch your TV." Director Chen affectionately scolded her daughter and took me into the study.

She pulled a stack of papers from a row of cabinets and handed them to me: "Take these bidding documents to your aunt, and make a bidding document within three days according to these documents." I took them with fear and trepidation, feeling like I was holding a thousand-jin boulder in my hand, which almost crushed my waist.

"Remember, don't move any of the project data, make small modifications to the price, and lower the bid price. That's all I'll say. Whether your company can win the bid depends on God's will." She waved her hand at me and said: "Go back and rest."

I retreated from the study and walked down the stairs, my head feeling like it was filled with paste, dizzy. Director Chen Yazhi gave me other people's bidding documents and revealed the content of the bidding documents in full. This is a criminal act. No wonder she didn't let Huang Weiwei know anything and didn't let her intervene at all.

She was burying a backup plan. If the incident was exposed, all these responsibilities would be on me and her. I couldn't help but be moved by her painstaking efforts, and at the same time, I felt a lingering fear.

Seeing me go downstairs, Huang Weiwei jumped up from the sofa and ran to me.

She saw the stack of materials in my hand at a glance and asked in surprise: "What are you holding?"

I consciously hid the materials behind my back.

She reached out to grab them. Just as I was dodging, Director Chen Yazhi, who followed me downstairs, gave a light shout: "Weiwei, what are you doing?"

Huang Weiwei paused, rolled her eyes at me, and pouted: "What secret is it? You won't even let me see."

I smiled faintly and said: "Nothing, just some study materials."

"Go back and rest early!" Director Chen Yazhi issued an eviction order to me. I fled like I had caught a straw to save my life. ===== CHAPTER 243 =====