Chapter 48

After the meeting, a preliminary consensus on cooperation was reached.

The general manager took everyone to the mechanized automatic control room to observe the debugging and operation of the product.

In the evening, we went to the restaurant that had been booked in advance to entertain our partners.

People were clinking glasses and talking and laughing at the table.

There were about twenty people in the box. The hot dishes on the table were steaming. Pei Yuning felt dizzy after staying there for too long. She left the table to get some fresh air, saying she was putting on makeup.

It started raining outside at some point, and the bluestone brick surface of the courtyard on the first floor was already wet. In the pond, ripples spread out on the water.

Pei Yuning thought of Shang Yanci at this moment. He wondered what he was doing now and whether he had eaten on time.

Her shoulders felt heavy, and she lowered her eyes. A dark blue suit was put on her.

Song Jingyu walked to her side and looked at the rain outside the window: “It’s chilly at night. Don’t catch a cold when you’re away on a business trip for a few days, or your family will miss you.”

Pei Yuning remembered that he had helped her find data for her thesis before, and chuckled: “You are still so helpful.”

After saying this, Pei Yuning took off his suit and handed it back to him: “But no, thank you for your kindness. I’m married, and I have to have the awareness of a married person.”

Song Jingyu’s eyes fell on the wedding ring on her left ring finger. He reached out to take the suit, and said meaningfully: “The man in your family is a little jealous.”

Pei Yuning raised the corners of her lips, shook her head, and said seriously: “It’s not that he is jealous, it’s that I am jealous. If my husband handed a suit to a woman he knew on a rainy day, even if I knew in my heart that this was just a gentleman’s act without any emotion, I would still not be able to help but get angry.”

Song Jingyu smiled faintly: “So, it seems that you have a good relationship.”

Pei Yuning looked at the endless spring rain, her delicate eyebrows and eyes smiled softly: “Yeah.”

The two stood in silence, listening to the sound of rain for a while.

Pei Yuning gradually felt a little cold: “Mr. Song, I’ll go in first.”

Song Jingyu: “Let’s have dinner together when we have time. It’s fate that we met in City A.”

Pei Yuning: “Then after I finish the company’s work in the next few days, I will treat Mr. Song to dinner before returning to Beijing.”

Song Jingyu nodded: “Okay.”

The two walked towards the box together. Song Jingyu pushed open the door and raised his hand to motion Pei Yuning to go in first.

Pei Yuning: “Thank you.”

After entering the inner room and seeing the scene in front of him, Pei Yuning looked indifferent.

There were two tables in the box. One table was for Pei Yuning, the company’s backbones and partners, mostly men. The other table was occupied by the company’s secretaries and marketing staff, mostly women.

At this moment, the general manager half-hugged a young female employee and drank, his hands on her shoulders kneading her, with a tendency to move downwards, the rim of the cup pressed against the female employee’s mouth, teasing her in a humiliating manner.

The men present either ate quietly or laughed and drank, while the women lowered their heads and turned a blind eye.

Pei Yuning walked over gracefully in high heels, and said in a cold tone: “Why, I think I came in at a bad time?”

Song Jingyu looked at her back with interest.

The box suddenly became quiet, and everyone lowered their heads as if it had nothing to do with them.

The general manager immediately withdrew his hand and stood up with an apologetic smile: “Mr. Pei, what you said is true. Tonight is the welcoming banquet prepared for you. I just taught the newcomer a few words, no other meaning. I was drunk and couldn’t stand steadily, so I leaned on her shoulder for a while.”

Pei Yuning sat down at the main seat: “If you like to teach others so much, why don’t you work in the education industry? You want to teach everyone a lesson, what about me? You can also say a few words to listen.”

The general manager’s forehead was sweating and he was very nervous: “Mr. Pei, you are embarrassing me.”

Pei Yuning ordered contemptuously: “Apologize to them, then get out and stand. I’m sick of you here.”

The blood under the general manager’s skin boiled, and he said angrily in a low voice with the effect of alcohol: “Mr. Pei, at my age, I am your elder after all, why don’t you give me a little face?”

Pei Yuning raised the corners of his mouth, and his red lips were wanton: “You come to me to seek relatives, who do you think you are? How dare you take advantage of your age in front of me?”

The general manager struggled again and again, and reluctantly apologized to the female employee. Like a stray dog, he hung his head and left the box.

Song Jingyu walked over and sat next to Pei Yuning.

The female employee had just entered the workplace and this was the first time she had encountered a situation like tonight where someone was forced to drink. If Pei Yuning hadn’t appeared, she really didn’t know how to deal with it.

Her eyes were red, she picked up the wine glass, stood up and toasted Pei Yuning: “Thank you, President Pei.”

Pei Yuning gently comforted her: “Sit down, no need to drink. I will give you an explanation for what happened tonight.”

“Thank you, President Pei.” The female employee sat back in her seat and wiped her tears with a tissue.

Pei Yuning put away the gentleness on his face and put on a cold face again, like a rose with thorns. Every word he said echoed throughout the box: “The main company in Beijing North has never seen a situation like tonight. Your subsidiaries in other cities are living too comfortably.”

The deputy manager said sincerely: “Don’t worry, President Pei, I will issue an announcement within the company now, and we will resolutely avoid such situations in the future.”

Pei Yuning was in charge of life and death nonchalantly: “Tonight’s situation will not be the first time, nor will it be the biggest one. I’ll give you a chance to get promoted. Before I leave City A, whoever investigates the most scum will replace the one standing outside the door. If you officials protect each other and cover up for each other, then wait for me to investigate personally and see the truth.”

Everyone agreed one after another, their minds turning around, undercurrents surging.

Pei Yuning stood up, holding up the wine glass, and toasted Song Jingyu and all the staff of the cooperation partner: “I’m sorry for the poor hospitality tonight. I will personally arrange a banquet another day. As for what you saw and heard tonight, I hope you will forget it all before leaving the box, and don’t let rumors affect our future cooperation relationship.”

Song Jingyu stood up and clinked the wine glass with Pei Yuning: “Don’t worry, President Pei, this is how it should be.”

The other people from the cooperation partner also stood up and toasted Pei Yuning in return.

Before meeting Pei Yuning, everyone thought she was a beautiful lady kept in seclusion by a noble family, waiting for marriage.

When I met her today, I found that Pei Yuning is a girl with quite some skills. Although he is young, he knows how to act and is very dignified. He is strict in rewarding and punishing, and has a deep understanding of people’s hearts. He should not be underestimated.

After dinner, Pei Yuning ignored the general manager standing at the door, walked out of the restaurant, said goodbye to Song Jingyu and his group, and left.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, Pei Yuning sent a message to Pei Yunzhi: “Brother, lay off the general manager of the subsidiary in City A. I want to replace him with a new one. As for other subsidiaries, we should investigate whether there is any bullying or oppression of female employees at the drinking table, or sexual harassment of female employees at work or forced into unspoken rules.

After returning to the hotel, Pei Yuning was about to go to the bathroom to wash up when Pei Yunzhi called.

Pei Yuning answered: “Brother.”

Pei Yunzhi said in a deep voice: “Did people in City A bully you?”