Chapter Eighty-Seven: Seduction

  Su Cheng returned to the hotel, Qin Yun ran over and asked: "Did you get the Christmas invitation letter from the US Embassy?"

  "There is a picture, what's wrong." Su Cheng sat in the living room and poured himself a cup of tea.

  "An invitation to the Christmas party at the US Embassy!" Qin Yun caught up with him, refilling his water as he sighed, "I've heard that American banquets are luxurious and grand, the Christmas party at the US Embassy must be the most authentic kind."

  Su Cheng couldn't help but smile and said: "I can arrange for six people to go, I'll give you and Huang Ping a spot."

  "Thank you, Master!" Qin Yun called out happily.

  Xiao Pang patted his forehead and came over, saying: "Master, that one quota seems to be quite precious, or else..."

  Qin Yun glared at him fiercely, and Xiao Pang was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

  Su Cheng let out a sigh and patted Xiao Pang's shoulder before walking away.

  Qin Yun shouted from behind: "Master, there will definitely be someone looking for you for an invitation letter today."

  "Just tell them I'm not here if they call." Su Cheng waved his hand.

  The phone didn't stop ringing all afternoon, Qin Yun's mouth was dry and tongue-tied. She didn't dare to cut off the phone line, or else she estimated that someone would run into the hotel, Qin Yun knew more than anyone about the temptation of the Christmas dance party.

  By afternoon, Qin Yun couldn't take it anymore and called out: "Master, quickly give away those quotas! If we're late, I'm afraid they won't be pushed away!"

  Su Cheng finally came to his senses and summoned Xiao Pang and Huo Changzhang over. The three of them sat together, starting to study the company's relationship accounts.

  Oil companies are capital-intensive, technology-intensive and relationship-intensive enterprises. The current state-owned enterprises have not realized this point, and they will start to lose out when they go abroad. In contrast, Japan is inferior to Europe and the United States in terms of capital and technology, but it has obtained a large number of overseas orders by relying on its thick skin and unyielding relationship-building approach.

  Su City will eventually face the overseas oil market, so it has established a system of corporate relationship tables early on, which also helps to accumulate sales personnel who are not afraid of setbacks.

  Huo Chang ran for a while in the foreign land and clearly divided the relationship households into several columns for Su Cheng to choose from.

  "Minister Song has a quota from the Petroleum Department, I don't know if Secretary Lin needs it..." Su Cheng looked at the names inside, rubbing his temples, thinking: If only there was a personal relationship software, assign a score to each connection, give a coefficient to their influence in certain aspects, then when considering policies in that aspect, you could list out the most influential people... As he thought about it, his head hurt again.

  He Chang coughed lightly and said, "Director Song is 56 this year, he should have a big family and business. Not only his own children, but also his nieces and nephews are numerous. The quota given by the Petroleum Department to him is not enough, whether he goes or not."

  Su Cheng finally came to his senses and nodded: "No problem, should give Director Song a quota...... Secretary Lin will also send one, and see if it can be given to Minister Ding's hands."

  "There are still 2 left..."

  "Director Liu is sending another one." Su Cheng shook his head and said, "Even if we really send it, it's still not enough. Let's just leave it at that."

  "Or else, let's just forget about ours for now, it's such a waste."

  "Just broaden your horizons." Su Cheng waved his hand and said, "Building relationships isn't about being a slave, if there are extra benefits to be had, give some to others as a favor, accumulate some goodwill, and when you need it in the future, let them work for you to repay the favor. If you use up all your own benefits, then you'll become the one working for others."

  He said to Qin Yun, "If you get another call asking for a quota, just say we've already sent it out. I'll go down and take a stroll around."

  He carried his gym bag downstairs, ready to go swimming in the pool. As soon as he walked out of the door, he saw a woman wearing a pleated skirt with a V-neck tight-fitting sweater, not very tall but quite plump, with a prominent buttocks and an arc-shaped depression on her chest despite the thick sweater in the cold winter.

  She held a windbreaker in her hand and stood in front of the elevator wearing high heels asking something.

  It's rare to see a woman of this era wearing such high heels, and that getup is quite revealing. Although it's common in later times, at this time it's as if she's a celebrity going out, extremely fashionable.

  Su Cheng couldn't help but stop and take a second look. Just as he was about to leave, the waiter called out softly: "Mr. Su, this young lady is looking for you."

  "Oh?" Su Cheng pressed the elevator button and waited by the door.

  The fashionable girl ran over in high heels, the two pieces on her chest shaking violently, Su Cheng couldn't help but take a glance and then lowered his head.

  "Is Mr. Su?" The other party stretched out a slender palm and smiled: "I am Li Lin from Jinan Power Machinery Factory, nice to meet you."

  While getting to know Jinan Power Machinery Factory, Su Cheng had also heard of Li Lin, knowing that she was the factory's flower and a rose with thorns. Speaking between the lines, he was cautious, only asking one sentence, and lightly wanting to let go of her hand.

  Li Lin, however, used her fingertips to brush over it, turning the process of letting go into a ambiguous caress.

  "Director Su, the elevator has arrived." Li Lin walked into the elevator as if nothing was wrong and waved from inside.

  Su Cheng hesitated for a moment before walking in, thinking: "Could it be that you can eat me?"

  Li Lin saw that he wasn't speaking and didn't get annoyed, but instead chuckled twice, looked at his bag and asked: "Director Su wants to go swimming?"

  "Yes."

  "I haven't seen the swimming pool of Beijing Hotel yet, can you take me there?" Li Lin saw that he didn't respond and said on her own: "You're not saying anything, I'll just assume you agree."

  She said as she held onto Su Cheng's arm, and added, "Don't get me wrong, if I don't pretend to be a bit like this, the service staff won't let me use their swimming pool."

  His arm touched her soft and plump chest, feeling quite unique.

  As they walked, Li Lin held on especially tight. Without Su Cheng's firm opposition, the two had already entered the swimming pool.

  "You don't really want to swim, do you?"

  "What's the big deal about a constant temperature swimming pool?" Li Lin was single eyelid, and when she smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were curved, really making people unable to refuse.

  Su Cheng changed into her swimsuit and came out, waiting for a moment, then saw Li Lin walking out of the dressing room with a swing, and unlike other women's conservatism, she chose a three-point bikini, leaving other men staring in amazement. A man who was demonstrating his backstroke skills turned over and almost drowned.

  Li Lin walked with cat steps, showed off for a while at the edge of the rest platform, then got down into the swimming pool, swam sideways over, her snow-white thighs rippling in the water, making people's hearts itch.

  Su Cheng took a deep breath and turned his head to swim in another direction.

  Li Lin saw the situation, narrowed her eyes and smiled, also "heh heh" laughed as she chased after him. Others thought they came together, but unfortunately, they were secretly ridiculing each other.

  After swimming back and forth twice, Su Cheng was a bit tired. At this time, he saw Li Lin waiting by the side of the pool, resting and waiting for him to tire himself out. She swam up to Su Cheng's side, hooked one leg around him to stabilize her body, and then smiled: "Director Su, can't swim anymore?"

  Smooth thighs stuck to Su Cheng's waist, and there was an immediate reaction. Fortunately, they were in the swimming pool, so it didn't get embarrassing.

  Su Cheng sighed and said: "Miss Li, what are you doing again?"

  Li Linjiao smiled twice and said: "I know who is stopping the restructuring of the power plant, tell you, what's the benefit?"

  "You don't have to tell me." Su Cheng splashed water and said: "In addition to Xu Fuyou, there is also Mu Sichang, right?"

  "Oh, so you know why they disagree with reform"

  "They want to build a new factory." Su Cheng felt his strength recover a bit and swam towards the edge of the pool.

  Li Lin pursued closely and asked, "Then do you know what requirements they are going to raise after agreeing to the reform?"

  "Do you know?"

  Li Lin finally smiled and said: "Take me to the Christmas dance at the US Embassy, and I'll tell you."

  Su Cheng shook his head and said, "The places have already been given to others."

  "Where's your dance partner? You didn't bring a girlfriend?" Li Lin slowly swam towards Su Cheng, smiling: "You take me in, isn't that enough?"

  Su Cheng shook his head without hesitation and said, "They can't make demands."

  After finishing speaking, he walked out of the swimming pool under Li Lin's astonished gaze.

  December 14th.

  After repeated checks, Su Cheng walked into the US Embassy.

  At a glance, you can see the lotus pond, small bridge, flowing water, fake mountain and bamboo forest. On the one hand, they are beautiful scenery, on the other hand, they will also isolate the embassy area from the outside world. The Christmas atmosphere in the embassy is very strong, with a huge Christmas tree that is about 6-7 meters high, which is not hard to find in Beijing's winter.

  Christmas lights and gilded decorations are everywhere, among the Chinese people coming and going, half of them are very young, in the embassy excitedly talking and jumping, looking at these still young and simple officials, Su Cheng is also full of emotion: they haven't learned how to spend money yet.

  Inside, the scene was set for a cocktail party, with Chinese officials scattered around the hall chatting in twos and threes. Under the portico, middle-aged men in suits were also enjoying themselves, drinking champagne as if it were water...

  Strolling along the city wall, after a while, I circled around the hall and only then saw a familiar face, which was Du Lijun from the Tianjin Shi Stone Factory.

  The other party also saw him at this time and walked over quickly, as if an old friend who had not seen each other for many years, smiled and said: "Director Su."

  "Director Du, has arrived from Tianjin." Su Cheng's tone was stiff. He wasn't too fond of people like Du Lijun.

  Du Lijun seemed to be without any worries, introducing Su City to the people around him while laughing and saying: "Why does Director Su look like he's in a bad mood? Is it because he received too many orders and his hands are soft?"

  Others thought they were really good friends and laughed: "We've always worried about having no orders, the trouble of having too many orders, we really want to experience it."

  "There are too many orders, it's really a hassle. Think about it, if the signed orders exceed your production capacity, no matter what, you can't process them, won't you end up losing money?"

  "Then increase the production line and continue to recruit workers."

  Du Li Jun said with a worried tone: "Recruiting workers is easy, but what if we can't buy the production line? If that happens, the compensation for delayed delivery might bankrupt us. What do you think, Director Su?"

  The production line of the double donkey head oil extraction machine was produced by Tianjin Shi General Factory that year. If it were to be changed to another factory, just re-studying the process and adjusting production would take several months.

  Normally this would not affect anything, but when production tasks are tense, these few months of time will have a greater impact.

  Du Lijun had been a supporting actor for half a year, shrinking his neck in pain. As soon as he had the chance, he immediately showed off his skills and became arrogant.

  Su Cheng let out a soft "hmm" and glanced at him, saying: "Who will go bankrupt, we'll see later. Director Du should think about how you're going to spend this year first."

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