The Hope You Gave Me: 48-Before the meeting

Cao Mu convened Bai'an's management team to hold a conference call that night, briefly saying Xin Qi's offer, and everyone expressed their opinions.

“BBG Asia-Pacific branch has a good reputation and good reputation. If they buy it, they will most likely agree. Not to mention 130 million yuan, and the price is not bad.” Yan Chengli said, “But the management team only has 23% of the shares. I think it's a little bit small, can you grind it with him again? It's fine to grind it to 25%, 26%."

"This is his final offer."

"I think 26% is less." He Haixiang said, "In the end, the management team is the core strength of the company's operations. This is not a one-shot deal. Without enough incentives, everyone is unwilling to work hard. I Stick to 28% to 30% of the shares, no matter who you are looking for, be sure to talk about this number.”

“What percentage of the shares the other two private placements gave us?” Min Hui asked.

"28%." Cao Mu replied.

Min Hui thinks about it too. For the management team, the difference of 5% is still huge.

"I don't know what the target price of the headquarters is," Cao Mu said, "Mr. He, can you inquire?"

"I've tried it, but it's very difficult." He Haixiang said, "I know Cai Bingjie, the leader of the working group. He has a financial background, is very strict, and is very experienced in business. His task is to encourage all buyers to bid and accompany them. The more people there are, the better, even if you ask something, you can’t take it too seriously. Especially after we announced GS1.0, the situation is favorable for the headquarters, and his current strategy should be to hold back and wait for the price.”

"What is the attitude of the boss of the two companies you are going to discuss tomorrow?" Xu Guangjian asked.

"They are very positive, it just depends on the conditions they offer-" Cao Mu said, "These two companies are not as big as BBG, and they are not as famous as Xin Qi, but I have had contact with the two bosses before. They are pragmatic and honest, and they said they are willing to let us do their own research and development. Besides, the amount we want is not too high, I think we can negotiate. ——Even if it doesn’t work, there are still several investment companies in Bencheng who are interested, and I also make an appointment. Now, if you can't talk about it here, go back and continue to talk."

"Have you ever thought about this?" Yan Chengli said, "If we cooperate with BBG, we only have to deal with Xin Qi alone. If we cooperate with three companies, we must communicate with the three bosses. People's temper, if they get into a fight, it will be troublesome. In terms of communication costs, I am willing to vote for BBG. The financing situation is ever-changing, and Xin Qi still has a good reputation in the industry. Attitude and courage are here.”

"Xin Qi is quite trustworthy, I can attest to this." Min Hui also said, "He is a reliable person."

"It's reliable, but stingy. 23%? This is too much to care about!" He Haixiang's voice was firm, "There is only one cake, wouldn't it be better for him to eat less and give us more points? He is someone who does practical work and helps him earn money. Just based on this 23%, I am resolutely unwilling to do so.”

"Then let's cast a vote. BBG only gave me one day to think about it." Cao Mu looked at his watch, "Now, everyone has their say."

"I agree," Min Hui said.

"I disagree." He Haixiang said.

"I don't agree either," Xu Guangjian said.

"I agree." Yan Chengli said.

Two to two draws, everyone is waiting for Cao Mu.

"I don't agree either." Cao Mu finally said, "Three to two, that's the decision. I'll call tomorrow to reject Xin Qi. Min Hui, you have to come with me tomorrow to see that Two investors, give the report we made tonight to the two bosses and do it again."

"No problem," Min Hui said.

"Good night everyone."

***

Back in the room, Min Hui hurriedly took a shower, thinking that it would be a good thing for the management team not to cooperate with Xin Qi. There is still an indistinct entanglement between himself and Xin Qi. If they become superiors and subordinates, it will be bad to bring these emotions into work. Xin Qi's offer wasn't the best, but it wasn't bad either. 130 million was not a small amount. If it was replaced by someone else, it would not necessarily be given. It would take a lot of effort to give it.

After sitting on the train all night and giving a report for more than an hour, Min Hui was a little tired. She was lying in bed watching the PPT she prepared for the meeting. She was groggy and was about to fall asleep. flag.

"Are you asleep?" he asked.

"Not yet."

"Can you come over?" His voice was a little dejected, "I don't want to sleep at all, I can't coax me, I have to accompany you."

Su Quan's cry came from the other end of the phone. After crying for a long time, the voice had become hoarse and turned into a dry howl.

"Is that so? He's quite recognizable, and he's scared to meet strangers or live in unfamiliar rooms, especially for the first time." She stood up immediately, "I'll be right over."

"I asked the driver to pick you up and you are already on the way."

Probably for the convenience of office work, Xin Qi's apartment is located in the core area of ​​Financial Street.

Min Hui took the elevator to the top floor. As soon as she went out, she happened to meet Xin Qi who came to pick her up with Su Quan in her arms. The father and son were both wearing the same black pajamas, and there was a long scar under the collarbone on the chest. In addition, the two had similar faces, and they appeared neatly in front of Min Hui, as if they were the same person's childhood and adult versions. An inexplicable joy.

"Mom!" Su Quan called out and threw himself into her arms.

"He's about to go to sleep, and he has to make some noise before he goes to bed." Min Hui took the child and said softly, "Everything is good. Mom will take you to bed."

Su Quan yawned twice in a row, and touched Min Hui's chest with her little hand, but she was wearing a black turtleneck bottoming shirt. Su Quan couldn't feel it, so she scratched angrily. Xin Qi hurriedly said, "A little bit. Wait, I'll get you a nightgown."

Min Hui stood in the middle of the living room and glanced around: the apartment was spacious, cool in style, simple in design, and a cold abstraction. The entrance is on a black marble floor, and in the living room is a set of silver-gray annular sofas, bronze coffee tables, pure white carpets, and silver candlesticks with a half-person height on each side. The legs of the furniture are all metal, along with the picture frames on the walls and the pendant lights in the dining room – with an icy sheen. The lamps of various geometric shapes cast mottled and layered light and shadow from all directions. The entire south wall is full of magnificent floor-to-ceiling windows, and the night of Financial Street is in sight.

Xin Qi led her to the bedroom, Min Hui changed into pajamas, put her son on the bed, and lay down with her. Su Quan put his hand in his mother's arms, smiled with satisfaction, and said to Xin Qi who was standing beside the bed: "Dad, you sleep here."

Xin Qi had to lie down too, and the two sandwiched the child between them.

"Dad, I'll sing you a nursery rhyme, my mother taught me—" Su Quan said in a sweet voice, "The cow is full of flowers, squeezed out the milk to send to thousands of families. Green grass thanks it."

Xin Qi glared at Min Hui after hearing this: "What kind of ghost poem is this?"

"What the heck, I just rely on this to coax him to sleep every day." Min Hui laughed, "The child just wants to listen to his mother's voice to fall asleep."

"I see him getting more and more energetic." Xin Qi smiled wryly.

"One more song for Dad, all."

"Big winter melon, it's cold to the touch. The little bear hugs the melon to bed. It's hot and hugs the big winter melon, and the little bear falls asleep soundly." Quanquan backtracked with a straight face, waving his hands.

"You should go to sleep, my winter melon." Xin Qi sighed.

Su Quan squinted his eyes and put his face against Min Hui's shoulder, for fear that Xin Qi would run away, put his foot on his stomach, and murmured: "Little duck, all yellow. His mouth was red with the soles of his feet. He sang loudly and swayed down the pond..."

At the end, the voice gradually fell.

Hearing the word "duck", Min Hui was distracted for a while, and after a while, she said softly, "Xin Qi, do you still remember Gu Huayu from Anya Village?"

Xin Qi yawned: "Remember."

"I haven't eaten it for a long time, but I still remember the taste." The bedroom was dimly lit, and Min Hui stared at the ceiling, "It's delicious, fragrant and spicy."

"Yunlu can make it, just tell him if you want to eat it."

"The fish are different."

"Isn't it a crucian carp?"

"There is still a difference in taste between the crucian carp that has eaten Guhua and the crucian that has not eaten Guhua."

"Okay, I'll find a chance to eat later."

"Xin Qi?"

"Huh?"

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No."

"How come? After so many years, I got married and divorced, and you don't have a girlfriend?"

"No."

"There's something...how do you fix it?" She turned and looked at him narrowly in the dark.

"Why are you asking this?" he said lazily.

"Curious." Min Hui said with a sullen face, "I want to know how you persevered."

"I'm concentrating on other things."

"What else...what?"

"For example: making money. Another example: waiting for Su Tian."

Min Hui was silent for a while, then said, "Wait—can't be considered a 'thing'? You didn't do anything."

"Waiting is of course one thing, and waiting for Su Tian is the biggest thing in my life." His voice suddenly rose, as if he was ready to quarrel at any time.

As soon as these words came out, Min Hui wanted to leave immediately. She glanced at her son and said, "I think Quan Quan is already asleep."

"Wait a second, he fell asleep before you came, and he woke up as soon as I sat up."

"Okay."

The two chatted on the bed and closed their eyes gradually.

At dawn, Min Hui found herself curled up in Xin Qi's arms. He hugged himself tightly, as if hugging a human-shaped pillow.

It's hot, no wonder I'm sweating.

She struggled slightly, but didn't break free. Xin Qi slept soundly, her hair was unkempt on her forehead, her face was close to Min Hui's ear, her breathing was calm and long, and her ears were slightly itchy.

She had to pat his face with her hand: "Xin Qi, wake up, wake up!"

He opened his eyes suddenly, looked at her half asleep, then looked around: "Huh? You didn't leave?"

"You asked me to lie down for a while. I was tired from the train all night and fell asleep."

“You… did nothing?” he said.

Min Hui suddenly got angry and kicked him under the quilt: "What can I do? I haven't asked you what you did!"

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep." He smiled apologetically, sat up and stretched his waist, his face suddenly turned white: "What about all?"

It didn't matter if she was shocked, Min Hui also jumped up and looked around. She couldn't see her son as far as she could see.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Call the police! 110!" Xin Qi was so anxious that his whole body became unwell. He pulled out his mobile phone to make a call, his fingers were shaking, thinking of something, and suddenly said, "Quick! Quickly lift it up. Quilt! The child won't be bored in it!"

Min Hui was originally very nervous, but when she saw Xin Qi's face was pale and her lips were purple, she began to gasp for breath, and immediately pulled the quilt on the bed to the ground, pointing to the empty mattress and saying, "He is not under the quilt. Xin Qi, sit down, don't make a phone call, I'll go to the living room to find it, maybe I'm going to the toilet."

"The toilet is over there, there is no sound." Xin Qi screamed frantically, gasping loudly while clutching his chest, "He's not in the toilet, he's not in the toilet, he's gone, my son is gone, Disappeared, in my own bed, MyGod!"

He jumped up and down in a hurry, yelling, and nearly wept.

Min Hui grabbed his shoulder and said softly: "No, Quanquan is very smart, the apartment is very safe, he won't disappear, I can find him. Don't worry, Xin Qi, watch I—take a deep breath, Calmdown."

He looked at her in horror, his face getting paler, his lips getting darker and his breathing getting more and more panting.

Min Hui thought that if Su Quan could not be found again, this one would also be ill. He took a deep breath and forced himself to think. After two seconds, he leaned down under the bed and saw that Su Quan was lying in the depths of the bed, not knowing how he got in, and hurriedly shouted, "I found it. Found it! Under the bed! It's all under the bed!"

As soon as Xin Qi heard this, he immediately got down on his knees, looked under the bed, and said nervously, "Why is he not moving? He has a heart attack, or is he dead? Min Hui, my son is dead...my son. dead..."

"Not dead, just asleep, not awake yet."

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, several seconds have passed, and he didn't even blink his eyelids..." Xin Qi was so frightened that he hugged Min Hui tightly, trembling all over, he didn't dare to let out a breath.

Min Hui sighed and had to climb under the bed and pull Su Quan out.

I didn't expect the child to sleep so deeply, so he dragged him hard without opening his eyes.

Xin Qi's face is getting more and more gray——

Min Hui hurriedly hugged her son to his side: "He's not dead, you see, his hands are hot. And here, touch it, it's a heartbeat."

Xin Qi tremblingly placed his palm on Su Quan's chest. After feeling his heartbeat, he finally nodded with confidence, but he was still gasping for breath.

Min Hui put her son back on the bed, pulled Xin Qi to sit up, and asked softly, "Where is the oxygen?"

Xin Qi pointed to a cabinet, Min Hui walked over to open the cabinet door and pulled out a portable medical oxygen bottle, unscrewed the oxygen, and let him breathe through the oxygen mask.

"Are you okay?" She sat next to him, staring at him, "Need a doctor?"

He shakes his head.

She sat quietly with him for ten minutes. Seeing that his face gradually recovered, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I'll take the child away, and let Cao Mu help you to look at it. You can leave him alone today. ."

"No, I'm much better. I'll be fine after a short rest." Xin Qi said softly, "I really can't figure it out, why did he run under the bed?"

"The child doesn't sleep well, often rolls off the bed and continues to sleep on the ground." Min Hui said, "So my bed feet are solid. I didn't expect your bed to be so high and so empty underneath that you can put The next three Simmons..."

"You scared me to death." Xin Qi had a look of lingering fears.

This is true. His heart disease is much more serious than Su Quan's, and he is very likely to be scared to death.

A ray of sunlight hit the opposite wall, and Min Hui realized that there were several colored picture frames on the wall with pictures of Su Tian embedded in them, which were the ones she had posted to her Moments. Min Hui didn't recognize it for a while because it was enlarged and processed into an oil painting style.

Suddenly, she felt a thorn in her back.

"Is your meeting about to start?" Xin Qi glanced at the electronic clock on the bedside table, "Let's go, I'll let the driver take you."

Min Hui wanted to leave, but was worried: "Can you do it alone? Would you like to call Shen Han and ask him to come and take care of him?"

"No. I'm fine," he said. "I'll go to this meeting too, but I'll go to the company first and take care of some things. It's okay to follow me."

"Then I'll go first and see you later." She picked up her jacket and stood up.

"OK."