219: Go For A Walk After Eating

After the meal, Wang Cheng accompanied his grandfather to chat in the living room. Zhou Shichang asked him how he felt about his first day of work, how well he got along with his colleagues, and how Xie Wenzhi taught him. Wang Cheng answered the questions one by one. At his mother’s sign, Zhou Shichang wanted to interject, but when Zhou Shichang said, "I'm asking your cousin", he didn't dare to speak up again.

At nine o'clock, Zhou Shichang went to the study for some matters, leaving Wang Cheng and the Zhou Lin trio in the living room. As soon as he left, Zhao Chenlin immediately removed his mask.

"Don't be so proud, this game has just begun. I won't let you get what you want. Even if you can gain the favor of Grandpa, the company supports us..."

"Chenlin."

The person who stopped him was Zhao Jiansheng. He was the least talkative among the three, and usually had no sense of presence, but one had to be more careful around such people.

Wang Cheng stood up and said to Zhao Chenlin before leaving: "Cousin, eat more pig brain when you have time. I heard that this food can supplement the brain. It is very suitable for you. I'm going back to my room, good night everyone."

He remembered that Huang Tong’an had said that Zhao Chenlin was a bit clever. Who had misinformed him?

Zhao Chenlin was annoyed by him again, and wanted to stop him, but was trained by his mother again: if he was so easily angered by Wang Cheng, how could he fight him in the future?

Wang Cheng returned to his room, and after taking a bath, laid on his bed and texted Chu Yifeng. Chu Yifeng did not reply, instead calling him to ask how work went for his first day.

"Leave that aside. I was scared to death by my grandfather yesterday. He already knows about the Dongwang Group and doubts my relationship with you. I had to lie to him and say that you only helped me this time because you owed me a favor. I also told him about going to your house." He had almost exposed the whole story. Wang Cheng didn't think about these problems when he said it. Now, when he looked back, he found that he was stupid. The Old Chus and his grandfather had no intersection at all. Why did he want to put the three together?

Chu Yifeng's laughter came from his phone. "Your grandfather’s doubts about us should not be dispelled. What are you going to do next?"

"Now I can only take one step at a time. The more explanations, the more unnecessary suspicion will arise. Since my grandfather isn’t mentioning it, I will pretend now to know. Let’s not talk about me, how about you over there? Are you busy?” Wang Cheng laid down on the mattress.

"I’m a bit busy. I might not be able to return to China to find you soon."

Chu Yifeng had already accumulated a lot of work during his absence. Now that Charlie was on vacation, all the burdens had fallen on him. He said that he was a little busy, but in fact, he had been working overtime these days.

"When I have time, I will go abroad to find you," Wang Cheng suggested. "Well, I haven't been out of my home country yet, but I heard people say that the moon abroad is rounder than the moon in our country."

"Who’d you hear that from?"

"I recently searched for information on the Internet, and accidentally came across it." Wang Cheng explained truthfully.

"From now on, go on a walk after you’re full, okay?"

"...Got it."

On his second day of work, Xie Wenzhi asked Wang Cheng to go to the data room to sort out information. The news about the Zhou family’s son coming to work in the company gradually spread. During lunch, Wang Cheng was called by Xie Wenzhi to eat again. This time he went to the company’s canteen. As long as one paid a few hundred yuan a month, they could receive full meals from the staff. There was a problem in the kitchen yesterday and the canteen was not open, so Wang Cheng was not caught up.

This time, there were many people watching him.

Senior executives of the company came one after the other to say hello during the meal. Wang Cheng noticed that most of these people were close to Feng Yifan, while most of the senior executives who were closer with Zhou Lin had no response. The factions were distinct and clear at a glance.

After they left, the female employees threw away their discussions about themselves one by one, beginning to discuss mostly about Wang Cheng.

"Sure enough, Zhou Shao is really as handsome as the rumors. He looks so patient, completely different from that one." Female employee A held her cheek and smiled foolishly.

"I didn't believe it when I heard others say it before. That one is completely different. I was thinking that that one had changed his temper, but it turned out that since he encountered an opponent, he couldn't wait to change himself."

"I think that, no matter what, Zhou Shao has completely defeated that one."

"There’s something worth saying. Yesterday, I personally took a document from Zhou Shao. He also apologized for troubling me. Oh, so polite," Female employee B blushed and then snickered. "In contrast, I remember that that one acted very big when he first came to work."

"No, it is said that he even asked Secretary Li to pour water for him. Although he is the grandson of the chairman, he shouldn’t think of Secretary Li, the chairman's most important helper. Other people can do small things like pouring water. He just wanted Secretary Li to fall."

[T/N: fall, probably status-wise.]

"Why haven't I heard of this before? Later, did Secretary Li fall?"

"Of course not. Secretary Li happened to have important things to do at the time. She completely ignored him and ordered a colleague to pour him a glass of water before leaving. Afterwards, I heard that he went to the chairman to tell on Secretary Li."

"Secretary Li is so awesome. What happened?"

"I heard that he was scolded by the chairman, as if he said something irrelevant. He was later demoted to start at the grassroots level."

The group of female employees talked and did not notice that the person sitting not far away was the protagonist Zhao Chenlin that they spoke of, and his face was completely dark at that moment.

At that time, he was the sole heir of the Zhou Group with an infinitely bright future, and so he acted up a lot. After entering the company, Zhou Lin directly arranged a high position for him. However, after only three days, he took on Li Min. In the end, Zhou Shichang was beaten down to the grassroots level, and finally returned to work on the 70th level. However, this glorious deed had already spread throughout the company.

When female employee A smiled smugly, she suddenly found Zhao Chenlin's figure in the corner of her eye. She became very frightened and quickly hinted towards the others. They instantly became dumb and soon made excuses to leave the cafeteria one after the other, all walking quickly as if there was a monster behind them.

Wang Cheng spent a day collating information and forming a general understanding of the business of the Zhou Group.

In addition to the hotel industry, the Zhou Group was also involved in the catering and entertainment industries. Catering and hotels were closely related, so the company also focused in that direction.

The Zhou Group had achieved significant results in the domestic catering and hotel industries. Ten years ago, it had formed well-known chains, such as Jinding Hotel. They had dozens of five-star hotels nationwide. To go further, they must break through local boundaries and open up the international market.

However, it was not easy to open the international market, especially in the catering industry. The customs and cultures caused by regional differences made it difficult for them to adapt to the people and things of other countries, and there was a certain degree of exclusion. However, different human customs could also cause interest, so how to open up the international market was an important issue.

Wang Cheng noticed a problem while collating the information.

Zhou Lin was in charge of the company's entertainment-related business. As time progressed, more and more people were pursuing pleasure. The company followed the trend to invest in this area. Originally, it mainly invested in large-scale high-end entertainment such as amusement parks, golf courses, etc. However, in recent years, Zhou Lin had set her sights on mass media such as film, television, and music, and deliberately invested.

For example, two years ago, Zhou Lin bought an entertainment company with huge funds that she was unable to pay back. It had successfully signed multiple stars, and created two big stars in over a year, both of whom were relatively active on TV and were household names.

However, this kind of scenery did not last for long. Because of their expanding self-confidence, one of their stars was frequently exposed by the media as someone who only had a big name, cursed others, did the opposite of what they said, and other negative news. The former and the latter led some advertisers to want to terminate their contracts. There were also a lot of scandals, such as suppressing newcomers. Once some celebrities became famous, they wanted to take all the company's good resources in their own hands, which led to fewer opportunities for other newcomers to appear. The company also didn’t care, so some newcomers would rather terminate their contracts than stay in the company.

In the past six months, the company's revenue had decreased, and there was no injection of fresh blood. It was only supported by a few little-known artists, and was severely restricted. Even if there were more resources, it was impossible for the company to go further.

Wang Cheng also found something interesting. This Yazhi company was originally handed over by Zhou Lin to Zhao Chenlin half a year ago. Zhou Lin apparently tried to give Zhao Chenlin a chance to practice, but unfortunately, he did not grasp this opportunity well and instead took advantage of his rights to mess with some celebrities. Most of the incident of suppressing the newcomers came from the pillow talk of artists who had a leg up with Zhao Chenlin.

Wang Cheng checked the Internet and found that Yazhi indeed had more negative news than positive news. Although Zhao Chenlin was the grandson of the Zhou family, the benefit from the news was priority, the report would still be reported. Especially when they found that the Zhou family was not mentioned, the Zhou family did not suppress them in reporting these things. So they became even more unscrupulous. Even if the Zhou Lin husband and wife showed up, they could only cut off part of them.

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