Open up the sky

Chapter 2

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a saying: "People have impermanence, and water has an impermanence."

The same is true for commercial roads. The so-called competitive advantage, the core strength of an enterprise is technology.Pitian, the evergreen tree of the jewelry kingdom, is always new, not only relying on novel and excellent designs, stable operation, but also technology that is always superior to others.

There is a magnificent research building in Pitian Building, which is almost filled with various world-class instruments and equipment, which also shows the importance Pitian attaches to technology research and development.

Dressed in high-grade uniforms of uniform specifications, elite men and women come and go in and out of the research building. A group of guards in full suits and quiet at the door conduct strict inspections. There is no mercy at all, and no one other than the R&D department is allowed to enter.The boundary that does not count as the boundary easily draws the pride in the heart. It has to be said that sometimes people are so arrogant that there is no reason for it.

Leng Hu'er, the director of the business department, put his short and thick palm on the fingerprint recognition sensor in front of the door. The automatic recognition system issued a "beep" rejection sound, and a polite voice sounded from the voice prompter.

"Sorry, you do not have permission to access this."

"Bastard!" Leng Hu'er cursed, and retracted his hand shamelessly, but because of his status, he had no choice but to turn around and leave in disgrace.

The more Leng Hu'er thought about it, the angrier she became, and she went straight to Xian Yuqiu's office. There was only Xian Yuqiu in the office. After closing the door, Leng Hu'er began to yell, "What's up with his grandma's Gu Xichao? A damn fingerprint door, specially Make me look ugly!"

"Old Leng, Gu Xichao has always been like this, why are you unwilling to try again?" Xian Yuqiu stroked the mustache on his face, and said in a thin voice with ulterior motives, "He is the only one who knows how to use the new equipment in the company. He set up a password from inside to guard against us, and he was bored inside all day and didn't know what to do."

"Bah, I'm shameless, what good things can happen."

Leng Hu'er was still cursing, but Xian Yuqiu rolled his eyes, squinted and asked, "Did you hurt us?"

"He is like a thorn in the flesh. When he sees the director, he turns his head and walks away. Do you think someone in the whole department pays attention to him?! However, he may not like this kind of arrogance and stumbling behind his back. "

Xian Yuqiu didn't answer first, and Leng Hu'er spoke bluntly, and understood the matter after seeing it.Gu Xichao is indeed talented, but his personality is too bad. The so-called "shooting the top bird", the more genuine the ability, the more you should keep it in mind. As a result, he is good at everything, so the director can't help but wonder, do you want to be like me? Come up!

"Old Leng, I'm not talking nonsense." Xian Yuqiu slowed down his speech and reminded deliberately: "You forgot that we hid his research results back then."

"Aiya ho!" Leng Huer jumped, "Don't tell me, I forgot, why the hell did I come across such a Ning Zhonghua, who didn't even understand the principle of seniority, he only came to the company for a few days, and he made such a big deal. If you really dare to swallow the achievements, you are not afraid to support him to death!"

"It can't be helped if it happens to me, but I think Gu Xichao can't get along here, so he will pack up and leave sooner or later. I just hope that before he leaves, we two old brothers won't be dragged into trouble."

Xian Yuqiu's words made Leng Hu'er nervous. He has an eighty-year-old mother and a wife and children. How can he go to school without money?The treatment of Pitian Research Department is the best in the whole company. How many people are envious and cannot get in, so he can't lose his diamond job.

Pitian Research Department, key laboratory.

Blocking Leng Huer's fingerprint door, there is a long corridor. On both sides of the corridor are two large laboratories. The Pitian Research Department has installed a new set of equipment with special funds, called "Nisuyenising".This is a top-notch analyzer in the world, and the jewelry business cannot do without analysis and identification.The Qi family is proficient in business but pays attention to innocence. Only truly valuable things will be sold to customers.

Therefore, it can be said that the analysis and appraisal link is the starting point of Pitian's entire business chain, and its status is self-evident.Although Pitian Company has many experts in jewelry appraisal, this is an era of data. An appraisal report issued by the world's top precision instruments and absolutely recognized and convincing in the world will bring a price increase to a piece of jewelry. Unparalleled persuasion.

The sound of "Nisuyenising" running is like an off-road vehicle with excellent performance. If you really use a car as a metaphor, then the only person in the entire Pitian company who has the ability to drive this car is Gu Xi who is currently "driving" in front of the computer towards.

The parameter indicators of various colors flickered on the monitor, and the young man who was staring intently at the monitor looked serious, his black and white eyes were awe-inspiring, and his fair face had soft lines. Sitting in front of the computer, his thin figure carries an indescribable loneliness.

Gu Xichao tapped commands on the keyboard with his slender, white fingers from time to time, using a series of instructions to make the "off-road vehicle" move forward according to his intention.

After inputting the last command, Gu Xichao pressed "RUN", a huge running command, even this ultra-high-speed machine would have to run for a full 12 hours, Gu Xichao leaned in the seat and rubbed his aching back, I remembered that I hadn't eaten almost all day.

He is not used to eating in the company's restaurant, and eating alone is also boring.

Gu Xichao stood up and moved around, and suddenly remembered something, raised his wrist to look at his watch, got off work, another day passed, and there was still no news.

Perhaps, the plan was never seen by anyone?

Forget it, even if you see it, it depends on whether the person who sees it can understand it!

Gu Xi raised a mocking sneer towards the corner of her mouth, Executive?In Gu Xichao's eyes, there is no difference between the executive and the director. Whether it is worthy of the name is still open to question.

Gu Xichao took out a tailor-made uniform jacket and put it on. The western-style waist-cutting and straight fabric made his waist slim and long legs look elegant and beautiful.He straightened his clothes and walked to the side of "Nisuyenising" who was working efficiently. His white hands and a small piece of wrist bone that exposed dark cuffs because of raising his arms almost blended with the bright white color of the high-quality paint on the instrument. One.He looked at "Nisuyenising", his expression softened suddenly, "I'm going back early today, see you tomorrow."

With a laughing voice, Qingyue was very.

Gu Xichao walked out along the corridor of the laboratory, with a faint smile on his face, and walked out of the password fingerprint door of the key laboratory, Gu Xichao was about to take the elevator downstairs, when suddenly a strange voice sounded, "Oh, Let me see, who is this?"

The uniform jacket made by the company uniformly, the black clothes and white shirt are extremely ordinary, but Yushu Linfeng is very elegant when worn on Gu Xichao's body.

Gu Xichao lost his smile, he didn't want to stay, so he stretched out his hand to press the elevator button, Leng Huer saw Gu Xichao's intention, and put his palm on the button first, Gu Xichao frowned slightly, Leng Huer's hand almost touched him.

"Director Leng, I have something to do."

Leng Hu'er saw Gu Xichao's look of loathing her, and the fire in her heart filled her throat, and she shouted at the back of Gu Xichao, who was walking towards the stairs again, "What's the matter? Is something on your mind! Gu Xichao, I have something to tell you You, weigh yourself before doing something, don't take yourself too seriously."

"I don't understand what you're saying."

"Do you understand the jade market?" Leng Hu'er saw Gu Xichao's thin back trembling, and looked back at her with anger, "How do you know!"

Leng Hu'er hated even more in her heart, and gritted her teeth, "It really is you!"

Leng Hu'er heard that sentence in Xian Yuqiu's office, "Gu Xichao can't get along here, sooner or later he will pack up and leave. I just hope that before he leaves, we don't really drag our two old brothers into trouble." The more he thought about it, the more afraid he became.He did everything he could to find out from the senior management of Pitian that the company's main focus for next year is jade.

He didn't want to take the one-tenth of a million chance, he couldn't get into Gu Xichao's laboratory, waiting here, today he insisted on knowing whether Gu Xichao was secretly researching jade.What he said just now was to test Gu Xichao, but unexpectedly, he guessed it right.

This shock was no small matter, if Gu Xichao really hooked up with Pitian's high-level executives, how could he be better off!

"Gu Xichao, Gu Xichao," rubbed the name between his teeth, and laughed coldly, "Why can't I know? Do you think your proposal is a treasure for everyone! Let me tell you, Garbage is garbage wherever it is, and it can only be thrown in the wastebasket!"

Gu Xichao clenched his fist and then slowly let it go. This kind of attack mocked him not once or twice, he would get angry before, but now, he won't.

"Leng Hu'er, are you done?" Seeing Leng Hu'er's stunned expression, Gu Xichao sneered unabashedly, "If you have time to care about me, Gu Xichao might as well read more about the instrument manual. When someone comes to check the equipment, it must be the director of your sales department who is in charge. If you can’t even get in the door, you don’t know which basket to throw this kind of garbage into.”

No matter how cold her face turned red and white, Gu Xi turned around and left.

The laboratory is on the 16th floor, and Leng Hu'er is blocking the elevator. Gu Xichao originally planned to go down to the 15th floor and then take the elevator down. It is true that he has something to leave early today.But for some reason, he walked down the stairs step by step alone.

14, 13, 12...

When the elevator was not malfunctioning, the corridor was extremely quiet and empty. The sound of Gu Xichao's footsteps echoed slowly, and the dim yellow light of the emergency light elongated his shadow little by little.

It was already dark when Gu Xichao drove back home, opened the door, the house was pitch black, turned on the lights and opened the windows, changed clothes and shoes.Today, Gu Xichao made a bowl of noodles for dinner.

As soon as he picked up the chopsticks, someone opened the door and came in, Gu Xichao turned his head to look, he was of medium build, yellow face, small eyes, golden scales.

"Father called you over."

Gu Xichao looked at the noodles in front of him, the father that Huang Jinlin said was also Wan Qing's father.

As if no one else was there, he ate the noodles.

No one can stand neglect, but Gu Xichao's neglect is more likely to make people angry, Jin Lin's breathing is getting rough, but there is nothing he can do.Ever since Wan Qing had an accident, although he had known Gu Xichao for less than a year, he knew very well that no one could force Gu Xichao to do something that he was unwilling to do.

"Haven't you eaten yet?" Jin Lin had nothing to say, so he couldn't just watch.Gu Xichao raised her head, her black and white eyes looked at herself in surprise, Jinlin was a little speechless, yes, it was unnecessary for him to ask.

After eating noodles, Gu Xichao followed Huang Jinlin to meet Wanqing's father Fu Zongshu. Huang Jinlin was driving and Gu Xichao sat in the back seat.

Huang Jinlin looked at Gu Xichao from the rearview mirror, he didn't change much, just like when Wan Qing was still there, Huang Jinlin even thought, before Gu Xichao knew Wan Qing, it was probably the same.

Gu Xichao has never changed, and will not change for anyone.

The two arrived at Fu Zongshu's office without saying a word.

"go in."

Gu Xichao nodded, pushed the door open and entered.

"Are you here?" Fu Zongshu stood with his back, his temples were even paler, and his back was engraved with the desolation of the years. The last time I saw him was in the Wanqing mourning hall.

"Recently, I often think of Wan Qing." With a hoarse voice, wrapped in deep thoughts, Gu Xichao looked up moved, and Fu Zongshu turned his head, with deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, old and hollow.

The white candle held the curtain, that girl with a quiet smile, why couldn't she open her eyes again.

Memories hit Gu Xichao like a bullet in an instant.

"The day before yesterday, I replaced Wan Qing with a new stone tablet."

Gu Xi shook her eyebrows, and blurted out: "Why bother her again."

Fu Zongshu stared at Gu Xichao for a moment, "The stone tablet I changed for Wanqing reads - Gu Xichaoli. Your name is engraved on it." After a long time, he said slowly, "I think this is my daughter's wish."

Gu Xichao smiled wryly, until now, Wan Qing's wish still has to be fulfilled by others.

"Your plan makes some sense." Fu Zongshu pointed to the thick stack of photocopied documents on the table, caught the surprise that flashed in Gu Xichao's eyes, and smiled indifferently: "Don't be surprised." , There are never absolute secrets in the world. The rules of shopping malls are originally like this, everything and even everyone has a reserve price, as long as you can afford it, you can get what you want.”

Fu Zongshu's Fu Group is the largest construction company in Southeast Asia. In 2009, it was listed on the Chinese stock market, and it often differed from Qi's Pitian.

Gu Xichao frowned slightly, he was not in a hurry to know why his business plan was transferred from the executive office of Pitian to the desk of Director Fu's, but he was keenly aware that he was falling into an invisible vortex somewhere. It has been involved, and it is getting deeper and deeper.

Gu Xichao, who was still quiet, seemed to be much deeper than a year ago. He was no longer the man who lost his soul when he didn't see Wan Qing. Even if he knew it, even if he saw it, it would be a cold tombstone.

"It seems that you don't know yet, but Qi Shaoshang has already taken a fancy to your business plan. He used your business plan to bid for the mainland jade market."

This sentence carries too much weight!Gu Xichao was in a daze for a long time, and his emotions gradually became agitated. His proposal, his proposal has been bid, but, what!

Fu Zongshu looked at Gu Xichao, who was breathing heavily, and sneered between his brows. The result of his hard work has become a ladder to others' success, and he has been treated coldly. He must be in a bad mood!So he said: "Don't worry, Qi Shaoshang is a person who cherishes talents, I believe he will come to you soon."

Hearing this, Gu Xi's eyes lit up, and something inexplicable slowly spread in her heart.

It was only after many years that he realized that that feeling was anticipation, the desire to be recognized, and the hope that his efforts would be respected.

Of course, this is something for later.At that time, he said: "If there is nothing else, then I'll take my leave first." Since Wan Qing's death, Gu Xichao has no relationship with the Fu family, and now, he doesn't want to have anything to do with it.

"Gu Xichao!" Fu Zongshu called to Gu Xichao who was about to turn around and leave, and said with a change of expression, "Even if you go back to Pitian and study instruments to death, you are still just a chief researcher."

Gu Xichao just smiled coldly and didn't look back.However, Fu Zongshu asked sharply: "Someone asked me, who is Gu Xichao engraved on Wan Qing's tombstone! Who is Wan Qing's husband? Why did she choose such a man?!"

Gu Xichao's pace stopped so fast that he seemed a little unsteady, his thin back swaying.

People will get tired after standing for a long time. Fu Zongshu supported the edge of the table and sat down slowly. His slow words were like sighing: "Recently, I always think of Wan Qing. She was a well-behaved child since she was a child. Everyone who met her loved her Praise her. The boy who pursued her is now either a major general in the army or a minister in the government. She must have never told you about this, so I was angry. The first time I heard her mention you, I severely scolded that girl , she didn't even talk back, she was really wronged, and she shed tears quietly. She didn't say a word for a few days, and finally she spoke, and the first thing she said to me was you." She watched Gu Xichao every time. One emoji said: "In the past few days, I have read the excellent paper Wan Qing gave me about you, as well as the award certificate. After reading it, I also admit that you have extraordinary talent, but your talent alone is far from you. Our family, away from Wanqing, is not something that can be hunted down in a few decades. Wanqing is my only daughter, and I can give her the best in the world. But did you let her live a good life before she was alive? I won't talk about it. After she died, your Gu family's name was engraved on it, do you, Gu Xichao, still plan to remain unknown for the rest of your life!"

Gu Xichao felt that heartache and debt again. His wife is the most beautiful and gentle woman in the world, but...

"Director Fu, you didn't call me here just to talk about Wanqing." Gu Xichao looked back and said word by word, "Tell me, your real purpose."

Fu Zongshu smiled. It is really difficult for smart people to confuse their thinking, so he is indeed the right person to deal with Qi Shaoshang, "I want the whole strategic plan for Pitian to capture the mainland market."

The inland market occupies more than tens of millions. Even for a company like Pitian, if it wants to harvest the inland market, it will affect the entire company and even cost a huge amount of capital. Gu Xichao suddenly understood, and said, "You want Pitian."

"No. I will let Pi Tian be surnamed Gu. As long as you help me get Qi Shaoshang's strategic plan, I will have a way to bring Qi Shaoshang down. I will help you up. Wan Qing is your wife, even if she is gone. , but you are still my son-in-law. When the time comes..."

"I'll help you." Gu Xichao interrupted Fu Zongshu, his cold tone made people unable to catch up, maybe he didn't want to listen to Fu Zongshu.

"Then sign this." Fu Zongshu ordered, and saw that a secret door opened in the huge study room, and a man in black walked out. He walked steadily and powerfully, holding a contract in his hand.

No wonder, today, Fu Zongshu talked about these commercial secrets with eloquence, and even said that he wanted to steal the commercial secrets. It seems that he was already prepared.

Seeing Gu Xichao signing the contract clearly stating that he will be an employee of Fu's enterprise for life, Fu Zongshu smiled in satisfaction, but said: "I am a legal businessman."

Gu Xichao also smiled and said: "But I still have Qi's contract with me, if it is pursued by law, this one is just a few scraps of paper."

"Since you are asked to sign, the Qi's share will definitely not be counted. Someone will handle it for you. You are still Pitian's researcher during the day, but you must return to Fu's at night."

It is Gu Xichao's habit to never leave a way out when doing things.

It's just that he still has doubts. He glanced at Fu Zongshu and said, "How can I be sure that I can get the plan."

"You don't know, Qi Shaoshang has been looking for you for a long time, and you will meet soon."