What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 8: Using Man to Control Man (5.5k)

Yu Xing invited Liu Wanying to listen to the unlucky guy's showdown, but the latter was not interested in this and had already made an appointment with her friends to go shopping, so she exchanged mobile phone numbers, changed her clothes and went out first.

Yu Xing poured a glass of water for his junior to calm down, then sent his bank account number to the big client via text message, and finally listened to the showdown process.

The process is actually very simple.

This is a 15% statement of purpose + 80% scolding and earnest advice + 4% persistence + 1% confession.

"You're still talking about me?" Yu Xing said with a smile.

"This, that... Brother Xing, it's not me who said it, it's the teacher..." Zhong Zhiling said awkwardly, "He guessed it."

"It's not surprising. I brought you here, and I discussed so much with Sister Ying in front of him." Yu Xing waved his hand, signaling his junior brother not to worry about his emotions, and smiled, "That's fine, so I don't have to tell him."

Zhong Zhiling said worriedly: "But, but, the teacher wants to call my mom and dad..."

You have been admitted to graduate school and will be enrolled in the fall, but you still have to keep your student status at this time. Why do you want to start a business?
According to Zhong Zhiling's retelling, the teacher suggested that both of them go to the brain hospital to make an appointment, as he has an expert friend there!

"The teacher is doing this for your own good. Did he call or not?" Yu Xing's emotions didn't fluctuate much. He had experienced the worst situations before.

"Not yet. The teacher asked me to think about it carefully. He said he had to go to a meeting first." Zhong Zhiling's tears had stopped, but his eyes were a little red and swollen.

Yu Xing drank his tea slowly, thinking about the current situation, and said carefully: "Zhi Ling, don't worry. The teacher hasn't called yet, and your parents don't know yet. This call will come sooner or later, but even if it doesn't happen, we have already burned our boats and have no choice."

Anyway, he couldn't think of a better option under the current circumstances. When he thought about the scale of the funds that had gone bankrupt, ideas like setting up a private police station and sending mass emails asking for money came to his mind.

Now this is an option that can make money quickly and is relatively safe.

Zhong Zhiling took a breath and realized that what his senior brother said was right. This was something he would have to face sooner or later.

"Of course, if we have already achieved some results, it would be much better to make this call." Yu Xing changed the subject and said thoughtfully, "Zhi Ling, I have an experience in work that you can try in the future. It's called 'controlling others with others'."

Zhong Zhiling felt a little strange. Xingge's work experience? Was he talking about his experience in the group? Or was he doing internship before?
But he skipped this point and asked in confusion: "What does it mean to control people with people?"

"For example, you lead a team to sell houses," Yu Xing said slowly. "There are many people in the team, and not everyone is convinced by you. What should you do? Do you think about convincing them all day long, or do you think about making things difficult for them all day long? Not to mention that it may intensify conflicts, the biggest goal of selling houses and achieving performance will be ignored."

“We shouldn’t waste our energy on this when we’re actually doing things.”

"What is man? The essence of man is the sum of all social relations."

"In a team, or, for you to understand more easily, in a class, someone always gets along well with some others. He can't listen to my opinions, but he can hear the opinions and even orders of those around him."

"What we need to do is not to subdue him, but to influence the people around him or above him, so that we can better accomplish our main goal."

Yu Xing slowly recounted some of the work and management experiences he had accumulated during his career.

Zhong Zhiling's expression was quite confused. He looked at his senior brother's expectant eyes and slowly uttered a sound through his nose: "Hmm?"

Yu Xing took a breath, suppressed his nervousness, pointed in the direction of another bedroom, and uttered three words: "Pillow talk."

"It's pillow talk, why are you talking so much..." Zhong Zhiling muttered in a very low voice so that his senior brother could not hear him, but he remembered his words and those four words firmly in his heart - to control others with others.

"Do you have any money on you?" Yu Xing asked at this time.

Zhong Zhiling replied vigilantly: "No! I gave them all to you!"

Yu Xing nodded and instructed, "Go buy some celery, pork belly, and live shrimp. I'll make some dumplings for my mistress. We can eat them in the evening, or we can freeze them in the refrigerator and take them out whenever we want to eat them later."

"Can making dumplings convince her?" Zhong Zhiling asked, "What if Master's Wife doesn't help?"

Yu Xing stood up and walked towards the kitchen, saying with a smile: "If you don't want to help, then don't help. She is my master's wife. It's nothing for me to make some dumplings."

Zhong Zhiling was silent for a moment. It turned out that his senior brother’s character was not that ordinary.

The two men acted separately, and neither noticed that there was a small ear listening at the end of the corridor.

Fifteen minutes later, Zhong Zhiling brought back the vegetables he bought from the supermarket at the entrance of the community and found that his senior brother had already placed the chopping board on the coffee table with kneaded dough next to it, and his junior sister Liu Zhishan was sitting on the sofa.

"Children should not watch so much TV, it is bad for their eyes." Zhong Zhiling said.

Liu Zhishan glared at the new senior brother and said nothing.

Yu Xing carried the bag and went to the kitchen to wash and cut the ingredients.

Zhong Zhiling followed behind, wanting to help, but he saw that his senior brother was very efficient and seemed to leave no room for him.

Chop the celery and add salt to reduce the water content.

Boil the shrimp heads in oil and remove the tendons from the shrimp tails.

Yu Xing quickly cut the shrimp tails into large pieces and marinated them with salt, pepper and cooking wine. He turned around and saw his junior brother standing there in a daze, not knowing what to do, so he said, "Chop the pork belly into stuffing. You know how to do this, right?"

Zhong Zhiling was assigned a task.

While busying himself, Yu Xing said, "Don't chop the meat too hard, it will leak easily. Add oyster sauce, soy sauce, cooking wine, shrimp oil, and add water three times."

He thought about it, then rejected the idea: "Forget it, just chop the meat, and I'll do the rest to avoid waste."

"Brother Xing, what does fetching water mean?" Zhong Zhiling really didn't understand this.

"You just beat water into the meat filling so that it absorbs water when you stir it and becomes sticky," Yu Xing explained in detail. "When you put the dumplings into the pot to cook, the meat filling will have more water and won't get tough easily, so it will taste fresher and more tender."

Zhong Zhiling said sincerely: "Brother Xing, how come you know everything!"

"Who is born with the ability to do this? We are all taught by others." Yu Xing smiled unconsciously. To be honest, it was his girlfriend in his dream who taught him how to fetch water.

His thoughts disappeared in an instant, and he continued to say to his junior: "Just like you jumped out of the medical environment, I can understand that you are panicking, cramped and overwhelmed now. Let alone you, I have no experience in starting a business, but we really don’t have much time, and we need to see results as soon as possible, so we need to think more and be more proactive."

Yu Xing either threatens or explains the current situation.

Zhong Zhiling also knew that his performance in the past two days was probably not very good. He whispered "hmm" and only said: "I hope the teacher's wife can persuade the teacher."

The dumpling filling needs to be left to marinate, and the dough also needs time to rise.

The two returned to the living room. Yu Xing sat next to the junior sister and said with a smile, "Shanshan, I want to discuss something with you, okay?"

Liu Zhishan blinked and said like a little adult: "Brother, go ahead."

"The weather is too hot. I'll buy you an ice cream and take you to the amusement park." Yu Xing promised first, then said, "Okay, when your dad comes home tonight, if he's angry, tell him not to be angry and tell your parents more about my goodness."

Liu Zhishan turned her head and continued watching TV, and asked without much concern: "How do I say good things about my brother?"

"I'll teach you." Yu Xing said with a smile, "Just say that you remember the time when I went to pick you up and it suddenly started raining and I didn't bring an umbrella. I held you in my arms and ran all the way home. I was soaked and sick, but you were fine."

Liu Zhishan said "hmm" and agreed crisply: "Okay."

Seeing that the junior sister was so easy to talk to, Zhong Zhiling also offered advice: "Shanshan, I will teach you too."

Liu Zhishan glanced at Zhong Zhiling and said calmly, "Do you want me to teach you?"

Zhong Zhiling was stunned: "..."

No, you...

You little friend...

Zhong Zhiling felt that everything had changed. He was a prospective graduate student who was envied by his classmates and made his family proud. But now he was worried about his teacher calling home and even ignored his children...

This, this is really low status!

He was speechless and could only feel depressed quietly beside him.

Yu Xing was also a little surprised by his junior sister's performance. He didn't say anything more, but instead told Shanshan to be more obedient and take care of her mother at home.

Liu Zhishan listened obediently and agreed.

Yu Xing watched TV with his junior sister for a while before starting to make dumplings.

As a person who once had to do things himself to save money, he was very familiar with these things, and when he was halfway through wrapping, his master's wife Yan Lirong came out of the bedroom after her lunch break.

"Yu Xing, you are really in high spirits today. I've never seen you show this skill before." Yan Lirong sat next to her daughter, rubbed her head, and said to Yu Xing with a smile.

"I have been studying hard for a long time. What I made before was not tasty. I dare to bring it out for you to taste now." Yu Xing could only explain this way, and continued, "Master's wife, half of it is frozen in the refrigerator. You can eat it directly when you want to eat it later."

Yan Lirong smiled and nodded. After a moment of silence, she said, "Yu Xing, I just woke up and read the text message that Lao Liu sent me. He asked me to persuade you to think carefully about what happened? What's going on?" "Master's wife, Zhong Zhiling and I invested in financial management and lost the money." Yu Xing kept making dumplings and lowered his voice. "I'm considering a good opportunity for an entrepreneurial project. I plan to do it first and stop studying at school."

He made the matter clear in one sentence, but did not mention any specific numbers.

Yan Lirong frowned and said with concern: "How can this be possible? How can you say you don't want to study? What financial management? When did it start? No, no wonder Old Liu is angry, this won't work! Yu Xing, don't be impulsive!"

"It's a lot of money." Yu Xing didn't have any deep hatred, and his tone was quite firm. "Master's wife, we are not impulsive. I talked a lot with Sister Ying today. If you think I am impulsive, then you can ask her what she thinks of our project. Similarly, the teacher can also ask her."

Yan Lirong watched everything during the meal and the discussion after the meal, but this sentence made her hesitate for a moment.

There is no doubt that my sister-in-law is excellent. Her job is to fly back and forth between various cities to connect with companies.

If even she agrees...

Yu Xing wrapped a dumpling lightly and looked up and said, "Master's Wife, if you don't believe us, don't you believe her?"

Yan Lirong thought about it and sighed, "But I can't not go to school!"

"Master's wife, we just found a good opportunity to try, so we want to keep our student status this time." Yu Xing said calmly, "If it doesn't work, we can come back and study again."

Yan Lirong frowned and said nothing for a long time, "This is too much of a joke. How much money did you lose in your financial management? Were you cheated? Can you still make up for it now? You all studied for so many years to get to where you are today."

Yu Xing still said the same thing as before, but his tone was more resolute: "Master's Wife, if you don't believe us, don't you believe her?"

Zhong Zhiling heard the looseness in his tone, sensed hope, and followed suit, "Yes."

Yan Lirong looked at Yu Xing, then at Zhong Zhiling, and finally at Yu Xing. She said tactfully, "It's not that I don't trust her, nor do I distrust you. You need someone to help you run a company. How can you do it alone?"

Zhong Zhiling was about to express his own contribution, but suddenly stopped talking. Hey, I believe in her and him, so who do I not believe in? Why am I struggling alone...

He reluctantly endured the humiliation and bowed his head, understanding who his junior sister might follow!

Yu Xing kept making dumplings and said, "Master's wife, rich people play in their own way, and teams play in their own way. There are so many ways, so we just have to fight in the cracks. Anyway, I have made up my mind."

Yan Lirong said angrily: "How can you make up your mind about such a big thing? Even if you want to do it, you have to discuss it with your family."

Yu Xing did not answer immediately. He finished wrapping the last dumpling, put it in a neat row, dusted off the flour on his body, and said with a smile, "Master's Wife, in addition to the financial management, we also want to tell our family after we have some results. At the latest, I will tell my family before September."

Without waiting for Yan Lirong to speak, he pointed at the dumplings and said, "Master's Wife, I will separate the dumplings later. The ones on top are for you and the teacher. You can eat them directly when you want. The two layers on the bottom are for Shanshan. I didn't put ginger in them. Don't mix them up when you give them to her."

Little Liu Zhishan doesn't like eating ginger.

"Hey, you..." Yan Lirong looked at the neatly arranged dumplings and Yu Xing's determined face. She suddenly felt sad and said angrily, "Are you not going to visit us again after you finish making these dumplings?"

"I'm afraid of being busy in the future. In the past, I had the teacher and the teacher's wife to take care of me, so I could concentrate on the lab." Yu Xing said seriously, "I will worry about the projects in the future, and I don't know if I will be busy or not. But no matter what, whether the teacher is angry with me or not, the teacher is still the teacher, and the teacher's wife is still the teacher's wife."

Yan Lirong was pregnant and her emotions were easily fluctuating. After hearing these heartfelt words, tears welled up in her eyes. She turned her head away and no longer looked at the neatly arranged plate of dumplings.

Yu Xing quickly poured her some water and mentioned that he would take Liu Zhishan to the amusement park in a few days, thus ending the topic.

Yan Lirong adjusted her mood and knew that Yu Xing would not change his decision, so she naggled and told him to take good care of himself.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Jingrong still hadn't returned, so Yu Xing took Zhong Zhiling and left.

Yan Lirong called the two men to stop, went back to the bedroom, and came out with a stack of cash to put into Yu Xing's pocket.

Yu Xingjian declined the offer.

"I don't understand what you are talking about, and I don't know what Xiaoying thinks. I just know that you must be short of money now." Yan Lirong held down Yu Xing's arm that was holding the money and insisted, "This money is not much, and it's not for you to start a business. It's just for you to eat when you are hungry and buy clothes when you are short of clothes. You said you recognize me as your master's wife, so accept it if you do!"

Yu Xing was in a trance for a moment. The person was still the same person, and his master's wife still gave him money when things went wrong.

He no longer refused and accepted it: "Okay, Master's Wife."

Yan Lirong nodded in satisfaction, but worried that her eldest disciple would feel bad after taking the money, she said, "That's right. When you make a lot of money in the future, you can bring more gifts during festivals."

Yu Xing nodded and squatted down to ask Liu Zhishan to take good care of her mother.

Unexpectedly, Liu Zhishan just looked at Yu Xing and said coolly: "I will do the job, don't worry."

Yu Xing: “…”

He touched the child's head, stood up and said to Yan Lirong: "Teacher's wife, you guys go back. The teacher will be back in the evening. Please persuade him not to be angry."

Yan Lirong held her daughter's hand and finally said, "Hey, you guys are fine too. If you have any problems, call me. Don't be embarrassed."

Yu Xing and Zhong Zhiling left the teacher's home.

The two of them had their own thoughts and didn't speak a word all the way out of the community.

Yu Xing stopped at the entrance of the community: "See you at nine o'clock in the evening, at the place by the lake last time."

"Ah? Brother Xing, where are you going? We, shouldn't we go together?" Zhong Zhiling still wanted to follow.

"I need to check our potential customers and think about my conversation with Ying. She really gave me a lot of inspiration." Yu Xing said thoughtfully, "She used mathematics to initially build a product model, but I think the actual probability should not be 3.7%, which means there is a lot of room for adjustment in our product settings. Anyway, I have to think about it."

Zhong Zhiling argued: "I'm here so I won't interfere with your thoughts."

Yu Xing said simply: "Interference."

Zhong Zhiling was already somewhat numb to his position. After a few seconds of silence, he asked in a daze, "Brother Xing, do you think the teacher will agree? Will your pillow style and little cotton jacket style work?"

Yu Xing shook his head slightly: "We'll know soon."

He waved goodbye and walked away slowly along the road.

Zhong Zhiling looked at his senior brother's back for a while, not knowing where to go for a moment. After thinking about it, he decided to go have dinner with his girlfriend in the evening.

After experiencing great emotional ups and downs in the past two days, he also wants to get emotional comfort.

However, Zhong Zhiling received a call from his teacher before he had dinner. Although the other party's tone was still harsh, it had been softened compared to his previous statement.

Zhong Zhiling was excited. On the one hand, he felt that he had temporarily obtained permission. On the other hand, he was also amazed at the power of this "pillow wind" + "little cotton-padded jacket wind".

He couldn't help but think again of what his senior brother had taught him: to control others with others, is it really that magical?
Zhong Zhiling hadn't seen his girlfriend for two days. When he heard the good news, the atmosphere of the dinner was particularly pleasant, and there was no trace of the annoying quarrels that had occurred before.

After dinner, he went back to the dormitory to take a shower, and then went straight to the lakeside where he met Brother Xing last time.

Brother Xing hasn't arrived yet.

After Zhong Zhiling sat down, he slowly thought about his worries.

About ten minutes later, he saw his senior brother approaching.

"Brother Xing, you're here." Zhong Zhiling greeted.

"Yeah." Yu Xing nodded slightly, sat on the ground, and asked casually, "Where's Lv Haiying? Why didn't she come?"

Zhong Zhiling was stunned: "No, what is she doing here?"

Yu Xing was also stunned: "Huh? Didn't she tell you? I called her and she agreed to come to work in the company."

Zhong Zhiling was completely stunned. Come to work in the company?

Who?
she? ?

Ah? ? ?
"Your long-distance problem has been completely solved." Yu Xing said with a smile, "From now on, you two don't have to worry about long-distance relationships. Now that you have solved your small problems, you can focus on our big problems."

He continued, "Today we have some good news. We have a large order, new employees, the project has made substantial progress, and we have more correct..."

Zhong Zhiling finally reacted. At that moment, what came to his mind was nothing else but the four words he had seen and heard today - control others with others.

Damn, I got my girlfriend into this shitty company!
Damn, the company isn’t even registered yet!

Damn, you are still trying to control others, but now it’s me who is being controlled!

He stood up suddenly, his face flushed instantly, his eyes were extremely tight, and he shouted angrily:
"Yu! Are you still human?"

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