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Chapter 1553 - 746: Director Xu’s Matter

Chapter 1553: Chapter 746: Director Xu’s Matter

Life is like a play; it all depends on acting skills.

Yan Fei always believed his acting skills were quite good.

Because no one had ever told him that, actually, his ’acting skills’ were pretty average.

The reason no one told him was simple: Boss Yan was young, in the prime of his life with boundless prospects. Generally, those who knew about his situation, even if they would never intersect with him in the future, wouldn’t intentionally offend him for no reason.

The people Yan Fei usually associated with, what kind of people were they? Some held secure jobs; others had built up their own businesses to some extent with their hard work. Not to mention other aspects, at least they knew very well what should be done and what shouldn’t be done.

So even if Boss Yan’s attitude was somewhat over the line, everyone pretended not to notice—people who were young and successful with considerable achievements were typically given a high degree of tolerance.

Even the hooligans from Sancha River village, when bullying students in school, mostly knew to avoid those with exceptionally good grades. The less intelligent reason being that these students were highly regarded in the school and the school wouldn’t tolerate any trouble involving them.

The smarter ones realized that it wasn’t worth it to offend such students—what if someday they got into university and made a big leap forward? When they returned with some prestige, it would be our turn to not be able to get by. Such incidents had indeed happened in the ’history of the hooligans’ of Sancha River village.

Take Lin Baoguo, for example; he wasn’t particularly outstanding academically when at school, but as soon as he came back, he was an official police officer at the police station, and in just a few years, he rose to be the deputy director, then the head. Those who used to know him, especially the ones not involved in decent activities, had to be thankful they hadn’t offended him, otherwise, wouldn’t they be at his mercy now?

If even the petty hoodlums understood this principle, then for someone like Boss Yan, even if his ’acting skills’ were lacking, who would mind? Everyone would just laugh it off; was there any need to take it too seriously?

Therefore, Boss Yan had always been under the illusion that his acting skills were quite impressive.

However, that was under circumstances where everyone else was aware. At the moment, Yan Fei’s perfunctory attitude seemed extremely detestable in the eyes of Director Xu, from this trading company.

His family didn’t do much, just raised a few cows?

Director Xu had already concluded that this young man’s family must be involved in animal husbandry back in his hometown and probably had a substantial foundation, leading to his dismissive attitude—knowing full well that you are the director of a trading company, and yet you act like this, isn’t that the epitome of arrogance?

He didn’t even want to bother with a youngster like him, but now, seeing his ignorant arrogance, Director Xu was somewhat displeased: "Oh? Your family runs a breeding farm? The scale must be quite large, right? Where is your hometown, young man?"

The meaning behind these words was not very amicable. Because no matter when, those in business must interact with banks. Director Xu didn’t think he could control everything, nor did he plan to deliberately make things difficult for someone by, for example, reaching across regions to get someone in the same system to cause trouble.

But there’s a well-known truth: It’s hard to make things happen but easy to mess them up.

I can’t control the entire province, but after all, I am a director in the Provincial City. If in the future someone from your area comes here for a meeting or something, and at that time I still remember this incident, wouldn’t I just veer the conversation a bit? Let the young kid understand his place in the world—that’s for your own good, to prevent you from offending people everywhere in society later on because you don’t know the difference between high and low.

As for whether veering the conversation would be effective, that was absolutely certain. We are all part of the same system, and if you can conveniently do a favor for someone in the same system and maybe trip up others in the process, why not?

And besides, if someone else trips you up, they might as well take advantage of you and get some benefits from you; it’s basically getting something for nothing!

Usually, there’s no reason or excuse, but now someone has brought a pretext and even extended an olive branch; it’s a situation where one gains twice.

Some people might think this is somewhat unreasonable, but think about it, isn’t this how things are?

In society, there’s always a portion of people who feel they should receive better treatment and that others should behave in a certain way towards them. If others don’t act accordingly, they casually use the perquisites that come with their secure job to make themselves happy.

As for whether the things they casually do have a life-and-death impact on other people’s enterprises and factories, that’s not their concern—who asked you to be ignorant?

Yan Fei had been at quite a few drinking tables by now and even had the ability to drink like a fish. When others got tipsy and started talking nonsense, he could only listen bored, so he had heard quite a bit about such matters.

The moment he heard what Director Xu said, he understood the subtext.

Looking up at the somewhat forced smile of Wang Yongcheng and the forced laughter of Wang Lei as he gestured to him, Yan Fei managed to restrain his temper and said with a smile: "My family is from Wancheng City, we run a cattle farm, the scale is decent. Well, if you have important matters to discuss, I’ll take my leave."

It was only after he finished speaking and exhaled that he muttered to himself: When you’re in jianghu, you can’t help yourself!

From the very beginning of interacting with Director Xu’s peers, when had anyone ever looked at him with such attitude?

He thought about it and couldn’t help but want to laugh, feeling he had become arrogant himself. It was time to be humble, stay humble.