Upon arriving at the villa, Chen Cheng and i Xiang saw Cui Xiaoling standing in the front hall.
"Aunt Cui," Chen Cheng greeted.
Cui Xiaoling’s steps were a bit slow. She first looked at i Xiang and then her gaze fell on Chen Cheng’s arm, expressing concern, "Is your injury healed?"
Chen Cheng raised his hand, "It’s nothing, it was never serious."
Only then did Cui Xiaoling nod, "I’ll have the kitchen prepare so extra dishes, stay for dinner tonight."
She paused and looked at i Xiang again, "Miss Xingye, you should join us too."
It seed that ng Wanning had told her master everything, and upon hearing the invitation, i Xiang bowed in thanks.
"Alright, I’ll go see Mr. Jin first."
"He’s in the backyard."
After the three bid farewell, Chen Cheng led i Xiang to the backyard.
Jin Baogen was fiddling with a variety of cricket containers on the ground of different shapes and materials. Chen Cheng stepped forward, "Are you moving, sir?"
Jin Baogen looked up, "Ha, you got it right."
He also glanced at i Xiang, then asked Chen Cheng, "How’s the injury?"
"It’s nothing much, if I wait a bit before seeing a doctor, the wound would have healed," Chen Cheng said self-deprecatingly, sitting down nearby, then picked up a cricket container and handed it to i Xiang.
i Xiang sat down as well, greeting, "Mr. Jin."
Jin Baogen nodded, "Why do you have ti to visit this old man today?"
"Listen to you, I’m always free, but I’m just afraid of disturbing your ti with Aunt Cui."
Jin Baogen laughed heartily, "Tell , what’s the matter?"
"I want to borrow Mountain Outside the Mountain again," Chen Cheng got straight to the point.
"To entertain guests?"
Chen Cheng nodded.
"Important guests?"
"Yes."
Jin Baogen stopped what he was doing and looked at the two of them.
Chen Cheng gave i Xiang a glance, and i Xiang quickly explained the entire matter, while Chen Cheng also elaborated on the part about getting Cao Yue to help.
After hearing this, Jin Baogen lit a cigarette and took a couple of puffs.
"You’re asking Xiao Cao to handle this, and if he finds soone to help you...," Jin Baogen quickly ran through a possible list of "important guests" in his mind and said after a while, "I guess it’s soone from the Ministry of Natural Resources."
Hearing this response, Chen Cheng interjected, "Skipping the district level altogether?"
"For sothing of such magnitude, the district committee can’t make the decisions. Even if they co, it still has to be reported layer by layer."
Jin Baogen flicked the ash off his cigarette, "With Xiao Cao’s connections and resources, he should be able to go straight to the top."
Chen Cheng frowned slightly; if they were truly from the Ministry of Natural Resources, it was far beyond what he imagined, and the difficulty of the matter suddenly increased.
i Xiang looked puzzled, unfamiliar with the dostic hierarchy and procedures, she could only look at Chen Cheng, trying to glean so information from his expression.
Jin Baogen looked at Chen Cheng and asked, "How do you plan to arrange this?"
Recalling his previous experience, Chen Cheng replied, "Firstly, the grounds of Mountain Outside the Mountain must be ticulously arranged to show sincerity and respect. As for the dishes, let the kitchen showcase their best skills and use the finest ingredients."
"And in terms of song and dance performances, I think they shouldn’t be omitted either," he continued, "At least the scale must be there."
After hearing Chen Cheng’s plan, Jin Baogen shook his head.
"Am I not preparing this properly?"
Jin Baogen extinguished his cigarette, speaking aningfully, "You’re inviting soone of a different level this ti, not the usual business partners. If you set up such things, it won’t touch the leaders’ hearts, but rather seem vulgar."
Chen Cheng was taken aback; he hadn’t expected such an evaluation from Jin Baogen.
"So Mr. Jin, what do you think I should do?" Chen Cheng humbly inquired.
Jin Baogen stood up, pacing with his hands behind his back, "Think about it, what haven’t these leaders seen? Delicacies, a grand display, they are all accustod to it."
He paused and continued, "To impress them, you have to offer sothing different."
"Cater to what they like," he emphasized.
"Then I’ll ask Cao Yue exactly who is coming tomorrow."
Jin Baogen waved his hand again, "If he wanted to tell you who’s coming, he would have already told you in the office, wouldn’t he?"
Chen Cheng stopped his hand from reaching for his phone, realizing Jin Baogen had it spot on. He said, "In my opinion, even Cao Yue doesn’t know the exact people coming, after all, the schedules of divisions and departnts are not entirely under his control."
Chen Cheng nodded heavily, but still had doubts, "So how should I prepare?"
"What’s the weather like tomorrow?"
Chen Cheng took out his phone to check, "Sunny."
"Then go hunting," Jin Baogen suggested, "People like them are tense in their work, and with the tightening policies now, eating and drinking are challenging issues."
He sat down again, "Using the most primitive form of human hunting to let them relax and relieve stress, this is sothing different."
Chen Cheng raised his eyebrows slightly, recalling that when he first went to Mountain Outside the Mountain, the manager did ntion the resort’s back hill allowed for hunting.
"That’s indeed fresh!" Chen Cheng laughed, "But how’s the hunting done? No wait, Mr. Jin, you wouldn’t have..."
Chen Cheng made a hand gesture like a gun, and Jin Baogen shook his head with a smile, "The resort has kennels with around twenty hunting dogs, tomorrow you take them over, and I’ll arrange everything there."
Chen Cheng finally felt relieved; with Jin Baogen’s arrangents, there was no room for error. "Alright, let’s do it your way."
"However,"
Jin Baogen shifted the topic, "Hunting is just the prelude, the key is still to let them see your sincerity, and the value of Xingye Corporate. You have to do your howork beforehand, otherwise, if the leader asks you sothing and you can’t answer, all this will be in vain."
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