Chapter 46

Tea Break

Chao Musheng sent the photos of breakfast and the moonlit scenery taken last night to his grandparents. Turning his head, he saw that only one plate was left in front of Secretary Liu, and he put the plates back in their original positions: "Brother Liu, sorry about that."

"It's okay." Secretary Liu glanced at the boss. Besides, the boss moved the plates there, it had nothing to do with Xiao Chao.

After finishing the meal, Secretary Liu and Chao Musheng returned to the suite on the 15th floor to organize the meeting materials. Secretary Liu couldn't suppress his curiosity: "Xiao Chao, what was that about the grandparents the boss mentioned this morning?"

"They are my grandparents." Chao Musheng told Secretary Liu about the video call last night: "Maybe the boss was worried that the elderly would worry about me at home, so he reminded me not to forget to take photos."

Actually, he wanted to tell Mr. Xu that his grandparents didn't worry about what he ate for every meal, but Mr. Xu was full of good intentions, so he couldn't pour cold water on him.

Secretary Liu suddenly realized. He knew it. If the boss had grandparents, he couldn't possibly not know.

"Ten minutes until the meeting starts." Chao Musheng brought his laptop: "Brother Liu, are there any other matters to pay attention to at the meeting?"

Secretary Liu looked at Chao Musheng in a suit and leather shoes in front of him. He was really like a fresh bamboo shoot. Even wearing a suit, he didn't look like a beast of burden, but rather like a wealthy young master experiencing life.

"When you get to the venue, you will know. It's not what we need to pay attention to, but what others need to pay attention to in front of us." Secretary Liu looked at Chao Musheng's vigorous appearance with some envy and couldn't help reaching out to tug at his tie: "Sigh, how did you grow up like this?"

Ability and appearance are both trump cards on their own, but he happens to have both.

"Hehe." Chao Musheng chuckled: "It all depends on my parents' hard work."

"Secretary Liu?" Xu Chenzhu came out of the room after changing clothes and saw Secretary Liu pulling Chao Musheng's tie. The two were standing and sitting, smiling happily. His hand adjusting the collar paused.

"Boss." Secretary Liu let go of Chao Musheng's tie, picked up the ironed suit jacket, and presented it to Xu Chenzhu.

Xu Chenzhu put on the clothes casually and walked up to Chao Musheng.

"Mr. Xu?" Chao Musheng was about to stand up when Mr. Xu suddenly bent down and reached out to help him adjust his tie.

The chain hanging from the silver glasses swayed, occasionally brushing against his chest. Chao Musheng felt a little itchy where it brushed.

"Done." Xu Chenzhu helped him adjust his tie, smoothed his collar, fixed a diamond tie clip on the tie, and stood up straight: "This tie clip suits you very well."

"Diamonds are dazzling, but Xiao Chao is good-looking, complementing this diamond tie clip perfectly." Secretary Liu praised: "The boss still has good taste."

"Mr. Xu..." Chao Musheng touched the diamond tie clip, his eyes still lingering on the swaying glasses chain.

"The meeting is about to start." The corners of Xu Chenzhu's mouth rose slightly: "Let's go."

Several bodyguards in black were already waiting outside the door. As soon as the door opened, they consciously stood in two rows and followed behind Chao Musheng and Secretary Liu.

Walking on the soft carpet was silent. Chao Musheng followed behind Xu Chenzhu, watching others on both sides of the corridor making way, and once again clearly felt the power of authority and status.

"Brother Wu." Xiao Qi watched the big shot leave and whispered: "Who was that just now? Even other guests on the 15th floor had to wait for him to go first? Is the young master walking with him the kind person we met in the corridor last night?"

"Not a young master." Brother Wu noticed the laptop in the young man's hand: "He should be the big shot's capable assistant."

"Such a young assistant?" Xiao Qi glanced at the distinguished guests in the corridor who were in a hurry, neither daring to approach the big shot nor daring to fall too far behind: "I feel this big shot is very powerful. Does he also have an exclamation mark on his head?"

Brother Wu shook his head.

"No?!" Xiao Qi couldn't believe it. How could someone who scared the distinguished guests on the 15th floor like this not have an exclamation mark?

"The moment they appeared, my skill suddenly failed." Brother Wu gazed at the end of the corridor. After the group disappeared, the punctuation marks above the heads of others in the corridor gradually reappeared.

He looked down and turned on his phone. The screensaver was a photo of him and the moon on the deck last night.

The bright moon hung high, and the bright moonlight also shone on him.

"Brother Tiger, that pretty boy today looks quite decent." The thin man lay on the ground wiping the deck. From a distance, he saw the dignitaries who were originally looking down on people surrounding the pretty boy, smiling and talking: "He seems to have a high status among this group of people. It shouldn't be easy for you to deal with him."

Brother Tiger snorted disdainfully: "What are you afraid of? Wait until he is alone, see how I deal with him."

The thin man smiled: "Brother Tiger is bold. Later we will find a chance to contact Young Master Song and let Young Master Song know your strength."

With such a stupid brain, he didn't know how he cleared those previous instances.

Brother Tiger looked up at Chao Musheng in the middle of the crowd and grinned happily: "Okay."

Before the meeting started, everyone noticed that Chairman Song attended this meeting alone without bringing his grandson.

It seems that the rumor about Chairman Song's grandson offending Mr. Xu's assistant yesterday was not just a rumor. Otherwise, for such an important occasion, why wouldn't Chairman Song bring his heir with him?

Looking at that Assistant Chao again, everyone's eyes lit up regardless of gender.

Using the word "good-looking" to describe him is too simple, and using "handsome and dashing" is too cliché. If a comparison must be made, he is like water in the desert, fire in the snow, a light boat on the lake, catching one's eye at a glance and bringing joy to the heart.

However, a few people in the crowd looked a bit pale. Not only did they not dare to go up and say hello, but they hid behind the crowd instead.

Yesterday, they just thought this young man was good-looking and thought he was a newcomer heavily promoted by some entertainment company. So they couldn't restrain their love for beauty and ran to Assistant Chao to say some suggestive words that shouldn't have been said.

The more they thought about it, the more they felt they might die miserably. Several big bosses regretted it so much that their hearts bled. If time could turn back, they would definitely slap themselves to death for violating the precept against lust yesterday.

There were also a few bosses who felt that Chao Musheng was young and couldn't help trying to get information out of him during polite conversation. As a result, within a few sentences, they were coaxed into beaming smiles by Assistant Chao. When they sat down in the meeting room, they realized belatedly that they hadn't gotten anything out of him.

Looking at Chao Musheng's young and tender face again, they couldn't help sighing. What a formidable young man. No wonder he is valued by Mr. Xu.

The meeting room adopted a round table meeting mode, with large rings nested in small rings. There were only nine people sitting at the innermost ring table. Before Xu Chenzhu took his seat, the other eight people were standing and chatting.

Chao Musheng noticed that the moment Xu Chenzhu took his seat, the entire meeting room quieted down a lot. He sat on the chair behind Xu Chenzhu. This kind of chair was probably specially equipped for the assistants of big shots, with complete equipment, very suitable for professional workers.

Opening the laptop and placing it on the table board, Chao Musheng put on the simultaneous interpretation headset, so he didn't notice that Old Man Song behind him had been staring at his back for a full three minutes.

Chairman Song sat at the third ring table, feeling very complicated about this grandson sitting behind the first ring table. He was dissatisfied that Chao Musheng made things so embarrassing last night, but couldn't help feeling proud of his ability.

Watching him skillfully handle various emergencies in the meeting, navigating with ease among a group of old foxes, and being trusted and valued by Mr. Xu, he couldn't help thinking that if the Song family were handed over to him, maybe there would be better development.

"Old Song." During the tea break, the boss sitting next to Chairman Song said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Why did you keep staring at Mr. Chao during the meeting just now? Be careful not to provoke Mr. Xu's dissatisfaction and bring trouble upon yourself."

When Mr. Xu left the meeting room just now, he specifically looked back at Old Man Song.

Usually, merchants like them who couldn't even reach the second ring table wouldn't catch Mr. Xu's eye.

"He is my grandson." Chairman Song said: "As a grandfather, looking at my own grandson a few times, Mr. Xu should be able to understand me."

"Chairman Song's loving heart is touching, but how come I haven't heard before that Chairman Song has a grandson surnamed Chao?" The competitor smiled and said: "I heard that Chairman Song is preparing to retreat to the second line and let your grandson be the successor. Why didn't I see him today?"

After the incident happened last night, the second generations went back and told their families. Now who doesn't know that Mr. Xu's assistant is the Song family's grandson, but he doesn't acknowledge the Song family?

It's just that everyone is a decent person and won't mock the Song family openly about this.

Unfortunately, the competitor has been the Song family's old enemy for many years. Being able to see the Song family's joke, he could wake up laughing in the middle of the night. Not broadcasting it with a loudspeaker is already considered kind of him.

Chairman Song glanced at the almost undisguised schadenfreude on his deadly rival's face, said nothing, turned around, and walked out of the meeting room with his cane.

"You too. Old Song hasn't been in good health these two years. Aren't you afraid of angering him into something bad?"

"I asked why his grandson didn't come, that's caring about him." The deadly rival grinned: "Seeing the abandoned grandson being so outstanding, if I were him, I would regret it so much that I couldn't sleep at night."

The deadly rival's voice was loud enough for Chairman Song, who had walked to the door, to hear clearly. He gripped his cane tightly and strode out of the meeting room.

As soon as he walked out, he saw Mr. Xu taking a plate of cake from the tea break room and putting it in Chao Musheng's hand.

Chairman Song blinked hard. He didn't see it wrong. It was Mr. Xu getting cake for his grandson, not his grandson getting it for Mr. Xu.

For meetings of this level, almost no one would touch the food in the tea break room. Seeing Mr. Xu actually go to the tea break room to get food, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then followed suit to take some food in their hands just for show.

Whether to eat or not is not important; what is important is to be sensible.

"You get hungry fast at this age." Xu Chenzhu led Chao Musheng to sit at a small table by the window: "Eat."

The cake was decorated with plenty of fresh fruit, more fruit than cake. Chao Musheng suspected that Mr. Xu picked the piece with the most fruit for him.

He did get hungry fast at his age, but he couldn't imagine the noble and elegant Mr. Xu picking and choosing among a pile of pastries.

"You guys are in for a treat." An old waitress said to Xiao Juan, Xiao Liu, and other new waitresses: "For meetings of this level, the pastry chefs invited for the tea break are world-class masters. Unfortunately, the big shots usually don't eat. After clearing away, it's all ours."

She pushed open the door to the meeting area and saw the big shots holding a plate of cake or dim sum each, the smile on her face freezing.

Xiao Juan and Xiao Liu watched the big shots holding food and gathering in groups of two or three to communicate, then turned to look at the leading waitress. Are they still in for a treat now?

Old waitress: "..."

Did the big shots collectively have an appetite today?

Not only were many cakes and dim sums taken, but even many cups were taken from the beverage area which was usually unvisited.

With a crash, a breaking sound came from the beverage area. A waiter accidentally broke a cup on the table.

Clumsy like a player who hasn't received service training, but Xiao Juan saw the purple mark on the other person's head. This is a native of this world.

This kid doesn't look like a serious waiter.