Sweet Chief Secretary

Chapter 486 Be in Trouble in the Bathing Pool

“The words make sense somewhat. Harmony brings wealth in business. It’s not worth offending so many people for us just to vent our anger at once. Besides, President Zhang didn’t mean to call off the engagement last time, and after that, we took the initiative to stop the cooperation with them. Since the children have been reconciled, just let them go.” Mrs. Bai did not like Jiang Tao, either. Seeing that their company suffered no major losses, they could have a reasonable explanation to the shareholders, and her daughter did not need to be together with the one she didn’t like, so she felt it was actually very good. She just persuaded President Bai on the side.

President Bai was very shrewd. Although Old Madame still stood by Shen Mo up to now, more than half of the company’s shareholders were on Shen Yan’s side this time.

At the very least, even if Shen Mo became the President in the future, Shen Yan was still the second-largest shareholder. Besides, Xia Mingde seemed to like him very much. After he cleared up the misunderstanding with Xia Yu, they might be reconciled then. Even if he couldn’t be the President of Shen Group, he still had the Ruyi Tower to support him.

With his talent and the support from Xia Family, how could he not have a bright future? Thinking of this, President Bai felt that it would be good for Bai Group if his daughter really could make friends with these people. So, he decided to take the opportunity at once.

The shareholders were glad to see Bai Family silently cooperate with several large companies certainly, praising Bai Hong for her business ability constantly. President Bai took the opportunity to make Bai Hong the company’s general manager as his daughter was not young, and it was time to give her some real power.

Old Madame Jiang was the angriest one who had intended to take this opportunity to drag Jiang An into the mire. She didn’t expect him to sign the contract with Bai Family by stealth. And with the support of Xia Family, Jiang An bought the shares of a few shareholders who intended to withdraw from the company, so now he held more shares in the company than Jiang Tao.

Jiang An ran his business well, and he held the most shares of the company. Besides, he had Xia Family and Shen Yan on his side, and he was also very close to Yang Family and Zhang Family recently, so everyone could see that Jiang An was obviously more powerful than Jiang Tao since they were not stupid. More and more people were in support of Jiang An. Seeing the hopeless situation, Old Madame Jiang malingered at home, and the proposal to change the President just came to nothing.

She pretended to be ill, but Jiang An was not ill, so he took this opportunity to suppress Jiang Tao’s power thoroughly and sent Jiang Tao to an island in the Pacific to be the manager. Jiang Tao then had no right to speak in Jiang Group.

Shen Mo kept silent for a while after receiving the news. He couldn’t help admiring Shen Yan’s artifice this time. In this battle, he lost and was sincerely convinced.

“Young Master Mo, actually, we still can make a big fuss. Didn’t Li Wen sign the contract of a few hundred million yuan with Tengfei to chase Xia Yu?” After several defeats in a row, Zhang Hanyu, the first brainpower, felt so humiliated. He was really anxious.

“Li Wen!” Shen Mo had also thought of this person before. But Shen Mo had looked down upon him all the time over the years, as in Shen Mo’s eyes, he was just a wastrel. He even felt that it disgraced himself to talk to him more, not to mention cooperating with him.

Did he really have to ask him for help now? Shen Mo really could not do that humbly.

“Young Master Mo, you do not need to go there personally. Xiang Hui and I will talk with him.” Zhang Hanyu knew how much Li Wen hated Shen Yan, and Shen Mo knew that, too. If they could provide Li Wen with a chance to defeat Shen Yan directly, Li Wen might be so happy that he would even wake up while laughing. Zhang Hanyu believed that even if Shen Mo didn’t appear, they could handle it.

“Then you just go to meet him first.” Shen Mo said and then turned around, leaving.

And at this time, Xia Yu received a call from Bai Hong who thanked her a lot through the phone. But for her, she was afraid that she would still be forced by her parents to get engaged to Jiang Tao, not to mention signing a few big contracts and becoming the general manager.

Xia Yu was also very happy that Bai Hong’s problem could be solved like this. After chatting with Bai Hong for a while and making an appointment to have a meal together, Xia Yu hung up the phone.

But after a short time, Xia Yu received a call from Zhou Yan. He had found out the whereabouts of Aunt Jiang’s son, and their family all worked in a small county.

Since meeting Li Tianci and Xing at Village Jiang, Xia Yu was surer that Li Tianci could not get rid of the involvement. She wanted to find the whereabouts of Aunt Jiang’s son all the time, so after listening to Zhou Yan, she decided to look for them at once.

But this time she did not act rashly. She told Shen Yan before she left. Originally, Shen Yan didn’t agree with her to take a risk, but this thing was too important, and he could not set his mind at ease if he asked others to do that. Besides, Liu Sijie and he were both busy. So, after thinking for a long time, he finally agreed that Xia Yu went to look for them, warning Xia Yu to be careful repeatedly.

After Shen Yan agreed, Xia Yu took the luggage to the station directly. But at the gate of the station, she met Shen Qiang, who had disappeared for a long time.

“Xiao Qiang?”

“Elder sister, surprise!” Shen Qiang hugged Xia Yu and span several times in situ, not putting her down until Xia Yu said that she was dizzy. “Elder sister, I really miss the days when we worked together. Now you are working in Ruyi Tower. Why not take me there as well?”

“What can you do there?” Xia Yu smiled.

“Carry the dishes and do the dishes! Everything will be okay as long as I can work with you.” Shen Qiang said with a smile.

“How can I ask you, the Third Young Master of Shen Family to do that? I can’t afford your wages.” Xia Yu waved her hand repeatedly.

“Of course, you can afford. At the worst, I don’t need the wages.” Shen Qiang just wanted to work with Xia Yu, and other problems were not important.

“That’s good. You can ask the manager to arrange a job for you now.” It deserved her consideration if he didn’t need the wages but worked for her. Xia Yu hired him immediately.

“There’s no need to be in such a hurry. Where are you going? I’ll go there with you. We can talk about it after returning.” Shen Qiang stretched out his hand to take over the luggage in Xia Yu’s hands, and they went to the ticket hall together.

It turned out that Shen Yan was still so worried about her that he asked Shen Qiang to accompany her. Xia Yu was touched in her mind, walking in with Shen Qiang. But actually, it was a good thing. She would not be so bored if Shen Qiang could be with her during the seven-or-eight-hour trip.

Because they hadn’t met for some time, Shen Qiang told Xia Yu some things after he went abroad.

“I’ve never heard of you going abroad before. Why did you go abroad all of a sudden?” Xia Yu asked curiously.

Shen Qiang looked at Xia Yu with grievances, saying, “I made my father unhappy, and then he left me abroad.”

Xia Yu had an intuition that he was lying. An idea suddenly flashed across her mind, so she asked immediately, “You went abroad to help your second elder brother?”

Shen Qiang was stunned and then said, “Uh-huh! Elder sister, you’re so smart.”

“I’m sorry. You must have suffered a lot.” Xia Yu knew that Shen Qiang didn’t want to go abroad, feeling so guilty.

Shen Qiang smiled and waved his hand, saying, “I’m freer when I’m abroad. No one can control me there since it is so far.” Then he changed the topic, talking about other things with Xia Yu.

After a happy chat, they quieted down gradually and began to close their eyes to sleep. Xia Yu also slept, and finally, she was woken up by Sheng Qiang.

“We’ve arrived, sister.”

Xia Yu opened her eyes and looked out of the window. It seemed that they were in the county, and there were high hills in the distance.

Shen Qiang booked rooms in a hotel. The rooms were not very big but very bright and clean, so they decided to live there.

After putting down the luggage, Xia Yu was pulled out of the hotel by Shen Qiang. “Sister, the owner of the hotel said there was a hot spring nearby. Let’s relax there.”

Xia Yu was also somewhat tempted by the hot spring when hearing this, nodding to agree.

The hot spring was not far from the county, which was in a holiday village. The scale was quite large, and there were a lot of people driving here for a bath on purpose. After buying swimming suits and pants, they went to the dressing room for males and females separately.

After changing clothes, they met at the hot spring. All the hot spring pools were open-air, surrounded by mountains on three sides with beautiful scenery and fresh air. There were dozens of hot spring pools of different sizes and kinds.

When the body was immersed in the hot spring water completely, the pores of the whole body were opened. Xia Yu felt so comfortable that she hummed constantly, slightly closing her eyes and enjoying this moment.

But suddenly, Xia Yu felt a pair of eyes full of malice. She opened her eyes immediately, looking around, but she did not see any suspicious people. There was just a girl who was passing by.

“What’s the matter, sister? What are you looking at?” Shen Qiang asked.

“Nothing.” Xia Yu shook her head and said. She did not see any suspicious people. It was possible that she was too sensitive, or someone had just taken a look at her. She forgot about it quickly. They chatted in the pool, feeling so comfortable.

After relaxing in a few different pools, they went into the lounge and got some fruit to eat. Xia Yu went to the bathroom midway, and when she was going to get up, someone poured a basin of cold water in, and her body got wet all over. Xia Yu shivered out of coldness at once, screaming out of scare.

“Who is it? So wicked!” Xia Yu roared angrily. She opened the lock and was ready to push the door open to walk out, while the door just couldn’t be pushed open by any means. At this time, she heard a woman’s laughter through the door, which was very gloomy. Xia Yu got goose bumps all over her body at once when she heard that, feeling that a chill ran through her body from the soles of her feet.

“Who is it? Don’t purposely make a mystery of simple things. Let me out.” Xia Yu kicked the door hard, but it still didn’t open. The laughter outside was getting more and more harsh. She didn’t bring her phone with her, which was locked in the cabinet with her changed clothes. She was so unlucky that she just met a crazy woman even when taking a bath in a hot spring.

Seeing the toilet bowl beside her out of the corner of her eye, Xia Yu thought of something immediately. She put the lid down at once and stood on it to look outside, while she saw no one. But she could still hear the gloomy laughter. It was just too weird. Xia Yu was so scared that she almost fell down from the toilet bowl, with her body trembling constantly.

“Is there anyone? Help! Xiao Qiang!” Xia Yu shouted his name with her trembling voice. At this time, a middle-aged woman came in, Xia Yu felt so happy, asking her for help at once. The woman helped her open the door from the outside, and she finally got out.

“Thank you! Thank you.” Xia Yu thanked the middle-aged woman who helped her constantly. Fortunately, she passed by just now.

“A wicked guy held the door closed with the mop. Whoops! Who’s laughing so ghastly? It’s like a horror movie.” The woman looked at Xia Yu and then quickly left after saying that.

Xia Yu dared not to stay here, either. She hurriedly ran out. When she ran to Shen Qiang, he looked at her in surprise with his eyebrows frowning tightly.

“Elder sister, why is your bathrobe all wet? Change it at once, or you may catch a cold.” Shen Qiang said with concern, and then he asked the staff to get her another clean bathrobe.