But she now sensed that Song Tianyao's words, in their conversation, conveyed a complete lack of concern, or even a subtle hint that she could be tricked into acquiring his wealth...
This bastard is either a real conman preparing to deceive me, or he has already figured out that if I do something that harms his interests, he can handle it with complete confidence and go along with it.
"You were just flirting with me," Angie Perlis said suddenly, looking into Song Tianyao's eyes.
Song Tianyao nearly sprayed the wine he hadn't swallowed onto the other man's face. After swallowing, he coughed twice and wiped the wine from his lips with a napkin. "I don't think I'm in the mood to seduce women right now."
"What you just said wasn't meant to seduce women, but rather to deliberately seduce the person in front of you who needs money, regardless of gender. You deliberately told me that with enough wisdom and ability, one can create opportunities, and I was tempted. I know you said it on purpose; you must have used this method to harm many greedy people. I won't fall for your tricks." Angie Perlis finally let out a heavy sigh of relief, breaking free from the temptations she had amplified in Song Tianyao: "I'm glad I'm a lawyer whose rationality outweighs my emotions."
"It's not as exaggerated as you say." Song Tianyao felt a second sense of frustration during this lunch. He smiled and said, "I wasn't teasing you, just stating the facts. Don't you agree that wisdom and ability can create opportunities?"
"Those who agree with you are probably regretting their actions now, because you deliberately only said that one sentence without mentioning a crucial premise: time, the right time." Angie Lopez said to Song Tianyao in a serious tone, "By not mentioning this premise, you are provoking those greedy people, amplifying their desires, and making them actively fantasize that now is the best time, the best opportunity."
Thinking back to Yan Hung and Chan Ah-sap, Song Tianyao sighed inwardly. If those two guys had half the brainpower of this Britain girl, one wouldn't have ended up guarding the pond and the other would have lost Likang's dock business.
"You didn't deny it." Seeing that Song Tianyao didn't immediately offer an explanation, Angie Perlis continued.
"I didn't admit it either, I just like to give people encouragement." Song Tianyao grinned at Angie Perlis, revealing a set of white teeth and a bright smile, "You can have your date with the male lawyer here tonight. I'll wait for you at the coffee shop and pay the bill for you. I have other things to do, so I'll be going now."
"I guessed you were thinking right, so you're not going to bother with me anymore." Angie Perlis suddenly felt a surge of excitement at defeating the man opposite her, and said to Song Tianyao, who was pulling out his chair and getting up to leave.
Song Tianyao paused, looked back at Angie Perlis, and slowly gave her a thumbs up, saying, "There's a China saying, 'Knowing when to back down,' you're very capable, ma'am."
Angie Perlis smiled happily, as if Song Tianyao's words and thumbs-up were the best praise he could give her.
Chapter Sixty-Eight Lucky Star
After taking a nap in his room, Song Tianyao got up in the afternoon and went to the hotel coffee shop to order a coffee. Then he opened his notebook, picked up a pen, and started sketching on it casually. His focused expression attracted the attention of several Britain who came over to observe him. They thought Song Tianyao was a sketching enthusiast, but after seeing that there were only English words and Chinese characters on the paper, they smiled self-deprecatingly and left.
Actually, when Song Tianyao was designing business cards, business cards weren't anything new in 1950s Hong Kong, but not many people used them. Only social elites, high-ranking government officials, and wealthy tycoons would specially customize their own business cards. Song Tianyao's own boss, Chu Xiaoxin, never thought of designing business cards for himself because he didn't have that many business social engagements. The people he knew in entertainment circles wouldn't have been of much use to him.
However, since Song Tianyao wanted to meet with the Britain officials from the Commerce and Industry Department for dinner, he naturally had to prepare some business cards. These wouldn't be useful for roughnecks like Golden-Tooth Lei and Chan Ah-sap, but for the Britain, who were particular about all sorts of rules and details, he had to put on a good show.
Hong Kong doesn't have any real design companies yet. The format and style of printed materials are generally designed and arranged simply by printing plants. Therefore, at this time, the Chinese signs and even business cards of various shops in Hong Kong are mostly similar in style, with the only difference being whether the layout is horizontal or vertical and whether the font is regular script or running script.
That's because these shops and businesses are used to having their signs and business cards made by printing factories run by people from their hometown, so they can save some money out of consideration for their fellow townsmen. But Song Tianyao plans to go to the Government Printing Department of the Administrative Division Secretariat, the official printing unit of the Hong Kong Colonial Government, to have his business cards made.
The colonial government didn't have that many documents to print each year, but it couldn't let the printing equipment sit idle, so it also offered printing services to the public. However, it was usually British or foreign companies that went to the Government Printing Department for printing. As for the China person? At that time, most China person had a simple idea: they would rather let their fellow countrymen earn their money than let Foreign Devil earn it.
Therefore, the printing business of the Government Printing Department has always been very slow. But frankly speaking, the plate-making talents working in the Government Printing Department are far superior to those in most Chinese printing factories. This is because the staff of the Government Printing Department are civil servants of the Hong Kong Colonial Government. If you want to get a job there, you must at least really understand printing and design. Most importantly, those people have been designing business cards for Britain Foreign Devil for many years and know Foreign Devil tastes, so there will be no jokes like "matchbox skin".
The joke about the matchbox wrapper comes from a British Hong Kong Government official who, after receiving a Chinese businessman's business card, asked in bewilderment, "Why are you giving me a matchbox wrapper?"
Because most Chinese business cards were simply white with black lettering, listing their business name, personal name, phone number, and address, firstly, there was no English on them, and secondly, the arrangement of names, business names, addresses, etc., was very similar to the lettering on matchbox covers sold on the streets of Hong Kong at that time.
After drafting the document himself, Song Tianyao got up, went out, took a car to the Government Printing Department, gave the clerk on duty a 20-yuan tip, and then his work was immediately arranged for workers to start.