Beep, beep, beep~
Li Ye had been sitting in his office until ten o'clock when he heard a car horn outside the window. Judging by the rhythm of the honking, it carried an air of pure swagger.
He went to the window and looked down, spotting a black Lincoln sedan and the driver in aviator sunglasses.
"A Lincoln! No wonder he's showing off like that!"
A Lincoln in 1990 was not the kind of Lincoln that, decades later, had nothing going for it but steadiness and crash resistance, getting trounced by German and Japanese cars. Back then, plenty of big shots drove these things.
Wang Jinyu came over and introduced it to Li Ye. "That's Teng Hongmiao's car. He says it was a gift from one of his grandfather's old comrades-in-arms, but I heard he bought it from Qiong Province as a smuggled car. It only cost him a little over a hundred thousand."
Li Ye glanced at it and said with a faint smile, "A hundred thousand-plus is still no small sum. Subcontracting construction really does make money."
"Heh. The money he made sits badly on his conscience."
Clearly, Wang Jinyu had little respect for Teng Hongmiao.
But once Teng Hongmiao came upstairs, Li Ye realized that Teng Hongmiao looked down on Wang Jinyu just as much.
"Hey, Brother Wang, it's been ages since we last met. You just got back from the capital and were already in such a hurry to call me over. You must be getting ready to hand over the expansion project for the new factory district, right?"
"I knew it! With the relationship between us brothers, this job had to go to me. It wouldn't do to give it to anyone else."
Teng Hongmiao was all smiles when he spoke to Wang Jinyu, yet