Ma Qianshan smiled. "I only found out a few days ago! Besides, Tan Min was right just now. You really are a busy man of consequence; everyone understands."
Li Ye's face hardened as he said unhappily, "Who's a man of consequence? Qian Shan, don't say that again!"
Ma Qianshan slowly shook his head. "It's not just me saying it. Everyone's grateful that you led us out to make money back then. Otherwise, we'd still be loafing around back in our hometowns!"
"Don't be fooled by Tan Min keeping quiet. He's grateful to you too. Without you, with his sorry state, could he have married such a pretty wife from the capital? Inviting you over for drinks this time was also because he wanted you to help prop up the occasion."
"Prop up the occasion? What occasion can I prop up? A twenty-seven-year-old deputy division-level cadre? The capital is never short of deputy division-level cadres."
Ma Qianshan looked at Li Ye and grinned. "There may be plenty of twenty-seven-year-old deputy division-level cadres, but do you think people don't understand what it means to be deputy factory director of a huge factory with ten thousand employees? The people in the capital are much smarter than us country folk."
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Am I really a man of consequence?
Li Ye could not help shaking his head with a laugh.
In the eyes of people like Ma Qianshan and Tan Min, he truly was the benefactor who had appeared in their lives.
But in the eyes of people like Professor Xiahou Qingzhi, he was merely a tiny shrimp that had only just become qualified to "have a name" amid the clashes and crushing struggles of the big shots.
Below the tiny shrimp, one was not even worthy of having a name.
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