After Li Ye hung up with Fu Yingjie, he went to discuss aluminum smelting with Jin Peng. Although he had told Fu Yingjie that "Brother Peng wants to get into aluminum," Jin Peng himself still had no idea what was going on!
But when he found Jin Peng, before he could even finish speaking, he saw that something was off in Jin Peng's eyes.
"Xiao Ye, has your sister-in-law been coming to you these past few days, asking you to find someone to transfer me back from Soviet Russia?"
"..."
The moment Li Ye heard that, he knew something was wrong.
Why did Jin Peng's words seem so thick with resentment?
And Jin Peng could hardly be blamed for feeling resentful.
Back when Fenghua Apparel was flourishing, Li Ye had removed Jin Peng from his position as sales manager and handed the sales channels Jin Peng had painstakingly built over to his Older Sister, Li Yue.
Now Soviet Russia was thriving again. Li Ye had repeatedly assured him recently that everything they had built in Soviet Russia belonged to Jin Peng. If he went back on his word now and made him return home, even the best of brothers would fall out.
So although Jin Peng's wife, Liu Qiaorong, had been arguing with him constantly these past few days, and had even come to Li Ye with tears in her eyes, complaining that her man was away from home all year round, neglecting the lives of her and the two children, and saying that Li Ye, as his good brother, ought to rein him in—
Li Ye had never once considered making Jin Peng return to China.
So, hearing the resentment in Jin Peng's voice, Li Ye said with a laugh, "Brother Peng, after all these years as fellow disciples,