Showing Off

So far, Liang Xin had gained a great deal of experience.

Ten points at a time was already the highest amount; there had been nothing higher.

So Liang Xin guessed that was probably the cap.

If anyone could give him more experience, Liang Xin thought it might only be Fan Jin from history, after he passed the imperial examination.

After all, he had gone mad with joy, so he must have been truly overjoyed.

Before long, Lao Zhou returned empty-handed.

A smile lingered on his face, refusing to fade.

He glanced at Liang Xin from time to time, his smile growing even wider!

Good grief, Liang Xin was getting creeped out by his staring!

You're a middle-aged man-could you stop smiling at me like that?

Even though I know why you're smiling, it's still a little hard to take!

It's devastating!

As time passed, the other team members soon arrived.

Lao Zhou held a brief meeting and assigned everyone their work.

Then he took Liang Xin to the logistics department.

Starting today, Liang Xin would lead a team on assignments himself. Since it was his first assignment, Lao Zhou naturally came along to back him up.

"Lao Xiang, this is Xiao Liang, the new member of our team. You've met him, haven't you?"

"I know him."

"Xiao Liang is leading a team on his own for the first time today. Assign him a few reliable people, and don't you give my man a hard time!"

"Hey, Lao Zhou, what are you saying? Am I that kind of person?"

"Team Leader Xiang, here, have a cigarette. Team leader, you have one too."

Smiling, Liang Xin pulled out a pack of export cigarettes and gave each of them one.

He also deliberately held the pack somewhere conspicuous.

Sure enough, both men noticed the pack in his hand.

Lao Zhou asked in puzzlement, "Xiao Liang, what kind of cigarettes are those? I don't think I've seen them before."

At the time, the vast majority of men were longtime smokers.

"Team leader, a relative of mine brought them over for me to smoke. I don't know what kind they are either, but they really are good."

"They have filters, so they must be high-end cigarettes. Let me see them."

Team leader Lao Zhou took the half-full pack from Liang Xin and clicked his tongue in amazement at the exquisite packaging.

They had filters, and even the pack was so exquisite.

High-end! They're definitely high-end cigarettes, no doubt about it!

Team Leader Xiang from the logistics department also examined them curiously.

Liang Xin struck a match and lit their cigarettes.

After taking a puff, both men found the taste first-rate as well.

They had filters, exquisite packaging, and the tobacco tasted so good.

They were definitely high-end cigarettes!

And they had to be the very high-end kind!

So high-end that neither of them had ever seen them before!

What kind of relative does Xiao Liang have? By the looks of it, they must be pretty high-ranking!

Team Leader Xiang hadn't had any particular thoughts about Liang Xin and had been a little perfunctory with him, even in front of Lao Zhou. Now, he couldn't help making guesses to himself.

Without thinking, he raised Liang Xin's standing in his estimation.

He even raised it above his own.

How could someone who could produce such high-end cigarettes, the kind he had never even seen before, be low-ranking?

The key was that, since this person had given Liang Xin cigarettes, it meant their relationship with him was at least not bad.

This kind of change was a natural reaction for anyone eager to get ahead!

Clearly, Team Leader Xiang was someone very eager to get ahead!

Seeing that the time was about right, Liang Xin took out two unopened packs and handed one to each man.

He said, "My relative gave me several cartons, and said to ask for more when I finish them. They're a benefit from their work unit."

He was deliberately leading the two men to think he had a relative who was a leader working in tobacco.

People who worked in tobacco generally weren't ordinary people!

Much less a leader.

Seeing this, neither man declined.

But Team Leader Xiang was very polite.

From Liang Xin's vague words, he had worked out a great deal of important information for himself!

Xiao Liang's relative probably isn't an ordinary person. The key is that they gave him several cartons at once, so their relationship can't be bad. It must be very good!

With more guesses in mind, Team Leader Xiang couldn't help bending at the waist a little as he accepted the cigarettes.

Then he looked at Lao Zhou beside him, who was just the same as before.

He couldn't help grumbling inwardly, This Lao Zhou really has no ambition!

At that moment, team leader Lao Zhou asked curiously, "Xiao Liang, that one from before, um, was it this person?"

Remembering that Team Leader Xiang was still beside them, he hastily put on the brakes and referred only to "this person."

He meant, had the cigarettes also come from the relative who had given him the pork?

"It was another one. I have quite a lot of relatives!"

Liang Xin made it up off the cuff, but Lao Zhou was secretly shocked.

Wasn't Xiao Liang's family from the countryside? Yet he actually has such influential relatives, and more than one of them?

Looks like I can't treat Xiao Liang as an ordinary employee from now on.

I need to take him seriously!

Even he had caught on, to say nothing of Team Leader Xiang beside him.

He was no longer calling him Xiao Liang like Lao Zhou did.

He addressed him very formally: Comrade Liang!

Seeing that the way the two men looked at him seemed to have changed a little, Liang Xin knew he had probably achieved his goal.

With everything he had just done, giving them cigarettes had partly been meant to build good relations with them.

After all, they would probably be dealing with each other often in the future.

Secondly, he was playing the fox borrowing the tiger's might, using the system's products to make himself look influential.

He was showing off to elevate his standing.

This would most likely spare him a lot of trouble and also make others take his opinions more seriously!

They wouldn't treat him like some insignificant nobody they could do without.