Chapter 293: Talent Makes Choices, Dogs Want Everything

Under the dark night, a car slowly stopped at the entrance. A middle-aged man with a round beer belly stepped out of the car, while another man with the same beer belly came out to greet him from the hotel.

Before the two men even met, they started loudly greeting each other from a dozen meters away and spread their arms to warmly hug, but their bellies were too big. After bumping into each other, neither could hug the other, so they just laughed.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Qin expressionlessly sat back down on the sofa.

A sudden gust of wind on the summer night caused the two ornamental trees at the entrance of the Kempinski Hotel to rustle. The red national flag and the hotel’s flag fluttered in the wind.

Jiang Qin sat in the brightly lit lobby, half leaning on the sofa in a very lazy posture, playing Snake out of boredom. During this time, the hotel’s front desk attendant had already come over to refill his tea three times and brought a plate of snacks, truly making him feel at home.

“Sir, please have some tea.”

“Thank you.”

“Are you waiting for someone? The air conditioning in the lobby might be a bit cold. Do you need me to get you a blanket?”

Jiang Qin waved his hand, declining the other party’s kind offer: “No need to trouble yourself. I’ll just sit here for a bit and then go back to my room.”

The attendant nodded, thinking to himself that he had already heard the same words three times, but didn’t see any intention of him leaving at all. Instead, he kept looking outside, seemingly waiting eagerly for something.

But he knew that this guest was staying in a suite and was a VIP, so he didn’t dare say much more. He turned and went back to the front desk.

Half an hour later, Boss Jiang crashed the snake into the wall, ending its short life. His eyes then looked out the window and found that the few shops diagonally across from the hotel entrance had already closed.

It’s already 10 o’clock?

He checked the time and felt that the little rich girl probably wouldn’t come back tonight.

If she’s not coming back, she should at least call. Jiang Qin flipped the phone in his hand a few times, feeling a sense of emptiness inside.

Should I call and ask to confirm she’s not coming back so I can go to sleep? After all, I have to catch a flight tomorrow night and can’t stay up too late, otherwise I definitely won’t have energy tomorrow.

Jiang Qin pondered for a long time while holding his phone, but in the end didn’t make the call.

If he asked, it would seem like he was waiting for the little rich girl to sleep together, and it would have the feeling that he couldn’t sleep without waiting for her to come back, which seemed too ambiguous.

And ambiguity is usually the first step in the collapse of friendship.

Just then, the elevator doors behind the leisure area opened. Lu Feiyu, not sleeping in the middle of the night, shuffled out in the hotel’s slippers again.

“Boss, why haven’t you gone back yet? The room is so expensive, it’s a waste if you don’t stay a bit longer.”

“I should be the one asking you that. Why the hell did you come down again?”

Lu Feiyu pointed in the direction of the front desk: “I came to ask how to use the massage bathtub in the bathroom. We’re leaving tomorrow, and the boss’s wife doesn’t have relatives in Shencheng and Guangcheng, so if we don’t experience it now, there won’t be another chance.”

“You’re really something, Feiyu.” Jiang Qin gave a thumbs up.

“Thanks boss.”

Just as they were talking, a black sedan slowly stopped at the entrance of the Kempinski Hotel.

After the car door opened, the innocent-looking little rich girl stepped out of the car and turned around to wave goodbye to her aunt.

Under the night, Feng Nanshu’s eyebrows and eyes were enchanting. Her delicate little face was already flawless, but in the half-light half-dark hotel entrance, she looked even more gentle and charming, like an exquisite porcelain doll.

Qin Jingqiu reluctantly hugged her and reminded her to take good care of herself and to call if anything happened. She then watched her walk towards the Kempinski Hotel in the night.

However, very quickly, a trace of doubt appeared on her face because she found that her little niece suddenly started running, no longer looking innocent at all, but lively and active instead. The sound of her little leather shoes tapping was so clear that even she could hear it clearly while sitting in the car.

The next second, a young man appeared at the hotel entrance. He was quite tall and yawned nonstop as soon as he came out, seeming extremely sleepy.

The two met at the hotel entrance, exchanged a few words, then walked into the lobby side by side.

Seeing the scene at the hotel entrance, the Feng family’s second sister-in-law couldn’t help but show a wistful expression tinged with a bit of melancholy.

From a young age, little Nanshu’s greatest fear was being abandoned. For her, not being abandoned was already the best thing in the world. But when she first met someone who waited for her late into the night, how could she not stick to him?

Qin Jingqiu suddenly had the feeling of watching her daughter get married and looking off into the distance as the wedding car drove away. Her state of mind was quite complicated.

“Why are you back so late?” Jiang Qin asked her with a stern face.

“I went to eat with my aunt and we chatted about a lot of things.” Feng Nanshu obediently answered.

“What did you chat about?”

“About you.”

“Your aunt knows it was me who brought you here? Then did she say anything about arranging for someone to come kill me or something?”

Jiang Qin was a bit flustered. You secretly took away their family’s little princess without a word and even brazenly swaggered around right under their eyes. What’s the damn difference between this and “Hey Deng, is my ghostly fire parked downstairs safe?”

The little rich girl thought for a moment: “Auntie said she would give you 10 million to let me go, but don’t be scared. I already rejected her for you.”

Jiang Qin held his breath, not expecting that in just one short night, he had missed out on a once-in-a-lifetime fortune: “Feng Nanshu, this is where you’re wrong. How could you return money that was delivered right to my door? I can’t even make this much money working hard for half a year.”

“Then do you want the money and not me?” Feng Nanshu raised her little face to look at him.

“Heh, your aunt is too naive. Only people make choices. Dogs want everything.”

Jiang Qin couldn’t stop his self-deprecating: “If I was there, I definitely would have taken the money first. Whatever’s left is for me to decide. The money and the friend, they’re both mine.”

Feng Nanshu suddenly puffed up her cheeks: “Then if you could only choose one?”

“Where did you learn this kind of deadly question? I refuse to answer.”

“Jiang Qin, were you waiting the whole time for me to come back to sleep?”

“I was thinking that we’ll be leaving Shanghai soon and won’t have money to stay in such a luxurious hotel again. I wanted to experience everything I should while I can. So I went to the front desk to ask how to use the massage bathtub in the bathroom.”

Feng Nanshu let out a cold “Oh”, reached into Jiang Qin’s pajama pocket and groped around.

Seeing this scene, Lu Feiyu finally realized. What fucking casual stroll, it’s because the boss’s wife wasn’t here so the boss couldn’t sleep alone!

“Tsk tsk, such a big boss still needs the boss’s wife to coax him to sleep!”

Three minutes later, Jiang Qin took the little rich girl to the top floor in the elevator. When passing by his own room, the little rich girl stupidly glanced at it, then pitter-pattered over, sticking to Jiang Qin and going to his room. Then she righteously followed him inside.

When Jiang Qin asked her why she followed him in, she played dumb and said she didn’t know either. As a result, she had her socks taken off and her snow white little feet were bullied for a long time.

Early the next morning, the sky outside the window was overcast. Not long after, a light drizzle started falling.

Feng Nanshu crawled out of bed, looking a bit silly as she sat at the foot of the bed, watching Jiang Qin do final checkout inspections. Her gaze floated to and fro on his body.

Only when Jiang Qin’s voice telling her to get up rang out did the dazed and adorable little rich girl snap out of it. She then took off her pajamas to change clothes, but didn’t button them or tie her shoelaces. Instead, she pitter-pattered to the living room with arms outstretched to have Jiang Qin help.

“Brother, button my buttons.”

“Tempers are high in the morning. No calling me brother.”

Feng Nanshu dazedly let out an “Oh”, quietly watching Jiang Qin button her buttons and tie her shoelaces. They then pulled their luggage and went out. After gathering in the lobby and taking a head count, the group of 15 boarded the plane to Guangcheng.

In the following week, the people of 208 left behind their luxurious life and became busy and bustling again.

The cultural environment in Guangcheng was vastly different from the north, without even any commonalities. The most obvious example was that many people couldn’t even speak Mandarin, and popular things were completely different.

After settling into the hotel in Guangcheng, Jiang Qin took everyone for a stroll around the nearby commercial district and found that many things that sold very well in the mainland didn’t sell at all here.

Similarly, many things they had never even seen before sold very well.

For the 208 in investigation mode, they undoubtedly encountered huge challenges and resistance. But for the 208 in tourism mode, everything they saw was novel. Just one ordinary commercial street was enough to satisfy everyone.

At the end of July, they left Guangcheng and went to Shencheng to continue their investigation.

This city was slightly different from the other three cities. It didn’t have much history because before the reform and opening up, this place was still a fishing village.

After the circle was drawn from the South China Sea, this city had been rapidly developing. It was said that within more than ten years, this city had grown up accompanied by the sound of construction.

Shencheng and Guangcheng were very close in distance with very similar cultures and environments, but the pace was clearly much faster and the ability to accept new things was much stronger.

For the 208 business team, Shencheng, which didn’t have many universities, may not be the best place to promote Zhihu, but it was definitely a place where group buying could quickly take root.

Jiang Qin stood at the entrance of an urban village, his gaze constantly surveying his surroundings, his mood slightly peculiar.

He had lived in this city for more than ten years. Certain roads, buildings, and shops gave him a suffocating sense of familiarity, like a gun that could strike his soul, painfully hitting Jiang Qin’s soul again and again.

For example, the 30-plus story residential building in front and the Chaoshan beef hotpot restaurant downstairs both made Jiang Qin feel reluctant to approach.

In the previous life, he was conquered by this city and pressed on the ground to be frantically rubbed. This time, he had to conquer this kind of city in order to be considered to have achieved a little success, right?