Chapter 39

After three rounds of drinking, the Wanzhu Annual Meeting ushered in a small climax: the "Haystack Poets" band came on stage.

When the band came on stage, an exciting lottery had just ended in the venue. Everyone was sitting in their seats to eat and drink. With a rush of drums, everyone's eyes were focused on the stage. The haystack poet just appeared. There was a burst of cheers.

In previous years, there were also singers performing at the annual meeting of Wanzhu, among which there were many famous stars, but this was the first time the band had met, especially such a young band: four handsome men and beauties, going to that stop, a dozen of spotlights, indeed It's very eye-catching. Even many young employees sitting at the back table stood up and raised their mobile phones, as if they had a premonition that this might be a wonderful show, and eagerly wanted to record this much-anticipated performance.

Only He Zhao at the main table couldn't help frowning when he heard the word "band" mentioned in the host's announcement. He turned his head to look at the stage almost immediately, and found that it was He Jianchuan standing in the middle to adjust the microphone boom. It was obvious that his position was very close to the stage, but He Jianchuan didn't seem to see him. He looked firmly at the void behind him, then raised a hand and shouted loudly:

"Good evening everyone! We are - the haystack poet!!!"

"Oh oh oh -" The venue was cheering enthusiastically again. Lin Hui looked at He Jianchuan on the stage, and found that he was really a good player in making the atmosphere. In this posture, what he knew was a small band with no name, and what he thought was the concert of a superstar. Lin Hui hadn't seen He Jianchuan for a day today. He thought he would be able to say hello during dinner, but he didn't see him coming over after dinner. Then he heard someone asking He Zhao why the second son didn't come, He Zhao replied Say, he has his own business.

Lin Hui understood as soon as he heard it. He Jianchuan didn't tell his father what he was going to perform at the annual meeting at all. He looked up at He Jianshan, found that he was clinking glasses with someone, and turned his head to look at He Zhao's expression, but he didn't expect to meet Jiang Qing next to him. Jiang Qing frowned slightly, and shook her head gently at him, Lin Hui was stunned for a moment.

On the stage, He Jianchuan sang energetically. Today, the haystack poet has prepared two songs, one is more cheerful and can mobilize the atmosphere, and the other is the song "Answer" that Lin Hui had heard. I have to say that when He Jianchuan stood on the stage, he was indeed very eye-catching. To put it in a relatively common saying, he may be the kind of person who was born for the stage. Just as He Jianchuan was singing the first song with a smile on his face, Zhao Fenglin, who was sitting beside He Zhao, asked, "Lao He, is Xiaochuan on stage?"

He Zhao paused and showed a rather reluctant smile: "Yes, nonsense."

As soon as the other party heard it, he immediately laughed: "Oh, you can't talk nonsense, look at Xiaochuan like this, a big star. Now there are more children from rich people who are stars, I think it's pretty good!"

Someone next to him nodded and said, "You sing really well, Xiaochuan is very successful."

He Zhao smiled and took a sip of wine.

Many people at the table watched He Jianchuan grow up. Everyone laughed and took out their mobile phones to take pictures of him singing seriously. He Zhao kept his head down and drinking, and then heard someone laughing in his ear: "Old He, I found that your He family and art really have-"

Before the word "yuan" was uttered, the other party suddenly realized something, and hurriedly coughed and shut up.

He Zhao's face instantly became very ugly, and Jiang Qing on the side sighed deeply in her heart. Only He Jianchuan, who was singing cheerfully on the stage, didn't know anything, and swayed his smile and sweat in the cheers after waves of cheers.

He Jianchuan's performance received the highest cheers from the audience. However, until the end of the annual meeting, He Zhao did not show another smile. While Lin Hui stayed to help Annie handle some follow-up matters, he looked around: the employees left one after another, starting a three-day vacation; He Jianshan was still sitting at the table talking with several project leaders; He Zhao's family of three did not know where they went...

The building gradually quieted down.

When everyone was almost gone, when Lin Hui returned to the 12th floor, he heard He Zhao's voice coming from He Jianshan's office: "He Jianchuan, what did you tell me last time? I need to remind you. Did you say you broke up the band. Is that what you mean by breakup?"

He Zhao's voices sounded too loud at night, and they drifted in the empty building with a buzzing echo. Lin Hui couldn't help but light his pace and walked slowly to the door. The door of the office was ajar, and Lin Hui saw He Jianchuan sitting on the sofa with his head down from a small gap, while He Zhao looked at him angrily.

"Wan Zhu invited us, I... have never performed in front of so many people... I..." After waiting for a while, He Jianchuan finally spoke.

He Zhao nodded: "Okay, today's performance, how is it, are you happy?"

He Jianchuan seemed to be a little unconvinced, and suddenly cocked his neck and said, "Happy...I...we sang very well."

"I raised you so much just to let you sing and dance for others to perform? You are not a child anymore. You will graduate next year. Can you take care of your brother and learn about the company?"

"I've said it many times, I don't understand it at all, I don't know it at all, and I don't want to learn it."

He Zhao sneered: "Then tell me what do you know? Write songs? Sing? Start a band? Tell me, besides raising a band with your family's money, what else would you do?"

He Jianchuan was anxious: "I didn't use my family's money to support the band, we have performances and can make money!"

"Performance? Wan Zhu's performance? How much did Wan Zhu pay to invite you? Do you think your band is worth that price? Remove the words 'He Jianchuan', do you think Wan Zhu will invite the band?"

He Jianchuan's eyes reddened, he was breathing rapidly, his chest was up and down, and he could see that he was very emotional. The father and son were at each other's throats, and the atmosphere was really bad. Lin Hui felt a little stunned in his heart, knocked on the door hard, then slowly pushed it open, and said softly, "President He Zhao, I asked Annie to contact President Xiao He."

Lin Hui's voice was like a stone falling into the lake, breaking the suffocating atmosphere. He Zhao glanced at Lin Hui and said nothing, but He Jianchuan walked out without looking back.

There were only two people in the house.

Lin Hui didn't seem to notice He Zhao's ugly expression, and continued: "I heard Mr. He's performance by chance before, and thought it was great. In addition, many newcomers have been admitted to Wanzhu this year, so I thought it might be possible to bring something new. things, and decided to let Annie invite the band."

"I originally wanted to say that we can go according to the normal business process, and we should pay for it. As a result, Mr. He refused to ask for a penny. He said that he could sing for the employees of Wanzhu. It's too late to be honored, so how can I collect the money."

"I was at the venue just now, and I heard several employees discussing the song sung by Mr. He. They all said that it was good and very good. I also asked where I could download it, and asked them if they were celebrities. I was thinking of signing autographs."

He Zhao said coldly, "You mean, I'm looking for trouble, don't you?"

Lin Hui smiled and said, "Mr. He Zhao, you misunderstood. I want to say that everyone is praising Mr. He and saying that there is no dog. This shows that you have taught Mr. He very well."

He Zhao seemed to have heard a very funny joke. He looked at Lin Hui almost incredulously: "Lin Hui, do you know what you are talking about?"

Lin Hui was stunned for a moment, and he rarely showed a bewildered expression.

"Tiger father has no dog son? I, He Zhao, absolutely cannot have a son who learns to sing and dance."

He Zhao almost gritted his teeth and said this sentence, the words contained unbearable resentment, which shocked Lin Hui. He couldn't help but take a step back, and He Zhao's eyes seemed to have thorns, and Jiao Lin Hui was confused and uncomfortable.

"He also sang today, why, are you going to do a paternity test for He Jianchuan?"

Before Lin Hui could recover from He Zhao's words, He Jianshan's voice suddenly sounded from behind. Lin Hui turned around and found that He Jianshan was standing at the door, looking at He Zhao calmly; while He Zhao's eyes suddenly turned red, he didn't know whether it was anger or sadness, but he couldn't say a word.

An indescribable strange atmosphere filled the room: thick, fragile, stirring everyone's heart, but unable to disperse for a long time.

Lin Hui realized that the next conversation between the father and son might not be suitable for him, so he couldn't help but whisper, "Mr. He, President He Zhao, I'll go see Mr. He first, and you can talk slowly."

After he finished speaking, he walked towards the door, and when passing by He Jianshan, they looked at each other. Lin Hui couldn't help but move his fingers, and quickly squeezed He Jianshan's hand, then quickly released it. He Jianshan nodded lightly, Lin Hui exhaled a long breath, and walked out quickly, leaving behind the worried father and son.

Lin Hui found He Jianchuan in the lobby on the first floor.

At this time, the air conditioner in the hall had been turned off, and He Jianchuan was sitting on the chair in the rest area in a daze, looking a little dejected. Lin Hui opened the small reception room on the first floor and shouted, "Mr. He, it's cold outside, come to the conference room, there is air conditioning here." He Jianchuan raised his head and walked into the room obediently. Lin Hui poured him a glass Hot tea, and sat down across from him.

For a while, neither of them knew what to say.

In the end, He Jianchuan said, "Brother, thank you for today. I know you asked Sister Anne to invite me."

Lin Hui didn't know what to say, so he could only praise sincerely: "You sing very well, I heard a lot of girls screaming all the time."

He Jianchuan smiled and lowered his head again. Not knowing if it was cold or what, his hand had been holding the cup tightly.

"Annie told me that you didn't ask for the fee. If you don't, forget it. The team members still have to give it. This is a normal business performance, and you can't let people work in vain."

"I know, Sister Annie gave them all red envelopes."

The temperature of the air conditioner gradually came up, maybe it wasn't so cold anymore, and He Jianchuan also relaxed a little: "Brother, you know why my dad doesn't like me playing music, but can I still make it so far under his nose?"

Lin Hui shook his head.

He Jianchuan smiled and gave an answer that surprised Lin Hui: "Because of my brother."

"The first time I played music was when I was three years old. I was running around at home, and then I ran to the warehouse at home and found an electronic keyboard. I fell in love with it immediately and kept pressing it. I learned later that the electronic keyboard It was my brother's birthday present when he was a kid."

Lin Hui couldn't help but want to laugh: "Is it also called playing music when pressing an electronic organ?"

"Brother, don't laugh. Anyway, my mother said that I liked it very much at that time. It was my enlightenment to press it all day long. Later, when I was five or six years old, one day she took me to her My friend was playing, and her friend was working in a piano shop, and then someone in the piano shop said that I had a good sense of music and insisted on accepting me as a student and wanted to teach me how to play the piano. In fact, that person was the owner of the piano shop, but my father did not agree."

Five or six-year-old He Jianchuan's memory would not be so clear, these things must have been told to him by Jiang Qing later. Hearing this, Lin Hui was also a little curious: "Then what?"

"My brother said, just learn if you want, and then my dad stopped talking."

"It's amazing, isn't it, my dad seems to be afraid of my brother."

Lin Hui thought to himself, He Jianshan at that time was probably as old as He Jianchuan now, and he has such a big voice at this age, as if he was the head of the family, there must be a reason for this - I'm afraid it's not fear , but owes something, so it will compromise.

"Then I studied intermittently until I started playing a band myself in college."

Lin thought back for a moment: "Why doesn't your father allow you to do music, do you know?"

He Jianchuan shook his head: "I only know about my brother's mother, but I don't know the specific reason."

"Then do you want to enter the entertainment industry? Or do you want to take this path seriously? To be honest, as your brother, you can completely open a company for you to support you. This is not What a problem."

For Wan Zhu, nothing is easier than throwing money at it: as long as He Jianchuan thinks about it, the He family has the strength to mobilize the best resources in the circle for him.

Lin Hui thought that He Jianchuan would nod his head excitedly, but he was silent for a long time, and finally said, "I don't know."

"I'm happy to sing, I'm happy to write songs, and I'm happy to be a band, but for now, these are all hobbies. I don't know if I would be happy if I regarded them as a career, or even if I could stick to it. Go down." He Jianchuan looked at Lin Hui with a confused expression, "Brother, am I very useless? It's fine if I can't compare to my brother. Even for music, it seems that Duke Ye is a good dragon, and I don't know how much I can keep up with. enthusiasm."

"It's normal. Everyone has a time when they can't see the road clearly. I was also confused when you were your age."

At that time, he lost the most important and only relative in his life. When he realized that he would no longer have a home from now on, the whole person was like standing at the crossroads of a strange street, and there was a road in every direction. But he didn't know where to go.

"What about you later?"

"Later?" Lin Hui smiled, looking at the cold tea in front of him, a warm feeling surged in his heart, "Later, I came to Wanzhu and met your brother."

After sending He Jianchuan away, Lin Hui returned to He Jianshan's office again.

The door of the office was open, and He Zhao had already left at some point. He Jianshan was still standing in front of the window like any other day in the past. Today is New Year's Eve, and the lights outside the window are brighter and more lively than ever. The landscape lights on the facades of many buildings were turned on, and they tirelessly changed the lines and colors, making Lin Hui feel dizzy.

Lin Hui stood at the door and watched He Jianshan quietly for a while, then suddenly said, "Oh, I'm exhausted, and I don't know where I can recharge."

He Jianshan turned around and smiled at him, then opened his arms: "Come."

Lin Hui also smiled, took a few quick steps, and threw himself into his arms, his mouth began to imitate the sound of electric current: "Hey————————Charged to 70%, this charger sharp."

He Jianshan hugged a little tighter: "What about now?"

"Whoa————————80%."

He Jianshan couldn't help but kiss him: "Look at how much it's charged now?"

"Whoa————————90%, come on."

He Jianshan kissed again—

"Ding - 100%!"

He Jianshan couldn't stop laughing: "Wan Zhu's first assistant has changed from thirty to three years old."

Lin Hui hugged He Jianshan tightly.

After a while, He Jianshan whispered, "Assistant Lin..."

"Um."

After waiting for a long time, He Jianshan said, "I'm a little tired."

Since Lin Hui assumed the position of assistant general manager, this was the first time He Jianshan told him that he was tired.

Lin Hui closed his eyes, hugged He Jianshan tightly, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Ok, I know."

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