Chapter 207 Twists and turns

After my father's birthday, the family returned to normal. My third uncle and his family returned to Fuzhou to run the hot pot restaurant business in their hometown, and everyone else went to work.

If there was any change, it was that Su Chen took his grandfather and grandmother to play in the Fog City for several days. They visited all the attractions in the Fog City and took a lot of photos with the two of them.

At first, my grandparents were very resistant, saying that taking photos at their age was a waste of money.

But after Su Chen's guidance, the two reluctantly agreed.

We also specially found the most professional photography company in Fog City, spent more than 20,000 yuan, and took a lot of photos, especially a few sets of wedding photos, which made up for the regrets of my grandparents when they were young.

When my grandparents saw those photos, they no longer had the initial resistance and their mouths were so happy that they almost stretched to their ears.

Mid-levels coffee shop!
Su Chen and Yin Zheng sat leisurely on the open-air sofa, drinking coffee and admiring the scenery of the foggy city.

"Hey, Yin Zheng, why can't my grandparents stay idle? It's not good for them to stay in the city. They insist on going back to their hometown and no one can stop them." After Su Chen finished speaking, he picked up the coffee in his hand and took a sip.

My original plan was to let my grandparents live with me for a while and try to help them develop some habits so that they would be able to accept moving into the city when the time comes.

But what he didn't expect was that just two days after the photos were taken, Grandpa Su insisted on going back to his hometown, saying that it was spring now and it was a good time to plant crops.

No matter how much he was persuaded or talked to, even if Su Chen showed the ten-digit balance in his mobile phone to the old man, it was useless. He just wanted to go back to his hometown.

In desperation, Su Chen could only arrange for Su Yan to send his grandparents back.

Hearing this, Yin Zheng paused, looked at the tall buildings in the foggy city in the distance and said, "Mr. Su's roots have been planted in that land, and it's hard to leave his hometown."

Although Yin Zheng's words were simple, they hit the point directly.

Yes, it is hard to leave one’s hometown, especially for the older generation who have lived there for decades. How could they leave easily, unless they have to leave because of natural disasters or man-made calamities?

With a light sigh, Su Chen stopped thinking about this problem. After all, he had tried to get his grandparents to come to the city to enjoy life several times but to no avail. It seemed that he could only ask his parents and second uncle to go back and visit them more often.

"Brother Chen, what are your plans?" Yin Zheng turned his head and asked Su Chen who was lying on a recliner.

With the previous experience of Su's father's birthday, the relationship between the two has been taken to a higher level. If before, they only became friends because of Jiang Yang.

So now Su Chen has recognized Yin Zheng as a person. They are no longer just ordinary friends and have some interests tied to them.

Speaking of this, Yin Shan also specifically asked Yin Zheng to convey a message to Su Chen, asking his mother Chen Shufen to integrate all the hot pot restaurants under her name and open a catering company. This would sound more grand and avoid some unnecessary things.

Su Chen also told this matter to his mother Chen Shufen, who immediately gave him her high approval. You know, his mother has now regarded Master He as her goal.

He registered a catering company that day, but the name of the company made Su Chen laugh and cry. It was called Yunshu Catering Company.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will choose a character from Su Zhiyun and Chen Shufen respectively to name the company. Su Chen can only say that you guys should be happy.

Su Chen pondered for a moment, then said, "I have plans. I don't have any plans recently, I just want to go out for a trip."

It is already mid-April, spring is here and flowers are blooming. It is a great time to travel as the weather is neither too cold nor too hot.

However, Su Chen had not decided where to go. If he was going to the northwest or the border area, Su Chen would definitely not go alone. He would have to take two people with him, if for no other reason, just to ensure that no accidents would occur during the journey.

"Tour?" Yin Zheng's eyes widened when he heard Su Chen's words. "Brother Chen, how about we take a spontaneous trip? The Sichuan West route is pretty good. It won't take a few days and the scenery is pretty nice."

"The Sichuan-Western line!" Su Chen thought about it and felt it was a good idea. Just as he was about to agree, the phone on the table rang.

When Su Chen saw the caller ID, a hint of confusion flashed in his eyes. Why did this busy man think of calling him?

Without thinking too much, I answered the call.

"Yi Ming, what's the matter with the call?"

"Mr. Su, something happened at the company." Zhang Yiming's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone, and one could clearly feel a hint of panic in his tone.

"Don't be anxious, speak slowly!" Su Chen said in a flat tone.

Zhang Yiming quickly explained the whole story, and Su Chen frowned after listening.

The matter was very simple. The grandson of a noble in the imperial capital opened a financial company. He took a fancy to the fast-growing Douyin and wanted to acquire the company's shares at a low price.

How low can it be? I just want to acquire 50% of ByteDance’s shares.

How could Zhang Yiming agree to such a thing? He directly rejected the other party's conditions. However, what was unexpected was that the company was soon investigated by the relevant departments.

It wasn't for the purpose of investigating anything, it was just to disgust people. After a few days, everyone in the company was in a panic. Zhang Yiming asked some people to solve the problem but failed. He had no choice but to call Su Chen for help.

"Are you sure that person's identity is real?" Su Chen asked with some doubt.

"I'm very sure. The other party has nothing to hide." Zhang Yiming said very confidently.

Hearing this, Su Chen frowned even more. You have to know that this is not ten years ago now. How could there still be people who dare to want to swallow up other people's property so blatantly? This was the time when information was not well developed ten years ago.

Such people are either idiots or have lost their minds. You should know that Douyin's market value has reached 6 billion US dollars, and it is a well-known large enterprise in China. If any information is leaked, it will spread all over the country in minutes.

You know, Douyin is now one of the largest short video promotion platforms in China. How can the speed of dissemination be slow?
How dare you do such blatant tricks, you must be stupid.

Besides, if it really is the third generation, relying on the family connections in the financial circle, you can make a lot of money just by doing whatever you do. Do you really think that if your neighbor hoards food, I hoard guns and my neighbor is my granary?

How can any domestic enterprise with a value of over 10 billion be simple? It must have a backer.

After a moment of thought, he said, "I understand. I'm currently in the Fog City and expect to arrive in the Imperial Capital around two or three in the afternoon. Let's talk about it when we meet then." After that, Su Chen hung up the phone.

Yin Zheng, who was standing by, also heard Su Chen talking about returning to the capital, and immediately arranged a car to take Su Chen home.

Su Chen called Chen Shufen, briefly told her about his own situation, and then directly contacted the captain of the "Yunmengze" to ask him to arrange the flight.

After returning home and packing his things, he took Yin Zheng’s car and headed straight to Jiangbei Airport.

"They really just leave as soon as they say they will. Hahaha. It seems that the small line change in western Sichuan will have to wait until later!" Su Chen said jokingly.

Yin Zheng smiled and waved his hand when he heard this: "It's okay, there will be plenty of time later."

He was not worried at all about Su Chen's return to the imperial capital to handle matters. He knew Su Chen's background, and with those people around, no one dared to mess with him.

Shunshan Mansion is not far from the airport. Yin Zheng directly sent Su Chen to the business airport and stood by the apron watching Su Chen get on the plane.

Watching the plane slowly approaching the runway, Yin Zheng thought about it and took out his mobile phone to make a call. His attitude became much more respectful. He briefly told the person about Su Chen. After two "hmm"s, the person on the other end hung up the phone.

It is not far to fly from the foggy city to the imperial capital. It only takes two and a half hours to reach the imperial capital airport.

As soon as I got off the plane, I saw Zhang Yiming leaning against a Bentley car smoking a cigarette, with a haggard look on his face.

"Yi Ming~" Su Chen walked forward and greeted.

Seeing Su Chen appear, Zhang Yiming forced a smile on his face, "Mr. Su~ Thank you for making a special trip."

"What do you mean by that? I'm also a shareholder of the company. Can I not help if the company has problems?"

After patting Zhang Yiming on the shoulder, Su Chen's eyes stayed on his haggard face and said, "Don't worry, this matter can be resolved soon."

Zhang Yiming paused and nodded heavily.

His understanding of Su Chen so far is still limited to the time when he met him at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse before the New Year. At the beginning, he did not hold out much hope. After all, the other party was very powerful, and he was afraid that Su Chen could not handle it.

But after he told him the whole story, Su Chen agreed without much hesitation and returned to the imperial capital immediately, knowing that Su Chen's background was enough to compete with the other party.

"Let's go, let's go to the company first. You can contact the person who came to the company directly later. It's better to solve this kind of thing as soon as possible."

This kind of thing cannot be delayed. The longer it is delayed, the more jackals will come around smelling the blood. But correspondingly, as long as this matter is resolved quickly, ByteDance will have a smooth road ahead.

Zhang Yiming didn't expect that Su Chen was ready to deal with this matter as soon as he got off the plane. He was so touched.

After getting in the car, Zhang Yiming rubbed his haggard face, and his previous confident look appeared on his face again. He then took out his mobile phone and called the other party.

Without saying much, I made an appointment for an interview at the company.

When Su Chen and his friends returned to ByteDance headquarters, as soon as they entered the company, Zhang Yiming's secretary came up to them and said that the person had arrived and was waiting in the conference room. He also brought a lot of people with him, including a famous lawyer in the capital.

"Hahaha~ It seems that this guy has you in his hands. Let's go and see what kind of person he is. He is so confident!" Su Chen sneered and walked towards the meeting room. Zhang Yiming followed him quickly. The secretary also heard what Su Chen said and could only pray in his heart that Director Su could handle this matter.

"Bang~" Su Chen pushed open the door of the conference room and walked straight in.

I found that there were quite a lot of people in the conference room. Looking around, there were about ten people.

Sitting right above the conference room was a young man who looked to be in his twenties, with his legs resting on the conference table and playing with a mobile phone in his hand.

When he saw Su Chen coming in, the young man raised his eyebrows slightly, but just took a glance and then lowered his head to play with his mobile phone. It was obvious that he didn't take Su Chen seriously.

"Mr. Su, you're walking too fast!"

At this time, Zhang Yiming ran in panting. He had hardly slept in recent days because of these things, so naturally his physical strength was much worse. He felt a little breathless after jogging a few steps.

It was not known whether it was because he heard Zhang Yiming's voice or the call, but the young man sitting in the first seat finally put down his phone and looked at Su Chen and the others.

Su Chen met the gazes calmly, with a calmness in his eyes.

After staring at each other for several seconds, the young man couldn't help but ask first: "Mr. Zhang, who is this?"

"Su Chen, Mr. Su, the largest shareholder of our ByteDance." Zhang Yiming introduced loudly.

Su Chen also walked straight to the conference table, took out a pack of white cigarettes from his pocket, lit it up for himself, exhaled a puff of white smoke, looked at the young man sitting in the main seat and asked calmly: "Would you like to introduce yourself?"

"Who do you think you are? How dare you ask Young Master Wei to introduce himself?" Before the young man sitting in the main seat could speak, a thin man standing next to him, wearing a pair of glasses and looking very gentle, shouted at Su Chen.

"Pa~" A crisp sound was heard. Except for Su Chen, everyone present looked at the man named Wei Shao in shock. He slapped his lackey hard in the face.

The man with glasses touched his swollen and painful left cheek and looked at Wei Shao in surprise. He couldn't understand why Wei Shao hit him.

"Get him out of here!" Wei Shao pointed at the door and shouted at the man with glasses.

Two men who looked like bodyguards immediately dragged the man with glasses out.

"Bang~" After the door of the conference room closed again, Wei Shao returned to normal and sat back in his seat. However, this time he was not as arrogant as before. Not only did he put his legs down, but he also sat up straighter.

After his eyes flickered between the cigarette in Su Chen's hand and the cigarette box on the table, he looked at Su Chen and introduced himself: "Wei Jia, Wei Ziyang, I'm a little unfamiliar with you. How come I haven't seen you in the imperial capital before?"

Su Chen certainly knew why Wei Ziyang's attitude changed so quickly. After all, the cigarette in his hand was not something that ordinary people could own. A third-generation like Wei Ziyang naturally understood what this cigarette meant.

If most people just smoke a few cigarettes, they'd just show off and fiddle with their background. But if they show off whole boxes of cigarettes, then there's a lot more to it.

"It's normal to be unfamiliar with someone." Su Chen shook off the ashes on his hand, looked at Wei Ziyang with a faint smile on his face and said, "Actually, I'm curious why you are so brave. There shouldn't be many people in the circle who would do such a thing."

"Even if there was, it was done quietly behind the scenes, not as loudly as you do. Can you tell me where you got the courage from?"

Wei Ziyang couldn't understand the meaning of these words. Moody couldn't describe his mood at the moment. He snorted and said, "If I hadn't made such a big fuss, I'm afraid I don't know how many people would come to Mr. Zhang by now."

"What no one expected was that the major shareholder behind ByteDance was actually a deep-water tycoon. If those people knew about this, they would probably be feeling lucky," Wei Ziyang said with a hint of self-mockery.

After hearing these words, Su Chen's previous doubts were instantly resolved. He finally understood why Wei Ziyang was so brave. It turned out that he was declaring his sovereignty.

At first, Su Chen thought he was just being targeted by a family, but he didn't expect that he was already surrounded by a pack of wolves. He was secretly glad in his heart, because if it was really a pack of wolves, it would have been troublesome.

Although Wei Ziyang also had ideas about ByteDance, he also indirectly helped ByteDance block the attention of other jackals.

It's normal to think about it. ByteDance is developing so rapidly now. In just half a year, its valuation has increased more than ten times to 6 billion US dollars. Who wouldn't be jealous? Moreover, as the market share of Douyin gradually expands, the value of the company will only get higher and higher.

Now, if they can bite off a piece of meat from ByteDance, they will be able to make a fortune in less than half a year. Who wouldn't be tempted by such a good thing?

But it’s okay now. As long as we can deal with Wei Ziyang, those jackals who are watching will naturally retreat.

Just as Su Chen was preparing to solve the problem, the cell phone in his pocket rang.

Seeing the caller ID, Su Chen answered the call without any hesitation.

"Brother Chen, why are you calling?" The person calling was none other than Xiao Chen.

Wei Ziyang, who was sitting in the main seat, was also stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but shudder at this man who looked so extraordinary and even he called him brother.

His mind was also frantically thinking about the people in the imperial capital whose names contained the word "Chen". After thinking about it, a person's name soon came into his mind.

"No way! How is this possible? It's absolutely impossible!" Wei Ziyang muttered to himself.

The bodyguards and lawyers standing behind him all looked puzzled. Although they were curious about what happened to their young master, they did not dare to ask because the slap in the face was still fresh in their minds.

"You know about this, too?"

"Yin Zheng called Jiang Yang. Are you afraid that I can't handle it? I won't make things difficult for him next time we meet."

"Hahaha~ It was just a small investment in the past. I never thought it would cause a stir in the imperial capital."

"Okay, you talk to him!" Su Chen handed his cell phone to Zhang Yiming and gave him a look, asking him to give the phone to the man named Wei Ziyang.

When Wei Ziyang saw Zhang Yiming coming towards him with a cell phone, his whole body trembled. He stood up from his seat and took the phone that was handed to him.

Su Chen glanced at Wei Ziyang and then looked away. He also learned a lot of information from Xiao Chen's phone call, that is, ByteDance has caused quite a stir in the upper circles of the imperial capital, and anyone with a little insight can see the future potential of this company.

Just as Wei Ziyang said before, ByteDance is indeed surrounded by wolves, but no one knows whether there is any background behind ByteDance, and everyone is still waiting and watching.

What Wei Ziyang said about blocking the sight of the wolves was not entirely true. Those people also regarded him as the one who stood out.

Su Chen did not expect that there were so many things involved. He thought it was too simple at the beginning. It was full of twists and turns, and the changes were a little confusing.

You think there is only one company eyeing you covetously, but in fact there are a group of wolves lurking behind you. Just when you think someone is blocking the wolves' sight, in fact you are just the one chosen to stand out.

But no matter what, it's time for this storm to calm down.

Maybe in the end, there will be only one victim of this turmoil, and that is our Wei Shao - Wei Ziyang.

"Young Master Susu, Young Master Xiao has something to tell you." Wei Ziyang no longer had the arrogance he had before. His respectful look shocked many people.

Su Chen took the phone calmly, and heard Xiao Chen say: "After you finish your work, come to my house. The old man wants to talk to you about something."

Su Chen agreed without thinking when Mr. Xiao wanted to see him.

"Okay, I know. Tell the old man, and I'll be there soon."

When Wei Ziyang, who was standing nearby, heard the word "old man", cold sweat broke out on his back like crazy, quickly soaking his clothes.

After hanging up the phone, Su Chen found that Wei Ziyang was still standing beside him. Su Chen frowned and said, "Young Master Wei, do you have anything else to do? Aren't you planning to stay and let us treat you to a meal?"

Wei Ziyang came back to his senses and quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I'll leave right away."

After saying that, he immediately left with his men. Of course, the man with glasses who had been slapped in the face before was no exception, but he was carried away by two bodyguards when he left.

Su Chen also vaguely saw Wei Ziyang's angry look at the man with glasses, as if he was blaming him for messing things up by being too talkative.

I can only pray silently in my heart for this man with glasses.

After seeing Wei Ziyang and his group off, Zhang Yiming returned to the conference room in high spirits and said to Su Chen excitedly, "Thank you so much, Mr. Su."

Hearing this, Su Chen pretended to be unhappy and said, "Yi Ming, your words are meaningless. Do you still regard me as an outsider?"

"No, absolutely not!" Zhang Yiming waved his hands and said.

But when he saw Su Chen's faint smile, he knew that Su Chen was teasing him.

"Okay, the problem has been resolved. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. You can go back and have a good rest. Get enough energy. Byte can't do without you." Su Chen patted Zhang Yiming's shoulder and walked out of the meeting room.

Zhang Yiming hurriedly followed Su Chen and sent him out of the company. He also knew that Su Chen was going somewhere and had specially arranged a driver.

Watching the car merge into the traffic flow, Zhang Yiming waved excitedly, knowing that the road ahead was smooth.

(End of this chapter)