840 It’s Really Blinding!
On the other side, the atmosphere in the meeting room of Sotheby’s Yang Cheng branch wasn’t very harmonious.
William Smith, a director from the headquarters in China, was yelling at everyone in broken Mandarin.
“I don’t know how you guys do your job. Why did your performance in the second half of this year decline so badly? I need you to give me an explanation.”
The senior executives of the Yang Cheng branch kept their mouths shut and allowed him to reprimand them.
Seeing that no one spoke, William Smith immediately turned to look at Chen Qiushan, who was sitting on his left.
“Chen, the reason why you transferred from Zhonghai to Yang Cheng was to solve the problem of declining performance. But what have you been doing all this time? Why didn’t I see your results?”
Chen Qiushan knew that he couldn’t avoid his question, so he had to speak carefully.
“Director Smith, please understand. After all, Yang Cheng is a small place and does not have many items for auction. The head office sends all the good stuff to Xiangjiang and never cares about us. In order to get the auction item, I had to find a friend to help me. I really can’t take out more…”
Smith didn’t wait for him to finish. He raised his hand and interrupted him. “I don’t want to hear these excuses. Just tell me, what solution do you have?”
Chen Qiushan frowned. “The main reason for the decline in sales is that the auction house has been auctioning antiques, paintings, and the like recently. There’s nothing new. Those old customers are not paying. If we want to solve it, we have to find something new.”
Smith was not satisfied with his answer. “Did you find it?”
Chen Qiushan couldn’t help but laugh coldly. “How can it be that easy? The head office has never paid any attention to our Yang Cheng branch. All they know is to let us show our performance…”
Bang!
Smith slammed the table and glared at him. “Don’t push all the responsibility to the head office. If everything depends on the head office, what do I need you for? It would be better to put a few pigs here.”
When the executives present heard his words, their expressions turned ugly, but they did not dare to say anything.
However, Chen Qiushan was not used to his bad habits. He slammed the table and stood up. “If the head office is always so biased, putting all the good things in other branches for auction and ignoring us, then what do we need the head office for?”
His words immediately shocked everyone present. These words were already equivalent to a ‘rebellion’. It was a great treason.
Smith also stood up slowly and looked at Chen Qiushan coldly. “Chen, you’d better take back your words. Otherwise, I’ll report this to the head office. Do you know what the consequences will be?”
Chen Qiushan snorted coldly. “You can report whatever you want. Anyway, that’s what I’m saying.”
“If you want me to solve the problem, fine, but you can’t push all the sh*t onto me and my subordinates.”
Smith was about to say something when someone knocked on the conference room door. Chen Qiushan’s assistant poked his head in.
“President Chen, Mr. Ye called and asked you to go to the hospital. He has a batch of treasures that he wants to hand over to our auction house for auction.”
Chen Qiushan nodded. “Alright, arrange a car for me immediately. I’ll be right there.”
Smith immediately stopped him. “Chen, our problem hasn’t been solved yet. Where are you going?”
Chen Qiushan suppressed his anger and looked at him. “Didn’t you want to solve the problem? Can’t I find someone who can help us solve the problem now?”
“If not for my friend’s help, the branch’s performance would have been even worse.”
Smith stared at him for a moment. “I’ll go with you. I’d like to see what’s so special about this friend of yours.”
Chen Qiushan couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath on him. “If you want to follow me, I won’t stop you. However, my friend has a bad temper. If you dare to speak to him in the same tone as before, I can guarantee that he won’t chase you out.”
With that, he walked out of the meeting room.
Smith sneered and immediately followed.
He was now very suspicious that Chen Qiushan was a traitor and deliberately put some good things that should have belonged to Sotheby’s to other auction houses for profit.
Perhaps his friend had played a big role in this.
He followed them this time because he wanted to see what tricks the two of them were up to.
..
Ye Feng was talking to Xu Jingxin about what happened last night.
At this moment, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and Chen Qiushan walked in quickly. “Brother Ye, why didn’t you tell me you were hospitalized?”
“If you hadn’t called me today, I wouldn’t have known that you were hospitalized.”
Smith followed behind him. When he saw Ye Feng lying on the bed, he started to look down on him.
He was too young. This kind of young man probably hadn’t graduated from university yet. What good things could he bring out?
Chen Qiushan had placed all his hopes on this person. No wonder the branch’s performance kept declining.
Ye Feng immediately stood up to welcome him. “Brother Chen, you’re too kind, I’m fine now. I could have been discharged a long time ago, I just couldn’t be bothered to move.”
Chen Qiushan was instantly defeated by his reason. He then chatted with him for a while before getting to the main topic.
“You just told my assistant that you have a batch of treasures that you want to auction off at our auction house? What kind of treasure is it?”
Ye Feng purposely kept him in suspense. He did not answer him immediately. Instead, he gave Xu Jingxin a look.
When Xu Jingxin was in front of outsiders, she was very respectful to him and immediately acted as his assistant.
She pulled out a woven bag from under the bed.
Smith had been looking forward to it, but when he saw the ugly woven bag, he no longer had any expectations.
He even felt like he was being toyed with. He glared at Ye Feng hatefully.
Chen Qiushan did not mind. He understood Ye Feng very well. If it was just an ordinary treasure, he would not let him take it personally.
He immediately pulled open the zipper of the woven bag bit by bit.
Then, a pile of shiny gold ingots appeared in front of him.
He hurriedly closed his eyes to catch his breath before opening them again, his face filled with disbelief.
This was really blinding!
Actually, gold ingots were not considered rare.
Both Chen Qiushan and Smith were used to such things.
But it couldn’t withstand the large quantity!
The gold ingots that they had seen before were all single, but there was a huge pile in this tattered woven bag. There were at least a hundred of them, just like cabbages.
This shocked them.
Smith was even more excited than Chen Qiushan. He hurriedly rushed over and grabbed a gold ingot. After examining it carefully, he was sure that it was authentic.
“Oh, my god! It was all real? I can’t believe my eyes.”
When he looked at Ye Feng again, he no longer looked down on him. Instead, he was filled with curiosity. Where did this young man get so many gold ingots?