Chapter 451 — One More Underling
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"You mean Kang **? Think about it—that is not enough!" Fatty Lai shook his head. "How can one underling be enough? Kang ** is with you all day, keeping you company at school and enjoying life. He cannot be handling company affairs every day, can he? Let him be vice chairman, and I will be the underling who manages the company's affairs for you!"
Wei Zhao nodded. What he did not say was that he had another underling back in his hometown, named Ergoudan. But thinking of Ergoudan's intelligence, Wei Zhao shook his head—that kid could only serve as a brawler and a punching bag, all brawn and no brains!
Mm, one of these days he would give Ergoudan a call and see what the fellow was up to now. It had been a long time since he had gone back; he rather missed him.
Seeing that Wei Zhao was somewhat moved, Fatty Lai pressed his advantage. "Besides, Chief, what kind of man are you? You cannot possibly have just one underling at your side. Look at any great man—are there not always a whole crowd of followers around him? Each with his own duties: bodyguards, life secretaries, clerical secretaries, a steward, a nanny, and a little honey..."
"All right... stop droning on. I will reluctantly take you on as a temporary underling. Pass the assessment and you will be promoted to full status!" Wei Zhao was getting a little impatient with Fatty Lai's talk, and since what he said made a good deal of sense, Wei Zhao agreed.
Only, he himself was still someone else's follower, and now Fatty Lai had become his follower. In the future, if he went out together with the young miss, what sort of scene would that make?
A follower with a follower of his own—he was probably unprecedented, the most badass follower in history.
"Haha, then from now on I am Doctor Lin's underling!" Fatty Lai was overjoyed, automatically ignoring the word "temporary." "Don't worry, leave this pharmaceutical company to me!"
"..." Wei Zhao was a little speechless. Fatty Lai was even more enthusiastic than he was; taking on such an underling would save him a lot of worry in the future. Only, Wei Zhao did not yet fully trust Fatty Lai—he had not gotten a clear picture of the fellow's character, and there were still things he could not confidently hand over to him. He would wait until he had assessed him for a while.
He gave the decocted medicine to Fatty Lai and sent him off, then sat back down on the sofa in Guan Xuemin's study. "Grandpa Guan, what do you make of this?"
"You mean Mr. Lai?" Guan Xuemin asked.
"Mm. Doesn't this fellow seem a bit unreliable?" Wei Zhao felt that in speech and manner, Fatty Lai did not come across as a business elite—more like an idiot. Were it not for those earlier suggestions Fatty Lai had made about running the company, Wei Zhao would even have taken the kid for nothing but a good-for-nothing rich brat waiting around to die.
"Not so!" Guan Xuemin shook his head. "While you two were talking, I took a moment to look up this Lai Changyi online. After graduating from university at twenty-two, he took the fifty million in seed money his family gave him and started his own business. Though one might suspect he borrowed his family's connections, in just ten short years he grew that fifty million into two real estate and trading companies each with assets over a billion. That alone shows he is no fool! As for his being a crybaby, I imagine it is simply a matter of playing to his audience. For one thing, he is quite filial—it is only over his father's affairs that he will kneel and weep without stopping. In the business world, there is no news of him making a public spectacle of himself."
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