Chapter 206
Chapter 206
The next day, we arrived at the agency.
We had arranged to meet Fang Yongshan at three that afternoon so we could see Liu Jing off on her final journey together.
Business had been slow lately. Aside from the two properties that had belonged to Liu Jing and Feng Gang, which had already received deposits, none of the other listings in our office had found buyers yet.
I cast a divination for the agency’s business, and the reading showed that we probably wouldn’t get any deals for the next week.
But you couldn’t run a business based entirely on divination. It wasn’t like just because I calculated that there wouldn’t be any business, we could all stop working.
We already had a backlog of listings piling up, and we had to find a way to sell them, so our only option was to go out together and hand out flyers.
As the boss, Meng Yifan worked even harder than the employees.
He took the lead and handed out flyers all morning.
At noon, we returned to the office to rest and eat boxed lunches.
We were halfway through our meal when a Ferrari pulled up outside.
That car cost nearly five million. My eyes went wide with envy, and I thought to myself, When will I ever be able to drive something that expensive?
But as I kept looking, I suddenly felt like the license plate seemed very familiar.
“Damn, where’d this rich guy come from? That’s an 812!”
Xie Peng looked just as envious.
Song Xiaotian and I stood up almost at the same time.
Song Xiaotian was so frightened he stopped eating, bolted straight into the office, and shut the door behind him.
“Who is it? Why are you two so scared?” Meng Yifan asked curiously.
I said, “That’s Pan Xiaorou’s car!”
Damn it. She had actually tracked Song Xiaotian all the way here!
The key point was that Song Xiaotian and I had originally approached her to save Meng Yifan.
And during that time, Song Xiaotian had failed to control himself and had slept with her.
If she found out that Song Xiaotian and I had known Meng Yifan all along, she would definitely feel like we had deceived her.
The Pan Xiaorou of today was a queen even Weihai Group wouldn’t dare provoke lightly. How could we afford to offend her?
“Don’t say you know me!”
I quickly tossed down my boxed lunch and ran behind the counter to hide.
Before long, the sound of high heels drew closer from outside, and a mature woman’s voice came in.
“Excuse me, is Song Xiaotian here?”
“No! Don’t know him!”
Xie Peng and Meng Yifan answered at the same time.
“Then is Chen Mo here?”
“No! Don’t know him!”
“Gentlemen, why are you lying to me?”
Pan Xiaorou’s tone was calm. Xie Peng and Meng Yifan didn’t say anything for a long while, probably overwhelmed by her presence.
“Mr. Chen, stop hiding. I already saw you.”
Soon, a head leaned in over the counter, looking down at me from above.
I stared at her awkwardly and slowly crawled out from under the desk.
“President Pan, if I said I came in here to buy a house, would you believe me…?”
“Mr. Chen, don’t joke with me.”
Every smile and every frown from Pan Xiaorou carried the aura of a queen, yet without losing a woman’s elegance.
I had to admit, Song Xiaotian was way too picky.
If a woman like this took a liking to me, I’d pack my bags and move into her place overnight.
“I’m here to see Xiaotian. Please ask him to come out.”
Pan Xiaorou showed us a pink lunchbox. “This is chicken soup I made myself last night. It’s to help him nourish his body.”
This woman really was considerate.
I was just about to say Song Xiaotian wasn’t here.
But she spoke first. “I already saw him from the car just now.”
“All right. I’ll go call him out.”
Meng Yifan and I went into the office together.
After we entered, we didn’t see Song Xiaotian. The two of us searched for ages before pulling open one of the wardrobe doors and finally finding him.
He was hiding inside, his face full of panic.
“What are you doing? Why’d you come in here? Why are you opening my door at a time like this?!”
“All right, stop hiding.”
I said speechlessly, “She already spotted you ages ago.”
Song Xiaotian said, “Then tell her I burrowed underground and ran away.”
Meng Yifan dragged him out. “I think President Pan is pretty great. She’s a big boss, and she personally made chicken soup and brought it over for you. How can you be so ungrateful?”
Song Xiaotian was livid. “I never asked her to bring me anything! I don’t even like her!”
Meng Yifan said, “You don’t like her, but you still slept with her? Song Xiaotian, how did I never realize you were this kind of person?”
“Are you freaking shameless?” Song Xiaotian cursed. “I did that to save you! You ungrateful bastard!”
Meng Yifan said, “Damn it, I never told you to sleep with her. And Pan Xiaorou even plotted against me before. If I weren’t treating her as my future sister-in-law, do you think I’d just let that slide? I sacrificed myself for the greater good and helped bring you two together, and you’re still cursing me out.”
Song Xiaotian said, “I fucking-”
Before he could finish, Meng Yifan and I forcibly shoved him out.
The moment he saw Pan Xiaorou, he instantly wilted.
The moment Pan Xiaorou saw him, her eyes lit up.
There were quite a few customers in the shop today, and Li Xingyang was there too.
We sat there, looking on with envy as Pan Xiaorou fed Song Xiaotian chicken soup.
A rich woman-and a group president at that-had personally made him soup, personally delivered it, and was now feeding him like he was her son.
Even I felt Song Xiaotian was being a little ungrateful.
“Ungrateful, seriously!”
Xie Peng and the others sighed with emotion.
After she finished feeding him the chicken soup, Meng Yifan and I also headed outside.
The four of us stood at the entrance of the shop. Some things had to be cleared up.
“So you all knew each other all along.” Pan Xiaorou looked meaningfully at the three of us.
I felt a little awkward and was just about to explain.
“I understand.”
She said, “You lied to me to save your friend. That’s perfectly normal. After all, I didn’t know any of you before.”
I breathed a sigh of relief. “President Pan, you’re truly so understanding!”
She held Song Xiaotian’s arm and said, “I can tell Xiaotian is a man who values loyalty and friendship. In today’s society, there are far too few people like that. A man like him will definitely make a good husband someday.”
A good husband…
Song Xiaotian froze in place, his face blank.
Meng Yifan and I held back our laughter and quickly nodded. “Yes, Xiaotian has always valued loyalty and friendship. President Pan, you have a great eye for people.”
Song Xiaotian glared at the two of us resentfully, as if he wanted to stab us with his eyes.
But Pan Xiaorou was incredibly excited, which showed just how much she liked Song Xiaotian.
“I’m in real estate too. Looking at the houses you’re selling, the prices seem unusually low. The properties you’re selling… probably aren’t ordinary houses, are they?”
Pan Xiaorou was indeed a woman with experience. She could tell at a glance that we were selling Stigmatized Property.
It was just that saying it outright sounded unpleasant, so she hadn’t.
“That’s right. We sell houses where people have died, which is why they’re so cheap.”
Meng Yifan said, “Business isn’t easy for independent operators these days, as you know. We can only make money from niche markets.”
Pan Xiaorou nodded approvingly. “Mr. Meng has a good head for business. The more a field is something no one else wants to touch, the more opportunities there actually are to make money.”
“As it happens, I have a friend who unfortunately passed away two months ago. Her family is also planning to sell the house she lived in before she died. It’s a large villa, so the profit should be quite high. I wonder if Mr. Meng would be interested. I can ask for you.”
Meng Yifan’s eyes went wide. A large villa-that meant it was even bigger than Tao Xiaoyu’s villa.
“Yes! I’m interested!”
“Thanks, sis-in-law!”