Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 692: Crafty and Cunning

"Who knows? Since he’s not allowed in, he must have offended someone. We better not go up there and show kindness. We’re just temporary employees at Changping Group, not his company’s staff, so no need to butter him up."

The employees at Changping Group are quite perceptive.

"Have people from other departments heard anything?" someone else asked.

"Don’t mention it, I did hear something. It’s said that our CEO personally took action against their company, and now they’ve lost several deals."

"Wow!" A colleague couldn’t help but glance again in the direction of Liu Pingyuan and his family.

Whispering: "How did the Liu Family offend our CEO? This kind of treatment is not ordinary!"

The previous family Zhao Gushen personally targeted was the Wang Family.

However, the Wang Family was really a small fish, so it didn’t take much effort for Zhao Gushen to settle them.

The Wang Family was dealt with quietly without causing any waves.

To the extent that the employees at Changping didn’t take it seriously at all.

No one had any idea that there was once a small Wang Family targeted by Zhao Gushen.

"Who knows? Our company usually doesn’t have much interaction with the Liu Family, and it’s unlikely for them to offend us in business. As for offending our CEO personally... given our CEO’s temper, who doesn’t know to avoid him? Who dares to offend him?" someone said.

"If they didn’t offend the CEO, then maybe they offended our CEO’s wife. After all, offending our CEO’s wife has even worse consequences than offending the CEO," another person speculated.

"Let’s not make wild guesses. What if it’s not the CEO’s wife, and we end up guessing on her account, only for the CEO to find out? Then we’d be in trouble too," another person cautioned.

"Yes, yes, that’s right!" Others agreed after being reminded.

Anyway, it’s the Liu Family that’s unlucky, not them.

Their jobs at Changping are quite secure, so there’s no need to guess.

After a while, Lu Chenghong also arrived at Changping Group with Manager Zhu and others.

This time, they came to discuss the special program plans for the Spring Festival. They made a few proposals, and Lu Chenghong thought they were all good, but wanted to select the most satisfactory one.

So he brought the proposals along to let Zhao Gushen make the final decision.

As soon as he walked in, he turned and saw the Liu Family there.

Lu Chenghong noticed Liu Sixu, recalling how during the last competition, Liu Sixu sent people backstage, claiming he wanted to meet the 10 contestants.

Thinking of the incident at the evening event, although Lu Chenghong wasn’t there, he heard people talk about it afterward.

He realized that Liu Sixu likely wanted to meet Ye Fei among the contestants.

Knowing Zhao Gushen wouldn’t easily let Liu Sixu off the hook.

Lu Chenghong, being shrewd, although his speculation hadn’t been confirmed, felt it prudent to avoid interacting with the Liu Family at this time.

Thus, upon glimpsing Liu Pingyuan, Lu Chenghong acted as if he hadn’t seen him and whispered to Manager Zhu: "Hurry, let’s go."

Manager Zhu wondered why Lu Chenghong suddenly seemed in such a rush.

Before they could clock in at the entrance, they heard Liu Pingyuan’s voice: "Lao Lu!"

Lu Chenghong rolled his eyes but had no choice but to stop.

He wanted to pretend he hadn’t heard, but Liu Pingyuan called out several times with a thick face, running over while calling.

Preventing him from leaving.

Manager Zhu quietly asked: "Mr. Lu, are you familiar with Liu Pingyuan? He’s even calling you Lao Lu."

"Familiar my foot!" Lu Chenghong said crossly.

Truly a misunderstanding.

He hadn’t seen Liu Pingyuan more than a few times: "That Liu Pingyuan is just pretending to be familiar!"

The nickname ’Lao Lu’ better not reach the CEO’s ears, otherwise if misunderstood that he’s close to Liu Pingyuan, what would he do!

Liu Pingyuan is quite troublesome, a real pest!

Turning back, Lu Chenghong feigned surprise: "Mr. Liu, what brings you here?"

With a cheerful smile, Liu Pingyuan said: "I’m here to see President Zhao, unfortunately, he’s in a meeting. Mr. Lu, you are?"

With a flicker in his eyes, Lu Chenghong surmised Zhao Gushen probably didn’t want to see Liu Pingyuan.

So Lu Chenghong replied: "I’m here to discuss the post-competition planning for our culinary contest with the company’s planning department."

Lu Chenghong was there to meet Zhao Gushen, but given Zhao Gushen clearly didn’t want to see Liu Pingyuan, he naturally didn’t mention he was there to meet Zhao Gushen.

To avoid Liu Pingyuan trying to convince him to take him inside.

Lu Chenghong is so shrewd; he wouldn’t give Liu Pingyuan such an opening.

But he overlooked Liu Pingyuan’s shamelessness, especially when dealing with a matter of life and death for his company. What’s a thick face to him?

Liu Pingyuan didn’t care about such things at all.

"Aren’t you here to see President Zhao?" Liu Pingyuan inquired.

Lu Chenghong quickly shook his head: "He’s very busy today, I didn’t make an appointment with him. Besides, when discussing planning matters, we must finalize them first before sending them to the President for decision, no way to consult directly with him, right?"

Seeing Liu Pingyuan waiting there, it’s clear Zhao Gushen didn’t want to see them.

No matter the excuse Zhao Gushen used, Lu Chenghong’s statement was definite.

Disappointment flashed across Liu Pingyuan’s face, but he instantly restored his smile and asked Lu Chenghong: "So are you heading to the planning department?"

Lu Chenghong nodded: "Yes."

Liu Pingyuan immediately said: "Would it be possible to take us inside with you?"

Lu Chenghong’s expression changed, quickly saying: "That’s impossible! We can’t randomly bring people inside; everyone must register at the front desk and get consent first."

Only then did Lu Chenghong seemingly surprised ask: "I’m puzzled why you’re waiting here in the lobby?"

Embarrassingly, Liu Pingyuan lowered his head and mumbled: "We’re here to see President Zhao, but he’s in a meeting and busy now, so we can only wait here."

Lu Chenghong sighed: "Did you not make an appointment? Our CEO’s schedule is packed daily, without an appointment, it’s hard to meet him, even if we are here to report work, we need to coordinate time in advance."

Mrs. Liu murmured on the side asking if Zhao Gushen truly wasn’t making it deliberately difficult for them, was he genuinely busy?

However, Liu Pingyuan wasn’t as easily fooled as Mrs. Liu, thinking Changping’s people are truly well-trained, such good coordination with Zhao Gushen.

Lu Chenghong, looking troubled and apologetic, said: "Mr. Liu, I’m so sorry. You personally made the request to me, yet I’m unable to bring you inside, it’s really inappropriate. But there’s absolutely no way, I truly can’t bring you in."