novelraw Chapter 755 - 729: Uncle Invites You for Tea
Chapter 755 - 729: Uncle Invites You for Tea
Yu Minglang paused the sound wave and made a phone call.
"Bring your lockpicking tools to my place within 15 minutes, you’re late by a second, I’ll dock your points, and when your points are all gone you can get lost."
"It’s my rest time now."
"If you keep dawdling I’ll dock your pay!"
"...f...k!"
"Dock your pay!"
The other party hung up instantly, but Qian could totally imagine how angry the person on the other end would be.
"Who was that?" Daring to talk to Xiaohei so boldly shows they are tough too.
"Our newly hired technician, named Yan Yu. He’s a post-doctorate in photonics."
Opening this kind of lock wasn’t difficult for Yan Yu.
"What secret do you need to tell me?"
"The blonde across the door has some issues. You’ll know the details once that brat Yan Yu gets here."
"Your expression tells me you really like him." Qian has figured out Yu Minglang’s pattern. If he likes someone, he tortures them to death. If he doesn’t, he’ll be polite.
Yu Minglang rubbed his hands when mentioning this person, obviously liking him.
"The kid just graduated, and I lured him over with a high salary from abroad. He’s very proud, full of skills, and is considered an indispensable high-tech talent in the information age. I’ve set my eyes on him!"
"If you have your eyes on him, why make him so mad?"
"Highly educated talents have their own pride. If you don’t use something genuine to attract him, he won’t stay with us in the future. His pride is both his capital and possibly a stumbling block. I want to remove his pride but keep his determination."
Yu Minglang even kept track of the time with a stopwatch. Qian felt a little sorry for the person he’s set his sights on.
"Driving over from your place, it takes at least 15 minutes, right? He still needs to find a car, locate our home, slow down in the neighborhood, can he make it in 15 minutes?"
"He can, this kid’s brain is like a computer, with the city’s route map engraved in it. He can avoid road obstacles and cameras to get here quickly. I’ve estimated his fastest speed, and even the distance to the nearest hospital from us. That blonde woman next door can get back in 20 minutes at the earliest, giving Yan Yu 5 minutes to open the lock. The kid was bragging today; I heard it. He said there’s no lock he can’t open. If he can’t open it, I’ll keep docking his points!"
"...how long does it take a normal person to open that lock?"
"Several hours, but he’s not a normal person. He shouldn’t be held to normal standards. If he didn’t have any skills, I wouldn’t have lured him with a high salary."
Several hours... he expects someone to open it in 5 minutes?
Qian felt a bit sorry for the guy Yu Minglang has set his eyes on.
At fourteen minutes and ten seconds, Yan Yu arrived panting heavily, Yu Minglang checked his watch and nodded with mild satisfaction.
"Not bad."
Yan Yu glared at Yu Minglang with a man-eating look, shameless! He almost got blocked by traffic police; it was pure wild driving!
"What the heck did you need me here in such a hurry for?!"
"Open the lock across the door within 5 minutes."
"What if I can’t open it?" Yan Yu tried and found this lock unusual.
Yu Minglang revealed a mysterious smile.
"Then Uncle will invite you for tea, oh, a repatriated doctorate opening locks, might even end up in court."
Qian stood beside and sympathetically looked at this unfortunate guy. Although the kid didn’t speak, his expression clearly spelled out ’Go to hell!’
"May I ask my erratic Vice President, why are you asking me to open someone else’s lock?" Yan Yu asked.
"Follow orders, you’ve already wasted a few seconds."
"I refuse to do such a thing, even if you fire me, I won’t open someone else’s lock. I can choose not to join your company, but principles can’t change."
"You won’t open a regular person’s lock, but what if it’s a lock involved in espionage, would you open that?" Qian explained, Yu Minglang lazily glanced at her, "Wifey, why do you talk so much?"
"You’re saying this is—" Yan Yu stiffened.
"You’ve already wasted over 30 seconds. When someone comes back, you’ll delay a major task."
Yan Yu stopped talking and got serious about lockpicking. He had a special small toolbox, with all the tools inside.
"He’s very good." Qian admired Yan Yu while watching him pick the lock.
"We don’t keep lousy people."
Yu Minglang might speak rudely, but internally he was affirming Yan Yu. The fact that Xiaohei did not spare expense to lure him over proves that Yan Yu’s personal abilities are absolutely worth recognizing. Despite being high-quality talents, Yan Yu and Yu Minglang are on different paths. Yu Minglang is a leadership-type talent, while Yan Yu can manipulate all kinds of high-end equipment. Their intelligence is innate, something outsiders envy.
As time gradually passed, Yan Yu still hadn’t opened it. Such a door would take ordinary locksmiths hours. Feeling a bit tense, he asked Yu Minglang.
"Vice President, if I can’t open it, what impact will that have on the company?"
"If you’re late by a minute, the other party will have stolen our trade secrets, reducing our profit by a bit. The business world is like a battlefield, you know."
Yan Yu pursed his lips and continued focusing on picking the lock.
He felt immense pressure.
Almost 5 minutes had passed, and finally, Yan Yu opened the door.
He wiped the sweat off his nose as Yu Minglang nodded.
Meanwhile, the elevator showed it was descending, someone was about to come up, unsure if it would be the blonde.
Yu Minglang quickly entered the house, dashed inside and twitched.
This unruly, free-loving mess... it’s really hard to imagine it’s a woman’s home, talented at making such chaos.
Yu Minglang quickly slipped into the room next to Qian, sure enough, he saw the eavesdropping tools on the table as he suspected.
Aside from that, there was a book. Yu Minglang flipped through it; it was a catalog from an auction, full of antiques. He quickly noted down this information.
And one page was dog-eared, surprisingly featuring Zheng Banqiao’s work, annotated with a pencil beside it. Does she like it?
Who likes it? Does Qian like it?
Yu Minglang found the matter very odd. Why record such irrelevant information?
This blonde must have eavesdropped on Qian’s love for calligraphy and paintings, but why record down what Qian likes?
Yu Minglang noticed a portable cassette player on the table, pressed it, and a burst of dog barking noise played, Qian at the entrance squinted when she heard the barking, seemingly recalling something.
"The elevator is coming up!" Yan Yu nervously reminded.
Yu Minglang stopped lingering in battle, withdrew following Yan Yu. Before closing the bedroom door, Yan Yu noticed Yu Minglang pick up a strand of hair from the floor and hang it on the door, only then did he exit.
Yan Yu couldn’t help but be impressed. He hadn’t noticed this detail, hearing that the young boss came from a sniper background, surely beneath his lazy, annoying exterior was an amazing level of keen observation.