novelraw Chapter 415 Le Tong is the One I Want
Chapter 415 Le Tong is the One I Want
This retail chain belonging to the Ji Family specializes in home appliances and digital products, and has consistently maintained its leading position in the national retail industry.The head of the organization department has the surname Guo.
Le Tong returned to the bedroom with her laptop, just as Ji Rui was on the phone with this Mr. Guo.
"Manager Guo, as long as you provide a reasonable explanation for last month’s sales figures, I will not pursue this unexpected incident further."
The man on the phone wore a cold expression. Seeing Le Tong enter, he said to the person on the other end, "I’ll give you until tomorrow morning to deliver the report to me."
After speaking, he hung up the phone and placed it beside the pillow.
Le Tong observed his expression, pulled a chair over, sat down, and while turning on the computer, asked.
"Don’t you need to compare last year’s and the previous months’ data to draw a conclusion?"
"I want to catch him off guard." Ji Rui’s expression softened considerably when speaking to Le Tong.
"Their matters have always been managed by the business department. Now that you’ve given an order directly, Manager Guo is probably terrified, right?" Le Tong retrieved the file Ji Rui needed from a pile of folders, packaged it, and sent it to his email, then opened it to look carefully.
Ji Rui opened the email, his gaze shifting from Le Tong’s face back to the spreadsheet on the screen.
"I haven’t told you before, have I? This Guo Dongming is an old subordinate who Mr. Ji personally promoted back in the day."
With so many employees at the Ji Family, besides those working at Ji Group Headquarters, Le Tong was not familiar with the others.
"Yes, this is indeed the first time I’ve heard about it."
Le Tong listened intently. If a few days ago she was somewhat reluctant to temporarily take over the assistant’s job, now she was displaying significant enthusiasm.
Moreover, to take over Yang Sheng’s work, it was essential to understand the main management personnel of the various Ji Family branches.
Both Ji Rui and Le Tong reviewed sales spreadsheets on their computers, and it seemed both were skilled at multitasking. Ji Rui glanced over the connection between Mr. Guo and Mr. Ji while reviewing the spreadsheets.
Le Tong carefully noted everything Ji Rui mentioned.
When they finished reviewing the spreadsheets, Le Tong glanced at the time in the corner of her computer. It was close to eight o’clock.
Le Tong panicked internally. Oh no, she was so engrossed in work that she forgot her baby was waiting, hungry, for her to make dinner.
Quickly closing the laptop, she dashed out without saying a word. Soon, Ji Rui, sitting on the bed, heard Le Tong apologizing to the baby.
"I’m sorry, baby. You’re starving, aren’t you? Mommy will make dinner right away."
"Mommy, I want beef noodles! A big bowl!"
Ji Rui’s lips curved slightly. His dear son, just like his mommy, had a thoughtful nature.
"Okay, Mommy will cook it right away."
Instead of going to the kitchen, Le Tong appeared at the bedroom door.
"Ji Rui, Doctor Fan said you can eat a little bit of pasta now. Do you want noodles, or would you rather stick with rice porridge?"
"Is it too much trouble? Aren’t you already tired?"
Ji Rui had been eating rice porridge for two days and, though not quite full, hadn’t found it tiresome.
"It’s no trouble. I’ll cook some noodles for you. You can hardly keep hunger at bay with just rice porridge!"
A nearly six-foot-three man surviving on only rice porridge for two days sounded pitiful.
"Thank you!"
Ji Rui’s politeness earned him a fierce glare from Le Tong.
Le Tong was indeed a kitchen whiz, taking only ten minutes to bring in three steaming bowls of noodles—one large, one medium, and one small.
Le Tong and the baby had beef noodles, while Ji Rui had fish paste noodles, which were easier to digest.
"Daddy, Grandpa said he wants to see the baby and let the baby play at the big house."
Halfway through eating the noodles, Ji Baby suddenly looked up and told Ji Rui.
Both Ji Rui and Le Tong looked at him. Le Tong appeared tense, while Ji Rui’s expression was one of contemplation.
"Do you miss Grandpa, baby?" Ji Rui asked gently, stealing a glance at Le Tong.
The baby tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Hmm, a little bit..."
When the little guy spoke, he cautiously sneaked a peek at Le Tong.
The cautious manner of this father and son amused Le Tong. However, as it concerned the three generations of the Ji Family, she refrained from interjecting. She lowered her head to continue eating her noodles but kept her ears open, attentively listening to their conversation.
"Daddy can’t go out now. Since you miss Grandpa, shall we let Grandpa come over here for lunch tomorrow morning? How about that?"
Ji Rui’s decision surprised Le Tong greatly. She had thought Ji Rui would rather never see Mr. Ji again.
What surprised her even more, leaving her perplexed, was Ji Rui’s next statement: "Le Tong, come back for lunch with us tomorrow noon too."
Le Tong abruptly looked up, thinking she had misheard, "Join you for lunch? Why?"
She assumed that Ji Rui would be more aware than anyone of her dislike for Mr. Ji, and how Mr. Ji loathed her in return. Wouldn’t eating lunch together risk a scene?
"Some things need to be addressed face to face, don’t they?"
Le Tong couldn’t quite understand Ji Rui’s intentions, even after he said this. She was still uncertain about his motives behind the suggestion.
Because, many old affairs between her and Ji Rui are not suitable to bring up in front of the baby.
Ji Rui forcibly brought people back home, isn’t he afraid that Mr. Ji will angrily reveal the baby’s true parentage in front of her and Ji Rui?
"How can this be explained clearly?"
Le Tong frowned slightly; some things, she felt couldn’t be explained no matter what.
Ji Rui winked at her, "Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing."
Even if Le Tong wasn’t reassured, she had no reason to stop Mr. Ji from meeting his grandson and son as a grandfather and father. When Ji Rui made this decision, he looked very confident, which relieved Le Tong a lot.
"Alright, I’ll be back tomorrow at noon."
After finishing the noodles, Le Tong tidied up the bowls and chopsticks in the kitchen, while Ji Rui took out his phone and called the mansion.
"Hello!" It was Mr. Ji who answered the phone.
"The baby said you wanted to see him. I’m a bit inconvenient over the next two days. Why don’t you come over tomorrow and have lunch with us? I’ll send the driver to pick you up."
Ji Rui didn’t mention his injury; for now, only Yang Sheng and a few bodyguards by his side knew about it.
There was silence on the other end of the phone. After a while, Mr. Ji finally said, "Alright."
Perhaps he also understood that for Ji Rui to allow him to see the baby so readily was already quite rare; he couldn’t ask for more.
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The next day, Le Tong followed her usual routine, getting up early to prepare breakfast for Ji Rui and the baby. After attending to President Ji and Little Ancestor Ji, she hurriedly ate breakfast and rushed back to the Ji Group.
There was still a lot of work, and before she knew it, it was lunchtime. Xiao Li arrived on time to pick her up and take her back to Ji Rui’s new apartment.
Upon entering, she saw Mr. Ji sitting in the living room.
"Hello, Chairman!" Le Tong, with a composed expression, greeted the shocked old man in the living room before walking into the dining area to help set up the takeout delivered from the hotel.
"You’re back?"
Hearing Ji Rui’s voice, Le Tong straightened up and turned around, seeing Ji Rui standing at the entrance of the dining area just freed from restrictions.
"Be careful, come over and sit down first."
Le Tong pulled out a chair and went over to support Ji Rui’s hand.
If it were someone else trying to help him, Ji Rui would definitely shake off her hand immediately.
But because it was Le Tong, Ji Rui thought that pretending to be weak like this occasionally wasn’t bad. At the very least, if he were healthy, Le Tong wouldn’t proactively engage in such intimate physical contact.
"Does the wound hurt?" Le Tong slowly moved with Ji Rui towards the dining table, watching his facial expression carefully, perhaps worried that his wound might hurt.
"Uh-huh, there’s a little pain, but it’s not serious." Ji Rui replied obediently.
Le Tong helped him sit down, but she couldn’t ignore the sharp gaze that kept following her from behind.
"You didn’t tell him?" Le Tong leaned in and asked Ji Rui softly.
"Hmm?!" Ji Rui turned his head, looking at her with a puzzled expression.
"You didn’t tell him I would be back for lunch with you?"
Both Le Tong and Ji Rui knew whom this ’him’ referred to.
"No, I didn’t mention it." Ji Rui was quite calm, displaying a confident demeanor, then reached for the napkin and spread it open before him.
Seeing that he didn’t intend to elaborate further, Le Tong didn’t press on. After settling Ji Rui, she straightened up and arranged the dishes on the table. Ji Rui saw that she had almost finished, then turned to the baby.
"Baby, help grandpa come over for lunch."
Actually, Mr. Ji is quite healthy, much more agile than Ji Rui who is currently injured.
The baby probably communicated with Ji Rui beforehand, quickly bouncing over to Mr. Ji’s side, holding his arm with one hand and supporting his waist with the other.
"Grandpa, be careful. Don’t be like my daddy, getting hurt would be troublesome!"
Le Tong almost couldn’t resist laughing; apparently, Ji Rui told his father he fell instead of being stabbed.
She glanced at Ji Rui, who winked at her, indicating approval.
"Grandpa" was helped up by the baby, looking slightly embarrassed but still said thank you.
"Grandpa, mommy is very busy at work, so she doesn’t have time to make lunch. Next time when mommy is off, she’ll cook for you. Grandpa, do you know, baby thinks mommy’s cooking is really delicious!"
The baby kept talking while supporting Mr. Ji along the way to the table.
Le Tong didn’t pay close attention to Mr. Ji’s expression upon hearing this; she only knew that once Mr. Ji sat down, his glance towards her was particularly significant!
"Chairman, have some soup first." Le Tong pushed the bowl of soup in front of Mr. Ji.
Mr. Ji didn’t immediately pick up the bowl but looked steadily at Ji Rui and asked, "Ah Ru, what do you mean?"
Ji Rui looked directly at him, the two staring at each other across the table, their gazes clashing as if sparks were flying.
"What you think in your heart has nothing to do with me; I’m just telling you, Le Tong is the woman I want. I don’t want anyone else besides her."
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