Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The sunlight from the setting sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows and cast a dappled shadow on the thick carpet.
Lin Yun frowned slightly as she lounged on the sofa. Smoking cigarettes, she seemed to have no intention of speaking.
Just after Lin Yao finished her phone call with Mr. Wen, Lin Yun called her into the office. Although she didn’t know the reason, she could tell that Lin Yun wasn’t in a very good mood.
At such times, she thought it wise to speak less, so she obediently stood by and waited for Lin Yun to speak first.
Lin Yun appeared to have no intention of letting Lin Yao sit down. She absent-mindedly smoked and promptly put out the cigarette in her hand, then she asked nonchalantly, “What did you say to Mr. Wen on the phone just then?”
Lin Yao suddenly realized that Lin Yun was worried about Mr. Wen’s shipment, and really did tell Mr. Wen that the shipment would be made at the end of the month.
When Lin Yao thought of how she not only won more time from Mr. Wen, but also circumvented what Lin Yun said, that the shipment was being made at the end of the month, she grinned complacently.
“Mr. Wen called to ask when his goods would be available, and I explained to him in detail.”
Lin Yao’s seat was just outside Lin Yun’s office door, which was open at the time, not to mention Lin Yun had walked in and out several times during that period.
From this, Lin Yun had eavesdropped on the phone conversation between Lin Yao and Mr. Wen, so she didn’t need to repeat it to her, but nonetheless, she still repeated it word by word.
“I told Mr. Wen, Sync. Ring and O/C, Cover can be completed in about a week, Center Bearing and Drag Link need two weeks. These goods should be placed together to fill a 20′ cabinet, and these goods were in the province so the delivery time would be 1-2 days, and the shipment will be made about a week after entering the warehouse…Shipping is expected to start in the middle of next month.
Mr. Wen didn’t seem to be satisfied, so I told him that if he needed anything urgently, I could help him rush the factory to ship it out as soon as possible…I also told him that Director Lin and I wanted it to be shipped even more than he did, but we were worried that the factory would use this as an excuse to reduce the quality of the product. When this problem occurs, he would blame us for rushing them.
Then Mr. Wen readily agreed to let us ship in the middle of next month!”
Lin Yao said this gleefully, but when she met Lin Yun’s cold gaze, her heart sank.
She realized that Lin Yun didn’t even have a little bit of happiness on her face. Instead, her frown deepened more and more.
Lin Yao finally realized that she might have said or done something wrong, and the smile gradually vanished from her face.
She fell silent again, and, with her head lowered, she quietly waited for Lin Yun’s instructions.
Annoyance flashed through Lin Yun’s eyes, and she scoffed, “It took you so long just to talk about that?”
Such matters could be discussed in five minutes, but Lin Yao and Mr. Wen’s phone call lasted nearly half an hour.
Truthfully, for most of the half-hour, they weren’t talking about business.
Lin Yao wondered, was Lin Yun blaming her for talking with Mr. Wen for too long? But…
First of all, during the phone call, she had a pleasant conversation with Mr. Wen, and didn’t displease Mr. Wen in any way.
Secondly, during her phone call with Mr. Wen, she only divulged information related to the shipments.
On the other hand, Mr. Wen enthusiastically divulged a bunch of irrelevant matters to Lin Yao, but Lin Yao refrained from interrupting him, and out of politeness she kept saying to him from time to time, “Um,””Yes,””You’re right,” and so on.
Furthermore, Mr. Wen made the call, so she didn’t waste a penny of the company’s phone bill.
After racking her brain, Lin Yao realized that the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had neither said nor done anything wrong.
So the question was: Why was Lin Yun unhappy?
Lin Yao tried to gauge her expression, then said tentatively, “Mr. Wen also talked about stuff that happened when he was young.” Lin Yao initially didn’t plan on mentioning it to Lin Yun.
“Oh~?” Lin Yun’s expression remained unchanged, but her eyes were fixed on Lin Yao. She asked, “What did he say?”
After pondering over it a little, Lin Yao briefly summed up their conversation. “Mr. Wen told me about his experience working in Japan when he was young, about how he returned to Nanyang to start a business, and how he successfully marketed Japanese products to the Southeast Asian market. Mr. Wen said that he’d only recently started to export goods from China, but some Chinese factories often let him down…”
In the end, Lin Yao concluded, “I think he was warning me to do things prudently and carefully, and not to make the mistakes that he found intolerable.”
Lin Yun gazed at Lin Yao suspiciously, then murmured “um” in a faint voice, and didn’t continue to question her.
She reached and pulled another cigarette out of her cigarette case, and started exhaling rings of smoke.
After a while, her delicate raised eyebrows finally smoothed out. “Then you have to remember the teachings Mr. Wen gave you.”
Her voice seemed to be masked by something. Although Lin Yao could hear her, she didn’t sound sincere.
But she seemed much more at ease.
Lin Yao secretly felt relieved inside and said, “Rest assured, Director Lin, I will definitely pay attention!”
Lin Yun spat out a ring of smoke, then she glanced up at Lin Yao and said meaningfully, “To me, Mr. Wen is not only Lingyun Industry’s customer, but also a very dear friend of mine, the kind of friend that lasts a lifetime.
Lin Yao nodded, “Yes, Director Lin.”
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After getting off work, Lin Yao was the only one left in Lingyun Industry’s office. She sorted out that day’s work while pondering over Lin Yun’s profound words earlier.
It was a pity that she didn’t have a knack for this sort of stuff, so she couldn’t wrap her head around it.
Lin Yao remembered that, about a month ago, shortly after she entered Lingyun Industry, she had overachieved by picking up the first international long-distance call, but she couldn’t understand a single word. Not only wasn’t Lin Yun angry, she also comforted her by saying, “This isn’t that big of a deal, as long as you practice more, you’ll get better!”
This time, Lin Yao was also answering a call from a foreign customer. She had a pleasant conversation with the customer and was praised by the customer, but Lin Yun was displeased. Why?
Lin Yao felt that, since she couldn’t wrap her head around it, she might as well stop thinking about it.
She had never been an ambitious person, but now she had a small goal: to become an external salesperson.
From now on, what she had to do was work to achieve this goal to the best of her ability!
In her eyes, if she couldn’t even do the work of an internal staff member, how could she propose a job transfer to her boss?
Lin Yao quickly sorted out the work schedule, and, as usual, started learning a few new vocabulary words from the mechanical dictionary.
Fine finishing, rough finishing, rust…
Ten words a day was the daily homework that she had assigned herself. After finishing this, she could relax for a little while.
Lin Yao was just about to log on to the Hang City Forum when her phone started ringing.
The phone number on the caller ID was very familiar to her, but also instantly reminded her of some unpleasant memories.
At that time, she was naive and ignorant. After entering Tianfeng Company, too many boys followed her around, and she was on the edge all day and had to place her hope in others. As a result… she didn’t get rescued as she wanted, but instead, she found herself in an even more troubling situation.
Speaking of that, she didn’t want to reminiscence over those people and those incidents.
Lin Yao originally thought that all her ties with Tianfeng Company had become a thing of the past. She didn’t expect anyone there to remember her, not to mention calling her.
Who could it be?
Lin Yao pressed the answer button out of curiosity.