More Than A Few Blessing

Chapter 24: The little expert in digging pits.

In the evening, the three of them discussed how they were going to deal with tomorrow's bidding without offending the local company. After the discussion, they retired for the night.

When Lu Chengyu came out of Yan Mu's room, Chen Jin and Liang Deyou were no longer in the corridor. Even if they were, those two people probably wouldn't want to see him that much either. It was better for the two sides to not meet often since they were both tired of each other.

Early the next morning, Lu Chengyu and the other two went downstairs to the restaurant for breakfast. At the buffet, Lu Chengyu realized that Liang Deyou was standing beside him. He laughed and whispered, "Mr. Liang is here to participate in the bidding this time?"

Liang Deyou sneered and did not look at Lu Chengyu: “Why? You don't dare to fight with us Liang Shi[1]?”

[1]氏 [shì]: clan name

"Mr. Liang doesn't know that my current employer is Huading International, the Huading that is well-known in the industry?" He took two steamed dumplings on the tray and sighed slightly, "Although Liang is rapidly developing these recent years, it is still far behind our Huading. With Huading here, Mr. Liang, you are doomed to run for nothing."

“What, Huading?” Liang Deyou sneered, “The company, whose share prices had fallen to the lowest level in the stock market some time ago, have the nerve to compare with us Liang Shi?"

"Huading is a big family that has been handed down for many years. As the saying goes: 'a lean camel is bigger than a horse'," Lu Chengyu put down the tongs and glanced at Liang Deyou, flashing him a smile. "Mr. Liang probably has little contact with the upper circle of Beijing and doesn't know what it values. Yan Jia[2] is not comparable to some enterprises that have made a fortune in a short period of time.”

[2] 家 [jiā]: family;   household; home; a person or family

Lu Chengyu's sentences were enough to dig at Liang Deyou's heart. Although the Liang family had made a lot of money in recent years, it had not officially entered the upper circle of Beijing. On the basis of fame, it was not as good as Huading's Yan Jia. For this kind of thing, it was okay if not said out loud, but once someone does, it simply made Liang Shi lose face.

He gritted his teeth and sneered, "I want you to see which is stronger in the end: a dying camel or a galloping horse."

"Oh, I'll rub my eyes and wait[3], but it's better for Mr. Liang to not be too confident." Lu Chengyu smiled at Liang Deyou, gracefully striding to the side for the milk. As for Liang Deyou's face, what did it have to do with him?

[3] 拭目以待 [shìmùyǐdài]: lit. to rub one's eyes and wait (idiom); to wait and see; keep your eyes open and wait for the eager expectations or close attention to the movements and outcomes of the situation.

Not far away, Cao Jingshen pushed up his glasses, looking sympathetically at the Liang Deyou who was rushing out of the breakfast hall in anger. He walked to Lu Chengyu and asked, “Hey, what did you say to that young master to make him look like that?”

“I told him a story about a camel and a horse. He didn't like camels and went off angrily. Who knew he had such a small stomach [4]?” Lu Chengyu put a glass of milk on Cao Jingshen's tray and smile brightly at him, “A glass of milk in the morning is good for your health.”

[4] small stomach: low tolerance; narrow-minded and relatively stingy.

Looking at the milk on his tray, Cao Jingshen raised his eyebrows. The more he got to know Lu Chengyu, the more he felt that this person was not all graceful or elegant. A sharp-tongue, mean-minded expert in pitting people is who Lu Chengyu really was.