In the afternoon of the next day, Lu Zhou drove Lu Yong's jeep out of the community and prepared to pick up Ye Qingchen at the station.

After a lot of hard work yesterday and this morning, Lu Zhou also learned some stories about Chen He from some fragmentary fragments that Lu Yong was unclear about.

When Lu Yong entered Binhai Construction Company in the early years, Chen He was Lu Yong's boss.

Binhai Construction Corporation was established in the early 1980s by the Binhai General Administration of Construction. Within a few years of its establishment, it successively obtained the qualifications for housing and municipal engineering construction contracting. Along with the rapid development of Binhai City, it has undertaken many urban construction and large-scale buildings.

project.

In just a few years, Binhai Construction Corporation has become a well-known state-owned enterprise in Binhai City.

Later, around the time of the arrival of Guobao Auto, Lu Yong saw the opportunity in this craze.

He resigned from his position at the head office and went out to work on his own. Relying on the experience, funds and connections he had accumulated in the head office, he became successful in a short period of time.

Chen He, on the other hand, stayed in the head office and worked his way up the ranks.

At that time, the head office undertook a large number of construction projects that came to chase the limelight. Among them, Lu Yong's Haizhou Building was led by Chen He.

When the national treasure car left, there was nothing left, the developer went bankrupt, the project was unfinished, and many other factors dragged Binhai Construction Corporation into the quagmire step by step.

The boss even committed suicide by jumping off the building at that stall as an apology.

However, there is no apology. The workers should demand their wages and the bank creditors should demand their debts.

That year, Chen He was ordered to take over the head office in the face of crisis. It was also the same year that he and his wife Ye Ping divorced.

The first time Lu Zhou and Ye Qingchen met was when Chen and Ye Ping divorced and Ye Ping came to Lu's house to say goodbye.

After Chen He took charge of the head office, after many negotiations with city leaders, he obtained a series of construction orders for municipal projects in n counties, and used this to obtain loans from banks and issue corresponding bonds.

After all, the city's top officials don't want Binhai Construction Corporation to collapse.

At that time, the accident of Guobao Auto had already plunged the citizens of Binhai City into panic and despair. If the head office with a large engineering team collapsed, it would be even worse.

But correspondingly, high-level support is not unconditional.

Chen He must carry out a series of reorganizations to include projects in better condition such as National Treasure Auto City and Haizhou Tower.

It was also because of the actions taken by the top management that Lu Yong was able to avoid going to jail at that time.

But at that time, Lu Yong was still burdened with a large amount of debt.

Chen He, who took over the head office, came to help again, lending money to Lu Yong and subcontracting some business to him.

This allowed Lu Yong to slowly pay off his debts by taking on projects.

In the following years, under the leadership of Chen He, the head office spent several years gradually getting on the right track and barely getting out of the predicament that Guobao Motors was in.

At the beginning of the second millennium, Binhai Construction Corporation, led by N County, issued bonds again to raise funds and worked with partners to rebuild the national treasure automobile city.

With the development of the entire domestic market economy, market competition in various industries has become more intense.

Due to problems in its early years, Binhai Construction Corporation has not moved forward in terms of its technical level or contracting qualifications.

The entry of giant state-owned enterprises such as China Construction and Urban Construction into Binhai has directly squeezed a large amount of market share.

At this time, the head office cannot compete in terms of relationships, technology, and even municipal projects.

In the end, there was only one national treasure community under development, and even the development capital chain of the national treasure community showed signs of rupture.

The money I borrowed from the municipal project order that year has been repaid, but I am always in a vicious cycle of borrowing new and repaying old.

However, the development of national treasures requires the issuance of bonds for financing. It is not possible to find a bank and it is not feasible to issue bonds.

The head office was dead that year and should have gone bankrupt long ago.

Chen He worked hard for so many years, but he just transferred the debt from one side to the other.

In the end, Chen He, who did not believe in fate, tried to keep the head office alive. He spent his own money and even borrowed money in his own name to barely maintain the development of the Guobao Community.

A personal loan that Lu Yong guaranteed for Chen He took place during these years.

But the National Treasure Community has also become the final masterpiece of Binhai Construction Company.

Chen He also chose the same curtain call as his previous boss, jumping from the fifth floor and ending his life.

The day after he committed suicide, the head office issued an announcement.

Due to tight liquidity and uncertainty in the repayment of principal and interest, the 800 million yuan bond due at the end of February 2010 faced default.

...

At the intersection, Lu Zhou turned on the right turn signal and waited for the green light. He looked out the window on the left and saw the Haizhou Building still standing.

It witnesses that the fate of many people is intertwined, and now it is telling it silently.

Who can understand what Chen He did? Maybe no one can. Lu Zhou thought.

After a while, Lu Zhou drove the car to the bus terminal.

After getting off the car, he went to the exit, lit a cigarette, and waited for Ye Qingchen's arrival.

At this time, many memories of past and present lives were intertwined with old things that he had never understood before, which made him a little panicked. He didn't know how to treat Ye Qingchen next.

After coming back to his senses, Lu Zhou saw Ye Qingchen exiting the bus station with luggage in his hand. He threw away the cigarette butt, waved to Ye Qingchen, and walked quickly.

Lu Zhou came to her and wanted to help her carry her luggage, "Hello. Are you tired? Come here."

"Hello, senior. I'll take this myself, you're welcome."

"Okay, I didn't expect you to actually come to Binhai for a 'tour'. Let's go. The car is over there."

"Um."

After the two got in the car, Lu Zhou drove quietly, and Ye Qingchen didn't say much. The atmosphere between the two was the same as usual, but it was different.

Lu Zhou turned on the radio station casually, and the car stereo played the episode of the TV series "The Legend of the White Snake"...

"Could it be that look from the previous life?"

"Just to meet you once in this life."

"Ah...ah..."

Tick ​​tock, Lu Zhou changed the channel directly, "I can't bear to see that Ye Tong is just an actress," he thought.

After changing the channel, Lu Zhou had no intention of listening to what was playing on the radio, and put his fingers on the steering wheel to tap randomly.

"Xiaoye."

"Um."

"You knew we had met before, right?"

Ye Qingchen looked back from the car window, glanced at Lu Zhou, and raised a strange smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Yes. Brother Zhou."

"..."

"Okay. When did you know about it? Why didn't I ask you before? I never knew about it."

"I was a little suspicious when I heard your name. I was only sure after you said you went back to Binhai yesterday."

"Oh? Then you still remember my name after all these years. You have a good memory."

"You can see the scars on your legs every day."

"..."

"I'm sorry. I wasn't sensible when I was a kid, so I didn't leave any shadow on you."

Ye Qingchen shook his head, "No. Instead, it's a happy memory."

"Oh haha, that's it."

After that, the two people who ended the topic did not speak again, and the silence returned to the car.
Chapter completed!