Chapter 1149 - 1149: I Am Pan Jinlian

After breakfast, Xiao Feng received a reply from Du Feixiang.

Just as he'd expected, the "friend" Du Feixiang mentioned had agreed to buy five thousand Original Heart Pills at fifteen million, delivery in three days.

By afternoon, Di Junxiong had also delivered four thousand fake first-gen Original Heart Pills.

Xiao Feng immediately found Sun Shijie and ran through his plan with him.

After listening, Sun Shijie said worriedly, "Even with fake for real, there has to be a limit. One-fifth real product—won't that be too easy to expose?"

"One-fifth is more than enough." Xiao Feng said with full confidence, "According to my original plan, not giving them a single real one would be the ideal outcome.

What you need to do now is reprocess these fakes and add three extra procedures."

"Which three procedures?" Sun Shijie asked, puzzled.

"First, after taking it, the person should feel heat all over their body. As for the ingredients, use whatever's cheap; as long as it doesn't kill them, it's fine.

The second and third procedures are for anti-counterfeiting.

The outermost layer should be the same as our second-gen product: soak it in water and the words 'Original Heart Pill Gen 2' appear on the surface as an anti-counterfeit mark.

As for the second layer, it needs to be noticeably different from our real anti-counterfeit mark.

Of course, it can't be too outrageous either. You'll have to put some thought into the fine line here and try to control it well.

Simply put, at first glance it looks like there's no difference, but if you look a bit longer you can tell something's off.

So, what do you think, can you do what I said?"

Sun Shijie nodded slowly, gaining a deeper appreciation for Xiao Feng's ability to scheme against others.

...

Over the next three days, life was like a train slowly returning to its original track.

Hui Er and the others had one month's salary docked by Xiao Feng under some pretext.

However, this time Hui Er and the others didn't really complain; they knew Xiao Feng was just looking for an excuse. The real reason for the deduction was still what happened on the night of the last day, after the assessment ended.

Xue Nuofu, for his part, kept his promise: even if he got up in the middle of the night just to go to the bathroom, he'd call Xiao Feng to ask for permission first.

And Xiao Feng's reply was: Don't pee. Hold it. You can go to the bathroom once you find Wang Tingwei.

As for Du Qingyue, even though the shop was temporarily closed, she didn't really idle around. She kept refining her clothing designs and actually looked even busier than when she wasn't "closed."

Lu Yao continued to research some black-tech gadgets. To show his support, Xiao Feng not only put up money for equipment, he also cleared out his study and turned it into her lab.

After all, it had already been proven that both the "eavesdropping chewing gum" and the "signal jammer" were very practical things.

The little girl and Jiang Yixin also weren't idle. They bickered and argued as usual; when the arguing heated up, they'd start swinging, but always stopped short of going too far.

"Boss, the goods are all loaded up." Old Ha reported from outside the yard gate.

Ever since the fake Fu Yongnan triggered the traps in the yard, Old Ha hadn't stepped inside Xiao Feng's yard again.

In his own words, even guns sometimes misfire—who can guarantee a mechanism will never go wrong?

Xiao Feng glanced at the time, got up from the armchair, stretched lazily, and said, "Let's go, to the Du Family."

Setting the transaction location at the Du Family wasn't inappropriate at all, and Xiao Feng also happened to want to see just who exactly wanted to buy his goods…

At two in the afternoon, Xiao Feng and his group arrived at the Du Family on the dot.

In the reception hall, Du Feixiang sat in the main seat, chatting with a middle-aged man seated to his left.

The middle-aged man looked about his age, with bright, sharp eyes under thick eyebrows, dressed low-key but without losing any sense of luxury.

When he saw Xiao Feng come in, Du Feixiang stood up and said, "Xiao Feng, come, let me introduce you. This is President Pan I mentioned to you."

The middle-aged man sitting on his left got up and extended his right hand. "I've long heard that President Xiao is a fine-looking man. Seeing you today, your reputation is truly well-deserved. I'm Pan Jinlian."

Xiao Feng stiffened for a moment, suspecting the guy was using a fake name.

Pan Jinlian?

Should he tell him that his own surname is actually Ximen?

Du Feixiang timely explained, "The last character in President Pan's name isn't the 'lian' for lotus, but the 'lian' for union."

Pan Jinlian laughed heartily. "'Jin' represents wealth, and if you want to have wealth, you can't rely on yourself alone—you have to unite, join forces.

Not afraid of making President Xiao laugh at me, this name is actually one I changed myself."

Xiao Feng withdrew his hand and followed up, "President Pan, mind telling me the reason?"

"The reason is simple. To put it bluntly, it's just to attract attention." Pan Jinlian said in a very frank tone, "In terms of looks, I'm not so handsome that thousands of girls chase me, nor so ugly that people want to puke at first sight.

As for eloquence, I'm not that good with flowery talk either.

If I want people to remember me, I can only put in some work on the name."

Xiao Feng nodded in understanding. That reasoning really wasn't wrong.

"Don't just stand there, sit down and talk." Du Feixiang greeted the two to take their seats.

After they sat down, Pan Jinlian said to Xiao Feng, "I'm not flattering you, President Xiao, but looking across all of Jiangcheng right now—

someone who's achieved so much at your age isn't just one in a million, it's absolutely one of a kind!"

After speaking, he turned his gaze to Du Feixiang. "Brother Du, your Du Family is truly blessed!"

"Times are different now from back when we were young. I can't keep up with the era anymore. It's you, Brother Pan, who's still riding the waves. Really admirable!" Du Feixiang said with a smile.

Xiao Feng had no interest in joining this mutual business flattery. He just drank his tea and quietly waited for the conversation to shift to the main topic.

It didn't take long before Pan Jinlian stood up. "I think we should talk business first; we can chat later. What do Brother Du and President Xiao think?"

Du Feixiang looked at Xiao Feng, as if seeking his opinion.

Pan Jinlian immediately caught this detail and realized that Xiao Feng's status in the Du Family definitely wasn't low!

Then again, that was only normal. If it weren't for Xiao Feng, the Du Family's Lanyue Group, even if it hadn't collapsed, would never be as high-profile and dominant as it was now.

"Then let's do as President Pan said and talk business first." Xiao Feng also stood up. "I've already brought the goods; they're just outside the door."

Pan Jinlian nodded. "I've brought the money too; it's also outside the door."

Du Feixiang was the last to stand up and continued, "Then let's go outside and talk."

The three of them walked out. Outside the reception hall, Lv Ziming and Lone Wolf, whom Xiao Feng had brought, were standing side by side, with five large wooden crates behind them.

Facing them were over thirty people, all in suits and sunglasses, fifteen of whom were carrying safes.

When they saw Pan Jinlian come out, the thirty-plus people all bowed in unison and greeted, "Hello, President Pan!"

Pan Jinlian smiled and nodded, a trace of pride flashing in his eyes.

Lone Wolf was instantly displeased. He'd already found the thirty-odd people opposite him an eyesore, and now they pulled this stunt—this was blatant provocation.

Most importantly, his big brother's face mattered. There was no way he could let big brother look inferior!

He had to think of a way to get their "show of force" back!