" Sheng Yan, 23 years old, male..."
Feng Qing interrupted her, " Do you think I don't know him? I want to know what he's been up to these past few years, not listen to his blind - date profile."
The other person fell silent for a while before timidly speaking up, " I was just joking. You're so fierce."
Feng Qing didn't respond. The other person continued, " He just went to school and graduated normally. But he started interning at the company before graduation. You know, rich kids always pull strings to get a cushy job in the company."
Feng Qing was a bit surprised. She didn't know before that Sheng Yan was actually from a wealthy family.
" And now?" By now, he should at least be doing something real. She wasn't good at judging people, but she just felt that Sheng Yan had an 'elite' aura. She didn't think he was just holding a nominal position.
" Now he's a professional manager. A year ago, Sheng Sibai went abroad for medical treatment, and Sheng Yan has been running the company for the past year."
He's quite capable then.
Feng Qing talked with the other person for a few more minutes before hanging up.
She had heard of the Shengshi Group when she was still studying in China, and it also had a great reputation abroad. However, Fengxing should have no business dealings with Shengshi, and professional managers weren't that idle. She'd just treat this encounter as a little episode and let it pass.
She stayed in the hospital for a few more days. After confirming that her father's condition was stable, she packed up and returned to the company.
Feng Qing had never been interested in her father's work since she was a child, so she still didn't quite understand what her father did. It wasn't until she sat at her father's desk and saw stacks of files piled up like small hills that her feelings were really complicated.
She was familiar with her father's first assistant who had been going to the hospital, but it was not so easy to remember the other assistants.
She got tired soon when Assistant Qi took her on a tour of the company's office environment. The physical and mental exhaustion made her hardly remember anyone.
Assistant Qi seemed to notice her listlessness and tried to comfort her, " Maybe it's not as difficult as you think. Like father, like daughter. You may not be worse than Chairman Feng."
" Please don't flatter me. I might catch up with my father a little bit after a few more years of hard work, but I can't guarantee more than that." Feng Qing's attention was attracted by the 'file family' again, and she couldn't help asking, " Have these files been piling up like this, or is this the normal daily amount?"
Assistant Qi glanced at the files and then quickly looked at Feng Qing and smiled, " Some have been piling up, but there's also a lot of work every day."
Feng Qing stared at the folders in thought. After a while, she picked up one of them and flipped through it. " Okay, you help me sort out the contents of these folders. Then... just separate them first."
" Put the same - type ones together. Put the important and urgent ones beside me, and then arrange them according to urgency, importance, and normal... levels."
Assistant Qi had no objections and sorted out the files with her as she instructed. Feng Qing also took the opportunity to ask many questions while sorting the files and got a general understanding of their contents.
" Are you going to handle these files in the order of their urgency?" Although Feng Qing's method was commonly used by every office worker, most of these files were from the current day. As long as they were dealt with before getting off work, there wasn't actually a very obvious difference between urgent and important.
In his opinion, Feng Qing was wasting time. Now that Chairman Feng was absent, Feng Qing should surely spend her effective time getting familiar with the company's business so that she could deal with the backlog of work as soon as possible.
However, Feng Qing's idea really exceeded his expectations. In all the years he had worked at Fengxing, he had never heard of such an arrangement.
" I'll look at the files related to urgent and important, urgent, and important myself. For the ordinary - level files, you'll review them and sign on my behalf in the future. Unless you think you're not capable of handling a problem, you can bring it to me. But I don't want to see those unimportant and non - urgent files on my desk later, because they'll only slow down my efficiency."
Feng Qing spoke a bit faster than the average person. Coupled with her expressionless face at the moment, this speech caught Assistant Qi off guard.
He was stunned for a moment and just stared at Feng Qing without saying a word.
Feng Qing had already picked up a file and was looking at it. While Assistant Qi was silent, she came up with a new plan. " I'll review these files myself this morning. At three o'clock, call in the heads of each department to the meeting room to report on their work in the first two quarters."
She didn't know much about these things. If time permitted, she even wanted to hear a one - year report, but there wasn't that much time for her now. She could only listen to the reports of two quarters to get a preliminary understanding of the company's situation and know how everyone's work was progressing.
Assistant Qi seemed to be hesitating about something and still remained silent. Feng Qing looked at him suspiciously, " It's not that hard to just take out some old data from the quarterly reports that already exist for the presentation, is it?"
She didn't seem to be in a good mood. Assistant Qi quickly nodded and then walked out with the files Feng Qing had assigned to him.
It was obvious that Assistant Qi was not used to this, but there was nothing she could do. She wasn't used to it either. After all, she was her father's daughter. She couldn't let her father down too much.
She was concentrating on the files. Before she knew it, it was almost noon, but it was still clearly not lunchtime. When she answered the call from the reception desk, she glanced at the time. There were still forty minutes until lunch.
When she answered the phone, her eyes were still on the file. But when she heard what the receptionist said, her first reaction was to look at the time.
It only took her five minutes to take the elevator down to the first floor. There were still more than thirty minutes until lunch. She put down the phone and looked at the person standing not far from the reception desk. He seemed bored but was actually carefully observing everything in sight.
He was still in a suit, maintaining his refinement. He was holding a paper bag in his hand, like a gift.
She walked over and asked him coldly, " What are you doing here?"
He used one finger to pick up the bag in his hand and held it out in front of Feng Qing. " It's not that I wanted to come. The dry - cleaner called me, and then I remembered that I had sent your clothes for dry - cleaning before. These clothes aren't cheap. Isn't it right to return them to their owner?"
Feng Qing looked at the clothes in the bag. They were indeed the ones she had worn on the day she was hospitalized. She took the bag and, following his cue, looked at him again. She took out her phone, " Since you're here today, I'll pay you for the dry - cleaning."
Their voices weren't very loud, but they weren't far from the reception desk either. And there weren't many people at this time, so their voices clearly reached the receptionist's ears.
Feng Qing's words were just the sort to make people's minds wander. In just a short while, the receptionist had already imagined a whole drama in her head.
Sheng Yan deliberately took a provocative attitude, " That's not appropriate. Why don't you treat me to dinner instead? That'll offset it."