Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 218: Christmas Song

Chapter 218: Chapter 218: Christmas Song
"Enough, stop talking!" Mr. Yue Sr. raised his hand to interrupt Lin Xiang and then ordered his secretary, "Go and get my gun, I want to deal with these two guys!"
"Mr. Yue Sr., calm down, we’re on a train, we can’t cause a riot here!"
"I knew these foreigners were trouble! If this were several decades ago when I was on the battlefield, they would never leave alive! Just a few hundred years of foreign history, and they dare to look down on us from Hua Country! Who gave them the nerve!"
Mr. Yue Sr.’s face was filled with killing intent, clearly someone who has seen bloodshed.
Lin Xiang stood next to him, unable to suppress a couple of shivers.
"You’re right, Mr. Yue Sr.!" Lin Xiang agreed, "That’s exactly what I told them."
"Oh?" Mr. Yue Sr. glanced at Lin Xiang, "I heard you chatting with them quite happily just now; how did you respond to them?"
Lin Xiang cleared her throat and repeated in Chinese what she had just said to the foreigners.
Mr. Yue Sr. remained silent.
After a long pause, he patted Lin Xiang’s shoulder, "You’re a good comrade, but... we could have been a bit more tactful."
"Hmm?" Lin Xiang was confused, "Mr. Yue Sr., you mean..."
Mr. Yue Sr. took a deep breath, muttering, "Unity is formed and developed in the midst of conflict, people’s hearts..."
Lin Xiang: ...
Although Mr. Yue Sr. was not loud, she heard him clearly!
It seemed Mr. Yue Sr. was also holding back!
"This train car has a total of twelve foreign guests, mostly businessmen from their respective countries. They are traveling to Beijing to participate in the Sui Trade Conference in September. After the Foreign Trade Department learned of this situation, they organized some people from the conference to welcome them, allowing the foreign guests to investigate separately, hoping to facilitate this cooperation."
At the current stage, Hua Country most urgently needs foreign exchange orders.
And these foreign merchants, similar in nature to John and Wilson, but their family businesses are far smaller. Although this time there is hope for cooperation, they are actually here for a free vacation, wasting more than half of their time on tourism.
The organization allocated plenty of funds, so the Foreign Trade Department let them be, hoping that in the process of experiencing the local customs of Hua Country, they would fall in love with it.
But in reality, these people were simply looking to take advantage and did not regard Hua Country with respect.
The foreign delegation originally had a translator, but he ate something bad in the morning and had diarrhea ever since.
At this inconvenient time, the foreign merchants started causing trouble, and Mr. Yue Sr. and his team couldn’t understand them, forcing the train conductor to find someone nearby who understood foreign languages.
Lin Xiang came over under such circumstances.
Mr. Yue Sr. sighed, "We can scold them; they deserve it. But the most important thing right now is the Sui Trade Conference. We hope to secure more foreign exchange orders, so we need to exercise some restraint."
"Restraint won’t solve the problem; it will only embolden them," Lin Xiang responded. "They inherently look down on us from Hua Country, and if we keep tolerating it, they’ll just see it as a sign of weakness, elevating their stance even higher. The foreign exchange orders from the trade conference may not even come through, and our reputation in their eyes could be completely tarnished."
Lin Xiang’s concerns were not unfounded, but Mr. Yue Sr. was conflicted.
While he valued foreign exchange orders, as a battlefield survivor, he valued Hua Country’s reputation even more.
He found himself at a crossroads.
Should they send these blind fools packing and restore Hua Country’s majesty? Or should they swallow their pride, secure the foreign exchange orders first, then deal with it?
Lin Xiang guessed Mr. Yue Sr.’s thoughts from his hesitation and spoke softly, "If we let the foreign guests think we’re easily bullied, even if they have intentions to sign exchange orders, they’ll push the prices very low, and we’d be cooperating at cost or even below cost."
"Not only will we lose money, but they will also think we’re easy to bully. Is this order truly indispensable?"
Mr. Yue Sr. remained silent.
After a long pause, he looked up at Lin Xiang, "You’re encouraging me to stand against them; do you have a good plan?"
"I have a plan, but I don’t know if it’s good," Lin Xiang spread her hands, "It might make them behave, or it might backfire."
Lin Xiang didn’t sugarcoat it because the foreign guests were unpredictable, and even she wasn’t sure what the outcome of this negotiation would be.
As for how to choose, that depended on Mr. Yue Sr.
She was a competent translator, always following the leadership’s instructions.
"Then let’s try it your way. But don’t be too direct, leave some room for maneuvering."
After speaking, Mr. Yue Sr. couldn’t help but smile wryly.
How ironic it is for such a vast nation to be reduced to watching the expressions of foreign guests!
Lin Xiang wasn’t surprised by Mr. Yue Sr.’s decision. After nodding earnestly, she turned to ask the two foreign guests standing by the door.
"Do you know John?"
"What about Wilson?"
The two foreign guests exchanged glances.
Since they were from the same country as John Wilson, they certainly understood how powerful those families were.
But how could mere people from Hua Country know about the successors of the John and Wilson families?
Lin Xiang smiled, her voice icy, "It seems you do know Wilson and John. Do you know about the famous clothing from their families that swept the country recently? Oh, and the beautifully packaged Christmas candy they launched?"
Their blue pupils widened in shock.
This Hua Country girl wasn’t speaking nonsensically; she truly knew the John and Wilson families!
Otherwise, how could she even know about the Christmas candy?
As far as they knew, the Christmas candy had never reached Hua Country!
They hadn’t seen similar packaging before!
Looking at their expressions, Lin Xiang pointed at herself, "I am the one who facilitated the trade between Hua Country and the Wilson and John families. The Christmas candy packaging you think looks good was designed and prototyped by me."
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
The two foreign guests rushed to express their doubts, "How could Hua Country people, who don’t even know what Christmas is, design a Christmas candy package that suits our national aesthetics?"
"How do you know I don’t know?" Lin Xiang tilted her head and, to the disbelief of the two foreign guests, sang a Christmas carol.
The two foreign guests exchanged glances, shocked by what they saw in each other’s eyes.
Although the song was off-key and unpleasant, the lyrics were all correct.
Hua Country people...
How could they know our Christmas songs?
"You Hua Country..."
"As you can see, Hua Country is just that strong!" Lin Xiang’s tone was high, and she startled Mr. Yue Sr. standing behind her.
"Are they arguing again?"