Chapter 334 — The New Shareholder
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"Ha — attend the shareholders' meeting!" Gu Pengzhan said with a smile. "Li Fu, go send word that a temporary shareholders' meeting is to be convened at once. I'm going to introduce them to the company's new third-largest shareholder!"
"Yes, Mr. Gu!" Uncle Qing nodded and turned to carry out the order. Usually so steady and unruffled, even Uncle Qing could not help wanting to laugh; he was eager to see what expression would come over Jin Gubang's face when he learned that Xie Guangbo's shares had all been transferred to Wei Zhao.
Jin Gubang was indeed puzzled. Gu Pengzhan was demanding a temporary shareholders' meeting? Had he lost his mind? For days now Gu Pengzhan had been finding excuses to refuse convening shareholders' and board meetings — so why, today of all days, had he reversed course and called one himself?
Could he have won Xie Guangbo over, or was he preparing some new trick? Xie Guangbo shouldn't even be at work today; with the company's third-largest shareholder absent, what was the point of holding a shareholders' meeting at all?
Yet baffled as he was, Jin Gubang still arrived at the meeting room on time. At the very least, appearances had to be kept up.
A shareholders' meeting drew more people than a board meeting, and some of the minor shareholders would attend as well. After nodding greetings to the shareholders he knew, Jin Gubang took his seat on Gu Pengzhan's left — the seat that was always his.
That was where he had always sat; it had become the symbol of his standing as the company's second-largest shareholder. The seat to Gu Pengzhan's right belonged to Xie Guangbo.
Jin Gubang glanced over and saw that Xie Guangbo's seat was empty. His brow furrowed at once. Could Gu Pengzhan mean to bypass Xie Guangbo and hold the meeting anyway? But with the third-largest shareholder absent, no shareholders' meeting could be validly held!
The minutes ticked by, and ten had already passed since the time Uncle Qing had announced for the meeting. Jin Gubang sat motionless in his seat, his face dark, unable to fathom what trick Gu Pengzhan was up to.
Was all this really just to summon every shareholder for a farce?
He was still bowed in thought when the meeting room suddenly fell quiet. Jin Gubang looked up and saw that Qing Bo had already come in. This was the prelude to every one of Gu Pengzhan's arrivals; Qing Bo would always enter the meeting room first to set out Gu Pengzhan's documents and teacup...
Before long, Gu Pengzhan walked in, and at his side followed a young man. The other shareholders paid him little mind, taking him for a newly hired secretary of Gu Pengzhan's, but Jin Gubang's eyes narrowed sharply!
Wei Zhao! How could Jin Gubang fail to recognize this man? The very one who had repeatedly ruined his plans! Jin Gubang wished he could hack him to pieces! Yet what astonished Jin Gubang was this: how had he come to appear here?
Had he become Gu Pengzhan's bodyguard? Was he not Gu Mengyao's bodyguard?