Chapter 280
Zuo Zhengyang nodded, "She has mentioned it to me before, but I didn’t agree. Such matters are too sensitive; they require triple checks and stringent reviews. After the scrutiny comes the suppression, and once suppressed, no letting go—it’s a tough task. But later on, someone else took the job. Ten years ago in Tianhe, there was a person named Bi Zhicheng, just like you he came from a small place. One could say, both of you have that stubborn streak, but you are a bit smoother around the edges."
"Just say I have a thick skin," Ye Tian quipped.
Zuo Zhengyang smiled and continued, "That’s not a fault. Those with thick skin usually don’t fare badly. Don’t believe me? Go check history."
Ye Tian nodded solemnly, "That’s true."
"Thick skin is suddenly a virtue now? What are you both talking about? If it were like that, even thugs could become presidents." Shen Xuepei walked in with a pot of tea, rather dismissive of Zuo Zhengyang’s opinion.
"Hey, don’t say that. Presidents of the United States really aren’t all that great."
"Nonsense."
Shen Xuepei poured each of them a cup of tea, the pleasant fragrance dispersing around them. Ye Tian didn’t know much about tea and couldn’t tell good from bad, but when he had seen the exquisitely packaged and grand tea box downstairs with the words "Specially Supplied" written on it, although he wasn’t a tea connoisseur, he knew the weight those words carried.