256: Chapter 255: Perfect Calculation (4th Update) 256: Chapter 255: Perfect Calculation (4th Update) Clutching at her last strand of hope, Du Wenwen asked Xu Niannian, “How much is the penalty for breach of contract?”
“Five hundred thousand!” Xu Niannian blurted out.
In that era, five hundred thousand was virtually equivalent to a billion in later tis.
Du Wenwen gasped in shock, “Are you planning to rob soone?
Half a million!”
“Robbery is a cri,” Xu Niannian responded with a smile still on her face.
“Half a million might sound excessive, but it’s just to prevent you from doing anything that harms my interests.
If you follow the contract, the half a million is just a few words, aningless really.
After all, with your questionable ethics, I must take precautions, mustn’t I?”
After saying this, Xu Niannian even showed Du Wenwen a sympathetic smile.
Staring at that smile, Du Wenwen felt a tingling scalp and a twitching at the corners of her mouth.
Her constant insinuations of unethical behavior almost infuriated Du Wenwen.
Not wanting to give in, or perhaps unable to stand seeing her smug contentnt, Du Wenwen retorted, “Aren’t you afraid that in ten years, I’ll co back with your secret formula and techniques to compete against you?”
Xu Niannian looked at her as if she were foolish, “Do you think after ten years you’ll still be qualified to compete with ?”
Besides, it wouldn’t take ten years; once the patent law was enacted in ’84, she could apply for a patent.
Du Wenwen: “…”
She had been counterattacked again.
Feeling frustrated, Du Wenwen demanded, “With terms so harsh, what makes you think I would agree to them?”
“Because you’re here,” Xu Niannian said with an angelic smile.
“If you had any other way to quickly raise money, you wouldn’t have had the gall to co to .
Your father’s still waiting in the hospital, isn’t he?
While I do sympathize with your plight, I’ll be quite pleased if, due to a lack of money, your father can’t get treatnt and you end up heartbroken.
After all, you tried to snatch business away from my family with despicable thods.
If you can’t be of use to , the more miserable you are, the happier I’ll be.”
Du Wenwen once again: “…”
Within a single day, she had swallowed her pride countless tis.
And Du Wenwen had no way to argue back.
Because, indeed, she had no other ans to gather the money, and her mother’s ddling had even led to the shop losing money.
In the end, Du Wenwen grudgingly agreed.
Xu Niannian imdiately gave her the money, covering the shop’s moving expenses, and her father’s dical bills for a month.
Of course, before handing over the money, Du Wenwen had to sign the ignoble contract.
Du Wenwen had arrived in a daze and left in a similar state.
Dealing with Du Wenwen’s issue only took Xu Niannian two hours.
After Du Wenwen left, Zhao Pang eagerly ran over to Xu Niannian, “Boss, what did you tell her?”
Xu Niannian smiled at him, “Pang Brother, you’re missing out not being a won’s director, being so curious.
Go back to work.”
Zhao Pang, feeling inexplicably wounded: “…”
Seeing his look of silent resentnt, Xu Niannian said with a laugh, “Pang Brother, I’ve got sothing for you to do.”
“What?” Zhao Pang imdiately asked, rearing to go.
Xu Niannian said, “Write up a recruitnt ad.
We need to hire two more workers.
Anyone who applies, take them to my mom for vetting.
If she says they’re good, we’ll hire them.”
Zhao Pang was stunned, “Still hiring?
There are already so many people helping in the shop, and these past few days the business hasn’t been as good as before.
Boss, you really need to think this through carefully.”
“Pfft!”
Xu Niannian almost burst out laughing.
Think it through carefully—what a peculiar thing to say.
“Pang Brother, don’t worry.
These two are to rotate with you and Xiao Rou.”
“Ah, are you firing us?” Zhao Pang wailed, “Boss, please no, I’ve been working so hard.”
Xu Niannian helplessly replied, “I didn’t say anything about firing you.
I have other tasks for you to do.”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Pang was reassured and then scurried back to write the recruitnt notice.
Leaving the hiring of workers to Yang Cuihua, Xu Niannian was extra assured; with her mother’s keen eye, she could handle and eliminate any troublemakers in minutes.
After organizing everything in the shop, Xu Niannian then went to Li Qingshui’s shop.
In three days’ ti, Li Qingshui had surely found the sales help she needed, and probably didn’t co to her because she didn’t want to disturb Xu Niannian, wanting to let her take care of Jin Yu with peace of mind.
Upon arriving at Li Qingshui’s shop, she was greeted from a distance by Li Qingshui, who imdiately called out to her.
Xu Niannian directly stated her purpose and asked if Li Qingshui had found the people she was looking for.
Indeed, Li Qingshui had already found them.
As soon as she was asked, she imdiately explained.
Xu Niannian was also straightforward, “Okay, you wait.
By tonight, I will have delivered the Liuyue Su that I’ve made to you.
You can start tomorrow.
Additionally, you know I have three other collaboration stores in the suburb.
I’ll give you the addresses later.
From now on, those will be under your managent too.
I will deliver all the goods here, and you just need to take care of sending them over.”
The three suburban stores were major contributors.
As soon as Li Qingshui heard this, she expressed her surprise, “Aren’t those partners you’ve already secured?
By giving them to , wouldn’t that an I’m taking advantage of you?”
Li Qingshui disagreed, “No, no, I can’t let you suffer this loss.”
Li Qingshui was very stubborn about this, leaving Xu Niannian no choice, “Sister Qingshui, stop arguing about this with .
I’m only going to get busier in the future and won’t have the ti to deal with these matters.
You just need to tally up a total for , and I’ll handle delivering the goods to you.”
Seeing that Xu Niannian genuinely wanted to entrust the work to her, Li Qingshui finally relented.
After leaving Li Qingshui’s shop, Xu Niannian went to Gangzi’s ho.
Only after asking Gangzi’s father to make her two more dining tables did Xu Niannian discover that Gangzi also made handcrafted mooncakes for sale.
He even made the greaseproof paper for wrapping the mooncakes himself.
Xu Niannian simply went to his place and bought several dozen stacks of square-shaped greaseproof paper from Gangzi, planning to use them to wrap the Liuyue Su.
The Liuyue Su could now be stored for a long ti, but they couldn’t be left exposed the whole ti, as they would easily accumulate dust.
Xu Niannian bought a large amount of greaseproof paper in one go, clearing out Gangzi’s entire stock, which weighed dozens of pounds.
Fearing Xu Niannian couldn’t carry it all, Gangzi even delivered it to her ho.
Xu Niannian didn’t delay.
As soon as she got ho, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
Including the goods for Li Qingshui and the three suburban stores, as well as the total number needed for the small towns that Li Qingshui had reported, Xu Niannian had to make 2,000 Liuyue Su.
And this was only the first batch.
If sales were good, there could be even more in the future.
It just so happened that Xu Duoyu and Xu Zhicheng had finished school as well.
Xu Niannian simply enlisted the help of the whole family.
Xu Zhicheng and Xu Duoyu were responsible for peeling the pumpkins, while Yang Cuihua was in charge of cutting them, as well as crushing the stead pumpkin into puree.
Xu Dawei tended to the fire, the purchased machine mixed the flour and pumpkin puree together, forming them into uniform-sized pie shapes, and Xu Niannian took care of the subsequent steps.
With the family pitching in and the help of the machine, 2,000 Liuyue Su were completed in an hour and a half, thanks to the large stears Xu Niannian had bought, and the two stoves in the kitchen.
After they were done, Xu Niannian took out the greaseproof paper she had bought, and the family got to work, wrapping each Liuyue Su one by one according to the thod taught by Xu Niannian.
Xu Niannian had originally planned to have a food processing factory handle the packaging, but there wasn’t enough ti, so they had to make do with the greaseproof paper for the ti being.
After all was done, Xu Niannian still felt full of energy, not showing any signs of fatigue.
Xu Niannian wondered if it was because she was about to make a lot of money that she felt so excited?
Having taken care of everything, Xu Niannian asked Xu Zhicheng to go get Zhao Pang.
As soon as Xu Zhicheng went over, Zhao Pang followed without even needing to be told what was going on.
When Zhao Pang arrived, he helped pack the Liuyue Su into boxes, loaded them onto the cart, and Xu Niannian told him to take the money and give it directly to Yang Cuihua when he got back.
Zhao Pang responded with a “Okay” and then ran off pushing the goods.
Seeing that it was almost dark, Xu Niannian hurried to the shop, had Chen Xiaorou make two portions of buttered noodles to pack in lunch boxes, and then she rushed to the hospital.
In the hospital, Jin Yu sighed for the umpteenth ti, staring out the window, wondering if Niannian would still co.
Huzi was guarding the door of the ward, twitching at the corners of his mouth when he heard the exaggerated sighing from inside.
He wouldn’t admit that the Jin Yu inside, pining for a woman to the point of sorrow, was his imdiate boss.
When Xu Niannian arrived in a hurry, Huzi was still outside.
Astonished at the arrival of Xu Niannian, his eyes briefly widened in admiration.
Holy shit, what kind of fairy has the boss found for a wife?
She’s so beautiful.
Huzi knew who Xu Niannian was and had seen her from a distance a few tis.
But he had never seen Xu Niannian so closely, and he was so stunned by her beauty that he couldn’t snap back to reality for a mont.
Seeing Huzi wearing the sa special uniform that Ye Shaoting wore, Xu Niannian assud he was a teammate of Jin Yu and Ye Shaoting, and nodded at him, saying warmly, “I’m going to see Jin Yu.”
Her soft and gentle voice imdiately brought Huzi back to his senses, and he hurriedly stuttered, “Please, please…
go ahead.”
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