Lin Nianhe was prepared to wait for six months or even a year.
But a week later, Vladimir excitedly ca to tell her that the machine was ready.
Lin Nianhe: "..."
"Can I ask how you bought them?"
"I must tell you, these two machines are not brand new. A new one would take a year to wait," Vladimir said. "It just so happened that a company where my friend works was selling two of the things you want, and I paid a high price to buy them."
Lin Nianhe frowned slightly: "The rice I gave you isn’t aged."
Her rice wasn’t just not aged rice; it was actually "advance goods."
The rice in her space ca from a hundred years later.
Rice was the most abundant thing in Lin Nianhe’s space. She couldn’t finish eating it, and selling it locally was likely to cause trouble. She had planned to just leave it there, and now that there was an opportunity to turn waste into treasure, she definitely wouldn’t miss out.
"You needn’t worry about being unable to use them properly. In fact, before they decided they needed to sell these two machines, they were still working diligently!"
Lin Nianhe: "..."
What does this an?
Were they just snatched away?
Vladimir noticed the shock in Lin Nianhe’s eyes and imdiately stated, "Dear Davaris, please do not misunderstand, I am just a businessman, not a bandit. I offered them a price that they were very happy with."
"Like... a hundred burly n brandishing AKs?"
"Hahaha, you’re so funny."
Vladimir laughed endlessly.
Lin Nianhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, Vladimir said, "How could a hundred be enough?"
Lin Nianhe: "..."
Lin Nianhe began to ponder.
She wondered if, when she took the two Micralign 100s back to Beijing, Mr. Ren might vouch for her and say she’d never left Beijing because of them.
Or she might as well go to Comrade Old Lin’s and pick a small room with a good view to hide for a year or so...
Vladimir laughed heartily, taking a big sip of vodka, and with a rosy face, he said to Lin Nianhe, "Don’t worry, my little angel. I’m just joking around with you... Actually, they wanted to buy sothing, D sothing 4800, which is a regular equipnt update."
His eyes sparkled with the gleam of a cunning rchant: "If you give three thousand tons of rice, I’ll find a way to help you order one too, how about it?"
Lin Nianhe was stunned.
DSW4800, huh? The stepper lithography machine that opened the era of zoom projection, it seems... it indeed was invented this year.
Lin Nianhe decisively counter-offered: "Five thousand tons, two machines."
"Oh, that would require a lot of effort, after all, I’m not..."
"Forget it then."
"Deal, deal, deal!"
People’s personalities are different, and naturally, so are their styles of conducting business.
Negotiating with Shen Yu required twisting a single sentence in eight hundred ways, but with Vladimir, it’s best to be straightforward.
"I must see the goods before I release the rice. Transportation is handled by the Shen Family’s Longhua Freight Company, and all transportation costs are your responsibility."
During the official negotiations, Lin Nianhe laid out her demands.
"Will the second batch of five thousand tons of rice really take a year and a half to deliver?" Vladimir frowned, "That’s too long."
"If you can provide them to tomorrow, I can certainly arrange for shipnt tomorrow," Lin Nianhe gave him a reason to work harder, "It entirely depends on your capability."
Vladimir took a gulp of alcohol and nodded, "Alright, I can accept that."
He didn’t really care much about when the latter five thousand tons of rice would be shipped since his initial goal was just the first five thousand tons.
He just wanted to ask casually, and if it worked... well, that would be another huge inco!
With the lure of massive inco, what harm is there in waiting a little?
Moreover, he had other ways around it.
Their barter agreent was easy to negotiate because both sides really needed what the other had and both felt they got a great deal.
In the face of absolute need and benefit, so minor details beco easy to accept.
The difficult one was Shen Yu.
He had to painstakingly cover up the transportation issue back and forth, even planning a safe route that took many detours. He put in so much effort, and Vladimir shalessly tried to haggle the price with him.
He only asked for a price 30% higher than the normal market price for transportation. Was that too much?
If he could, let him find soone else to do the job.
The negotiations between Shen Yu and Vladimir reached an impasse.
While they were deadlocked, Lin Nianhe and Uncle Kapasa road every nook and cranny of Xiangjiang, leaving behind hundreds of group photos.
These weren’t just photos; they were talismans of good fortune.
During these days, she also learned about Uncle Kapasa’s business condition.
Unsurprisingly, he faced the sa problems as the Shen Family.
Also unsurprisingly, Uncle Kapasa hadn’t started preparing a counterattack, and the Milan branch of the Lan brand’s maintenance battle was already over.
Listening to Uncle Kapasa’s miraculous stories, Lin Nianhe sotis suspected that when God was feeding him, he stuffed the whole rice pot and two plots of land into Uncle Kapasa’s mouth.
In any case, when it cos to the matter of the Child of Fate, ordinary people better not ddle unnecessarily.
When Uncle Kapasa left, he took with him a small marketing strategy booklet from Lin Nianhe and promised with great confidence: he would surely elevate the Lan brand’s reputation in the shortest ti possible.
Lin Nianhe had no doubt in his words.
On the day Uncle Kapasa left, the negotiation between Shen Yu and Vladimir finally concluded.
Under Shen Yu’s threat of "if you cut the price any further, I’m done," Vladimir reluctantly accepted a transportation price 21.996% above the market rate.
When Lin Nianhe heard the final quote, she pitied Fourth Uncle Shen for three seconds.
Two contracts were finalized, and the Shen Family’s cargo ship set sail, expected to arrive at Bohai Bay in a month.
"Finally, it’s all over."
Lin Nianhe lay on the sofa, carefully going over everything in her mind, confirming, "Indeed, it’s all done."
"Ah He!"
"I heard from Uncle that you’re finally done!"
"Let’s go shopping!"
Shen Wenyan excitedly rushed in.
Lin Nianhe: "...!"
In the last ten days in Xiangjiang, Lin Nianhe did nothing but shop, forced to go along with Shen Wenyan’s relentless shopping sprees.
She wondered where on earth Shen Wenyan got so much energy to go shopping like a 007, without feeling tired.
Initially, several ladies wanted to accompany them shopping.
Later, one had swollen feet, one twisted a waist, one had a crippled hand, and one lost her voice.
They sincerely felt that charity work is better.
Especially since they recently discovered, those Ladies-So-and-So, who always looked down on them, now treat them with much more respect when they occasionally et.
The ladies were very happy.
Zhou Laosi hadn’t been idle either. He thoroughly discussed a buying and selling collaboration with Ah Sheng, finalizing the count and transportation route for the first batch of goods.
With Lin Nianhe present, the business negotiation went smoothly.
Zhou Laosi was also very happy.
Chief Editor Zhu and others were all smiles—they got their work done successfully, though it was hard, but completed on ti.
The only two unhappy individuals were Rong Zhiguo and Chang Jinzhong.
They followed Shen Hongzun around multiple factories and also looked at the port construction drawings arranged by Lin Nianhe... They felt utterly devastated.
"We can’t do it, really can’t do it."
"We’re still missing so key technology."
"Sigh..."
"Sigh..."
In the hotel, the two old n were smoking anxiously and sighing.
"Master!"
Suddenly, Lin Nianhe’s excited voice ca from outside the door.
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