Car-hailing Driver: Rewards from Complaints-Chapter 313 - 177: All the Big Shots Are Here for Yang Chen
"Master, is your family running a hotel?" Zhang Jun asked.
Yang Chen, calm and collected, replied, "My brother opened a restaurant, I drive for a ride-sharing service."
Zhang Jun: "Oh, who were you calling just now?"
Yang Chen: "Oh, a seafood seller."
Zhang Jun: "What, don’t you have partner suppliers? Why are you searching for them last minute?"
Yang Chen: "Haha... a seller I bumped into unexpectedly."
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Zhang Jun kept probing, but Yang Chen always deliberately held back, and even until they got off the car, he hadn’t uncovered anything substantial.
Yu Shishi had arranged everything, and the owner of East Garden Restaurant would cooperate to put on an act.
At eleven o’clock in the evening, Chen Chen arrived at East Garden Restaurant and met with Yang Chen.
The owner of East Garden Restaurant, Yang Le, cooperated with Yang Chen to put on an act, successfully deceiving Chen Chen.
Chen Chen immediately called someone to deliver 5 groupers and 10 lobsters over, letting East Garden Restaurant test them, and if selling was alright, he would supply more later.
Chen Chen left East Garden Restaurant and met with Zhang Jun two streets away.
Zhang Jun asked, "Are you sure there’s no problem?"
Chen Chen: "Don’t worry, no problem. Let them test the waters first, we’ll see later whether to increase the supply."
Zhang Jun: "Hmm. Always be careful and cautious, don’t recklessly increase the clientele for profit. Understand?"
Chen Chen: "Bro, don’t you trust me to handle things? Come on, let’s get a foot massage, and find a girl along the way."
Zhang Jun: "Haha... Let’s go."
East Garden Restaurant.
Owner Yang Le asked, "How do we handle these items?"
Yang Chen: "Tomorrow afternoon, prepare two fish and four lobsters, divide them into two portions, and deliver them to Binjiang Villa No. 1 and No. 8, just say they’re from Yang Chen. The rest will be sent to the boss, as my thanks for his help."
Yang Le: "Haha... Alright! Then I’ll thank Boss Yang in advance."
Yang Chen: "No need to thank. Tomorrow evening after work, call Chen Chen to let him continue to deliver. I’ll bear the cost, just go ahead."
Yang Le: "Alright, I got it. What about the goods that are coming?"
Yang Chen: "Depends, we’ll see when the time comes."
Yang Le: "Alright!"
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Back home, Yang Chen called Li Baoqing.
Li Baoqing: "Haha... Why is Mr. Yang calling so late?"
Yang Chen: "It’s like this, a friend of mine ordered a grouper and lobster today at Baoqing Restaurant and felt something was off. I asked what was off, he said the texture felt off, suspecting the seafood is not truly wild-caught. I don’t think he’d joke about this, so I’m calling Chairman Li to understand the situation. I’m not usually involved in the company’s management, just waiting for the end of the year to earn more dividend. But if someone’s harming the company interests and encroaching on my dividends, I’m not agreeing to that. I want to know who the manager of the purchasing department is, are they reliable!"
Li Baoqing: "Ah? Is there such a thing? Impossible, does your friend eat there often? Could he have mistaken? The manager of the procurement department is my brother-in-law Zhang Jun, I assure you, there’s absolutely no issue." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Yang Chen: "Then it’s good. Maybe my friend misjudged. It’s getting late, I won’t disturb Chairman Li’s rest any longer. Hanging up."
Li Baoqing: "Alright! Mr. Yang, goodnight."
Yang Chen had already given Li Baoqing a hint, if tomorrow Chen Chen continues to deliver, it means Li Baoqing is protecting Zhang Jun, then Yang Chen will take real action.
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Li Baoqing’s house.
"Ah Juan, call Xiaojun and tell him to rein in his behavior. Just now the second shareholder called saying his friend ate at our restaurant today and found the grouper and lobster weren’t wild-caught, questioning me who the procurement department manager is. Tell Xiaojun not to mess around, he’s already drawn the second shareholder’s suspicion." Li Baoqing said.
Zhang Juan: "Xiaojun is about to get married, the girl wants a new house, a car, and 500,000 yuan as a bride price. My parents definitely can’t come up with that much, I would give him but you don’t want to. So you tell me if he doesn’t think smart, how can he get enough money for the wedding?"
Li Baoqing: "But now the second shareholder is already suspicious, if Xiaojun doesn’t pull back a little, he’s likely to get into trouble. I’ve already tried to turn a blind eye, but you can’t indulge him to keep messing around like this."
Zhang Juan: "The company will soon be listed, then we can cash out and leave, why bother with that? And the second shareholder, what a busybody! Aren’t there several capitals wanting to invest in us? How about we accept their investment to dilute the second shareholder’s equity stake. What do you think? You have only 35% equity, but he has 32%, your position as major shareholder is unstable. If the second shareholder spends heavily to buy some shares from other shareholders, you won’t be the major shareholder anymore, we’ll have to team up to suppress him. Are you really okay with that?"
Li Baoqing felt his wife’s words made sense too, Yang Chen is indeed the best second shareholder, he never gets involved in the company’s affairs, he just wants his dividends.
The problem is his equity stake is too high, 32% and 35% are really close, if Yang Chen is willing to spend more he can truly buy shares from other shareholders, Li Baoqing’s position as major shareholder would be jeopardized.
After careful consideration, Li Baoqing said, "Alright! I also think his equity stake is too high, it should be weakened. But Xiaojun over there also needs to rein in his behavior quickly."
Zhang Juan: "Okay, okay, I know."
These two people indeed have no cultural roots, having risen with unscrupulous means, they know they can’t let the company develop any better, it’s still more prudent to cash out and leave sooner.
