Chapter 4 The Food Was in Hand
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: The Food is in Hand
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Beep, beep, beep~
Listening to the busy tone in his phone, Liu Sheng's expression was a little dazed.
If he hadn't misheard, just now Su Yi had called him... Little Liu?!
After being stunned for a good while, he finally reacted and slammed his palm on the office desk.
"This is outrageous rebellion! Outrageous rebellion!"
Saying that, he dialed the number again.
However, this time he didn't even hear Su Yi's voice before the call was directly hung up.
Liu Sheng was so angry that he nearly smashed the computer in his office.
Su Yi looked at the constantly incoming calls, directly marked Liu Sheng's number as a spam call, and blacklisted it, all in one smooth motion.
After doing that, he found a restaurant and quietly ate dinner.
As for the exasperated Liu Sheng, he couldn't even be bothered to deal with him.
Right now, he just wanted that batch of grain from the factory, but that didn't mean he had to lick Liu Sheng's boots for it.
Anyway, after finishing this one job, he didn't plan on keeping his position either.
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By the time he had eaten and drunk his fill, it was already an hour later.
At this moment, Su Yi’s boss, Li Wenyuan, called him as expected.
Only then did Su Yi choose to answer.
"Is this Little Su? I heard that you're not even answering your supervisor's calls. Was there something urgent you needed to do?"
Apparently, after that good-for-nothing Liu Sheng was blacklisted by Su Yi, he went to complain to his brother-in-law.
Su Yi found it somewhat amusing and said nonchalantly:
"There’s indeed something urgent I needed to do, I was eating."
"With a client?"
Li Wenyuan's eyes immediately lit up.
To be honest, as the boss of the factory, he had been under a lot of pressure recently.
His wife's good-for-nothing younger brother had pulled off such a heaven-defying operation as soon as he joined the factory. The shareholders were very dissatisfied after they had found out about it and demanded that he give an explanation.
But what explanation could he give? He couldn't just kick out his brother-in-law, could he?
Did he still want his wife?
Helpless, he could only listen to Liu Sheng's suggestion and let Su Yi from the purchasing department, who had always performed well, take the fall for this.
Once Su Yi couldn't take it anymore and resigned, this lucrative position would be vacated, and he could naturally arrange for one of the other shareholders' own people to take it to appease them.
Yes, Li Wenyuan didn't think Su Yi could dispose of this batch of grain.
Letting him do this was just to force him to leave.
But now, listening to Su Yi's words, it seemed like he was discussing business with a client?
This couldn't help but raise some hope in Li Wenyuan's heart.
What if?
If Su Yi could really do it, not only could he show off in front of the shareholders, but he also wouldn't have to fire such a capable employee.
In a small, privately-run factory like this, all the key positions were filled by cronies arranged by the factory's senior management. They were incompetent at their jobs, but first-class at lazing around and engaging in shady dealings.
There were only so many people among them who could actually get work done.
If it weren't for him being forced into a corner, Li Wenyuan really wouldn't be willing to fire Su Yi and replace him with a good-for-nothing who knew nothing about the industry.
"No, I'm eating by myself."
Su Yi's answer directly shattered the sliver of hope that had just risen within Li Wenyuan, and his face instantly turned cold.
After a moment of contemplation, he changed the subject and asked.
"How’s the matter with the grain being handled?"
He was preparing to reprimand this employee who was about to be forced out by him.
Su Yi said faintly.
"I've contacted a boss, and we've pretty much settled the talks."
"The first batch will only be for those five hundred tons of rice. The price will be based on our previous purchase price, but the factory has to cover the shipping costs."
"If President Li thinks it's okay, then we can arrange for loading tomorrow morning. The money will be transferred on-site during loading."
Li Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, then he quickly said:
"Is it really settled? Which boss? Where’s the grain being shipped to? If it's too far, I'm afraid we'll have to discuss the shipping costs carefully."
Five hundred tons of grain would require at least ten semi-trailers to haul away completely.
If it was sent several thousand kilometers away, the shipping cost alone would be over a hundred thousand, which was more than the money they lost on the grain itself.
Naturally, he had to ask clearly about it first.
"That boss is a relative of mine. He asked me to handle this matter with full authority. The location should be a warehouse in the suburbs of Jiangcheng, so it won't exceed one hundred kilometers."
Li Wenyuan quickly calculated the shipping cost in his head, then he hurriedly said:
"Good, good, good, the factory will cover the shipping costs. I'll arrange for the trucks right now."
The food factory wasn’t large, with no more than two hundred employees in total.
As the largest shareholder and boss, Li Wenyuan's net worth was about fifty to sixty million.
In a place like Jiangcheng, this could only be considered not as good as the top but better than the bottom*.
But no matter what, a mere loss of a few hundred thousand in the factory was nothing to him. He could completely cover this hole for his brother-in-law.
But often, a wealthy person like him, who was neither at the top nor the bottom, was more miserly than ordinary people, so naturally, he was unwilling to actually pay to fill the hole.
And this move by Su Yi allowed him to both avoid paying to cover the loss himself and to shut the shareholders up.
For him, this was undoubtedly the best result.
After pretty much settling the talks, Li Wenyuan happily hung up the phone.
Su Yi, on the other hand, sneered. Having worked at the food processing factory for three years, he was all too familiar with the situation inside.
This kind of small, privately-run factory had a pile of problems, whether it was in terms of hygiene or production processes.
Although he wanted this batch of grain and this could be considered a win-win cooperation with Li Wenyuan and Liu Sheng…
But these two wanted him to take the fall first. Su Yi wasn’t someone without a temper. It was impossible for him to help them deal with the trouble and then just let it go like that.
"Laugh, go ahead and laugh. Soon you won't be able to."
After speaking, he turned and dialed another number.
As the factory's purchasing agent, he was naturally also familiar with the business of renting temporary warehouses.
He immediately rented a small warehouse at a logistics hub in the suburbs of Jiangcheng, to be used for storing the grain tomorrow.
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Early the next morning, Su Yi rushed to the factory.
Li Wenyuan probably knew about the conflict between Liu Sheng and Su Yi, so today, Liu Sheng, the nominal person in charge of the purchasing department, didn’t appear.
Li Wenyuan himself came over to take a look and then left.
Thus, Su Yi was both the person in charge of selling the grain on the factory's side and the person in charge of receiving the grain on the other side.
Under his deliberate leniency, many less important matters were naturally omitted.
No one even asked whether the buyer of the grain was an individual or a company, or what it would be used for.
Signing the contract, loading the grain, transferring the money.
All in one smooth motion.
Su Yi arrived at the factory at eight in the morning, and by less than eleven at noon, the ten semi-trailers loaded with grain had already arrived at the suburban warehouse he had rented.
Before two in the afternoon, all five hundred tons of grain had been moved into the warehouse.
After treating the drivers and porters to a meal, the first batch of five hundred tons of grain was considered to be completely in his hands.
Of the more than one million six hundred thousand Jiuzhou currency he had just obtained yesterday, only a little over six hundred thousand remained.
As for the remaining ten tons of fruits, vegetables, and meat, he was in no rush to get them.
After everyone else had left, he carefully inspected the inside of the warehouse. After confirming that there were no surveillance cameras or similar things inside, he directly put all the grain into the dedicated storage space for transaction items.
Then he went straight to the trading platform and contacted Vivi to come and receive the goods.
When she saw Su Yi transfer five hundred tons of grain over through the trading space, unconcealable surprise and delight flashed in Vivi's red eyes.
"To think that you’d gathered so much food so quickly… Thank you so much!"
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*A common idiom to describe someone or something that’s average or middle-of-the-road. They can't compare to the best, but they’re better off than the worst.
T/N - There we go, MC’s first transaction is finally done. Honestly though, if I was the MC, I would still be fuming mad about the whole situation as well. So I can totally understand him wanting to get revenge before he truly leaves.