After coming out of Lihua Stationery Store, Ren Baozhu took Lin Mai back to the factory on his bicycle.
She turned her head and asked Lin Mai inexplicably: "Mr. Lin, I can't figure it out.
Lihua landlady’s rent is so expensive, why did you agree without even paying back the rent?
And she also plans to eat her goods at a 40% discount, which makes us look like we are stupid and have too much money."
The thought of paying such a high price to rent the shop owner of Lihua made her still unbalanced.
Lin Mai asked back: "Then let me ask you, if I don't agree to her high rent, and I won't buy her goods at a 40% discount, do you think she will rent the store to us?"
"Of course not!" Ren Baozhu replied without hesitation.
"Didn't Lihua boss lady let something slip when she was negotiating with you?
If her store hadn't been rented out for several months, she wouldn't have backed down even a step."
"So I had no choice but to pay such a high price."
Ren Baozhu muttered: "But I still feel too bad."
"Is it really a loss?" Lin Mai said, "I'll settle the score with you.
Can you use the same conditions as me to rent a store that is as big as Lihua Stationery Store and is directly opposite Boss Gao’s store?"
Ren Baozhu shook his head: "No~"
Not to mention renting a shop like Lihua Stationery Store with the same conditions, even with double the conditions, you can't rent it because there are no shops nearby for rent.
Lin Mai asked again: "If we rent the storefront of Lihua Stationery, how many clothes do you think we can wholesale every day and how much profit we can create?"
Ren Baozhu suddenly understood: "I understand, although we spent three hundred yuan on rent, we also had to buy the stationery of the landlady of Lihua at a 40% discount.
But we can probably make back these costs in one day, so the effort is not worth mentioning."
"That's right." Lin Mai affirmed, "We can't look at the problem too unilaterally, we must look at it comprehensively."
Ren Baozhu nodded: "I understand."
She frowned and said, "Is the boss lady of Lihua stupid?
With such a high rent and such harsh conditions attached, the storefront cannot be rented out, and in a few months, nearly one thousand yuan in rent has been lost in vain!"
Lin Mai sneered: "You think she is stupid, but she thinks there is no one in the world who is smarter than her.
For the same storefront, others can only rent it for 200 yuan, but she can rent it for 300 yuan."
Ren Baozhu said disdainfully: "She is not smart, she is robbing people.
If you do business and rip off people, your business will go bad sooner or later."
“That’s why her stationery cannot be sold.
Doing business and robbing people, if it's a one-stick deal, that's fine.
If you want to open a store for a long time, it’s not a matter of small size, it’s stupid!”
The two talked and quickly returned to the factory.
Tao Zhiyun told Lin Mai that Tang Shunying had arrived to compensate for embezzlement.
But she didn't come alone. Her husband, mother-in-law and several of her children accompanied her.
Lin Mai instantly understood the purpose of Tang Shunying bringing his whole family here, and snorted coldly: "You've done something wrong and you still want to force yourself into the palace?"
She walked into her office calmly.
I saw Tang Shunying's family, all in good shape, sitting on the wooden sofa with sad faces.
As soon as Tang Shunying saw Lin Mai, she knelt on the ground with a plop.
Crying bitterly: "Mr. Lin, please don't fire me. If you fire me, my family will not be able to survive."
Lin Mai smiled and said, "Get up and talk."
Seeing that she looked good, Tang Shunying stood up from the ground hesitantly and slowly sat back on the sofa.
Lin Mai was still smiling: "Have you brought the compensation?"
Tang Shunying hesitated and said: "Mr. Lin... my family is in great difficulty."
Her mother-in-law also said with a bitter look on her face: "I have a sick child at home...look...don't you...don't fire my wife?"
As he spoke, he secretly pinched a few children hard, and several of them burst into tears.
The scene was extremely miserable.
When Ren Baozhu and Tao Zhiyun in the next office heard the child's cry, they both ran over and asked what was going on.
Lin Mai looked at Tang Shunying's family as if they were clowns, and mocked: "My family doesn't want to pay compensation for embezzlement, but they also want me to keep Tang Shunying to continue working in the factory!"
Tao Zhiyun was so angry that smoke was rising from his head: "Why is this family so shameless!
Don’t talk nonsense to them and send them directly to the police station!”
Ren Baozhu nodded fiercely at the side.
She also couldn't stand such shameless people.
Lin Mai said to Xiaoping: "Go and call Chief Ding from the security department and ask him to take Tang Shunying to the police station!
Maybe I was too talkative and wanted to let her go. As long as she made up for the embezzlement, the matter would be over.
But if people insist on pushing the envelope, then let’s just keep things official!”
Xiaoping turned around and left the office.
Granny Tang Shunying, who looked pitiful to the working people just a moment ago, became sinister and vicious like a Sichuan Opera change of face.
Every word was as pure as quenched poison: "As long as you dare to make us lose money and fire my wife, I will tell everyone in the world that you are rich and unkind and want to force our family to death.
Let everyone drown you with saliva!"
Tao Zhiyun, a person with such a gentle personality, was so angry that he was shaking all over and wished he could rush up and tear Tang Shunying's mother-in-law to pieces.
She opened her eyes angrily and said, "Why are we, Mr. Lin, so rich and unkind, and why do we want to force you to death? Don't be so slanderous!"
Granny Tang Shunying looked at her disdainfully with the whites of her eyes: "We know clearly that our family is poor and we have a sick child.
You, Mr. Lin, still want to ask us for compensation and fire my wife.
This is not about being rich and unkind, but what is it about wanting to force our family to death? What did I say that was so bloody?"
Tao Zhiyun still wanted to quarrel with her.
Lin Mai made a "stop" motion towards her.
Tao Zhiyun then shut up bitterly.
With a sarcastic smile on her lips, Lin Mai said to Granny Tang Shunying:
"Your daughter-in-law embezzled public funds from the factory. Not only can I not get the embezzled money back, but I can't fire her. Otherwise, is she being rich and unkind and trying to force you to death?"
Granny Tang Shunying rolled her eyes and said, "That's not true!"
Lin Mai nodded: "Okay, I don't want any money, and I won't fire your wife, I'll send her directly to the police station.
Let’s see if the police comrades will let your wife off the hook and not give her any punishment because your family is too poor to take the blame and you have a sick child.
If that were the case, then I would also respond to the police.
Not only do we not return the public funds embezzled by your wife, we do not fire her, but we also give your family 10,000 yuan to help you.
Old man, are you satisfied?"
The arrogant and unreasonable old lady was stunned. She did not expect that Lin Mai would do something like this.
Lin Mai looked at the old lady with a very disdainful look: "Do you want to tell everyone in the world about my ugly face of being rich and ruthless and forcing your family to death?
OK, I'll make it happen for you.
I'll call the reporters over right now, and you can complain to them.
You cry out for injustice, but I will pick ten seriously ill children from poor families and subsidize five thousand yuan of medical expenses for each of them. Who will accuse me of being rich and unkind?"
Not to mention Tang Shunying's mother-in-law, Tang Shunying and his wife were also dumbfounded.
If Lin Mai really did that, no discerning person would be able to tell that Lin Mai would rather help irrelevant people than help them.
It only proves that their family is of poor character and not worthy of help.
In the end, who will stand on their side and speak for them?
It's good not to scold them.
Lin Mai took out a large stack of photos from his bag and threw them at Tang Shunying's feet.
He said coldly: "Actually, I can prevent you from biting me without the method I just used.
Don’t think that you are hooking up with Ximan and trying to kill me, I know nothing about it!”
Tang Shunying, her mother-in-law, and the man looked at the photos on the ground and turned pale with fear.
Several children saw the panic on the adults' faces and did not dare to speak. They were also too frightened to even cry.
Those photos include scenes of Tang Shunying meeting Guan Yonghua's assistant, and scenes of her sneaking in and out of the Ximan Garment Factory.
Lin Mai said coldly: "Tang Shunying, you embezzled public funds before, but before I did anything to you, you colluded with Ximan to harm me again.
Your mother-in-law had the nerve to say that I wanted to force your whole family to die.
It's obvious that you want to kill me, but your mother-in-law wants to bite me back!
I don’t know what will happen to you if you tell reporters everything you and your mother-in-law did.
Is it like your mother-in-law said, your family was drowned by the public's saliva?"
Tang Shunying's mother-in-law was frightened and immediately slapped herself from left to right: "I'll smash your mouth if I tell you, you old fool, to talk nonsense!"
All her grandchildren were so frightened that they cried.
Tang Shunying burst into tears and said, "Director Lin, you can't blame me for this.
It is you who want me to compensate for the embezzled public funds, and I have no choice but to do so.
It happened that Mr. Guan of Ximan Clothing knew somewhere that I was going to be punished for embezzling public funds, so he bribed me with money to spy on Director Tao.
In order to repay the embezzled public funds, I had no choice but to agree to them~"
Lin Mai sarcastically said: "I can't blame you for this, blame me!"
Tang Shunying was speechless.
At this time, Xiaoping came with Ding Haifeng and four of his men.
As soon as Ding Haifeng entered the door, he looked at Tang Shunying's family unkindly and deliberately asked loudly: "Mr. Lin, who do you want me to send to the police station?"
Lin Mai stretched out his slender hand, pointed at Tang Shunying and said, "Of course it's her!"