133 Everything has changed (2/2)
”Just don't tell her I was here when she recovers. Just tell her she was hallucinating. As for the money, you'll figure out something.” Xiao Luo said plainly, meaning every word of it.
”Ok, Alright.”
Ma Linger nodded quickly in acknowledgment. She suddenly felt the burden of the UnionPay card in her hand.
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”Hello, Boss Chen, your orders are soon to be... What? You don't want them? You can't do this right, Boss Chen? I trusted you so we didn't sign the contract, but how could you just abandon the orders? They're worth more than a hundred thousand!”
Fang Changlei was speaking from the general manager's office at Taste Buds. When he got confirmation that the other party had rescinded the orders, he jumped off his chair, raising his voice with an intimidating tone. Before he could protest, the other party had already hung up. He felt his anger rising even digital tone from his receiver resounded across the room. ”beep… beep… beep”.
”F*ck, who's been messing around behind my back!”
Fang Changlei was livid! He flung the phone hard against the floor. He was infuriated, looking like he was about to tear someone apart. This was the eighth phone call, all of them to regular customers, each one canceling their orders. And these were familiar, old friends and customers that he regularly plied with hostesses in steamy private rooms. They shared very solid business relationships. So it was indeed vexing that every single of them had called in to cancel their orders. Without a doubt, someone was messing with Taste Buds.
”Chairman Fang, what did they say? Why'd they cancel the orders so suddenly?” The male assistance asked meekly, not at all sure what was going on.
”I have don't have the details, but they all said someone has a hold over them and had them sign contracts with some other supplier, ordering mooncakes from another brand...Another brand! Damn, could it be Luo's Workshop?”
Fang Changlei, couldn't help feeling a sense of déjà vu. A few days ago, the orders from Zhang Hongda, of Fuke Group also slipped by from right under his nose. He pulled his pipe away from his mouth, and voiced his thoughts aloud, ”Could it be that little a**hole who's screwing me up from behind?
The male assistant noticed his expression had turned dark, he stayed as silent as a church mouse, trembling in the corner where he stood.
”No, no, no, it's impossible, that little as*hole never had this kind of muscle.”
Fang Changlei could not stop waving his hand around as he ran through the list of possible suspects in his head. As he cupped his hand across his chin, he said to himself again, ”If Boss Chu was involved, it'd be as easy as ABC, Boss Chu regarded that little as*hole extremely highly, after all.”
As he pondered further, he looked more and more perplexed, ”So is it Boss Chu who wants to mess with me?”
The more he thought about it, the scarier it got. Even though he had a good relationship with the Dragon Gang and Long Sankui, yet he was no match to Chu Yunxiong. ”If the black force of Jiangcheng was Dragon Gang, then the white force had to be Chu Yunxiong. If Chu Yunxiong wanted to deal with him, then he might as well...” Fang Changlei's head was in a spin, as he explored the possible scenarios, ”But, why?”
He had no beef with Chu Yunxiong, going as far as arranging for the marriage of his son to Chu's daughter. He had treated Chu Yunxiong with respect like Lafayette, there was no reason for Chu Yunxiong to deal with him!
He couldn't help feeling like he was groping around in a fog. Fang Changlei broke into a cold sweat, he barked out an order, ”Quick, get the car, I'd like to visit Boss Chu.”
”Yessir.”
The male assistant, jumped in response, nodded hurriedly, and left to make immediate arrangements.
Fang Changlei had to know for certain if Chu Yunxiong was the one behind this whole episode. If not, he would not be able to eat or sleep
in peace.