Chapter 234 Waves
Zhang Yunqi chatted with Yan Shi for the whole morning, and he was not sure whether his chicken soup could help Yan Shi at all, but Yan Shi still collected the contact information he gave her.

At noon, Zhang Yunqi personally cooked a table of dishes at Yan Shi's house. The three of them leaned against the stove and ate lunch with relish. Then Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian were about to leave.

Yan Shi accompanied them all the way to the village entrance.

Chu Jian, who was sitting in the passenger seat, watched the thin girl in a white woolen hat waving her arms and gradually disappearing at the end of the road. He suddenly had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Before two o'clock, Zhang Yunqi returned to the city.

He first sent Chu Jian home, then returned to his family's fish meal shop and parked the car. He had just entered the shop and hadn't even had time to drink a sip of water when his mother came over and asked, "Where have you been? Gui Bing is looking for you. He said he has something urgent to tell you."

Zhang Yunqi immediately called Wang Guibing back.

After Wang Guibing received the call and knew it was from Zhang Yunqi, he immediately said, "Boss, the suppliers of Longjingyuan Canning Factory came to Lianzhong today to collect their debts. Director Li and I are negotiating with them, but we can't decide on the general direction, and we can't persuade them to leave in a short time..."

Zhang Yunqi said, "I understand. I'll be there right away."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yunqi immediately drove to Yanquan Building.

He was not surprised that suppliers blocked his door to demand debts. The Spring Festival was coming soon, and the Chinese people always followed the custom of not paying debts during the New Year. They would not visit on the first day of the New Year, but would demand debts on New Year's Eve.

In fact, when Liansheng acquired the Longjingyuan Cannery, those suppliers saw the entry of private capital, and since Wang Guibing had relatively deep connections with some suppliers earlier, most of them cooperated and kept quiet for a while. Now, probably because they saw the cannery's recent sales were gratifying, and in just over a month, they raised more than two million yuan through a series of cost-effective promotional methods. It just so happened that they came to collect the debt at this time before the Chinese New Year.

After arriving at Yanquan Building, Zhang Yunqi went directly to the 4th floor.

Before he even got out of the elevator, he heard a noisy sound coming from the Liansheng office. Several Lianzhong employees were standing in the corridor in front of the door, watching the fun and gossiping. The noise stopped abruptly when Zhang Yunqi, who had just walked out of the elevator, suddenly appeared in front of him.

They were all scared to death and kept calling out "Hello, boss".

"Go to work." The employees of Lianzhong felt a little frightened for some reason when they saw Zhang Yunqi smiling while he spoke. However, this young boss obviously didn't have time to talk to them. He just walked into the Liansheng office. They also quickly returned to Lianzhong next door.

The suppliers who came to collect debts were all in the Liansheng conference room. Li Jilin and Niu Fen were talking to them. The noise in the conference room was quite noisy. Wang Guibing, who was outside, saw Zhang Yunqi coming in and immediately walked up to him and said, "Boss, more than 30 suppliers have come. I have been in contact with some of them before, and they are all fine. I don't know if someone deliberately instigated them recently. They went to the cannery yesterday and came here this morning. They have been in the conference room for most of the day. Their mood is not bad, but you say something and I say something. Everyone has an opinion. Director Li can't make up his mind without your instructions."

Zhang Yunqi roughly understood what was going on: "Maybe someone is inciting us to investigate further. Now, calm the people down and follow me in."

Zhang Yunqi pushed the door and walked into the conference room, looking at more than 30 people sitting in an orderly manner in the huge conference room. Although each of them was spraying words like machine guns at Li Jilin who was standing above them, he felt that it seemed a bit too much to describe them as "keeping people steady". Compared with the behavior of throwing feces and urine at the gate of Longjingyuan Cannery half a year ago, they are now simply good middle-aged people of the new era who are civilized and set new trends.

Of course, there is a reason for this. Liansheng acquired the Longjingyuan Cannery and avoided bankruptcy, so these suppliers now have hope for payment of their goods. On the other hand, the cannery's sales have been very good recently, which has boosted their confidence in the cannery.

You know, these suppliers were developed when Longjingyuan was doing well in the past. They specialized in supplying all kinds of canned raw materials to the cannery, including Fangyuan Chaotian pepper, white radish, soybean, Chunjiang fish, vegetable oil, etc. However, with the suspension of production at the cannery, these suppliers, who are essentially no different from vegetable farmers and fishermen, are worried.

Now that Longjingyuan's situation has improved, it won't be long before production can resume. In addition to debt collection, another thing they are thinking about is to continue supplying Longjingyuan, so they will naturally not go too far.

"Good afternoon, bosses."

Zhang Yunqi walked straight to the front of the conference room. Li Jilin, who was sitting at the head seat, immediately stood up and gave his seat to him. After Zhang Yunqi sat down, facing dozens of pairs of puzzled eyes, his opening remarks were very simple: "My last name is Zhang, Zhang Yunqi, the big boss of Longjingyuan, and the person you are looking for today."

The noisy conference room suddenly became quiet.

Many people looked at this young man in surprise, who was probably less than 20 years old.

Before this group of suppliers came, many of them had inquired about the background of the big boss behind Longjingyuan. He was the only person in Jiangchuan who drove a million-dollar imported luxury car, and the company next door called Lianzhong was also his property. They did not expect that this big boss who rarely showed up was so young.

Zhang Yunqi knocked on the table, drawing everyone's attention, and said, "You all came here for the money owed by Longjingyuan. To be honest, those money owed are historical issues left over from Longjingyuan. Of course, now that Liansheng has acquired Longjingyuan, it is our duty to settle the money for you, and I fully understand your difficulties. You came to Liansheng to ask for money today, not only for yourselves, but also for the farmers and fishermen below. So here, I can assure you that Liansheng will definitely settle the money for you. You should be able to see that since Liansheng took over Longjingyuan, Longjingyuan's development momentum has been very good. The sales of canned goods have reached more than 3 million, and the backlog of canned goods is almost sold out."

At this time, a supplier stood up and said, "Mr. Zhang, we all believe what you said. We have also seen the situation of the cannery. It has indeed improved. We are also very happy from the bottom of our hearts."

"Yes! If it weren't for you, Mr. Zhang, who bought the canning factory and gave everyone hope, no one would come here to reason calmly."

"Mr. Zhang, since you understand us so well and the cannery has money now, please pay us the money."

"We have been doing business with Longjingyuan for so many years, and we have a relationship with it. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the vegetable farmers who come to my house to collect debts have almost broken the door. This time I am here with everyone to ask for money, and I have no choice but to do so."

Zhang Yunqi listened to the suppliers' chatter and said with a smile, "Please be patient, everyone. Before discussing the specific payment plan, I would like to talk about Longjingyuan's next move. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Longjingyuan will resume production. I promise that I will continue to purchase your canned raw materials at that time. However, at this critical juncture of Longjingyuan's upgrade and transformation, I do need a lot of funds to update the production line and relocate employees. Therefore, I thought about how to pay back the previous legacy payment, and decided to deal with it in a compromise way. Three months after the cannery resumes production, your historical legacy payment will be settled in batches in a stepped manner, and it will be guaranteed to be settled within half a year. This agreement can be signed with you on the spot."

The atmosphere in the conference room fell silent again.

Zhang Yunqi's words were very organized and methodical, and quite convincing. However, once interests were involved, these vegetable farmers, fishermen and vendors would start to make calculations. After repeated thinking, they came to the conclusion that the new young boss's plan to collect the payment was to delay the payment for more than three months, and it was unknown whether the payment could be made on time by then.

Of course, Liansheng Company is here, Longjingyuan Canning Factory is doing better and better, and Zhang Yunqi is one of the most famous bosses in Jiangchuan City. Therefore, judging from the current development of Longjingyuan, they are not so worried about not being able to collect the payment. However, if someone thinks something is okay, there will definitely be someone who thinks it is not okay. Several suppliers started to complain in the meeting room, perhaps because they were in urgent need of money, or perhaps for other reasons.

Zhang Yunqi knocked on the table and said, "That's all I have to say. I'll let Director Li discuss the details of the signing of the agreement with the bosses. Finally, I want to say that you have been Longjingyuan's partners for many years. We have experienced glory and decline together and countless ups and downs. Here, on behalf of more than 200 employees of Longjingyuan, I would like to wish you all a happy new year in advance and thank you for your strong support. Now is the critical period for Longjingyuan's transformation and rise. I very much hope that you can fight side by side with Longjingyuan to restore its former glory."

At this point, Zhang Yunqi stood up and said, "Of course, if some bosses are not satisfied with this plan, I will definitely not force them. Please find General Manager Niu Fen and sign up after the meeting. I, Zhang Yunqi, will give you the money today. However, I can't afford to collect the vegetables you planted and the fish you caught this year!"

There was a sudden silence in the conference room.

Zhang Yunqi said no more and left through the front door.

The financial manager who followed him out was a woman. She asked Zhang Yunqi in a low voice with great concern: "Boss Zhang, if someone comes out and really asks for money, will you really give it to him?"

Zhang Yunqi glanced at her and said, "Tell Mr. Wang to write down the suppliers who were yelling in the conference room just now." He paused and asked, "By the way, did you see Mr. Ma Shima today?"

The financial manager was a little confused by Zhang Yunqi's irrelevant answer, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he said, "I'm not sure about this. It seems that Mr. Ma has not come to work these past two days."

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The new department store dance hall.

When the lights come on, the place is already crowded with people.

Young men and women from Jiangchuan walked into the dance hall in groups of three or four, squeezing through the crowd.

There are people collecting money and selling tickets at the entrance of the dance hall, and the lobby is responsible for checking and stamping tickets. After walking through a corridor that is neither too long nor too short and pulling aside the thick, cheap purple-red velvet curtains, you can see a large dance floor in the center. The floor of the dance floor is made of black and white tiles, which was a very popular decoration style in the 1990s.

There are some booths and scattered seats on both sides of the dance floor. There is a small stage at the top of the dance hall, which is used for singing and leading dancing. On the side are a bar counter and a song-ordering counter. Songs are charged by the song, and the bar sells drinks and snacks.

Singing on the stage and dancing off the stage.

Sometimes the dance floor is filled with affectionate tunes, sometimes with passionate disco, sometimes with passionate disco steps, and sometimes with elegant national standard dance moves.

Here, the order among men, women, adults and children is very different from that in the daytime. Under the dim lights and deafening sound, young men and women sing and dance, get restless and unrestrained, which is crazy and exciting.

Wu Yali likes this crazy and exciting way of venting.

That night, she was playing with a few young men in the dance hall of the new department store.

Broadly speaking, she is now an adult who has officially entered society.

The same is true for Chen Xinyi, Jiang Min, Wu Juan and He Liping.

Wu Yali didn't care about this, and naturally she wouldn't go to her uncle Luo Dahai to ask why. Chen Xinyi, Jiang Min, Wu Juan, and He Liping were extremely regretful. I guess their parents were furious when they found out about this. They kept crying and asked them if they wanted to go to Yan Shi's house to apologize.

Wu Yali felt extremely disgusted.

what is this?
You feed someone a mouthful of shit and then eat a mouthful of it yourself?
She is still thinking about the slap Li Yufei gave her!

Wu Yali lit a cigarette, picked up a beer and clinked glasses with the three young men in the booth, saying, "If you have time this Friday, call some people and get someone done for me."

The three young men were not much older than Wu Yali, between 18 and 20 years old, with long hair and a carefree look. One of the oldest-looking young men approached Wu Yali and said jokingly: "Tell me, which blind bastard dared to mess with my sister Wu?"

"You don't know her, but she's a great beauty."

"Okay! Leave this beautiful lady to me. Come on, do it."

The four of them drank more than ten bottles of Lao Yanjing in a row, and then ran to the center of the dance floor to dance. Under the dim light and to the passionate melody, Wu Yali, like all the young men and women on the dance floor, swayed her dance moves unrestrainedly.

It was already past two in the morning when we left the new department store.

Wu Yali was still very excited and was ready to go to Yuxian Street with the three young men to find food and drink. However, the three of them had poor bladders and had to run to the toilet to empty their toilets, so she went downstairs alone and went to the street to breathe fresh air.

The streets were empty at that time, with only orange lights and a pitch-black night. The new department store, which had been noisy all night, had already fallen silent. Occasionally, a drunkard would come out of the dance hall and walk along the wall, but there were few people. Wu Yali suddenly felt a little cold, lit a cigarette, and walked towards the door. At this moment, two tall young men wearing black hats came towards her.

Wu Yali didn't care and walked over directly. When the two sides passed by each other, she didn't even have a chance to react. She felt a black screen in front of her eyes and her head was covered by something. When she reacted, she was about to scream, but there was a loud "bang" in her head, and then she heard a guy's voice coldly said: "Drag him away!"

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(End of this chapter)