A day at a braised food shop is busy yet boring.
After finishing work, Afang still needed to buy spices and soybean paste for the next day. There was a lot of stuff, so she had to drag Chen Dong along to the market.
After carrying back more than a dozen kinds of spices, Chen Dong's shoulders were sore.
"Actually, we don't have to do these things ourselves every time. In the future, we can open a branch next door, and the old store and the new store will open together."
While unloading the goods, Chen Dong suggested, "With the first few people helping, we can just watch and make decisions from behind the scenes."
Afang looked at him and said with a smile, "You do have a good business sense, but have you thought about the initial investment?"
Chen Dong squinted and thought for a moment, "The principal is easy to obtain. The owners of those spice shops are very familiar with our family. We told them that we want to open a branch, but we don't have the capital right now. If they invest, they can get 30% of the profits from this branch."
"But at the same time, they have to give us a 20% discount on their braising spices."
"In this way, the spice shop owner can not only sell his own spices, but also make an extra profit from the braising shop."
After careful consideration, Afang concluded, "In other words, as long as the spice shop owner invests, they can earn a 10% profit based on the original spice prices."
"Moreover, we can get spices at a 20% discount, but the profit margin will be 30% lower."
Queen Afang silently sighed in her heart, thinking that this Lu, who came from who-knows-where, was indeed very business-minded, and might have actually been a rich man in the past.
Almost all of Chen Dong's assets are in the Longteng Group. Since his disappearance, the Freemasons have been making constant small moves.
Fortunately, with Yulia personally overseeing things at headquarters, nothing much happened.
This time, Yulia returned not only on her own, but also with several top Russian agents.
On this day, the agents arrived at the place where Chen Dong was ambushed, hoping to find more clues. Unexpectedly, at the ambush site, they met Wolong, who had been missing for 17 days.
He had just escaped from the Freemasons' underground prison and had no idea how much time had passed; he was only thinking about coming back to save his boss.
Seeing that the man was pale, had a swollen index finger, and bloodshot eyes, the special forces took him directly to Yulia at the Dragon Headquarters.
When Annie and Lin Zhiyuan met Wolong, they were both stunned.
They simply couldn't imagine how Wolong could have become like this.
He was covered in blood, his body was covered in scabs, and his face was so dirty that his features were unrecognizable.
At this moment, Yulia stuck out her pointed leather shoe, kicked the Wolong who had turned into a lump of mud, and asked, "Where is Chen Dong?"
Wolong lowered his head, and upon hearing Chen Dong's name, he seemed to be awakened.
"I'm...looking for him...I'm looking for him."
Anne lowered her head and asked him, "Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Wolong struggled to lift his head and saw Yulia in front of him, with Annie and Lin Zhiyuan standing beside her. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"After our car exited the highway, there were obstacles at the intersection ahead, so I got out of the car."
"After I got out of the car, more than a dozen assassins rushed out from the bushes on both sides and surrounded me. Later, I killed a few of the assassins."
“My...bodyguard team fought them to the death. The boss thought they came prepared, so he made me drive back the way I came.”
An Ning asked anxiously, "And then what happened? Why didn't the boss stay with you?"
"We turned into a residential area, which was full of alleys. The assassin's car was following closely behind. The boss said... I should distract the enemy while he found backup."
Wolong mustered all his strength to speak, as if he were using up the last of his energy.
"Later I lured the enemy away and took care of those assassins. I called back to find the boss and Xiao Liu, but no one answered."
"I had no choice but to go back the way I came, back to the residential area where we parted ways, but there were only the killer's corpses there, and I couldn't find the boss."
"...Later, the assassin's reinforcements arrived, they arrested me and locked me in an underground prison."
"They tortured me for more than ten days, and I only managed to escape today."
Looking at Wolong's injuries, Lin Zhiyuan found it hard to imagine what kind of torment a healthy person must have gone through to become like this.
Although he failed to fulfill his responsibility to protect his boss, he was still considered loyal. Lin Zhiyuan felt very sorry for Wolong when he saw his condition.
"They...want to find out Chen Dong's whereabouts from you, so they tortured you?"
Wolong nodded.
Annie calculated the time and realized that when Wolong escaped, it should have been around the time Zhou Huimin and Lin Zhiyuan went to the Freemasons' lair to settle scores with them.
At that time, Zhou Huimin and Lin Zhiyuan brought mercenaries with them. Memphis, the other side, probably felt unsafe and also arranged all his men outside the castle.
Furthermore, he left a considerable number of people at the meeting place between the two sides in the castle, directly facing Zhou Huimin and the mercenary group they brought.
At that time, the underground prison must have been understaffed, which is why Wolong had the opportunity to escape.
Yulia asked him with a dark expression, "You're Chen Dong's bodyguard, someone he carefully selected. When the car encountered an obstacle, your first thought wasn't danger, but getting out of the car to negotiate with the person?"
Perhaps because she had seen this situation many times before, Yulia did not feel sorry for Wolong at all.
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