Tang Kai pulled Xu Aihua outside.
"Why did you drag me out? Your dad's still locked up!" Xu Aihua was frantic. She yelled at He's mother and He Wenlin, "You heartless bastards! No wonder people say that people change once they have money. Waaah, what are we going to do now?"
"Mom, don't cry. Call Grandma and Uncle and ask them to plead for leniency."
After Tang Kai finished speaking, he quickly took out his mobile phone and started flipping through his contacts...
...
He Wenlin then instructed the receiving department staff: "From now on, when they come, don't let them in! If they barge in or throw a tantrum, call the police immediately!"
"Okay, Mr. He." Yang Junwei understood that the two families had fallen out, but this was none of his business. He just needed to follow his boss's orders.
Back in the office, He's mother asked He Wenlin, "Will your aunt and Wu Hai really go to jail?"
"I won't go to jail, but I'll definitely be fined."
After saying that, He Wenlin checked the time. It was not yet eleven o'clock. She said, "I will call again in the afternoon. Right now, they may still be in the evidence collection stage. I estimate that your uncle and grandmother will call you in a little while. They may plead for leniency. If you feel it is difficult, just push the matter onto me and I will handle it."
"What's so difficult about this? It was their fault to begin with, and we were just retaliating normally! Now that the person has been taken away by the tax authorities, we are just small fry and have no power to help."
Hearing this, He Wenlin smiled and said, "Yes, that's good. Then please reply like this."
He Wenlin's prediction was correct. Half an hour later, her uncle Xu Aiping and Mrs. Xu called to ask He's mother what had happened.
"What else could it be? They were caught for misbehaving," Aunt He said into the phone.
Grandma Xu: "Aihua said you reported it."
“We reported them, but they deserved it. We treated them so well. When they came last year, we rented a house for them, prepared toiletries and daily necessities for them, arranged jobs for them, and planned out a future for Xiao Kai. We even paid for their travel expenses this year and didn't charge them. But what did they do?”
Aunt He was furious and, like a machine gun, rattled off the whole story.
Grandma Xu and Xu Aiping never expected these things to happen.
“This must have been Jian Guo’s idea; Ai Hua doesn’t have the mind or inclination for it,” said Grandma Xu.
Aunt He: "Regardless of their intentions, since they're jumping around in our minefield, treating us like fools and suckers, we certainly won't let this go unpunished! And don't try to mediate, the person has already been arrested by the tax authorities, we can't help them and we won't help them."
"Did you suffer any losses?" Grandma Xu asked.
"The factory's business hasn't been affected, mainly because Linlin is quite familiar with the individual business owners and often calls to follow up. Otherwise, how could we have received the news so early?"
Grandma Xu still hoped her children could get along peacefully. She said, "Since there's no real loss, you should just take the loss and back down. We're all family. I'll go and scold and teach Aihua a lesson. Snatching customers with low prices is indeed an ugly thing to do, but if Jianguo goes to jail..."
"I can't control that. I'm not that powerful. We just need to stop bothering us. They're ungrateful bastards. Let's just pretend we don't know them anymore."
“Aizhen…”
"Mom, don't worry about her. She's such a heartless wretch, it's disgusting to even talk about her. I'm going to eat now, I'll hang up first. Please take care of yourself at home."
After saying that, Aunt He hung up the phone angrily.
When Grandma Xu heard the dial tone on the phone, she sighed.
Xu Aiping was sitting next to the phone, and he heard what He Ma was saying on the other end.
He said irritably, "That Jianguo guy, he really has no conscience. How could Aizhen Daming forgive them for doing this? Now that the people have been arrested, they have no connections over there to pull strings, sigh..."
Xu Aiping was speechless. She quickly called a relative in her hometown who worked in the government system to ask what to do in this situation.
After listening to the other party's advice, Xu Aiping called Tang Kai.
"Uncle, how is it?" Tang Kai asked hurriedly after receiving the call.
"It's no use going to them about this. You should go home and wait for news. The tax department will definitely come looking for you. You need to have money ready. If it's not serious, a fine will suffice. If it's serious, you can pay to reduce the sentence. You guys are really something, using this method to steal Linlin's business."
Tang Kai and Xu Aihua had no choice but to return to Tianjiang Village.
Around 3 p.m., sure enough, someone contacted them, saying they would be fined 2,000 yuan!
Upon hearing that it was two thousand yuan, Xu Aihua and Tang Kai breathed a sigh of relief. Although they felt bad about the money, it was still within their means.
They quickly sent the money over.
After the money was paid, Wu Hai and Tang Jianguo were released at 5 p.m. that same day.
At this point, Wu Hai was nowhere to be seen as arrogant and spirited as before!
At this moment, he looked just like Tang Jianguo, disheveled and lacking any energy.
The four returned to Haitang Food Factory in low spirits. Before they even sat down, someone from a certain business department arrived.
"Wu Hai, Tang Jianguo, Xu Aihua, Tang Kai, right?"
Xu Aihua is now terrified at the sight of anyone in uniform, and she stammers, "You...you..."
"You are operating Haitang Food Factory without a license, and we are now confiscating your illegal gains of 3,500 yuan."
"What?" the four people exclaimed in surprise.
Tang Kai said, "We've already been fined two thousand!"
"We are from a certain commercial department, and we are acting in accordance with the law. Your food factory is operating without a license, and we are confiscating your illegal gains. Please cooperate!"
That means that was a tax department, unlike them, and that fine has nothing to do with them.
Upon hearing this, Tang Jianguo was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.
Wu Hai was furious, his eyes reddening, and roared, "You've gone too far!"
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