Chapter 62: Fate is doomed to disaster
The bankruptcy of Chi Wan's family was an accident full of "coincidences".
Chi Yuanshan initially started out as an industrialist, and later on his business grew bigger and bigger, gradually covering all aspects of home furnishing manufacturing.
Not only does it have its own factory and production line, but it also receives support from many policies.
In addition, Chi Yuanshan and his wife are well-known for their honesty and kindness. They never cut corners in the factory, are generous in making friends, and rarely make enemies.
The turning point of everything was the huge order from overseas.
In fact, normally speaking, a down-to-earth person like Chi Yuanshan who never takes risks would not easily sign such a huge order.
Because he knew better than anyone that the order volume far exceeded the capacity of their factory, and if they could not deliver on time, the huge profits would immediately become a huge burden.
But the other party was extremely sincere.
Not only did they send several waves of senior executives to negotiate, they also told Chi Yuanshan very sincerely: their boss was an overseas Chinese, and after becoming rich, he always missed his hometown.
It just so happened that the series of antique wooden furniture previously produced by Chi Yuanshan’s company caught his eye, so he gave the order to the Chi family.
They even said that their boss cares more about quality than delivery speed.
Therefore, we considerately split the orders and signed detailed contracts so that the shipment volume of each order would be just within the maximum capacity of the Chiyuanshan factory, which could be handled with some effort.
Chi Yuanshan hesitated for a long time, but after carefully examining the other party's past reputation and market, he finally decided to accept this high-quality order.
After all, no one doesn't want their company to take its development to the next level.
Home furnishing manufacturing is not like food. There are indeed buyers who are willing to wait longer just to achieve the expected quality. It’s just that I haven’t seen such deep-pocketed buyers.
After signing the contract, Chi Yuanshan almost lived in the factory just to prevent any accidents.
The first few orders were completed very smoothly, and there were no obstacles in the handover. In particular, the timely transfer of payment from the other party gave everyone confidence.
However, when everyone was working hard to complete the largest order, an accident happened.
The day before the shipment, a tanker truck loaded with crude benzene passed by the road in front of the factory and had a traffic accident.
Fortunately, the driver was not in any accident. It might be because he turned too sharply, causing the tank to overturn. All 30 tons of crude benzene in the tank spilled out, right in front of the factory.
The staff guarding near the factory gate at the time did not know what benzene was and just wanted to clean up the ground quickly, otherwise it would affect the loading of goods.
So they made a decision that now seems extremely stupid - they directly connected the water pipe and flushed all the spilled benzene into the sewer.
Unexpectedly, when the benzene encountered the methane gas in the sewer, it directly caused an explosion!
The entire road along the sewer, including the goods above, was destroyed, and even part of the factory's machinery was destroyed in the explosion.
The only thing to be thankful for is that although some people were injured, there was no crowd gathering at the center of the incident, so no one died.
The people who were most seriously injured were those who were responsible for flushing the water. They were thrown away and had broken legs and varying degrees of concussions.
Chi Yuanshan, who was still waiting to ship the goods, felt a buzzing in his head when he saw the mess in front of him. He collapsed to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.
It was Song Yinghe who pulled him up forcefully and told him: "As long as you are okay, everything will turn around."
The order was bound to be unfulfilled. The buyer, who had originally been friendly and expressed his appreciation for them, suddenly changed his attitude and demanded that they repay the deposit and the penalty for failure to deliver the goods on time.
The city government was eager to ask them to compensate for the infrastructure repair costs, because the explosion affected a small section of optical cable, and the amount of compensation required was shocking.
The tanker driver had already disappeared without a trace, and the employee who flushed the water was still lying in the hospital receiving treatment...
Everything seemed to be just bad luck for Chi Yuanshan, and he was destined to suffer a disaster.
After all, there seemed to be no problem with any link in the process. Even the buyer who changed his attitude was only asking for legitimate compensation - they really could not deliver the goods and violated the contract. There is no such thing as warmth in the business world.
So, everything that happened next became a natural progression.
The situation was made worse by the huge amount of compensation paid, the interruption of cash flow and the bank's loan recovery.
Eventually, they could only declare bankruptcy.
After converting all the family's property, they were fortunately left with a second-hand car that the couple bought when they first started their business, and a few thousand dollars left in their card.
Chi Yuanshan looked at Song Yinghe and Chi Wan without any blame in their eyes, so how could he dare to indulge in failure? So after discussing it out, the family decided to return to their hometown together and try to make a living by growing fruit trees.
When I begged for help from everyone, these former "good friends" avoided me, but now they come to me on their own initiative.
"Dad, do you think they are here to cause trouble again because they saw that we have established ourselves again?" Chi Wan thought as he ate. If everything that happened before was not an "accident", then who would have set up such a cruel trap?
You know, an explosion is something completely uncontrollable and can easily cause casualties.
Are these people willing to kill people just to bankrupt their family? !
Chi Yuanshan put down his bowl and chopsticks and sighed, "I don't know either. Your mother and I discussed this for a long time before, and we never thought that someone would have such a big grudge against us. But now that I think about it, what happened was indeed very strange."
Song Yinghe said bitterly: "In fact, if they hadn't suddenly jumped out and urged your father to make a 'comeback', we wouldn't have thought so much about it.
"If they were really people who helped us in times of difficulty, they wouldn't have said a word to us when we were in such a difficult situation. Now that they see this batch of fruits has been shipped out and our family is getting better, they come and call us brothers.
"Anyway, I think they have bad intentions. It's like they're unwilling to give up until they crush our family to death after what happened last time."
Chi Wan held up her chin and poked the rice in the bowl with her chopsticks. "So... Mom and Dad, do you think that the last time Song Yangming hired someone to scam us and force us to sell the mountain, these people were also behind it?"
Chi Yuanshan and Song Yinghe looked at each other: "Wanwan, do you mean that the previous incident was also related to Song Yangming?"
Song Yinghe didn't think so: "I'm not speaking for them. Even if my mom and her family hate us, they won't go against money. Bankrupting us won't do them any good, will it?"
Chi Wan finished the rest of the rice and said, "I haven't figured this out either. I just thought about what my mom said, that someone wanted to crush our family. After all, if Song Yangming had succeeded, our family would have lost everything."
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