Chapter 10. Gambling
As the saying goes, when things are out of the ordinary, there must be something wrong.
In Ruan Tang's opinion, a man's evaluation of a woman is basically determined in the first three months of the relationship. Whether he will spend a bag, a house, or a marriage on this woman, the ending is often written at the beginning.
Wang Hao belongs to the first type, the kind who always has to make excuses when buying a bag.
Originally, Ruan Tang planned to reject Wang Hao's proposal. Besides, she had to spend all day with Feng Xue. Maybe not only would her business fail, but she would also be known to be poor. It would do her more harm than good.
However, sometimes fate is like a pushing hand, pushing you in a completely unknown direction when you make up your mind.
The medical beauty hospital where Ruan Tang works has dedicated sales staff responsible for promoting projects to clients, but other staff members also receive corresponding bonuses if they can attract clients.
Ruan Tang has made the acquaintance of many middle-aged women with some capital who would book medical beauty projects with her because of her beauty, sweet talk, attentiveness and networking skills, including the older woman who claimed that she had dated Jack Ma last time.
She was confident that she had mastered the art of getting along with wealthy women, but she didn't expect that her plan to save money for her clients would actually touch the wealthy woman's sore spot.
The thirty-something woman, carrying a Hermès Birkin, listened sternly to Ruan Tang patiently explaining the current preferential policies for purchasing the project package. Then she asked coldly, "Do you think I need to count discounts on my fingers? Just get it straight, okay? The money I saved just listening to your nonsense can be earned dozens of times more in this time."
Ruan Tang was stunned for a moment, her mind working rapidly, and she apologized with a smile: I'm sorry to have wasted your time. How about this, I can reserve the subsequent maintenance items for you at the original price?
The other person rolled his eyes, picked up his bag and left: No need, I'll find someone else.
Coco, who was passing by not far away and witnessed the whole process, shrugged helplessly at her. Ruan Tang stuck out her tongue to indicate that she was fine, but she didn't expect to bump into the dean when she turned around.
The director is a Korean aunt. This institution has been open for more than ten years. It is said that no one knows her real age. All we know is that she is always polite and treats people with respect and gentleness.
She invited Ruan Tang to her office, bowed slightly to her as usual, and then asked her in broken Chinese how long she had been working there.
Ruan Tang was counting on her fingers, and the dean continued with a smile: Four years and six months, Miss Ruan Tang, thank you for your hard work. I know that you can always find the customers with the greatest consumption potential among our guests and provide them with meticulous service. Why was Ms. Qin so angry just now?
"She is because..."
The director didn't seem to want to give her a chance to speak, and politely interrupted, "Over the past period of time, we've received many complaints about Ms. Ruan Tang. Many of them say you treat them differently. When they ask you about their care, your attitude is extremely cold. This is extremely unprofessional behavior..."
"But we also need to focus on serving customers with purchasing power," Ruan Tang argued.
The store manager still smiled and said: To us, every customer is very important. Perhaps Miss Ruan Tang’s philosophy does not match ours.
When she came out of the hospital, Ruan Tang called Wang Hao and asked her to transfer the investment contract and money as soon as possible, and she would be responsible for persuading Feng Xue.
Originally, she felt that she was not sure she could convince Feng Xue. After all, when Wang Hao first proposed this proposal that day, Feng Xue flatly refused it.
But now she feels that she has not been pushed to that point yet. Now that she has lost her job, she must make this happen. After all, no one can resist money.
As the saying goes, there is always a way out.
On the third day of Ruan Tang's coaxing and trying to please Feng Xue in the tavern, she received a WeChat message from the older sister who had dated Jack Ma.
She quoted the photo that Ruan Tang sent her and said that the woman looked a bit like the teacher at the international kindergarten that my niece attended.
After saying that, she sent another location.
On the night that Ruan Tang was dating Brother Xiong, she casually asked Feng Xue to send her a photo of his ex-wife so that she could find her. Although Feng Xue refused at the time, he still sent her the photo the next day.
"How about we make a deal?" Ruan Tang fiddled with her phone in her hand and looked at Feng Xue who was busy behind the counter.
Two days later, Wang Hao signed an investment contract with Feng Xue, and the next day he transferred 500,000 yuan to be used for the operation of the tavern and the configuration of the coffee shop.
Ruan Tang hadn't expected that a cup of coffee that cost only thirty or forty yuan on the market would require equipment worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. In the first week of opening the store, she hadn't seen any return on her money. Not only had she lost all her savings, but she had also maxed out two of her credit cards.
On the first day of the second week after the store opened, investor Wang Hao showed up in the store. At that time, Ruan Tang was studying the equipment with a frown on her forehead, and the makeup on her face had been washed away by sweat.
Seeing Wang Hao, Ruan Tang felt like she had seen a savior. She said coquettishly: "When will the next payment arrive? I have to hire a professional clerk, right? This equipment is too difficult to understand."
Wang Hao walked silently to the window seat and sat down, waving at Ruan Tang: Come here first, I have something to tell you.
Simply put, Wang Hao wanted to transfer property before the divorce through investment, but he was discovered by his wealthy wife. Now his wife gives him two choices: recover all the investment funds, or sign an additional bet agreement with the investee, requiring the investee to make a profit of 20 points within a year.
Ruan Tang was completely confused until Feng Xue came back from running errands and explained to her: Now there are only two choices, either pay back the money or promise to make a 20% profit within a year, otherwise you will have to pay back double the money.
The 500,000 yuan that Wang Hao transferred was used as both the tavern operation and the start-up capital for the cafe. Because the equipment was too expensive, most of it was spent on the cafe.
Feng Xue asked Ruan Tang what she planned to do. Ruan Tang smiled sweetly and said: "At worst, I can sell all these equipment and my bag and other things. I can still pay back the 500,000 yuan, right?"
"Where's your credit card?" Feng Xue saw that she looked pale, so he opened a bottle of sugar-free cola and placed it in front of her.
Ruan Tang was shocked: You know everything?
Feng Xue nodded, looked back at the counter set up for the coffee shop and said: I made a simple estimate.
Ruan Tang lowered her head and said softly: There will always be a way. If it really doesn't work, I will ask Xu Wei to borrow it first.
"I thought you were a courageous girl." Feng Xue opened a bottle of Coke and sat down opposite her.
Seeing Ruan Tang looking up at him with wide eyes, he continued: I am not encouraging you to continue taking risks. In fact, it is a very sensible behavior to cut losses in time.
Ruan Tang was puzzled: I checked and found that it is very difficult for the catering industry to make a profit in the first year, let alone 20 points.
Feng Xue shrugged and stood up: Okay, just pretend I didn’t say anything. I still have some money on hand, so just consider it... thank you for taking the trouble to help me find my ex-wife.
So why did you open this tavern?
Ruan Tang asked, looking at Feng Xue's back.
Feng Xue said that when he just graduated from university, he plunged into the financial circle, hoping to achieve financial freedom through this industry, but his ex-wife always said that as long as they opened a small shop, they could be together every day. At that time, Feng Xue always laughed at his ex-wife for being idealistic, saying that it was very easy to lose everything by opening a small shop.
He said, now consider it as my compensation for her unrealistic dream.
At the end, Feng Xue continued to add: But when I actually did it, I found that it was just like that, not as scary as I imagined.
As he spoke, he lowered his head and smiled faintly, then turned around and hid the desolate smile on his face in his back.
Ruan Tang clenched his fists slightly, swallowed a few times, looked at Feng Xue, and said with a slight tremor in his voice: Then let's go together.
Feng Xue turned around and looked at her in surprise.
Ruan Tang suddenly felt her eyes getting hot.
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