Chapter 98 [98] Ending.
Shen Yu wanted to confine Tang Yuanyuan to her house and not let her go out. "Your brother is too vicious. For now, don't worry about the store. Leave it to me. In a week, the founder of the Kong family will celebrate his 90th birthday. I'll go to Hong Kong City. The Kong family will do me a favor. You can expand the store after he's gone."
Tang Yuanyuan disagreed with this idea. The Kong family would indeed give Shen Yu face, but Shen Yu went there without any evidence, which seemed like he was suing someone.
Besides, it would be too easy for Tang An to be transferred out of Shanghai just like that.
"Don't treat me like a rabbit. I'm not a canary in a cage. These are the only cards Tang An has at his disposal. He's not stupid. This is a society ruled by law, after all. If he were to get directly involved in something illegal, he'd ruin his life. He doesn't dare to come straight out, so he can only resort to these tricks."
Shen Yu knew this, of course, but he still felt uneasy. "Then I'll hire you a driver who can drive you and protect you. That'll give me peace of mind, right?"
Tang Yuanyuan nodded. It felt good to be cared for by others, and she didn't mind. "Of course you can do that, but forget about complaining. I have some ideas. Yunduo Forest has been making losses in the market. I have been paying attention to his triangular debts, and the raw materials he uses are the worst. These messes will explode sooner or later." She just wanted to defeat Tang An completely and didn't want him to move to another place to harm others.
Shen Yu had actually been keeping tabs on Tang An's movements, and he revealed a big news to Tang Yuanyuan: "Cloud Forest asked Rainbow Securities to produce a fake consulting report. Your brother has been hanging out with some big bosses lately. If I'm not mistaken, he's planning to sign franchisees. As long as there's a steady stream of capital coming in, he can't lose money. When a certain amount of capital is reached, he can go public, and when shareholders come in, there will be a steady stream of profit to be made."
Tang Yuanyuan was surprised: "He's running a store at a loss, will anyone still join his store?"
Shen Yu said, "This is a new way to make money quickly. They use low prices to quickly attract customers. Once they gain fame, those middle-class business owners in smaller cities are unaware of the situation and are only attracted by the number of customers. They think about relying on capital, but they don't know that the capital's goal is to take advantage of their franchise fees. One store can earn 200,000 yuan. China is a vast country with so many cities. How many cake shops can we open in each city?"
"With these, Tang An can quickly expand to a certain size, and then going public will be a natural progression. That's the real big deal."
Tang Yuanyuan was surprised: "Won't the shareholders lose a lot of money? This isn't fraud?! Doesn't the CSRC care?"
Shen Yu said, "As long as the profit margin given in the consulting report meets the requirements, there will be no problem with the listing. So I said, your brother has already bought the consulting report, and their franchise will be this Saturday. If you want to completely discredit him, this is a good opportunity."
This news is so timely!
Tang Yuanyuan held her chin in her hands and broke out in a cold sweat: "I thought I knew a lot, but I didn't expect that there would always be a side that I didn't know."
For example, trademarks. She had run a store for several years, but she didn't know that trademarks had to be registered separately.
For example, there are still such deep waters for listing, securities companies can still issue false reports, such a bad business can still be listed, and in the end shareholders have to pay for it, but Tang An himself can abandon all his shares and cash out at any time.
She thought that it was because Tang An's desire to win was inflated, but it turned out that he just wanted to quickly accumulate his original capital.
Tang Yuanyuan found that she was still naive and there was a lot she didn't know.
If it weren't for Shen Yu, she would have no idea of this information.
This is the information gap between the upper class and ordinary people.
Shen Yu rubbed her head and said, "Books only describe the authenticity of consulting reports. Society is the real university. When you enter society and see more, you will naturally understand."
Tang Yuanyuan rubbed her head against his palm. Fortunately, she had him as her strong backer.
Tang Yuanyuan felt the coolness of leaning against a big tree again.
Li Mu never thought that Tang An would even think of such a vicious trick and actually wanted to completely destroy Tang Yuanyuan.
With a stern face, he picked up a stick and threw it into the car with a bang.
Tang An must be taught a lesson.
Just as the car rushed out, Tang Yuanyuan's car rushed out from the side and forced his car to stop on the side of the road.
Tang Yuanyuan closed the car door and knocked on it: "Get out."
Li Mu simply lowered the car window and said with an unyielding expression, "Get out of the way."
Tang Yuanyuan unlocked the driver's door from the inside, opened it herself, and found the stick under the seat. "What are you going to do?"
Li Mu said with a stern face: "It has nothing to do with you."
Tang Yuanyuan kicked his car and said, "Get out!"
"You're crazy, what are you doing?"
This car was Li Muhua's biggest investment. She loved it like her life and washed it herself every day. Tang Yuanyuan knew this very well, so he came down to buy it.
Tang Yuanyuan kicked him angrily: "Do you want to go to jail? You think it's not chaotic enough."
Li Mu: "I'm not stupid, I'm wearing a mask."
Tang Yuanyuan was so angry that he almost died: "You are a police officer who only eats for free, do you really think you will never be caught?"
Li Mu said disdainfully, "Can the police really be omnipotent? They even came up with such a wicked idea as throwing sulfuric acid. Isn't Tang An still acting like a big boss? Ever since he became the son-in-law of the Kong family, he has done so many immoral things, and which police officer has even gone to arrest him?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "Li Mu, remember this clearly!"
"Even if there are many things the police cannot do, as citizens, we must respect the law and stick to the bottom line."
Li Mu puffed up his cheeks and said, "Even if I have something to do, it's my business. Why do you care about me?"
Tang Yuanyuan: "We are doing business together, so I have to control you. If you dare to seek death, I can beat you."
Li Mu was stunned for a moment, turned his head, and snorted coldly: "Pretend."
"You're going to get married, and you don't care about me at all."
Tang Yuanyuan: "I don't care about you. I came to you because I'm bored."
There was another silence.
"Should we just do nothing and let Tang An run rampant? Or wait for Tang An to get his comeuppance?" Li Mu suddenly said, "If that's the case, then we can wait. In another eighty or ninety years, he'll eventually die of illness."
Tang Yuanyuan: "It won't take that long. We have a chance to bring down Tang An now."
"Just ruin his investment promotion meeting at the end of the month."
Photos of the inferior raw materials in their factory could significantly reduce the credibility of Cloud Forest and effectively prevent them from attracting franchisees, as long as they could get proof.
The two men walked around the factory and climbed in with the help of a tree. It was time to get off work and only the security guard was leaning on a chair watching TV. The two men successfully climbed into the production workshop.
As soon as they reached the door, they were hit by a foul smell that hit them in the face, and they both almost vomited from nausea.
When I turned on the flashlight, I smelled the rotten smell of eggs.
The used egg shells were just thrown into the basket. I don’t know how many days it hadn’t been cleaned. There was sticky egg white on the floor, and the cake baking machine and blender were also greasy.
Li Mu smacked his lips. "Don't they wash it? It's been so long since they washed it, and Tang An doesn't care?"
How many bacteria will this breed?
There are also scraps of cake dough scattered all over the counter.
Tang Yuanyuan: "He's busy trying to trick franchisees and use his connections to buy test reports. As for the hygiene issues in the factory, he probably hasn't even given a damn about it."
It seems that what the suppliers said was still conservative. This is not just inferior raw material, it is simply junk.
As for the imported milk promised in the advertisement, it was just a scam. There was not even a brand on the milk bucket. It was just a pure white plastic bucket.
Tang Yuanyuan thought it was ridiculous. Any kitchen she had ever seen was cleaner than the production workshop in this factory. The hygiene alone was so bad, and she didn't know how many irregularities there were in the production process.
Tang Yuanyuan's production workshop is a work process that she has personally participated in step by step. She never allows employees to work in the workshop in sandals in the summer. They are required to wash their hands strictly, wear hats on their heads, and wear clean work clothes before making cakes. All production tools are cleaned after use on the same day to ensure that the cakes served to customers are clean. All employees are trained and qualified before production begins.
Their production workshop is so clean that it makes people feel comfortable, but this place is as messy as a garbage dump, with even a lot of cigarette butts on the ground.
There are so many small cake shops that work diligently but have no future, but this shop can expand everywhere and is a potential candidate for going public?
It’s so easy for rich people to make money.
Did the Kong family know that Tang An was doing business this way? They must not be birds of a feather.
Tang Yuanyuan ran to the accounting office again and operated on the computer. Sure enough, he found the real account. He printed out a copy, deleted the printing record, and took it away.
As luck would have it, the two men left the office, and the security guard who was watching TV in the guard room came out at some point, and his flashlight just happened to sweep over them: "Who!"
Li Mu squatted down: "Quick, step on my shoulders and walk!"
"Meet me at the door."
Tang Yuanyuan stepped on Li Mu's shoulders, climbed up the wall and flipped over. Tang Yuanyuan immediately drove to the door. Li Mu ran out of the gate and jumped directly in through the car door.
Tang Yuanyuan was not afraid of the car being exposed because the license plate had been removed when they arrived. What's more, they didn't steal anything except the accounts.
The accelerator was stepped on to the floor, and the van rushed out, leaving the security guard far behind.
Tang Yuanyuan tapped the steering wheel with her fingertips happily.
When they arrived at the destination, Li Mu got out of the car, held the door, turned around and asked: "Why do you want to marry him?" Why can't it be him?
Tang Yuanyuan: "Because he has a mother. Shen Yu's mother looks a lot like my mother. I like her."
In fact, Mrs. Shen and Zhang Lancao have nothing in common. Zhang Lancao has endless housework to do all day long and wears homespun cloth that has turned white from washing. Mrs. Shen never has to work and spends most of her time dressing herself up and drinking afternoon tea.
But they gave her a very similar feeling.
Li Mu took out a cigarette from his pocket, smoked it, threw it on the ground, crushed it hard, and slammed the car door.
"I will not bless you."
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In the cake factory, the security guard turned on the lights and checked each workshop. He found that no valuables were lost. If he reported it, he might be held accountable, so he simply pretended that the incident had never happened.
Tang An didn't know that the factory's accounts had been stolen, and Tang Yuanyuan had even taken photos of the factory.
Tang An was preparing for the investment promotion conference with great confidence. He never took trivial matters like the production workshop seriously. He felt that these were the business of his subordinates, and he was the one who controlled the overall situation and designated the direction of development.
In a blink of an eye, a month passed and the investment promotion conference was held as scheduled at the most famous five-star hotel in Shanghai.
Tang An, wearing a close-fitting, high-end suit, looked down at the middle-level bosses present with a smug smile on his lips.
He seemed to have already seen his own victory, successfully managing the listing of Cloud Forest and becoming the founder of a well-known listed company.
At that moment, a white-haired old woman ran in and bowed to him. "Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang, could you please settle the bill? My son supplies milk to your factory, and he hasn't been paid for four months. We earn our living collecting milk, and we really don't have the money to pay it back. I can't even afford my granddaughter's tuition."
Tang An's face turned green with anger. He glared at the security guards, signaling them to get the person out. "Grandma, you've got it wrong. How could I possibly owe you money for milk? You must have the wrong person. My factory never owes money. I have plenty of money in my account."
Unfortunately, Tang Yuanyuan had already told the suppliers about Tang An's true financial situation, and even bribed one of the leaders, instigating more than a dozen suppliers to come and collect their debts.
"Mr. Tang, since you have money in your account, please settle the payment for my plastic packaging."
"Mr. Tang, please pay me for the sugar."
"Mr. Tang, please pay me for the fruit. My fruit business is almost going bankrupt."
"Mr. Tang, please pay me for the eggs. I'm a small business owner, and I'm really struggling to make ends meet."
The dozens of small bosses present, all of whom were very potential franchisees, immediately started talking about it, "Isn't it the son-in-law of the Kong family?"
“Why are there so many people asking for debts?”
Tang An felt completely ashamed. Ever since he got married to his current wife, he had never been in financial trouble again and had never encountered such embarrassing things.
Tang An remained calm and smiled as he said, "There must be a problem with the technology. I've never been involved in basic factory matters. So, please go next door and tell me what's going on and how much you owe for materials. My secretary will take care of it all for you. Please follow my secretary next door."
"Don't worry, I'm sure everyone won't lose a penny."
"You're lying!" Tang Yuanyuan walked in with a smile, holding the cake shop's real account books in her hands. She kept holding photos in her hands. "Your cake shop may appear to be bustling with customers, but in reality, the prices are close to cost and you're not making any money at all. You're just thinking about expanding quickly, earning franchise fees, and then going public when you reach a certain volume."
"Boss, the financial reports and test reports you have seen are all fake. What I have in my hands is Cloud Forest's real profit. There is no profit at all!"
Tang An: "You're talking nonsense. You're jealous of Cloud Forest's market share. As the founder, I can say with certainty that Cloud Forest is very profitable, and every month is very encouraging."
"Stop pretending," Tang Yuanyuan said, looking at the bosses in the meeting hall with amusement. "Bosses, does anyone want to see Cloud Forest's real financial statements? Here they are."
A boss took the lead: "I'm interested."
Everyone followed suit, and Tang Yuanyuan took the lead in throwing out the report. She had copied the report dozens of times, and Li Mu threw them out one by one, and soon everyone had a copy.
Tang An's face turned ashen and he wanted someone to throw Tang Yuanyuan out, but unfortunately Tang Yuanyuan also brought people with her, so no one could touch her at all.
Tang Yuanyuan smiled even more brightly and said, "Are you angry already? I still have photos of your rubbish-looking production workshop here. Don't even think about covering your mouth. Before I left for here, I had already sent the photos to reporters from major newspapers. Now, they're all taking pictures of your production workshop."
"Everyone, come and see what the Cloud Forest production workshop looks like. Let's see if this brand is as good as Mr. Tang said and is worth joining."
The photos were thrown into the sky and flew everywhere. Tang Yuanyuan also threw some to Tang An, and the photos fell around him. The disgusting sanitary environment seemed to rush out through the photos.
Tang An's pupils dilated. How could this happen?
Tang Yuanyuan said with amusement: "Are you wondering why this happened?"
"Tang An, you claim to be no ordinary person, someone born to succeed, yet you don't even know the most basic principle that a towering building starts from the ground."
"You didn't start from the very basics, skipping this step. You're being deceived like a fool. You think that just because you pay your employees high salaries, they'll obey you. You don't know that without a good management system, management will only think about making money together, and employees will only think about being lazy. The cake factory isn't theirs, so who would treat it like their own business? The team you hastily assembled is just a makeshift one, with no sense of responsibility at all."
"Tomorrow, news will be published about Cloud Forest falsifying data, poor factory management, and using inferior raw materials. Your brand has no franchise value whatsoever, and your dream of making a quick buck is shattered."
When the bosses saw these things, they cursed, "Isn't this a scam?"
"I didn't expect that a family as big as the Kong family would use such a shady trick to deceive people."
Tang An glanced at Tang Yuanyuan calmly, straightened his suit, and said calmly, "Everyone, I have handed over full production authority to the factory director. As for the situation inside the factory, I'm not very clear, but please rest assured. I don't think we have concealed any financial information. Our reports are also issued by a legitimate company. I will definitely give you an explanation. Please give me some time."
Tang Yuanyuan sneered, "Tang An, sometimes I admire you for that. You've been exposed for your ugly deeds, yet you never feel guilty and you lie without blushing or beating your heart."
"Oh right, you probably haven't heard this yet. Let me play it for everyone."
Tang Yuanyuan pressed the play button on her Walkman, and the entire conversation in the hotel played out: "Tang Yuanyuan, what do you mean? Are you trying to use my mom to play the emotional card on me?"
At the door of the banquet hall, Kong Xue walked in side by side with Shen Yu.
At this point, Tang An's face finally turned pale and he felt panicked.
The portrait of Zhang Lancao was intentional. Tang Yuanyuan was deliberately trying to confuse his mind and trick him into talking.
From the very beginning, Tang Yuanyuan had already thought about how to kill him.
Tang An ran to Kong Xue in panic and grabbed her wrist.
But Kong Xue avoided it, as if she was looking at garbage: "Before, you said that your sister ran away when she saw that Dad was sick, and you had to take your father to school alone, but you never said that your sister actually left you and your father like this."
"Tang An, I have nothing to say to you. The lawyer has prepared the divorce agreement and will hand it to you."
Kong Xue turned around and looked at Shen Yu: "Mr. Shen, thank you for letting me see the truth."
"It's okay." Shen Yu pulled Tang Yuanyuan over: "This is my fiancée. I hope you don't blame us."
Kong Xue said: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know that this cake project is done this way. If it goes public, it will ruin the reputation of our Kong family."
Tang An's legs unconsciously weakened and he staggered back a step.
Today was supposed to be his day of success, but now, he has to go back to being a pauper with nothing.
The Shen family, Shen Yu, he had heard of it, the richest but low-key family in Shanghai.
He had vaguely heard people say before that Tang Yuanyuan might have the support of the Shen family and that she was a relative of the Shen family. He thought that Tang Yuanyuan was deliberately using the Shen family's banner.
She actually climbed up to the Shen family!
Yes, otherwise how could she know that I bought the test report and knew that I was holding an investment conference today? She could get photos of her own factory, so why would Kong Xue appear here in person?
He worked so hard, why did he end up with nothing?
Why is Tang Yuanyuan so lucky? In Yucheng, she has Xu Xiaofeng to guide her, and in Shanghai, she can even get close to the Shen family?
And he will have nothing again.
The huge three-layer cake was prepared to celebrate today's success. Tang An walked over slowly, picked up a piece with his fingertips, and put it in his mouth.
tasty.
Just like worldly success, it makes people obsessed and attached.
Tang An contentedly took the piece of cake that symbolized success into his mouth and put a metal cake fork into his sleeve.
Then he walked over to Tang Yuanyuan and said, "Haven't you always wanted to know what I said to Mom that made her give up the idea of divorce?"
"Come here and I'll tell you."
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The author has something to say: If everything goes well tomorrow, I should be able to write to the ending and post it as soon as I finish writing it. I estimate I can finish it in the afternoon.
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