Ever since the Zhao family refused Li Xinxiang's milk delivery, Jiang Bai stopped caring about the Zhao family's milk tea shop business. They always had their own ideas, and her meddling would only make them enemies.
These days, she visited Li Xinxiang's cattle farm again and got a little gossip to amuse herself.
Li Xinxiang held a hand warmer in her hand. The room was warm and cozy, but she still felt cold. It was probably because she had given birth to so many children in her early years and hadn't taken good care of herself, leaving her with a cold constitution.
Despite feeling slightly unwell, she excitedly told Jiang Bai, "It seems like Boss Zhao's cattle farm is going to go bankrupt."
"How did you know?" Jiang Bai asked, slurping a cup of hot tea, her eyes narrowed. "Do you always try to find out about him?"
"I inquired and found out that he doesn't have any personal relationships with me. It's just that he has become my biggest competitor, and I've arranged for someone to go and check on him occasionally so that I know a bit about his situation," Li Xinxiang quickly clarified.
She had no feelings for Boss Zhao anymore, but the child was still his, and Li Xinxiang wouldn't completely sever ties with him—wouldn't that make Wang Yingying happy?
The child born to Li Xinxiang will also bear the surname Zhao, and they should also have a share in the businesses under Boss Zhao's name.
Jiang Bai nodded; she understood Li Xinxiang's thoughts.
When Boss Zhao said he wanted a divorce, Li Xinxiang agreed to it to make room for Wang Yingying. When Boss Zhao didn't want the child, Li Xinxiang took the child with her and raised her with great difficulty.
Where in the world can you find such a good thing, where everything goes his way and he is satisfied every time?
When the opportunity arises, I'll definitely take a big piece of flesh from him.
Thinking of this, Jiang Bai asked, "How do you know his cattle farm is going to fail?"
“He’s started selling cattle,” Li Xinxiang replied. “Not just calves, but cows too, at prices below market value. The small farms below him can’t handle it all, so someone came over and tipped me off, asking if I wanted to buy some.”
Both she and Jiang Bai knew what starting to sell cows in large quantities meant: it meant the factory had reached its dead end. Otherwise, the cows were the foundation of the entire business and couldn't be touched.
Li Xinxiang is well-liked. Because she is a woman, she has a stronger sense of empathy than others. Because she believes in karma, she will do her best to help other colleagues if they have any difficulties.
Putting everything else aside, she has several excellent bulls under her command who breed with other people's cows at very reasonable prices, and many people give her a thumbs up when they mention her.
This is why she learned about various news so quickly.
Jiang Bai perked up and asked, "So, do you want to take advantage of this opportunity?"
Li Xinxiang shook her head: "I feel like something's not right. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have reached this point yet."
Jiang Bai thought for a moment and asked, "How is he doing now?"
“It’s great,” Li Xinxiang replied. “Wang Yingying is about to give birth, and the couple bought a house in the county town. Now they don’t care about the cattle farm at all, and they might not even go there once every few days.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Bai agreed with Li Xinxiang: "Something is indeed not quite right."
She thought for a moment, then turned and asked, "Does he have any other ways to make money?"
“I’ve never heard of that,” Li Xinxiang recalled for a moment, then shook her head blankly. “It can’t be that someone gave him money for no reason, can it?”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Bai's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
The incident involving Xiao An was rather strange. Jiang Bai later described the whole story to Zhao Yi in detail. Zhao Yi remained outwardly calm, but afterwards sent people to investigate thoroughly.
After the investigation was completed, the house where they lived was quietly given a new servant and a new chef.
Jiang Bai never expected that her seemingly impregnable mansion would be infiltrated by other forces.
Fortunately, she thought her family was small, with only two maids, two servants, and a gatekeeper. Including Xu, the wet nurse who took care of Zhao Xile, and a cook she added after she stopped cooking, there were only seven people in total.
The result was that two-sevenths of them were people with ulterior motives.
Zhao Yi was used to it. After dealing with the two men, he selected a steward from his most capable subordinates and asked him to manage all the affairs of the mansion.
Jiang Bai finally caught his breath.
After this incident, Jiang Bai saw everyone who approached her as having an ulterior motive.
She found it particularly strange that Boss Zhao suddenly caused trouble and demanded a price increase. Logically speaking, a businessman of his caliber should be quite shrewd, so this sudden outburst seemed very odd.
However, at that time, there was no evidence to prove this, so Jiang Bai simply let the matter drop.
Seeing Jiang Bai's thoughtful expression, Li Xinxiang said, "By the way, I wanted to tell you last time that the Zhao family's milk source is Boss Zhao's. I wonder if anything has happened to them recently. Do you want to go back and check?"
Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment: "They didn't tell me."
She looked up at the ceiling, clicked her tongue, and decided it was better to avoid trouble: "Since they haven't come looking for me, it must be nothing serious. If I go over there, they'll think I'm after something from them."
Li Xinxiang nodded.
Jiang Bai suddenly asked, "Has Xiao An come back?"
Li Xinxiang only heard about this news afterward. The young zookeepers were in competition with each other. After Xiao An left with Jiang Bai, the remaining few told her the story in great detail.
Every move she and Jiang Bai made was being watched intentionally or unintentionally by people. These people even knew that Xiao An came to knock on Jiang Bai's door at night, and they used very suggestive language.
Li Xinxiang's expression immediately turned sour. She severely punished the workers who had spread the rumors and then rushed off to apologize to Jiang Bai.
She was the one who recruited the person, and the incident also originated from her. If Jiang Bai and Zhao Yi were to become enraged, she wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.
Fortunately, the two did not hold a grudge. Instead, they comforted Li Xinxiang, who was terrified and filled with self-blame. However, Li Xinxiang was still very frightened.
Upon hearing the question, she quickly explained, "He didn't come. It seems his younger brother came and took away the things he left here, and also took his wages. I gave him extra money."
Inviting a god is easy, but sending him away is difficult. The fact that this great Buddha was willing to leave was the best consolation for Li Xinxiang, so Li Xinxiang was not stingy with money.
Furthermore, the younger brother was dressed in tattered clothes, was very thin, and his exposed hands were covered with frostbite. His wrists were skin and bones, as thin as a stick.
Li Xinxiang felt a little pity, after all, the child was about the same age as her son.
Jiang Bai nodded: "It's good that nothing happened."
Li Xinxiang quickly assured Jiang Bai, "I've already given the order that we must carefully screen people when we recruit in the future."
After screening seven or eight times, she didn't believe there could be any more problems.
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