After Mr. Zhao finished speaking, he pointed to the beautiful woman next to him, presumably the Yingying he was talking about.
When Yingying saw Jiang Bai looking over, she gave him a polite smile.
Jiang Bai suddenly said, "I've been here for so long, but I still haven't seen your wife. I also brought gifts for a few children."
Boss Zhao waved his hand dismissively, "Let's not talk about it." Jiang Bai sneered, feigning surprise, and asked, "What's wrong? Is there some misunderstanding?"
Yingying smiled and replied, "Master Jiang, you don't know this, but my husband and Sister Li have already divorced, and Sister Li took all the children with her."
Mr. Zhao then put his arm around Yingying and said, "This is my newlywed wife, now rightfully Mrs. Zhao."
Yingying's voice was as gentle as water: "I'll have plenty of time to interact with Boss Jiang in the future, so calling you 'Boss Jiang' is too polite. How about I call you 'Sister Jiang'?"
Jiang Bai shook her head: "Just call me Manager Jiang. It doesn't seem like a good thing for you to call me 'sister.' I'm afraid you'll steal my husband."
Jiang Bai didn't give her any face, and the smile on her face immediately disappeared. She covered her face and sobbed a few times.
Boss Zhao's tone also hardened: "Manager Jiang, what are you saying?"
"What did I say?" Jiang Bai glanced at him, his eyes cold. "I came here to talk business with you. I don't want to hear your story of abandoning your wife and children, nor do I want to see you flirting with disreputable women."
Yingying's eyes were filled with tears as she sobbed, "Master Jiang, how could you insult me like this?"
Jiang Bai said, "Boss Zhao, I'll give you two choices: either I leave immediately and our cooperation ends here, or you're sincere and want to talk to me."
Seeing that Jiang Bai was indeed getting impatient, Boss Zhao secretly nudged Yingying's arm and said, "Manager Jiang, we have always been very sincere in our words."
"Sincere?" Jiang Bai scoffed.
"If you were sincere, why did you deliberately arrive late, making me wait in the cold wind for over an hour? If you were sincere, why did you bring a woman and then try to evade the question?"
Jiang Bai said seriously, "Boss Zhao, if you don't want to continue, just say so. There's no need to beat around the bush. I guess the suggestion to raise prices was made by this woman in front of you, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, both of them seemed inexplicably guilty. Boss Zhao stammered, "This...this was my own idea..."
“I misjudged you,” Jiang Bai shook his head helplessly. “I thought you had good taste in choosing a wife and that you weren’t a short-sighted person.”
As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Yingying and clicked her tongue twice in disgust.
Yingying's face turned ugly, and she stopped pretending to cry. She said, "Manager Jiang, as a woman, I can't bring myself to say those unpleasant things you're saying. I just want to say that without our help, you wouldn't have earned so much money at the milk tea shop. You eat so much meat and fish, but you should at least let some of it go to the bottom so we can have a sip of the broth."
"Putting everything else aside, winter is coming and the weather is getting colder, which increases our costs for raising and grazing cattle. In the past few years, we have been resting during the winter, but now we have to hire people specifically for this purpose. The pastures we left in the summer are too small to last until spring, and we have to buy feed from other places. Shouldn't we raise the price?"
“I can raise the price, but Mr. Zhao, is it your original plan to cut off the milk supply immediately if we don’t agree to such an aggressive price increase?” Jiang Bai asked Mr. Zhao, raising his eyelids.
Boss Zhao turned to look at Yingying.
Yingying panicked for a moment, but quickly regained her composure: "Master Jiang, do you mean we should plead with you politely, only to be rejected by you?"
Jiang Bai said, "I'm talking to Boss Zhao, you have no right to interrupt, do you?"
Yingying choked for a moment.
Seeing his beloved woman humiliated, Boss Zhao immediately declared his position: "Manager Jiang, Yingying and I are now husband and wife, and her will is my will."
Jiang Bai sighed: "Boss Zhao, I didn't expect you to be so foolish. You made a mistake. You think it's right for you not to negotiate peacefully with me, but to suddenly threaten me to raise the price. If you put yourself in my shoes, could you accept me suddenly terminating the contract with you?"
cannot.
Boss Zhao's face grew increasingly grim.
Jiang Bai was his biggest customer, buying 90% of his milk production every day. Thanks to the milk tea shop, he was able to make a fortune this year and even increase the number of dairy cows.
If Jiang Bai stops buying from him, then not to mention the surrounding villages, even the entire county combined wouldn't be able to absorb all that milk. Let alone the fact that Jiang Bai could abruptly terminate the partnership, even with advance notice, he wouldn't be able to find another partner with such a huge demand.
A cow can go a day or two without being milked, but in the long run, it will go bankrupt!
Only then did Boss Zhao realize the mistake in his methods, and he glared fiercely at his newlywed wife beside him.
Yingying's smile vanished after being glared at by Boss Zhao. She said, "Manager Jiang, your family is so wealthy and your husband earns so much. He even opened a milk tea shop for you to practice with. There's no need to make things difficult for us small business owners, right?"
Even if the price of milk increases, Zhao Yi won't let you spend money, so you'll still make a pure profit.
"How about this? We'll give you 10% of the price increase as your own savings. As for how much you can raise it, that's up to you."
When Yingying mentioned this suggestion, her eyes lit up, and she smiled confidently.
Jiang Bai was baffled: "Who told you that this milk tea shop was opened by Zhao Yi and that he covered my costs? This shop is entirely mine, and Zhao Yi didn't interfere at all."
Jiang Bai even poached the accountant; now he's the accountant for the milk tea shop and the medicinal cuisine restaurant, and has absolutely no connection to Zhao Yi's business anymore.
Yingying was stunned when she heard this: "Impossible, how could a woman run such a big shop?"
The way she looked at Jiang Bai was as if to say, "Stop struggling, stop being so stubborn." She couldn't help but add, "As far as I know, before you got married, you were just an ordinary farm girl, right?"
"Even your marriage to Zhao Yi was sold by your mother for twenty taels of silver."
"If you had this kind of money-making method in your hands, would your mother have sold you off to become someone else's stepmother?" You must have been struck by lightning in your past life to be someone's stepmother in this one.
“You’ve done your research thoroughly,” Jiang Bai smiled, “but unfortunately, it’s all wrong.”
"I love Zhao Yi, that's why I married him. The twenty taels was just a betrothal gift."
"As for being a stepmother, you look down on it so much, yet you eagerly go for it yourself, don't you?"
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