While Gu Jia was socializing with his wife, Xiang Nan also played ball with Mr. Yu.
"Huan Shan, the fireworks show you designed is very good. After it was set off in the Beijing Paradise, the tourists liked it very much." He said with a smile, "Just so, I just took over a paradise in Changzhou, so you can also design the fireworks. ."
"Okay, thank you Mr. Yu for your love. I will design it carefully to add luster to your paradise." Xiang Nan smiled immediately after hearing this.
"Okay, as long as you are willing." Mr. Yu nodded, "Come on, keep playing."
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When he got home in the evening, Xiang Nan told Gu Jia about the new order.
"Honey, now the turnover of the subsidiary has increased by at least 50%, and the annual profit can be doubled." He said with a smile.
"Honey, that's really great!" Gu Jia said happily after hearing this, and then smiled and said, "I also have good news to tell you."
Immediately, she told Xiang Nan that Mrs. Li and Mrs. Liu had ordered fifteen pounds of bird's nests.
Xiang Nan was stunned when he heard this, and then waved his hand.
"Wife, don't be too eager to be happy..." he said.
"What's wrong?" Gu Jia asked confusedly when he saw this.
Xiang Nan blinked and was organizing his words to persuade Gu Jia.
In his opinion, something might have happened to Mrs. Li and Mrs. Liu.
In the play, around this time, Mrs. Li's backer collapsed and she still owed a lot of debt; Mrs. Liu's husband cheated on her, divorced her and took away all the money.
Xiang Nan had guessed before that something might have happened to them. At least he got wind of it, so he didn't hesitate to ruin his reputation and use a broken tea garden to deceive Gu Jia.
You must know that the wife circle is decent. He deceived Gu Jia for three million dollars, nominally to teach this little girl a lesson.
But a lie is a lie. Using such a despicable method to trick Gu Jia would injure the enemy a hundred times and injure oneself eight thousand. Even if other people in the wife's circle don't say anything, they will despise her in their hearts. It would be shameless to spread the word in the future.
They didn't even want to maintain the dignity of Kuotai. It was obvious that it was a life-or-death situation, so they just wanted to make money and didn't care about the issue of face.
Now I am ordering fifteen kilograms of bird's nests in one go. This bizarre behavior is also very questionable.
You should know that bird's nests are made from the saliva of swiftlets and their texture is very light.
A complete cup of bird's nest only weighs five to nine grams. For stewed bird's nest, half a cup is enough at a time, or three to four grams at most. Ten pounds of bird's nest will take almost three and a half years to eat.
The shelf life of bird's nest is only three years, so no one will buy bird's nest that much. Generally speaking, you can buy no more than one pound at a time and don’t stock up too much.
After all, unlike wine, Pu'er, and tangerine peel, it will not become more precious as time goes by.
Xiang Nan guessed that the reason why Mrs. Li and Mrs. Liu purchased bird's nests in such large quantities was probably because they wanted to make a fortune before leaving.
Fifteen pounds of bird's nest is worth 1.5 million. When delivering goods to them, Gu Jia would not ask them to pay on the spot out of a strong mentality. They will only let them hang up their accounts and then settle the accounts on a quarterly and yearly basis.
In this way, they can earn at least hundreds of thousands by selling the bird's nests.
To them, this money was just a bag of money before. But when they go bankrupt, this money may be their life-saving money.
At this point, face, dignity, and reputation are all not as important as money. And even if they were discovered by Gu Jia, they didn't care.
By then, they were already in trouble. As the saying goes, if there are too many lice, don't bite them, if there are too many debts, don't worry. Even if Gu Jia sued them, he wouldn't be able to get the money back.
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"Honey, when I was playing ball today, I heard Mr. Yu casually say that the Li family's backer had fallen, and Mr. Li's business has been in some trouble lately~" Xiang Nan then said.
"Really or not?" Gu Jia was a little surprised when he heard this.
"What Mr. Yu said is probably not groundless." Xiang Nan nodded.
In fact, Mr. Yu never said anything about this matter. However, Xiang Nan believed that Gu Jia would not ask Mr. Yu, and she was not qualified to ask.
"No way?" Gu Jia still couldn't believe it.
In recent years, they had indeed killed many big tigers, but she did not expect that the Li family's backers were among them. If this is the case, then there is likely to be a problem with the Li family's business.
However, she didn't see any clues from Mrs. Li's face. Generally speaking, if there is a problem with the business and the building is about to collapse, how can she have time to organize activities for the wife circle? Shouldn't she run away as soon as possible?
"It's possible. Think about it, if she was fine, would she deliberately trick you into buying a tea factory? She has no dignity at all." Xiang Nan curled his lips.
If he hadn't jumped over the wall in a hurry, how could he have defrauded Gu Jia of three million.
"..." Gu Jia was stunned and thought it made sense.
The circle of wives is all about respectability, and even if they are at odds with each other, they still have to get along on the surface. But Mrs. Li dared to set up a trap to deceive her for three million, which is indeed not the behavior of a decent person.
"Husband, wouldn't you say that her order of ten pounds of bird's nest was also a scam?" Gu Jia then asked.
"It's possible. After all, whoever buys bird's nests has to buy ten pounds of bird's nest." Xiang Nan nodded.
"..." After hearing what he said, Gu Jia also began to feel something was wrong.
She also bought bird's nests, at most two taels, which was enough to last for a long time. Ten pounds of bird's nest is really a lot. For example, her store only bought 20 kilograms of bird's nests and planned to sell them in half a year.
"Then what should we do, husband?" Gu Jia asked.
If you refuse delivery, it will offend someone if the news is false.
But what if the news is true, something really happened at Mrs. Li’s house. Those ten kilograms of bird's nests are worth beating a dog with a meat bun, and you will never look back. She couldn't afford the loss of hundreds of thousands. So it's a bit of a dilemma.
"Send two smart people to deliver the goods and ask for cash on delivery." Xiang Nan thought for a moment and said, "It would be a good thing if Mrs. Li settles on the spot. If Mrs. Li is unwilling, let them bring the goods back.
When the time comes, you apologize to Mrs. Li again and say that the employees' working methods are too rigid and you have already reprimanded them to give her enough face. "
Gu Jia thought for a while and nodded. As of now, this is all she can do.
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Gu Jia then sent Wang Manni and a male employee to deliver goods to Mrs. Li's house, and specifically told her to collect payment on the spot. If you can't get the money, bring the goods back.
"Manni, you might as well put it nicer, but you can't lose the principle. Only give the goods when you see the money, otherwise take them back," she ordered.
"Boss, what about it?" Wang Manni was a little confused.
Would someone who can afford ten pounds of bird's nest be a liar?
"Be careful with your ten thousand year ship, just remember it." Gu Jia waved his hand.
Wang Manni nodded, and then took her colleagues there.
Ten pounds of bird's nests filled a truck full. After all, the stuff is really light. A box only weighs two taels, and ten kilograms is fifty boxes.
