Chapter 292: One More Outrageous Than the Other
Amid the flattering gazes of the crowd, Shi Hengliang had already begun to imagine how glorious his life would be after taking charge of Shijinji.
After Lu Yiming's capital injection, Shijinji is now a company with a market value of 300 million. Compared with his current steel trading, it is a completely different matter.
Today, he is at most a second-hand dealer in building materials, and he is only prosperous on the surface. He cannot be compared with those company chairmen who can make people tremble with a stomp of their feet.
Just when Shi Hengliang was feeling very proud and was about to continue bragging, the cell phone on the table rang. The loud sound of the speaker pierced through the eardrums, making everyone around him frown.
Shi Hengliang quickly picked up the phone and put it to his ear.
"Hello? Who is this?"
A deep and vicissitudes voice floated out from the other end of the phone: "It's me, Long Wu."
When Shi Hengliang heard that it was Long Wu who called, he once again glanced proudly at the poker players at the scene, and then deliberately said in a loud voice: "It turned out to be President Long. Don't worry, I have prepared all the steel you want for you and can ship it at any time."
However, just when Hengliang was about to brag to his poker friends, Longwu suddenly said, "I don't want your batch of goods anymore."
Shi Hengliang thought he had heard it wrong; "Huh? No, Mr. Long, what's going on? You can't play tricks on me like this."
He borrowed a lot of money and used many connections to get this batch of steel.
Xinghe Real Estate was his biggest buyer. His goods were mainly used in unimportant places such as corridors and low walls. The quality didn't matter. The key was that they were cheap. A community could save a lot of money.
Shi Hengliang's way of getting the goods was basically not formal, and he didn't provide invoices or anything like that. Now that Long Wu didn't want it, he couldn't ship out so many goods at once.
"I'm not kidding you, I'm just informing you."
Shi Hengliang was so anxious that he almost cried: "Why, Mr. Long, we have been cooperating for a long time and there has never been any problem. The quality of my goods is absolutely guaranteed!"
Long Wu said coldly: "This is not a quality issue. You can only blame yourself for offending someone you shouldn't have offended."
"Who have I offended... Hello? Hello!"
Shi Hengliang racked his brains but couldn't figure out who he could have offended.
However, just as Shi Hengliang was about to ask, Long Wu had already hung up the phone.
When Shi Hengliang called again, no one answered the call.
"Damn it, who is it?"
Shi Hengliang roared angrily, as if he had exhausted all his strength. He fell to the ground, his eyes dull and his mind empty, almost in an unconscious state.
He has a large amount of steel in stock. If he cannot sell it quickly, the interest on the bridge loan alone will cost him his life!
"Damn it, Liangzi."
Several card-playing friends around him were frightened by Shi Hengliang. Seeing him sitting on the ground motionless, they were all shocked.
Although they are ignorant of the law, they also know that gambling is illegal. If anything happens to Shi Hengliang here, they will definitely not be able to escape.
Someone tentatively extended his index finger and poked Shi Hengliang's shoulder.
Shi Hengliang waved his hands and said weakly, "Stop making trouble."
"Hey, you scared me."
"It's okay, let's go."
Several people returned to the table and continued to sort the cards.
But with such a big thing happening, how could Shi Hengliang still have the mood to play cards?
He suddenly stood up and then rushed home in a hurry.
Those card-playing friends didn't dare to mention the gambling money. Now Shi Hengliang could see that something was wrong. If they provoked them again, and something bad happened, they would be asking for trouble.
Anyway, we all know each other well, so at worst we can just go to Shi Hengliang's house and ask for it later.
Shi Hengliang walked out of the mahjong hall. Although the sun was still shining brightly in the sky, he felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave and was cold all over.
He trembled as he took out his cell phone, dialed a number, and asked impatiently, "Master Sun, did I offend you?"
On the other end of the phone, a truck driver who was taking a nap shuddered all over and quickly said with a smile: "Boss Shi, what are you talking about? Do you want me to go somewhere to transport goods again?"
“Bang!”
Shi Hengliang hung up the phone directly.
Then he dialed another number.
"Manager Zhou, I did speak to you in a harsh tone when I rented your warehouse last time. I apologize to you. Can you please stop letting others mess with me?"
On the other end of the phone, a sturdy man who was directing the unloading of a large truck frowned slightly, his face full of confusion: "Shi Hengliang, what the hell are you doing? When did I ever ask someone to do you?"
Not really.
Shi Hengliang hung up the phone again and dialed the third number...
By the time he reached the door of his house, he had already dialed more than a dozen numbers. Apart from being called a psychopath, he had no idea who he had offended.
Shi Hengliang, who was extremely anxious, finally got home. He trembled as he took out the key from his pocket and opened the door. He stood in the entrance hall, not even changing his shoes. His wife Meng Weini, who was sitting in the living room eating nuts and watching TV, came over and pestered him, saying, "Honey, you're finally back. Hurry up and give me a few thousand yuan. I want to go to the Fur City with my good friend Mrs. Lin to buy mink fur. I heard that a lot of good stuff has come from Changbai Mountain recently."
Shi Hengliang is now extremely upset because of the batch of goods and the loan issue, and Meng Weini is still asking him for money, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
Shi Hengliang, who had always been submissive in front of Meng Weini, roared with a ferocious look on his face this time: "It's over 30 degrees outside now, it's hot even in short sleeves, what kind of mink fur did you buy?"
Meng Weini didn't expect that Shi Hengliang would be so tough in front of her. After a moment of surprise, she immediately cursed: "Shi, you are looking for death, right? I asked you to give me money to buy me a mink coat, why are you so nagging? Isn't it because I wear mink to make you look good?"
After saying that, she sat down heavily on the sofa in anger , her eyebrows raised high: "Besides, it is only cost-effective to buy a mink when the weather is hot. It will be very expensive to buy it during the New Year. Don't you understand this principle as a businessman? You found a woman like me who is frugal and manages the household to be your wife. Your ancestors' graves are filled with smoke, and you still dare to be disrespectful to me?"
In the past, Shi Hengliang would have taken out his washboard and knelt down, but today, he was relentless and said, "Don't you have anything to wear? Are you short of minks? You just buy, buy, buy every day, but how many of the things you bought have you not even opened?"
Meng Weini gnashed her teeth when she heard this. She rushed over and kicked, hammered and bit Shi Hengliang: "Shi Hengliang, you are such a jerk. You lose thousands or tens of thousands of dollars just by playing cards. Did I say anything to you? Now I ask you to give me a few thousand dollars to buy mink fur, and you dare to talk back? Do you still have me as your wife in your heart? Tell me the truth, are you keeping a mistress outside? Are you..."
Huang Meiqi has been living with Shi Hengliang since her husband passed away. Shi Hengliang's business has also received a lot of support from Shi Caijiang. In addition, Shi Caijiang also transfers money to him every month, so Shi Hengliang has been letting his mother Huang Meiqi live in his house.
Huang Meiqi was sleeping in the room when she heard the noise of quarreling outside. She came out angrily and shouted, "What are you two quarreling about? Do you want me to sleep? Liangzi, what happened? Why are you so irritable today?"
Shi Hengliang was already emotionally broken, and he had a quarrel with his wife Meng Weini, which made him even worse. He thought of the interest on the bridge loan, and he held his head with both hands, squatting on the ground in pain, his eyes widened almost popping out of their sockets, as if he had seen something terrible, and his eyeballs were full of bloodshot, looking very hideous.
"Boss Long suddenly said he didn't want the batch of goods I borrowed money to stock up. If I can't sell the goods, I can't pay back my personal loan. Every day when I open my eyes, the interest alone is tens of thousands..."
Shi Hengliang told Huang Meiqi and Meng Weini intermittently what happened today and the impact it had caused.
When they learned that Shi Hengliang owed a lot of money and his business suddenly went bankrupt, Huang Meiqi and his wife were extremely panicked.
Huang Meiqi asked: "How could this happen? Wasn't your business doing well before? If one boss doesn't want you, why don't you just find another boss to sell your business to?"
In her opinion, it doesn't matter what you sell, if this customer doesn't buy, why not just switch to another customer? Is it necessary to yell at home?
Meng Weini was even more straightforward: "If you can't sell it, then you can't sell it. If you owe money, just go to your brother. Isn't his Shijinji worth hundreds of millions? Ask him to give you 10 or 20 million first, pay off the debt, and then you can sell the things slowly."
Huang Meiqi heard this and immediately said, "This is a good idea. Winnie is really smart."
Shi Hengliang also reacted immediately and slapped his forehead: "How could I forget about my brother? I, as the younger brother, am in trouble, and he, as the older brother, can't just sit there and watch, right?"
He quickly took out his cell phone and called Shi Caijiang, telling him about Long Wu's refusal to buy steel and his debt.
General Shi Cai was confused when he heard this: "Boss Long said that you offended someone. Who did you offend?"
Shi Hengliang was so angry that he cursed on the spot: "I know nothing. I called everyone I know and asked them all, but they still have no clue."
Shi Caijiang frowned, and was speechless about his disappointing younger brother: "You don't even know who you offended, how can I help you?"
Shi Hengliang said angrily, "So you don't plan to help me? You are my brother! You must help me this time. If you don't help me, I will be finished. I borrowed a bridge loan from Zhou Desheng for this batch of goods. The advance payment is 5 million, and the interest rate is 0.8% every ten days."
Shi Caijiang was so frightened that he almost dropped his phone.
"Are you crazy? How dare you borrow this kind of money? The interest is one million and two hundred thousand a month. Are you willing to pay it back with your life?!"
Shi Hengliang said confidently, "I just thought this was a rare opportunity, and I would be sorry if I didn't make a profit. Moreover, I had contacted the buyers beforehand before I dared to stock up so much. I could have cleared the goods this week, and I could have made a net profit of more than one million after deducting the interest. Who would have thought that Long would go back on his word and not keep his promise."
Shi Caijiang wanted to beat this useless brother to death with his own hands: "You don't have such a big head, so don't wear such a big hat! How are you going to clear out the goods in such a short time?"
Shi Hengliang said in a relaxed tone: "I can't sell the goods all at once, so please help me pay back the money first."
He just said this one sentence about borrowing money. As for how to repay the money to Shi Caijiang in the end, he didn't mention a single word.
If a younger brother borrows money from his older brother, isn't that just a matter of transferring money from one hand to the other? Why should he pay it back?
"you……"
If it were in the past, Shi Cai would have taken the blame of three or five million for him because they were brothers. But now he only had a little dividend in his hand and his life was very difficult. He didn't even dare to order the most expensive tea when he went out for morning tea with others. He had no money.
"I don't have any money, you have to figure it out yourself."
Shi Hengliang couldn't believe Shi Caijiang's ruthlessness: "You don't even want to help me?"
Shi Caijiang sighed and told the truth: "It's not that I don't want to help, it's that I really can't do anything."
However, Shi Hengliang thought his brother was trying to shirk responsibility, and suggested as if it was a matter of course: "Doesn't Xiaoxue have shares? Why don't you ask her to sell her shares and use the money to pay off my debts?"
Shi Caijiang's mind immediately flashed with Lu Yiming's half-smiley face. How could he dare to agree to Shi Hengliang's trick? He could only perfunctorily say, "Sorry, you have to talk to Xiaoxue about this matter. I can't make the decision."
Shi Hengliang shouted at the top of his voice: "Mom, my brother said he won't help me."
Huang Meiqi got angry when she heard this. She snatched Shi Hengliang's phone and shouted, "Shi Caijiang! Are you getting cocky? You dare not help your brother?"
When Shi Caijiang saw his mother stepping in, his tone suddenly lowered: "Mom, it's not that I don't want to help, it's just that I'm powerless and can't help."
Huang Meiqi didn't care about that, and her tone was even more arrogant: "I don't care. It's your business whether you can help or not. Anyway, you have to help."
Shi Caijiang was very helpless. He definitely couldn't come up with the money. After thinking for a while, he said, " Then I'll think of a way to see if I can help him sell that batch of goods."
After hanging up the phone, Shi Caijiang said to Aunt Liang, "Aunt Liang, I'm going to go out for a while. When Xiaoxue and the others come back, tell them that they don't need to wait for me for dinner."
"OK."
Shi Caijiang walked out the door and headed straight for Shi Hengliang's house. As soon as he entered the house, he went straight to Shi Hengliang and asked him in a deep voice, "Tell me everything that happened in the past few days honestly. Don't leave out a single word!"
Shi Cai will know that there is no way to solve this situation unless he finds out who is targeting his younger brother behind the scenes.
Shi Hengliang also knew that his elder brother Shi Caijiang was the only one who could help him out of this predicament, so he did not dare to hide anything: "I have been playing cards outside these past two days, and just now I suddenly received a call from Mr. Long from the Galaxy Group, saying that he no longer wanted my batch of goods. That's basically what happened. I swear to God, I really didn't make a fuss this time!"
"Is that so?"
Shi Caijiang obviously didn't believe it: "I know Lao Long. He is always easy to talk to. How could he want to kill you for no reason? Tell me the truth. What are you hiding?"
Shi Hengliang said with a sad face: "I really don't know. I really was playing cards these days! The people in the mahjong parlor can testify to this!"
Huang Meiqi also spoke up for her youngest son: "Ah Liang used to like to stir up trouble, but these days he really just went out to play cards."
Neither the mother nor the son thought about who they had offended. Instead, Meng Weini suddenly thought of something and said to Shi Hengliang, "Wait, could it be that when you went to the school with your mother-in-law to find Xiaoxue to sign the contract a few days ago, you slapped Xiaoxue, Xiaoxue..."
Before Meng Weini finished her words, General Shi Cai turned his gaze to Shi Hengliang, grabbed his collar angrily and pulled him up: "Good fellow, I can't bear to hit my precious daughter, and you dare to do it?"
Shi Hengliang didn't expect Meng Weini to be so stupid. Even if it was really because of beating Shi Qingxue, she couldn't say it in front of General Shi Cai.
However, since he had said that, Shi Hengliang was not afraid. Instead, he said as a matter of course: "Brother, please let go. I am an elder after all. What's wrong with teaching a lesson to a junior who does not distinguish between superiors and subordinates?"
Without saying anything, Shi Caijiang punched Shi Hengliang in the face: "Very good, I'm your brother, so it should be okay for me to teach you a lesson, right?"
Huang Meiqi did not expect that Shi Caijiang would actually fight with Shi Hengliang, so she hurried over to stop the fight.
"You two stop fighting, you are brothers! You should be united against the outside world! Jiangzi, when we went to look for Xiaoxue, that young man named Lu Yiming beat up both me and your brother!"
