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Chapter 303: Chapter 303: Boasting Shamelessly
"Thank you, comrade."
After those people left, Qin Han was so angry he almost jumped up and down, pointing at their departing figures, "Do you believe what they said? They said the same thing before, but in the end, they couldn’t solve any problems."
Lin Chuxia nodded, then countered, "Big brother, what do you think we should do?"
Qin Han was stumped by the question.
In their minds, when facing difficulties, they should turn to the public security. The trouble they’re encountering now should, of course, be handled by the comrades from the public security.
But now that the public security comrades had intervened, what else could be done?
"Why don’t we go to court, sue the Old Food Factory?"
"What ground would we have to sue? Don’t forget the seasoning packet incident from last time, the Old Food Factory pushed all the blame away, attributing it to individual conduct. They cleared themselves of all responsibility cleanly. If we go to sue now, there’s a good chance the food factory would counter-sue us for defamation; we don’t have concrete evidence against them, but they have solid evidence against us."
"So, what should we do then? Just let them come and cause trouble every day? Are we really going to give up on the bun shop business?"
Qin Han’s face was red with anger, feeling like a scholar facing soldiers, unable to reason with them.
It was clear that they were conducting their business honestly and legitimately, but now faced with these unreasonable disruptions, do they really have no options left?
Lin Chuxia had already planned in her mind, "Big brother, you go back to the Bun Shop first. Now that they’ve left, business has to continue. I’ll go and find Sun Hao."
Their location belonged to the city center; the jurisdiction of the district police station and Sun Hao’s station were not the same.
The area around Ancheng Train Station had a high flow of people and many criminal cases, so Ancheng Public Security Bureau had long carved out that part of the city.
But since it’s within the same system, they should be able to get some information.
When Sun Hao saw Lin Chuxia coming to look for him, he called her a rare guest.
He was eager to make her tea and offer her water, and even suggested to call his wife over to keep her company.
Lin Chuxia waved her hand, "Don’t fuss, I’m here to ask you for a favor."
"We’re all familiar here, ’asking’ is too polite."
Sun Hao no longer treated Lin Chuxia as an outsider.
His mother had once stolen business from others, and Lin Chuxia did not hold it against her but instead took her in.
Now she works in the Bun Shop, earning a salary of forty to fifty yuan a month, nearly catching up to him.
The elderly lady was enjoying life, and even the atmosphere at home had changed.
Not to mention, Lin Chuxia was also the lifesaver of his wife.
Leave alone one matter, even if it involved scaling a mountain of swords or plunging into a sea of flames, as long as it wasn’t illegal or disruptive, Sun Hao would do it for her.
Lin Chuxia didn’t beat around the bush and directly explained the situation between the Old Food Factory and Qin’s Steamed Bun Shop to Sun Hao, emphasizing the approach taken by the comrades from public security.
Sun Hao already knew about the workers from the Old Food Factory causing trouble for Lin Chuxia; he handled it himself the day a few workers came to the Bun Shop at the train station.
After that day, no one dared to cause trouble at the Bun Shop again, and he thought that the matter had settled, not expecting it to escalate in the city.
"They told you this?" He found it hard to believe their way of handling the situation.
Lin Chuxia just nodded.
Sun Hao’s brows also furrowed, "They can’t reconcile the situation by just muddling through like this, can they?"
As frontline workers, they’d deal with all sorts of trivial matters daily, and sometimes they indeed would muddle through.
As long as both parties agreed and the rationale was clear, the matter would be considered done.
But at present, the dispute between Qin’s Steamed Bun Shop and the Old Food Factory obviously couldn’t be resolved by just muddling through.
"Did those people say what they want to do by surrounding the Bun Shop?" he asked.
"They did," Qin Han had made it clear since day one, "They want Xiyang Food Factory to stop the beef sauce production line and hand over the orders to the Old Food Factory."
Sun Hao burst out laughing at their audacity, "What pompous claims, who do they think they are? Even if it was the Emperor of Heaven, he wouldn’t have such audacity?"
Lin Chuxia smiled along, "Their demands are indeed rather high."
It was an impossible request, and precisely because it couldn’t be resolved, they kept showing up at Qin’s Steamed Bun Shop day after day.
"Okay, I got it. Give me some time, I’ll look into it for you, and I’ll have an answer by the day after tomorrow at the latest."
There must be a reason for those people to be muddling through like that. To solve a problem, its root must be found.
Lin Chuxia thanked Sun Hao and went back to await his news.
Yet before Sun Hao’s news arrived, another incident occurred at Xiyang Food Factory.
From the first day, people started causing trouble at Xiyang Food Factory’s doorstep; it had been five days now.
The first few days saw just a few people loitering around the entrance, with more going to Qin’s Steamed Bun Shop.
Early that day, a group of forty or fifty people blocked Xiyang Food Factory’s entrance, preventing Xiyang Food Factory’s employees from going to work.
Their goal this time was clear: besiege Xiyang Food Factory, stop its employees from working, disrupt its normal production, delay order deadlines, and thus inevitably affect the clients.
Unless Xiyang Food Factory backed down and discontinued the beef sauce production line, they would not leave.
A big crowd swarmed, making the entrance to Xiyang Food Factory impenetrable.
When Lin Chuxia got the news and rushed to Xiyang Food Factory, the villagers of Qin Family Village were also heading there.
Village Chief Qin even used the loudspeaker to announce that people were causing trouble at Xiyang Food Factory; the villagers of Qin Village must unite together.
Lin Chuxia felt overwhelmed.
By the time she got to Xiyang Food Factory, she indeed saw a crowd surrounding the entrance, clearly divided into two opposing groups.
Among them, people from Qin Family Village were even holding tools.
And the people from the Old Food Factory were not showing any weakness either.
"This is a matter between our Old Food Factory and Xiyang Food Factory, it has nothing to do with you. Xiyang Food Factory is targeting the Old Food Factory, stealing our business, which is taking food out of our mouths. Let me ask you, if someone took your land, what would you do?"
"Spit on that! What do you mean ’stealing your meals’? You were the ones who couldn’t match the skill. You’ve not been held accountable for stealing the factory’s secret recipe yet. If you ask me, Mr. Lin added the beef sauce production line precisely to deal with shameless people like you."
"That’s right, no one has decreed that only your factory can do ready-made food business, nor has anyone decreed that only you can produce beef sauce. How dare you come here to Xiyang to cause trouble, really thinking we, from Qin Village, are easy to bully?"
"Yes, we’re not easy to bully. Step aside, or else we’ll not be polite."
The people from the Old Food Factory not only refused to step aside but looked ready to face death.
"Come on then, fight us! Without orders, the factory can’t pay our wages anyway. If you injure us, we’ll have found our meal tickets."
"Don’t think we really won’t fight you."
"Fight then, hit right here, whoever doesn’t is a coward," the man said, lowering his head and inching forward.
The villager with a shovel turned pale and gripped the handle of the shovel tighter.
"Come any closer and I won’t be polite."
"Don’t be polite, come on and hit."
"I’ll be damned..."
