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Chapter 314: Chapter 314: She Was Still Too Naive at the Time
"Go make this call to Li Jian, tell him that Xiyang Food Factory is besieged, and I’m trapped inside the factory."
Su Wensong knew that Lin Chuxia had gone to find Li Jian yesterday, although he didn’t know how their negotiation went. Without uttering another word, he took the phone number and went to make the call.
Seeing him leave, Lin Chuxia turned to address the employees of the Old Food Factory, speaking loudly, "Everyone, please calm down. I want to ask if there is a leader among you? If there is a leader, I hope we can negotiate calmly and rationally."
"Don’t listen to her, we have no leaders. We’re just here to fight for our livelihoods," someone in the crowd shouted.
As his words ended, others echoed, "Right, we don’t have leaders, we are acting on our own initiative."
"Xiyang Food Factory is not leaving us any way to live; we have no choice but to come here and seek an explanation."
"Right, give us back our orders, give us our livelihoods..."
Lin Chuxia glanced at the first person who spoke and continued, "No one is depriving you of a livelihood. It’s your actions right now, making a scene at the entrance of Xiyang Food Factory, that are cutting off your own livelihoods. Your current behavior has already violated public security regulations and is illegal. I advise you to go back as soon as possible. If there is a problem, find a proper channel to express it. Making a big fuss won’t solve the problem."
"Don’t listen to her. If she has the guts, let her call the police. It is them, Xiyang Food, who do not provide a way for us common people to live. Even if the police come and arrest people, it should be them from Xiyang Food Factory being arrested."
"That’s right, if you don’t leave us a way to live, we won’t let this go."
Lin Chuxia looked over again and saw it was the same person speaking first.
And this person seemed to understand very well that the police wouldn’t arrest them.
Lin Chuxia narrowed her eyes slightly and directly targeted him, "This comrade thinks the police won’t arrest you even if they come. I simply don’t understand. The duty of the police is to maintain social stability and clamp down on all who violate laws and disturb public order. The behavior of you employees from the Old Food Factory has already severely affected social stability. How can you be so sure that the police won’t arrest you?"
The man felt caught off guard by Lin Chuxia’s direct focus on him and hesitantly glanced around before forcing himself to maintain a composed rebuttal.
"How have we affected social stability? I think it’s your Xiyang Food Factory stealing other people’s orders that left so many of us without food, that’s what’s affecting social stability."
He finished speaking and even instigated the people around him.
"Everyone, am I right?"
"Exactly, that’s the point. You stole our livelihoods first, and that’s why we came to seek justice."
"Stole your orders? Stole your livelihoods?" Lin Chuxia looked at the crowd and questioned back, "Every order of Xiyang Food Factory is signed normally with the clients and has contracts. What does that have to do with your Old Food Factory? As for stealing your livelihoods, if you can’t hold onto your own livelihoods, that’s your problem. What do you mean ’stealing’? To put it another way, you eat from the Old Food Factory’s pot, and my employees eat from Xiyang Food Factory’s pot, everyone minds their own. If your food becomes diluted, you come and meddle with others’ food and think you’re justified?"
The people from Qin Family Village and the employees of Xiyang Food Factory present were already displeased with these intrusive behaviors of the people from the Old Food Factory.
Hearing Lin Chuxia’s words, they also spoke out indignantly, "Exactly, if you have the ability, sign orders with the clients too. If clients don’t want to cooperate with you, it’s your own problem. What does it have to do with Xiyang Food Factory?"
"Our ready-to-eat meals and beef sauce produced by Xiyang Food Factory taste good, and customers like them, that’s our credit. It’s a free market; people buy what they want. It’s just you who don’t know how to improve production. The food tastes bad, and you still expect customers to be forced to eat it?"
"Relying on your secure jobs to bully people? That’s utterly shameless. Such an ’iron rice bowl’ like yours is bound to shatter sooner or later."
Of course, the employees of the Old Food Factory knew that they couldn’t get orders because the ready-to-eat meals and beef sauce produced by Xiyang Food Factory tasted better.
Even some of their employees stopped eating the meat sauce from the Old Food Factory, preferring to buy from Xiyang Food Factory at the same price.
But they couldn’t admit such a fact; admitting it meant the Old Food Factory would stand no chance at all. They’d be squeezed out of business by Xiyang Food Factory sooner or later, and these employees would really lose their "iron rice bowls."
Seeing the shifting expressions in the crowd, Lin Chuxia glanced towards the direction of the village entrance.
She was stalling for time.
These people meant no good, obviously here on a mission, and Lin Chuxia knew that no matter what she said, they wouldn’t be easily dispersed.
As expected, a murmur ran through the crowd following what some villagers had said.
"Nonsense, our days were just fine without your Xiyang Food Factory. It’s you who snatched away our livelihood."
"Fellow workers, don’t listen to them. As long as Xiyang Food Factory exists, our Old Food Factory will never find a way out. They’re here to cut off our financial path."
"Let’s fight them! If we can’t live well, neither will they."
As a few people spoke up, the crowd grew even more agitated.
Someone with sharp eyes spotted the cars at the village entrance and loudly declared, "The public security officers are here, they’ve come to stand up for us, don’t be afraid, let’s take on Xiyang Food Factory!"
Seeing the vehicles at the village entrance, the people seemed to gain courage and swarmed towards Xiyang Food Factory.
The villagers from Qin Family Village and the employees from Xiyang Food Factory weren’t pushovers either. Some tried to stop them, some tried to block them. Soon, they were scuffling with the workers from the Old Food Factory, resulting in a chaotic scene...
When Li Jian, Bai Qifeng, and Feng Kaiwei arrived at the scene, they were met with this disorder.
Fortunately, Li Jian had notified the county’s public security bureau upon his arrival, and the officers began to shout orders through megaphones.
Instead of calming things down, however, the situation became even more chaotic with their attempts, forcing the officers to step in. They had more personnel and quickly got the situation under control.
Lin Chuxia had already noticed Li Jian and Director Feng, as well as Bai County by their side.
Especially Bai County, who had an ashen face watching the scene unfold.
Meanwhile, the crowd controlled by the officers was taken aback; weren’t they only supposed to arrest people from Xiyang Food?
Several Old Food Factory workers were forcefully made to kneel on the ground, with the leader trying to say something to the officers, only to be firmly subdued.
Lin Chuxia had been well protected by the village chief and the others; even when someone approached, with Lin Chuxia’s capabilities, she wouldn’t let them touch her, and the village chief and others did not let her face any danger.
Lin Chuxia was surprised by Bai County’s arrival; indeed, she had asked Wensong to call Li Jian hoping for reinforcements.
She hadn’t expected Director Feng to come, yet Bai County arrived too.
Seeing Bai County, Lin Chuxia silently pursed her lips; these days had been too tough.
Despite being reborn, she was not omnipotent, especially against someone like Liu Guoyi, who had both the roots and the means.
At this moment, she felt too inexperienced.
She approached Bai County, hiding her full resentment and unwillingness. With every word clear and distinct, she questioned, "Bai County, you’ve seen it all. Now that the market is open and there are policies to back it up, when I manage my factory, first, there’s no malicious competition breaking market laws; second, I haven’t violated any laws or regulations; and third, there’s no tax evasion. The Old Food Factory doesn’t restrain its own employees, even incites them to cause trouble at our factory, disrupting the market order. I must ask our leader, is this the protection for private enterprises that’s talked about up top?"
