Chapter 285: Out of humanitarian considerations

Actually, Ye Cheng didn't know whether to take responsibility or not; he just had to suppress this kind of person first, otherwise it would be troublesome.

When mentioning private over-purchase, the Wu man's eyes flickered with panic, then immediately returned to normal,

"I didn't buy extra; I only bought two catties. It's your stuff that's problematic."

Ye Cheng saw through but didn't expose it, mainly because there was no evidence; the other side had already weakened, and now just adding a bit more pressure would count as success.

He leisurely sat down beside Chief Liu, that aura directly pressing Chief Liu down,

"Mr. Wu, we've sold several thousand catties of our goods, and only you have had an issue, so you're an exception, and it's likely due to your own personal reasons."

"Originally we bore no responsibility, but out of humanitarian considerations, we're willing to cover part of your medical expenses."

After saying that, Ye Cheng stood up and glanced at the saline solution,

"This is glucose with a bit of anti-allergy medicine; it shouldn't cost much.

"How about this: two days in the hospital, and even if you stay another day tomorrow, three days total we'll give you 300 yuan. Then we'll add another 200 for subsequent nutrition expenses, making 500 yuan altogether, which we consider our goodwill as operators.

"Alright?"

After Ye Cheng finished speaking, everyone present was dumbfounded.

They asked for 30,000, you bargained down to 500, and still put on an act of doing a good deed.

Too ruthless.

The Wu man stared for a while, unable to speak, feeling something was off but couldn't find a reason to rebut.

"500 is too, too little; I've missed two days of work, you also need to compensate me for lost wages." After thinking for a while, he finally came up with something.

"Lost wages, right? Do you have a formal job?" Ye Cheng asked teasingly.

"I do, I have a job; my monthly wage is 800 yuan."

"800, right? That's 30 yuan per day, three days 90 yuan, total 590; I'll round it up to 600. And this fruit basket doesn't count toward your money—see if that works?

"Three days got you about half a month's wages; it's only because you ran into us responsible sellers that you'd get anything at all."

The Wu man, already completely bewildered by Ye Cheng's words, nodded along with his meaning and agreed.

Chief Liu saw that both sides had reached agreement, so he quickly brought out an agreement for each to sign.

Ye Cheng directly pulled out 600 yuan in cash and placed it on the hospital bed, then took out a pack of Hua Zi cigarettes and set it down, speaking softly,

"Be careful, don't let the nurses catch you."

The Wu man's eyes lit up; he skillfully slipped the cigarette under the pillow, and his gaze at Ye Cheng became clear,

"Brother, you're righteous."

The buddy felt grateful; if he weren't on the IV drip, he almost would have gotten up to see Ye Cheng out of the ward.

Ye Cheng, after some persuasion, pressed him back onto the bed, and before leaving tossed down a lighter; the buddy almost wanted to call him foster father.

After leaving the ward, Chief Liu gave Ye Cheng a thumbs-up,

"You're amazing; their 30,000 yuan demand was settled by your 600 yuan."

Ye Cheng said lightly, "Just happened to know a bit; Chief Liu, let's consider this matter settled."

"Settled, smoothly concluded; you also keep a copy of the mediation agreement, just preserve it—if any dispute arises later you can produce it, though I don't think this buddy will have any dispute."

Thinking of that buddy's grateful appearance, Chief Liu couldn't help but want to laugh.

"Well then, after this, are you coming back with my car, or do you need to go into town for some errands?" Chief Liu asked.

"We'll head back ourselves; we just happened to be in town, so we'll go buy some things."

After saying goodbye to Chief Liu, Zhang Guafu finally had a chance to thank Ye Cheng; she pulled out a small wallet from her pocket and took out some money to return to Ye Cheng.

Ye Cheng didn't stop her, but only took a 100-yuan bill.

"Auntie, we're all in business together, sharing losses; 600 yuan, each of us bears 100, nobody can be exempt."

"Ah, everyone's paying—isn't that okay?" Zhang Guafu felt a bit awkward about refusing.

Ye Cheng patted her shoulder, "It's fine; I'll talk to them."

As his words fell, a surprised voice came from behind,

"Ye Cheng? Is that you?"

Ye Cheng turned around and saw a little nurse standing behind him, wearing a nurse's cap, looking at him with delight.

He furrowed his brows, not recognizing who it was,

"Who are you?"

The little nurse looked at him like that, rolled her eyes, and came up to hit him,

"Ah ya, you forgot me already—I'm Hu Xiao Li."

Saying that, the little nurse took off her cap.

Then Ye Cheng recognized her—his high school classmate, Hu Xiao Li, who used to be an active member of the class, and got along fairly well with Ye Cheng, the poor student.

But after high school they lost contact; he hadn't expected to run into her today.

"You put on the uniform and started being alluring—who'd recognize you?" Seeing it was an old classmate, Ye Cheng loosened up his speech and teased,

Hu Xiao Li spat at him, "You're not that young, yet you've learned these things—what, why are you at the hospital? And who's this?"

As she spoke, Hu Xiao Li glanced at Zhang Guafu; seeing her expression, Ye Cheng knew this girl was definitely thinking something improper.

"This is Aunt Zhang, from a village; we just happened to come out together to handle some errands."

Ye Cheng briefly introduced the two to each other; Hu Xiao Li wore an expression of disbelief.

"How did you become a nurse? Did you get into nursing school back then? I doubt it."

Ye Cheng asked; Hu Xiao Li, like him, was from the bottom of the class—just graduating high school was already good, so she likely couldn't have gotten into nursing school.

"Ah ya, keep your voice down." Hu Xiao Li tugged him, glanced around, then said guiltily, "I later went back to retake, but still couldn't."

Ye Cheng looked at her and guessed she'd gone in through the back door, but he didn't feel like exposing her—after all, they were both bottom-feeders; everyone deserves a bit of a livelihood.

"By the way, Ye Cheng, our class is having a gathering this Saturday—come over then, okay?" Hu Xiao Li suddenly said.

At the class reunion, Ye Cheng happened to recall that he had previously run into the class monitor Wu Bin; back then he seemed to say the reunion was his idea, but he never actually called it.

At the class reunion, everyone says it's a time for the wealthy to show off, but Ye Cheng isn't really interested.

Showing off with them is really unnecessary.

"You guys go ahead, I won't go; I usually have to go out to sea, I'm busy." Ye Cheng refused.

"Going out to sea? I forgot to ask what you're up to these days; is going out to sea very hard?"

Zhang Guafu beside him glanced at Ye Cheng; he's not having a hard time, he's making money, but seeing Ye Cheng's attitude, he didn't want to elaborate.

"Who doesn't find work hard? My family lives in a fishing village; going out to sea is pretty normal. Alright, I'm off, I have other things to do."