Chapter 48: Reborn 1987 Chapter 48: Technology Far Ahead of Its Time

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Protagonist:

Jiang Wenyu

He wore a distinctly unfriendly smile as he looked at the two of them, especially Li Chen, and strode right in.

The pair did not acknowledge him at once, but Wang Tao spotted the few small appliances on the ground and suddenly chuckled, "Looks like your business isn't going smoothly today; mine's going very smoothly, I'll have you know."

He said smugly, "I won't hide it from you either — I'm planning to get a foot in the appliance trade myself. Though I lack expertise in this area, I can get as many repairmen as I need, and in just this one day I've collected a hundred and thirty units at very cheap prices. Have to say, this industry really does have development prospects."

Over a hundred units in a day — that figure truly made one marvel. Normally Li Chen and Jiang Wenyu acquired twenty-odd units at most, and they had no idea how Wang Tao had managed it.

Jiang Wenyu's expression suddenly turned calm, while Li Chen's face darkened; he finally couldn't help saying, "Young Master Wang, did you come just to tell us this?"

Wang Tao chuckled, "Of course not entirely." He glanced at Jiang Wenyu again: "Mr. Jiang, I said yesterday that I, Wang Tao, will always welcome your arrival. Today I just wanted to let Mr. Jiang see my capability. I still have a certain influence in Chema City; with my assets and ability, plus your skill, we're sure to make a fortune."

Jiang Wenyu still said nothing. Wang Tao smiled composedly, "Same words as before — if Mr. Jiang changes his mind, come find me anytime."

He ignored Li Chen completely, turned, and walked away laughing happily.

Li Chen's face was overcast, his fists even clenched tight, yet Jiang Wenyu remained perfectly calm, without any emotional ripple.

"Hmph, a guy who judges people by their looks!" He cursed, but Li Chen couldn't help growing worried: "This is bad. That guy collected this many in one day; if it keeps up, the two of us won't scrape any profit. What do we do — expand operations to the neighboring cities?"

There are several small towns and cities near Chema City, none very large.

Jiang Wenyu shook his head, then smiled: "No need. We've just started; we should take it slow."

Seeing him this calm, Li Chen blurted, "Damn it, Big Bro, you're too calm! That Wang Tao's bullying us right to our necks!"

Jiang Wenyu still smiled: "Don't rush. Didn't you hear him? A hundred and thirty appliances. We could only scrape together twenty a day at most, and even twenty takes me a while to fix. Wang Tao hired ten-odd people, but the volume is still too large — wanting to repair them all in a short time and then sell them is clearly unrealistic. Besides…"

"Besides what?" Li Chen hurriedly asked.

Jiang Wenyu still smiled with utter confidence, stood up, and said: "Let's leave it at that for now. I'm going home. Relax — we'll wait a few more days and see. Treat these days as a holiday."

Li Chen hurriedly said: "Waiting a few days is fine, but don't speak in riddles — what exactly do you mean!"

Jiang Wenyu walked outside, already mounted his bike, and called back composedly: "The meaning is, he Wang Tao is too greedy."

In the end, Li Chen still didn't figure out what Jiang Wenyu meant by that sentence.

Around six in the evening, night had already fallen, but inside one of Wang Tao's personal small workshops it was rather noisy.

Ten-odd technical workers looked at the hundred-odd pieces of junk and their heads ached, while Wang Tao kept smiling and asked, "About how long to fix these?"

One of them wiped sweat from his forehead and said: "Fixing them isn't a problem — they're all ordinary small appliances — but the quantity is too large. At the fastest… half a month."

Wang Tao had been smiling a moment ago; now his face instantly hardened.

"Half a month?"

He pointed at the items: "Just these ordinary things and you need half a month to fix them all!?"

In fact half a month was already optimistic; the man said with some embarrassment, "That's already counting as fast."

"No good!"

Wang Tao immediately said sternly: "Three days. I'm giving you three days. Can't do it, don't expect any wages!"

Hearing "three days," the ten-odd men instantly wore long faces.