Chapter 128: Meeting the Sales Head of Yuansheng Group

His tone was harsh. "I don't have any Yuansheng Group properties here. If you want to see them, go to another agency!" His eyes held a look of vigilance.

Wang Chuan gave Lou Yihan a slight shake of his head.

"Then we'll take our leave and check other agencies." Lou Yihan kept her smile as she and Wang Chuan stepped back out.

Sitting back in the BMW, Lou Yihan felt somewhat deflated. "Why won't this guy do business? President Wang, didn't you say Yuansheng Group recently increased their promotional efforts to sell houses? If he took our business, he could ask Yuansheng Group for a commission!"

Wang Chuan looked at the tightly closed glass door of An Yuan Real Estate in the rearview mirror, his expression calm.

"Expected. We're about to get our answer."

Lou Yihan looked puzzled. "Answer?"

"Just based on the meager resources An Yuan Property invested, how did they have over thirty clients refer to Yuansheng Group in the last year?"

"I speculate An Yuan Property's only business is intermediary services for Yuansheng Group, with perhaps a scattered side business of renting out surrounding second-hand homes."

Wang Chuan explained.

Lou Yihan nodded, as if she finally understood everything. "I remember President Wang saying just now to pay attention to their working environment. An Yuan Real Estate's storefront location is a terrible spot, with just one broken computer."

"Even clients wanting to buy existing new homes from Yuansheng Group would find it hard to locate this An Yuan Property! Unless someone introduced them?"

Wang Chuan showed an approving look. "Correct. We pretended to be Yuansheng property clients, and he refused to serve us. This means he only accepts clients transferred by Lian Zhanhuai."

"Lian Zhanhuai is the bread and butter for this small intermediary; An Yuan must obey Lian Zhanhuai's orders."

After Wang Chuan finished speaking, sweat beads dripped straight down his forehead.

Lou Yihan quickly adjusted the temperature of the BMW's air conditioning. Whoosh—whoosh, cold wind rushed out. "President Wang, shall we go to the other two agencies?"

For this An Yuan Real Estate, a tiny operation, if you say their resources are insufficient to support introducing over thirty clients, they can stubbornly explain it was all word-of-mouth referrals from acquaintances.

At this moment, reporting Lian Zhanhuai to Xin Yuansheng might not have enough evidence yet.

The other two real estate agencies introduced a total of over three hundred clients in the last year.

If these two agencies are also not large in scale, it means they accept clients transferred by Lian Zhanhuai.

"Go check the other two to see if their scale is large. First, find a restaurant near the second one, Xin Wang Real Estate, for lunch. Later, Xin Chanxi will meet us there."

After Wang Chuan finished speaking, he replied to a text message from Xin Chanxi, telling her the address of Xin Wang Real Estate.

"Mm!" Lou Yihan wrote it down in her notebook: 'First agency, An Yuan Property Intermediary, a little shrimp, relying on Lian Zhanhuai to feed them! They dare not eat food that isn't fed to them.'

The BMW 325i stopped in a parking lot near Xin Wang Real Estate. The street where the Xin Wang Real Estate storefront is located belongs to a single-lane road, quite narrow and prone to traffic jams.

In a private dining room of the restaurant facing the street, separated by a glass window, Wang Chuan and Lou Yihan ate lunch while observing the target.

Xin Wang's storefront was much more imposing than An Yuan's, located on a street-front shop with gleaming glass, and even a few half-dead potted plants placed at the entrance.

Through the glass door, several office desks could be seen inside, with six or seven figures moving about.

"President Wang, this place looks much more formal, and the scale is larger too." Lou Yihan said in a low voice.

Wang Chuan took a sip of ice water, his gaze clear. "The scale is a bit larger, but look at what the people inside are doing?"

Lou Yihan focused her gaze: a middle-aged man was on the phone, spittle flying; five young people were in front of computers, seemingly playing online games together, waving their hands and feet; and another woman was boredly trimming her nails.

"They... seem busy, but not busy with legitimate real estate intermediary business?" Lou Yihan was somewhat puzzled.

"Correct." A cold sneer curled Wang Chuan's lips. "Xin Wang's main business is leasing and trading old, dilapidated small homes in the surrounding area. Look at the 'For Rent' posters at the main entrance; they are all those property listings."

"This kind of business requires deep community engagement, maintaining landlord relationships, and running errands, not what they are doing right now."

Lou Yihan pondered: "The clients they introduced to Yuansheng Group weren't developed by them themselves? Or were they sent by Lian Zhanhuai?"

"Exactly. An Yuan is too small; their resources can't support it. Xin Wang's business direction is completely mismatched, yet they 'introduced' over a hundred clients out of thin air. This is even more unreasonable."

At this moment, Xin Chanxi pushed the door open, a thin layer of sweat on her temples, her ponytail tied low, her apricot eyes shining brightly.

"Brother Wang Chuan, Sister Lou!" She pulled out a chair and sat down, placing her classic Chanel bag on the table. "How was the investigation of the first one, An Yuan?"

Wang Chuan handed Lou Yihan's notebook to Xin Chanxi.

"An Yuan Real Estate, a little shrimp, waiting for Lian Zhanhuai to feed them!" Xin Chanxi giggled. "Sister Lou, did you write this? What about that Xin Wang Real Estate?"

"Haven't started the investigation yet!" Lou Yihan replied, then looked down and saw Xin Chanxi's hand, wearing a famous watch, resting on her knee.

"Little President Xin, why is your knee skin broken?"

Wang Chuan glanced over but said nothing.

He knew the reason: last night, Xin Chanxi had knelt on the wall with both legs and kissed him frantically.

Xin Chanxi's ears turned a bit hot. She picked up the water cup in front of Wang Chuan, took a big gulp, and said, "I accidentally fell in the training room at home this morning."

Wang Chuan immediately changed the subject. "Xin Wang is larger in scale, so their vigilance might be higher. Let's change our strategy."

"Lou Yihan, this time you play the role of a wealthy big client wanting to buy Yuansheng Group properties. Go straight to the door and ask how much discount they can give. I checked; Yuansheng Group is currently promoting, with a ten percent discount on the full price of a single unit."

"If they have close cooperation with Lian Zhanhuai, they can definitely get an even lower discount."

Lou Yihan took a deep breath, silently recited the lines Wang Chuan taught her a few more times in her mind, and then pushed open the glass door of Xin Wang Real Estate.

The air conditioning inside the store was strong, and the cold air hit her face.

"Hello, Boss, I want to see Yuansheng Group's houses in Dongxin District, Yuansheng~Yujian Mansion and so on."

Lou Yihan got straight to the point, her tone carrying a hint of impatience. "I've been to several other real estate agencies. If your discount is lower, I'll pay the deposit immediately here."

The one receiving her was the middle-aged man on the phone, Boss Zhao.

He immediately noticed Lou Yihan's right hand wearing a Patek Philippe watch, and she was holding a classic black quilted chain Chanel bag, with a large pile of Renminbi vaguely visible inside.

His eyes instantly lit up.

"Oh, Miss, the discounts Yuansheng gives to all intermediaries are unified. We intermediaries don't have that kind of power... but..."

"Stop fooling me!" Lou Yihan interrupted him, raising her voice a few decibels. "Just say if it can be done or not! If you can't do it, I'll go to another agency!"

Lou Yihan pretended to leave.

"Don't, don't, don't!" Boss Zhao hurriedly blocked her, stepped closer, and lowered his voice even more. "It can be done, it can be done!"

Lou Yihan feigned a look of suspicion. "Just now you said the discount is unified, now you say it can be done? Don't fool me. I asked other real estate intermediaries; their scale is even bigger than yours! They all said they couldn't process a lower discount."

Boss Zhao snorted coldly, a hint of pride on his face. "What's the use of having a large scale!"

Suddenly, the voice dropped lower: "We actually know the sales head of Yuansheng Group, Director Lian!"