Chapter 16: I want all the timber in your factory

Thinking this far.

Li Jiaci didn't think much, and immediately said, "Yihu, go call someone!"

Okay!

Li Yihu immediately opened the car door, jumped out, came to the factory gate, and shouted into the yard, "Is Lu San home?"

He then knocked on the big iron gate outside the factory with his fist.

However, the factory remained quiet, not even a dog's bark.

Seeing that no one responded after a long while,

Li Yihu simply leapt over the gate and jumped into the yard.

In the spacious yard, timber was piled up like a mountain.

Li Yihu looked left and right, then casually opened the gate behind him and walked toward the house standing at the far end of the courtyard.

"Anyone breathing in there? Come out!"

As he walked toward the house, Li Yihu shouted loudly, "My older brother has some business with your Lu San!"

A moment later.

The door was pushed open from inside.

An old man with completely white hair walked out.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Lu San!"

Li Yihu stopped and said, "My older brother has some business with him."

"Your older brother?"

The old man was stunned, tilted his head back, then asked, "Who is your older brother?"

"Li Jiaci!"

Li Yihu directly gave Li Jiaci's name.

And at that moment,

A man in his thirties emerged from behind the old man.

"Why is he here again?"

The man nervously said, "I already told Boss Liu I'd pay half now and the rest next month, and Boss Liu already agreed."

Li Yihu was about to speak.

Li Jiaci then walked out from behind him.

"Boss Lu, there's a misunderstanding!"

"I didn't come this time to collect money from you."

Lu San had previously borrowed a sum of money from Boss Liu and had long delayed repayment.

Boss Liu couldn't be bothered to come himself, so he handed the debt to Li Jiaci to collect; Li Jiaci, eager to recover the money quickly, often brought Zhang Chuqiang to press Lu San.

Thus, merely seeing Li Jiaci walk toward him now made this guy involuntarily start to panic.

"You, you don't move!"

Lu San raised his hand to stop Li Jiaci, stammering, "You, you first say, what do you want from me?"

"To buy timber."

Li Jiaci said with a smile.

Hearing Li Jiaci's words,

Lu San was completely stunned.

"What do you need the timber for?"

In his view, Li Jiaci was a thoroughgoing hooligan; what would he be doing buying wood for no reason?

"Why do you have so much nonsense?"

Li Yihu said impatiently, "Just tell us straight: are you doing this business or not?"

Lu San looked at Li Jiaci, his eyes clearly showing some hesitation.

"So you mean you won't do my business? Fine!"

Li Jiaci raised his chin, waved at the few people, and said, "Let's go, let's check the next place."

"No, no, no!"

Now Lu San didn't hesitate either.

He stepped up to Li Jiaci and said, "You say you want to do business, so you first have to tell me what timber you need."

Li Jiaci gestured around and said, "All the timber in your factory, I want it all."

"What?"

Lu San widened his eyes: "All of it?"

"Any problem?"

Li Jiaci raised an eyebrow and asked.

"No, no problem."

Lu San gave a dry laugh and said, "However, if you want to contract all the timber in my factory, that won't be cheap..."

"Give me a number."

"Uh..."

Lu San carefully calculated, then held up two fingers crossed: "One hundred thousand!"

"Deal!"

Li Jiaci didn't even think.

He directly took out a plastic bag from his pocket and threw it to Lu San.

Lu San opened the plastic bag and, to his surprise, inside were three bundles of hundred-yuan bills.

"Jiaci!"

"What's wrong?"

"Not enough."

Lu San pulled the corner of his mouth into a dry laugh and said, "We're still short seventy thousand."

"This is a deposit."

Li Jiaci said calmly, "The rest of the money, after I sell the timber and give it to you; if I can't sell it all, I'll return every last piece of timber you have left."

"This..."

"You don't trust me?"

Li Jiaci tilted his head.

"How, how could that be."

Lu San hurriedly said, "Others might not believe, but I definitely believe you."

"As long as you trust me, that's fine."

"At most half a month, I'll give you the remaining money."

"However, I have no place to store the timber, so I need to borrow your workshop first."

Li Jiaci said, "When we settle up at the end, I'll calculate the rent for you at two hundred per day, okay?"

"Fine, what's not okay about that."

Lu San glanced left and right at the piles of timber and logs, then looked up at Li Jiaci and said, "However, Jiaci bro, are you sure you can sell all this timber within half a month?"

"Just take the money and that's it."

Li Jiaci said, "If I can't sell it all, the money is yours and the timber remains yours—what do you have to fear?"

Upon hearing Li Jiaci's words.

A smile also appeared on Lu San's face.

"Jiaci bro, it's no wonder you hang out with Boss Liu."

"Indeed, you're different from us common folk."

Lu San gave an apologetic smile and said, "Then you go ahead and look around; I'll take my old man and wife to move out, and we'll come back after half a month!"

"Hmm."

Li Jiaci nodded.

And Lu San hurriedly ran into the house.

"What's going on?"

Lu San's father asked, "What are these people here for?"

"They're here to deliver money."

Lu San, grinning proudly, waved the bills in front of his father and then said, "Dad, hurry up and pack your things; we need to leave quickly, because if they later discover this is just a pile of unsellable birch wood, they might regret it and try to take the money back, which would be troublesome."

Upon hearing him say that.

The old man also reacted, hurriedly going to pack his belongings.

At the same time.

Lu San also turned his head to glance at Li Jiaci's direction, his eyes carrying a hint of mockery.

Obviously.

He was treating Li Jiaci as a gullible fool.

Not long after, that guy carried big and small bundles, taking his wife, children, and father out the door.

Before leaving.

He also said to Li Jiaci, "Jiaci bro, I won't lock the door; if you brothers are tired, just come in to rest, no need to be polite."

"Then thank you."

"No problem!"

"Then we'll be off!"

After saying that, Lu San directly took his family and got onto a minivan and left.

Looking at that, it seemed he feared Li Jiaci would regret it.

"Damn."

Li Yihu said, "That guy really runs fast."

"What if he doesn't run fast?"

Zhao Chen pursed his lips and said, "I just took a look around; the workshop is full of birch wood, which hardly anyone here wants. He's probably eighty percent sure we'll regret it and come back to snatch the money."

"What? All birch wood?"

Li Yihu widened his eyes, lifted the tarp, and inspected them one by one.

When he saw that it was all birch wood, his face was full of dejection.

"We're done for, boss!"

"We've been screwed over by this Lu San."