Chapter 45: Blazing Scene

On the other side.

Not long after leaving Li Jiaci's factory.

Hong Bo then led the car fleet and stopped at the entrance of a small roadside restaurant.

And it was while he was having lunch with the two drivers that a noisy commotion suddenly came from outside.

Immediately after.

Then he saw a middle-aged man run in from outside.

The middle-aged man looked left and right, and his gaze finally settled on Hong Bo's face.

Holy shit!

Old Hong, are those vehicles outside yours?

That guy ran straight up to Hong Bo and asked: "Where exactly did you find such good timber?"

Hong Bo gave a mysterious smile: "Guess."

You damn...

The man took a breath, then leaned close to Hong Bo, handed him a cigarette, and said with a beaming smile: "Brother, Brother Hong, my dear brother, tell me, where did you get this timber?"

You really want to know?

Hong Bo glanced at him.

Want to!

That guy nodded firmly.

Hong Bo extended a finger: "One hundred!"

Damn!

The man couldn't help cursing: "Others charge fifty for guiding, you want a hundred—you're really damn black!"

Want to hear it or not?

Hong Bo tilted his head, glanced at him, and said: "If you don't want to hear it, forget it!"

Although the man was a bit reluctant.

But thinking of the top-quality timber he had just seen on the truck.

He still gritted his teeth, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket, and handed it to Hong Bo.

Hong Bo felt it, confirmed it was genuine, and then told him the address of Li Jiaci's factory.

When you get there, just say I sent you.

Hong Bo said calmly: "Otherwise, they wouldn't possibly give you such high-quality timber..."

This afternoon.

Hong Bo didn't go anywhere else.

He kept sitting in that restaurant where wood middlemen often showed up.

Basically every ten or so minutes, someone would come over to ask him about the timber.

Hong Bo treated them all the same, charging each a hundred-yuan referral fee.

And at present.

Timber is genuinely hard to come by.

Especially high-quality timber, which is even rarer.

So these people basically had no hesitation; they immediately coughed up money for the address.

However, there were a few suckers among them.

After they took Hong Bo's address and arrived at Li Jiaci's timber factory, they realized they had already received a call from Liu Jiang the previous night, but because the address was a bit far from the city center, they had politely turned him down.

However.

Yet none of them expected.

That they themselves would end up coming here after all.

And they came after paying that hundred-yuan referral fee.

At this point, they regretted it deeply.

Had they known, they should have just asked Liu Jiang for the address back then—no need to spend that hundred-yuan fee.

Of course.

This matter has nothing to do with Li Jiaci and them.

Seeing the vehicles start to stream in, Li Jiaci casually tossed the money he had just received to Liu Jiang.

When keeping the accounts, be careful—make sure you don't make a mistake.

Got it, bro!

Li Jiaci then looked up and shouted at Li Yihu, who was standing by the workshop door: "Yihu, tell everyone to put in extra effort; if we can still process another fifty tons of timber before the end of today's shift, I'll use my own money to buy pork and have each person take home two jin to improve their families' meals."

Sure!

Li Yihu immediately relayed Li Jiaci's words to the workers who were on the job.

Upon hearing about the reward.

Everyone cheered, then put their backs into it and began to speed up production.

This afternoon, they not only met Li Jiaci's fifty-ton target but also produced an extra ten tons, for a total of over ninety cubic meters of finished timber.

Originally they thought.

That ninety-plus cubic meters of timber would be enough to keep them hauling for a while.

But Li Jiaci still vastly underestimated the current boom in the timber market, and even more so underestimated Hong Bo.

No one knows what he did, but after the first vehicle arrived, basically every ten or so minutes another vehicle would show up, saying it was referred by Hong Bo.

And they had processed over ninety cubic meters of timber, which wasn't enough to sell; even when the workers knocked off, six or seven trucks were still parked outside waiting to load lumber.

Seeing this scene,

Li Jiaci could only step forward himself.

"Sorry, everyone."

"Today's birch wood is all gone."

Li Jiaci shouted: "If you still want birch wood, come back tomorrow!"

"I'll go!"

"I've been waiting here for an hour, and you tell me it's sold out?"

"Exactly."

"How are you doing business like this?"

"A timber processing plant, and you've run out of wood to sell?"

"Boss, can't you have your workers work overtime? I really need to deliver the goods!"

All the timber merchants were complaining bitterly.

However.

Li Jiaci was also helpless.

He never expected the business to be this booming.

In total, they had recruited fewer than twenty workers for the whole site.

Li Jiaci thought for a moment, turned to Liu Jiang and asked: "Can we still find people around here?"

Liu Jiang thought for a moment, then said: "There are several big villages nearby; finding people shouldn't be a problem!"

"Then let's go find twenty more people tomorrow and bring them back."

"Same old rule: try to find those who have worked at the timber plant before."

"If we really can't, we'll take a few from the experienced workers to lead them."

Li Jiaci said: "Starting tomorrow, the factory will run night shifts, with two shifts alternating; people rest, machines don't."

"Good!"

Liu Jiang nodded.

And at this moment.

Li Jiaci also spoke up to the crowd outside, promising: "Today I'm really sorry, everyone; the factory staff have gone home to rest, and we really can't process any more. When you all come back tomorrow, I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"

Hearing Li Jiaci say that,

The trucks that had been blocking the factory gate finally began to disperse.

After seeing the last truck leave the scene,

Li Jiaci waved his hand and directly told everyone to knock off work.

He kept his word; he didn't let anyone leave empty-handed—each person carried a bag of pork.

In those times, people were mostly simple; upon receiving pork, they grinned from ear to ear and kept thanking Li Jiaci.

"You don't need to be polite."

"I told you all before: work hard and there will definitely be rewards."

"And today I also promise you all: if tomorrow you can process a hundred tons of raw timber, there will be rewards!"

Li Jiaci told everyone: "And it's not just tomorrow; as long as you work hard, I'll give you something every day from now on!"

……

After the workers had all left,

Li Jiaci then arranged for Wang Lan and Liu Jiang to stay behind to guard the machinery.

Then he went back to the office.

When he entered the room, Wang Yingna was sitting on the windowsill gazing out.

From her complexion and her increasingly dull gaze, Li Jiaci could guess that this guy was about to flare up.