Chapter 54: Time is money!

Hearing his words.

Li Jiaci almost laughed out loud.

"Earning eighty thousand a day is not a small amount."

Li Jiaci said: "And with these three new machines, we can make another eighty thousand."

Since it's just a day's work for free, what's there to hesitate about?

Li Jiaci directly took the two people to find the machinery factory manager.

At this moment, he.

He was introducing the equipment to a group, his face flushed and spit flying.

Li Jiaci didn't think much, walked straight up and said: "Manager Chang, right? Please call a few people over to move the machines—a wood splitter, a planer, and a saw, one each."

Manager Chang stared, surprised, and said: "Ordering so many machines—are you planning to open a wood processing factory?"

"Pfft..."

Before Li Jiaci could speak,

Beside him, a person with a fake smile said: "Young people these days are really bold, even daring to covet a wood processing factory."

"Look at how you're talking."

"Timber is worth as much as gold now—who wouldn't want a share?"

Another person raised his head, glanced at Li Jiaci, and said: "However, little brother, let me remind you as an elder: getting into the timber business now is no easy feat."

"The policies from above have only just been issued."

"Even if you open a factory and have the machines, you won't find raw materials."

He said this, pointing at a group standing by the machinery factory's entrance, and said: "Do you see those people standing outside? They all run wood processing factories and have bought equipment from Manager Chang here."

"But because they can't find raw materials now, their factories have gone under; left with no choice, they want to return the equipment to pay off debts."

Li Jiaci looked at this person before him with a bewildered expression.

This person's words are quite a lot.

And he simply ignored that person, went straight to Manager Chang and said: "Are you selling the machines or not? If not, I'll check another machinery factory."

"Sell, of course we sell."

Manager Chang came to his senses and said: "But I have to tell you this: our rule here is that once a machine is sold, it's repair-only, no returns. If you end up like them, don't blame me for not letting you in the door!"

"As long as you handle maintenance, it's fine."

Li Jiaci glanced at those who had just been making sarcastic remarks, casually said: "Not to hide it from you, I lack everything here except raw materials—I have plenty of those."

"And if it weren't for the raw materials piling up too much,"

"I wouldn't even think about coming here to buy machines to expand scale."

Upon hearing Li Jiaci say that,

The looks those few people around gave Li Jiaci were beyond strange.

Now the whole market lacks raw materials, yet he claims he's not short? And says they're piled up too much? Even bragging isn't usually done like this.

However.

What needed to be said has been said.

The manager also stopped trying to persuade, and only told Li Jiaci: "Our factory offers a ten-year warranty; if anything breaks, you can deduct from me, and I'll send someone right over. If there are no other issues, let's sign the purchase contract now."

"Of course there's no problem."

Li Jiaci immediately had the manager bring the contract.

After the signatures were done, he had Wang Lan count out the money to give to the manager.

Perhaps seeing they paid quickly without fuss, the manager also gave Li Jiaci a discount.

The machines originally cost eighty-five thousand; he knocked off three thousand, charging them only eighty-two thousand.

And seeing their demeanor, those few people around all showed expressions of disdain.

"Ha!"

One of them said: "Here we go again, another pretentious big-shot."

"Hi!"

"Never mind what he's doing."

Another said: "When he falls from a height and cries to his creditors for a few days' leniency, he'll naturally know pain."

And they weren't controlling their volume while speaking.

These words also reached the ears of Li Jiaci and his companions.

Li Jiaci was fine with it; he just took it as them farting.

But Wang Lan and Zhang Chuqiang clearly couldn't stand it.

From the start, they've been mocking and sneering at them, and they still are.

These guys have never gotten beaten, huh?

Just as the two could hardly restrain themselves from striking, a voice suddenly entered their ears.

"If you can speak, say more; if you can't, shut up."

"Boss Li's factory ships enough in a day to recoup the cost of these three machines."

"What gives you the right to chime in here?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present froze, then all turned to look.

They saw a man in his thirties leading two people walking slowly toward them.

Li Jiaci also took a while to recognize him before identifying this man.

"Boss Zhou!"

How come you're also here?

Li Jiaci looked around and said, "You've had enough of being a second-hand dealer—are you preparing to open your own factory?"

The person in front of him was named Zoucheng.

He was one of the second-hand dealers that Hong Bo had brought earlier.

Zoucheng waved his hand dismissively, laughing, "Boss Li, don't joke with me—I don't have the ability to open a factory myself."

I'm just idly picking up work here; the manager just docked my pay and sent me to deliver a machine to someone, and only when I arrived did I realize that the person who bought the machine is you, Boss Li.

While speaking, Zoucheng deliberately glanced at the few people who had just spoken and said, "Your worries are unnecessary—Boss Li lacks nothing except timber; even if you fell from a height and died, Boss Li would be fine."

After he finished speaking,

Only then did the few people around come to their senses.

One of them narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Zoucheng, you little brat, have you gotten full of yourself? Dare to talk to us like that?"

Holy shit.

What the hell are you?

Zoucheng tilted his head and said to that person, "Last year I brought people to haul those loads for you, and you still haven't paid me—what right do you have to act arrogant in front of me?"

Listen up!

I'll give you half a month!

Zoucheng pointed at the guy's nose and said, "If you don't come up with that ten thousand yuan for the freight, I'll sue you in court!"

You...

That person was also scolded by Zoucheng until his face turned bright red.

What a guy.

Zhang Chuqiang sneered, "A deadbeat who doesn't pay his debts dares to say we're putting on airs—people's hearts have really gone downhill, and morals have deteriorated..."

Pfft...

Wang Lan couldn't hold back her laughter: "Older brother Five, it's morals that have deteriorated, people's hearts that have gone bad..."

Who cares what he is.

Zhang Chuqiang said indifferently, "Anyway, he's just a scoundrel, no doubt about it."

Alright!

Li Jiaci stopped the two of them and said, "You two, cut it out—if you make them angry enough to give them a heart attack, you'll have to pay for their treatment yourself; I won't have anything to do with it."

His words were even more infuriating than those of Zhang Chuqiang and Wang Lan.

And from beginning to end, he didn't even regard this person, or even this group, as worth noticing.

He turned his head to Zoucheng and said, "Since you, Boss Zou, are delivering the goods, I'll skip waiting here—I'll head back to the factory to oversee things; just deliver the items to our factory when you arrive."

I'll handle it, you can rest assured!

Zoucheng said, "I guarantee I'll deliver these machines safely to you, without a single bump!"