Please make money.

Boss Guo and Mrs. Lu exchanged glances, and the latter came forward with a kind smile.

The beautiful girl talked with the two "old acquaintances" for a while in confusion, and then she understood.

It turns out that you are greedy for the eldest lady!

"Oh my! The young lady is here too?!"

This is really a surprise. Boss Guo is really impressed by Alia.

Or maybe no one was not impressed at the time. It is so rare to have such a young leader who spends money lavishly!

"I must visit him, I must visit him! I hope you will introduce me to him!"

While Boss Guo was talking, Mrs. Lu, who had sharp eyes, noticed the box in Mei Mei's arms. Her eyes lit up and she took two steps back to call the tour guide over.

He is called a tour guide, but in fact he is a shopping guide. Mrs. Lu pointed like this, and the other party looked at her and said, "hmm, hmm," and understood.

The female commentator raised her hand and gestured to the side: Boss, please come this way!

Meimei finally finished exchanging pleasantries with Boss Guo, and both parties said goodbye politely after exchanging contact information. F4, looking as proud as little roosters, prepared to go out.

As a result, when I got near the door, before I even took out my card, the other party politely told me that someone else had just paid the bill.

The beautiful girl was surprised: "This is a complete set! 500 million yen!"

"Yes, we know it very well." The young lady was extremely respectful: "It's an honor that you like our craftsmanship."

"..." The beautiful sister was silent for a moment, turned her head to look at F4 who were confused, and sighed again.

I am so stupid. What can I discuss with these idiots?

She took out her cell phone and called her mother to tell her about this. She really didn't dare to accept a gift worth 5 million yen from someone else because it was too hot.

Aunt Zhou was a little surprised after hearing this: "What a coincidence? How did they know that the eldest lady was also here?"

The beautiful girl then remembered that she was the one who led them here, and vaguely admitted her mistake: "I didn't expect them to be so generous..."

"With a business worth tens of millions, of course I'm willing to be generous." Aunt Zhou was not angry: "You can talk to the eldest lady yourself. It just happens to be a gift for her."

Meimei thought so too, this gift was not something I asked for, but it was from my good sister.

She called Alia and chattered on and on about this and that, and said that the other party was still visiting the exhibition and had not left.

"Hahaha——" Alia laughed so hard: "I guess the other party is also distressed. Who would have thought that a box like yours would cost 5 million yen?"

"Ah this..."

"I guess you didn't leave because you want to wait for a reply. Since you've met me, please come over. Let's have dinner together tonight. It's no big deal. I can just give you a gift in return. Don't feel any psychological pressure. Have fun!"

The beautiful sister turned her head and saw Mrs. Lu naturally following her gaze and smiling politely.

Oh, so this is the world of martial arts, this is the way of the world...

The beautiful sister learned a little bit, went over to make an appointment with the other party, and said that the eldest lady was free tonight.

"If you don't mind, we can have a simple meal together tonight. My sister said she is very grateful for the gifts you two gave her and she likes them very much."

Boss Guo was overjoyed, and Mrs. Lu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, probably because she wasn't feeling so painful anymore.

My goodness, she just swiped her card to spend more than 5 million yen, and she thought there was a mistake on the bill.

Who knew this box was actually a set!

If she wasn't sure that she was too proactive, she would have wondered if she was being set up.

The beautiful sister had originally wanted to go somewhere else to play for a while, but now she had unfortunately gotten caught up in the hypocritical and polite transactions between adults. She had no choice but to go back home and send these two guests back first. For a moment, she was like a little adult.

The group got on a special bus, and other friends were also called to join a bus, which drove to the Hoshino Hotel.

Boss Guo looked at the group of children and spoke to his wife in a low voice, "Could this young lady be the leader of the children and lead the group out to play?"

Madam Lu squinted her eyes and looked at him for a while, then shook her head: "It should be by the way. Didn't Miss Zhou say before that Mr. Lei was also there?"

They didn't really buy a newspaper to read the news when they were out and about - who would read that when traveling - otherwise they would have known about the recent gossip about Alia.

The car quickly returned to the Hoshino Hotel. The bus stopped in front of the hotel and a large group of people got off.

It just so happened that another convoy also returned, and it was Ailia who heard that there were guests and made a special trip back to receive them.

Although giving gifts was a coincidence, accepting gifts was not a coincidence. Alia, who is soft-hearted, was very polite in this regard.

Just as everyone was politely walking towards the hotel, An Lele subconsciously turned back and looked at the street outside the hotel.

"what happened?"

"Someone is watching us... It's weird..."

"They are probably paparazzi. They can keep watching. Who dares to take photos and send them out? The Ministry of Justice is a vegetarian, right?"

“That’s right.” An Lele was immediately relieved. She took out Tamagotchi and started playing while following behind, not paying much attention to those strange looks.

However, in an alley between buildings not far from the hotel, a man in a dark corner held his waist and looked at the group of people angrily.

"Aliya—Aliya!"

“Buzz…Buzz…”

The man's cell phone vibrated and he quickly took it out. He saw it was his sister calling, but he had a bad feeling.

After a few seconds of silence, he finally answered the call, but didn't say anything. He just put it next to his ear.

"Kuroda, you are listening, right?" His good brother's voice came out: "Kikuko is a good girl, you don't want her to get into trouble, right?"

"……Why?"

"If I have to explain why, it's probably because you were too ignorant to provoke such a big shot. I was afraid of being implicated by you, so I took the initiative. But don't worry, I will plead with that person and say that you really didn't mean any harm."

Kuroda almost gritted his teeth: "I always thought you were my best brother!"

"It was, and it is still, I know why you do this - after all, she is an outsider, and she acts too arrogantly, many people can't stand her, you think if you succeed this time, you will be able to stand out, and some people will look up to you... But you think too well, Kuroda, my eldest brother works in the Inagawa Association, he told me some information that others don't know, that person is definitely someone we can't afford to offend."

"If you persuade me like this, will I refuse?"

"If I advise you like this, what can I use as a knocking brick? For the sake of our friendship, please help me this time."

"...Just wait! I will make you all regret this - I definitely will!!"

178-Feint to the East and Attack in the West

Alia had a smooth conversation with Boss Guo.

Boss Guo himself had no intention of getting any benefits from Alia, after all, the other party was his Party A.

These days I've only heard of Party A making things difficult for Party B, but I've never heard of Party B being a bully.

But unexpectedly, Alia was so easy to talk to. When she heard that they wanted to upgrade their production line, she immediately said that she could act as a matchmaker.

When we heard that they were unable to obtain the relevant technology due to financial problems, we decided to guarantee the order volume.

In other words, Boss Guo can now take out a loan or borrow money to expand his production line.

As the scale of the production line increases, we will naturally have the confidence to purchase technology. We may even be able to bargain for some patents that we previously could not even think about.

While drinking, Boss Guo even took the time to discuss with his wife whether there was any scam in this matter.

"If you ask me, I wouldn't be favored by this guy——"

You need a reason to be cheated. What is their reason?

The money they have now was personally delivered by the other party. If they really wanted to take it back, they should not have given cash in the first place, but should have converted debt into equity.

"It's not completely risk-free." Boss Guo pondered for a while: "But it will take several years."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Lu was confused: "Several years? Can you still play the long game to catch a big fish?"

Boss Guo briefly told his wife a previous example in the OEM industry, and the latter broke into a cold sweat after hearing it.

How to cheat? Spend money to fatten them up, then kill them!

In the first year, under normal cooperation, a factory with a production capacity of only 10,000 orders was given 20,000 orders.

If we want to take orders, we need to add another production line, and the new production line will cost 400 million.

But the profit is very high, with a gross profit of 100 per order, and a gross profit of 200 million per year, which means the investment can be recovered in two years.

If you calculate it this way, it's not a loss at all, so I happily accepted the order. The subsequent cooperation was also very smooth, and the final payment was not in arrears, which was very generous.

The second year was the same order, and the shipment volume increased by tens of thousands. However, due to the large volume, the profit margin was compressed, and the gross profit of 100 became 80.

This would require adding more production lines, but that didn’t matter. The quantity was large, the company was trustworthy, and the gross profit was still high, so I happily accepted it.

The subsequent cooperation went smoothly and the profit returns were good. Although we have not yet been able to earn back the cost of adding production lines, there is hope for the future.

As a result, in the third year, the gross profit remained unchanged, but the shipment volume dropped sharply to only 1 orders.

"In this case, won't the several new production lines that were added earlier be idle?" Mrs. Lu widened her eyes.

"Yes, so they are lowering the price and only give you 50 in gross profit. The order is increased to . Do you want it?"

"……want."

"That's right. From now on, you're the one begging them for orders. They've lifted you up, but you can never get down from there."

With so many production lines, and more importantly, the investment costs of the production lines have not been fully recovered, we can only beg the other party for orders.

No matter how low the gross profit is, it is enough as long as it can maintain basic cost operations.

It is even possible that the company will lose money, otherwise employees will be unemployed and machines will be idle, resulting in greater losses.

"Before, we had trouble paying our employees' salaries, so we chose to accept orders at cost price in order to survive the off-season, right?"

"Indeed...So should we accept it or not?"

"Take it!" Boss Guo thought about it and nodded vigorously. "At worst, we can just keep the current plate and eat as much as we can. They can't force us to expand, right? Even if they were cheating in the first two years, they wouldn't have used the knife so directly. At worst, we can just eat the sugar-coated shells and fight back."

Mrs. Lu rolled her eyes at him and said, "It's not certain yet whether it's a scam or not. I think he's a nice person and he's just trying to help."

"Of course it's good now, but people change. The Ai Group was so good in the beginning, but what happened later? It's getting better now, but only a little bit."

"Okay, that's enough. Let's go back and have a good talk with Miss Ai."

Mrs. Lu is a relatively emotional person. She is not good at talking about money, but is better at talking about feelings.

She felt that Alia was a nice and sincere person, and that her eyes had a wild and innocent beauty.

The two turned back muttering to each other and happened to meet Aaliyah looking at a bouquet of flowers.

It was a super large bouquet, with roses arranged in a heart shape in the middle and other flowers surrounding it, neatly trimmed and very beautiful.

"This is..." Mrs. Lu looked at the bouquet of flowers curiously. Was she going to witness this person's love story?

Ailia, on the other hand, looked confused: "It was just delivered. I don't know who it is."

As she spoke, she took out the card and looked at it: "It's not signed either. Could it be sent to the wrong person?"

I asked the waiter next to me, and the front desk replied that it was correct and that what was delivered was specifically for the guest, Miss Alia.

Alia was fiddling with the bouquet of flowers, but Anlele's ears twitched beside her: "What's that sound?"

Alia paused, narrowed her eyes, grabbed the tie in the middle of the bouquet, and tore it apart with her bare hands.

As the flowers flew away, an object the size of two fists hidden in the middle of the bouquet was revealed.

Three long, thin rolls of brown paper that looked like paper towel tubes were tied together, with red and blue wires connected to them, as well as an electronic watch.

A typical ticking time bomb style time bomb, it couldn't be more standard.

The children who had just exclaimed in surprise at the scattering of flowers paused, and everyone subconsciously fell silent, looking at what Alia was holding.

A few seconds later, screams rang out one after another...

“Ah—Ah—”

"Bomb! Bomb!!"

"Time bomb————"

"Don't move!" Alia shouted in the chaos, causing the room filled with gentle breeze to suddenly freeze.

Mrs. Lu, who was standing very close, felt her ears buzzing and was a little confused as to whether it was a shout or thunder.

Alia held the time bomb with five minutes left on the countdown in her hand and turned away without saying a word.

An Lele rushed over and tried to snatch the bomb away, but was kicked away by Alia: "Call the police - tell everyone to stay away!"

After saying that, she rushed out of the room without looking back and went to the hot spring area of ​​the Hoshino Hotel, probably planning to throw the bomb in those outdoor places.