Please make money.

A sudden fire accident occurred in Aililai's No. 1 store last night. The fire directly burned down one of Aililai's warehouses and the wall insulation layer behind the supermarket.

Fortunately, there was a fire brigade detachment stationed not far from the commercial street, and they immediately responded to the rescue after discovering the fire.

But even so, it took more than two hours to put out the fire, and hundreds of thousands of daily necessities were burned.

Since there were no casualties, Mr. Sun was handling the matter himself last night.

It wasn't until this morning when I thought Alia had gotten up that I told her about it.

This time, Ailia did not ride a bicycle. Instead, she asked someone to drive over and walked outside the group headquarters while talking to Mr. Sun.

"Was it intentional or accidental?"

"Traces of gasoline burning were found at the scene, which is very likely man-made."

"Can you confirm who did this?"

"It's hard to confirm this for now. No one has had a direct conflict with us, but there are indeed some minor problems with the supermarket recently."

"Wait for me, I'll be there soon."

Ailia put away her phone. She didn't expect that she would encounter such a thing less than a week after school started.

Set fire to your own store?

"Dreaming of the 90s?" She stood in front of the headquarters building, lifted her coat and put her hands on her hips. "Fuck, is this so direct?"

An Lele followed behind her and nodded repeatedly after hearing her words: "That's right, it's too bad, no one was hurt, otherwise I would have killed them!"

"We don't know who did it - where's Fatty Zheng? He has dealings with all kinds of people, let him go and check it out!"

Fatty Zheng is no longer a senior executive in the logistics department, but Alia still uses him, and the other party does not seem to have any plans to change employers.

Soon the car arrived, and Alia got into the car that represented her status as the chairman of the Ai Group, and headed for the commercial street in a different manner.

Normally she would go there, creaking on a shared bicycle, when she was working as a shop assistant.

Now that something has happened, if she wants to go and appease people, she must do so in the capacity of chairman of the group.

After a long while, Alia arrived at Store No. 1 on the commercial street. As soon as she got out of the car, she could smell a faint burnt smell in the air.

Standing at the street corner and looking inside, the original five-story silver-gray Aili supermarket store No. 1 had its back half of the exterior wall insulation layer peeled off, leaving it bare.

"When did it catch fire?"

"It was around 2am and burned until 4:30am. There was nothing we could do. The warehouse was full of daily necessities after the fire started..."

"Is everyone alright? It's past two o'clock. Are there any employees here?"

Since Aililai Supermarket sells fresh food, it is open during the day and there are actually employees busy at night as well.

The employees on shifts clear and replenish the goods on the shelves and check for rotten fresh produce. If it is a holiday, they have to replenish more than a hundred tons of goods on the shelves in a single day.

However, these numbers only sound exaggerated at first glance. If they are actually spread out over each product, the specifications are actually quite small.

For example, we sell more than 100 kilograms of tomatoes a day on normal days, and it is no problem to sell four or five times more on holidays. Two or three kinds of vegetables will only make up less than a ton.

With such a large quantity, it is obviously unrealistic to start moving everything into the store during the day.

Therefore, Aili Supermarket has a total of eight distribution centers, supplying goods to more than 30 supermarkets around the clock.

In addition, each supermarket also has its own warehouse and cold storage, which is located behind the supermarket.

The fire started at the back. Ailia first suspected that the fire was caused by improper operation of the employees, but Mr. Sun said there were traces of gasoline burning, and that was the conclusion given by the fire brigade. Obviously, there was something else behind this.

"It's not the peak season, so there weren't many people around 2 a.m. By 4 a.m., everyone was here and the supermarket had basically put out the fire. Only a few security guards inhaled some smoke while fighting the fire, and their throats may be a little sore."

"Respiratory damage, a common injury in fires - it's considered a work-related injury, and I'm given paid leave to recuperate. The medical expenses are charged to the supermarket."

Alia took another deep breath and said, "Tell all employees that if they encounter such a thing, call the police and wait for professionals to come. They don't have the ability to do it themselves. Don't take risks. It doesn't matter if the entire supermarket is burned down. As long as no one is alive, everything is still there... How much goods were lost?"

"As for the warehouse, there are over half a million worth of goods, and they haven't been counted yet."

"Tsk... Have we really not had any conflicts with anyone recently?"

"As a supermarket, who can we conflict with? This is not an entertainment venue."

Mr. Sun was also helpless. His old face, which looked like Maitreya Buddha, wrinkled and he thought about the cause and effect in distress.

You have to know that Mr. Sun is a good guy who always stays nice even when others are mean to him. How could he make enemies with others?

"You said earlier that there was a little problem, what's going on?"

"As for the supply and replenishment, first of all, our supply chain seems to be a little... well, it can't be called a bottleneck, but the goods are indeed less, which should be considered a normal means of commercial competition. Secondly, the price of the goods is a little bit wrong."

"price?"

"Well, some suppliers have added a price markup. The manufacturers give it to them, and then they give it to us. The markup should be at least 30%."

Ailia raised her eyebrows. Her own Aili only made a 20% profit from the marked price, and the middleman dared to add %. What kind of concept was this?

"What kind of products?"

"All of them, that's the problem, not just one or two, but a whole batch of goods are being priced up, several suppliers are controlling prices."

"Seeing that our supermarket is so popular, do you want to get a piece of the pie?"

"It's really hard to say..."

"Call the store manager and arrange for someone else to check among the employees to see if there is anyone behaving abnormally recently."

Alia lowered her voice and said, "I don't want to doubt them, but I have to be on guard against them. I have to be careful about any arrangements I make recently."

Mr. Sun nodded silently. In fact, he had suspected that there was a traitor from the first moment, but he just couldn't figure out what this was going on.

Who would benefit from burning the restaurant? It doesn't seem to benefit the employees at all.

Is the eldest lady not kind enough? She gave money when she asked for money and added people when she asked for people. Even those who worked in shifts to replenish the goods were paid overtime wages. She never treated anyone unfairly.

So in the end he still felt that there was an outsider causing trouble, but he didn't know what the other party's intentions were.

After all, there are conditions to negotiate and bad guys to catch, but the only thing to be afraid of is that someone will be like a madman who doesn't want anything and just passes by and throws a bucket of gasoline, lights it and leaves.

It's like when the police are investigating a case, what they fear least is Conan's flashy performances, such as alibis and murders in closed rooms.

When a goose passes by, it leaves a sound; when a person passes by, he leaves a trace. As long as you do something wrong, you will be caught. There is no such thing as a perfect crime.

What do you fear the most? It's the kind of person who, without any purpose or intention, just walks by with a knife, stabs someone twice, then runs away, thousands of miles away.

In North America, because there are so many interstate highways and many deserted sections of road, there are many such injury cases that have no beginning or end along the way, and most of them are unsolved cases.

There are so many of them that they have spawned an entire genre of crime movies, called highway crime movies.

The domestic security environment is much better. It is rare now that such things make big news due to a disagreement. Alia's main concern is that no one was injured, which means that the other party does not dare to do anything extreme. She should receive some other information later.

For example, 'You should be more restrained in your business' or 'You shouldn't give Brother Long some protection money' and so on. If she catches you, then there will be a lot to talk about.

An Lele looked around vigilantly the whole time, with his hands in his pockets and never taken out. His posture was even more arrogant than Alia's.

She waited until everyone entered the store before she let go of her hand: "Miss, no one is watching us, what's going on?"

"How would I know? I was drinking soy milk and singing in the early morning when I got a phone call saying I was famous. I was thinking I had become famous after my debut."

In fact, there was no need for An Lele to keep watch, as she had already sensed her surroundings and knew that they were all passers-by watching the fun.

After all, there are only a few perverts who would return to the crime scene to admire their own work after committing a crime...

The store manager was so busy that she looked a little out of shape and didn't even put on makeup: "Miss, what should I do?"

"What should I do? I need to repair the house, take a vacation, and prepare for firefighting. Do I need to arrange this?"

"No - this, this, someone said it was lit by gasoline. Who did it?"

“Oh, I’m afraid of this…”

Alia touched her chin and felt a little disgusted when she thought about it.

What if a fire suddenly breaks out in the store when I have hundreds of employees busy and customers are still there? What should I do if there are casualties?

Even if Alia had the ability to cut the bad guys into pieces, she couldn't make up for the casualties.

"Close the business, and all other chain stores should also close down and reorganize the fire protection system."

“Ah…ah?” The store manager responded subconsciously, but two seconds later he snapped back to his senses: “Closure, suspension of business?”

"Yes, widen the escape route, modify the interior, introduce and install an active fire protection system. Spending money is a small matter. Safety first, safety first, safety first!"

"..."

"Besides, there is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief who can be thieves for a thousand days. I will contact the authorities to see what the situation is."

Mr. Sun also nodded and said, "I'll go and feel out those fellow bastards to see if anyone knows anything."

However, he still didn't quite believe that it was done by his colleagues, mainly because they didn't have the courage and such means were really too extreme.

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"If you don't have the guts, how dare you do it?!"

"How would I know they would do that? I just asked them to make some noise so that Aililai wouldn't have such good business!"

"Now the noise has come. It's big enough, isn't it? Is the business closed? I just want to ask you whether the noise is big or not! Have you done it?"

"I, I really didn't mean that, I just... I... Hi!"

One of the bosses who were drinking tea slammed the table in frustration: "They are harming me!"

What does it mean to make some noise?

It is to ask them to go to Aili to cause some food poisoning, on-site consumer disputes, and make a scene.

No matter how big the commotion is, it's just a matter of disturbing public order. No one will be hurt. It's just disgusting enough and that's it.

If all else fails, what if you take a few drunkards to their store, show off thirty or fifty bottles, and then spit all over the floor?

Now, a fire has been set on the No. 1 store of Aili!

If we have to say something fortunate, it is that no one was burned. However, arson is a serious crime no matter how you look at it!

"Let them go, leave Tianhai, and it's best if they go abroad to hide... Where the hell did you find these people? They are so mixed up?"

"He was found in my hometown. He has never been to school and is brave and aggressive. He is obedient and easy to use."

"Your brain is not working! You can trust their loyalty, but you shouldn't trust their brains!"

The three bosses each had their own opinion. The one sitting in the middle was making tea calmly and didn't say anything the whole time.

The culprit on the left is really a bit of a coward. It is obvious that he is the type who can do small tricks but not big ones.

The one on the right should be more ruthless. He was not afraid but angry when encountering this situation, as if he had met a stupid teammate.

"Arrange for them to leave now. Don't leave on your own. Find an excuse - join a tour group, a travel group, and go on a trip abroad."

"what?"

"What? Arrange a few more employees, hold a welfare lottery, sneak in to join the tour group, and hide abroad for two months."

The more ruthless boss took a sip from his teacup and said, "If they dare to burn down someone's store today, they will dare to burn down Alia's car tomorrow. How can we afford to offend them? The tricks we used before could fool people by saying it was competition. But if you really dare to touch her, let me tell you this - the three of us will have to drink tea in jail tomorrow!"

"No, no, is she, Alia, so powerful?"

"Of course not, but the Huo boss behind her is so powerful! Who are you to dare to play this game with him? Back then, Broken Tooth was so arrogant, and 14K was known as a gang with henchmen. When they saw him, they had to be cautious and offer tea, just like this - Mr. Huo, Lei Hou - to put it nicely, you are showing off your skills in front of an expert, to put it bluntly, you are slapping him in the face in public, are you going to speak up in person before he crushes you to death?"

Back then, Bauhinia's business confrontation was really about being simple and crude, and even more intense means were used.

Against that backdrop, Boss Huo's real estate and shipping businesses remained stable, which shows his skills and connections.

Alia's little trumpet is not scary. She has no idea of ​​the evil of human nature. At first glance, she looks like a little white flower that bloomed in a greenhouse.

They were afraid that she would go back and complain, and make a big deal about the matter to the elders. If Boss Huo got into trouble, they would be overturned along with the table.

"You can't continue. You can't make things worse. You can't have an excuse to get mad at her. Do you understand?"

The three bosses quickly agreed to speak in unison. After all, this was something no one wanted to happen, so there was no psychological pressure to give in.

"Okay, that's it... What are you afraid of? If you're afraid, why don't you go out and play with the employees for a few days, okay?"

"Where to?"

"You asked me where you were going to play - I'm your mother?"

"Then I'm going to... North America?"

"Fuck you... Have you ever seen a supermarket take its employees to Europe or America as a benefit? Just find a cheaper place in Southeast Asia! I felt bad when I went to a farmhouse in the suburbs for team building last time. Is that reasonable? Huh? Are you doing charity?"

"Southeast Asia?" He thought for a moment: "Siam? How is it over there?"