Chapter 384 - 384 Entangled
384 Entangled
“Take me for example. At that time, I didn’t want to live anymore. However, after seeing Nanan, I changed my mind and understood why that mother wanted to live on even though life was so difficult.
If I’m alive, Nanan still has a mother, but if I die, what will happen to Nanan?”
Yuan Niang said to Lin Suisui in a low voice, “Many people say that death is a relief, but that’s nonsense.
Only the dead person is truly free. What the dead person brings to the people around her is endless pain and torture.”
Yuan Niang’s words made Lin Suisui nod and she smiled at Yuan Niang as she said to her happily, “Do you know why I tried my best to save you back then? It was because you weren’t like other women, who gave up easily.”
As a doctor, she had seen too many life-and-death separations.
Many people tried their best to survive in desperate situations, but many people in Yuan Niang’s situation chose to give up their lives because they lost hope.
They couldn’t see the children who were crying for food beside them or the relatives who were trying their best to save them. All they cared about were those heartless and ungrateful scumbags.
Many times, she had advised people that there was no point in obsessing over scumbags.
However, most of the time, no one listened to her advice. They wanted to die and she couldn’t stop them.
Yuan Niang was one of the few calm and intelligent women she had ever seen. At the most critical moment, she made a completely different choice from many people and overcame her past to start a new life.
“I’m not that good.”
Yuan Niang was a little embarrassed by the praise and she blushed as she looked at Lin Suisui with embarrassment. “I’m just a little more afraid of death than others.”
The two of them sat together and continued to talk for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, Yuan Niang stood up and bid farewell. Then, she went back to prepare for the trouble that was about to come.
Early the next morning, Yuan Niang arranged for someone to inform the boss of the eatery of their decision. Yuan Niang wanted to end things on good terms.
Yuan Niang felt that since they had caused such huge trouble this time, they should at least feel guilty Therefore, she only wanted to arrange for someone to go over and inform them to settle the accounts.
However, the other party’s actions completely exceeded her expectations.
Although the other party was a little unwilling to terminate the cooperation, she didn’t say much about this matter. The main point was when they were matching the accounts, the mistakes stunned the people who had dealt with the accounts in the past.
The accounts on both sides didn’t match at all!
Regarding this, the boss said that they used to pay by the month, and they also bought ingredients by the month, so now that they wanted to end the cooperation, she definitely wouldn’t be able to finish all the ingredients!
Many of the ingredients were facing expiration, so their medical center naturally had to take responsibility for this portion of the losses. Secondly, in order to take over the medical center’s business, their shop had rejected many collaborations with other shops. Now that the medical center said that they wouldn’t cooperate anymore, this portion of the losses had to be borne by their medical center.
Upon hearing this twisted logic, Yuan Niang was so angry that she almost laughed.
However, she also knew that during these troubled times, it wasn’t suitable to blow things up now. Therefore, after some thought, she decided to go over there personally and talk to the boss in person.
“This is a small business that supports our family. There are seven to eight people in the family, and they all rely on this shop to earn money to provide for our family. We have no objections if you don’t want to cooperate, but the things we bought previously and the rejected business deals were all because of your medical center.
I don’t want much. All I want is ten more taels of silver!”
Seeing that Yuan Niang had come, the boss went straight to the point.
“Alright, since you say so, I’ll do as you say. How about we continue our collaboration this month?” After listening for a while, Yuan Niang more or less understood what the boss meant. She felt disdainful inside, but she didn’t show it on her face. “This month has just begun, so you have time to contact new customers to provide you with business for next month. Also, there’s no need to waste the ingredients you mentioned!”
“Is this appropriate?” The boss was stumped by Yuan Niang’s attitude and it took her a long time to react. She looked at her as she stammered, “Aren’t rumors spreading? If you still let us provide food, will you be at ease?”
“That’s nothing. There are many poor people in Cloud Mountain City who lack clothes and food. How we deal with your food is our business.”
However, there’s something I have to tell you in advance. You’ve been in business in this area for so many years, so let me advise you not to go too far.”
After saying this, Yuan Niang had no intention of saying anything else to the boss, so she turned around and left.
The boss stood rooted to the ground for a long time. When she reacted and wanted to chase after her, Yuan Niang’s carriage had already left, leaving her standing at the entrance of the eatery and stomping her feet in frustration.
“It’s all your fault. What kind of bad idea is this? Now, you’ve offended her!” The boss was furious. After she turned around and went straight to the backyard, she slapped the head of her husband, who was sitting on the rocking chair and taking a nap, awake. “Do you know that Yuan Niang came over just now and said that she won’t cooperate with us anymore?!
Such a good business deal has gone down the drain. What are you trying to do?!”
“What do you know? Women are so short-sighted!” The head of the family was startled by the slap on his shoulder. When he woke up and heard her complaints, he was even angrier and he scolded unhappily, “You’re so short-sighted. I’ve already told you that we have to focus on the big picture!
Take a look at who works in that medical center! The lame Mr. Luo!
Do you really believe what he said? If there was really someone powerful behind this medical center, do you think they would open a medical center that only treats ordinary people like us and those poor people at the base of the city wall?
No way!
In my opinion, he’s just bluffing!”