“Xiao Lin, it’s all taken care of.”
“Thanks, Brother Hou!”
Lin Hai hung up the phone, his eyes cold.
Anyone who dared to bully his father had better be ready to face the consequences.
On the third floor of Shunfa Supermarket, Yuan Yingyu sat in a comfortable boss’s chair, enjoying the intimate service of his beautiful secretary.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
“Damn, who the hell is looking for me at this hour?” Yuan Yingyu pushed the female secretary away and pulled up his pants.
“Come in.”
A young man pushed open the door and quickly walked over.
“Boss, today we ran into a stupid old lady from the countryside. She came to the city to take care of her daughter-in-law during her postpartum confinement. Just now when she was buying things, we detained her on suspicion of theft. As soon as Captain An arrived, her son nearly wet himself and paid thirty thousand on the spot to settle it privately.” The young man reported with great excitement.
“Oh? Thirty thousand! Haha, nicely done!” Yuan Yingyu laughed so hard his small eyes squinted shut.
“There’s another one—a migrant worker. Just now…” The man continued reporting their scamming incidents.
“Bang!” Just as the man was speaking, the door was suddenly pushed open.
A male employee rushed in frantically.
“Do you not know the rules? Don’t you know to knock?” Yuan Yingyu roared when he saw this.
“Boss, bad news. Something’s gone wrong.” The employee said in a panic.
“Something wrong?” Yuan Yingyu was also taken aback. “What’s wrong?”
“The Industry and Commerce people are here. They want to inspect our business licenses and products.”
“Damn, that’s it? You’re making a big deal out of nothing. Get out!” Yuan Yingyu angrily grabbed a book from the desk and threw it at him.
“Those Industry and Commerce idiots, do they have nothing better to do?”
Even as he said this, Yuan Yingyu still got up and walked out.
Once he reached the supermarket, he saw more than a dozen people in Industry and Commerce uniforms, aggressive and imposing, splitting up to inspect, rummaging through everything and making a mess.
Customers shopping in the supermarket, not knowing what was going on, stopped to watch.
“This one—take it back for testing. I suspect it’s from a shady little workshop.”
“And this one—clearly unsafe at a glance. Take it back too.”
“Xiao Liu, have you checked their business licenses? Make sure you look carefully. Check every detail.”
A man with a cold expression kept issuing instructions to the Industry and Commerce staff.
“What’s going on here? Why are so many Industry and Commerce people inspecting?”
“I don’t know. From what the guy in charge said, it sounds like the products all have problems.”
“Damn, then this supermarket is way too shady. No way, I’m not buying anything.”
“Me neither.”
Those customers who were about to buy things all started whispering to each other. Then they pulled everything out of their shopping carts.
“Holy crap, what the hell are you doing!” Yuan Yingyu was furious on the spot. If this kept up, all the customers would be scared away.
“Who’s the one in charge here?” Yuan Yingyu walked over arrogantly.
“I am. Something you need?” The man leading the team said coldly.
“What are you doing? If you keep this up, how is our supermarket supposed to do business?” Yuan Yingyu questioned angrily.
“How you do business is your problem. We’re just performing our duties. Please don’t interfere with us. Xiao Jiang, go check over there!” The man ignored him completely.
“You—” Yuan Yingyu was furious. “Friend, don’t go too far. To be honest, I’m on pretty good terms with your Section Chief Liu.”
“No connection will help.” The man didn’t even look at him.
“Hah!” Yuan Yingyu was so angry he laughed. “Pretty cocky, huh? Fine, no connection works, huh? Just you wait!”
Yuan Yingyu couldn’t be bothered to waste words with him anymore and directly pulled out his phone to make a call.
As soon as the call connected, the previously arrogant Yuan Yingyu immediately put on a humble smile.
“Busy, Section Chief Liu? This is Yuan Yingyu. Your guys came to my place today. What do you mean—” Yuan Yingyu’s expression suddenly changed.
“Section Chief Liu, you’re saying the whole bureau is in a meeting and you didn’t send anyone over? Then—” Yuan Yingyu was truly dumbfounded this time.
“Boss, boss.” At that moment, another employee ran over in a panic.
“What now?” Yuan Yingyu was extremely irritated.
“Tax—the Tax Bureau people are here. They want to inspect—”
Before the employee could finish, more than a dozen people in tax uniforms walked in.
“Who’s the boss? Bring out all your account books. We need to inspect them.” A middle-aged man said coldly.
“Oh, sir, you’ve worked hard. Have a seat first. By the way, how’s Section Chief Hu doing lately? We often have tea together.” Yuan Yingyu was at his wit’s end and quickly brought up the tax bureau backer he knew.
“Cut the crap. I told you to bring the account books.” The man glared.
“Uh…” Yuan Yingyu was stunned. This was clearly trouble.
Just as he was worrying about how to handle it, there was a bang at the entrance.
Yuan Yingyu quickly looked up. A team of firefighters stormed in.
“Dear customers, this supermarket’s fire safety facilities are substandard and pose a major fire hazard. For everyone’s safety, please leave immediately.”
The firefighters were even more direct—they came in and drove all the shoppers out.
“Holy crap!” Yuan Yingyu was about to cry. “What the hell is going on? Why are they all coming together? Did they plan this?”
Seeing that the firefighter leader was a captain with one bar and three stars, Yuan Yingyu’s eyes lit up. Finally, someone he knew! He quickly scurried over.
“Oh, Captain Feng, what’s going on here? I’m completely confused. Here, have a cigarette. Let your men take a break.” Yuan Yingyu quickly pulled out a cigarette and offered it.
Captain Feng directly pushed the cigarette away, not a trace of a smile on his face.
“Boss Yuan, we’ll smoke later. First let us do our job.”
“Squad One, go check the second floor.” As soon as Captain Feng gave the order, about ten firefighters immediately ran up to the second floor.
“Fire escape is substandard!”
“Fire equipment is expired!”
One after another, the voices of failed inspections came down like hammers smashing into Yuan Yingyu’s heart.
Even if he were an idiot, he could see by now that this was specifically targeting him.
“Damn it, I don’t know which bastard is out to get me.” Yuan Yingyu cursed inwardly, then ran up to Captain Feng again.
“Captain Feng, what—what exactly is going on here?” Yuan Yingyu asked with a fawning smile.
“Routine inspection!” Captain Feng replied coldly.
Routine my ass!
Yuan Yingyu was furious. Had he never seen a routine inspection before? Had anyone ever seen one like today’s?
After thinking for a moment, Yuan Yingyu still couldn’t hold back and called Section Chief Hu from the district tax bureau.
“Section Chief Hu, this is Yuan Yingyu. There’s a situation—today the Industry and Commerce, Tax, and Fire departments all came to inspect my place together. I wanted to ask what—Tax didn’t send anyone? Then—could you come take a look? Okay, okay!”
Yuan Yingyu hung up the phone and finally felt a bit relieved.
Once Section Chief Hu arrived, they’d at least give him some face, right?
After waiting about twenty minutes, during which the supermarket was turned completely upside down by these people, a middle-aged man finally strolled in slowly.
When Yuan Yingyu saw him, his face—which had been on the verge of tears—immediately bloomed into a smile.
“Oh, my Section Chief Hu, you’re finally here.” Yuan Yingyu ran all the way up to the man.
