Chapter 12 This is all I have! When Cao Yukun returned home, his parents were sitting around the dinner table. They had no idea what they were talking about, but when they heard their son coming home, they turned their heads to look over. The mother looked worried as she looked at her son and then at the bag on the table. When Cao Yukun came over, she said, "Zizi, Mom is a little scared. What do you want to do?" Cao Yukun pulled out a small bamboo chair and sat down, then he smiled and said to his mother, "Don't ask me, Mom. I can only tell you that the chances of winning are more than 99%. If I really hit that 1% chance, I will pay the loss and I will take it!" So my mother opened her mouth but couldn't say the next sentence. At this time, my father decisively reached out, opened his briefcase and took something out. The newspaper was opened, and there were four and a half bundles of 100-yuan bills, which were clearly in the original packaging from the bank. "This is 45,000 yuan. I went with your second uncle to withdraw it, but it was all gone. This is what he prepared for Yu Ke to go to college and find a wife in the future! This should be all the savings that the couple has accumulated over the years." "Ah." Cao Yuke is the second uncle's son. He should be one year younger than Cao Yuhui and one year older than Cao Yumin. Then, my father reached into his briefcase again and took out another paper package. He opened it and found another neatly packed banknote. "This is from your aunt. I took her to withdraw the money. She thought something happened at home and wanted to withdraw all the money. I didn't let her and only took out an integer, 10,000 yuan!"
He took out another two stacks. "I took this from your uncle Zhou. He should be worse off in recent years than in the past two years. Leading a construction team is easy work but hard to get paid, so I gave him these 20,000 yuan." Cao Yukun also knew this old Zhou. He was a comrade-in-arms of his father and they had fought in the trenches together. However, he was not promoted in the army and he retired in 77. Later, he led a group of people to start a construction contracting team. In the beginning, they specialized in building houses for people all over the county. Later, when the scale became a little bigger, they also started to take on some subcontracting work for factory construction. In the surrounding area, they were considered a respectable figure. The two-story building at home was built by his team. "Go and get the money box!" Dad gave an order, so Mom got up, took out the small locked box at the foot of their bed, opened it, and Dad carefully took out the award certificates, military medals, discharge certificates, red quotations, etc., and took out the stack of money at the bottom, including hundred-yuan bills and ten-yuan bills, and put a handful of them on the table. "This is more than four thousand, which is all the money our family has now. I will go to your grandpa's house later and get his passbook. The total will be... about eighty-five thousand!" He looked at his son with a piercing gaze that was extremely oppressive. "If you pay, you'll have to pay it back for the rest of your life! Do you still want to borrow?" Cao Yukun suddenly laughed and nodded affirmatively, "Yes!" ………… In the course of the morning, my dad went around and brought back a total of 75,000 yuan. Cao Yukun took 4,000 yuan from the family and returned the rest to my mom. Grandpa had another 5,000 yuan, and when their grandson needed it and their son came to ask for it, the old couple didn't say anything and just gave all the passbooks to their mom. I collected 84,000 yuan. To some extent, this can even be said to be the sum of the entire Cao family's current wealth and reputation. Cao Yukun wrapped the 80,000 yuan in newspaper and put it in his backpack. After breakfast the next day, he put on the backpack and rode out on his motorcycle. As usual, after sending his father to Huguan Township, he went straight to Shimen Beverage Factory. The beverage factory that father-in-law Song Hongxing built for his elder brother-in-law Song Yuhuai is located right next to his own Shimen Winery - on the national highway that passes through Shimen Township, but more importantly, both factories are facing the Shimen River. Everyone says that the reason why Shimen wine tastes so good is closely related to the clear water quality of the river. The water that can be used to make wine and tastes good is of course also suitable for making beverages. The two factories seem to be of similar scale, and Shimen Winery's land area should be slightly larger. However, the door of one is deserted, while the door of the other one has trucks carrying goods coming in and out from time to time. One can tell the situation at a glance. Last year, Shimen Liquor Industry made more than 3 million yuan in profits and taxes. This year, it is likely to be even more. Last year, Shimen Beverage Factory only paid less than 300,000 yuan in taxes. This is because it is said that these days, taxes are paid based on output value. Regardless of whether you make a loss or not, if tax payment is linked to profit, the government will have to pay money back to your family.
When Cao Yukun arrived at the gate of Shimen Beverage Factory, he got off the bike, handed out two cigarettes to the guard at the gate, and said that he had an appointment with Director Song. The guard at the gate called him and asked about it, and sure enough, he was allowed to pass. So Cao Yukun rode his motorcycle directly to the office building of Shimen Beverage Factory. After taking out the key and getting out of the car, Cao Yukun tightened the backpack on his shoulders, took a deep breath, and exhaled forcefully - he knew very well that he was actually very nervous at the moment. Nothing like this has ever been done in the past thirty years. At that time, I only knew that I had to study hard, take exams well, work hard, live within my means and save money. I even knew that I had to get along well with classmates and colleagues, and flatter my boss at the right time. However, I had never learned, let alone practiced, how to negotiate with people, how to win their hearts, and how to lure them with benefits. Intrigue, scheming, and controlling people's hearts. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, he had been thinking and rehearsing over and over in his mind. And today, it’s finally time for actual combat. Almost subconsciously, he wanted to take out a cigarette and smoke one, because that would at least ease his nervousness, but he soon remembered that Song Yuhuai already knew he was coming, and going late would be a sign of weakness. If he ran to the window to look down out of curiosity and found himself smoking downstairs... So, I won’t smoke anymore. After putting on his backpack, he walked straight up the stairs and entered the office building. His office is on the third floor and is easy to find. Overall, the atmosphere in this office building is somewhat lifeless. I went over and knocked on the door of the "General Manager's Office". Soon a voice came from inside the door, "Come in!" Cao Yukun pushed the door open and walked in. "Hello, Director Song!" Song Yuhuai, who looked bookish, looked up, threw away the pen in his hand, sat up straight, and looked at Cao Yukun. No one knew what he was thinking at the moment. He had a blank expression on his face. He waited for a moment before saying, "Please sit down. If you have something to say, just say it directly. Didn't you say you wanted to cooperate with me?" Then he added, "You'd better come up with something to talk about, but don't think that I will help you just because you and Yu Qian are dating!" Cao Yukun smiled when he heard this, but did not sit down on the sofa. Instead, he walked directly to his large desk, took off his backpack, unzipped it, took out the money that was tightly wrapped in newspaper, put it on his desk, and unzipped it, revealing the 80,000 yuan. Song Yuhuai looked at the bag of money in surprise, then looked up at Cao Yukun. Cao Yukun pointed and said, "There are 45,000 yuan lent to me by my second uncle, 20,000 yuan lent to me by my parents, 10,000 yuan lent to me by my eldest aunt, and 5,000 yuan given by my grandfather! A total of 80,000 yuan!" Upon hearing this, Song Yuhuai glanced down, and almost subconsciously followed Cao Yukun's words and counted them. There were indeed eight stacks - then he raised his head again and looked at the gangster. He said, "This is all I have to offer. I don't have a penny more. I heard that your beverage factory is being sold out. It doesn't matter who you sell it to, just sell it to me!" (End of this chapter)
