Chapter 84: Chapter 84 Stand Up
The man before them was burly and rough around the edges.
As soon as he came in, his gaze swiftly swept through the private room.
Seeing his face flush with anger, Tang Jiancheng immediately stepped forward and barked, "Who are you, and what is this about?"
While speaking, he also purposefully scanned the face of the nearby server, signaling to them to call the police should the situation turn bad.
The server quickly understood, nodded, and slipped out quietly.
The burly man glanced at Tang Jiancheng but didn’t respond to him and instead ran over to Huang Mingze and knelt down before him with a "thump."
He repeatedly kowtowed to Huang Mingze, pleading, "Young Master Huang, you can’t do this to me! I put all I had into this batch of goods, you can’t be serious! If there’s a problem with this batch, my whole family will have to jump off a building!"
The crowd truly didn’t expect to see a man who looked so ferocious and strong to be kneeling on the ground at this moment, which was quite a bewildering sight.
The people, looking at the man, couldn’t help but wonder in silence.
But sitting there, Huang Mingze, whose face had been filled with shock, now showed no fear. Instead, he wore a look of contempt.
He looked down at the burly man kneeling there and snorted through his nose, "Go as far as you can, fuck off! What the hell does the life or death of your family have to do with me?"
Upon hearing Huang Mingze’s words, the burly man’s heart pained even more.
Tears streamed straight down his face.
His eyes were very red, his lips quivered, and his voice was somewhat choked.
"Young Master Huang, you can’t be like this! I’m just a small umbrella vendor, and if you do this, I really won’t have a way to live!"
The man just blocked the way, crying uncontrollably.
An ancient saying goes like this, "A man’s tears are not easily shed, except at the moment of deepest sorrow."
That saying is truly not false at all.
For the man before them, the livelihood of his entire family was in his hands.
Even if it meant kneeling, he had to get his money back.
Such an incident was indeed heart-wrenching.
Only
Huang Mingze didn’t care at all; he snorted with anger and said, "Get lost, don’t bother me here."
Witnessing all this, Qin Wanru’s disgust towards him deepened.
She reached out with her delicate hand and gently stroked Liu Zheng’s back.
Qin Wanru had already made her way to the side of the man and now stood facing Huang Mingze who sat there in his arrogant and overbearing manner.
"Huang Mingze, are you still human? Look at what you’ve driven this man to! I really don’t know how many bad things you’ve done and to what extent to drive someone to plead and kneel like this."
As her accusations fell, Tang Jiancheng could not hold back either.
"Speaking of the Huang Family, it’s a renowned large family in Qing Shan County, and moreover, one of the top three wealthiest in the county. How can you bully such a small-scale vendor to the point of living being unbearable but death unreachable? What is your heart made of?"
Listening to the questioning of the people and the unfriendly looks, Huang Mingze felt no remorse for his actions and even nonchalantly crossed his legs.
He sneered, then looked down at the man before him and said, "Tsk tsk! That’s an interesting thing to say. What does your business have to do with me?"
He turned his head to glance at Tang Jiancheng and spoke at a leisurely pace, "President Tang, I don’t like to hear that. What do you mean I forced him? He’s a grown man. Could he really have been forced to such a state by me?"
When Huang Mingze refused to admit it, the man immediately became angry and shouted, "Young Master Huang, you can’t say that! I, I... I..."
He was nearly choking and unable to continue speaking.
Liu Zheng hurriedly patted his back to help him catch his breath.
Then, the man explained to everyone, "Everyone, it’s true that he forced me into this situation. I make bamboo mats and he ordered a large batch from me."
As he spoke, he looked towards Huang Mingze and said, "Isn’t that right, Young Master Huang? You placed an order for a batch of bamboo mats from me, and I made them exactly to the specifications, quantity, and pattern that you asked for."
"You can’t just back out now, can you? That would ruin my whole family!"
"Ruin you? How have I ruined you?"
"All these bamboo mats, now you don’t want them, and I’m stuck with them all!"
"If they’re stuck on your hands, that’s your own fault. Who asked you to charge three hundred per mat? How could I possibly want them? Even if I took them, who could I sell them to?"
Upon hearing Huang Mingze’s words, Liu Zheng couldn’t help but gasp.
Bamboo mats!
To think they were three hundred each, was the price really that inflated?
To be honest, Liu Zheng had never seen bamboo mats that expensive in his life.
And that was the cost price. If they were sold on the market, they would probably be sold for around four or five hundred each, right?
"No, no, no, that’s not it. Young Master Huang, as I told you before, the mats with the specifications and size you wanted could only be made from top-quality bamboo. If it’s not the best bamboo, they might break in just a few days or even right after being taken home. That’s why I told you."
"But at that time, you said it didn’t matter, so I..."
Before the man could finish, Huang Mingze waved his hand dismissively and said impatiently, "Enough, enough. Stop with the nonsense. Since this batch of bamboo mats doesn’t meet my standards, I won’t take any, not a single one. Do you hear me?"
"As for all that blah blah blah you’re going on about, it’s not my duty to deal with."
Waving his hand again, as if to shoo away a fly, Huang Mingze said, "Get lost, and the further the better. Don’t let me see you. If you really think I should bear the cost, then fine! You can sue me in court right now. I’d like to see just what the law can do to me."
His words drove the middle-aged man to despair.
The man’s eyes grew redder, and his fists clenched tight, as if he were on the verge of erupting.
Tang Jiancheng and Qin Wanru stood by, their faces a portrait of helplessness as they watched it all unfold.
They really had no solution, after all, even if the two of them spoke out, it was indeed difficult to defuse the situation.
The pair didn’t know what to do, and the man didn’t know whether he should just explode, even if it meant killing the man before him to get the money for his family.
In the tense standoff, suddenly a voice rang out.
"Enough, get up. Why kneel to him? A man has gold under his knees. We kneel to heaven and earth but never to someone like him."
The speaker was Liu Zheng, and he had come over and was already helping the man to his feet.
