Chapter 42 Completed

Chapter 42 Completed

Chapter 42 Completed
"Ah~~~"

The sharp and piercing scream woke An Rushong from his deep sleep.

This scream was too sharp, and more importantly, too familiar. Whenever An Rusong heard this sound, he would feel his scalp tingling and have an urgent urge to hit someone.
He stared at the ceiling for a while, until the scream of "Ah" sounded again. He then cupped his hands, rubbed his numb face hard, turned over and sat up from the bed, and rushed out of the bedroom barefoot.

In the living room outside the bedroom, Sun Manzhu was pressing her stepmother down on the sofa and ravaging her. A yellow screaming chicken that was half a person's height was half-hugged and half-caught between her arms, and was hitting Li Caicao who was curled up on the sofa again and again.

Every time she smashed it down, the screaming chicken let out a piercing scream, the sound of which was extremely cruel.

An Rushong took a few steps forward and, amid Sun Manzhu's screams, he picked her up without saying a word and slapped her on the butt a few times.

Seeing Sun Manzhu being spanked, Li Caicao, who had grown bolder in recent days, actually giggled on the sofa. As a result, her laughter seemed to anger Sun Manzhu. The woman did not dare to attack An Rusong, but after he let her go, she pounced on her stepmother with her teeth and claws, tearing into a ball with her.

In recent times, the relationship between this nominal mother and daughter seems to have eased a lot. Although it cannot be called harmonious, at least they are no longer as incompatible as they were in the beginning.

An Rushong vaguely suspected that Sun Manzhu might have noticed that there was some kind of ambiguous relationship between him and Li Caicao, but the woman did not expose it and still pretended to be unaware.

Never think that a woman is a fool. On the contrary, their intuition is often surprisingly sharp. The three of them live under the same roof, and Li Caicao looks like she wants the world to be in chaos. Even if Sun Manzhu is simple, it is impossible for her to be unaware of it.

But then again, An Rushong's attitude towards this woman is a little different now. To be precise, since he gave the IOU to this woman, he has given her more choices.

Now, the operation of the toy factory has been put on the right track. Since the first episode of "Two Days and One Night" was broadcast last Friday afternoon, the shipment volume of Screaming Chicken has entered a blowout period.

Currently, retailers who have placed orders with the factory are no longer limited to the Seoul area. A large number of retailers have called from metropolitan cities such as Busan, Daegu, and Incheon.

In addition, in order to expand sales as much as possible, An Rushong also rented stores on Amazon and eBay and put three sizes of Screaming Chicken products, large, medium and small, on the shelves. However, due to the impact of logistics and freight costs, the online order prices were relatively high. Therefore, the sales volume was not high, and most of the toys sold were large Screaming Chicken toys.

The biggest problem the toy factory is facing now is its limited production capacity. There are only a dozen workers in the whole factory and only six molding machines. Even if they run 24 hours a day, how high can the production capacity be?

Therefore, the embarrassment that toy factories are currently facing is that they dare not accept orders at will, and even if they have money, they cannot put it in their pockets because it simply cannot fit in.

There are only two solutions to this situation: first, expand the scale of the toy factory, but this solution is long-term and cannot solve the current problem. Second, find a contract manufacturer and increase the factory's supply capacity by giving up part of the profit.

In fact, if An Rusong were to make the decision, he would choose to do both at the same time: looking for companies to do the work while borrowing money from banks to purchase new equipment and build a new factory.

An Rushong also discussed these ideas with Sun Manzhu, but the latter obviously had reservations about expanding the scale of the toy factory - it would be really difficult for a person who had been cheated by a loan to accept another loan in the short term. An Rushong could understand her, so he did not force her to accept his advice on this matter.

As for finding a OEM company, Sun Manzhu certainly would not object, so this is also what An Rushong is planning to do recently.

To be honest, An Rushong had no ambitions for the DreamToys toy factory. If he had not met Zhao Chenghao and others who went to the factory to collect debts on the day he was about to resign last month, he might have already taken another path.

The reason why he got involved in the trouble that Sun Manzhu encountered was because he really needed money at that time. Even just one month's salary was very necessary for him.

As for now, if he was really the kind of ruthless person who drew his gun, he would have slipped away long ago, and at most took Li Caicao, who was completely dependent on him, with him.

In today's era of booming Internet, almost all opportunities to get rich quickly are hidden in the network that connects the world. Only virtual wealth has the potential to skyrocket.

As for the toy factory, it is an industry and every penny has to be earned through hard work. Its value-added is too slow and the cycle is too long.

It's not that An Rusong doesn't want to get involved in industrial things, but he has to accumulate enough capital first before he can get into that field. There is a problem of order here, and he can't get it mixed up. After watching Sun Manzhu and Li Caicao fighting for a while, An Rusong persuaded them to stop. The three of them had a simple breakfast, and then An Rusong went out before nine o'clock and went straight to the toy factory.

This morning, the people arranged by Mike will go to the factory to pick up the goods. Although Mike himself will not be present, An Rushong will still have to go there in person to keep an eye on it. This is a matter of attitude.

In addition, Sun Manzhu also received a call from the Seoul Local Taxation Office yesterday, saying that the Taxation Office's Seventh Investigation Team would arrange people to conduct an investigation at the factory today. Therefore, as the only legal heir of the former chairman of the toy factory, Sun Zhiji, Sun Manzhu must be present.

The inheritance tax in South Korea is ridiculously high, with a tax rate of 5000 percent and a threshold of million won.

The reason why the Taxation Bureau came to investigate Sun Manzhu was because she was involved in a huge debt in the process of paying inheritance tax. Not only that, this huge debt also involved a so-called "registered" violent organization.

Since Sun Ji-je committed suicide, and the huge debt of 20 billion won he owed after his death was inherited by his daughter, after deducting the debt, the part of Sun Ji-je's estate that needs to pay inheritance tax is very small.

The Seoul Local Taxation Office doesn't care whether Sun Zhijie's debt is usury or whether Sun Manzhu has any connection with the gang. They just want to know whether this woman has evaded taxes.

Of course, Sun Manzhu is not afraid of people from the tax bureau coming to investigate her, because all the necessary materials and account books have been prepared, and there is even help provided by Shen Taian. If the local tax bureau does anything out of line, naturally there will be lawyers to cause trouble for them.

Just as Shen Taian had judged before, the people from the local tax bureau stayed in the toy factory for a whole morning, asking questions and checking this and that, and went through a lot of trouble, but in the end they got nothing.

Finally, after An Rushong pointed out that their investigation had affected the normal production of the factory, the investigators from the Taxation Bureau reluctantly left with the materials. In South Korea, the best way to avoid trouble from the Taxation Bureau is not to pay taxes according to the law, but to make friends with some senior officials, hire some accountants, and employ some big lawyers.

It was almost dusk in Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province, which is adjacent to Seoul.

The seven-seater Hyundai was speeding along the not very spacious Qingxi Mountain Road. Outside the car window was the Dawang Reservoir rippling with waves under the setting sun.

In the car, Zhao Chenghao pursed his lips tightly and had a serious expression on his face. Beside him, An Rushong was leisurely looking at the scenery outside the car.

Just when the car reached the big bend on Qingxishan Road around the reservoir, the driver turned the steering wheel and did not continue driving west along the road, but drove north onto a fork in the road. Then, after only driving 20 or 30 meters, he stopped in front of a villa surrounded by swaying trees and blue brick walls.

The gate to the entrance of the villa was open, but the courtyard inside the gate was not very big and there was not much parking space, so the driver could only park the car outside the gate.

Zhao Chenghao was in a bad mood at the moment. When his younger brother opened the car door, he still stayed in the car and did not move until An Rushong pushed him, then he got out of the car reluctantly.

Today is the day that An Rushong submitted the source code program of the Hanahatsu website. Liu Taihe was very happy and made an appointment for them to meet here.

The two got out of the car, and Zhao Chenghao walked into the villa in silence. An Rusong followed him and entered the yard of the villa. He saw Liu Taihe, who was wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt, standing by the guardrail with his arms around a woman on the second-floor terrace of the European-style villa. When he saw the two people walking into the yard, he waved down and said with a smile: "Rusong, come up quickly, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

An Rusong quickly pushed Zhao Chenghao who had stopped walking. The guy upstairs was doing it on purpose. He and Zhao Chenghao came in together, but this guy only greeted him and completely ignored Zhao Chenghao beside him. This was not only to deliberately irritate Zhao Chenghao, but also to sow discord between him, An Rusong, and Zhao Chenghao.

Fortunately, Zhao Chenghao still knows how to control his emotions. To put it bluntly, Liu Taihe just can't stand seeing him, and he knows it himself. The conflict between the two of them is based on the fact that the stronger party unabashedly despises the weaker party, while the weaker party knows that he is weak, but still refuses to bow his head and submit.

At the entrance of the villa, there was a maid dressed as a servant. The two were led into the building and walked up the stairs to the second floor.

When An Rushong went up to the terrace on the second floor, he found that the place was incredibly spacious. There was not only a swimming pool on the terrace, but also a small golf driving range. Most importantly, standing on the terrace, he could overlook the entire Dawang Reservoir. The view was simply too good to be true.

(End of this chapter)