Xiaonian stared dumbfounded at the money Xiaoyan pulled out. Damn, mom and dad actually gave him so much money—this isn’t fair. Why did they give him so much?
"I am a man; I need to protect you. It’s only right for mom and dad to keep the money with me." Sensing Xiaonian’s confusion, Xiaoyan gave a slight smile.
At home, as a man, he naturally took on the role of protector.
Xiaonian stuck out her tongue at him, unimpressed with his money.
The others, watching Xiaofeng sit there, although not quite believing it, still wanted to try their luck. After all, if it were true, it would be good news for them.
If it turned out to be a lie, they would simply stop buying their products.
Thinking this, they naturally quickened their pace to go home and fetch their things.
When they returned, they found that the girl was indeed still there, and they had successfully obtained their compensation.
They found such behavior somewhat incomprehensible.
This girl must be foolish to do such a thing, considering how much money she’d have to pay out.
The store manager was also puzzled.
Compensation was expected, and it would normally be reasonable to compensate at the original price or perhaps double, but compensating fivefold seemed unrealistic to him.
To compensate that much, it would cost a significant amount of money.
Since everyone got their money, they were relatively unconcerned about having bought subpar products. In their conversations, they affirmed the store’s responsibility and appreciated that the store faced the issue head-on.
Yao Yunnian very much approved of Xiaofeng’s handling of the situation; she hadn’t expected Xiaofeng to have such resolve to simply say and do the compensation.
Such courage required guts, and with Xiaofeng being so young yet having that courage, she truly was a capable businessperson.
After calming down the upset customers, Xiaofeng then began to investigate which part of the process had failed.
"The problem isn’t just with your store, which means our goods might have been tampered with right out of the factory. So, the issue must have occurred en route." Given that many distributors had issues, the problem did not originate from the factory and had to have occurred en route.
"The driver is the usual one; I think his surname is Liu." The manager was not very familiar with the delivery driver who usually came.
"Manager, regardless, I will get to the bottom of this incident. There are more compensations to be dealt with later. Follow the standard I’ve set for the compensations. I’ll bear the cost for all the losses incurred by this incident myself."
"Ms. Su truly has extraordinary courage." Hearing Xiaofeng’s words, the manager extended his hand, "Rest assured, our cooperation will continue to be valid. With a leader like you, I no longer have to worry about after-sales issues."
Su Xiaofeng’s forceful after-sales approach was indeed an eye-opener for him.
Although Su Xiaofeng looked young, her actions were fierce.
Such an approach was not something just anyone could execute.
Xiaofeng instructed the manager to quarantine the remaining goods; she needed to return home for now.
Given the possibility of an issue en route, she needed to ask the delivery driver if he had been to the locations where the incidents occurred.
By the time she returned to Xijiang County, Su Peng had already been in Tianma City for two days.
According to Zhang Keke, since Su Peng had gone to Tianma City, he had not contacted her nor had he contacted his family.
His situation in Tianma City remained uncertain.
Upon hearing this, Xiaofeng’s brows furrowed slightly, sensing something was amiss, "Are Tie Bao and the others back yet? And Liu Chunming, is he still at the factory?"
"Liu Chunming went to Tianma City with Su Peng, whereas Tie Bao and Xianghe are still delivering goods in another city, but they should be back by tonight."
"Okay, bring Director Zhou here; I have some issues to inquire about."
Director Zhou presented the day’s factory output data to Xiaofeng. Examining it, she saw that Liu Chunming’s goods from that day had been delivered to several local distributors, which largely matched up with the incident.
Meaning, the problem might have been with the load of goods that Liu Chunming was responsible for.
Since Liu Chunming was with Su Peng, and Su Peng was now unreachable, Xiaofeng’s expression became grim, feeling that something was definitely off.
Thinking of something, she said to Director Zhou, "I need to go to Tianma City right now."
Big brother might have had an accident in Tianma.
"Sis, Big Brother Su wouldn’t have gotten into trouble, right?" Xiaonian, seeing her sister’s expression was off, said with some worry.
"I’m not sure right now. Logically, it’s not a major production incident; big brother should have been able to handle it." The fear was that some people’s intentions weren’t focused on the wine, but on other motives.
"Sis, did Big Brother Su bring his phone? Can we contact him now?"
"I just tried calling. It didn’t go through. Either someone stole his phone, or big brother has gone to a place with no signal." In those days, the signal wasn’t so advanced, not all places could receive cell signals.
It was understandable if big brother went to a place with no signal and the call couldn’t get through.
What Xiaofeng didn’t expect was that the distributor in Tianma called them, asking why their person hadn’t arrived yet, and said, if someone didn’t come to handle this matter, they would cancel the cooperation with Lihua Factory, never to cooperate again.
Xiaofeng frowned, which meant, big brother had left Xijiang County two days ago, and hadn’t met with the other party until now.
So where exactly had big brother gone?
Xiaofeng set out immediately with her boy and girl twins. Fortunately, Tianma wasn’t very far from Xijiang County; four hours later, they had arrived.
"What? You’re saying Director Su came over two days ago? How is that possible? If he was coming over, wouldn’t he find us? Where else could he possibly go? It’s not like he went to sightsee."
The local distributor in Tianma was surprised to hear that Su Peng had come two days ago.
"He really didn’t come by here?" Xiaofeng looked at him.
The man was surnamed Wang, a local wholesaler who had become a distributor because he saw potential in Pear Blossom Brand foods.
He hadn’t been a distributor for long, but since joining, the performance had been decent.
"Really, he hasn’t. If he had come, I would have definitely told you," Wang, the distributor, shook his head, "Could something have happened to him? Or maybe he went to another distributor first to handle some incidents."
"I contacted the nearby distributors before I came here; they all said they haven’t seen anyone from our factory," Xiaofeng shook her head.
"That’s strange then. Tianma City is only so big; where could he have gone?"
"Sis, we can’t find Big Brother Su, and we don’t know where he went. What should we do now? Should we call the police and let them help us find him?" Xiaoyan, being a boy, was calmer than Xiaonian, thinking immediately about how to handle the situation.
"Big brother has definitely already arrived here." Given big brother’s nature, if there was a problem here, he would have definitely come over immediately.
"But where could Big Brother Su have gone now? It’s been two days, could something have happened to him?" Xiao Nian was somewhat worried about Su Peng’s safety.
"Here’s what we’ll do; we’ll find a place to stay first, handle the distributor’s matter on one hand, and on the other hand, we’ll inquire about big brother’s whereabouts." Xiaofeng knew that even if they reported it to the police now, they wouldn’t be able to dig up any leads.
Although there was a problem on this side in Tianma, fortunately it was discovered early and not many had been sold, Xiaofeng compensated everyone according to the previous method of one replacement for five.
This approach was something everyone could still understand, at least they could interpret it as the manufacturer not intentionally selling fake products to the public.
Regardless, the factory’s attitude was acceptable, and the public were not that difficult to talk to.
The distributor, seeing Xiaofeng handling things swiftly and thoroughly, also didn’t make any further comments. As a factory representative, Xiaofeng, coming to the locality, the distributor had to display some gesture and offered to take Xiaofeng and her companions out for a meal.
Xiaofeng did not refuse.
In the evening, General Wang set up a table at Baixiang Building, along with several other partners he had developed, who, after learning that Xiaofeng was the person in charge of Lihua Factory, all widened their eyes.
My goodness, who could have thought that the person in charge of such a large food factory would be a woman, and a young, beautiful one at that.
At another table, a few men were drinking when one said, "See that woman over there? That’s who you’ll go after, but remember, only touch the one called Su Xiaofeng. For the other two, just knock them unconscious."
That was the order from above, not to just mess around.
"Brother, don’t worry. Such a pretty woman, we will take good care of her," two men by the side inadvertently chuckled.
"Find a chance to take her away later, bring her to my place first, then I’ll decide how to handle her," he glanced at Xiaofeng, noting her fair, tender skin, and her beauty.
Anyway, she was going to die; tasting her before death was always an option.
Otherwise, such a beauty just disappearing, what a pity.