“Boss Lady, I’ll provide the investment money and contribute a few new dishes. If the business fails, the loss is mine alone. But if it succeeds, then from the net profit earned from selling the dishes I provide in this shop, I want thirty percent.”
Yang Tiehua’s words left the boss lady stunned. “You’re investing money and even providing dishes? You… why would you do this?”
No matter how she looked at it, this arrangement only benefited her.
How could such a good thing possibly fall from the sky?
“Because I don’t know how to cook, but my head is full of all kinds of dishes with nowhere to use them. After tasting your wontons just now, I think you can definitely do it.”
That statement completely left the boss lady speechless.
“Boss Lady, discuss it with your husband. Tomorrow at this same time, I’ll bring over a contract. After reading it, if you think it’s workable, we’ll sign it. If not, then we’ll just consider it fate that we met.” Yang Tiehua was not in a hurry for an answer. After all, with something like this, anyone would naturally worry about being scammed.
“Alright, I’ll discuss it with my husband tonight.” The boss lady did not reject her immediately.
After lunch, once they got back into the car, Factory Director Ao hesitated for quite a while before finally saying, “Xiaohua, why are you lying to that boss lady?”
Hearing this, the corners of Yang Tiehua’s mouth twitched.
It seemed that in everyone’s eyes, the original owner had truly been nothing more than a brainless pretty vase.
No wonder Factory Director Ao thought she was deceiving people.
“Eldest Uncle, I’m not lying. I really do have dishes suitable for her restaurant, and I guarantee the dishes I provide can absolutely bring that shop back to life.”
The four pillars of Shaxian Snacks were mixed noodles, wontons, steamed dumplings, and soup.
From the late 1980s into the 1990s, they would explode in popularity across the country.
Even in the 2020s, there were still countless Shaxian shops everywhere, all doing excellent business.
So at this perfect opportunity, if she invested money into Liu Qing’s restaurant and introduced steamed dumplings and soup ahead of time in exchange for thirty percent of the profits, that really was not excessive at all.
Besides, she only wanted a share from this single shop.
Once the business grew successful, Liu Qing would definitely expand into other locations. If this original shop eventually closed, then her profit share would disappear as well.
“Alright then. How much money do you need? Eldest Uncle brought a little with him on this trip, though I’m not sure if it’s enough.”
As he spoke, Eldest Uncle pulled out his wallet.
Seeing this, Yang Tiehua immediately refused. “Eldest Uncle, there’s no need. I’ll figure out the money myself, so you don’t need to worry. First, take Brother Ziheng and me to the hospital, then afterward you can head over to Yangcheng University to gather information there.”
But Factory Director Ao still took out the money and handed over three hundred yuan. “Xiaohua, this is all Eldest Uncle brought. Take it for now.”
Looking at the money being offered to her, Yang Tiehua felt deeply moved, but she firmly refused to accept it.
After arriving at the hospital, Yang Tiehua asked Fu Ziheng to sit and wait while she went to line up for registration.
Fu Ziheng waited there for a very long time, so long that his palms began sweating.
Although he had already prepared himself mentally to willingly sell his kidney, now that he was actually at the hospital, watching the constant stream of people coming and going, he still could not suppress his fear.
After all, it was his kidney.
He did not dare imagine what it would be like to live missing one.
What Fu Ziheng did not know was that Yang Tiehua had gotten caught in the middle of a medical dispute. The crowd had completely blocked the way, making it impossible for her to squeeze through.
Originally, she had not intended to interfere, but there were simply too many people clogging the corridor. In the end, she had no choice but to stand there listening as patients and bystanders loudly discussed the situation.
“That doctor is absolutely heartless. He told the old man that the child had kidney disease and needed a kidney removed, but instead he secretly sold the kidney afterward.”
“A doctor like that deserves to be beaten to death.”
Hearing this, Yang Tiehua was startled.
Something like this was actually happening in this era?
It was horrifying.
She glanced at the doctor being blocked by the patient’s family.
He was a young man.
Yang Tiehua could not help sighing. He was still so young, with such a bright future ahead of him, yet he had destroyed it himself. She truly could not understand what he had been thinking.
Yang Tiehua had no interest in what happened next. She still needed to take Fu Ziheng for his examination as quickly as possible.
After finally squeezing her way out of the crowd, she was just about to go find Fu Ziheng when she suddenly heard two voices that made her scalp go numb.
“Husband, your plan of killing with a borrowed knife was brilliant. Now no one will block your promotion anymore.”
“That Zheng Chao deserved it. Who told him not to listen to advice and keep pretending to be righteous? Bah.”
Looking at the man and woman descending the stairs, Yang Tiehua felt as though something had violently struck her mind.
These two were unbelievably vicious!
Wait… Zheng Chao?
Why did that name sound so familiar?
Then she remembered.
Zheng Chao was one of China’s Ten Outstanding Young People Who Moved the Nation.
According to the story that had spread later, Zheng Chao had been implicated in a medical accident and sent to prison.
He spent ten full years behind bars.
After his release, he fearlessly exposed the hospital’s organ trafficking operation under his real name.
Because of that report, China finally uprooted an organ trafficking network that had existed for twenty years.
But on the very day the criminal network was destroyed, Zheng Chao committed suicide.
This heroic act was later written into a biographical story by an author and uploaded online. The entire nation praised his story, and in the end, he was posthumously selected as one of China’s Ten Outstanding Young People Who Moved the Nation.
Yang Tiehua clenched her fists tightly and immediately turned around.
Such a good person could not be made into a scapegoat.
Absolutely not!
Yang Tiehua directly shoved through the crowd, pushed aside the family members restraining Zheng Chao, and stood protectively in front of him. Using her loud, powerful voice, she declared:
“Everyone, don’t be misled. Doctor Zheng is only an intern doctor. How could he possibly have the qualifications to perform a major surgery?
And this family member here, don’t you find it suspicious?
Are you even certain he was the doctor who treated your son?
And was the doctor who performed the surgery truly the same person?”
Yang Tiehua’s words instantly enraged the family member.
“He was clearly wearing a name badge that said Zheng Chao, and the nurses were calling him Doctor Zheng too!
I may not know how to read, but the badge looked exactly the same as the one I saw before. And the surgeon’s name also had those same two characters!”
“So from the consultation all the way to the surgery, you never actually saw the doctor’s face?” Yang Tiehua immediately caught the key point.
“All the doctors wore masks, how was I supposed to see? Besides, that’s his name. Is he trying to deny it?” the family member shouted while pulling out several examination forms.
Yang Tiehua said nothing. Instead, she picked up a mask and put it on, then grabbed the white coat that had been thrown onto the floor and slipped it on. After hanging the name badge with Zheng Chao’s name around her neck, she turned toward the family member.
“Family member, look, I’m Zheng Chao too.”
The family member’s eyes widened immediately. “This…”
“My god, now that she’s dressed like that, she really does look somewhat similar to that doctor from before.”
“Could this really be some kind of misunderstanding?”
“She’s right though. How could an intern doctor possibly be qualified to lead a surgery?”
The direction of public opinion shifted instantly.
Yang Tiehua felt she still needed to add one more push before public opinion would completely overturn.