"Go make this call to Li Jian, tell him that Xiyang Food Factory is besieged, and I’m trapped inside the factory."
Su Wensong knew that Lin Chuxia had gone to find Li Jian yesterday, although he didn’t know how their negotiation went. Without uttering another word, he took the phone number and went to make the call.
Seeing him leave, Lin Chuxia turned to address the employees of the Old Food Factory, speaking loudly, "Everyone, please calm down. I want to ask if there is a leader among you? If there is a leader, I hope we can negotiate calmly and rationally."
"Don’t listen to her, we have no leaders. We’re just here to fight for our livelihoods," someone in the crowd shouted.
As his words ended, others echoed, "Right, we don’t have leaders, we are acting on our own initiative."
"Xiyang Food Factory is not leaving us any way to live; we have no choice but to come here and seek an explanation."
"Right, give us back our orders, give us our livelihoods..."
Lin Chuxia glanced at the first person who spoke and continued, "No one is depriving you of a livelihood. It’s your actions right now, making a scene at the entrance of Xiyang Food Factory, that are cutting off your own livelihoods. Your current behavior has already violated public security regulations and is illegal. I advise you to go back as soon as possible. If there is a problem, find a proper channel to express it. Making a big fuss won’t solve the problem."
"Don’t listen to her. If she has the guts, let her call the police. It is them, Xiyang Food, who do not provide a way for us common people to live. Even if the police come and arrest people, it should be them from Xiyang Food Factory being arrested."
"That’s right, if you don’t leave us a way to live, we won’t let this go."
Lin Chuxia looked over again and saw it was the same person speaking first. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
And this person seemed to understand very well that the police wouldn’t arrest them.
Lin Chuxia narrowed her eyes slightly and directly targeted him, "This comrade thinks the police won’t arrest you even if they come. I simply don’t understand. The duty of the police is to maintain social stability and clamp down on all who violate laws and disturb public order. The behavior of you employees from the Old Food Factory has already severely affected social stability. How can you be so sure that the police won’t arrest you?"
The man felt caught off guard by Lin Chuxia’s direct focus on him and hesitantly glanced around before forcing himself to maintain a composed rebuttal.
"How have we affected social stability? I think it’s your Xiyang Food Factory stealing other people’s orders that left so many of us without food, that’s what’s affecting social stability."
He finished speaking and even instigated the people around him.
"Everyone, am I right?"
"Exactly, that’s the point. You stole our livelihoods first, and that’s why we came to seek justice."
"Stole your orders? Stole your livelihoods?" Lin Chuxia looked at the crowd and questioned back, "Every order of Xiyang Food Factory is signed normally with the clients and has contracts. What does that have to do with your Old Food Factory? As for stealing your livelihoods, if you can’t hold onto your own livelihoods, that’s your problem. What do you mean ’stealing’? To put it another way, you eat from the Old Food Factory’s pot, and my employees eat from Xiyang Food Factory’s pot, everyone minds their own. If your food becomes diluted, you come and meddle with others’ food and think you’re justified?"
The people from Qin Family Village and the employees of Xiyang Food Factory present were already displeased with these intrusive behaviors of the people from the Old Food Factory.
Hearing Lin Chuxia’s words, they also spoke out indignantly, "Exactly, if you have the ability, sign orders with the clients too. If clients don’t want to cooperate with you, it’s your own problem. What does it have to do with Xiyang Food Factory?"
"Our ready-to-eat meals and beef sauce produced by Xiyang Food Factory taste good, and customers like them, that’s our credit. It’s a free market; people buy what they want. It’s just you who don’t know how to improve production. The food tastes bad, and you still expect customers to be forced to eat it?"
"Relying on your secure jobs to bully people? That’s utterly shameless. Such an ’iron rice bowl’ like yours is bound to shatter sooner or later."
Of course, the employees of the Old Food Factory knew that they couldn’t get orders because the ready-to-eat meals and beef sauce produced by Xiyang Food Factory tasted better.
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