Chapter 17

"Boss, can you wholesale hair dye here?"

"Sure, sure, we have any amount you need." Seeing a customer, the boss quickly threw down his poker cards and ran over: "What color and price range are you looking for?"

"Something cheaper that doesn’t fade easily." Ye Qing wasn’t very familiar with hair dye: "Probably black, I’m not very good with color names, but it’s the color of black people’s skin."

"It can be mixed! You run a barbershop, don’t you know how to mix colors?"

Ye Qing shook his head: "You mix it for me, and just tell me the ratio."

The boss snapped his fingers, showing a confident expression as if he could handle it.

The boss wasn’t boasting. After a few quick moves, he mixed several hair dyes to create the color Ye Qing wanted. Ye Qing dabbed a little on his finger.

After drying, it matched the skin of the black people on TV perfectly.

Ye Qing bought fifty bottles of each of the three different colored hair dyes, a few large electric hair clippers, and several sets of the largest clothes and shoes in the market, specifically for obese people.

Getting into the car, Ye Qing threw the hair clippers to the two giant laborers and had them shave off their excess hair.

The giant laborers were over 1.9 meters tall. If it weren’t for the spacious interior of the Wuling Hongguang minivan and the removed seats to make room for cargo, it wouldn’t have been able to fit these two massive creatures.

While they were shaving, Ye Qing found a plastic sheet, squeezed the hair dye onto it in the correct ratio, and mixed it thoroughly with chopsticks.

Like applying sauce to a roast duck, he used a brush to apply the hair dye from head to toe on the two giant laborers. They transformed from monsters into what seemed like under-evolved black people...

"Done!" Ye Qing threw away the brush, very satisfied with his creation.

The hair dye had an extremely strong adhesion, completely resistant to water. As long as he gave them a touch-up every half month, Ye Qing was confident that anyone who didn’t know the truth would think these two laborers were black twin brothers who had sneaked in from some remote African tribe, and would never suspect they were monsters.

After all, everyone has a unique face, and there are plenty of people who look ugly. In some countries, people naturally have rough features, and there are many who look even more terrifying than these two.

Once the hair dye was completely dry, Ye Qing had them change into the bought clothes. Even the largest size was a bit tight, but it emphasized their muscular limbs and disc-like chest muscles.

The shoes were size 50, specially made for basketball players, but they still didn’t fit.

The final touch was a pair of large sunglasses.

When the sunglasses covered their murky eyes, even Ye Qing couldn’t associate them with monsters.

These were two black men with the physique of NBA players, their tongues bulging with muscles. Even the most heinous villains would tremble at the sight.

This was an overwhelming difference in size and strength, like a pack of sheep daring to fight a hungry wolf.

And they were tigers, tigers that had entered a flock of sheep.

"Perfect!" Ye Qing couldn’t help but admire his creation.

With Niu Yi and Niu Er, what was there to fear about a banquet with hidden dangers?

Even a third world war wouldn’t be a problem.

At 7 PM, on the dimly lit Liangjiang Road, Ye Qing parked the minivan in the underground parking lot of Tianranju.

Tianranju wasn’t top-tier, but it had a long history and specialized in seafood delicacies. The parking lot was already full, with many luxury cars worth over a million.

A black Jaguar passed by Ye Qing, and the young owner, with a face full of acne, was steering with one hand and touching the passenger with the other.

The restless right hand was tickling a long-haired beauty in the passenger seat, who was giggling and pleading for mercy.

The owner gave Ye Qing a smug look and sped off.

Locking the car, Ye Qing looked at the simple car key without a remote function, and the advertisements plastered on the Wuling Hongguang.

He also noticed the dents on the front and rear bumpers, which he hadn’t bothered to fix.

A strong sense of determination rose in Ye Qing’s heart.

Luxury cars, beautiful women, yachts, private jets—these would all be his with effort.

It was just a matter of time. Ye Qing looked at the minivan, and the two giant laborers inside gave him immense confidence.

Work hard and earn money!

With confident steps, Ye Qing walked into the entrance of Tianranju.

"Sir, do you have a reservation?" A receptionist in a red qipao approached, bending to ask Ye Qing.

"Yueguang Hall, which floor?"

"Sure, sir, please follow me, I’ll take you up." The receptionist, for some reason, insisted on personally leading Ye Qing up, even though there were other guests.

She was respectful all the way, even pressing the elevator button for him.

At the end of the third-floor corridor, decorated in ancient wooden style, Liu Fengjin and Sang Qing were whispering on dark red lacquered chairs. Beside them were several beautiful, curvaceous girls.

These girls were the top models that Sang Qing had hired from the Dingshang Entertainment Club at a high price.

Liu Fengjin was radiant, and Sang Qing, the leader of Jiangshan Stone Factory, was unusually excited, his voice trembling with intense emotion, which even the private room couldn’t contain.

The three-month major renovation in Zhongyun City had made many construction material suppliers rich.

Sang Qing was one of them, but unexpectedly, a stable order was snatched by an outsider.

Ten million yuan! For this order, Sang Qing had specially hired fifty more workers, bought the rights to a new granite quarry, and purchased several large stone-cutting machines.

Everything was ready, but then Liu Fengjin called to tell him that the director had decided two days ago to give the curb stone supply order to another boss.

Who, who dared to snatch orders from Sang Qing?

Having been in the underworld in his early years and now employing over two hundred young and strong workers, Sang Qing was almost driven to the brink.

Jiangshan Stone Factory was the largest in Zhongyun City, and he had always bullied his competitors. When had it ever been the other way around?

Despite his anger, Sang Qing patiently asked for the details and was then completely shocked...

It wasn’t a competitor.

The other party hadn’t stolen his curb stone business but had introduced a new technology he had never heard of.

A technology that could carve any pattern on curb stones with exquisite craftsmanship and sky-high prices.

Sang Qing was initially highly skeptical. In terms of stone processing, who in Zhongyun knew more than him?

The batch of carved curb stones wasn’t a strategic material; they were just sitting in the yard of the city construction bureau’s road construction unit. Sang Qing, with a skeptical attitude, went to take a look.

One look, just one look, and Sang Qing felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Stone carving, stone carving!

Only today did Sang Qing truly understand what stone carving meant.

To put it bluntly, the mass-produced stone carvings from his factory, compared to these exquisitely crafted, artistically perfect pieces, were worse than dung beetles in pig manure!

The gap was so overwhelming that it was suffocating. The more he knew about the industry, the more Sang Qing understood the value of these artworks.

After the shock, an overwhelming desire to possess them took over.

If...

If he had this technology, not just Zhongyun City, but the entire Jiangnan Province, who would dare to compete with him in quality?

Losing a small order, gaining a gold mine!

Sang Qing, who had been so desperate about losing a major order that he wanted to jump off a building, was now in a state of uncontrollable joy.

As long as he could buy this high-tech machine, what did it matter about curb stones or ten million yuan orders?

All the curb stone and stone carving orders in the surrounding counties and cities would be his!

The other party was a high-tech company that could produce such groundbreaking machinery, naturally possessing numerous patents and strong capabilities.

Would they compete with them, the hardworking stone cutters?

They were just eager to promote their new product and needed something to prove its worth.

Many companies did this—once a new product was launched, the first thing they did was to promote it vigorously.

This product’s promotion was indeed too loud.

Sang Qing, after just one look, had a strong desire to buy this machine, even if it cost tens of thousands, he would sell his house to get it.

Fast, it had to be fast!!

If...

If these curb stones were put into use, the hundreds of miles of stone processing competitors would swarm over, waving checks.

"Sell to me, sell to me, this is a blank check, you can fill in any number!"

By then, what chance would he have? This machine’s function was so revolutionary that it couldn’t be mass-produced like sprouts.

In the face of absolute profit, Sang Qing cared nothing for his dignity and clung to Liu Fengjin like a leech.

Because Liu Fengjin had hinted on the phone that he would introduce him to the boss, but refused to tell him which company had introduced this technology.

Sang Qing immediately understood Liu Fengjin’s intention. This old fox was just showing off that the order wasn’t lost.

The other party was just a machinery manufacturer and couldn’t process curb stones. They would still need to buy curb stones.

If he flattered Liu Fengjin, he could get introduced to the boss and have the curb stones bought from Jiangshan Stone Factory.

Sang Qing sneered. This fool would never understand what a high-tech stone carving machine was.

Curb stones?

What were curb stones? His ten million yuan order was snatched.

That was his honor, his opportunity!

As long as he met the boss, he would beg with tears, saying the order was originally his, and describe his factory’s dire situation, emphasizing that many workers would lose their jobs without this order.

Then, the boss of the company with the groundbreaking technology might take pity on him and sell him a couple of machines...

Then, wouldn’t he be rich, with orders so numerous that even a thousand more workers wouldn’t be enough?

Who would care about a curb stone order?

He would directly give them 250,000 yuan worth of curb stones as payment for the machines.

Hmph!

Fortunately, the idiot Liu Fengjin didn’t understand the intricacies, or he would have taken advantage of him, and he couldn’t have resisted.

For this meeting, Sang Qing had spared no expense. He had hired the top models from the nightclub, and just a single wild red grouper from Vietnam cost over 8,000 yuan at Tianranju.

Just then, the private room attendant, through an earpiece, learned that a customer who had reserved the Yueguang Hall was being led up by the receptionist.

"Here he comes!" Sang Qing’s fingers trembled as he excitedly stood up from his seat.

Today, he had specially dressed in a suit, removed his gold chains, and replaced them with prayer beads and jade pendants, to appear more refined.

All to leave a good impression on the other party.