Chapter 13: Chapter 013 I am not a Vase
In the end, Lv Xiaoqian didn't resign and decided to go collect the debt. She couldn't quit this job; it was too important to her.
She had already dialed 110 on her phone's keypad, ready to call the police if anyone dared to mess around!
When she arrived at Qiangding Company's entrance, Lv Xiaoqian took a deep breath and then forcefully pushed open the company's door.
As soon as the door opened, Lv Xiaoqian was frightened.
She saw ten people standing on each side of the door, all young, with hair dyed in various bright colors, some with earrings and nose rings, clearly up to no good. At that moment, all eyes were on her.
Just a clerk, she had never seen such a scene and immediately felt her legs weaken, her body shaking intensely.
"Are you the one here to collect the debt?"
A vicious-looking bruiser covered in lumps, with a gold chain as thick as a thumb around his neck, approached her.
"I, I am." Lv Xiaoqian suppressed the fear inside her, her finger already on the call button, ready to dial out if he made any inappropriate moves. But this still didn't give her much sense of security.
Looking at the bruiser's fierce face, Lv Xiaoqian wanted to turn and run, but the thugs had already blocked the door.
This is it, not only will the debt not be repaid, I might even be stuck here.
"You must be Miss Lv Xiaoqian, I'm Kui Biao, the boss of Qiangding Company. Just call me Xiao Kui. If we had known you were coming to collect the payment, we would've delivered it to you directly, why trouble yourself to come here in person? Someone, get a chair for Miss Lv!"
Just as Lv Xiaoqian was preparing to call the police, the bruiser suddenly spoke with a fawning smile.
Immediately, two people brought over a large sofa for Lv Xiaoqian to sit on.
The unnervingly bizarre scene thoroughly confused Lv Xiaoqian. She didn't know much about Qiangding Company but had heard plenty of rumors about it.
It was said that the boss of Qiangding Company was a big shot with a bunch of thugs under him, specializing in debt collection for others.
To ask them to repay a debt was nearly impossible.
"You, you're really planning to repay the money?" Lv Xiaoqian didn't dare to sit on the sofa and asked in disbelief.
Hadn't they said it was tough to collect debts from Qiangding Company, that they would resort to violence? Why were they so enthusiastic? Addressing her with respectful 'You's and even as Xiao Kui?
A burly bruiser in his thirties referring to a young lady in her early twenties as Xiao Kui seemed excessively bizarre.
At this moment, it was as if Lv Xiaoqian was the big boss of the underworld, and the boss of Qiangding Company was nothing but her underling.
"Of course, we've prepared the money. Qiangzi, go get the money for Miss Lv."
Even after leaving Qiangding Company, Lv Xiaoqian felt as though she was dreaming.
Qiangding Company not only repaid the money but treated her with the reverence one would show to an ancestor—serving tea, offering a seat. When she left, the staff even bowed to her, welcoming her to come again.
After Lv Xiaoqian left, all the employees of Qiangding Company gathered in the president's office, looking nervously at the person sitting on the sofa.
At that moment, the boss's sofa of Qiangding Company was occupied by a security guard, who had his legs propped up on the desk, smoking a cigarette while enjoying an arthouse romance film from Dongyin Country on the computer screen.
The guard also held a steel pipe as thick as a child's arm, which he flexed straight and bent at will.
"Master Dong, we've done everything as you instructed," Kui Biao said with his forehead drenched in sweat.
"Ah? You're done already? I was only halfway through the episode," Wang Dadong stood up, clearly not satisfied.
Bang!
With the fall of the steel pipe in his hand, the computer screen shattered into pieces.
"You should watch less of that stuff."
"Absolutely, Master Dong, you're right," they all nodded in agreement, while cursing internally, Yet you seemed to enjoy it quite a lot.
After sending Wang Dadong away, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's too frightening; I'm afraid no one but Brother Long is his match," Kui Biao finally said, panting heavily.
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In the Jinding Building, Yang Jian was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
"This is bad, this is really bad. Brother Wang must have gone to help Xiao Qian collect the debt. What should I do? I've led Brother Wang to his death."
Just as Yang Jian couldn't help but consider looking for Wang Dadong, Wang Dadong strolled into the Jinding Building, casually smoking a cigarette.
Seeing Wang Dadong, Yang Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness Brother Wang didn't go to Qiangding Company to collect the debt."
The certainty that Wang Dadong hadn't gone to collect the debt was partly because if he had gone to Qiangding Company, he certainly wouldn't have returned so quickly, and he wouldn't look as unscathed as he did now.
Wang Dadong had returned less than two minutes when Lv Xiaoqian also came back, clutching her handbag, seemingly out of sorts.
Seeing this scene, Yang Jian couldn't help but shake his head silently.
Without a doubt, Lv Xiaoqian had not succeeded in collecting the money; she might even have received inhumane treatment.
What a pity, such a radiant beauty like her was ruined by Zeng Xiaozhang.
Wang Dadong leisurely continued to smoke and even greeted Lv Xiaoqian, but she was clearly still immersed in the shock of the moment and did not respond to him.
Zeng Xiaozhang's office.
"You didn't get the money?" Seeing Lv Xiaoqian in a daze, Zeng Xiaozhang asked with a smile playing on his lips.
It was within Zeng Xiaozhang's expectations that Lv Xiaoqian would not be able to get the money, and in fact, she wouldn't even dare to ask for it. He knew the situation at Qiangding Company well – it was a gang of ruffians.
The shoeless are not afraid of the shod, and given the amount wasn't much, the property company couldn't be bothered to collect such a bad debt, so they pushed it onto the security department.
He still remembered the last security guard who went to collect the debt – he ended up in a terrible state, his ribs broken.
If Lv Xiaoqian truly dared to ask for the money, that would be sheer stupidity.
As long as Lv Xiaoqian couldn't get the money back, he could fire her for incompetence. If she didn't want to be fired… heh heh… then she would have to listen to him, Zeng Xiaozhang!
"Actually, it doesn't matter, as long as you agree..."
Zeng Xiaozhang's smile suddenly froze on his face as he saw Lv Xiaoqian flip her handbag upside down and give it a few shakes, causing several bundles of money to fall out.
All of them were bundled in ten-thousand-yuan amounts, totaling ten bundles.
"This is the overdue rent owed by Qiangding Company, with interest, totaling one hundred thousand yuan."
This was the first time Lv Xiaoqian felt she could stand up straight and speak her mind in front of Zeng Xiaozhang.
In the eyes of most, clerks, especially female clerks, were just showpieces.
Besides being pleasant to look at, they seemed to have no real abilities.
In fact, even Lv Xiaoqian herself had thought of herself as nothing more than a decoration, drawing a salary nearly twice as high as the security guards, but really doing nothing. It wasn't until this moment that she felt she too had the capability.
She'd managed to collect a debt that had been overdue for two years and kept her job. Lv Xiaoqian's mood greatly improved. However, she couldn't fathom why this attempt at debt collection had gone so smoothly.
The Jinding Building is hollow in the middle, and if one stands at the center and looks up, they can even see the sky outside.
This is why the Jinding Building was named after the word for "cauldron."
Because it's like a super-sized cauldron.
At this moment, on the second floor stood two women with very similar figures.
One of them turned out to be Lin Shiyan, donned in professional attire, looking down from above, while the woman next to Lin Shiyan was dressed in sportswear, with a baseball cap atop her head and a mask covering her face.
"That's your husband, my brother-in-law?" Lin Shi, wearing professional attire, revealed an excited expression on her face and asked the woman in sportswear beside her.