52: What a big pit

Yongnian Supermarket and Yongnian Hotpot Restaurant’s business was getting better day by day.

Yamazumi Arimatsu, however, was anxiously pacing back and forth.

The more customers bought, the more he lost.

Watching the money in his pocket decrease day by day, he felt like killing someone.

Meanwhile, Qian Ziyong, seeing the large number of customers buying things in the supermarket, was so happy he almost jumped for joy.

Business was even more booming than expected.

Losing several million a day.

It wouldn't be long before he lost a hundred million.

He had excellently completed his task.

Originally, he had expected to lose two million a day.

However, the result was even better than expected, with a loss of at least three million a day.

Many people from the nearby Wu City took the subway to buy things here.

Wu City is a prefecture-level city with a population of over ten million.

The fact that it alarmed Wu City shows how popular the supermarket was.

It was a sea of people, with gongs and drums resounding.

For his great cause of losing money, when he saw the supermarket staff were too busy, Qian Ziyong even personally stepped in to sell goods.

Such days continued for twenty days, until Yongnian Supermarket was the first to buckle.

Manager Sun rushed into the boss’s office in a hurry.

“Boss, something’s wrong!”

Seeing Manager Sun, Yamazumi Arimatsu slumped into his chair: “What’s wrong now?”

Manager Sun looked up at his boss and realized that his boss’s complexion was very poor.

His dark eye bags looked as if they were smeared with coal, and his eyes were bloodshot.

After not seeing him for a few days, the boss looked like a dead person just pulled out of a coffin.

He must not have slept for several days.

Losing several million a day, he wouldn't be able to sleep either.

“Boss, are you alright?” Manager Sun asked softly.

Yamazumi Arimatsu shook his head: “I’m fine, tell me, what’s Feihuang Supermarket doing now?”

Manager Sun said: “It’s not Feihuang Supermarket, but our Hot Pot Restaurant is in trouble!”

“The Hot Pot Restaurant is in trouble?” Yamazumi Arimatsu’s eyes widened.

Under Liu Gaoda’s management, the Hot Pot Restaurant had always been lukewarm.

Ever since they hired that Gold Medal Lecturer, the employees were very passionate, and business gradually improved.

And now, with the Hot Pot Restaurant’s big promotion, it was packed every day, and he lost so much money every day that his stomach hurt.

What happened to the Hot Pot Restaurant?

Just then, there was a soft knock on the door.

One could hear a hint of hesitation and timidity in the knocking sound.

“Come in!” Yamazumi Arimatsu said.

He knew without thinking that it must be Liu Gaoda.

Liu Gaoda was timid and hesitant, never decisive.

He used to think he was a talent, after all, he heard that he single-handedly founded Heli 撈 Hotpot Restaurant.

After a long time of contact, he realized that he was just a very ordinary, freshly graduated college student.

“Boss, our Hot Pot Restaurant employees are all dispirited!” Liu Gaoda pushed the door open and said aggrievedly.

“Hmm?” Yamazumi Arimatsu frowned, “Why would the employees be dispirited for no reason?”

“Weren’t they always very excited?”

Liu Gaoda looked at Manager Sun beside him: “It’s him, he hired some speaker who keeps feeding the employees motivational speeches.”

“Now look, there’s a side effect, every single one of them is listless.”

“They’re not interested in work, not interested in life, all they want to do all day is listen to the speaker’s passionate speeches.”

“Now, even if I tell them to work, they drag their feet and refuse.”

“They even ask me if working can earn them a million a year?”

“How am I supposed to answer? Am I supposed to tell them that no matter how hard they work, their salary will only be ten thousand a month, and it will never reach a million!”

“I just said that the possibility is not high.”

“But as long as they work hard, they can buy a house in Han City.”

“But do you know how he answered me?”

Manager Sun and Yamazumi Arimatsu looked at Liu Gaoda.

Liu Gaoda continued: “He said, a life without a hundred million is incomplete!”

“He said, men should be good to themselves.”

“He also said, life is not just about the mundane, but also poetry and distant places.”

“He said there’s no poetry here, so he’s leaving!”

“What do you two say about all this!”

“They’ve been completely brainwashed by the Gold Medal Lecturer, filled with false illusions about the future every day!”

“After realizing that their dreams are impossible to achieve, they lose interest in their work and become dispirited!”

Manager Sun pondered for a moment and said: “I’ve noticed this phenomenon among the supermarket employees too, it’s just not as obvious as with the Hot Pot Restaurant employees!”

Only then did the three of them understand that the Gold Medal Lecturer was not to be trusted.

After drinking bowl after bowl of poisonous motivational speeches, the employees were completely disoriented.

“What about Feihuang Supermarket?”

“Didn’t we learn from Feihuang Supermarket?”

“What’s their situation?” Yamazumi Arimatsu asked.

Manager Sun said: “Boss, Feihuang Supermarket’s Gold Medal Lecturer ran away a long time ago.”

“He hasn’t appeared in the supermarket for a long time.”

“I told you before, the Gold Medal Lecturer had a big argument with Qian Ziyong, and Qian Ziyong didn’t allow him to give speeches!”

Yamazumi Arimatsu also remembered it at this moment.

At that time, when he heard that Feihuang Supermarket’s Gold Medal Lecturer had disappeared, he was happy for a long time.

He thought this was their opportunity.

He even made the employees listen to an extra hour of speeches every day.

Yamazumi Arimatsu suddenly realized.

“I know, this is Qian Ziyong misleading me!”

“He made me pay a high price to invite the Gold Medal Lecturer to brainwash the employees.”

“And he himself, after seeing us fall for it, immediately chased the Gold Medal Lecturer away!”

“What a vicious scheme!”

Yamazumi Arimatsu slumped into his chair.

He realized he had been greatly deceived by Qian Ziyong!

What Gold Medal Lecturer, it was just a trap he dug for him.

He was just waiting for the critical moment to hit him like this.

The employees’ spirits had been tense for several months without rest, and now their mental state had a big problem.

What should he do now?

“How ruthless!” Manager Sun shivered.

“Boss, Qian Ziyong is really too insidious, he actually, unknowingly, set such a big trap for us, even though all of us were aware of the situation!”

“I wondered why he kept lowering prices, forcing us to compete with him.”

“It turns out he had a backup plan, knowing that our employees would collapse when business got busy!”

Yamazumi Arimatsu’s mind was now full of Qian Ziyong.

He said: “Did he leave any other traps for us, any other conspiracies?”

His biggest worry was that the Gold Medal Lecturer was just one trap.

There were countless other traps waiting for him!

The three of them thought about it, but they really couldn't figure out what other conspiracies Qian Ziyong had arranged.

Yamazumi Arimatsu took a deep breath: “Now we can only take it one step at a time.”

“Manager Sun, immediately fire the Gold Medal Lecturer and properly guide the employees’ emotions.”

“If it really doesn’t work, give them a few days off!”

“Although it will affect the store’s business, it’s better than them directly resigning.”

“The most important thing is…”

Yamazumi Arimatsu clutched his chest and said: “The most important thing is to give them bonuses.”

“They’ve already been brainwashed by countless motivational speeches, words might not work much, we can only use money!”

“Give each person twenty thousand!”

His heart ached too much.

This was all his money!

Currently, the supermarket has one thousand five hundred people, and the Hot Pot Restaurant has five hundred people.

Twenty thousand per person is forty million!

Just like that, forty million was lost for nothing.

It was like a piece of flesh was cut from his body.

It hurt so much that his heart was in a panic.