ssion.Li Yunman pouted slightly and said, "Does that mean I'm not pretty if I don't smile""It seems like you're even prettier this way!" Xia Tian muttered to himself."Alright, stop looking at me like...Chapter 650: Debt Collection Methods

"Green Peak Mountain" Yun Qing pondered for a moment and then shook her head, "I don't know."

Xia Tian giggled again, "Sis Yun Qing, it's okay if you don't know. You'll find out about it in the future."

Yun Qing found this rather confusing. Why was this guy suddenly talking about things that were completely irrelevant What does Green Peak Mountain have to do with him

Although she had this doubt, Yun Qing didn't feel like asking Xia Tian. She didn't want him to think wrongly that she cared about him, which would only make matters more complicated.

"Sis Yunqing, what are those two guys here for" Xia Tian asked again: "Aren't you here to have fun Why bother with their affairs"

Yun Qing glanced at Xia Tian and finally told her about the matter.

It turned out that the man and woman Xia Tian had seen in the afternoon were the manager and accountant of an agricultural product purchasing company in Mu Yang County. The middle-aged man was the manager named Du Dagang, while the woman was the company's accountant named Zheng Xiaotao. However, they came to Beijing not for sightseeing but to collect a debt.

Last year, due to high prices of agricultural products, they had purchased various goods worth about two million yuan in their local area and then signed a sales contract with a company in Beijing valued at around three million yuan. After the Beijing company paid a deposit of 300,000 yuan (about one-tenth of the total value), they shipped out all the goods, which were received by the other side. However, after that, there was no payment.

This situation had persisted for over a year. At first, the company in Beijing claimed to be financially strained and unable to make payments temporarily. But this year, the company directly stated they would pay but not the full amount owed—originally owing 2.7 million yuan, they now only offered 700,000 yuan.

Du Dagang naturally wouldn't agree to this condition, as they had spent around two million yuan when they acquired these goods. Now the other side was only willing to give seventy thousand yuan more, making a total of one million yuan, which meant he would have to lose at least one million yuan. His company wasn't large to begin with, so this situation left him with nothing.

Du Dagang repeatedly negotiated with the company in Beijing, but they stuck to their position: seventy thousand yuan, take it or leave it. When Du Dagang threatened legal action, the other side simply said, "If you want to sue, go ahead; we're not afraid."

Du Dagang eventually found a lawyer, who turned out to be Yun Qing. Normally, Yun Qing seldom took on cases from outside her local area, but since this case was relatively simple and Du Dagang had some family connection with Yun Qing's family, she could only take it on. To her, the case being straightforward meant there wasn't much effort needed. Therefore, this time she brought Yun Xiaodong along to Beijing.

However, when she met with the manager of the company in Beijing today at noon, she realized that things weren't as simple as they seemed. The other side admitted bluntly that their intention was to avoid payment. Their reason for doing so was quite straightforward: last year they had stocked up on goods and later faced a decline in agricultural product prices. They incurred significant losses by buying high and selling low, and rather than bearing the loss themselves, they wanted to shift it onto Du Dagang.

When Yun Qing delivered the legal notice to this manager, he remained unconcerned. He told Yun Qing to go ahead with a lawsuit if she wished, confident that their company would lose the case, but he was sure he could drag out the litigation for one or two years. And according to his understanding of Du Dagang's company, it wouldn't last another year; in half a year, it would be bankrupt.

In short, the companies in Beijing can afford to drag this out, but Du Dagang’s company cannot. If it doesn’t receive payment soon, his company will go bankrupt. According to what the manager of one of these Beijing-based companies said, even if Du wins the lawsuit, his company is guaranteed to collapse. But if he chooses not to sue and accepts their seventy thousand yuan, then his company might survive.

This situation means that even if Du wins the lawsuit, if his company collapses as a result, it’s essentially the same as losing. It's because they know about the condition of Du's company that they dare act so arrogantly and refuse to pay up.

For this situation, Yun Qing couldn’t do much either; all she could do was leave the decision up to him while also trying to see if there were any other ways to solve it. However, she didn't expect Du and Zheng Xiaotao's misfortune to be so great—first being traumatized by an elevator malfunction, now they’re actually reported for petitioning and detained by local government representatives in Beijing.

The fact that there are always people intercepting petitioners from various counties and cities in Beijing is nothing new. With National Day approaching, it’s a critical period for these interception teams to operate; they fear any negative impact on the image of their respective areas due to petitioners, so once someone is suspected of being a petitioner, they won’t hesitate to detain them.

Clearly, Du Dagang and Zheng Xiaotao were targeted with underhanded tactics. Yun Qing also suspects that this might be the work of people from one of these Beijing-based companies, but even if she had evidence, it wouldn't help; after all, what could they do to someone who merely made a phone call

"Sis Yun Qing, do you want me to help you get the money back" Xia Tian asked enthusiastically after hearing what happened.

Yun Qing looked at Xia Tian doubtfully: "Do you have any good ideas"

"Sure, if they don’t give me the money, I’ll beat them up." Xia Tian said seriously.

Yun Qing was speechless. What a terrible idea! This guy truly can't be relied upon.

"Sis Yun Qing, I really can get the money back," Xia Tian noticed that Yun Qing didn’t seem to believe him and said again.

"We'll talk about it later." Yun Qing brushed off Xia Tian's words half-heartedly, clearly not taking him seriously.

Xia Tian didn't say anything more either. In truth, he wasn't in a hurry; he actually hoped that Yun Qing wouldn't be able to recover the money anytime soon. Otherwise, if she got her hands on it and left, wouldn't he lose out

There was some traffic along the way, so when they arrived at Muyang Hotel, it was already close to six o'clock.

The所謂"Muyang Hotel"實際上隻是一家小旅館，總共隻有七層樓高，甚至冇有電梯，隻能通過步行樓梯上去。表麵上看它是酒店，但實際上卻是木陽縣駐京辦的一個據點，在前幾年許多駐京辦被要求撤銷的情況下，其中一些依然改頭換麵地繼續運作。

As soon as the two of them entered the hotel, a security guard approached and inquired about their purpose. Upon learning that Yun Qing was there to see Du Dagang, the security guard's expression turned odd but he still let them enter.ran straight in and saw several people waiting in the living room. Besides Yun Qing and that little nanny named Li Yan, there were also four police officers present, two of whom he recognized: Huang A...