Can't Take My Eyes Off You

C 234-235

That was why Manager Sun was not willing to let her know about it and decided to change the topic.

After Jiang Yao sent Manager Sun off, she caressed Moe that was in her arms and could not figure out the relation between herself and Manager Sun's unemployment.

Jiang Yao did some thinking and decided that she had to find out the reason behind Manager Sun's unemployment. However, depending on the pitiable connections that she had in Nanjiang City, she had no idea on who to look for to do some research.

She thought about it and realized that the only man she knew who had a lot of connections in Nanjiang City was Huang Chengjing.

Since the Huang family still owed her a favor, she took out her phone and gave Huang Chengjing a call.

Huang Chengjing once gave her his name card and she casually saved his phone number in her phone. It had never occured to her that it might come in handy one day.

Huang Chengjing was on his way to a banquet dinner at that moment and he was sitting in his car when he received Jiang Yao's call. He was slightly surprised to get a call from her.

"General Manager Huang, I might need your help on two things." Jiang Yao voiced out her purpose in making the phone call right away without any intention of hiding things. "Are you free to talk on the phone at the moment? It isn't something urgent, we can continue this later if you're occupied for now."

"I'm free, I'm still in the car." Huang Chengjing said.

Jiang Yao was delighted. "I would like to ask General Manager Huang to help me find out the reason why Manager Sun was fired. Oh, for your info, he used to work for Riya Restaurant."

"Alright, how about the other one?" Huang Chengjing accepted her request in an instant.

"Didn't you just tell me that Mr. Qin was telling everyone that the hospital is going to fall under my management? I would like General Manager Huang to do me a favor and spread around what Mr. Qin had just said. Let everyone think that the hospital is going to fall in my hands sooner or later."

Jiang Yao came up with this idea after Huang Chengjing left. Initially, she wanted to ask someone else to do the job but she could not think of anybody else at the moment.

Now, since she was going to ask Huang Chengjing for his help to find out about Manager Sun, she might as well request for him to do the job. There was no need for her to ask two different men to assist her.

Compared to the Qi family, Jiang Yao was more willing to look for the Huang family. Even Lu Xingzhi had once told her that the Huang family was more trustworthy than the Qi family.

"Why?" Huang Chengjing was confused. If he really did spread that rumor, it would bring no good to Jiang Yao and the hospital. It might even worry the patients or it could be worse when the doctors start to panic as well.

"Miss Jiang, I don't think that it's a good idea." Huang Chengjing felt that he needed to give Jiang Yao a reminder.

"No." Jiang Yao knew exactly what Huang Chengjing was worried about. Her reply was strong and firm. "The doctors in the hospital have signed their contracts and they would not resign that easily before their contracts expire. Also, the main reason why the patients came to us is because of the doctors. They will not care about the development of the hospital as long as the doctors are still there to treat them."

Jiang Yao did not hide anything from Huang Chengjing and told him openly, "This will only benefit me as I want the shares that Mr. Qin has. However, I do not have the money so if I want to get them at a cheaper price, I need to think of a way to turn the shares that Mr. Qin has into a worthless piece of paper."

That was the first time Huang Chengjing had ever encountered someone who was so straightforward by telling him that she did not have the money.

Alright, she did not have the money but she was longing for the shares that Mr. Qin had. What should she do?

Therefore, the only way was to make Mr. Qin's shares become worthless. She would be able to get his shares in the cheapest way possible, and reap the benefits to the fullest.

Nobody would want to buy the shares in Mr. Qin's hands if they thought that Jiang Yao, the majority owner, would ruin the hospital. Not being able to sell off his portion of shares would only make him even more anxious, lowering the selling price gradually until a buyer was found. At that point, all Jiang Yao had to do was to bargain for more and buy it off his hands at a lower price.

Knowing that she wanted Mr. Qin's shares, Huang Chengjing was impressed by Jiang Yao's ambition.

She had the idea back when he casually mentioned how Mr. Qin was preparing to sell off his shares while also complaining to the others that Jiang Yao was going to destroy the hospital. Huang Chengjing had to admit that this girl right there, was not to be messed with.

"Absolutely, just wait for my news." Huang Chengjing agreed without hesitation, even a little willingly. "However, you have to ask someone you trust to represent you when dealing with Mr. Qin. Do not let him know that you are the buyer. You know how much he hates you and that he will never sell it to you if he knows who the buyer actually is."

Jiang Yao thanked Huang Chengjing and thought about how he was still the experienced person here, being able to consider that crucial detail.

She would not have thought of it right now. All she knew was to wait till the devaluing of the hospital's shares. When Mr. Qin becomes desperate to sell off his shares, she would swoop in and take everything.

Although, she did forget to consider the human nature. With the deep-seated hatred for her by Mr. Qin, he would never sell his shares if he knew that the buyer was Jiang Yao.

But...

She had an idea.

"Mr. Huang, what if I request to buy Mr. Qin's shares, provoking him in the process. Once he is pissed off, I will have someone else pretend to be my rival, wanting to buy the shares off of him. Do you think he would do something foolish, like selling the shares to my rival for an even lower price, just to make me bitter?"

Huang Chengjing sat in his car, at a loss for words. For what seemed like ages later, he smiled and remarked to himself, 'The young ones nowadays are getting better.'

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yao felt much better. The issue now was to find a person who she could trust. But who could it be?

She was not that sociable, and she just realized how few friends she had.

Lost in thought, she walked around aimlessly, not knowing that she had reached the end of the street.

There were several huge courtyards at the end of the street. The doors to the courtyard were locked, but they were decorated very grandly, just like how the rich lived back in the old days.

Splitting from the end of the street were two alleys. Surprisingly, a couple of vendors had set up stalls in the alley. The vendors were huddled around playing cards due to the seemingly lack of customers.

Jiang Yao walked into the alley. Hearing footsteps, which meant potential customers, the vendors abandoned their game of cards. They got close to Jiang Yao, wanting her to check out their respective stalls.

"Miss, you don't look familiar, is it your first time here? Let me tell you, someone bought a painting from me some time ago. He spent a thousand dollars on it and guess what? He sold it to a collector for twenty times the money he spent! Twenty times!"

The guy got excited and dragged Jiang Yao to his stall when she was not paying attention.

Once Jiang Yao was standing in front of his stall, the rest of the vendors left. There was a set of rules here in this alley that everyone followed. No one could nab someone else's customer standing in front of their stalls.