Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 689: Jumping on the Bandwagon

"I... I didn’t expect that he’d remember for so long just because of a small matter!" Liu Sixu said bitterly, "It’s been so many days without any response from him, and suddenly today he took action against our family."

Liu Sixu felt really aggrieved.

"It’s not sudden. If he wants to take action against our family, wouldn’t he need some preparation? Do you think dealing with a company is just a matter of saying a single word? Liu Sixu, oh Liu Sixu, you’re already this old, and you still don’t know such basic common sense?"

Liu Pingyuan was very worried; considering how simplistic Liu Sixu was, how could he trust him with the company in the future?

Liu Pingyuan felt irritated again, thinking, well, no need to wait for the future, let’s get through this predicament first.

"Zhao Gushen probably started making preparations as soon as he got back home that night, and it just so happened that everything was ready today, so he took action against our company. If you had told me right away when you came back that night, we could have had psychological preparation and immediately gone to apologize sincerely; there might have been room for turning things around," Liu Pingyuan said.

"But you kept quiet, and our family showed no reaction. People just think our family doesn’t even realize you did something wrong and don’t take this matter seriously. Our family has been ruined by you this time!" Liu Pingyuan pointed at Liu Sixu’s nose, his hand shaking with anger.

Mrs. Liu still felt sorry for Liu Sixu; he was her only son, and she had spoiled him since he was young. Otherwise, she couldn’t have raised him into such an arrogant, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking personality.

She quickly blocked Liu Pingyuan’s hand pointing at Liu Sixu, saying, "Alright, alright, now even if you scold him to death, it’s too late. You’ve already offended Zhao Gushen, so quickly think of a way to get Zhao Gushen to forgive us."

At this moment, the assistant urgently knocked, and without waiting for Liu Pingyuan to respond, he quickly pushed the door open. Upon seeing the unusual atmosphere among Liu Pingyuan’s family of three in the office, the assistant only hesitated slightly because there was something more important; he couldn’t afford any delay.

He immediately said, "Mr. Liu, our biggest factory is planning to stop supplying us."

"What’s going on?" Liu Pingyuan’s expression changed, "Are they daring to breach the contract during the contract period?"

"It’s not during the contract period; our contract with them has always been signed yearly. It’s just that in two months, the contract will expire. We’ve always been discussing the renewal beforehand; if the talks go smoothly, we should renew next month. We’ve always had a good cooperation with them; it’s been a tacit agreement to renew the contract. This time the talks went smoothly, and they’ve always offered us a very good price."

This largest factory had high production capacity and qualified product quality, and due to years of cooperation, the relationship had been pleasant, and they’ve been offering attractive prices. Though not the lowest, the price was highly cost-effective given the quality and capacity.

Without this factory, other ones can be found; that’s not a problem.

However, not many can offer such good cost-effectiveness.

Moreover, years of cooperation had established trust; they were assured of the product quality and trusted them.

Finding a new factory requires assessments and comparisons, followed by bidding, which takes a lot of time.

Aside from this largest factory, there were a few smaller ones.

But they had low production capacity, and the types of products they produced were also different.

The largest factory produced some products that the smaller factories didn’t.

Due to low production capacity, the small factories only specifically handle one or two products, lacking the larger ones’ comprehensiveness.

In short, the sudden change of mind from the largest factory caused great losses to them.

"Got it, you can go out now. Make sure not to cause a break in relations with the factory; continue dealing with them politely, the way we’ve always done," Liu Pingyuan said.

They needed to apologize to Zhao Gushen.

If Zhao Gushen forgave them and backed down, the cooperation with the factory could be restored.

Therefore, the relationship shouldn’t be soured.

"Yes," the assistant replied.

After the assistant went out, he returned again shortly.

Liu Pingyuan felt his nerves were tight, and seeing the assistant’s grave face walking in, he immediately felt something bad, almost going neurotic.

"What’s wrong now?" Liu Pingyuan raised his voice to ask.

The assistant felt awkward, having just gone out for a few minutes and already bringing back more bad news.

"Mr. Liu, we didn’t win the bid for the Wei Feng Group," the assistant said.

Upon hearing this, Liu Pingyuan wasn’t surprised at all; he had expected it.

After all, the Wei Family has a good relationship with the Zhao Family; if Zhao Gushen really wanted to take action against them, Wei Zhiqian definitely wouldn’t cooperate with them.

Moreover, not cooperating with them doesn’t bring any loss to Wei Feng. Plenty of companies want to cooperate with Wei Feng; the real loss is on their end.

But since he had long been prepared for this, he wasn’t shocked upon hearing the news now.

"Additionally, we lost the bid for the Cangya Group too. I checked the final results through some connections; our competitor, Lingyun Group, offered a much higher bid than us, yet Cangya Group chose Lingyun over us," the assistant continued.

At this moment, Liu Sixu dared to speak up, "Is Cangya Group out of its mind? They chose the more expensive option instead of choosing the cheaper one."

"Cangya Group?" Liu Pingyuan was also bewildered, momentarily unable to comprehend, "Why would they do this?"

Liu Pingyuan pondered for a moment, thinking he hadn’t offended Cangya!

"Zhao Gushen... The Zhao Family doesn’t have any linkage with Cangya Group, do they?" Liu Pingyuan said.

The assistant explained, "The Shi Family from Cangya Group is related by marriage to the Han Family."

Liu Pingyuan was stuck, his face almost turned purple, "It’s one thing for the Zhao Family and the Han Family to have a good relationship, but why is the Shi Family, merely a relation by marriage, joining in on this!"

The assistant, feeling uneasy, bowed his head, unable to answer.

Of course, it’s because the Eight Great Families support each other; even if not every relation by marriage is connected, they are willing to assist if any incident arises.

As more of the Eight Great Families’ members settle down, the number of marriage relations increases as well.

The influence of the Eight Great Families grows larger and wider.

Originally, it was just the Eight Great Families themselves banding together, but now the circle includes their marital relations, making the enclave very broad.

And those marital relations each have their own scales, just offering a small favor, but it ensures that their goodwill is remembered by both the in-laws and the members of the Eight Great Families.