My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot-Chapter 517: Actually Earned So Much!

The eyes of the other three men lit up; they eagerly asked, "What big project?"

"You have to let us join, Brother Qiu."

Brother Qiu laughed heartily, "Don’t worry, I will definitely bring you guys."

"Jiangchen Construction, you’ve heard of it, right?" Brother Qiu asked again.

"Of course," said the three men, nodding. "How could we not have heard of Jiangchen Construction."

"When the time comes, we’ll be working together with Jiangchen Construction," Brother Qiu said. "To be honest, I really can’t muster the huge team that Lin’s requires, so working with Jiangchen Construction will actually save me a lot of trouble."

"Lin’s said they’d pay me the same prices they give Jiangchen Construction," Brother Qiu said. "When the time comes, you guys can also earn quite a bit more."

The three men were immediately filled with anticipation.

"No wonder you want to raise prices with Youshu Real Estate," the bald man said. "After partnering with Jiangchen Construction, we’ll be at their level, so how can we not raise our prices?"

"Moreover, with the big project from Lin’s, I can’t be bothered with Youshu Real Estate anymore," Brother Qiu said with growing confidence, even though he hadn’t made a penny from Lin’s yet. "The bit of money that Youshu Real Estate pays is just laughable."

"Exactly, exactly," the three men agreed.

Just as Brother Qiu was enjoying his triumph and taking another sip of his liquor, someone came in through the door, "Brother Qiu, Youshu Real Estate’s people are here."

"Heh, they got here pretty fast," Brother Qiu said to the three men with a flourish, "Seems like they’re really in a hurry. Let them wait."

"Brother Qiu, they’ll be here any minute," the man at the door said with a troubled face, "I rushed over to tell you."

"What’s wrong with you guys? You couldn’t hold them back?" Brother Qiu scolded.

"We couldn’t," replied the man at the door. Before he could finish, Lu Youxi’s voice was heard, "Boss Qiu!"

Brother Qiu was taken aback.

Why had Lu Youxi brought such a large group of people?

"Hmm?" Brother Qiu rose from his seat in alarm, and Lu Youxi had already entered with her people.

Aside from her and Zhu Yali, it was all men.

Three of them were in suits, looking quite genteel and somewhat feeble.

But what about those five burly guys?

Why were they dressed in security uniforms?

"Brother Qiu," Brother Qiu called out again, directly leading his people in without being stopped.

The man who had come to warn Brother Qiu showed a pained expression to Brother Qiu.

See, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to stop them, but he simply couldn’t.

Four of you in the room couldn’t stop them either.

"President Lu, what is this all about?" Brother Qiu asked, frowning, trying to intimidate Lu Youxi.

But Lu Youxi was feeling extremely secure now, not scared in the slightest.

The ironclad room was small to begin with, and once her people stood inside, it became completely packed, leaving no room to spare.

Lu Youxi had heard that Brother Qiu was in the ironclad room and hurried over with her people.

She had burst in on purpose.

Outside it was crowded, and if things got out of hand, Lu Youxi would be at a disadvantage.

Inside the room, however, it was a different story—what could four of Brother Qiu’s men do against her group?

Her people filled the room; no one from the outside could get in, and the inside could not hold them back—perfect.

"Brother Qiu," Lu Youxi said with a chuckle, "Oh, having a drink, are you?"

"I heard you stopped work, so I came especially to ask about it," Lu Youxi continued. "What’s the situation with us here?"

Brother Qiu cautiously glanced at the five security guards behind Lu Youxi and said, "Did I not make myself clear? I’ve already told your assistant that I need to raise prices."

"I just want to know why we suddenly have to raise prices," Lu Youxi still smiled pleasantly, as if she had a particularly good temper.

This behavior from Lu Youxi completely eased Brother Qiu’s mind; it seemed that Lu Youxi didn’t dare cross him either.

Brother Qiu relaxed and chuckled twice, saying, "Isn’t it that the market changes every year? Now that the New Year has passed, the market prices are up overall, so naturally, we have to raise our prices too."

Lu Youxi appeared to think it over and nodded, "But we have a signed contract, with clear pricing. You know that, don’t you, Brother Qiu?"

"Heh, the contract is the contract, but we can still negotiate the price," Brother Qiu said nonchalantly. These folks, not so educated and used to doing as they pleased, hardly cared about contracts.

"In our line of work, that’s how it’s done," Brother Qiu stated.

Lu Youxi hummed in response, as if agreeing with Brother Qiu’s statement.

"At the same time, the contract also stipulates your deadline, you remember that, right Brother Qiu? You were the one who signed the contract, it’s all there in black and white, I’ve confirmed it with you before," Lu Youxi added.

Brother Qiu waved his hand dismissively, "Don’t talk to me about that. The bottom line is, if we can’t agree on the price, we won’t start work."

"Brother Qiu, you’re saying you can just disregard a fully finalized contract. Even if I agree to the price increase now, what if later on, seeing I’m easy to talk to, you ask for another increase?"

"My small company can’t handle that," Lu Youxi said.

"Don’t worry, after this price increase, there definitely won’t be another," Brother Qiu said with certainty. "I too want our cooperation to be pleasant, without all this trouble."

"So how much do you want to increase?" Lu Youxi asked.

It seemed Brother Qiu came prepared; as soon as Lu Youxi asked, he said, "Add 50,000 a day."

Lu Youxi had also brought their company’s accountant.

The company had two accountants, one male and one female.

This time, it was the male colleague, one of the three male colleagues previously called from the company.

After hearing this, the accountant couldn’t help but blurt out, "Fifty thousand, aren’t you being a little too outrageous?"

"There are 400 people in your entire construction crew, each worker getting paid 150 a day, which amounts to 60,000. Add on your equipment—I’ll assume your total cost is 100,000," the accountant calculated for him. "According to the contract, we pay you based on a rate of 120,000 a day, so you’re already making a profit of 20,000 a day."

"And now you ask to increase by another fifty thousand, you’re saying you want to make a net profit of 70,000 a day?" the accountant finished in one breath, nearly disclosing Brother Qiu’s profit margin.

Even if there were slight discrepancies, they wouldn’t be major.

It was roughly around that amount.

Hearing this in the room, the workers in Brother Qiu’s crew couldn’t help but gasp.

The profit was sky-high for them at this time!

They do manual labor—exposed to the elements every day, without a single day off.

Such toil only nets them 4500 a month.

This amount seems substantial now, but it comes at the cost of non-stop labor.

Brother Qiu doesn’t lift a finger and yet makes seventy thousand a day.

Of course, he hasn’t got his hands on the increased fifty thousand yet.

But even making twenty thousand a day, it adds up to sixty thousand a month now!

They knew Brother Qiu made a lot, but due to their limited experience, they couldn’t imagine he made so much!