[Episode 5] Gambling? No, no chance!
The day after the resignation letter was processed.
Si-woo Lee, who woke up early in the morning in work clothes, used his powers to create and organize scrap metal.
Fortunately, this was on the outskirts, far from residential areas.
There were no complaints about moving the equipment in the morning.
As Si-woo Lee sorted out the scrap metal and got off the excavator, Pil-jung Kang entered the junkyard with two men in casual clothes.
“I went to work, boss.”
“welcome. Thank you both for coming back.”
Lee Si-woo knew in advance that the two would go to work after receiving the call yesterday.
Choi Moon-sik, in his early 40s, and Park Tae-moon, in his mid-40s, bowed their heads toward Si-woo Lee.
“no. We thank you for accepting us again, sir.”
Siwoon smiled brightly.
Finally, all the staff returned.
Except, of course, Jang Seong-woo.
Siwoo Lee couldn’t help but feel strong.
There were people who knew more about this yard than Siwoo Lee.
It was clear that their joining would be of great help to Siwoo Lee.
As the staff changed into their work clothes and entered the office, Si-Woo Lee gave a faint smile.
“Please clear the yard for a week. I do not intend to accept customers, so I think you can work comfortably.”
“Yes, sir!”
“Dr. Kang wants you to help me with something else… … .”
As Siwoo Lee spoke carefully, Piljung Kang nodded his head vigorously.
After all, if the doors were closed for a week and the yard was cleaned, there would be no need to drag the tongs out.
“I’ll help my brother and Moonsik clean up the yard.”
“I’m going to do it too. Do not worry. Now, have a cup of coffee and get to work.”
There were only a couple of things that needed to be sorted out.
First, I had to work on non-ferrous metals, and the yard had to be cleaned up.
The four, including Siwoo Lee, discussed yard cleanup over coffee.
Even without Lee Si-woo, the three actively offered various opinions.
“Let’s clean up the non-ferrous metal first, bro.”
“No, it’s better to use the yard than that. Even if there are no guests, the yard must be clean.”
As the two of them were discussing with each other to the point of saliva, Kang Pil-jung shook his head.
“First of all, hyung and I organize the things in the sack with the tongs, and Mun-sik sweeps the yard. As my brother said, the yard is always clean.”
“Yes, brother.”
Siwoo Lee, who had been silently listening to the conversation of the three, put on work gloves and left the office.
“I’ll clean up what I can with a fork crane.”
* * *
After working with the staff for a long time, the time flew by in a flash.
The time for the appointment with Shin Woo-cheol has come.
He stopped the work of the constantly moving employees and made everyone gather in the office.
“I am trying to reduce my working hours. How about going to work at 9 am and working until 6 pm?”
“Then it’s good for us… … .”
“You have to go to work early when you’re busy, but you don’t have to fill up your working hours until the days aren’t busy.”
It was enough to adjust the working hours slowly.
Si-woo Lee, who delivered his will, confirmed that it was past 6 pm and told the three of them.
“You go to work. Starting today, the time will be adjusted as I said, so I hope you will follow what I say.”
“Can I really go to work?”
“yes. Society is changing, and we don’t have to stick with the old things. And I think it would be more efficient that way.”
The three finally nodded in agreement.
If the boss says so, what do the employees say?
They changed clothes and went out to work.
Just then, Woo-cheol Shin came into the junkyard.
And a middle-aged man appeared after him.
“Siu.”
“Are you here? hello. My name is Siwoo Lee, interim representative of Nuri Recycling.”
The middle-aged man was a representative of a company called Myungsan Iron and was helped by Shin Woo-cheol in the past.
Myungsan Iron Works was a place that directly received contracts from Daehan Steel and supplied them.
“My name is Jae-Shin Moon, the representative of Myeongsan Steel. I came here at the request of lawyer Shin Woo-cheol.”
“Welcome, President. Let’s go to the office first.”
Si-woo Lee greeted Woo-cheol Shin and Jae-shin Moon with bright faces.
At that time, Pil-joong Kang and the two of them came out after changing clothes and looked at the customer and bowed their heads.
“You worked hard today. The dinner will be held next time, and tomorrow you can go to work at the time I mentioned.”
“Okay, boss. You worked hard today.”
“Yes, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Si-woo Lee, who had left the employees, took a seat in the office and hand-made coffee and handed it to the two sitting people.
“The only thing I have is coffee… … .”
“Haha, all I need is one coffee in the junkyard, do you need more? I am also in a position to run a junk shop, sir.”
“Still, I should have prepared a drink in advance… As you can see, the yard is crazy.”
Si-woo Lee spoke as if he had no face, but Jae-shin Moon could fully understand.
It was because he knew how hard the yard work was as a representative of a company.
Moon Jae-shin looked at the well-organized office and smiled.
“I knew it was a place that did business with The K. Also, they recently stopped trading.”
“As I became the interim representative when I was young, I think The K must have thought a lot.”
It would not have been that the K-Besteel had simply stopped trading.
It was clear that Jang Seong-woo’s breath had also entered.
But there was no need to tell Moon Jae-shin about such a situation.
At Lee Si-woo’s words, Moon Jae-shin put on a bitter expression.
“The K… It’s famous on this floor. Rumors have already spread that the boss is doing something dirty. It was at the moment I was thinking about coming back after hearing that Nuri Recycling had stopped doing business with The K.”
“okay.”
“Excuse me, can I see the object up close?”
Nuri recycling.
Anyone who runs a junkyard must have heard of this place.
A place where things are clean and trust is very important.
I couldn’t help but be greedy for trading.
However, since he had already signed a contract with The K Besteel, I was very happy to hear that he had recently terminated the contract.
However, it was not easy to visit Nuri Recycling willingly, saying that the cause was the death of the president.
In the midst of that, Shin Woo-cheol made an offer.
I found Nuri recycling so pleasantly.
The first impression of the temporary representative, no, the soon-to-be-representative Siwoo Lee, was not bad.
To be honest, I really liked it.
Since I was appointed as the representative at a young age, I was expecting that I would wear nice clothes and entertain myself.
However, Siwoo Lee broke that expectation pleasantly.
Despite being the representative, he was wearing work clothes and was polite to the staff.
The dust all over the work clothes was proving that all of this was by no means a show-off.
‘I’ll keep an eye on it though. Whether or not he is a talented young man.’
However, it was not possible to judge an opponent only by first impressions.
I thought we should watch Lee Si-woo more carefully, but it was true that he looked good enough to get a good impression.
“of course. We can check the inside of the scrap metal. Let’s go.”
It was rude to examine the yards of other companies in detail.
As in the unwritten rule, salespeople did not enter the scrapyard without permission.
Lee Si-woo guided Moon Jae-shin to the scrapyard.
When Si-woo Lee started the excavator, Jae-shin Moon looked at the scrap metal with sharp eyes.
Woo-
Pak!
Siwoo Lee, who grabbed a bunch of scrap metal and set it down on a flat surface, repeated the same operation.
‘Clean. The quality of things is good… It’s lightweight, what… It’s a dirty thing in the first place, so it doesn’t matter. If the weight is this good, the light weight will be fine.’
Moon Jae-shin, who thought to himself, smiled faintly.
The excavator, which overturned the heavy side and moved to the light side, overturned the scrap metal.
There was scrap metal dust, but they were very clean scrap metal.
After checking all the items, Moon Jae-shin nodded.
Now that there was nothing to show, Si-woo Lee turned off the engine and went downstairs.
“The scrap metal will be fine. There are some rusty scrap metal that I haven’t been able to take out for months… It is clean enough, so I can be proud of it.”
“As I said, these are good things. Well, let’s go into the office and talk about the details.”
At Moon Jae-shin’s words, Si-woo Lee nodded and entered the office.
“Honestly, if it hadn’t been for the request of lawyer Shin Woo-cheol, I wouldn’t have come in person. But seeing these things in person makes me want to bring them back right now.”
“Thank you for making it this far. However, I have no intention of removing the scrap metal right now.”
“It would be. Because the price of scrap metal is not good right now.”
“But it seems that there will come a time when some of them need to be removed.”
If I had held the scrap metal in my arms, there would have been a situation where only money was tied up.
In order to make money that can rotate to a certain extent, even if it loses money, it has to be subtracted.
“I would like to make a suggestion, would you like to hear it?”
“What suggestions… … ?”
“I will pay the price of the goods in advance. Lawyer Shin Woo-cheol told me about the junkyard situation. I heard you’re having financial problems… … .”
Moon Jae-shin looked at things and tried to decide.
No matter how much Shin Woo-cheol asked for, there was no need to trade if it was a junk dealer who kept things messy.
However, the moment he saw the object in person, his strict standards were all met.
“I will not hide it. The president is right.”
“If we take it out now, Nuri recycling will also suffer a lot. I want to continue the long-term business with each other.”
If it was a business dealing with such good scrap metal, I had to look at it for a long time.
Most of the items in the junkyard were messy, and it was common to mix things that were not scrap metal at random.
Therefore, it is an iron rule to deal mainly with construction sites or factories as much as possible.
Shin Woo-cheol said that although Si-woo Lee was young, he worked at a junk store for quite a long time.
Please do not try to be shallow and deceive, and as requested by Shin Woo-cheol to have an honest conversation and make a deal, Moon Jae-shin honestly expressed his thoughts.
“Ugh… … .”
In this industry, it is safe to say that an advance payment is an interest-free loan.
Instead, it is a system that indemnifies money paid in advance with goods rather than cash.
It was like a gamble, but for Siwoo Lee, who knew how much the price would rise in a month, it was an opportunity.
“Of course it is dangerous. From our point of view. But for something of that size, you can bear some loss.”
There were many cases where goods were secretly passed on to other companies after receiving an advance payment.
However, Moon Jae-shin wanted to make a long deal, and he wanted to have confidence in a young man named Si-woo Lee.
Thirty million won was quite a lot of money.
If I had to take the scrap metal that was piled up in the yard of Nuri Recycling anyway, the damage could be made up quickly.
At first glance, it might seem like a gamble.
However, it was safer to give an advance deposit with an item than it is to give a deposit without an item.
“The president is right.”
“I have no intention of closing the deal in a single shot.”
Originally, it was a suggestion for a hat, even if the junk dealer had asked the subject.
However, on the contrary, the subject first made a grateful suggestion to Nuri Recycling, a junk dealer.
“How much in advance can you give me?”
“Three million won. If you keep the scrap metal as it is, I can give you more than that.”
“Then how much do you think the unit price is?”
“We are currently trading at 290 won for weight, and we are thinking about 250 won for light weight. After two days, 10 won will drop, so it will be 280 won for weight and 240 won for light weight.”
I was able to get about 20 won more than the unit price of doing business with The K.
But fame was the target.
“Hmm… … .”
“I think it will be a problem. So I’m trying to adjust the unit price too… I’ll raise it by 10 won and give you 300 won for weight and 260 won for light weight. It’s a clean thing, so it’s worth it.”
The price difference of 30 won was decided instead of 20 won.
“If you do that, I thank you.”
“Instead, I would like to bring just one car, weight and light, to make sure it is the right thing.”
“All right. Then, let’s do the dispatch.”
“thank you.”
I decided to get an extra 30 won from the unit price I was dealing with with The K Besteel.
30 won per kg.
From the outside, it’s not a huge amount, but in terms of total weight, it was different.
Assuming that you were to hand over 100 tons of goods, it meant that you could receive an additional 3 million won.
‘If it’s a profit of this level, of course, it should be well-known and traded.’
The conversation after that was uninterrupted.
Shin Woo-cheol quietly blushed when he saw Lee Si-woo’s uninterrupted trade adjustment.
After all discussions were over, Siwoo Lee asked the two of them for their understanding.
“I think I need to change my clothes and go out.”
“I’ll wait. You can do it slowly, sir.”
Siwoo Lee left the office to take a shower.
It was not polite to send Moon Jae-shin back without any treatment even though it was busy time.
When Si-woo Lee entered the bathroom, Jae-shin Moon, who came out to the yard with Woo-cheol Shin, showed a satisfied expression.
“What do you think?”
“These are very good things. It’s not something you’re going to lose if you give me 10 more won.”
A year ago, Shin Woo-cheol helped Moon Jae-shin in court matters and became close.
Even if he didn’t, he wanted to introduce Moon Jae-shin to Lee Do-woon.
However, Lee Do-woon politely declined the arrangement, saying that he could not betray his existing business partner.
“Not that. How are you, Siu?”
“Excellent. When you see me making suggestions and talking to me while I’m still young… As you said, you seem to know a lot about junk dealers.”
“Can you do it? If it’s that guy… … .”
“It will depend on who you meet. Still, there are a lot of foxes on this floor, and there are a lot of scammers out there.”
“That’s why I asked you, isn’t it?”
At that time, Siwoo Lee, who had changed clothes, approached the two of them.
“Thank you for coming here. I’d like to serve you dinner… Would it be okay?”
“Oh, I should rather treat the representative who hand over the good stuff… In this transaction, it is the representative, not me.”
In this world, there were Gap and Eul.
As Moon Jae-shin said, on this floor, it was usually the person to hand over the goods, but depending on the situation, the position to receive the goods could also be the position.
In Siwoo Lee’s opinion, today’s work was on the latter side.
Still, I thought there was no need to refute Moon Jae-shin’s words of consideration, so I politely expressed my thoughts.
“Even so, it does not change that it is something to be grateful for. Regardless of the relationship between A and E, I just want to serve you.”
“Haha, then I’ll eat it from the CEO only for today. Instead, next time, I will treat you to a better place.”
Lee Si-woo thought it was fortunate that Moon Jae-shin wasn’t uncomfortable.
* * *
Things went well.
Si-woo Lee, who returned after eating, was relieved by the fact and opened the office door.
Siwoo Lee, who brought the bills piled up in the mailbox and checked them one by one, tilted his head.
‘A fine?’
A notice of negligence was sent from the city stating that the complaint was not corrected.
There was also a certificate of content sent from The K Besteel.
‘It’s a certificate of breach of contract… How much?’
I quickly opened the envelope and checked the contents.
There was an amount of $500,000 written on it.
In addition, the amount of fines issued was over 2 million won.
“Hey, I’m going to kill you, is that this? Jang Seong-woo.”
