Soul Patch

Chapter 48 Kicking Out the Foreman

At 10:00 AM, at Weiwei Bakery.

The sweet taste of the cake blends with the rich aroma of coffee and milk tea, filling the bakery with a blissful and sweet atmosphere.

Huang Weiwei wore smoky eye makeup, a studded motorcycle outfit, and black fingerless leather gloves today.

With a sudden swerve and hard brakes after speeding along, the motorcycle came to a stop in front of the shop like a choked monster, and Huang Weiwei got off.

She took off her helmet and handed it to the young man in the driver's seat, waving to him.

That means he can leave now.

The young man took off his helmet, revealing a handsome face that stood out in the sunlight. He whistled a few times in a cocky manner and glanced at the motorcycle parked in the corner: "Is this it?"

After saying that, he revved his silver, streamlined motorcycle, which looked as if it were cast from titanium, and sped away, leaving everyone in the dust.

When Huang Weiwei pushed the door open and entered, she noticed that Jia Nan paused for a moment while making coffee.

The supervisor almost thought this person had come to cause trouble and hurriedly ran out. After recognizing the person with the heavy dark circles under their eyes as Huang Weiwei, he grinned and went over to flatter her:

"Mr. Huang, you're getting more and more arrogant! I really don't know what you eat every day. All the other women are getting old, but you're aging in reverse. Is this really okay?"

Here we go again. Huang Weiwei ignored the supervisor and asked him to show her the week's accounts.

The supervisor's smile faded, and he slowly took out a thin ledger from the locked cash register cabinet.

Huang Weiwei snatched the notebook, looked at the daily records, and her expression grew increasingly grim.

Just as she had learned: after not coming to the store to supervise everyone's work for several days, the turnover was decreasing and the number of ruined cake bases was increasing.

Huang Weiwei slammed the ledger onto the coffee table, sat down on the sofa, and crossed her legs: "How could this double-layered blank be ruined? Do you know how high the cost is? Why didn't you report this to me? Look at the losses this week!"

The supervisor panicked, looking around furtively. The shop assistants who were glanced at by him all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Huang Weiwei's eyes.

“If this happens again, you’re fired! What do you think I hired you for? To retire or to go on vacation?”

The supervisor was stunned by Huang Weiwei's scolding, and kept his head down, his hands clasped awkwardly together.

"Mr. Huang, the foreman had the pastry chef make the double-layer cake base on June 21st and take it away. It was his girlfriend's birthday that day." A respectful but firm voice came from the beverage bar.

The foreman who stepped forward to expose them was Jia Nan.

Although his voice wasn't loud, his words caused a huge uproar in the bakery. The pastry chefs and decorators in the workshop whispered among themselves.

"The new guy is really bold!"

"Yeah, now's the time to stab the foreman in the back and see how he gets revenge. The foreman is known for being petty."

"Could he be having an affair with Boss Huang?"

"What? Real or fake?"

"It's really hard to say..."

……

Everyone was talking amongst themselves, their eyes darting back and forth between the foreman, General Manager Huang, and Jia Nan. The onlookers always seemed to enjoy the drama.

"Jia Nan, you're framing me! Do you have any evidence?" the foreman shouted.

"Shut up!" Huang Weiwei rudely stopped the supervisor, raising her eyes to look coldly at Jia Nan.

Jia Nan, seemingly unconcerned, smiled faintly and said, "Yes! The security camera on the right side of the bakery lobby captured it."

No way, that camera is broken! Not only that camera, the camera directly opposite the workbench is broken too!

The foreman laughed heartily upon hearing this.

He hadn't had the camera repaired yet, which is why he could brazenly order the workers in the shop to slack off for him.

He planned to settle accounts at the end of this month and then talk to Huang Weiwei about repairing the camera next month.

"Jia Nan, then show me the video!" The foreman smiled slyly. "Manager Huang, that kid was slacking off at work. I told him off a few times, and he's been holding a grudge ever since. Don't listen to his nonsense!"

Jia Nan took out her phone and sent Huang Weiwei a video.

After receiving the message, Huang Weiwei looked at Jia Nan with confusion. She didn't understand why Jia Nan would target the supervisor like this. Although the supervisor was a bit arrogant and greedy, he wasn't a bad person.

She casually showed the video to the supervisor, who was shocked after only glancing at one frame and immediately begged Huang Weiwei to be lenient.

"Go ahead, write a resignation letter, and I'll consider it a personal resignation. If you don't know what's good for you, I'll sue you so badly you won't have a place in the baking industry. You know what my brother does, right?" Huang Weiwei said leisurely, her voice carrying an indescribable sense of pressure.

"Mr. Huang, if I leave, who will manage the shop for you? I know I was wrong. Can you please be lenient with me for all these years I've worked for you?" The foreman, a chubby man, was more cowardly than a woman when he spoke, and he was about to cry.

Huang Weiwei glared at him with disgust: "Are you kidding me! My shop has only been open for a year!"

The supervisor completely lost his composure: "Manager Huang, I really have an emotional attachment to this store. Look, my WeChat profile picture is a picture of this store."

As he spoke, he tapped out his WeChat account and leaned over to show it to Huang Weiwei.

Huang Weiwei was also speechless. She hadn't even confronted the supervisor yet, and this person had already delivered himself to her doorstep!

The foreman quickly discovered that the first dialog box contained a transaction where he had secretly resold cakes without permission, and he immediately deleted it.

Huang Weiwei rolled her eyes at him: "There's a second chat box, and a third chat box. You sold all those scrapped cake blanks on WeChat."

After saying that, Huang Weiwei took out her phone, opened a chat window, and showed it to the supervisor: "This 'emo' guy is me! No doubt about it!"

After saying that, the shop assistants looked at their usually arrogant but now disheveled supervisor and couldn't help but sneer.

The foreman seemed to have lost his soul, packing up his belongings one by one.

He didn't understand why Jia Nan, who seemed aloof, would suddenly betray him.

He recalled the scenes of Jia Nan applying for the job at the bakery. At first, he didn't quite understand Jia Nan's behavior as a rich second-generation. He wore and used brand-name clothes, and his watches and motorcycles were very expensive. Did he lack the monthly salary of a bartender?

Why did he come here to work?

However, seeing that he was very good at mixing drinks and was never late or left early, they decided to keep him on.

Silently packing her personal belongings, the supervisor left her resignation letter on the coffee table, sadly said goodbye to Huang Weiwei, and turned to walk towards the door.

He pushed open the door and glanced back at Jia Nan: Jia Nan was looking down at her phone.

Suddenly he understood—that was the reason!

The reason Jia Nan targeted him was because he always criticized her for using her phone.

Even after being criticized, he still wouldn't let go of his phone. Huang Weiwei was rarely in the store, so he had to supervise the work of everyone there.

He was always on his phone, which made everyone else in the store less focused on their work. Out of desperation, we confiscated his phone whenever we caught him using it.

Unexpectedly, he lost his job because of this!

(End of this chapter)