After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 118 117. Do you really think I am a weak and naive wife?
When Suzumiya Saka's pretty face darkened and she looked at Harano Tsukasa with a look full of jealousy, Shimizu Yuko noticed it even though there was a person between them.

Only then did she realize that she seemed to be too concerned.

After a brief hesitation, she overcame her inner reluctance and released the hand that was pressing the ice pack on the back of Yuanye Si's hand. After hurriedly saying a few more words of concern, she walked around the table and returned to her original seat.

Before getting up, he pretended to be calm and called out to Suzumiya Saka, asking her to come over and help Harano Tsukasa hold the ice pack.

This inexplicably made Suzumiya Saka feel less angry.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

She comforted herself in her heart.

And Harano Tsukasa knew that if he used this self-torture tactic and couldn't control the situation, it would only make things worse, so he didn't just sit there and wait for death. He signaled to Suzumiya Sasaka that he could hold her down with his other hand, and then he started a new topic: "I'm fine. I wasn't splashed much anyway. Aunt Shimizu, we were just talking about other things. I don't know what the current situation of the factory is. After all, it's my investment project."

"Everything is fine." Shimizu Yuko saw Harano Tsukasa winking at her, and instantly realized that he wanted her to take over the topic, so she tried to remain calm and said, "It's gradually getting on track now, but the orders will only be received for a month, because the factory may be acquired later."

"Acquisition?" Yuan Ye Si raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, the new molds of the precision machinery factory can produce high-quality auto parts. People from Toyota Motors started contacting me last week, and we had planned to have dinner together tonight."

When talking about the factory, Yuko Shimizu looked obviously sad, and seemed unhappy about the merger.

"So am I delaying my work?"

Yuan Ye Si asked with a frown.

"No, I didn't have a strong desire to be acquired, but I was considering it because of the lack of machinery and equipment and insufficient production capacity. After all, this is not financing, but a direct acquisition. Even if I can retain some shares, I probably won't be allowed to hold a position, so it makes me feel conflicted."

Yuko Shimizu is very aware of this.

What they value is only the production technology.

It's not like she is a female manager who is just starting out in her forties. It would be an understatement to say that she can retain some shares. It's estimated that there will be nothing left.

But objectively speaking this is not a bad thing.

After all, before Yuko Shimizu actually put the production line into use, she had originally planned to sell the invention patent that she had bought by luck for a good price, and she did not intend to continue running the business.

But now she hesitated.

There are many reasons for hesitation.

Harano Tsukasa also heard that she was not going to do a one-time deal. After thinking for a moment, he picked up a piece of beef from the pot and put it into Suzumiya Sasaki's dipping sauce bowl and asked, "Has no venture capital company contacted you?"

Suzumiya Saka, who was sitting next to him, was stunned.

But then he curled his lips.

I'm speechless. He didn't even look at me when he was talking to me, and now he's pretending he hasn't forgotten me.

"There are a few." Shimizu Yuko hesitated when she talked about this matter: "But after I heard that the car company was interested in acquiring it, there was no news."

This sentence means malicious competition.

In fact, it is not necessarily malicious.

After all, with the huge strength of a car company like that, I'm afraid many venture capital companies would consciously give up, knowing that there is a high probability that they will not be able to compete.

Maybe there will be private communication as well.

But these few people didn't know about this.

But speaking of this car company...

Harano Tsukasa put down the chopsticks in his hand and turned to look at Suzumiya Saka who was chewing beef beside him.

Suzumiya Sasaka felt his gaze and also put down her chopsticks and frowned, "Why are you looking at me? My uncle and my uncle are in charge of Mitsui & Co., and Toyota's affairs are managed by the Toyota family. I don't know."

As soon as she said this, Shimizu Yuko's heart tightened immediately, and she asked subconsciously with her lips slightly opened:

"Saika, you are..."

"One of her elders is a member of the Mitsui Group's Nikikai," Harano Tsukasa explained.

The eldest daughter of a consortium family.

This word popped up in Yuko Shimizu's mind.

Although it can be seen from her every move that the child has extraordinary manners, she had never expected that Suzumiya Saka's family background is so terrible. After all, when it comes to the existence of the word "consortium", basically every Japanese knows what the meaning of these two words means.

Anyway, she knows it very well in her heart.

If it weren't for Harano Tsukasa, she and the child in front of her would probably never sit together in their entire lives.

This is not an exaggeration.

And because of the possibility of being acquired, Yuko Shimizu has carefully reviewed the information about the Mitsui Group in the past few days, so she also knows Mitsui & Co.

It is also the core enterprise of the Mitsui Group.

Think of this.

Yuko Shimizu lowered her head and fell silent.

In terms of age, I am no longer young. In terms of appearance, I seem to be inferior. In terms of family background and whether I can be a help to Harano Tsukasa in the future, I obviously have no competitiveness.

No matter how unwilling she was, she had to admit that there was absolutely no problem for the child in front of her to be with Harano Tsukasa.

To be honest.

Judging only from the objective conditions of both parties, such as their personal and family conditions, there is no doubt that Yuanye Si married into someone else's wealthy family, which can definitely be described as marrying down from one's proper rank.

As for whether the other party lied...

From her first impression, she didn't think Suzumiya Saka was the kind of woman who was a habitual liar.

And for Yuanye Si.

She chose to believe unconditionally.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in her heart. It was not envy or jealousy, but her conscience telling her that if she wanted to maintain an underground relationship with Harano Tsukasa, she would undoubtedly be destroying his life. Moreover, if people from a big family like this were found to have done something that would damage their reputation, they would definitely be severely punished.

Shimizu Yuko suppressed the bitterness in her heart and tried not to look embarrassed. She smoothed the hair by her ears and responded, "So that's how it is."

"Then what are you going to do?"

Yuan Ye Si noticed that she was in a bad mood, but he still planned to continue asking the previous question.

"I think I'll focus on accepting financing. After all, this is the career I've always wanted to do. Although it's tiring, it also gives me an experience I've never had before."

“So you’re still having financial difficulties?”

"There are certain difficulties, but if we maintain the current output and have no shortage of orders, and if the capital chain maintains a good accumulation trend, coupled with loans from real estate and corporate credit, we will have enough funds to expand production by about double next year."

Yuko Shimizu said that there are certain difficulties.

This is really the only difficulty.

In the early stages of starting a business, you actually have everything you need except money. After all, any business starts out with nothing and requires a little bit of accumulation.

"What if there is enough financing?" Yuanye Si thought of the investment amount he had just received this afternoon.

"It can probably expand production by three to five times."

Yuko Shimizu blurted out the data.

Harano Tsukasa pondered for a moment, wondering whether he should bet all of his investment on Shimizu Yuko like he did last time. From a business perspective, this kind of investment approach does not involve any risk sharing and is stupid. But from the perspective that this money is like money blown by the wind and it would not be a pity if it were lost, it actually does not matter if he loses it all.

Not to mention there's an extra point.

For Harano Tsukasa, money is not difficult for him to make, so whether in terms of emotion or compensation, investing in Shimizu Yuko is not a loss.

“The funding gap is currently…”

Before Yuan Ye Si could finish his words, Suzumiya Saka next to him suddenly interrupted him: "Yuan Ye."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Yuan Ye Si turned his head away.

Suzumiya Saka's eyelids drooped slightly, she pursed her crimson lips, and said in a normal tone: "If Aunt Shimizu needs anything, I can take the lead in meeting with the Toyota family and try to ensure that Aunt Shimizu still has a certain amount of equity after the acquisition, and retains her position and management rights."

After hearing this, Yuan Ye Si fell silent.

He did not doubt the truth of what she said.

After all, no matter how much you say, Shimizu Yuko's factory is actually not worth much, at least for the giant Mitsui. Their total assets are calculated in trillions.

Although Suzumiya Saka no longer works for Mitsui.

The company run by the elders who are close to the family is not the one that wants to acquire Shimizu Yuko's factory.

But they are all members of the Management Association. As long as the relationship is not that bad, there is probably no need to communicate with the elders. Just the way Suzumiya Saka used the excuse of being a tiger in the police station last time is enough to solve this not-so-big deal, so they will still give her this little bit of face.

"Are you sure?" asked Yuanye Si.

"I can't guarantee it completely." Suzumiya Saka said calmly, "But I think it's about 80% to 90% certain."

"..."

"Xiao Si, there's actually no need to bother..." When Shimizu Yuko saw that they wanted Suzumiya Saka to help her after a few words, she instinctively wanted to reject her kindness. She even had the urge to sell the factory and return the 100 million yen to her.

"That's it." Yuan Ye Si made a decision and tapped the table with his fingers: "Let's choose financing."

Seeing this, Yuko Shimizu opened her mouth.

She wanted to refuse.

But for a moment, no sound could be made.

However, when she was struggling with how to reject this forced kindness, she heard Harano Tsukasa add, "But if you just need funds, there is actually no need to cooperate with Toyota."

"Ah?" Shimizu Yuko was stunned.

"How big is the current funding gap?" Yuan Ye Si did not continue to explain, but asked directly.

"About 700 to 800 million yen." Shimizu Yuko responded subconsciously, then seemed to have guessed something in her heart, pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment: "Mainly to increase production lines and rent factory buildings."

"Then I will invest another 100 million yen."

"What!?"

The one who made this sound was Suzumiya Saka.

At this moment, her beautiful eyes widened with disbelief. Looking at Yuan Ye Si's face, she felt as if she knew him all over again. However, hearing his confident voice just now, her hands on her thighs under the dining table clenched involuntarily.

That's 1 billion, not 10 apples. Even she can't come up with that much money at once.

It’s not that she really can’t do it.

After all, she was not involved in the family business, nor did she start her own business with the help of family resources. She could barely be considered to have embarked on a political career, so it was normal that she did not have that much cash on hand, but it was also easy for her to borrow money.

But Yuanye Si is not her!
Where did he get so much money?

It was obvious that he was a poor subordinate before, and he even borrowed 70 million from me to give to this woman in front of me. But the next moment, she said that she could take out 1 billion for additional investment!

and…

You didn't even discuss such a big thing with me! ?
This money just went out casually?
This bastard doesn't take me seriously at all!
Even before they got married, Suzumiya Saka had already regarded everything of Harano Tsukasa's as her own, including his money. But it was not because she liked spending money that she wanted to manage his money. She just believed that men would become bad when they had money, so she was ready to cut off the source.

But what about now?

Not to mention handing the money over to himself to manage, now he doesn't even bother to protect his own face and directly takes out 10 billion!

Suzumiya Saka was sitting there furious, her teeth gnashing and she wanted to grab Harano Tsukasa by the collar and ask him who was the boss.

But her remaining rationality stopped her. Besides, there were outsiders present, so she could only swallow the mixed feelings of frustration and annoyance for the time being and stare at Yuanye Si's face with angry eyes.

"Xiao Si, what are you doing..."

Shimizu Yuko was about to speak, but this time she noticed Suzumiya Saka's anger, so she immediately came to her senses: "I can't use your money casually, and you didn't even discuss this with Saka."

"This is not a matter for negotiation." Yuanye Si knew that he couldn't take care of the palms and backs of his hands at this time, and he could only solve one problem at a time, so he explained slowly.

"Investment is something that people take risks to make because they think it will be profitable. I've just seen your factory. Even without looking at the order list and the recent operating income, the fact that they want to buy it proves that it's worth continuing to invest."

"Although that makes sense, isn't this too sudden? Xiao Si, shouldn't you give it some more thought?"

"Nothing to think about."

"I think you should first follow..."

"Saika, when I lent you the money before, it was to invest in Aunt Shimizu. I didn't expect to see a return so soon. Do you want to go back to the industrial zone after dinner and see it for yourself? Anyway, I think it's okay to make additional investments. After all, it's better for us to benefit ourselves than to be acquired or financed by Toyota. What do you think?"

Harano Tsukasa did not choose to let Shimizu Yuko continue to refuse, but turned her head and smiled as if she didn't see Suzumiya Saka's eyes that seemed like she wanted to eat her.

Suzumiya Saka, who was about to explode with anger, even laughed.

It's not just about spending so much money without negotiation.

Now you are setting me up in front of outsiders!

it is good!
very good!

Do you really think I'm a weak and naive wife who can be bullied?

I'll remember this account.

Just wait and see how I deal with you later!
Feeling that she was being held on the moral high ground and couldn't get off the stage if she didn't agree, Suzumiya Saka's eyes were about to spit fire, her face darkened as she wanted to eat him alive on the spot, but after holding it in for a long time, she still managed to suppress her anger like magma, and gritted her teeth and said, "It's up to you."

"Then let's settle it first."

"Okay, let's eat." Harano Tsukasa felt the piercing pain in his thigh and tried to remain calm as he said to Shimizu Yuko, "Don't think about this for now. I'll call you later about the money."

Shimizu Yuko was silent for a while.

He just lowered his head silently and picked up the chopsticks next to him again, as if he had agreed to it.

And Suzumiya Saka was even more angry.

The hand that was pinching Yuan Ye Si's thigh under the dining table was twisting it three times to the left and three times to the right. The more he didn't say anything, the harder she twisted it. Although she resisted the urge to start a quarrel, she just stared at him without eating.

Harano Tsukasa acted as if nothing had happened and started picking up the food from the Sukiyaki pot. His expression remained calm, as if nothing had happened.

But he was also sweating a little on his back because of the pain.

It was in this state that they did not notice that Yuko Shimizu was not in a good condition at the moment.

If she looked up now.

Harano Tsukasa and Suzumiya Saka could clearly see the paleness on her face, the emptiness and blurriness in her eyes, and her whole body seemed to be frozen.

Because she was thinking about a question.

That is, Harano Tsukasa would rather give himself another 1 billion in front of Suzumiya Saka.

Is this normal?

Of course it's not normal.

In this kind of situation and this first meeting, plus the fact that Suzumiya Saka was obviously jealous and angry just now, if she and Harano Tsukasa were to switch roles, she would never have casually promised to give herself 1 billion yen without discussing it in advance.

She didn't think that the man she had in her impression, Yuan Ye Si, didn't even have the emotional intelligence to take care of his own people first.

So there must be a purpose for doing this.

Well, apart from the fact that he just said he wanted to get a return, in fact he didn't even intend to take any shares. It seems that Yuanye Si's goal is certainly not money, but other things that cannot be measured by money.

So the only explanation is...

He wanted to use the money to distance himself from the other party.

For people you spend a lot of time with, you have time to comfort them even if they are angry, but for people you want to break up with, you only need to put in the energy to make the final explanation.

Just now, Harano Tsukasa made the decision to invest another 1 billion yen without asking for Suzumiya Saka's opinion in front of her. He also said that they only need to contact each other by phone instead of communicating face to face. If this isn't compensation for severing ties with me, what is this?
If these inferences could be attributed to her sensitivity, she had already had a similar experience.

That's what he said on the highway that day.

And then after that day.

There has been no contact until today.

Then repeat it again this time.

Isn't it just wanting to completely cut off contact!

Shimizu Yuko was so sad that her fingers were trembling that she could hardly pick up the chopsticks. An unprecedented palpitation surged through her heart, especially when she looked up and saw the expression that seemed like the husband had done something wrong and the wife could only be angry temporarily outside. She felt that she should not be sitting here, but should be in the cold and dark sewer.

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