Chapter 206: Conflicts Within the Song Family
Song Tiantian rarely appears in public view now.
Once the Identity Token was issued, her status at the Pet Beast Center was firmly established.
Song Tiantian promoted many people, but Shen Qing remained Song Tiantian’s right-hand man.
Shen Qing, an ordinary person, was able to serve as the Supervisor of the Pet Beast Center before, indicating his personal business capabilities were already quite good.
When Song Tiantian first became the Boss of the Pet Beast Center, Shen Qing was a bit complacent.
Shen Qing harbored no ill will towards Song Tiantian, but at the beginning, Song Tiantian was just a Junior Assistant, and Shen Qing hadn’t adjusted his mindset.
Furthermore, Shen Qing felt that with Song Tiantian becoming the owner of the Pet Beast Center, he wondered if Dr. Bai was giving up on the Pet Beast Center, and he felt somewhat apprehensive and insecure.
Shen Qing was also very uncertain about the future of the Pet Beast Center.
However, with the changes in the Pet Beast Center, Shen Qing began to truly admire Song Tiantian.
Shen Qing could say he was the person who knew Dr. Bai’s personality best.
Shen Qing was previously the Supervisor of the Pet Beast Center and had assisted Dr. Bai. Dr. Bai actually paid no attention to the economy of the Pet Beast Center, and the Pet Beast Center was constantly losing money at that time. Shen Qing didn’t care, and still doesn’t.
He only needed to follow Dr. Bai’s orders.
As for the treatment of the grassroots employees, and whether the Pet Beast Center could be profitable.
Dr. Bai didn’t care about any of it.
Therefore, Shen Qing was confused when Song Tiantian wanted to focus on the economy.
But after the Identity Token went online, and after Qingshan City fell.
It was only then that Shen Qing understood how wise a choice it was to follow Song Tiantian.
If he hadn’t trusted Song Tiantian and arranged for his entire family to come over, they would surely be finished now.
Afterward, Shen Qing thought of more.
He was actually an old hand by Song Tiantian’s side. In the future, the Pet Beast Center would be a new town. He had to adjust his mindset, otherwise, as the people around Song Tiantian increased, he would become less and less important.
He had to start proving himself and begin to seize power.
The facts proved that his choice was a very correct one.
Song Tiantian gave him a lot of Points, no less than what he earned fighting to the death on the City Wall.
He also broke through from a One-star Beast Tamer to a Three-star Beast Tamer.
But the bonus commission Song Tiantian promised him was substantial every month.
And she let him choose whether he wanted Points or Energy Stones.
Shen Qing chose Points without hesitation.
Choosing Energy Stones would be a lack of trust in Song Tiantian, wouldn’t it?
As long as Song Tiantian remains, Points will always be stronger than Energy Stones.
After all, Song Tiantian’s inventory of high-end products could only be exchanged with Points, while Energy Stones could only be used to buy daily necessities at the supermarket.
Before, Song Jun wanted to compete with Shen Qing, but after Shen Qing helped Song Jun open a bar.
Song Jun lost interest in the power within the Pet Beast Center.
Because Song Jun felt that Song Tiantian’s salary wasn’t high, and instead, he could earn Points on the City Wall.
And this bar could make a lot of money.
As for the alcoholic beverages, he could find a bunch of people to grow wheat in the Pet Beast Space and brew it himself; brewing wasn’t difficult.
Moreover, the supermarket no longer sells alcoholic beverages, only daily necessities. Things like tobacco and alcohol are basically gone from the Pet Beast Center’s supermarket now.
But he could grow tobacco leaves himself!
And he had a monopoly. Song Jun could imagine how much money he could make.
Song Jun knew that a monopoly with such high profits was impossible, so he gave fifty percent of the shares to Father Song and ten percent of the shares to Song Ranran.
The main reason for giving Father Song so many shares was out of consideration for Song Tiantian.
He couldn’t directly give money to Song Tiantian, as she wouldn’t care about such a small amount, but he could give money to Father Song.
Shen Qing didn’t go into this business because his own background wasn’t strong enough.
Shen Qing definitely knew how profitable this business was.
Initially, Song Jun was still earning Points on the City Wall, but after the bar started making a profit, he was in closed-door cultivation every day. With the accumulation of a large number of Energy Stones, he easily broke through to Three-star Beast Tamer. He thought he was about to catch up to Song Jing, but Song Jing had broken through to Four-star Beast Tamer.
However, Song Jun was still very confident in himself because he was earning much more money now than before.
Even his parents had now become Beast Tamers, and they had both broken through to the Two-star Beast Tamer Realm.
Unlike Song Jing’s parents, who were still One-star Beast Tamers.
The restaurant business is not good these days; people prefer to eat Beast Food.
Usually, they either buy groceries and cook themselves or eat Beast Food, rarely dining out.
Many people have gatherings directly on the City Wall, sitting on the ground for their meals.
Because they felt dining out was a waste of time.
Song Jing’s parents also wanted to get involved and join Song Jun’s bar.
But Song Jun refused because the shares weren’t agreed upon, and Song Jun didn’t want to give shares to Song Jing’s family.
He only wanted to offer a salary.
After all, when he first opened the bar, he had persuaded his parents to convert their family’s restaurant and had invested heavily.
He also borrowed a sum of money from Father Song, otherwise Father Song wouldn’t have been able to hold so many shares.
Father Song had also contributed money.
However, the bar was entirely managed by their family, with Father Song only receiving dividends.
Song Jun had no objections to his own family only taking forty percent.
Because if Father Song wasn’t a major shareholder and didn’t have backing, this bar would have been difficult to open.
But Song Jun didn’t expect that Song Jing would convert her family’s place into a bar as well.
This made Song Jun quite unhappy.
Wasn’t this just copying him?
The two of them thus became less amicable than before.
Song Jing also needed to make money; there were only so many ways to earn money.
Only by earning enough money could one have the Resources to pursue a higher Realm, possess greater Power, and even a longer lifespan.
Seeing Song Jun making money, Song Jing definitely had to compete.
She could launch cheaper, inexpensive tobacco and alcohol, directly mixed with water and alcohol, and her customer base could be different from Song Jun’s.
Song Jing didn’t feel she was wrong; if it weren’t her, it would be someone else.
Before, Song Jing didn’t want to offend so many people for a hundred Points because the profit wasn’t enough.
But now, this was a sustainable income.
Song Jing felt it was necessary to strive for it.
Song Jing understood Song Tiantian’s personality well; trying to please Song Tiantian was useless. Song Tiantian would offer some preferential treatment, but if she used her position to make money, Song Jing knew very well that Song Tiantian would absolutely not forgive her.
The money earned from working for others was limited; one still had to make money.
Before, when opening the restaurant, there really weren’t many better avenues.
Coupled with the fact that business was decent.
But now, the competition from those street vendors was too great.
She had to think of new ways to make money.
This was her form of healthy competition; even if Song Tiantian knew, she wouldn’t blame her.
