Scallion Noodles on a Deadline

[Lin Wan. The resource she will desire most in three years: a supply-chain partner who believes a small business can survive. Lead: Thursday. Old Southside Cold Storage. Shutdown unit 17.] Cold crept up Shen's back. He knew Chenghai Capital. It invested in projects ordinary people never got near. Why would one of its researchers want a supply-chain partner? Stranger still, the abandoned cold store in the south did exist; his father had once taken him there to haul frozen goods. He shut the book. Its spine pulsed once, warm beneath his palm. Outside, a black van waited in the rain. Two men peered through the window. One raised his hand and knocked three times on the shutter. By ten tomorrow, Shen had to find money.