Chapter 1004: Are You Afraid?

Night Tokyo without Lingzi still has some differences, at least the daily arguments between Teacher Ge, Tao Tao, and Ling Hong have decreased a lot. But on the other hand, business is still barely okay.

Without the people looking for A-Bao, and without Lingzi calling for high prices, there is indeed much less high income. But Little Monk's craftsmanship has risen after three years. Even because the small restaurant doesn't have so many requirements, and there is no time to be exquisite in cooking, and relatively speaking, energy is limited, the level is not fixed every day. Even in this situation, Little Monk has stabilized at the fourth level.

With this level of cooking, plus the price reduction, the food at Night Tokyo cannot be said to be affordable, but it definitely doesn't lose money. So business is relatively good, and the shop is packed during lunch and dinner.

As for Little Monk's bitterness and tiredness, Wang Yan naturally has sympathy. First, he raised his salary, and second, he found an apprentice, who is the younger son of the eldest uncle of Fang Mei's second aunt's family. If he can't get into university, he will hurry up and learn a craft to eat. Cooking, haircutting, car repair, etc., are all popular options within twenty years.

Teacher Ge collects money at the counter, Ling Hong comes over to help order and serve dishes when busy, Tao Tao delivers seafood, manages the business, and lets the clerk he found look after the stall, while he runs over to help in the back kitchen.

They don't lose money, after all, they eat good food, drink Maotai, and if they buy it themselves, they definitely won't be able to afford it.

Overall, Night Tokyo without Lingzi lacks some of the liveliness of acquaintances, but also has a bit more of the busyness of the market.

Wang Yan naturally doesn't want to earn much money, just such a small shop, how much can it earn, and how much can it lose. As long as Little Monk and others earn more, and Teacher Ge and others have food to eat and wine to drink, and Wang Yan can have a place to watch the fun when he is free, it is enough.

So in order to make everyone relaxed, the price-reduced Night Tokyo began to raise prices again, and little by little it returned to being quiet. Of course, it still has to be busy during lunch and dinner, and it must cover operating costs...

On the street, Lingzi looked at Night Tokyo, which was still open for business, her eyes were complex, and her heart was even more mixed.

During the time she left, she had imagined the reactions of everyone and the situation of Night Tokyo. But she didn't expect to see such a calm picture. It seemed that nothing had happened, as if she had never left.

It was this feeling that made her think of A-Bao. Because A-Bao is a shareholder, she took it for granted that it was A-Bao who was reluctant to leave and continued to operate here as a nostalgia for her.

This made her feel at a loss for a while. Because the reason she chose to leave for a period of time was that she no longer held hope for A-Bao, and it was also a re-examination of herself.

But she thought A-Bao did this, so she didn't know what to do...

Standing in the corner outside for a long time, she saw Tao Tao drive over to deliver goods and leave, saw Ling Hong and Teacher Ge go to the shop, and also saw Xiao Wen come out to throw away garbage.

Finally, she still took a step and headed toward Night Tokyo.

The bell connected to the door still made a crisp sound, and the next moment, Teacher Ge's gentle voice sounded: "Sorry, Night Tokyo doesn't have breakfast, you... uh..."

Teacher Ge stopped talking, stood up slowly, and retreated with no sense of security.

"Talking well, why..."

Ling Hong said unhappily, turned her head and saw Lingzi standing at the door, without a smile.

She stood up with a start, "Oh, Lingzi, you finally came back. For such a long time, where have you been? There was no news at all, it was worrying to death, we were all worried about you."

"Yes, we were all worried about you, Lingzi. Little Northeast, Tao Tao, and Little Monk and others, all missed you coming back."

Lingzi hummed: "Since you missed me so much, why did you retreat when you saw me? Can I kill you?"

"Oh, Lingzi, these words are not good to say, too unlucky." Teacher Ge shook his head repeatedly, "Sit down, sit down, drink a bottle of herbal tea to clear your anger."

The old guy moved with small steps, pushed Lingzi to sit down, and went to take herbal tea and put it in front of Lingzi.

Ling Hong was also the same sycophant, wiped the pull ring with a tissue, opened it, and thoughtfully inserted a straw.

"Alright, alright." Lingzi waved her hand impatiently, "Ling Hong is heartless, I'm not knowing it for the first day. To tell the truth, she only cheated me of money this time, she couldn't cheat Tao Tao of a few dozen yuan. Looking at it this way, I have to thank Ling Hong, she doesn't cheat others if the relationship is not good."

Ling Hong accompanied with a smile, leaned over and patted Lingzi's shoulder: "I know I was wrong, you definitely won't care about me. You don't know, Lingzi, in the months you were away, Teacher Ge and Tao Tao, including Wang Laoban occasionally, all talked about me. Oh, if I didn't have a face, I wouldn't be able to mix in Jinxian Road."

"You know best." Lingzi rolled her eyes and didn't continue to talk about these things.

This kind of thing, some people choose to cut off cleanly, some people choose to continue being good friends, it is very difficult to say. Especially people of this era, the burden of human feelings is relatively heavy. Not to mention Lingzi and Ling Hong have been hugging each other for warmth since Japan. So although some unhappy things happened, Lingzi still chose to muddle through.

While speaking, Lingzi glanced at the young man who was sitting with Little Monk and others cleaning up things: "Who is that?"

"New recruit to help Little Monk, is Fang Mei's relative." Little Monk slapped the back of the boy's head, "What are you stunned for? Call the proprietress."

"Proprietress good."

"Okay, people are recruited, business is doing well. Looks like Night Tokyo is the same with or without me."

Teacher Ge didn't answer, and asked: "Lingzi, where have you been these months?"

"Japan!"

Ling Hong continued to ask: "What did you go to Japan for?"

"Vacation, play, relax." Lingzi said, "Night Tokyo opens 365 days a year, never rests. After so many years, I finally rested for a while."

"Oh, resting is what should be done. But no matter what, you should have said hello, everyone was worried about you, wanted to find you but didn't know where to find you. Don't look at us as if we are very good, but once Lingzi is mentioned, everyone has to be silent."

"Silent what? I died?" Lingzi glared at the old guy irritably, and brought the words back, "I thought after I left, Night Tokyo would close, didn't expect it to open quite well now, and even recruited newcomers."

"It has been closed." Ling Hong said to Teacher Ge who was winking, "Don't wink at me, Lingzi is back, she should know, and it can't be hidden."

"What do you mean?" Lingzi asked puzzled.

"It means literal meaning. After finding you left, we gathered people for the first time, wanted to find you, but didn't know where to find you. At that time, I called President Bao, and President Bao just said he knew, and then never managed Night Tokyo again.

At the critical moment, Wang Laoban still had an idea. It was Teacher Ge who called Wang Laoban, at that time Wang Laoban didn't know which woman he was sleeping with, and came over not long after hanging up the phone. He told us that you were just going out to relax, short in ten or eight days, long in three to five months.

Then he arranged for Little Monk and others to continue working, Teacher Ge collected money here, I came over to help serve dishes, etc. Tao Tao was free, and came to help Little Monk."

"What does this have to do with what you said about closing?"

"Oh, didn't get to that yet."

Ling Hong waved her hand, and continued, "Not long ago, wasn't it your birthday? At that time, President Bao had just returned from a business trip to Hong Kong. He said if you didn't come back that night, Night Tokyo would close. Didn't you not come back that day? Wang Laoban is rich, and he is nostalgic, so he sent his subordinates to find Uncle Ye at the Peace Hotel to run the procedures for the Industry and Commerce Bureau the next day.

Look, now the business license has been changed. This Long Teng Investment Company on it is Wang Laoban's company, now the boss of Night Tokyo is Wang Laoban. That's why I said Night Tokyo has closed, but Wang Laoban didn't change the name. At that time, Teacher Ge asked Wang Laoban if he wanted to renovate, Wang Laoban said..."

Lingzi listened silently to Ling Hong and Teacher Ge nagging about what happened in the past few months.

Knowing that Night Tokyo was not done by A-Bao, Lingzi was even more complicated. Because this was different from what she had thought before, making some of the psychological preparations she had made empty. But on the other hand, in the past few months, she had also considered her relationship with A-Bao. She couldn't help but feel ridiculous about the thoughts that arose unconsciously. This made her have intense confrontation in her heart.

After nagging for a long time, Teacher Ge groaned: "Only talked, forgot to notify them, I'll call Little Northeast and Tao Tao, let's eat and be lively tonight, celebrate Lingzi's return to Night Tokyo."

"Anyway, it's not urgent, wait until tomorrow, let's talk tonight." Lingzi waved her hand, she turned and asked, "Wang Laoban didn't say how Night Tokyo will develop in the future?"

"Didn't say. He has so many businesses, where would he have the heart to open a restaurant. Taking over Night Tokyo is also because of old feelings, not wanting everyone to scatter like this. If he really wanted to open a restaurant, wouldn't he have had it long ago? Oh, right, I forgot he has the Xinghua Hotel on the Bund, that is the big hotel, I heard the main goal is to exceed the Peace Hotel, International Hotel, and other hotels opened by foreigners."

Teacher Ge said a lot, and only then understood Lingzi's meaning, he continued, "Lingzi, it's no problem for you to continue being the proprietress of Night Tokyo, Little Northeast definitely agrees. Besides, he can take so much money to buy old foreign-style buildings on the Bund, just to open a hotel for that Little Jiangxi, it sounds so absurd. If it were in ancient times, it wouldn't be a big muddled emperor or a big traitor.

We have been friends for so many years, isn't it better than that Little Jiangxi? And Little Northeast is a generous person, for so many years, the Maotai that Tao Tao and I drank, and the Maotai you hid, are enough to open a restaurant, Night Tokyo, he definitely doesn't care."

"Yes, Lingzi, Wang Laoban is grand, the gifts he brought back for us over the years are enough to open a big restaurant. You are definitely still the proprietress of Night Tokyo." Ling Hong also highly recognized and praised Wang Yan.

Lingzi smiled and didn't respond, and said loudly: "There is still tomorrow, open until the afternoon, forget about tonight, let's eat together tomorrow night."

Ling Hong pouted: "I just don't understand, what are you looking for President Bao for."

"Oh, everyone is a friend, you shouldn't talk like this. Little Northeast is right, you earn Lingzi's money, Lingzi earns President Bao's money, isn't it you earning President Bao's money in the end? We eat and drink here for three years, doesn't this cost money?"

"Alright, don't mention the past. We all have to start over, facing a beautiful future. I'm looking for President Bao, I want to take my luck back. Don't know if there is really luck..."

Later, Lingzi muttered to herself.

"What luck?" Teacher Ge didn't understand.

"Oh, I told you before. Lingzi asked for a god charm in Japan, at that time..."

Ling Hong talked about the old things again, Lingzi didn't interrupt, listened quietly, with confusion and sadness of memory in her eyes...

Huanghe Road, Zhezhen Garden.

It was nightfall again, and Wang Yan came here again.

"Brother Wang." Jingxiu greeted enthusiastically, and skillfully took out a bottle of refreshing herbal tea, and gave Wang Yan a Zhonghua cigarette.

"How is business lately?"

"Still the same, no big changes. But I bought another truck, now my assets are two trucks, and such a phone booth."

Wang Yan raised an eyebrow, and asked with a smile: "Is it the truck investment launched recently?"

"Yes, let me find a driver myself, I'm not at ease if it's not a relative, so I just spent money to buy a car and rented it to your logistics company."

This model actually existed before, in order to increase transport capacity and occupy the logistics market. It's just that before, Cao Cao Logistics was not enough, and a truck cost hundreds of thousands, which was a huge sum of money at this time. No one bought a car and threw it to the logistics company, more were car owners doing it themselves, preferring to be bitter and tired, to earn more, and to be more at ease.

Of course, it is the same now, but the economy is developing better and better, and it is not that everyone has a way to make money. More people are holding money and depositing it in the bank to eat interest. But with the development of logistics companies in the past few years, many car owners before have earned money, and many employees of pure logistics companies have also earned money. They are naturally more inclined to invest money in places they are familiar with.

So in general, this business is launched for the car owners and employees of Cao Cao Logistics, or it can be said that it is clearly proposed again, letting them spend money to buy cars and rent them to the company, so as to invest and obtain income.

The main reason is that it is too expensive, trucks are too expensive, and depreciation is too fierce, and the company's own capital development is slow, so this is considered a practical good method.

Because Cao Cao Logistics has developed well in the past few years, employees and car owners are also really making money, really eating and drinking well, so they are also willing to invest, which is considered a good thing for everyone...

"Not bad, it's just that the return on investment will be much slower."

"That doesn't matter, earning back is earning, after all, there is still a truck left, and it can earn money for many years."

"Then I have to thank you for your trust, you are really investing real money now."

"I'm also making money, and there's no other way to make money, following Brother Wang's footsteps, it can't be wrong. You don't know, Brother Wang, among all the bosses in the country, you are the most conscientious. The wages given to workers are the highest

"It's not that exaggerated." Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, not caring about Jingxiu's flattery.

Just kidding, who doesn't know that he, Wang Mou, is the good boss of the heavens and worlds, and the workers have a good reputation? Even in the real world, after several years of development and the gradual implementation of various systems, although it is jokingly called a nursing home for workers, the current Long Teng is indeed the first choice for employment in related majors.

The higher the professionalism, the more salary, this is certain. But what is friendly to workers is that even for manual labor that has no technical content and can be done by hand, although the salary is not the highest in the country, counting various welfare benefits and the five insurances and one fund that must be paid according to the salary, as well as the eight-hour working system that is implemented in place, etc., there is no comparison. Even just comparing hourly wages, it is far ahead...

Did Wang Mou mention these things?

Taking a sip of herbal tea, Wang Yan asked: "Any fresh news lately?"

"Three days ago, Bao Zong came to Zhizhenyuan for dinner, and yesterday Li Li and Boss Abao went to Xinlanju to eat hot pot together. I don't know if it counts?"

"Look at that look in your eyes." Wang Yan glanced at him.

Jingxiu smiled embarrassedly: "Everyone says Li Li followed you, but now it doesn't look like it. But if it's not, everyone says you come to Zhizhenyuan, sometimes you don't show up in the top floor box with Li Li for an hour or two..."

"Don't pay attention to such meaningless things. Instead of this, you might as well inquire about who has goods in their hands and who wants goods. You can earn a lot by passing it through the middle, just like what Li Li did."

"Brother Wang, you think too highly of me. If I had Li Li's ability, I wouldn't have been guarding this phone booth all the time." Jingxiu looked opposite, "Look, Brother Wang, Li Li is seeing that Shenzhen person off again."

Wang Yan looked in the direction of his gaze and saw Li Li hugging her shoulders, standing on the steps looking over, and the gaze of Qiang Mujie, who came out together, also looked over with Li Li's gaze.

The two didn't know what they said, and saw Qiang Mujie ignore the driver waiting at the entrance of Zhizhenyuan, but walked straight over here.

Standing in front of Wang Yan, Qiang Mujie stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello Wang Laoban, I am Qiang Mujie."

"Hello." Wang Yan smiled and shook hands with him. In order to avoid being looked down upon, Wang Yan also stood up straight, which of course can also be considered respect for people taking the initiative to ask well.

Qiang Mujie glanced at Jingxiu who was lying on the small window watching the excitement at close range, and smiled: "Wang Laoban is very nostalgic."

"You are also quite nostalgic."

"Sometimes, some people are just so unforgettable."

"It might make you even more unforgettable." Wang Yan said with a smile.

"Wang Laoban has many means to do business, but the stock market is different. Although it is also business, it is a kind of high-level business. It relies on brains, not luck. Occasionally, someone fights big with small and earns some money, which is praised for a while, but it is difficult to last long, and money is only temporarily in his pocket. Doing any business is the same truth, that is, the test of the market."

Obviously, Qiang Mujie didn't understand the meaning of Wang Yan's two sentences, but thought Wang Yan wanted to defeat him in the stock market, so he was mysterious and full of force, and released harsh words to Wang Yan.

Looking at his confident, high-spirited, and disdainful smile, Wang Yan laughed: "I know you think I have no culture, and you are here to satirize me for having no brains and relying entirely on luck. Then do you know what I rely on besides luck?"

"Ruthless enough!"

"So when do you think it's appropriate for you to have an accident?"

Qiang Mujie stopped smiling. He looked at Wang Yan who was still smiling, trying to distinguish whether this was true or false, but in vain.

He said: "Wang Laoban, I thought..."

Wang Yan laughed loudly, reached out and patted his chest: "Teasing you. We have no grievances or enmities. Although you satirized me, I don't have the small capacity to that extent. And I am a businessman who operates legally, how could I do some illegal things. Scared, right?

Actually, you put your harsh words in the wrong place; you shouldn't come to me, but to Bao Zong. He was the one who operated the southward journey back then, I just provided some money. This time is the same; he is short of money, and I will naturally provide capital. Relax, Boss Qiang."

While speaking, Wang Yan patted Qiang Mujie's shoulder not lightly or heavily, as if he were a superior.

Qiang Mujie still maintained his demeanor: "Wang Laoban, the greeting has been made, we will see later, goodbye."

After saying that, he turned and left crisply...

A few short sentences, there were still some confrontations. Qiang Mujie might be used to being awesome, and actually dared to run to Wang Yan's face to release harsh words, so Wang Yan simply and directly started to intimidate.

Of course, if you really talk about it, Wang Yan is actually falling into a lower position, because people are in the rules, and he is outside the rules. But then again, Qiang Mujie satirized him for having no culture and relying on luck to make a fortune, which is attacking in the field Qiang Mujie is good at. Then correspondingly, Wang Yan naturally wants to counterattack in the field he is good at.

If not, he can't argue with Qiang Mujie here that he, Wang Mou, has culture and strength, and prove himself here; that is really too shameful, too identity-less, and not decent at all...

"Really can pretend!" Watching Qiang Mujie get in the car and leave, Jingxiu curled his lips in disdain.

"Heroes think alike." Wang Yan nodded with a smile.

"But what he said is not unreasonable. Looking at his appearance, he is sure of winning when he talks about the stock market. If it's not good, Bao Zong might not be his opponent. Be careful."

"The problem is not big." Wang Yan put down the empty can with a smile, extinguished the cigarette butt, waved to Jingxiu, and walked toward Zhizhenyuan opposite...