Chapter 1010

Night Tokyo. Seeing Lingzi sat down on a stool and let out a long sigh: "I'm truly exhausted."

"Oh my, I'd be willing to be tired if I were making as much money as you." Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong curled her lips. "Working as a waitress at a ramen shop in Japan wasn't any easier than here. Aren't you the same, accompanying people with a smiling face every day? Now you're exhausted?"

Seeing Lingzi glared at her: "Can that be the same? How old was I then, and how old am I now?"

"What's the difference? You were making money for others then, aren't you making money for yourself now?"

"Oh my, can you even argue about this?" Teacher Ge shook his head repeatedly. "Seeing Lingzi, it's not that I'm lecturing, but you should recruit more people. The shop isn't big, but there are many diners; there are only five of you in the shop, you can't handle it. Look at Little Northeast, he has so many industries, yet isn't he idle all day? This is called 'working others, not working oneself'; you should learn from him."

"That's right, recruit more people, you can also open chains. Train them in this shop, from waiters to chefs, and in the future, send Xiao Wen, Xiao Qin, and the others out to open branches and be managers."

Wang Yan, who was drinking beside Seeing Lingzi, put down his glass and raised an eyebrow at Tao Tao: "You've made progress, Boss Tao."

Tao Tao couldn't suppress the corner of his mouth and chuckled with a bit of pride: "I learned it all from you. Wasn't it like this when you were running Hongyun before? Train them at that shop on Nanjing Road, then when opening a branch, send those who performed well there out to be store managers, and then find regional managers and city managers from among the store managers. The first batch of employees back then are all managers now, right?"

"It wasn't that exaggerated; there were still people who couldn't keep up with the team, but at the very least they were all store managers or transferred to functional positions. The first batch of employees back then, the one doing the best now is the General Manager of the East China region."

"Look at that, it's just like the emperors of the past conquering the world. It doesn't matter if they have no ability at all, as long as they have no faults, obey orders, and listen to commands, the earlier they come, the greater the harvest." Tao Tao made a vivid analogy.

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "That's the principle."

Seeing Lingzi pondered: "I really should recruit more people. The Shanghai market is very big, and I can open another bigger shop. It's just... the renovation of this shop hasn't been earned back yet..."

As she spoke, she looked at Wang Yan, and the gazes of the others followed.

"Make your plan first, and study it clearly before talking. It's only been two months since the renovation and opening. The service of the staff must keep up, and the level of the chefs must be guaranteed; there's no need to be so anxious. However, you can look at shop locations first; if there's a suitable one, secure it, and you can renovate it slowly."

"Boss Wang is generous." Seeing Lingzi smiled like a flower.

Tao Tao, however, sighed on the side: "Then if more and bigger shops open in the future, you won't be able to take care of this one."

"You were the one giving ideas just a moment ago, and now you're sighing again." Seeing Lingzi rolled her eyes.

"I just feel it was very good before. Now that you're so busy and there are so many guests in the shop, it's not good at all."

Teacher Ge was equally despondent: "That's the principle. It feels like everyone has changed all of a sudden." After saying this, he took a sip of despondent Moutai.

"Oh my, you all have no ambition." Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong said with disdain. "Tao Tao has no great ambition, is content with a little wealth, doesn't have twenty yuan in his pocket, and thinks about how to enjoy life every day. You old guy are already half in the grave, of course you want nothing to change, and everything to follow what you are familiar with."

Tao Tao hummed: "You have great ambition, but aren't you still flipping..."

Seeing Lingzi glared at Tao Tao in annoyance: "Alright, alright, bringing up old accounts as you speak, is it interesting?"

"That's fine." Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong waved her hand. "Are you afraid of people talking after making a mistake? I'm telling you, Seeing Lingzi, I was very guilty before. But after Tao Tao and Teacher Ge told me, I don't feel anything at all now."

"No conscience." Seeing Lingzi condemned Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong's shamelessness.

Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong didn't care and sighed: "Actually, I also want to get rich, it's just that there are no good opportunities, making money is really hard..."

It was past four o'clock, the last tranquility before the evening meal. Everyone ate in advance to avoid being too busy to eat or having no place to eat later, which would only add to the chaos.

Everyone ate a meal in a disjointed manner. Seeing Lingzi arranged for Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong and Teacher Ge to help out here, while she used the excuse of looking for a new shop to go to the love nest in the old Western-style house with Wang Yan to have fun.

Although very tired, it was also a rest; although exhausted, it was also a way to relax the muscles and bones and relax the body and mind.

Afterward, Seeing Lingzi said: "Today I feel Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong seems a bit off."

"Normal. It's the same principle as Tao Tao and the others feeling it's meaningless. Before, everyone was very idle, eating, drinking, and chatting every day, and had no ambition. Now you are working yourself to death, wanting to develop and expand Night Tokyo, so the situation is different.

You are busy here, while they are still so idle all day, wouldn't that make them seem very useless? Especially since Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong has known you for so many years; now you are single-mindedly focused on your career, while she is still guarding that boutique, half-dead, with poor performance and tight money. Your current fighting spirit and Night Tokyo's good performance aren't they a blow to her? Wanting to see friends do well, but also afraid of friends doing too well, she is probably in such a state now."

Seeing Lingzi thought for a moment: "How about I just pull her into Night Tokyo? Anyway, I'll be opening branches in the future, it's good to let her watch the shop. We are all our own people, it's always... uh... before it was just cheating some money, in the future, opening a restaurant will definitely have an accountant to check the accounts, and if I pay her a higher salary, she won't do that anymore. What do you think?"

"You arrange it as you see fit, I don't care about so many things." Wang Yan shook his head and didn't say much more.

However, if it followed the original drama, it would probably be during this period that Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong would pack her bags and go to Beijing to make money.

But to tell the truth, Beijing isn't much different from Shanghai, basically the same. If you can't make money here, you won't necessarily make money there. After all, even if you are in the era of surging tides, not everyone makes money. If it were that easy to get rich, Wang Yan wouldn't have lived like that before receiving the favor of the 'Living Father'; he should have been a rich second generation.

"Then hurry up and give me the money, I'm preparing to recruit and train people to open a new shop immediately."

"Money is easy to talk about, but you have to suffer..." Amidst Seeing Lingzi's coquettishness, Wang Yan pressed her head down...

Seeing Lingzi's efficiency was quite high; she directly started recruiting new employees and looking for a new shop. As for the shop, of course, it had to be bought. In terms of spending money, Wang Yan was always generous.

Moreover, to tell the truth, buying a shop now, as long as it's not in some remote corner, will be a huge profit in the future. Compared to the income of the restaurant operated in this shop, the annual income of the restaurant might not necessarily beat the rising real estate value.

At the same time, Seeing Lingzi also had a heart-to-heart talk with Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong, and they agreed on Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong joining Night Tokyo. Later, Seeing Lingzi said that Seeing Seeing Lingzi Hong hugged her and cried, repenting for what she had done before...

Wang Yan had nothing to do, just flipping cards between Li Li, Miss Wang, Seeing Lingzi, and Xiao Jiangxi; life was extremely boring.

On this day, Wang Yan came to Huanghe Road.

Huanghe Road was still as lively as ever, and Jingxiu was still in the same posture, only because it was winter and cold, he tucked his hands into his sleeves.

Wang Yan came over as usual to smoke a cigarette with Jingxiu. It was cold, so they didn't drink herbal tea outside.

"Any fresh news?"

"That's too fresh. Just an hour ago, Boss Jin of Jin Meilin fell from upstairs and died. If Brother Wang had come ten minutes earlier, you could have seen the police here."

Without Wang Yan needing to ask further, Jingxiu continued, "I heard that a while ago during the 601 incident, Boss Jin borrowed usury to speculate on stocks. Later, Nanguotou made a fortune and withdrew, the 601 stock price plummeted, and Boss Jin's money was all gone. Just a while ago, the creditor came to collect money. Boss Jin was afraid and ran upstairs to hide."

Jingxiu even came out of the pavilion and pointed to the window outside the third floor of Jin Meilin for Wang Yan.

"He was standing right there at the time. When he saw the creditor leave, he wanted to enter the building, but the window there loosened, and then he fell down and died. He happened to hit a car, and the roof of the car was dented. I heard from the doctor that he died from a broken neck. Otherwise, he could have been saved; it wasn't that high, I guess it would have been paralysis.

People on Huanghe Road all say it's good that Boss Jin died, saving him from gambling in the future. Although the landlady Lu Meilin isn't much, she was really good to Boss Jin; now she's liberated. It's just that she implicated Lu Meilin; I heard Boss Jin borrowed a lot of money, and this account is going to be settled on her. As the saying goes, when the wall falls, everyone pushes; Jin Meilin probably can't be saved. But it can be considered retribution; she used to bully the weak and fear the strong, and did a lot of bad things."

Jingxiu's words were full of emotion; he was a true old-timer on Huanghe Road, and more than half of the bosses on Huanghe Road didn't have his seniority. He took over his father's post and continued to do business here after the reform; he was a true veteran.

Now witnessing a major event on Huanghe Road again, it was normal to be emotional.

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, but he didn't have any special thoughts. After all, he had no interest in Lu Meilin, and as for that Boss Jin, he hadn't even met him, so if he died, he died.

Actually, in his spare time after interacting with Xiao Jiangxi, he had thought about it, thinking that without Xiao Jiangxi involved, maybe Boss Jin would have been more careful. But clearly, Boss Jin deserved to die.

Jingxiu said: "Speaking of which, that creditor is quite good-looking. I heard she's from Taiwan, called something like Mrs. Lin, with those long legs, and followed by two bodyguards; one look and you know she's not ordinary, tsk..."

"Then you have to work hard; just looking is boring."

"Oh my, Brother Wang, making money is really hard. There aren't many people in the whole world who can make money like you."

"There are still many in the world."

"That's true, it's all capitalism outside." Jingxiu's speech was very jumpy. He looked at Jin Meilin and said, "Look, Brother Wang, it's only been an hour since the incident, the person was taken away, the car was towed away, and the ground was washed clean. Where can you see that someone just died? You can still discuss it on Huanghe Road for a few days, but after a while, who will know about the matter here? This life is truly impermanent."

"Where do you get so many emotions? Who isn't born with a bang? No matter how much of a stir you make when you die, you can't live again. Just live your own life well. Thinking about this and that is meaningless. I'm leaving."

Wang Yan threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it, patted Jingxiu's arm, and walked toward Zhenzhen Garden.

All the way to the top-floor private room, he saw Li Li sitting by the window with a stool pulled over, holding a wine glass in her hand. The private room didn't have the lights on, and the neon light from outside illuminated her face. Sorrow spread out, which was quite aesthetic.

"You're here."

"Your mood isn't very good." Wang Yan poured himself a glass of wine and brought the bottle over to add some for Li Li.

"Boss Jin opposite fell and died. Jingxiu told you, right?"

"He told me, but he is also very emotional, just not like you, acting like you're going to die. Are you touched by the scene and thinking of Mr. A who jumped into the sea?"

"I had an appointment with Bao Zong to go to Xinlanju, where we went before. Just when I came over to get my coat, I happened to see Boss Jin fall down; he fell right in front of my eyes."

Li Li drank a large mouthful of wine, "Although the method of death is not quite the same, they are both jumps. You say, can I not think of him?"

"It's still different. Mr. A jumped on purpose, while Boss Jin fell by accident, which is an accidental death. One is subjective, the other is unintentional; the difference is still very big."

Li Li knew that Wang Yan had no feelings for Mr. A and the others, so she couldn't help but glare at Wang Yan, drank a large mouthful of wine, and let out a long sigh, finally cheering up.

"That's right." Wang Yan nodded with satisfaction, "Look forward more. If it really doesn't work, let's exercise, enjoy, and have fun, and then you won't think about the dead ghost anymore."

Li Li's beautiful eyes were coquettish, and she stretched out her leg...

This stretch lasted for an hour. Because there were no conditions for cleaning, they just wiped simply, opened the window for ventilation, and dispersed the amorous atmosphere.

Li Li lay weakly on the sofa, holding a cigarette, and gathered her sweat-dampened hair: "The cooperation with Bao Zong has been negotiated. Zhenzhen Garden is used as collateral. Mrs. Lin, who is also the one who lent money to Boss Jin, from Taiwan, provided Bao Zong with an account of 30 million for Bao Zong to operate. There is also 30 million in funds from Xiguotou, your 30 million, plus the funds from Ningbo and those people around him, and his own money, totaling 150 million."

There are indeed many Taiwanese coming over to acquire high-quality assets at low prices, and they are coming in groups. In terms of coming in groups, it is roughly equivalent to a house-speculation group collectively moving out to buy new buildings, equivalent to aunts collectively moving out to buy gold...

Li Li's statement did not exceed Wang Yan's expectations. In fact, Bao Zong could not ask him for more money now. He had already borrowed 30 million, which was the number he said himself. If he wasn't really unable to hold on, he wouldn't have opened his mouth.

"The apparel company has already been decided, it will be listed on January 10th. Relatively speaking, Bao Zong's current funds cannot compare with Nanguotou. However, he has the advantage of original shares. His stocks are all at low prices. But it is not clear how much money Nanguotou is going to take out, and the situation is still not very clear. How much capital can you mobilize now?"

Wang Yan smiled faintly: "I can take out another 150 million, and smash Qiang Mujie to death."

"Then you smash it later. Qiang Mujie definitely wants to pull up the stock price, he doesn't want such a high cost either. He will definitely cut the ground from under Bao Zong in a few days, and then he will have to spend 30 million to buy my Zhenzhen Garden."

"Black enough."

Li Li smiled: "I have already looked for him before, and he also said it's not worth this price, but it will be worth it in a few days. Actually, Zhenzhen Garden is not bad. I am currently checking the accounts, the income is over 9.6 million, and the gross profit is still being calculated, but it is at least over 5 million. After paying off the debt, I can be considered to have an account for the past and for myself..."

Her words were full of longing.

"Have you thought about what to do?"

"I want to have a child first." Li Li flirted with Wang Yan, "Maybe I can do children's clothing in the future? Supplement your product categories."

"Children's money is still easy to make. Children's clothing, milk powder, toys, etc., are all businesses. It won't be long before the apparel company is listed, you can plan in advance."

"Speaking of children... is the one in Hong Kong about to give birth?"

"It's these few days. I'm going over tomorrow. It would be unreasonable not to be by her side when she gives birth." Wang Yan shook his head with a smile, "Are you still counting the days for her?"

"You said she would come over after the New Year, I guess it's been almost ten months. I don't know what you'll do when you have more children in the future."

"Are you talking about property, or fatherly love?"

"Both."

"Mothers all have industries, and my industries are not few, so I can divide the family property completely. There is no need to fight for anything, and if they fail, they fail; they won't starve to death anyway. As for fatherly love, that definitely won't be much. Perhaps this is the price for being reborn as my children."

Thinking back a thousand years, he still had quite a bit of fatherly love. Even if some were not his own children, he actually gave them the greatest patience, companionship, and care. But with more children, he didn't feel much, especially since he had sent away countless sons and grandsons, making him feel even less. A long time ago, he was already tired of naming children...

"I think we should call her Wang Xue, or follow your surname, and you can pick another name."

In the Hong Kong hospital, Wang Yan looked at his new daughter lying in the crib, trying hard to open her eyes, holding her little fists, kicking her little feet, and moving her little mouth.

"I have a brother." Bei Di shook her head, looking at the little one with tenderness, "Let's call her Wang Xue, it sounds quite nice."

Wang Yan nodded: "You've worked hard."

"I'm willing."

Although Bei Di shook her head, there was more or less some bitterness in her tone. No matter how well she thought before, it wasn't as good as the child really being born, which was almost equivalent to having no father.

This is of course Wang Yan's problem. Not living together and sleeping in the same bed led to him being unable to be in two places at once. It's not good for the children, not good for the women, and possibly not good for A Bao, and for himself... it's still okay...

"I still want to drink the chicken soup you stewed."

"I'll stew it tomorrow. It's too nutritious, you can't drink too much."