Chapter 50: Here Comes the Peach Picker
After drinking, Li Yu and Xu Yingying returned to the manager's room. After closing the door, Xu Yingying stared at Li Yu and asked, "Li Yu, you can tell me now, are Xiao Yan and Xiao Jiang, the gang of Ling Santai and the others?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "How did you know?"
Xu Yingying said: "On the opening ceremony, Ling Santai brought people to smash the venue. When I saw Xiaoyan calling Ling Santai, I felt that they must have known each other. They said that they had come to work in Yuhai city several years ago, but they could not tell what kind of work they were doing. If they weren't doing bad things, what reason would they have to hide it?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "It seems that my teacher's sister-in-law is not stupid either."
"You're stupid!" Xu Yingying scolded angrily, and then laughed himself.
Li Yu said: "You guessed it right. They used to be thieves. The time I went to the detention center was because I found out that they had a conflict with them and injured Yan Wuliang. Later, they were not acquainted with each other. They were not bad by nature, so I took them out of the thieves gang."
"If I don't ask, are you planning to keep hiding it from me?" Xu Yingying asked.
Li Yu said: "After all, this kind of thing is not glorious. If you can hide it, it will be hidden. Besides, they are working very hard in the medicinal food workshop, and they have no problem with stealing. I think they should be washing their hands."
Xu Yingying said: "I think they have changed, so I ask you about this. Today they can bring their family members to the restaurant, so I feel more at ease. If a person still plans to do something bad, he will definitely not let others know their family members."
Li Yu smiled and said, "Maybe they both want to express their feelings to us in this way, what do you think?"
"Is there something wrong?" Xu Yingying was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Li Yu, I can't see that you are so suspicious and can guess this. I think they both have found out with conscience, just because they have made a lot of money and simply want to invite their family to have a good meal. How can you think of people so complicated?"
"Haha, I'm just guessing." Li Yu said, "As the saying goes, you should not have the intention to harm others, you should not be careful of others. You must think about everything, right?"
"I think you judge a gentleman by the heart of a villain. Xiaoyan and Xiao Jiang are not as scheming as you."
"How do I think my teacher and sister-in-law are the real planners?"
"Is this praising me? Well, then I'll accept it with a smile..."
The two were chatting, and someone knocked on the door. Xu Yingying opened the door. There was a waiter in the hall outside. She said stutteringly: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Li, two people came outside and said they wanted to talk to the boss of the medicinal food shop."
"Talk?" Xu Yingying's face looked a little ugly. She asked, "What kind of person is he? Is he a hooligan who collects protection fees?"
"No, they are two... people who look a little identifiable." said the waiter.
"Let's go and meet together." Li Yu said.
The two of them came to the front hall and saw two people waiting there. One of them looked very young, just like Xu Yingying’s age, with a pale face and a faint arrogance between their eyebrows; the other one was a little older, but in their early 30s, wearing glasses and a briefcase, looking like the one who was in front of them. As the waiter described, the clothes of both of them looked quite high-end, and they really looked like someone with some identity.
"My name is Xu Yingying. I am the general manager of this store. Are you looking for me?" Xu Yingying walked forward and greeted the two generously.
"So it's Mr. Xu, hello." The man in his early 30s smiled and stretched out his hand and said. Xu Yingying also reached out and gently matched him, which was considered to have shaken his hands. The man continued, "Let me introduce it. We are from Hongxinyi Trading Group Company. This is Mr. Liu Qinghe, the chairman of our group. I am Mr. Liu Qinghe, the assistant of Mr. Liu. My name is Lao Jianwei. We came to visit Mr. Xu in a special way."
"Oh, you two have come here specially. Is there anything wrong?" Xu Yingying asked.
"Is this place not convenient to talk about things?" Lao Jianwei reminded quietly.
"Is that so? Please follow me, please." Xu Yingying said, making an invitation gesture, and walked towards the space that they usually leave. Li Yu walked beside Xu Yingying without saying a word, pretending to be a secretary and bodyguard.
Xu Yingying did not invite the two to the private room before, not because she ignored it, but because she couldn't figure out the other party's purpose and did not want to have a deep conversation with the other party. But the other party pointed out this and asked to find a suitable conversation, so she had to do it. While walking, she was thinking about the other party's purpose in her heart. She instinctively felt that the other party was not kind.
After entering the private room, Xu Yingying invited the guests to sit down on the sofa next to him, while he and Li Yu were sitting on the sofa on the other side. The waiter in the medicinal meal shop was already well-trained. When he saw the boss entering the private room, he hurried in to pour tea for everyone, and then retreated aside and was ready to provide services at any time.
The young man named Liu Qinghe picked up the teacup, took a sip, then glanced at the waiter, and then gave a wink to Lao Jianwei. Lao Jianwei coughed knowingly and said to Xu Yingying: "Mr. Xu, what we are going to talk about is more important, you see..."
Xu Yingying understood, and she waved her hand to the waiter and said, "Xiaoyi, then you go out first, I will call you if you have something to do."
The waiter retreated, and Lao Jianwei turned his eyes to Li Yu again and asked tentatively: "Mr. Xu, this person is..."
"His name is Li Yu, and he is also an executive of our store." Xu Yingying replied vaguely. She had not figured out whether the other party was an enemy or a friend yet, and she didn't want to reveal too much information to the other party.
"Oh." Lao Jianwei responded, and did not pursue the matter anymore, but said: "Mr. Xu, we came to your store this time to see you. Now the reputation of your store has been spread to Qihua, and Mr. Liu made a special trip from Qihua."
"Is that so honorable." Xu Yingying smiled faintly, but did not ask why the other party came. Since the other party wanted to play this mystery, she might as well fight the puzzle with the other party.
Lao Jianwei thought Xu Yingying would ask something, but he was ready to go up the rod. Unexpectedly, after Xu Yingying was polite, there was no further information, and the private room was in a state of disarray.
"Ahem, that's it." Lao Jianwei just broke the embarrassment by himself. From the time he entered the door, he had coughed dryly several times, as if he was catching a cold.
"Mr. Xu, I want to ask, how much investment do you have in opening this medicinal food shop?" Lao Jianwei asked.
"This seems to be inconvenient to disclose it to Assistant Lao, right?" Xu Yingying's face turned dark and he choked the other party without being soft or hard. Opening a store is not a matter of buying clothes, so how could he go to someone else's store to ask about investment? If it weren't for seeing these two people being a little bit behind, Xu Yingying almost wanted to ask Li Yu to beat someone up.
"Mr. Xu, don't misunderstand, we have no malice." Lao Jianwei said.
Xu Yingying said: "I have no misunderstanding. If Assistant Lao came here to ask this, I am really sorry, and I have nothing to tell you."
"Of course I didn't come here to ask this. What we want to ask is whether Mr. Xu intends to introduce foreign investment?" Lao Jianwei finally saw the idea of exploring it.
Xu Yingying shook his head decisively and said, "I don't have this idea, thank you Assistant Lao for your concern."
"I think you'd better introduce some foreign investment."
Liu Qinghe, who has been silent since entering the door, suddenly spoke, and when he spoke, he made a sinister suggestion, which could even be explained as a warning.
"Why did Mr. Liu say this?" Xu Yingying turned her head to Liu Qinghe, with a stiff smile on her face. She heard the threat in the other party's words, but she knew nothing about the other party's background. In this case, she did not dare to turn against each other rashly, and could only deal with the moves and touch the other party's trump card before talking.
Liu Qinghe raised his hand and brushed a trace of dust that did not exist on his suit's chest, used such an action to show his domineering spirit, and then said: "I have heard of your medicinal food shop in Qihua. It is said that it has some characteristics. However, opening a high-end restaurant is not just about having characteristics."
"What else is needed?"
"Requires strength."
"I wonder what Mr. Liu is talking about strength, what does it mean?"
"Strength... Actually, Mr. Xu also knew in his heart, no need to say more, right? Our Hongxinyi Group is a powerful enterprise. If you can introduce our company's funds, then you will have enough strength to let go of the Yunjiang ground. On the contrary, if there is no company like us as your backing, I am afraid that you may not be able to operate in Yuhai for how long." Liu Qinghe said slowly, and the hint in his words could even hear Li Yu, a person who is out of touch with the times.
Xu Yingying's face turned pale, and her hands couldn't help but tremble slightly. She kept encouraging herself to be braver in her heart, but it was useless. She had just come out of school and had never seen such naked threats. She didn't even know who the other party was and what kind of background she had. She could only guess from the other party's arrogance: the other party is definitely the kind of person who can crush her.
"What do you plan to do?" Xu Yingying asked subconsciously.
Liu Qinghe showed a proud smile on his face, and he said, "Assistant Lao has evaluated your store just now. All the assets are fully calculated, which is more than 1 million. I plan to inject 1.1 million into you in exchange for 51% of your equity. What do you think?"
"This..." Xu Yingying took a lot of effort to resist the urge to spit his saliva on the other person's face. She turned her head to look at Li Yu, but saw that there was no expression on Li Yu's face. She could not see any anger or depression, as if she was listening to something that had nothing to do with her.
"Mr. Liu, this matter is too sudden... I am not alone in the medicinal restaurant. I still need to discuss it with the shareholders. What do you think?"
Chapter completed!