I Know Everything - Chapter 608
Chapter 608: Happy and Sad.
The viewer who had the most complex emotion was still the rising businessman from Lin’an, Zhang Duocai.
People from all over the world could see the charming little girl sitting behind Chen Huan and see her chatting happily with him as well as cheering for him, Zhang Duocai as the father also could see that.
In this world, there was a possibility for a mother to start liking the son-in-law the more pleasing to eyes he was but there weren’t many fathers who could really start liking the son-in-law.
Especially Zhang Duocai after only giving birth to a single daughter.
If it wasn’t for his daughter’s happiness, he would’ve liked her to not marry and be beside him forever.
Even though he knew the day would come sooner or later, he didn’t expect it to come so soon.
His daughter only turned 16 and she was already looking for a boyfriend!?
They certainly didn’t have any substantial development right now but if it continued on the trend, his daughter probably would have to marry into the Chen Huan family in five years or so.
He just needed to look at how his daughter was looking at Chen Huan to know what she was thinking.
Zhang Duocai was already nervous when she asked to go to the US to watch Chen Huan’s game under the excuse of gaining more experience and the results were as he expected.
Watch the game? She just went to see Chen Huan!
You would say that Chen Huan was a good kid.
Sure.
Whether it was in terms of appearance, intelligence, talent etc… Zhang Duocai had never seen another person as good.
His daughter would probably be very happy to be able to marry someone like that.
But the problem was it wasn’t only his daughter beside Chen Huan.
His daughter’s rival, Shui Qianyu, was Chen Huan’s childhood sweetheart.
In addition, the famous singer Han Dong’er and the actress Bu Yiyi were also known to be close to Chen Huan.
Even Wang Zhen, the top reporter from Pomelo and popular sports journalist, was also looking at Chen Huan like a hungry wolf.
Chen Huan was the scourge of women!
Zhang Duocai hoped for her daughter to marry a man that would dedicate himself to his daughter and keep only her.
With the wealth that the Zhang Family had, it wouldn’t be used up even after ten generations if there wasn’t any especially prodigal descendant so they didn’t need a rich son-in-law as long as he was good to his daughter.
But then his daughter fell in love with Chen Huan.
What an ill-fated couple!
A knock came from the door as he was lamenting.
Zhang Duocai closed the window on the computer before he said, “Come in!”
Pushing the door open was Chen Run, the president of operation as well as Zhang Duocai’s close confidant for more than ten years with his father who also worked with Zhang Duocai’s father to build the company.
He came to the company after he finished university and took up the position of president of operation after some effort.
“Brother Cai.” Chen Run’s greeting was different from the others, “Director Guo of Daxi City is here again and their offer is even better. They will rent it for nothing for the first ten years and then only take 10 yuan per square meter for the second ten years! Shit, this is practically giving money away!”
“Take a seat!” Zhang Duocai smiled but didn’t discuss that topic, “You three daughters called me yesterday to complain that you haven’t been home for three days…You’re already this old and already have a wife and daughters, you stray from home!”
Chen Run didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “Brother Cai, although I join the fun on occasion, I definitely don’t go overboard and always go home after drinking! You already know that I’ve three wives and each of them are tigers or wolves, they all are playing me to death so how could I stray from home?”
“Then why are they saying you’re not going home?” Zhang Duocai asked.
“I’ve been very busy lately. I have to entertain the guests until 2 or 3 am while having to work the next day so I can’t get a good night’s sleep, hence I decided to sleep on the couch at the office.” Chen Run sighed, “I’ve already told their mothers but the girls are still unhappy! They really need a good spank!”
Chen Run had a smile on his face as he talked about his daughter.
It was a form of happiness to have people asking you why he wasn’t going home and be worried for him.
“You can’t be like that. just have your subordinate to entertain the guests.” Zhang Duocai said, “Otherwise your children will come at me and I can’t handle that.”
“Alright.” Chen Run said, “Hehe, bro, after so many years with nobody to entertain, I’m quite excited and happy even though it’s quite tiring!”
Zhang Duocai gave a dry laugh but agreed with him.
Yongxing Supermarkets were dying previously so nobody was interested.
It was different now. Yongxing Supermarkets were famous in Lin’an and even across the country while making unprecedented achievements. They occupied all the top five spots in the single store sales ranking in the country for four consecutive months!
Yongxing Supermarkets employees were all riding high and didn’t mind the hard work as they only cared about prolonging the record.
Yongxing Supermarkets were fully owned by the Zhang Family before and old executives like Chen Run owned some dry shares.
Those so-called dry shares weren’t shares they fully owned but the benefit generated by those shares did.
As long as they didn’t leave the company, they could enjoy the rights and interest given by those dry shares.
Now that the company went through equity expansion, the shares they owned were even more valuable now and the dividend at the end of the year was astronomical so how could it not motivate them?
“Brother Cai, what is our response to Daxi City?” Chen Run urged, “He came five times in two weeks. I’m about to vomit all the wine! It won’t be good if we don’t give him an answer!”
“Tell him that we’re still concentrated on consolidating those five stores for the time being and not interested in expansion at the moment!” Zhang Duocai said without hesitation.
Daxi City project was a commercial complex with 2 million square meters of commercial buildings as well as office buildings. There would be around 20 buildings around it with more than 70k people living around it.
But the location of Daxi City was very remote and the subway wouldn’t be available until five years later so traffic was highly inconvenient.
Moreover, the households surrounding it were low-end and their purchasing power probably wouldn’t improve within the next few years.
Under those circumstances, it was impossible for Yongxing Supermarkets to open a branch there even if they paid them, let alone just for no rent.
“Alright, I’ll tell him that.” Chen Run nodded, “However, CEO Sun, CEO Ma and CEO Yu also gave very good offers, are we going to reply to them the same or we will wait?”
Those CEO’s he just mentioned were CEOs of large real estate developers in Lin’an.
Their offers were actually very good and not much different than Daxi City.
But it wasn’t without reason.
They wanted to use Yongxing Supermarkets’ brand for their rentals.
Even the super popular Yongxing Supermarkets settle in their place, wouldn’t the others want to rush and to buy their properties in order to collect rent? Or buy an office building before the price gets even higher?
That was basically the plan.
Actually, if Yongxing Supermarkets demanded a better offer such as 20 years without rent, some bosses may bite the bullet and accept it.
After all, Yongxing Supermarkets would only occupy an area of around 5000 square meters but the economic benefit they brought with them were surprisingly great and far better than the rent would’ve given them.
Apart from them, who could dominate the top 5 single store sales ranking?
A miraculous supermarket model deserved the high price to attract them!
“Hmm, we should wait.” Zhang Duocai said, “It’s only been 4 months and those commercial complexes aren’t good at all! It also means we aren’t good enough! With more success, commercial complexes at the city center would come to us with offers like that, you believe it or not?”
“I do!” Chen Run earnestly responded, “Brother Cai, although this model is very tiring, it’s like we were all doped and filled with energy so we can exhaust ourselves working! Wouldn’t we attract the world’s attention if we continue to develop for a year or two?”
“I’m of the same mind. We should work harder and surpass what our parents did!” Zhang Duocai replied and laughed.
“Hehe, speaking of which, your son-in-law is really amazing! Our Yongxing Supermarkets rose from the ashes with just some tweaks and remodeling, something I haven’t ever thought could happen!” Chen Run took this opportunity to throw some flattery, “Yaya is really lucky!”
Zhang Duocai’s smile immediately stiffened.
Chen Run’s words hit a sore spot.
Yongxing Supermarkets’ new model had nothing to do with him and he was the executor at most.
All credit should be given to Chen Huan’s idea for the success Yongxing Supermarkets had.
Chen Huan even gave out the idea about the hot dog and beggar chicken. Zhang Duocai understood the idea behind it and executed it while reaping a huge amount of praise for it.
He was a businessman worth 30 billion but he wasn’t as good as a 17 years old boy who was very likely to become his son-in-law…
This made Zhang Duocai have mixed feelings!