Time always slips away inadvertently, and it is already June 16th, with less than 4 days left before the old street is closed for reconstruction.
At the intersections at both ends of the old street, a lot of construction materials and various metal plates are piled up, all indicating that the major project of rebuilding the ancient street is about to begin.
Today, personnel from the reconstruction department came specially to take some shop owners on the old street to have a look at the planned temporary stalls.
Feng Ruoruo's kindergarten was closed, so she got up early and went to the farmer's market with her father to buy vegetables. She came back and made breakfast with her father, and then ate breakfast with her family. Now she was going to the temporary stall with her father, mother, and grandmother, pushing her grandfather.
Before leaving, Feng Ruoruo kept asking her father, "Dad, can we no longer do business in Grandpa's restaurant?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied to his daughter: "Of course not. After the outside is repaired and the interior of our restaurant is also decorated, we will come back to continue running grandpa's restaurant. By then, grandpa's restaurant business will definitely be better and there will be more customers coming..."
Feng Ruoruo nodded and said, "Then Dad, can I also invite Xixi and Feifei to come?"
Feng Yifan continued with a smile, "Of course you can. When the time comes, you, Xixi, and Feifei will continue to pass the menu to Dad. Dad needs the three of you."
When the little girl heard her father say that they were needed to pass the menu, she was immediately very happy: "Hehehe, Ruoruo knows that mom, dad, grandpa, grandpa and grandma can't live without Ruoruo, and Ruoruo can't live without you either, so we are a family."
Feng Yifan really found his daughter's words very interesting.
He thought about it carefully and nodded in agreement: "Well, Ruoruo is right, we are a family, so we all need each other."
Su Ruoxi came over and tidied her daughter's clothes.
Feng Ruoruo's mother sorted out her clothes, and the little girl immediately asked: "Mom, I need you, do you need Ruoruo?"
Hearing her daughter's words, Su Ruoxi smiled and pinched her daughter's face: "Yes, Mommy needs Ruoruo the most."
Feng Ruoruo was very happy. She hugged her mother and said, "Ruoruo needs mommy too."
Then, the little girl hugged her grandmother and asked, "Grandma, do you need Ruoruo?"
Grandma naturally responded with a smile: "Yes, of course, grandma needs Ruoruo the most."
Feng Ruoruo responded with a smile: "Ruoruo also needs grandma."
Finally, the little girl asked her grandfather: "Grandpa, Grandpa, do you need Ruoruo?"
Grandpa nodded: "Yes."
Feng Ruoruo hugged her grandfather and said, "Ruoruo needs grandpa too."
After asking around, the little girl clapped her hands and cheered, "Oh yeah? We all need each other."
Hearing the little girl's cheers and seeing Feng Ruoruo's happy expression, the whole family also had smiles on their faces. At this moment, everyone felt that such a family was very happy.
When he was about to go out, two figures appeared at the door of Su's house? Su Liancheng and Mei Ru.
Seeing the two people appear, Feng Yifan smiled and asked, "Did General Manager Su and General Manager Mei come here specially to inspect the progress of our ancient street reconstruction?"
Su Liancheng smiled when he heard this? He greeted Su Liancheng first: "Hello, uncle, are you feeling better now?"
Su Jinrong nodded: "Yeah, much better."
Su Liancheng continued, "Then you must pay more attention to rest. If you need anything, you can contact me or Meiru at any time. I will help you contact a doctor in a few days to come and check your body and see how your rehabilitation is going."
Su Jinrong waved his hand: "Actually, no need to bother."
Su Liancheng insisted, "Yes, uncle, please don't hesitate."
Then Su Liancheng greeted Lu Cuiling and Su Ruoxi respectively. Finally, he bent down and greeted Feng Ruoruo with a smile: "Hello, Ruoruo, do you still remember your uncle?"
Feng Ruoruo looked at him and said, "Hello, uncle."
Su Liancheng was very happy to see that the little girl was willing to call him.
Mei Ru also greeted everyone separately. Compared with Su Liancheng's intimacy, Mei Ru seemed calmer.
After the two sides exchanged greetings, Feng Yifan asked directly: "You two current CEOs came here together, is there something you want to talk to us about?"
Being asked directly like this, Mei Ru did not hide anything and directly stated her purpose.
"Chef Feng, the ancient street is about to be closed for reconstruction. I believe you will be relatively free in the next period of time, so we would like you to serve as the kitchen consultant of Fujing Building. Please help us upgrade the dishes of Fujing Building."
After hearing Mei Ru's straightforward explanation of her purpose, Feng Yifan was also very direct: "How much are you going to pay to invite me over?"
Mei Ru was still very direct: "We are going to give you half of the profit of Fujing Building."
Feng Yifan laughed when he heard this: "What a generous person! You actually gave me half of it?"
Su Liancheng continued, "Brother-in-law, as you know, my father and Tan Xueli have both left, and now the kitchen of Fujing Building is in a situation where there is no leader, so we really need you to help us.
In addition, before my mother left, she also signed a share donation agreement, giving 30% of the company's shares to Ruoxi, so now you are also considered a major shareholder of the company. We really hope that you can help Fujinglou and the company get through this difficult time."
Su Ruoxi was a little surprised when she heard this: "You gave me 30% of your company's shares?"
Mei Ru took out the confirmation letter of the share donation from her bag: "Here is the share donation letter. You can take a look at it now. It has the signature of Mr. Su, and it is notarized by the notary office, as well as certified by domestic and foreign legal institutions."
Seeing such a gift book, Su Ruoxi originally wanted to refuse it directly.
But Feng Yifan took it and handed it to his wife: "Since it is a gift from aunt, then we will accept it. We don't need it, and we can give it to Ruoruo in the future."
Su Ruoxi was a little surprised and hesitant when she heard her husband's words.
Lu Cuiling immediately whispered something in her daughter-in-law's ear: "Take it. We have their shares in our hands, and they won't be able to take over Su Ji in the future."
After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Su Ruoxi felt that it made sense, so she accepted it.
After seeing his wife accept the gift letter, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Okay, we'll accept the gift shares, and we won't get involved in other matters."
Su Liancheng and Mei Ru were stunned when they heard this.
Mei Ru then looked unhappy, and she obviously felt that she had been fooled by Feng Yifan.
Instead, Su Liancheng smiled bitterly and said, "Brother-in-law, Chef Feng, please don't be like this. Think about it, you now have shares in the company. If the company doesn't do well, your dividends will also be reduced."
Feng Yifan looked at Su Liancheng and Mei Ru and said, "We are just shareholders who hold shares, not managers or decision-makers. If you make a loss, you must be responsible to us shareholders. If you two are not capable, can we shareholders change people?"
These words left Su Liancheng speechless.
Although Meiru was a little angry, she had no way to refute it.
Because what Feng Yifan said was true, the share gift certificate itself was a gift of shares, and there was no medical clause, and as a shareholder he did have the right to change the operator.
There was a stalemate between the two sides at the door.
Finally, Su Jinrong spoke up: "Okay, Yifan, go."
Su Jinrong's words made Su Liancheng feel as if he saw the light of day. He excitedly stepped forward and shook his uncle's hand: "Thank you so much, uncle. My parents are gone. Now we really need Yifan to help us. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to open up the market in China."
After listening to Su Liancheng's words, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It's very easy for you to open up the domestic market. You just need to use your previous strategy, the 'buy buy buy' approach, and then do some packaging and publicity, and it will be easy to seize the mid-to-high-end market of domestic catering."
After hearing what Feng Yifan said, Mei Ru immediately said, "Chef Feng, you are right. We can indeed use that method and our company's brand to seize the domestic mid-to-high-end market, but that is not the development path we want."
Feng Yifan looked at Mei Ru and could see the shadow of Su Lanxin in her.
But in another respect, Mei Ru is different from Su Lanxin. She is obviously more strategic.
After thinking for a while, Feng Yifan asked: "So, you want to support the revival of domestic cuisine? You want domestic cuisine to enter the mid-to-high-end market, rather than letting Western restaurants monopolize it?"
After hearing this, Mei Ru nodded and said, "Yes, we hope to revive Chinese cuisine, rather than letting the mid- to high-end catering market be dominated by Western catering. We want our people to be able to eat our own cuisine and understand our own food culture."
I have to say that Mei Ru's words were really very dramatic.
Su Jinrong was even a little excited after listening to it and wanted to participate in this revival process.
Feng Yifan was relatively calm: "Your idea is good, but the difficulty you face is also very obvious. The domestic high-end catering market has formed a stereotyped perception. Those who can afford high-end dishes think that Western food is more high-end and upper-class."
Su Liancheng said at this time: "But the fact is not like that. Our dishes can also be made very delicately, and our teachers can make them very advanced. Our own dishes have more diverse flavors and can make dishes with many different flavors. We are not inferior to foreigners."
After listening to Su Liancheng's words, Feng Yifan suddenly smiled and said, "It's actually really strange sometimes. Chinese food is considered a high-end cuisine in some places abroad, but it is despised by some people in China as not high-end. It's really a ridiculous thing."
Meiru continued, "Yes, that's why we need to change."
Then she continued, "Chef Feng, I know that you have won five stars abroad, four of which were won because you used Chinese cooking methods and won unanimous praise. Even two of your dishes have become the signature dishes of three-star restaurants.
So don’t you really want to prove yourself once again in China? Let everyone know that our own food culture is very profound and our own food can also be very high-class. "
Su Jinrong spoke again: "Yifan, go do it."
After hearing his father-in-law's words, Feng Yifan lowered his head and looked at his father-in-law, then looked up at his wife.
Su Ruoxi nodded and raised the equity grant letter in her hand: "We are the bosses, we can't just watch ourselves lose money."
Feng Yifan was amused by his wife's words. It was a very realistic sentence, but it also expressed Su Ruoxi's attitude that she was willing to let her husband do it.
Then he looked at his mother.
Lu Cuiling smiled and said, "Go ahead. If you need any vegetables, your father and I will fully support you."
When Feng Ruoruo heard that her grandpa, mom, and grandma all supported her dad, she also stepped forward and hugged her dad and said, "Dad, Ruoruo supports you too. You are always the best."
With the support of his entire family, Feng Yifan turned to look at Su Liancheng and Mei Ru in front of the door.
"Well, I can go. Then the company's lunch needs to be changed according to my way, starting from Fujinglou. Besides, I don't have time to supervise it. I can only give guidance. We still have a lot of things to do later."
Su Liancheng and Mei Ru both laughed: "Sure."
Mei Ru took out another contract and said, "You can take a look at this contract. You will be a consultant for our company. 50% of the profits of Fujing Building will belong to you, and 40% of the profits of the company's Chinese restaurant chain will also be used as your retainer."
Feng Yifan accepted the contract and said, "Okay, I'll take a closer look and give you a reply later."
The serious business had been concluded. Su Liancheng and Mei Ru looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and prepared to leave.
At this moment, Feng Yifan asked, "You two should be fine, right? Are you busy? If not, why don't you come with us to see the booths that the renovation department has arranged for you?"
Hearing Feng Yifan's question, Su Liancheng immediately said, "Okay, we're not busy."
Su Liancheng and Mei Ru are indeed not busy today. They have already made preparations. Today they will have a good discussion with this family at Su Ji, hoping that Feng Yifan will agree to serve as a consultant.
Things seemed to be resolved smoothly, and the two of them were not very busy afterwards.
Since Feng Yifan has already invited them, the two naturally would not refuse.
Su Liancheng even took the initiative to help move Su Jinrong, who was in a wheelchair, out of Su Ji. Then the group walked towards the west side of the old street together. Many shop owners along the old street joined in along the way.
Lin Ruifeng's family soon caught up, Wang Cuifeng and Fan Chaodong were also there, as well as several elderly people including Liu Wanhua in the west.
After everyone gathered at the west end of the old street, people from the reconstruction department came out and pointed diagonally across the old street.
"That's the place we planned so that people can temporarily set up stalls there while the ancient street is being renovated. It's not far from here."
Everyone looked in the direction pointed by the reconstruction department staff, and it was indeed not very far away.
It should be said that the place planned for setting up the stall is a little further forward after crossing the road from Feng Ruoruo's kindergarten.
Looking from the west end of the old street, the planned location is quite good, because there is a kindergarten opposite and it is backed by a residential area, so the flow of customers for the stalls there is guaranteed.
Everyone was looking around, and Feng Yifan suddenly said, "Okay, let's go over and take a look."
At Feng Yifan's call, everyone followed Su Jinrong, who was pushing him, and crossed the road towards the temporary stall.