As the two were chatting, Huo Qianli walked in carrying a stack of account books.

Su Yan got up from the sofa and asked curiously, "What is this?"

"These are the account books for all the stores in Banrixian," Huo Qianli said, placing them on her desk. "Sister Caixia asked me to bring them over for you to see."

"Didn't we provide you with a computer? Aren't all accounts recorded directly on the computer now? Why are there still handwritten records?"

Feng Caixia said, "She always feels that computers are unsafe and that things will be lost, so she writes everything down on the computer and then writes it down by hand. Don't try to persuade her anymore; I've tried to persuade her many times, but she won't listen."

Su Yan flipped through a few pages and closed the book. "No need to look at it. I trust your bookkeeping skills."

She was well aware of her income from working part-time.

Because the profit margin is not high, she sets a range for the annual growth rate of her income.

Huo Qianli rolled her eyes at Feng Caixia, "I told you she wouldn't know how to read it, but you didn't believe me."

Feng Caixia touched her nose and said, "Ayan, now that you have such a long vacation, I guess you'll be managing your half-day leisure time with me, right? You can't make up any other excuses to dump everything on me. You don't know that I've basically been handling everything by myself for the past few years, and it's exhausted me."

Tang Li's son wasn't very healthy; he frequently caught colds and fevers. He wasn't sick when he was first born, but it became a regular occurrence around the age of two. A trip to the hospital revealed it was due to a previous threatened miscarriage and medication. However, it was better for him to get sick at two years old than from birth, as newborns are the most delicate.

Tang Li had a son at such a young age, so he must have cherished him dearly. Feng Caixia understood him and didn't complain.

Su Yan nodded. "I understand."

She has already assigned and planned her work.

Currently, she doesn't need to worry too much about the clothing company; the main things to do are the half-day leisure business, the medicinal cuisine factory, and the dessert shop.

The dessert shop has opened eight branches in Guangzhou in recent years, and with the branch in Gangcheng, it now has a total of ten stores.

However, they haven't updated their menu for two years, but fortunately, the prices are affordable and the food tastes better than what you get elsewhere, so business is still very good.

This time, she needs to come up with more new products.

The medicinal cuisine factory is responsible for updating medicinal cuisine recipes.

Half a day of leisure is mainly used to survey the situation of branch stores and to continue opening new branches.

From October 1985 to May 1986, Su Yan stayed in Guangzhou.

During this period, she developed 30 varieties of desserts and trained Bai Meng and several others.

These 30 desserts are launched in 2 to 3 varieties per quarter.

The research and training here took three months.

Most of my time is spent updating medicinal diet recipes.

After her medical skills improved, she became more adept at preparing medicinal cuisine, mainly by replacing the medicinal herbs in the modified recipes.

Some are cheaper, but have the same effect.

Some are more expensive, but they are more effective.

During this period, she also designed clothing styles and sent them to Cai Minjun. There were a total of two hundred sketches, covering spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Cai Minjun praised the artwork immediately upon receiving it.

She's been so worried about not having any clothes designed by Su Yan these past few years. She's hired so many designers, but out of hundreds of drafts, she can only pick out a dozen or so that are barely usable.

The others weren't bad either, but her standards were very high, and she rejected anything that wasn't quite right.

After finishing all that, Su Yan finally got to work on her half-day of leisure.

She first surveyed all the branches across the country, made adjustments to address the vulnerabilities, and then began searching for the addresses of the new branches.

Cai Minjun immediately called her and suggested that she consider opening a half-day leisure branch in Gangcheng.

Cai Minjun also offered a tempting deal: she had a piece of land that she could sell to Su Yan at a low price, as long as Su Yan was willing to open a branch there.

Many new restaurants have opened in recent years, and many have closed down, but only the taste of Banrixian can be unforgettable for Cai Minjun.

The land is in a very good location, and many people want to buy it from her. She doesn't lack the money and hasn't decided what to do with the land yet, so it has been shelved until now.

With such a good deal, how could Su Yan refuse?

She and Feng Caixia immediately bought tickets to Gangcheng.

When they arrived in the port city, Cai Minjun had already arranged for an architect and a place to buy materials. All they needed to do was pay and specify their requirements for the restaurant's appearance.

The land area is 258 square meters, and Cai Minjun offered 6 million RMB, which can be said to be a loss-making sale.

Su Yan knew this, but even if she asked for a price, Cai Minjun would absolutely not agree.

So when it came time to sign the contract, Su Yan very tactfully said, "Sister Minjun, I'll feel bad taking your money if you come to Banrixian for meals in the future. If you don't agree, I won't dare to sign this contract."

The next sentence completely put Cai Minjun in her grip, and she said irritably, "Fine, I'll listen to you."

She enjoys talking to people like Su Yan who are perceptive, tactful, and intelligent; it's effortless.

Feng Caixia was quite familiar with the prices in the port city, so she had no objection to Su Yan's decision.

Cai Minjun's land has a very good location and size. If she wanted to sell it, she could get at least HK$20 million.

After signing the contract and finalizing the renovation details, Su Yan went to the Baking Dream Factory Gangcheng branch to train the employees, saving Bai Meng and the others from having to make another trip.

She taught all 30 new products at once, so she stayed in the port city for almost a month before returning to Guangzhou.

With nothing much to do, Feng Caixia spent her days practicing her cooking skills in the house that Cai Minjun had arranged for them to stay in, making dishes for her half-days.

As a result, Cai Minjun came to eat at their place every day, and by the time they left, she had gained ten pounds.

She was a little reluctant to see the two of them leave.

Fortunately, the baking dream factory has launched many new products, which can alleviate her reluctance to part with them.

...

June 1987.

With Su Yan around, Banri Xian developed rapidly.

In less than two years, the number of stores has increased from 8 to 18.

Moreover, every branch of the store is doing well.

Because of the increased number of branches, Suyan has become very strict about service attitude and the freshness of ingredients.

While opening branch stores, she and Feng Caixia also paid attention to those outstanding employees and promoted them to store managers.

After all, they can't manage every store at all times, so each store needs a capable person to manage and oversee it for them.

The medicinal cuisine factory's improved recipes have made the effects even more noticeable, to the point that business is now booming and daily production can't keep up with the pace of customer purchases.

Lin Xiaoyi has put a lot of effort into the orchards in Anping Town over the years, growing them from one to fourteen. It can be said that she has taken over almost all the orchards in Anping Town.

The fruit grown using blended medicinal herbs as fertilizer is beneficial and harmless to the human body. Many people who have tried it choose to repurchase it, making the fruit very popular and even in short supply.

Everything is moving in a positive direction.