A month later.
Du Shaojie accompanied Qi Yan and her daughter to Beijing.
Qi Yan's [Beichen Education Group] was established, and chef training schools have spread across major cities, with more than 100 in number. The company's profitability is not that strong. The reason why it can develop rapidly is naturally that it has adopted a high-debt business model.
In a sense, Qi Yan and Pang Weidong are the same kind of people, with a strong gambling nature.
However, with Du Shaojie as a guarantee for her, these debts are nothing.
The layout of [Bailian Catering Management Company] has been basically completed. The development of catering enterprises has bottlenecks. After a certain stage, the input-output ratio will become lower and lower.
Therefore, Du Shaojie and Meng Gang and others discussed and decided to temporarily stop the pace of expansion.
Now looking back, he is actually one of the people who went into business earlier after the reform and opening up, and he has already completed the original accumulation. Some of the well-known companies in his memory have just started, and some have not been born at all.
So, what's the hurry? There's nothing to rush. There's still a lot of time, you can take your time.
"Yanzi, your expansion should also come to an end. The most urgent task is to improve the management level and teaching level, and practicing internal skills is what you should do most now."
Seeing his woman busy all day, Du Shaojie has a lot of feelings.
Qi Yan is a qualified entrepreneur who does everything personally and seems to have endless energy. He is at the other extreme. He is good at delegating power and dares to delegate power. He only cares about major things and directional things, and is very leisurely.
Of course, Du Shaojie's catering empire is basically mature, while Qi Yan's business is still on the road of exploration.
"I know, husband."
Qi Yan herself is a highly educated person, and a group of such people have gathered around her.
But these people still need to be trained. She dare not be a hands-off boss for the time being. It doesn't matter if she is a little bit tired.
She listened to Du Shaojie's advice. After all, endless expansion will bring debt warnings. She also agrees with his point of view that it is necessary to shift from extensive development to intensive development.
Du Shaojie stays at home most of the time every day. His daughter is now friendly to him. This is the value of companionship.
In addition to accompanying his daughter, he also spent time constantly honing his cooking skills. Most of the dishes he made now can get the comprehensive evaluation of "Phoenix Marrow and Dragon Liver", but it is extremely difficult to go further.
Fortunately, he is not in a hurry. Water drips through the stone, and there will always be a time to break through the ceiling of skills.
Unknowingly, he has been in Beijing for more than two months.
On this day, Du Shaojie said goodbye to his wife and children and boarded a flight to the Magic City.
"Xiaoya, how is Mom? What did the doctor say?"
Du Shaojie hurried over because Wang Yuxiu suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized.
When he walked out of the airport and saw Xiaoya, he couldn't help asking repeatedly.
"Brother, don't worry, there is no big problem. The doctor said it was acute gastroenteritis. Now the condition is under control and she can be discharged in a few days."
Xiaoya saw her brother's anxious expression and hurried to explain.
Wang Xiuyu suddenly wanted to eat crabs that day, and Xiaoya went to buy some home after work. As a result, after eating, Wang Yuxiu vomited and had diarrhea, and the medicine didn't work. She was so scared that she rushed her mother to the hospital.
After a detailed examination, it was diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis, and the condition is now stable.
"It's either a problem with the ingredients themselves, or it's not handled well."
Du Shaojie put aside his worries and went to the hospital with Xiaoya.
In the ward, Wang Yuxiu was chatting with the aunt in the same ward while receiving an IV drip. She didn't look very good, but her mental state was good.
"Mom"
"Xiaojie, I asked them not to tell you, but you came anyway. Mom is fine, I just didn't pay attention to what I eat, and I will be discharged in two days."
Du Shaojie came to the bed and chatted with Wang Yuxiu for a while.
Wang Yuxiu was afraid that it would affect her son's affairs, so she told him not to worry and said that she would be discharged soon.
Du Shaojie was worried, and before leaving the hospital, he went to find the attending doctor. The doctor also said that it was nothing, and he could be discharged and go home after two days of injections.
He was relieved, but he was not in a hurry to leave, and planned to stay for a while.
Wang Yuxiu lived with Du Shaojie after she was discharged from the hospital. Xiaoya and her husband had hired a nanny to take care of the child, and they were not inseparable from her.
"Xiaojie, what's the matter with Xiaomei's wedding being delayed again and again?"
Wang Yuxiu is now thinking about her eldest daughter's marriage. Xiaomei has been dating her boyfriend for such a long time, but they are still not married.
"Mom, Xiaomei told me last time that she and Sun Haitao are ready to get the marriage certificate, but she didn't say when to hold the wedding. So, I'll call her in the evening to ask, so you don't have to worry about it."
In the eyes of the older generation, two people cannot be considered married just by getting the marriage certificate. They must hold a wedding.
Wang Yuxiu knew that her eldest daughter had a strong personality, so she couldn't urge her. It was great that her son was willing to make this call.
In the evening.
Du Shaojie called Xiaomei and talked about the other party's marriage.
Xiaomei hesitated for a long time before saying: "Brother, something happened in Haitao's family, let's wait for the wedding."
Du Shaojie did not ask further questions and flew back to Guangzhou the next day.
In the evening,
he waited for Du Xiaomei who was coming out of work at the bank gate.
"Brother? Why are you here? Aren't you at Xiaoya's place?"
"Just arrived at noon, let's go and find a place to eat first. Well, let's go to the barbecue restaurant on the old street. Do you want to call Haitao over?"
Du Shaojie ignored Xiaomei's surprise and tried.
If there was a problem between the two, Xiaomei would definitely not call Sun Haitao out for dinner.
Xiaomei hesitated for a moment and turned back to make a phone call.
After a while, she came out of the unit and said, "Haitao will go directly there later, let's go."
So the two got in the car and soon arrived at the barbecue restaurant on the old street.
Nowadays, the barbecue restaurant has become the most well-known restaurant in this area, and the business is very hot every day. If it keeps running, it may become a time-honored brand.
The scale of the barbecue restaurant has more than doubled, and the two storefronts next door have been rented. Even so, there are often customers who need to queue up for seats.
Soon after the two sat down, Sun Haitao also arrived.
Du Shaojie asked the store manager to take care of the arrangements, and then looked at his future brother-in-law. The other party didn't look very good, perhaps because he didn't sleep well, with obvious dark circles under his eyes, and his smile was forced.
The three chatted for a while, and various skewers were served one after another.
Du Shaojie ordered a few bottles of beer, and drank with Xiaomei and Sun Haitao, and also ate a lot of skewers.
"Tell me, what's the matter with you two? You are not young anymore, and you can't always delay your marriage. If you have any difficulties, you can tell me."
He rarely interfered with the lives of his two sisters, but he couldn't remain silent about this matter, and he had to ask clearly.
Sun Haitao glanced at Xiaomei, and then sighed heavily.
"Brother, this matter is my fault. I dragged Xiaomei down. The thing is, at the beginning of the year, my father followed the situation and went into business."
The matter was not complicated. Su Haitao's father went into business. In a short period of time, he not only lost all the family's old foundation, but also owed a lot of debts outside.
The family was devastated after losing money, and had no spare energy to arrange their son's marriage. What's more, Sun Haitao sent a sum of money home to help his father pay off his debts, otherwise he was afraid that his father would be angry.
"It's not a big deal, how much money does your family owe now?"
As soon as Du Shaojie opened his mouth, Sun Haitao's face was not right.
He was actually very inferior in front of Du Shaojie, but the more inferior he was, the more he wanted to save face. It would be embarrassing to tell others that his brother-in-law had to pay for his family's affairs.
"Haitao, don't worry, listen to me. I am not sponsoring you unconditionally. I will use the money to pay off the foreign debts first, so that people won't block the door all day long. You will pay this money back to me later."
Du Shaojie took care of his future brother-in-law's self-esteem and did not say that he would help him for free, but planned to lend him some money.
He turned the tables and paid off the foreign debts first, and the money owed to him could be paid back slowly, and he would not urge the other party anyway. He estimated that the amount of money would not be too large, just a small matter.
"Brother."
Sun Haitao was very touched, and then glanced at Xiaomei.
Xiaomei rolled her eyes at him. She had said long ago that she would ask her brother to borrow some money first, but the other party was stubborn and refused.
"Brother, Haitao still owes someone 60,000 yuan. You can lend it to him first and let him write an IOU."
Xiaomei's words surprised him. He had estimated that he had at least hundreds of thousands of yuan, but he didn't expect it was only this much.
He sighed inwardly, and he seemed to be getting further and further away from the lives of ordinary people.
This is wrong.
After dinner, he returned home and Du Shaojie said that he would give the money to Xiaomei tomorrow. Then he looked at Sun Haitao and asked curiously, "What business did your father lose money in?"
"Alas, my father was a middle-level cadre in the telecommunications department before. After he was suspended from the unit, he planned to build a small paging station.
It was all going well at the beginning, but who knew that there was a problem in the ordering of equipment. The man used sweet words to gain my father's trust. My father would pay the money every time he saw the goods, but the other party disappeared."
A scam that could not stand up to scrutiny at all, but it happened to deceive Sun Haitao's father.
This only shows that Sun's father has no experience in doing business. If he had experience, he would not be fooled like this again.
"Your father has a good vision. The paging station should still be very profitable in the next ten years. How about this, you call home and ask your father to come over for a talk? I'm very interested in this business."
Du Shaojie felt that there were still many smart people. Experience is nothing. It will come naturally with more experience. It
's just that most people lose the capital to turn things around after failing once. There are people who learn from their mistakes, but it is extremely difficult to turn things around.
He suddenly remembered the consensus reached with Mr. Liu, and he had an idea. (End of this chapter)
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