After separating from the agent at the door of the trading center, Xia Yu drove Li Dong to his own restaurant.
"Xiao Xia, this house is not cheap!"
After getting out of the car and looking around the British-style villa where Xia Ji was located, Li Dong spoke.
He knew that the house belonged to Xia Yu's family, which meant that Xia Ji didn't even have to pay for the rent.
"It's okay, a little more expensive than those two sets."
Xia Yu is not the kind of person who shows off his wealth, so he was being polite, but this is not just a little more expensive, it is four or five times more expensive.
Unfortunately, Xia Yu couldn’t sell it no matter how expensive it was, so he could only use it to do some small business.
"Xiao Xia, you are such a joker."
Xia Yu can joke, but Li Dong can't take it seriously.
He estimated that such a large old villa, especially on the Bund, would cost at least 36 or 37 million yuan, if not 40 million.
It seems that Xia Yu's family background is far beyond his imagination.
Because of the imagination, human beings' thinking is gradually becoming ignorant.
No one knew that what Xia Yu had was actually just what was on the surface, plus at most a sealed gold mine.
"Uncle Li, let's go in and take a look. By the way, you can also give us some pointers on what can be improved."
Xia Yu raised his hand and asked.
"I don't deserve your advice, let's just see!"
Li Dong was also curious about why Xia Ji was so successful, so he and Xia Yu walked into the restaurant.
The interior decoration style of the restaurant is a clever combination of Chinese modern and Western classical styles, which shows the designer's skills and the selection of decoration materials. It must have been invested a lot. According to the market price in Shanghai, it would be at least two million and upwards, and two and a half million is not impossible.
Li Dong saw a lot at a glance, but he didn't know that Xia Yu only spent 1.5 million on this, which was exactly the cost price.
The advantages of having friends are reflected, but friends are also divided into distant and close. Even if Xia Yu introduces He Jiawen to Li Dong, the same design and the same decoration will cost more than 1.8 million.
This is still considered good. If you meet someone with bad character, the person he kills will be an acquaintance, and you will be embarrassed to break up with him anyway.
Xia Yu is not short of a few million now, but at that time his status was not high, and he had just entered the catering industry, so the money he had was really not enough. Lao He helped him a lot and didn't even ask for an advance payment.
The villa and decoration are just some of the elements that attract customers, but those who come to eat ultimately vote with their mouths. Li Dong suggested going to the kitchen to take a look, and Xia Yu led him there directly.
"Master Tan, long time no see!"
When they arrived at the kitchen, Li Dong took the initiative to greet Tan Shiye. It was obvious that they knew each other.
"It's been a long time since we last met, Boss Li."
Tan Shiye also responded with a smile.
The catering industry in Shanghai is both big and small, but excluding the small restaurants that make up the majority, everyone is familiar with the mid- to high-end restaurants.
Only newcomers like Xia Yu are relatively unfamiliar, and they can become familiar with each other by communicating more with colleagues.
"Master Tan, I'm inviting Boss Li to dinner today, so you have to prepare a good table for us."
Xia Yu also spoke.
"Of course, I can neglect anyone but you, the boss."
"Okay, we'll go up first, you can take care of the arrangements."
After chatting with Master Tan, Xia Yu took Li Dong to the reserved box on the second floor.
Most restaurants have such private rooms to deal with emergencies, and they are usually not used even when they are full.
Because today was a weekday and it was not yet the busiest time of noon, Xia Yu and his friends' dishes came up quickly. After taking a bite, Li Dong realized that he was wrong.
He originally thought that Xia Ji's winning formula was the environment and the chef, but he didn't expect it to be the ingredients.
He had been to Tang Pavilion before, so he was familiar with Tan Shiye's cooking skills. These dishes were obviously better than before.
This is not because Tan Shiye's cooking skills have improved, but because the ingredients and the chef complement each other.
Li Dong's evaluation was more in-depth and professional than Jiang Lei's. His old friends didn't lose in a bad way.
Xia Yu didn't expect that Li Dong could see so many psychological changes after eating a few bites. He only picked up a few pieces with chopsticks and slipped out of the box on the pretext of going to the bathroom.
Without going to the bathroom, Xia Yu turned and walked into his office and locked the door.
There were too many people in the trading center before, and he had no chance to check his phone. However, the vibration of his phone clearly told him that he had upgraded again, so he finally found time to log into the system.
"Dear host, your level has been successfully upgraded to Lv10. Congratulations on completing this small step on the road to becoming a truly wealthy person. I hope you will continue to work hard and become a truly wealthy person soon."
"The update mechanism is activated, the version has been updated, please choose to update."
Two windows popped up in succession. Xia Yu had expected to upgrade to Level 10, but what was going on with this update mechanism? Were there other versions of the same system?
It was quite complete. After closing the two pop-up windows, Xia Yu saw the update package on the system main page. It had a bit of a game feel to it, so he clicked it lightly.
"Please update: yes"
If the old does not go, the new will not come.
There is no perfect system, only a system that is constantly being improved, so Xia Yu only thought for a few seconds and clicked "yes".
"System updating..."
"Time remaining: 23:59:59"
The update takes twenty-four hours, which won't affect tomorrow's sign-in. However, I updated it in a hurry just now and haven't had time to see what changes there are at Lv10.
I can only wait until tomorrow to see it. After logging out of the system, Xia Yu put the phone back into his pocket, opened the office door and returned to the box.
During the meal, he asked Li Dong a lot of questions about restaurant chains.
"Look, Jun Jiangnan is a good example. They specialize in high-end restaurants."
Jun Jiangnan was once a phenomenal enterprise in China's catering industry. No matter how bleak it is now, it was once glorious, so it is very suitable for teaching, especially the part about capital at the end.
Because they introduced capital for expansion, the company failed to go public, the capital showed its fangs and successfully kicked the founder out.
Success is due to capital, and failure is also due to capital, which makes Xia Yu very vigilant.
Many people think that the best option is to take the company public, get acquired, and then cash out, but everyone's pursuits are different.
Some people seek profit, and naturally some people seek fame.
Xia Yu is quite greedy. He wants both fame and fortune, so he can sell his house but will not sell the business he built.
This is also Xia Yu’s understanding of the term “super rich”.
There are no two people with exactly the same personality, nor are there two exactly the same wealthy people, but they all have the same bottom line, which is that dignity is inviolable.
When money becomes as worthless as waste paper, this is the only thing left to pursue, and naturally one stands in opposition to capital.
Some people say that the super-rich are also capital, but the super-rich who own systems are detached and willful. They feel that they should not be bound by capital.
"Uncle Li, I'll toast to you. This lesson has been very beneficial!"
Xia Yu raised his glass and said that he respected those who shared their experiences without hiding anything. After all, these were things that could not be learned from books.
"You're too kind. These experiences are nothing."
Li Dong raised his glass and said politely.
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