Mr. Dai Yantai is actually not very interested in programs or not.
But Xue Qing’s classmates told him that the person who was looking for him was the prince of the Cheng Group, and that this show also involved Xiao Zhang and Mr. Carpenter. At the same time, Xiao Zhang also joined the ranks of investors in this show. He immediately
The interest came.
Both Xiao Zhang and Cheng Yu are the most famous second-generation rich people in China.
Needless to say, Xiao Zhang has always been famous over the years. Whether it is his gaming team or the scandals between him and those Internet celebrities, he has been at the forefront of public opinion.
When talking about Xiao Zhang, some people are envious and others are disdainful, but no matter what, as long as they have the opportunity to get to know him, almost no one will refuse him.
What's more, this is to cooperate with Xiao Zhang.
As for Cheng Yu, although there has been little news before, in the past six months, at least among a certain class, Cheng Yu's reputation has actually far exceeded his own imagination.
Before Cheng Yu returned to China, Cheng Guangnian's training of successors had always been something that many people found very puzzling.
Cheng Guangnian placed his two nephews in very important positions, which gave people the feeling that he did not intend to let his sons take over, but planned to hand over the Cheng Group to the sons of his two younger brothers.
This has always been a hot topic of conversation among certain classes of people.
Then the news of Cheng Yu's return to China spread due to the small confrontation between him and Cheng Yi.
Cheng Yi and his son were sent out directly because of Cheng Yu's incident, and basically had no hope of returning to the core management of the Cheng Group.
This incident started with Cheng Yu, but Cheng Yu asked himself that he did not play a decisive role in it.
The fact that father and son were assigned was more because they did not know how to advance or retreat and crossed Cheng Guangnian's bottom line.
But in the eyes of the outside world, this is not the case. They only think that Cheng Yu's calligraphy is simply Spring and Autumn. After returning to China, he easily kicked out Cheng Yi and his son, who had always been in an important position in the Cheng Group, and then Cheng Mo and Cheng Ran
The siblings have also completely settled down.
Everyone actually understands that as long as Cheng Guangnian's attitude is not clear, sooner or later the Cheng family will have major disagreements over the succession of the group.
Judging from Cheng Yi's affairs, Cheng Guangnian has always been biased towards his own son. But the strange thing is that Cheng Guangnian did not let Cheng Yu join the group for training after he returned to China, nor did he arrange for him to be placed in any important position.
On the job.
Even though Cheng Yu won the Xixi subway project after many twists and turns, many people regarded this as irrefutable evidence of the disagreement between Cheng Guangnian and Cheng Yu's father and son.
After all, Cheng Guangnian definitely wanted the Cheng Group to take over such an important project, but Cheng Yu gave it to Du Changfeng.
Even though some shares of the Du Group were obtained as a result, and the Du Group and the Cheng Group cooperated to establish Qianjin, and Cheng Yu also became one of the shareholders of Qianjin, this made the "discerning people" even more convinced that Cheng Guangnian was really
He didn't want to hand over the empire he had conquered to Cheng Yu.
Otherwise, why is the chairman of the new company jointly established by the two major groups Du Xiaoyu, while the CEO is Xu Dong, Cheng Guangnian’s former assistant?
Wasn't this position supposed to be occupied by Cheng Yu?
There are many doubts in the public, and many people even speculate that Cheng Yu is not actually Cheng Guangnian's biological son. Of course, this does not mean that they think Ning Kezhu has cheated on her, but they suspect that Cheng Guangnian is sterile and Cheng Yu is his adopted son.
Of course, these are just the speculations of some people. No matter what, no one can take away Cheng Yu's status as the crown prince of the Cheng Group.
It would be fine if Cheng Yu was just a second-generation ancestor, but under careful observation, Cheng Yu's performance was quite extraordinary less than a year after he returned to China.
Not to mention the seemingly inexplicable Xixi subway project, which was strangely transferred from the Xixi Xue family to him. The performance of Cheng Yu's investment company this year alone is enough to make those who think he might be a loser.
People were shocked.
Even for Xiao Zhang, the performance of his investment company is not so good, and the resources Xiao Zhang obtained from his father are obviously far greater than Cheng Yu.
Except for Qian Jin, who actually doesn't have much say in Cheng Yu's words, Cheng Yu's own net worth has increased countless times in less than a year.
A thoughtful person can even clearly see that every investment Cheng Yu made after returning to China was making money.
There is not even a project whose profit is unsatisfactory.
It’s okay to say that it’s a small amount, but Cheng Yu actually made a lot of projects. His company almost launched one project after another, and the profit each one brought would even make many investment veterans feel ashamed.
Xiao Zhang showed an unusual closeness to Cheng Yu today. This was certainly related to the fact that he was Cheng Guangnian's son, but more importantly, it was because of Cheng Yu's own achievements.
It can be said that the transcripts Cheng Yu has handed over in less than a year since he returned to China are at the level of geniuses.
This reminds one of the fact that Cheng Guangnian has been in the business world for twenty years, and the most commendable thing about him is that he has almost never made a decision-making mistake since he started business.
Now, although Cheng Yu's experience in shopping malls is still short, he already has the shadow of Cheng Guangnian.
The same mistakes-free results will always make people think that this father and son are too incredible.
Therefore, among ordinary people, Cheng Yu's reputation is of course far inferior to that of Xiao Zhang, who has been struggling for a long time and has both infamy and good reputation.
But within a certain circle and class, Cheng Yu's reputation may not be much worse than Xiao Zhang's.
Such two people, working on a variety show project that can be said to be no different from a joke, actually found themselves. Of course, Mr. Dai Yantai would not miss this opportunity to get acquainted with the two of them.
Even if there is a chance, Mr. Dai Yanti would not mind paying some money to play with these two young masters.
Therefore, when he learned that the people he wanted to talk to were these two people, he agreed without hesitation.
Originally there was a meeting in the afternoon, and there was a banquet after the meeting.
But he asked his assistant to make new arrangements. The banquet would be hosted by his assistant, and of course he himself was going to have dinner with Young Master Cheng.
After asking Xue Qing's classmates to pass on his contact information and dinner invitation, Mr. Dai Yanti was even in a state of anxiety, waiting for Cheng Yu's reply.
Cheng Yu and Xiao Zhang drove to Prince Yong's Mansion. There was a vegetarian restaurant there with a pretty good environment.
Xiao Zhang is one of the shareholders of this vegetarian restaurant.
Although it is a restaurant, it actually has the function of a club for receiving guests and drinking tea. Especially after dinner, it is a place where Xiao Zhang often entertains friends.
The vegetarian restaurant is diagonally opposite Yongwang Mansion. It was originally a quadrangle with two entrances and two exits. Now of course it has been directly demolished and rebuilt.
But the overall style is still antique. Even though the area is not large, we still insisted on creating a yard that covers more than half of the entire area.
Of course, Xiao Zhang did not invest in this kind of place to make money from it.
Even if the business is booming, how much profit can be made in a year? Xiao Zhang and other shareholders do not take this profit seriously. What they want is just to compete.
Xiao Zhang himself seems vulgar, but since he was at the top of the money food chain since childhood, how could he really not understand elegance at all.
The courtyard of this vegetarian restaurant was almost completely built according to his ideas. What he likes most here is this courtyard.
It was the middle of winter, so it wasn't really suitable to sit in the yard, but Xiao Zhang had obviously put some thought into this.
There is a small bridge in the yard, and there is real running water flowing under the bridge, but at this time, it has already been frozen with a thin layer of ice.
Next to the bridge, there is an octagonal pavilion with a root tea table and a few chairs.
After taking Cheng Yu into the yard, Xiao Zhang walked straight towards the pavilion. As he walked, he said dissatisfiedly: "Didn't I call you before? Why haven't I made arrangements yet?"
The manager beside him hurriedly said with a smile: "When you called just now, there were many customers in the restaurant. You know, the screens are in the warehouse, and you have to go through the restaurant to move them here. The customers haven't finished their meals yet.
It's not good for us to start a big fight. But don't worry, there are only two tables of regular customers left in the restaurant now, and we have said hello to them. They are already moving things here."
Xiao Zhang still snorted dissatisfied and led Cheng Yu into the pavilion.
"Take a seat first, it will be ready in five minutes." After that, he looked at the manager, who nodded vigorously, meaning that it would definitely be ready in five minutes.
Cheng Yu also sat down, and Xiao Zhang turned on the electric ceramic stove and slowly added water to the iron kettle.
There were noisy footsteps behind him. Cheng Yu looked and saw a group of waiters and chefs hurried over carrying a large pile of glass screens.
While waiting for the iron kettle to boil water, Cheng Yu watched helplessly as the restaurant staff surrounded the pavilion with glass screens.
There was still a little space left above and on the eaves of the pavilion, which was not completely blocked, but even so, Cheng Yu immediately felt a lot warmer. After all, the north wind of the imperial capital was like a knife that cut into the bones.
.
This is obviously not enough.
Eight slender columnar objects were also moved over and placed at the eight corners of the octagonal pavilion, which happened to be the connection points of the glass screens. They basically did not obstruct the line of sight. Cheng Yu could still enjoy the courtyard through the screens.
The scene inside.
He heard a few soft pops next to his ears. In front of Cheng Yu, the columnar objects behind Xiao Zhang suddenly spurted out tongues of fire, rising vertically in the glass cover. Cheng Yu could almost feel the fire rising from these cylinders.
When the fire started, the temperature in the pavilion began to rise sharply, and even his pores seemed to open instantly.
"Well, it's finally warm." Xiao Zhang stood up, took off his thick coat, and threw it on an empty chair nearby.
Cheng Yu also felt that the temperature in the pavilion was very high, so he followed suit and took off his coat.
The temperature in the pavilion gradually reached a balance as the eight cylinders burned and the hot air escaped from the top void.
It remains at about 17 or 18 degrees, no longer rising, but it will never fall easily.
The water in the iron kettle finally boiled. Xiao Zhang picked up a rag and put it on the handle of the kettle to start cleaning the tea set. He explained plainly: "The size of this pavilion and the effect of these heaters were specially designed by someone.
A professor from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University was hired to do the technical design.
Don't look at it as just eight natural gas stoves. In fact, they are all controlled by computer chips to ensure that the temperature in the kiosk can reach 18 degrees in the shortest time, and then only maintain it and no longer heat up.
Although it’s not a big invention, it did take a lot of thought.”
It can be seen that Xiao Zhang is quite proud of this, but he just deliberately pretends to be calm.
Cheng Yu secretly smiled and said, "You have a share in this design, right? Or maybe you came up with the idea?"
"How do you know?"
"If it wasn't the idea you came up with, then there's nothing to be proud of. In fact, it's a pretty ordinary design. The key is that few people would have thought of it before."
Xiao Zhang was also happy: "You are sincere.
But you are right, there is nothing to be proud of in this thing, the design is not difficult, the difficulty is that few people are as wasteful as me.
The designers couldn't think of it because their idea is based on saving energy as much as possible, and I don't care about the cost at all. What I pursue is comfort and good looks.
You see, sitting in the pavilion like this is no different from when the flowers are blooming in spring."
"I'm honest because I don't need to flatter you." Cheng Yu said with emotion.
Just as he was talking, someone outside the pavilion whispered: "It's snowing."
Cheng Yu and Xiao Zhang both followed the sound and saw a few scattered snowflakes falling from the sky.
"It's pretty big, and it looks like it will be bigger soon."
"It's raining heavily. It's great. It's beautiful to eat and drink while enjoying the snow at night."
Xiao Zhang made tea and gave Cheng Yu a cup.
"By the way, tell Dai Yan that you can stay here tonight. I'm too lazy to run out looking at the snow."
Of course Cheng Yu had no objection. He turned on his phone and added a WeChat account with salt according to the contact information given by Xue Qing.
WeChat quickly passed the verification, and the other party immediately sent a message.
"Hello, is this Mr. Cheng?"
Cheng Yu replied: It's me, hello Mr. Dai.
After the greetings were finished, Cheng Yu said what Xiao Zhang meant. Of course, he would not say it in such a domineering way, but that it was snowing outside now, and seeing the snowflakes getting bigger and bigger, they were here in Prince Yong's Mansion, and the traffic conditions were bad.
It's not very good. If I eat elsewhere, I'm afraid of being stuck in traffic, so I want to bring my body and go directly to this vegetarian restaurant.
After taking a look at it, I replied: I know Zhang Gongzi’s vegetarian restaurant. I have eaten there several times with clients. But I have a meeting here in the afternoon. After the meeting, I will go there immediately.
.It's just a pity. Originally, I wanted to invite you two to a Japanese food store, which I opened in cooperation with a Japanese friend.
Cheng Yu smiled, but Xiao Zhang noticed his expression and asked, "Why are you laughing? It seems that Mr. Dai is quite humorous?"
Cheng Yu shook his head and said, "That's not true, it's just that he seemed to have inquired specifically and knew that I prefer Japanese food, so although he agreed to come to your place, he still mentioned it."
Xiao Zhang waved his hands nonchalantly and said, "You can eat whatever you want. Although my place is a vegetarian restaurant, can't you just say hello to someone and ask a Japanese chef to bring the ingredients here? If you want to eat vegetarian food then, you can eat vegetarian food.
, you can eat Japanese food if you want, you can eat hot pot if you want.”
Cheng Yu only felt that his vision was slightly darkened. This Xiao Zhang was really very casual.
So Cheng Yu roughly said this to Dai Yanti, who probably also had a black line on his forehead. After all, a vegetarian restaurant suddenly started eating meat, and the boss (well, one of them) was too pretentious.
If it’s casual, will other shareholders really not have any objections?
It snowed really quickly.
Within half an hour, a thin layer of snow had already accumulated on the ground.
"In ancient times, if a winter snow froze the soil, the harvest in the coming year would not be too bad. But now, a snow is nice to look at, but it brings a lot of trouble to the roads in the city."
Xiao Zhang was holding the tea cup, tea mist was rising in the cup, and suddenly he felt a little emotional.
Cheng Yu was a little surprised.
He smiled and said, "Principal, why are you suddenly worried about the country and the people?"
"Look at the waiters, who are still restless in their thigh-revealing cheongsams. They are all so excited looking at the snow. If I hadn't been sitting here, they would have rushed into the yard to play in the snow.
.They are happy to see this snow. It’s quiet in the yard. But if you look on the road now, some units may have started to organize manpower to clear the snow.”
Cheng Yu nodded.
We chatted until about four o'clock in the afternoon when WeChat rang. Cheng Yu saw that it was from Yantai.
He said he was nearby, Cheng Yu said something to Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang waved, and the manager just now ran over.
Xiao Zhang gave him instructions, and he nodded, walked through the restaurant, and went to the front door to pick up Mr. Yan Ti.
"Do you really want to eat Japanese food?" Xiao Zhang asked.
Cheng Yu thought for a while and said with a smile: "To be honest, I really have no interest in the material.
First of all, if I don’t believe in gods and Buddhas, I always feel that it took humans millions of years to get to the top of the food chain. Going vegetarian is always putting the cart before the horse.
Secondly, if you are a vegetarian, just be a vegetarian. You said you have to make the ingredients taste like meat dishes. Why is that?
It would be better to just eat meat.
Indeed, this seems very refined, and it sounds healthy, but I personally always have a hard time accepting this type of so-called refinement."
"Who doesn't want to be exquisite? This is actually not exquisite, but pretentious." Xiaozhang said it in one word.
Cheng Yu laughed loudly and said, "Principal, you are slapping yourself in the face."
"You mean here?" Xiao Zhang stretched out his hand and gestured, "I won this piece of land, and it was designed in the Ming and Qing style, which I advocated.
This is exquisite in my eyes.
Then, my dad intervened and said, don’t close such a good place and build a vegetarian restaurant.
I originally strongly disagreed. I wanted to have the Buddha jump over the wall and have a royal banquet of steamed lamb, steamed bear paws, and steamed deer tail.
But the old man insisted on insisting. When the other shareholders saw the situation, they immediately turned to my dad's side.
So, it became a vegetarian restaurant.
It turned out that it had been more than a year since it opened, and my father had never been here once.
I occasionally have a meal with him, and I see that he cannot skip a meal of meat.
So, it’s hypocritical.”
Cheng Yu burst out laughing after hearing this.
Xiao Zhang touched his nose and said, "It's the first time we've met. It seems a little uncomfortable for me to complain about my dad to you like this!"
Cheng Yu still laughed and said: "It's okay, it's okay. I'm used to it. My dad and I always quarrel when we meet. There has never been a time in my adult life when I met him without quarreling."
"Yes, there are rumors in the outside world that you and your father don't have a good relationship."
Seeing Xiao Zhang's hesitant look, Cheng Yu said, "Is there still some rumor that I am not actually my father's biological child?"
Xiao Zhang coughed twice, it was not convenient for him to answer this question.
Cheng Yu said nonchalantly: "I'm sure of this because I've also doubted it. I used to always have the feeling that my dad didn't want me to come back at all and wanted to throw me to the United States to die. So, I
I once secretly got some hair from his body and took it to the United States, where I did a DNA test. Then, science said that the probability that he and I are biological father and son is as good as 49% pure gold."
Although Xiaozhang found this topic very embarrassing, he couldn't help laughing.
"Have you really doubted it? Compared to you, I'm so much happier. I've been said to be a prodigal since I was a child, but my dad just lets me prodigal, so I don't need a paternity test to confirm him.
He is definitely my biological father."
Cheng Yu waved his hand and said, "You can't say for sure. If a good friend died for me and left him alone before his death, I would probably dote on that child to heaven."