Since there were only a few people at the table, the food was served very quickly. Within ten minutes, all the dishes ordered by Cheng Yu and the dishes arranged by Cheng Cuihua were served.
In addition to the four dishes ordered by Cheng Yu, Cheng Cuihua arranged to serve a rapi and a cucumber, saying that these two dishes went well with wine.
For hot dishes, Cheng Cuihua arranged for goose stewed in an iron pot, braised pork elbow and soft-fried fish. This time it was like chicken, duck and fish.
The first sentence Cheng Yu said was exactly this.
"The chicken, duck and fish are all good."
Lao Jinjin and Cheng Cuihua just smiled at this. Only Zhou Datong said stupidly: "There are chickens, fish, and two meats, but no ducks are seen."
Lao Jinjin and Cheng Cuihua looked at each other and smiled. Cheng Yu rolled his eyes and said, "You are a big goose with a flat mouth, but you can still be considered a duck. You still have to be word for word, right?"
Zhou Datong then smiled and stopped talking.
Lao Jin and the couple looked at each other and raised the cups in their hands together.
Although Cheng Cuihua has been calling Lao Jin to be the head of the family, a casual glance would tell that Cheng Cuihua is actually in charge of this family.
In the order in which they spoke, Cheng Cuihua spoke first.
"Welcome both of you to come from afar. We, the old couple, would like to propose a toast to the two guests."
Lao Jinjin then said: "Yeah, let's go one at a time."
Perhaps because he was afraid that Cheng Yu would refuse to drink, because the cups they had here were a bit big, and a glass of wine cost one or two more, Lao Jinjin added: "I brewed this wine myself, a craft passed down from the old man. It is absolutely pure.
The food is brewed from corn grown by oneself. It has low alcohol content and is not intoxicating."
Cheng Yu smiled, held the cup to compare, touched it with the two elders, and then touched it lightly with Zhou Datong, but didn't hold it, and drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp.
Although the alcohol content is low, the wine made from pure corn is still a bit overwhelming after one sip. Cheng Yu only feels that the wine is quite spicy, and when it goes down his throat, it feels like he has been pulled by a knife.
.
Seeing Cheng Yu take a gulp of wine, his brows immediately furrowed, and Lao Jinjin smiled.
"Young man, hurry up, eat the meat and press it down. Just fix that big elbow."
Cheng Yu followed the instructions and picked up a piece of meat from the braised elbow with chopsticks, and put it into his mouth together with the battered skin on the outside.
The skin of the meat melted in your mouth, and the lean meat was already well stewed. I chewed it casually for two times and swallowed it, which finally relieved the stinging sensation caused by the sip of wine just now.
Lao Jinjin said with a smile: "This is the characteristic of our wine. You have to take a big sip for the first sip. If you sip slowly and slowly, you will probably have to push it out in one sip. But don't worry, after one sip, this
Starting from the second bite, you won’t have that panicky feeling anymore.”
After that, he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Cheng Cuihua nodded and said, "You don't have to do this from the second drink on. Even though the alcohol content is low, you will still be intoxicated if you drink it like this with every sip."
After that, she drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Seeing this, Zhou Datong drank all the wine in one gulp without thinking.
But after he finished drinking, he felt similar to Cheng Yu's, so he quickly picked up a chopstick and braised the elbow, which made him feel much better.
When they had their second glass of wine, both of them took a small sip, just like how they usually drink liquor.
Not to mention, just like Lao Jin said, when I took the second bite, I really didn’t feel the same as before.
That's not to say that this wine isn't harsh at all, but it's just not as outrageous as the first glass.
By the time the second glass of wine was finished, the two of them had completely adapted to the wine. There was no longer the strange taste when they first drank it. On the contrary, they could still clearly feel the sweetness of the wine.
He started talking more and more.
"Uncle Lao, have you invested a lot in this resort?"
Lao Jinjin nodded, looked at Cheng Cuihua, and said, "I am an old woman who manages the accounts of our family. You should ask her about these things."
Cheng Yu then looked at Cheng Cuihua and said, "I don't want to inquire about your privacy, but I just feel that in the Northeast, especially on the fringes of such a small city like yours, opening such a resort with such a large scale will have a large number of customers.
Is there any guarantee? The main reason is that after we came here, we found that there didn’t seem to be that many customers here.”
Cheng Cuihua swallowed the food in his mouth without paying too much attention, and said: "The situation here may be different from yours. In the south, there are inns with one or two buildings. I went there before opening this resort.
Observed.
But if you are open like them, you can't book a room on holidays. On weekdays, it's the same as what you saw today, there aren't many guests.
Therefore, when we do this here, the scale must be large enough.
The investment is definitely much larger than that method, but the land here is cheap and the rent in the countryside is relatively low, so the total investment may not be as high as you think.
Look at the dozen or so houses I have here, which are going to be put in the south of your country, and require an investment of two to three billion, but ours is less than 100 million.
Normally, as you can see, there is not much business, but on holidays, my place is full almost every day.
You see, it's June now. In a month's time, when the students are on vacation, my room will definitely be full every day, and there won't be any empty rooms for two months.
Even during the Chinese New Year, my place is always full.
Many people, including families of more than ten or twenty, came here and spent the whole year with us.
Every winter and summer vacation, let me tell you, I don’t have enough manpower here, so I have to hire some temporary workers from outside.
You are all educated people, how many rest days do you have in a year?
Fifty-two weeks is just over a hundred days.
Including winter and summer vacations, as well as the National Day holiday, May Day holiday and so on, my place can be fully booked for 200 of the 365 days.
Do you think the customer base is guaranteed?"
After hearing this, Cheng Yu nodded and said, "I understand. What you are doing here is a large enough business. Only if you have enough rooms and space can you make money. On days when there is no business, a hundred rooms and ten
There is no difference between rooms. But when it is full, there is a big difference between ten rooms and one hundred rooms.”
Lao Jin took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Yes, that's the truth."
Zhou Datong knew why Cheng Yu wanted to inquire about this, so he stuffed Lapi into his mouth and asked smoothly: "So your business is actually very good, with full rooms for two hundred days a year, tsk tsk, this is incredible. This
You can’t earn 30 to 50 million a year?”
Lao Jinjin laughed loudly and said: "Young man, you are really out of your mind. We have a total of 200 rooms here, and the average house price is more than 300 yuan. A full room only costs 60,000 to 70,000 yuan a day. How can you not be there?"
So much to say.”
In order to find out the bottom, Zhou Datong continued to argue: "But when the guests come, don't we have to pay for the food and drink with you? They are all indispensable, right? And your projects, fishing and shooting, it's all money."
"Those are indeed making money, but you can't pay more than the rent. It's not ruled out that some people come to our place and the expenses are relatively high. For most of them, the average consumption per person per day is only dozens of yuan. Two people in a room.
, about a hundred dollars. Look at my restaurant, the price is not high, it’s quite real, and the gross profit is about the same as a small restaurant in your city."
It was Cheng Cuihua who said this again.
Cheng Yu nodded and said with a smile: "No matter what, I would have to run up to 15 million that year."
Zhou Datong pretended to be surprised and said: "The net profit is not low, I think your expenses here are not big."
Cheng Cuihua explained patiently: "The total annual income, if you are lucky, can reach 2,000. Normally, it is 1,780. The net profit is because we are sole proprietors and we pay industrial and commercial household taxes."
, lower, the annual net profit should be around 1,200."
Zhou Datong nodded vigorously and said: "That's really not low. Calculated this way, an investment of less than 100 million can be paid back in seven or eight years?"
Just when Cheng Cuihua was about to speak, Lao Jinjin rushed to say: "A total investment of more than 70 million yuan, so it takes about six years.
But you have to renovate it every five years and invest some money in it.
Although it is not as big as the initial investment, the entire renovation is worth money.
I won’t be able to get back my roots in seven or eight years, and I don’t think I’ll be able to get back my money in ten years.
Fortunately, here, the contract is signed for twenty years, and if the total amount can be doubled in twenty years, it will be good."
Zhou Datong still wanted to speak, but Cheng Yu quickly picked up the wine glass and stopped him while toasting.
There must be an ambush behind what Lao Jin said, but he didn't mean to hide anything, it was just the most normal human cunning.
You and I have never met each other, and they didn’t let you pay for the groceries just because they had a drink. Why should they be honest with you?
What Cheng Yu was talking about was just to make a rough assessment of Cheng Cuihua's family's financial resources to see if they could get their 20 million in cash at any time.
But now after such a trial, Cheng Yu knew very well that even if Cheng Cuihua could come up with 20 million in cash, he would probably be reluctant. Therefore, if Lao Dapeng couldn't get the money from Cheng Fu and wanted to come back to his parents, he would just have to ask for it.
Afraid of hope.
At least, Cheng Cuihua is not the kind of person who would say that he has more than 20 million in his hand and will give it to his son as soon as he asks.
Especially regarding the darknet, Lao Dapeng was afraid that he would not be able to explain it clearly to Lao Jinchen and Cheng Cuihua.
Cheng Yu didn't know what Lao Dapeng was thinking, but judging from the fact that he had booked a flight back, it seemed that he was placing his last hope on his parents.
In fact, if Lao Dapeng was a little smarter about this matter, he would know that if the money is to be implemented, it must be implemented by Cheng Fu.
Even if the 20 million from the perspective of the dark web can be regarded as life-saving money for Lao Dapeng, if he wants his parents to pay this money, he must make them understand that the dark web is like this
existence.
Even if Lao Jinjin and Cheng Cuihua are willing to pay the money, it will not be done in three or two days.
It is not an easy task for a person in a remote place with a net worth of less than 100 million to suddenly have to withdraw more than 20 million in cash and remit it abroad.
Lao Jinjin and Cheng Cuihua are not the kind of people who have offshore companies abroad and can use their own assets as protection to mobilize large sums of funds.
On the contrary, although Cheng Fu definitely cannot afford 20 million in cash, he is now the assistant to the chairman of the Cheng Group. Through a series of operations, he mobilized 20 million abroad in a short period of time. It is not that difficult to say.
Disaster.
Of course, he must make good use of the Cheng Group's brand name.
Zhou Datong was of course doing Cheng Yu a favor by asking for more information.
But Cheng Yu understood that it was enough at this point and there was no need to ask further.
In fact, the most important thing he wanted to know was how much cash Lao Jinjin and Cheng Cuihua had in hand, and to judge from their words and deeds whether they might already have some assets abroad.
The result is already obvious. This old couple can definitely afford 20 to 30 million in cash on hand. With an income of over 10 million a year, the resort has not yet reached the point where it is in urgent need of renovation. There is no other investment.
Under the premise, absolutely.
But the problem is, just because you have money doesn’t mean you can send money abroad without any reason.
Cross-border transfers are never that simple and must have clear enough names.
Therefore, Cheng Yu could conclude that if Lao Dapeng was finally helpless against Cheng Fu, then there would be no possibility for him to pay the reward on time with his parents.
Of course, there is another problem, which is that Zhou Datong has not yet had time to communicate with Cheng Yu about the issue of publishing tasks on the dark web and how long it takes to pay the bounty.
But Zhou Datong has obviously already checked it out, and he will tell Cheng Yu the truth after the meal is over.
