Chapter 553 I’m a Shareholder?
He briskly left the room, came into the breeding farm yard behind the house, and Ling Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
But the sound of footsteps came from behind, and when he turned back, he found Mo Lan had also followed him out.
"You don’t want to get involved either?" Ling Feng asked with a wry smile.
Mo Lan’s face was expressionless, "No, I wanted to talk to you."
"Oh? About what?" Ling Feng asked.
"About the incident last time, I haven’t had the chance to thank you!" said Mo Lan.
Ling Feng was startled and then smiled, "No need for that, right? It was just a small deed. Forget that you’re Old Wang’s daughter, even if it were a stranger, I couldn’t just not save them!"
"It might have been a simple gesture for you, but for me, it was life-saving. It’s not the same!" Mo Lan said flatly.
"Alright then, I accept your gratitude."
Ling Feng nodded his head and then said, "We might be working together often in the future, so let’s not be so formal next time."
Mo Lan gave him a glance, nodded slightly, but said nothing, and turned to go back into the house.
Looking at her retreating figure, Ling Feng was puzzled, unable to figure out why this girl was so indifferent and how her personality came to be like this.
As he was lost in thought, the sound of a phone ring suddenly broke the silence.
Seeing the call was from Miao Lanlan, Ling Feng immediately answered, asking cheerfully, "What’s up? Why’d you call all of a sudden?"
"I’m in the county town, can you come pick me up?"
"Sure, wait for me!"
Without overthinking it, Ling Feng hung up the phone, went back to the house to let Chu Nan and Wang Laogen know he was leaving, and then drove out of Shiliu Village.
On the way, he suddenly remembered, why had this girl gone to the county town?
In recent times, Miao Lanlan had been practicing with Xun Qianqian and Joanna with the aim of improving their skills quickly, as if they were in a competition. Today was a surprise, having her visit the county town!
Could it be that she went shopping?
But that’s not right, didn’t she just finish her shopping spree?
The more he thought about it, the more baffled he became. Nearing the county town, Ling Feng dialed Miao Lanlan’s number, "I’m almost there. Where are you?"
"I’m at my cousin’s place. Come over."
"Cousin?"
Ling Feng was stunned, his mind suddenly filled with question marks!
"Come on, did you forget how you met my sister?" Miao Lanlan asked.
"Er..."
Ling Feng was immediately embarrassed!
Her and Miao Ruoruo’s cousin was none other than Yang Guihua!
How could he have forgotten this? Ling Feng thought it was a good thing Ruoruo wasn’t present; otherwise, he would have been in for some trouble with her.
But even just facing Miao Lanlan was tricky, so he quickly laughed awkwardly, "I didn’t forget, I just didn’t recall it for a moment. I’ll be there soon!"
After ending the call, he floored the gas pedal, heading straight for Yang Guihua’s restaurant in the southern suburbs!
Once there, he parked the car, entered, and his smile instantly froze on his face.
Because he saw that both Miao Lanlan and Miao Ruoruo were there!
And at that moment, Miao Ruoruo was looking at him with a smile that was not quite a smile, her eyes filled with profound meaning.
Ling Feng became embarrassed all over again, scratched his head, and said sheepishly, "Ruoruo, what brings you here too?"
"You guess!" Miao Ruoruo said.
Ling Feng thought to himself, how could I guess?
You’re here instead of going to Shiliu Village, both sisters running over here...
Thinking about it, Ling Feng had a sudden flash of inspiration and asked, "Could it be that Sister Guihua has some sort of celebration going on?"
"You’re smart!"
Miao Lanlan smiled and continued, "My cousin’s branch is opening for business today, and we are all here to congratulate her!"
"Oh, I see now!"
Only then did Ling Feng remember, a few days ago because of the forced demolition of the house issue, he happened to catch Luo Sihai, but as it turned out, he clumsily captured Luo Nanlin. At that time, Yang Guihua did indeed say she wanted to open a branch.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but wryly say, "Sister Guihua, that’s not very kind of you, opening a branch store and not even notifying me, leaving me completely unprepared!"
"You don’t need to prepare anything, just wait for the ribbon cutting at noon!" Miao Lanlan laughed.
"Huh?"
Ling Feng was stunned and looked bewilderedly at the two women, "What right do I have to cut the ribbon?"
"You’re a shareholder of the branch, of course you have the right!" Miao Lanlan said with a giggling smile.
"What do you mean? How am I a shareholder, and when did I invest?" Ling Feng asked, eyes wide and full of confusion.
"You don’t need to invest, I’m giving you dry shares!"
No sooner had Ling Feng finished speaking than Yang Guihua’s voice came through, and she walked out from behind.
Upon seeing her, Ling Feng hurriedly asked, "Sister Guihua, why are you giving me dry shares?"
"Because you’re my benefactor, of course!"
Yang Guihua said with a smile.
"That’s not necessary, it was just a small favor, and besides, it hasn’t been easy for you, Sister Guihua. You’re opening the branch to earn more money, why give me a share?" Ling Feng laughed.
"You don’t want it?" Yang Guihua asked.
Ling Feng nodded, "I don’t need it, I’m not short of money, you should keep it."
"Alright then."
Yang Guihua nodded and turned to look at Miao Ruoruo and Miao Lanlan, the sisters, "This is him not wanting it, not me not giving it."
The two women chuckled behind their hands, "Since he doesn’t want it, let it be, it’ll be too late to regret it later."
On hearing this, Ling Feng felt a bit bewildered, noticing that all three women were smiling meaningfully, he felt he might have missed something.
So, he curiously asked, "What do you mean by that? I can still regret not taking the shares?"
"Not just regret but very much so!" Miao Lanlan said with a pout.
"Why is that?"
Ling Feng couldn’t figure it out and scratched his head.
Miao Lanlan and Yang Guihua both had teasing expressions, only Miao Ruoruo, who was gentle by nature, couldn’t help but speak up even though she was a bit upset that he’d forgotten the place where they first met, "You, it’s been made so obvious, how can you still not understand?"
"My cousin didn’t just open one branch, including the five in the county city, there are forty in the whole province!"
"What?"
Ling Feng’s jaw nearly dropped, and he looked at Yang Guihua in astonishment, "Sister Guihua, did you win the lottery or something, opening so many branches all at once?"
"Stop kidding, winning the lottery wouldn’t be enough, at most it could only open two stores!" Yang Guihua gave him a look.
After hearing her words, Ling Feng quickly did the math in his heart!
Each store around two million, forty stores, that’s an investment of eighty million!
Calculating this number, he was completely dumbfounded and stared at Yang Guihua, "Nearly a hundred million, where, where did you get so much money?"
"That you don’t need to worry about, I have a signature dish, I have capital, and these forty stores, do you know how much the daily turnover would be?" Yang Guihua asked.
Ling Feng shook his head, "I don’t know."
Yang Guihua smiled, "Around one or two million I guess, and with a net profit of more than one million, according to your ten percent share, you’d roughly earn about a hundred thousand a day."
"Is it still possible for me to regret it now?" Ling Feng asked.
