Liang Qingfan was stunned. After a moment, he said, "Boss Pei, this is a little sudden. I have to think about it …"
Pei Qian smiled and nodded. "Of course."
He turned to the chauffeur, Little Sun, and said, "Take some time to bring Mr. Liang around Jingzhou these few days. Take him to Ming Yun Private Kitchen for a meal this weekend. Host him well for me."
Little Sun quickly said, "Alright, Boss Pei."
Pei Qian turned to Liang Qingfan. "Mr. Liang, take a break. Walk around Jingzhou and gather some inspiration. Tengda will bear all your expenses in Jingzhou during this period.
"I want to open more Sloth Apartments at the end of the month. I'll have to trouble you then."
Liang Qingfan was flattered. "No problem, Boss Pei!"
Liang Qingfan felt as if he had met a talent scout after being so appreciated.
As a young designer, what did he need the most?
It was a stage and an opportunity!
Gaoling Architectural Design Co., Ltd. was one of the top design firms in the country. Zhou Nanling was a big shot in the industry, and he had many opportunities to participate in large-scale projects. However, as a young designer who was not even thirty years old, he had very few opportunities to be in charge of large-scale projects.
A good project was an opportunity for a designer. It was a stage for him to prove himself. If he did not have a good project, how could he display his talents? Who could possibly know the answer?
Yet, Boss Pei had many opportunities. Many opportunities!
What's more, Liang Qingfan vaguely felt that Boss Pei's views were highly compatible with his own in certain aspects.
For example, Boss Pei was a person who pursued perfection.
As an architect, Liang Qingfan was proficient in many styles. He was good at designing according to the client's needs. However, the problem was that while listening to the client's needs, Liang Qingfan was also thinking deeply about art.
However, most of the time, this kind of thinking about art was not understood by people.
Yet, Boss Pei was so satisfied with his design that he even poached him on the spot. That was enough to show that Boss Pei had the same understanding of art as him.
We all have this kind of character that pursues the extreme!
That was why Liang Qingfan almost blurted out 'I'm willing'.
Of course, agreeing on the spot seemed a little unreserved and sloppy. Thus, Liang Qingfan had to symbolically think about it for a few more days. At the same time, he had to deal with his original company's matters before he could officially join Tengda.
Pei Qian walked around the room and was very satisfied with everything.
The reason why he wanted to recruit Liang Qingfan was because he had taken a fancy to Liang Qingfan's ability to understand things, which surpassed most of Tengda's employees.
Pei Qian felt that one of the most important criteria for selecting good employees was to see how imaginative they were.
There were fewer and fewer good employees like Lu Mingliang who did as Boss Pei instructed and did as he was told by Boss Pei.
Pei Qian could almost see Lu Mingliang's shadow in Liang Qingfan.
To do everything possible to satisfy the minimalist style, he did not hesitate to cut off the storage space that normal people thought was indispensable.
In order to spend all of the budget, he spent more than 200,000 yuan to buy a national limited edition TV.
This meant that he would try his best to fulfill Boss Pei's request without thinking too much.
At the same time, he was not famous and would not attract too much attention. He also had a certain level of ability to ensure that he could complete the tasks that Boss Pei gave him.
In short, he was the perfect candidate!
…
Three hours later, Pei Qian was done moving.
His original apartment was immediately canceled. His clothes and shoes were packed and moved to a new place. Everything else that he couldn't use was left in the original apartment.
Simply put, he moved in with his luggage.
Little Sun ran around and helped Pei Qian move the small amount of luggage to his new home. Soon, everything was done.
Pei Qian did not intend to make a mess of things in the house. He only did three things here.
Sleep, play games, and eat snacks.
Every day, he would wake up naturally, eat at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe's Handong University branch, go to the office, and finally return home to eat snacks, drink drinks, and play games. It was like a dream.
Of course, this building also needed a butler and two cleaners.
The butler was in charge of managing people and helping Pei Qian with chores. The cleaners were in charge of cleaning, washing clothes, throwing out rubbish, and filling the huge fridge with drinks and snacks.
Finally, there was the problem of publicity.
Once an ordinary apartment was posted online, all sorts of real estate agents would call you immediately. In short, they would use all sorts of ways to trick you into handing over the apartment to them.
They would say that they would help find tenants, but in fact, it was nothing more than to monopolize the supply of housing so that tenants would not be able to find individual housing or contact the landlord. They would have to obediently pay the intermediary fees.
Pei Qian did not intend to do any publicity for Sloth Apartments. Such a good apartment would naturally belong to the fated. If you could not find it, it meant that you were not fated. How could I rent it to you?
Of course, not doing publicity did not mean that it was absolutely safe.
Pei Qian did not do any publicity when he first started making games, but people still found it.
To be safe, Pei Qian planned to observe for a month.
If no one was interested in the apartment after a month, it would prove that his strategy was correct. Then, he could boldly continue to buy more buildings, transform them into Sloth Apartments, and use some of the empty apartments as dormitories for his employees!
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May 6th, Friday …
Fish-Catching Take-Out's No.1 independent shop, which was also Fish-Catching Take-Out's Gourmet Research Lab, officially opened.
Rui Yuchen stood at the entrance of the shop and looked at the bustling crowd by the roadside. He only had one feeling.
I'm finally going to start my grand plan!
A month ago, Boss Pei personally instructed that Fish-Catching Take-Out would no longer be attached to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe. Instead, it would be completely independent and begin to expand to major cities.
At the same time, he would set up a Gourmet Research Lab to enrich the menu.
Rui Yuchen immediately started preparing and set up twenty shops.
Five of these twenty shops were in Jingzhou, and one of them was Fish-Catching Take-Out No.1, which was the Gourmet Research Lab. The other five were in other cities in Handong Province, such as Lincheng and Luzhou. The remaining ten were opened in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
There was a huge problem with opening shops in these unfamiliar cities. It was out of reach. If there was no absolutely trusted candidate, the shop would definitely not be able to open.
However, the good thing was that after nearly a year of development, Fish-Catching Take-Out already had many very loyal old employees. Rui Yuchen selected reliable new branch managers from these old employees and gave them travel subsidies. Immediately, many people signed up.
After selecting the branch managers of each branch, it was a series of operations to open the shop, including finding a shop, design and construction, soft decoration, applying for licenses, recruiting local employees, and so on.
These steps were very complicated. Fish-Catching Take-Out No.1 Shop was in Jingzhou, and he was very familiar with all the work. Thus, it only took a month to open.
Fish-Catching Take-Out in other cities would definitely be slower, but it should be almost there in another month.
The initial investment of these twenty shops added up to more than three million yuan. The monthly rent and labor costs added up to six to seven hundred thousand yuan.
Rui Yuchen had carefully considered the location, renovation, shop design, and the tables and chairs in the shop. In order not to embarrass Tengda, they were all of high quality.
However, even so, the investment did not seem to be much, mainly because all the shops were very small.
That was because Boss Pei had emphasized that Fish-Catching Take-Out would always be a take-out brand. Thus, there was no need for such a big shop. It would be enough to leave five or six seats for dining.
These twenty shops were just the initial test. Rui Yuchen had greater ambitions.
Anyway, Boss Pei said that he would support him no matter how much money he spent. What was there to be afraid of?
It could be built!
Rui Yuchen had analyzed that Fish-Catching Take-Out had never made a profit, but Boss Pei never cared. It was obvious that Boss Pei did not care whether it could make a profit or not. He had other plans.
What was he after?
Everyone's ultimate goal was to make money, but some people had a long-term vision.
Boss Pei must be burning money first to quickly seize the market and then make money!
Including why did he separate Fish-Catching Take-Out and Fish-Catching Internet Cafe this time? It was because Fish-Catching Internet Cafe had severely restricted Fish-Catching Take-Out's expansion.
Therefore, Rui Yuchen felt that twenty shops were far from enough. He had to open more.
These twenty shops were mainly to see how popular Fish-Catching Take-Out was in different cities, and then decide the direction and focus of the next investment.
Of course, this observation period might be relatively long, and he could not rush it.
At the same time, Rui Yuchen did not forget Boss Pei's request to build a Gourmet Laboratory.
Boss Pei did not have clear instructions on what to do with the so-called 'Gourmet Laboratory'. He only roughly said that this place was used to research various new flavors of meals and provide customized fitness meals for Deposit Fitness.
From the name, the laboratory should be a place isolated from the world.
However, Rui Yuchen felt that it was not appropriate after thinking about it.
Ordinary laboratories were researching dangerous items or confidential projects, which was why they had to be isolated from the world.
However, the Gourmet Laboratory was researching food. If it was isolated from the world and away from consumers, how could consumers taste the delicacies they researched?
Therefore, Rui Yuchen decided to simply transform Fish-Catching Take-Out's Store No. 1 into a Gourmet Laboratory.
This shop did not consider making money at all. It was only used to test the latest delicacies and collect feedback from customers.
Of course, there were professional nutritionists and chefs here. After researching all kinds of new dishes, they would use scientific methods to test the calories and various nutrients contained in them. Or, conversely, they would first determine the nutrients needed by diners and then match them into a set of fixed meals.
Now, a new dish was placed in front of Rui Yuchen.
This was the first product of the Gourmet Laboratory, a fitness meal 2.0 specially for Deposit Fitness.
Previously, the fitness meals of Deposit Fitness were also provided by Fish-Catching Take-Out. However, those fitness meals were essentially no different from the fitness meals on the market. It was nothing more than a pile of various vegetables, brown rice, chicken breasts, and other ingredients. It could provide enough nutrition and was healthy enough, but it was not delicious.
The Gourmet Laboratory's research on fitness meals 2.0 was to solve the biggest pain point of fitness meals, which was the problem of not being delicious.
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