rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 324 Ants and Elephants

The main customers of high-end ingredients are actually not the rich.

Because the ingredients are different from those high-end luxury goods, they cannot be delivered directly to customers. They also need to undergo certain processing before they can finally be turned into exquisite food.

So in fact, except for a small number of ingredients that can be eaten directly or have simple cooking methods, the mainstream customers of many other high-end ingredients are actually people who are proficient in cooking skills.

These people are not just chefs, but also housewives from middle-class families, as well as some gourmets who know how to cook!

Because for ordinary people, the most direct reflection of high-end ingredients is probably the price.

The so-called high-end ingredients not only have high nutritional value and good taste, but also come with high prices.

The price of a dish is the income of an ordinary person for a month, a year or even more. This is definitely difficult for ordinary people to accept.

Just like the private meal that Chen Li took his sister to eat in his previous life. The four of them spent almost 8,000 yuan, and Chen Li felt distressed for a whole year afterwards.

It wasn't just the food that made him dissatisfied that time, what made him even more depressed was the price of those dishes!

Therefore, no matter what you say, as long as the word "high-end" is attached to it, it will definitely not be cheap.

The systematically improved yellow-feathered chickens are definitely considered high-end among chicken types.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the price of this yellow-feathered chicken is definitely not cheap.

Another reason why Chen Li is not selling yellow-feathered chickens is that he doesn’t know how much he should price them.

The system is also ignorant and cannot give Chen Li any reference price at all, so the pricing power of this thing is completely in Chen Li's hands.

But Chen Li in his previous life was just a common man. Where had he come into contact with any high-end ingredients?

He had eaten some abalone, lobster and caviar, but these things could not be used as reference targets for yellow-feathered chicken.

My family knows their own business. Although the quality of this yellow-feathered chicken is quite excellent as an ingredient, it does not essentially have much technical content.

The quality of yellow-feathered chickens is so good, which is the result of their system.

Compared with those scientific researchers who worked hard to breed new varieties of chickens, the yellow-feathered chickens that Chen Li obtained from the system were somewhat too easy.

Chen Li only needed to feed the chickens in the system space, shovel chicken poop and so on, and after a while, he got the improved yellow-feathered chicken.

This guy has such a problem! If he hadn't worked so hard to get it, people might not realize how much he cherishes it.

So in Chen Li's opinion, this yellow-feathered chicken is certainly a good thing, but if you compare it with things like abalone, shark fin, and bird's nest, it is definitely incomparable.

Chen Li felt that this yellow-feathered chicken must be better than ordinary native chickens, and naturally it would be more expensive than native chickens.

But how much should it cost? At present, Chen Li has not come up with a specific charter.

In his previous life, Chen Li had read some novels, in which the food grown by the protagonist and the poultry raised could be sold for sky-high prices.

But that's because, in those novels, the things created by the protagonist almost all have some special effects.

For example, it can make people younger, more beautiful, etc.

Some exaggerated ones even have the effect of curing diseases, and even the most outrageous ones mean that terminal diseases are not incurable!

It is for these reasons that although Chen Li thinks it is a bit nonsense, at least there is an explanation. No matter how expensive such things are, it still makes sense.

But yellow-feathered chickens don’t have this effect!

Although Chen Li had seen the nutrition test of yellow-feathered chicken given by the system before, and it was indeed much higher than ordinary chicken, this chicken had absolutely no special effects.

Therefore, the sky-high price of chicken is definitely impossible!

In fact, yellow-feathered chickens from chicken farms are not without price, but the price is not directly set for yellow-feathered chickens.

In the farmhouse restaurant of the chicken farm, most of the dishes are made with white-feathered chickens.

But there is one dish, and it has to be yellow-feathered chicken!

That is. Chicken Soup!

Hmm~ That’s right, the name of this dish is local chicken soup.

In fact, the names of all the dishes at the farmhouse are quite unpretentious!

This local chicken soup is made with yellow-feathered chicken and shiitake mushrooms. The taste is simply amazing.

Deng Weimin of Xuehua loves this dish the most. Every time he takes his subordinates to have dinner at the farmhouse, he must order this dish.

This guy not only eats at the farmhouse, he even packs it for home.

As for the reason, it's probably because the employees had a dinner and the company's accounts were recorded.

If Deng Weimin was asked to pay for it personally, he might not choose this dish.

Because the price of this local chicken soup is as high as 168 yuan!

Some people may say that a big pot of real chicken soup costs less than 200 yuan, and it is not expensive at a farmhouse outside?

Indeed, if it were twenty years later, a local chicken soup of about four kilograms stewed in a restaurant outside would cost 200 yuan. It is really not expensive!

Even if it can be guaranteed that this is real local chicken stewed, Chen Li may feel that he has made a profit.

After all, at that time, native chickens sold for thirty yuan a pound in the vegetable market, and those things were not real native chickens, at most they were just free-range chickens that had been raised for a while.

But the problem is that this is the year 1999!

In these days, the living expenses of a college student are only two to three hundred yuan.

A dish of chicken soup can cost a college student a month's living expenses? This is somewhat of a luxury.

Of course, for Deng Weimin, with his net worth and income, he could certainly afford it.

However, even high-income people like Deng Weimin still feel that Chen Li's price for the local chicken soup is a bit expensive.

The "expensive" he thinks does not simply refer to the price of 168 yuan. It is not like Deng Weimin has never tasted more expensive dishes.

The reason why Deng Weimin came up with the idea of ​​"expensive" was because of the farmhouse environment and the fact that the main ingredient of this dish is chicken!

If it's abalone, sea cucumber, lobster, etc., the price of 168 yuan is nothing.

But when this dish was made from chicken, Deng Weimin had some unworthy thoughts!

You must know that the price level is really not high these days!

Taking Erlong Town as an example, the price of pork has fallen instead of rising, and has dropped to three yuan per pound.

If you go later, you can even buy it for two and a half yuan.

This is because there was an outbreak of swine fever in many places in China some time ago, which directly caused the price of pork, which was originally about to rise and was very likely to increase, to suddenly fall back.

Similarly, there is swine fever, chicken fever, and even various types of bird flu!

Basically, every time something like this happens, the price of the corresponding food ingredients will plummet.

There is also the influence of supply relations. When productivity exceeds consumption, prices will naturally fall.

Anyway, Chen Li vaguely remembered that the price of pork seemed to last for many years between 3 yuan and 5 yuan!

As for how and when the price rose later, Chen Li couldn't remember it.

I say this to reflect the level of consumption at this moment.

Pork that costs three yuan a pound in Erlong Town is definitely more than that in Yanjing, but no matter how expensive it is, it's not much more expensive.

The same principle applies to chickens!

Although the concept of native chicken has been accepted by many people these days, the price of native chicken is not as high as it was later.

As for the local chicken soup at the farmhouse, it is calculated based on the fact that a local chicken is about four pounds, and the average price is forty yuan per pound.

Of course, the price of food will also vary depending on the cooking method and craftsmanship as well as the size, environment, and quality of the restaurant and many other factors.

However, ideal chicken farms are almost always at a very low level in these conditions.

However, the price of this local chicken soup has reached a very high level, which makes people somewhat speechless.

What's even more ridiculous is that the other dishes at the farmhouse are relatively normal.

Even the large plates of chicken, wood-fired turkey and other dishes are higher than those in small restaurants, but they are special dishes after all, so it is not incomprehensible.

But this local chicken soup alone made Deng Weimin quite puzzled.

Because the price of this dish is so conspicuous, it is obviously different from other dishes by more than one level!

Therefore, Deng Weimin reminded Chen Li with good intentions.

But it’s no use at all!

Although Chen Li accepted Deng Weimin's kindness, he ignored his reminder.

Because Chen Li planned to make this local chicken soup the signature dish of the farmhouse from the very beginning.

Whether ideal farmhouses can bloom all over the country in the future depends on this local chicken soup.

Although Deng Weimin now thinks that the 168 local chicken soup is not worth it, Chen Li can guarantee that in the future, Deng Weimin will definitely be "proud" that he can often drink the local chicken soup from the ideal chicken farm!

Of course ~ this is all Chen Li’s imagination!

Before the yellow-feathered chickens from the ideal chicken farm can open up the market, Chen Li needs to sell the yellow-feathered chickens first.

And this Chef Gong happens to be the person who can help Chen Li open up the market.

So Chen Li, who was originally invited by Zhou Xiaoli's father today, ended up focusing on making friends with Chef Gong.

Of course, Chen Li didn't make it obvious. He still understood this bit of human nature.

It's just that he was a little worried about Zhou Xiaoli's father. He was worried that this wealthy real estate businessman would bring his idea to his own fried chicken restaurant.

But there is a very inexplicable law in this world, which is that what you fear will come to you!

When the lunch of the day was almost finished, Chef Gong personally brewed a cup of jasmine for Chen Li and others.

Originally, Chen Li was still glad that nothing unpleasant happened today, and he even gained something, which made Chen Li very happy.

But at this moment, Zhou Bowen suddenly held up his purple clay pot and said:

"Xiao Chen~!"

"Your fried chicken restaurant is really doing well!"

"I heard from Xiaoli before that you plan to expand to 200 branches this year?"

"Hmm~ This idea of ​​occupying the market in advance is a good one!"

"But according to the current development scale of your fried chicken restaurant, it will probably not be easy to achieve this goal, right?"

Zhou Bowen is actually right in what he said. It is already April, but the fried chicken restaurant is not opening branches as fast as expected.

This is mainly because Chen Li had been focusing on the Y2K patch for some time.

In addition to the first month of school, there are a lot of miscellaneous things, so the separate expansion of the ideal fried chicken restaurant has been somewhat affected.

And the most important thing is that Chen Li previously embezzled a sum of funds from the Ideal Fried Chicken Restaurant in order to expand the scale of the chicken farm.

This is actually the biggest reason why the expansion of Ideal Fried Chicken Restaurant is hindered!

Of course~ Chen Li misappropriated funds from the fried chicken restaurant, and that was what he had said hello to Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli.

This amount is actually a loan from Ideal Fried Chicken to Ideal Chicken Farm.

Although the boss of both companies is Chen Li, because Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli are the shareholders of Ideal Fried Chicken, Chen Li must give an explanation.

Because Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli are only shareholders of the Ideal Fried Chicken chain, while the Ideal Chicken Farm is Chen Li's private property.

Now, Ideal Chicken Farm and Ideal Fried Chicken are actually a cooperative relationship!

Ideal Chicken Farm. It can be regarded as a supplier of Ideal Fried Chicken!

However, precisely because Chen Li borrowed this money, the expansion speed of the Ideal Fried Chicken chain stores was greatly restricted.

This actually affects the interests of shareholders in disguised form!

Of course, neither Su Mei nor Zhou Xiaoli have any objections.

But Zhou Bowen, as a veteran real estate businessman, could see the irregularities here at a glance.

So when he said this, he was actually trying to wake up Chen Li.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he believed that Chen Li should understand.

After all, if Chen Li still doesn't understand after all that has been said, then he really can't be called "young and promising".

In fact, Chen Li did understand. He frowned, obviously dissatisfied with Zhou Bowen's reminder.

Yes ~ dissatisfied!

Because from the beginning, when he asked Su Mei and Zhou Xiaoli to become shareholders, he had already discussed it with them in advance.

After the two people became shareholders, they were responsible for doing the work and getting paid!

Regarding the management of the company, the two of them must not interfere!

The two of them had agreed well at that time, but now Zhou Bowen suddenly mentioned it like this. What does it mean?

So, people, first impression is actually very important!

Chen Li actually had a bad impression of Zhou Bowen because of his status as a real estate businessman.

This difference does not mean that Chen Li has a bad impression of Zhou Bowen. In fact, he thinks Zhou Bowen is quite interesting.

But in Chen Li's eyes, Zhou Bowen, a real estate businessman, is just a hungry wolf who is always coveting the cake of an ideal fried chicken restaurant.

Chen Li even vaguely asked Zhou Xiaoli whether the Zhou family's real estate business had encountered any trouble recently, so he wanted to prepare for a career change!

But in the end the answer he got was no!

In fact, this is normal. The real estate business these days is really easy to do as long as you don't mess around.

But no matter what, in Chen Li's eyes, there is absolutely no way that Boss Zhou is a good person.

So when Zhou Bowen mentioned this, Chen Li couldn't help but think more.

He thought for a while and said hesitantly:

"Well~ the fried chicken restaurant is currently operating fairly well."

"Next, I am planning to speed up the development of fried chicken restaurants."

"I wonder if Uncle Zhou has any good suggestions?"

Chen Li was testing the situation, and at the same time, he was reminding the other party that if there was anything he could say directly.

Chen Li's attitude was very upright. After all, he was just a small fried chicken shop owner. When facing a big boss like Zhou Bowen, he still had to have the respect he deserved.

The kind of arrogant protagonist in novels almost only exists in novels.

The real reality is that when you face people who are several levels above you, you will habitually put yourself at a lower level.

And like Chen Li, with the advantage of rebirth and the blessing of the system, at most it can only allow him to be neither humble nor arrogant.

There is no way~ It is an exaggeration for a "big shot" like Zhou Bowen to say that he can crush Chen Li to death with one hand, but the other party may cause Ideal Fried Chicken to encounter a lot of trouble with just one phone call.

After all, this person is in the real estate industry!

But when it came to Zhou Bowen, he seemed to be very satisfied with Chen Li's attitude.

He is neither humble nor arrogant. He has the energy of a young man but is not as flattering as some other people.

That’s great!

So Zhou Bowen took a sip from the purple clay pot and then said:

"The fried chicken restaurant is really well managed by you!"

"I heard that you have asked Xiao Zhang to train new employees all the time, which is good!"

"After all, with the operating model of an ideal fried chicken restaurant, talent reserve is the top priority!"

"But one of the constraints that currently hinders the development of Ideal Fried Chicken Restaurant is not employee reserves, but funds, a lot of funds!"

"Actually, Xiao Chen, you have a very good sense!"

"You have made a plan to open 200 branches and have been preparing related talent reserves. In this way, as long as you have enough funds and suitable stores, you can soon open the ideal fried chicken to the streets of Yanjing.

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"And because you are so impatient, you actually want to occupy a certain market share in advance before others enter the market."

"This idea is very forward-looking~ This is why I am quite optimistic about you!"

"So, take this!"

Zhou Bowen took out a note from his pocket, but when Zhou Bowen handed the note over, Chen Li suddenly discovered that it turned out to be a check.

Chen Li glanced at the numbers above!

"Hoo~!" A whole million!

To be honest~ It’s not like Chen Li has never seen a check before, but this is the first time he saw a check with such a large amount of one million!

Although Millennium Bug was sold for 21 million US dollars, the money has not yet been transferred back to China!

So~ when Chen Li saw the one million check, his heart beat a little faster.

But in fact, Chen Li seemed quite calm at this moment, because he was about to have tens of millions of dollars, and he was really not that surprised by the million!

The reason why my heart beats a little faster is purely a normal human reaction to money.

For a million-dollar check, you still have to give some face.

"Uncle Zhou~What do you mean?"

A puzzled expression appeared on Chen Li's face, and then he looked at Zhou Bowen in confusion and said:

“If you want to buy an ideal fried chicken restaurant, you can’t afford it at this price!”

After saying this, Chen Li laughed first.

But the smile was a little forced, because in Chen Li's mind at this moment, he thought that Zhou Bowen was planning to forcefully purchase Ideal Fried Chicken?

Uh~ That’s how it’s done on TV!

A company that is obviously worth tens of millions, but some villains will buy it for just $1.8 million.

If it is not sold, then there will be all kinds of trouble waiting for Chen Li, and it may even threaten Chen Li's personal safety.

Well~ I have to say that Chen Li has a very rich imagination.

But Zhou Bowen was stunned for a moment after hearing Chen Li's words, then he thought for a few seconds, and finally realized what he said!

"Ah? Xiao Chen, where did you want to go?"

"I said that today I feel like your attitude towards me is a little bit wrong!"

"At first I thought you were acting like this because we met for the first time. But later I saw that you and Lao Gong got along very well!"

"I was also wondering if Xiaoli said something bad about me in front of you, which caused you to have a misunderstanding about me."

"Now it seems. Are you worried about my idea of ​​setting up an ideal fried chicken restaurant?"

Zhou Bowen, who has been in the business world for many years and has a good understanding of people's hearts, quickly understood Chen Li's thoughts.

After reacting, Zhou Bowen was dumbfounded.

He obviously had good intentions and wanted to help this junior whom he liked very much, but he didn't expect that he would be misunderstood by the other party, and this would cause trouble!

"This money is lent to you!"

"With this million, let's follow the plan you made before."

"I believe that with your business acumen, you will soon be able to build Ideal Fried Chicken on a large scale."

"Of course~ you still have to pay me the IOU!"

After telling his true purpose, Zhou Bowen made a joke.

His original intention was to help Chen Li understand the situation. He thought that Chen Li might be a little embarrassed after the misunderstanding.

But in fact, Chen Li is really not embarrassed at all!

No~ Strictly speaking, Chen Li couldn't care less about the embarrassment at this moment!

In fact, Chen Li's business experience is very shallow. Until now, he has been crossing the river by feeling for the stones.

Therefore, Chen Li has always been very careful, and he is careful to test the path he will take in the future.

At this moment, when he understood that Zhou Bowen was not planning a fried chicken restaurant, he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he quickly deleted all the messy dirty tricks in his mind.

Although compared with the elephant Zhou Bowen, he may only be regarded as an ant, but who said that ants can't kill an elephant?

After all, Chen Li is a reborn person, and he also has a system at his disposal. No matter who wants to bite his own flesh, Chen Li will at least have to break his teeth!

Of course ~ the current situation is actually the best!

Harmonious development!

But it’s the money!

Chen Li looked at the one million check again, stretched out his hand and pushed the check back.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhou~!"

"I did think too much before, I'm sorry~Uncle Zhou!"

"But this money is still useless!"

"I've found new investors!"

“In a few days, Ideal Fried Chicken will receive its first venture capital investment!”

"The amount is"

"Two million dollars!"

(End of chapter)