rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 497 Zhou Xiaoli returns to China

"Xiao Li~!"

"Sister Xiaoli~!"

At Yanjing International Airport, Su Mei and Liu Qingqing greeted Zhou Xiaoli who had just come out of the exit.

Chen Li stood behind the two of them and observed Miss Zhou.

Uh~ It seems that the other party can no longer be called the eldest lady.

After all, the Zhou family really collapsed this time. Zhou Bowen could be said to have squandered all his family wealth and finally saved himself from going to jail.

To be honest~ On this point, Chen Li really took a high look at Zhou Bowen, because at first he really thought that Zhou Bowen would "run" abroad.

Don't blame Chen Li for thinking this way, after all, this kind of thing is so normal.

Many wealthy businessmen and corrupt officials in the country ran away after the incident, but Zhou Bowen actually chose to stay when he had the chance to run away.

This point makes Chen Li think that Zhou Bowen is just average!

After all, if you really want to say that the other party is good, then the designation is a bit nonsense. These days, there are people who are engaged in real estate. One cannot be said to be a bad person, but the designation is not a kind person.

Although Zhou Bowen usually has an amiable face when facing Zhou Xiaoli, Chen Li and others, this person is also a man of the hour in the real estate industry when he is outside.

Of course~ it is no longer the case. Today, Zhou Bowen is a bankrupt rich man who owes a lot of debts.

But this person didn't choose to run, which still surprised Chen Li.

As for why Zhou Bowen is said to be a bankrupt rich man, that's because although Zhou Bowen is indeed bankrupt and even owes a lot of debt, in fact, he still has wealth that far exceeds that of ordinary people.

For example, the Zhou family currently has two houses and several shops, all located in prosperous areas of Yanjing.

Of course, these two houses and shops are not under Zhou Bowen's name, but under Zhou Xiaoli's name.

Hey~ This is actually a small loophole in the law, and Zhou Bowen took advantage of this loophole to ensure the daily life of the Zhou family.

To put it bluntly, although the Zhou family fell, the skinny camel was bigger than the horse.

Even though Zhou Bowen is bankrupt now, the foundation of the Zhou family far exceeds that of ordinary people who work hard all their lives.

Anyway~ Even if Chen Li worked hard all his life in his previous life, he could not afford to buy a house in Yanjing with the money he saved.

"Xiao Li~ I'm sorry to trouble you about this matter!"

While Chen Li was thinking about the mess in the Zhou family, Zhou Xiaoli walked up to Chen Li after saying hello to her two best friends.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoli is no longer as lively and out-of-the-box as she used to be. She seems to be more mature, but in fact she is just typical of excessive sadness.

Of course, this is a normal phenomenon. Even if it were Chen Li, if he encountered something similar to what happened to the Zhou family, he would probably be no better than Zhou Xiaoli.

Think about it, when Chen Li and Zhou Xiaoli went to Germany together in August, the eldest lady spent a lot of money to buy a bunch of luxury goods under the guidance of her younger sisters.

At that time, Chen Li had actually vaguely guessed the dilemma that the Zhou family was about to face, but he did not remind Zhou Xiaoli.

After all, Chen Li was only slightly aware of this matter at that time, and if Zhou Bowen could finally overcome the predicament, his reminder might become a joke.

But Zhou Bowen still failed to survive the crisis in the end, which made Chen Li feel somewhat dazed when he saw Zhou Xiaoli again four months later.

Four months ago, Zhou Xiaoli was still the daughter of Zhou Real Estate.

Four months later, Zhou Xiaoli became the daughter of a bankrupt old man.

The reason why Zhou Xiaoli said it was troublesome for Chen Li was because Zhou Xiaoli actually came back to deal with two things when she returned to China.

The first thing~ is that Zhou Xiaoli plans to hand over the properties and shops she owns to Chen Li to help manage them.

The second thing was to take her mother to live in Germany.

As for Zhou Bowen, he didn’t choose to leave, and he probably won’t be able to leave now!

The part of cash that Chen Li had intercepted before was the reason why Zhou Xiaoli wanted to thank Chen Li.

In fact, Zhou Xiaoli wanted to resell these shares at the beginning.

Although Ideal Fried Chicken's profit for dividends is not much this year, that's because Ideal Fried Chicken invested all its profits in opening new stores.

With the development of Ideal Fried Chicken, the 4% shares held by Zhou Xiaoli and Su Mei are no longer the 100,000 yuan principal they originally gave.

Previously, Zhou Bowen had someone conduct a survey on Ideal Fried Chicken. Based on the current operating status and financial situation of Ideal Fried Chicken, he wanted to make a valuation for Ideal Fried Chicken.

At that time, Ideal Fried Chicken had a total of 179 chain stores and owned the actual property rights of 87 of them.

Without calculating the brand premium, the company only estimated based on the annual sales of Ideal Fried Chicken, expected profits, and fixed assets. Finally, the other party gave a valuation of about US$20 million.

However, now the number of Ideal Fried Chicken stores has increased to 192, and the number of stores with property rights has also increased to 94.

Even based on the previous lowest valuation of US$20 million, Zhou Xiaoli's 4% stake in Ideal Fried Chicken is worth approximately US$800,000.

Converted into Chinese currency, it is about seven million.

Zhou Bowen asked Secretary Zhang to find someone to do this valuation. Later, Chen Li didn’t say a word when he found out!

Perhaps in Zhou Bowen's opinion, although Ideal Fried Chicken has nearly 200 branches, the stores of Ideal Fried Chicken are relatively small, and both the property value of the stores and the benefits generated by the stores themselves are relatively limited.

In addition, Ideal Fried Chicken is also following the path of a traditional industry, so even if Ideal Fried Chicken is developing well, the valuation given by the other party is still not high.

And the most important thing is that the person Zhou Bowen is looking for does not know the specific situation of the fried chicken industry at all.

Costs, channels, profits, etc., Zhou Bowen's people only made guesses based on the industry conditions they investigated.

They don't even know the specific sales of all Ideal Fried Chicken stores. The so-called valuation is naturally somewhat nonsense.

As the owner of Ideal Fried Chicken, Chen Li is naturally very aware of the current situation of his company.

In 1999, an era when there were not many competitors, the sales and profits of Ideal Fried Chicken were frighteningly high.

20 million U.S. dollars, converted into Chinese currency, is even less than 200 million.

Chen Li is completely confident that the annual sales of Ideal Fried Chicken will exceed 200 million Chinese dollars before the end of next year.

And with the fried chicken industry’s currently extremely profitable profit rate of return and a valuation of only 20 million US dollars, it is definitely belittling the ideal fried chicken.

Not to mention the asset-heavy route that Ideal Fried Chicken is currently taking. Those store properties that currently seem like more baggage than investment will bring unimaginable value to Ideal Fried Chicken in the next ten years.

Maybe there is some truth to the valuation that Zhou Bowen asked people to come up with, but if someone really wanted to make an ideal fried chicken idea based on this valuation, then Chen Li would probably give him a scolding.

But if the person who wants to sell the shares is Zhou Xiaoli, then Chen Li doesn't know what to say.

From a businessman's point of view, if Zhou Xiaoli wanted to transfer her shares, Chen Li would naturally be happy to take them all.

Because long before Chen Li asked Zhou Xiaoli and Su Mei to become ideal fried chicken shareholders, there were relevant clauses in the agreement signed.

If the two want to transfer their shares in the future, they must first obtain Chen Li's consent, and Chen Li has the right to preemptively subscribe.

In other words, if Zhou Xiaoli really wants to sell it, it must be sold to Chen Li, unless Chen Li can't afford it.

But now that Chen Li has a lot of money on hand, he can even use the profits to buy Xiaoli's shares next week just by asking Ideal Fried Chicken to distribute dividends once.

But as a friend, Chen Li still tried to persuade Zhou Xiaoli.

After all, this is the current operating situation of Ideal Fried Chicken. If you really want to quit at this time, that is definitely the behavior of a fool.

In fact, when Chen Li persuaded him at the time, he thought that Zhou Xiaoli might not listen to him. After all, Zhou Xiaoli urgently needed a sum of money at this time. According to his understanding of the character of the former eldest lady, it was very likely that the other party would stubbornly quit the ideal fried chicken.

However, with Chen Li's advice, Zhou Xiaoli actually listened to his advice.

In Zhou Xiaoli's words, Chen Li is talented when it comes to doing business.

Well, to be precise, this sentence was said by Zhou Xiaoli's father. Since Chen Li said it was better to keep the shares, then she would keep the shares.

However, although the shares are not for sale, Zhou Xiaoli does need some money now.

Because she wants to take her mother to Germany, and her mother's health is not very good, and the monthly medical expenses are not low.

If it were in the past, that amount of expenditure would not even be considered a scratch for the Zhou family, but now, the Zhou family has temporarily no source of income.

Although Zhou Xiaoli still has several shops under her name, others have already paid the rent for those shops.

Unless those shops are sold, but if these shops are sold, then the Zhou family will have no income in the future.

In the end, Chen Li came up with a solution. He withheld part of the recent profits from Ideal Fried Chicken and prepared to distribute benefits to employees and dividends to shareholders at the end of the year.

Of course, with Zhou Xiaoli’s shares, even if she pays dividends, she won’t actually receive much money.

At the very least~ for her current expenses, although the dividend is somewhat useful, it is not very useful.

However, Chen Li lent part of his dividends to Zhou Xiaoli, and would repay it later when Ideal Fried Chicken pays dividends again or when he has income.

Zhou Xiaoli did not refuse Chen Li's proposal. In fact, to be precise, she was not qualified to refuse at all.

Zhou Bowen may have the possibility of making a comeback, but the current predicament will definitely not be solved in a short time.

So at this time, Chen Li is willing to help, which is definitely the best solution for Zhou Xiaoli.

"Why are you so polite!"

"Don't forget, we are partners, and we are also friends!"

As for Chen Li, he was not worried at all that Zhou Xiaoli would not be able to repay the little money he lent her.

Not to mention anything else~ Just one of the few shops under Zhou Xiaoli's name will be sold in two years. Not to mention repaying Chen Li's money, there are many!

In fact, Zhou Xiaoli's original idea was to sell one or two shops first, but she was persuaded by Chen Li.

It would be a huge loss to sell it now without him!

In 1999, although housing prices in Yanjing were relatively high in China, overall they were not outrageously high.

At the very least, at this time, if you put aside the conditions for buying a house later, as long as you work hard, buying a house in Yanjing is really not a dream.

Unlike in his previous life when Chen Li had the idea of ​​buying a house, it was too difficult to buy a house in Yanjing with his income.

Chen Li didn't know exactly when the housing prices in Yanjing started to skyrocket. Anyway, he remembered that after 2008, the housing prices in Yanjing gradually began to rise to a level that he didn't dare to imagine.

Therefore, choosing to sell real estate and shops during this period is definitely a very unwise choice.

In the previous life, there was a story circulating on the Internet about a certain Yanjing person who sold his house and went abroad to do business, and finally made tens of millions and returned to Yanjing to buy a house~ For Yanjing people these days, it is definitely not just a story.

Jokes.

It is impossible for Chen Li to help Zhou Xiaoli make a decision, but he can still give some advice.

As for lending a sum of money to Zhou Xiaoli, this is really just a small favor.

Although he couldn't fill the big hole created by Zhou Bowen, he was a reborn person after all, and he had the help of the system. If he couldn't even help with a small thing like borrowing some money, then it would really be a failure.

Chen Li did not lend money to Zhou Bowen because Zhou Bowen's hole was too big. Even if Chen Li gave Zhou Bowen all his money, it would not help.

But it would be much easier to just settle Zhou Xiaoli and her mother.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Chen Li drove Zhou Xiaoli back home, but Chen Li and others did not leave, but stayed at Zhou's house to have dinner together.

Zhou Bowen and his wife cooked this meal together. Now the Zhou family has no nanny.

Moreover, the current residence of several people is no longer the large villa of the Zhou family before, but a large three-bedroom apartment under Zhou Xiaoli's name.

"The dishes are ready~!"

"Come on, use your chopsticks and have a taste of my craftsmanship!"

"Don't tell me~ I haven't cooked much in the past few years, and I have recently picked up this skill."

Zhou Bowen greeted everyone to start eating. He seemed to be in good condition.

At this point, Chen Li really admired this uncle.

Anyway, Chen Li thinks that if he were Zhou Bowen, he would most likely be in ruins.

You must know that Zhou Bowen lost hundreds of millions of wealth this time!

But this week the big boss looks like a normal person.

Yes~ He "looks" like a normal person, Chen Li guesses~ He doesn't know how worried he is in private.

It's just that my daughter just returned to China today, so Zhou Bowen temporarily hid all those troubles.

And Zhou Xiaoli didn't know why, but she didn't ask about these things at the dinner table. Everyone just chatted while eating normally.

After a meal, Chen Li planned to say goodbye to Liu Qingqing and Su Mei, but was stopped by Zhou Bowen.

"Xiao Chen~!"

"You and Xiaoli are friends~Uncle Zhou, I won't go around in circles with you."

"Do you still need people there now?"

(End of chapter)