Chapter 1183 1143: Herbal Cuisine Workshop Three Years Later

"Laugh, laugh, laugh, you two... Hmph, what's so funny! Just because you two are a couple doesn't mean you can bully others... Didn't you say we're having dinner? Let's eat, let's eat..." Shanshan's face turned red, flustered, quickly changing the subject.

At this moment, Liu Hui also felt a bit uneasy, being teased by Chen Fei and Apel, the couple. He didn't dare to look at Shanshan again, quickly darting his eyes around, saying, "How about we go to the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House? I remember there's a branch up there, but I'm not sure if there's a table available..."

The Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House is a restaurant that settled down in our Capital City in the past two years. It's said to come from Jiangnan. Although it's not a local chain restaurant, it became popular quickly due to its focus on 'health, whitening, and skin care', delicious and tender flavors, and rich, aromatic soups. It's also rumored to have a solid backing, so even when they first came to the Capital City, they were an instant hit with booming business and every outlet fully booked.

Therefore, even though Liu Hui is the CEO of Xinhua Group worth billions, he can't guarantee a seat at the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House if we suddenly decide to go.

One of the founding principles of the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House is equality for all. No matter how important you are or how much money you have, if you're not in line, sorry, you won't be served.

"Great, great! If you hadn't mentioned it, I would've forgotten that the 23rd floor of the Triumph Empire Mansion is the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House, right?"

As soon as Liu Hui made the suggestion, Shanshan's eyes lit up like light bulbs, shining like ten thousand volts: "Chen Fei, I have to tell you, I don't know if you've tried it before, but the food at the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House is truly delicious, plus it's healthy and beautifying. Apel and I nearly go every other week. Their Whitening and Beautifying Soup always makes our skin look amazing, right, Apel? Let's hurry up and go see if there's a spot, so we can eat there!"

To women like them, something delicious could eventually become boring, but when it comes to beauty and skin care, there's always an exception!

The Whitening and Beautifying Soup, one of the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House's signature dishes, is effective for skin care, cleansing the body of toxins, and even more effective than many beauty treatments at salons.

With such allure, how could the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House not be adored by women?

Even later, a TV station interviewed the booming sales at the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House and concluded that at least seventy percent of the diners were women.

Or even if men wanted to try, they simply couldn't get a table...

"Yes, it would be great if there was an available seat at the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House. Brother Fei, you don't know, over the years, the most delicious and magical thing I've ever eaten is the medicinal cuisine from there. They serve it in all kinds of quirky jars, but the taste is amazing, and most importantly, it beautifies... Look, doesn't my skin look much better than before?"

At this moment, Apel unexpectedly felt a little excited, hugging Chen Fei's hand, stroking her smooth, fair skin, smiling like she was presenting a treasure.

But just then, Chen Fei seemed lost in thought, unexpectedly dazed.

"Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House?" How could he not know this name? Not familiar? Wasn't this the business he co-founded with Huang Feng, Gao Yuan, and his old classmates Zhang Long and Zhao Le back then?

Come to think of it, most of the medicinal cuisine recipes used there were originally his. Now, all these years have passed, and the restaurant has reached the Capital City? He almost forgot about it...

"Brother Fei, what's wrong?" Seeing Chen Fei not answering, instead looking dazed, Apel pouted and asked.

"...It's nothing." Chen Fei snapped out of it, wrapping his arm around Apel's snake-like waist, his hand sliding down her soft skirt to her firm bottom, smiling as he said, "Just remembering some old times."

"Yikes!" Apel blushed and quickly covered her mouth, pretending nothing happened.

"What old times?" Shanshan didn't notice Chen Fei's mischievous little gesture, curiously asked.

"Do you know where the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House comes from?" Chen Fei asked with a smile.

"Where does it come from?" Shanshan was stunned, shaking her head: "I don't know. How would I know?"

"I think it comes from Jiangnan?" At this point, Liu Hui chimed in, "I heard that one of the big bosses of the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House is the Young Master of the Leading Enterprise of Jiangnan, Canghai Group. There's also another big boss who's apparently the son of a city's Party Secretary and a provincial committee member in Jiangnan!"

"Wow! So impressive?" Shanshan couldn't help but gape in astonishment. A leading provincial enterprise must have assets worth hundreds of billions, right? Plus a father who's a city's Party Secretary or provincial committee member, that's seriously impressive.

"No wonder the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House has developed so well these past two years, and no one's dared challenge it. They must have some strong backing."

Shanshan sighed.

"It's a bit different. After all, this is the Capital City. Isn't there a saying, 'If a brick falls from the Forbidden City's wall, out of ten people it hits, two or three of them are billionaires or high-ranking officials'..."

Liu Hui shook his head, mumbled for a bit, then asked, "Brother Fei, am I right?"

"Yeah, the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House does come from Jiangnan..." Chen Fei knew what Liu Hui was asking but changed the subject, pointing at his chest with a smile, "I'm also from Jiangnan."

Hmm?

Shanshan and Liu Hui were slightly taken aback.

"Brother Fei, you're also from Jiangnan. Do you know the big bosses of the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House?" Liu Hui, slightly stunned, realized and asked.

"Kind of." Chen Fei smiled and nodded, pulling Apel into his arms, heading towards the elevator, waving his hand and laughing: "Which floor? 23, right? You two hurry up, or we might miss out..."

"Who says I'm a couple with him!?"

"Who says they're a couple!?"

Chen Pig and Liu Hui simultaneously turned their heads away, snorting.

After that, the two of them hurriedly squeezed into the elevator.

However, their feelings towards each other felt somewhat different than before.

At the same time, Chen Fei and the others were discussing going to the 23rd floor Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House at Triumph Empire Mansion for dinner, while over there, in the office on the 23rd floor of the Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House, the suited Zhang Long faced a troublesome situation; he was in a tough spot.

Ever since their Herbal Cuisine Workshop has been growing bigger and stronger, with branches blooming across nearly half of Huaxia, it's been like a gold mine, making a fortune, with chain assets soaring from 300 million to 500 million, from 500 million to 1 billion, from 1 billion to 3 billion... as if there's no upper limit.

And this level of fire-like profitability naturally attracted countless buzzing flies! Many people have set their sights on their Herbal Cuisine Workshop or their formulas.

Initially, with the identity of Young Master Gao Yuan of Vast Sea Group and the provincial committee member's son, Huang Tao, they could still scare those flies away, preventing them from targeting the Herbal Cuisine Workshop.

But as the Herbal Cuisine Workshop grew bigger and its profitability became more terrifying, and they've even settled in the Capital City, suddenly, not just anyone, but truly powerful figures have started to eye them.

Just like now...

"Sir, you really can't go in, our Boss Zhang has very important matters right now, Boss Zhang..."

Outside the room, Zhang Long's secretary could be heard urgently trying to block the entrance.

Bang!

But in the next moment, with a muffled sound, the office door was kicked open from the outside. A blond man with a cigar in his mouth walked in with his head held high, casually pushing the secretary aside.

"You must be Zhang Long?" The blond man with the cigar looked at Zhang Long with a slant, not even lifting his eyelids. He snorted coldly, "Quite a big posture, huh, why, won't see me?"

"Akun, can you step out first?" Zhang Long furrowed his brow, apologizing to the secretary-like man.

"Yes, Boss Zhang." The secretary nodded and then closed the door quietly.

"Zhang Long, one of the big bosses of Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House, but the ones who are really capable are Gao Yuan and Huang Feng. How about it, am I right?" The blond man with the cigar glanced at Zhang Long, sat on the sofa, and said arrogantly.

"Who are you?" Zhang Long said in a deep voice. He didn't like smoking, and originally, the office didn't allow smoking, but with this visitor... saying so would be in vain, right?

People targeting their Herbal Cuisine Workshop have come and gone over the years, with flies coming and going, changing over and over. Now, the other party knows the Herbal Cuisine Workshop has a background and isn't easy to provoke, but they still dare to be so arrogant, so calm, it must mean the person behind them is quite powerful!

Or rather, he's here representing some interests.

Those people are probably formidable.

"You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that today I've come to talk collaboration with your Herbal Cuisine Workshop, that's all." The blond man with a cigar said calmly, seemingly confident that Zhang Long would certainly agree to the cooperation they wanted.

"What cooperation?" Zhang Long said in a deep voice.

"Two choices, first, you sell us all the formulas of your Herbal Cuisine Workshop for one hundred million. The second is also one hundred million, buying sixty percent of your Herbal Cuisine Workshop's shares, choose one of the two." The blond man with the cigar said calmly.

"One hundred million?"

Zhang Long's mouth twitched slightly, looking somewhat amused at the other party, said coldly, "Are you here to joke with me? Our Green Bamboo Medicinal Cuisine House's current scale, one hundred million, you want to buy?"

"It's not that I want to buy, but you want to sell to the people behind me! Understand?"

The blond man with the cigar blew a smoke ring, looking at Zhang Long contemptuously: "I admit, Gao Yuan and Huang Feng indeed have some leverage in Jiangnan, but have you figured it out? Where are we now? This is the Capital City!"

"Do you believe that if I make a phone call now, and the people behind me speak up, your damn Herbal Cuisine Workshop will immediately get booted out of this Capital City!"

"Moreover, do you know what the Development and Reform Commission does? If the Commission defines your Herbal Cuisine Workshop's sales behavior as a monopoly, what do you think the fine would be? Ten billion? Twenty billion? Or thirty billion!?"

The blond man on the cigar talked more boastfully as he continued, with a bigger and bigger tone, as if he was naturally a person who did big things with flair.

"The brain is something, think carefully before telling me your answer, otherwise, hehe..."

He stood up, walked towards Zhang Long, poked Zhang Long's chest with his hand, and said disdainfully. His face full of ridicule.