Chapter 1509 - 1496: Dinner Date with the Beautiful Big Sister?

Chapter 1509: Chapter 1496: Dinner Date with the Beautiful Big Sister?

"Is your Jiamei Company planning to do some new project at Qili Bay again?" Tangya deliberately changed the subject, asking in order to cover up the tension in her heart.

Luofeng nodded with a smile and said, "Yeah, everything I told Auntie before was true. Our Jiamei is going to build a big project around Qili Bay!"

When Luofeng talked to Tangya.

There was a bit of joking mixed in.

But the matter itself was real.

"I see. But can your Jiamei Company really handle all that?" Tangya asked doubtfully.

"You’ve taken a huge share over on the West City Project side, and you’ve started construction on the Yifan Power Production Base, planning to build a commercial center. Now you’re going to start the Qili Bay project too? If you stack all these big projects together, you won’t be able to keep up, right?"

Before Luofeng’s rise, Jiamei Construction Company was just a small company worth only tens of millions.

But when Luofeng pushed that large share of the West City Project in front of Jiamei Construction Company.

The company’s valuation shot up rapidly, soaring straight into the billions, reaching over ten billion.

However, valuation is only valuation; the actual scale of Jiamei Construction Company hadn’t increased that much.

For example, the number of skilled construction workers wasn’t much different than before.

That’s exactly why Tangya was so puzzled: does Jiamei Construction really have that much bandwidth?

Facing Tangya’s doubts, Luofeng didn’t reply immediately. Instead, he handed her the ordering tablet and said, "Auntie, you go ahead and order first."

Tangya didn’t refuse, nodded slightly, and her pretty fingers started sliding over the tablet.

Luofeng took a look.

Those little hands had a bit of nail polish on them.

Thin and long.

A bit sexy?

Luofeng suddenly had a bold idea?

Although he hadn’t tried that yet.

But Bai Ningbing’s little hands were just as good-looking.

He had experienced that many times.

The two of them tangled up together, Ningbing’s little hands... mm-hmm.

Anyway, that girl Bai Ningbing can’t learn to drive properly, but when it comes to grabbing the gear stick, she’s got real skills.

"It’s just the two of us; three dishes should be enough, right?" After ordering three dishes, Tangya asked.

Luofeng took the tablet and added a crab dish, then casually asked, "Auntie, do you want a drink?"

Hearing him ask about drinking.

Tangya suddenly recalled that time she’d had late-night supper with Luofeng before; she’d gotten a little drunk back then.

At that time, Luofeng had supported her.

That time...

Thinking and thinking, Tangya blurted out as if bewitched, "Work was pretty tiring today, so I guess I’ll have a little."

"The dishes we ordered are all on the lighter side, so why don’t we go with white wine—how about that?" Luofeng asked for Tangya’s opinion.

"Mm, mm!" Tangya nodded absent-mindedly, as if she didn’t care what kind of wine it was.

Luofeng picked a white wine in the four-digit price range.

That price was already the highest tier this restaurant offered.

While they were waiting for the food, Luofeng finally started answering the question Tangya had just asked.

"What Auntie’s worried about is indeed a real issue for our Jiamei Construction Company!"

"Our Jiamei does have some limitations in scale!"

Luofeng honestly admitted in two sentences.

"At the moment, the main workforce of Jiamei Construction is all deployed on the West City development share, with a small part of the staff put into the commercial center project. So for the Qili Bay project, we at Jiamei will probably be outsourcing it!" Luofeng said.

This solution was really unavoidable.

Because Jiamei is only so big.

There’s no way to free up manpower for a third project.

And who says a construction company can’t subcontract construction work out?

Even small restaurants have times when they’re too busy and have to hire helpers.

But if you let others do the cooking, then you have to consider the quality issue—at the very least, the helper’s cooking has to taste good.

So in that situation, Jiamei will be putting the project out to tender, but also raising the bar and tightening supervision and site inspection.

Jiamei Construction is a contractor to begin with, so of course they know all the tricks, big and small, in construction work.

With Jiamei Construction personally acting as supervisor, there’s no way the outsourced work will be able to fool them.

So there’s nothing wrong with this solution.

After hearing Luofeng’s explanation, Tangya nodded slightly. "That does make sense. If you’re too busy, outsourcing is fine, and since you’re in this business yourselves, no one can pull a fast one on you."

"Exactly. If they’re doing work for professionals, then they’d better be ready to hand in a top-notch answer sheet!" Luofeng said with a smile.

As Tangya and Luofeng chatted, the dishes were gradually served.

The white wine was brought over by the waiter.

Luofeng personally poured for Tangya.

"How large a capital investment is your Jiamei planning to put into the Qili Bay side?" Tangya probed.

Luofeng smiled and explained.

"Qili Bay is a project belonging to Fengshun Life Group. As I said before, we’re going to build a world-class life science research base over there to carry out cutting-edge research in the Life Domain!" Luofeng continued, "According to the plan of Fengshun Life Research Group, the total investment in Qili Bay will exceed 20 billion, and that investment is only for construction!"

"Huh?" Tangya was a bit stunned. "That high an investment?"

Luofeng nodded and confirmed, "Yeah, that’s inevitable. After all, Fengshun Life Research Group is building a world-class research center; they’re obviously not going to skimp on funding."

In fact, as Luofeng said, that 20 billion is only the construction investment.

Then there are the research facilities.

The recruitment of talent.

And the cost of materials.

That’s where the real bulk lies.

Luofeng is an extremely optimistic person—so optimistic that even if this life research base ends up burning 100 billion, he still wouldn’t feel any heartache.

If any results come out of it, then that would be huge.

After all, in terms of research on life, scientists around the world basically haven’t made any real progress, you know?

If there had been progress?

Human lifespans would’ve already been extended a lot by now.

Although human lifespans nowadays are indeed longer than those of people in ancient times, that’s just because conditions have improved; it has nothing to do with technology.

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