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Chapter 1619 Development
Often, a person's transformation lies in their choices. Some choose correctly and rise to great heights, while others choose incorrectly and never recover. At the same time, circumstances—who you associate with and what you do—also play a significant role.

Without a doubt, no one is more authoritative in this regard than Wang Yan.

Auntie clicked her tongue in amazement as she looked at the newly opened Jue Wei Duck Neck shop across the street from the small supermarket on the street corner.

"I really didn't expect that in just half a year, the Qiao family's business would be so successful. Look at how many duck neck shops they've opened, there must be six or seven around here by now, right?"

Qi Weimin replied with a smile, "Eight families. Qiqi specifically investigated this place after taking a tour around here."

"Do you think he can make money driving so many cars?"

“I asked Wang Yan, and he said that people are used to the closer the better. With this store on our side, people don’t want to come over after turning the corner, unless they can pass by every day. So we have to open more stores, at least two on one street, one on this side, one on that side, and another one not far after turning the corner.”

They need to open stores everywhere to make their brand recognized. Otherwise, with so many copycat stores opening similar shops, wouldn't they steal all the business?

Auntie sighed, "Wang Yan is really something else. He just came up with a suggestion and he became a tycoon. Qiao Zuwang is getting cocky too. He came over a couple of days ago, and you didn't see what he was like. He was wearing a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase, and had a pager on his waist, acting like he was the real tycoon. All he ever does is covet Wang Yan's money. He's such a troublemaker. I don't even want to talk to him."

"Uncle is a bit lazy," Qi Weimin said politely.

"You..." Auntie dusted off the dust with a feather duster, "You and Wang Yan have a pretty good relationship, but you..."

"Mom! It's their money, we should work hard and earn money. We're not short of food and drink. We can't just beg them for food. That's not right. If we really can't afford to eat, you don't need to say anything, Wang Yan will definitely be thinking of us."

"You're overthinking things and too embarrassed to say anything. How would he know if you didn't tell him? It's been so long since we've seen him. You used to bring Qiqi over for meals, but we haven't seen him much in the last six months."

"Is Wang Yan busy? He has a lot of things to do. Erqiang and Simei can't handle it, so he's even dropped out of school and is just taking care of them."

"The Qiao family is having a lucky time..."

My aunt could only sigh like this…

"Second Aunt! Brother Min!"

Hearing the cheerful greeting, the two turned around and saw Si Mei, wearing a cotton shirt, trousers, and leather shoes, with her hair in a bun, running over with her bag in hand.

"Oh, I'm exhausted, Brother Min, quickly get me a bottle of soda and an ice pop."

Qi Weimin chuckled and brought the things over: "How come you had time to come over?"

“I came to check on these stores. I’m in charge of everything here. I have so much to do every day, I’m so busy I don’t even have time to breathe. Honestly, I wish I had quit.”

"You're getting a good deal and you're still acting innocent." Qi Weimin opened a soda. "Then you should quit and stay home."

"No way, hey, let me tell you, Auntie, Brother Min, I'm so tired every day that I fall asleep the moment my head hits the pillow, but I'm full of energy. Before, I would think about watching TV and looking at handsome guys, but now I don't think about anything, I just want to do a good job with the company."

"They must make a lot of money every day. Anyone would do the same," Auntie said irritably, her words laced with sarcasm.

Qi Weimin shook his head and laughed, "That's not right. It's because the four beauties have found something they like to do, and they've thrown themselves into it. They have something to strive for, and that changes their spirit."

"I don't understand that much, but I just feel pretty good right now. But what my second aunt said is right, seeing the money being earned more and more every day makes me happy." Si Mei chuckled, then shook her head in distress, "But second aunt, you're only half right."

"what happened?"

"It's true that we're earning more and more, but the amount of money we owe is also increasing. I asked about it last time, and Brother Yan said that we already owe more than two million. I was terrified..."

"Wow, you have shops all over Nanjing, how can you still owe so much money?" Auntie was stunned. "How many lifetimes would it take to pay it all off?"

"Brother Yan said that banks are all crazy. The more you need money, the less they will lend to you, and the more you don't need money, the more they want to lend to you. Now that the company is doing well, we should lend more. He also said that if you lend too little, you will suffer, but if you lend too much, the bank will suffer. I think Brother Yan is right."

Qi Weimin laughed heartily: "Didn't you realize he was just teasing you? He has connections to get a loan, involving quite a few people. But what he said does make sense; so many people are begging and pleading, but they can't get a loan."

He didn't dwell on the loan issue, but instead asked, "Is the college entrance exam over? How did Wang Yan and Sanli do? Where did they apply?"

"They say it's great. Yan-ge is a genius. He can learn everything without studying. My sister studies herself to death but still can't get a higher score than him. My sister applied to a teachers' college, the same school as my older brother. Yan-ge applied to Jinling University, right?"

"Wow, Wang Yan is really something. He hasn't even finished college yet, and he's already built such a great career. I really don't know how his brain works," Auntie said with admiration.

After chatting and laughing for a while, Si Mei drank her soda and ate her popsicle. She took out her pager from her bag, checked it, and quickly got up. Leaving behind a message that they should go to Wang Yan's for dinner another day, she hurriedly ran off. Only the mother and daughter were left there, lamenting how different people's fates are…

After six months of development, under Wang Yan's strong leadership and execution, JueWei Duck Neck has opened more than 800 stores in Nanjing in a short period of time. It has also expanded beyond Nanjing, spreading throughout the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions.

This is what consumed a lot of Wang Yan's time and energy. He had to go to various places to expand, find people, identify local suppliers, establish a central kitchen, build a distribution network, and so on.

Furthermore, he also planned to develop the upstream duck farming industry, contracting hills and land, cooperating with local governments, consulting with relevant experts, and building a new-era, scientifically-driven duck farm to develop and utilize various products from the farm. These include duck down, different parts of duck meat, duck eggs, duck manure, etc., all of which represent promising industries with considerable scale.

Wang Yan is quite famous now, partly because he makes money, and partly because of his legendary status.

There are many companies that are doing better than him, including many with advanced technology, and many of which have undergone various reforms. His duck product business is really not that great. But the key is his franchise model of rapid expansion to seize the market, which is novel in China at the time, and he succeeded in it, opening so many stores. He is a successful pioneer.

His legendary status, of course, stems from his age—a young man barely eighteen, not even a high school graduate at the time, who achieved such success, visibly earning hundreds of thousands, even millions. It's truly incredible. This, in turn, accelerated the franchising of duck products, but also led to the emergence of more duck product brands across the country. There's never a shortage of clever people in this world; what Wang Yan could do, others could certainly do too, especially since others had better connections…

Speaking of this, Erqiang, who is usually good-natured, got angry and cursed: "Really, these people are shameless. They can't even come up with their own solutions, so they just copy ours. They have no shame at all."

"That's how business is. There's nothing we can do about it. I've said it before: if you can make money, others will definitely follow suit. There's no law that says others can't do it just because you can. But you've really done something impressive to get to where you are now. You're really good at finding solutions, Wang Yan."

Yicheng spoke sincerely, and his admiration was written all over his face.

Auntie and Qi Weimin felt it was unreal, and Qiao Yicheng, the eldest son of the Qiao family, felt like he was in a dream. Although they had started expanding before the new year, it was still a short time and hadn't spread widely. Unlike now, where there's a duck products shop every few hundred meters in the entire Jinling city area.

They all have the same brand, the same decor, and even the staff wearing matching uniforms. At that moment, you could clearly feel the tangible influence and the sheer weight of so many stores combined. Two people per store—that's the livelihood of thousands.

What I feel even more keenly is the rapid improvement in living standards. Since the Lunar New Year, there has been meat at every meal at home, and the amount of meat is quite plentiful. It's not just one meat dish; there are two or three different kinds of meat every day, such as chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef, and lamb. Not to mention the other dishes, in the past there were four dishes including pickled vegetables, but now there are seven or eight dishes on the table. Because of this, we even replaced the dining table at home with a bigger one.

In addition, the whole family's clothes and jewelry were upgraded. Yicheng's clothes, belts, wallets, watches and the like were all bought by Simei. She even got him a pager to keep in touch, which was quite luxurious.

In the Wang family and the Qiao family, both bought refrigerators and washing machines, replaced old furniture with new ones, and renovated and tidied up their houses, making them look completely different from before.

What's even more different are the changes in Erqiang and Simei. Erqiang, who used to be honest and hesitant, is now energetic and talkative, his voice is louder, and he's more lively. Simei, who used to be bouncy and lively, while still not exactly quiet, has definitely become much more composed.

In just six months, everything in the Qiao family seemed to have changed...

As for the person who brought all of this together, he no longer knew what to say to Wang Yan. He could only often sigh that there really are geniuses in this world, geniuses who defy reason...

"That was a solution I couldn't think of. I saw that some people abroad were doing it, so I just followed suit and learned from them." Wang Yan smiled wryly. "Doing business is really not easy. Brother Weimin, if you ask me, you two should come to the company and help me share the burden. Let's work together to make it bigger and stronger, and earn tens of millions."

Qi Weimin shook his head with a smile: "I remember when you first started, you said that earning a million or two would be good enough, but now you want to earn tens of millions?"

“We need to analyze each situation specifically. It used to be a matter of a few hundred thousand, now it's tens of millions. Let's be realistic,” Wang Yan laughed. “So, what are your thoughts on coming to help us?”

“I’m still a graduate student.” Yi Cheng waved his hand with a smile. “Besides, you guys are doing a great job. I’m not going to join in the fun. I’ll just find a stable job after I graduate. I don’t have your ambitions. I don’t even dare to dream about making hundreds of millions.”

“Me too. Wang Yan, I know you’re taking care of me, but I don’t lack food or drink. If I really couldn’t make ends meet, would I let a rich man like you go? Me? Like Yi Cheng, we’re both unambitious. We’re happy as long as you’re all doing well.” Qi Weimin said very sincerely.

“You guys are overthinking things. I’m being sincere; I’m not lying to you.”

“We’re the same,” Kazuki said. “Don’t worry about us. Things are fine as they are now. We never thought we’d be where we are today.”

"Alright, I won't say any more. I'll get back to cooking." Wang Yan threw away his cigarette butt and stood up. "Boss Qiang, come on, everyone's waiting for us two to show off our skills."

Erqiang extinguished his cigarette and got up to join Wang Yan in the work...

Everyone gathered together to eat and drink, praising Wang Yan's cooking, and inevitably lamenting that it had been a long time since they had gotten together, and comparing how they had grown up.

Qi Weimin sighed and asked, "Did you get accepted into your universities? Where did you end up? What did you study?"

“Nothing has changed. I’m studying education at a teachers’ college, and Wang Yan is studying materials science at Jinling University. I don’t know what he’s thinking…” Sanli said with a smile.

Yicheng nodded and said, "Yes, I've been wanting to ask that, but I've never been able to see you. Your business is doing so well, you should have studied business administration or economics, that would have been more relevant. Why did you decide to study materials science?"

"It's not that I'm thinking that things from abroad are better than things from China. There are gaps in all aspects. Materials are at the upstream level. If I can understand them, I can become a scientist in the future. If I can't understand them, then so be it. We don't rely on this to make a living."

Qi Weimin said, "Now that you're going to university, what will happen to such a large company?"

"Erqiang and Simei are doing a good job. I've helped them get familiar with the work, and it's time for them to take charge and make their own decisions. From now on, I'll give the orders, and they'll carry them out."

"Huh?" Erqiang and Simei were confused.

"What 'ah'? It was bound to happen sooner or later. I can't keep leading you guys like this forever. I haven't taken a single photo in the past six months, and I've had less interaction with Sanli. Is that right?"

Under the teasing gazes of everyone, Sanli blushed deeply and pinched someone's thigh with her little hand under the table, saying irritably, "If you're going to be lazy, just be lazy. Don't use me as a shield. How annoying!"

“Facts are facts. This is affecting our relationship. Making so much money is useless; enough is enough. You two don’t need to be afraid. As long as you implement even half of what I said, the company won’t go bankrupt; in fact, it will thrive.”

Qiao Yicheng said, "We can't really be a hands-off manager. If we really ruin the company, we'll have nowhere to cry about it."

Si Mei was unhappy: "Big brother, what are you saying? You don't trust me and second brother at all?"

"What do you think?"

"Hey bro, let me tell you, don't underestimate people."

But it was Erqiang who spoke up, launching into a long and detailed account of the problems he had solved.

To be honest, the biggest changes for him have come from the dramatic changes of the last six months...

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