Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Is Chapter 1195 quite famous?

Old Chen thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "I'll ask around. Even if we invite them, they'll just sit around and watch. The work will still be done by their apprentices and grand-apprentices. The people who are well-known these days are all too old. Some of them can't even lift a spoon anymore. What level would it take to get them to do the work themselves?"

Xiao Wei said, "I know. It's mainly because Kyoto is a bit different from other places. Without someone in charge, it seems like we're not as good as others. Our restaurant is high-end, and if we don't have someone in charge, we'll be at a disadvantage compared to them. There are so many long-established restaurants here."

Old Chen said, "That's one idea. Let's ask around, but we can't guarantee anything; we're not very familiar with this area."

Old Chen and his wife came over, and Xiao Wei moved his things out of the main house. Although Old Chen said he didn't need them, he couldn't just go along with it. Living in an old house meant following traditional rules.

The main house has three rooms. Qin Xuemei lives in the west room, and the east room was reserved by Chen Hui. Xiao Wei moved directly to the west wing. Chen Hui thought for a moment and said, "Never mind, I'll live here too. That room can be used as a study for my dad."

Qin Xuemei didn't quite understand these things and said, "Should I move out too?"

Chen Hui said, "No need, I'm just keeping Xiao Wei company. What era are we living in now? Who cares about such things?"

So the main house, from west to east, became Qin Xuemei's, the old Chen couple occupied two rooms, and Xiu'er was on the east side.

Little Hui was excited to be here; the huge yard was plenty of room for him to run around in, and laughter filled the air.

Xiuer quietly asked Xiaowei, "My godparents are here, so is it inconvenient for my classmates to come?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's okay. Anyway, there are so many houses, it's good to have people living there and keep the atmosphere lively."

The afternoon passed by in the moving and packing process. At 4:30, Xiaowei and Chen Hui arrived at Tongheju and booked a private room.

Before five o'clock, Wu Guolin, Liu Jiaming, Wang Lihua, and Du An'an arrived in their 100s. Xiao Wei and Chen Hui welcomed the four of them into the restaurant.

"Please sit anywhere, we don't stand on ceremony. Is this Du An'an?"

Wearing glasses and with a somewhat scholarly air, Du An'an smiled and said, "Yes, I am Du An'an."

Chen Hui shook hands with him: "I'm Chen Hui, and this is Zhang Wei. Please sit down. What would you like to eat?" He handed them the menu.

Wu Guolin and the others didn't stand on ceremony and ordered six dishes they liked, then asked Xiao Wei, "What kind of wine would you like to drink?"

Xiao Wei said, "I don't drink, Xiao Hui will drink with you. I brought two bottles of champagne, if you don't want to drink baijiu, you can drink this."

Liu Jiaming said, "I'm drinking champagne, not at a drinking party. Drinking baijiu is too uncomfortable."

Du An'an said, "I'll have champagne, you guys have white wine. Where is this from?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's our own winery." He handed over the bottle, which Du An'an took and looked at. She glanced up at Xiao Wei and said, "You have a winery in France? That's impressive. What do you produce?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's mainly Champagne. The Marne Valley is the main producer of Champagne. But last year we also started sourcing beer and wine, which haven't arrived yet, but they should be shipped back by the end of this year."

Wu Guolin asked Du An'an, "Is she quite famous?"

Du An'an laughed and said, "You guys have been drinking baijiu all day. It's not like you've never had red wine before. You don't even know Marx and Engels?"

Wu Guolin shook his head: "I didn't notice, I don't like drinking this stuff."

Du An'an placed the bottle on the table and said, "Foreigners mainly drink red wine, and French red wine is the most popular. In France, the Marne Valley is the best producing region, and the wineries there are all truly top-tier brands, with a status similar to our Moutai, or even more prestigious. It's a cultural heritage there."

Liu Jiaming picked up the bottle and looked at it: "Is this winery famous?"

Du An'an said, "Henry Pino is among the top three in Marne, so you can imagine how famous it is. How did you manage to get your hands on it?" He turned to Xiao Wei and asked.

Xiao Wei said, "We were early, we bought it in 91, it took us a bit of effort."

Wu Guolin asked Du An'an, "Where would Remy Martin rank over there?"

Du An'an said, "Rémy Martin is a brandy cognac, not champagne. Its status among red wines is not as high as champagne. Foreigners make this quite complicated. It's not that it's bad; Rémy Martin also has a long history. It's just that their focus is different. They pay more attention to industrialization, so it should be called a distillery."

Chen Hui said, "A friend of ours opened a winery in Xidu, and business is pretty good. I see there are so many bars in Kyoto, why haven't you guys thought about getting into wine? The profit margin is quite high."

Wu Guolin said, "Someone's got connections. We didn't have any connections when we were in school. Jiaming, why don't you give it a shot?"

Liu Jiaming said, "If they have connections, they should take advantage of them. It's their business to make money, who's afraid of who?"

Chen Hui said, "Okay, if you want to do it, register a company. I'll supply you with the goods, including other French brands. I'll pay for them at their prices, and you'll have to cover the shipping costs yourself."

Wang Lihua asked, "How much profit can there be?"

Chen Hui said, "I haven't been to any bars around here. Judging from the market in Northeast China, it's about half the size. I estimate it's bigger here than in Northeast China. The market is huge."

Du An'an said, "Now, even ordinary red wine in bars can sell for thousands of yuan. That stuff is worthless abroad, some of it is only worth ten or twenty yuan to us."

Wu Guolin slammed his fist on the table: "Fuck, what are you waiting for? An'an, why did you only tell me about this now?"

Du An'an said, "What's the point of saying so earlier? Do you even have a way to get the goods?"

Chen Hui said, "An'an, you seem to know a lot about this? Have you studied it?"

Du An'an said, "My dad is in Hainan, right? They were in charge of introducing it there, but it was delayed because of the climate. I've seen a lot of information about it. I'm quite interested in this."

Xiao Wei asked, "How's things going in Hainan now? The real estate sector."

Du An'an glanced at Xiao Wei: "You want to cause trouble?"

Xiao Wei said, "We are in the real estate business, but we mainly deal with commercial real estate; we don't do much residential real estate."

Liu Jiaming asked, "Where? Fengtian?"

Xiao Wei said, "They have them throughout Northeast China, in most cities. There's one in Kyoto too, it's under construction, and it should be completed in the next year or the year after."

Wang Lihua raised an eyebrow: "Where? Let me see if I know."

Xiao Wei glanced at Wang Lihua: "Zhongguan Village, Lianhua Pond, and Dabeiyao are the only three construction sites at the moment. Mainly because we just arrived and don't know much about Kyoto, we don't dare to make it too big."

Wang Lihua was stunned for several seconds and said, "Damn, you guys still don't understand and dare not make it too big. This is the largest project in Kyoto in recent years besides the China World Trade Center, right? I've seen the information, the smallest one is more than 120 acres."

Chen Hui said, "Our farms in Xidu and Longjiang in Fengtian are all bigger than this. The one in Longjiang is close to 500 mu. We are indeed not familiar with this area, and to put it bluntly, we don't know what kind of place this is, or what kind of people live here. We have to be careful."

(End of this chapter)