Chapter 447: The Yan Family's Business Is Depressed

After distributing the initial start-up capital, Li Shengli couldn't help muttering to himself as he looked at the people below who were smiling happily as they received the start-up capital.

"I hope this move can bring me some gains."

This is just a casual move, and Li Shengli does not intend to put all his hopes on it.

As for the source of goods, it is relatively easy to find. Nowadays, every factory has excess staff and overcapacity. In the past, there was no difficulty in selling products, but now there is no difficulty in buying products.

Since the reform and opening up, all kinds of factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Ordinary state-owned factories cannot compete with these private enterprises, so Li Shengli has no worries about not having goods.

After making this move, Lee Seung-ri felt one third relieved, and the other third was about his own hot pot restaurant. After so much time, Lee Seung-ri's hot pot restaurant was finally opened. As for the last third, Lee Seung-ri could only feel at ease after he arrived in Damao.

As soon as Li Shengli's hot pot restaurant opened, both new and old customers were attracted by the hot pot base in his restaurant. Old customers felt that the hot pot was much more fragrant, while new customers had never eaten a hot pot that tasted so good.

Once this hotpot restaurant opened, other nearby stores were affected, especially the store owned by Yan Jiecheng and his wife.

Although the couple lost money in the TV business not long ago, their store is still there and they make a lot of money every month. Although they have no savings, this monthly income not only allows their family to live a happy life, but also allows them to save a lot of money every month.

Yan Bugui is in a miserable situation. He only has a tiny pension every month, and luckily he has a lot left after selling his house for medical expenses. Now he dares not invest anymore.

The same is true for Liu Haizhong. He used to do the rebar business with Xu Damao, but this is not the way to use favors. The favor Liu Haizhong had done for others had already been repaid, not to mention that the factory director Liu Haizhong knew had also been transferred.

Another reason is that Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao are a bit greedy. The price of their rebar is more expensive than that of others, so Liu Haizhong was kicked out by Xu Damao a long time ago. Even Xu Damao's business is not as good as before.

"Jie Cheng, have you heard that Li Shengli's hot pot restaurant has completed its expansion?"

Yu Li frowned as she looked at the customers coming in groups of three or four in her hot pot restaurant.

"Oh, that's right. I passed by there before. Wow, that two-story building. The decoration inside is incomparable to our small shop."

How could Yan Jiecheng not know that Li Shengli’s hot pot restaurant had opened?

It is said that competitors are enemies. His hot pot restaurant and Lee Seung-ri's hot pot restaurant have always been competing. Although Lee Seung-ri's hot pot restaurant had better business than his before, the improvement was limited. The most important thing was that Lee Seung-ri's store was not so big at that time. Now, such a big store was built near his own store in a snap.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that they heard that Li Shengli went to Bashu and found a recipe for hot pot base from somewhere. The taste is obviously better than before.

Previously, the recipes made with Lee Seung-ri's cooking skills were only slightly better than his own. But that's not the case now, as all the customers have been attracted away.

"No, we can't just do this."

Yu Li doesn't want to sit and wait for death.

"What do you want to do? Their hotpot tastes better than ours, and their store is bigger than ours. We can't compete."

Yan Jiecheng had no good solution.

"If only we hadn't followed the two brothers from the Liu family to do business, we could have expanded our business with our savings and the money from dad."

Speaking of this, Yan Jiecheng gnashed his teeth in hatred towards the Liu brothers. He had always looked down on the Liu brothers because they had accomplished nothing all day long. Now all the savings of both families were lost in one go. Until now, the two brothers have never returned to the yard, and no one knows what they are doing.

"This matter really can't be blamed on the brothers. This business is inherently risky. Besides, if someone hadn't pointed this out, we wouldn't be in this situation." Although Yu Li also looked down on the Liu brothers, she was still relatively objective. If anyone should be blamed for this matter, blame the one who reported them.

"Hey, Yan Jiecheng, who on earth reported this matter?"

Yu Li felt a little puzzled when this was mentioned. They had already acted carefully enough.

"Do you think it could be Li Shengli? Hasn't his family always had a bad relationship with the people in the compound?"

"I don't think so. Not to mention that Lee Seung-ri had already moved out of the courtyard at that time, from what I know, Lee Seung-ri never interfered in the affairs of the courtyard. When he did interfere, it was usually because he was offended."

Yan Jiecheng saw the situation more clearly and he knew Li Shengli better.

"Who could that be?"

Now Yu Li was really confused.

"I think Xu Damao probably did it."

Yan Jiecheng was smart for once.

"This Xu Damao will be dealt with sooner or later." Yu Li said hatefully. This report made Yan Bugui sell his house.

"We have to seize the opportunity to deal with Xu Damao. Let's find a way to manage our business."

Yan Jiecheng was quite calculating. Even if he dealt with Xu Damao, he couldn't get the money back. The most important thing now was to save his own business.

"Then let's go to Li Shengli's hot pot restaurant to find out the truth."

Yu Li didn't have any better idea and wanted to go out and eat to see where the difference between the two restaurants was.

"That's fine, but we have to find a day when Lee Seung-ri is not around, otherwise I can't afford to lose face." Yan Jiecheng had no objection to this, he just wanted to find a day when Lee Seung-ri was not at the hot pot restaurant.

So the two of them disguised themselves slightly and came to Lee Seung-ri's hot pot restaurant.

They casually ordered a soup base and some vegetarian dishes. These two people were too calculating to order meat dishes in Li Shengli's hot pot restaurant.

This caused the waiters at the hotpot restaurant to laugh at them secretly behind their backs.

As soon as the hot pot soup base was served, the couple immediately knew the difference between the two hot pot restaurants.

The taste of the soup base was far from perfect, and even after they finished eating it, the soup base was still quite flavorful, whereas the soup base at their own hotpot restaurant had no flavor at all by the end.

After they left the hot pot restaurant, they realized the difference between the two stores. As for going to the kitchen to learn from them? Which hot pot restaurant's kitchen cooks the food right away? They cook it when they have free time and wait for customers to come and take out a piece to melt.

The couple had been sighing ever since they returned to their own store from Li Shengli's hot pot restaurant, until Yan Jiecheng found a bag of good stuff in the supply and marketing cooperative, which turned out to be none other than Master Luo's hot pot base produced by Li Shengli's newly opened factory.

(End of this chapter)