223 No Price Query Please (2/2)

Chen Fan lifted his head to look at the huge crystal chandelier above him and said to Wang Bing, grinning, ”I won't even bother to explain to you. It would lower my IQ. Anyway, just find someone to make sure that the seafood here is secured. If anything goes wrong, I will kill you!”

Reaching the fourth floor by the elevator, Chen Fan could hear his parents' voices from afar. They were using walkie-talkies to remotely command the rest of the restaurant.

”Son, you came at the right time. The fish that you got here. Are they Chinese bahaba?” Chen Fan's father approached him and asked in a questioning tone.

Chen Fan tilted his head and made up a story. ”Of course they are. I saw a fisherman catch them with his net at sea. He thought they were just ordinary yellow croakers, so I bought them at 8000 yuan!”

”Stop lying to me. In my whole life, I have never seen a yellow croaker weighing over ten kilograms!” Chen Fan's father widened his eyes in anger and wanted to slap him to let him know the consequences of lying to his dad. However, he reconsidered, feeling that Chen Fan was already a grown man, and it would be inappropriate to educate him by physical punishment.

”Forget it. I don't really care what fish they are. In any case, they are only there for show. If other people ask what they are, I will tell the waiters to say that they don't know, and we don't sell them. You did not write on the signboard that they are Chinese bahaba, so we are not lying to the consumers anyway!”

Chen Fan's father extended his neck. He had never worn a suit before, and the tight tie was making him uncomfortable. ”For these few days, don't you run around and disappear. The restaurant has just opened, and I am worried that your mom and I will not be able to handle everything.”

”What's there to handle?” Chen Fan leaned against the wall which had flying eagles painted all over it. ”We are on the high-class, high-profit path. How many people have seen lobsters longer than their arms? Who will not be stunned by pot-sized abalones? We can set the price as high as we wish. If they don't want to eat, they can leave.”

”Even so, we need to have customers in the first place, right? I have done some calculations. Just the aquarium below will cost us five to six hundred thousand yuan each month. If we don't have customers, wouldn't we have a huge loss?”

”There are more rich people in Zhongyun than Spanish mackerels in the sea. They are only concerned about whether you have expensive things to sell, not whether your things are expensive!” Chen Fan smiled and entered the General Manager's Office. After chatting with his mom, who had been promoted to deputy manager, he left the restaurant while his father was talking to the lobby manager.

”Why did you let him leave” Chen Fan's father dashed angrily into the office and smacked the table. ”Didn't we agree that Chen Fan should manage the restaurant instead of the sea and ship stuff?”

Chen Fan's mother, who was using one finger to type on the computer keyboard, asked in a blaming tone, ”Why are you blaming me? It's you who have been suspecting all day that our son has been involved in smuggling and crimes. I didn't.”

”Then tell me, where did he get all the money from?” Chen Fan's father raised his eyebrows in anger. ”If he just had a few ships, no matter what he did, he couldn't have gotten so much money in just over half a year! Your son was also not involved in real estate. What do you think he could have been doing?”

”Didn't he say that he already sold the ships and used the money to buy some shares in Zhongyun's richest man, Ma Rongtao's company? Ma Rongtao himself also said that our son started by doing business with his nephew and earned quite a sum of money. If he is really involved in smuggling, why didn't the police say anything?”

”What can the police tell you? Even if you give them time, they can't tell you sh*t!”

”Even so, our son cannot possibly be involved in smuggling and crimes. What kind of person is Zhongyun's richest man? He is a proper businessman, and even appears on television frequently! Every Chinese New Year, when the city government holds the entrepreneur tea reception, he is always the representative!”

”Nonsense. In the past he made his fortune by smuggling digital watches and radios from Hong Kong using a ship!”

”Then what do you think our son could have been doing?” Chen Fan's mother opened her eyes wide and made a face.

Seeing that Chen Fan's mother was going to be furious, Chen Fan's father quickly relaxed his tone. ”It's not that I don't trust Ma Rongtao's character. Instead, I just feel that the source of all the money is unclear. Money will not drop down from the sky. It is better for our son to do something more stable than having to be worried all the time, right?”

”Yes, I think he should find something stable. Last time when the police called, I was so frightened.” Chen Fan's mother nodded, haunted by her previous experience. ”However, our son is a grown man, and we cannot decide on his behalf. It's even better that he sold his ship. With so much money, we can just sit at home and work on spending the interest!”

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”Boss, where do we go now?” Sitting in the black BMW, Wang Bing stared at the female greeters at the restaurant doors with interest.