Chapter 141: I Want To Have A Duel With You!

  On the third day after Mr and Mrs James left, a foreign professional decoration team arrived at the pedestrian street.

  Under Mary's professional team leadership, the decoration team quickly set up green protective nets around the shops.

  Passersby in the past didn't care what business this store was going to operate.

  But other shop owners on the pedestrian street are very concerned.

  After all, this proves that it is possible for a new competitor to emerge.

  The person most concerned about what to do here is Lin Shimiao, the boss of the Royal Western Restaurant diagonally opposite.

  Within a week after the renovation started, he ran to that side at least seven or eight times, but was stopped by construction personnel every time and not allowed to take a look. No matter what questions he asked, he only got four words: no comment.

  "Cut it out, making such a big mystery of it, like you're selling nuclear weapons or something. If you don't want to say anything, then just don't say anything, what's the big deal?"

  After being rejected for the ninth time, Lin Shimei returned to his restaurant with a huff. Just as he pushed open the door, his phone rang - it was Lily calling: "Shimei, where are you now?"

  Lin Shimei turned her head and glanced at the street: "I'm right at the entrance, what's wrong, is there something?"

  "Ah, then hurry up and come over, Xiao Bing and Jiao Enzo have arrived, they're waiting for you in your office."

  "Oh, okay, I'll be right there."

  Lin Shimei responded with a sound and quickly walked towards the stairs.

  "Xiao Bing, Enzo, I just went out for a bit and you guys arrived. Hehe, come on, sit down, don't stand there."

  Lin Shimei smiled and greeted: "Do you want coffee or tea?"

  Shen Yinbing smiled: "We just arrived too, let's have some tea."

  Lily nodded: "Okay, I'll go make tea, you guys chat first."

  After Shen Yin and Bing sat down, Lin Shimei casually asked: "Xiao Bing, how is the operation of the southern horse racing track going?"

  Shen Yinbing smiled and said, "I just returned from the UK yesterday, where I spent a week carefully examining the operation mechanism of their horse racing tracks. I benefited greatly from it. Through Connai Company, I also made contact with a horse training base in Turkey - I believe it won't be long before the first batch of horses will be airlifted to Ji'nan, and when that happens, you must go and show your support."

  "Ah, that's for sure. Enzo, have you decided where you're going to work now?"

  Lin Shimei looked at Jiao Enzuo.

  Jiao Enzuo brushed a strand of hair behind his ear and smiled warmly: "I've already been working for a week."

  Lin Shimei was taken aback: "Really? Which unit?"

  Jiao Enzuo smiled but didn't answer, and instead looked at Shen Yinbing.

  Shen Yinbing shrugged in a very Europeanized manner: "Enzo is now my senior executive assistant, and this time he followed me to the UK. You also know that I'm not very good at speaking English, thanks to him for following me around as an interpreter."

  "Ah ha, so you've joined Bei Shan Group! That's great news! We should celebrate with a drink later!"

  Lin Shimei was delighted because he saw that Jiao Enzuo had a crush on Shen Yinbing, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Ji'nan as the general assistant of Shen Yinbing after returning from the United States.

  Shen Yin smiled faintly and looked out the window: "No rush to drink. Brother Shimei, I'll ask you, do you know what business that store across from us is going to be? The one that's currently being renovated?"

  Lin Shimei shrugged and curled her lips: "Who knows? I asked them a few times, but they just wouldn't say."

  "But I know."

  Lin Shimei was taken aback: "Do you know? Xiao Bing, what business are they going to do over there?"

  Western restaurant.

  Shen Yin Ice lightly spat out three words.

  "What? A western restaurant?"

  Then he burst out laughing: "Haha, opening a western restaurant right across from my diner? Trying to compete with me? Isn't that just throwing money into the water?"

  Shen Yin shook his head: "I don't think so. Shimei, I'd like to advise you that from now on, you should boost your morale and focus on improving the quality of Western food, as well as better promotion, or be prepared to not make a profit for half a year, or even suffer losses."

  After hearing Shen Yinbing say this, Lin Shimei's expression turned serious.

  "Tea is coming!"

  Lily personally carried a tea tray and walked into the office.

  Don't look at her being arrogant and unreasonable to outsiders, but she is still very polite to Lin Shimei's two distant relatives, especially Shen Yinbing, the reason is simple, they are richer than her husband.

  "Thank you, Sister Lily."

  Shen Yinbing took a covered cup and held it in his hand, saying: "Shi Mei Ge, I know you've been operating here for some years and have a loyal customer base. Anyone who wants to open a Western restaurant across from you would be taking the risk of losing money. But this restaurant, or rather the backer behind this restaurant, doesn't care about these things because they have the power and confidence to squeeze you out."

  Lily, who had just sat down, seemed to have caught on to something and sneered coldly: "Who is this, daring to boast about such a huge mouthful, trying to squeeze us out!"

  Shen Yinbing rotated the cup cover and said faintly: "That person has had dealings with you before."

  "Who is that person, after all?"

  Shen Yinbing asked back: "Do you still remember the person who extorted 50,000 yuan from you because of a little flower girl more than a week ago?"

  "Because the flower girl cheated us out of 50,000 yuan——"

  Lin Shimei and her husband exchanged a glance and said in unison: "It's that person who wants to open a western restaurant across the street!"

  Shen Yinbing nodded: "Yes, it's that person."

  Lin Shimei asked somewhat nervously: "Who is that person? What does he do?"

  His name is Gao Fei, he has been an orphan since childhood, a month ago he came to my company to work and drive for me.

  Shen Yinbing coldly laughed: "But he resigned nine days ago, planning to open a western restaurant opposite you, and fight with you!"

  "So it was him, he's an orphan?"

  Lily didn't notice the discontent on Shen Yinbing's face, and repeated with a smile: "Haha, just him, an orphan, a broken driver who used to drive for you, wants to open a western restaurant on pedestrian street and compete with us? Cut it out, that guy must have gotten his head squeezed by a door!"

  Lin Shimei also let out a sigh of relief: "Oh, it's him. It seems that his brain was indeed squeezed by the door, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to think about fighting me - Xiao Bing, did I say wrong?"

  After seeing Shen Yinbing's face reveal a cold smile, Lin Shimei felt that things were not so simple.

  Jiao Enzuo spoke up: "Shi Mei Ge, Lily Jie, you're not wrong, but you've underestimated him."

  "How could we have underestimated him? With just a broken taxi, what can he use to compete with us?"

  "Lily said discontentedly: 'Is it about capital or connections?'"

  Jiao Enzuo smiled and shook his head, asking in return: "Have you guys heard of the German Western restaurant brand Deutsche Licht?"

  "Germany's Daylight? Enzo, you're saying that the restaurant across from us is a branch of Daylight Western Restaurant and Highfly is the manager of this store?"

  Lin Shimei and her husband, being operators of a Western restaurant, naturally knew that Deutsches Haus was the most famous Western restaurant chain in the world, and their faces suddenly changed.

  Their Royal Western Restaurant in Ji'nan is somewhat famous, but compared to the international big brand Dayerman, it's not even worth mentioning, they are simply not on the same level.

  Jiao Enzuo didn't say a word, he just slowly nodded his head.

  What should they do now? Lin Shimei and her husband looked at each other in dismay.

  For a long time, Lin Shimei's eyes flashed with a hint of severity, and she said in a low voice: "He wants to break my rice bowl, it's not that easy!"

  ——

  In the morning, the weather was fine, with no clouds in sight and the sun shining brightly.

  Shen Yinbing appeared in the office at 7:55 sharp as usual.

  Yesterday she just returned to Ji'nan and went to the pedestrian street, saw the shops that were being renovated, and quietly told Lin Shimei about this news.

  She believed that with Lin Shimei and her husband's character, they would definitely come up with something.

  Shen Yinbing did this somewhat despicably, but she thought there was nothing wrong with it. After all, Lin Shimei was her distant relative, and she didn't want him to be squeezed out by Gao Fei either.

  What's more, she now hates that guy extremely and abnormally yearns for everyone in the world to be his enemy, suppressing him until he can no longer survive, finally having to slink away to her side, begging her for protection.

  She can then dispose of him as a queen with absolute power over the life and death of her slaves.

  With a comfortable sigh, Shen Yinbing leaned her head back against the back of the chair, with her toes touching the ground, gently swaying, fantasizing about someone kneeling in front of her, begging for mercy.

  But just as she was getting into it, her phone rang.

  It's a WeChat message.

  Shen Yin picked up her phone lazily and opened it to see a message from Jiao Enzuo: "Are you free tonight? Please come over for coffee."

  Jiao Enzuo and Lin Shimei's mother, and Shen Yinbing's mother Shen Ruoxuan are sisters, but the three of them are not biological sisters, only cousins.

  Shen and they knew each other since childhood when everyone lived in their grandma's house, but actually didn't have very deep feelings.

  Lin Shimei could see what Jiao Enzuo meant about Shen Yinbing, how couldn't she herself see it?

  But she didn't have that kind of intention towards Jiao Enzo at all. She agreed to let Jiao Enzo be her assistant, and took him to the UK to inspect the Connaught Group, it was just an act of spite, as if doing so would make a certain ungrateful guy feel uncomfortable.

  "Cut."

  After finishing WeChat, Shen Yubing snorted and casually threw down her phone, but then picked it up again, quickly editing a message to send: Let's see about that, probably have to work overtime tonight.

  After sending the WeChat message, Shen Yubing connected a call to Yan Hong: "Hello, Hong Jie, where are you now? Oh, at the horse racing field? Okay, nothing, I just asked. Hmm, came back very smoothly——okay, that's it, if there's anything we can talk about when you get back."

  Gently tapping on the desk, after a moment, Shen Yinbing picked up the phone again: "Little Song, have Old Wang from the logistics department come to my office."

  A few minutes later, Old Wang knocked on the door of Shen's office: "Director Shen, you wanted me?"

  Shen Yinbing, who was reading a document, responded with a simple "uh-huh" without even lifting her head, and didn't say anything else, nor did she invite him to sit down.

  Old Wang was afraid of disturbing General Shen's work and didn't dare speak, standing stiffly in place.

  Director Shen asked me to come, but what's the matter? He didn't say a word, and his face didn't show any joy or anger. Old Wang stood there for over ten minutes, quickly thinking in his heart, wondering if he had made any mistakes in his recent work.

  Just as Old Wang was getting anxious, Shen Yubing finally spoke up: "Old Wang, has your daughter's body gotten any better?"

  Everyone in the headquarters of the group almost knew that Old Wang's daughter was a medicine jar, but Shen Yinbing had never asked about it, which made Old Wang feel a bit strange. He quickly replied: "Thank you for your concern, President Shen, my daughter is much better now."