Chapter 14: The First Industry! A Place for Our Own!
Chapter 14: The First Venture! A Place for Our Own!
“Xiao Feng, you want to open a teahouse?” Yang Ming instinctively asked, “Opening a teahouse requires a significant investment. Even a small one in our county town needs at least 400,000 yuan, and a larger one can easily cost over a million.”
Alin and Apao immediately looked towards Lu Feng.
If there really was a teahouse run by one of their own, inviting friends to drink tea there would definitely look better than just brewing tea in a rented office.
Lu Feng nodded and said, “If we’re going to open one, it should be bigger. I’ve made a good profit from handling gold jewelry these past two times, but I don’t know much about teahouses, how to stock up, or how to manage one—I don’t even have the time!”
Hearing this, Yang Ming immediately pointed to one of the four brothers and teased, “If you’re sure about opening a teahouse, Da Fei can help. His family used to run a teahouse, and besides, he has plenty of young ladies he can call on.”
Obviously, the mention of young ladies was key.
Nowadays, teahouses hire beautiful women to serve tea—officially called tea artists, but more plainly, they’re companions to drink tea, chat, and entertain.
And it really works—many people come to buy tea just to see the tea girls.
Some even spend large sums chasing after these tea artists.
It’s basically no different from spending money chasing women in a bar.
So, men buy and drink the tea, while women learn the art of tea.
Even if they claim they can brew two-yuan tea to taste like it’s worth two thousand yuan, it’s all nonsense; everyone knows the truth deep down.
It’s simply that if you’re pretty, sweet-talking, and good company, I’ll enjoy the tea break more.
Da Fei, having been singled out, smiled and told Lu Feng, “Young Master Feng, leave the tea girls to me. Also, I know some news—a newly renovated teahouse is up for sale at a low price. If we can take it over, it would save a lot of trouble.”
Lu Feng’s interest was piqued. “Tell me more. What’s the story?”
Da Fei explained, “You know the Feiyan Teahouse near Zhongmin Square? It’s probably the largest in You City right now, everyone knows it.”
Alin nodded. “Yeah, I’ve been there for tea. The decoration is indeed impressive, very spacious. On the first floor, besides the main hall and a few tea tables, there are four private tea rooms. The second floor has six tea rooms plus six mahjong rooms.”
Da Fei continued, “It was all ready to open, fully stocked, but the owner’s son got himself into gambling and sunk deeper and deeper. The owner even had to sell his house to pay off the son’s debts. But the son didn’t learn his lesson; he got into a fight over a woman with some guys and beat them up.”
“The problem is, the other party is some hard guy from Xianlin Town. When he was being beaten, he didn’t fight back but had his friends record a video.”
“The other guy has connections in the hospital and got a medical assessment done showing a perforated eardrum, hearing loss, ear pain, ear fullness, and tinnitus.”
“Such assessments are often ambiguous and hard to verify, but with connections, they got a verdict that it was a severe disability. Now they’re suing for one million yuan in damages. The owner’s son is still in jail.”
Lu Feng was stunned.
They say a thug isn’t scary, but a cultured thug is terrifying.
Is this even possible?
You can only say the owner’s son is a total disaster—a walking one-million-yuan liability.
Yang Ming and the others smiled knowingly; it seemed that the injury the guy from Xianlin Town suffered might have other causes, but the owner’s foolish son delivered himself to trouble.
This was a stroke of luck meeting a benefactor.
Moreover, this guy’s level was quite high.
Usually, a fight demanding one million yuan compensation wouldn’t be accepted by the court, but now it’s classified as intentional injury causing severe disability.
And the owner’s son attacked with accomplices, which could be considered gang-related.
The owner’s son lacked experience—if it were them, they would never have given the other party a chance to record video evidence, and the other party wouldn’t have had this trick.
Having learned the background, Lu Feng asked Da Fei, “What price are they asking for the teahouse?”
Da Fei said, “Because Zhongmin Square is a busy area, and the place is large and nicely decorated, plus the goods are fully stocked, they want 1.75 million yuan. No one’s taken it yet.”
Yang Ming asked, “Is it worth that price?”
Da Fei nodded, “If the goods are priced fairly, definitely. The owner was desperate to pay off debts, so they’re actually losing out a bit.”
Lu Feng also asked, “Can we contact them? Let’s go have a look.”
“No problem.” Da Fei nodded and took out his phone to make the call.
After contacting them, Lu Feng and Yang Ming went straight to Zhongmin Square and found the Feiyan Teahouse.
Entering the teahouse, Lu Feng found it very quiet—no staff around—but it was clear the decoration was excellent, grand and elegant.
He thought that even without other reasons, opening the largest teahouse in You City here was impressive and prestigious.
At least next time he met old classmates from elementary, middle, or high school, he could say, “I opened the largest teahouse in You City at Zhongmin Square. Come visit for tea.”
Just then, a middle-aged man with a weary face came down from upstairs. Seeing Lu Feng and the others, he immediately asked, “Are you the ones interested in buying my teahouse?”
“Yes,” Lu Feng said sympathetically. What could be done when faced with such a troublesome son?
The owner said hurriedly, “I’m selling the tea leaves and drinks as a package, all for 1.75 million yuan, paid in full at once.”
“No problem, but we need to inspect the goods first,” Lu Feng nodded. As long as the goods were worth it, he wouldn’t mind, since buying a teahouse meant selling tea.
Complete stock would allow immediate opening, and other things could be supplemented later.
“Of course,” the owner nodded and took out an inventory list from the counter.
Lu Feng glanced at Da Fei, who understood immediately and took the list. Then he said to the owner, “Boss, we’ll check the stock first.”
“Alright!” The owner nodded and accompanied Da Fei as they went through the list.
After some time, Da Fei reported to Lu Feng, “Young Master Feng, the stock is all in order.”
Lu Feng nodded and said to the owner, “Since that’s the case, when can we sign the contract?”
“Right away.” The owner was clearly eager to sell and pulled out a contract he had prepared in advance.
One could only pity parents everywhere.
After reviewing the contract and finding no issues, Lu Feng signed it. Then they went to the property transfer center to complete the ownership change and payment.
In a big city, this might take a long time, but in a county town, the process was quick—done in half a day.
After paying 1.75 million yuan, Lu Feng had just over 2.38 million yuan left in his account.
But the teahouse now belonged to him.
He also immediately changed its name and signage to Qingfeng Teahouse.
Leaving the property transfer center, Lu Feng and Yang Ming returned to the teahouse. At that moment, Yang Ming, Alin, Apao, and Da Fei looked at the grand teahouse with different feelings.
After all, this teahouse now belonged to Lu Feng, and in essence, they were already following him. This was their own place.
In the future, bringing friends and brothers here for tea would be much more impressive than going to those places run by Chen Bo and his group.
This teahouse was bigger and more upscale than Chen Bo’s.
Yang Ming then instructed Da Fei, “Da Fei, since Xiao Feng renamed it Qingfeng Teahouse, the sign needs to be changed. Get in touch with the contact person, and also find the tea girls quickly.”
“And Alin, Apao, you two also contact our brothers and tell them that from now on, when bringing friends for tea, Qingfeng Teahouse is the place. Since Xiao Feng bought it, we should help him run it well.”
“Got it, Ming Ge!” Da Fei, Alin, and Apao all nodded in agreement.
With these matters arranged by the older brother, Lu Feng didn’t need to worry. Instead, he thought about the Qingfeng tea leaves from the game—now he needed to bring those teas into the teahouse for sale.
(End of Chapter)