Wu Jun was ultimately unable to make it to Ma Chaoyun’s place in time.
He sent a WeChat message to Ma Chaoyun and postponed the meeting for a whole hour.
Originally, Wu Jun thought that this negotiation would be hopeless.
He didn’t expect Ma Chaoyun to call him back and say that there was no problem, letting him go first if he had something to do, no need to rush.
This was a surprise to Wu Jun.
That the owner of the hot and sour noodle chain shop could wait for an hour, it was also enough to show that Ma Chaoyun had a very strong relationship with him and had some face where he was concerned.
After leaving Dong Shanshan’s place, when Wu Jun came to the “Meet” cafe, it was already 9:50am.
The second appointment time is ten o’clock, good thing this time is not late.
If he was late again this time, I guess this negotiation would be completely finished, no need to talk about it.
One appointment may be an accident, because of a chance contingency, and another one is deliberate.
There is one more, not two or three.
Once inside, a pleasant piano sound slowly into the ear.
The decoration of this meet cafe is very high class and elegant, it is considered a relatively high end cafe in Shimen city.
Wu Jun saw that in the hall on the ground floor, a girl wearing a white dress was sitting in front of a piano, playing a tune he didn’t know.
One by one, the ethereal notes didn’t look like they were played, it was more like the girl used her own hands to rescue them from inside the piano.
It was as if they originally existed in the air, only to return to where they originally belonged.
Raising his eyes and looking around, Wu Jun soon sought out his brother-in-law’s figure.
Sitting across from him was a middle-aged woman with her hair coiled up high, a traditional beauty’s goose-egg face, wearing a clean white suit with a graceful and elegant temperament.
Qian Na was also there, and she was chatting enthusiastically with the woman about something.
Ma Chaoyun and Qian Na were in the class together.
The woman was Ma Chaoyun’s classmate, so naturally, she was also Qianna’s classmate.
“Xiao Jun, this way!”Ma Chaoyun spotted Wu Jun at the door first, got up from his seat and waved to him.
Qian Na and the woman turned their heads towards Wu Jun’s position at the same time after hearing Ma Chaoyun’s greeting.
Qian Na smiled when she saw Wu Jun and waved her hand to him.
The middle-aged woman’s face could not be seen whether she was happy or sad, there was not a single expression on her face or in her eyes.
“I’m really sorry Ms An, for keeping you waiting.”Wu Jun went forward and first confessed to the middle-aged woman, after all, she was the main character of the day.
The woman had a name that fit her temperament very well called An Ruohua, this was something that Ma Chaoyun had told Wu Jun before.
“It’s alright, have a seat Chief Wu, who doesn’t have some emergencies?”An Ruohua gently opened her mouth, speaking in a light voice like a little girl, not like the voice of a person of her age.
“Er, thank you Ms An for understanding ……,” Wu Jun didn’t expect An Ruohua to be so understanding, and the set of words he had prepared on the way was directly omitted.
Qian Na laughed on the side, “Hey, little brother, didn’t expect to run into such a reasonable person like sister An, right?”
Wu Jun sat down on the seat next to Ma Chaoyun and took the initiative to admit his mistake and said, “Yes, it’s a shame to say that it’s so wrong to be an hour late for the first meeting.”
An Ruohua spread a smile and said, “Mr Wu don’t call Ms An Ms An, I’m here to prop up a big one, if Mr Wu doesn’t mind, just call me Sister An like Nana.”
“Alright, then I will call you Sister An.”Wu Jun didn’t have the slightest hesitation in agreeing to it, it’s not like there’s anything to lose by calling me sister.
What’s more, the purpose of this appointment today was to take the order in An Ruohua’s hand.
People took the initiative to put this kind of opportunity to get close to you in front of your eyes, if you can’t catch it, then it’s a bit stupid.
Qianna asked on the side: “Xiao Jun what are you drinking I will help you order.”
Qianna and Ma Chaoyun and An Ruohua had been here for almost an hour, and all three of them had already finished a cup of coffee and refilled it.
Wu Jun looked at his cousin and said, “Give me a latte.”
Qian Na suggested, “The muscat in this house is very good, don’t you want to try it?”
Wu Jun shook his head and said, “No, just a latte.”
“Why are you doing with latte, is it that good.”Qian Na beamed, her face speechless.
Wu Jun smiled and said, “Last time I had a medical checkup, the doctor said I’m more iron deficient, so I caught the opportunity to make up for it.”
“Puhahaha …… cough cough!”Ma Chaoyun, who had just taken a sip of coffee, was amused by Wu Jun’s cold joke about replenishing iron with lattes and spewed laughter.
Luckily, he covered his mouth with his hand in time and didn’t spray everywhere.
“You, hahaha, little brother, I’m really convinced!”Qian Na laughed so hard that she covered her stomach, equally amused by Wu Jun’s “latte” which was like a stroke of genius.
An Ruohua’s eyes were full of laughter, but she only laughed in a very restrained manner, unlike Qianna and Ma Chaoyun who were so exaggerated.
A latte was served, and after a few words of simple chit chat, Wu Jun took the initiative to bring the topic to business, talking about the sweet potato vermicelli business.
Wu Jun asked, “Sister An, I don’t know if your shop has ever used that kind of purely handmade sweet potato vermicelli without any industrial additives?”
“This one really doesn’t.”An Ruohua had one thing to say, “On the one hand, because of the food safety issue, the vermicelli we use have gone through the Health and Welfare Commission’s safety testing, and every bag of vermicelli has a food safety certificate.
There is also the fact that in order for all shops to make a highly uniform flavour, so the quality of the raw materials used is more uniform than superior in quality.”
“This way ah ……” Wu Jun said with a contemplative sound, “There is definitely no problem in terms of food safety, if needed, I can also have people to test and get relevant certificates to make standard packaging.
There is also the fact that our sweet potato vermicelli are all handmade by farmers from different families, a thousand people have a thousand techniques.
In the aspect of high uniformity of quality, it is definitely inferior to mass-produced products on production lines.”
Wu Jun said one thing, did not raise the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, try to maintain objectivity.
Wu Jun finally said, “Although the quality of our products varies from high to low, but even those relatively low-quality products, it is still more competitive than the kind of products produced on the assembly line with various food additives, this I can guarantee.”
“Our products are absolutely purely natural, purely handmade, without any additives, and even in the future, Sister An can take this as the slogan of your chain shop, as a golden sign.”
“In this society where people are paying more and more attention to eating healthy, I think it will be able to play a very good publicity effect.”
An Ruohua was a bit moved by Wu Jun’s words, her eyes were shining, and she was secretly thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of this co-operation for her career.
Doing a national fast food chain enterprise, the taste of each shop to maintain uniformity is a very important indicator.
Can’t be like those wild small restaurants outside, a taste, or there is no need to open a national chain.
However, an eye-catching “gimmick” or “selling point” priority is certainly greater than the unity of taste.
The same kind of thing, the same processing techniques and processes, although the quality does not necessarily how consistent, but the taste should not be much difference, right?
“The kind of purely natural, handmade vermicelli you mentioned, General Manager Wu, is there a big difference in the products made between families?”An Ruohua pondered for a while before asking a question he was more concerned about.
“It seems like …… it’s not too big, right?”Wu Jun and Ma Chaoyun and Qian Na exchanged glances, the meaning clearly asking for the two’s opinions.
At least in Wu Jun’s opinion, although there were a thousand techniques for a thousand people, and even sometimes the colours of the sweet potato vermicelli that were made had great differences.
Some were yellow, some were white, and some would look a little black, but flavour-wise, there really wasn’t too much of a noticeable difference.
At least he had eaten sweet potato vermicelli for decades, and he could never tell whose family’s and whose craftsmanship he was eating.
Qian Na frowned slightly and chimed in, ”There really isn’t much of a difference in terms of flavour, is there? If one is unaware of the difference, one definitely can’t eat it.”
“In my opinion, that stuff is all the same after it’s cooked, I can’t eat any difference anyway.”Ma Chaoyun said, “But with those so-called pure sweet potato vermicelli sold in supermarkets, the difference is still very big, although it’s also labelled as pure sweet potato vermicelli, it’s definitely not the same kind of thing, and it’s just enough to fool those people in the city who haven’t eaten real sweet potato vermicelli.”
An Ruohua asked with some forbearance, “Chaoyun, you can’t be talking about people like me, right?”
Ma Chaoyun laughed and said, “Haha, Ruohua, this is you being right, I didn’t say anything.”
“I am extremely interested in that sweet potato vermicelli of yours, but ……” An Ruohua looked at Wu Jun and said, “But then, to say a thousand, to say ten thousand, we have to wait for me to see the physical object before we can continue to talk in depth, and I am not good at this time to give theexact intention.”
“Sister An wants to see the physical object ah.”Wu Jun looked at An Ruohua and smiled, “Coincidentally, I just brought some in the boot of my car, the new goods that I just collected from the farmers yesterday, I can fetch them for sister An now.”
“Oh? Is that so? That’s just right, quickly bring it to me.”An Ruohua was also a person of thunder and lightning, not dragging her feet in the slightest.
“Sister An wait a moment, I will go and come back.”Wu Jun and An Ruohua said a word of farewell and got up and walked towards the door.
Less than five minutes after leaving the house, Wu Jun came back clutching two handfuls of vermicelli that he had folded off from the top of the whole bundle of sweet potato vermicelli in his two hands.
An Ruohua took the sweet potato vermicelli handed over by Wu Jun and carefully examined it.
She first brought the sweet potato vermicelli under her nose and smelled the odour.
Except for a hint of sweet potato starch, there was no other smell.
The sweet potato vermicelli produced on the industrial assembly line had gone through many processes, and in its hard state, it could not be smelled, and could only be smelled after it had been softened in boiling water.
With a click, An Ruohua slightly exerted force with both hands, gently folded a small section and sent it to her cherry red mouth to savour it.
Sweet potato vermicelli is still a little hard when it first enters the mouth, after a while it slowly softens down, but it is not crispy at all, it feels very chewy.
Wu Jun frowned slightly after seeing An Ruohua’s actions.
Tasting it like she did, she definitely couldn’t taste the real flavour of the sweet potato vermicelli.
Sweet potato vermicelli has to be completely steamed in boiling water before it can be flavoured, bringing out its own Q-bouncy, chewy texture.
If you tasted it like An Ruohua did, you wouldn’t even be able to taste a tenth of the sweet potato vermicelli’s deliciousness.
Seeing the hot air curling up from the coffee cup, Wu Jun’s eyes lit up and suddenly had an idea.
“Waiter.”Wu Jun called out towards a waitress who had just finished serving coffee to the next seat.
Qian Na and Ma Chaoyun as well as An Ruohua were all looking at Wu Jun with puzzled faces.
All four of them still had coffee in their cups and didn’t know what he was suddenly calling the waitress for.
“Hello sir, how can I help you.”The small waiter came in front of Wu Jun and asked respectfully.
Wu Jun pointed at a small handful of sweet potato vermicelli placed on the tabletop and said, “This way, go to your back kitchen and get some boiling water to help me cook this thing a little bit and soften it.”
“Of course, I won’t let you guys work for nothing, this is a little bit of hard work fee for you and the back kitchen master.”Wu Jun said, reached out and pulled out his wallet from the inner pocket of his jacket, and without counting, pulled out a small pile of cash notes from the wallet and handed it to the waiter.
This cash was what Feng Yuanyuan had given him yesterday, left over from settling the moncler outlet store sweet potato vermicelli bill.
“Ah, this, I ……” The waiter looked at the sweet potato vermicelli on the table, and then looked at the pile of banknotes in Wu Jun’s hand that was at least two to three thousand, and was very moved.
Qian Na three people saw Wu Jun’s behaviour and somewhat couldn’t help but laugh.
Let the barista of a high class coffee shop cook vermicelli?
This operation was also too original, it was simply a logical ghostwriter!
One is a high-end atmospheric foreign stuff, one is a group of earthy peasants in the mountainous countryside to get out the local speciality, this ……
“Sir, is …… this vermicelli?”The waiter asked with a curious face as he looked at the things placed on the table.
If it was something of unknown origin, she would not dare to make a decision on how much money to give her.
Wu Jun smiled and explained, “Yes, pure natural sweet potato vermicelli, don’t worry, it’s not something harmful, later when you guys are done cooking, I’ll eat it for you.”
The waiter was inclined to believe what Wu Jun said.
The four people sitting at this table, just from the clothes alone, they could tell that they were all rich people who were either rich or noble.
Some clues could also be seen from the coffee ordered by the four.
Except for the latte ordered by Wu Jun, which was cheaper and only cost about 100 RMB.
The rest of the Qianna three people ordered the main promotion of this coffee shop’s musk cat coffee.
Musk cat is another elegant name for the legendary “cat shit coffee”.
Such a cup of coffee costs two thousand two hundred dollars, and also can not be refilled!
The waiter withdrew his gaze from the banknotes that Wu Jun put on the table with difficulty, and looked a bit worried: “That, I’m sorry sir, I can’t decide on this matter, but I can go and ask our supervisor for you.”
“Well, please, thank you very much.”Rather than getting a positive reply from the waiter, Wu Jun still picked up a few red board notes from the table and handed them to the waiter.
After the waitress received the tip Wu Jun gave her with a happy face, she turned around and walked towards the direction of the operation room at the back.