Chapter 47 Evening

Swan Lake Restaurant, a team-building dinner.

For Pei Qian, this had become a common way to spend money quickly, and for all employees, gathering for dinner after game development was completed had become a tradition.

Now, President Pei's direct staff had reached nearly two hundred people, so he simply booked the entire Swan Lake Restaurant.

This included new employees from several Mo Yu Internet Cafés and members of the Fei Huang Studio who had just returned from Shanghai.

Shang Yang Games employees were not included this time.

Pei Qian planned to gradually incorporate Shang Yang Games starting from the next settlement cycle, so he didn't have dinner with Shang Yang Games employees this time.

However, he still spent a lot of money.

Pei Qian asked Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin to organize their own dinner, which the company would reimburse, also at this restaurant, but at a different time.

He even felt that this most expensive buffet restaurant in Jingzhou City was no longer meeting his needs.

If he could fly to the capital to eat better, Pei Qian certainly wouldn't be stingy, but the system didn't allow it.

"At this rate of expansion, Swan Lake Restaurant will soon be unable to accommodate all employees for dinner."

"I have to think of a solution."

"...I really have a worrying life."

While everyone else was feasting, Pei Qian was silently thinking about future dinners.

Swan Lake Restaurant doesn't have a large seating capacity, after all, it's a high-end restaurant catering to the high-end population of Jingzhou City. The seats are spacious and the environment is beautiful, so the number of people it can accommodate is limited.

Now that Tengda's direct employees were enough to book the entire place, the next time they had a dinner, the number of people would continue to increase, and there definitely wouldn't be enough seats.

"Got it, next time we'll have separate dinners."

"I'll take all the key members of each department for a meal first, and then each department can have their own meal separately."

"This way, I can spend even more money, perfect!"

"It's just a pity that there are no more high-end restaurants in Jingzhou."

"Wait, why don't I just open a restaurant that's even more high-end than Swan Lake Restaurant!"

Pei Qian naturally came up with a good idea.

Previously, Mo Yu Internet Café and Mo Yu Delivery had made initial forays into the catering industry, which could be regarded as a trial run, and so far it had met Pei Qian's expectations very well.

On the one hand, it provided employees with great work meals; on the other hand, it continued to generate losses, making great contributions to Pei Qian's career of losing money!

This was a good success story!

But the only problem was that Mo Yu Delivery wasn't high-end enough.

The starting point of Mo Yu Delivery was to provide employees with healthy home-cooked meals. Although it was more expensive than ordinary restaurants, it was far from the standard that Pei Qian wanted to spend money on.

After all, they were all common ingredients, and the system had restrictions on the price of meals, so it couldn't be raised indefinitely.

No matter how delicious a tomato and egg dish was, it would be difficult to sell it at a sky-high price, unless the chef was cheating.

Pei Qian didn't have that kind of chef right now.

Opening a high-end restaurant would solve this problem very well.

At that time, he could find a remote place to open a small restaurant, get all kinds of high-end ingredients, and set the price as high as possible.

Although his own employees eating there was equivalent to eating discounted meals, as long as the ingredients were expensive, it wouldn't be a problem.

He could go there for a meal before each settlement, and usually just let it run freely, allowing it to lose money freely, which was pretty good.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian had a plan in mind.

In the next cycle, several games were still making money, and Pei Qian didn't have to worry about where to spend the money. Building a high-end restaurant might cost more than three Mo Yu Internet Cafés.

Of course, this kind of high-end restaurant would definitely attract some local tycoons, so it was impossible for it to have no customers at all.

But considering that Jingzhou was only a second-tier city and there weren't that many local tycoons, it should still lose money, and the possibility of making money was not high.

Pei Qian considered this, and glanced at Lin Wan, who was sitting two tables away.

Lin Wan thought that Pei Qian hadn't figured out her true identity yet, but in fact, Pei Qian already knew it, and had even silently arranged things for her.

Of course, Pei Qian wouldn't make a premature move now, and would just wait until the next settlement cycle to transfer Lin Wan to Shang Yang Games, quickly making several games flop, which would be a great success.

At this time, Lin Wan was typing on her phone, replying to messages.

On the phone screen was a message from Chen Sha.

"Lin, my beautiful girl, my little ancestor, please, just help me get a Barrett · Destruction from the inside! Aren't you in charge of this? There should be internal quotas, right?"

"It really won't work, I can't help you with this. Or, you can still pay more to find a scalper." Lin Wan quickly replied, "Don't even mention me, even Bao Xu, the most trusted outstanding employee of our group by President Pei, bought his Barrett · Destruction from a scalper."

Chen Sha: "..."

Ever since Chen Sha was lured by Lin Wan into *Sea Fortress*, he had become a hardcore player of this game.

At first, Chen Sha often played *Terrorist Plan*, after all, *Terrorist Plan* was more competitive and he had played it for a longer time. *Sea Fortress*, as an fps game that was more inclined towards novices, had many differences from *Terrorist Plan* in many aspects.

But gradually, Chen Sha defected.

Because *Sea Fortress* was becoming more and more popular and more and more people were playing it, Chen Sha was slowly lured away.

He never expected that the game he had once strongly complained about would actually replace *Terrorist Plan* in his heart one day...

When the Barrett · Destruction came out this time, Chen Sha, like other players, dreamed of getting it. After all, who who plays fps games doesn't like playing with a sniper rifle?

However, there were only five hundred limited editions, and it was impossible to get one.

Find a scalper? Two or three thousand for an account, and you might not be able to buy one.

It wasn't entirely about the money, mainly because Chen Sha's account had a Fire Kirin and a bunch of guns he had worked so hard to get, so how could he give up so easily?

Chen Sha was not resigned to his fate: "But I have contributed to Tengda! Back then, *Sea Fortress* was a great success, didn't I help promote it?"

"I'm at least a small opinion leader, a hardcore fps game player. In other domestic fps games, I'm a person who can stir up wind and rain. How come it's so difficult to get a weapon here..."

Lin Wan: "Emmm, I remember last time I asked you to promote it, I sent you a Fire Kirin. At that time, you were quite disdainful, and said that this was just data in the game, which idiot would spend 888 to buy it? There's a saying that goes, yesterday you ignored me, tomorrow..."

Chen Sha: "Cough cough, I'm an idiot! This idiot now wants a Barrett · Destruction, please!"

"Cough cough." Seeing Chen Sha so humble, Lin Wan was a little embarrassed. "Okay, seeing as you're so sincere, I'll ask President Pei, but I can't guarantee I'll get it."

Chen Sha: "Thank you, thank you!"

Lin Wan looked at Pei Qian, who was pensive not far away, feeling a little uneasy, wondering if he had discovered her identity.

Logically speaking, this rent reduction was a bit too much.

Reducing four yuan directly to one yuan and fifty cents would probably arouse President Pei's suspicion.

Reducing it a little less might have been able to hide it from President Pei, but for Lin Wan, that wouldn't be interesting, it wouldn't be enough to repay President Pei's care for his employees, and it would seem a little stingy.

Lin Wan never thought of herself as a stingy person.

Now, Lin Wan wasn't sure whether Pei Qian suspected her or not.

According to the usual practice, if he suspected her, he should have come to ask her at the first opportunity, right?

But President Pei acted like nothing had happened, and didn't pay any attention to her.

"Maybe President Pei is really too busy? He hasn't paid attention to small things like rent yet?"

"Well, that's very likely."

"Then I'll pretend nothing happened for now."

Lin Wan wouldn't actively mention this matter to Pei Qian. Her principle was to do good deeds without leaving a name, and she hoped to get along with everyone as an ordinary person.

Lin Wan made up her mind and came to Pei Qian.

The two of them each had their own agendas, but they both smiled and pretended that the other didn't know that they knew what the other was really thinking.