Seeing this, Yang Qiniang immediately sidled up to Lin Feng. "Why don’t you let me handle this?"
"It’ll be good practice for me."
Lin Feng looked at the eager Yang Qiniang and nodded directly.
Finally, he added a word of advice, "Don’t do this in your own name. Handle the whole thing under our investment company’s name."
Yang Qiniang was a little confused at first, but then it suddenly dawned on him.
If Yang Qiniang negotiated this himself, he’d be seen as, at best, a rich student trying to take over the cafeteria contract.
But if the company stepped in,
it would become a negotiation between an investment firm and the university.
The university’s attitude would naturally be different.
Since everyone now had something new on their minds, the late-night meal broke up rather quickly.
When Yang Qiniang got home,
he was still mulling over how to use the investment company to secure the school cafeteria.
Lost in thought, he suddenly bumped into Yang Tianming.
"Dad, watch where you’re going!"
Yang Qiniang struck first.
Yang Tianming reached out and rapped Yang Qiniang on the head. "Getting bold, are we? Learned how to blame the victim now?"
Yang Qiniang grinned at Yang Tianming. "Dad, let’s go to the dining room and talk."
Yang Tianming had the same idea.
As it happened, there were a few things Yang Tianming wanted to settle with his little brat.
Once the father and son were seated at the dining table, Yang Qiniang was the first to speak.
"Dad, thank you."
Yang Tianming was just gearing up to lecture him when he heard Yang Qiniang’s words and froze.
"What are you thanking me for?"
Yang Qiniang broke into a grin. "Brother Feng told me everything. You supported our investment company with fifty million!"
"Actually, during this time, Brother Feng has been letting me use that fifty million to practice."
"I can’t tell you the specific profit figures; that’s a company secret."
"But, Dad, I haven’t let you down."
Although Yang Qiniang tried his best to sound casual,
Yang Tianming could still sense his son’s gratitude.
For a moment, a wave of emotion washed over him.
Yang Tianming sat there in silence for a long time.
Looking at Yang Qiniang before him,
Yang Tianming suddenly felt that his son had truly grown up.
In truth, Yang Tianming hadn’t expected Lin Feng to hand over the entire fifty million he had invested in the company to Yang Qiniang for practice.
After all, for a newly established investment company, fifty million was an enormous sum of money.
For Lin Feng to entrust that much money to a novice like Yang Qiniang to manage—
even someone as worldly and experienced as Yang Tianming had to admit it was a bold move.
His son had indeed grown a lot during this time.
In that moment, Yang Tianming’s impression of Lin Feng improved even more.
Previously, Yang Tianming had treated Lin Feng well in the hopes that it would pay dividends for his own children.
After all, Yang Tianming could see that Lin Feng was destined for great things.
Now, it seemed Lin Feng was indeed a savvy person who knew how to play the game.
Yang Qiniang looked at his father sitting across from him.
He also said nothing.
After a long silence, Yang Qiniang stood up and said, "Brother Feng trusts me a lot and has given me a new investment task."
"I still have things to do, so I won’t keep you company while you space out, old man!"
With that, before Yang Tianming could react, Yang Qiniang quickly ran off.
Yang Tianming sighed with resignation.
’Just when I thought he’d grown up, he goes right back to his usual antics.’
What Yang Tianming didn’t notice, however, was that a smile had long since crept onto his own lips.
Suddenly, Yang Tianming slapped the table.
’That little brat! I forgot I was supposed to settle the score with him!’
It turned out that Yang Tianming had come looking for Yang Qiniang tonight because he had something to discuss with him.
But he hadn’t expected Yang Qiniang to play the sentimental card,
making him completely forget what he was going to say.
Some time ago, Yang Tianming had noticed that Yang Qiniang’s emotions were quite volatile.
So, he had his assistant, Secretary Li,
go find the people Yang Qiniang had brought over to the investment company to get a better sense of the situation.
He had no intention of spying on the investment company’s confidential information.
He just wanted to get a general idea of why Yang Qiniang had been so moody lately.
However, after Secretary Li made a round of calls, he suddenly discovered something.
The people Yang Qiniang had convinced to switch jobs had all suddenly become tight-lipped.
These people were now completely devoted to their new company.
In their hearts, they had completely forgotten about their former employer, Yang Tianming.
When Secretary Li realized he couldn’t dig up a single piece of information from those who had reached core management positions at the investment company,
he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
At the time, Secretary Li thought, ’If President Yang knew his son was this "capable," his expression certainly wouldn’t be very pleasant.’
As expected, after Yang Tianming learned of this, he had originally planned to have a serious talk with Yang Qiniang.
But thanks to Yang Qiniang’s little diversion,
his plan to call him to account was completely derailed.
Yang Tianming sat at the table, thinking quietly for a long time.
’To be able to win over the loyalty of all those job-hoppers...’
’A feat like that is definitely beyond my foolish son.’
’It must have been Lin Feng.’
This made Yang Tianming realize once again that this kid, Lin Feng, was no simple character.
’Forget it, forget it. I can always hire more people. This isn’t worth making a fuss over.’
Yang Tianming was, after all, an old fox in the business world.
He knew very well that losing a few talented employees wasn’t a big deal.
Now,
what was more important was building a good relationship with Lin Feng.
Besides, his own son was by Lin Feng’s side.
When all was said and done, those people were working under Yang Qiniang anyway.
So, Yang Tianming could only sigh and let the matter go.
During this period,
Yang Qiniang was keeping very busy at school.
After some investigation, he confirmed that the previous cafeteria owner was indeed in collusion with the person in charge of cafeteria concessions.
Upon discovering this,
Yang Qiniang went over the manager’s head.
He approached the university directly on behalf of the investment company to express their interest.
At the same time, when some students once again found the food from the service window to be unsanitary,
their anger ignited.
Without a second thought, a few of them took the lead and called the relevant authorities to file a report.
The situation blew up.
Although the cafeteria owner offered compensation, it did nothing to pacify the students’ anger.
Many students began to band together,
submitting a formal petition to the university.
The university, naturally, didn’t want the situation to escalate and hoped to turn a big problem into a small one, and a small one into nothing.
So, with the opportune arrival of Yang Qiniang’s investment company,
the responsible parties at the university, after a careful and serious evaluation, signed the contract with them.
While that cafeteria owner was still at the cafeteria dealing with the fallout,
he was directly notified that his contract with the university had been terminated.

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