In the gringo restaurant in the provincial capital, Will, the chef and owner, took off his chef uniform at the moment and sat at the table like the guests in the restaurant.

After a pleasant sip of wine, Will said, "Even though I've lived in this country for years, I still sit here every day and sip the wine, cooking my best steak in the kitchen. I still feel that this place is really happy. You know Yan, living here, I mean you can live here since you were a child, and you are really happy. ”

Yan Feizheng watched with a smile as his daughter-in-law split the steak with a knife, and raised his head when he heard this: "Well, yes, yes, I also feel very happy." ”

Boss Xia, who was beside Will, laughed charmingly, and said to Will: "Will, I told you that it's not right to come and disturb a pair of young people in love, you must come over, now you know how much trouble we have, right?"

Miss Xu Xiaoyan blushed: "Sister Xia, it's not what you said." Isn't it more lively when there are more people when you eat......"

Yan Fei and Will laughed together, and then Will said, "So I dismissed the idea of going back and made a big decision. I'm going to open another restaurant, a bigger restaurant than this, so that more people can taste my cooking. It's just that this decision needs your support, Brother Yanfei!"

Listening to the words of the Yan Fei brothers clumsily spoken by the gringos, Yan Fei couldn't help but laugh a little: "I said, if you continue to run this restaurant, the price I supply will always be the same." But you scale up, and that price really can't be as good as before!"

"It's really not good, in the past, the places where I supplied were quite far away from the provincial capital, and the price didn't matter. But I only signed a new supply contract two months ago, and within a month at most, I will start supplying high-end beef to Jiangcheng. As soon as their restaurant opened, the price of the same raw materials purchased by the same restaurant in two adjacent provinces was so different that I couldn't tell anyone. ”

When Will heard this, he immediately shook his head: "No, no, no, Brother Yanfei, you listen to me." I'm not talking about the price, it's just that you need to continue to supply our beef of the same quality. I know your habit here, paying attention to business is not benevolence. So when the business is done, we have to be more benevolent, right? So when the new restaurant opens, I'll pay you at your price. ”

Will paused, probably organized the language in his head, and continued to explain: "Actually, through my observations, I found a problem, sometimes a low price is not necessarily a good thing. For the same steak, our price is lower than that in coastal cities, although it brings us some customers, but more, it gives people a feeling of low grade here. ”

"Although I haven't been in this restaurant and haven't been exposed to enough information about the outside world, I don't really understand the thoughts of people in your country for the time being, but I think it is not necessarily a bad thing for us to change to a bigger restaurant, decorate it a little higher, and raise the price. What do you say, Brother Yanfei?"

Yan Fei kind of understood, but he really didn't know what to say about this question.

Maybe it's because of the sense of place, maybe it's something else, but sometimes it's just that weird. Will's restaurant uses his own beef, and the chef is still Will's authentic chef from abroad, but in the eyes of many people, this steakhouse in the provincial city is lower in grade than those in coastal cities.

It's like Will said, because his price is cheaper than other people's - cheap is not good! If your things are the same as other people's, why are yours cheap and other people's expensive?

Some people are like this these days, only buying the expensive ones and not the right ones. If you're cheap, it's definitely not as good as others. The grade is so low, it is not worthy of our worth and identity!

And how to say it, although the provincial capital is located in the center of the mainland, it is a transportation hub city. However, because of the concept of region, with the rise of coastal cities in recent years, it has become a backward area.

If people from the outside world, such as those from economically developed coastal areas, come over and see Will's steakhouse, and then look at the price, they will immediately laugh with a full sense of superiority: This is Handan toddler, Dong Shi follows suit, right?

In their first impression, Will's steakhouse is a person in an economically underdeveloped area who wants to learn how to open a steakhouse in the coastal area, but he can't learn it, and can only attract customers through low prices.

With that kind of thinking, will these people still come in? Definitely not.

If you want to eat steak, go back to us and eat authentic food, and eat cottage food here is not enough shame.

So Will's restaurant has always relied on word of mouth, that is, some regular customers are cheering. But no one can eat steak every day, right? This has nothing to do with the price, it is purely a matter of Chinese people's eating habits.

If there are no new customers, there will be fewer old customers, and business will definitely be affected.

And for the people in the provincial capital, there is another reason why Will's business is affected - the beef comes from the countryside in Wancheng.

Just as a literary master wrote, when cabbage from a certain place is transported to a certain place, the root is tied with a red rope and hung upside down at the head of the fruit store, which is respected as "gum cabbage";

Wancheng's beef has arrived in the provincial capital, and for the people in the provincial capital, this is something from the countryside, even if the 'hype' is strong, it is also from the countryside.

If this beef comes from the Demon Capital, even if it is from the countryside two hundred miles away from the Demon Capital, it will be different. If it were from a foreign country, it would be even more different regardless of which country it came from—this truth is understood, so there is no need to say more.

Because of such a problem, even Will, the gringo chef, lowered his grade.

The world is so wonderful, doing business at a low price may not be a good thing, and a high price is not necessarily a bad thing.

After Wei and Yan Fei briefly explained, the business of the two was negotiated. As for whether it will be better to change the name of a new store and raise the price, it is difficult to say for the time being, in short, I only know until I do it.

Yan Fei actually had something, he and his daughter-in-law finished eating steak, saw that the time was about the same, said goodbye to Will and went straight to the Provincial Institute of Paleontology.

Although Professor Qi agreed to help Yan Fei with the submission, before that, he still needs to further confirm Yan Fei's judgment: whether the two 'big river scorpions' are undiscovered species, and whether ancient creatures have survived.

Originally, Professor Qi had contacted him by phone, and the agreed time was one o'clock in the afternoon - because it was a holiday and a private request, he did not choose the usual time to work.

But in the morning, Xu Xiaoyan and Yan Fei had too much fun, and just before Yan Fei came, they received a call from Will, saying that they were going to visit him. So he simply brought Xu Xiaoyan to see what Will wanted to do.

The Institute of Paleontology received Yan Fei with a middle-aged man with glasses, the black-framed glasses were rustic, and the clothes on his body were inconspicuous, a bit like an intellectual from decades ago.

However, Yan Fei didn't dare to despise it, this was introduced by Professor Qi.

After Yan Fei respectfully and politely said a few words, the middle-aged man's enthusiasm surprised Yan Fei a little, but when he heard the middle-aged man say the reason, he was not surprised: "You are Teacher Qi's closed little disciple? Just call me Senior Brother Huang, let's not be polite, take out your things!"

How did I become a closed disciple?" Yan Fei looked puzzled and lifted out the two small glass boxes.

"That's how you pretend to be them?" Seeing Yan Fei's movements, Senior Brother Huang was so frightened that he hurriedly took it. "If it's really an undiscovered ancient creature that survives, do ......you know what that means?

"It's okay senior brother!" Yan Fei smiled. "I've observed, their vitality is very tenacious, no matter how you toss, it's okay, you can rest assured!"

"......" Senior Brother Huang was speechless for a long time, and then stared at the two glass boxes.

Then, this afternoon, Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan began to get bored. Fortunately, Senior Brother Huang is quite face-saving, and in addition to being busy, he didn't forget to find a few books for the two of them to read.

Although they are all professional things that can't be more professional, it proves that people haven't forgotten that there are still guests, right?

Until the sun went down and the lights were turned on in the room, Senior Brother Huang was still busy.

In the end, Yan Fei had to say out loud: "Senior Brother Huang, why don't we have dinner first and then come back to continue researching?"

"It's going to be almost there, it's going to be right away. Senior Brother Huang crackled on the keyboard without raising his head, and at the same time did not forget to find a thick large book on the table and rummage through it.

Yan Fei is very experienced, and he is quite mentally prepared for Senior Brother Huang's so-called immediate improvement - he has seen Liu Jinxue's appearance a lot, generally speaking, these people's 'immediate goodness' can be controlled within three hours, that is, the speed is fast.

Sure enough, half an hour passed, and an hour passed......

Senior Brother Huang is still busy.

Yan Fei was helpless, so he whispered a few words to the girl.

When Xu Xiaoyan returned with the food she bought outside, Senior Brother Huang still didn't look up.

shouted over and over again, and when the food was about to be cold, Senior Brother Huang came over to eat, and then went to toss. Yan Fei and his daughter-in-law continued to discuss various ancient creatures with books - it was actually quite interesting, at least for the girl, it was very eye-opening.

And for Yan Fei, these professional things are also quite useful. So he was quite polite, and after flipping through a book, he simply went to the bookshelf by himself and continued to look for books.

Senior Brother Huang occasionally looked up and saw that Yan Fei had read these books very seriously and was quite satisfied.

Originally, Yan Fei thought it was going to be all-nighter, but he didn't expect that at about ten o'clock, the security guard outside came and knocked on the door.

Senior Brother Huang dragged on for a long time, and finally at eleven o'clock, he announced that everyone would go back first, and when they came tomorrow, he would continue to investigate.

"The result is estimated to be quite optimistic, no wonder Teacher Qi will accept you as a closed disciple, it seems that the little junior brother not only has talent, but also luck. Out of the gate of the research institute, Senior Brother Huang happily lifted his glasses and said. "I'll get two more people to come over tomorrow to help, and I'll be sure to get the results out for you as soon as possible. ”

This is as soon as possible, it's really fast, anyway, after Yan Fei took Xu Xiaoyan to play for two days, when he went to the research institute again, he saw that the research institute had changed from the three people he saw two days ago to seven or eight people busy.

This made Yan Fei feel that it seemed that his 'big discovery' was even bigger than he imagined?

Yan Fei, who felt a little unsure, couldn't help but call Professor Qi, and then Professor Qi said with a smile: "Don't worry! The papers have been sent out." They just want to study it for a few more days, maybe they will go to the place where you found the two bugs in a few days, you don't have to worry about that, you just play with your ......."

I see.

As soon as Yan Fei heard that they might go on an investigation, he remembered something, so after Professor Qi hung up the phone, he immediately dialed Lao Niu's phone: "Brother Niu, are you busy, I have something to tell you." ”

Lao Niu's enthusiasm did not diminish at all: "What's the matter, Brother Yan, you have something to say." What are you polite about?"

Yan Fei said: "I want to ask, do you usually organize activities such as protecting the environment?"

Lao Niu wondered very much: "Protect the environment? Our environment still needs to be protected, just the old song you saw last time, do you remember? What he thinks about every day is how to get money to invest in development, how can he take care of this? Besides, does this environment still need to be protected? He wants people to destroy it, but no one wants to come!"

This is true, during this period of economic development, sometimes in order to attract investment, even if it is a polluting enterprise that knows that it is pulled, everyone will turn a blind eye - although some people want positive results, but some people feel that they have to eat first, right?

However, for some backward areas with inconvenient transportation, even if it is a polluting enterprise, people are not willing to go!

Yan Fei asked purely knowingly, and after getting the answer, he was relieved: "That's right, let me tell you, didn't you let that Secretary Qu with you last time? At that time, he also wanted to talk about some cooperation, but I pretended not to hear." Haha, now there's something you can tell him. You ask him to organize an environmental protection event as soon as possible, shouting slogans, just make some noise. ”

Lao Niu still wondered: "What's the matter? Get this, is it useful?"

Yan Fei didn't want to talk about it before his affairs came to a conclusion, so he simply said: "You just tell him that, just toss it out and make some moves." I don't know if it will work out yet, but it's not a bad thing anyway. ”

Lao Niu pondered for a moment, and then agreed: "Okay, I'll listen to your brother Yan." He is usually afraid that the toss is poor in the township, but this time you said it, if he is still afraid of wasting money by tossing, I will support him. As far as you say, it's not a bad thing anyway......"

It's really not a bad thing, even if there is no matter of Yan Fei, there is nothing to do to publicize environmental protection work, and it is good to toss it.