bayedsolid Chapter 57: Vengeance
Chapter 57: Vengeance
The implication is that she definitely didn't leak the recipes for Shili Xiang's dishes. Unlike tofu, recipes can't be patented.
At the end of the letter, he added, "If Uncle Jiang has time, please come to Wuliping. I have important matters to discuss. If everything goes smoothly, it will be of great benefit to Good Days Restaurant. From now on, Shili Xiang will no longer be able to suppress Good Days Restaurant!"
Upon receiving the letter, Jiang Shichang hesitated for a long time before finally making up his mind to launch all the dishes that he had originally planned to introduce gradually at the main branch and all branches of the Good Days Restaurant at once, following Zisu's suggestion.
Before its launch, following Zisu's suggestion, extensive advertising and promotion were carried out. On the day the dish was launched, all branches of Good Days Restaurant experienced unprecedented business, with customers coming and going in an endless stream.
Upon learning about the dishes, Xiao Fan was filled with regret: "Sigh, I'm too late again!" Shangguan Zhihua had just given him these dishes a couple of days ago, and he was planning to launch them in a few days. He never expected that Good Days Restaurant would beat him to it!
In the future, even if Shili Xiang also introduces these dishes, people will only think that Shili Xiang plagiarized and stole the recipes from Hao Ri Zi Restaurant. People will also believe that only the dishes from Hao Ri Zi Restaurant are the most authentic.
Damn it, who on earth is going against me?!
Intuitively, he judged that those recipes must have been sold to Good Days Restaurant by someone. Otherwise, Good Days Restaurant couldn't have developed so many novel recipes all at once. The tofu dish was the same; without his spies at Good Days Restaurant noticing, the restaurant had developed this unusual dish.
Who on earth is going against him like this?!
Xiao Fan was completely baffled, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, eventually taking his anger out on Shangguan Zhihua. He said to his wife, Qian Shi, "That Shangguan Zhihua is truly clueless. Every time she provides a new recipe for Shili Xiang, she's always one step behind Hao Ri Zi Restaurant. I think she's either an idiot or deliberately trying to annoy me! From now on, you should have less contact with her and not invite her home so easily!"
Qian Fengqin said aggrievedly, "I didn't provoke her. Every time, she would shamelessly try to get close to me. I only paid attention to her twice, both times when she took the recipes and asked me to pass them on to you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have paid any attention to her!"
Xiao Fan: "Here's what we'll do. You give her a thousand taels of silver as payment for those recipes. If she brings you more recipes in the future, you can acknowledge her. Otherwise, just stay away from her!"
For some reason, Xiao Fan felt an instinctive aversion to Shangguan Zhihua, as if they were enemies from a past life. He had to admit, Shangguan Zhihua was indeed very beautiful and eloquent. However, he simply disliked her, for no reason at all.
On the contrary, he harbored a vague affection for his former fiancée, Shangguan Zisu. If he didn't have a cousin with whom he shared a deep and loving relationship, he might not have agreed to break off the engagement. Although she was no longer the legitimate daughter of a marquis, he wouldn't have objected to being offered the position of a concubine or secondary consort.
Thinking of Shangguan Zisu's expressive eyes, a unique tenderness welled up within him. It was such a pity that such a bright and lively girl had suffered such a family tragedy.