Chapter 206 You are just stupid
"Strange? How to say?"
Huang Xu looked at Zheng Xiuyan curiously, obviously more interested in what she said and wanted to know why the other party said that.
When Zheng Xiuyan saw that Huang Xu was interested in her words, the corners of her mouth also slightly raised.
"I'm finally interested."
After sighing in his heart, he asked Huang Xu.
"Since you have purchased Tara and the others, and they are so popular in Korea now, and so many people want them to return, why don't you go back quickly to deal with their return? Instead, you are here to check things out slowly. Fish fillet? ”
"This!"
When Huang Xu heard Zheng Xiuyan's words, the interest he had just mentioned disappeared.
He just thought that what Jessica wanted to say?
It turns out that's what she was talking about.
In fact, this is not her only question. Several groups of people, including sunny, have asked her this question.
Of course, the one who asked the most questions and was most concerned about this matter was the president of his agency, Jin Taiyu.
As the president of a brokerage company, after seeing the reversal of reputation of Tara and others, many people left messages on the Internet, welcoming Tara and others to return.
So I wanted to communicate with Huang Xu to see when Tara would return and make corresponding plans.
Huang Xu actually understood his thoughts. After all, this was his first time as a company president, so he naturally wanted to show off in front of Huang Xu and prove his ability.
But although his idea was normal, it was decisively rejected by Huang Xu.
It's not that he doesn't want Tara to return, it's not that he doesn't want to make money, but it's not the time yet.
Those who welcome Tara on the Internet now only make such remarks because of their guilt for participating in the online violence against Tara last year.
But seriously, if Tara did come back now, they would not live up to what they said and would buy their album and support them.
After all, most of what is said on the Internet is because Huang Xu paid someone to guide him. They are just hot-headed now and cannot take it seriously.
And if Tara and the others really come back, there will still be a lot of internet trolls who will not believe the evidence that has been revealed and will continue to blackmail these people without thinking.
Unexpectedly, in 2017, the evidence that Tara and others were wrongly accused has been put out, but there are still people who ignore this and continue their blackmail career.
That was 2017, five years after the bullying incident.
It is conceivable that if Tara and the others return now, their situation will not be as popular as everyone said on the Internet.
This is also the reason why Huang Xu doesn't let them return to South Korea now.
According to his plan, the next few of them need to take a break and find those popular disco songs in their previous lives, and set off a wave of disco music in China, Japan, and even East Asia.
Then, carrying the traffic and reputation in overseas markets, he returned to the Korean music industry.
Based on Huang Xu's understanding of Koreans, their personalities are extremely complex, with inferiority complex and pride coexisting in their minds.
When facing people from their own country, they will be extremely proud and look down upon them.
But if the other party is more tyrannical than themselves and their country, they can grovel and defend and beautify them mindlessly.
At the same time, they are also extremely eager for the recognition of their country in the world.
Therefore, here in South Korea, they are extremely keen on people who can make a certain name for themselves internationally.
Of course, in fact, most countries on Blue Star are like this, but it is more serious here in South Korea.
The most obvious example is that if South Korean athletes can achieve certain results, or even medals, their status in South Korea will be raised very high.
Similarly, if a star from his own country can achieve a certain degree of fame overseas, then his country will promote him as an international star.
And Huang Xu wanted to take advantage of this characteristic of theirs.
After Tara and the others have achieved certain results in China, Japan and even Southeast Asia, they will directly land in the Korean entertainment industry with their foreign reputation.
This is what Huang Xu can think of as the best way for them to inherit the status they had before last year's incident, or even surpass last year's status, and once again attack SNSD, the pinnacle of the girl group.
There is no way, if this method is not followed, then the experiences of Tara and others will be better than in the previous life, but they will also lose the possibility of reaching the top of the girl group.
A few people have great strength and good looks, and even have many hit songs, but they don't have the status to match.
You must know that in the next few years, in addition to SNSD, the top girl group, there will be several third-generation groups with great potential.
The situation faced by Tara and the others is also extremely severe.
Therefore, Huang Xu plans to try not to return to Korea, or to return less often, for the time being, or even within a year or two.
Huang Xu will only let them return when they have gained momentum overseas and are extremely eager for them in South Korea.
However, Huang Xu had no way to explain these things to Jessica, so he wanted to be vague first.
But when he saw Jessica, and the arrogant expression she had maintained since the meeting today, he felt a little unhappy inside.
Especially after experiencing the previous events, he had a bad impression of Jessica, so he said to her in a nonchalant tone:
"I can't take care of them now. Let's talk about it after I'm done."
"Can't care? Are you done?"
When Jessica heard Huang Xu's words, the expression on her face became a little tense.
It can be seen from Huang Xu's words that he is not too concerned about the affairs of Tara and others.
At least compared to the fish fillet processing that she just looked down on, it was a bit uninteresting.
This made her expression a little tense, even a little guarded.
After all, for her, the career of the girl group idol is still more important, and she is able to achieve her current status because of her identity as an idol.
But in Huang Xu's eyes, it couldn't compare to the fish fillets he made. How could she accept it?
Especially Tara, although they do have some problems now, they were the team that could challenge them last year.
When it came to Huang Xu's mouth, how could she agree with that character who was put aside and ignored?
Zheng Xiuyan raised her head and wanted to question Huang Xu.
It turned out that after Huang Xu finished speaking, he lowered his head and concentrated on enjoying the barbecue, without paying any attention to his own reaction.
This move made her even more angry, so she directly questioned Huang Xu sternly.
"You don't care about them that much?"
“It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I can’t care about it now.”
"Are you just busy with that fish fillet?"
"Yes."
"Is it more important than Tara and the others?"
Jessica frowned and looked at Huang Xu, the expression on her face became more impatient, and she even felt like she wanted to get up and leave directly.
At this time, Huang Xu also saw Jessica's reaction out of the corner of his eye, and then he raised his head and looked at Jessica, whose defense had been somewhat broken.
"Then it depends on what you say. In terms of current importance, they are really not as good as fish fillets."
"."
"I know you don't quite understand. Let's put it this way, you think fish fillets are not important, but do you know how much profit I expect from fish fillets this time?"
Huang Xu looked at Zheng Xiuyan who was silent, and thought to himself that it was bad, he wouldn't be ruined by himself, so he quickly asked some heavy questions.
When Jessica heard Huang Xu's question, she ignored her dissatisfaction just now and started thinking seriously.
"Since Huang Xu said this, it means that Huang Xu attaches more importance to this plan this time, so it will make more money than his spicy hotpot."
"If I remember correctly, when I attended a cocktail party last time, I heard someone say that his company's profit should exceed 10 billion won because of Malatang."
"Even if the revenue from fish fillets this time is much higher than that of Malatang, it will be doubled at most, reaching about 20 billion."
"But this is not as high as Tara's income?"
After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Xiuyan still couldn't understand what Huang Xu said, but she cooperated and made a bold guess.
"Even if the revenue from fish fillet is twice that of Malatang, it will only be 20 billion to 30 billion won, right?"
"The number is not small, but if Tara and others regain their popularity, their annual income will not be less than this number."
"It seems that you really know my company!"
After hearing Jessica say this number, Huang Xu also sighed. It seems that Jessica is really paying attention to business matters now.
Otherwise, such a guess would not have been made.
But this number is still inaccurate, or it could be said that this number was deliberately made by Huang Xu to show to others.
On the surface, the overall revenue of his more than 100 malatang shops is only about 20 billion won.
And this is not the final profit, there is still a large part of the money needed for store decoration and the supply of various raw materials and equipment.
Therefore, in the eyes of the outside world, his income this time is actually less than 10 billion won, but because of the subsequent supply of raw materials, he is estimated to have an income of 10 billion won. But these were actually done by Huang Xu for outsiders to see.
Who made him make a plan before the early stage to put a large part of the profits in the country through the supply chain.
Even when there were only 20 franchise stores and a few directly operated stores, more than 5 million net profits had been transferred to the country.
Of course, the several directly-operated stores are not actually profits, but his expenses.
If we only count franchise stores, a franchise store can transfer more than 200,000 yuan domestically.
Converted into Korean won, that's about 35 million won.
In the second batch of unlimited franchises, more than 130 new stores were added at once, which means that he transferred about 6 billion won in revenue.
Coupled with the company's current cash of nearly 10 billion and the subsequent profits of franchise stores, this means that his Malatang store can have an income of nearly 20 billion won.
However, this pickled fish franchise chain is different from Malatang. Although its subsequent franchise fees and various equipment costs are much less than Malatang.
Moreover, the raw materials used by pickled fish franchise stores are basically provided by the company. Calculating this, the income is much higher than that of Malatang stores.
Finally, don’t forget that his pickled fish franchise store this time is aimed at the middle and lower income groups, and the number of stores is much larger than that of Malatang stores, even many times that of Malatang stores.
Calculated in this way, the final revenue of the pickled fish shop may far exceed Malatang, and will be tens of billions, or even reach a scale of hundreds of billions of won.
Therefore, after Huang Xu sighed, he said to Jessica:
"Although you are very concerned about it, if the plan of pickled fish this time goes well, the revenue may exceed 100 billion."
“One hundred billion??”
At this time, Jessica couldn't care less about her own reserve. Her expression was in disbelief, and she confirmed it to Huang Xu again.
"Can it really be hundreds of billions?"
"Maybe more."
Seeing Zheng Xiuyan's stunned look, Huang Xu was quite satisfied at this time, and the corners of his mouth could no longer hold back.
Then he quickly lowered his head and began to put meat into the baking pan, for fear that the other party would see his smile.
However, there was indeed no meat in the baking pan at this time. The entire plate of beef breast, except for the bite that Jessica took, had been completely destroyed by Huang Xu.
At the same time, he also sighed in his heart that Qishi's barbecue really lived up to his reputation, and Huang Xu was very satisfied with his meal.
Of course, the point is not how good their dipping sauces and seasonings are, but because the quality of the barbecue here is better.
The barbecue here is basically based on beef. It mainly provides various parts of the beef. The taste is just a very basic natural taste.
So the quality of the beef used here is very important.
And why there is such high-quality beef here, we have to mention the geographical location of Qi City.
The golden milk source belt at 47 degrees north latitude and the fertile black soil provide sufficient feed for large-scale animal husbandry. The beef here is of high quality, chewy and has a milky flavor.
With such good raw materials, the rest does not need to be processed, and it is very delicious.
Therefore, after Huang Xu finished speaking, he ignored the shocked Jessica and began to barbecue on his own, preparing to have a good meal.
I had been exercising for so long in the afternoon, but I was already hungry. With such a delicious barbecue, I naturally wouldn't let it go.
However, compared to Huang Xu happily enjoying the food, Jessica opposite him has not yet woken up from the shock just now.
After all, the numbers Huang Xu mentioned were indeed astonishing.
The president of their company, Sunny's uncle Lee Soo Man, has been in the Korean entertainment industry for most of his life and has reached the top of the entertainment industry.
According to information that was revealed last year, his current net worth is only more than 100 billion won.
You must know that it took decades of hard work for Lee Soo Man to reach his current net worth, coupled with countless idols helping him make money, so that he can achieve his current net worth.
And now Huang Xu said that his fish fillets can earn hundreds of billions in revenue. How can Jessica accept this?
This income can be said to be an amount that most Korean artists will never earn in their lifetime.
Therefore, after listening to Huang Xu's words, he fell into silence.
But if Huang Xu knew what she was thinking, he would tell her another thing.
Even though Kpop in South Korea is so popular right now, it is actually just South Korea's own entertainment and the support of several surrounding countries.
In his previous life, Huang Xu read a piece of data that said that the entire kpop industry in South Korea did not have as high a revenue as MiHoYo’s Genshin Impact in China, and its net profit was even more incomparable.
From this point of view, South Korea's Kpop culture has a relatively average influence in the world and is a relatively niche culture. Otherwise, it would not have been a few years before international big names approached them for endorsements.
However, Huang Xu didn't know much about this. He was concentrating on eating barbecue and had no time to care about Jessica's too many things.
Zheng Xiuyan was silent for a while before she woke up from the shock, and then she saw Huang Xu concentrating on cooking.
This made her feel bad again.
But this time she didn't have the arrogance she had just now. After all, Huang Xu's words just now made her realize that her identity as an idol was really nothing in front of Huang Xu.
Although she looked down on the small restaurant he opened before, if the value this restaurant could create was far beyond her imagination, could she still look down on him?
Therefore, Zheng Xiuyan started to salivate when she saw Huang Xu feasting and the delicious food she had just tasted.
He no longer cared about being reserved, and silently began to grab the barbecue with Huang Xu on the baking pan.
When Huang Xu saw this situation, he didn't say anything, but silently began to take care of his opponent.
So the two of them enjoyed this delicious barbecue meal in silence.
As for the bottle of liquor they bought just now, it was gradually and quietly destroyed by the two of them. It was just that Huang Xu drank more and Zheng Xiuyan drank less.
Although the taste of Northeastern liquor is relatively strong, for Jessica who drinks frequently, as long as she tastes it in small sips, there won't be any problem.
By the end of the dinner, the atmosphere between the two had relaxed a lot.
When Zheng Xiuyan saw that Huang Xu had already started to prepare the delicious food for Sunny to take home, she could no longer bear the doubts in her heart and asked Huang Xu:
"Do you hate me?"
"Uh!"
Huang Xu also felt a little embarrassed when he heard Zheng Xiuyan's sudden question.
Although he said that he really didn't like the other party, he still felt a little embarrassed when the other party asked him directly like this.
And the other party is also his girlfriend's teammate, which makes Huang Xu even more difficult to say.
However, I just acted so obviously that I couldn't seem to hide it, so I just told the truth.
“I can’t say I hate it, but I do dislike it a little bit.”
"You"
Seeing Huang Xu speak so frankly, Zheng Xiuyan was really surprised.
After all, I can be considered a popular idol, and I am also the goddess in many people's dreams. However, Huang Xu said this to his face, and his face was still a little confused.
But thinking of the other party's identity, she could only hold back her interest.
"Is it because I said bad things about you earlier?"
"But at some point, because you are already with Sunny, but still unclear about Goo Hara, I naturally have to remind Sunny?"
"And when we met earlier, you left a bad impression on me, so you can't blame me?"
"."
"Not because of this."
Huang Xu felt a little helpless on the outside as he listened to Jung Soo-yeon's rapid-fire words, and at the same time, he was also a little tangled in his heart.
In fact, to put it bluntly, I have a bad impression of her, mainly because of the things she did in her previous life, which gave me some prejudice against her.
He was also a fan of SNSD in his previous life, and now he is Sunny's boyfriend, so he naturally has some opinions about Jessica.
It's just that Huang Xu couldn't explain this to her clearly.
After all, she hasn’t done anything yet?
I can't just use the things she did in her previous life and things that haven't happened yet as reasons to hate her.
This is why Huang Xu feels embarrassed.
Seeing Huang Xu say something and then not saying anything again, Jessica didn't know if it was because of drinking. She obviously couldn't wait any longer, so she continued to ask Huang Xu.
"Not this? Then what else?"
"We haven't dealt with anything else?"
Seeing Zheng Xiuyan's continued questioning, Huang Xu's mind began to work crazily.
Since those things haven't happened yet, can I stop the other party?
After having this idea, his mind suddenly opened up a lot. After thinking for a while, he looked at Jessica in front of him and said.
"The reason is simple, you are just stupid."
(End of chapter)