Hu Xingfa realized that he didn't have much to talk about in the past few years, so he could only pick out some things that happened before he and Liu Fang divorced.
"Little Chen was a naughty child since she was young. When she cried as a child, to coax her to sleep, I rode my bicycle with her on my back, taking her around to see the scenery on the road, and then she wouldn't cry."
Xu Danli nodded quickly and recorded this.
"Anything else?"
"Little Chen's academic performance was not good, but I never hit her."
Xu Danli frowned, did not write it down, but urged:
"Anything else?"
Hu Xingfa opened his mouth, and finally said:
"When she and her mother divorced, I gave her a two-bedroom apartment that had just been renovated. The divorce agreement stated that this apartment was for Liu Chen. At the current market price, this apartment would sell for at least four to five hundred thousand yuan."
Xu Danli's tightly knitted brows then relaxed, and she nodded with a smile:
"Yes, when Mr. Hu divorced, he even specifically gave his child an apartment, which is not easy. Speaking of which, Xu Danli asked tentatively: "Then, is there a mortgage on this apartment now..."
Hu Xingfa thought of that apartment and felt a pang of pain. When he earned millions a year, he gave away that two-bedroom apartment. The reason he gave it at the time was that he was annoyed by Liu Fang's refusal to divorce, so he gave her this apartment.
Thinking back now, Liu Chen might not even care about this apartment?
After all, her stepfather's Meili Brand Food Factory is one of the top two largest meat processing companies in S Province.
Thinking of this, Hu Xingfa's heart was filled with passion.
It seemed that the only problem now was how to win back Liu Chen's heart and turn her towards him?
Thinking of the news he saw in the Weibo comments a few days ago, Hu Xingfa thought for a moment and then mentioned it to Xu Danli:
"My ex-wife, oh, Liu Chen's mother, her current husband proposed to her on May Day last year. Both of them were in their forties, and they said she was pregnant again, five or six months along."
Xu Danli's eyes lit up when she heard this. Having hosted so many talk shows, she naturally knew that no child had no reservations about their parents remarrying and having children.
This was because it involved the inheritance of parental property, and in most families, children born after remarriage would also be helped by their older siblings to take care of them.
"Does Liu Chen know about her mother remarrying and being pregnant?"
"I'm afraid she does."
"Mm-hmm, and after you divorced Liu Chen's mother, did you remarry?"
Hu Xingfa nodded: "I remarried, but I divorced in the first half of last year. That woman secretly used my seal to get a bank loan and took all my money to help my eldest sister. I sued her and sent her to prison."
Hearing this, Xu Danli felt some regret. How could she feel that this Hu Xingfa was nothing but a pile of dung?
Daughter, daughter didn't care, wife, wife was sued by him and sent to prison, sister, sister ran away with the money.
Thinking of her own wish, Xu Danli began to have a new idea. If she couldn't rely on the deep father-daughter affection and a happy ending to boost ratings, perhaps she could take a different route and expose this unreliable father's image and his long-standing neglect of his daughter?
Hu Xingfa, at this moment, still didn't know that the gentle smiling female host sitting opposite him had already abandoned him as an ally. He was still thinking about how to find more stories about his childhood interactions with Liu Chen to make the child remember how good a father he was.
...
"Achoo!"
Liu Chen rubbed her nose, standing outside the new product research room of Meili Brand, watching the employees in white coats making the new product she had provided, dried pork.
Once this batch of dried pork was made, it would be sent for inspection. After passing the inspection and receiving the permit, the dried pork could officially start mass production.
The laboratory not only made the first batch of dried pork, packed it, and sent it for inspection, but also kept a case for the major distributors that Liu Chen had specifically prepared.
At over three in the afternoon, Liu Chen walked in the front, followed by staff carrying a case of dried pork, and entered Old Master Chen's office.
Inside the office, the originally spacious black sofa was crowded with six distributor representatives.
Among them was Zhu Dian of the 99 Supermarket Chain. Seeing Liu Chen push the door open, he had a smile on his face.
"Look! Here comes our young and promising Boss Liu! Brother Chen called me directly, and I didn't even sleep through my nap. I got out of bed just to be the first to see our new dried pork!"
Liu Chen also had a deep impression of this Boss Zhu, as he was the first distributor to accept Meimei sausages. For this reason alone, she was willing to let him be one of the first distributors of dried pork.
"Grandpa Zhu, thank you for your affirmation of our Meimei Brand." Liu Chen finished speaking, took the case of dried pork from behind her, placed it steadily on the coffee table, and cut open the box with a fruit knife. "Look, this is the dried pork. This is the loose packaging. Each small bag contains two slices, and each slice is about the size of two coins."
Zhu Dian took the dried pork handed to him by Liu Chen and dangled the small plastic bag in front of his eyes.
His eyes narrowed, and he hesitated slightly:
"Chenchen, Grandpa Zhu can understand that dried pork sounds more expensive to produce, but... just these two slices, isn't it a bit too little? It feels like it's only enough to pick your teeth?"
After speaking, Zhu Dian tore open the small plastic bag and put it in his mouth. He was prepared for the dried pork not to be as good as Meimei sausages, as he considered Meimei sausages to be a timeless classic.
However, he also had certain expectations for Meimei Brand's dried pork. At least, it had to be delicious.
It wasn't that Zhu Dian had low standards. As a supermarket owner, he knew too well that every year, major food factories would have a burst of inspiration and launch some strange-flavored products.
They were hard to sell, and after the first batch of new products was sold, that production line might be directly discontinued, and they would start developing new products.
With these messy thoughts in his mind, when the dried pork reached his tongue, Zhu Dian couldn't help but close his eyes.
At this moment, all he could think was:
It's too delicious!
How could there be such delicious snacks?!
Huh? Why did it disappear after just two chews?
Zhu Dian couldn't help but open his eyes, and his hand instinctively reached for the small paper box where the dried pork had been placed.
Seeing Zhu Dian's reaction, Liu Chen also picked up a piece.
Mmm~~ No matter how many times she ate it, it was still delicious!
For a while, the only sound in the entire office was the tearing of plastic packaging bags.
"Ouch!"
As Zhu Dian was eating, he suddenly cried out. Liu Chen looked closely, and it seemed that Grandpa Zhu had eaten too much dried pork, and his dentures had fallen out. Grandpa Zhu was now using his hand to catch the dentures he had spit out from his mouth.
It was even a gold tooth.
Even Liu Chen was amused by Grandpa Zhu's action.
"Grandpa Zhu, you can't eat too much dried pork with your teeth, otherwise it's too much trouble to wear dentures."
"Hahaha!! You naughty girl, you're teasing your Grandpa Zhu like this. Alas, I'm getting old, old, old. It's a shame I can't eat such delicious things. I envy the young people nowadays who have healthy bodies to eat these good things to their hearts' content."
As he spoke, Zhu Dian quietly reached out for the paper box containing the dried pork.
Before his hand could reach it, the paper box containing the dried pork suddenly moved outwards, causing Zhu Dian's hand to miss.
"Who! Who moved it!"
Zhu Dian angrily roared and looked up, only to see Old Master Chen standing opposite him, separated by only a coffee table.
"Old Zhu, how old are you, and you still can't control your mouth? You've eaten the stuff, tell me, what do you think of this dried pork."
Zhu Dian cast a regretful glance at the paper box with about half of the dried pork left, smacked his tongue, and savored the lingering taste.
"No complaints, it's this one."
Zhu Dian gave a thumbs-up, indicating first place.
Old Master Chen smiled and narrowed his eyes when he saw this.
"Alright, as long as the taste is good, Chenchen, you tell me, you want to tap into the New Year's goods market, how should we do it?"
Liu Chen, who had been standing obediently since Old Master Chen appeared, nodded when she was called.
"Our Meimei dried pork is designed in this small packaging. Each package is about ten grams. Every ten packages are packed in a large transparent plastic package. The packaging is designed with a red background, and the words 'Meimei Brand Dried Pork' in yellow are on the packaging."
Zhu Dian nodded in understanding:
"I understand, it's a red package to celebrate the New Year! I'm familiar with this. Every year during the New Year, our supermarket shelves are this color!"
Liu Chen nodded, then smiled confidently:
"But there's a little something different inside our packaging bag."
Zhu Dian smiled: "I know, our dried pork is so delicious, it's indeed different from others!"
Liu Chen shook her head slightly and looked at Old Master Chen, who was also looking at her with a puzzled expression.
"I will hold an event called 'Meimei Welcomes the New Spring'. Inside the packaging bags of this batch, I will place a card. A normal card, when scratched, will say 'Happy New Year,' while a lucky card will say 'Golden Tiger Brings Treasures'!
With this 'Golden Tiger Brings Treasures,' you can redeem a hundred yuan New Year's red envelope at the place where you bought Meimei Brand dried pork!"
"Hiss! Wouldn't that mean you're giving out a hundred yuan for every hundred packs?"
Zhu Dian immediately realized the cost of this promotion, which meant that the cost per pack would increase by one yuan.
"Then how much do you plan to sell this dried pork for?"
All the distributor bigwigs looked up, their faces full of indecision. If Liu Chen asked for too high a price, their room for price increases would be smaller, wouldn't that mean they would be helping Meimei Brand for nothing?
Liu Chen scanned the expressions on everyone's faces and roughly guessed their concerns. She took a calculator from behind and placed it on the table.
"I plan to sell it for this amount."