Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 730 - 725 Jewelry Company

Chapter 730: 725 Jewelry Company

By the time he returned to the hotel.

He saw that Old Yuan had already been waiting in the hotel for quite some time.

Old Yuan had a peculiar look on his face when he saw Gu Chen

It was as if he was wearing an "I know you know" expression.

He acted very strangely.

"I didn’t expect the massage session to be that long. How was the girl’s technique?"

Old Yuan asked Gu Chen with a chuckle on the side.

Gu Chen seemed rather speechless upon hearing this.

"Big brother, I’m a married man. How could I let her give me a massage?"

Gu Chen directly said to him at that moment.

Even if he were utterly conscienceless, he couldn’t do anything to betray his wife.

After hearing this, Old Yuan was taken aback.

"No massage? Then what were you up to? It took so many hours?"

Old Yuan was somewhat puzzled now. From the beginning until now, at least nearly four hours had passed.

In all that time, how did the two of them get along? Could they possibly just have been playing poker in the hotel?

"We didn’t do anything else. I asked him to drive me around Haicheng for a bit to get a feel for the current market.

After all, the liquor company will be moving in soon, so it’s beneficial to look around and understand the situation in advance."

After Gu Chen finished saying this, Old Yuan was momentarily at a loss for what to say.

He felt that Gu Chen was simply messing around.

Four hours just to look at that little bit?

"Sigh, brother, you sure are straightforward."

Old Yuan said this, not making it clear whether he was praising or scolding Gu Chen.

But anyway, Gu Chen didn’t mind anymore.

"Old Yuan, I want to ask you about something," Gu Chen said to Old Yuan all of a sudden.

Curiosity shone in Old Yuan’s eyes as he looked at Gu Chen, wondering what Gu Chen needed.

"We’re all buddies here, just say whatever you need to."

He said this to Gu Chen.

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen spoke indifferently, "What’s the deal with your jewelry business?"

Gu Chen wasn’t curious about anything else, just this particular matter.

If it weren’t for Xiong Qianyang mentioning it, he would have had no clue.

He never knew what kind of business Old Yuan was in—only that Old Yuan had a certain social foundation.

Even though he hadn’t been in Chuan City for too long,

there had been several times when Gu Chen asked him for a favor, and he took care of them all.

That was enough to prove that Old Yuan’s social networking skills were extremely strong.

And his ability to survive in society was robust, too.

Old Yuan’s expression gradually stiffened upon hearing this matter.

"It’s okay, really. There’s nothing much to it. Just a few minor troubles,"

He shook his head and said to Gu Chen.

Gu Chen, for a moment, did not know how to respond.

For Gu Chen, these matters were anything but trivial.

"So, do you still do the jewelry business?" Gu Chen continued to question Old Yuan.

Upon hearing this, Old Yuan hesitated for a moment.

Then he turned to Gu Chen and said, "It’s highly likely that I won’t continue with it. I no longer have the connections I used to, and all those suppliers have blacklisted me because I offended them too.

Moreover, during the period of business competition, I almost put all of my family wealth into it, and now I no longer have that much capital.

I feel lucky that back then I left some money with a fund manager, and that is why I still have some savings and can live a somewhat affluent life."

When Old Yuan mentioned this past experience, his face was filled with sorrow.

It was once the industry he took the most pride in, but now it had all vanished into thin air.

And the main reason for this was Xiong Qianyang.

"I remember the time when they mentioned Qianyang Chamber of Commerce to me, I didn’t take it seriously.

By the time I realized something was wrong, it was already too late.

All my suppliers had abandoned me.

I finally found a supplier, only to be cheated. He delivered me some defective, even completely fake jewelry, and it was that incident that erased our brand from Haicheng.

I myself almost ended up in prison because of it."

As Old Yuan spoke, his eyes began to redden.

For him, this past was anything but splendid.

Now, it could be said that this past was his dark history.

"Because of that incident involving the sale of fake jewelry,

I am now banned from entering the jewelry industry.

You could say that from then on, the word ’jewelry’ has had nothing to do with me."

After saying this, Old Yuan didn’t know what to say for a while.

His family had been in the jewelry business for generations.

Yet to his surprise, it was about to end with him.

"Old Yuan, I also want to enter the jewelry industry, and I was wondering if you would be willing to help me?"

At this point, Gu Chen asked Old Yuan curiously.

If Xiong Qianyang asked Old Yuan for help, he would definitely refuse.

But it was Gu Chen asking for his help—how could he say no?

He just looked at Gu Chen, slightly puzzled.

"Why do you want to get into the jewelry industry all of a sudden?"

He really didn’t understand what Gu Chen was thinking.

In the span of a single day, Gu Chen had talked about the chamber of commerce, mentioned the aerospace company, and now brought up the jewelry industry; he was bewildered, not understanding what Gu Chen was up to.

Was this treating the industry as some kind of child’s play?

However, Gu Chen spoke very seriously, "There’s no other reason, just that I think this industry must be quite profitable, I guess. I want to add a bit of modest income for myself."

Gu Chen said this casually.

"How about this, let’s open a jewelry company together. I don’t know anything about it, I’ll just provide the capital, so I’ll take 40%. You handle everything else, and you get 60%. What do you say?"

At that moment, Gu Chen was even discussing how to divide the ownership of the jewelry company.

Old Yuan was stunned for a moment, looking at Gu Chen, who did not seem to be joking.

"Gu Chen, if this jewelry company really gets started, the capital required is no small number.

Seven figures is an absolute certainty, and we’d still need to find suppliers.

That’s going to be extremely troublesome—we’ll have to decide whether to directly target the general public with our jewelry, serve the wealthy, or become channel merchants."

"But no matter which direction we take in the future, even the initial start-up capital could overwhelm us."

Over the years, Old Yuan had thought about restarting his old trade and even considered partnering with someone else to open a new jewelry company under a different name.

Of course, these weren’t the real issues. The real problem was money.

He simply didn’t have that much capital on hand right now.