Chapter 2363: 2177: Bought It for Fun

Ye Qiu thinks the environment here is quite nice. If it really closes down, it would be very unfortunate. Anyway, Ye Qiu is not short of money; he could buy it and come here for eating, drinking, and enjoying himself. The two had almost finished eating, yet there was still a lot left.

When calling over the female server from before, Ye Qiu asked, "Where’s your boss?"

"He just went over to the foot of the mountain."

"Tell him to come up."

Tell him to come up?

The female server was confused.

However, when the boss was called up, Ye Qiu saw a middle-aged man dressed in casual wear, but with a face full of worries.

"Boss, did you call me?"

The mountain estate’s boss, You Liwei, asked.

"Looks like your estate can’t keep running."

"Too few customers, expenses exceed income, indeed can’t keep running, I’ve been preparing to transfer ownership but haven’t found anyone to take over."

"What’s the rent here per year?"

"Are you interested?"

With such an unprofitable estate, naturally, there’s hope to transfer it quickly. Seeing this young man arrive in a Range Rover, he guessed he might be a rich kid from Jinling.

"I’m interested in having some fun."

"This land was contracted between me and the nearby rural cooperative for twenty-five years; we’ve been running for almost three years now. Only two years were profitable, and we lost money for three years. The annual rent is one hundred fifty thousand."

The rent is one hundred fifty thousand a year?

However, this place is quite large with mountains and a lake; one hundred fifty thousand isn’t actually much.

"So, you think you can’t keep losing money?"

"Of course, also need to pay the staff, and the monthly salary for employees is at least forty or fifty thousand."

Ye Qiu glanced earlier and saw nearly ten employees, plus there should be two or three chefs.

Thus, forty or fifty thousand monthly salary is quite normal.

If there’s no business, indeed, these employees need to be sustained.

"Boss, if you’re interested, I can transfer it at a loss to you."

The middle-aged man said urgently.

"No need, one hundred fifty thousand a year is one hundred fifty thousand a year. Directly transfer it to me, but the contract needs to be resigned with the village."

"Alright then, I’ll go contact the village cooperative’s head for you now."

You Liwei is quite anxious.

Having lost over a million in three years, he doesn’t have much wealth; continuing to lose money would leave him with nothing.

Seeing the other party urgently searching for people, Ye Qiu felt it was somewhat amusing.

"You’re not really thinking of buying it, are you?"

"Why not? What if I buy it for you?"

"For me?"

"Just using your name."

"This is losing money, what’s the use?" Zhou Wenting asked.

"That boss doesn’t know how to run it, so of course it’s losing money. Think about my Imperial Cuisine Restaurant."

Zhou Wenting thought about it, and it really was like that.

Of course, Ye Qiu mainly bought it so he could come here for eating, drinking, and enjoying himself when he had time.

After all, the mountain estate’s positioning is different from the Imperial Cuisine Restaurant.

"Isn’t this a bit inappropriate?" Zhou Wenting said.

The two sat there for about half an hour, then saw the boss bringing over two men who looked like village cadres.

They knew You Liwei was losing a lot at the estate, hence they wanted to transfer it to someone else.

In places like this, if not developed for redevelopment, they are essentially useless and can only be rented out to others.

"Boss, these two are the village cooperative’s heads, one is the village secretary, the other is the village head," You Liwei said.

The village cadres didn’t mind who took over, the key was that the rent needed to be paid on time each year.

"Transfer is fine, the contract needs to be re-signed, and I want it for fifty years, with a five percent rent increase every year on the original basis."

Because the village cadres are selected every few years, rents are paid annually rather than paid off all at once.

A five percent increase every year?

That’s quite good!

"Boss, we have no objections," the village secretary said.

"Then that’s good."

"I’ll have someone bring the contract over this afternoon. Someone will be responsible for signing the contract, and then it will be transferred."

After Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting came down, the mountain estate employees didn’t expect the boss to have transferred ownership so quickly. Could they still keep working?

"Mr. Ye, what about these employees?" You Liwei asked.

As the saying goes, being free of debt is being free.

He no longer had to worry about continued losses, and suddenly felt much lighter.

However, what about these employees?

"Depends on their attitude."

Various aspects of the estate need reorganizing, including the service attitudes of these employees and other issues which are quite lacking.

Regarding this, You Liwei also felt the same, although he didn’t have much money to invest.

"I’ll have someone come over to handle the other matters with you," Ye Qiu said.

The investment here is indeed negligible.

Ye Qiu still gave the other party one million.

This one million is for the investment in those buildings here.

If that were the case, You Liwei found he didn’t lose as much.

"Mr. Ye, thank you very much," You Liwei said.

Ye Qiu didn’t say much; he still paid for the meal he just had at the estate.

As for the rest, he naturally didn’t care.

After getting into the car with Zhou Wenting, Ye Qiu called Cai Yong and asked him to send someone over to take charge here and bring a lawyer to handle the contract signing.

Seeing Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting drive away, You Liwei still felt like he was dreaming.

"Boss, you didn’t really sell the estate, did you?"

"It’s transferred," You Liwei said.

"What about us?"

With little business, these people were accustomed to laziness, fearing the new boss might not want them.

"That boss Ye just said, it depends on your attitude?"

Within half an hour of Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting leaving, several cars arrived.

Cai Yong had brought people over.

He didn’t expect Ye Qiu to actually take over this mountain estate.

"Who is boss You?" Cai Yong asked.

"That’s me."

Currently, Cai Yong is considered a big figure in Jinling, and now Jiangbei Group is also very formidable; seeing him, most people recognize him.

You Liwei felt he was familiar but couldn’t recall immediately.

"Brother Qiu just said he has taken over here, and I’m now in charge of matters here."

You Liwei hurriedly took Cai Yong and his team to an office on the first floor, where the two village cadres were still waiting, surprised that the young man had summoned people so quickly.

"This is the new contract; if there’s nothing wrong, we can sign the agreement," Cai Yong said.