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Chapter 70: Grilled Chicken on a Grave, Ashes Mixed in the Sauce! (Seeking Subscriptions)

When Lin Youlong led several trusted aides straight to the Shanzhai Chen Ji flagship store on Wuma Street, the scene had already been cordoned off by relevant departments.

"President Lin! We just received notice that it's been temporarily requisitioned."

"We have to wait for the archaeological team to come and remove the entire Ming Dynasty tomb underneath before we can continue using it."

Several employees, anxiously pacing around the scene, immediately surrounded Lin Youlong and his group as if they had found their backbone.

Upon hearing this news, Lin Youlong's face darkened: "Did they say how long it would be requisitioned for?"

The employee shook his head: "I don't know, President Lin! They just told us to go back and wait for further notice."

Hearing this, Lin Youlong's heart sank.

If it were just a simple ground subsidence, it would be fine; find an expert to assess the safety, and then refill it, and the flagship store could continue to operate.

After all, Wenzhou is located on an alluvial plain at the estuary, with complex geological layers, and the underground is either rotten mud or underground rivers.

Building roads on such terrain results in more frequent bomb craters and washboard roads than in plain areas, not to mention sudden ground subsidence.

But when a Ming Dynasty tomb suddenly emerges from the subsidence pit, the nature of the matter changes!

This involves local cultural relic protection, and it is said that the tomb owner, a third-rank official, was a prominent historical figure during the Ming Dynasty, requiring rescue protection and excavation.

Whenever archaeological excavation is mentioned, the average person's mind, in addition to the shock of historical relics, also thinks of: "Time-consuming, slow progress."

Because professional archaeological talents are very scarce nationwide, the annual enrollment in related majors is as rare as a single seedling in the entire department. Once admitted, they have a secure job for the rest of their lives, and they don't have to worry about employment at all.

What they worry about is that there are too many ancient tombs and relics underground to be completely excavated!

China has more than eight thousand years of history, and in recent years, they have even excavated the Yu Dynasty before the Xia and Shang dynasties.

To get to this Ming Dynasty tomb in front of them, the news probably has to be reported layer by layer, and then professional personnel will be arranged to handle it.

By the time the tomb underneath is removed, the day lilies will be cold. What's the point of opening a flagship store!

Although the amount invested in this Shanzhai Chen Ji flagship store is not large for Chaofan Catering Group, including the annual rent of about 500,000 and the decoration materials, a maximum investment of less than a million can get it done.

However, this place is, after all, the most prosperous and high-traffic commercial district in Wenzhou.

The reason why this Shanzhai Chen Ji flagship store was chosen here was also to use the high traffic to boost the popularity of this newly created brand.

But only a few days after the new opening, they built the location on someone else's grave.

Although it was just an unintentional act, once this explosive news was exposed, in less than half an hour, popular short videos and self-media public accounts began to push various links in the Wenzhou friends' circle.

Under the embellishment of Wenzhou's funny netizens, popular jokes and comments such as "Grilled Chicken on a Grave" and "Ashes Mixed in the Sauce" emerged endlessly.

Those tourists and diners who had eaten or ordered takeaway from this Shanzhai Chen Ji grilled chicken, after seeing these pushed messages, had their mentality explode and they all went down to complain.

"Damn! I just took my girlfriend to eat this grilled chicken takeaway the day before yesterday (pout)"

"I said the taste of their grilled chicken was so strange! This is chicken gathering yin energy, all hardcore stuff! (vomit)"

"Although the brand looks pitiful, I couldn't help but give it a 1-star bad review (covering face)"

"1 star, let's go, brothers (avoiding thunder)"

Under this wave of complaints, the takeaway platform store called 'Chen Ji Secret Grilled Chicken' was directly刷成 (shua cheng - a slang term that means to be affected by coordinated online action) to a super low rating, and even once rushed to the local hot search list, attracting netizens from all walks of life to gather and watch.

"What's so strange about digging up an ancient tomb under the store? We dig up a palace every day when we build a subway here (laughing and crying)" — IP address from Xidu netizens.

"Is this the Chen Ji in Wenzhou that is said to be incredibly delicious?"

"Is it the one where you have to queue for a long time, and only two thousand are sold every day?"

"It shouldn't be, I haven't heard of the real Chen Ji having takeaway. This grilled chicken on the takeaway platform is only 20 yuan, and the price doesn't match the original Chen Ji."

Netizens who had eaten the real Chen Ji began to stand up and seriously popularize science in the comments section.

It was also at this time that the various Weibo and Douyin accounts of the real Chen Ji jumped out to publicly refute the relationship with this Shanzhai Chen Ji, taking advantage of the momentum, and attached the lawyer's letter and infringement filing to sue this Shanzhai Chen Ji and the Chaofan Catering Group behind it.

Chen Ji's move directly ignited the enthusiasm of these melon-eating netizens in Wenzhou.

It felt like this sudden hot search joke of 'Opening a Store on a Grave' was as wonderful as filming a TV series.

Not only was there fun to watch, but it also involved a secret business war between two local new and old catering forces behind it.

"This Chaofan Catering is too ugly (disgust)"

"They wanted to acquire Chen Ji but failed, so they copied and plagiarized themselves. The problem is that you don't have this recipe technology, you can't win even if you copy!"

"Don't ask, ask is grilled chicken on a grave (dog head)"

Various gossip and brain-filled essays began to fly around in the comment areas of the two official Weibo accounts and WeChat groups.

This not only burned the fire to Shanzhai Chen Ji but also directly exposed the behind-the-scenes mastermind, Chaofan Catering Group.

And the real Chen Ji, as the victim, also received the unanimous support of the majority of netizens in Wenzhou in this wave of melon-eating onlookers.

Not to mention anything else, the unanimous bad reviews on those takeaway platforms almost collapsed this Shanzhai Chen Ji's store!

Lin Youlong, who rushed to the scene to appease the employees, heard the report from the operations department that due to the excessive surge in bad reviews in a short period of time, Meituan and Ele.me had forcibly banned and removed the store.

This series of blows made Lin Youlong's blood pressure soar, who had high hopes for Shanzhai Chen Ji.

This group boss, who originally felt confident of victory, was standing outside the black and yellow police cordon of the Shanzhai Chen Ji flagship store, smoking half a pack of cigarettes and still couldn't figure it out: "Why... why would an ancient tomb emerge in this place!"

...

Time returned to more than 1 am this morning.

Just as the entire Wuma Street fell into the silence of the night.

Chen Jue, who dug a tunnel from No. 1 Binjiang Road store, led several iron golems holding [Stone Pickaxes] and [Torches].

Using the previously synthesized [Map] and stepping on the spots in advance, he dug all the way to the underground of the Shanzhai Chen Ji flagship store.

Knowing that this kind of small catering shop has surveillance inside, and no one will stay to watch the store at night, Chen Jue did not rashly dig up to the store to make trouble.

Instead, he knocked the entire underground ancient tomb, which the iron golems had accidentally encountered while digging the underground tunnel, into blocks and packaged it, and then filled it into the underground of this Shanzhai Chen Ji.

In order to prevent the archaeological team from detecting the difference in the soil quality of the ancient tomb package in the future, Chen Jue even replaced the geological layer of the entire underground of Wuma Street.

After that, he used earthwork tools to create an accidental 'ground subsidence' scene, pushing this Shanzhai Chen Ji to the forefront.

Looking at the unanimous bad reviews and group ridicule of Shanzhai Chen Ji by netizens, Chen Jue couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh.

He also took a few photos of the comments with the highest number of likes, such as 'Ashes Mixed in the Sauce' and 'Grilled Chicken on a Grave', and directly sent them to Lin Youlong via WeChat: "President Lin! Fair competition! (Smirk)"

Lin Youlong's face turned red when he saw Chen Jue's teasing message.

However, as a veteran entrepreneur, he still had this demeanor.

Lin Youlong didn't spray on WeChat voice on the spot, but forcibly endured his anger and typed a reply: "The business world is like this, there are wins and losses. The one who laughs last wins! President Chen, don't be too happy too soon (smile)"

Just after typing and sending, a red exclamation mark popped up!

Looking again at the words on WeChat showing that the message was rejected by the other party, this directly broke Lin Youlong's defense: "艹 % ￥ # 个头 毛狗生! (Cao %$# ge tou mao gou sheng! - A string of curse words)"

Guaranteed second update ~ I really want to add more, but time does not allow it. I will adjust tomorrow.