After arranging everything, Shen Qiang had planned to chat with Xu Nan and Bai Jiao for a while.

But as it turned out, just like Mr. Sun Kaiping and Boss Ma, both of them were too occupied examining the antiques Shen Qiang had sourced from Ancient Moon Pavilion and Yaqiu.

And they were enjoying themselves immensely.

Apart from praising Shen Qiang's exceptional abilities, they showed little interest in speaking with him; each of them was transfixed by the antiques, as if they were enchanted.

Because there were plenty of antiques available at that time.

And the prices were quite reasonable.

Once they found an antique they liked, they could almost always buy it smoothly.

So no matter whether it was Xu Nan, Bai Jiao, Sun Kaiping, Boss Ma, or any other antique dealers, they all seemed as if they had entered a Treasure Vault, dazzled and too busy to sit down and chat casually with Shen Qiang as usual.

In such circumstances.

It was Bianyi who sat down with Shen Qiang in the office to discuss the future development direction of the Shen Corporation.

Lately, Bianyi had become fascinated with capital operations and believed that the focus for future development should be on this aspect: acquisition, spin-off, sale, and using massive capital to swallow up various companies and projects he was optimistic about.

Shen Qiang didn't understand much about this area and didn't wish to interfere too much.

So he simply told Bianyi that whatever he thought was appropriate, he should proceed with that.

But besides that.

There were three projects that must remain independent of the Shen Corporation.

These three projects were pharmaceutical health products, gourmet food, and antiques.

Shen Qiang had expertise in all three areas and was an absolute authority in each.

Especially in the pharmaceutical health products, Shen Qiang intended to be a dictator, not allowing anyone else the opportunity to intervene.

As for gourmet food, it was about Datong River, and Shen Qiang would visit periodically to dine and, if he found any issues, would be absolutely uncompromising.

As for antiques, due to their scarcity,

they did not lend themselves to rapid expansion, so Shen Qiang decided that Xiduobao would never open branch stores. There would only be this one, and aside from the Store Treasure, all other antiques would be sold. Hiring a manager for normal operations would suffice,

because pharmaceutical health products, gourmet food, and antiques were Shen Qiang's three steeds of ascension.

They were also the foundation upon which Shen Qiang stood.

Thus, in these three areas, Shen Qiang wouldn't give Bianyi any chance to deepen his control.

Moreover, by this time, the business of the Shen Corporation had already formally commenced.

And the number of shares held in companies was already sufficient.

So that very day, Shen Qiang separated the pharmaceutical health products company and Xiduobao from the Shen Corporation,

completing the privatization of these two entities.

As for Dinghao Hotel and the Datong River Restaurant,

since they needed to expand to other first- and second-tier cities within the country, they had to be kept within the Shen Corporation. After all, relying on Lv Shuyao's parents and Chu Qing alone to swiftly achieve expansion of the hotel and restaurant would undoubtedly be fraught with difficulties.

But with Bianyi involved, the situation was different.

Bianyi liked to engulf.

Therefore, he could handle site locations and various other aspects. As for how the hotel and restaurant should be renovated and designed, that would be Chu Qing and Lv Shuyao's parents' issue to address.

After deciding on this aspect,

Bianyi suggested continuing the plan to employ cultivators.

Shen Qiang agreed, but asserted that quality mattered more than quantity. Shen Qiang advised Bianyi to employ at least those above the Nascent Soul Stage, even if it cost a bit more, rather than assembling a motley crew.

Bianyi strongly agreed with this point.

Besides, Shen Qiang laid down three key principles with Bianyi.

While conducting business, the Shen Corporation could use various strategies, but 1, must never exploit the common people. 2, must never target law-abiding businessmen. 3, must never casually lay off employees and jeopardize their livelihoods.

Bianyi concurred with this.

So, in the next half a month,

Shen Qiang practiced cultivation every day.

Everything was running smoothly.

Xiduobao's business was doing well, Datong River's business was thriving, and since the renaming of the pharmaceutical health care products company, the outstanding clinical performance of Thermophilic Streptococcus had caught the attention of the medical community.

Meanwhile, Long Yan Sword Sect still hadn't made any moves.

After completing military training, Miao Xiaoxia returned to school and was very affectionate with the beautiful teacher, Ju Yang.

Besides these mundane matters,

what surprised Shen Qiang the most during this period was that Datong River had become famous—it

was not because of winning first place in the Huaxia Culinary Grand Prix, but because Datong River's breast-enhancing medicinal dishes were recommended by a media company specializing in women's beauty and wellness as the number one must-eat dish for beauty-loving ladies.

That media company had a massive readership base of its own.

When those women saw that Datong River's breast-enhancing medicinal dishes were indeed effective, and furthermore, the media company published every detail of their test reports,

Datong River became an instant hit across north and south.

However, the signature dish of Datong River was not the Truffle Steak or other award-winning cuisine,

but rather, the breast-enhancing medicinal dishes, acclaimed as something every woman must try at least once in her life—

Shen Qiang thought this was fucking crazy.

Because he had never anticipated that the biggest draw for customers would be the breast-enhancing medicinal dishes.

And that wasn't all.

Apart from the popularity of Datong River,

the "Baozi Xi Shi," the beautiful young widow Gao Hui, was even more famous online.

She was pretty, her steamed buns were reasonably priced, and they tasted good.

After half a month of word-of-mouth, her steamed buns not only became a little famous in the provincial city but also made a small splash online due to netizens posting photos of lines of customers waiting to buy steamed buns and the beautiful woman skilfully packing buns at the shopfront.

Her steamed buns were jokingly referred to by netizens as "Xi Shi Buns."

They were in high demand almost every day.

So the shop's entire staff was basically used for steaming buns.

And they sold out as soon as they came out of the steamer.

Therefore, the shop had no choice but to limit purchases—each person could only buy a maximum of five buns at a time.

Moreover, after half a month of meticulous nurturing, the beautiful young widow Gao Hui not only had much fairer skin, her figure also became fuller, almost returning to the state when Shen Qiang first met her, plus she followed Shen Qiang's arrangement and went to buy herself a beautiful outfit every week.

So now, not only was she beautiful, but that mature charm about her had become much more dazzling.

Yet, in this half month's time, Shen Qiang went every day to look at the photos sent back from the private investigators and kept an eye on her news, but he never once went to see her.

Besides that,

Bianyi had already signed the contract on behalf of Shen Qiang.

Originally, according to Shen Qiang's plan, investing another million and then taking half of the baozi shop's shares would have been enough.

But the beautiful young widow Gao Hui was only willing to give up thirty percent.

She said there wouldn't be the baozi shop without Shen Qiang, so that's the most she could take.

At this, Shen Qiang sighed.

Gao Hui could have taken fifty percent but only took thirty, leaving more profits for Shen Qiang, all in the name of righteousness.

Just like that, half a month passed by.

All was stable.

That morning, just after nine,

Shen Qiang, who had entered the late stage of the Golden Core and was diligently practicing cultivation every day, had just finished a 6,000-kilogram weight training session and came out of the shower when he received a phone call from Bianyi, "Boss, hurry to the baozi shop; something's happened at your beautiful widow's place."

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