Chapter 499: Chapter 325 Small Collaboration_2

But if we could collaborate with Chu Mingcheng’s side, even at the normal market price, the cost would be significantly reduced.

Plus, no one knows how long the tuna has been frozen at the trading center. Their fish are often frozen for at least a month or even several months, and it’s normal for it to be frozen even longer.

Whereas Chu Mingcheng’s fish is different. The freezing time for his tuna is definitely shorter, and the freshness is better.

With both price and quality guaranteed, why would you choose otherwise?

Moreover, Li Jianye discovered a huge surprise during his visit this time.

His son runs an Omakase restaurant, where the daily menu depends on the ingredients received that day.

If Chu Mingcheng can provide so many rare and valuable seafood items, then they wouldn’t need to buy all imported seafood.

At least for the seafood available domestically, they wouldn’t need to rely on imports, which would save a significant portion of the costs.

Chu Mingcheng was naturally willing to collaborate with a high-end Omakase restaurant.

After all, it’s not easy to sell items like king isopods and killer crabs to his regular customer base, but it’s different at a no-menu Japanese Omakase restaurant.

He guessed that just displaying them in the water tanks at the restaurant entrance would attract a large crowd of customers.

So that evening, Chu Mingcheng cooked personally to let Li Jianye taste the king isopods and other seafood.

He also spoke to Zhang Wei about this matter, assigning him to handle the collaboration.

Chu Mingcheng himself is now just a fisherman. Sales were no longer his responsibility.

However, he sent the coordinates for both the killer crabs and the king isopods to Zhao Jun.

He wasn’t always available to catch these specific types of seafood himself.

While Chu Mingcheng was dealing with the seafood and Jiang Luoluo was helping him out, the two men in the living room opened the wooden crate beside them.

They were all somewhat puzzled as to why the seafood was packed in a wooden crate, but when they opened it, they found a large bottle of single-branch red wine.

Both men were worldly and recognized the brand Romanee Conti. They might not be very familiar with it, but they had definitely seen and even drunk it before.

Yet to suddenly see a six-liter bottle of Pinot Noir from 1990 in front of them left them shocked, sucking in a breath of cold air.

“Old Jiang, is your son-in-law really just a fisher? Could there be some hidden identity you don’t know about, something your daughter hasn’t told you?”

With a fishing permit from West Lake and such a large bottle of wine that money might not even be able to buy, Li Jianye genuinely started to question Chu Mingcheng’s identity.

Initially, Jiang Bo had told him that the other party’s family was very ordinary.

He was curious how he got the West Lake fishing permit, but now upon seeing the bottle of wine, he felt Chu Mingcheng’s identity was definitely not simple.

A six-liter bottle from 1990, not a standard bottle. Even with a net worth close to a billion, he could only afford a standard bottle.

Jiang Bo for a moment also doubted if Chu Mingcheng was hiding something, but he had met the other’s parents and truly understood their family situation, which made him very puzzled as well.

But of course, he wouldn’t say this out loud.

“Well, I might not know enough about it! We don’t care about this in our family. At the beginning, I just felt that Ah Cheng was a good and hardworking kid and Luoluo liked him, so I acknowledged their relationship.”

Li Jianye nodded, then joked, “It seems your daughter has a good eye, finding you such a golden son-in-law.”

“Oh, what golden son-in-law, as long as the kids are sensible and filial, that’s our biggest comfort as parents.” Jiang Bo waved his hand dismissively, then picked up the wine again and examined it closely.

Chu Mingcheng, who happened to turn around to fetch something, saw this and came out laughing, “Uncle, I brought this bottle specifically for you; if you like it, we can open it and have a drink later.”

“Such fine wine, I dare not drink it. Ah Cheng, you should take it back to your parents,” Jiang Bo hurriedly put the wine back, shaking his head.

If Chu Mingcheng brought the wine over, it was surely intended as a gift for him and his wife.

But he was keenly aware of the value of the wine and felt uncomfortable accepting such a precious item, even as a future father-in-law.

“Uncle, my parents also have a bottle of this wine. This one is specially brought for you and Auntie. Please feel free to drink it.” Chu Mingcheng didn’t mention that he had five bottles in total, mainly because he was afraid Li Jianye would ask to buy some from him.

Having sold one bottle to Chen Yang, he himself had only two bottles left, and one of them was already opened.

At that moment, Li Ying entered carrying big bags of groceries. With the children visiting today, she had gone to the mall to buy a lot of food.

Quite coincidentally, she heard part of Chu Mingcheng’s sentence and asked,

“What’s coming over? What are we supposed to drink?”

Soon after, she learned about the wine and that Chu Mingcheng’s parents also had one. She didn’t refuse because of the wine’s value.

“If it’s Ah Cheng’s filial piety, of course we will accept it. Mr. Li is here too, so tonight we’ll all try the wine.”

Li Ying decided then and there and then went into the kitchen with the groceries.

“Auntie’s so straightforward!” Chu Mingcheng gave her a thumbs-up, then quickly took the bags from her.

Li Ying raised her chin slightly, “Of course, you’re like my own son, why would I feel awkward?”

Jiang Luoluo watched her family and loved one getting along harmoniously while she busied her hands, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Tonight, without any problems, everyone drank from that bottle of wine.

The two older men miscalculated how strong the wine was and ended up getting completely drunk, finishing two-fifths of the large bottle.