Era: You're asked to cook a home-style dish, but you cook Wellington.

Chapter 154 The Fujita Family's Plans

Lin Zheng led an elderly man slowly through the main gate.

"Old Lin."

Gao Yang bowed, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes; he had never expected Elder Lin to come.

Old Lin nodded slightly with a smile, but instead of speaking to Gao Yang immediately, he looked at the old man beside him.

"Old Kong, this is Gao Yang, the promising young talent I told you about."

He looked at Gao Yang.

"This is Kong Xiangyun, who is in charge of liaising with Japan."

"Recently, Japan is planning to open a large number of restaurants across the country, and Yicheng is the first stop, so I brought Mr. Kong to Yicheng for a visit."

Gao Yang greeted him.

"Master Kong".

Kong Xiangyun waved his hand with a smile, looked at the field, especially at the row of kneeling notebooks, raised an eyebrow, and asked with feigned curiosity, "Hey, Gao Yang, what are you doing? Why are so many people kneeling?"

"Especially the one in the middle, if I'm not mistaken, it's Fujita Taishu from the Fujita family, right? I've met him before."

He said this to Lin Zheng beside him, clearly wanting to escalate the situation and make Xiaobenzi even more embarrassed.

Fujita Daishu knelt on the ground, his body twisting violently but he was still held down and unable to move. His face turned bright red, and he quickly lowered his head so that more people could not see his face.

It's so embarrassing, so incredibly embarrassing.

Fujita Taiga realized that the two people who had arrived were clearly biased towards Gao Yang, and his expression darkened.

"Hmph, Chinese, don't think I can't see through your schemes."

Kong Xiangyun seemed to only then realize that Fujita Taiga was also present. He pretended not to know him, took half a step forward, and extended his right hand.

"Oh, and who are you?"

"Fujita Taiga, I am now in charge of all arrangements for the Fujita family in Yicheng."

He did not reach out to grasp Kong Xiangyun's hand, but instead tapped the ground with his cane, his expression haughty.

"You were sent by your side to serve us, right? Look at how things have gotten out of hand. How are we going to handle this?"

"You need to understand that your attitude is of great significance to our cooperation in Yicheng."

Upon hearing his words, Kong Xiangyun paused for a moment, then withdrew his hand and smiled.

"Oh, it's Fujita Taiga! My apologies for not recognizing you sooner."

He turned to Gao Yang and asked in confusion, "What's going on here? How did you manage to pin so many of them to the ground?"

"They are Japanese after all. Even if they commit crimes, we can't treat them like this. We need to be mindful of the impact on both countries, right?"

His voice was extremely loud, without any attempt to conceal it, and he emphasized the words "committing crimes" very heavily.

Gao Yang was so happy he almost burst out laughing, but he kept a straight face.

"Master Kong, this is really not my fault. Fujita Daishu himself wanted to make a bet with us, and he lost, so he has to kneel here."

"As for those notebooks, they tried to do something in our restaurant and insulted Chinese women. Luckily, the third brother saw it and dealt with them. They are apologizing to her now."

Gao Yang pointed at Lin Ran with an innocent expression, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

Lin Ran panicked for a moment, then realized what Gao Yang meant. She blinked twice, and even her voice carried a hint of grievance.

"Yes, yes, they not only planned to attack me at the Grand Hotel, but they also planned to physically humiliate me. Mr. Kong can ask everyone."

Master Kong looked at everyone.

Everyone nodded in agreement, indignantly saying, "Yes, this little brat named Fujita Daishu is doing whatever he wants here because of his family background. It's infuriating!"

"That's right, the others are even worse. They bully the little girl because she's easy to bully. If it weren't for Third Brother arriving in time, the Grand Court Hotel would probably have been torn down by them."

"Yes, how can we let these people with such poor character open a shop in Yicheng?"

With everyone chiming in, the battle situation quickly turned into one that was extremely favorable to Gao Yang and his group.

Fujita Taiga couldn't get a word in edgewise, his face turning ashen.

As intelligent as he was, how could he not see that this was a play directed and acted by the Chinese themselves?

But what could they do? They outnumbered each other, and their lives were in the other's hands. The only thing they could do to fight back was his status as a member of the Fujita family.

His cane struck the ground heavily, and his whole body trembled.

Seeing that things were almost settled, Kong Xiangyun slowly spoke.

"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that. The ground is cold, let's get them up first."

Gao Yang nodded and waved his hand, signaling his men to release Fujita Daishu.

The third brother also told the bodyguards to release the people.

In the blink of an eye, Fujita Daishu and the others quickly stood up, walked behind Fujita Taiga, and glared at Gao Yang and the others with resentment.

"You idiot, getting humiliated on someone else's turf, could you be any more stupid?"

Fujita Taiga cursed loudly, looking utterly disappointed in him.

Fujita Daishu lowered his head deeply, not daring to utter a single word in reply.

Unbeknownst to him, Sato also retreated behind Fujita Taiga, found an inconspicuous corner, and coldly watched everything.

"Alright, enough with the formalities. Things have gotten to this point, it's not a good look. Why don't the three of us sit down and have a proper talk to discuss the follow-up?"

Lin Zheng stepped forward with a smile to smooth things over.

Even a cornered dog will jump over a wall. The Fujita family is, after all, a large clan, and they need to consider the attitude of their superiors.

"Hmph, talk? Talk about what? Talk about how Gao Yang humiliated my Fujita family?"

Fujita Taiga's face was grim. He knew that Kong Xiangyun was behind all of this, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The task assigned to him by the head of the family was to establish a firm foothold in Yicheng and prepare for swallowing up the entire catering market in Yicheng later. If he did not show his attitude now, he would probably suffer more and more losses in the subsequent negotiations.

Kong Xiangyun thought about it and agreed. He immediately sat down in a chair in the hall.

"Come, sit down."

He invited a few people to sit together, while waving to disperse the onlookers.

The audience dispersed and returned to their seats, but none of them were in the mood to eat; their eyes were all glancing over.

Gao Yang and the others also took their seats.

Kong Xiangyun's expression turned serious.

"Gao Yang, according to the notice from above, in order to maintain friendly relations with other countries, the Fujita family is going to open a restaurant in Yicheng. You are not allowed to suppress it."

Gao Yang nodded.

Kong Xiangyun looked at Fujita Taiga.

"We will assist you in opening a restaurant in Yicheng, and you will receive all the necessary protections. However, you must not cause any trouble."

"Take today, for example. Do you really think I don't know how this all started?"

"If it weren't for your nephew Fujita Daishu deliberately stirring things up, how could you have lost face?"

Kong Xiangyu's words were quite polite.

If it weren't for what the higher-ups wanted, these little bastards who wanted to come to Yicheng to make a living would write the character "孔" backwards.

Fujita Taiga's expression was unpleasant.

According to Kong Xiangyun's plan, the matter should be let off lightly. Even if tomorrow's newspapers are full of comments unfavorable to the Fujita family, they should silently endure it and not say a word.

How can he accept this?

"No, this matter has too great an impact on us. If it is not handled properly, we will not be able to explain it to the head of the family."

Kong Xiangyun nodded.

"Okay, so how do you want to solve this?"

"Since we're going to open a restaurant in Yicheng, and Gao Yang is a chef, then let's have a cooking competition."

"If we lose, we'll publish an apology."

"Similarly, if you lose, you not only have to apologize for this, but you also have to help us promote our restaurant."

Kong Xiangyun frowned. No matter how you looked at it, this matter was the Fujita family's fault, but Gao Yang had gone too far in handling it.

However, helping to promote restaurants in Japan will inevitably affect the business of the Grand Hotel.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yang nodded calmly.

"Okay, but we need to prepare all the materials for your apology in the newspaper. I guarantee that I will describe the situation exactly as it is and will not add anything false."

"agree."

"Okay, then tell me what we should compete in?"

Looking at Gao Yang's face, Fujita Taiga felt that Gao Yang was young and easy to fool.

All that has been said so far is what we've been waiting for.

He opened his mouth, then slowly said, "We're better than ramen."

"Japanese-style ramen".