Chapter 936: Chapter 395: Chen Yan: Why Can Everyone Else Catch Big Fish While I Only Catch Small Ones?

They’d said they were going to take revenge, to show them how powerful Yanjing Hotel is.

And in the end it turned into a full-on suck-up session to Lin Ji’s Food.

Ye Lixin hadn’t taken it that seriously at first; it was just staff from both sides butting heads within a certain range. But with Gou Junguo acting like he was about to tear Fishing Platform apart with his bare hands, Ye had secretly started to look forward to it a little.

But the higher the expectation, the bigger the disappointment.

If he’d known, it would have been better not to bother with all this nonsense.

The heat from Xie Baomin’s earlier restaurant review had already died down, and now great, it got a second wave of hype.

If this were a celebrity, maybe they’d be thrilled, but Yanjing Hotel isn’t debuting as an idol and doesn’t need this kind of attention‑grabbing buzz.

In front of the desk, Gou Junguo stood there, face full of nerves.

He hadn’t expected the video to come out this fast, and with a pretty click‑baity title on top of that:

"Chef Xie from Fishing Platform went too far bullying me, so today I’m going to Lin Ji’s Food to pick a fight in revenge and teach that Xie guy a lesson!"

Just from the title, you’d think he’d gone and demolished Lin Ji’s place.

But the actual content is praise from start to finish.

The contrast made the video blow up fast.

In the comments, all kinds of Lin Ji fans were extremely active too.

"Give the uploader an enemy uniform and bury him with full honors!"

"Says it’s revenge with his mouth, but in practice it’s nonstop licking. Are all the zeros this scheming nowadays?"

"I clicked in for the title. Second Battalion Commander, get me that damn Italian... that Italian chick over here to give our ally a leg massage!"

"To get Chef Xie’s attention, this uploader really racked his brains."

"Good licking, please increase the intensity."

"The words he used to praise the dishes were enough to make me, a hardcore Lin Ji fan, blush."

"Chef Xie next door also updated. Same dishes, seems like he ate them at the same time, and he actually pointed out shortcomings. Uploader, just tell us how much they paid you."

"..."

These comments left Gou Junguo completely speechless.

He really had gone there to pick fault, but the food was just too damn good. Who could’ve seen that coming?

But this wasn’t the time to dwell on that; he had to hurry up and smooth things over with President Ye. Otherwise, in Yanjing Hotel from now on, his size‑43 feet could start getting stuffed into size‑36 shoes.

Thinking it over, Gou Junguo said:

"President Ye, I actually had my reasons for doing this."

Ye Lixin shot him a glance:

"What reasons? Laying the groundwork for a job-hopping move to Fishing Platform?"

"No, no, please hear me out... I studied it carefully and realized Fishing Platform’s sudden fame is entirely Lin Xu’s credit. In the last cooking competition, if Lin Xu hadn’t taken part, Fishing Platform would’ve been lucky to make top three."

Ye Lixin took a sip of tea:

"We all know that part. Just get to the point."

Putting on a mysterious air, Gou Junguo quoted a famous line from Emperor Wu of Han:

"If they can raid, so can we! They can hire Lin Xu as a consultant and as Supervisor of the Dining Department; we can do the same. It’s just an honorary title anyway; we don’t even need to pay a salary. If we manage to bring Lin Xu over, won’t Fishing Platform be exposed for what it really is?"

Huh?

This suggestion was actually...

It had never crossed Ye Lixin’s mind to poach Lin Xu outright. He’d only been thinking about borrowing a bit of Lin Xu’s fame.

What was that buzzword again? Right, "sharing."

Figuring out a way to "share" Lin Xu with Fishing Platform wouldn’t be a bad thing at all for Yanjing Hotel.

On the contrary, they could even use it to show their determination to revamp their F&B operations.

He said to Gou Junguo:

"That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll talk it over with Director Liao at Fishing Platform first. Lin Xu’s master used to be their head executive chef, and his senior brother is the executive chef of Building No. 2. We need to smooth things out with them first, then bring up the sharing idea... You handled this well. Consider it an early gesture of goodwill toward Lin Xu."

Phew... managed to wing it.

Gou Junguo let out a breath of relief. As long as he wasn’t going to get quietly screwed over, he was fine.

By the ditch, completely unaware he’d already been treated like a shared power bank, Lin Xu was fully immersed in the joy of catching crucian carp.

Half‑kilo big slab crucians were being hauled out of the water one after another, leaving the surrounding fishing guys amazed; they’d smoked half a pack already and still couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on.

Looking at the net basket packed full of fish, Lin Xu felt pretty pleased.

Good thing he’d gone big at the time and bought the largest size fish keeper, or it really wouldn’t have held them all.

Old Sun squatted to the side, analyzing:

"We’ve had sudden schools of fish show up before, usually when heavy rains break a fish pond upstream. But it’s early winter now, and there hasn’t been any heavy rain up there. How’d a big school suddenly blow up like this?"

Originally, Lin Xu thought that with him yanking fish out like crazy, the other anglers would get pissed off and pack up.

Instead, not only did no one leave, they actually took out another set of rods from their bags and cast back in, fully embodying the stock trader mentality of ’the more it crashes, the more you should bottom-fish.’

A bit after eleven, a bus pulled up on the main road in the distance. The doors opened, and Yue Liyue and Brother Qiang climbed off with their fishing gear, happily following the navigation over.

The first wave of anglers drawn by the catch arrived right on time.

Old Sun said:

"I’d guess this place will be a popular spot by afternoon. There aren’t many places you can fish in Beijing, and even fewer where you can actually catch anything, so a haul like this is enough to bring in half the anglers in Yanjing."

Half of Yanjing?

Imagining both banks of the ditch packed solid with anglers, Lin Xu suddenly felt a bit sorry for the fish in the river.

It’s not like these fish committed some grave heavenly sin. Do they really deserve this?

Looks like from now on, he’d have to take Dundun to remote, obscure places to fish more often. Best if there’s a veteran angler nearby when they’re fishing too, so the news about the spot can get out right away and turn all the obscure fishing holes into hot ones.