Back to 2006

Chapter 141 Zhen Xin Accompaniment
The next morning, Yang Xingyu finished the morning's shopping, took a shower, changed his clothes, and came to Zhen Xin's residence as promised.

Make her lunch.

"Shall I help you?"

While Yang Xingyu was putting on his apron, Zhen Xin rolled up her sleeves and prepared to give him a hand.

Yang Xingyu looked at her white forearms and smooth, slender jade fingers, how could he give them up?
Seeing her slender jade fingers, he thought of her hands as playing the piano, and of course how comfortable they felt when holding him.

"No! If you really want to help, go and accompany me?"

Yang Xingyu reached out to stop her and raised his chin to signal to the piano in the living room.

Zhen Xin followed his gaze and couldn't help laughing, "You want me to accompany you when you cook a meal?"

Yang Xingyu chuckled, "Don't you think it's romantic?"

Zhen Xin glanced at him funny, turned around and walked towards the piano, saying as she walked: "Do you know, with my skills, how much does it cost per hour to go out and accompany you in a restaurant? You asked me to cook and accompany you. ?”

Yang Xingyu rolled up his sleeves, opened the bags of ingredients he just bought one by one, and said in a long voice: "Then do you know how much it costs to cook a meal for someone in my current capacity?"

Zhen Xin stopped and turned around in surprise, "What is your current identity?"

Yang Xingyu: "You're kidding! I am also a boss with a monthly income of hundreds of thousands, right? Who among ordinary people is qualified to let me cook in person? And I still come to cook for you."

A smile overflowed from the corner of Zhen Xin's lips, "If you say that, it would be rude if I didn't accompany you, right?"

Yang Xingyu: "Hmm, what do you think?"

Although Zhen Xin also likes to eat meat, in order to maintain her figure, her daily diet is mainly vegetarian.

Therefore, the lunch that Yang Xingyu arranged for her today, except for the salt and pepper pork ribs that she requested, was relatively plain.

They are a dish of braised tofu with green onion, a dish of fried snow peas with sausage, and a dish of tomato and egg soup.

They are all for appetizing meals.

He is always very attentive when cooking for her.

Because he always felt that as a professional chef, if he couldn't make his girlfriend talk naughty, it would be his incompetence.

On the other hand, if you can make your girlfriend talk naughty, she will most likely be unable to live without him in this life.

Because unless she finds a boyfriend who is a chef and has better cooking skills than him in the future.

Maybe she will go to a restaurant in the future, and it will be a restaurant with a good chef. Otherwise, if she leaves him, she will miss his food every time she eats.

And by doing this, he was subtly making it more difficult for others to be with her.

Most men don't have this kind of awareness.

But when most men pursue women, they will unknowingly encounter the threshold set by others.

For example: a woman who has dated a rich boyfriend will subconsciously compare her current suitor's financial resources with her ex's when another man pursues her.

For example: women who have dated handsome men will subconsciously compare the appearance and figure of the new suitor with their predecessors when a new suitor appears.

Another example: If you have dated someone with a sweet mouth, you will look down on someone with a stupid mouth.

and many more.

These are invisible thresholds.

Many times, neither man nor woman realizes it.

But similar thresholds are everywhere.

This is also the reason why most men feel that the difficulty of pursuing different women varies greatly.

In contrast, many girls who have never been in love are easier to pursue.

Because they have not yet been spoiled by other men.

This is probably why a woman who is in love for the first time is willing to go to a shabby little hotel with a poor boy and get an hourly room for 20 yuan.

But the next time they fall in love, or after a divorce, when they book a room with another man, the minimum requirement may be a star hotel.

She even requires you to have a car and a house before she will consider going to a hotel with you.

Many people are puzzled by this phenomenon.

I can’t figure out why people who have been in love, or even married, have higher expectations?
In fact, to put it bluntly, the reason is that simple.

……

Amidst the tinkling piano music of spring water, Yang Xingyu felt for the first time that cooking was a real pleasure.

When he brought the exquisite three dishes and one soup to the table and called Zhen Xin to eat.

Zhen Xin also felt enjoying it.

When she was almost done eating, she seemed to want to thank Yang Xingyu for the delicious food he cooked today, and casually said to him: "I'll go to your place in the afternoon! Just like yesterday, I'm still having dinner at your place."

Yang Xingyu secretly sighed that he had foresight.

If he hadn't expected last night that Zhen Xin would go to his place today and stay there all day long. If he had agreed last night that Qi Meilan would accompany him today, today would probably be the day he fell over.

"Okay, welcome! Very welcome!"

But before going to his place, after dinner, he pulled her into her bedroom.

By the way, during a relationship, isn't that what a man wants to do when he responds to a woman's requests?
Besides, Zhen Xin was so beautiful that he was willing to let him die of exhaustion on her bed.

Moreover, this can also raise the threshold for other men to pursue Zhen Xin in another aspect.

……on Monday.

Yang Xingyu took the time to sign up for the driving school.

Prepare to take the time to get a driver's license.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and riding a motorcycle became more and more uncomfortable. He decided it was time to buy himself a car.

On Tuesday, he went to the old town.

Let’s see how the business of the 10 new stores over there is.

Meng Jun, the person in charge of the 10 stores here, told him that the old stores near the 10 new stores here, because of the opening promotions of their new stores, especially the low-price strategy of roast duck at 15 yuan per pound, the prices of each old store There are different ways to deal with it.

Some have also lowered prices, showing signs of price wars.

But even so, the price of the other party's roast duck is still higher than 15 yuan per catty.

Some old stores, on the other hand, take the approach of buying roast duck and giving away cold dishes.

Only a few old stores remain unmoved and have not taken any competitive measures for the time being.

Yang Xingyu came here this time just to see the 10 new stores here. Is it necessary to continue to lower the price of roast duck?

Anyway, the roast duck he sells seems to be the main dish of the store at first glance.

In fact, he used it to attract popularity.

He doesn't care whether the roast duck can make money, even if he continues to lose money in the roast duck, it doesn't matter to him.

Because as long as the sales of braised vegetables and cold dishes in his store are large enough, losing a little money on roast duck is nothing at all.

Noon today.

Yang Xingyu and Meng Jun were sitting in a noodle shop opposite a vegetable market in the old city, eating shredded pork and pickled vegetables noodles while paying attention, consciously or unconsciously, to the popularity of the two roast duck restaurants opposite.

Of those two roast duck restaurants, one is his Yangji Roast Duck.

The family is Laosun Roast Duck.

Meng Jun said that the price of Lao Sun roast duck has been the largest recently, from 22 yuan per catty to 18 yuan per catty.

There is no profit from roast duck at this price, and you may lose money if you are not careful.

Especially when the price of raw duck has increased by more than one yuan per catty recently.

Laosun Roast Duck is a small family-style roast duck restaurant.

Just this one store.

Unlike Yangji Roast Duck, it operates a chain store, which has the advantage of scale and can lower costs.

The cost of a restaurant like Laosun Roast Duck is definitely higher than that of Yangji Roast Duck.

Yang Xingyu wants to judge whether it is necessary to continue to reduce the price of his Yangji Roast Duck by observing the popularity comparison between the two stores to compete with the popularity of Lao Sun Roast Duck?
Time passed little by little.

By the time he finished a bowl of pickled cabbage and shredded pork noodles, Yang Xingyu already knew it.

Although Yangji Roast Duck’s roast duck is 3 yuan less per pound than Lao Sun Roast Duck.

But Lao Sun Roast Duck, as a long-established restaurant in this area, has a good reputation and there should be many regular customers. Therefore, during the hour when he deliberately slowed down to eat noodles, there were still slightly more customers buying Lao Sun Roast Duck than Yang Ji Roast Duck. .

"Get ready for activities! Isn't Christmas coming soon this year? Santa Claus will give gifts to everyone, which is a lie! But when our store gives gifts to customers, it can be true!"

Yang Xingyu wiped his mouth with a tissue and said this to Meng Jun.

Meng Jun chuckled, "What gift?"

Yang Xingyu: "It's very simple! During the two days before and after Christmas, including Christmas Day, for a total of five days, the roast duck in this store is half price!"

"Half, half price? Isn't this the same as selling for [-] yuan per catty? Isn't this a big loss?"

Meng Jun was taken aback.

Yang Xingyu smiled and said, "It's okay! Anyway, it's only five days. Just treat it as advertising expenses. During these five days, this store will double the supply of roast duck and stop when it's sold out. In real terms, it won't be a big loss, but It should attract a lot of new customers, what do you think?”

Meng Jun nodded, "That's for sure! We're selling it at half price. Who heard this and doesn't want to buy some? Besides, the taste of our roast duck is no worse than others, and the original price is also cheaper than others."

Yang Xingyu stood up and walked out of the noodle shop.

Meng Jun followed.

Yang Xingyu: "Let's try this activity first. If it doesn't work, there will be New Year's Day. If it doesn't work, there will be New Year's Day and Valentine's Day! Our country may not have many other things, but various festivals happen almost every month, so, If we can’t do one event, we’ll do it twice! If we don’t do it twice, we’ll do it three or four times! I don’t believe we can’t gain popularity!”

Meng Jun looked at Yang Xingyu in surprise, frowned and said, "But if we do too many activities like this, our store will probably suffer a lot of losses!"

Yang Xingyu shook his head, "You can't think like that! You should think that if our store doesn't become popular, we may lose money, and it will be a long-term loss! But if our activities can make this store popular, then Those who lose money will be our opponents, and we have plenty of time to make money later!"

Meng Jun was thoughtful, and after a moment, he nodded in approval.

……

In a blink of an eye, it’s Saturday again.

It was the day that Yang Xingyu and Qi Meilan had agreed to go to his hometown to meet his parents.

Yang Xingyu called his parents one night in advance and told them about it.

His parents' voices on the phone were filled with joy.

They agreed that they would suspend business for the day and wait at home for him to bring his girlfriend home.

　Thanks for the reward from Awakening, please vote for me
　　
　
(End of this chapter)