half-baked life

Chapter 15: The ex-boyfriend who is soft-hearted and hard-working
"That's it. Your grandma is probably downstairs already. If I go to bed now, won't I hit the muzzle of a gun?"

As soon as Jiang Xiaoping finished speaking, Jiang He heard the sound of Liang Xiujing taking out the keys outside the door. She gave her mother a thumbs up in admiration, and then ran to the door to greet her in small steps.

Grandma was carrying a bag full of vegetables, which were as juicy as if they had just been picked from the ground. As soon as Jiang He took them, he found that they were a bit heavy.

"Grandma, you can drag the grocery cart next time. It will be quite tiring to carry it all the way back."

"It's okay, just treat it as exercise." Grandma put on her slippers and walked around the dining table before washing her hands. She looked at Jiang Xiaoping's swollen face due to lack of sleep and nodded with satisfaction, "I just said Go to bed early and get up early, look at your face."

"...Thank you so much." After Jiang Xiaoping said this, she took a fierce bite of the fried dough sticks and decided to fill up the extra large American style with thickened ice to reduce the swelling.

"Xiao Ping, among your remote controls, which one is in charge of the TV?" Liang Xiujing finished washing her hands, looked at the three or four similar remote controls on the coffee table, and asked distressedly.

"I don't know much about this." Jiang Xiaoping yawned and walked over. She grabbed the remote control and tried it one by one. She asked her to turn on the TV, but it showed a blue screen and she couldn't get the picture out no matter how hard she tried.

Jiang Xiaoping's brows became tighter and tighter, and she impatiently took out her phone, "What do you want to see? I can't cast a screen for you."

"I want to watch the morning news."

"..." Jiang Xiaoping squinted her eyes in disbelief and looked at Liang Xiujing. Liang Xiujing nodded seriously. Jiang Xiaoping could only continue to work hard. Fortunately, Jiang He came out of the kitchen. She picked up the longest remote control and pressed it, and the TV appeared immediately. The screen appeared, and it happened to be the morning news.

"He'er is still awesome, you..." Liang Xiujing glanced at Jiang Xiaoping more silently than loudly.

"Mom, I am also going to retire." Jiang Xiaoping couldn't help but protest.

"Look at you, you want to change your hair to three colors a month and retire!" Liang Xiujing joked.

"I can see that, with He'er here and me in your mind, it's really... worthless!"

Jiang Xiaoping waved her hands pretending to be sad, "In this case, I won't retire, I will go out to make money... As for you two, just stay at home and don't fight, do you understand?

Jiang Xiaoping touched the heads of the two of them in a coquettish manner, as if she were treating kindergarten children. Then before Liang Xiujing could react, she waved her hand to the speechless Jiang He, rubbed oil on her soles, and ran away.

She bought coffee at the community coffee shop downstairs and drove to the store. She was still doing her job, but the original Xiaoping bathroom had long been upgraded to a Pingshui hot spring.

The year Jiang He graduated from university, Jiang Xiaoping opened a three-story second store on Huaihai Road in the city center. The second store has been the best and most popular local bathing center for four or five consecutive years. At that time, even the second store The bath workers here can earn ten to twenty thousand a month.

Business was at its best in 15, with a monthly turnover easily exceeding one million. After that, it went downhill, but it was still profitable. It was just a matter of making more or less.

But since the beginning of this year, things have changed. High-end chain bath centers have opened one after another. They are large in area, well-decorated, and have many varieties. Even the buffet has a rich variety of dishes. What imported ones? Fruits and Boston lobsters were all essential items, which turned the ordinary water spring into an old bathing hall, and the business naturally plummeted.

Jiang Xiaoping took a look at the accounts last month and saw that they were terrible. She had been busy all year round and had not made a penny. The second store alone had lost more than half a million.She had a headache and knew she couldn't go on like this, so she first thought about renovating and upgrading the second store.

An acquaintance designer finally sent over the renderings and quotation last week, which was more than half of Jiang Xiaoping's budget. She suddenly started to murmur in her heart.

In the final analysis, Jiang Xiaoping is just a small business owner, which is incomparable to other regular chain companies. Even if she really spends a small 100 million on renovations and upgrades this time, Jiang Xiaoping still has no idea whether she can get her business back.

The main reason is that those high-end bathing centers have a lot of venture capital in their hands, and each of them is heavily involved. They are doing promotions or group purchases all day long, and they often invite various Internet celebrities to check in. Jiang Xiaoping really can't afford to accompany them.

"You definitely can't go head-to-head with them."

Jiang Xiaoping has never mentioned these troubles to Jiang He, and I don’t know how she found out, “It’s best to find a new way for Pingshui Tangquan. They are big and comprehensive, but we are small and beautiful, focusing on differentiation, so that we can have A chance to win.”

"Now 'small' is 'small' enough, but how can it be 'beautiful'?"

As Jiang Xiaoping thought about it, she subconsciously swiped at the screen of her phone with her thumb. The phone suddenly vibrated. It was the designer who asked her what she thought about the quotation. Jiang Xiaoping did not reply to him immediately because she noticed that Yan Sugang had just posted a message on Moments.

Jiang Xiaoping was a little surprised. She thought Yan Su had blocked her a long time ago!
She went in with mixed feelings and took a look, oh, there was a eloquent 500-word essay, describing the difficulties of starting a business this year and the achievements so far, 90% of which was about praising herself in a roundabout way.

"How shameless!" Jiang Xiaoping couldn't help but spat at him through the screen.

As for the so-called "achievements" in Yan Su's words, half of them depended on Jiang He's resources and connections, and the other half relied on the investment of Xie Jingyi, a fellow student at the same school.

Yan Su had wanted to start his own business a few years ago. He was mediocre in his profession and extremely smooth in his dealings with others. It was indeed more suitable for him to start his own business, but he had no choice but to have limited funds and insufficient resources, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.

Unexpectedly, he was unlucky last year. Xie Jingyi joined his company as an intern and was accidentally assigned to work for him. The two got to know each other over time, and Yan Su realized that Xie Jingyi was a serious second-generation rich man, but Xie Jingyi was They also felt that work was boring, so the two hit it off, and with the money Xie Jingyi asked from her family, they jointly opened a brand consulting studio.

At the beginning, the studio had no clients at all. It relied on Jiang He to make connections and introduce his old employer and cooperative companies through facial recognition, and then he gradually started to look more cheerful.

A closer look shows that Yan Su is a hard-edged man, and he eats two families at a time.

Jiang Xiaoping was too lazy to look at Yan Su's little composition, which was more disgusting than foot bindings. She clicked on a photo and scrolled back. They were basically photos of the studio. The decoration showed that a lot of money had been spent.

Jiang Xiaoping couldn't help but tilted her head and glanced at the renderings the designer had given her on the computer screen. She flicked her tongue vigorously and truly followed the old saying, "Comparing people with others will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will lead to throwing away."

She moved her finger back again, and a photo of a couple suddenly appeared on her phone. Xie Jingyi and Yan Su were cheek by jowl, holding hands, and were smiling at the camera. There was also a line on the photo: "Date 1 person." The flower word "monthly archive".

Jiang Xiaoping stood up immediately. They have been dating for a month?
The problem is that Jiang He broke up with him, and it only took a month!
(End of this chapter)