Zhang Qiaoyue was never one to give up easily.

Zhang Cui has her clever plans, but I have my own ways to overcome them!

Chi Chan nodded indifferently.

Let her parents figure it out!

Even if we assume that the Chi family's three stores don't open for the next month and a half, the money earned from the recent promotions should be enough to cover their expenses for that period.

Chi Chan had long taken precautions and built a thick moat around the Chi family's shops.

Now, we should boldly let Chi Ming and his wife go out and explore.

The couple has been running the shop for so long. If they are still as anxious and panicked as they were when they first started the business when facing competition from other businesses, then Chi Chan should reconsider whether it was the right decision to let her parents run the business in the first place.

Although Chi Chan is currently studying at the No. 1 Middle School in the city, she can help the couple keep an eye on their shop business and offer suggestions.

But ultimately, the shop belongs to the couple.

How to break through the encirclement when faced with suppression from competitors?

This is not a question that Chi Chan should be thinking about, but rather a question that Chi Minghe and his wife should face and solve themselves.

As long as No. 1 Middle School is still here, its shops will always be valuable commodities.

This is the greatest source of confidence for Chi Minghe and his wife, and it is also the source of Chi Chan's confidence to let Chi Minghe and his wife do things now.

How much money Chi Ming and his wife can make from these three stores is up to their skill.

Even if we can't make money, we still have three shops to fall back on. In the future, we can still go back to our hometown and live off the rent from the shops.

In any case, it's still better than Chi Ming and his wife running around and working away from home every year to earn money.

This is the best way that Chi Chan, after his rebirth, could think of to help Zhang Qiaoyue, Chi Minghe, and their family survive.

And it can also completely avoid the tragedy that happened to Chi Minghe a few years later.

Returning to the matter at hand, before going back to her bedroom to study, Chi Chan still reminded her father of something.

"Dad—Looking at the new renovation of Brother Duocai's shop, what kind of store are they planning to open?"

During renovations, in order not to affect the city's appearance and to reduce dust, the renovation company will use sheet metal and gauze to surround the store.

Normally, Chi Chan would head straight to Qiao Mama's Restaurant as soon as she got out of school.

So, after all this time, Chi Chan only knew that Li Duocai's shop was under renovation and was almost finished.

Chi Chan really didn't know what aspect of business this store would focus on in the future.

However, she knew the previous shop; it was a breakfast shop.

There are four breakfast shops on this street, including this one.

This breakfast shop is not doing well; among these four shops, it consistently has the worst business.

"I never expected that I wouldn't be able to hold on so quickly!"

Zhang Qiaoyue sighed, but then felt relieved.

Shop rent costs money, hiring staff costs money, utilities cost money, and there are daily groceries to pay for...

Which one is free?

If we lose money, we won't be able to continue.

Chi Minghe's expression suddenly turned serious.

"It's a milk tea shop!"

Chi Chan nodded knowingly.

She was right again.

It seems that Amy Yip has made two preparations.

Both the "Qiao Mama" restaurant and the "Mi Mi Bing Cheng" milk tea shop were targeted and suppressed.

If there weren't no other vacant shops on this street, Chi Chan thought Ye Zijin's next target would definitely be a bookstore!

In other words, the bookstore's business appears to be lukewarm, with the lowest foot traffic.

That's why Ye Zijing chose the wrong store when she was trying to suppress others.

In fact, the bookstore's profits are second only to Qiaomama, and higher than the milk tea shop.

For nearly a year prior, the bookstore had consistently been the most profitable of the three stores.

In recent times, after Qiao Mama Restaurant gained some fame in Xingcheng City, its business has been getting better and better, and its profits have surpassed those of the bookstore, ranking first.

"Dad, a bubble tea shop is competing with us now!"

I told you two to take a break during this time, but you didn't agree.

"So you're going to figure it out yourselves now?"

After saying these words in a very straightforward manner, Chi Chan flung his hand away, closed the door, and went inside.

Every day after returning home, Chi Chan would summarize and review the day's learning.

On the desk, in the upper left corner, the error collections and notebooks for each subject are stacked together, reaching more than half an arm's length.

On the right side of the table, there is a laptop.

This was bought by Chi Chan later using her own savings.

After buying the computer, Zhang Qiaoyue was quite anxious for a while.

Children of Chi Chan's age are most susceptible to temptation. What if Chi Chan stops playing online games?

So during that period, after Chi Chan returned to her room, Zhang Qiaoyue would find several excuses to come to Chi Chan's room to check on her several times a night.

She even suggested taking away Chi Chan's laptop and putting it in her bedroom, and that she would come every week to set a time limit for Chi Chan's computer use.

Zhang Qiaoyue observed for a long time and saw that Chi Chan only used the computer to edit videos for the 'Qiao Mama' video account and to look up learning materials.

Privately, both Chi Ming and he breathed a sigh of relief.

After Chi Chan decided to give up on the shop's affairs, Zhang Qiaoyue and her husband put their heads together and actually came up with a pretty good solution.

After the "Clever Mom" ​​restaurant opened, it still mainly focused on boxed lunches and stir-fries.

The boxed lunch business at the construction site was discontinued.

First, the Xuefu Residential Area (the one opposite the No. 1 Middle School in the city, and the one where the Chi family bought their house) project has been completed, and there are no workers nearby.

Secondly, the couple is busy with their shop every day, so they naturally don't have time to go out and run a boxed lunch business.

But now, the couple has started a business selling boxed lunches to workers again.

Because workers work outdoors, their working hours differ from those of ordinary people.

I usually start work at 5:30 in the morning and finish at 10:30 in the morning.

In the afternoon, I don't start work until 3 PM and I finish get off work at 7 PM.

These past few days, Chi Minghe hasn't gone to the market with Zhang Qiaoyue to shop. Instead, he's been spending his mornings visiting nearby construction sites.

He added all the construction workers in the vicinity to his WeChat group and created a group chat for them.

They even found contact persons at different construction sites to handle the ordering of boxed meals.

The day before, the person in charge informed Chi Ming in the group chat of the number of boxed meals to be ordered from the construction site the next day, as well as the amount of the deposit to be paid.

The next day, Zhang Qiaoyue purchased the required ingredients, prepared the boxed meals, delivered them to the workers within the stipulated time, and then collected the final payment.

Aunt Zhang, who owns a small electric scooter and commutes to get off work every day by it, has successfully become a delivery driver for the "Qiao Mama" restaurant.

Zhang Qiaoyue will give Aunt Zhang an extra subsidy based on the number of takeout orders she delivers each day.

When Chi Chan later learned that her family's restaurant had started working part-time as a delivery driver, she immediately gave the couple a thumbs up.

In later years, the food delivery industry took off directly thanks to certain yellow and blue app platforms.

Before this, businesses hired their own delivery drivers to deliver food.

However, many businesses find it inconvenient, so they generally do not offer delivery services.