Chapter 1

For the sake of the new store, Jiang Qi, who had originally planned to slack off for a few days, went to find Yan Huaiyou after lunch.

In a way, it is open 24 hours a day.

The escape room opens at 8 a.m., and script-killing and mahjong games are often played all night long. Snacks, meals and tea are also sold at the same time. The environment in the store is very good, with sufficient air conditioning and heating, and good sound insulation that will not disturb others. Many mahjong enthusiasts like to play mahjong all night long.

In a sense, it is actually the most famous mahjong parlor in this area.

When Jiang Qi arrived, there were already people in the mahjong room.

"Why do I remember that this room seemed to be a storage room when I came here last time?" Jiang Qi asked in his soul.

The door of the new mahjong room was open, and the sounds of rubbing mahjong tiles, calling cards, and playing cards could be heard in the room. This room was right next to the front desk, and Jiang Qi could hear it clearly.

"It was just changed last week." Yan Huaiyou explained, "The mahjong room was not enough, so Manager Xu decided to turn this small utility room into a mahjong room."

"Hey, eight-tube, gang!" A voice that Jiang Qi was very familiar with came from the mahjong room.

"Oh, I was wondering why I couldn't find the eight barrels. Turns out they are all with you, Xiao Cheng." An old lady complained.

Jiang Qi poked his head out and saw that it was Orange who was playing mahjong with the other aunties in the room.

"Hey, Jiang Qi, why are you here? Are you here to play mahjong too? I remember hearing in the group that you had a fever and went to the hospital for an injection. Are you feeling better now?" Orange was very surprised to see Jiang Qi.

"Much better. I came to see Yan Huaiyou. He contacted me this morning and told me there was a nice shop. I should come and take a look."

"Oh." Orange nodded and drew a card, "Ten thousand."

"By the way, the new edition is already on the shelves, and there are quite a lot of people who have made reservations. I have already prepared the reservation form and sent it to the group. This morning a food magazine called me and said they wanted to interview you about braised food."

"I was planning to tell you when you come to dinner tonight. I've already added the other party's WeChat. Do you want to accept the interview?"

"Online or offline?" Jiang Qi didn't expect that a food magazine would want to interview him.

“Online.”

"You can ask Uncle Huang to contact them."

"Okay, wait, what did you just hit? Nine, right? Bang!"

Jiang Qi didn't expect that there would be a food magazine that wanted to interview him, but these days food and travel magazines don't seem to be very popular. Jiang Qi has only heard of a particularly famous one called "Taste", whose founder seems to be a Chinese descent who is several generations rich.

Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou went to the office to discuss business, while Chengzi continued to indulge in mahjong.

"Xiao Cheng, is that young man your colleague? He's really hardworking. He even comes out to do business even when he's sick." The aunt who was playing mahjong at the same table with Chengzi exclaimed.

"No." Orange shook his head, "That's my boss."

Aunt:?

The boss was working on business while sick, and the employees played mahjong at work.

What kind of magical company is this?

On the other side, Yan Huaiyou was sighing to Jiang Qi: "Boss Jiang, your store's sideline business is doing well. A food magazine even came to interview you."

Jiang Qi said politely: "No, no, I can't compare to you. Even the coffee shop across the street was forced out of business by you."

Yan Huaiyou: …

Could you please stop talking about this?

Yan Huaiyou felt that since he met Jiang Qi, the business direction of his script-killing store had become increasingly strange.

As the boss of a company, Yan Huaiyou has his own office in the company. Although his office was not big before and the decoration was very simple, with only a recliner, a sofa, a desk and chair, and even no bookshelf, it was still a symbol of his status as a boss.

"Oh, by the way, I didn't understand it when I checked WeChat this morning. The coffee shop business and the script-killing shop business don't conflict with each other, so how could they be squeezed out of business by your shop?"

Yan Huaiyou sighed deeply and began to explain the reason to Jiang Qi.

Coincidentally, the owner of this cafe is Yan Huaiyou's relative. They have nothing in common, but he is a distant cousin who comes to visit during the Chinese New Year.

If you really want to say it, the closure of the cafe was just the last straw that broke the camel's back. Jiang Qi had been to this cafe before. The business scope is very wide. In addition to normal coffee and light meals, it also sells stir-fried dishes, rice with toppings, desserts, and snacks.

The business scope is so wide that it is enough to show that the business of the coffee shop is indeed not doing well. In fact, the business of this coffee shop has always been not doing well. The reason why it has been open for so many years and has not closed down is entirely because the shop belongs to the boss, that is, Yan Huaiyou’s distant cousin, and the cost is relatively low because there is no need to pay rent.

Originally, the cafe relied on selling desserts, snacks, and rice, and earned some business from surrounding office workers and students to survive, and finally opened.

As we all know, the range of light meals is very wide.

Coffee, milk tea, ice cream, desserts, sandwiches, salads, rice with toppings, curry rice, hot dogs, hamburgers, and Swedish meatballs are all considered light meals.

It has everything that a cafe has, and also has things that a cafe doesn’t have.

Then the café closed down.

This was nothing, but the bad thing was that the owner of this cafe was Yan Huaiyou's distant cousin. His own shop couldn't do business, so the boss was naturally depressed.

Some time ago, the boss went out with friends and relatives to drink to drown his sorrows. After drinking too much, he complained a few words, saying that if his cafe had not opened, it would not have closed down so quickly.

Then, as the rumor spread, it became that Yan Huaiyou was heartless and even took away his relatives' business, causing the coffee shop that his relatives had painstakingly run for nearly 10 years to go bankrupt.

In response to this, Yan Huaiyou:?

Cafe owner: ???

"What the hell is this?" Yan Huaiyou was so angry that he took a big gulp of Coke. "My script store is doing well. My cousin just complained a little when he was drunk. I don't know which wicked person spread the news like this. Now I am no longer a human being."

"My cousin even called me today to apologize."

"So what does this matter have to do with me?" Jiang Qi didn't understand.

"It has nothing to do with you. I just want to find someone to complain to." Yan Huaiyou said.

Jiang Qi:?

Is this the reason why you lured a sick patient, who should have been lying at home happily idle, into your store to discuss important matters?

"Is your cousin's cafe really closed?"

"No, he told me when he called me today that his cafe only makes about 3,000 yuan a month after deducting the water, electricity and labor costs. It would be better to rent out the shop to make more money." Yan Huaiyou said, "Jiang Qi, this is a good store. I told you as soon as I got the news."

It's really a good store.

"And my cousin's asking price is not high. The rent of shops in this area was not high originally. Since our two shops have been established, as far as I know, the rent of newly rented shops has increased a lot in the past few months. I asked my cousin, and he said that the lowest rent for his shop is 9,000. If my shop wasn't big enough, I would have wanted to rent it too."

Considering the size and location of the cafe, the monthly rent of 9,000 is indeed very cheap.

Jiang Qi was wildly excited.

"Is your uncle anxious?" Jiang Qi asked.

Yan Huaiyou:?

"I'm a little tight on money lately."

"Are you a little tight on money?"

In Yan Huaiyou's opinion, even if Jiang Qi was not a rich second-generation, he would not be short of money. The speed at which his two stores made money was no different from picking up money on the ground with a sack. How could he be short of money?

"I bought a few new books recently." Jiang Qi said tactfully.

"I know. Those are the new books released by the card game studio. They only cost a few hundred thousand dollars in total. You can't have made a few hundred thousand dollars in such a short time since you opened the store, right?"

Jiang Qi thought, you bought it for hundreds of thousands, but I bought it for 330,000.

"There are other expenses. Let me think about it for two days. I would also like to ask your cousin to wait a few days before posting the rental information." Jiang Qi said.

Such a cheap shop, there will definitely be someone who wants to rent it as soon as the rental information is posted.

"OK."

"By the way, what is this script competition that Detective Xin Bu Gai was talking about this morning?"

"I'm not sure either. I heard the nurse talking to me this morning when I was getting the injection. I thought you knew and wanted to ask you."

"I'll ask Manager Xu this afternoon. Shall we go to the cafe now?"

"Walk."

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Redefining daytime...

Next time I have to set a goal to do it at noon, so that I will probably be better in the afternoon (not)

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