Chapter 85 [85] A serious virgin. …

"Find a disabled child? And find a man to pretend to be the boss? And you need it tomorrow?" Li Mu was puzzled: "Where can I find one for you?"

Tang Yuanyuan scratched her head and said, "I don't know either, but you have to find it, otherwise people will know that this store is mine!"

"As long as the boss shows up once, no one will pay attention to this matter anymore, and no one will be suspicious."

Li Mu's expression changed from speechless to resigned, and he stood up and left.

Tang Yuanyuan: "...Where are you going?"

Li Mu: "I'll find someone for you."

Finding the person went smoothly. In the evening, when Tang Yuanyuan was still in the library, Li Mu came over and said that he had found the person. Jiang Hong's father was a very suitable person. He originally ran a small shop at home and had good eloquence. Coincidentally, there was a family in the area where they lived whose son was a fool.

But what was more unfortunate was that a strong wind blew in the middle of the night. When I woke up in the morning, the sky was full of dark clouds, and bean-sized raindrops mixed with cold wind poured straight into people's mouths.

The winter in Shanghai is not very cold, except for this kind of rainy weather.

In such weather, many people probably don't want to go out. Xu Dandan and Wang Meng both asked her to bring back breakfast.

Weather is also a very important factor, and Tang Yuanyuan silently made note of this in her mind.

However, Tang Yuanyuan had done all she could, so she was not panicked.

It cost less than 40,000 yuan to open this cake shop. In the summer, it cost 300,000 yuan to get a city agent for cosmetics. Now, she still has about 500,000 yuan in savings, so she has enough money for trial and error.

"It's winter already, and it's raining today. I think Yun Duo is doomed to die today."

"Eat quickly. After you finish eating, I want to go and see how deserted they are today."

"Hey, Tang Yuanyuan, that's perfect, why don't you come with us later?"

It seems that Liu Lijuan herself also cares a lot about Yun Duo Mi Jing. Tang Yuanyuan had just entered the cafeteria when she saw several group members gathered together, waiting to see the joke.

Tang Yuanyuan: "Okay, I'll have breakfast first."

She guessed that business today would not be very good. Although she comforted herself in her heart that she could accept trial and error, her mood was not very good. Tang Yuanyuan made some millet cakes sprinkled with icing sugar, ordered a corn and a bowl of porridge, and ate slowly before opening an umbrella. When she walked out of the school with Liu Lijuan and others, it was just time for the school to open.

Compared to the grand opening ceremony of Sweet, Yunduo Mijing's opening ceremony was very simple. Jiang Hong's father lit a firecracker. Tang Yuanyuan and Li Mu were both invisible bosses, so this store didn't even have anyone to send a flower basket for the opening ceremony.

Li Mu was probably worried about the weather, so he took a few of his younger brothers and pretended to be customers to choose cakes.

Tang Yuanyuan herself does not believe in any rituals. She is a person who does not follow rituals. She always feels that compared to these fancy things, the store’s management and the products themselves are the real currency.

Zhang Li was about to die of laughter: "It seems that this is really a pauper's business. There is not even anyone to send a flower basket."

Li Mu was already upset when the car crashed into a rainy day, and he was even laughed at. Li Mu glared at him and said, "Is it funny? What's so funny? How are you superior to others?"

Li Mu's smile is evil, and he is very fierce when he is not pretending.

Zhang Li swallowed, suspecting that he was deliberately trying to vent his anger on Tang Yuanyuan's behalf. "I, I didn't say anything about you."

Li Mu: "I just like to meddle in other people's business. I don't like seeing people like you who think they are so great."

Zhang Li had no choice but to hide behind Liu Lijuan, and she didn't say anything!

There were no flower baskets in this shabby shop, so she couldn't say anything.

Liu Lijuan also guessed that it was Tang Yuanyuan's idea, so she had to step forward to act as a peacemaker: "Well, Zhang Li didn't look down on anyone, she was just making a casual comment. Tang Yuanyuan, your boyfriend has such a bad temper."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Well, he always has a bad temper."

Liu Lijuan: “…” She could only smile awkwardly, smooth things over, and picked a cake.

Sweet uses a 50% discount promotion. Tang Yuanyuan is afraid that customers will get used to half price in the future. Besides, its cakes are originally half the price of Sweet. So she changed her strategy and the promotional discount is buy two get one free. She also accepts group orders and stacking.

Jiang Hong had a beautiful smile on her lips, professional and generous: "Madam, our cakes are buy two get one free. Would you like to pick another one? That way you can have three cakes, which is a good deal."

Zhang Li nudged Liu Lijuan with her arm, signaling her not to add to their performance.

Liu Lijuan immediately realized that compared to the 50% discount, this promotion method was much better. Customers would be easily tempted to place orders, and the sales could even double.

Zhang Li was too stingy. She was reluctant to spend just a dozen dollars. She didn't seem like someone who could do big things. So she ignored her and bought four anyway, so she had six in total.

There were cute mini chairs in the store, so Liu Lijuan invited Tang Yuanyuan and Zhang Li to sit down and eat cake. Of course, she was also polite to Li Mu.

Li Mu brought a chair and joined in, eating a whole cake in one bite: "That's a waste of money."

Zhang Li: “…”

They were originally in a good mood, but with the addition of the evil spirit Li Mu, Zhang Li and Liu Lijuan instantly lost their appetite and found an excuse to go back to school.

Walking out of the cake shop, Zhang Li couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly, "How many people are there for our store to open? They don't even have anyone to open it. They're doomed."

A smile also appeared on Liu Lijuan's face.

Li Mu puffed up his cheeks. He had just been deliberately disgusting the two of them: "I don't like these two women."

Tang Yuanyuan ate a small cake and said, "It's not easy to make you like it."

Li Mu: "There's no one here now, what should I do?"

Raindrops trickled down the glass bed in winding streams. Her trouser legs weren't dry yet. "What are you afraid of? Sweet, there's no one here."

Li Mu: "Fuck, what bad luck! It was sunny the past few days, why is it raining today?"

Tang Yuanyuan thought, it was raining so heavily, it seemed that Shen Yu would not come.

After wiping the cream off her mouth, Tang Yuanyuan was about to go back to school when she saw Shen Yu's iconic Mercedes-Benz.

He bumped Li Mu's arm and said, "Here comes the man. Let Uncle Jiang put on a good show."

It was raining heavily at the time, and even though the driver held an umbrella, Shen Yu's coat and trouser legs were still stained with rain. However, he had a handsome appearance, and even if his clothes were a little wet, it did not affect his elegance at all.

Tang Yuanyuan lowered her voice. "Look, that middle-aged man is the boss, and the one sitting there eating cake is his child. He has absolutely no financial resources to compete with us. Don't worry, your project is going well."

Shen Yu: "Do you really think sweet is good?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "What do you think is wrong with sweet?"

Shen Yu wiped the raindrops from his hands with a handkerchief: "To run a successful store, sometimes it's not all about external forces. 80% of stores eventually go bankrupt due to internal factors. This is closely related to the boss's cognition, control of the market, and management of store employees.

Tang Yuanyuan tasted a little bit, and Shen Yu seemed dissatisfied with the sweetness.

Shen Yu refused to say anything more.

I picked up a piece of cake and took a light bite.

"Are you the boss?" Shen Yu asked Uncle Jiang in a gentlemanly manner, "Your renovation is very good. I wonder which renovation company did it. It's quite unique."

Tang Yuanyuan rubbed his temples with a headache. Why was he still asking these questions? The answer was definitely wrong.

Fortunately, although Uncle Jiang only runs a small shop, his conversation is completely fine. "An old friend helped me do this."

Tang Yuanyuan thought Shen Yu was going to ask something else, but he suddenly changed his tone. "The cake isn't too sweet, it suits my taste very well. I'm going to bring some for breakfast for the staff. I'll need 30 servings today. Please pack them up."

"well!"

There would be no worries about leftover cake for today. Tang Yuanyuan said flatteringly, "Mr. Shen is really kind-hearted."

Shen Yu said, "The female employees of the company really like these cakes and desserts. I'm giving them as a benefit."

A flash of inspiration came to Tang Yuanyuan's mind!

Even if you open a store, you can't wait for customers to come. This kind of high-end cake is more suitable for white-collar workers than students!

The office building where Shen Yu Platinum Jewelry is located is only 3 kilometers away from here.

It’s cold and the customers don’t want to go out, so just come to your door.

Tang Yuanyuan silently kicked Li Mu under the table, and casually drew a square on the table with her fingers.

Li Mu understood, it was a small business card.

He pretended to go pick out cakes, packed them up and went back to the dormitory, then asked Jiang Hong: "Do you have a business card for your store? If you buy a lot, can you deliver it?"

Jiang Hong understood immediately: "Of course, but it's free only if you buy three or more."

Li Mu said, "Okay, then put your business cards in the bag so my classmates can order."

Tang Yuanyuan also said, "I want four copies too. Please put some business cards in my bag as well."

Jiang Hong was very smart and immediately realized that this was a business opportunity, so she put a business card in each of Shen Yu's cakes.

After Shen Yu left, Tang Yuanyuan asked Li Mu to go to the printing factory again and asked him to change the business card into a flyer with a cake on it, and print a message that a minimum of three copies would be given away, and recruit people to distribute the flyers in office buildings.

Each cake bag sold must also be accompanied by such a promotional leaflet, but for the school, a minimum of two cakes will be enough. After all, Fudan University and Jiaotong University are very close, so there is no cost to deliver them.

Tang Yuanyuan had originally prepared for the lack of business on the first day of business, but unexpectedly, after the rain subsided in the afternoon and students began to go out, people began to appear in the store one after another.

The mini table is very much in line with girls' aesthetic tastes, and couples especially like this kind of sweet little romance.

“Cloud Honeyland is so cute!”

“I really like that little table.”

"I prefer cloud cakes, they're not that sweet. Sweet feels too sweet."

Liu Lijuan's face turned very ugly in an instant.

Zhang Li angrily walked over, stopped the two students, and said in a cold tone, commanding a subordinate: "Hey! Sweet is our own cake shop, how dare you pull your elbows out! Don't you love your school at all? Which department are you in?"

The two girls had no idea that they would be accused of not loving their school just for talking about two cake shops. When they recognized Vice Chairman Liu Lijuan, they became very panicked.

Tang Yuanyuan tugged at Zhang Li's arm and said, "I just ate a cake. It has nothing to do with whether I love the school or not. The money is my own pocket. I have the right to decide what to buy."

Zhang Li: "Sweet is the hard work of our entire team, so of course I want to protect it."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Even if you are in the student union, you can't do this. The feudal remnants are dead."

The two girls felt that Tang Yuanyuan was right: "Yes, it's our own money, so of course we can buy any cake we want."

Liu Lijuan could only stand up and say, "Yes, everyone is free to buy wherever they want."

A farce is over.

Zhang Li and the others left, and she continued angrily, "Tang Yuanyuan is going too far. Is she even a member of the team? She's so ungrateful. Team leader, I feel like she's increasingly looking down on you."

"What can I do? He has a backer." Liu Lijuan was very annoyed now, but Zhang Li was adding fuel to the fire. If she had the ability, wouldn't she kick Tang Yuanyuan out of the project team? If it weren't for Zhang Li's loyalty, she would have kicked her out. This person only did stupid things: "Okay, stop talking nonsense and think about how to deal with it first."

The number of people entering Yunduo Honeyland store has doubled, which is increasing its popularity. On the other hand, the business at Sweet is obviously quieter than before.

Some people, after seeing the price, turned around and left the store and went to Yunduo to buy cakes.

The daily turnover was only over 300 yuan.

All of them lost money.

Liu Lijuan couldn't lie to herself anymore. "We're also going to have a buy-two-get-one-free promotion. We'll make the banner and hang it up tomorrow."

Tang Yuanyuan drank the soda slowly without even blinking.

Li Mu, on the other hand, puffed out his cheeks and said, "What a smart imitator!"

Tang Yuanyuan didn't feel anything about it. Since she was going to open a store next to Sweet, she had thought that the two companies would engage in a price war.

Sweet's unit price is twice hers, but Tang Yuanyuan deliberately made the cake smaller, only 9 yuan per piece, but in fact the cost is also low this way, she used the size to blur the price.

But a sweet cake costs 15 yuan, so there is no way to do a buy-two-get-one-free deal.

Customers originally spent 15 yuan to buy one, but now they have to pay 30 yuan to buy two. They feel like they are losing money by buying one. Patient people can wait for others to place a group order, but impatient people will just turn around and leave the store.

Sure enough, when I counted the accounts in the evening, it was not as high as yesterday.

Liu Lijuan took out Yun Duo's flyer and asked Sweet to quickly design a poster and develop a delivery business so that students who didn't want to go out in winter could also group in to order.

She adopted a strategy of spending money. The next day, she went to the labor market and hired workers for twenty hours to distribute flyers everywhere. For a while, every intersection was filled with sweet flyers.

Li Mu tore the leaflet into pieces and cursed, "Damn, don't they have their own tricks? They're just imitating others!"

Tang Yuanyuan calmly looked at the flyer: "It's good for her to learn. She's doing publicity. Our store is next to hers, which is more eye-catching than hers. It also helps to attract business for us."

"Go make a banner and write on it, 'Cakes 9 yuan each, buy two get one free.'"

When Liu Lijuan saw the price posted at 9 yuan, she was furious. She persisted for another week and found that business still did not improve. However, Yunduo's business was packed every day, so she made another decision to lower the price.

This time she chose to copy everything and gave a 40% discount, so the discounted price was the same as Tang Yuanyuan's. She made the cake smaller and, on top of the discount, offered a buy-two-get-one-free deal.

Interestingly, Tang Yuanyuan discovered that even after Sweet and Yunduo adopted the same cake model, their cost price was still 15% higher than Yunduo's. Moreover, with Sweet's daily turnover being only over 500 yuan, the loss of raw materials used was surprisingly not much different.

Someone is stealing money from the store.

Wei Hai is in charge of the kitchen and technology. Needless to say, the person who stole the money is Wei Hai.

What’s interesting is that the store manager of Sweet was hired by Liu Lijuan herself, and she didn’t notice anything unusual.

Sure enough, without Liu Lijuan knowing it herself, everyone in the store had already belonged to Wei Hai.

Tang Yuanyuan was very glad that she had thought of this from the beginning. Zhu Yue only needed to be responsible for controlling the finished cakes and developing new products.

In the kitchen, she appointed a team leader, and Jiang Hong was in charge of the store's cashier, and the three of them formed a power structure of mutual supervision.

However, Liu Lijuan herself was not stupid. When Sweet had been operating stably for almost two months, she directly opened Wei Hai and took control of the business, thus saving her costs.

The process of this dismissal was certainly not pretty, as Wei Hai had made a serious scene. However, Liu Lijuan was no pushover either, having already negotiated the salary with her deputy. The deputy had also learned most of Wei Hai's skills, and could therefore take over.

Tang Yuanyuan understood that when Liu Lijuan agreed to Wei Hai's high demand, she originally planned to use him and then kick him out.

Tang Yuanyuan didn't believe it. The deputy didn't know that Wei Hai had embezzled the money from the store, but he didn't mention it at all. Sure enough, the deputy continued to steal money from the store.

Tang Yuanyuan figured it out after a moment of thought. Liu Lijuan thought she had fooled Wei Hai, but in fact, the deputy had already colluded with Wei Hai. The two of them had teamed up to fool Liu Lijuan, and would continue to steal money and share it later.

Wei Hai went back to work at Bulgari. Tang Yuanyuan went to find out more and found out that in order to save costs, some five-star hotels would directly contract out the kitchen and catering business, and Wei Hai was the boss of the contract, so there was no question of resigning.

If it succeeds, he will have an extra income; if it fails, he will not lose anything.

After these two months, he took seven or eight thousand yuan from Liu Lijuan, including the so-called resignation compensation.

The old hand indeed has his own methods. Tang Yuanyuan wrote down this lesson in his notebook.

Yunduo's business far surpasses Sweet's, with daily sales maintained at around 1,500. During holidays, it is basically over 2,000.

Tang Yuanyuan took the bus around the city on the weekend and found that several cake shops were being renovated.

Shanghai is a city that is developing so fast!

There will only be more and more cake shops, but the number of customers will not change. This can be seen from the clothing and snacks sector. The earlier you start, the more market share you will grab.

Tang Yuanyuan immediately decided to open a branch.

Tang Yuanyuan ran around for two days. This time, the two locations she chose were in places with the largest number of people. One was an office building where white-collar workers gathered, and the other was Yongbang Department Store.

They found an office building smoothly, and Tang Yuanyuan left the basic matters to Qian Tingting to do the preliminary preparations.

The more difficult thing to deal with is the department store, which is the fashion center of the entire Shanghai city. Every business here is very full, and the rent is sky-high. The annual rent is 100,000 yuan, and even with that, it is still difficult to find a seat, not to mention the miscellaneous expenses such as the shopping mall management fees every month.

Li Mu: "I think it's enough to open an office building. Isn't Wing On Department Store too risky?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "If we want Yun Duo to have a certain standard and differentiate itself from ordinary small cake shops, Yong'an must open a main store. This is a fashion landmark and represents people's perception of Yun Duo!"

Li Mu: "The problem is, all the places there are full. We can't find a berth."

In the past, she might have been able to ask Assistant Fan for help, but now, she can only rely on herself.

Tang Yuanyuan: "Think of a way. Ask the manager of their investment promotion office to come out. Try spending money or trying to build relationships. We can't just sit there and wait for death."

Tang Yuanyuan went to the mall office of Wing On Department Store with Li Mu on purpose.

...A young girl was wiping her tears.

Li Mu hated women crying the most, so he went to ask an older staff member.

Tang Yuanyuan glanced at the faces of several people in the office, bent down to the girl and handed her the handkerchief.

According to her judgment, in society, most of the people with the darkest hearts are old men, and little girls who have just entered society are the most enthusiastic.

The girl opened her tearful eyes and met Tang Yuanyuan's face.

"Thanks."

"Are you having any troubles?"

The girl sniffed and just shook her head, "No, nothing. What can I do for you?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "I want to rent a shop in your mall."

The girl shook her head. "There's no room here. You have to queue up. Why don't you fill out a form?"

While filling out the form, Tang Yuanyuan chatted with the girl: "Which area are you responsible for? If there is a position available, will you contact me?"

The girl shook her head. "I've never seen a vacant space. If any business moves in, it's always the manager's order. I'm responsible for collecting the rent."

Tang Yuanyuan grasped the key point. This position of manager was a lucrative one, and he had the final say in all matters.

Cui Rent, that is a position that can be resigned: "Cui Rent? It sounds like an offensive job. I see you are very young, you must have just arrived? Are you already responsible for such an important job?"

Girl: “I just graduated this year.”

Tang Yuanyuan: "Were you crying just now because you didn't get the rent?"

The girl nodded. It was the end of the year and her manager asked her to collect the rent for the next quarter from all the merchants before the New Year. She didn't do it and was severely criticized.

The manager cursed her harshly, calling her a pig.

However, she has no rights at all. If she asks for next year's rent three months in advance, who would listen to her?

When I go to the store, I get treated sarcastically by the merchants.

When Tang Yuanyuan asked this, the girl remembered the humiliation she had just suffered and wanted to cry again.

Tang Yuanyuan felt a poke on the arm, and Li Mu said, "Let's go in and meet Manager Mao."

Tang Yuanyuan motioned for him to wait, lowered her head, and asked the girl, "What are your manager's hobbies? Where does he go most after get off work?"

The girl said, "I like to go to karaoke and nightclubs."

Tang Yuanyuan immediately sent a message to Li Mu: "Invite him to sing karaoke. It's hard for me to discuss this kind of thing. Just act like the boss."

Li Mu understood and went to the office to meet Manager Mao alone.

Tang Yuanyuan managed to point the little girl outside and offered her a soda. She easily learned her name was He Ying. "...Paying rent three months in advance? Isn't that too early?"

He Ying said, "I heard that he was lending money at high interest rates. If he lent out this money, he would make a lot of money in three months."

Tang Yuanyuan twitched her lips speechlessly. This Manager Mao is really greedy.

"Your job is too difficult to ask for rent so long in advance."

He Ying muttered with a painful expression: "If only it were money."

Tang Yuanyuan asked, "What else is going on?"

He Ying was unwilling to say anything. "Nothing. Anyway, I advise you not to open a store here. Manager Mao is a shady person."

Tang Yuanyuan understood what he meant and knew that it meant bribery. She was not afraid of spending money now, as long as she could get a shop here.

Tang Yuanyuan went to the bank to withdraw 10,000 yuan, asked Li Mu to give it to Manager Mao in the evening, and then returned to school.

At eight o'clock, Li Mu went straight to the library.

He held his heart in fear: "Do you know what that grandson did?!"

Tang Yuanyuan spoke to him in the corridor: "What's wrong? He doesn't want money?"

"That bastard is a Zhou Paopi, he wants more than that!" Li Muren went to karaoke for the first time, and his worldview was completely overturned: "That bastard even called two girls! I ordered the most expensive one for him."

"Not only did he collect money, he spent 3,000 yuan at karaoke, and he was also picky about the place he ate. The grandson said he would pay the bill, but when it came time to pay, he pretended to be drunk and spent another 1,000 yuan on the meal. 14,000 yuan was gone."

Tang Yuanyuan: "As long as we can get the shop, we can spend it. Has he given us a promise?"

Li Mu: "I did give it to a company that's not doing well and wants to close down after the New Year. They said they could definitely arrange a job, but his grandson is so fucking greedy, so shady."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Your face turned pale. I thought something serious had happened."

"How can it not be a big deal!" Li Mu patted himself in disgust: "I almost lost my virginity?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "What?"

Li Mu slapped his face embarrassedly and said, "You don't know how scary the women there are. They jumped right at me! I made a huge sacrifice this time."

He was so scared that he fell to the ground, and the guy named Mao almost died of laughter.

Tang Yuanyuan: "...You're a man, are you afraid of being at a disadvantage?"

Li Mu stiffened his neck and said, "I'm a virgin, and a woman touched my breasts!"

Tang Yuanyuan: "...You left the guy surnamed Mao there and came back by yourself?"

Li Mu: "He couldn't wait to get a room, so I came back. Damn, that guy even left the room fee for me to pay."

Tang Yuanyuan: "Just spend it. If you think about it from another perspective, getting the shop is worth more than anything else."

However, after waiting for a month, there was no news from the other side.

Tang Yuanyuan was worried and asked He Ying to come out. "Did your manager say that they would vacate a new store for us?"

He Ying shook her head. "No? He's been entertaining those bosses lately, and the rent has already been collected. How could there be a new space available?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Does every family teach it?"

He Ying nodded: "Yes."

Tang Yuanyuan felt like she'd been cheated. "But he said there would be an empty shop after the New Year. He wouldn't just take the money and not do anything, would he?"

He Ying: "Did you give him money? Our manager has a very bad character. He is capable of doing anything bad."

Tang Yuanyuan drank all the soda in one breath. If he dared to cheat her, don't blame her for punishing him.

She withdrew another 10,000 yuan from the bank and gave it to Li Mu: "Take it, and then ask your grandson to come out and give him this money."

Li Mu: "...You have so much money to burn. You've already spent over ten thousand on this grandson."

Tang Yuanyuan: "We have to send him again, otherwise how can we get him in?"

She took out the Walkman from her pocket and pressed the play button: "I have to send him again, otherwise how can we get him in?"

"Understand?"