Chapter 6

"Doudoulong~Doudoulong~"

Fang Shao hummed a song and staggered back to the counter. After several days, the second record finally appeared on the cash register screen.

[A bag of delicious wild berries, estimated at 80 yuan. ]

tasty?!

Wild berries?!

Fang Shao immediately became interested. The price was not expensive anyway, so he operated the cash register twice and used his personal account to offset the transaction. With a "clang~" sound, the drawer under the cash register popped out, revealing a square space that was larger than the drawer itself, and inside was the lotus leaf package.

Fang Shao picked up the intact package, untied the knot, and the folded lotus leaves opened like petals, revealing what was protected inside. It was a large handful of red fruits that seemed to still have dew on them. Against the backdrop of the emerald green lotus leaves, they looked even more crystal clear, like sparkling rubies. And each wild berry was made up of more and smaller fruit grains, an ingenious creation of nature.

Fang Shao picked up a wild berry and put it in his mouth. With a light sip, the plump fruit on the wild berry was easily crushed between the tongue and the palate, and the sweet and refreshing juice spread in the mouth, bringing out a sense of happiness in the heart.

"Delicious!" Fang Shao's eyes lit up instantly, just like when Totoro tasted Bingkuanluo for the first time.

Like a greedy little squirrel, he grabbed a handful of wild berries and threw them into his mouth.

Ah~ah~ah~

The satisfaction of this bite is so strong that it has no equal.

Speaking of friends, friends call me.

This is Gao Yang, who hasn't been in touch for a while. He asked Fang Shao for the address of his bar. "I invited a few friends to hang out this weekend, and since I was too lazy to find a place, I just went to your place. I can also visit you by the way."

Fang Shao certainly understood Gao Yang's good intentions. Compared to him, who was a nominal Yizhou native, Gao Yang was a native who was born and raised there, so he would never lack a place to gather. The other party came to see him and also wanted to attract business for him.

But when Fang Shao gave the address, the laughter on the other end of the phone suddenly seemed to be blocked. How could he not know the reputation of the Regal Building? For a moment, he didn't know whether to complain about the poor choice of address or question whether Fang Shao was joking with him.

However, Fang Shao did not intend to explain anything. Gao Yang was still a little dazed until he hung up the phone. He searched for the latest news about the Regal Mansion on his phone, and the page that popped up still had the familiar content, bankruptcy, lease termination, and some exaggerated and outrageous gossip.

No matter which one it is, it shows such an indisputable fact!

His buddy got ripped off!

Although Fang Shao's tone on the phone sounded normal, I don't know how upset he was in my heart.

Thinking back to Fang Shao's unreliable family, Gao Yang reflected on himself. He had never seen that family care about Fang Shao during his four years in college, so how could he have easily believed that they could arrange a good place for Fang Shao?

This time we can't do it according to the original idea.

Fortunately, the people he invited were all childhood friends with whom he had a good relationship. He called them one by one and briefly told them his guess, asking them to lower their expectations. If they had any dissatisfaction in the bar, they could just tell him privately. He would treat them to a meal the next day to make amends.

The young people all agreed readily. At night, several friends who had grown up together met in front of the Regal Building and walked down the stairs one by one, enjoying the novelty of visiting a haunted house.

"It's not that exaggerated actually. Some shops are still open as usual."

"But there are indeed few customers. I feel like we are the only customers here, and the others are probably employees who are leaving get off work."

"It seems so. And the further you go in, the fewer people there are. Opening a bar here, tsk tsk ..."

As they walked along the signposts, Gao Yang's friends discussed in low voices. Gao Yang, who was walking in the front, felt increasingly depressed. He almost wanted to hug Fang Shao and yell, "Brother, you've suffered!", but his remaining rationality and emotional intelligence forced him to put on a smile.

well……

Soon they arrived at the door of the bar. Seeing Fang Shao waiting outside, Gao Yang immediately smiled. The people behind him also stopped discussing and pretended to be happy.

"Young Master!"

"Lao Gao!"

The two of them hugged each other at the door. Fang Shao felt his roommate's arm pat him twice, but he didn't think much about it, thinking that he was excited.

After entering the bar, Fang Shao led them to their seats. Gao Yang went to the counter to place his order while his friends looked around cautiously.

The bar in front of me is not big, but there are many decorative fake windows on the surrounding walls, which does not look dull from the visual effect. There is also a fake glass sliding door on the wall opposite the counter, I don’t know what it means.

"I feel like the decoration here is quite good, not as terrible as Gao Yang said."

“The ventilation system here is also very good. The air is fresh and it doesn’t feel like being underground at all.”

"It just doesn't look like a bar. Look, there's a cat climbing frame over there. Is it a combination of a bar and a cat cafe?"

One of them immediately became interested. "Where is the cat?"

Now everyone couldn't sit still anymore and stood up to look for the cat. Some people stepped on the top of the cat climbing frame to look inside, some squatted at the door of the cat's nest on the first floor of the frame to look inside, and some searched under the tables and chairs. There was also one person who didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't find the cat anywhere, so he ran to the door of the bathroom at the back and meowed to lure the cat out.

Meanwhile, Orange was calmly lying on Fang Shao's computer, watching Fang Shao and a familiar-looking biped arguing with each other.

"10% off! The 10% off written on your sign means 10% off!"

"You've come to take care of my business, so what if I give you a 50% discount? Don't worry, I won't lose money!"

"It's not okay even if I can't afford it! If I were alone, I wouldn't blush if I ate and drank for free. But this time it's my treat, if you really give me a 50% discount, will I dare to come here again in the future?"

This sentence finally moved Fang Shao, and he decided: "No more talk, let's both take a step back and give it a 30% discount!"

Gao Yang turned around to ask his friends about their tastes, and then he found that his friends were scattered around the bar in a strange way.

"What are you doing?" Gao Yang walked over and asked in surprise.

The boy who was bending over and searching for the cat among the tables and chairs was closest to him and came over and whispered, "Let's look for the cat."

"Looking for a cat..." Gao Yang was speechless and pointed to the counter. "It's over there. But you have to ask first. My buddy will let you guys play with it before you can do anything."

The young man walked over with shining eyes, like a cat thief who had been greedy for a long time and was finally about to succeed.

Fang Shao did not refuse. Juzi was a little timid when he first came, but he became different after he had a nest and got familiar with the territory. When neighbors and delivery boys and girls who came to visit wanted to pet the cat, Juzi was very generous with them. Even if they didn't let him pet her, she would just run away or push him lightly with her paws retracted, and she would not react violently.

The other people also noticed my friend's dishonest behavior of eating alone, and gathered around the counter, looking at Orange and trying to pet the cat. As more people came, they started to pet Orange, who was originally indifferent, but now he was not so happy. The cat jumped off the counter and rushed towards the cat climbing frame. Then, under the admiring eyes of Gao Yang's friends, he jumped up and down on the cat climbing frame several times, and squatted at the highest point like a king patrolling the mountains.

The young man who missed the opportunity to play with the cat sighed twice, then returned to his seat with a smile. Maybe the drinks in "Yuan* Bar" were too light for people who often went to nightclubs, but for these young people who had just entered society, these low-alcohol drinks were just right. One of them didn't even order a drink, but a bottle of iced lemonade.

Drinks and snacks such as French fries and nuts were served, and the young people sat there and chatted. They had only been working for two or three months, but they already had countless feelings.

"When I was in school, I thought the students' union was too bureaucratic, always talking nonsense but not doing real work. Now that I've met the old employees in the company, I know what real bureaucracy and slickness are. The manager assigned me a task and originally wanted him to guide me in doing it, but he said, 'Young people should study hard and accumulate experience', and after giving me a few instructions, he threw everything to me. He is a company veteran and is not afraid of me reporting him, so I can only work hard and work overtime for a few days before I get the job done."

"You're lucky, at least you have someone to guide you, even if they only teach you a few words. When I arrived at the company, I was completely confused. They just handed me a list of customers and asked me to make phone calls to promote new products. I knew nothing. At first, I was too shy to ask anyone, so I had to eavesdrop on how others played and learn by myself. Later, I realized that this was also the company's way of screening people. If you don't learn and don't dare to play, you won't make it through the probation period, and the company will fire you in the first month."

"That's because your company has good resources and is confident. Would any other company dare to let a new employee make a phone call like this? Let me tell you, good clients are a scarce resource now! In our company, if you want to get a client list, you have to build relationships with the manager."

"You are all relatively lucky. I am the worst off. I have not received a single offer. Although my parents said they were not in a hurry, you all know what my family's conditions are. They finally supported me to graduate from college, and I couldn't let my family support me anymore. Finally, I made up my mind and followed my neighbor uncle into an insurance company, cleaning the floor with him every day. I tell you, it is really not easy to work in insurance. You have to watch people's faces every day. If it weren't for my uncle, I wouldn't be able to make it through a day. Now, let alone making money from bills, I rely entirely on the company's new employee allowance for food every month."

As soon as this person spoke, everyone fell silent. Gao Yang patted his friend on the shoulder and said, "Next year, when I have money, I will buy insurance from you first!"

Several others also expressed the same idea.

"Okay! Then I'll hold on until next year. I've signed your order!"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

"Cheers!"

"Do!"

"Do!"

"Don't be fooled by the poor young man!"

"Stand up!"

Fang Shao looked at the young people not far away who were holding beer cups and clinking soda bottles together and shouting all sorts of things. Alas, I didn't drink much, but I feel a little drunk. Lao Gao's friends are really as unreliable as Lao Gao.