Chapter 261: Straw Girl
"I have a tiger in my heart, yet I smell the roses." - Siegfried Sassoon.
At this moment, the young man and woman were standing in the lottery shop scratching the two scratch tickets they had just bought.
One of them has Cheng Zhu in his heart, and the other has Xiaolu in his heart.
I just don’t know if the God of Wealth will favor them this time.
Welfare lottery shops provide bottle openers for scratching lottery tickets. One end of the bottle opener is tied with a rope and tied to the table to prevent it from being lost.
In the past, everyone used coins in their pockets to scratch lottery tickets, but nowadays people rarely carry cash when they go out. They find it troublesome to even carry paper money, let alone coins.
Lin Lu had just kept his eyes closed, looking very serious, as if he was praying to his God of Wealth.
After she opened her eyes, she held the bottle opener in her right hand and scratched the scratch card hard, as if as long as she scratched with momentum, she would definitely win the prize!
The owner of the welfare lottery shop looked at this pretty and lovely girl and felt a little amused.
"Looking at the way she's dressed, I think she should be well off. She even closes her eyes and prays before scratching a 50-dollar scratch-off ticket. I didn't expect she's such a money-grubber?" the middle-aged man thought.
Haha, middle-aged straight man, you know shit.
Cheng Zhu saw that Lin Lu had already started shaving, and he was mumbling something in his little mouth, like chanting a spell, so he started shaving himself.
He was more efficient at scratching the lottery tickets than Lin Lu. This energetic girl had to scratch each box slowly, one by one, while Cheng Zhu just scratched row by row.
"Huh? It works! I won fifty dollars, which just covers my investment!" Cheng Zhu was shocked.
He has had a very low winning rate in lotteries since he was a child. When he was in primary school, he never won a prize in the canteen at the school gate. Even when he played "Honor of Kings" to draw crystals, he had to have his luck value maxed out to get a guaranteed prize.
Lin Lu's hand scratching the lottery ticket paused for a moment, turned his head to look at Cheng Zhu, and then frowned slightly.
It's just a return on investment, which doesn't feel very auspicious.
"Lean on me!" She gripped the bottle opener even harder with her little hand.
Cheng Zhu turned his head to look at her and felt that her little face was tense and her lips were tightly pursed, as if even her face was exerting force!
"No need, no need. Don't wait to tear the paper card." Cheng Zhu said with a smile.
Lin Lu didn't hear anything at all, and kept muttering, "Hit! Hit! Hit!"
I don't know if it's true that simple people have good luck, or if she is just that lucky in making extra money.
As she scratched, she actually made another hundred this time and scratched out 150!
The middle-aged boss immediately asked, "Handsome guy, beautiful girl, do you want to exchange a few more tickets? Beautiful girl feels very lucky!"
"No, no!" Lin Lu raised his hand and refused repeatedly.
I won't fall for this kind of trick!
After the transfer, Lin Lu happily left with two useless paper cards.
"Here, I'll give you mine and keep yours!" Lin Lu even made an exchange and didn't let Cheng Zhu throw it away.
"Tsk, you are really lucky!" Cheng Zhu was somewhat convinced.
"That's right! The fortune teller said that I am a lucky person for others!" Lin Lu was really proud of it and continued, "They said that I was a lucky person for my family before I got married, and a lucky person for my husband after I got married!"
She said with a cocky look on her face: "Anyway, it's very prosperous!"
"Great! The lucky charm for my husband is here." Cheng Zhu deliberately waved the scratch ticket in his hand in front of her.
You gave me this scratch ticket just to bring me good luck, right?
So
An ambiguous atmosphere began to spread in the air, and Lin Lu suddenly reacted. Her face flushed slightly, and then she began to find things to do awkwardly. She raised her hand to tighten the scarf around her neck.
Cheng Zhu stopped there and didn't continue teasing her. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "Then I'll put this scratch card in the cashier's drawer as a treasure of the store."
"Okay!" Lin Lu smiled immediately, his eyes flickering, and the whole person seemed to become brighter.
A few minutes later, Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu got into the Land Rover parked in the basement and returned to Xinhang Apartment together.
Lin Lu looked at Building B that Cheng Zhu rented and said unhappily, "Cheng Zhu, since you rented a house, why don't you invite everyone to your home to have some fun? Like, have a meal together or something."
"What's the fuss? I haven't bought any pots, pans, or utensils yet, and I have no plans to light a fire at home for the time being." Cheng Zhu waved his hand.
His family runs a small restaurant. Comrade Cheng is an excellent cook and he learned from Cheng Zhu’s grandfather, so he can barely be considered a “third-generation chef”.
He actually has a talent for cooking, and the food he makes tastes pretty good, but he just rarely cooks himself.
Among his current circle of friends, the only one who has tasted his cooking is Jiang Wanzhou. Even Wang Anquan, who grew up with him, has never eaten any of the dishes prepared by Guo Zhu.
Nowadays, there are indeed fewer and fewer girls who can cook, but many boys have some cooking skills.
I don’t know when it started, but it seems that being able to cook has become a plus point for boys, and some people even rely on this skill to attract girls.
Looking back at the past life, among so many girls, it seemed that only Yiyi tasted Cheng Zhu's craftsmanship, while others just experienced Cheng Zhu's craftsmanship.
At this moment, Cheng Zhu looked at her and asked, "Why? Want to go up and take a look?"
"Yes." Lin Lu nodded, not afraid.
"Okay, I'll go upstairs and make you a cup of milk tea." Cheng Zhu smiled.
This small apartment he rented had its first guest.
The two got off the car together and walked into the elevator. The elevator could only go to the designated floor after swiping the card.
After entering the room, Lin Lu's eyes were first attracted by the milk tea making equipment on the table.
"So many machines!" She didn't expect that she would need so many equipment.
"That has nothing to do with that." Cheng Zhu smiled.
At present, [Yuzu Tea] will follow the same route as many Internet-famous milk tea shops at this stage in its previous life, with milk tea mainly made by hand.
Because there are so many products in the internet-famous milk tea shops, and all kinds of messy ingredients such as fresh fruits, milk caps, taro paste, etc. are used, the process is relatively complicated.
Moreover, the internet-famous milk tea shops at this stage will constantly innovate and like to innovate on some niche fruits to highlight their uniqueness. Therefore, new products will be released every month and many new production procedures will be added.
This makes it difficult to rely on mechanization.
But in a few years, as people's tastes change, they will no longer be able to compete in the fruit field, and they will no longer be able to innovate. They will begin to enter a fresh milk + fresh tea model similar to [Bawang Cha Ji], taking the route of big single products, with one store having only a few products at all.
By then, we can rely more on machines.
In fact, the production efficiency of [Bawang Cha Ji] is much faster than that of brands such as Heytea and Nayuki.
Because its processes can basically be completed by machines, it can use only half of the employees of HEYTEA, but the production efficiency is still faster than that of HEYTEA!
This is also the path Cheng Zhu will choose to take in three or four years.
But that is what the milk tea industry should do when it enters the 4.0 era. It has not yet entered the 3.0 era.
So don’t think about these for now.
This even involves changes in market tastes, which is quite complicated.
Cheng Zhu has always felt that taking a big step forward in the times would be a bit too advanced and not necessarily a good thing.
Leading the times by a small step is enough, and that is already innovation.
He walked to the milk tea equipment and asked with a smile, "What would you like to drink?"
"Can you make that roasted brown sugar bobo milk you made for me last time?"
"I don't think that's possible. It will take a long time just to cook the brown sugar popsicles for you."
"Then just play freely." Lin Lu said.
"OK."
Cheng Zhu was tinkering with the milk tea equipment, while Lin Lu put his hands behind his back and walked around the room.
She was too embarrassed to walk into Cheng Zhu's bedroom alone, so she just put her hands behind her back, leaned forward sideways, and looked inside.
After touring the entire house, Lin Lu asked him in confusion: "You live alone, why do you rent a two-bedroom apartment? Xinhang Apartment also has one-bedroom apartments."
She was quite confused about this and felt that having an extra room was a waste.
"I want to sleep in two beds, you don't understand." Cheng Zhu said while making tea.
For him, one bed is indeed not enough in some cases, because there is a need - separation of wet and dry areas.
Nowadays, many young couples choose to book a standard room with twin beds when they go to a hotel. One reason is that standard rooms are safer and king-size bed rooms are preferred for hidden cameras. Another reason is that they can separate wet and dry areas.
As for me, I don’t mind paying a little extra rent every month.
He even wanted to rent a three-bedroom apartment at first.
The milk tea was ready quickly, and he made a cup of taro milk tea for Lin Lu.
"Here, taro balls and milk." Cheng Zhu handed over the hot milk tea.
After Lin Lu took it, he felt the temperature and didn't dare to drink it directly because he thought it would be very hot.
She held the milk tea in both hands and used it as a hand warmer.
When winter comes, her beautiful little hands are always cold.
And every night after going to bed, the little feet are also cold.
"He is like a furnace. He took off his coat as soon as he entered the room and still felt hot." She held the milk tea to her mouth with both hands, but she didn't dare to drink it immediately for fear of the heat, and complained about Cheng Zhu in her heart.
"But it would be warm if I were to date him, right?" This thought popped up in her mind.
Lin Lu is a straightforward and enthusiastic person. Since I like him, why should I be afraid of thinking about such things?
She held a straw in her mouth and took a slight sip. When it was about to reach her mouth, her intuition told her that it was probably still very hot, so she didn't dare to drink it. Then she loosened her lips and the milk tea in the straw fell back into her mouth.
She repeated this little action subconsciously several times.
Cheng Zhu just looked at her and then discovered a small detail.
Lubao, it seems like she likes biting straws very much?
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(End of this chapter)
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