Chapter 409 Taking You Out of Town
In the living room, Shen Qingning held the express delivery and looked at the concert tickets inside, her eyes drooping slightly.
Scenes from the past began to emerge in my mind.
She used to be looking forward to this year's tour and going to concerts with him.
She wanted to hear Jay Chou sing "The Longest Movie" on stage.
Then, he listened to him sitting next to him and singing a chorus with Jay Chou on the stage.
However, times are different now.
It went from being the most anticipated thing to an untimely gift.
Shen Minglang was originally chatting with his sister about pomelo tea, and then he looked at the ticket in her hand with a little surprise.
"What tickets?" He stood up curiously and walked over to take a look.
Shen Qingning, who was still distracted, did not come back to her senses until he walked to her side.
Shen Minglang looked down and said, "Oh, Jay Chou, the concert in Shanghai?"
He was a little puzzled and said, "Ningning, I see there is a Hangzhou concert in this year's tour. Why don't we go to Hangzhou when he comes? Why do we have to go to Shanghai?"
For people like them, there is no such thing as ticket grabbing. If they really can't afford it, they can just pay more and buy scalper tickets. They just want convenience.
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingning looked up and looked at him.
Shen Minglang had thought Ningning's expression was strange before, and she seemed very surprised after opening the express delivery, so he came over to see what the ticket in her hand was.
Now, when they looked into each other's eyes, he also felt that there was something wrong with her eyes.
"There's something wrong with this ticket!" He felt it immediately.
Shen Minglang is not very smart, but he is not a complete idiot either. He is a lovable old idiot.
"You look a little off," he said bluntly, his eyes concerned.
He frowned and guessed: "Could it be that you didn't buy this ticket yourself?"
He had experience in this area since he was a child. Since his sister was very beautiful, she always received gifts from the opposite sex.
He had been responsible for returning gifts several times, and when he was in school, he beat up a few stupid boys for some reasons.
Seeing that Shen Qingning didn't reply, Shen Minglang felt that he was right, and immediately added: "He suddenly sent a ticket without saying a word, and he went to watch a concert in another place. This man must not be a good person, and he is not allowed to go!"
Even though he usually scares his sister, at times like this, he will still show his authority as a brother!
——"Shen Minglang, who is flexible and adaptable".
Shen Qingning looked down at the ticket in her hand and said calmly, “I won’t go.”
She feels very sad now, very sad.
She also didn't think that Cheng Zhu, as Lin Lu's boyfriend, would dare to invite her to go to the concert in Shanghai.
This mode of suddenly sending a ticket seems more like a rigid fulfillment of a past promise and a return of a small favor.
However, what was once a romantic and ceremonial thing now seems a bit heartbreaking.
There is no way a proud person like her would go.
She even felt that Cheng Zhu was trying to distance himself from what had happened to her in the past.
She felt that this was unnecessary and made her feel uncomfortable.
For a moment, she had many complicated emotions in her heart.
In the end, I couldn't help but tear up the ticket.
Shen Minglang stood aside, watching his sister, who was as cold and aloof as ever, and had a strong aura, and spoke up like a supporting actor:
"Nice job!"
He sat back down on the sofa and continued the previous topic. He felt that this was the most important thing.
How much does it cost to invite someone to a concert? The grapefruit tea is the important thing!
"Ningning, do you think Yuecha will pose a threat to us?" Shen Minglang frowned.
"You asked the wrong person." Shen Qingning stood up directly and went upstairs to her room.
She has no desire to communicate with anyone now.
She just wanted to go back to her room and lie on the bed for a while, quietly.
Shen Minglang didn't notice anything unusual about this.
Shen Qingning is like this. She is annoyed by some of the boys' actions.
He felt that this was Ningning's normal state.
At this moment, he just felt that what Ningning said about him asking the wrong person was indeed correct.
Cheng Zhu must be the most knowledgeable about these things. Give him a call and hear his analysis.
"No, let's just video chat!" Shen Minglang changed his mind.
He is now addicted to video conferences and feels that it is particularly cool to be able to immerse himself in work in this way.
"Cousin, is it convenient for you now? If so, let's have a video conference." He sent a WeChat message.
Soon, a video popped up from Cheng Zhu's side.
"Why don't you take a good rest today instead of having a meeting so early in the morning?" Cheng Zhu asked with a smile.
He is now in his rented apartment in Xinhang Apartment.
On the table was the express package he had just opened.
There was a ticket for Jay Chou's concert inside, and it was the ticket for the seat next to Shen Qingning's.
Shen Minglang looked at Cheng Zhu in the video, who looked relaxed and calm, and couldn't help wondering: "Cousin, didn't you read the news? That Shencheng imitated our Yuecha and raised 100 million yuan! The valuation is 500 million!"
"Although she is not as good as us, she has Shendu Capital behind her! It is one of the top ten venture capital brands!"
Cheng Zhu looked at Shen Minglang, who was almost spitting on the phone, and only said three words.
Just three short words, but Shen Minglang could feel a sense of pressure through the screen.
Cheng Zhu said:
"so what?"
"Damn it!" Shen Minglang cursed in his heart, and then silently memorized the three words "So" in his mind, saving them for later use to show off in front of others.
Cheng Zhu's completely indifferent attitude made him feel relieved immediately.
"Cousin, do you think that Yuecha can't pose any threat to us?" Shen Minglang asked.
Cheng Zhuze waved his hand and said, "Alas! I can't say there is no threat at all, that would be too arrogant. I can only say there is a little bit of threat."
He raised two fingers and gestured a small distance.
Shen Minglang: “.”
Damn, why do I feel that your statement sounds more arrogant?
He took out a small notebook and silently wrote down the sentence.
Cheng Zhu looked at him and said with a smile: "This is one of the reasons why I insisted on opening at least 3 stores in each first-tier city."
"In a few days, all 18 of our stores will be officially open for business."
"Cousin, take a look, how many stores do we have?"
Shen Minglang replied: "Including those that are about to open, there are 19, and there are a few that have just started."
"What about her?"
"One."
"Our supply chain has been set up, and the cold chain logistics has basically been completed. What about her?" Cheng Zhu asked again.
"But." Shen Minglang still felt something was wrong.
Cheng Zhu waved his hand again and said, "She entered the market later than us, and now she only has 100 million yuan in her hands. She doesn't even have a self-developed signature product. She just incorporates the elements of a soft European bag."
"If she were to come in with 300 or 400 million yuan to disrupt the situation, it might make me panic for a while."
"She can't catch up when we are ahead," said Cheng Zhu.
In fact, looking at all walks of life, it is common for latecomers to surpass their competitors.
One step ahead does not mean being ahead at every step.
But as a reborn person, Cheng Zhu witnessed the rise of high-end internet celebrity milk tea with his own eyes, and then witnessed its decline with his own eyes.
In other words, he has experienced the entire milk tea era.
Relying on the advantage of being reborn, he can be one step ahead at every step!
Because you think I'm only one step ahead, but in fact I've already run the entire course in my head. I've even thought about when to make a glorious exit. What can you compare with me?
He knew very well why Yuecha was able to obtain financing and why it received support from Shenzhen Capital.
On the one hand, it is because the founder Chen Yue herself is a super rich second-generation, and her family’s resources and connections are far beyond those of ordinary people.
In this world, many people’s starting points for entrepreneurship are higher than the end points of ordinary people’s entrepreneurship. There is nothing that can be done about it.
Those who have truly started from scratch and made it to the top are a minority among the minority in this world.
On the other hand, it is because of everyone’s understanding of the internet celebrity economy.
In the eyes of most people, the internet celebrity economy is just a passing fad.
This wind came quickly and went away quickly.
Precisely because pomelo tea is an internet-famous milk tea, everyone is more firmly convinced that once the market for high-end internet-famous milk tea is opened up, the phenomenon of “you finish your performance and I’ll take the stage” will appear.
Every once in a while, a new internet celebrity brand emerges.
This is the current situation of the internet celebrity economy.
It’s a pity that they have no idea how perverted their opponents are!
At the end of the video conference, Cheng Zhu gave Shen Minglang a reassurance: "It is indeed a good idea for Yuecha to add soft European bread. It can make it popular for a while, but in the long run, it is useless. After all, we sell milk tea, and the sales of soft European bread cannot support it."
"As for Shendu Capital, which you are concerned about, it is indeed awesome. All of the top ten venture capital brands are awesome, and each of them holds a large sum of money."
"But cousin, you don't have to completely regard Shendu Capital as a rival, do you understand?"
Shen Minglang was confused. What do you mean I understand? I don’t understand!
"What do you mean?" he asked.
As a result, Cheng Zhu's answer stunned him again.
He said: "When we raise the second round of funding for Youcha, maybe they will come to us with money."
Shen Minglang’s inner thoughts: Damn!
He felt that he still had a long way to go before he could become a master in the art of showing off.
But if this scene could really happen.
“It’s really exciting!”
With Cheng Zhu's few words, this brief internal video conference ended.
He also gave Shen Minglang a heads-up, telling him that more and more capital would come in to support other internet-famous milk tea brands.
This is the general trend in the future and it is an inevitable phenomenon, so just keep a calm mind.
At this moment, after talking about the serious business, Shen Minglang planned to find Cheng Zhu to gossip.
"Cousin, I have something to ask you." His expression was extremely serious.
"You say." Cheng Zhu replied.
"Is there anyone in your school pursuing Ningning now?" he asked with a frown.
"Then there must be a lot of people who like her." Cheng Zhu answered as a matter of course.
How could girls like Shen Qingning and Lin Lu have no suitors?
Li Chengzhu has a lot of admirers at school. Girls always add him on WeChat, and I don’t know where they got the WeChat account.
This is the case when a girl pursues a boy, let alone when a boy pursues a girl.
"Does she show any signs of wanting to fall in love?" Shen Minglang asked.
"No." Cheng Zhu answered affirmatively.
He is the person involved, so of course he knows best.
Wasn't that tendency suppressed by his own hands?
"That's good. But Ningning is actually quite reassuring in this regard. I just saw someone secretly sending her concert tickets, so I just asked casually." Shen Minglang said.
Cheng Zhu: You really asked the right person.
Based on his understanding of Shen Qingning's character, he felt that this dead arrogant person would most likely not go to this concert.
But he still chose to send a ticket.
He has his own plans and arrangements.
At this moment, since Shen Minglang mentioned this matter, he pretended to be surprised and asked: "Is there such a thing?"
"Yeah! Damn it! I don't know where this bastard came from, and he bought tickets from out of town. Jay Chou is obviously going to come to Hangzhou for a concert in a while!" Shen Minglang cursed.
The naughty dog Cheng Zhu: “???”
Why are you cursing for no reason?
That’s too much!
But Shen Minglang never stopped cursing that day: "We are all men, how can we not know the intention of inviting girls to watch concerts in other places? What a bastard, am I right, cousin!"
He was still hoping that Cheng Zhu would join him in fighting against the same enemy.
Cheng Zhu: What about your mother?
You curse me again! You curse me again!?
Cheng Zhu was ready to hang up the video and was too lazy to try again.
Fortunately, Shen Minglang changed the subject at this moment and said, "Fortunately, our Ningning is still very reassuring. She tore up this concert ticket in front of me."
"It's comfortable, it's comfortable!" A look of satisfaction appeared on Shen Minglang's face. He seemed to have seen the tearful expression of the bad boy who had paid for the ticket.
Little did he know that Cheng Zhu nodded secretly: It is just as I expected.
With Shen Tsundere's personality, it would be strange if she would go to the concert after receiving the tickets.
She is neither Zhang Qiqi nor Meng Yiyi.
If it were them, even if they knew Cheng Zhu had a girlfriend, they would still go there decisively after he took the initiative to send the ticket.
But it doesn’t matter, this is just Cheng Zhu’s first step.
He is not in a hurry.
On the contrary, he found it interesting to take it slow.
As for the fact that Jay Chou's tour this year includes a stop in Hangzhou, Cheng Zhu was naturally aware of it.
But how could he possibly send Shen Qingning a ticket to Hangzhou Station?
The entire city of Hangzhou is not small, but it is not big either.
It's very easy to run into acquaintances at a concert with tens of thousands of people.
What's more, what if Xiaolu wants to go and see it, what if she invites me?
After getting all the useful information, Cheng Zhu decisively said to Shen Minglang, "I'm hanging up first."
He immediately closed the video.
Shen Minglang was left alone in the living room, confused: "Huh? Are you in such a hurry to hang up?"
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the young stepmother Wang Yusan began to tell Shen Minglang and Shen Qingning to stay home for dinner. This was your father's order.
Shen Minglang made an appointment with his sister to watch a movie in the evening, but they didn't plan to have dinner together.
He has recently transformed himself into [A Nationally Available Shen Minglang] and is either on a business trip or on his way to a business trip.
Several of the girls who used to chat and flirt with me have been a bit neglected recently.
"As a result, two of them are actually in a relationship!"
Now, after working for so long, he must be planning to take a vacation for himself and then work overtime for his wife.
On the other side, Wang Yushan went upstairs and knocked on Shen Qingning’s door.
"Ningning." She called softly from outside the door.
After a while, the door was opened.
"Your father will be home for dinner tonight and ask you to stay home to eat." She glanced at Shen Qingning and asked in surprise, "Are you feeling well?"
At this moment, Shen Qingning was a little listless and looked a little tired.
"Nothing." She shook her head and said, "I was taking a nap this afternoon and I overslept a little."
"Okay, go wash your face." Wang Yusan suggested.
"Um."
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, the driver drove the long-wheelbase version of the Rolls-Royce Ghost and parked it in the parking space of the villa.
Shen Guoqiang got out of the back seat and returned home.
He came back specially for dinner today because he saw the same news as Shen Minglang.
After the Shen family invested 60 million in Youcha, he gained a deeper understanding of the future of Youcha through some internal information.
Shen Minglang told him that the daily output of cups in this store in Hangzhou has always been maintained at two to three thousand cups.
This is a very scary number. Shen Guoqiang knows very well how comfortable it is to make money in this level of cash business!
Milk tea is a payment-versus-delivery transaction.
Unlike some businesses, it’s good enough to get the money at the end of the year.
In addition, this middle-aged arrogant man also saw that his son had been on business trips recently and seemed like a completely different person, so he also wanted to go home and have a meal together. They haven't seen each other for a long time.
He has always used repressive education on Shen Minglang, which is actually very bad, but deep down he still cares about his son.
While the family was having dinner, he took the initiative to ask Shen Minglang, which was rare: "Are you busy recently?"
The middle-aged arrogant man actually wanted to ask if I was tired, but when the words came to his lips, he turned it into whether I was busy.
"It's okay. I'm kind of used to it. It's quite fulfilling." This is what Shen Minglang really thinks.
Although the days of debauchery were happy in the past, they were followed by a sense of emptiness.
In extreme emptiness, he would think about continuing to spend money and have fun the next day, and then repeat this over and over again.
At first, sleeping with my sister could bring me a sense of accomplishment, but over time, this sense of accomplishment disappeared.
Now, he is running around doing some basic work for Yuzu tea and laying a solid foundation for the supply chain, and he really feels a sense of accomplishment.
Shen Guoqiang glanced at him and indeed felt that the boy's temperament had changed a bit, and he looked a little more stable, so he nodded slightly and took the initiative to ask him to have a drink with him.
After three rounds of drinks, the atmosphere at the dinner table was still good.
It’s just that Shen Qingning is even more taciturn than usual.
After dinner, Shen Guoqiang called his children to the tea room, ready for everyone to drink tea and chat about Yuecha.
He felt that based on his experience, he could give these young people some advice.
He really doesn't understand the milk tea business, let alone the so-called internet celebrity economy, but some aspects remain the same, and there are a few things he feels he should still talk about.
At the same time, when such a big thing happened, his children didn't even think of coming to him for advice, and the old father felt a little disappointed and dissatisfied!
"Ningning, you come and soak." Shen Guoqiang said to his daughter.
Shen Qingning nodded and began to make tea skillfully.
Shen Minglang was helping out at the side in a servile manner.
After taking a sip of the white tea his daughter brewed, Shen Guoqiang put down the cup before speaking, “I watched the news this morning.”
He said calmly, "Is there a Yuecha in Shenzhen that received 100 million yuan in financing from Shenzhen Capital?"
Shen Minglang, who was slightly drunk, lit up his eyes when he heard this.
He remembered the video call with his cousin today, and then started to put his knowledge into practice!
I saw him leaning his entire back against the chair, almost crossing his legs.
Then, he imitated the way Cheng Zhu looked up at him in the video, and also looked up at his father, saying lightly:
"so what?"
(ps: two in one, please give me a monthly ticket~)
(End of this chapter)
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