Chapter 90: Tea with Tea
"My store will only be open for half a year at most." Cheng Zhu said to everyone.
At this moment, Cheng Zhu was sitting with Shen Minglang and others in front of a milk tea shop outside the school.
This cousin and Jiang Wanzhou both clamored to come and see the shop rented by Cheng Zhu, saying that they wanted to give him some advice. Tonight, the two of them drove over together.
Shen Qingning and Lin Lu were also called together and met at the milk tea shop at 8 o'clock in the evening.
As a result, after the two brothers sat down outside the milk tea shop, they didn't want to move anymore and had no intention of going to the sushi restaurant to take a look.
"I rolled down the car window and took a look when I passed by." Shen Minglang said.
"Add 1!" Jiang Wanzhou nodded.
And then, nothing happened.
"No, who was it that kept saying 'Three incompetent generals are better than Zhuge Liang' on the way here?" Cheng Zhu said unhappily.
Shen Minglang and Jiang Wanzhou looked at each other. They took a look outside the sushi restaurant and really couldn't come up with any constructive suggestions.
Xiao Jiang, who was most familiar with Cheng Zhu, took a sip of milk tea and said, "Hey, even if we make suggestions, will you listen?"
"Oh, you understand me, of course not." Cheng Zhu answered directly.
Shen Qingning and Lin Lu were sipping their three-cent sweet milk tea on the side, listening to them bickering.
When Jiang Wanzhou and Shen Minglang asked him about his future plans for the store, Cheng Zhu did not hide it from his friends and directly stated that he only planned to open the store for half a year.
"Ah? Why?" Lin Lu was the first to express confusion.
"No reason, because this kind of store is destined to only make a quick buck." Cheng Zhu replied.
"But the rental contract you asked me to sign was for one year." Shen Qingning looked at him and also felt puzzled.
We are all friends. Since you didn't plan to keep this store open from the beginning, we can sign a monthly lease contract. Why should we pay a year's rent in one go?
Cheng Zhu grinned and said, "The reason is very simple. If I don't want to continue running the business, what if someone wants to take over?"
"Fuck, you bad guy!" Shen Minglang immediately laughed and cursed.
He knew that some people who opened shops were doing this kind of outrageous things.
Some stores are destined to be popular only for a short while.
But some investors will be misled by this prosperous appearance.
Whether it is diluting one's own shares or selling the store directly, there may really be someone to take over, and there may even be people lining up to take over.
The price at which it is sold at that time is often higher than the initial investment amount!
This is a very normal business phenomenon, and it cannot even be said to be unscrupulous behavior. It is truly a case of both parties being willing to fight and be beaten.
The saying "buy when prices are high and don't buy when prices are low" is pretty much the same principle.
No one present had expected that Cheng Zhu had actually been heading in this direction from the beginning!
However, the major prerequisite for such operation is that the store must have a stable period of popularity for several months.
In fact, they are all not optimistic about this.
Shen Qingning and Lin Lu knew that there was a small video game arcade outside the school.
Shen Minglang knows well that young people's money is easy to make, but it is also very difficult to make.
Jiang Wanzhou is even more amazing. Don’t forget, his family used to own shares in a large video game arcade.
This is the case even for arcades with a full range of machines, various ways to play and various tricks. A store with only claw machines really feels meaningless.
But Cheng Zhu insisted on his own way. The new project will be officially launched tomorrow, and it is impossible for anyone to say something unlucky or sarcastic at this time.
Everyone just wants to help when the time comes.
They didn't know that Cheng Zhu had only told half the story. There were many other important reasons why he chose to sell the store at that time.
But there’s no need to talk about it now, after all, the store hasn’t even opened yet.
On the other side, Xu Shao and Zhang Qiqi walked out of this high-end sushi restaurant at 8:20.
Xu Shao chatted with the boss for quite a while. Zhang Qiqi had already become impatient, but she had to keep smiling.
After walking out of the store, Xu Shao looked back at the store and said with emotion: "Qiqi, the first time we went out to eat was here."
"Yes." Zhang Qiqi said perfunctorily, but she was thinking in her heart: "Then the store will be gone. What do you think of me and you?"
In her list, Xu Shao ranks among the top three in terms of comprehensive score.
Although he talks a lot, expresses deep emotion all the time, and likes to pretend to be mature, he is indeed generous and gets excited if given a little hope. He has beautiful visions of the future.
It would be strange if a person like him was not caught as a black carp.
Xu Shao felt that the two of them had left many good memories in the sushi restaurant.
For Zhang Qiqi, this is just a place to take photos and post them on WeChat Moments.
After all, for college friends around you, if you post a Michelin restaurant in Hangzhou, they may not know its grade. But this sushi restaurant outside the school is different. It is notoriously expensive in the school and is the restaurant with the highest per capita consumption at the school gate.
Seeing Xu Shao standing here sighing for more than a minute, she thought: "A grown man talking so much nonsense and being so pretentious is really despicable!"
Xu Shao didn't want to separate from Zhang Qiqi right after dinner, so he suggested, "How about we go have a cup of milk tea or a smoothie together? Of course, I mean go to the mall."
"No, I want to go back to the dormitory first. I have something to write tonight." She smiled at Xu Shao and said, "Let's go to the fruit store and buy a glass of juice later."
"Okay." Xu Shao agreed.
When the two walked to the fruit shop, they happened to see Cheng Zhu and others sitting across the street.
Xu Shao followed her gaze and looked over there. After seeing the appearance of Shen Qingning and Lin Lu, he immediately felt a deep sense of amazement.
There is no way, their innate conditions are better than Zhang Qiqi's, and the two besties are always inseparable and often go out together. When two goddess-level girls with different styles get together, the visual impact they bring is definitely greater than the sum of their parts.
As mentioned before, Xu Shao had already graduated when the two girls entered school, so this was the first time he saw them in person.
After Lin Lu and Shen Qingning appeared in the milk tea shop, the turning rate has been very high, and the business of this shop has improved a little.
Many people passing by were curious about who the three men sitting at the same table were.
Looking around, this table is simply: goddess, goddess, a garishly dressed guy, a slightly effeminate man, and hey, this guy is fucking handsome!
Everyone instinctively ignored Shen Minglang and Jiang Wanzhou, thinking that there was no possibility for them to be with these two goddesses.
Only this man in a black short-sleeved shirt was talking and laughing with them. He is so hateful!
Damn it, he really deserves to die! It was the gun ban that saved your life, you know? Otherwise, I would have shot you sooner or later!
"They are beautiful, right?" Zhang Qiqi suddenly said.
"Ahem!" Xu Shao immediately retracted his gaze and said hypocritically: "You are my ideal type. They are not my type."
To be honest, if it was before, he might really get carried away when he saw Shen Qingning and Lin Lu.
But how can it be the same now?
The relationship between Qiqi and I is just about to be completed!
I'm almost there!
At a time like this, if you are shaken by external factors, wouldn't that be sheer idiocy?
You must first get the pretty lady who is within your reach!
"Let's go to that milk tea shop and buy a few drinks. I'll bring them back to my roommates. They love milk tea." Zhang Qiqi added a new reason: "We've been watching them for so long, they must have felt it, but it wouldn't be nice to just go over and say hello."
"Uh, okay." Xu Shao nodded.
Zhang Qiqi was the first to walk forward, and she walked very fast, so that Xu Shao, who was unable to react in time, was several steps away from her and left a distance between them.
"Hello, two junior sisters, we meet again." She first greeted Shen Qingning and Lin Lu with a smile.
They were indeed not familiar with each other. They had only met a few times and had never added each other as friends. They were just acquaintances.
But many girls just like to do superficial things.
After Zhang Qiqi greeted the two girls, she immediately looked at Cheng Zhu, raised her hand to touch her hair, and said with a smile: "Junior brother Cheng Zhu, what a coincidence, we meet again."
Her eyes were always looking at Cheng Zhu, her delicate face tilted almost fifteen degrees to the left, with just the right smile on her face, giving people a faint sense of closeness.
At the sushi restaurant, the boy in front of me was quite indifferent. I don't know if he really didn't see me, or if he was just pretending not to see me and didn't bother to pay attention to me.
But what is certain is that the roommates around him greeted him. He stood outside the sushi restaurant waiting for his roommates to come out, and they had no intention of coming in to say hello to him.
The boy just stood outside the door and watched from a distance, without moving.
Normally, this is how it is when meeting in private. Now there are two other beautiful girls present. The usual practice for men is to try their best to appear more indifferent to other opposite sex.
Like Xu Shao, he was obviously fascinated by Shen Qingning and Lin Lu, but he still insisted: "Qiqi, you are my ideal type."
The desire to survive is a lesson that every man must learn.
All this was actually within Zhang Qiqi's expectations.
But she still chose to stand here, in front of Lin Lu and Shen Qingning, creating an appearance that she was quite interested in Cheng Zhu.
No, it can’t be said to be construction, she is indeed very interested in Cheng Zhu.
But the performance of this junior brother Cheng Zhu was completely different from what she expected.
He had an indifferent look in the sushi restaurant, but now, he grinned, his expression seemed to be a little enthusiastic, and his eyes met hers directly. His gaze never left her delicate features, as if he was deeply attracted to her.
Cheng Zhu responded: "Oh, Senior Zhang, I didn't expect to see you again so soon!"
Zhang Qiqi looked at him, and a voice popped up in her heart: "What is he doing!"
(End of this chapter)
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