Looking at Yang Xi's young and serious face, Wen Ying's memory couldn't help but go back to the summer of 2005 in her previous life.
That summer, it was so hot and humid that I had to keep the electric fan on all night to fall asleep.
Wen Ying was having dinner with her parents. The electric fan was whirring, and beads of sweat from her forehead were dripping onto the table as she held the bowl of rice.
The news reported that a fire broke out in a residential complex in Chengdu, and the number of casualties was unknown.
Wen Ying didn't pay much attention to the news. When she was a teenager, she didn't care about things like this. She always felt that floods here today and fires there tomorrow were things far away from her.
What Wen Ying didn't expect was that in the following week, the follow-up of the fire was reported frequently.
A relay of love touches the hearts of Chengdu citizens.
The cause of the fire has been investigated. The fire was caused by aging electrical circuits, which ignited a large amount of cardboard piled up in the house by the residents. The fire was out of control and the residents of the entire building suffered heavy losses.
Some people were injured, but no one died.
The love relay is to raise medical expenses for the "fire-fighting heroes". When the fire broke out, a girl named Yang Xi rushed into the fire, carried out her elderly family member who had difficulty moving, and then rushed into the fire several times to help save people.
She saved others but failed to protect herself.
The door panel of a resident's house on the top floor deformed and collapsed in the fire, crushing Yang Xi.
When Yang Xi was rescued by firefighters, although he saved his life, he suffered extensive burns all over his body!
Probably in order to raise more donations, the person who wrote the press release spent a lot of space introducing Yang Xi's life experience, saying that she was an abandoned baby adopted by an old scavenger, and that the family of three had lived in the community for many years. A close neighbor is worse than a distant relative, and the residents of the entire community took good care of the Yang family. Yang Xi was also grateful. When the fire broke out, she not only carried the elderly man in the Yang family who had difficulty moving, but also knocked on doors from house to house to warn the residents of the entire building to escape... There were two photos in the newspaper, one was a solo photo of Yang Xi wearing a school uniform before the accident, and the other was a photo of Yang Xi wrapped in gauze and lying on a hospital bed.
Wen Ying was too young at that time. She felt very sympathetic towards the "fire hero" and was glad that he survived. However, she did not expect that a young girl's face would be completely destroyed and so much of her body would be burned. The society could donate money for her medical treatment, but no one could donate the skin she needed for reconstructive surgery. No one could share her pain of having to undergo repeated operations, and how she could live a normal life for the rest of her life.
In 2005, Wen Ying donated her pocket money according to the donation channels published in the newspaper.
At first, Wen Ying, like everyone else, was still paying attention to the follow-up of this incident, but Yang Xi's treatment took too long and the news quickly lost its popularity.
The summer of 2005 was a year when talent shows were extremely popular, and people's attention was drawn to other things. Wen Ying only remembered that Yang Xi survived after all-out rescue efforts, but there was no report on what happened to him afterwards.
There will probably be no more "fire heroes" next year.
The newspaper only talked about the good things about Yang Xi, and did not mention the "bad" things about her. Collecting protection money was not something that a "fire-fighting hero" could do, so when Wen Ying first saw "Sister Xi", she felt that she looked familiar, but did not dare to confirm her identity.
The newspaper did not write about Yang Xi's other side, but Wen Ying felt it personally.
Yang Xi is just a little gangster.
People have many sides. This little girl is very loyal, knows how to judge the limits in doing things, and is grateful. If it weren't for the fire in her previous life, Yang Xi might not have been able to turn over a new leaf.
Yang Xi, who was not burned, had a bad temper and acted like a gangster, was standing in front of Wen Ying alive.
Wen Ying couldn't help but sigh again, it was really great to be reborn.
Yang Xi was still chattering about the "low-price promotion" at Shuji Food Stall. Wen Ying couldn't help laughing: Sister Xi got into the role very quickly!
Yang Xi was speechless.
Don’t think she didn’t see that her little round face and eyes were curved with laughter.
How big of a heart do you have to be to laugh like that?
Although Shu Ji's crayfish tastes bad, it is really too cheap. Yang Xi is afraid that "Shrimp King" will go bankrupt and she will never find a boss like Wen Ying again... No, a boss like Wen Ying who pays generously.
Seeing Yang Xi staring at her, Wen Ying smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter. They can promote it if they want. The peak season for crayfish has passed. The quality of crayfish now is not good. We have to reduce the shipment volume of crayfish to attract diners to switch to other dishes. Shu Ji is not disgusting us, but destroying its own reputation."
The purchase price of crayfish has increased now. Live crayfish used to cost 3 yuan per catty, but now it costs at least 5 yuan per catty.
The demand for "Shrimp King" is high, and Deng Shangwei is the supplier, which can also suppress the price of live shrimp. However, other people who go to buy live shrimp cannot buy crayfish for less than 5 yuan per catty.
After Deng Shangwei discovered this market, he not only collected wild crayfish from nearby rural areas, but also found farmed crayfish from other places.
Farmed crayfish are of better quality than wild shrimp, are cleaner, and have less strong muddy smell.
Since Deng Shangwei found this channel, all the crayfish used by "Shrimp King" are farmed shrimp.
Even if Deng Shangwei sells live shrimps to "Shrimp King" at a lower price, the cost of each pound of braised crayfish is definitely more than 6 yuan. This is the labor cost of "Shrimp King" after the expansion. Once it moves to a physical store, the cost will rise further including rent, water and electricity.
Wen Ying has no intention of raising the price of crayfish for the time being. Only a price of 15 yuan per catty of braised shrimp can maintain profitability.
The core competitiveness of 'Shrimp King' is not low price at all.
It is impossible for Shu Guobing to buy live shrimps from Deng Shangwei. The crayfish used in Shu Ji Food Stall are all wild shrimps purchased from nearby rural areas.
Wild crayfish are more troublesome to handle than farmed ones. You have to be willing to add more ingredients and change to fresh oil like Wen Ying did when she set up a stall to suppress the muddy smell of the crayfish.
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