While at the snack shop, the three girls did not reveal their relationship with Wei Deng and Mo Ru, but after returning to school, they gave Songji Snack Shop a lot of praise.
"That soup was so delicious, I swear, it was the best soup I've ever had."
"And the price is cheap. If it opened in the university town, I would go there every day."
"Is it really as good as you say?" someone asked.
"Would we lie about food? There have been recommendations online for a long time. If you don't believe me, go ask the guys in the next major. Wei Deng's dormmates have all eaten there. That shop is owned by Wei Deng's mother."
Some curious people immediately went to ask, and sure enough, everyone praised it highly. It was only then that Wei Deng's roommates learned that Wei Deng's mother owned a shop.
“I knew it.” His roommate put his arm around Wei Deng’s shoulder. “I was wondering why our mom, with such great skills, hadn’t opened a shop. Turns out she already had one.”
"What do you mean by opening a shop?" Wei Deng looked completely bewildered; he genuinely didn't understand what everyone was talking about.
"Your family's snack shop! This is it, right? I heard some girls from the neighboring department went there and raved about it, saying it was the best thing ever. They ate so much free stuff. We guys should go and support their business sometime. But does Mom really have no plans to open a branch in the university town?"
Wei Deng opened the photos and comments online and sure enough, he saw a photo that looked like his mother's profile. Could it be that his mother really owned this shop? Why was she keeping it from him?
Wei Deng immediately called to ask, but Song Xia continued to make up excuses: "Isn't it because I'm worried about you being under too much pressure?"
As Song Xia spoke, she sighed, "Mom sold our house in our hometown to open this shop. Although business is okay every day, the unit price of the goods is not high, and we still have to pay high rent and salaries for two employees every month. We don't make much money in a month. Mom is just worried that if you know we don't have a house, the pressure of studying will be too much."
Wei Deng felt a rare pang of guilt as he listened. He was almost out of money and was even planning to find an excuse to ask for more! Now that the house was gone, would Mo Ru still be able to marry him if he didn't have a house?
"Mom just wants to work harder now so that we can buy a house in the provincial capital in the future, and then we can have a home again."
"Then can't we hire one less person?"
"Are you trying to work your mother to death?!" Song Xia rolled her eyes on the other end of the phone. "My health isn't good to begin with. This is already the best result I've calculated. One more employee means we can sell a lot more products. You only care about saving on employee wages, but you don't know how much business we'll lose if we lose one person."
"Oh." Wei Deng seemed to understand business but not really. Looking at the prices posted by netizens, he felt they were a bit low.
"With business so good right now, why not raise the prices a little?"
"This is the old town area, and the customers here are all regulars. If we raise the prices, who will come? It's not easy to make money these days. If the prices are too high, people won't know to make their own food!"
"But what I make doesn't taste as good as what you make!"
"Not everyone cares about taste. Alright, Mom is tired, but I can still earn some money every month. Don't give me any bad advice that will ruin the business. If you raise prices just when things are starting to look up, and someone exposes it online, Mom will be cyberbullied. Will anyone still come to eat then? My investment will all go down the drain."
After hearing this, Wei Deng thought about it and realized it made sense. With such a large investment, he shouldn't give any advice. He didn't want to end up not even having a house when he and Mo Ru got married.
After learning the results from his mother, Wei Deng stopped denying the idea of opening the store and instead tried his best to promote it to everyone. In his opinion, the more people who went to check in, the more money his store could make. Moreover, the store was so popular online, which made him feel proud.
Because almost everyone in both majors knew that Wei Deng and Mo Ru were dating, and everyone envied Mo Ru.
After all, Wei Dengren is good-looking, tall and handsome, and his family owns such a popular snack shop, so they are quite wealthy. He is a top choice for a boyfriend.
Some people had designs on Wei Deng and tried to poach him from Mo Ru. Mo Ru had never felt so threatened before. Suddenly, she became even nicer to Wei Deng. When Wei Deng said he wouldn't go on trips or shop at those flashy but impractical stores, she didn't say anything more.
Song Xia's snack shop suddenly attracted many college students, but she still sold a limited number of items each day. Any more and she would be too busy to handle it all. Although the items were limited, she was very friendly, and those who were in line or didn't get any free lemon water. So everyone had a good impression of Song Xia, only regretting that they didn't get to eat more.
After seeing Song Xia's gentle nature, more and more people wanted to get close to Wei Deng.
Students nowadays mature early. Many know what they want when they are in middle school. Some decide never to get married, while others start choosing a partner as early as middle school.
Many people don't seek great wealth and status, but rather a marriage of equal social standing and harmonious family background. As it stands, Wei Deng's conditions are quite excellent.
At first, Mo Ru was very protective of him. Gradually, Wei Deng realized that he was popular. Although he still liked Mo Ru, he no longer gave his all in the same way as before. Mo Ru was furious about this, but she was also reluctant to let go of Wei Deng. For a time, this relieved Wei Deng of his financial burden.
When Song Xia learned about their current way of getting along, she was quite surprised.
I still remember in my past life, Mo Ru was like an empress dowager in the Wei family. Not only did she do nothing, but everyone had to obey her wishes. In my past life, I served the two of them like cattle and horses. My daughter, Wei Zhu, was exploited by them, which made Jing Jun hate her and led to that tragedy. I never thought that in this life, I would just open a shop and Mo Ru would be able to put away her temper. It seems that money really is a good thing.
If they knew that their money had multiplied several times over through the stock market, I wonder what their attitude would be.
In this life, she doesn't plan to separate the two of them, but if they still want to act like they're bosses at home and sponge off their parents and sister as they did in their previous life, that's absolutely impossible.
When summer vacation arrived, Song Xia, as usual, sent Wei Deng to the buffet restaurant at Grandpa Zhao's daughter's house. With the experience from last time, she was more adept at it this time. Moreover, because the summer job lasted longer, Wei Deng's salary was also higher. However, this time, Wei Deng was thinking of getting Mo Ru in as well.
Although Mo Ru's family was well-off, their family relationships were complicated. She was brought to her stepfather's house by her mother. Her mother didn't work, so the family relied on her stepfather. However, her stepfather had his own son and daughter, so he was naturally unwilling to spend too much money on her. This is why Wei Deng was able to marry Mo Ru in her previous life. In her previous life, Wei Deng gave her a dowry of 200,000 yuan, and she was eager to leave that family. In this life, Wei Deng's conditions seem better, so she is naturally even more unwilling to let go.
Considering that Wei Deng hadn't asked for much pocket money all semester, Song Xia agreed to his request. Regardless of whether they would end up together in this life, if it could change Mo Ru's lazy mindset, it would be a good thing.
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