Chapter 50: Business is not good, new business
"Great! I knew our Wanwan is the most helpful person!"
"Hehe. Hehe." Zhang Wanwan was really too tired to complain.
After returning home, she went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables as usual. Zhang Baiyan and his family also had a holiday for the National Day, but they only had four days before reporting to school.
This time she specially bought a few more dishes, a hen and some Chinese medicinal herbs, intending to go back and make a nourishing soup for her family, which she could have as a midnight snack when Zhang's father and mother came back in the evening.
Zhang Baiyan arrived home only after she finished her work. As soon as he entered the house, he washed his hands and went to help Zhang Wanwan with her work.
The brother and sister had a warm dinner and chatted in the living room. The night wind whistled in from the window. Zhang Wanwan actually felt a little cold. She rubbed the goose bumps on her arms. She hurried back to her room and found a long-sleeved shirt. She muttered, "The weather has really gotten colder. Do we have to change into spring and autumn school uniforms after National Day?"
Zhang Baiyan walked to the balcony to feel it, and when he came in, he deliberately closed the window a little, "It is starting to get colder. The temperature difference between day and night is starting to be big. But it is still very hot when the sun is out during the day. Wear long sleeves to school in the future, so as not to catch a cold when you get home from school."
Zhang Wanwan nodded, but made up her mind to put the school uniform directly in the basket so that she wouldn't have to take it up and down all the time.
While the two were talking, they heard the sound of the door being unlocked outside. Zhang Wanwan looked up and saw that it was not yet ten o'clock.
Zhang's father and mother came into the house one after another. When they saw the brother and sister, Zhang's mother immediately invited them to come over to eat. "I know you don't have to go to school tomorrow, so I asked your father to take some time to buy you some snacks. They're freshly baked and still hot!"
The brother and sister immediately ran over happily.
Zhang Baiyan asked casually, "Dad, aren't you guys so busy that you don't have time to eat? How come you still have time to buy snacks for us?"
"Oh! Don't mention it. The weather has started to get cooler recently, and business at night is not as good as before." Father Zhang sighed and replied while busying himself in the kitchen.
Zhang Wanwan had something in her mouth and asked her father, "Dad, did you make hot milk tea?"
"Why not?" Zhang's mother took over the conversation. "Business during the day is still the same as before, not much different, but fewer people drink milk tea at night. Although we have introduced hot milk tea, people don't like to drink so much when it's cold. In addition, we hired a temporary worker, so your father is free at night. I was thinking about whether to sell something else, but I couldn't think of anything else.
And you don’t know, many people saw that our milk tea and fried chicken business was good and opened stores nearby to sell milk tea and fried chicken, but the business just couldn’t take off. In just one or two months, three stores opened and one closed.”
Zhang's mother usually never bothers her two children with these things, for fear that they will affect their studies. She just happened to mention it casually tonight.
In contrast to Zhang's mother's worried look, Zhang Wanwan calmly finished the food in her hands and wiped her mouth with a tissue. When she saw Zhang's father bringing out four bowls of chicken soup from the kitchen, she said to the couple, "Mom and Dad, I actually guessed this situation a long time ago. Our family's business is pretty good now. Even if we don't sell anything else, we still make more money than others. But if you're not at ease, I suggest you buy another barbecue."
"Barbecue?" Both Zhang's father and mother widened their eyes and stared at Zhang Wanwan.
Zhang Wanwan nodded and said, "Yes, it's barbecue. I know there are many barbecue restaurants in Century Plaza. But barbecue is all about the atmosphere and the recipe of the barbecue sauce. If it's done well, barbecue can make more money than fried chicken and milk tea. Besides, you can also sell drinks and beer while selling barbecue, which is also very profitable. It happens that the place where we set up the stall is spacious, and selling barbecue will not hinder other people. If you want to do it, I will buy the ingredients and prepare the barbecue sauce in the next two days. If we succeed in our own experiment, we can set up the stall.
Also, you don’t have to worry about unsold barbecue ingredients. It would be best if you could rent a store nearby to store ingredients in a freezer. When you open the stall, you can take out the freezer. If you can’t sell all the ingredients, you can put them in the refrigerator for a day or two and they won’t go bad. You can prepare less at the beginning, and then arrange the quantity according to the daily sales. How do you do it?”
Zhang Baiyan gave Zhang Wanwan a thumbs up and said in confusion, "You said we were born from the same parents, so why don't I have your brain? Mom and Dad, did you withhold my IQ when you gave birth to your daughter?"
Zhang's father slapped Zhang Boyan on the head, "Nonsense! Your IQ is not even a fraction of your sister's!"
"Hahahaha" Zhang Wanwan and her daughter leaned on the table and laughed at Zhang Baiyan mercilessly.
After the laughter, Zhang's father said seriously: "I think this is a good idea, but we need to think about it carefully. First, we need to leave a large space for the barbecue stall and the freezer where we set up the stall, but we can't affect other pedestrians. I will think about how to move the location when we set up the stall tomorrow."
"Yeah, yeah." Zhang Wanwan nodded. "Dad, if you agree, I'll go buy the spices for the barbecue sauce tomorrow, and make a menu so you can have a reference for your purchases in the future."
"That's good, that's good!" Zhang's mother agreed happily, sweeping away the worries of many days, and sighed: "I just want to make more money now, and I'm happy no matter how hard it is! It's better for us to move to the new house before the rent expires, so that we can feel at ease!"
People of Zhang's mother's generation are relatively conservative. They always think that no matter how good other people's houses are, they are still other people's houses and cannot be compared to their own doghouses. They still need to have their own house to feel stable.
Zhang Wanwan understood her thoughts and suggested selling barbecue.
After the family made the decision, Zhang Wanwan remembered the agreement with Tian Sen and others. She had no choice but to use Zhang Baiyan's mobile phone to call Luo Jingyun and ask her for Tian Sen's phone number.
When the call was connected, it turned out to be Leng Ziyue who answered the phone. Zhang Wanwan was so frightened that she couldn't speak clearly. "Leng Ziyue. I'm looking for Tian Sen."
"Zhang Wanwan?" Leng Ziyue on the other end of the phone immediately guessed the owner of this strange number.
"Yeah." Zhang Wanwan felt that her momentum had weakened a little. "Um. Is Tian Sen here?"
“Is this your cell phone number?”
"No, no, this is my brother's. I don't have a cell phone."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Leng Ziyue spoke, "He is not available now, please tell me if you have anything to say."
Zhang Wanwan thought it would be the same no matter who she told them, so she explained what she meant. "It's like this. I have something to do tomorrow morning, so I may not be able to go to the library to study. Can we change it to tomorrow afternoon?"
"Sure." The person on the other end of the phone replied concisely.
Zhang Wanwan didn't know what to say for a moment. She hesitated for a long time before she managed to utter a few words. "That's it for now. I'm hanging up. Bye."
"Beep, beep, beep"
Zhang Wanwan looked at her phone and muttered depressedly, "Who is this person?"
(End of this chapter)
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