When I got home at noon, my mother said, "You're back. What did the doctor say? Can it be cured?"
Li Yuzhu placed the medicine on the coffee table in the living room and helped Zhu Xiaofei sit down on the sofa. She said, "The doctor said that acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment has a chance of curing her. We have to try it whether it can be cured or not. Let's start decocting the medicine first, and let my sister drink it after dinner."
Mother said, "Okay, I'll start brewing the medicine right away!"
Li Yuzhu left home to pick up her food from the restaurant.
She went into the restaurant, ordered three bowls of he luo noodles, and then went to the kitchen to get two servings of cold dishes to take home.
After lunch, the Chinese medicine was decocted. The mother filtered the liquid from the clay pot into a bowl, cooled it down, and then had Zhu Xiaofei drink it.
In October, Yusheng Company's hotels and shopping malls in the old city area fully opened, with the opening date set for October 18th. The shopping malls are currently receiving supplies.
On October 18th, the hotel and shopping mall opened simultaneously. The opening prizes had no time limit, and the event ended once all 1 million prize tickets were sold.
The opening prizes are very generous. There are eight cars in total, with the first prize being 80,000 yuan each. The shopping mall has six cars as the first prize winners, and the hotel has two cars. Even so, the other prizes will be much fewer than those in the shopping mall, but the prizes are all the same, just in different quantities.
Every hotel guest has a chance to win a prize.
The first prize is a car, the second prize is an air conditioner, the third prize is a refrigerator, the fourth prize is a color TV, the fifth prize is a tape recorder, and the prizes below that are all smaller prizes. There are ten levels of prizes in total, and the prizes below that are all commemorative prizes. There is not a single empty prize ticket.
The prizes were so big that they were tempting to look at. On the opening day, the hotel was unsurprisingly fully booked, and the shopping mall was so crowded that it was impossible to move.
The shopping mall operates entirely like a supermarket; customers select their items, pay at the cashier, and then enter a prize draw.
Of course, there are limits to the number of draws. You can enter the draw once for every 30 yuan or more of your purchases, and so on. The more items you buy, the more chances you have to enter the draw.
Just three hours after the mall opened, someone won a car in a raffle.
A 19-year-old girl won the prize. She was so happy that she cried. It was an 80,000 yuan car. She couldn't even afford a bicycle normally. How could she not be excited to win such a big prize?
Standing on the stage, she said, "To be honest, many shopping malls nowadays have shills for their big prizes; real customers who buy products don't actually win the grand prize."
I believe it now. I guarantee it with my own integrity. I'm not a shill; I'm a customer who came to the mall to buy goods. My name is Wang Guihua, and I live in Wangjia Village in the countryside. Those who know me should know that I have absolutely no connection with the owner of this mall. Please feel free to shop and participate in the lucky draw; this lucky draw is truly effective.
Her words were a living advertisement; a single sentence from a customer is worth more than a thousand praises from a business.
Dong Qing walked onto the stage with a microphone and said, "I would like to kindly remind my fellow citizens that the chances of winning a big prize while shopping are very small. I hope you will shop calmly and not buy so many useless things to take home."
Dong Qing then asked, "Guihua, how much did you buy?"
Wang Guihua said, "I bought 35 yuan worth of goods and only have one chance to win a prize."
Dong Qing said, "You all heard that, right? If you're lucky, you can win the grand prize with just one lottery ticket. But if you're unlucky, you can buy 1,000 lottery tickets and still not win the grand prize. As a businessman, I shouldn't say this, but I'm speaking from my conscience. The odds of winning the grand prize are really too small. That's all I have to say. I hope you can shop calmly."
Dong Qing's words were met with enthusiastic applause. There's probably only one boss like him. You wouldn't say something like that if you changed bosses; they probably wouldn't be able to sell all their products.
Dong Qing didn't expect high profits on the first day of opening. He set up such a big prize mainly to increase the mall's brand awareness. Once the brand awareness is established, how could the mall not be popular? He'd rather be a gentleman than a cunning businessman.
All 1 million prize tickets will eventually be given away; at worst, the event can be extended for two more days.
Today, a car, three air conditioners, a refrigerator, five color TVs, and eighteen tape recorders were given away as grand prizes. Such a large number of prizes attracted everyone's attention.
After opening, the hotel and shopping mall became an instant hit, and business remained strong even after the event. The Dongqing Shopping Mall Hotel was a success.
Li Yuzhu's company has recently gotten back on track, and the car transport business is booming, with people busy delivering goods to two wholesale markets every day.
The trucks are busy every day. The company sends professionals out to find business, mainly targeting construction companies and the coal industry. There aren't many trucks idle at home every day. Li Yuqiu's transportation company has been a success.
Mr. Mei felt like dying when he saw this. Why didn't he think of starting a car transport company? He only knew how to sell cars. How could he have thought of starting a car transport company? If he had done that, would his company have gone bankrupt?
There's no going back in life, and Dong Qing has no obligation to help him. Even if he gave Mei a simple tip, the company wouldn't go bankrupt. Business is like playing chess; one crucial move can win the whole game, while the opposite can lead to utter defeat.
That morning, Dong Qing received a notification that after Su Guifang's rented house in the city had an accident in 1987, the former landlord sold the house to Dong Qing. He had already transferred the property certificate to his own name. The developer was planning to develop a building project there soon and asked him to come over for a face-to-face meeting.
It was a haunted house, and the gate had been locked for years with no one living there. Dong Qing had long forgotten about the house. If the developer hadn't called today, he really wouldn't have remembered that he owned such a haunted house.
Dongqing and his wife drove to the real estate company in the afternoon, where many households were completing their paperwork.
Developing old urban areas is a very complicated matter for developers. Some homeowners are easy to talk to and will accept compensation according to regulations. However, some are very difficult to deal with, often referred to as "holdouts." These people tend to make exorbitant demands, as if one compensation payment could sustain them for a lifetime.
Dong Qing inquired about the situation and learned that, regardless of the condition of the house, the developer would compensate three times the total area, based on the size of the house, even if it was an empty courtyard.
Dong Qing and his wife took the developer to measure the land for the house. They drove to the front of the house. No one had lived in the house since the incident that happened after it was bought. Even though it was a haunted house where someone had been killed, no one lived there even if it was free.
It had been so long that Dongqing didn't know where he had put the key. He took a hammer from the car and smashed the lock open.
They entered the house where Su Guifang had lived. It was dusty everywhere, but even so, it couldn't hide the bloodstains the man had left on the floor and walls.
No wonder, since no one has come in after the incident, and no one has come in to clean up. It's still the same as it was before.
The developer's staff didn't know that something had happened here, and because they didn't know, they weren't afraid.
Of course, the developers don't care about these things. Who knows where the haunted house is when the buildings are completed? Besides, the haunted house may not necessarily be built into a building, or even just a yard.
Even if it's ugly, we have to buy it. We can't let a haunted house prevent us from developing the area!
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