Chapter 570 Growth (2)
After getting off the bicycle, Bai Qingxia stood next to the trash can for a long time, never realizing that her good intentions would lead to bad consequences.
Lu Yuanqiu suggested charging for plastic boxes so that students would not throw them away after buying them. A box can be used to store noodles for a long time. After all, the noodles are covered with a plastic bag and are not in direct contact with the box. When throwing away, just throw away the bag directly.
But Bai Qingxia seemed to have suddenly developed a knack for business and had her own ideas.
She plans to custom-make some wooden bowls for her students, and ask the master to engrave the "Xia Yiwan Noodles" logo and an exclusive number on the surface of the wooden bowls, so that the wooden bowls will be unique and the students will cherish them.
Lu Yuanqiu held back his laughter after hearing this. Was it because of the number that it was unique, or was it because it was an "exclusive peripheral" derived from the noodle shop opened by the school beauty's proprietress that made it unique?
He asked Bai Qingxia how much a wooden bowl cost. Bai Qingxia said she didn't want money, but needed something in exchange.
When Lu Yuanqiu heard the girl say this, his expression was surprised, and then he laughed.
He asked what to exchange?
Bai Qingxia had already thought of an idea.
While waiting for the bowls to be delivered, Bai Qingxia asked someone to make a bunch of cute panda cards. Every time a student bought a bowl of noodles, they would receive a card. If they collected thirty cards, they could get a wooden bowl with an exclusive number for free.
A wooden bowl only costs fifteen yuan, and a serving of noodles costs at least six yuan, so the cost of collecting thirty cards is at least 180 yuan.
As soon as this news was released, many students wanted this bowl very much, just because there would be the "Xia Yiwan Noodles" logo and a random exclusive number on the bowl. Many students who like to eat Xia Yiwan Noodles but are tired of it insisted on buying the noodles during this period, even if they vomited.
For a bowl of noodles that costs 15 yuan, they are willing to spend hundreds of yuan and eat noodles for at least ten days to collect 30 panda cards to exchange.
Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but sigh that human beings are truly a magical species.
When Lu Yuanqiu asked Bai Qingxia how she came up with this idea, Bai Qingxia said that when she was in junior high school, she saw her classmates eating crispy noodles to collect cards.
When Lu Yuanqiu heard this, his memories were instantly brought back to him. He talked to Bai Qingxia about his obsession with collecting cards back then, but Bai Qingxia's next sentence made him slap himself in the face.
Bai Qingxia said that she was not interested in collecting those cards at the time, she was just curious about what instant noodles tasted like for a long time.
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At this moment, Lu Yuanqiu looked at the recent booming business of Xia Yiwan Noodles and smiled slightly. Bai Qingxia is rich now, but she probably isn't curious about the taste of instant noodles anymore.
"Oh, by the way." The girl behind the counter said suddenly.
She walked into the store, picked up a bowl that was placed aside from the pile of wooden bowls, and then walked towards Lu Yuanqiu.
"This is specially prepared for you."
Lu Yuanqiu picked up the bowl, looked down, and found that the number on the bowl was "001".
He looked up at the girl and said, "But I only have one panda card left to reach 30, which doesn't meet the rules~"
Bai Qingxia smiled and shrugged, looking away shyly, "It's okay, you have a photo of me and the panda sculpture on your phone, so that counts as one."
"Hahaha."
After Lu Yuanqiu finished laughing, he saw the people queuing next to him looking at him, so he quickly held bowl No. 001 in his arms. His precious look made Bai Qingxia laugh out loud.
Did everyone think that the wooden bowl with numbers was unique because of Bai Qingxia? Lu Yuanqiu didn't know, but he must have thought so.
"Oh, right." Lu Yuanqiu suddenly remembered something. He took out his phone and said to Bai Qingxia, "Dongdong will have her high school entrance exam tomorrow. Please cheer her up."
“So soon?”
Bai Qingxia was a little surprised.
After she finished speaking, she listened to the cicadas chirping outside the restaurant and came to her senses in a trance.
Yes, it’s already the summer of 2012.
Another summer is here.
The ideological and political theory class in the afternoon was the last class of the entire freshman year. Teacher Ouyang, wearing a women's suit, walked into the classroom and stopped directly at the door. She took a step back with her hands on her chest and leaned against the door.
"The second group of Class 30, please start your presentation."
This married female teacher is always very cool.
Lu Yuanqiu looked to the side and saw Bai Qingxia and Chi Caocao standing up from their seats. Bai Qingxia had specially changed her clothes this afternoon. She was wearing the white dress that Lu Yuanqiu had bought for her at the beginning. The hem of the dress extended to below her knees, revealing her slender calves and white socks.
Bai Qingxia was no longer as nervous about giving a speech as she had been in high school. She held Chi Caocao's hand and walked towards the podium. Together with Chi Caocao, they bowed to everyone in front of the podium. Amid the applause, Bai Qingxia straightened up and looked at Lu Yuanqiu. Lu Yuanqiu did not applaud, but raised two fingers and made an upward gesture next to the corners of his mouth, like a kindergarten teacher instructing the children on the stage.
Bai Qingxia smiled when she saw this.
Her smile is still as pure as ever, it has never changed, but it is less shy and more natural.
Chi Caocao was the PPT maker and Bai Qingxia was the speaker. The little girl immediately ran to the podium and plugged the USB drive into the computer.
When the ppt is opened, a line of words comes into view.
[My freshman awakening journey - growth notes on breaking through the social cocoon]
Bai Qingxia let out a light breath. She looked back at the screen, exchanged glances with Chi Caocao who was lying on the podium, and then looked at the entire class.
Those things below are not cabbages or radishes, but real human heads.
Seeing this title, Lu Yuanqiu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and he almost said "Wow".
Bai Qingxia restrained herself from looking at him, fearing that she would burst out laughing.
"The theme of my speech today is... growth."
“Growth is the transformation from a cocoon to a butterfly. It is painful but full of hope. It is not a gorgeous transformation in an instant, but the silent accumulation of countless days and nights.”
When Bai Qingxia said this, many images flashed through her mind, including the scene of herself stretching her legs against the wall in the rental house in Guihua Lane every night, and the figure of Xia Yiwan Noodles making sauce in the shop when it got dark.
Everyone listened to Bai Qingxia quietly. Many photos flashed on the PPT behind her, from the day of reporting to the military training site. Each photo was accompanied by text. Lu Yuanqiu took a closer look and found that they were all written from Chi Caocao's perspective, like a self-narration of a socially anxious person.
The little girl only showed her head on the podium, switching text and pictures as Bai Qingxia spoke, like a stupid tool.
“What others consider natural social interaction is a mountain that we cannot climb.”
"But we are still communicating with the world in our own way. We are often silent, but sometimes brave, and we try to find our own balance in the process."
(End of this chapter)
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