Chapter 411: Counter (410.01 million) please vote for me
Cao Shujie drove his wife and daughter to Yiling City. He first went to the Buick 4S store to find sales manager Meng Yaqin and asked her to help him arrange maintenance.
He called Meng Yaqin yesterday to make an appointment. After arriving today, he didn't have to wait long to get in line for his car.
Meng Yaqin asked the after-sales staff to drive the car to the workshop for maintenance. She took Cao Shujie's family of three to the second floor, which was a rest area for car owners who came for after-sales service.
She also pointed to the west and said: "Mr. Cao, there is a video room and a billiard table over there."
The preparations were quite complete, but Cao Shujie did not go. He pointed to the small sofa next to him and said, "We can just rest here for a while."
"Okay, Mr. Cao, would you like a drink, tea or juice?" Meng Yaqin asked again.
There are drinks, fruits and snacks here.
Cao Shujie ordered a cup of tea, while his wife and Mengmeng drank freshly squeezed juice.
Meng Yaqin also brought over a plate of cut cantaloupe. Mengmeng ate half a piece and then gave the remaining half to her father: "It's not sweet, it's not delicious."
Cao Shujie said to her: "Mengmeng, you still have a lot of problems."
Cheng Xiaolin picked up a piece and ate it in two bites: "It's okay, it's too sweet and not delicious."
But Mengmeng didn't listen to this, so Cheng Xiaolin didn't care whether she liked it or not.
Maintenance is done in less than half an hour.
Meng Yaqin came up and spoke to Cao Shujie again. When Cao Shujie took his wife and daughter down and drove away, they smelled a faint scent of tea in the car.
It's very light and not annoying.
"Manager Meng, thank you." Cao Shujie waved to Meng Yaqin outside the car window.
Meng Yaqin shook her wrist and said: "It's all as it should be."
Watching Cao Shujie drive away from the 4S store, Meng Yaqin thought that this customer must be well taken care of.
He always remembered that Cao Shujie told her when he bought a car last time that he would come back to her next time he bought a car.
For some reason, Meng Yaqin always felt that what he said was credible.
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"Shujie, the service attitude of Manager Meng just now was quite good." Cheng Xiaolin said from the back row.
"Let's pay for the service now. I'll find her again when I buy a car next time," Cao Shujie said.
Mengmeng was sitting on the safety seat, looking out through the car glass, running towards the high-rise buildings one after another. Mengmeng's mind was obviously not on this, and she asked Cao Shujie from time to time: "Is Dad okay? We are here.
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"Come on, Mengmeng, dad promises you that when we get there later, we will buy you snacks first," Cao Shujie said.
Mengmeng called "Dad" over and over again, and he felt a little dizzy.
Mengmeng said with a smile: "Okay."
They went directly to the five-star department store.
After arriving at the place, before even stopping the car, Cao Shujie could see that this place was indeed different from before.
In the past, the entire shopping mall looked very old, with traces of time on the exterior walls.
But looking at it now, it looks like new on the outside.
A large LED screen is also installed on the front, and advertisements for various brands are playing on the LED screen.
There were many people walking towards the main entrance in the parking lot. There were many people coming over and the parking space was very tight. He walked around the parking lot twice before stopping.
"Dad, is this a supermarket?" Mengmeng asked.
Cao Shujie nodded: "The basement level is a supermarket. Let's go shopping on the basement level first, buy things for you and put them in the car, and then go to the fifth floor to find you, Uncle Cao Zhen."
"Okay." Mengmeng happily agreed.
Cheng Xiaolin has been following behind, watching the father and daughter wandering in front, and she smiles happily.
After entering, the family of three followed the flow of people and took the crawler elevator to the first floor of the basement. They saw the three characters of "Jiajiayue" supermarket in front of them.
As soon as he entered, he felt that the place was very popular and there were people everywhere. Cao Shujie pushed a shopping cart and put his daughter in the shopping cart and sat in it.
The couple walked side by side towards the inside.
"Shujie, what do you want to buy?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
Before Cao Shujie could speak, Mengmeng shouted: "Dad, buy me some snacks."
Cao Shujie looked at his daughter, then at the shopping cart, then turned to his wife and said, "Go and push another shopping cart. I always feel that one shopping cart is not enough."
"How many things do you want to buy?" Cheng Xiaolin muttered, but still obeyed and went to the door and pushed a shopping cart over.
Unable to stand Mengmeng's repeated nagging, the couple went to the snack area first and let Mengmeng choose what snacks they wanted to eat. The couple was responsible for filling the bags.
Various cakes, candies, breads, and jellies.
Cao Shujie was afraid that children would get stuck easily if they ate the small jelly, so he bought a cute fist-sized jelly with a spoon on it so that the children could scoop it out one by one, making it safer.
In addition, there are also cod sausages, beef sausages, etc. The main ones are expensive.
"Mengmeng, do you want candied dates and biscuits?" Walking to the snack area on the other side, Cao Shujie asked his daughter when he saw the loose candied dates and individually packaged biscuits.
Mengmeng didn't want anything. She shouted loudly: "Dad, I want it."
"Wife, what do you want to eat?" Cao Shujie asked his wife.
"Let's get some preserved fruits and some plums."
"Walk."
In just a moment, the shopping cart pushed by Cao Shujie had already appeared.
Seeing the car full of snacks, other people looked at them differently.
Cheng Xiaolin felt a little embarrassed and distanced herself from the father and daughter.
As they walked forward, Cao Shujie heard a little boy say: "Mom, look, I bought a lot of snacks, but you didn't even buy them for me."
"Baby, sooner or later they will eat their teeth and they will feel uncomfortable. Do you still remember when you had toothache, right?" his mother said.
Cao Shujie also saw the little boy's instinctive reaction, quickly raising his hand to cover his right cheek, with a bit of fear in his eyes.
It was obvious that his right tooth had hurt, and the pain was severe.
"Dad, what does that aunt look like?" Mengmeng raised her finger and pointed there, asking her father.
Her senses were quite sharp, and she discovered this.
Cao Shujie said: "It's okay, Auntie praises you for being able to eat."
"Hehe!" Mengmeng smiled proudly.
Cheng Xiaolin listened to the silly girl chatting with her father, thinking that it was better not to tell her the truth.
This trip couldn't be in vain, so the couple bought some daily necessities and filled up the other shopping cart pushed by Cheng Xiaolin.
When she walked to the wine area, Cheng Xiaolin suddenly pointed to a bottle of wine on the wine cabinet to her husband: "Shujie, come here and take a look, why is Wuliangye so cheap?"
"Where?" Cao Shujie turned around and looked over.
It was then that his wife pointed to a bottle of wine with the words ‘Wuliangye Heaven’s Proud Son’ written on it, which also had Wuliangye’s trademark logo on it.
"What do you mean by this wine?" Cao Shujie asked.
Seeing his wife nodding, Cao Shujie then pointed to the bottom line of small words and said to his wife: "Honey, did you see it? This is Wuliangye Group wine. If you really want to drink good wine, don't buy this kind of wine."
"What do you mean?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.
"How should I put it? It has acquired many small wineries, some of which are OEM. They are a mixed bag of good and bad, and the taste is incomparable." Cao Shujie told his wife.
Cheng Xiaolin said "Oh". She asked: "If I want to buy wine, how should I buy it?"
Cao Shujie smiled and walked a few steps forward, pointed to a bottle of Wuliangye on the wine cabinet, and said to his wife: "Did you see, this line of small characters says 'share wine', not 'group wine'."
Cheng Xiaolin saw that the price of this bottle of Wuliangye could buy six bottles of Wuliangye. Even if she didn't know much about wine, she knew there must be something wrong here.
"Shujie, is that fake wine?"
"What are you thinking? It has Wuliangye's trademark and is placed in a supermarket. How could it be fake wine?" Cao Shujie pulled his wife forward.
After paying, they pushed the shopping cart to the parking lot, put everything in the trunk of the car, and then took the elevator to the fifth floor.
"Dad, where are we going?" Mengmeng asked him.
Cao Shujie said to his daughter: "Let's go to the fifth floor to find you, Uncle Cao Zhen."
"Oh!" Mengmeng responded and ran forward.
While running, the four braids on her head were bouncing up and down, and coupled with her fair and round little face, she looked particularly cute.
After many people saw her, they waved their hands and said hello to her.
Mengmeng is not timid either. Sometimes she calls her uncle, sometimes she calls her aunt, and sometimes she calls her brother or sister. Her little mouth is very sweet.
I took the escalator all the way to the 5th floor. As soon as I got up, I felt the difference between this floor and the one below.
The buildings below have been renovated and are open for normal business, but many stores here are still under renovation.
It was a coincidence that as soon as Cao Shujie and the others came out of the escalator, they looked up and saw the four big characters "Xinjiang Hotel" on the wall opposite.
With Mengmeng's sharp eyes, she pointed at a figure at the door of the hotel and said, "Dad, is that Uncle Cao Zhen?"
"Try calling him." Cao Shujie said with a smile.
Mengmeng raised her hands to her mouth like a trumpet and shouted loudly: "Hello, Uncle Cao Zhen."
Cao Zhen was talking to the construction team. After hearing the shouting, he turned around and saw Cao Shujie and his family of three. A smile appeared on his face: "Mengmeng, how are you too?"
Then he greeted Cao Shujie: "Shujie, why are you here?"
"Today happens to be Saturday. I'm taking advantage of Mengmeng Kindergarten's weekend break to come over and see how the decoration is going. If it's done, I'll just come over and have a meal." Cao Shujie said this.
Cao Zhen said: "Don't leave at noon today. I will treat you to dinner later."
"Uncle, when can you cook here?" Mengmeng asked him.
Cao Zhen told her: "It will take more than 20 days. If you come back at the end of the month, I can cook here."
"So soon? Can it open before Qingming Festival?" Cao Shujie asked him.
"It's been almost a month, and the place is not big. If it takes another three months, then don't do it," Cao Zhen said.
He also mentioned one thing: "Shujie, are the strawberries in your orchard almost ripe?"
"Well, at the end of the month." Cao Shujie said.
He asked: "Do you want it?"
"Leave some for me. When the time comes, I will open here and do some activities with strawberries." Cao Zhen said.
Cao Shujie nodded: "Okay. How much will I leave you?"
"Is 10,000 kilograms enough?" he said angrily.
Cao Zhen got a headache when he heard 10,000 jins. He quickly waved his hand and said, "You don't need so much, just one or two thousand jins."
"I'll find someone to pick it at that time, and I'll pay as much as it takes," Cao Zhen said.
"You can do whatever you want, I can find someone to bring it to you." Cao Shujie didn't care about this.
He asked Cao Zhen: "Do you know Cao Fei is here?"
"Here, he just left my place after taking photos. I can't tell which floor he is on now. Just give him a call." Cao Zhen said.
Cao Shujie originally wanted to take his wife and daughter into the store to have a look, but they saw that there was construction going on inside and there was a constant sound of banging and banging. Considering safety reasons, they did not go in.
Cao Shujie called Cao Fei and heard Cao Fei say that in front of a children's clothing store called "Little Pig Habi" on the third floor, Cao Shujie said goodbye to Cao Zhen and took his wife and daughter to the third floor in the elevator.
Looking for Cao Fei.
When he came here, he saw Cao Fei taking photos.
Cao Fei stopped what he was doing and asked them: "Why are you here today?"
"While Mengmeng is resting, come over and take a look."
"Cao Fei, on which floor is there the counter you told me about last time? Please take me to have a look." Cao Shujie got straight to the point.
Cao Fei pointed up: "It's on the fourth floor. I'll take you there."
"Are you done here?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Cao Fei said: "It's all piecemeal work, there's no rush at this moment."
When he heard what he said, Cao Shujie didn't show any pretense and followed him up to the fourth floor.
The counter that Cao Fei is talking about is a cubicle of less than 10 square meters, similar to a place along the street that sells braised products such as duck necks.
He said: "There are many brand-name stores here, and some sell beef, but I don't think the beef is as delicious as yours."
"If you open a counter here, I will plan and promote it for you to ensure that you become popular." Cao Fei thinks so.
But Cao Shujie is not so optimistic.
He knows whether a product can be popular depends on many factors, and whether it tastes good is just one of them.
"How much is the rent?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Cao Fei thought for a while and said: "The place here is not big, and the rent is cheaper, about 60,000 to 70,000 a year."
Cao Shujie looked at the small place in front of him and thought that the rent here was only 60,000 to 70,000 yuan. It was no wonder that Cao Zhen's place cost 50,000 to 600,000 yuan.
If the sales are not good, all the hard work for a year will be paid as rent.
"The rent is not cheap," Cao Shujie said.
Cao Fei also admitted this. He said: "The main reason is that the five-star department store has a good location and a large flow of people. You really don't have such a large flow of people when you go to other places."
"In addition, people who come to five-star department stores generally have higher spending power. If you sell braised beef, people with low consumption will not buy it," Cao Fei said.
He hit the point exactly.
Cao Shujie was not in a hurry to make a decision. Besides, the product has not been released yet. He said, "Wait a minute. If the product comes out over there, I will take it over and try it out to see how it goes."
"That's okay, you can tell me in advance, some things will be easier to do." Cao Fei said with a smile.
Cao Shujie gave him a thumbs up: "Okay, you know this now."
"Don't mention these things. You have learned too many lessons from eating. If you don't remember it, you might as well go back and beg for food, as long as you don't starve to death." Cao Fei said.
After he finished speaking, the two burst out laughing.
