Marven asked curiously: "How long have you been shopping at the snack street?"
Liu Manqiong thought for a while and said, "It must have been there for more than ten years. My father bought it the year he got married."
Marven asked her: "Do you know how much you spent when you bought it?"
"Forgot..." Liu Manqiong said awkwardly: "Actually, I am not sensitive to this aspect, and I was not too old at that time. I just felt that I just wanted to keep that street, so I let him
My dad paid for it, but I really don’t know how much it cost.”
Ye Chen asked again: "Then how do you know there is still a deficit of 200,000 yuan every month?"
"The manager told me." Liu Manqiong said: "Before I was an adult, my father was in charge of running this snack street. After I became an adult, it was handed over to me to manage, but I didn't know how to manage it. I thought
Yes, it’s just to ensure that everyone continues to operate as usual and not to increase their rent. In addition, the environment of the snack street is generally quite dirty, especially there are a lot of garbage and rats and cockroaches, so I asked the manager to arrange special cleaning staff to help every day.
Everyone clean up, clean up the garbage, catch mice and cockroaches..."
After saying that, Liu Manqiong added: "Oh, by the way, we didn't need to lose so much every month before. Now we are losing more because labor prices have been rising. Cleaners cost more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, so the losses are getting bigger and bigger."
More and more, from tens of thousands at the beginning to two hundred thousand now."
As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Manqiong couldn't help but said with a somewhat ashamed expression: "Isn't it quite a failure to be like me in business?"
Ye Chen smiled and said: "I don't think so. Your snack street is so prosperous and the appearance is so well maintained. I believe the land price should have increased a lot over the years, maybe many times. As for what you said
This small loss is probably not even a fraction of the profit."
"Really..." Liu Manqiong suddenly came back to her senses and said with some annoyance: "You're right... Why haven't I thought about this in all these years...
..What I have been thinking about for so many years is that fortunately my dad’s business is getting bigger and bigger, and he doesn’t care that the snack street loses so much every month, but I have never considered the issue of the increase in land value of the entire snack street...”
After saying that, she couldn't help but smile and shake her head: "I am really insensitive to business, and I fall into the category of lacking talent..."
Marven asked him: "Where is your sister? Is she talented in this area?"
"Yes." Liu Manqiong nodded and said with a smile: "My sister is very good. She studied finance in the UK. Her biggest dream is to take over her father's class, so she works very hard in this area."
Ye Chen smiled slightly and said seriously: "If you don't like doing business, you can indeed choose a career you like."
After saying that, Ye Chen asked her: "What is the job you most want to do?"
Liu Manqiong said seriously: "Chinese majors actually have relatively narrow employment opportunities. In Hong Kong Island, the most common employment direction is similar to that in the mainland, which is to take the civil service exam. In addition, media and schools are also two more common employment directions. If
After getting a Ph.D., working as a teacher in a first-class university is actually a good development direction, and I am also leaning towards this direction."
Ye Chen asked in surprise: "You want to be a teacher?"
"Yes." Liu Manqiong nodded and said very solemnly: "Teaching and educating people is a very sacred thing in my mind. If I can become a university teacher in the future, I will be satisfied."
Ye Chen asked her with a smile: "I heard that you are studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong. Do you want to stay at the University of Hong Kong to teach in the future?"
Liu Manqiong was silent for a moment, shook her head slightly, and said: "After all, Hong Kong Island is too small. Staying here all the time will feel like sitting in a well and looking at the sky."
As she said that, she looked at Ye Chen and said in a strange way: "Actually... I want to go to the mainland to have a look. I wonder if Mr. Ye would like it?"