A foreign city, dear you

Cao Xueqian was going to a supplier to audit the factory and was about to leave after attending the opening ceremony.

He said hello to Cheng Yufei, Yang Pu and others, then drove away from Tongxin Factory and Xuhui Industrial Park.

Cao Xueqian wants to send Ye Lian to the bus stop first.

Ye Lian sat in the car and looked out the window at the particularly bright sunshine.

Yes, there has never been a year that made her so hopeful.

However, while I am hopeful, I am also a little worried:

Can Tongxin Factory expand so rapidly with both financing and loans? Will it be successful?

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It's June and the weather is getting a bit hot.

Ye Lian ran to her bakery every day for several days to deal with a very difficult matter.

The bakery has moved to a shopping mall.

The bakery almost couldn't survive.

After the last contract negotiation with Mr. Zhuang broke up, Ye Lian gave up hope on the contract.

I decided not to open it anymore, disposed of the equipment, and gave some employees a certain amount of compensation so they could find jobs again.

As a result, a month later, the shopping mall called Ye Lian again and asked Ye Lian if she was still willing to sign the contract.

The caller was not Mr. Zhuang, but someone else.

It turns out that the mall has a new investment manager.

Ye Lian was naturally surprised and happy when she received the call, and quickly agreed to the contract.

The new shopping mall is further away than the original Youjia shopping mall, and it takes Ye Lian most of a day to go there. If nothing happened, Ye Lian would go there every few days, but something happened these days, and it was quite annoying, so Ye Lian spent time in the mall every day.

Ye Lian got off the bus at the platform on the main road, holding a parasol.

In order to facilitate walking, she wore a pair of flat-heeled casual shoes today.

Ye Lian walked into a small road called Fengtian Road. After walking three to four hundred meters, she saw a large shopping mall - Xintian Shopping Mall.

Xintian Shopping Mall is much larger than Youjia Shopping Mall. It faces the road in front and back, so it has a front door and a back door to facilitate the entry and exit of customers.

It was already afternoon, and there were almost no people on Fengtian Road.

Before signing the contract with Xintian Mall, Ye Lian came here to investigate.

She walked back and forth on this road, feeling that there were not many people on this road, and felt hesitant and worried in her heart.

However, the investment manager of the shopping mall always looks like he is sure of winning, saying that the shopping mall is very powerful and has many ways to attract traffic, so Ye Lian should not worry.

In this way, Ye Lian urgently needed to sign a contract with a shopping mall, and the investment manager of Xintian Mall always encouraged her to reassure her, so Ye Lian didn't think too much and signed a contract with Xintian Mall.

Alas, I signed the contract for one year. I thought I could do business well for a year, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome.

Ye Lian sighed in her heart, and soon arrived at the front door of Xintian Shopping Mall.

She closed her umbrella and walked into the mall.

The first floor is the supermarket area. Next to the front door are some daily groceries and general foods, and beyond that are fresh foods.

The huge shopping mall looked deserted with not a single customer in sight.

Flow is still king.

Although there are roads in front and behind Xintian Mall, it is not the main road where people come and go, but a small road connected to the main road. There is very little flow of people. Even if there is some traffic, it is only passing by Xintian Mall and going to the main road. There is a more prosperous area on the other side.

The mall was so quiet that Ye Lian's footsteps could be heard clearly.

Ye Lian came to her bakery.

Ye Lu was in a daze in the store.

Ye Lian and Ye Lu said hello and then walked to the bread display case.

This is a brand new bakery cabinet. The previous one is too small and old, so I don’t want it anymore.

This new bakery cabinet was made by Cao Xueqian.

At that time, Ye Lian was still a little hesitant, reluctant to spend money, and thought it would be troublesome to build a new bakery cabinet.

Cao Xueqian disagreed.

He said that if you want to do something, you must do it well. Xintian Mall is a big mall and a new mall, so their bakery must be better decorated and classy.

Seeing that Ye Lian was afraid of trouble, Cao Xueqian told Ye Lian not to worry, saying that decorating, remaking the bakery cabinet, etc. were all tasks of counting stars, so just leave it to him. She only had to do her job of counting the moon. That’s it.

Therefore, from finding a carpenter, to selecting materials for the bakery cabinet, to designing the bakery cabinet, Cao Xueqian did it all.

Cao Xueqian deals with products every day and has already reached a certain level in terms of design and aesthetics. Designing and making a bakery cabinet is a piece of cake for him.

After the bakery cabinet was made, Han Yumo praised it and joked that she would ask Cao Xueqian to be the chief designer if she opened a new store in the future.

Xintian Mall is scheduled to open in February.

In order to catch up with the opening of Xintian Mall, Ye Lian withdrew from Youjia Mall one month early. Youjia Mall had no objections to Ye Lian's early departure, and seemed to be eager to do so.

Speaking of Youjia Mall, Ye Lian felt angry.

As soon as she pulled out of Friends Mall, a new bakery moved in.

The owner of the bakery surprised Ye Lian. He turned out to be the tall and thin man at the cake booth outside!

They are all people who don't play according to common sense. Ye Lian feels that she can't play well.

As she walked in and out, Ye Lian seemed to hear his proud and contemptuous smile as she passed by the man.

Ye Lian felt that she had suffered the loss of being dumb, but without any evidence, she could only feel depressed in her heart, comforting herself and saying, it doesn't matter, let him be proud, maybe my business will be better in another place?

The results of it?

After working hard to move the store, and then working hard to open a new store, has the business improved?

In the first few days after it opened, business was really good.

Before opening, the shopping mall carries out publicity and activities to increase its popularity;

On the day of the opening, nearby residents heard about various vigorous profit-sharing and free activities.

With that posture, the mall was really crowded.

The store manager repeatedly emphasized at each counter that the supply of goods must be sufficient and there should be no shortage of goods.

In order to ensure sufficient supply of goods, Ye Lian also used the power of friendship of Han Yumo on the opening day.

Those days were really hard. I stayed up all night the night before the opening, and the next few days were almost non-stop. Ye Lian was so sleepy that she could fall asleep even sitting down.

Although I am tired, when I see that business is good, I feel motivated and motivated.

Ye Lian was still thankful in her heart: Fortunately I signed the contract, otherwise I would have missed out on a good shopping mall.

However, after the busiest few days of the opening, the situation turned bad.

There are fewer and fewer people in the mall, and things are becoming less and less popular.

Although the mall has two doors, few people come in through either door.

In just over three months, except for the turnover in February, which was just okay, the other three months were really worrying. It could not keep up with the previous turnover at Youjia Mall.

Ye Lian regretted it very much. At first, she was worried about the flow of people in this mall, but she still signed the contract with a sense of luck, which put her in a dilemma.

She suspected that it was because other bakery owners were not optimistic about this place that it was her turn to have the opportunity to sign the contract.

How to do?

If you continue to do this, you are destined to lose money every month;

If you don't do this, the money reinvested in opening a store, the entrance fees and deposits for shopping malls, etc. will be wasted.

If nothing else, the bakery cabinet in front of you costs thousands.

Moreover, the loss of money is only one aspect. On the other hand, this is the work of counting stars that Cao Xueqian has spent so much effort on. It is so beautifully done, and it would be a pity to just abandon it like this.

Look, the color, binding, doors, and lighting of this cabinet are all very beautiful.

However, such a good cabinet has very little bread in it and looks a bit empty.

Because there was no one in the mall, Ye Lian almost spent the whole day as a monk hitting the clock.

"Sister, are you here to pester the store manager again today?" Ye Lu asked.

Ye Lian couldn't laugh or cry: "What are you talking about? What does it mean to be a store manager?"