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"Lost so much?" Brother Li was also surprised.

Brother Li San said, "Then, what should we do? We can't keep losing money like this. I've used all my money to help my sister open a restaurant. If we keep losing money, my wife will make a scene!"

Mr. Li said painfully, "Tomorrow we will go and tell E'er that the restaurant's 10-cent all-you-can-eat promotion has been implemented for a few days, and its popularity has increased. Now it's time to restore the normal prices!"

……

The next day, Mr. Li and several of Li's brothers also went to Yong'an Town.

Li Yu'e was still immersed in her own crazy joy. She excitedly pulled her father and said, "Dad, look how good my business is. At least half of the people in this town come to eat here!"

Mr. Li forced a smile painfully, and then said, "My moth, let's talk upstairs."

Li Yu'e felt that her father and eldest brother had something to say, so she said willfully, "Dad, I finally opened a restaurant, you must support me!"

"Support, you must support!" Mr. Li wanted to calm his daughter down first.

Only then did Li Yu'e go upstairs to talk to them.

"What? Return to normal price?" Li Yu'e asked in surprise.

Brother Li couldn't help but ask: "Sister E, aren't you opening a restaurant for profit? Although our family is well-off, we are not the richest family. We can't be kind and generous every day. Besides, this is not charity. This is pure being taken advantage of!"

Li Yu'e said, "But it's only been ten days, and the restaurants in town haven't closed down yet. I'll restore the normal prices after they close down."

Mr. Li wanted to cry but had no tears: "E, if you really let them go bankrupt, our family will also go bankrupt! Now my brothers have given all their family savings to you to open a restaurant, and there is no money left in the family to support you to eat as much as you want."

Li Yu'e asked innocently, "What? Isn't our family very rich? How could we go bankrupt so easily?"

Brother Li couldn't help but say, "Sister E, although our family is a country gentry, those are all the assets left by our ancestors. They are just the rents of some meager fields and shops, and we have to support a large family. If we spend frugally, we can still have a surplus. If we spend lavishly, we will end up eating up all the assets.

Over the years, our family's biggest investment has been to open this restaurant for you. If you can keep it, keep it. If you can't, you can't keep losing money! We have already lost more than a thousand taels of silver, not to mention the wages of the cooks and waiters!"

After hearing this, Li Yu'e couldn't help but throw a cup to the ground in anger: "Humph, you say you love and pity me, but in fact you still look down on me and don't believe in me. I just want to open a restaurant, but you are trying to stop me!"

Seeing her get angry, Mr. Li and several of his brothers became panicked.

"Eth, we are not blocking you, we are just reminding you to restore the original price. You can't continue like this."

"Yes, sister Mo, calm down. If we didn't really love and pity you, how could we take out all our savings to open a restaurant for you?"

"Sister E, even if you don't restore the original price, you can raise it to thirty cents for all-you-can-eat."

"..." Seeing that her brothers all said so, Li Yu'e had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll try to raise the price to 30 cents tomorrow so I can eat as much as I want!"

……

"What? Thirty cents today?"

"Then you might as well go and rob!"

"It was agreed that it would be 10 cents for a month's worth of food, why did the price go up in less than half a month?"

Ordinary people who were originally eager to come over for a meal turned around and left when they saw the price increase.

These are people who used to be reluctant to go out to eat, but now come here to eat just to get a bargain.

After the price increase, they can no longer afford to eat there.

"What? It's increased to thirty cents? That's acceptable, but the taste of your food needs to be improved. For thirty cents you let us eat such rough food? Why don't we go to Yuelai Restaurant to eat?"

These are the customers who are usually willing to eat out but are looking for a good value for money.

There are also some people who are willing to go to restaurants and pursue delicious food, but when they hear that the price has increased, they turn around and leave.

You can't spend money and eat so much food.

But this is not the kitchen's fault.

When the all-you-can-eat service was on sale for 10 cents, the customer flow was too large, but there were only a few cooks in the kitchen, and in order to serve the dishes quickly, they all cooked in a large pot.

So even though there were vegetables and meat, it was not really delicious, and there was not even a good presentation.

Now that prices have increased, customers will naturally pursue quality.

Seeing that half of the customers in the store were gone, Li Yu'e panicked.

She hurried back to Rongcheng to discuss the matter with Mr. Li and her brothers.

However, when she came back this time, she felt that everyone in this family looked at her with resentful eyes.

Whether it is the sisters-in-law or the servants.

She was puzzled and had to ask Xiao Miao privately.

Xiao Miao said, "Miss, because you opened a restaurant, all the money in our house was invested in it. Now the winter clothes for the servants in the house have not been distributed, and the regular wages have not been paid, so..."

Only then did Li Yu'e believe that her family was not so wealthy. In the past, her parents and brothers had only let her spend money as she pleased just to make her happy.

Forget it, just raise the price. She doesn’t believe that the restaurant will go bankrupt because of the price increase.

……

Because there were few customers these days, Li Yujiao started researching milk tea in the shop.

Relatively speaking, milk tea is much easier to make than hot and sour noodles. It is nothing more than milk, tea and sugar, and some pearls made with sweet potato flour.

On the day the milk tea was made, Song Ning also came.

Song Ning comes here every day these days, either eating bread or hot and sour noodles.

No matter how popular the restaurant is, he has never eaten there once!

Wang Erhua even asked him curiously, "Mr. Song, why don't you go across the street and eat the ten-cent meal? For ten cents, you can get meat and vegetables, and eat until you're full!"

Song Ning just said politely: "What does that have to do with me? I only eat what I want to eat. It doesn't matter whether there is meat or not."

Wang Erhua and others showed great respect to Song Ning.

Scholars have integrity and will not bow down for a few cents!

Only Jing Qishan was disdainful: Humph, his purpose is to seduce Li Yujiao, so naturally he has to come over to please her!

"Mr. Song, come and try the milk tea we made today!" Li Yujiao smiled and served him a cup.

The cup is made of a bamboo tube, with some patterns carved by Jing Qizhi on it, which is quite creative.

Jing Qizhi is not good at martial arts, but he is surprisingly good at carving. With the ideas provided by Li Yujiao, he can carve various cartoon patterns.

Song Ning drank the milk tea and liked it quite much.

"Is this a new product in our store? The milk and tea blend very well together, and it's sweet aftertaste. Plus the soft and chewy pearls, it makes you want to drink more!"

Song Ning praised him and asked, "Is the milk tea priced?"

Li Yujiao said, "Eight cents a cup."

Song Ning nodded: "The price is fair, suitable for all ages, how about... I draw some more orders to promote it for you?"

"That's great!" Li Yujiao said happily.

As soon as she finished speaking, a scorching gaze swept towards her.