Start with the script kill shop

Chapter 224 Approaching the New Year's End (Two in One)

What is the hottest thing in Xuncheng in the new year?
It's not the script blind box event that is about to end, it's not the hot milk tea shop that opened in the pedestrian street, it's not the Internet cafe chain that charges 100 and get 150 free during the New Year's Day event, it's not the latest 3% off cream cheese soup launched by CC for a limited time, and it's not every day Xinghe lo mei shop lined up.

It is a customized birthday event of Xinghe Script Club.

From just being able to walk down to 99, no one said NO to this custom activity.

As the final exam approaches, the parents of children whose birthdays are in January, February, March, April, and May will even persuade them to study with "If you do well in the final exam this time, mom will take you to Xinghe Script Club for your birthday".

It is said that persuasion is particularly effective.

Although the price of this customized birthday service is high, it is much more expensive than normal birthday celebrations for children, and the consumption far exceeds the average level of Xuncheng, but parents can't stand it.

She may not be able to get what the child likes by crying and screaming, but the parents usually use the excuse that the child likes it to get it.

Marriage proposal is something that cannot be asked for, after all, most people can only propose once in their life.But birthdays are different. You can celebrate them once a year. If you want to celebrate them twice (lunar calendar and solar calendar), you don’t even need to be too stuck on the time. You can postpone or postpone it.

On Jiang Qi's side, there was a situation where the order for Saturday's birthday was full, but the parents said that it would be fine to postpone it to Sunday.

In order to make it easier for parents and adults who celebrate their own birthdays to understand the business of birthday customization, Jiang Qi deliberately marked the price clearly, so that no one can deceive anyone.

The basic package is to push the cake from the secret road, Wang Xinghua lights the candles with the words "Happy Birthday" and Lili presses the star lights. The cost price is only 388, and the cake is prepared by the customer.

Cake provided by Jiang Qi +188.

Cavalry cutting cake +120.

Moose pulls gifts +99.

The flower fairy flies in the sky and sings nursery rhymes while sprinkles glitter and petals +150.

Lili Dancing +260.

Flower Fairy leads the dance +80.

Wang Xinghua wears a crown +50.

Add additional candles and add money according to the amount.

If you need to provide other customized services, the price is negotiable.

Speaking of this, someone may ask, where did the flower fairy come from?
Flower Fairy is the spirit of the toy newly drawn out by Jiang Qi on January 1. It looks like an elf and is a beautiful toy with a pair of colorful wings.Can sing nursery rhymes, all kinds of nursery rhymes, can fly and dance, and wants a 11-year-old female master with a big garden at home.

As for why the flower fairy wants a little master with a big garden at home...

Because she can plant flowers and make honey.

Yes, she, like a bee, can make honey.

It takes 6-10 days for bees to turn nectar into honey, but it only takes one day for a flower fairy, and she can collect nectar from any flower, provided the amount is large enough.

Because a flower fairy toy, flapping its wings and flying around in the flowers to collect honey is not in line with materialism, so Jiang Qi can only take the flower fairy to the community like a thief at midnight every day to pick those already The nectar of the plum blossoms that bloomed, but the few plum blossoms in the whole community were picked in just three days.

Then Jiang Qi hired Wang Xinghua to take Hua Xianzi to other communities to be a thief for 20 yuan a night.

In order to help Flower Fairy collect honey better, Wang Xinghua waited for Wang Erya to fall asleep every day, and then went out to scout spots while preparing lessons with her textbooks. She scouted all the spots within 10 kilometers of Jiang Qi's house.

Oh, by the way, Huaxianzi is also an electric toy that needs to be equipped with batteries, and because she likes flying very much, the battery wears out quickly, and now Jiang Qi and the others carry button batteries with them, so that they can change batteries for Huaxianzi at any time.

And now, Jiang Qi was having a meeting upstairs with Huang Fugui and others.

From 7:00 to 10:00 tonight, there was a power outage in the alley, and the business was closed. The notice was sent 5 days ago, so it is not considered a sudden power outage, and it does not affect normal operations. At most, the store is closed for one night.

It just so happened that Jiang Qi also took this opportunity to have a meeting with everyone.

今年过年早，1月27日就过年，现在已经1月17日了，按照江祺原本的计划1月24日就会给全体员工放假，一直到大年初四也就是1月31日才会正常上班。

Of course, if the employees come back to work for a few days due to various reasons such as going to the countryside, New Year's greetings, etc., after all, there are enough people in the store now.

Because of the early Chinese New Year, all colleges, high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools, and kindergartens are already on vacation. Qin Can also returned to work part-time on January 1 from the winter vacation.Seeing the current scale of the store and the decoration of the new store, I called the boss a few times and then started to read the book intensively.

Children are on holiday, which means they have plenty of time to come to the store for their birthdays.

When there was no holiday before, the birthday orders were concentrated on weekends, and the weekdays were usually at night, and there were very few big orders.

Now that it's a holiday, parents are enthusiastic about celebrating their own/elders/sisters/children's birthdays, and the script store is full of birthday orders every day.

However, Xinghe Script Club is another script killing shop, and Jiang Qi's final bottom line is to only accept birthday orders from customers in the shop.In other words, you must play the book in the store to celebrate your birthday in the store.

Then a very strange phenomenon occurred in Xinghe Script Club.

Under normal circumstances, during the peak season of winter vacation, the script killing shops are mainly college students and young people who go home for the New Year.There are middle school and high school students, but far less than the peak season of summer vacation.

As for the younger guests, such as senior elementary school students...

Yes, but very few. Children in this age group are generally not the customer base of script killing shops, and there are very few books suitable for them to play with.

But this winter vacation, Xinghe Script Club did the opposite.

There are many college students, but there are more elementary school students who come with their parents, and more junior high school students and high school students celebrating their birthdays.

There are even kindergartens, the kind where a group of parents bring their children to kill scripts as a parent-child activity.But these children don't play at all, it's all parents playing.

But elementary school students really want to play with books.

This directly led to Jiang Qi not being able to find a book for these little guests to play with.

Conscience of heaven and earth, more than 60% of the books of Xinghe Script Club are horror books!
The evidence collection gallery for birthdays was originally intended to be a horror evidence collection gallery!
Those dancing dolls are straight out of the dollhouse!
Those who light the candles are really ghosts!

It is true that Xinghe Script Club does not have scripts that can be played by these younger children.

Pure games can be played for them, such as "Toy Story", "Master Chef" and several boxed books for children's healing, all of which are acceptable.

But this can't hold up children.

The script is totally inadequate.

This made Jiang Qi start to think about whether he should rent a new store and open a children's playground to take birthday orders from these children.

"The problem now is that there are not enough books suitable for this group of children. Orange has received orders from several years ago in the past few days. There are 7.8 people who come to celebrate the child's birthday with a family. The number of books is also very small, only one or two." Jiang Qi said while sitting on the sofa.

"Do you think there is any solution?"

"Is there no such type of book on the market?" Huang Fugui asked.

"Very few. I have collected several of these books from other stores. In fact, these parents who come to the store for birthdays are basically introduced by friends, or they have heard from friends that they invite each other. The coincidence rate is also very high, but if some children are more popular, and friends come together a few times for their birthdays, there will be no books for him to play."

Wang Xinghua looked at Wang Erya's writing questions, and said, "It's still not enough to publish these. There are so many garbage and clichéd horror books and reasoning books every day, and the things are all badly written. You copy and I copy and I don't want to write them." If there are some new ones, can’t they come up with a few books suitable for the family to play with and children’s birthday books?”

Wang Xinghua has always been very good at finding problems from the source.

Jiang Qi felt that this was also the fault of the source, and it was a bit outrageous to be true.

Prior to this, Jiang Qi himself never thought that the customer group killed by the original script could be expanded to this point.

"Mr. Boss, don't you have a script writer? Why don't you use a script writer to write new scripts?" Hua Xianzi asked puzzled.

Jiang Qi sighed helplessly: "The quality of the script written by the one-star writer is not very good. I tried it for a few days, and the script written was... horrible."

With the current ability of [Script Writer], it is as difficult as heaven to write a script that Jiang Qi wants.

When the whole story and characters of "Red Tears" have been set, it took many days to write the finished version with 15 people. So far, no version with more than 20 people has been written.

Regarding the new script for children, Jiang Qi and others thought of a rough plot and setting at most, and input the simple outline into it for the writer to write.

You set up 12 children to celebrate their birthdays together and play games happily. As a result, the writer wrote that one of the children poisoned the cake, and you can believe that no one survived.

The script can be grounded, but it cannot be grounded.

"Boss, why don't you relax the conditions for celebrating birthdays, so that everyone can celebrate their birthdays without having to play books in the store?" Erya Wang was a little puzzled.

Huang Fugui explained: "Because this puts the cart before the horse, and once the number of orders is released, it will definitely affect the normal playbook of other customers in the store."

"This type of birthday celebration is mainly for fresh pictures. It is very hot now, but after a month or two the popularity will fade away. At present, the number of birthday orders in the store is being confirmed, and it will not affect other customers. Accepting orders under certain circumstances is at best a value-added service.”

"If it is regarded as the main business, it will not be as attractive as it is now, and it will be counterproductive."

"Is that so?" Wang Erya tilted her head, not quite understanding.

Huang Fugui can only give her an example: "Take a car as an example."

"When our store first launched this service, the customer response was so enthusiastic. The boss's purchase of snacks and drinks is comparable to that of a small supermarket. When the car is the busiest, the battery has to be replaced 9 times a day."

"But now, less than a month has passed, and the freshness of racing cars has gone down. On the contrary, elk, cavalry and flower fairies are more popular, but why are they more popular?"

"Because they only show up at birthday events and marriage proposals, everyone feels fresh."

"A lot of business is done with the word fresh. He may not be that attractive in itself, but everyone has never seen it before, so he is very popular. When everyone gets used to the familiarity and is no longer fresh, his attractiveness The force is not so strong, and naturally there is no heat."

"For the sake of the momentary popularity, giving up the original serious business to make such quick money is a taboo in business."

Wang Erya suddenly realized.

Out-of-the-box racing: ...

The car is sad, and the car wants to go out for a ride.

But it's only eight o'clock now, and there are still many children playing in the community, and many elderly people are walking and dancing. It has to wait until after 12 o'clock before going for a drive.

"Don't be sad about the racing car. What Mr. Huang said is actually not wrong. Aren't the little masters playing with our toys just for a while?" Flower Fairy fluttered beside the racing car to comfort it, "If you feel uncomfortable, I will How about giving you the pot of nectar I brewed a few days ago? My mood will improve after drinking the nectar."

"Yes, yes, racing car, don't be sad because of this. It's normal for us to be abandoned by the little master. We can't be popular forever, and one day we will pass. I talked to Lan Lan in the store yesterday. The young lady watched TV together, only to realize that children nowadays don’t believe in Santa Claus.”

"Although I am not a serious Santa's elk, I have never given gifts to children, at most candy to the little master. But now Santa Claus will be unemployed, will be forgotten, will be rejected, and will pass It's normal for us to be angry."

"If you are not happy, how about I give you candy tonight?" The elk looked at the shriveled gift bag behind him, "It will be available in a few hours."

The car was even more saddened by their comfort.

"Woooo, I'm a racing car, I can't eat candy or drink nectar, wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, I am a racing car, I can neither eat candy nor drink nectar

Crowd: ...

Sunflower turned to look at Tutu with the expression that the racing car might not be a fool: "Do you think he is more stupid than before?"

"Their racing cars are not smart at all." Tutu said calmly, "It's strange that our toy spirits can eat."

The elk and flower fairy who didn't realize that the toy spirit couldn't eat at all: ...

The two toy spirits looked at each other with guilty conscience in their eyes.

Hua Xianzi flew to Jiang Qi's side and changed the subject: "Mr. Boss, I heard from you that it seems that the Chinese New Year will be in a few days."

"Will you celebrate the New Year like in TV dramas, with New Year's Eve dinner, red envelopes, and fireworks? Can I celebrate the New Year with you?"

"Of course." Jiang Qi said bluntly, "You may have to pretend to be ordinary toys during the Chinese New Year together, otherwise you will scare my family."

"Don't worry, Mr. Boss, we will." All the toy spirits said in unison.

Speaking of Chinese New Year, Jiang Qi realized that he had never known Huang Fugui's Chinese New Year arrangements.

Their family's New Year's arrangements are generally, New Year's Eve dinner at Uncle Jiang Xiaokang's house, New Year's greetings to each other in the first, second, and third grades (in fact, they are just visiting each other), eating at Jiang Qi's house on the first day of junior high school, eating at Jiang Xiaoguang's house on the second day of junior high school, and at Jiang Xiaoguang's house on the third day of junior high school. My sister-in-law Jiang Xiaohong eats at home, and I go to my uncle's on the fourth day of the lunar new year to pay New Year's greetings.

As for other relatives in my hometown, they don't move around much under special conditions.

Jiang Qi’s grandparents passed away early, and their relationship with relatives in their hometown is relatively weak. They belong to the kind that people don’t recognize too much. They don’t need to go to the countryside.

Thinking of the arrangements for the Chinese New Year, Jiang Qi suddenly realized that, right now, the Chinese New Year is almost here, and it's time for his parents to come back.

It was only at this time that I remembered that my parents were coming back for the New Year. In fact, I can't blame Jiang Qi, mainly because he really doesn't know his parents very well, especially his father.

The number of times Jiang Qi met his father Jiang Xiaoliang since he was a child can be described as a handful. He and his father were most familiar when they were in college. Living expenses were paid on a monthly basis, and there were a lot of them. Jiang Bing is the same as above.

Having said that, when will his parents come back this year?

Thinking of this, Jiang Qi sent a message to ask Jiang Bing.

Then Jiang Bing replied:

ah?Let me ask.

Five seconds later, Jiang Bing asked, coming back on New Year's Eve.

Jiang Qi put away his mobile phone, turned to Huang Fugui, "Uncle Huang, do you have any plans for the New Year? It's been a few days off!"

"Yes." Huang Fugui enthusiastically listed his New Year's Eve dinner list.

Steamed lion head, pork elbow in sauce, grilled lamb chops, roast beef, braised lamb, braised prawns, steamed fish, stewed abalone with sea cucumber and pigeon eggs, sweet and sour short ribs, steamed scallops with eggs.

"10 dishes, perfect." Huang Fugui said cheerfully, and then began to show the menu for the first day of the new year.

Baked bologna with cheese, salt and pepper shrimp, steamed king crab, steamed grouper, braised turbot, stewed fish head with tofu, kebabs and roasted whole pig.

Roast whole pig? ? ?
"Uncle Huang, can you still cook whole roasted pigs???" Jiang Qi was shocked.

"No, this dish is a takeaway. I originally wanted to order it for the New Year's Eve dinner, but their New Year's Eve dinner roast whole pig is fully booked, so I can only order it on the first day of the new year."

Jiang Qi: ...

"Then this Bolong, Pippi Shrimp, King Crab, Grouper, Turbot..."

Xuncheng does not rely on the sea, and these seafood are not easy to buy during the Chinese New Year.

"I bought them all online! I asked Lanlan to place the order for me and I gave her cash. Lanlan is a very good girl. He especially knows how to find coupons to get discounts when he buys things. It's much cheaper than mine. gone."

"I told Lan Lan to come to my house for dinner on New Year's Day, and she said that she would not leave Xuncheng during the New Year's Eve."

Jiang Qi: (*)
He also wanted to go upstairs for dinner on New Year's Day.

Jiang Qi couldn't bear to look at the food for the second and third day of the new year, he was afraid that she would want to go upstairs to eat after seeing it.

"Girl Xinghua, there may not be much left for this month's food expenses and next month's food expenses. I have also arranged a banquet at the Huifeng Restaurant that you have always wanted to eat for the Lantern Festival. The meal for 2888 people at 15 is what you want. I just don’t know if the Peking duck is authentic or not.”

"It's okay, it's okay." Wang Xinghua, who made her fortune by lighting candles, said that the New Year is important, "Uncle Huang, I still want to eat that sweet-skinned duck that is said to be very delicious on the Internet."

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow to find out which store's sweet-skinned duck is delicious, I must buy it during the Chinese New Year!"

"For those who are celebrating Chinese New Year, just say so if you want to eat, and eat openly."

(End of this chapter)