Baguettes and Macarons

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Facts have shown that the advertising effect brought by a beautiful woman with a thin waist and long legs is much greater than that of a dark kid who will roll into a mud ball after wearing new clothes for ten days.Ever since Chloe changed into a short leather jacket, sometimes put on hot pants and boots, and rode her fiery red heavy-duty motorcycle around Shepherd Street for a few days, Yu Chen's studio began to be overcrowded.

After all, Chloe used to be good-looking, and she was just the more delicate kind among a group of village girls. From head to toe, she carried a rustic atmosphere unique to the suburbs, but now she is completely reborn, and there is only one star difference between her and the female star. explored.

What's more, Chloe and Grandma Mary, who had also become glamorous, talked about the fact that the design fee was only three days' meal money.

Although many people just come to ask casually with a curious attitude, after all, the number of people who come to inquire about the price of image design every day is increasing day by day. Usually, there will be at least three or four door-to-door consultations in a day, and they can negotiate business. There will be one in at least two days, and Yu Chen has to spend a lot of time dealing with their problems and completing their commissions, sometimes even forgetting afternoon tea.

He received an entrustment from a down-and-out investor who rented a house on the corner of the street to help him buy a cheap but exquisite suit and help him return to the social scene; He helped regain his confidence.He took them all, and it was inevitable that he would accompany the guests shopping from morning to night, and he didn't even have time to eat, let alone afternoon tea.

But he still remembers getting up early every day and ordering desserts for customers in the store with Louis. Unlike the desserts for Mrs. Alley and the others, most of what he ordered these days were cheap and convenient mass-produced grape bread, chocolate bread, and jam. Fried cakes and croissants are placed in a basket full and placed on the coffee table, and guests can take them if they want to eat.

In this way, even if those customers are still reluctant to pay someone to help them buy clothes, they will be willing to pay for a small bag of sweet buns from the bakery next door.Although Louis has a bad temper and expensive products, but now that he recalls the deliciousness of his cakes, many people will still buy the rough desserts they liked in the past to please themselves.

After a week, Louis calculated the turnover and found that he no longer lost money. Although he did not earn much, the total profit of [-] euros a month was just enough to pay back the money that Yu Chen lent him to buy swimming trunks.

As for the razor, it will take another eight months to return it.

Louis locked the cash register heartbroken, drove away Jean-Luc who was standing in the lobby eating raisins, and went next door to deliver bread.Jean-Luc bit his bread and followed him: "I'll show you the shop, why are you driving me out!"

Louis gave him a blank look: "You paid for the bread to take away, and I allowed you to stay for 5 minutes, which is already extrajudicial."

Jean-Luc muttered: "Isn't it because you can't hit me with a broom?"

He followed Louis step by step, and got into the image design studio next door, where the shop owner was talking with a disgraced housewife.

The housewife, Jean-Luc and Louis knew each other.Her name was Leila, and she was a primary school teacher a long time ago. She resigned after she got married and became a housewife. She lived with her husband, a mover, in a cheap house deep in Shepherd Street and gave birth to a son.

But later her husband changed from a moving worker to a vehicle supervisor of a moving company. He became richer and richer, but never came home again.He found a young mistress and moved to the city with his son. As for Leila, she was left in this dilapidated apartment with sound leaks that couldn't even be sold.

After that, she didn't go out very much, and even when she went out to buy groceries occasionally, she was depressed and weak.Neither Louis nor Jean-Luc were patient and good people. When they saw Leila sitting pale and stiff on the sofa, they couldn't help sighing, turned around and wanted to leave.

But Yu Chen raised his head from the piles of materials, and said with a smile, "It's very hot today, and the bakery doesn't have air conditioning, would you like to sit with me?"

There was a cool wind blowing in the living room of the studio, which really dissipated the heat they brought in from the outside. Hearing this, one big and one small couldn't help but slow down in their escaping steps.Yu Chen unhurriedly followed up with a blow: "I made black tea early in the morning, added lemon and chilled it in the refrigerator, would you like a cup?"

Jean-Luc turned around at the speed of light, stretched out his hand from the back of the sofa, jumped over the sofa like a box, landed firmly on it, and said obediently: "Yes."

Yu Chen said warmly to Leila: "Please wait a moment, I'll be right back."

He went into the back kitchen and brought out a tray with four cups of lemon black tea on it.The orange-red black tea in the clear glass reflects dark ruby-like light, and the fresh lemon slices shake gently in the black tea, which makes people feel cool when they look at it.

As soon as he put the tray on the tea table, Jean-Luc couldn't wait to take a cup, gulped down half a cup, and exhaled: "It turns out that black tea can still be drunk like this!"

Yu Chen smiled, looked at Louis who was still standing at the door: "Aren't you coming in?"

Luimer counted the number of cups and people, and he was secretly happy, but he reluctantly said: "For the sake of the black tea you have brought, I won't let you bring it back. Here, today's bread .”

No sooner had he put down the bread-basket than Jean-Luc reached out to grab it.Louis hurriedly lifted the bread basket up high to prevent him from reaching it, and said in a vicious voice, "You've already eaten a piece of bread."

Jean-Luc pouted: "This is Mr. Yu Chen's bread! The bread in his shop has always allowed me to eat whatever I want! Right?"

Yu Chen replied: "No."

"Can you say that again?"

Yu Chen repeated: "No. In the past, I allowed you to eat free snacks in my store because you are both my customer and my employee. Now that you don't have these two identities, I don't need to provide free bread Here it is, if you like to eat it, please go to Legrand Bakery to buy it."

Louis sneered triumphantly.Jean-Luc winked and said, "Then I'm here to ask you about dressing up again today, so I can eat bread, right?"

"Are you still shameless?" Louis asked.

Yu Chen smiled and said, "The next time I have odd jobs for you, you can eat bread again. Today I can only drink tea. I'm very sorry."

Jean-Luc gripped the straw resentfully, and sipped loudly.Leila, who was sitting on the side, said softly, "Then Mr. Yu...can you help me?"

Yu Chen smiled and said, "Sorry, I can't. Because our store will be temporarily closed tomorrow and I'm going on vacation, so I can't serve you during the spring break."

"But it's Baptiste's birthday in a week. I want to see him very much. Please make me more beautiful and make him fall in love with me again." Leila said, her eyes turned red, " I really love him and I would die without him."

Yu Chen said with a smile on his face: "No. Except for water, bread, and cold-proof clothes, if you lose anything, you will definitely die."

Although he smiled gently, his words were extremely cruel, Leila's tears immediately fell out: "Please be kind! You can help me, please, even Chloe can become like a star, you It's like magic. I just want to be more beautiful than his lover, and you just need to help me a little bit."

Yu Chen spread his hands: "I'm sorry, please allow me to say a few harsh words. I'm not a lawyer, nor a private investigator, so I can't deal with things like cheating and divorce. And I don't know magic. Customers themselves have their own shining points to transform. And you sitting in front of me are like a burnt candle, and I can't see even a little spark."

Jean-Luc looked at him and then at Louis, and whispered, "This is the first time I heard Mr. Yu speak so viciously, I thought he was possessed by you."

Professional dog-tempered Louis, who hits people when he disagrees with him, Mr. Legrand rolled his eyelids and concentrated on enjoying the iced black tea.

Leila was emotional and burst into tears. She twisted her yellow skirt while crying: "What can I do? I have no money, I am old and ugly, and he doesn't even want to sleep with me."

Yu Chen asked, "How old are you?"

Layla gasped from crying and couldn't answer.Jean-Luc whispered: "29, indeed much older than Baptiste's lover."

Yu Chen sighed: "The female star I like is almost 40 years old, and she is still active on the screen, and as the years pass, she becomes more and more beautiful. Ma'am, what I want to say is that I just look at you Not to the light, but it's not about your age and looks. It's about your heart.

"Unfortunately, I can't help you win back your husband's heart. To make up for this regret, I have a small gift for you. Please wait a moment." He got up again, and this time he went upstairs. It took a long time to come down.

Leila looked at him expectantly and wiped her face with the back of her hand. She was so surprised that she even forgot to cry when Yu Chen handed her a paperback book the size of a palm: "What is this?"

"As you can see," Yu Chen flipped through the book, "This is Beauvoir's "The Second Sex". Do you know her?"

"I know, but why?"

Yu Chen bent his lips and smiled: "I really can't help you now, but she can. During my vacation, I hope you can read it completely, and then I can accept your commission."

Leila didn't pick up the book, and said suspiciously: "Baptiste doesn't like this book, he prefers me to read classical literature."

Yu Chen perfunctorily said: "Ah, is that so, what kind of classical literature is that? Is it the works of the Goncourt brothers, or the long speeches of Rousseau? But I don't care what he likes to read, I just hope you can calm down and read it." Finish the book. Have a nice holiday."