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"Human beings." The colleague clerk suddenly sighed.

Both Lu Lixuan and the store manager were busy with the matter at hand, and no one answered her words.

"Human beings are indeed hopeless creatures who like the new and dislike the old." The colleague clerk sighed.

The store manager, who was bowing his head to the ingredients, unceremoniously responded to the life insights of his colleagues: "Now is the release period of our new products. Is it interesting to express such meaningless exclamations? The customers are waiting outside the counter."

The colleague clerk shrank his neck, "I'm just curious, our new product will be popular for a few more days."

"No matter how many days it can be popular, the customer is God." The store manager said, "Don't waste our little Lu's hard work."

While the store manager was speaking, there was a mighty long queue in front of the cashier counter.Not long ago, a team of this size belonged to Chuxue from the New Grand across the street. After her colleague Lu Lixuan developed another new product, this team flew back like a swarm of bees smelling nectar.

Since the start of the milk tea war on this street, customers have shown a pendulum swinging back and forth, swinging from side to side at the frequency of new products from both sides.

Now is the round of Xiaomeng Tao teahouse, and the new product that Lu Lixuan has just developed is in the first few days of killing it.At the moment, there is an Internet celebrity anchor outside who is commenting on this new product with a selfie stick.Judging from the smile on the host's face, Lu Lixuan's new product this time was well received again.Before the Internet celebrity anchor left, his colleague and clerk heard his last words, "I don't know what new products will be released by Chuxue in New Grand, let's wait and see in the future~!"

Volume, too volume! !The colleague clerk couldn't help popping up this popular term in his heart.

She looked up at the first snow in New England not far away.Under the impact of Xiaomengtao's new products again, there seemed to be very few customers at the store.Needless to say, the talented store manager Zhu will also fight back in the near future.

Fortunately, our little Lu is a genius, so we can fight back and forth like this.To be honest, she was really looking forward to the counterattack from store manager Zhu.After days of intense milk tea battles, my colleagues and shop assistants have unknowingly regarded Lu Lixuan as a genius born in heaven, and she herself has become a master of milk tea tasting.Whether it's her own Xiaomeng Tao or the opposite family's New Grand Chuxue, every time she tastes a new product, she feels a lot.Now, she is excited and curious about the upcoming challenges of the future.

Hurry up and make a move, Manager Zhu!

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Lu Lixuan skillfully frothed the milk, sprinkled chocolate powder carefully, then covered the cup and handed it to the handsome middle school student in front of him—his most loyal guest.The middle school boy took the milk tea with a blank expression as usual, turned and left.

Every time he saw this middle school student appear, Lu Lixuan would feel a sense of peace of mind.This means that his finished product is recognized, which means that the possibility of contacting Zeng Liangcai after his return has greatly increased.

He glanced at the opposite side, he didn't have any fear of Chuxue's next move in New Grand, and he had already started to conceive the next new product in his heart.

Not long ago, Zhu Xiaojing came here, and she commented on his new milk tea like the previous few times.Listening to her eloquence with a serious expression, Lu Lixuan seems to have heard something else through her voice. It is the unpredictable and profound way of deliciousness, which is transformed into a sentence through her taste. It's like boarding a train leading to the vast beverage universe.

At that moment, Lu Lixuan felt that his brain was secreting a substance similar to human dopamine, and he felt a joy of being understood.

He looked down and poured out a bit of crushed ice.

According to the past practice, her new counterattack will arrive today and tomorrow, and he can't relax.

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A day later, New Grand's First Snow had no new offerings.

Two days later, New Grand's first snow still has no new products.

On the third day, First Snow in New Grand closed its doors.

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"Have you heard?"

"what happened?"

The colleague clerk said: "The proprietress of Chuxue in New Grand, something happened!!"

"What are you talking about? What happened?" the store manager asked in surprise.

"Her daughter is missing!!"

Lu Lixuan put down the measuring cup in his hand, and turned to look at his colleague, the clerk.

"That Xiao Nan is missing!"

Manager Zhu's daughter suddenly disappeared.

The people nearby were talking about it for a while, but no one could tell the truth.

When the door was closed that evening, Lu Lixuan was scouring the ground with a hose when a pair of feet appeared beside the puddle.He raised his head and saw Zhu Xiaojing.He didn't recognize her for a moment.Standing in the dim night light, her short hair that used to be neat and tidy looked disheveled, and her face reminded him of the few temporarily detained girls he had seen in the police station before, those listless pale drug addicts.

"I've been looking for a long time, but I can't find her anywhere." She seemed to be talking to him, but also seemed to be talking to the empty air beside him, "She's gone."

A colleague, a clerk, helped Zhu Xiaojing, who was walking on a weak foot, into the store.She sat blankly at the small table, her eyes floating around the room, as if the little girl was hiding behind some box in the store.

"Xiao Nan has been very good—" she said, "She said she finished her homework. I was busy with the business in the store and asked her to sit in the back and watch cartoons on the tablet. I remember she was still there. There was a The takeaway order ordered 18 cups, I have been busy making milk tea, and when the order is done, when I look back, she is no longer there. I thought she was playing at the door as usual, it used to be like this. I didn't care……"

A colleague clerk handed her a napkin, and she wiped her eyes after taking it, "The result is that she disappeared. I couldn't find her anywhere. Surveillance showed that she was still at the door of the store at 7 o'clock that day, and disappeared at 7:5. Her voice became extremely sour, and her eyes were fixed on the ground.

She has already called the police, walked all over the street with both feet, and posted missing person notices everywhere, and all she can do next is to wait for the police to investigate.

After the narration, she sat in the store with a pale face, quietly listening to the relief from the store manager and fellow clerks.Lu Lixuan didn't know what to say.He turned and continued cleaning in silence.

The Zhu Xiaojing at this moment is completely different from the Zhu Xiaojing he knew in the past.She looked like a fragile leaf, curled up in the seat.He could see the blue capillaries under her eyes.

After a while, Zhu Xiaojing left.

The next day, police officer Zhao Anliang appeared in the store.

"It's you, Lu Lixuan." He called out his name, and this time he was finally not as angry as he was every time we met.

After that, Zhao Anliang explained his reason for coming.With regard to the disappearance of Zhu Xiaojing's daughter, the police found that Xiao Nan stayed by Xiaomeng Tao Tea House for a short time before finally disappearing after investigating the surrounding surveillance.

"Please tell me what you know about Xiao Nan's disappearance." Just like in the TV series, Officer Zhao made a request.

"Has that little girl been here?" The store manager was very surprised.

"She comes here often." Lu Lixuan said.

"What? I'm in the store every day, why don't I know?"

Lu Lixuan explained: "Because she is very small, very short, not as tall as the counter, it is difficult to see from the inside and outside."

Zhao Anliang asked: "What is the little girl doing here?"

"make faces."

"what?"

"Make faces at me."

Her hands are small.Lu Lixuan suspected that her hand was only about one-third the size of his own.She often appeared outside the counter on tiptoe, pulling her mouth open to make a very strange expression.Lu Lixuan didn't understand the meaning of her action, sometimes he would look at her with interest, and the little girl seemed to be encouraged to make more ridiculous expressions.

After Lu Lixuan's analysis, considering the competitive relationship between the two companies, she probably felt that her ridiculous actions would interfere with Lu Lixuan's work, thereby reducing the quality of milk tea, so that her mother could win.Lu Lixuan was noncommittal about the little girl's harassment of the enemy. Sometimes when he was free, he would take out a small paper cup, make a cup, and pass it to the little girl while no one was looking.

"Hmph! It's useless to bribe me!" Xiao Nan said, but her little hand tightly grasped the cup, and she drank gulply, after which she must have commented "it's not as good as my mother's."

"I will make milk tea that you think is delicious in the future."

"It's impossible!" Every time Xiao Nan drank the milk tea in the small paper cup until there was no drop left.Sometimes her little nose and the corners of her mouth are stained with milk tea, and her little face looks like a little tabby cat.

Now she is gone.

It's like a gust of wind blows by without a trace.

Lu Lixuan couldn't remember if she appeared under the counter that day, there were too many guests that day, he was busy making milk tea, and he didn't pay attention to the little shadow beside the counter at all.He told Zhao Anliang the truth.

Zhao Anliang's brows were furrowed. He knew that the policeman might have limited clues.

As he left, he patted him on the shoulder, "I've heard it all, you've done a great job in this store. It's good, do it well."

"Officer Zhao." Lu Lixuan called to stop him.

"Ok?"

"Master Zhu's daughter, Xiao Nan." He said, "Can she be found?"

"We will do our best." Zhao Anliang lowered his eyes, and he said it again, as if speaking to Lu Lixuan or to himself, "We will definitely do our best."

The police left.

The disappearance of the daughter of Chuxue, the store manager in New Grand, was like throwing a pebble into a pond. There was only a slight ripple, and then calm was restored.For the people on this street, it was as if nothing had happened except that there was more talk.

The customers outside Xiaomengtao Teahouse are queuing up and the water can't get through.

On this day, when Lu Lixuan was pouring the boiled tea, he heard the customers outside the counter talking about "the store opposite has not been opened for several days" "Who wants to open a store if I lose my daughter?"

"Hey, that's right." A customer raised his voice, "Look, Cao Cao is here, and the proprietress is here."

"It's really her."

"It's only been a few days, and people are thin and out of shape."

"It's too miserable."

Lu Lixuan raised his eyes, and he saw Zhu Xiaojing walking towards her shop. She walked to the front of the shop and bent down to pull the anti-theft rolling door outside, before she straightened up.Her body suddenly tilted to one side, and then she collapsed limply to the ground.

He could see the whole process clearly.

"Come here!! The proprietress has passed out!!"

"Hurry up and save people!!!"

People shouted and rushed over.

Lu Lixuan ran to the door of the store, and Zhu Xiaojing was surrounded by enthusiastic crowd.Someone called an ambulance.

The store manager came to Lu Lixuan's side, "Hey, her life is too miserable."

The colleague clerk said: "I really didn't expect that this milk tea competition would end like this." She whispered, "I'm really not happy to win like this."

Lu Lixuan didn't speak, and turned back to the shop.