Chapter 179: Chapter 179: Something to be Upset About
Life in the city is much more convenient. Feng Yiping, for example, has many more options when he doesn't feel like cooking. Back when he was living in Apartment 502, he could only buy two things on the street when he didn't feel like cooking: buns or steamed bread.
However, nowadays there are also many things in the small town that you can't find in the city. Not to mention the enthusiasm of the people in the small town, the tranquility, the rustic charm, and so on. The simplicity of the small traders in the countryside is not easy to find in the city.
Feng Yiping has always bought his food at the farmers' market near the community. He has a bad habit of never bargaining or picking and choosing when buying food. When he was in the countryside, it was fine, because the old ladies carrying their wares on their shoulders would never sell to someone else for 50 cents, but to him for 80 cents.
But now it's different. Seeing that he is a teenager who always comes to buy food by himself, the people at the market are not polite. If he doesn't compare prices at several places, the price of each item sold to him will definitely be a few cents higher. Although a few cents is not much, it makes people angry when they are treated like a fool or a sucker!
He summed up the reasons and found that the biggest possibility is because of his accent.
Although the dialects are similar, there are still differences, and as soon as he speaks, he reveals his identity.
In fact, the biggest discrimination in China is not regional discrimination, but linguistic discrimination. People with a Hong Kong or Taiwan accent look down on those from the mainland, those with a standard Beijing accent look down on those who speak Shanghainese, and those who speak Shanghainese look down on the rest of the country...
It's the same with them. You can tell from the way they speak that they are from the countryside. They must have followed their parents from the countryside to the city to make a living. They have no roots here. They can be taken advantage of a little. So what?
Don't even think about telling these hawkers that 'those who seek small advantages will suffer great losses.' For them, making a few extra dollars today is something to be happy about. They might even laugh and scold themselves when they eat the meat they bought with the extra money, saying, 'That idiot!'
Until one time, after Feng Yiping weighed a catty of dried salted fish, he immediately took the bag of fish and weighed it on the public scale placed at the entrance of the market management office. He found that it was exactly two liang short. Of course, the stall that sold the dried goods was punished a little. Speaking of the city were almost drowned by the saliva of the country boy Feng Yiping. Since then, Feng Yiping has received much less special treatment when buying food.
In short, even such an ordinary task as buying groceries requires wits and courage, which is very uncomfortable for Feng Yiping, a pacifist.
It would be nice to have someone to take care of him now, such as an all-rounder who can take on multiple roles, specifically, a girlfriend, wife, etc. Haha!
Feng Yiping, who did not socialise with his classmates outside of class and did not join an Olympic interest group, spent his first year of high school in a long-lost leisurely manner.
On weekends, he slept in, went out for brunch nearby, then put on his baseball cap, carried his bag with his camera, water bottle and notebook inside, and rode his bike around the city streets.
Often, he would spend most of the day just wandering around, stopping every now and then to take notes in his notebook and sometimes take a photo, just like when he was in sales later on, doing market research first.
Of course, what he does now is also market research, and it is very detailed market research.
After Lawyer Zhao returned to Yangcheng, through the operation of Dacheng Law Firm, the second batch of these ten songs was bought by PolyGram again, and the amount per song was similar to the previous batch, except that the split was increased by two points.
Feng Yiping was very satisfied when he learned the result. This was the last time, and since then, there was no need to do it, nor was there any need to do something like this again.
One day in October, Feng Zhenchang brought Mei Qiuping and paid a surprise visit.
When Feng Yiping came home from school in the afternoon, his mother had already cooked a sumptuous meal of four dishes and a soup. Feng Yiping, who usually just cooks two dishes for the whole day, ate his fill.
Including Wang Changning's parents, there are now eight families who have opened stores in the county below. Feng Zhenchang and his wife just came from the newly opened store of Feng Mingzhi, their old friend.
'How's their restaurant?' Feng Yiping asked his father.
'Everything's according to what we said, and business is good, pretty good.'
Mei Qiuping, who was tidying the table, interjected, "Not everything's good. That woman in Mingzhi's family, when she's not busy, she's always sitting in the restaurant with her sister-in-law, and it's uncomfortable to watch.'
Feng Zhenchang said, "There's nothing we can do about it. It's so hot now, it's really unbearable to always be in the kitchen.'
However, he has also mentioned this to Mingzhi in private, and now he also feels that those restaurants where the chefs and waiters sleep, play cards and chat in the restaurant when they are not busy are not on the same level as his own restaurant.
'How is business at the restaurant next to the station?'
'Haha,' when it comes to this, my parents are very happy, 'you were right at the beginning, that restaurant is now comparable to the three Xueyuan Road restaurants, and the business can go until after nine in the evening. Your sister is in charge there now.'
This is also the place Feng Zhenchang is most proud of. He worked hard to find a way to buy the shop, and the current results have given him a sense of accomplishment.
'Yiping, the other day, we caught a money collector colluding with the kitchen and putting money in his pocket.' After talking about the happy things, it was time to talk about the upsetting things.
This finally happened.
They still use the old method. When a customer enters the store, they pay and receive a small ticket. The kitchen staff then checks the ticket against the cash register at the end of the day.
However, when the kitchen staff collude with the cashier, it is easy to exploit the loopholes.
'He's not from the village, is he?'
'No. If he were, I would never let him return to the village in shame,' Mei Qiuping said.
However, Feng Yiping doubts that no one from the village has ever tried to take advantage of the situation.
'That's why you should buy a cash register. You can't bear to,' he says. He has been talking about this for a long time, but his parents have been hesitant. Cash registers now cost tens of thousands of yuan each, and there are now eleven stores, which is more than 100,000 yuan in total!
'Isn't there any other way? Think about it!' Mei Qiuping looks at him hopefully.
'There really is no other way. You must have thought about it too. As long as you still use tickets, there will always be loopholes. With a cash register, they can't change the data inside.' Of course, it doesn't mean that there will be no loopholes at all after a cash register is used, only that the loophole will be much smaller.
'That's a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars!' Feng Zhenchang also looked unwilling.
'Parents, think about it. Things are different now. There are so many shops and so many people. If you catch just the two of you together, doesn't it mean that other shops are doing the same thing? If we let this go, everyone will be thinking about how to exploit the loopholes. Who will do their job properly?'
There was no choice. Later, as long as you hired someone for the kiosk, the cash register and other such things were standard equipment. They were included in the cost when the shop was opened. Of course, these electronic products became cheaper later, and they hadn't originally included them, so it was indeed very costly to add them all at once.
'Well, it seems that this is the only way.'
'No, the store on Xueyuan Road doesn't need it. It saves ten thousand yuan to spend less on one. I'm always in the store, watching who can pull these little tricks!' Mei Qiuping said.