Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant

After the ban was lifted, Ming Qian felt that his life with You Jun hadn't changed much. They spent too much time together day and night and had almost no private space, so that even though they had just had a relationship, they looked like an old married couple.

The only problem is that every night, Youjun will look at him with shining eyes, Mingqian wakes up every day thinking that he must firmly reject Youjun tonight, but every time he is not firm.

He always nodded inexplicably, and then his mind became a mess.

During this time, he and Youjun occasionally went to watch movies during the day, or went to nearby scenic spots, and only went to the store when they thought of it.

As "Our Store" is coming to an end, the reputation of the hot pot restaurant is getting bigger and bigger. Mingqian and Youjun have more and more CP fans, and there are even CP fans who come to the store in groups, in order to take care of the business of the store. , two people can order a portion for five people, Ming Qian had no choice but to call on everyone on social software to order as much as they eat, don't waste it, even if they order too much, as long as there is no action on the dishes, they can be refunded.

Because of this call, Ming Qian was once again on the hot search.

He himself is numb, maybe this is the benefit of high popularity, even a little thing can be trending, and it won't take long for an unknown person to make big news.

Mingqian and Youjun even have their own CP chat, but Mingqian has never seen it, but Youjun often checks in.

Because it is becoming more and more popular, more and more merchants come to Mingqian for cooperation. There is even a merchant who sells self-heating hot pot, hoping that Mingqian will be its spokesperson. When Mingqian saw the news, he didn’t even know whether he should cry or not. You should laugh.

I have my own hot pot restaurant, and I am going to be your self-heating hot pot as the spokesperson. Who has the problem between us?

What's even more outrageous is that some online dramas came to Mingqian to film, and they hoped that Mingqian would play the first male lead and You Jun would play the second male lead. If you pay a big price, you can even compete with third-tier stars.

Ming Qian thought it was a bit funny, but after the rejection, the other party still persevered, sending messages to Ming Qian every day, concerned about whether Ming Qian had eaten three meals a day.

There are also many variety shows that have sent invitations one after another. They all took a fancy to Mingqian's current popularity and traffic. Seeing that the show is about to end, the popularity may soon pass. If they don't harvest at this time, when will they wait? ?

In particular, the popularity of the guests in "Our Store" has increased greatly, and they have all joined the crew, so it is easy to find no one.

They've been on popular variety shows, and they don't even know how to watch invitations to small variety shows, so a group of small variety shows came to Ming Qian to join in the fun, to see if they could fool Ming Qian and You Jun over.

The result of this is that in addition to cp fans staying in hot pot restaurants, there are also various small nets and self-media staying.

But CP fans will also enter the store to have a meal. They can enjoy delicious food during the process of "chasing stars". Xiaowang Zong and self-media people don't have much budget, so they just occupy seats in the waiting area and sit all day long. I don't know When can I give up.

However, if the waiters let those who don't enter the store go, they will say that they are just ordinary customers, and they didn't enter the store after waiting for their friends. Pretend not to see.

Now the people in the waiting area outside the store are really mixed, there are scalpers, there are Internet celebrities, there are people from the media and small nets.

There are already many customers, so there are long queues in the waiting area every day.

Among the customers of the hot pot restaurant, there are customers who ask when the store will expand again every day. There are not enough seats at all. Every time they come to the restaurant during peak dining hours, they have to wait in line for at least an hour, and it is not uncommon for them to wait for two hours.

So after spending a week with You Jun, Ming Qian started to contact the shop owners on both sides of the second floor.

He first looked for the hamburger restaurant on the right. This restaurant is a counterfeit restaurant, and the sign is the chicken, and usually there are not many customers coming in and out, but the takeaway staff have been running in, and they are all in the takeaway business.

This one is easy to talk about, the boss has no other requirements other than money.

Because the store is not particularly big, Mingqian thinks the price offered by the other party is acceptable. The annual rent is 60. Mingqian spent a few days negotiating with the boss, and finally set it at 48. The things in the store are Mingqian. No need, the boss himself sent people to come and take them away.

They signed a five-year contract. Compared with the previous process of renting a storefront, this time it was extremely easy.

It may be because the owner of the hamburger restaurant is a relatively free and easy person, he is getting older, and the two children have their own families and careers, so there is no need for this hamburger restaurant to be of much use. The reason why it was still open before is that It's just because the boss is getting old and insists on finding something for himself to do.

Although there are no customers in the store, the takeaway is pretty good. After all, it is a counterfeit store. The price on the takeaway software is very cheap, and the platform will also hold events, so a single business can't make a lot of money.

Now it is completely acceptable for the boss to earn more than 40 yuan a year.

Don't worry about whether the business is losing money, you can get so much money in a year, and if there is more traffic in this area in the future, he can still increase the price.

"I'll find someone to come over and remove the things tomorrow." The boss smiled and shook hands with Ming Qian, "Boss Ming's business is getting bigger and bigger now, maybe one day he will be on the rich list."

Ming Qian said with a smile: "My store can't be opened as a chain store, and it's not so difficult to get on the rich list."

The owner of the hamburger shop sighed and said, "That's right, now that we are engaged in catering, we still need chain stores to make money, and we can earn a lot of money every year from the franchise fee."

Mingqian left the teahouse with the owner of the hamburger shop. He put on a mask when he came out of the private room, because he had to come out to sign the contract, and in order to prevent the other party from distrusting him, he couldn't use the mask to come out this time, so he could only rely on the hat and the mask .

After breaking up with the boss, Ming Qian contacted the decoration team that he had worked with several times before. Just like before, this time we still have to hand over all the hard and soft decorations to them.

The leader of the decoration team is very talkative: "Thanks to you, in the past six months we have taken on more jobs than can be counted, and we have also recruited a lot of new people, but I still let the previous team come for the decoration of your store. Old man, don't worry about our work, it must be fast and good."

It's not that the team leader is boasting. The materials they use and the skills and care of the workers are among the best.

Ming Qian also had confidence in them: "Okay, then you can go there to measure this afternoon. This time the shop is not very big, and it probably won't take too long. If I can finish it earlier, I will still give a red envelope."

In this respect, Mingqian is very generous. Decoration is a science, and those who don’t know it will not be able to find out if they are cheated. Therefore, Mingqian is very kind to the workers, and often packs lunches and drinks.

The decoration workers are young, and the youngest is only in their 20s. They are also happy to send milk tea or Coke a few times.

The workers also really like to work at Mingqian. As soon as the news from the team leader was sent, the group of workers exploded:

"Is there me this time? I wasn't there last time."

"When will the list be sent out? I can't wait."

"I didn't expect it to expand so soon. I've been there three times. I should be there this time, right?"

There are also newcomers who have just arrived and asked curiously: "Why are you rushing to go? Is it different from other lists?"

"You didn't know it when you first came here. The owner of this store has few demands and few things to do, and every noon and afternoon, he will deliver iced drinks when it's hot, and hot milk tea when it's cold."

"And the decoration of their homes is different. You don't need to make any innovations. You can just do it according to what you did before. It's very convenient, and it will be faster if you are familiar with it."

"Sometimes I work late, and I can go to his house to eat hot pot. It's cheap and delicious, and it's not crowded. There's no need to line up, and drinks are provided."

"If every boss is like this, then we can earn money too easily."

"What are you thinking? If this is the case, everyone who works on the construction site must have changed careers, and the competition will be even greater."

The team leader came out again and sent out a list, all of them were people who had been there last time, but the number of people was reduced a lot, because the shop is not very big this time, and naturally the required manpower is not enough.

The group howled.

The team leader could only comfort him: "Okay, let's wait for the next time. I see that Boss Renming's business is doing well. I guess he will come to us again in a short time. There are plenty of opportunities."

The price quoted by the decoration team to Mingqian was still the same, calculated on a square meter basis, with no price increase or price reduction.

Mingqian paid the full amount directly this time. He has cooperated so many times, and he still has great confidence in the decoration team.

Mingqian also plans to redecorate his home when he goes on a trip at the end of the year. The hard decoration will not need to be changed, but the soft decoration will be changed. A lot of solid wood furniture was used in the decoration back then. Cleaning up, the house is quite big, but it looks like it has lost more than ten to twenty square meters. He wants to change it to be more concise.

As for the more important things left by the parents, they still have to be put away, or let the decoration company arrange them according to the situation.

The business in the store is still as good as ever, but now many people come to eat barbecue hot pot in the morning, just to order an extra cup of milk tea, because the milk tea is unlimited in the morning, limited at noon and evening, and one person can only order one cup.

So on weekends, the passenger flow in the morning can be the same as that at noon and evening.

There are also people who come here to pack the thermos.

Neighbors often go out together, and everyone carries a thermos in their hands. As soon as they sit down in the store, the first thing is not to order, but to ask the waiter to make a pot of milk tea for themselves and put it away. take away.

There are also those who come to buy on behalf of others, come to eat hot pot alone, and take a dozen pots of milk tea with them when they leave.

Every time this kind of person appeared, he would get shocked stares from other guests. It wasn't that he thought this behavior was wrong, but that it was a talent for one person to carry so many thermoses.

This weight is not something that ordinary people can lift.

Therefore, the people who come to purchase on behalf of others are basically strong and strong young men with a big bag on their backs. When they leave, they carry it in the bag and carry it in their hands, so they can take a lot with them.

Later, Ming Qian worried that purchasing agents would develop into a certain industry, and he also set a certain amount of take-out, so he curbed this trend.

There are a total of eight episodes of the program, which were aired in two months. When the last episode was about to air, the show became a hot search again.

The popularity brought by this program is very considerable. Dong Han, who had no name before the last program, has now become a new traffic. It is also a steady stream.

Even Brother Jiang, the big brother, has become popular, and he will soon star in a gift film, in which he will play a celebrity in modern history. He is an absolutely positive character, and there are very bright clips.

Not to mention Lin Sui, she is a new Xiaohuadan herself, and she has several awards in her hands. She is considered to be the leading figure among young actors. Because of this variety show, she has a lot more fans from passers-by. Now she can choose all the resources. .

Even Director Han successfully got the investment, and he was about to make a suspense film, and the investor was very rich and powerful, and he was only responsible for giving money, neither blocking people nor asking for script changes.

Those artists who refused the show invitation before regretted it - after all, there are so many variety shows about opening stores every year.

In addition to opening stores, there are also those who run farmhouses, clubs, and even opera clubs, but they are all submerged in the tide of variety shows, and there is no splash.

Even if there is Lin Sui in this show, it is only Lin Sui. No matter how hard Lin Sui's fans are, it is impossible to make this show popular with her own strength. The most is to let Lin Sui's fans have a carnival.

In the end, the show really exploded.

It exploded without reason, even inexplicably.

Especially the guests who haven't found fault, there are no "actors" who are greedy for petty gains, and they don't have the accumulated pleasure from scratch, just relying on daily gags, and those jokes that have not been polished at first glance, they actually got such a reward. score.

Even the hot pot restaurant itself has fans, and some people have made a Q version image of the hot pot restaurant on the Internet, and there are even several fan groups with thousands of people.

The eyes of those starlets who refused the invitation were so red that they were about to bleed.

Now they are even jealous of the hot pot restaurant itself. A hot pot restaurant has tens of thousands of active fans. These little stars who have been bought by the company to buy zombie fans and trolls don't know if their real number of fans exceeds [-].

"It's here today?" Ming Qian answered the phone in the kitchen on the second floor, "Are you all free? Didn't Dong Han and Brother Jiang join the team?"

Han Dao said cheerfully: "It's the end of the day. Everyone just came out to get together. There may be no chance to get together again in the future. They have also arranged a time. We will arrive at about nine o'clock in the evening. Are you ready for the private room?" Got it?"

Ming Qian: "There must be private rooms. You must ask them to wear their masks. Don't come in together, but in batches."

Director Han: "I know, I know, they are not as popular as they used to be, and you are too. Some directors have asked me to come here and ask if you will go to filming."

Ming Qian smiled wryly and said: "Director Han, don't tease me, really, this kind of thing will only make me dizzy now, I still have to wear a hat and mask when going in and out of my own hot pot restaurant, and I don't rely on TV to eat. If it goes on like this, I won’t be able to do business.”

Director Han stopped laughing and joking, and instead said, "It's okay, the audience's interest comes and goes quickly, and it will be almost half a year later."

Ming Qian was full of hope: "I hope so."

"Who wants to come?" Yao stretched his neck and asked, "Lin Sui and the others?"

Yiyi got excited, she took out her mobile phone and typed: "Will He Qin come?"

Ming Qian: "Yiyi still has contact with He Qin?"

Yiyi nodded and typed with a smile: "She will send me the filming video."

Ming Qian did not expect that Yiyi really made friends, and he was also happy for Yiyi: "Those who work in the entertainment industry must have less time, and you must have less time to get together."

Yiyi: "She said that she will rest for half a month after filming this movie, and then we will go traveling together."

Ming Qian waved his hand and said very generously: "I will let you take annual leave then."

Ming Qian: "The annual leave is only ten days."

Yiyi pursed her lips and smiled, then made an OK gesture.

Yao: "I really want to see Lin Sui and Dong Han again. I watched the show, and I think they look completely different in reality from mobile TV. In reality, their faces look so small and narrow. Dong Han's face still looks a bit long, and it's completely invisible on camera."

Yao sighed: "I used the original camera to take pictures of myself before, and found that one side of my face is big and the other side is small, and the eyes are the same."

Now Yao has also learned to love beauty, and even learned to trim and thrush eyebrows, but his skills are worrying, and he often turns himself into a little new eyebrow. Fortunately, he always stays in the back kitchen and never goes out to scare the guests.

What's more, he was already cute, and he had a new eyebrow...it was alright.

Congee Congee asked curiously, "Is the celebrity coming? I haven't seen a celebrity yet."

Congee Congee: "What is a star like? Is he very tempered?"

Yiyi put down the dishes in her hands and ran to chat with porridge, but Wanwan and Chuchu were still working diligently. They were very marginal when they were shooting shows before, and they didn't like to communicate with guests, they always did it by themselves My own work, so that even if the show is broadcast, few viewers pay attention to the two of them.

Ming Qian also asked them why they were unwilling to interact with the guests before, but they didn't give an answer, and they were usually very lively.

But Ming Qian didn't ask deeply, everyone has things they want to do and don't want to do, why bother to ask the bottom line?

At 08:30 in the evening, Director Han is the first to arrive at the store.

Director Han has been going smoothly during this period, and there are more dinners than before. He has to eat and drink. He looks a lot richer, and his beer belly has come out a little. He still has a gift for Mingqian in his hand: "No Knowing what you like, I brought you a new watch, don’t take the tag first, if you don’t like it, you can go to the counter to change the style.”

Ming Qian took the packaging bag, his eyes exposed outside the mask slightly curved, with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Han."

Director Han waved his hand: "You're all called brother, thank you, I'm the first one here?"

Ming Qian led Director Han to walk in: "Yes, they haven't arrived yet, so they may have to wait for a while."

When it was close to nine o'clock, the guests arrived at the store one after another. This time, they didn't bring their assistants and went to battle by themselves.

Masks and hats are essential, and the most exaggerated thing is to wear a mask at night.

Zheng Xu still chatted with Lin Sui who met outside the door for a while.

"Well, the salary is relatively high." Zheng Xu chatted with Lin Sui about his new film, "After this film is finished, the money I owe the company will be paid off, and the contract will also expire. Think of a way, instead of making quick money, go to acting in dramas to hone your acting skills, you can’t be a vase for a lifetime, right? My face has never been soaked in formalin, it will always expire.”

Lin Sui looked at Zheng Xu with admiration: "It's very good, I want to go too, and then we can discuss it."

Zheng Xu: "Are you going too? Your acting skills are pretty good."

Lin Sui: "I like filming. I feel that I have reached a bottleneck. I can't break through if I continue to shoot familiar themes. I have to change the environment, and I don't have any pressure."

Zheng Xu nodded, enviously said: "It's true, you have passers-by now, unlike my traffic, I haven't seen you for a while, most of the fans have to climb the wall, and if you lose your popularity, you will lose everything."

The two chatted outside for more than ten minutes before entering the store. They didn't need anyone to lead the way, and they found the private room by themselves.

As soon as I entered, I was stunned by the lively scene inside.

Yiyi and the others were also at the table, Yiyi and He Qin were sitting together, their heads were together, as if they were watching something together.

Director Han and Ming Qian drank tea and chatted - in fact, Ming Qian unilaterally listened to Director Han's bragging.

Dong Han and Jiang Ge are sharing their experience of being complained by netizens, one is Dong Jinyu, and the other is Jiang Suisui.

There is no distance between everyone, no difference in industry, and no prejudice. They are just simple, good friends.

Lin Sui said excitedly, "Is everyone here? I thought Brother Jiang wouldn't come."

Brother Jiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "What do you mean? The gift film will start shooting next month. If there is a party next month, I will really not be able to come. But I have to congratulate you, you have won another actress .”

Lin Sui raised his teacup boldly: "Come on, Brother Jiang, replace wine with tea, I'll toast you."

Outside the door, Mingxin was holding a dinner plate, he swallowed nervously, when he just went to the back kitchen, Chen Yan told him that this private room is full of guests who have participated in variety shows, and he has to deal with their arrival Keep it secret, otherwise, once the store becomes crowded and a stampede occurs, he will be fully responsible.

Ming Xin didn't understand what was said at all, he just stood at the door stupidly holding the dinner plate.

He is Brother Jiang's die-hard fan!He grew up watching Brother Jiang's movies and TV shows!

Ah ah ah ah ah!He is going to succeed in chasing stars!I'm going to meet a real person!

I don't know if I can get a signature?

Mingxin had done a long time of psychological construction for himself, and finally knocked on the door of the private room.

The people inside were also very enthusiastic to help him open the door of the private room.

As soon as Mingxin walked into the private room, he saw his cousin sitting in the crowd. At that moment, he even ignored Director Han and Brother Jiang who were sitting next to Mingqian. Mingqian had a smile on his face, but he was not flattering or humble , just like when he was a child, his smile is like sunshine, warm and enthusiastic.

"Why are you standing there stupidly? Are you not tired?" Yao asked.

Mingxin walked over blankly, and put the dishes on the table one by one, but his hands were trembling slightly.

Originally, he thought that as long as he saw Ming Qian, he would definitely complain to Ming Qian and tell Ming Qian how tired he was.

But his mind was blank now.

He doesn't want to complain.

Ming Qian can climb out of the trough, but he hasn't reached the trough yet, so who has the right to complain?

So he lowered his head and backed out after placing the dishes.

He could finally understand Mingli.