Baguettes and Macarons

====================

After just a few days of renovation, a clean and tidy new store opened on Shepherd Street, which is incompatible with this dirty old street.

The windows of this store are bright and clean, and the simple facade is mainly black and white. It is both solemn and vivid, and it has the style of several luxury stores.The windows are full of huge photo frames, and the men and women in the photos are all well-dressed and beautiful like celebrities.

It is not a photo studio, but an image design studio called Yujia.

Shepherd's Street has never had such a strange and interesting store, but in the three days since it opened, no customers have stepped into this store.Even a skinny boy like Jean-Luc only dared to peep on the street corner.

There was no business for three days, but the owner, Yu Chen, was very calm and relaxed. Today, he walked into the bakery at ten o'clock, dressed up, ordered the most expensive sandwich, and complained lightly that there was no coffee shop in this block.

Louie spreads peanut butter on sliced ​​bread: "You can buy instant coffee at the supermarket a block away."

"Can instant coffee be called coffee?" Yu Chen raised his eyebrows, "Speaking of which, don't you sell drinks here?"

Louie puts the ham on the peanut butter: "Which would you like, tap water or Evian?"

Yu Chen looked left and right: "Is there nothing else except water? You should at least have cocoa powder for baking cakes here? I can reluctantly accept a cup of hot cocoa."

Louie said in a rough voice, "Don't force yourself, I don't have any extra cocoa powder. Only milk, if you don't like it, don't drink it."

Yu Chen sighed: "Alright, it's better than nothing."

Louis was so annoyed that he just wanted to get rid of him quickly. He dug out the milk for pudding from the refrigerator where the materials were stored, and threw a box to him.Yu Chen was so frightened that he almost missed the milk box and complained: "It turned out to be in a carton sold in the supermarket. I thought you would use the milk purchased directly from the farm...Huh?"

He looked at the carton over and over for a long time, and asked, "Do you use bio milk to make cakes?"

The so-called Bio is a green organic food produced naturally. It is much more expensive than other similar agricultural products. It is usually eaten directly, and it is indeed rare to use it as a raw material for making cakes.Luckily Louis was one of them.

"Even if the ingredients are invisible to the customers, they can't be shoddy." Louis wiped his hands with a towel, and continued to stack the extremely thinly sliced ​​ham without looking at him.

But Yu Chen poured the milk into the empty glass by himself, shaking it like looking at red wine: "Isn't your raw material all bio products? No wonder the price is so expensive. In this way, even if you sell a macaron Four euros, the profit of each is very meager, not to mention that it can't be sold."

After being stepped on by him, Louis smacked his tongue and said, "Drink your milk and shut up. This is not your business."

Yu Chen said with a smile: "That's not acceptable. Since I want to customize a look for you, of course I have to know everything about you. This is work."

Louis kept his hands on, took out the boiled eggs from the pot and peeled them off, and said with a snort, "I don't have the spare money to entrust you to transform myself into a sissy."

"I'll make you change your mind." Yu Chen confronted, "A slovenly rough guy will make people lose the courage to taste his craft."

The two looked at each other and smiled, facing each other ferociously.Yu Chen shook his milk cup and said, "I want you to see my achievements, that's why I rented the store next door. Please wait and see."

Louis said maliciously: "Even if I look forward to it, the residents on this street are all like me. They don't even have the money to buy a pair of your shoes. You will definitely go out of business within three months."

Yu Chen calmed down and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't have money."

After he finished speaking, he didn't make a sound. With the same etiquette as dining in Hilton, he insisted on finishing the buttered ham sandwich with a knife and fork, and wiped the non-existent food residue on his cheeks with a napkin.Only then leisurely walked out of the shop.

He didn't have the consciousness of eating in a fast food restaurant at all, so he just left the plate on the table and waited for the waiter in the restaurant to collect it.Louis stared at the plate for a long time, and when he looked up, he saw Yu Chen's meaningful smile from the window, so he had to hold his breath to clear the table.

It's okay if it wasn't cleaned up, but when he lifted the plate, Louis found a one-euro coin under the plate—it just happened to be a tip for breakfast.

Seeing him swallowing the coins, Yu Chen waved to him in a good mood, and walked down the street to the outside of the block.Louis watched him go further and further from the window, calculated his walking direction, and suddenly sneered.

He was walking towards the main road leading to the city center. At a certain intersection there was the battlefield of Jean-Luc and his three younger brothers-this group of skinless and shameless children were used to begging from passers-by there. If you don't have enough money, you will simply pretend to be ill and try your luck. You must search passers-by for all their cash.

Let Mr. Peacock with a cocky tail suffer a loss and improve his memory, Louis thought so while cleaning up the table, planning to put the coin in the cash register.

Just as he was about to turn on the radio, he changed his mind, took out the store key from under the cash register, closed the store and ran towards the direction Yu Chen left.

After running through two deserted intersections, Louis heard the expected voice.

Jean-Luc exclaimed angrily: "Monsieur, you've soiled my clothes! I have seven younger brothers to support. How can I afford new clothes?"

Louie slowed down and stopped behind a street tree.Across the road, Jean-Luc was kneeling on the ground with a muddy face, hugging Yu Chen's calf with his younger brothers, not letting him go.

Maybe it's because Yu Chen's figure is not as tall as the white people, and these skinny kids are also a lot bolder.This scene is not so much begging or touching porcelain as robbery.

Yu Chen still said nicely, "I just passed by you, and I didn't touch you."

Jean-Luc spat: "You were the only one who passed by. Didn't you or my brother hit me? You should pay me, sir. Seeing how gentlemanly you are dressed, you won't even pay for my clothes." Can't get it out?"

They touched Yu Chen's brand new clothes, and there were countless black handprints printed on them, and they didn't know who soiled whose clothes.Yu Chen frowned invisibly, trying to pull his legs out: "I'll just pay for your clothes, let me go."

"You give us the money first, and then we let go. Otherwise, you will run away as soon as you let go, and we won't get the money." Jean-Luc held him tighter confidently.

Just as Louis was about to step forward to stop it, Yu Chen pulled out a bank card from his briefcase and asked seriously, "Can I swipe the card?"

As soon as these words came out, even Jean-Luc, a habitual liar, was at a loss.

"Swipe the card." Yu Chen repeated, "I don't have any cash with me."

Jean-Luc's face turned from black to red, and he jumped up and shouted: "He's tricking us! Brothers, hit him!"

Although he and his brothers are still teenagers and skinny, they are children who grew up in the slums and are proficient in low-level fighting methods.One of Jean-Luc's younger brothers immediately hugged Yu Chen from behind to prevent him from breaking free, while Jean-Luc pulled out a baseball bat he had picked up somewhere from the bedding at the corner, and walked towards Yu Chen cursing.

"Calm down, I didn't say I won't compensate you for your clothes." Yu Chen calmly said, "But I really don't have any money with me. If you want cash, I'll go to the bank on the next street to get it for you. If you are worried, You can follow me to the bank."

Jean-Luc looked him over and said in a compromise: "Don't try to play any tricks."

Yu Chen said as if nothing had happened: "Is there any trick for me to play, if I pay you the money, wouldn't it be better for us to settle the dispute?"

Louis almost laughed out loud.The kid Jean-Luc was only thinking about asking for money, and forgot that the neighborhood police station was on the street ahead.This exquisite sissy is not a rich young master who is completely brainless.

Louis had seen enough of the good show, and walked across the road pretending to have just arrived, shouting: "Jean-Luc! What are you doing?"

He was tall and big, and Jean-Luc was always afraid of him. When he saw him coming, he quickly hid the baseball bat behind his back, and said with a dry smile, "It's nothing, it's just this gentleman who stained my clothes, so I'll argue with him. "

Louis sneered: "Come on, I don't know what you do? This is my tenant. If you scare him away, you will have to pay my rent."

Jean-Luc was shocked. He looked at Yu Chen again, showing an expression of "the real person is stupid and rich": "There are such fools in the world—I mean, is there really someone who has the courage to do this? Louis The shops are expensive and old, and there is no business."

Yu Chen smiled and said, "But it has advantages that others don't. Do you want to take a look?"

Jean-Luc glanced at Louis and whispered, "No, my brother and I still have work to do. Goodbye!"

"Well, I still want to compensate you for your clothes." Yu Chen said regretfully, "But if you are free, please find me next door to the bakery, and I will definitely compensate you for your clothes."

"Okay, leave him alone." Louis said harshly, dragging Yu Chen back, "You see, this neighborhood is full of vulgar and uneducated wild children and poor people who have no money to buy clothes, your luxury The luxury business cannot continue on this street.”

"This is your misunderstanding of image design. It is not luxury goods and money that can bring a good image, but the coordination of clothing and temperament." Yu Chen explained seriously, "The young boy just now is a resident of this block Right? When he puts on my new clothes, he will definitely look brand new."

"He won't go." Louis said firmly, "His clothes were so dirty three years ago, he won't go to you to pay for it."

Yu Chen smiled and said: "Then I'll go find him, what's his name?"

--------------------

I don’t know how to translate it, but bio is probably green organic food, and the price is 50.00% to double that of ordinary agricultural products.