Since the official opening of the ARA Group's new izakaya opposite, the dark clouds on Fumi's little face have become thicker and thicker. She muttered there every night with her tent closed, cursing the other side to go out of business quickly.

The opening ceremony of ARA Group's new izakaya was quite grand, not only came to many local political and business celebrities, but also a large number of news media reporters, making the momentum sufficient, showing strong network strength, and ARA Group itself also showed great confidence in the new izakaya project, and put forward a new business philosophy of "conforming to the times and having a drink".

The Japanese economy is in a period of continuous recession, and no one knows when the recession will end, anyway, every year economists say that it will end this year, and then the next year the face is as swollen as a pig's head, and this continuous economic recession has led to a decline in the level of consumption year by year - this can't be helped, everyone has less and less money in their pockets, and they are naturally more and more stingy with spending.

According to statistics, about 33% of people want to control the cost of drinking after work to less than 1,000 yen, and 59.2% of people say that it is best not to drink with more than two people.

In line with this trend, ARA Restaurant Group has launched a variety of "1,000-yen courses", such as a bowl of ramen (or chazuke), two side dishes, and two large glasses of draft beer, which are guaranteed to fill your stomach for only 1,000 yen and drink a little drunk.

At the same time, ARA's new Izakaya other dishes are also quite cheap, such as the common side dish of cold tofu, which is 199 yen, and they sell it for 159 yen.

In just four or five days after opening, the business of ARA's new izakaya began to boom, and although the customers of Junmiya did not immediately run away, they also disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the number of customers is decreasing day by day.

Dongmei's little radish head mouth will not easily shake the regular customer does not seem to be very loyal, seeing that the price on the opposite side is cheaper and the decoration is more decent, and he directly votes for the new owner.

"Sister, take a sip of hot water!" Haruna softly persuaded Fuyumi. Her eldest sister kept talking to herself there, and the pressure exploded, and she was about to show the face of a little shrew, and she didn't have a ladylike style at all, which was not good.

"Don't drink it! I'm so angry! I'm still from Kyoto, I don't respect tradition at all, and I actually do such a shameless thing as fastfood diet, which really throws all the faces of the Kansai barbarians!" "Dongmi was so angry that she fired a map cannon, and she killed one-eighth of Japan with one shot, "Obviously, the colors of our dishes are more beautiful, the materials are more elegant, and the production is more elaborate, are those drunkards blind? Even a boiled egg can be boiled on the other side!"

Fastfood refers to fast food, which is relative to slofood, that is, traditional food dishes that are not produced in batches but conform to local customs - Dongmei looked at the current situation, and immediately defined her store as a slofood-style traditional cultural store, first occupying the moral high ground, in fact, her family's store has been open for less than three years, and no one has a long history of ARA Restaurant Group!

And the ARA new izakaya cuisine opposite is not as bad as she said, but the standardized operation implemented, behind which there is also a top celebrity chef design cooking production process, a bit similar to the feeling of Kentucky Chicken McDonald's, not delicious, but can be widely adapted to the taste of the public.

"Don't worry, eldest sister, my father is also designing new dishes, which should be of some help. ”

Dongmei's brows furrowed: "His cooking skills are just like that, it's not very useful, for today's plan, let's also downgrade!"

Haruna was a little surprised, "Downgrade, eldest sister, there is a group advantage on the other side, as well as its own pasture, fishing and planting base, we can't compare to theirs in this regard!"

Dongmei's temperament has completely come up, and she directly took the case: "So what! We are all daughters of the martial family, and we must not sit still!"

"How much does that drop?"

Fuyumi hesitated for a moment, feeling like dozens of knives were stabbing indiscriminately, "All the dishes are 10 yen lower than the other side, and the sake is also ...... Wait, let's see the situation as on the other side first!"

Haruna lowered her head and said softly, "Then we will have almost no profit at all, eldest sister." ”

Dongmei was obviously very irritable, and shouted: "It's better than no one coming to eat!" After calling it, she remembered that it was Haruna in front of her, and she felt slightly out of shape, but she was the eldest sister and couldn't apologize to her sister, so she flattened her mouth and copied the account book, "I'll go to Daddy to discuss, you don't have to worry, it's not a big deal, maybe everyone just thinks it's fresh, and you'll come back after eating it a few times." ”

After saying that, she went to the study with the account book in her hand, and Haruna was in the same place for a long time - no one at home knows how to operate, and the family will not be able to maintain it for less than three years after her mother is gone?

Sister should not ...... Suddenly collapsed like Mom, right?

Why is he only fourteen years old......

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The next day was another Saturday, and school ended at noon. Kitahara Shuji looked at the drizzle and felt extremely uncomfortable with the stickiness on his body.

Northerners suddenly run to the south, there is always a feeling of a dog - not in the dark area, but in the rainy season in the south, God feels like prostatitis, always urine is not clean, sparse and lala, which really makes northerners feel extremely uncomfortable.

Northerners like heavy rain, thunder and lightning, heaven and earth are shaking, soybean-sized raindrops split the head and cover the face, a meter away from the figure is gone, the next two hours to finish the work on time, very happy, and this kind of stop for a while, stop for a while will only feel troublesome.

It's already the second week of June, and the rainy season in Nagoya has been around for three or four days. In Japan, the rainy season is advancing from southwest to northeast like a "cherry blossom front", and Nagoya is about four or five days earlier than Tokyo, and it is only these two days that you want to come to Tokyo to get wet - Hokkaido, the northernmost part, has no problem with this.

This rainy season lasts for more than a month, basically rainy weather, extremely humidity, even the air seems thick and dignified, even the road car running over the exhaust is difficult to rise, can only turn into haze crawling circulation.

Kitahara Shuji watched the weather for a while, thinking that such a crime would take more than a month, and he complained in his stomach and took out his umbrella - the rain can't get on his clothes, but his body will still be uncomfortable, who can stand this strange weather?

But as soon as he was about to leave, he saw Dongmei's small figure standing on the side of the pillar in front of the teaching building, and Dongmei was sulking at the drizzle with her lips pursed. Recently, there has been no conflict between the two of them, and the relationship is okay, Kitahara Shuji hesitated and asked, "Forgot to bring an umbrella?"

Basically, on a rainy day, what do you want to make trouble without an umbrella?

"Bring it!" Fuyumi held for a moment, "but I don't know which bastard stole it." Then she said with some hatred: "Better not let me find him!"

Kitahara Shuji felt that something was wrong, this school still attaches great importance to school spirit, and it is rare to hear of stealing things - isn't this little radish head being bullied in disguise? It is very likely that this guy has basically offended his classmates.

He thought for a while and said with a little sympathy: "If you can't get in touch with Xueli, then I'll take you to the bus station!"

With that, he opened his umbrella and motioned for Fuyumi to go with him.

Fuyumi hesitated for a moment, stood under Kitahara Shuji's umbrella with her schoolbag, tilted her head and didn't look at him, but whispered, "That's causing you trouble......"

"It's okay, just drop by. Kitahara Shuji said with a smile, this kind of thing that has no cost and convenience is okay in his opinion, and he will also send it to someone else he knows-Dongmei They usually take the bus home, and they just leave her at the bus stop, and they don't even delay time.

So the two of them walked out of the school together with an umbrella in the drizzle. Kitahara Shuji controlled his travel speed, lest Fuyumi's two little short legs have to be pounded desperately - people like him usually walk extremely fast, it is better to be chased by a dog and lose much, like going up the stairs or something, you can take three steps and never take two steps, and she was reprimanded by the discipline teacher at school for this.

And Fuyumi actually walks fast, she has short legs and high frequency, but now Kitahara Shuji walks slowly with an umbrella, and can only follow him slowly. The two men didn't have much in common, neither spoke to each other, and for a moment there was only the rustle of drizzle on the umbrella.

After walking for a short distance, Fuyumi couldn't help but sneak a glance up at Kitahara Shuji - the top of her head was level with Kitahara Shuji's chest - and then looked left and right, feeling a bit like a scene from a shoujo manga.

This guy is a little white face, he looks like the hero in the comics, and he holds an umbrella for himself, and his movements are similar, and the surrounding drizzle and smoke are quite beautiful, and the atmosphere is also similar - if only he was ten centimeters taller, it would be nice to be one meter six, then there would be nothing to fault about this picture. (She wears 5 cm inner height shoes)

She liked this feeling very much, she felt very comfortable, and the pressure and depression of the past few days seemed to have dissipated a lot.

She walked for a while, thinking in her heart that Kitahara Shuji helped her hold an umbrella, so what would she do for him when she went back - his towel was quite old, so it would be good to replace it with a new one, and the original one would be changed to a mop.

"That...... Fukuzawa-san, I don't think the umbrella thing should be taken care of. Kitahara Shuji saw that Fuyumi had kept her head down and didn't speak, thinking that she was still thinking about revenge for stealing her umbrella, so she couldn't help but whisper a word of persuasion.

If you don't retaliate, you will definitely be aggrieved, but revenge will only make the situation worse and worse, he feels that according to the situation of the little radish head, the top priority is to ease the relationship between classmates, otherwise there will be more and more cold violence and pranks - bullying people is not just beating and scolding, some methods are worse than that, Dongmei didn't count him.

In his eyes, Dongmei also belongs to the young type, and as an "elder", he actually likes to tell people big truths - maybe this behavior can promote dopamine secretion, and the person who listens doesn't know, anyway, the person who talks about it is quite pleasant.

Of course, it is also possible that he was infected by Fukuzawa Naotaka and had this bad habit.

"Why?" Fuyumi glanced up at him, not knowing which tendon he was pulling and suddenly wanted to say this.

"Have you ever heard a sentence from Fukuzawa? People have to adapt to the environment, don't wait for the environment to adapt to you. Interpersonal relationships are also one of the main factors that make up our living environment, and I think it is necessary to get along with my classmates. ”

Kitahara Shuji is just a simple kindness, and what he said is quite tactful so far, according to the relationship between the two people, he can only remind the little radish head that the earth does not revolve around her, and it is better to be able to control his bad temper as a man.

Anyway, the incense between him and the Fukuzawa family is quite strong, and he can't watch Dongmei, the little radish head, really become a low-level element who is bullied by cold violence at school.

But Dongmei's crescent eyes narrowed - what does this guy mean? Is he saying that he is not popular? Is he preaching to himself?