Yingzhou Hotel gives people the feeling that it is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and if it is not good, it is nondescript.

European-style ceiling with oriental wall decorations, crystal chandeliers and octagonal red lanterns, stained glass partitions and landscape screens...... The resplendent and red and green are kneaded together, full of nouveau riche atmosphere, just like the clothes of most guests, and the style of wearing suits and old cloth shoes can be seen everywhere.

Everyone walked into the box on the side of the lobby and took their seats.

In the seating arrangement, there was a little hiccup.

The round table is also divided into primary and secondary, generally facing the door of the room as the main seat, it stands to reason that Li Yuan is the guest of honor, should sit in this position, but the Chinese pay attention to the elderly, Li Yuan quietly moved the chair slightly, vacated the two main seats, sat on the side of the chair, and said with a smile: "It's convenient to watch TV here, it's good for me to sit here." ”

Pang Jianguo and Guo Xiaobao glanced at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes, they didn't expect Li Yuan's mind to be so transparent. Strictly speaking, the position facing the TV is also considered the main position, and Li Yuanqian did not put his position too low.

Pang Jianguo and Guo Xiaobao sat in the center, their wives and sons sat on one side in turn, and Zhao Min was pulled by Li Yuan to sit beside him.

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This meal was jointly invited by the two families, because the place was ordered by Guo Xiaobao, so he mainly came to Zhang Luo.

Guo Xiaobao called the waiter in, asked for the menu and handed it to Li Yuan, and said, "Third Uncle doesn't know what you like to eat, just order a few dishes, you can see for yourself what you like to eat, just order!"

Li Yuan didn't look at it, handed it to Zhao Min casually, and said to her: "You order, don't think about saving money for the third uncle, if the money is not enough in the end, I will leave you to wash the dishes." ”

Zhao Min glared at Li Yuan, and generously beckoned Pang Tao and Guo Hua to come over and look through the recipe together.

Li Yuan turned his head and asked, "Third Uncle doesn't blame me for borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, right?"

Pang Jianguo preemptively said: "Today's meal is to thank you for your help to Pang Tao and Guo Hua, you have the final say." If your third uncle doesn't bring enough money, and your Uncle Pang, he won't leave you here to wash dishes. ”

When Guo Xiaobao heard this, he pretended to be dissatisfied and said: "Lao Pang, it's not interesting for you to say that!"

The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

Li Yuan spoke: "Speaking of brushing dishes, I think of an article in a magazine some time ago. It is said that there is a high-achieving student who graduated from Tsinghua University and gave up the opportunity to work in Beijing and went to the United States to work hard, but he couldn't find a job there, so he had to go to a restaurant to wash dishes. His parents later found out and advised him to return to China, saying that he would rather stay in the United States and wash dishes than return to China. ”

Most of the people present had heard similar stories, and the answer of that high-achieving student even represented the general thinking of most people. Having said that, ordinary people are ordinary people after all, and things that happen to top students in prestigious schools are always more eye-catching.

Pang Jianguo and Guo Xiaobao didn't know what Li Yuan meant when he said this, so they waited for the following.

"There are two things that can cause concern about this. One is the American Dream. The American dream is an American statement, which is almost the same as what we call hard work, but Americans rarely dream now, but the young people of our country dream of going to the United States. ”

Li Yuan made a joke and continued: "Another point, of course, is the identity of the protagonist, a high-achieving student from a famous university, it sounds superior, and if he is an old farmer in the countryside, I'm afraid no one cares what dreams he has." ”

When Li Yuan said this, the words changed.

"What dreams do Uncle Pang and Third Uncle have?"

"If you want to talk about dreams, I hope that Pang Tao can compete for some energy, take the university entrance examination in the future, and give his father a long face. Pang Jianguo sighed with emotion, pointed at Pang Tao and said: "This kid went home with his transcript yesterday, I thought he was cheating and fooling him, I'm not afraid of your jokes, his original grades were hard to get into high school, and I can't even think of expecting him to be admitted to university." ”

Guo Xiaobao said with a smile: "You are also a big boss now, your son just doesn't go to school, where can you be worse in the future?" The young man is also mental, unlike my boy, he doesn't follow his mother at all, I'm worried now, what if he can't marry a daughter-in-law in the future?"

"Hahaha," Pang Jianguo said with a smile, "Your boss Guo is rich, and you're afraid that your son won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law?"

"So," Guo Xiaobao said, "I only have money left in my life." ”

The two talked a few words, and asked Li Yuan in unison: "What dreams do you have?"

Li Yuan replied: "I have the same idea as you, nothing more than reading and making money, but if you have to talk about dreams, it is probably to live happily and without regrets." ”

"Well said!"

Guo Xiaobao praised and said to Guo Hua: "Look at people, look at you again!"

"What's wrong with me......" Guo Hua looked aggrieved.

Li Yuan took dreams as the topic, opened the chatterbox, talked about learning, and inevitably took out Zhao Min to show off, and the two adults connected the tomboy in front of them with the first place on the report card, and even became enthusiastic about Zhao Min.

Seeing the two middle-aged women pulling Zhao Min to ask questions, Li Yuan threw her a look of self-begging and began to talk about business.

When it comes to business, there are naturally more topics.

Guo Xiaobao and Pang Jianguo know each other, and their relationship is not deep, and they mostly compliment each other in words, hello and me.

Li Yuan seized the opportunity and said: "Don't compliment each other, in my opinion, your business is good, and there are many problems." ”

"Oh?"

The two stopped and looked at Li Yuan.

Through the previous chat, the two of them no longer regarded Li Yuan as an ordinary child in their hearts, especially Pang Jianguo.

Guo Xiaobao usually doesn't have much contact with the oil field, and he doesn't know many things, but Pang Jianguo is a complete oil field person, and he knows a lot about the affairs of the Li family's father and son. recalled the scene when Li Yuan went to his store to buy a knife, and his evaluation at that time was still that of a young man who knew how to be sophisticated, but he didn't expect that he also had a ruthless side.

Speaking of which, he also interrogated his son last night to connect the rumored young man with Li Yuan, if he had known earlier, he really wouldn't have dared to let his son and Li Yuan get too close.

Pang Jianguo asked his son to invite Li Yuan to dinner, on the one hand, out of gratitude, on the other hand, he also wanted to see this kid with his own eyes, and after some contact, he felt that it was not a bad thing for his son to associate with him.

Pang Jianguo attached great importance to Li Yuan's opinion, and asked first: "Then tell me, what's wrong with your Uncle Pang's business?"

"Then you're welcome. ”

Li Yuan said unhurriedly: "The problem in Uncle Pang's shop can be summed up in one word, that is, chaos. ”

"Chaos?"

"The chaos I am talking about is divided into three aspects: environmental chaos, commodity chaos, and management chaos. ”

"Let's talk about the environment first, I don't think I need to say this, Uncle Pang also knows that the store of the Pang family's non-staple food store is still too small. ”

"No way, your Uncle Pang has always wanted to change to a bigger place, isn't it not suitable?"

"How's the department store?" asked Li Yuan.

Pang Jianguo's eyes lit up, and then he frowned and said, "The department store is state-run. ”

"What's wrong with the state-run ones?" Li Yuan asked rhetorically, and continued: "Since the reform and opening up, the state's support for the private economy has been expanding, and in recent years, it has not been uncommon for private companies to acquire state-owned enterprises. ”

"You mean to let me buy the department store? Don't look at your uncle's business is good, but he doesn't have that much money. ”

"You don't have to buy it, you can contract it. Li Yuan said, "The department store has been operating poorly for many years, and the leaders of the four departments may not have the idea of losing this burden, not to mention that now that the laid-off workers are making such a fierce noise, Uncle Pang can completely use the banner of reemployment of laid-off workers, and I believe that the support from above will be greater." ”

"How many jobs can one store provide?"

"It depends on how it is run. ”

Li Yuan took out a pen and paper from his schoolbag, and said while drawing: "The department store doesn't go up and down the stairs, and the area is about 500 square meters?" He silently estimated in his heart, feeling that it was about the same, "It's calculated according to 500 square meters, if it's a counter business model, naturally you can't put too many things, and you can't use ten people when it's full, but we can change the model." Speaking of which, I would like to ask Uncle Pang, how did he come up with the idea of putting all the goods on the shelves?"

"Isn't it because the store is small," Pang Jianguo said embarrassedly: "The store is small, and the counter can't be opened, so you can only put things on the shelves." You mean department stores do the same?"

"Hmm. Li Yuan nodded and said, "In fact, most foreign stores adopt this model, they are not called stores, they are called supermarkets." ”

"Supermarket?"

"The third uncle always goes to Jinmen, he should have been to the supermarket, right?"

"I've been, I'll tell you ......"

Guo Xiaobao told Pang Jianguo about the supermarket in his impression, and after listening to it, Pang Jianguo felt that aside from the scale, it was really similar to the model of his own non-staple food store.

"Isn't that more needy?"

Pang Jianguo asked. He is a warm-hearted person, Li Yuan mentioned that he took down the workers and re-employed them as a cover, he really wanted to do something practical.

"So you can't exactly copy the model of the self-selected supermarket. ”

Li Yuan typed a few squares on the paper and explained: "The supermarket can be divided into several areas, fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and milk can be sold by others, and we only provide a place to collect some rent." ”

"Is that okay?"

"Why not?" Li Yuan explained: "The vegetable market does not shelter from the wind or rain, and it is very inconvenient to buy vegetables when the weather is bad, so you can move it to the supermarket." Of course, the supermarket is limited in size, so we can't move the whole market in, and it's not suitable to put the smell too hot to sell in the house......"

"I think it can be done. Guo Xiaobao interjected on the side.

"There are additional benefits to inviting vegetable farmers in," Li Yuan continued to talk eloquently, "first, it saves costs, and it can enrich the variety of goods in the supermarket without Uncle Pang spending money; You think, I would have liked to buy a green onion and walk around the supermarket, maybe I would have bought a lot of things. ”

Li Yuan recalled the supermarkets of later generations, how to lay out the goods, how to use the form of discount promotions to clean up the backlog of goods, how to guide customers to consume impulsively, how to standardize management, etc., and the two nodded again and again.

"Speaking of the problem of hiring people, a supermarket needs a lot of people for so many positions as cashier, warehouse management, handling, tallying, cleaning, promotion, and finance. ”

"Will it be too much?" Pang Jianguo was originally worried that he wouldn't need a few people, but when he first heard that the supermarkets were all self-selected, he thought that the couple would be able to open the supermarket, but now he began to worry about recruiting too many people.

Li Yuan smiled: "It's not that exaggerated, many positions can be part-time, and you can't be busy during the New Year's holidays, so you can hire people temporarily." After speaking, he changed his words, "But I still suggest that Uncle Pang recruit more people, and the talents should be cultivated in advance, so that they will not be in a hurry when they are used, and they will be used when the business grows big in the future and is ready to open a branch." ”

"Let's put aside the opening of the branch, are you so sure that Uncle Pang is going to open this - a supermarket?" Pang Jianguo asked with a smile.

"Uncle Pang is not tempted?" Li Yuan asked him in turn.

Without waiting for Pang Jianguo to speak, Guo Xiaobao preemptively said: "If you don't do it, don't regret it in the future." ”

"you!" Pang Jianguo punched him and scolded with a smile: "No wonder they all call you a monkey spirit, where is the money to drill!"

He turned to Li Yuan and said, "Uncle Pang listens to you, do it! When you have any questions in the future, don't be sloppy with your uncle!"