Chapter 406: I don't want to go home
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Approaching the end of the New Year, I saw that many shops around Hubei Village were transferred, and it is estimated that many people are ready to stop coming out after returning for the New Year.
In the past two years, I can't make much money working in Shenzhen, but it is getting closer and closer to the salary income in many parts of the mainland, and the south is no longer a paradise for migrant workers to pan for gold, nor is it the first place for many people to dream of traveling.
I wandered around with the attitude of inspecting the market, and also consulted about the price of some store transfers.
I found that store rents are still strong, but almost half of the stores are facing the dilemma of not being able to sustain themselves, and even many hotels and restaurants are not sustainable.
However, the flow of people in Hubei Village has not decreased significantly, even if it is close to the end of the year, it can still be regarded as a crowd of people when commuting here, and when it rains, there will be a phenomenon of blocking people.
Traffic jams are normal, but only after experiencing the scene of traffic jams will you understand the strange feeling.
There is a road, but there are too many people to move.
Every time I do this, I have a strong feeling that most of these people come to the city with dreams, but in the end, most of them just make ends meet.
There is a café in Hubei Village, and I often go there because I used to get into the habit of going to the café to sit.
Frankly, business isn't very good here, and I'm curious how the owner could have opened a café like this.
Occasionally, couples come in and order something, but few people order coffee.
I've drunk the coffee here a few times and think it tastes pretty good, at least not the kind of instant coffee that deceives you.
The boss should still be very attentive, and he has also spent some effort on making coffee, but how can people here have the leisure to taste coffee?
The reason why I like to sit and drink coffee is related to my previous superior living conditions.
After I got married to Zhang Ailing, whether I was the general manager of the previous company or the butterfly club, the secretary always helped me make tea when I went to work, but after I went out of the company, I would stay in the café, and I gradually developed the habit of drinking coffee.
I don't know if it's a petty bourgeoisie or not, but I like to sit alone in a café and listen to some lazy music, and my mood will be lazy. But I just like it, and I don't think it's petty bourgeoisie.
I remember when I came to Hubei Village, it was not a café, and I am not sure when it opened, but looking at the equipment and decoration inside, I guess it should be newly opened this year.
After I came to this café a few times, I gradually got to know the owner of the café.
It turned out that the owner of this café was a graduate of a university in Shenzhen, and after graduating this year, he and his classmates partnered to open this café in Hubei Village.
The owner of the café was a girl with glasses, and she told me that her name was Chen Yazhi, and that the person she partnered with was originally her boyfriend, but now he has left Shencheng and gone to Shanghai.
I was curious about why Chen Yazhi stayed alone, so I always hoped to have a time to have a good chat with her.
Finally one day I had a chance.
That night, it was raining heavily outside, and the café was the owner and a waiter except for one of my guests.
Chen Yazhi came out to look at the weather outside, and said, "I didn't expect it to rain so heavily." ”
I smiled and said, "I guess no one will come today." ”
Chen Yazhi saw that I was still sitting there, so she walked up to my seat and said, "Recently, you have been coming here a lot, and I have the impression that only you order coffee every time, tell Fang Yuan the truth, how does the coffee taste here?" ”
I pointed to the seat across from me and said, "There are no guests anyway, so why don't you sit down and talk to me?" ”
Chen Yazhi gladly accepted my proposal and sat down across from me.
"How did you come up with the idea of opening a café here?"
"I like it, when I graduated, I wanted to have my own shop, and I chose to make desserts or a café, and my boyfriend and I struggled for a long time, and finally I chose to run a café."
"But now that your boyfriend has given up, why are you still holding on?"
"I paid the rent for a year, and the decoration was messy, and it cost a lot of money, so it's a pity to give up like this, and I don't feel comfortable in my heart."
"Business seems to be so-so, boss, may I ask you a question?"
"Tell me, what do you want to know?"
"Why did your boyfriend leave halfway through?"
"Business is not good, he feels that there is no hope, he can't make money, and the two of them can't stick to one place, so he discussed with me, stay one person, and then the other person goes out to find a job."
"It seems that your boyfriend went out to look for a job, but ran far away, are you relieved?"
"I don't know, I don't know if this kind of thing is good or not, anyway, my boyfriend said that the job in Shanghai pays well and has some prospects, so I went to Shanghai."
"Still in touch?"
"Of course we are connected, we are only temporarily separated, not broken up."
"Thank you, boss, what I've always been curious about, I finally know the answer."
"Haha, you like gossip a lot, you can't see it."
"yes, I'm a gossip person, otherwise I wouldn't like coffee."
"By the way, I grind all these coffees, how does it taste?"
"It's okay, in fact, I don't know much about coffee, but I feel that the coffee you make is still very careful."
"Yes, my ingredients are all imported, all good things from South America, and every cup of coffee is made by myself, but no one seems to appreciate this. People who come here prefer to order drinks and desserts, and few people order coffee. ”
"Then don't you think you've made a mistake in choosing your location?"
"There is a lot of traffic here, and there are so many people, I don't think it should be a problem with the location."
"It's true that there is a lot of traffic, but if you have more than 20 yuan for a cup of coffee, think about it, how many people among the part-time workers are willing to spend more than 20 yuan to drink a cup of coffee?"
"I thought couples would like the environment here, and we have a good environment here, which is very suitable for filming."
"It seems that I don't know how to do business, but I only found out today that Boss Chen, you don't know how to do business. Don't be angry when I say that, I'm just telling the truth. ”
"Actually, I also found out that I don't know how to do business, for almost five months, I have been losing money every month, although the rent is paid for a year, but the labor and material costs, and some other miscellaneous expenses, are almost more than 10,000 yuan a month, but now I have to pay thousands of dollars every month. I don't know how much longer I'll last. ”
"Maybe this is the first step in your life after graduating from college. Many people have the experience of failure like this, which is not necessarily a bad thing. ”
"Don't comfort Fang Yuan, in fact, I feel sorry for my parents' trust, the money I lost was all saved by their hard work, and now I don't know what to do."
"Have you considered a transfer?"
"I posted about the transfer in the same city, but most of the people offered too low to talk about it."
"People probably just want you as a façade, and I don't think anyone will take over and continue to open a café."
"Yes, it's because they're just looking at the façade of this place, so they bid very low, and they say they don't need anything here. I wondered, the café is so well decorated, the air conditioning and audio equipment are all famous brands, how can they not be used? ”