Chapter 32 Coffee Shop Trial Opening 1
The comic café began to open for a soft opening, and early in the morning, Luo Yang hung up the signs and notices that he had written in chalk yesterday, and he didn't expect such shabby publicity to have many customers, but the preparations were still the same.
For example, ask a ghost to take a comic book of his choice to hide in the attic.
For example, to give a nice name to the coffee shop - let's call it Alibaba Hungry Comic Coffee Shop, which is a strange name that Mr. Shang specially called to tell him.
Luo Yang put all the snacks in the display case, put the bag of coffee beans in the box at hand, and then sat on the chair seat and waited for the guests to come to the door. He suddenly felt like the noodle shop owner with a bad attitude but quite good craftsmanship.
"I relied on this temporary job to pay the rent, that person doesn't know if he has a regular income, look at the little girl who won't give him a salary......" Thinking about inconsequential things in his head, Luo Yang looked at the door, today is a sunny working day, of course there are not many pedestrians on the street, and the scattered pedestrians glanced in a few times when passing by the coffee shop, and found that there was only one store manager, and they were not too embarrassed to come in to accept Luo Yang's embarrassed gaze.
"Do I think I need to ask for a few ......?"
In fact, most people do feel a little uncomfortable entering a coffee shop with no customers.
"Forget it, it's just a trial operation."
Happy to be idle, Luo Yang took a beam of sunlight on the table, made himself a cup of coffee that he thought was a good level, and began to draw a new comic draft, which looked at it together with the rows of comic books on the bookcase next to him, but it was a very harmonious picture.
"Luo Yang, it's so boring, don't you have any guests?"
"I guess some students will come over after class." Luo Yang glanced out the window, it was still noon, and ordinary people would not choose to settle lunch in a coffee shop. "Fan Linyue? How did you get out of the attic? ”
"I don't see there's any movement downstairs." Fan Lin sat down opposite Luo Yang with a big smile, and spread the half-read comic book in his hand on the table. "Aren't there no guests yet, let me stay here, it's so cramped up there."
"Then you move quietly."
"Uh-huh, I see!"
Luo Yang sighed, but still didn't make the effort to drive Fan Linyue to the attic. Fan Linyue sat on the chair, his eyes staring straight at the comics on the table, his slender fingers twisting the pages, turning them slowly and cautiously, the sunlight outside the window shining through him, making his figure glow with a halo, looking a little hazy.
However, the silence of this moment was finally broken by the small sound outside the door.
"A new coffee shop here? Would you like to go in and have a look? ”
"I want to go home and review my homework......
"Don't be so one-sided〜Why don't you review in a coffee shop, it doesn't look like there's anyone in there, so you won't be noisy to review〜 Okay?"
"Alright, alright, let's go in together." After a period of soft grinding, the girl seemed to be unable to resist and agreed.
The two girls pushed open the glass and wooden door of the coffee shop, and the wooden door pushed the bell on it, and a series of crisp and beautiful sounds naturally came out under the push, reminding Luo Yang's guests of the arrival. The two entered the coffee shop one after the other, and at the same time, Luo Yang raised his head and saw the person coming, and then both sides couldn't help but be stunned.
"Luo Yang? Is that you? Did you own this coffee shop? ”
"Just help, you're out of school?" Luo Yang nodded, then got up and walked behind the counter. "I'm still in the soft opening stage here, just say what you want, I'll invite you."
Naturally, the people who came were Jinghuai and Kitamaqin, who had just come home from school, and the latter was holding the hand of the girl in uniform, walking to the counter with a cheerful smile on her face, and began to point at the snacks on the counter.
"These snacks look similar to the coffee shops in the city, I want a latte and tree ring cake〜What about you? If you don't order it, I'll order something else I want to eat, and of course you can eat it together."
"Hmm." Jing Huai's attention seemed to be attracted by the other side of the coffee shop, and his face seemed to be gloomy, Luo Yang wrote down what Bei Youqin wanted to eat, and looked at the uniformed girl suspiciously, where was Fan Linyue, who was looking intently at the comic book, and he thought of what the two of them had been in school before...... Now I'm afraid it's not a situation where enemies see each other and are very red-eyed.
"Ah...... That's not ......"
Jing Huai had already quietly pulled out his hand and put it on the scabbard of the Tang knife he was carrying.
"Jinghuai, she can't take it, you can help her hold these two plates."
"Huh?"
Luo Yang took the cake out of the counter and put it on the plate, and shook it in front of Jing Huai, Jing Huai blinked his eyes, and only then did he ease his nervous mood a little, at this time, Fan Linyue also noticed the murderous aura behind him, turned his head suspiciously, and saw the familiar girl in uniform.
"Huh? I seem to have seen you, you are...... Who are you? "After all, after a few months, this forgetful Mr. Ghost has lost some memory.
"You-"
It wasn't until he saw the Tang knife that Fan Linyue remembered: "Oh, you're that little girl who is an exorcist." Why are you staring at me, you have to admit that your skills are not as good as others, you are my subordinate. ”
"Jinghuai, he's not an evil spirit, and he's not a dangerous guy, let him play by himself, leave him alone."
Luo Yang patted Jinghuai on the shoulder, telling her to relax a little, and then took the two girls to sit down in the window seats, and the two of them, plus the plates that Luo Yang helped hold, covered the entire table.
"Xiaobei, you took so many cakes...... That's rude, isn't it? ”
"Is there one? I'll eat it all, and I won't waste anything."
"Hey......" Jing Huai sighed, glanced at Fan Linyue in the distance a few more times, took out the homework, and reluctantly returned his attention to the homework. Regardless of the ...... So I'll finish my homework first. ”
As the two girls entered the coffee shop and sat down, a few guests came in one after another, which is also the reason why Luo Yang arranged the two of them in the window position, after all, it is easy to attract more guests if there are people inside, Luo Yang began to get busy, and soon, the place was full, and Fan Linyue, who didn't want to scare ordinary people or return to the narrow attic, had to quietly come to Bei Youqin's side, and then squatted on the sofa and asked her to help her continue to turn the pages of the comics.
"That's a good one...... Don't flip it, let me read it again. ”
"Okay, that's pretty? Then I'd like to see it too, hehe......"
The demon fox and the ghost began to whisper, and the two of them were eating dim sum cakes while looking at the comics on the table—of course, only Beiyouqin was eating, and Fan Linyue could only watch with an envious expression.
Jing Huai on the opposite side still lowered his head, and the tip of the pen rubbed quickly on the paper, and he had already entered a state of learning. Occasionally, Fan Linyue would sneak behind Jinghuai from under the table, just watching her write the mathematical formulas in the homework book, and he quickly lost interest.
A few days later, in the evening, Luo Yang put away the plates and cups on the table and put them in the dishwasher, then settled the day's turnover, and then sorted out the cash and locked it in the cabinet, looking like a decent acting coffee shop manager.
At this moment a pigeon slowly fell from the open window and stopped on the counter.
"Goo."
"I'm sorry, but we're closed...... Is it an ordinary pigeon? Luo Yang looked at the pigeon, which twisted its head, and as a perfect bird, of course, could not understand him. Immediately Luo Yang saw the roll of paper tied with red rope on the pigeon's feet. "In what age, still use flying pigeons to send messages."
The handwriting on the letter paper is quite neat, as if printing fonts, but Luo Yang can still feel the undulating pen marks on the paper when he touches the letter paper a little.
"This is a challenge letter from the Ghost King, I'm just ghostwriting, the following is the text: I'm Wu Gege, I thought about how to decide the winner! Three days later, on Saturday, let your coffee shop compete with my noodle shop and win the day's business rate! If I win, Fan Linyue will return my ghost energy to me, and if you win, I will tell him how to transform from a ghost into an entity. No need to reply, I'll assume you agree! ”
After Luo Yang finished reading, he looked at Fan Linyue, who had already come to him.
"Fan Linyue, what do you see?"
"Why not?" The boy's expression was a little strange.
"Uh...... The main reason is that their noodle restaurant now has a lot of regular customers who are not afraid of being scolded, and our customer flow here is not stable enough, although the unit price of coffee and cake is more than that of noodles...... But our turnover rate ......"
Fan Linyue didn't understand those professional terms very well, but looking at Luo Yang's unconfident expression, he also knew that it was not easy to win this time.
"Let's get foreign help! And then change your operational strategy that day? ”
"For example?"
Fan Linyue scratched his hair: "I don't know, I'm just putting forward an idea, of course it's up to you to think about it." Then he lay down on the couch as he did in his own house, and in fact he slept like this for the past few days, but the absence of TV made him feel a little uncomfortable.
"I don't know what happened to my orange, who is it now......"
"My landlord."
"That's my house! Hey, I don't know if the orange misses me......" Seeing that Luo Yang ignored his announcement of occupying the house, Fan Lin began to miss his cat, and after a while he rolled on the sofa, Luo Yang disapprovingly put away the manuscript he had finished drawing in his free time and went up to the attic, while thinking about how he should win in three days.