Y City, Time Allure.

Time Allure is a restaurant that combines Chinese and Western, and the proprietress is a young girl named Su Qian.

The downstairs hall is a Western-style buffet, and the upstairs has a total of 10 private rooms but Chinese food. Originally, this abrupt and contradictory combination should be an outlier in the catering industry and not easy to survive, but it is this "different" word that attracts an endless stream of guests.

I'm not an employee of this hotel, but I come here a lot. Because the proprietress often asks me to "change" the environment of her restaurant, this "change" is naturally not for me to do the decoration work, but for me to paint.

Every decorative painting on the wall in the city is my own hand, and it is often replaced. Sometimes Su Qian is willful, and will ask me to paint directly on the white wall, and the random creation of the whole wall satisfies her. She said that this is a way to attract customers, and if they come to the same environment every time, it will not be long before they get bored, but if every once in a while there is a new change, even the same dish will taste different in their mouths.

This kind of psychological capture ability for business and financial management is not as good as her, and I don't have the talent for this, painting is my only survival skill, so I can only do my own job and meet all the needs of customers.

Basically, Su Qian would come to me every other month, so on this day I came to Time Allure again. The easel is located in a secluded corner of the hall, and I usually only sketch the prototype during the day, leaving the coloring work until the evening after the customers have left. So during this period, I usually stay in the restaurant, and Su Qian equipped me with a lounge in the back, which can be regarded as a painting studio.

There was a knock on the door, and I didn't look up from my easel and answered, "Come in." ”

You don't have to look to know that it is Su Qian who came in, because the other employees are not familiar with me and will not come to disturb my work. Su Qian walked behind me and looked at it for a while, she had some alcohol on her, she should have drunk a lot just now.

"Hopefully, do you think my Chinese style idea can come true?" Su Qian asked me on the side.

I didn't stop, and said, "Your land is so big, there are so many tables whether you succeed or not, and you have to queue up for many customers." "It's true, in my opinion, her "excellence" is not so necessary, and although I will be given a friendship price for painting, it is also a big expense. And her idea this time is to go back to Chinese style, but it is limited to Western food downstairs, and she said that she wants to combine Chinese and Western styles to the end.

Su Qian sat down, took a cigarette and took a puff on his lips before saying, "There are too many customers, and it is better to let them wait than not to have anyone come to the door." Great artist, you don't understand these mundane things. ”

I glanced at her and shrugged and said, "So you're the boss and I'm a painter." ”

Su Qian snorted lightly: "Your painting is not simple, which of the previous replaced paintings was not bought?" It can be seen that our customers appreciate your works very much, and if a great artist opens an exhibition one day, don't forget to give me publicity money. ”

I smiled, I was ashamed of the title of great painter, just to survive and eat. When it comes to this, I have to admire Su Qian's business acumen, another selling point of this "Time Allure" is that there will be a literary party at the end of every month, and the venue is in the western restaurant on the first floor. On this day, the hotel will close at eight o'clock in the evening, and the literary party will start on time at half past eight, Su Qian does not know where to collect the documents, collections and music discs of various countries, and those who have a hobby for this will be drinking coffee at the table while leisurely listening to music and reading books, and the finale of this party is a small auction, the original hardcover foreign books, out-of-print discs, and my paintings are also in the auction ranks.

At first, my painting basically didn't sell, but gradually after the first person offered to buy one, it was gradually appreciated by other people. Later, the monthly gathering became a gathering place for customers, who had already taken a fancy to one of the paintings and were just waiting for it to be bought on that day. This is also the reason why Su Qian gave me a painting in a corner of the restaurant, in her words, this is a means to turn the reality effect into an economic effect.

After I finished applying the last swatch, Su Qian leaned his head on my shoulder and whispered, "Wish, I'm actually so tired." ”

As I gathered up the paint, I said, "If you're tired, you can rest." ”

"Where can I be? Being involuntary is the deepest experience I have experienced in this while. ”

I turned my head to look at her, "Gain and loss, go and stay, there will be another side." You told me this, why can't you put it down? ”

Su Qian chuckled lightly and did not speak again, with a faint trace of sadness in his eyes.

That's right, Su Qian is the girl who sat next to me on the bus a few years ago, and she wrote this sentence to me at that time. Sometimes fate is so hard to say, I passed by Time Allure after coming to Y City, and was led into it by the word "time".

The atmosphere was a little suffocating, and I changed the subject: "There are still guests so late?" Let's drink. ”

She immediately sat up straight and exclaimed, "Ah! I forgot to talk to you, it's not the Lord who is here to serve, I have to go up and have a look. With that, she hurried out.

Seeing this, I laughed, it was rare to see Su Qian so recklessly.

After collecting the tools, his eyes fell back on the easel's drawing paper, the freshly colored paint had not yet dried, and he needed to be framed overnight and tomorrow. Suddenly, I heard a commotion outside, and there seemed to be Su Qian's voice faintly, and I couldn't help but hear it.

But when I walked into the hall, I only saw a group of people walking out of the door, and Su Qian's body was stiff and standing there with his back. There were no more customers on the first floor, and there were only a few staff members left, and their expressions were a little uneasy. I walked over and wanted to ask what had happened, but when I saw Su Qian's appearance clearly, I couldn't help but be surprised, and the bright red palm print on the left side of her face was telling everything just now.

Su Qian turned his eyes to look at me, smiled bitterly and said, "I hope to make you smile." ”

I don't know how to comfort the hotel itself, the hotel itself is a mixed place, and the customers who walk in the door can't be offended unless they have a harder background. So I have always wondered how a weak girl like Su Qian could think of opening a restaurant, and later learned from her that the store was handed down from her father, which was a Chinese restaurant that was about to close down.

Su Qian didn't say what the specific friction was, but only let everyone close the door and disperse. But the turmoil did not stop, and the next day at noon, I was still painting in the corner of the restaurant, when I suddenly heard a bang on the glass door and kicked open, and several tall men walked in.

Almost at first glance, I recognized the people who had left the last table last night, and I couldn't help but put down my paintbrush. Su Qian walked out from behind, and her face immediately elongated when she saw the person coming, and the palm prints on her face could still be seen faintly after a night.

One of the men walked out with a smile and said, "Boss Su, is there a private room?" ”

Su Qian replied: "It's full." The other party sneered and then asked, "What do you say that the brothers are going to take care of your business?" ”

"Line up."

As if he had heard something strange, the man turned back to the person behind him and said, "What did she say?" Let's line up? The rest of the people burst out laughing, and Su Qian's face became heavier and heavier.

I had slowly come closer, and these people were clearly looking for trouble.

Sure enough, I saw that the man pulled a chair nearby and sat down, and then said arrogantly: "Boss Su, you'd better arrange a box for me immediately and don't let my brothers laugh, otherwise we will sit downstairs at noon today and taste your Western food." In the end, he picked up the western knife on the table and tried to thrust it into the table. But he didn't know that the table legs were made of wood, but the table top under the tablecloth was marble, and his insert not only did not fit into the table, but also slipped, which looked a little embarrassed. No one laughed, but he was annoyed, got up and kicked the chair out, and it was towards Su Qian.

I didn't hesitate to dodge in, and stepped on the chair for a moment when I was in front of Su Qian.

As soon as my arm tightened, Su Qian subconsciously grabbed me. I didn't have to look back to know that there was surprise in her eyes when she looked at me, and the man stared at me darkly: "Who are you?" ”

I ignored him, tilted my face slightly and said in a low voice: "Call the police, dismiss the guests." ”

Su Qian reacted and immediately walked to the banquet to say sorry to the customers who had already sat down, and soon the originally overcrowded hall was immediately empty. During this period, the crowd looked at each other with a ruffian face, and only turned around after the people were gone: "Very good, there is no need to queue up now." Several people sat down.

Su Qian shouted angrily: "Luo Shaoyang, don't go too far!" ”

I couldn't help but speak: "Sir, even if the peer competition is best to use bright means." ”

I didn't know that the person named Luo Shaoyang seemed to have heard a very ridiculous thing, and the deep laughter kept causing others to laugh there, and only when the laughter finally stopped laughing did he hear him say: "This girl still thinks that we are here to smash the field, come, serve the dishes in your restaurant to every table, and the master will charter the venue today." ”

frowned and hesitated to look at Su Qian, she had been glaring at the other party angrily and did not receive my gaze.

I didn't speak, I thought it was a peer jealousy when I saw the other party making a scene and letting Su Qian send the customer away, but at this time, it was obviously not. These men are not very old, and they are not dressed like ruffians and hooligans, especially this Luo Shaoyang is wearing dark casual clothes, if it weren't for the anger just now, he can be regarded as suave.

The fastest update is error-free reading, please visit Please bookmark this site to read the latest!