I poured Wang Yan a cup of hot tea, while Luo Ying, who rarely had any free time, was huddled in front of the computer in the corner of the office, playing a web game.
I sat across from Sister Wang and got to the point: "Sister Wang, I have something to discuss with you. The current food delivery platform is not as chaotic as it was a few months ago, and the rules are much more standardized. I'm wondering, can we also connect noodle shops to the platform?"
Sister Wang also has concerns about being scared off by the chaos in the early days. She didn't answer immediately and waited for me to continue.
"I know what you are worried about. There were crazy subsidies at the beginning of the food delivery war, and in the end it was the merchants who suffered. But it is different now. The platform has also been interviewed and its operations have been standardized a lot."
I briefly introduced it to her: "Let's talk about the disadvantages first. The most direct one is that the platform charges a commission, and the profit of each order is definitely not as high as if you sell it as you go in the store."
h "But the advantage is that you can reach customers who would never have been able to walk to the door of the store."
Wang Yan took a sip of tea: "Then do as you say. It's better to get busy than to sit and swat flies."
"Okay, I'll go over and help you reopen the takeout platform tomorrow!" That's how she and I finalized it.
Send Wang Yan and Luo Ying away, and I turn around to push He Shiyu’s wheelchair.
"Tonight's party, the surveillance at the site entrance should have taken pictures, right? I want to make a copy." He Shiyu suddenly said.
Several cameras installed around the site to prevent battery theft were indeed within the shooting range of tonight's lively dinner.
"It's too late today," I pushed her towards the roadside.
"Tomorrow I will sort out the videos from several angles and send you the clear ones."
Send everyone off, I am in no hurry to return to the rental house.
There is still something hanging in my mind, I have to go to the half-awake bar to check it out.
Since Wang Qiuya plans to hand over the bar to me, she can't really be a hands-off shopkeeper.
I started the car and was about to leave when a figure suddenly came out of the shadow of the street light and stopped in front of the car. It's Zhang Wei.
I lowered the window: "What do you want to do if you don't sleep so late?"
She opened the passenger door and got in: "I can't sleep. Wherever you go, I will go, and I will follow you tonight."
I knew that Zhang Wei was a little jealous at night, so I hesitated and drove to the half-awakened bar.
"Are you going to a bar?" Zhang Wei suddenly said.
"You should know that this bar is also Mr. Wang's property, right?"
Zhang Wei was brought out by Wang Qiuya, I guess she knows something about it.
"I know a little bit." Zhang Wei didn't say much.
“Let’s just treat it as consumption at night!” I reminded her.
This was the busiest time in the bar. When the greeter at the door saw me getting out of the driver's seat of Wang Qiuya's Mercedes-Benz, he used the intercom and said something.
After walking into the bar, I found a booth slightly off the road and sat down like an ordinary guest, while Zhang Wei went to the bar and ordered two soft drinks in a tacit understanding.
I glanced around the field and quickly locked onto Li Zaixun.
He was sitting in the best main card with a few boss-like people, raising his glass with high spirits, surrounded by several girls who were obviously brought in by the bar's marketing.
Li Zaixun also saw me. He was stunned for a moment, then whispered a few words to the people at the same table, and walked over with a wine glass in his hand.
"Why, Mr. Wang asked you to come and inspect the post?" He deliberately shook the wine glass in his hand.
“You don’t know that Mr. Wang has banned bartender services in bars?” I looked him straight in the eyes.
The smile on Li Zaixun's face froze for a moment: "Chen Hao, you are a driver, just do your job."
"I know better than you about the operation of the bar and human relations! Since Mr. Wang has left the store to me, how to entertain the guests is my business. Stop meddling in your own business here!"
Zhang Wei returned to the booth at some point and sat quietly next to me.
"You're right." I put on a calm expression.
Write down this account first, and when I get the real rights of the bar, I will be the first to throw this stick away.
Li Zaixun swung his wine glass proudly, turned around and walked back to the main booth.
Zhang Weixian's atmosphere was a bit off: "Do you want to go back first?"
"Sit down for a while." I wanted to see if there was anything illegal in the bar.
I walked to the bar and tapped lightly on the countertop. The bartender immediately approached me knowingly.
"You haven't sold any wine to young people recently, have you?"
The bartender responded: "We all remember the rules set by Mr. Wang. Identity cards are strictly checked and we don't dare to mess around."
"It's okay if you don't." I nodded and didn't delve into it further.
Back at the booth, Zhang Wei was already restless: "This place is so smoky, shall we go back?"
“Let’s go.” As soon as I stood up, I saw something was wrong with the booth in the corner.
There was a girl slumped on the sofa motionless, her skirt lifted up to her thighs without even noticing.
A man wearing a floral shirt was sitting next to her, and his hand had already been put on her shoulder.
I quickly stepped forward and held down the restless hand, "I'm warning you, don't mess around."
The man in the floral shirt raised his head: "Who are you? This is my girlfriend!"
"Really?" I winked at Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei immediately stepped forward and patted the girl's cheek: "Wake up, do you know this person?"
The girl drowsily opened her eyes, visibly flinched when she saw the floral shirt, and shook her head weakly.
I tightened my fingers, and the man in the flowered shirt grinned in pain, "Should you get out, or should I ask you to get out?"
He broke away with a curse, and gave me a hard look before leaving.
Zhang Wei had already helped the girl up and carefully smoothed her wrinkled skirt: "What should we do now?"
"Call a car for her and take her back." I took out my mobile phone and opened the car-hailing app.
After a while, at the door of the bar, the girl woke up a little.
When the car came, Zhang Wei and I helped her sit in the back seat. She told the driver the name of the community and left.
I also returned to the car and took Zhang Wei back. On the way back, Zhang Wei was a little aggrieved: "Girls nowadays don't love themselves too much. They drink like this alone outside."
“There are too many such things.” When I used to deliver food, I would often encounter them when I passed by the door of the bar every night.
"It happens every day in various places. If I hadn't happened to meet him tonight, the girl would have been taken away by a strange man."
What will happen to an unconscious single girl is nothing new in the corners of this city.
The car stopped downstairs in the community where Zhang Wei lived. She unbuckled her seat belt but did not get out of the car immediately.
cedous I turned off the engine and followed her into the elevator. She had already given me hints from the beginning of the party tonight.
Time passed quickly in her warmly decorated room.
Until early in the morning, I got up from Zhang Wei’s bed and prepared to get dressed and leave.
“You really can’t stay?” Zhang Wei, wrapped in a thin blanket, sounded a little dissatisfied.
"You come and go in such a hurry every time, you don't really have a wife at home, do you?"