After processing the pile of orders in the store, I turned off the computer and said to Qin Xue, who was counting the shelves, "Let's go, I'll take you for a midnight snack."
It was already eleven o'clock in the night, and most of the shops on the street were closed.
I pushed past the Chaoshan porridge shop with red lanterns on, and took her to find an empty seat to sit down.
"Two bowls of lean meat porridge, plus a portion of braised dried beans and green vegetables." After I said this to the landlady, I turned around and saw Qin Xue rubbing her red wrists. She had packed hundreds of parcels today.
After a while, I scooped up the porridge and said to her: "Tomorrow I will hire two more temporary workers to help pack. You can just check the orders. You don't have to work so hard."
Qin Xue blew on the hot air on the porridge: "It doesn't matter if I work harder, the main thing is that the store has been losing money!"
“When fishing, you always have to put out the bait first. The money you lose this week can be earned from repeat customers next week. Didn’t some people start buying aphrodisiacs today?”
I was drinking porridge when the curtain of the porridge shop was opened again.
Landlord Zhao Jing walked in, obviously also here for a late night snack.
She saw us and came over.
"It's so late, you two... are you having midnight snack?" Her eyes glanced back and forth between Qin Xue and me, and finally landed on Qin Xue's slightly red face.
Qin Xue choked on her porridge and coughed twice. I took out a tissue and handed it to her.
"Sister Zhao is also so late." This sentence is also my response.
"Xiao Qin is still working so late? It's really hard!" Zhao Jing kept her eyes on Qin Xue's face.
Qin Xue lowered her head and stirred the porridge: "There are a lot of orders in the store today, we just finished."
The smile in Zhao Jing's eyes became thicker: "Really~? Our boss Chen is really considerate of his employees."
I was about to explain that Zhao Jing had already turned around and walked to the counter, leaving a message: "Young people, please pay attention to your health and don't stay up too late."
It seems that this misunderstanding is big.
After dinner, I sent Qin Xue downstairs to her rented apartment.
"See you tomorrow." After saying that, she turned around and walked into the unit door.
Early the next morning, I brought two temporary workers to the store.
They are all college students from nearby, a girl with a ponytail named Xiao Lin, and a boy with black-rimmed glasses named Xiao Zhang.
“If you don’t understand the packing process and precautions, just ask Qin Xue.” I pointed to Qin Xue who was sorting the shelves.
Just after I arranged my work at home, Manager Huang drove a van and delivered goods to me.
Manager Huang's silver van parked in front of the store, and he walked in with a delivery order.
As soon as he saw the three busy figures in the store, his eyes immediately narrowed into two slits.
"Brother Chen, it's okay! It's only been a few days, and you've formed an army of beauties?"
I took the delivery order from his hand, "Don't talk nonsense, they are all serious employees."
"I understand~I understand~" His eyes were still fixed on Xiao Lin who was sorting the shelves.
"At work, I am a colleague, and after get off work, I am...hey, is that girl smiling at me?"
Qin Xue passed us with the carton in her arms and glanced at Manager Huang lightly: "Boss, there are still more than a dozen promotional boxes left to pack."
Manager Huang looked at their assembly line-like operations and finally became serious:
"It seems that your business is really on track."
After Manager Huang left, I stared at the order data that was constantly beating in the background.
· Promotion investment is like opening up the floodgates. Thousands of dollars have been invested, but the growth rate of repeat customers is still slower than expected.
At the current conversion rate, it will be difficult to recover the cost before the end of the month.
The store was very busy, and my cell phone suddenly rang. It was Sister Wang.
"Xiao Chen, can you come over and have a look? I don't know what happened today, but suddenly a lot of strangers came here, and Luo Ying and I couldn't handle it..."
"Don't worry, I'll be there right away." After hanging up the phone, I exchanged a few words with Qin Xue, grabbed the car keys and walked out.
While driving to the noodle shop, I kept thinking: Sister Wang clearly didn’t vote for GG on the takeout platform, so how could it suddenly become popular?
Could it be that like last time, I accidentally set the fat intestine noodles to "1 yuan for early adopters"?
As I was approaching the noodle shop, I saw a long queue at the door from a distance.
Several young people were holding up their mobile phones to take pictures of the storefront, and there was a girl standing in front of the sign and taking a selfie with scissor hands.
I was about to squeeze into the noodle shop, and someone in the queue immediately yelled: "Wait in line! Don't jump in line!"
I just wanted to see if I wanted to eat noodles. I explained.
Hand asked the person in front of him, "Why are there so many people today?"
"I found it after watching a video." He took out his mobile phone excitedly.
"This is a video of a late-night dinner party by a delivery boy. The fat intestine noodles eaten in it are so mouth-watering!"
On the screen was the surveillance footage of the site that night. He Shiyu was holding a noodle bowl with red eyes, and Sister Wang was wearing an apron and busy in front of the stove.
This video has exceeded 100,000 likes.
I came to the kitchen and said to Wang Yan: "It was Shiyu's video that went viral!"
Sister Wang stared at her figure in an apron on the screen: "This...isn't this just an ordinary noodle cooking?"
Luo Ying came back from the front with a high pile of empty bowls. When she saw me, she said urgently: "The takeout printer is still ringing!"
"Turn off the platform for ordering first." When I logged into the backend of the takeaway merchant, the system showed that there were 47 orders to be processed.
"Would it be bad to turn it off?" Wang Yan asked.
"I can't cope with the situation now. If I continue to take out takeaways, there will be trouble." But I know that Wang Yan and Luo Ying cannot cope with it.
At this juncture, He Shiyu appeared at the door pushing a wheelchair.
She held up the selfie stick and waved at me: "Brother Hao! I'm here to live broadcast!"
The crowd in the queue suddenly became commotion.
I was about to persuade her to leave, but I saw her introducing into the mobile phone camera: "Have you seen it, family members? This is Sister Wang's Noodle Shop in the video! It is recommended to check in at the wrong time."
I glanced at He Shiyu's mobile phone screen, and the number of people online in the upper right corner of the live broadcast room indeed showed 10,000+.
The barrage scrolls very fast, and gifts are constantly exploding with special effects.
"Look, family members, this is Sister Wang herself!" He Shiyu pointed the camera at Sister Wang who was shaking the spoon.
"Her sausages are freshly braised every day."
"You became an Internet celebrity so quickly?" I asked quietly
"Start from the series of "The Takeaway Girl Visits the Shop with Injury"."
“I am updating my recovery diary every day, and I recommend some really delicious old restaurants.”
At this time, someone suddenly fired three rockets in the live broadcast room, and the barrage was asking the anchor to try it.
He Shiyu interacted skillfully: "Thank you, boss! But I can't squeeze into the queue now~"
Wang Yan, who was fishing for noodles, motioned to Luo Ying to send it over.
This small and inadvertent move made the barrage boil instantly and attracted a wave of rewards.
I looked at He Shiyu who was able to move easily in the wheelchair, and I was very pleased.
This girl has indeed found the track that suits her best, telling stories with real experiences and touching people's hearts with sincerity.