Start with the script killing shop

What is the hottest thing in Xuncheng in the new year?

It’s not the script blind box event that’s about to end, it’s not the hot milk tea shop that’s newly opened on the pedestrian street, it’s not the chain of Internet cafes that offer 150 for free with a $100 deposit during the New Year’s Day event, it’s not C.C’s latest limited-time 30% off cream cheese soup, it’s not every day. Queue at Xinghe braised food restaurant.

It is a birthday customized activity of Galaxy Script Club.

From someone who just knows how to walk to someone who is 99, there is no one who can say NO to this customization activity.

As the final exam approaches, parents of children whose birthdays fall in January, February, March, April, and May will even try to persuade them by saying, "If you do well in the final exam, your mother will take you to the Galaxy Script Club to celebrate your birthday."

It is said that the effect of encouraging students to learn is particularly good.

Although the price of this customized birthday service is high, much more expensive than a normal birthday celebration for children, and the consumption is far higher than the average level in Xuncheng, it is not popular among parents.

If a child likes something, she may not be able to get it by crying and fussing, but if a parent likes something, the parent will usually get it on the pretext that the child likes it.

Proposal is a rare thing, after all, most people can only propose once in their lifetime. But birthdays are different. You can celebrate them once a year. If you want to celebrate them twice (lunar and solar calendars), you don’t even have to be too stuck on time. You can push it forward or postpone it.

There was a situation where Jiang Qi's birthday orders were full on Saturday, but the parents said that it would be okay to postpone it to Sunday.

In order to make it easier for parents and adults celebrating their birthdays to understand the birthday customization business, Jiang Qi specially marked the price clearly, so that no one can be deceived.

The basic package is a cake from the secret passage, Wang Xinghua dots, candles with the words "Happy Birthday" and Lili star lanterns. The cost is only 388 yuan, and the customer brings his own cake.

Cake provided by Jiang Qi +188.

The cavalry cuts the cake +120.

Elk pulls gifts +99.

The flower fairy flies in the sky singing children's songs while sprinkling glitter and petals +150.

Lili dances +260.

Flower Fairy leads the dance +80.

Wang Xinghua wears a crown +50.

Additional candle characters add money according to the amount.

If other customized services are required, the price will be discussed separately.

At this point, someone may want to ask, where did the flower fairy come from?

Flower Fairy is the toy spirit that Jiang Qi drew out on January 11th. It is a beautiful toy that looks like an elf and has a pair of colorful wings. I can sing children's songs, all kinds of children's songs, I can fly and dance. I want a 6-year-old female owner with a big garden at home.

As for why the Flower Fairy wants a little master with a big garden at home...

Because she can grow flowers and make honey.

Yes, like bees, she makes honey.

It takes bees 6 to 10 days to turn nectar into honey, but the flower fairy only needs one day, and she can collect nectar from any flower, as long as the amount is large enough.

Since a flower fairy toy fluttering its wings to collect nectar among the flowers is not in line with materialism, Jiang Qi can only take the flower fairy to the community to collect honey that has been harvested in the middle of the night like a thief. The nectar of the blooming plum blossoms was collected, but the few plum blossoms in the entire community were all picked in just three days.

Then Jiang Qi hired Wang Xinghua to take Hua Xianzi to other communities to be a thief for 20 yuan a night.

In order to help Hua Xianzi collect nectar better, Wang Xinghua waited for Wang Erya to go to bed every day, then took her textbook and prepared lessons while going out to visit the spots. She visited all the spots within 10 kilometers of Jiang Qi's home.

Oh, by the way, Hua Xianzi also needs batteries for her electric toys, and since she likes to fly very much, the batteries wear out quickly. Now Jiang Qi and the others carry button batteries with them so that they can replace Hua Xianzi’s batteries at any time.

Now, Jiang Qi is having a meeting with Huang Fugui and others upstairs.

There was a power outage in the alley from 7:00 to 10:00 tonight, and the business was closed. The notice was issued 5 days ago, so it is not considered a sudden power outage and does not affect normal operations. At most, the shop will be closed for one night.

It just so happened that Jiang Qi also took this opportunity to have a meeting with everyone.

The New Year is celebrated early this year, on January 27th, and now it is January 17th. According to Jiang Qi’s original plan, all employees will have a holiday on January 24th, and it will not be until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, which is January 31st. go to work regularly.

Of course, if employees have various reasons, such as going to the countryside, paying New Year greetings, etc., they can delay coming back to work for a few days. After all, the store now has enough staff.

Because the Chinese New Year is early, all major colleges and universities, high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools and kindergartens are already on holiday. Qin Can also came back to work part-time from winter vacation on January 16. Seeing the current size of the store and the decoration of the new store, I called the boss several times and started reading the book intensively.

The kids are on vacation, which means they have plenty of time to come to the store to celebrate their birthdays.

When there were no holidays before, birthday orders were concentrated on weekends. Working days were usually in the evenings, and orders were rarely sold.

Now that we have a holiday, parents are more enthusiastic about celebrating birthdays for themselves/elders/sisters/children, and script stores are full of birthday orders every day.

However, Galaxy Script Club is also a script-killing shop. Jiang Qi's final bottom line is to only accept birthday orders from the customers in the shop. In other words, you must play in the store before you can celebrate your birthday in the store.

Then a very strange phenomenon occurred in Galaxy Script Club.

Under normal circumstances, during the peak winter vacation season, script-killing shops are dominated by college students and young people who go home for the New Year. There are some for middle school and high school students, but not as many as during the peak summer season.

As for smaller guests, such as upper grade elementary school students...

Yes, but very few. Children of this age group are generally not the customer base of script-killing stores, and there are very few books suitable for them to play with.

But this winter vacation, Galaxy Script Club did exactly the opposite.

There are many college students, but there are more elementary school students who come with their parents, and more junior high school students and high school students celebrating their birthdays.

There are even kindergartens where a group of parents take their children to kill scripts as a parent-child activity. But these children don’t just play, it’s their parents who play.

But primary school students really want to play with books.

This directly led to Jiang Qi not being able to find a playbook for these little guests.

In the conscience of heaven and earth, more than 60% of the scripts written by Galaxy Script Club are horror scripts!

The evidence search gallery used for birthday celebrations was originally intended to be a terrifying evidence search gallery!

Those dancing dolls are all taken directly from the doll house!

Those who light candles are all real ghosts!

It is true that Galaxy Script Club does not have scripts that can be played by these younger children.

Pure game books can be given to them to play, such as "Toy Story", "MasterChef" and several boxed books for children's healing.

But this cannot stand up to many children.

The script is completely inadequate.

This made Jiang Qi start to think about whether he should rent a new store and open a children's paradise to specifically take birthday orders from these children.

"The problem now is this. There are not enough books suitable for this group of children. In the past few days, Chengzi has received orders from several single years ago. There is a family of 7.8 people who come to celebrate their children's birthdays. Suitable books The number is also very small, only one or two." Jiang Qi said while sitting on the sofa.

"Do you think there is any solution?"

"Is there no book of this type on the market?" Huang Fugui asked.

"There are very few. I have collected several of the books in the store now from other stores. In fact, the parents who come to the store to celebrate their birthdays are basically introduced by friends, or I heard from friends that they invited each other's friends. The overlap rate is also very high, but if some children are more popular and come to their friends’ birthdays more often than not, they won’t be able to play.”

Wang Xinghua watched Wang Erya write the question again and said: "Then these publications are not enough. There are so many garbage and clichéd horror books and mystery books published every day, and the writing is ruined. Even if you copy and I copy, I don't want to write it. If there are some new ones, can’t they come up with a few books that are suitable for the whole family to play together and for children’s birthdays?”

Wang Xinghua has always been good at finding problems from their source.

Jiang Qi felt that Ben was to blame for this, which was a bit outrageous.

Before this, Jiang Qi himself had never thought that the original customer base for script killing could be expanded to this extent.

"Mr. Boss, don't you have a writer for writing scripts? Why don't you use a writer to write new scripts?" Flower Fairy asked puzzledly.

Jiang Qi sighed helplessly: "The quality of the script written by the one-star writer is not very good. I tried it for a few days, and the script was... terrible."

With the current capabilities of the [Script Writer], it would be extremely difficult to write a script that Jiang Qi wanted.

With the entire story and characters of "Red Tears" already set, it took many days of input and writing before the finished product with 15 people was written. So far, a version with more than 20 people has not been written.

Regarding the new children's script, Jiang Qi and others could at most think of a rough plot and setting, input a simple outline into the editor and let the writer write it, and the finished product would be unconstrained and horrible to watch.

You set up 12 children to celebrate their birthday together and play games happily. As a result, the editor writes that one of the children poisoned the cake and no one survived. Can you believe it?

The script can be grounded, but not grounded.

"Boss, why don't you relax the conditions for celebrating birthdays so that everyone can celebrate their birthdays without playing with books in the store?" Wang Erya was a little confused.

Huang Fugui explained: "Because this puts the cart before the horse, and once the order volume increases, it will definitely affect the normal performance of other customers in the store."

"This model of birthday celebrations is mainly for fresh pictures. It is very popular now, but in a month or two the popularity will fade away. At present, the number of birthday orders in the store is being determined, and it will not affect other customers. Taking orders under certain circumstances can be regarded as value-added services at most.”

"If we regard it as our main business, it will not be as attractive as it is now, and it will be counterproductive."

"Is that so?" Wang Erya tilted her head, not quite understanding.

Huang Fugui could only give her an example: "Take sending something in a racing car as an example."

"When our store first launched this service, the response from customers was so enthusiastic. The boss's purchase of snacks and drinks was comparable to that of a small supermarket. When the car was at its busiest, the battery had to be replaced nine times a day."

"But now, less than a month has passed and everyone's novelty towards racing has gone away. Instead, Elk, Cavalry and Flower Fairy are more popular. But why are they more popular?"

"Because they only appear at birthday events and proposal events, everyone thinks it's fresh."

"A lot of business is done with the word "fresh". It may not be that attractive in itself, but it's just that no one has seen it before, so it is very popular. When everyone is used to it and is familiar with it, it is no longer fresh. His attraction The force is not that strong, and naturally there is no heat.”

"For the sake of temporary popularity, giving up the original serious business to make such quick money is a taboo in business."

Wang Erya suddenly realized.

Outdated racing car:...

Racing is sad and Racing wants to go for a ride.

But it's only eight o'clock now, and there are still many children playing in the community, and many elderly people walking and dancing. It has to wait until after 12 o'clock before it can go for a ride.

"Don't be sad about the racing car. What Mr. Huang said is actually right. Isn't it fun for little masters to play with our toys?" The flower fairy flew beside the racing car to comfort it, "If you feel uncomfortable, I will How about I give you the jar of nectar I brewed a few days ago? You will feel better after drinking my nectar."

"Yes, yes, racing, don't be sad because of this. We have all been abandoned by our little masters. This is normal. We can't be popular forever, and we will become obsolete one day. I was talking to Lanlan in the store yesterday When we watched the TV series together, we realized that today’s children no longer believe in Santa Claus.”

"Although I am not a serious Santa Claus, and I have never given gifts to children. I only give candies to the little masters. But now Santa Claus will be unemployed, will be forgotten, will be disliked, and will pass. Angry, it’s normal for us to be angry.”

"If you are unhappy, how about I give you candy tonight?" Elk glanced at the deflated gift bag behind him, "It will be there in a few hours."

Racing was even more saddened by their consolation.

"Uuuuu, I'm a racing car, I can't eat candy or drink nectar, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Everyone:...

Sunflower looked at Tutu with an expression that said he was afraid that this racing car was a fool: "Do you think he is even more stupid than before?"

"Their racing cars are not smart to begin with." Tutu said calmly, "It's weird that our toy spirits can eat."

The elk and the flower fairy, who didn't realize that the toy spirit couldn't eat, said...

The two toy spirits looked at each other with guilt in their eyes.

Hua Xianzi flew to Jiang Qi's side and changed the subject: "Mr. Boss, I heard you say that the Chinese New Year will be here in a few days."

"Will you celebrate the New Year like in the TV series, have New Year's Eve dinner, give out red envelopes, and set off fireworks? Can I celebrate the New Year with you?"

"Of course." Jiang Qi said cheerfully, "You may have to pretend to be ordinary toys when we celebrate the New Year together, otherwise you will scare my family."

"Don't worry, Mr. Boss, we will do it." All the toy spirits said in unison.

Speaking of the New Year, Jiang Qi realized that he had never known the New Year arrangements of Huang Fugui and others.

Their family's New Year's Eve dinner is generally as follows: New Year's Eve dinner at uncle Jiang Xiaokang's house, New Year's greetings to each other on the first, second and third day of the lunar month (actually just visiting each other). On the first day of the lunar new year, they eat at Jiang Qi's house, on the second day of the lunar month, they eat at the second uncle Jiang Xiaoguang's house, and on the third day of the lunar new year, they I ate at my sister-in-law Jiang Xiaohong’s house and went to my uncle’s house to pay New Year’s greetings on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

As for other relatives in my hometown, they don’t move around very much due to unusual conditions.

Jiang Qi's grandparents passed away early, and their relationship with relatives in their hometown was relatively weak. They were the kind of people that no one knew too well. They didn't have to go to the countryside, and the New Year was quite simple, with no sense of ritual.

When thinking about the arrangements for the New Year, Jiang Qi suddenly realized that it was almost the New Year and his parents should be back.

It was only at this time that I remembered that my biological father and mother were coming back for the New Year. In fact, I couldn’t blame Jiang Qi. The main reason was that he was not very familiar with his biological father and mother, especially not very familiar with his biological father.

Jiang Qi has only met his biological father Jiang Xiaoliang a handful of times since he was a child. The most familiar time between him and his biological father was probably when he was in college. Living expenses were paid on a monthly basis, and it was a lot. Same as Jiang Bing.

Speaking of which, when will his biological father and mother come back this year?

With this in mind, Jiang Qi sent a message to Jiang Bing.

Then Jiang Bing’s reply was:

ah? Let me ask.

Five seconds later, Jiang Bing asked, coming back on New Year's Eve.

Jiang Qi put away his phone and turned to ask Huang Fugui: "Uncle Huang, do you have any plans for the New Year? You have several days off!"

"Yes." Huang Fugui enthusiastically listed his New Year's Eve dinner list.

Steamed lion head, braised pork elbow, grilled lamb chops, roast beef, braised lamb, braised prawns, steamed fish, braised abalone and pigeon eggs with sea cucumber, sweet and sour short ribs, steamed scallop eggs.

"10 dishes, perfect." Huang Fugui said cheerfully, and then began to show the menu for the New Year's Day.

Baked cheese bolognese, salt and pepper shrimp, steamed king crab, steamed grouper, braised turbot, tofu braised fish head, grilled lamb kebabs and roasted whole pig.

Whole pig roast? ? ?

"Uncle Huang, can you make roasted whole pig???" Jiang Qi was shocked.

"No, this dish is an order for takeout. I originally wanted to order it for New Year's Eve dinner, but their New Year's Eve dinner of roasted whole pig was fully booked and I could only order it for New Year's Day."

Jiang Qi:......

"Then this wave dragon, Pipi shrimp, king crab, grouper, turbot..."

Xuncheng is not close to the sea, so it is difficult to buy these seafood during the Chinese New Year.

"I bought them all online! I asked Lanlan to help me place the order and I gave her cash. Lanlan is an amazing girl. He especially knows how to find coupons to get discounts when buying things. It's much cheaper than what I buy. ”

"I told Lanlan to come to my house for dinner on New Year's Day, and she said she wouldn't leave Xuncheng during the New Year."

Jiang Qi: (*)

He also wanted to go upstairs for dinner on New Year's Day.

Jiang Qi couldn't bear to look at the food for the second and third grade of junior high school. He was afraid that she would want to go upstairs to eat after seeing it.

"Girl Xinghua, I may not have much left over from this month's food expenses and next month's food expenses. I have also booked a banquet at Huifeng Restaurant that you have always wanted to eat during the Lantern Festival. A meal for 15 people at 2888. What do you want? I just don’t know if the Peking roast duck I eat is authentic or not.”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Wang Xinghua, who made her fortune by lighting candles, said it is important to celebrate the New Year. "Uncle Huang, I also want to eat that sweet-skinned duck that is said to be particularly delicious on the Internet."

"Okay, I'll go find out tomorrow which store sells delicious sweet-skinned duck. I'll definitely buy it for the Chinese New Year!"

"If you're celebrating the Chinese New Year, just say you want to eat and open your mouth to eat."