The Era of Hard Work

In the farmer's market in Qingzhao County, the edible oil store opened by Wang Yexin belongs to the largest group, and the business itself is not small. It is not an exaggeration to say that the customers are all over Qingzhao.

When we came here, it happened to be almost noon, and Wang Yexin was a little surprised by the busy flow of people in the store.

As a businessman, he was not in a hurry to find Lu Dong. He sat in the car for a while and watched the students coming in and out. In just over half an hour, there were at least 200 students.

After twelve o'clock, there were more people.

Wang Yexin got off Santana and entered the store alone. The store was almost full, and there was a long queue in front of the two cash registers, which reminded him of KFC and McDonald's on Quannan Road.

That is Quannan's golden commercial street. Since Quannan Road Pedestrian Street was built, it has become more popular than Grand View Garden.

He also went to line up and ordered a five-yuan meal.

A bowl of malatang, a stewed pork pancake, and a cup of pearl milk tea.

Find a place to sit down, the food tastes good, for him who prefers local food, it is much better than foreign fast food.

After eating two mouthfuls of Malatang, Wang Yexin stared at the soup in the bowl, it must use a lot of oil, right?

Compared with ordinary fast food, Malatang tastes a bit stronger. While eating, he remembered something. Recently, processed oil has arrived. It may not be very good to use it in ordinary stir-fry, but it should be fine if it is more flavorful.

After Wang Yexin finished eating, he observed carefully for a while. Based on his years of business experience and his understanding of prices when shopping, he speculated that the minimum turnover at noon was more than 2,000.

Business is not so good.

Like his old customer who opened a hot pot restaurant, the store opened on the best street in the county, and no one around dared to compete. Even at noon in the peak season, the turnover could not be so high.

Wang Yexin didn't see Lu Dong, so he left the store around 1:30, smoked a cigarette on the side of the road, observed for a while, took out his mobile phone, and called Lu Dong.

Ten minutes later, Lu Dong came from the north, Erjiao's new store opened, and he has been helping there.

Wang Yexin had called before, and Lu Dong took him to visit his new store.

The two finally stopped on the second floor. Wang Yexin found a seat by the window and sat down, looked at the layout of the second floor, and said, "Lv Dong, you have spent a lot of money when you open this store?"

Lu Dong said vaguely: "A few friends invested together, I can't do it alone."

In the store, he speaks Mandarin as much as possible.

Wang Yexin was curious and asked, "Didn't you ask me about shortening last time that you wanted to open a fried chicken restaurant?"

Lu Dong smiled and said, "It's in the north, just across from this store. It's just started to be renovated, and it's estimated that it will be open for business next month."

"Oh, brother, your business is not small." Wang Yexin looked at Lu Dong's face, who was at most twenty years old, and complimented him: "Young and promising! Young and promising!"

Lu Dong said modestly: "It's all picking up the wisdom of others and imitating others."

Wang Yexin laughed: "Brother, you are too modest." He turned to the topic at the right time: "Fried chicken and Malatang are both big consumers of oil. You asked me about shortening a few days ago, just for these two shops?"

The two shops are here, and anyone who knows a little bit knows that Lu Dong has nothing to hide, saying: "Shortening is mainly used in fried chicken shops, and the cost of rapeseed oil and peanut oil is too high."

Shortening is cheap, has a low melting point, and can be fried many times. As long as the oil temperature is controlled, it is easy to change the oil every day, and the cost is not high.

Now and in the future, shortening is mostly used in the market from cakes to fried chicken shops to various biscuit products.

Some people use palm oil, which is not too expensive.

Palm oil itself is the main raw material for some companies to produce shortening.

Compared with rapeseed oil and peanut oil commonly used in domestic cooking, it is much cheaper.

Lu Dong’s principles and bottom line are very high. In the operation manual that is being written, there are strict regulations on oil standards, and polarizer content testing equipment will also be purchased. If a branch is opened later, the store manager will be responsible. The oil must be timely. Discarded and replaced.

"Brother, shortening is cheap, but it's also expensive to use on a large scale." Wang Yexin didn't understand Lu Dong's thinking, and said, "You have both stores open, how much oil do you use a day? After a year, the cost of oil alone will be reduced." How much? Have you calculated this account?"

Without waiting for Lu Dong to speak, he said, "I have oil from a special channel, which is cheaper than shortening and palm oil specially used for frying."

Wang Yexin showed his thumb and index finger: "It only costs this amount for a catty. If you want more, the price is easy to negotiate."

With such a cheap thing, Lu Dong would not dare to use it even if he killed him, so he asked casually, "Is there something wrong with this oil?"

Wang Yexin smiled: "What's the problem? I guarantee that the cooking effect will be the same, and there will be no problem if people eat it!" Ordinary cooking oil does not have a high profit. The profit of this one he mainly recommends is not so high: "Brother, let's get up early and be greedy. What is the reason for doing business, suffering so much, and suffering so much? Isn’t it just to earn more money?”

He was afraid to step down from the table: "brother, if you dispose of the kitchen waste for me, we can discuss the price again."

At this point, Lu Dong didn't understand what kind of oil he was talking about, so he would definitely refuse, but he also paid attention to the method, and said euphemistically: "The recipe for the rapeseed oil and butter used in Lu's Mala Tang, I finally found out, If you change the oil, the whole recipe will be useless. At the fried chicken shop, there is no shortening and no effect, and I will open a branch in the future, and this recipe can’t be changed casually, otherwise the partners will have to settle accounts with me.”

Hearing that a branch was about to be opened, Wang Yexin decided that this was a big customer, and continued to sell: "Brother, you are only twenty? You are so young, and you are as timid as an old man. Some people in Qingzhao use my oil!"

He simply gave a particularly convincing example: "Do you know Feiyang Hot Pot?"

Lu Dong was stunned for a moment, then realized in an instant: "I've heard that Qingzhao is a restaurant leader."

"I'm not afraid to tell you." Wang Yexin raised his thumb and pointed in the direction of the county: "The fat sheep hotpot restaurants are all imported from me. Have you ever heard of any problems?"

He didn't care at all: "Oil, isn't that the case? How good is the branded oil in barrels? I have eaten at Feiyang Hotpot many times myself."

Lu Dong believes that Wang Yexin's last words, many people don't care, and it is even a semi-transparent industry at present.

"I appreciate the kindness." In front of people, Lu Dong was still very polite: "I really can't change this formula, the risk is too great, if the formula is changed, the taste will change."

Wang Yexin shook his head, feeling that there was no need to continue, and said, "Okay, brother, you can call me anytime you want."

Lu Dong kept sending people outside the shop.

After leaving the store, Wang Yexin said goodbye politely, and then got into the car.

When the car started, he looked at the sign with white characters on a red background, and shook his head again: "I really can't think about it, I don't know how to earn money if I have money! Something is wrong with my brain!"

Lu Dong stood at the door of the store, frowning and thinking, what should we do about this?

Report it directly? It doesn't seem to be suitable. If you really want to check, it is estimated that most of the food stalls and small restaurants in Qingzhao can't get away.

This is something that offends the entire industry and is a social issue.

When in doubt, ask a professional!

Lu Dong wants to be a good person, but he is not a saint. It is scary to think about being a public enemy of the whole industry.

Taking out his mobile phone, Lu Dong called Lu Chun, and when Lu Chun connected, he briefly said something.

"Don't act recklessly, don't be impulsive." After Lu Chun reminded, he said, "Give me that person's name, phone number and the location of the store first."

Lu Dong talked about Wang Yexin's situation and said, "Brother, please don't affect you."

Lu Chun had already turned into an old fritter, and said with a smile: "I'm not stupid, rushing to the front as a death squad? Don't worry, I will find a clever way to respond to the relevant departments, but don't get too hopeful, Bing San A foot is not cold in a day."

He thought for a while, and then said, "I'll tell Fang Yan about this. From her perspective, there may be a different way."

Lu Dong said, "Okay."

Lu Chun said again: "Leave this matter alone, and do your business safely."

Lu Dong is not a warrior who can stop the car with his arms. Facing this kind of social problem, he can only do what he can.

About to hang up the phone, Lu Chun reminded: "Fang Yan is here on Saturday, you go home early."

Lu Dong said: "Brother, it's finally here. It's not easy. If I don't come to the university town on Saturday, I will stay at home!"

Given the age of Lu Chun and Fang Yan, once the two walk away, they will soon enter the process of getting engaged and getting married.

By the way, I went to pick up goods from the house in Building 3 yesterday, and met Uncle Li, who was decorating Lu Chun's house.

It seems that the big brother is also very fast.

Lu Dong put away his mobile phone, went north, walked past a few shops, and saw the signboard of "Fat Sheep Hot Pot". From the open door of the shop, the decoration was basically completed, and it is estimated that it will open soon.

What Wang Yexin said just now didn't make Lu Dong think much.

There are a lot of relatives and friends, it's not worth messing around with someone who gets in quickly, good people care about too many people, and bad people always use unscrupulous methods.

Lu Dong continued to walk north, and was about to go to Erjiao's store again, when his cell phone rang suddenly.

He took it out and saw that the phone in the store was quickly connected, and a clever voice rang out: "Brother Dong, a man came to the store and said it was your cousin. I said you were not in the store, so he didn't say anything. , I must wait for you to come back, I am worried that something is wrong with your family..."

"It's okay." Lu Dong turned around and walked back: "You tell him, I'll go back right away."

He has no aunt and aunt, only two uncles, the uncle's family is far away in western Xinjiang, and there is only one person who can come to the store to find his cousin.

Before arriving at the store, Lu Dong glanced at the Mustang 100 motorcycle parked on the side of the door, and pushed open the glass door to enter the store.

As soon as I entered, I saw a tall and thin young man strolling in the store with his hands behind his back, looking here and touching there curiously.

It was his cousin Hu Bin.

Gao Ming was standing in front of the store, and said to Lu Dong, "It's him."

Lu Dong nodded, Hu Bin turned his head, looked this way, and smiled all over his face: "Dongzi, our store is not small! Is it developed?"

"Brother, why are you here?" Lu Dong has always followed the rules, speaking Mandarin as much as possible in the store.

Hu Bin came over and said, "Brother, save the world!"