Siheyuan: Security Office of Wude

After entering the mainland, although the prices of tea restaurants are generally higher than those of ordinary fast food restaurants in the mainland, in Hong Kong Island where prices are high, tea restaurants are indeed economical and affordable places for ordinary people to eat.

Ordinary people don't have much money, so they will naturally pay more attention to cost performance

The food prices at this Fulin Tea Restaurant are similar to those at other tea restaurants. Buy one get one free, which means the same portion is only half the price of other restaurants.

Such a large discount naturally attracted a large number of customers to shop in the store.

After entering the store, when the waiter came to take the order, he directly served lemon tea according to the number of people. It was really free, no tricks

The customer drank lemon tea and ordered a bowl of barbecued pork rice. The waiter brought two bowls. Each bowl was very filling. The rice was pressed firmly and covered with a thick layer of barbecued pork, which completely covered the rice. The amount of barbecued pork alone was more than that of rice in other restaurants.

The guests were delighted and started eating with relish.

The char siu is not the best, but it is not bad. The taste is average and the portion is generous. You can eat almost a whole portion of food for the price of one portion. This is a perfect value for money.

The guests who had eaten their fill paid the bill and went out, patting their stomachs with satisfaction.

Another customer curiously asked the boss: "Boss, how long will your buy one get one free offer last?"

The boss replied directly: "Come and eat anytime, we will deliver it anytime!"

The owners of other tea restaurants or hotels also noticed the booming business of Fulin Tea Restaurant on the first day, but they were all in a stable mood.

It is normal to hold some activities to attract customers when a new store opens. If there are no activities after a few days, it will just be an ordinary tea restaurant.

As for what the boss said about delivering it at any time, they just don’t believe it.

If you keep offering buy one get one free, you will lose a lot of money. Who doesn’t want to make money when opening a store?

Chapter 256: The dimensionality reduction attack on business, Yan Bugui is dejected

But the owners of these tea restaurants and hotels are really wrong. This Fulin Tea Restaurant is not really for the purpose of making money.

This tea restaurant was opened by Hong Qi's men at the instruction of Bai Wanli, and it was the first step to expand out of the fortress.

With Bai Wanli's unlimited gold support, Hong Qi does not need to consider any profit and return on investment when opening a store. He can directly launch the most brutal price war to achieve rapid and brutal expansion.

The owners of other restaurants all thought that Fulin's move was just an opening promotion, which would end in two or three days, and then normal competition would resume, and it would not have much impact on them.

But they never expected that in the next week, Fulin's activities showed no signs of stopping. All customers were still given lemon tea when they arrived at the store, and they could buy a portion of food for the price of one portion.

With good taste and amazing value for money, Fulin Tea Restaurant has completely defeated the surrounding restaurants.

The overall economic conditions in Kowloon are relatively backward, especially in the areas around the Walled City, which are even poorer and more chaotic. Therefore, the local people have no resistance to cheap and plentiful things.

At Fulin, one meal can be eaten for two, or even three if you save some money. There is absolutely no reason to refuse. Therefore, there are long queues at Fulin Tea Restaurant every day, but all tea restaurants within a radius of hundreds of meters are deserted.

These restaurant owners were calculating their recent accounts with gloomy faces, cursing the forints.

"Fuck you! I wonder how long you can last with this kind of money!"

But Fulin's development momentum was far more fierce than they imagined. Eight days after the opening of the first Fulin Tea Restaurant, five identical Fulin Tea Restaurants opened in Kowloon at the same time. Even Kowloon District Inspector Lu Chengliang came to congratulate in person, shocking everyone.

The threshold for opening a tea restaurant is not high, because barbecued pork and pineapple buns are the favorite foods of Hong Kong Islanders, and the related industries are quite developed. In addition, Hong Kong Island is an important trade port between the East and the West, and goods are frequently exchanged. As long as you are willing to spend money, there is nothing you can't buy.

With strong financial resources and the support of Lü Chengliang, the Kowloon Detective, Hong Qi's purchase and opening of shops went very smoothly. With his huge gold reserves as his backing, he began to launch restaurants to reduce the size of the business in Kowloon.

In the vicinity of Fulin’s opening, all restaurants have been severely squeezed, with business being less than 20% to 30% of the original

The profit from these two or three percent of business is not enough to cover the cost of rent, food, labor, etc. After all, ordinary restaurant owners simply cannot have the confidence brought by Hong Qi's gold reserves.

Hong Qi himself has already ruled the city. Every Fulin store has his own men looking after it, and with the public "care" of Lu Chengliang above him, he can get his hands on both the black and white sides, making it impossible for those bosses who hated Fulin to do anything to him to succeed. On the contrary, three restaurant owners had their stores smashed to pieces and their entire families were beaten to disability because they wanted to do something to him.

Under Fulin's bloody crushing momentum, within a month, some bosses began to want to sell their stores.

Hong Qi also immediately sent people to contact and take over all the stores that were about to be sold, and began further expansion and development.

These are important matters for the lower class people, but the masters above who never set the sun don't care at all.

Because the British Empire's strategy for its colonies was to let the locals manage the locals, in order to reduce its own management costs, it would not care about the lives of the lower classes. As long as the lower classes paid enough money to the masters and did not gather together to plan to overthrow the masters, the British Empire's officials would not bother to care.

Therefore, the struggles among the lower classes of Hong Kong Island, even the mutual harm, will not be stopped by the British government. Instead, it will be happy to see them happen, and will even deliberately promote them from behind.

Under the cover of Chief Inspector Lu Chengliang and the arrogant disregard and indulgence of the British Empire, Hong Qi's industry went out of the Walled City and began to develop wildly in the Kowloon area, gradually extending its tentacles to the entire Hong Kong Island.

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Sijiucheng, No. 95 Siheyuan

Yang Ruihua stood at the door and kept looking out, muttering, "What's wrong with Old Yan? He hasn't come back yet?"

Yan Bugui lost his previous job as a teacher and became a librarian. This job didn't really require much work. It was just an idle job and no one cared about him. It was okay for him to leave work early.

But today Yan Bugui got off work much later than usual, and today was not the day Yan Bugui went out fishing. Yang Ruihua thought it was strange, so he waited at the door.

I waited and waited until Yan Bugui finally walked towards the yard with his head down.

Seeing that Yan Bugui was fine, Yang Ruihua felt relieved. When Yan Bugui arrived at the door, Yang Ruihua took two steps out and said, "Old Yan, what's wrong with you today..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Ruihua smelled a suffocating stench coming from Yan Bugui, which was exactly the same as the smell of a toilet.

"Ugh! Ugh!"

Yang Ruihua retched twice, but because he had not eaten much recently, he did not vomit anything.

Yang Ruihua pinched his nose and moved away from Yan Bugui: "Old Yan, did you fall into the toilet? Why do you stink so much?"

Yan Bugui said with a dark face: "I'll tell you later, go get some water and wash it for me!"

If Yan Bugui kept smelling like this, Yang Ruihua wouldn't be able to sleep at night, so he hurried to get some water.

Yan Bugui walked into the house quickly, but he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the house, the two brothers Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang pinched their noses at the same time and shouted: "Dad! Are you eating shit? Why is it so smelly?!"

"You two are the ones eating shit! Useless things, if you have time to stay at home, why don't you go out and make more money for the family!"

Yan Jiefang picked his nose and said nonchalantly:

"Yes, yes, we are useless, and you are the most useful. Even though you are so useful, don't expect us useless brothers to support you in your old age. You should support yourself in the future."

"you!"

Yan Bugui was so angry at his good son that he was shaking. However, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang were now brothers of one mind. For the common interests of the two brothers, they united to fight against their father. As soon as Yan Bugui stretched out his hand, the two brothers stood up at the same time.

"What's wrong?!"

Although the two brothers were still teenagers, Yan Bugui was just a poor old man. When the two brothers puffed out their chests, Yan Bugui's momentum was suppressed. It was really cowardly.

At the critical moment, Yang Ruihua came in with some water and smoothed things over.

"Hey, hey, hey, why are you guys arguing again? Sit down, sit down. Old Yan, please wipe yourself quickly."

Chapter 257 Yan Bugui cleans the toilet and applies for poverty relief

With Yang Ruihua's help, the two brothers did not insist. After all, they did not want to keep smelling the stinky smell of Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui snorted, turned around, took a towel and wiped his body with water.

It is autumn now and the weather is cold. Yan Bugui wipes his body with cold water and shivers all over.

"Old Yan, it's getting cold. I'll go get you some hot water."

"No, don't waste the firewood."

Yan Bugui is so stingy that he wants to save even the firewood for boiling water. I don’t know how long it will take for him to catch a cold.

Yang Ruihua had no choice but to put Yan Bugui's stinky clothes aside while he was wiping himself, and then take out a set of clean clothes.

Yan Bugui finished wiping his body, quickly put on his clothes, and rubbed his arms vigorously with both hands to warm himself up. It took him a while to recover.

Yang Ruihua went out to pour out the dirty water, and after returning and putting down the wash basin, he asked:

"Old Yan, what happened to you today? Why do you stink so badly?"

Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiecheng also pricked up their ears. Although they had a bad relationship with their biological father, if Yan Bugui stinked all day long, they couldn't live in this house.

Yan Bugui said with a sad face: "Today the school assigned me to clean the toilet!"

"what!"

Yang Ruihua exclaimed, "Why?! You were doing well in the library, and you even said you would ask the principal to let you be a teacher again soon. How come you are cleaning the toilets now?"

"What else could it be?! It was all caused by that beast Yan Jiecheng!"

"His affair with Qin Huairu has spread all over the neighborhood. Even the school and many parents know about it. One parent reported it to the principal and told me to get out of the school and stop corrupting their children!"

"The principal came to me today and told me to either clean the toilet or pack up and get out. What can I do?!"

As Yan Bugui spoke, he could not help but slap his thigh with his hand, looking extremely annoyed.

But he deserves to be implicated in this matter.

After all, as the saying goes, if a man does not teach his children, it is his father's fault; if he does not teach his children strictly, it is his teacher's fault.

Yan Bugui is Yan Jiecheng's biological father and a former teacher. He educated his son to be like this. It is reasonable for others to question his "misleading students".

Yang Ruihua said anxiously:

"Didn't you explain to Xiao Zhang? You and Jie Cheng separated a long time ago. Whatever mistakes he made had nothing to do with you. And didn't the Street Office and Director Bai deal with you? Didn't you say all this?"

"I don't know what you mean? I told the principal, but he didn't listen to me. The parents didn't listen to my explanation either. What can I do? Sigh..."

Yan Bugui couldn't help but sigh as he spoke

It was also a family member who made a mistake. Yu Li relied on Fang Qiang's protection and was hardly implicated. But now a similar thing happened to him. Yan Bugui is no longer a third uncle, a school teacher, or an intellectual. He is just an old man with a bad reputation. Who would care about his opinion and face? They kept talking about him everywhere. Even when Yan Bugui saw them, he didn't feel embarrassed and dared to scold him in person.

The nobleman Yanbu was poor and short-tempered, and dared not argue with others, so he could only explain repeatedly

But although the affair between Yan Jiecheng and Qin Huairu was not confirmed, three people can make a tiger. Now the rumors are everywhere in the neighborhood that Yan Jiecheng and Qin Huairu had an affair and got her pregnant. When everyone thinks so, the truth or evidence is no longer important. Yan Bu is a nobleman with little influence, so it is useless to explain, and he may even be considered as quibbling.

This was the case around the courtyard and in the school. The angry parents who heard the rumors did not believe Yan Bugui's explanation at all. They just asked Yan Bugui to get out and stay away from their children so as not to lead their babies astray.

In this situation, Yan Bugui had no choice. Being able to stay and clean the toilet was a good result.

Yang Ruihua said with a pale face: "Then...what about the salary?"

"Only fifteen dollars..."

"Oh my, what sin has our family committed? How are we going to live in the future?!"

When Yang Ruihua heard that Yan Bugui's salary was only 15 yuan, he sat on the ground and cried.