I will never give in to Miss Death

Elodie took the initiative to walk over and picked up two boxes: "We need to move all these in, right?"

"Yes, everyone will move in."

While they were moving things, I helped take Elodie and Yin Xiamo's bags to the staff lounge on the second floor, and then went to the bathroom to change into maid outfits.

Well, I feel like I am almost getting used to the feeling of wearing a small skirt, sleeves on my hands, and my thighs being wrapped in stockings...

"Xia Mo, put the mosquito trap there... Yes, yes, do you see the socket next to it? Plug it in and turn on the switch... Very good."

"Ahem, the factory doesn't open until noon. Let me first confirm the data you sent last night."

After finishing the work on the mosquito repellent, Ouyang Xue motioned Yin Xiamo and Elodie to come to the largest table in the middle of the coffee shop: "Xiamo's height... 165 cm, chest circumference 78, waist circumference 55, hip circumference 79, shoe size 36, standard size, is that okay?"

Yin Xiamo nodded: "Yes, I usually buy clothes according to this data."

"Elody's height is... 163cm, chest 83, waist 59, hips 84, shoe size 34, which is also a standard size, right?"

"It's better to size up a bit."

Elodie continued: "According to the data, my feet are size 34, but size 34 is too tight for me, so size 35 is the right size for me."

"Okay, I'll change the shoe size to size 35. If it gets too big, I'll add a heel tab."

After adding a few words to the notebook, Ouyang Xue turned to Elodie and asked, "Are you going to the novel editing department later?"

"Well, I'll go talk to the editor-in-chief about my resignation."

Elodie yawned: "Do you want to sign the contract first?"

"You don't have to be so strict. You are Nuo'er's friend. Let's be more humane and sign whenever it's convenient for you."

Ouyang Xue pushed open the door of the shop and said, "The lawyer team should arrive around ten o'clock. I will go to Xia Mo's shop with her to negotiate with their boss first... Come on, get in the car, Nuo'er, you stay at home."

I instinctively complained, "Aren't you here to watch the store?"

"Haha, I let it slip. I'm old now, and looking at you guys always feels like looking at my own daughters, eh..."

Ouyang Xue, who was outside, sat on the front of the truck: "Elody, how about I take you to the company first?"

"it is good."

Elodie stood up and waved to me: "See you tonight, Xiao Nuoer."

"See you tonight."

After watching Ouyang Xue and the two girls get into the car and leave the coffee shop, I picked up the Maine Coon cat Timon and took the comb.

"Alas, Sister Ouyang has a hard life too."

Because there were no customers in the store at this time, Master Wang came over with a bit of boredom, and took the comb from me to help comb her hair: "When she was a child, her parents divorced, and since she was a girl, neither side wanted her. As a result, the judge in court asked her to flip a coin, and whichever side it landed on was the side. In the end, Sister Ouyang tossed it to her father's side."

"Ok?"

I have always been interested in Ouyang Xue's family affairs, so I subconsciously asked, "What happened next?"

"Later... Later, her father got addicted to gambling. The debt collectors came to their house every day to make trouble, asking them to pay back the money and humiliating Sister Ouyang. At that time, there was a small store not far from Sister Ouyang's house. There was a TV in the store that played all kinds of idol entertainment programs. Sister Ouyang often went there to watch them. She knew that being a star could make a lot of money, so she wanted to become a star and help her father pay back the debts."

Master Wang crumpled the cat hair he had combed into a ball and put it on the table. "But you also know that in this society, a poor kid like her can't become a star. What's more, Sister Ouyang was so young at the time. Others laughed at her. Her father was not a good person and was always gambling. As a result, a debt collector broke his leg. He drank too much and drove a car even though his legs were not working properly. He fell into a ditch and his body was not discovered until several days later."

"I heard all this in Sister Ouyang's work group. There was a classmate of hers from childhood in that group. We talked about Sister Ouyang a few days ago, and he told me about it."

Looking at the empty road in front of the coffee shop, Master Wang sighed softly: "After Sister Ouyang came out, she still wanted to be an idol. She went to many companies, working as a waiter while practicing singing and dancing. After a few years, she was spotted by a company that mainly deals in virtual idols and signed a contract to become a virtual idol. No one knows what happened in between. At that time, some people said that Sister Ouyang created millions of dollars in value for the company every month, but her own salary was only seven or eight thousand. In the end, the company fired Sister Ouyang and replaced her with another young lady."

"Luckily, after she was released, Sister Ouyang joined Tongmeng.com and worked very hard in logistics management. Then you see what you see now."

"..."

I was silent for a while in the coffee shop: "Why...Uncle Wang, are you telling me this?"

"The company's operating policy for this coffee shop is to have Ouyang Xue train someone who can serve as the store manager, and then cooperate with Tongmeng.com to expand this store. After all, it is a signboard of the commercial street. But you know what this means to Sister Ouyang... It was like this when she was in the virtual idol company before. After Sister Ouyang made the company's idol operation popular, she was kicked out by the company. Now Tongmeng.com is also letting Sister Ouyang run the coffee shop and... I don't really understand."

Master Wang patted the cat fur on his body and said, "I noticed that you seemed to have a good relationship with the young master of Tongmeng.com. I just hope you can talk to them."

Su Yunjin?

To be honest, I am also quite curious why Tongmeng.com didn't just let Ouyang Xue come here to be the store manager.

According to what Ouyang Xue said before...she didn't seem to care much about the position of store manager. Instead, she wanted to finish the task quickly and go back to continue doing logistics management.

"Ding Dong! Welcome!"

As they were talking, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open. The sensor sensed a stranger entering the store and responded immediately.

"welcome!"

The first second I heard the welcome, I instinctively stood up from my seat and asked, "Excuse me, how many people are there...eh?"

I froze in my tracks before I could finish my words.

Because the person who came was none other than his good friend Pipi on the internet, or rather... Li Jianfu.

Unlike previous offline author meet-and-greets, Li Jianfu brought with him a woman with a standard "Madam, your hairstyle is very dangerous" hairstyle and a little girl of three or four years old.

"Noer, I knew it was you."

Seeing me, Pipi at the door looked very happy. He said to the little girl beside him, "Call Nuoer sister!"

The little girl hesitated for a moment and said timidly, "Sister Nuoer."

"I knew it was you after I saw the forwarded photo in the QQ group."

Pipi picked up the little girl on the ground and said, "Jiang Wei and his girlfriend are on their honeymoon. Brother Ji has been missing for a long time. You haven't been in the group for a long time. I'm bored alone, so I plan to bring my daughter to the beach in Shenbin to play in the next few days, relax and take care of your business."

As he spoke, Pippi took out two coupon-like items from his pocket.

"Don't you have a girlfriend too? Here, this is a coupon for Minami Nagi Silver Beach. It's been sunny in Kamihama City recently. You can go to the beach and sunbathe when you have time."

"..."

……

No. 110 Are you waiting with your heart beating like a little rabbit?

I vaguely remember that he already had such a daughter when he first met Pippi a long time ago. However, at that time, the daughter was still at the age where she would "wake up at any time at night and make a noise", which made Pippi miserable.

I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, this little guy has grown so big.

"Sunbathing?"

I took the coupon from Pipi and glanced at the content: "40% off coupon for all Shinhama Bihai Yintan…couples? Couples?"

I...I have a partner?

No, what I mean is, well... let's just say the guy wielding the sickle is my lover, but will this blue sea and silver beach recognize a "same-sex couple" like us?

I know the Blue Sea and Silver Beach near Minami Nagi Wharf in Minami Nagi District, Kamihama City. It is located at the mouth of the second "Kamihama River" in Kamihama and is a well-known tourist attraction in Kamihama. I personally don't like swimming and sunbathing very much, but when I was in college, there was a guy in our dormitory who particularly liked to go to the beach during holidays. Because he was handsome and had abdominal muscles, he was very popular among the girls at the beach. He often sent pictures of him picking up girls near the beach and various scenery pictures to the dormitory group.

From those pictures, I roughly understood that this "Nanwai Blue Sea and Silver Sand" is a semi-open place. The beach has been specially treated to remove all kinds of sharp garbage and large rocks. People can enter for free, but they are not allowed to "catch sea" in it, nor can they cause damage or do anything illegal.

There are special beach chairs, parasols, swimsuits and swimming trunks for rent near the beach. There are also special lifeguards on duty. There are also barbecue, seafood and beverage stores nearby. It can be considered a small project managed by the government and attracts foreign investment.

At that time, after seeing the pictures sent back by my roommate, my only impression of this "blue sea and white sand" was... there were so many crabs.

My roommate also said that besides swimming and sunbathing, there are almost all children catching crabs on the beach. They are the very small crabs. The "crab hole" is only the size of a little finger. They disappear when people get close. Unless you are Connor, you won't be able to eat them even if you catch them with fast hands.

At this moment, the two "coupons" in my hand show validity dates from today to May 5th.

May 5th is the day when the coffee shop officially opens and holds an event. It is also the day when the "old salted fish" in my reader group come to Kamihama to play and hold an offline meeting. If I want to go to the beach, I definitely can't choose that day.

"Aren't you and Xia Mo from the video a couple?"

Seeing me in a daze, Pipi put on an "I know" look and said, "Nuo'er, I didn't expect that. I had always imagined that a girl like you would require a very outstanding boy to be worthy of you, but it turns out that you already have a girlfriend. You are indeed worthy of me."

"What are you talking about!"

Before I could react, the woman next to Pi Pi slapped him on the back and said, "You are corrupting our daughter."

"Haha, I'm just kidding. They are just close best friends."

Pipi seemed to be used to joking with his wife like this, and gestured to the woman in my direction: "I told you before, Yin Nuoer, we always thought she was an uncle. I didn't expect this wicked person to use a voice changer to chat with us all year round, and it was not until the offline author meeting that he was exposed. It's really too bad."

"Hello."

After Pipi introduced her, the woman came towards me, and Pipi quickly introduced her——

"Nuo'er, this is my wife, Huang Mei."

"Ok!"

I crossed my hands and placed them on my lower abdomen, put my legs together, and put on a "good boy" look: "Hello, Sister Huang."

Huang Mei and Li Jianfu, I feel that both names have a sense of age.

It's the kind of...how should I put it, in the "Loving Family" WeChat group that my parents created, the uncles, aunts, and cousins ​​gave each other names like "May the Flowers Bloom and Prosperity Come", "Peace is a Blessing", and "The Highest Good is Like Water".

"Hey, you have such a sweet mouth."

Perhaps because she heard a "young" girl like me calling her sister, Pippi's wife smiled happily and took the menu from the table: "Are all fried chicken?"

"Little kitten..."

At this time, perhaps because she saw several cats in the cat living area behind me acting sneaky because of the arrival of strangers, Pippi's daughter began to look over there continuously, but seemed a little afraid of being scolded by her parents.

"What services do you have for cats here?"

Pippi picked up her daughter and said, "Want to go see the cats?"

The little Lolita looked very happy: "Yeah!"

"For now, there are only two options: feeding cats and playing with cats."

I hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not mention the "services" related to "catnip": "Interacting with cats and playing with them are all free, but if you want to feed them snacks or rent cat sticks, you will need to pay. For the health of the kittens, we do not accept food from outside!"

In fact, in addition to these, many customers who came to the store in the past two days have made many outrageous suggestions and requests regarding the "cat service".

For example, some customers want to experience the feeling of "scooping poop" and want us to give them a shovel, to experience the "daily torture" of cat poop scoopers on video websites, and to try the authentic "cat poop coffee". When they were told that our store has automatic litter boxes and does not require shoveling, they complained, "Cat cafes don't allow shoveling poop, yours is not authentic."

There were even fishermen nearby who came to the store specifically to ask for frozen-dried meat, saying that they were running out of earthworms and wanted some frozen-dried cat food as an emergency measure.

Anyway... there are all kinds of weird guests.

“Cat petting is free?”

At the dining table, my words shocked Pipi: "Then how do you make money here? The entrance fee to the cat cafe is free, and petting the cats is also free?"

"It's... mainly food, fried chicken, hamburgers, fast food, or coffee and milk tea on the second floor."

I explained: "Or various services. Even though these services are cheap, they add up to a considerable amount of income every day."

"I do not believe."

Pippi crossed her arms and said, "Give me an example?"

"When you pet or hug a cat, there will be cat hair on your body, right? If a cat accidentally runs out and rubs against a customer, we will provide a free hair remover, which is this one."

Walking to the windowsill, I took out a hair roller from it. "But if the customer takes the initiative to hold the cat or play with the cat, then it will cost money to rent this thing, one dollar per time."

In addition to the hair remover, you usually rent a cat teaser when you play with your cat, right? There is also a "soul extractor" with several metal tubes for massaging the cat's head, which costs one dollar to rent once.

One dollar is not a lot, but cats are very cute. People who come to cat cafes are all cat lovers. When a kitten meows at you, you will definitely not be able to help but rent a lot of things for one dollar to play with them.

Would these people not buy cat snacks if they were so engrossed in playing? Not possible.

Renting cat toys and lint removers can be considered as almost zero cost. Not to mention the small combs and cat teasers which basically never get damaged. Even for lint removers, most customers only use a few sheets to clean the hair on their bodies. Replacing a roll of lint remover only costs two dollars, but it can be rented to more than ten customers.

"Can you still sell it this way? But one dollar a time is indeed a bit cheaper."

After listening to my introduction, Pipi looked at her daughter in her arms and said, "Do you want to go see the cats?"

The little guy almost subconsciously said: "I want to!"

"Then you and mom go and look at the cat first, while dad and this sister chat here, okay?"

"it is good!"

The little guy stretched out his hands to his mother pitifully, "Mom, I want to see the cat."

"is that OK?"

The mother next to her seemed a little worried. She pointed at the ragdoll cats in the cat's living area and said, "These cats are so big. Will they bite people?"

"All the cats here are selected from various cat cafes. They have all been vaccinated in March this year. They don't run outside normally. They won't bite people unless they are hurt. Their nails are trimmed every day."

I waved my hands to reassure the mother: "If you're scared, the bigger cats in the store are the more docile they are."