I will never give in to Miss Death

Jiang Wei also ran over and said, "Honey, please set up a time-lapse burst and include all of us in the picture."

"okay."

Ye Zi slightly adjusted the angle on the camera side, then trotted over to Jiang Wei. Jiang Wei took the opportunity to hug Ye Zi in his arms, and the two of them made a scissors hand gesture to the camera in a very affectionate manner.

"Three, two, one... Eggplant!"

"..."

……

They each came out of Jiang Wei's community with their contracts in hand and got on the Xiong Xiong QQ car. When leaving the community, Xiong Xiong waved to the security guard in the security room at the door: "Uncle, we are leaving!"

The security guard who had tasted the sweetness smiled as if he had eaten honey: "Welcome to come again next time!"

"I just had a chat with your general manager, Mr. Su, and the coffee shop has a rather troublesome problem that needs to be solved."

The car drove steadily on the sparsely populated road in the Rongyao District. Xiong Xiong in front of us said as if chatting with family, "With the rise of e-commerce, people's shopping concepts have also evolved from offline to online. Although the coffee shop is doing well now, before the commercial street and the Mianyun District were established, the Nannai District was still relatively remote."

"I know this too."

I slapped someone's hand off my thigh and said, "People who ate at the restaurant this month often asked me why takeout was so expensive, that it took too long to be delivered, and that the food wasn't good enough. I hope we can have our own delivery guy."

Because the coffee shop has just been open for more than a month, many places still need "blood transfusions" from Tongmeng.com. This is not a problem in the early stage, but if in the later stage, if the store cannot guarantee turnover and achieve self-sufficiency, the situation will be very dangerous.

As a restaurant, the coffee shop's biggest source of income is naturally food sales.

Just like Xiongxiong said, the Minaminagi district is still a relatively remote area. The reason why so many people came to the restaurant to eat in the early stage was mainly because they found it novel after seeing the advertisement and came with the attitude of giving it a try. What can really retain these people is the food itself. However, if the distance is too far, most people will definitely choose a closer restaurant or takeout.

In this way, after the initial novelty wears off, people will no longer come here to eat, and sales will decline.

The "e-sports center" on the underground first floor that Su Yunjin plans to open is a solution to save sales. After all, if a person has to run dozens of kilometers just to eat, which only takes a few minutes, most people probably won't be happy about it. But if it's for playing games, for example, I want to relax on the weekend and play comfortably for eight or ten hours, then this type of person would definitely rather go farther away and have an "Internet cafe" with a beautiful environment and good service.

The coffee shop has delivery men, and some food delivery platforms have also been launched, but these delivery men are all "part-time" and may not be available at all times. In addition, the take-out platforms take too much commission, taking more than 20% of the proceeds regardless of how much is sold, plus they have to pay for delivery. Often, a coffee shop only gets 60 or 70 yuan for a product worth 100 yuan sold. In order to avoid losing money, they will definitely increase the prices of some foods.

But even so, the entire process, from placing an order to the rider getting the goods and then delivering them to the customer, takes at least thirty minutes. Those who live far away may take as long as forty or fifty minutes. Products like egg tarts and cakes will not taste right when they are delivered to the customers.

Just like Xiongxiong said, the "online" aspect is likely to become the shortcoming of coffee shops in the future.

Ouyang Xue's solution was to launch a coffee shop-exclusive ordering system and then recruit our own deliverymen, full-time ones, so that the meals could be delivered on time and not be too expensive.

Although Ouyang Xue can write the corresponding mini program and with the help of Tongmeng.com, promotion is not a problem, but considering that she has been too busy recently, if she really wants to do this, recruiting programmers and artists will take a lot of time, so she can only rely on those part-time deliverymen to deal with it for the time being.

and many more.

The "Centaur Girl" that Xiaomo mentioned to me before came to my mind.

"Xiaomo, that Dolly..."

Seeing Xiongxiong in front of me concentrating on driving, I leaned over to Yin Xiamo's ear and asked, "What does it look like? Is it usually in centaur form?"

"The Centaurs are similar to the Dragons. They can be Centaurs at ordinary times, and can transform into ordinary people if necessary. Dragons are suitable for air combat as mounts, while Centaurs are suitable for land combat."

Xiaomo explained: "You should be familiar with Filo. When she needs to, she can transform into a human-dragon form with dragon horns and wings. The same goes for the centaurs. The transformation into humans is similar to Filo. If they want to run at full speed, they can switch to the human-centaur mode."

"So you just said Dolly's mother asked little Dolly to come here... to find a job?"

I continued to ask in a low voice: "What's going on? Can the Centaurs in the other world no longer stay there?"

"It's not like we can't stay here. Centaurs are different from dragons. Dragons are the type that would lie down if they can and never fight. Centaurs are completely the opposite. Isn't there a saying here that life lies in movement? Almost all centaurs can't sit still. They want to exercise after eating. When the Demon King was still around, there were wars everywhere, so centaurs could charge into battle with humans every day. Now that the Demon King is gone and the world is at peace, not many humans are willing to lead centaurs into battle."

Yin Xiamo touched my thigh and said, "Little Dolly is a rather noisy child, full of energy. Maybe it's because Dolly told her too many stories about heroes before. When I went back, she almost pestered me to come here to play, and then Dolly asked me to help take care of little Dolly. Children of the Centaur tribe like this can't sit still... Do you know Huskies? If you keep a Husky at home and don't take it out for a run every day, the final result can only be that your home will be torn apart."

Is it so scary?

"I have an idea."

I slapped away someone's hand that was tickling my thigh again. "Can we get that Dolly to come over and do the takeaway?"

"Theoretically it should be possible."

Yin Xiamo hesitated: "That's it..."

"It's just that the human form runs a little slower?"

"No, Noer, you underestimate the Centaurs. They were the main land forces in the Demon King War. How could they be slow?"

Yin Xiamo looked at me like I was an idiot. "Even if they were in human form, their speed at full speed would be about the same as a car. I'm worried that it would be difficult to explain to ordinary people on the street."

So fast? !

"But Noer, your idea is a good one."

Yin Xiamo reached out and touched my head as if to comfort a kitten. After a moment's thought, she said, "Why don't we go find Su Yunjin or Ye Yuqing and ask them to provide us with the specific street and camera data for this city?"

"Well……"

Although I was very unhappy about being patted on the head like a kitten, I felt that it was indeed very comfortable so I did not slap Xiaomo's hand away: "You want those data... Mimi... what do you want to do?"

"If Dolly can really do this, she can install a small software on her phone to monitor the road conditions in real time. If there are no people, she can drive faster. If there are many people, she can slow down to normal speed."

“Can she really just run and deliver the food with the takeaway boxes on her back?”

I was shocked: "I thought he was riding a bicycle or something..."

"A soldier or a horse that cannot run steadily can easily be killed on the battlefield."

Yin Xiamo did not comment: "Let alone carrying a takeaway box, even if I carry Nuo'er on my back and run around the city, Nuo'er, you probably won't feel any bumps."

what……

Dolly...is she such a miraculous child?

"Anyway, let's wait until she gets here. Even with my guidance, forbidden magic isn't that easy to learn."

Yin Xiamo held me in her arms: "Before that, little Nuoer should want a kiss from her mother."

Eh?

"It always feels like you guys are discussing something extraordinary."

The driver in front turned his head and asked: "Is it something related to sex?"

"No...ah...definitely not..."

Xiaomo held me on her lap, and while I was holding up someone's face that kept coming closer, I struggled and said, "Boss Xiongxiong, how long...how long will it take to get to the comic convention?"

"It's early! We just left the Glory District. The distance from the Glory District to Shenbin Lake in the Great East District is almost the same as the entire Shenbin City."

The guy in front of me said something that made me despair: "If there's no traffic, it will take at least 20 minutes. If there are a lot of people, it's hard to say, it could take half an hour to an hour."

At this moment, I couldn't resist any more and Yin Xiamo kissed me on the face.

Then this guy was still not satisfied, and opened his mouth and took my pointed ear in his mouth.

"Alas--"

I shuddered all over: "Don't... don't make trouble, we are in the car!"

"What does it matter? We are a couple to the outside world anyway."

Yin Xiamo took the opportunity to push me down on the soft sofa: "Look at this shy Nuo'er, she must be thinking of doing something weird!"

"..."

A second before being pushed down, I saw Xiong Xiong, who was in the driving position, take out a mini cross from a box on the side.

"Holy Mary, please forgive my sins... Amen."

"..."

……

No. 272 ​​Welcome to Kamihama Yangtze River Bridge

Daito Ward in Kamihama City, like Chuo Ward, is a more "worldly" area in Kamihama City.

Although it started late due to its location at the easternmost part of the city and many public facilities are not very complete, it is indeed a very suitable place for ordinary people to live.

The housing prices here are relatively cheap, the environment is good, and there are many tourist attractions, which attracts many migrant workers and college students.

At the same time, there are the most urban villages and roadside stalls here in the city. At night, you can see all kinds of shops filling the streets, which is very friendly to the people.

Simply put, Dadong District is an "advanced version" of the Central District. There are more people here, the environment is better, and prices are lower, but the overall level of urbanization is not as good as that of the Central District.

When I was very young, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a very grand festival. Unlike now when everyone just goes home to have a simple meal and then the festival is over, our welfare home would hold many activities at that time, and the school would actually give everyone three days off to celebrate the festival. The welfare home held its Mid-Autumn Festival activities at the "Moonlight Park" in Dadong District.

The Mid-Autumn Festival at that time really had a very strong festive atmosphere. All the children in the yard had to make their own "lanterns". Some used the money they earned from part-time jobs at school to buy battery-powered lanterns, some sewed together pieces of grapefruit peels and lit a candle inside, and some went to the field to find a small pumpkin, hollowed out the middle to make it into the shape of a pumpkin head, and then put something that could glow in it, and then made a target that could be lifted by hand, and the handmade lantern was completed.

After it got dark, a group of us kids got on the wobbly train in the yard, squeaking all the way, starting from the Medicinal Plant Garden, which was not yet a Glory District at the time, along the largest road in the city, bathing in the bright moonlight above our heads, talking to our friends about interesting things that happened since school, and heading towards the city.

I still remember that the driver who was responsible for taking us kids to the Dadong District to celebrate the festival was a fat uncle. Before going into the city, he would always sing Beyond's "Glory Days", as if he was the whole world at that time.

Now, Xiaomo and I also started from the Rongyao District and headed eastward along this main road towards the Dadong District.

"Noer in her spirit state smells sweet, like fruit, and makes people want to eat her in one bite."

Since Xiongxiong was in the car, Xiaomo didn't strip me naked and eat me up like she did before. Instead, she pushed me down on the soft chair at the back of the car, grabbed my hands, and made me lie on a small pillow under the window, with an expression that said, "I just want to bully a kitten."

"It seems that Nuoer has almost adapted to this mode!"

The warm sunlight from outside the window slanted in, falling on Xiaomo's head as she lay on my belly, on her clean little face, and on my chest.

I raised my head slightly and met the eyes of the girl on me.

Those were a pair of beautiful eyes full of tenderness, which looked a little dreamy under the sunlight.

The vehicle beneath us was riding very steadily.

Through Xiaomo's clean and clear eyes, I saw the blue sky outside the car.

Xiongxiong drove his car quickly on the busy road.

You can see many street lamps standing on the roadside. Whenever we pass by these street lamps, they will block part of the sunlight above our heads, and then our windows will flicker slightly, and then be covered by sunlight again.

Twinkling, Xiaomo's beautiful eyes are like swaying clouds in the sky.

In a trance, the scene of my childhood on the way to Moonlight Park in Dadong District with my friends from the welfare home seemed to reappear in front of my eyes.

The tattered truck was shaking, and we kids were sitting on the cargo box at the back of the truck. There were big trees on both sides of the road. The Mid-Autumn Festival moon was round and big. Whenever the truck passed through the gaps between the trees, the moonlight would instantly pour down on us kids.

We each held a simple lantern, a small piece of moon cake in our hands, and had sweet dreams in the car.

For some reason, at this moment, I remembered what Lan Jiajia said to me under the moonlight at night -

[The moon is like a mascot, it can only light up at night with the help of the sun's light, but you can't say that the moon in this world has only this identity of a 'mascot'. The world is so big, at least I like the moon more, even if it only lights up everything with the help of the sun's light.]

The truck swayed and swayed, the number of children on the truck decreased every year, and the number of mooncakes we could hold increased every year.

Although the moonlight still shines through the gaps in the woods and onto the faces of us children every year.

Twinkling, just like the sun now.

"what happened?"

Perhaps sensing my gaze, the girl holding me asked with some concern, "Are you thinking about your childhood again?"

"Um……"

I stared into the girl's eyes: "I just suddenly felt that your eyes are very beautiful, Xiaomo."

"pretty?"

Probably because she didn't quite understand what I was going to say, Yin Xiamo hesitated for a moment and asked, "Did it give Nuo'er some dirty thoughts?"

"That's not it!"

I struggled a little, sat up, and turned to look out the window.

As luck would have it, at this moment we had just driven out of the Central District of Kamihama City along the ring road that runs through the three districts of Glory District, Central District, and Craftsman District, and arrived at the "Kamihama Bridge".

For Kamihama City, there are three main rivers that directly "connect" to the sea in the south of Kamihama City, so Kamihama City also has three "Kamihama Rivers" and three "Kamihama Bridges", but when it comes to the "Kamihama Bridge", almost everyone assumes that it is the one in front of us at this moment.

The Kamijuma River is the largest and longest river in Kamijuma City. It "starts" from the eastern part of Minaminagi District, runs northward along Minaminagi District, passes through the Artisan District and Chuo District, and finally reaches the Sankyo District. It also extends a "Y"-shaped river to the left and right of the Artisan District. The river on the right forms the "Kamihama Lake" in Daito District and runs through the entire Daito District.

At the entrance of the Kamihama Bridge, there is a huge plaque: [Welcome to Kamihama Yangtze River Bridge]

However, this card was not like this more than ten years ago.

More than ten years ago, the trucks from the welfare home going to Moonlight Park in Dadong District to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival would pass through this bridge every time. We children would look at this sign every year, so I know the words on it very well.

At the beginning, the sign read [Kamihama City Yangtze River Bridge Welcomes You]. Later, the word "city" was removed and a new sign was hung up.

It is said that some foreigners who did not speak Mandarin very well came to visit Kamihama City and would always say when they saw this sign: "Is your mayor Jiang Daqiao? He is so famous. I can see his name every time I go up the bridge."