novelraw Chapter 407 : Cunning Businessman
Chapter 407 : Cunning Businessman
Chapter 407: Cunning Businessman
Seeing Su Ruochu's hesitation, Chen Fan smiled and said, "We've finished the exams anyway, let's go have some fun together."
"I'll take you to see Guo-zi's bar while we're at it. You haven't been there yet, right?"
Su Ruochu was a bit surprised: "Guo Shuai's bar?"
Guo Shuai quickly said, "It's a bar I opened with Brother Fan. No, I'm just working for Brother Fan."
Chen Fan glanced at Guo Shuai and explained to Su Ruochu with a smile, "This guy had trouble finding a job, so to keep an eye on him, I put up the money for him to open a bar. He's in charge of the day-to-day operations and management."
Su Ruochu became interested and turned to look at Guo Shuai.
"Is your bar chaotic?"
Guo Shuai shook his head repeatedly.
"No, of course not."
"Then I'll go with you guys tonight."
"Hey, we have live singing at our bar at night too. Come on, let's go eat first."
Getting into the car, Guo Shuai suggested with a smile, "I know a Sichuan restaurant that's really good. Can you two handle spicy food?"
Chen Fan knew Su Ruochu could handle spicy food, so he smiled and said, "Since you're treating, you decide where we go."
"By the way, where's your girlfriend? Call her out to eat with us. Su Ruochu hasn't met her yet."
Guo Shuai grinned sheepishly, "Wouldn't it be awkward to call her when it's just the three of us eating?"
"What's awkward about that?"
Su Ruochu pouted, "Guo Shuai, you don't respect women."
"No, no, sister-in-law, that's too serious an accusation. I wouldn't dare."
Guo Shuai took out his phone, "I'll call her right now."
"It's mainly because Miaomiao has a performance tonight, she usually sleeps in the afternoon. But she should be awake by now."
Chen Fan explained to Su Ruochu with a smile, "This guy found himself a very beautiful girlfriend. She's usually the resident singer at their bar."
"Really?" Su Ruochu became interested, "Guo Shuai, will your girlfriend be singing tonight? I haven't heard her sing yet."
Guo Shuai laughed, "She will! Of course she will! Even if she's not scheduled to perform, I'll have her sing for you if you want to hear her, sister-in-law."
When Guo Shuai drove the car to the Sichuan restaurant, his girlfriend Miaomiao had already arrived.
They reserved a private room and ordered some dishes.
After briefly introducing the two beautiful women to each other, Miaomiao smiled and handed the menu to Su Ruochu.
"I've already ordered some dishes. Take a look and see if there's anything else you'd like to add."
Su Ruochu looked at the menu and then looked up at Chen Fan.
"We've already ordered quite a bit. Why don't we start with these?"
Guo Shuai across the table smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't need to save money for me. You two are the stars today, we must eat well."
So Su Ruochu looked at Chen Fan, and Chen Fan said,
"Let's stick with these for now. We can order more if it's not enough."
Soon the food arrived, and Guo Shuai ordered a bottle of Wuliangye liquor and asked what the two ladies wanted to drink.
Miaomiao said beer, then looked up at Su Ruochu.
Su Ruochu nodded.
"I'll have beer too, but I can only drink a little."
Chen Fan looked at Guo Shuai across the table with a smile.
"You've got more face than me. She usually doesn't drink with me at home."
Guo Shuai had already told Miaomiao about Chen Fan's situation privately.
The owner of the largest club in Yunhai, plus two internet cafes and an internet company.
The recently popular game was also developed by his company, bringing in tens of millions of yuan from the game alone every month.
So Miaomiao was very polite to Chen Fan and even more enthusiastic towards Su Ruochu.
In her view, her and Guo Shuai's future might depend entirely on this young man sitting in front of them.
With Miaomiao's active and warm conversation, Su Ruochu had a very good impression of her.
However, she couldn't help but think of Guo Shuai's previous girlfriend, Liu Lingling.
Guo Shuai had even gone to jail for her.
Originally, she thought they would end up together.
But unexpectedly, things turned out the way they did.
Looking at Miaomiao across the table again.
Although this girl didn't have the naivety and innocence of girls from school, and was even full of the shrewdness and smoothness that comes from navigating society,
To be honest, Su Ruochu had a good impression of Miaomiao.
She was a smart girl who had been through hardships.
Most importantly, Su Ruochu could see that Miaomiao genuinely liked Guo Shuai.
Perhaps they were the most suitable for each other.
Su Ruochu glanced secretly at Chen Fan, thinking that Chen Fan probably saw this long ago, which is why he brought her out to meet them.
After dinner, the four of them returned to the bar together.
This was Su Ruochu's first time coming to Glorious Years.
At this time, the bar had just opened for business, and there weren't too many customers yet.
There was no deafening music, no dim lighting, and no rowdy crowd dancing wildly.
Su Ruochu's impression of this place was quite good.
Understanding Su Ruochu's personality, Chen Fan specifically found a relatively quiet booth.
Guo Shuai waved over a bartender to bring a case of beer and some fruit platters.
Miaomiao stood up to excuse herself.
"I'm sorry, I need to go backstage to prepare. I have to go on stage to sing in a while."
Su Ruochu smiled and said, "Looking forward to your performance later."
After Miaomiao left, Guo Shuai and Chen Fan each took a bottle of beer and chatted casually.
Chen Fan looked around and asked with a smile, "Changed the style?"
Guo Shuai grinned, "I thought your suggestion last time was pretty good."
"There are too many bars on this street, so I might as well change the style and focus on the quiet bar concept. This way, at least we can attract some customers who don't like noisy places."
"You know what, since changing the style, the business has actually been better than before."
"And we have more repeat customers. Most of the customers who come are urban white-collar types..."
Guo Shuai gave Chen Fan a thumbs up: "As expected of Brother Fan, your business acumen is really impressive."
Su Ruochu looked at Chen Fan with a smile, feeling proud.
As a girlfriend, what she loved most was when others admired and praised her boyfriend.
Soon, the lights in the hall dimmed, and then several spotlights shone down, illuminating the small stage in the center of the hall.
All the customers knew that the performance was about to begin.
So everyone lowered their voices.
Miaomiao, who had changed into a new outfit, came on stage carrying a guitar.
After sitting down and tuning for a few notes, she began to sing acapella.
She sang a slow English song that Chen Fan had never heard before. The key was that the melody was very good, and coupled with Miaomiao's nice voice, even though it was an English song, she still received quite a bit of applause from the audience when she finished.
Guo Shuai looked over proudly.
"How about that? My wife is amazing, right?"
Chen Fan smiled and gave a thumbs up, then waved over a waiter.
"How much are the flowers?"
"Sir, it's 10 yuan for a bouquet of flowers."
Chen Fan took out his wallet, "Send 100 bouquets of flowers to the singer on stage."
He smiled at Guo Shuai and said, "Consider it a gift from me and Su Ruochu."
Guo Shuai had a wry smile, "Brother Fan, do you even need to pay? The whole place is yours."
Chen Fan smiled, "That won't do. We need to maintain the sense of ceremony."
Seeing Su Ruochu's confusion, Guo Shuai explained, "The flower-giving segment was also Brother Fan's idea last time."
"He said it could stimulate consumption."
"You know what, since we introduced this flower-giving segment, our daily profits have increased significantly."
"Especially some tipsy bosses, they're really generous when it comes to spending money."
"A few days ago, two big bosses were competing for attention and each sent several hundred roses to the female singer on stage."
Guo Shuai grinned, "I was so happy I almost went crazy."
"We can even recycle the flowers and use them again later."
Su Ruochu looked at Chen Fan helplessly and muttered,
"Cunning businessman!"
Chen Fan smiled wryly.
"Wife, this isn't being a cunning businessman. This is called accurately capturing user needs."
"Look, they spent money, sent flowers, expressed their appreciation for the beautiful singer, and showed off in front of a large crowd. They got what they wanted both in terms of face and substance, and we made money too."
"It's a win-win situation."