dtnovels Chapter 495 Gap
Chapter 495 Gap
Lin Qingping didn't know what time the father and daughter sang until they went to sleep, but she slept quite well.
The island was good, and the capital, their original home, was also good.
When I woke up, the house was quiet, without a sound.
She went outside and saw that no one was in the living room.
Where can I go?
After searching upstairs and downstairs, they found the father and daughter in the second-younger sister's room on the second floor.
The second sister's room, although reserved for her after the house was bought, she hardly ever stayed there. After going abroad, the bed was always empty.
Fortunately, Gu Youlian had cleaned the place thoroughly beforehand, and Gu Juncheng had even made the bed last night. The father and daughter were sleeping soundly right now.
Lin Qingping didn't bother them and went to her older sister's house.
She has a lot to take care of on this trip back, and she has to do them one by one.
I had breakfast at my older sister's place and brought two portions back for Gu Juncheng and Zhiyuan. While eating breakfast, I also listened to Gu Youlian and Sister Zhao's report about the dessert shop.
"Although business is not bad, more and more stores are imitating us, which makes me feel a lot of pressure," the older woman said.
Lin Qingping nodded, "You know, the things we sell aren't difficult to make, so they're easy to imitate. We need to stick to two things for our business to last. First, quality. We absolutely cannot lower our quality or reduce costs just because others offer lower prices or imitate us. Second, we must keep launching new products. Gu Juncheng has 20 days off, so I'll teach you some new products during that time."
Actually, the dessert shop business was just a small-scale operation, but in this era, it was considered quite wealthy. In my previous life, there was a brand that opened directly operated stores all over the country, but it eventually declined...
However, we shouldn't think about the decline now; we can always transform ourselves later.
Her mind was preoccupied with the various types of shops, and she didn't notice Gu Youlian's hesitant expression. After finishing breakfast, she packed up the portion for Gu Juncheng and his son and went home.
Just then, Gu Juncheng got up.
Lin Qingping burst out laughing again when she saw him, remembering how he sang nursery rhymes last night.
"What are you laughing at?" Gu Juncheng asked, looking quite pleased with himself, as he took the breakfast from her hands.
Lin Qingping circled around him, clicking her tongue and saying, "I wonder what the soldiers on the island will think when they hear you sing 'Flowers Smile at You'?"
Gu Juncheng raised his chin high. "What kind of reaction is that? A bunch of single guys, what else can they do but envy?"
Lin Qingping: ...
You're so smug! It's only because you're a superior officer that you're so arrogant; otherwise, you would have gotten a beating long ago!
The seemingly lazy and unassuming Master Gu appears to have turned a new page in his life.
Because he could finally soothe his precious daughter! His little darling not only stopped crying in his arms, but also smiled at him!
So he went to knock on the door and woke Zhiyuan up, wanting to show off this glorious deed once again!
"Alright, I can't take it anymore. Hurry up, I have a lot of things to do today. Since you can coax Zhangzhu, then take Zhangzhu and come out with me. Do you have time?" She was utterly speechless at Gu Juncheng's current state.
"Yes!" He came back purely for a vacation.
"And what about you? What are you doing?" Lin Qingping asked Zhiyuan again.
Zhiyuan ate the steamed bun in big bites, and after swallowing it, he said, "I'm going to go see Little Round Face!"
"Okay!" Lin Qingping nodded. The friendship between these kids is really long-lasting.
Lin Qingping is going to check out those cake shops.
After Gu Juncheng finished eating, Zhangzhu woke up. The couple changed her clothes and made full preparations before setting off.
Before going to the cake shop, Lin Qingping did not notify anyone. Mainly, she was taking care of a two-month-old baby, and the timing was very uncertain. Moreover, given her relationship with Director Tang and He Qiancheng, why would she need to notify them?
The cake shop has now opened several more stores.
She went to the first one that year.
The store is no longer the same size as it was back then. Although this store is the flagship store, it is not large because it was the first store. Therefore, the office is not located here. All of this was planned by Lin Qingping, Factory Director Tang, and He Qiancheng.
When she arrived at the shop, there were three young girls inside, who were employees hired by He Qiancheng and were usually in charge of selling cakes.
As soon as Lin Qingping entered the store, a girl came up to greet her and politely asked her what she wanted.
She was just about to ask He Qiancheng and the others if they were coming to the store today when her eyes darted around and she noticed a girl picking through the bread on the shelf.
If she hadn't been wearing a shop assistant's uniform, Lin Qingping would have thought she was a customer, because the girl had put all the bread and cakes she had picked up into a bag.
Judging from the timing and the variety of items on the shelves, these breads and cakes were all delivered today, so there's no possibility that they've expired or been taken off the shelves.
She then picked up a piece of bread and looked at it; sure enough, it was today's date.
She fell silent, smiled at the girl who had greeted her, and said, "I'll take a look myself."
“Okay, just call me if you need anything.” The girl also handed her a tray and a pair of tongs, letting her choose.
Lin Qingping runs her shop with a post-millennium concept. Everything in the shop is different from the style of shops in this era. From packaging to ingredients, everything is subject to very strict requirements.
One particularly important point was that she insisted that all cream must be made from animal-derived cream. To this end, she also established a long-term cooperative relationship with Gu Juncheng, a comrade-in-arms from Inner Mongolia who had helped her during her most difficult time—all dairy products were sourced from their company.
However, she discovered that the store was no longer using animal-based cream, but had switched to vegetable-based cream.
The ingredient list doesn't even mention this; it still lists animal-based cream. But who is she? How could she not tell?
In this day and age, people generally don't understand the difference between animal and vegetable cream. But if customers don't understand, do you think shop owners don't? She emphasized so many times before she left that quality control must be strictly enforced!
Looking further, wow, she asked for chocolate, but the store used cocoa butter substitute.
The more I watched, the angrier I became.
In short, she always insisted on using the best ingredients, and basically replaced all the ingredients in the store.
However, the annual report given to her was still written very beautifully.
As she was looking around, the girl who was picking out bread and cakes filled a large bag and then started talking, "Why didn't you send over pineapple buns today? My family loves pineapple buns the most."
It turns out that the girl actually took the food from the store back home for her family to eat?
Carrying such a huge bag?!
"The pineapple buns won't arrive until the afternoon," another girl replied.
So, the other two employees knew the girl was taking it home to eat? And they didn't stop her? Do they all take it like that? Or did they just turn a blind eye?
"Are you really not taking it?" the man asked.
The other two girls fell silent.
"How foolish, why not take it if it's free?"
This person even started making fun of him?
Who on earth is doing this so blatantly?