After agreeing with Ei and the others on the time for the next lesson, Su Yu also left the Cooking Club.
Walking along the spacious road, Su Yu’s mood was exceptionally beautiful.
With grain in hand, the heart is not panicked.
Su Yu knew just how much profit Sanguosha, if handled properly, could bring him.
But…
having him personally bustle about still didn’t quite suit the identity of Lord Su.
After all, I’m at least the teacher of the school director’s sister now!
Not long after walking, Su Yu thought of a person, a girl who by rights should have been rich enough to rival a nation, but now kept hitting walls, unable to make any headway in business.
That’s right, the one Su Yu had in mind was Ningguang.
According to his intelligence and the information he’d gathered, the current Ningguang was, like him, a first-year, also actively working hard to do some business in her spare time, but it seemed to be perpetually lukewarm.
Though, that seemed only normal, right!
If a student could be like a fish in water in business without neglecting their studies, that would truly be heaven-defying.
But Su Yu believed Ningguang was that heaven-defying person.
She just hadn’t managed to smoothly take the first step, that’s all.
Hmph hmph, when it came to making money, probably few could stand shoulder to shoulder with Ningguang.
He was now going to seize the moment while Ningguang’s wings were still unfledged to offer a timely helping hand — to be Ningguang’s angel investor!
“It’s just that Ningguang and I don’t know each other.
If I suddenly go over and get straight to the point, it might make her wary.
Mm, it’s decided then.
Go find Xianyun to help make an introduction.
Hopefully she hasn’t left yet.”
Thinking this, Su Yu rushed without stopping to Xianyun’s office.
…
The rooftop of the Academy’s main building.
Two tall girls, one with white hair and one with black hair, sat on chairs with worried expressions.
“Ningguang, can you not be so gloomy?
We’re still students now.
Being able to figure out our studies is already good enough.
You study so well, after graduating, whether you go to some big corporation or start your own business, you’ll have sufficient resources.
Don’t be so impatient.”
“Look at me, I failed three subjects and I’m still perfectly fine, eating and drinking well, walking briskly.
“Aiya, Ningguang, say something!
Don’t make me wear my lips out here!
Like this, even I’m getting worried along with you!”
A black-haired girl with a full, robust voice chattered ceaselessly at the white-haired girl beside her, and the eyepatch symmetrical to Kaeya’s was shaken down three parts by her voice.
“Beidou, I know you’re trying to console me, but I really want to make money too much.
Waiting from first year through fourth year until graduation, I can’t wait that long.
But if you say I should drop out and give up such abundant resources here, that won’t do either.
Sigh, it’s so hard.”
“I was originally fairly confident in my business talent, but after failing so many times I’ve started to doubt myself.
If this continues, how will my dream ever be realized…”
Somewhat dispirited, Ningguang mustered a bit of energy to respond to her friend.
She was not a person of weak will, nor one of three-minute passion.
Every business attempt of hers was not without method.
Every time she personally went to survey the site and did thorough research, yet the results seemed as if fate were playing a joke on her.
For example, most recently, she had painstakingly researched the taste preferences of most residents on a street, and deduced that selling jianbing guozi at the street corner would be a good choice.
Later, to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous times, she even rented a stall at a rather expensive price to test the waters.
The result was naturally a smashing success.
Even though the time she set up the stall wasn’t much, she could still earn over a thousand Mora during the periods when students went to and from school and office workers commuted.
After testing for a few weeks and finding it indeed feasible, she prepared to start buying the stall, machines, and legal stall permit.
An ordinary person definitely wouldn’t think of going to such trouble.
Renting a stall to earn some extra money would be enough.
But she, Ningguang, would not be satisfied with just that.
Not to mention that if she set up stall here too long, others would imitate her to grab a share of the pie, and she couldn’t watch it 24 hours a day, so inevitably a considerable portion of the business would be snatched away.
Even more so, her aim was not pocket money.
What she wanted was to use this stall as a starting point, as a continuous supply of funds to support her other plans.
Afterward, as long as she hired a few people to keep selling when she wasn’t there, striving to win repeat customers, and finally rent a commercial shop here, to grow bigger and stronger, flourishing day by day.
But ideas are beautiful, and reality is cruel.
This time, her ambitious, confident plan, all of it, was, right after she’d just bought all kinds of equipment and completed all kinds of paperwork, crushed the very next day like dry weeds. This story is hosted at novelping(.)com.
A milk tea shop at the street corner, in order to expand its business, also started offering options like jianbing guozi and multigrain pancakes.
Because her stall’s standing was still shallow, and combined with that shop’s deliberate price-cutting and long-standing reputation, Ningguang lost and could only withdraw.
She had calculated everything, but just hadn’t calculated that a milk tea shop could steal her jianbing guozi business.
She could only rely on her experience from many failures, sell the stall, and barely break even.
From then on, Ningguang truly began to doubt whether she was cut out for business…
“Don’t worry, Ningguang.
How about this time I help you start a business together.”
Of course Beidou wouldn’t watch Ningguang wallow in despair, and she even rarely said words about going all out with her.
And Ningguang naturally knew Beidou wasn’t just speaking polite words.
She was touched, of course she was, but she refused.
“No, Beidou.
Have you forgotten the time before last when you came to help me sell goods, I had you watch the shop for half an hour, and you lost me two days’ worth of capital…”
“Cough cough, is that so, there was such a thing, I’ve forgotten all about it.
Ahaha, right, aren’t we going to have class soon, which class is it again?”
“It’s cooking!”
Seeing her friend’s clumsy topic change, Ningguang’s mood improved quite a bit, and she continued:
“Then let’s try once more.
But this time I need to carefully study where to start, and I also need to take on a part-time job to properly save up a batch of initial capital.”
“To be honest, if I had sufficient funds, I might not necessarily have lost this snack stall price war.”
Ningguang didn’t have enough time, couldn’t devote herself fully, was rather impatient, and her originally accumulated funds weren’t enough for her to fully stretch her abilities, and in dealing with unexpected events, from beginning to end she was bound hand and foot.
Truly a case of being thwarted in her ambitions.
“By the way, Ningguang, I saw in the phone group chat that our cooking teacher today asked for leave, and the one coming is a substitute.
I heard they’re even the same age as us.”
With the Academy’s high standards and strict requirements, of course there wouldn’t be a phenomenon of random substituting.
That is to say, this new substitute teacher is someone with real substance.
Thinking this, Ningguang gently patted her cheeks, as if that could make her more clear-headed:
“Let’s go, let’s see our substitute teacher with our own eyes.”
“Hey!
Ningguang, can’t you pat your own face when you pat faces!
And here I was worried about you just now!”
The two girls roughhoused a bit, then went downstairs to prepare in advance.