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Chapter 110 An Angel Comes to the World

Yue Renge was washing the dishes.

Adhering to the principle of fair labor, Yue Renge, whose ten fingers are not in the sun, insists on taking back the right to wash dishes.Li Mu couldn't compete with him, so he let him go. After 3 minutes, a soup spoon was unexpectedly broken, Li Mu sighed, and the two of them hurriedly cleaned it up for a long time, feeling that it was more troublesome than doing it by themselves.

Li Mu was not idle either, and cleaned up all the garbage that had accumulated at home in the past few days.

"I have to go to the store later," Yue Renge said while flushing the bowl absently, "There are a lot of wine and fruits that need to be disposed of. Most of the things can be stored for a long time, but some of them are approaching the expiration date, and there is no need to keep them." use."

Li Mu tied up the newspapers neatly and asked, "How many are there?"

"Wine... There should be more than a dozen bottles, all opened before." Yue Renge thought for a while, "There should be a small basket of fruits."

Seeing Li Mu's expression of regret, Yue Renge couldn't help showing off his face, "What's the matter?"

"It's a pity, I mean, it's a waste." Li Mu said.He only knew that shop rent and employee wages are an expense, while the waste of raw materials is another loss that cannot be ignored.The shelf life of the wine may be longer, and the spoilage of the fruit is more rapid.Now that there is no business, these ingredients can only be wasted.

Li Mu has always been used to being frugal, so he can't see such waste.

"That can't be helped." Yue Renge said, "No one wants to give away these things..."

Suddenly, Li Mu remembered something.He grabbed Yue Renge's hand suddenly, "Yes! Someone will want it!"

Yue Renge was a little frightened by him, and for a moment he didn't care that the other party grabbed his hand, he just asked in a daze, "What?"

"...Is your idea feasible?"

Yue Renge leaned on the co-pilot, a little hesitant.

"I didn't know how to use a machine before," Li Mu said while driving, "You haven't tried it, so why do you say it doesn't work? Anyway, things are always lost, why don't you use it to test the waters."

Li Mu wanted to use the batch of drinks and fruits that were approaching the expiration date to make pre-mixed cocktails.

Pre-mixed cocktails are very common on the market, they are those alcoholic drinks of various flavors packaged in cans - in Yue Renge's opinion, the alcohol content of these things is not high, and there may be more additives than alcohol, in terms of quality Certainly not as good as the freshly made cocktails sold in the store.

But there's a market for these premixed cocktails, and it's not small.After all, it can be mass-produced, and at the same time meet the needs of people with different tastes, and most importantly, it is cheap.

Li Mu said: "...I saw some small canned food in the store. Did you want to make canned wine before? Oh, I see. It must be because the employees didn't know how to use this machine before, and the business was good. people to study. So... I can only let you do it yourself."

Being poked all of a sudden, Yue Renge was a little unhappy, but what Li Mu said was the truth after all.He nodded helplessly, "That's the case."

"I thought this idea was my original idea." Li Mu smiled, "It turns out that heroes have the same views. Now that the technical barriers no longer exist, what we have to do now is to put this idea into reality. I Seeing that the can is not big, it is similar to the meat sauce cans on the market, so we can fill a few more cans, I calculated the cost...it seems to be okay."

Yue Renge poured cold water on him, "I thought so too at first, but how cheap is the price of premixed cocktails? Even if we do this, how can the products we launch compete with them for customer base? And we can't mass-produce them... ..."

Li Mu parked the car in the backyard of the bar, raised his hand to cover Yue Renge's chattering lips.

"Hush." ​​Li Mu said with a smile, "Have you heard of 3D printers?"

With his lips covered by him, Yue Renge blinked his eyes in confusion, his warm breath sprayed on Li Mu's fingers, Li Mu's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he retracted his hand.

“Why make high-cost, low-yield products when you can mass-produce simple, low-cost products? What’s the difference between them? Are they really for the same customer base? "

“It’s undeniable that a martini customer might have some cocktails and beer in cans in their fridge at home. But if it’s just the supermarket stuff, they’ll feel lonely.”

Li Mu looked at Yue Renge blinking his eyes slowly, and thought to himself, his eyes are really beautiful.

But obviously now is not the time to be distracted by the beauty of the other party.Li Mu cleared his throat and continued: "What we have to face is still the original customer base. The product features we want to display are not low prices, but high quality that matches the price."

"high quality……"

"Yes, this is the route we want to take. Of course, the price should not be too high. Didn't you teach me? What we sell is not only wine, but also our philosophy and service. This is our philosophy and service: In difficult times, help the customers to come out, and help us to come out." Li Mu closed his eyes and thought for a while, "It's about two-thirds of the original price. After deducting the cost, we sell a can of wine for every At least a dozen or 20 yuan profit."

More than ten yuan, 20 yuan, doesn't sound like much.But if the accumulation of soil becomes a mountain, or a trickle becomes a river, it will be better than sitting still and waiting for death.

"Of course, we still have a lot of problems to solve. For example, the problem of publicity, the problem of delivery, yes, and the problem of the shelf life of cocktails." Li Mu opened the door and got out of the car. It's starting to get warmer.

"There must be a lot of problems, and after solving one, new problems will arise. I dare not say that my plan must be perfect. To be honest, I don't have any idea right now." He turned to look at Yue Renge, "But Even so, I wanted to give it a try."

He stretched out his hand to Yue Renge, "Would you... come with me?"

Even though we are no longer lovers, we are still best friends walking side by side on this road.

These days, Li Mu has been thinking about why he came back.Songs for Yue people are not all songs for Yue people.Huadu is the place where his dreams started, even if he wants to leave one day, it must be for some other reason, not because of a broken relationship.

Yue Renge looked at Li Mu, who was shining brightly in the sun, and after a while, patted his palm on Li Mu's, "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Let's go."

Everything is difficult at the beginning... The two spent an hour counting the fruit and wine that needed to be dealt with urgently. The amount was not a lot, but it was not a small amount when converted into cash.

"In the past, we used to purchase some consumables on a yearly basis, which may be accurate to the month or even the week." Yue Renge said with emotion, "We don't have much inventory, and many bars have made rough budgets. This time it is estimated that It's a big loss."

Li Mu nodded and looked out the window.Red lanterns have been hung in the nearby streets, and red decorative belts have been drawn along the street, and the New Year is coming soon.

New Year is different from Spring Festival.Huadu is a first-tier city with a large number of migrants and young people. During the New Year, everyone likes to stay here, and of course there are many tourists from other places.At this time of the past, the bar business is the most prosperous, and many bars will start to hold various activities, and the merchants are working hard to make a fortune at this time.

Li Mu knew that what Yue Renge said was true.

He took a deep breath, "Five bottles of rum from Kaifeng, six bottles of vodka, eight bottles of whiskey and eight bottles of gin each. Three bottles of vermouth, more than twenty lemons, and a dozen oranges."

These are wines that are intended to be used up by the end of the year according to the original plan.Once the wine is opened, the shelf life will be greatly shortened and must be used up as soon as possible.

"Now we have a hundred empty cans." Yue Renge said, "We can make a few first."

"Where's the wine list?" Li Mu asked him.

"Wine list?" Yue Renge was stunned for a moment, but immediately realized, "Yeah, we should have a wine list too."

How long has it been since you went to Zhengerbajing to design a wine list?Li Mu vaguely remembered that they had just returned from Burgundy, and they were very busy at that time, even the latest season's wine list was delayed for a week before being designed.And not long after, the relationship between them broke down, and then Li Mu resigned, and Dionysia quickly became his past.

Yeah, need a wine list.

The wine list is the concentration of the soul of this season. When Li Mu was still working at Dionysia, his favorite thing was to participate in the design of the wine list.

Yue Renge searched here and there, found a notebook, and a signature pen, "I think... it doesn't have to be as rich as before, and the classic models are the first. You know, those big fashion brands rely on the classic models to win the world. .”

Li Mu nodded with a smile.

"I want a martini..." Yue Renge wrote wildly on the paper, "What else? Well, whiskey sour is also good..." Yue Renge had a rare serious attitude when thinking about problems, and Li Mu's favorite , it is precisely his frown when he is distressed, and the uncontrollable joy when he is connected.

"Let's add Thyme's wine list to it." Li Mu suggested, "I heard that Thyme has a good reputation for some baijiu cocktails. If they can launch ready-to-drink versions this time, they should be very popular."

Yue Renge stopped writing and said with a smile, "Who did you hear that from?"

Li Mu was a little embarrassed and scratched his head, "Taxi driver."

The two looked at each other and smiled, Yue Renge said: "You treat me like a child." But they still wrote on the wine list: Jasmine.

"Molly?" Li Mu tilted his head and leaned over to look, "What is this?"

"This is Thyme's signature wine." Yue Renge said, "It's a double base wine cocktail with baijiu added. Liang Chuangan and I have been working together for a long time before launching it. He also likes it..."

Hearing Liang Chuan's name suddenly, both of them smiled, and felt a little sad after laughing.Yue Renge slapped his forehead, "I remember I brought all those white wines here... Wait, I'll make it for you. The taste is still very good."

"Did you start drinking so early?" Li Mu asked with a smile.He sat on the high chair, the sun fell on his face, and there was a golden halo on the fur.

Yue Renge suddenly had an illusion, could it be that this is an angel descending into the world?

He once loved him so fiercely, and once pushed him away mercilessly.Perhaps this is fate, and fate prevents their fate from being cut off here.So Li Mu came back, and came back to overcome this difficulty with him.

Yue Renge felt sour in his heart, but also a little sweet, and then it was slightly bitter and spicy again.He is a person with a conscience, knowing that the other party has been hurt by him, he dare not put himself in a high position.Li Mu's presence was already a kind of gift.

No matter what, it is a kind of happiness now.Yue Renge shook the wine list in his hand, "It's rare to be a little happy today, so why not treat yourself?"

--------The author says------------

Cat Mom: The idea of ​​making premixed cocktails is based on the practice of Guangzhou Miaoqian Ice Room.They launched canned ready-to-drink cocktails during the epidemic, which is a typical representative of the industry's self-help.But I don’t have too much reference to the reality when describing the epidemic. I may integrate the situation at various stages, including a series of measures to face the epidemic. It may not fit too closely with reality, and maybe it will There will be some places that are not in line with the logic of reality, please do not spray.