bookrebus Chapter 210 The truth hidden in Pinhui Commercial Street
Chapter 210 The truth hidden in Pinhui Commercial Street
When they arrived at Qianpinhui Commercial Street, the closest to Happiness Island, Yun Bai and his three companions found that it was indeed very busy. This commercial street was also the main civilian route, so most of the people who came here were ordinary people - although they didn't have many spirit coins in their pockets, there were really a lot of people.
Yun Bai was still protected by Xiao Hua and the other two. She intentionally turned on the "monitoring" function and increased the coverage to the maximum. Then she heard all kinds of spiritual transmissions. For a moment, it was noisy and even more annoying than ten thousand flies buzzing at the same time. If Yun Bai's soul had not been extremely powerful, she would probably not be able to hold on for long before being driven to collapse by the noise. Now, Yun Bai can easily find the content that interests her from a large number of mixed transmissions, but so far, she has not found anything special.
The four of them followed the crowd and wandered the streets, occasionally going into stores to look around and buying some small items. They soon discovered an interesting phenomenon - there were so many customers coming to buy things, and many people were even scrambling to buy cheap goods. Yes, it was like they were not spending spiritual coins, and they almost snatched them. But the strange thing was that the business was so good, the store owners should be very happy, but most of the store owners - especially the owners - did not look happy, and some were even forcing a smile.
One of them was the owner of a spiritual weapon store, who even hid in the backstage, watching customers rushing to buy while sighing helplessly.
This detail immediately caught the attention of the four people. They exchanged glances, then temporarily squeezed out of the store and came to a fruit drink shop that was also crowded. They finally found a place to sit down in the corner, spent a low-grade spirit coin, and bought four cups of rainbow red fruit juice.
"One spirit coin can actually buy four cups. Brother, sister, and Brother Mu, try it and see if they're cutting corners." Xiaohua said to the three of them with suspicion, while using her arms to protect the fruit drink cup on the table to prevent it from being knocked over by several butts pushing over.
The three of them were also incredulous. A cup of Rainbow Zhu Juice cost one low-grade spirit coin of two cents. Normally, such juice would cost at least two spirit coins per cup. And they only spent one eighth of the price to buy it. How could this be possible? Zhao Hongshan and Mu Yun tasted it first. The taste was mellow and not worse than the normal price. Yun Bai also tasted it and got the same answer. Isn't this a big loss?
As they walked along, they found that other shops were in the same situation. The prices were ridiculously cheap. If they continued to sell like this for three days, the owners would probably cry for the loss!
"No wonder the owner of the spiritual weapon shop sighed just now, and no wonder the employees can't laugh anymore." Xiaohua said with emotion. Yun Bai asked her to do this. Xiaohua's voice was too loud, and she always forgot things, so she just let Xiaohua send telepathy to everyone, so as not to disturb others, and she didn't have to worry about some words being heard by others.
"Logically speaking, this kind of activity won't last too long, otherwise it will be really damaging. Moreover, as the organizer, we should give some subsidies to the merchants, otherwise it would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs and using them as cannon fodder?" Mu Yun said thoughtfully. His words were also recognized by the other three. But at this time, the voice transmission of the owner and the staff of the fruit drink shop reached Yun Bai's mind.
"Hey, if we keep losing money like this, our store will close down sooner or later!"
"Boss, can't we think of other ways? For example, promote certain drinks and sell other drinks at normal prices, or pair the promotional drinks with some more expensive fruits or snacks?"
"You know, we are not allowed to do this!"
"But isn't this just watching us go bankrupt? How can our small business afford such a loss? They are so heartless. They forced us to hold an event, but let us bear the losses ourselves, and didn't even compensate us with a single spirit coin! They also threatened us that if we close the store and move to another place, we will not have peace! They also want to ban us! This is not making spirit coins together, this is just a pit of fire that we can't jump out of!"
"Boss, if it really doesn't work, let's just add less ingredients, so we can lose less money..."
"No! This shop was opened by my grandfather for more than 200 years, and he has never cut corners! Even if he goes bankrupt, we can't break this rule!"
At this point, the boss began to sigh, and the eyes of the two young girls turned red. Yun Bai also thoroughly understood the difficult situation of the shops here. I really didn't expect that Qianpinhui would be so black-hearted and cruel. In order to suppress their opponents, they actually didn't care about the lives of the merchants. In the eyes of those high-ranking wealthy families, are these small business owners ants? They keep them just to cut leeks, and ruthlessly abandon them when they are no longer useful, and then replace them with new ones? !
Yun Bai became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. At the same time, she was deeply moved by the shop owner's adherence to the bottom line of business. She looked back at the sighing shop owner and suddenly felt disgusted with the noisy and bustling environment. She frowned and said to her friends, "Let's go. It's too noisy here."
The other three people noticed that Yun Bai seemed to be in a bad mood, and they themselves did not like such a noisy eating environment, so they protected Yun Bai and squeezed out of the fruit drink shop.
Although they already knew the truth, to be on the safe side, the four of them still walked around the entire commercial street, and saw almost identical false prosperity and the sad faces of the shop owners in the face of this prosperity.
Afterwards, the four of them went to two other Qianpinhui commercial streets where events were about to be held and received the same answer. They also heard the complaints and grumblings of two spiritual chefs near the back kitchen of a spiritual food restaurant, which confirmed their guess - Qianpinhui really does not take the lives of these small shops seriously!
After learning the truth, Yun Bai and the other three were surprised and angry. However, knowing the truth was only the first step. The key was how to deal with Qianpinhui's shameless behavior, give them a head-on blow, and at the same time, help a group of small shops that were already in trouble.
The four of them barely managed to finish a not very tasty meal at this spiritual food restaurant - this restaurant had obviously begun to reduce the number and quantity of dishes. The ingredients were also of inferior quality, and even with the strong seasoning, the taste was still not good. Yun Bai, Mu Yun and Zhao Hongshan all found the food difficult to swallow, but fortunately Xiaohua was never picky about food, as long as she was full, she was fine. So she finished the battle in a flash. Then they left.
Anyway, I haven't thought of any countermeasures for the time being, so I might as well go back and tell Grandpa Hua, Yuan Ye and others about the situation, and then invite Uncle Master Liu Xiang and Uncle Master Zhang Pingshan to discuss it with them. Maybe we can come up with some good ideas.
As soon as the four of them left the commercial street, they met the "leader" of Qianpinhui who came to inspect the work. What surprised Yun Bai and his friends was that they actually met an acquaintance here!