Wang Shaohua was also thinking about the same thing as his wife Su Yuehua.
He works in a government agency, has a large amount of information, and can judge things more accurately than Su Yuehua. Although it has just passed 2001, the domestic economic situation has not benefited ordinary workers. On the contrary, it has been workers in recent years. During the most painful period, workers' treatment in the past was second only to that of cadres. They received state wages, commercial grain, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and were very well paid. They were known as the iron rice bowl.
However, after the reform of state-owned enterprises in the past few years, state-owned enterprises have laid off employees one after another. Take government agencies as an example. In the past, each government agency was equipped with a switchboard room. Both internal and external calls had to be manually connected through the switchboard room. A switchboard room and two old wiring machines must provide at least eight jobs, one person for each machine, three shifts, and one shift on vacation. It is not that there is no modern equipment to replace it, but enterprises and units do not They are willing to lay off workers and reduce their staffing, but after the initial reform, enterprises and units can only adapt to marketization and start to introduce advanced equipment. When one piece of equipment comes in, the positions of eight operators are gone, and it is natural to be laid off.
Under this situation, Wang Shaohua can almost conclude that an ordinary dual-income family, even if they are not laid off, can only live a relatively comfortable life, not even a well-off society. In this case, the average savings of an ordinary dual-income family It was almost impossible to exceed 50,000 yuan, but Li Mu's parents were able to spend hundreds of thousands to open a store after they were laid off. In his opinion, it was almost the same as a primary school student going directly to college, which was incredible.
Seeing that Su Yuehua and Wang Shaohua both looked thoughtful but did not speak, the atmosphere at the table was a little awkward, so Li Mu said: "Uncle and aunt, we are just chatting and haven't ordered yet, why don't we put them in first?" Let’s order something to eat.”
"Oh, okay..." Su Yuehua came back to her senses, smiled apologetically, and nodded slightly.
Li Mu asked the waiter to bring four exquisite menus and gave them to the four people at the table respectively. The menus were in Chinese, English and French. They looked very high-end. After opening them, the prices were even more astonishing.
If you order serious Western food, including bread, appetizers, steaks, desserts, red wine, etc., one person's consumption cannot be less than 2,000 yuan, and it is stated at the bottom of the menu that the restaurant will also charge additional fees 15% service charge.
Although Su Yuehua and Wang Shaohua are considered to be the real middle class and elite in Yanjing, in this high-end restaurant specially customized for the top class in Yanjing, its shocking pricing made them hesitate for a long time without ordering anything.
Su Yingxue didn't expect the prices here to be so scary. She didn't know what to do when she looked at the menu. Finally, Li Mu had to say to the waiter: "Let's do this. Please ask your chef to match four set meals for the four of us, and then open it again." A bottle of red wine.”
With that said, Li Mu took a look at the price of red wine, directly skipped those five-digit red wines, and chose a bottle of Mouton dry red that cost about 3,000 yuan. Li Mu didn't know much about red wine, but he just felt that the price was still reasonable on the wine list. It’s considered moderate. If it’s too cheap, you can’t afford it, and if it’s too expensive, there’s no need.
The waiter saw that the other three people had not ordered. Although Li Mu's ordering method was a bit unusual, it was still the best solution at the moment, so he asked: "How rare do you want your steaks to be?"
After everyone finished speaking according to their own tastes, the waiter turned and left. Su Yuehua looked at Li Mu and asked him in surprise: "Xiao Li, is your current living expenses paid by your family?"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "I did something with my friends, and I have a relatively stable source of income."
Su Yuehua saw Li Mu's vague answer. Although she was curious, she didn't ask in detail. She just asked Li Mu: "I heard that you also bought a car?"
Li Mu nodded: "I bought a commercial car."
At this time, Wang Shaohua on the side said: "Xiao Li, if your 3321 leaves a little profit margin for yourself, it should be a very considerable income, right?"
Li Mu said lightly: "The key to 3321's success is not making a profit. Because we are not making a profit, no one will compete with us. Otherwise, once I want to make money, other people who want to make money will follow suit. If this kind of thing has a commercial atmosphere, If it’s too strong, the atmosphere will change.”
Wang Shaohua nodded lightly. Li Mu spoke in an understatement, but he understood that Li Mu's understatement meant that he did not hesitate to give up millions of profits every year. Even he could not control such a huge potential income. It was understandable, but a young man could give up such a huge profit so decisively from the beginning for the sake of the purity of this matter. This made him admire Li Mu endlessly, and he felt that it was difficult for this young man to understand himself.
Su Yuehua said: "I heard from Yingxue that you can also write songs?"
Li Mu said: "I learned guitar before and could play it twice, so I tried to write."
Su Yuehua added: "Is that Muzi on the Internet you?"
Li Mu said: "It's me."
Su Yuehua praised: "Your songs are all very nice. Yingxue also played your song "Midian" to me, which was also very good."
Li Mu smiled humbly: "Actually, I am just an amateur who plays with tickets."
Su Yuehua smiled and said: "Excessive humility is pride."
Li Mu scratched his head.
Su Yuehua gently touched her husband next to her with her leg under the table, then stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom."
When Su Yuehua stood up and left, Wang Shaohua, who had just reacted, also stood up hurriedly and said, "I'll go there too."
When they came to the bathroom door, Su Yuehua was already waiting here. Seeing Wang Shaohua coming, she hurriedly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "We will pay for the meal later. Let a young man treat us when we meet formally for the first time. It doesn't make sense, don't look back and people think that our Su family won't cause trouble."
Wang Shaohua nodded and said: "Don't worry, you can check it again when you go out. You have the card with you."
Su Yuehua felt relieved and said, "I'll go back first, you go to the toilet and come back later."
Su Yuehua left after saying that. Wang Shaohua had no choice but to obediently enter the men's bathroom and deliberately waited for an extra minute before coming out.
When Wang Shaohua came back, the waiter had already started serving the meal. Li Mu noticed that the bottle of red wine the waiter brought was not the one he ordered, but he did not recognize the specific name. He only recognized two red wine brands, one One is the Great Wall and the other is Lafite. Apart from these two, the others cannot be recognized.
Li Mu didn't understand red wine, and neither did the other three people at the table. Wang Shaohua just said: "Let's drink less while driving and have one or two drinks."
Li Mu nodded, picked up the wine glass with a smile, and said, "Yingxue and I will toast to uncle and aunt together."
Su Yingxue also blushed and picked up the wine glass and said, "Aunt and uncle, we respect you."
Su Yuehua didn't say anything, but just picked up the wine glass. Wang Shaohua on the side also picked up the wine and said with a smile: "Yingxue, drink less."
Although few people knew anything about red wine, the wine tasted really good, and the food tasted very good, especially the steak, which completely subverted Li Mu's understanding of steak and his understanding of beef. , he discovered for the first time that beef can be so delicious. The taste and texture of this kind of steak are more than one level better than those local Western restaurants that specialize in attracting couples.
Western food was eaten carefully and took a long time due to the many procedures. When the meal was almost done, Li Mu asked the waiter to remove his steak plate. They kept chatting harmoniously at the dinner table, but later it evolved into Su Yuehua and Su Yingxue's aunt and nephew. In low voices, Wang Shaohua and Li Mu talked to each other.
Wang Shaohua was very interested in Li Mu's 3321 and had been asking Li Mu about some details about the operation of 3321. Li Mu also answered some of his questions seriously. Wang Shaohua learned about Li Mu's original motivation for starting 3321, as well as the promotion and entry into 3321 when he first started doing it. method, full of praise for this young man’s business acumen, and even said: “I also wanted to try to find a tutor for my daughter on 3321, but my daughter had a good relationship with Yingxue, and she kept shouting that only her cousin I gave her extra lessons, but then I didn’t insist on it.”
As he said this, Wang Shaohua suddenly thought of something: "By the way, the Alipay that goes with 3321 was also made by you, right?"
Li Mu nodded: "Alipay is a supporting tool I made for 3321."
Wang Shaohua asked doubtfully: "Then why does Happy Farm use Alipay when recharging?"
Li Mu was startled. He didn't expect Wang Shaohua to know this. He was probably also a player of Happy Farm, but he probably didn't know about his relationship with Makino Technology, or maybe although he played Happy Farm, he didn't pay attention to the company's name, so Li Mu He said: "Although Alipay was just a payment tool for 3321 at the beginning, I registered the company independently with Alipay. After the number of Alipay users increased, Happy Farm wanted to use Alipay as a payment channel, so I used Alipay as a payment channel. To Happy Farm.”
Wang Shaohua asked: "This shouldn't be free, right?"
Li Mu nodded: "Alipay will charge a certain percentage of commission."
Wang Shaohua suddenly realized that he felt that he finally knew where Li Mu was guarding an unprofitable 3321 and where the money came from. It turned out to be Alipay. Providing Alipay to merchants like Happy Farm is like a bank collecting money from merchants. Credit card swiping charges are the same.
When he thought of this, Wang Shaohua was horrified. There were so many users in Happy Farm, how could the monthly recharges be tens of millions, right? If Li Mu lets them use Alipay, what percentage of the share will he get? Even if it’s only 1%, it’s still 100,000 yuan a month! What's more, this is just my conservative estimate...
The combined income of himself and his wife is just over 10,000 yuan a month, which is definitely middle class in Yanjing, but compared with Li Mu, it really pales into insignificance.
(End of chapter)