Watching a “Lunar New Year” movie
After watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve, Li Shanshan suggested staying in the Imperial Capital for one more day. He took his mother and father to visit the scenic spots and historic sites in the Imperial Capital.
At noon, I had another roast duck from Judequan. Fortunately, there is no need to queue now.
Li Xianshan particularly admires those who have to queue for hours to eat. These people are really perseverant.
But he also knows that a few decades later, waiting in line for a meal has become a common phenomenon.
A 2020 survey showed that Chinese people queued for an average of 86 hours a year to eat. Among them, the queuing time of people in Magic City ranked first in China with an average of 23 minutes per person per meal, exceeding the overall average by 21%.
Women have to wait three hours longer than men to eat, and nearly 80% of people across the country have given up eating because the queue is too long.
The main reason for this “difficulty in eating” phenomenon is that merchants have seized on consumers’ curiosity and herd mentality. Everyone thinks that the longer the queue time at the more delicious restaurants, the more curious they will be when they are unable to eat.
Thinking of this, Li Shanshan thought that his “Burger King” had captured people’s psychology.
Burger King’s sales are booming every day now. Zhang Jiajia told him that the crowds queuing up every day block the road outside the store.
Hearing that his shop was so popular, Li Shanshan thought: It smells so good, I hope there will be more people queuing up!
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After spending a day in the Imperial Capital, Li Shanshan returned to Longshan City with his parents on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
Chinese people spend the Spring Festival visiting relatives everywhere, and Li Shanshan’s family is no exception.
There is an old saying that goes like this: A poor person lives in a busy city and no one cares about him, while a rich person lives in the mountains and has distant relatives.
Relatives all know that Lao Li’s family has become prosperous this year. Some people say that their family has become the richest man in Longshan City by selling water. Some people say that their family is the richest man in Shanbei Province. Some even say that they are already the richest man in China.
Anyway, no matter what, Lao Li’s family is rich!
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Relatives who got the news came to visit in an endless stream. Some said they were in trouble and wanted to borrow money, some wanted to recommend their children to be senior executives of Longshanquan Company, and some even came to ask for money confidently, as if they had earned their own money. Money is blown by the wind.
For those relatives who are really in trouble, Li Shanshan is willing to help. As for those who want to come to Longshanquan to work as executives and ask for money from their own families, Li Shanshan gives them one word: Get away as far as possible!
Some people may think that Li Xianshan is too mean to his relatives, but whenever he thinks about his previous life, his father’s head turned gray overnight due to poor management of the water plant. At that time, he wanted to borrow money from these relatives to make a living, but in the end, no one People borrowed a penny.
So sometimes we repay kindness with kindness, but why should we repay kindness with kindness?
However, although Li Shanshan rejected many unreasonable requests from relatives, there was still an endless stream of people coming to his home. This may be the trouble of rich people, there are too many people who want to make friends with him.
Li Shanshan was really impatient with such false politeness, so he asked his parents to entertain them, and then he found an excuse and went out directly.
“There aren’t many entertainment activities these days. Why don’t you go and watch a movie?”
“But you can’t go to the movies by yourself…”
Thinking of this, Li Shanshan decided to call Tang Zexue.
He knew that Tang Zexue was about to take the college entrance examination this year, so he rarely had time to go out and play, but it shouldn’t be a problem to go out and watch a movie to relax. After all, study also requires a balance between work and rest.
When he arrived at Tang Zexue’s house, Aunt Tang warmly entertained him. When she heard about his intention, she immediately agreed.
This made Tang Zexue next to her very happy. Her mother was usually very strict with her studies, but she didn’t expect that she would be allowed to go out to play now.
Just like that, Li Shanshan took Tang Zexue out.
“Brother Twinkle, you are so awesome. My mother didn’t even let me go out during the Chinese New Year. She agreed with just one word from you.” Tang Zexue said jumping up and down, looking at him with eyes full of sweetness.
“Well, you don’t know what’s even better about me.” Li Shanshan said nonsense seriously.
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In this way, the two of them talked and laughed all the way to the nearby cinema.
