Chapter 1534: Fools and Membership Cards

With Chen Yuan there, the surveillance at Stone Slope, after checking for gaps, was actually quite comprehensive.

And because the area was large, such voice broadcasts were needed. But it just so happened that this narrow, strip-shaped slope was right next to the road, and to avoid broadcasting every time a pedestrian passed by, the voice function had been changed to manual.

It was only eight or nine o'clock, not yet late at night, when the mechanical female voice suddenly rang out. The man, with a guilty conscience, immediately turned his head and wanted to run!

After running two steps, he came to his senses—damn it, he hadn't even done anything yet! Why was he running?!

So he hunched his shoulders, turned around, and slowly became composed again.

Not knowing if it was a provocation or what, in any case, he strolled around under the surveillance for two more laps, and even reached out to pull at the wire fence, shaking it with a "clatter" in the night.

In the silent night, those few sounds traveled far.

In the monitoring room:...

The security guard at the Stone Slope duty room, holding the walkie-talkie and watching the surveillance as well:...

It's not that they fear bad people, really.

It's just that they fear fools.

Chen Yuan took a deep breath, stood up and said: "Two from the night shift come with me."

To solve this once and for all, they had to pin this person down tonight.

But based on experience, he definitely had accomplices.

He then took out the walkie-talkie: "Li Wei, does the duty room have wheel locks?"

Li Wei responded from the Stone Slope duty room, reaching out to hold down the Border Collie, Eleven, who was whining upon hearing the commotion, and then replied: "Yes."

These things, thickened and anti-pry, only cost thirty or fifty each. Every duty room had one, mainly for the sake of being prepared.

Chen Yuan said "Hmm": "Get them ready. If a car comes, don't say a word, just lock it first."

Stone Slope was a real, poor mountain village. Knowing how much effort Song Tan had spent asking Sun Ziqiang to renovate it, one knew that there were barely any people in the village now.

Such a mountain village was not like a city; in the middle of the night, it was even less likely that a car would be driving back.

If there was one, it was most likely from their gang.

Li Wei also responded, then smiled helplessly: "Captain, don't be anxious. They are probably just scouting the location first; it's impossible for them to act at this time, it's not even late night yet."

The group was quite helpless regarding this idiot.

Scouting, if you want to scout, come openly during the day. Especially on weekends, there are always some tourists in this mountain nook; it's inconspicuous and you can see clearly.

Or come late at night, when it's quiet and there are fewer accidents, right?

At this hour, just seeing that there were still people in the Yunqiao Village plaza, one knew—there were plenty of people in the countryside who hadn't slept yet; who knows what he was scouting.

Chen Yuan also sighed: "I'm actually really afraid he'll act now."

Too stupid, making them work here without achieving a single merit, having to show off just by catching an idiot—too embarrassing.

He simply sent a message to Song Tan, and saved the surveillance images to send to her, but after waiting a while without a reply, he wasn't anxious and made his own arrangements.

Song Tan was currently receiving the good news from Boss Chang—

Membership cards, they were selling like crazy!

When Chang Le Ju was being renovated, they had intentionally expanded the scale and changed the spatial environment. Except for the lobby on the first floor, the rest were divided into various zones and private rooms.

Now that they were pushing membership cards, customers on the second floor and above were all potential targets. Therefore, he had specifically calculated the quantity in advance, so as not to have a situation where members booked tables together and there was no room.

And so, as everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, seeing that the last bit of watermelon juice was about to be served, Boss Chang didn't delay any longer and went straight to the stage:

【Chang Le Ju basic membership fee, 100,000 yuan.】

This posture was like an electronic product launch, even more of a hodgepodge.

Hearing this price, no one in the audience was surprised.

This was also because Boss Chang hadn't expected the current grand occasion, and he had always operated a proper restaurant, never thinking of other models.

Otherwise, if he had changed the decoration style, expanded the territory, and made it a private restaurant, simply setting up a beautiful scene—

This basic membership fee wouldn't need promotion; just waiting for guests to come, he could modestly say three or five hundred thousand.

But now, he could only modestly set it at 100,000.

But don't panic, he still had tricks!

100,000 yuan was purely the membership fee, only granting VIP status; this money couldn't even be used to offset meal costs!

Tao Huahua heard a fan of Qiao Qiao beside her gasp: "Why don't they just rob people!"

Another person beside her played along: "Aren't they robbing them right now?"

Tao Huahua couldn't help but burst into a laugh.

Wubai, however, said in a low voice: "It's alright, starting at 100,000 isn't outrageous. Some that you haven't heard of and don't promote, a million isn't an exaggeration."

But he definitely wouldn't sign up.

He was the most practical person; if someone said the food somewhere was delicious, he wouldn't find it hard to drive 200km. But if it was just to save face and build connections for a million...

That was absolutely impossible.

After all, what connections did a landlord who had accomplished nothing need!

The two fans shut their mouths, thinking that the world of rich people was really hard to understand!

Fortunately, Boss Chang on stage still cared about his reputation and wasn't just doing it for money, instead stating the benefits of the basic membership fee—

【One table of premium meals can be booked per month, supplying dishes for ten people】

【One gift box of side dishes and sauces per month】

【One gift box of extra new product trials per quarter】

【One extra table of premium meals can be booked in the birthday month, limited to thirty people】

【Without membership, you can still grab premium meal bookings online, but the quota is limited daily.】

Although booking meals still required paying out of pocket after membership, without the additional membership fee, they could only book a small table out of 10 times!

And there were these gift boxes and those gift boxes; gourmets had plenty of connections. Just these gift boxes, for children to give as gifts, for major human favors, or even reselling...

This was extravagant, but it definitely wouldn't be a loss.

Calculating this way, quite a few old customers with average assets were tempted.

They were still sighing in low voices:

"I told you, I've been eating here since his dad ran this restaurant, watching little Chang grow up; he's really not the type to be blinded by money."

This membership card had a threshold for them, but it really wasn't about blocking old customers just to make money.

Wubai was still explaining on the side: "Like I said before, if you guys can pool your money, signing up for this membership card isn't a loss."

"His monthly gift box, if sold, should fetch over 2,000."

"As for the monthly meal booking quota, based on my experience eating things, 2,000- is possible."

Never underestimate the rich people of the world!

There were even those who begged others for favors; as long as they could make the other party comfortable, they were willing to throw any amount of money at it.

Eating a meal was healthy, and the feedback was immediate. From Wubai's perspective, it was absolutely not a loss.

Calculating this way, 100,000 yuan might be recouped in a year.

Of course, if an ordinary person were to stake their entire fortune on this business, there would be risks like the closure of Chang Le Ju. But, wealth is sought amidst danger, after all!

The two fans shivered slightly; the logic was sound. They thought that if they were rich, they would truly be willing to spend money on a meal like this tonight.

But that's 100,000! Even if the two of them pooled their money, they would still have to spend 50,000.

The contemporary wage earner struggled; whether one is willing to spend is one thing, but whether one can scrape the money together is quite another.