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Chapter Forty-One
Du Ke's eyes were full of gray sky, he wiped his face, wiped off the dust on his forehead, turned around and closed the car door with a bang, and immediately another cloud of dust rose.
This is a certain whitewater mine of Titan Star, and Du Ke, as an "interstellar miner", has a job that fits his ID very well—the person in charge of the mining area, who is responsible for digging other people's mines.
The nearly 100-meter-high mining machine stretches out its mechanical arm, making rumbling sounds like a roaring lion. Every time it falls, it raises dust all over the sky and digs out valuable white water mines.A bucket can sell for millions of coins.
Du Ke went into the room to watch all this, checked all the values, and lay down leisurely after the operation was normal, and clicked on the optical brain to enter Yan Yan's live broadcast room.
The live broadcast room was empty, and the page reminded him that the anchor hadn't started broadcasting yet.
He rubbed the screen irritably, and then clicked on Yan Yan's shop. The self-heating hot pot was on pre-order.
"When will it be shipped?" Du Ke complained, throwing the light brain away.
Staying in the mining area is boring, he is used to star chats, and occasionally browses food live broadcasts, so he followed Yan Yan's live broadcast room. Since he saw it for the first time, he decided that the food in Yan Yan's live broadcast room was delicious, and he bought whatever the store sold..
Last time he bought a self-heating hot pot, he tossed aside the instructions and ate it up after cooking.
Everyone said it was strange to eat, but he didn't think it was delicious!Others said that spicy soup can't be drunk, who said that?The soup is delicious!
But it may be that the self-heating hot pot is too attractive. He has been dreaming about it for the past few days, thinking about cooking hot pot by himself.
"Boss." Bi Li, the technical director, walked in and yelled as soon as he entered the door: "When will the self-heating hot pot you mentioned arrive?"
Annoyed at the mention of this, Du Ke waved his hand: "It's pre-ordered, and it hasn't been shipped yet."
"Ah? You said that the self-heating hot pot is delicious, and it has made me so hungry these days!" Bi Li complained.
Yes, this planet is full of white water mines, they are responsible for digging, listening to the sound of machinery all day long, only food can bring comfort, so their desire for novelty food is much more than others.
A few days ago, Du Ke said that he bought a self-heating hot pot, but he didn’t pay attention to it. As a result, he was checking the data. The spicy and delicious smell of the hot pot wafted all the way to the control room, and when he opened the door, the self-heating hot pot onlyThere is only one shell left.
"After I finished eating a box, I felt sweat coming out of every pore of my body, which was very refreshing." Du Ke said at the time.
Soon the news of the self-heating hot pot spread throughout the mining area. Everyone was looking forward to it, and they all wanted to taste the deliciousness, and they wanted to eat it immediately!
"Can you be a little patient!" Du Ke closed the optical computer, patted the table and said, "Have you finished today's work? I have all the attendance sheets in my hand, go check the equipment!"
Having said that, his eyes also drifted to the light brain intentionally or unintentionally, faintly expecting.
But Bi Li didn't care, and sneered: "Don't do this, our mountain is high and the emperor is far away, the attendance sheet has been eaten by mice, right?"
Du Ke snorted and stopped talking.
"Boss." Bi Li leaned forward slightly, and said in a low voice, "Aren't you a fan of the studio? Urge the store to deliver the goods quickly!"
"Where should I remind..." Du Ke frowned and said, suddenly, as if remembering something, he turned on the optical brain.
Sure enough, under the page of searching for "self-heating hot pot", many people passionately forwarded a voting blog, saying that as long as you vote more, the store will be able to ship sooner!
"This..." Bi Li was stunned, and was very pleasantly surprised: "Let's vote quickly too! There are many workers in the mining area, and they all called for it!"
Du Ke cleared his throat, trying to maintain the last bit of dignity as a boss: "Bili, you have to be sober, the store didn't list specific values, didn't give a delivery date, it's just an empty promise."
"Do you want to eat self-heating hot pot earlier?" Bi Li asked seriously.
Du Ke: "..."
In the end, he was defeated and said helplessly, "Okay."
"Hahaha." Ai Xue laughed wildly at the light brain screen.
"..." There was a low air pressure around Xia Yan, she changed her posture resentfully, and then processed the various numbers on the form.
"Meow meow!" Ai Xue laughed again.
Xia Yan had no choice but to stop, glanced at the time on the clock, and then looked at a lot of data left, and couldn't help but pat the dining table, reminding Ai Xue:
"Can you keep your voice down? I have to calculate the raw materials in advance so that Chief Allen can buy them!"
Ai Xue gave her an aggrieved look with her beautiful eyes, kicked her hands, and lowered her ears, expressing that she would be a good meow.
"Good." Xia Yan couldn't bear to scold her.
According to Wayne, the production line of the fresh-keeping box is working overtime to assemble it, and it will be delivered together with the raw materials the day after tomorrow. The news is good news, but it keeps her busy.
The dishes have to be calculated in order to ensure that they are sufficient, and they need to be purchased in advance. Some lotus root slices, chrysanthemums, etc. are still in stock, and can be bought again by Chief Allen, but products such as baby vegetables and squid need to be imported.
"Sigh, I am such a big planet, and I still need to go outside to buy ingredients." Xia Yan sighed again and again.
"We still need to develop. Ruibo people have been working so hard recently." Ai Xue jumped into his arms, handed her the optical brain, and said, "Let's read something happy."
Xia Yan took a look, and the top one read:
Interstellar Miner: "I canvassed for Yan Yan today, alas, I feel like I've lost the majesty of a boss."
I'm Princess Chenxi: "I used to be a little fairy who had nothing to do with the world, but now I'm fine. Everyone knows that I bought a bunch of Yan Yan's cheese rice cakes like crazy."
God says you can't do it: "It's okay, it's okay, a group of my buddies have voted!"
I'm Princess Chenxi: "Yan Yan has to ship it sooner! Otherwise, you'll be sorry for our collapsed character design, huh!"
...
"Hahahaha." Like Ai Xue, Xia Yan couldn't help but slapped the table and laughed wildly.
It seems that everyone is looking forward to eating self-heating hot pot!
Ai Xue's big, soft tail brushed against Xia Yan's chin, shaking it, making it very itchy.
It's rare to see her so happy, Xia Yan sensed something was wrong, and asked: "What, what happened again? Let our little lady collapse?"
"Hey." Ai Xue turned over, hooked her shoulders with her soft claws, kicked her hind paws, and stood on Xia Yan, Xia Yan also took advantage of the situation to support her waist.
Ai Xue whispered in her ear, "There is indeed a good thing, our store's pre-sales are sold out!"
"Exploded?" Xia Yan raised her eyebrows, pretending not to care too much: "It will explode, the cheese rice cake also exploded back then."
Cheese rice cakes were sold very well at the beginning, and the pre-sales rose steadily. have long experienced the joy of crazy pre-sales.
"No, it's us who broke Xing Tao." Ai Xue looked serious.
"What?"
The optical computer screen displayed the official page of Xing Tao, and an official article came into view. Xia Yan glanced at it roughly, meaning:
Due to the popularity of pre-sales in some stores, the number of pre-sales exceeds one million, reaching the upper limit of Xing Tao pre-sales, the server has a temporary failure, and the upper limit will be raised in the future.
One million people?
Xia Yan couldn't believe it, and asked cautiously: "Some shops won't refer to our Yan Yan, right?"
Under the surprised gaze, Ai Xue nodded her head slightly.
!!!!!!
It's really their shop!
She has thought that the pre-sales of self-heating hot pot may be on par with cheese rice cakes, and she would be very happy to reach the original 520,000, but now it has exceeded 1 million pre-sales?
It's doubled!
How much money does this have to make!Will the flow of her account be counted in billions in the future?
"Calm down, calm down!" Ai Xue fanned the fan to cool down, and reminded: "We have to ship the goods to make money!"
"Yes." Xia Yan kept stroking her chest, restraining her excitement.
Xing Tao’s pre-sale mechanism is special. Customers who participate in the pre-sale need to click on the page to participate and pay a deposit, so as to activate the reminder that the product is on sale. If the shipment is small and the customer cannot grab it, the deposit must be refunded.
"You can't engage in hunger marketing, absolutely not this time!" Xia Yan murmured.
"Yes." Aishe agreed.
"Yes, I'll send an email to Mr. Wayne quickly, asking him to provide us with two intermediate production lines, otherwise we can't afford a million shipments." Xia Yan looked for the address book in a panic.
Ai Xue was lying on the side, seemingly leisurely, but her big Kazilan eyes kept turning, staring at the whiteboard, silently counting the time for sowing and harvesting of various ingredients.
Fortunately, after about a month, they will be able to realize the freedom of ingredients.
After Xia Yan sent the email, she sat on the sofa to digest the matter. Ai Xue tilted her hair and asked, "Actually, I was also quite shocked. How can the self-heating hot pot exceed twice the amount of cheese rice cake?"
I thought the two should be equal.
Xia Yan lowered her head and thought for a while, then said in a deep voice, "It should be due to different attributes."
"Attribute?" Ai Xue was confused again.
"Yes." Xia Yan called out Xue Meiniang and cheese rice cakes, and asked Ai Xue: "Put yourself in the shoes, how would you eat a box of Xue Meiniang and a pack of cheese rice cakes?"
Ai Xue was confused, she looked at Xue Meiniang, went to the kitchen to feel the smell of fireworks, and finally jumped back, hesitatingly said: "Xue Meiniang is a snack, I will eat it after dinner, cheese rice cake? I will fry itA little as a table snack.”
"What about the self-heating hot pot?" Xia Yan asked with a smile.
"Self-heating hot pot is... ah! I understand!" Ai Xue suddenly had an epiphany, and the whole cat became extremely excited, wanting to eat a catty of catnip, jumped onto the dining table, and said loudly:
"Self-heating hot pot is a staple food, and everyone can eat three meals a day! You can eat it by yourself or with friends!"
"You can also boil cheese rice cakes!" Xia Yan smiled.
Ai Xue suddenly became energetic, and quickly turned on the optical brain, announcing to the fans that they can eat cheese rice cakes, and immediately harvested a bunch of "Hurry up and ship it.", "Is there another way to eat it?", "Okay, go!Placed an order." speech.
"No wonder you insist on putting self-heating hot pot on the shelves." Ai Xue sighed.
Xia Yan remained silent and did not refute.
At the beginning, she had an idea in mind: to put a staple food product on the shelves.Staple food products can be sold at higher prices, and the demand is huge. If they succeed, they may double or triple their revenue.
It seems that she really succeeded this time. The public's demand for staple food is far more than that of snacks. After stabilizing the source of customers, the income will continue to flow.
The only regret is that she chose the wrong sales method. She wanted to make a big splash, so she kept it mysterious in the early stage, but it turned out to be too mysterious and confused everyone.
It is the right choice to introduce the product in the live broadcast room first.
"Ah, ah, who made your way of eating too innovative." Ai Xue comforted.
Xia Yan nodded, and suddenly asked: "By the way, did the vote exceed the cherry blossom group?"
Self-heating hot pot Voters: 1,126,632
Number of voters for the Cherry Blossom Group: 1,102,239
Fruity Marshmallow Votes: 25,007
"There's not much difference!" Xia Yan frowned.
Ai Xue is also quite strange, the chatter is overwhelmingly discussing self-heating hot pot, the popularity is high, and the number of votes is naturally high, but the discussion volume of the cherry blossom group is extremely low, how can the number of votes be so high?
Looking at the comments below, the two parties really quarreled:
Interstellar miner: "What's going on? Only the second place with more than 20,000 votes?"
Don't eat fish: "Is the cherry blossom group cheating? There is no discussion about the cherry blossom group on the Internet."
Indisputable: "Don't wrong people with empty words! Cherry Blossom Group also has a lot of people looking forward to it, okay?"
Roll paper roll roll: "Anyway, I like cherry blossom group."
Lin Didi: "Same as above, what's so delicious about self-heating hot pot?"
...
Xia Yan looked at the battlefield under the voting comments and fell silent.
She originally intended to call on everyone to help her vote more, and she won Lin Xiya, but she didn't expect the fans to pay too much attention to it, and she only got a slight advantage in voting with her family. She became inexplicably angry and began to question.
So they quarreled and became what they are today.
"The other party's words are too irritating!" Ai Xue pointed to a comment.
This is a long review, to the effect that Huoduo Star’s amusement park has a lot of expectations, and the cherry blossom group is the focus of expectation, and the self-heating hot pot is full of negative reviews. In order to sell the inventory, Yan Yan’s store deliberately took advantage of the popularity of the cherry blossom group.
"It's obvious that they are taking advantage of the heat of the self-heating hot pot!" Ai Xue raised her ears angrily, and made a suggestion: "This long comment has been liked by many people, should we post a blog to clarify?"
Xia Yan frowned slightly, her eyes fell outside the window, she leaned on her hands and thought, but Ai Xue knew that she was considering the pros and cons, so she kept silent.
After a long time, Xia Yan said lightly: "If you don't explain, just pretend you didn't see it."
"why?"
"It's very simple, because I don't want to cause too much controversy." Xia Yan shrugged and said:
"The voting ends in two hours. We have a slight lead in the number of votes, so it's good to win. Otherwise, once we post a blog, the debate about who is delicious will definitely last for many days."
"Anyway... there's no need."
"Yeah." Ai Xue nodded obediently, but at this moment, because the screen was turned on for too long, the page was automatically updated, and one person and one cat took a closer look——
Cherry Blossom Group voters: 1,132,239
Self-heating hot pot Voters: 1,128,955
Fruity Marshmallow Votes: 25,036
"Impossible!" Ai Xue exclaimed, "It's only been ten minutes, how could the number of votes skyrocket to more than 30,000?"
Xia Yan stared at the number of votes calmly, recalled the previous number of votes, smiled lightly, did not answer, and only said: "It doesn't matter, our number of votes will gradually increase."
"But there are less than two hours left..."
"Less than two hours left!"
A line of big words hit Du Ke's heart heavily. He thought that he had given up his dignity as a boss in order to eat hot pot, but he never expected that a "cherry blossom group" that he had never heard of, Go-ahead!
"I heard from my little niece before that the cute-style amusement park, cherry blossom group, she wants to play in the summer vacation." Bi Li said from the side.
"Which side are you on?" Du Ke said seriously.
Bi Li raised his hand to signal his surrender: "Of course it's on your side, the boss." His tone was particularly pompous.
"Cherry blossom group, not delicious!" Du Ke said.
"It's not delicious, it's not delicious, it's not delicious at all!" Bi Li responded several times.
Du Ke could clearly see the helplessness and coping of his subordinates, but he didn't understand why the votes were overtaken. An old office chair creaked and turned several times, kicked its legs, and stopped.
"Actually, I voted for fun." He said, "But since I am determined to vote for the self-heating hot pot, if it does not rank first, I will always feel uncomfortable."
Bi Li understood immediately, grinned at the corner of his mouth, and smiled: "Let's canvass for votes, find someone to vote for the self-heating hot pot, and vote for it back to the first place."
"Everyone in the mining area has finished voting." Du Ke sighed.
"Did you forget? We have a whole group of colleagues!"
...
"Why is Mu Si so worried? Did you forget that we still have students from the same department?" Bai Feng said.
"Ah?" Mu Si poked his head out from the front of the optical brain, and felt a little embarrassed after thinking about it: "Isn't it good to bother so many students?"
"What is this? Come on, let me show you." Bai Feng handed over his optical brain.
This is the internal forum of the whole department of the college. After looking carefully, there are many people discussing the way of eating self-heating hot pot. Everyone is curious about the way of eating self-heating hot pot, and they all express that they want to buy one.Come back and try it.
"You post a post now to clarify this matter, and many students will be willing to help." Bai Feng said.
"En!" Mu Si nodded vigorously.
"Hello, turn on the system's automatic broadcast function, and the voting trend will be broadcast for you at a fixed time"
Number of voters for the Cherry Blossom Group: 1,192,239
Self-heating hot pot Voters: 1,186,652
Fruity Marshmallow Votes: 25,036
...
Self-heating hot pot votes: 2236645
Number of voters for the Cherry Blossom Group: 2102239
Fruity Marshmallow Votes: 25,037
...
"Come on, students!" Mu Si yelled towards the forum, her hands fluttering, and the keyboard was rattled.
"Hold on! There are still the last ten minutes!"
Licorice Toner: Good.
Pupu Pufei: To be honest, the number of votes for the Cherry Blossom Group is so strange.
Nine by Nine: Voted.
...
"Hello, the countdown is over, and the top three voting results are announced below:"
Self-heating hot pot Voters: 2337821
Number of voters for the Cherry Blossom Group: 2102239
Fruity Marshmallow Votes: 25,055
"Great! We won!" The group in the house shouted loudly, jumping up and down on the sofa, they all heard the news that the result of the game was going to be announced, so they came to hear the result together.
Xia Yan showed a big smile, and went to rub Yun Ling's rabbit ears.
"There's a newly made mint cool drink in the kitchen, you can drink some." She said, and then turned on the optical brain.
A curious Tuanzi poked his head over to see what Xia Yan was going to do.
She entered the voting blog, clicked on the "Feedback" page, and selected "Voting Abnormal" among the options.