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Xiaotiaoyou's exclamation attracted the attention of Tsuruno who was in an orz state and Yumeng who was scrambling to comfort Tsuruno.

But before they had time to ask anything, Xiaoniaoyou said to himself, "Is the store opened in the wrong place?"

"Eh?" Hearing what Xiaoniaoyou said, Tsuruno couldn't help tilting his head and asked, "Was the shop opened in the wrong place?"

"Well, to put it simply, the style is wrong, the style is wrong." Xiaoniaoyou explained to Tsuruno: "Children in the western region, such as junior high school girls and high school girls, are more willing to eat at places like hamburger fast food restaurants. Order snacks, and the adults who work there will go to the mall to eat more high-end meals.”

"This point is the same even in the Canjing District." Xiaoniaoyou asked the stunned Tsuruno: "Does Tsuruno's store only have older customers and some groups order food?"

"In other words, is Tsuruno's shop commonly seen in high schools, white-collar workers and the like?"

"Think about it carefully..." Tsuruno gently touched his temple with one hand at this time, and said, "It seems that it is rare to see young children, such as students..."

"It's also for this reason that you gave the adjuster at the adjustment house the leaflet of your own shop?" Xiaoniaoyou took out the leaflet of Long live China that he got from Yuhun, and said: "We actually came here because we saw the flyer."

"Ah, that's how it is!" Hearing what the other party said, Tsuruno suddenly realized: "I said, why are there so many magical girls suddenly appearing in our shop at this time!"

Tsuruno: "It made me think that everyone was..."

Xiaoniaoyou: "Who are you?"

"No, it's okay!" Tsuruno laughed, and slowly moved aside to the stairs leading to the residence for Tsuruno and her father, who is the owner of the shop, "I, a little bit, go upstairs, use the Get on your phone."

After getting Xiaotiaoyou's permission, Tsuru Naifei ran upstairs as if he was in a hurry.

[What happened? 】

Seeing Tsuruno's anxious look, Xiaotiaoyou wondered what made her so anxious, but before Xiaotiaoyou could figure it out, she found something strange.

【strangeness? ] Xiao Niaoyou looked at the number of the table he was sitting at now, and couldn't help but think: 【I was sitting at table 21 before? 】

[Why is it now table number 20? ! 】

[And it seems that no one around has noticed the change of my table number plate? 】Xiao Niaoyou looked at the people who were eating quietly except for Yumeng who was still flustered and Shiyu who was trying to comfort Yumeng, and couldn't help but think: 【Could it be that no one noticed, but only I can see the number Does the card change? 】

Xiao Niaoyou glanced at the table numbers of everyone, and found an even more frightening phenomenon——except for her, the table numbers did not exceed 10, and all of them were single digits.

[No, it’s normal if you think about it carefully...] Xiaoniaoyou looked at the furnishings in the store, counting the chairs in front of the horizontal table embedded on the counter, there are at most ten tables, 【It’s better to say , my number is the wrong one...]

【Speaking of something wrong...】

"Wait a minute..." Xiao Niaoyou looked at the suddenly changed number plate on the table, and muttered to himself, "Could it be?"

"I'm back!" Just when Xiaoniaoyou felt that he had realized something, Tsuruno, who had just run upstairs, ran down again like flying, and then Xiaoniaoyou saw her rushing in front of him, Face asked seriously: "That, please continue, please continue!"

"Eh?" Seeing Tsuruno looking at him so seriously, Xiaoniaoyou couldn't help but say, "Well, I'm not a professional restaurant owner, so many things are just my self-cognition, Tsuruno-chan You better not take it too seriously..."

"But but! You are the first person to point out this problem!" Tsuruno looked at Xiaotiaoyu expectantly, and said, "I have a hunch, Xiaoniaoyou-chan, you are the one who can help me revitalize A century-old brand, a man of long live China!"

"Long live the revitalization of China...?" Xiaoniaoyou looked at Tsuruno, who was talking more and more out of line for some reason, and couldn't help being more curious about what kind of message the other party sent just now, "Excuse me..."

"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Seeing Xiaoniaoyou's puzzled look, Tsuruno laughed and explained: "Actually, our family has opened this store for a long time, starting from the generation of great-grandfather, There has always been this store.”

"However, since my father's generation, for some reason, the evaluation of food taste has become lower, and then this restaurant has also declined." Tsuruno said here, with a little sadness in his eyes, "My current wish Yes, I want to revitalize this store."

[The current wish...? 】After Xiaoniaoyou heard this sentence, he thought of Tsuruno's identity as a magical girl, so he naturally thought: 【This child, when he was a magical girl in the past, did he have any other wishes? 】

"Hey!" At this time, a magical girl from the Dadong District suddenly said: "I remembered, our grandfather told me before that he used to eat a delicious local restaurant in Kamihama City. The food at the Zhonghua Restaurant.”

"Could it be that this is the store?!"

"Really!" Hearing that the other party might be the child of an old customer of her restaurant, Tsuruna immediately smiled like a child, and she asked expectantly: "That, that, next time I will also bring the old man Come and eat, grandpa, I will give your family a special discount!"

"Ah, if this is the case, it may not be possible..." Hei Yu's tone suddenly became low after hearing this, and she said to Tsuruno: "Grandpa passed away a year ago. "

"Ah... sorry." Tsuruno said to the other party with an apologetic face: "I reminded you of something sad..."

"No, no, nothing." That black feather shook his hands shyly, and said to Tsuruno: "Actually, I

"Grandpa was already very old at that time. The doctor told us that his organs were gradually failing and he would die within a few hours..."

"At night, grandpa mentioned during dinner that he wanted to eat the Chinese food that he used to eat. To be honest, we didn't know what to do at the time..." Hei Yu's tone became gentle when he said this , "However, at that time, I found your takeaway page by accident..."

"Thank you very much." That black feather stood up, bowed to Tsuruno and said, "Thank you, if you didn't continue to open this store, to be honest, we don't know what to do... "

"That, Tsuruno-san?" Hei Yu noticed at this moment that Tsuruno stood stiffly in place, "What's wrong with you? Did I say something wrong?"

"Ahh..." Hearing the other party's words, Tsuruno burst into tears while hugging the helpless other party, "Thank you, thank you, unknown magical girl sauce!"

"Thank you and your grandpa, I immediately feel a sense of accomplishment!"

"Wow! Tsuruna-san, don't cry!" That Kuroba looked at Shigure at a loss when he saw someone treating him like this, "Shigure-chan, help me!"

"Ah..." Shi Yu looked at the other party with a stomach ache, and complained, "I'm not Miyao Shrine or some blue doraemon, why would you make trouble with me whenever something happens..."

"Because Master Xiaoniaoyou is just looking at me with a smile on his face, obviously he is delusional with malicious intentions!"

【so good. 】Looking at the crowd making a fuss, Xiao Niaoyou watched them with a gentle smile, 【Young people really should be noisy...】

Kuroba and even Shigure and Yumeng have been a little silent since they entered Wanbanzai just now, and Kotoriyu doesn't think that they are afraid of being discovered by Tsuruno as the Wings of Magis.

[It’s better to say that they are still not very confident, and they are afraid of meeting strangers...] In a sense, they can be regarded as Xiaoniaoyou who have been there before. Looking at the way everyone is talking and laughing now, I thought: [Not only As far as magical girls are concerned, they also need to be guided a little bit in terms of personality development. 】

【Speaking of which...】Looking at the few people who were chatting happily, Xiaoniaoyou suddenly felt that she smelled a familiar smell from Tsuruno, 【What is this fragrance from Tsuruno? 】

Afterwards, Xiaoniaoyou activated the scent collector in his nose.

"Really, thank you very much!" Tsuruno was still weeping bitterly and hugged Kuroba, whose face was so red that his eyes had turned into mosquito-repellent eyes, and said, "It's really nice of me to entertain everyone tonight." Already! Please let me waive your meal money!"

"That..." Xiao Niaoyou stood up, gently held Tsuruno's shoulders with both hands, and said to her: "Let's not talk about anything else for now, I still have something to say about the restaurant."

"Oh!" As soon as Tsuruna heard that Xiaoniaoyou was going to continue talking about his shop, he immediately turned from grief to joy. He took out a small notebook and a pen from his skirt pocket, and looked at it with bright eyes. Looking at Xiaoniaoyou, he said, "Please tell me! Master Xiaoniaoyou!"

"Eh?" Xiao Niaoyou couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the other party calling him that, "Why are you also calling me Master?"

"Because everyone seems to call you that." Tsuruno smiled foolishly, while urging Xiaoniaoyou: "Sasa, please hurry up and give me some advice."

"I can't wait to revive our family's restaurant!"

Chapter 40: Let's Talk

"...It's probably like this." Sitting on the rooftop, Niaoyou held the phone between his shoulders and head, talking on the phone with Tsuruno, and kept doing work with his hands, "My thoughts That is, either keep up with the times, or change places.”

"So that's it, I seem to understand a little bit..." Tsuruno on the call, accompanied by Sasha's writing voice, said: "So, the Chinese Wansui food is no longer popular, is it because the times have changed?"

"Yes." Kotoriyu took out a few small wires from the device in front of him, and said to Tsuruno, "After all, the Showa era has long since ended, and now it is the Heisei era."

"It's just relying on the large amount of food to keep you satisfied, and you can't attract customers from Xinxi District, Suining District or even Shenjing District."

Under Tsuruno's repeated requests, for some reason, Xiaoniaoyou naturally became Tsuruno's teacher - the teacher of restaurant opening, at least Tsuruno himself insisted on this title.

Since it was getting late at that time, Xiaoniaoyou said to send the other children back first, and temporarily separated from Tsuruno. In order to keep in touch, the two also exchanged mobile phone numbers.

Now they are like ordinary girls. The two girls are on the phone all night, chatting endlessly, but the topics of conversation are all about restaurants and the like.

"It is said to be a restaurant problem, but in the final analysis it is an economic problem." Xiaoniaoyou picked up the spherical device in front of him, looked at it with his right eye, and said to the part of the phone: "Besides resources, the most important thing in human society The factor is the economy, and the economy determines many things."

"For example, the form of the economy determines all factors including morality, violence, politics, etc. For example, slave owners have to give slaves relative freedom because of exploitation and oppression, which leads to the decrease of slaves. A semblance of being free acquires ample labor..."

"In short, the most critical issue is the match between your restaurant's meal format and the local economy." Xiaoniaoyou explained to Tsuruno on the phone again: "Although the restaurant tastes good, it is very expensive. Naturally there will be repeat customers, but the factor that determines whether customers will come again is not the taste."

"It's the economic environment and the spending power of local residents."

"Even if a bowl of fried rice is delicious, but every grain is full of golden rice, golden egg flower, silver onion, jade minced meat, no one will order it." Xiao Niaoyou fiddled with the lens in his hand while Yubi Tsuruno on the other end of the phone said: "Because it's too expensive, a bowl of fried rice costs the price of a house in the center of the city, not everyone can afford it."

"But our family's food has always been very cheap food..." Tsuruno on the other end of the phone, sitting at the dining table of his restaurant, holding a pen and notebook in one hand, and the phone in the other, said with a depressed face: "So, the price of my family's meals...is it set less?"

"Well, you're a smart kid." Xiaoniaoyou praised Tsuruno affirmatively, while further explaining to Tsuruno: "Look, didn't you say it before? Your own restaurant, from your father From one generation onwards, the evaluation of food will be lowered.”

"What do you think is the reason? Is it really because your father's craftsmanship is not as good as your grandfather's?"

"So, has the times changed?" Tsuruno said while recalling what Xiaotiaoyou said just now, "Has the economic situation changed for the better?"

"The answer is correct." Xiaoniaoyou put the parts at hand little by little, and slowly put them back together again, "Recall that your father, his generation, happened to be in the so-called golden age of the Japanese economy. That is, the period from the late 1980s to the early 90s, what we now call the bubble economy period."

"As far as I remember as a person who experienced it, in my memory, the most popular way to eat at that time was to wrap a layer of gold leaf on the food." Xiaoniaoyou held up the spherical object in front of him and observed through it. Looking at the moon in the night sky, he said to Tsuruno on the other end of the phone: "At that time, there were people who went to the sewers to make a living. It is normal that Wansui's food will decline, because your family's food is full of food. That's all..."

"So that's it! No! Wait a minute!" Tsuruno said to Xiaoniaoyou on the other end of the phone in surprise, "Master Xiaoniaoyou, how old are you now?!"

"44 years old, and that kind of thing is not important at all." Xiaotiaoyou put down the things in his hands calmly, and said to Tsuruno: "The important thing is, Tsuruno-chan, if you want to fulfill your dream, Either invent more high-end meals, set up a big shop..."

"Well, although I really want to transform Wan Wansui into a five-star restaurant..." As soon as Tsuruno mentioned this topic, he said awkwardly: "But... the money at home is really..."

"So, I suggest opening a restaurant in Dadong District." Xiaoniaoyou said to Tsuruno on the other end of the phone: "And it's best not to open a fixed store, but to set up a mobile food truck, and then take the prepared ingredients and make it on the spot , Attract people by fragrance."

"Although there are gangsters and some bad people over there, there are more good people, and it is also an area that matches the food you cook more. Xiaoniaoyou wiped it gently with a cloth made of silk and said With the spherical object in his hand, he said to Tsuruno on the other end of the phone: "You can pull the car to sell meals in a community with a good management organization, and win their hearts with a large portion of meals with high cost performance, and you are A magical girl who can easily run away ten middle-aged men is not afraid of being charged protection fees by the underworld. "

"In this way, we will definitely be able to earn money for decorating and expanding the store."

"Really... is it okay?" Tsuruno on the other end of the phone asked Xiaotiaoyu nervously, "Although I am the strongest magical girl and I am not afraid of gangsters, to be honest, I am still a little uneasy. ..."

"Don't worry, I have a certain degree of certainty in making such a suggestion." Xiaoniao said to Tsuruno on the other end of the phone with a playful smile, "Because your situation is not unique in history."

"The Chinese restaurants in the United States used to be in a similar situation to yours. Although they were economical, a railroad worker with a monthly salary of 19 to 70 dollars could eat three servings of fried noodles in a Chinese restaurant for a few tens of cents. , offal and other high-carb foods, they relied on this marketing method to survive in the 19s and 90s, and even in the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act in the [-]s and [-]s, and many people even earned a lot of money The first pot of gold."

"But as time went by, the American economy got better, especially in the 60s and [-]s after the end of World War II. The United States entered a new round of golden age. After the same affordable fried chicken, burgers and french fries, no one would go there again. Eat American Chinese food like chow mein, chop suey, and Furong eggs."

"And the solution to this problem for those Chinese at that time is also the solution I propose now."

"To put it simply, it is to invent new dishes to target a brand-new customer group and capture their needs." Xiaoniaoyou held the phone with both hands, and said to Tsuruno seriously: "The Dadong District is still full of a large number of customers. Young people who do odd jobs, and men who have to support a family of three or more on meager wages."

"They are the guests of your kind of meals."

"They are either young people who have the physical need to eat out because there is no kitchen in the rented house, or they are the kind who want to improve the food for the family and hope not to live a miserable life, but have The spirit of the restaurant needs a middle-aged man."

"They are your best guests, and they must want a chef like you to cook for them."

"So there's no problem." Xiaotiao said to Tsuruno on the other end of the phone with a smile: "Because I, like Tsuruno-chan, are people who can cook, and I think cooking is to bring happiness to people. So They must also hope that you can break into their stagnant life and bring them some fresh excitement."

"Really, really?" Tsuruno heard Xiaotoriyu say this to her, and her tone suddenly became tense, "It's not that I don't lack confidence, after all, I'm the strongest magical girl..."

"Can I really... Really?"

"I think it doesn't matter even if you fail." Xiaotiaoyou said to Tsuruno: "If you are really not sure, I can also sponsor you."

"I'm actually not worried about money..." Tsuruno said, "To be honest, what Xiaoniaoyou said is very reasonable, and it's very different from my previous thoughts. It can even be said that I never thought of it." what happened..."

"That's why I now feel that such an ignorant self can really be revived forever?" Tsuruno on the other end of the phone looked at the old signboard that he had moved into the store from the entrance of the store, and said to the little girl with complicated emotions. Niaoyou said: "After all, I always only have fifty points in this area..."

"It's because Tsuruno always only has [-] points, so you can be successful." Xiaoniao said to Tsuruno with a playful smile, "Because, if a person always cooks [-] points of meals with the same taste, then you will be able to succeed." It shows that when she cooks this dish, her culinary skills have reached the point of being as precise as a machine."

"Because a person does not have such cooking skills, it is impossible to reproduce the same food as before, even if he cooks it himself."

"So, I think Tsuruno you have a very solid mentality and ability, but you just didn't choose the right direction of your efforts before, so you may feel that even if you work so hard, China Wansui hasn't improved much."

Xiaotiaoyou took a sip of the small bottle of whiskey he bought from a convenience store, and said to the stunned Tsuruno on the other end of the phone:

"You are like a fledgling bird who wants to fly high and constantly exercises its body and wings, but has not found the way."

"When you learn to use those wings, those wings that you have worked so hard for, they will definitely take you to a wider world."

"Master Xiaotiaoyu..." Tsuruno wiped the tears seeping from the corners of his eyes on the other end of the phone, and then firmly said to Xiaotiaoyu with a full smile: "Leave it to me, the strongest magical girl——Yuhizuru Nai-chan!"

"Yeah." Xiaoniao smiled and said to Tsuruno in a gentle tone: "I'm waiting to eat your new dishes."

Amid Tsuruno's energetic humming, as if he had just caught a young wild boar with a good Chinese cabbage, Xiaoniaoyou hung up the phone.

"Huh..." Xiaoniaoyou stretched after putting down the phone, "It's the first time I feel that talking on the phone can be so tiring..."

"Well..." the little bird with only one right eye left, looked at the left eye on the ground that he had just installed and put on the tarpaulin, and said, "It may also be because I was talking on the phone with someone. , while checking the cause of my eyes."

Xiaoniaoyou's eyes had been transformed into electronic glasses by her a long time ago, because she is a magical girl, and transforming body parts is one of the extensions of her abilities, so Xiaoniaoyou didn't think about overhauling her eyes.

However, after Xiaoniaoyou drank the so-called lucky water for owls, he found that his eyes could always see some strange things—such as numbers that suddenly appeared somewhere.

"Sure enough." Xiaoniaoyou said while putting the electronic eyes picked up from the tarpaulin back into his empty eye sockets bit by bit, "There is nothing wrong with my eyes, or it is me who has the problem. brain."

"This number..." Xiao Niaoyou looked at the piece of paper marked with the number 15 that had just been blown by the wind in his hand, and said, "It is the number of lucky times left after I drink the owl lucky water."

"Once this number is exceeded, bad luck will start, right?" Xiao Niaoyou said while putting the piece of paper on his chest, "But what kind of bad luck is this bad luck? "

"Besides, how did you get lucky the last nine times?" Xiao Niaoyou, who reinstalled her eyes, lay on her back on the platform. She looked at the silent night sky and thought, "Now think about it." , I was indeed lucky a few times, but what does it mean to be so-called lucky for the rest?"

"Ok?"

Just after Xiaoniaoyou was still thinking about the owl lucky water, a phone call came.

Xiaoniaoyou looked at the letter - it said unknown.