Why don't you believe I'm a reincarnated person?

Chapter 38 If the two of us invest, will we have enough money?

"What did Xixi whisper to you during recess?"

During lunch, Shen Jiayi sat down next to Ye Kai and asked him curiously.

"Since you know it's a secret, how can I just tell you?"

Ye Kai used his chopsticks to rummage through the lunchbox, picking out the garlic scapes that he didn't like and placing them on an empty plate.

Good news: The restaurant has his favorite braised pork belly today.

Bad news: There were garlic sprouts in the stir-fried pork.

Actually, Ye Kai doesn't completely avoid garlic scapes; fresh garlic scapes are just as delicious. However, the garlic scapes used in restaurants are definitely old stock that has been stored in cold storage for a long time. They taste like hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) as soon as you taste them, and they're very strong.

"I'll give you an extra chicken leg."

Shen Jiayi picked up a fried chicken leg from her plate and put it on Ye Kai's plate.

"Do you think I'm someone who can be bribed with a chicken leg?"

"However, considering you made up an excuse to give me chicken legs, it's not impossible for me to talk to you about it."

Ye Kai originally intended to keep Shen Jiayi in suspense for a while, but seeing that she was about to lose her temper, he changed his tune and lowered his tone, telling her about Wei Junjie's situation.

"I quite like milk tea too."

"Unfortunately, everyone says it contains plasticizers and is considered junk food."

Shen Jiayi listened with interest.

Girls' favorite type of food is sweets, including but not limited to cakes and milk tea, because eating sweets can make them feel happy. This is a special physiological need formed by the body's internal biological mechanisms, and it is an internal need.

So when girls get together, coffee, milk tea, red bean ice, sandwiches, and cream cheese are almost always the standard fare.

"If you open a milk tea shop near a school, along with desserts, or even no other desserts, you only need 5 or 6 square meters of space. The rent is very low, but the profit is very high."

"Just think about it, with the thousands of students in our school, a cup of milk tea costing two or three yuan is definitely the best choice for them to eat, drink, and relax after class. That's a huge market."

While eating the chicken leg that Shen Jiayi gave him, Ye Kai described the business opportunities involved to Shen Jiayi.

"Since it's such a good business, why not just do it?"

Shen Jiayi also thought that opening a milk tea shop was a good choice.

In fact, students have one major characteristic: they go against the grain. They want to do the things that adults don't want them to do, and drinking milk tea can be understood in the same way.

With such a dense consumer base, even selling tea eggs every day could earn enough to buy a house, not to mention the huge profits from milk tea.

"What Xixi means is that although his mother is very optimistic about this market, she wants to create her own brand and take all the profits from the source, so she is having a hard time in terms of funding."

Ye Kai explained Wei Junjie's predicament.

"Could it be that Xixi's mother intends to use your relationship with me to get my mother's connections at the commercial bank and secure a loan for their project?"

Shen Jiayi's mind worked quickly, and she immediately thought of this possibility.

Although we are all classmates, the closeness of our relationships with each other varies.

Wei Junjie didn't think he was that close to Shen Jiayi, so he inevitably thought of his good friend Ye Kai, hoping to persuade Shen Jiayi to pass on the message and get the commercial loan for the project from Director Jiang Xin.

In this way, their family can vigorously promote their original brand in Xinghua City and distribute their products to schools and shopping malls throughout the city.

"puff--"

"XiXi's mother is quite ambitious. She plans to open ten milk tea shops in Xinghua City at the same time to form a large-scale operation. The advantage of doing this is that it can reduce operating costs and quickly establish a reputation in the market."

Ye Kai spat out the chicken leg bone, picked his teeth with a toothpick, and then added.

"Ye Kai, what do you think of the prospects of this project?"

"You always say you're a reincarnated person, how could you not know this?"

Shen Jiayi blinked her eyelashes, her big, dark eyes darted around a couple of times, and then she passed the question back to Ye Kai.

"The prospects are certainly good."

"However, as you know, any business activity carries risks, which are determined by the market and cannot be changed by individual will. I can only say that this industry will flourish, but it is absolutely impossible to assert that any one person will necessarily succeed in this industry."

Ye Kai spoke the truth.

"To be frank, my mother probably wouldn't be interested in a project like this."

"As you know, the current market investment hotspots are in certain areas. For her, investing in physical businesses right now is not a good choice, and she won't get the support of her colleagues in the department."

After considering it for a moment, Shen Jiayi finally shook her head and said no.

"yes."

"Investing in this kind of project is nowhere near as safe and profitable as investing in real estate. Of course I understand that."

Ye Kai was not surprised. In fact, he thought so too. If he had a large amount of money to invest in the market, his first choice would also be the booming real estate market.

The real estate market has a huge capital capacity, a short time to recover costs, and physical properties as collateral, so it seems like you can't lose money no matter how you look at it.

Especially at this stage of continuously rising housing prices, no industry can compete with real estate investment projects in the banking credit sector, let alone the milk tea industry, which is currently at a historical low.

For Director Jiang Xin, Wei Junjie's mother's project was nothing more than a small-scale operation. Even if she made money, the profit would not be significant, while the chances of losing money were very high. It was not worth her time and effort.

"But I personally have high hopes for this project."

"The only thing to watch out for is how long the impact of the plasticizer scandal will last. If this problem isn't resolved, the industry will never be able to grow and thrive."

Although Shen Jiayi was unwilling to relay Wei Junjie's message to Director Jiang, feeling it was a futile effort, she did not deny her own interest in the project, while also harboring some doubts.

There's no need to worry about this.

"In fact, large amounts of capital have already entered the milk tea industry this year, and various innovations are emerging one after another. The winter of the milk tea industry is coming to an end."

Ye Kai was naturally aware of the answer to this question.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have suggested that Wei Junjie encourage his mother to go to Shanghai for an inspection.

He's not some kind of devil, how could he do something that harms others without benefiting himself?

Since he couldn't persuade Shen Jiayi, Ye Kai didn't plan to continue. In any case, Wei Junjie's family's dessert shop had a good future; he had just lost an opportunity to turn his life around and become a middle-class rich kid.

Ye Kai stood up and, together with Shen Jiayi, took the plates and chopsticks to the collection window before walking out of the restaurant.

Leaving the bustling restaurant, I felt much refreshed.

"If the two of us invest, will we have enough money?"

Shen Jiayi suddenly asked a question.

Are you serious?

Ye Kai was taken aback for a moment, then asked in return.