Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 612 - 428. Dear Snow

"Say that again if you dare!"

"Xiao Ruawen, you don't want to....."

Ultimately, they were a step behind the class bell, and by the time they returned to the classroom, fooling around, the Chinese language teacher was already standing on the podium.

Xu Qingfan held back his smile, knocked on the door, and walked back to his seat with a serious demeanor.

"Why don't you say....uh..." Following him, Xiao Ruawen also noticed the teacher on the podium, instantly looked down, and rushed back to her seat.

"Cough...close your Chinese language books, today I will talk about some things not found in the textbooks." The elderly Chinese teacher took a big gulp of goji berry juice and began in a calm and collected tone. freёweɓnovel.com

Xu Qingfan knew that the teacher was about to start his impassioned tirade again and quietly tucked his phone into the crevice of his book.

Xiao Ruawen was still angry and, seeing that the teacher was not watching her, she punched Xu Qingfan twice, making loud sounds.

Xiao Ruawen, you wouldn't want Xia Xiaoxiao to know about last night's event, right?

See, is that human speech?

Xu Qingfan, resting his chin on one hand, watched the girl's angry expression with great interest.

"You're still laughing!" Xiao Ruawen mouthed, annoyed, and hit him a couple more times.

Xu Qingfan casually freed himself from her grip and continued looking down at his phone.

"Hmph~ I'll settle the score with you after school!" Seeing that Brother Chou Fan was ignoring her, Xiao Ruawen dropped a threat and started to listen to the class attentively.

On the phone were his chats with Zhang Chunxue, the specific contents were as follows:

[Xu Qingfan: Dear Snow, have you taken down the other two competitors yet?]

[Snow: [sneaky laugh][sneaky laugh], almost there, the seed planting post idea has been well received, any more?]

Previously mentioned, due to the influence of Good Taste Takeout, the butterfly, some capital giants had already taken early notice of the food delivery sector and began to tentatively launch a few local delivery brands, including the famously known "Minion" from another life.

Against this, Xu Qingfan and Zhang Chunxue were not very concerned.

Considering the current prevalence of smartphones, food delivery services mainly had a market only among college students and white-collar workers.

For the former, they had started their planning years ago through the College Food City project, nearly developing and occupying 99% of the national college student market without worrying about competitors causing trouble.

For the latter, years of cultivation had also yielded impressive results.

All over the country, where there were office buildings, one could almost see Good Taste Takeout's little red figures during meal times.

But soon a new problem arose, which was, with the provincial and first-tier cities across the country fully developed, how were they to settle the thousands of ground staff they employed?

Going to develop the rural market wasn't feasible yet as the smartphone penetration rate there was not even 1%.

But disbanding the teams there would mean having to rehire and train people a few years later, wasting time and also incurring substantial labor costs.

It was at this time that the fierce group buying battle between the public and M Group drew Xu Qingfan and Zhang Chunxue's attention.

Their thoughts aligned instantly, and while the delivery sector could be put on hold, group buying was naturally something Good Taste Takeout should do!

Other platforms required customers to pick up their orders after a group buy, but Good Taste Takeout would deliver straight to your home, beating 99% of the platforms on that point alone.

Not to mention the hottest local social networking platform in the country, "Little Pink Book," which was their subsidiary product.

Imagine this, when a "sister" shares a fantastic lipstick on "Little Pink Book," and right at the bottom left, there's a group buy link for that lipstick that could deliver it to your home within an hour, wouldn't that excite you?

So just like that, what was once a duopoly between the public and M Group took less than two months for Good Taste Takeout to devour over half of the market share.

Now the situation was almost unsolvable. For M Group and the public to start building local delivery services from scratch was nearly impossible and impractical.

And continuing to aggressively attract customers wouldn't affect the core competitive advantage of Good Taste Takeout in group buying.

Xu Qingfan smiled slightly as he read the latest message from Zhang Chunxue.

After thinking for a while, he typed: "Aunt, we can try doing community group buying..."

...

The two of them chatted about the company's future development across the screen, and the last two classes of the morning passed by unwittingly.

[Xu Qingfan: Remember to eat on time, I just used my phone to order takeout for you, we're done with school, and are going to eat too.]

Zhang Chunxue glanced at her phone and was slightly startled; the next second, the newly hired secretary had already brought in the takeout.

"Director Zhang, your takeout."

"Pfft...."

When Zhang Chunxue spotted the McDonald's logo on the packaging, she almost burst out laughing.

"Put it down," she said indifferently, giving the secretary a brief glance before picking up her phone again.

She typed a lot of text and deleted it, leaving only three words in the input box.

[McDonald's???]

Xu Qingfan could already imagine Zhang Chunxue's bemused expression at the other end, he chuckled softly and typed: "Shall we switch to KFC?"

"Pfft...hahaha!" Once the secretary left, Zhang Chunxue couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh until she convulsed.

It took quite a while before she stopped laughing, but the smile on her face just wouldn't go away no matter what.

[Don't want to talk to you.]

Having sent the last message, Zhang Chunxue put down her phone and took out the McDonald's from the packaging.

"Orleans grilled wings, red bean pie, chicken leg burger, fries... and chicken nuggets, Xiao Fan, your efforts were all in vain today," she said, poking her cheek, pretending to be coquettish, but unfortunately, no one was there to appreciate it.

But joke as she might, after several days of eating plain, healthy meals, the food in front of her suddenly made her appetite surge.

"It doesn't show the calories, ah, Xiao Fan said if it's not marked, it counts as zero calories!" Zhang Chunxue chewed the chicken pieces in her mouth, her face showing a contented expression.

"Brother Fan, what are you laughing at?" Xiao Ruawen pulled him back just in time to avoid bumping into a female classmate.

"Oh... was discussing some company stuff with Yiyi's mom, how come you're not having lunch with Wang Xuan and the others today?" Xu Qingfan looked up, only then realizing that Xiao Ruawen was by his side.

"Don't know if it was that, I think he was chatting with another girl, laughing so creepily," Xiao Ruawen glanced back at the girl they just passed, deliberately not avoiding her gaze, unsure of her intentions.

"Oww~Brother Chou Fan why did you hit me!"

She clutched her head, and before she could turn around, her head had already received a knuckle-rub from Xu Qingfan.

"Is it you, Xiao Ruawen, who's become excessive, or can't I, Brother Fan, handle myself anymore? Good don't learn, bad you learn, so, learning Xia Xiaoxiao's snarky remarks, right?" Xu Qingfan knocked away her hand as she tried to retaliate.

Xiao Ruawen shrunk her neck in resignation, realizing Brother Fan was might be right.

Seemingly eager to make a distinct boundary with Xu Qingfan, proving she had not wronged Xiao Xiao, her performance this morning was a bit too forceful.

"Hmph~ wasn't it because you were acting shamelessly last night..."

"What did you say?" Xu Qingfan's look was threatening.

"Sorry~" Xiao Ruawen said pitifully.

"That's more like it."

Xu Qingfan felt great, taking her wrist and leading her downstairs.

[Brother Chou Fan!]

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