Chapter 428 - 154: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel (41)
Chapter 428: Chapter 154: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel (41)
One of the most memorable things about the eighties was the classic music spilling from roadside stereos. That’s why one of the shops had to be a dedicated cassette tape store. It couldn’t be small, either—it would be best to set it up like a supermarket.
The tapes would all be displayed on raw-wood shelves, allowing customers to browse and select at their leisure.
’This shop will need to be mindful of theft...’
I’ll open a movie theater, modeled after the multiplexes of the future. Each auditorium will be about the size of two classrooms, furnished with several rows of chairs upholstered in leather and stuffed with soft, comfortable cotton.
Six or seven auditoriums like that would take up half the street.
In addition to ticket sellers and ticket takers, there would also be a concession stand selling snacks and drinks.
It’s located right by the hospital, so it gets all that foot traffic, plus it’s near the residential areas for several large work units. Plenty of buses pass through here too. As long as we advertise and keep the film selection fresh, we won’t have to worry about selling tickets.
I’ll have Xu Chengfang handle this. She can negotiate with a few of the major film production companies.
’Ticket sales could also use a group-buying model. We could run special promotions for holidays, offer advance ticket sales—so many kinds of promotions!’
’I bet people who’ve never seen such modern sales tactics will rush in, thinking they’re getting a huge bargain.’
On the other side of the North Gate, a large library!
All the rooms would be connected by knocking down the walls. We’d even expand it a bit onto the hospital grounds and build it three stories high. It would have an open atrium in the center and a post-modern design. The walls would be lined with shelves holding countless books organized by section. The rest of the space would be filled with all sorts of tables and chairs, plus plenty of flowers and plants for decoration.
There would be drink counters in the center and on the sides of the library, serving beverages like milk, juice, coffee, and milk tea.
The library would offer memberships. Members could enter for free to read, do research, or study, and they could also check out books to take home.
The library might seem like it’s mostly a public service, but it would attract the literary and intellectual crowd, bringing plenty of targeted potential customers to the surrounding shops.
Next door, there’ll be a bookstore and a stationery shop. I’m sure that with so few entertainment options available these days, people will definitely treat books and periodicals as a major form of recreation.
As for the South Gate, it would sell the things that hospital visitors buy most often, essentially acting as an expanded version of the commissary.
There’d be a fruit stand, a flower shop, a nutritional supplement store, a shop for daily necessities, and so on. She also wanted to open a companion care agency. It would recruit responsible, efficient, and upstanding family members of hospital staff, who would undergo rigorous training and assessment before being certified for work.
People have very few vacation days right now, and the two-day weekend hasn’t been implemented yet. If an elderly relative or a child gets sick, their guardian can’t just take an extended leave from work to look after them, can they?
That’s where the companion care agency would come in, providing caregivers for comprehensive support and service.
The service would be thorough and high-quality, with the hospital acting as a guarantor, and the prices would be fair.
It would solve a major inconvenience for patients’ families while also providing numerous jobs for the families of hospital employees.
This was bound to become a wildly popular, best-selling service!
’Hmm, I should also open a large pharmacy to sell common, over-the-counter drugs. That would improve efficiency.’
A specialty baby supply store needs to open, too. And a bakery.
She had also been thinking about setting up a hotel. This was the perfect chance to give it a proper storefront and connect it to the singles’ dormitory in the back—the one converted from the old office building, which was currently half-empty.
The rooms would be partitioned to meet the needs of customers at every price point, offering everything from capsule pods to deluxe single rooms...
This time, Chi Yun’er’s proposal was incredibly thick and detailed. She had analyzed every project from all angles—market demand, development context, supply chains, foot traffic, and more—and had also drawn up comprehensive plans for each.
She had even drawn up architectural blueprints for the library, marking out the specific types of plants and exactly where they should be placed...
But the hospital director and the others didn’t find it the least bit dry or tedious. On the contrary, the more they read, the more captivated they became, and they immediately gave the green light for it to be implemented.
Chi Yun’er had trained Zhao Jinming and Xu Chengfang well; each of them was now capable of managing a major front on their own.
Construction of the buildings would take another month or two, but they could already start recruiting and training staff.
The three of them split up to tackle the tasks. One went to secure supply chains, another supervised the construction, and the third organized recruitment and training.
When the educated youths in the countryside heard there was another recruitment drive—and that there were supposedly quite a few positions available—they were so thrilled they embraced each other, as if they had already gotten the jobs themselves.
To prevent everyone from wasting money on round-trip travel, Chi Yun’er sought out high school teachers for the core subjects and had them help create three different versions of an exam. Then, the family members who wanted to register for the recruitment drive on behalf of the applicants could photocopy the exam and mail it to them.