After my divorce, I started to have good luck-Chapter 909 - 486: Inexplicable Shock

Kang Cheng quickly composed himself and hurriedly caught up with the two women, Jin Xinyan and Huang Xiaolu. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

During the rest of their shopping trip, Kang Cheng continued his clever banter, amusingly engaging them in conversation. He often made Huang Xiaolu giggle, and even the initially troubled Xinyan gradually lightened up.

But if you ask whether Xinyan was attracted to Kang Cheng, that's definitely a no.

Although she's young, not very experienced with life, and lacks dating experience, she recognizes that someone like Kang Cheng, with his excellent communication skills and ability to make girls happy, naturally gets along well with women. Coupled with his impressive family background and good looks, he clearly fits the playboy model.

For someone like Kang Cheng, he's a great friend, but nothing more.

They spent over two hours shopping, mainly with the two women buying things while Kang Cheng acted as an advisor, giving them suggestions. To be honest, his understanding of women's clothing coordination and the quality of cosmetics is insightful. More importantly, he was very patient, accompanying the two women in and out of various shops uninterruptedly, showing no signs of impatience or fatigue.

Comparatively, Xu Zhangbao clearly lacked patience. He only lasted for about half an hour before using the restroom as an excuse to leave and never returned promptly.

By the time Huang Xiaolu thought of him, an hour had passed. When she called him, he said a friend had called, so he left. It left Huang Xiaolu complaining for quite a while.

When the three of them left the mall, Kang Cheng enthusiastically invited them to have a late-night supper.

They dined on premium bird's nest porridge, at a health-focused porridge shop that wasn't open to the public.

The location was in a building near the Lakefront, a building with almost a hundred years of history, considered a historic construction. It has been reinforced and renovated, its historical contours still visible from the outside.

The building is only eight stories high, and the health porridge shop is on the top floor, along with half of the rooftop terrace where guests can overlook the beautiful surroundings of East Lake.

This place operates on a high-level membership system, and ordinary people have no clue of the porridge shop's existence.

Typically, average people wouldn't bother coming here just for porridge.

The ones who do come usually have the financial means and a demand for health maintenance, or those seeking to indulge in a bit of pretension, or those with a upscale social necessity.

Kang Cheng brought them here mainly to show off.

According to him, this porridge shop has been open for five or six years, with a strict membership system that limits the number of members. They've distributed only a hundred membership cards to the public, and it's currently full, meaning they aren't accepting additional members.

Each member is typically allowed to bring a maximum of two guests when dining here.

Therefore, every time they visit to have porridge, there aren't that many people around.

The overall environment is extremely comfortable and tranquil.

Xinyan is also considered a second-generation wealthy and a native of Xiu Zhou, yet she wasn't aware of this porridge shop before and had never been here. It was a real eye-opener for her this time.

The operation space of this porridge shop is actually quite large, with ten rectangular wooden tables on the eighth floor, arranged in two rows of five tables each, with each table accommodating at least four people. With an additional stool, it can seat five.

Furthermore, along the window side, there is a long wooden plank serving as a makeshift dining table, capable of seating over a dozen people.

The rooftop also has similar long plank tables, plus five rectangular wooden tables.

So, the porridge shop can accommodate nearly a hundred guests at a time.

However, when they arrived, they saw only a few sparse guests on the eighth floor, and only two tables of five or six guests on the rooftop.

Such a guest ratio undoubtedly offers great comfort to visitors and ease to the workers here, although it might not be ideal for the shop owner. After all, fewer guests mean less profit.

Huang Xiaolu curiously inquired about this, providing a great opportunity for Kang Cheng to boast.

Kang Cheng, smiling, explained, "There's no business that doesn't make money. The owner here is very smart. Even though he gives out membership cards, and doesn't charge membership fees, maintaining this membership requires meeting certain recharging and spending conditions. Otherwise, the membership will be revoked and transferred to waiting prospective members."

"What kind of recharging and spending conditions?" Huang Xiaolu prompted.

With a slight smile, Kang Cheng said, "To retain membership at this porridge shop, either you maintain a balance of over 200,000 in your member card, or spend a minimum of 20,000 each month. Otherwise, your membership will be canceled."

"Spending 20,000 a month is excessively high. Two thousand seems more reasonable," she muttered.

Although Huang Xiaolu is considered moderately wealthy, the thought of spending 20,000 monthly at this porridge shop surprised her, as it's ultimately just a porridge place, not an entertainment venue.

"Actually, spending 20,000 monthly here isn't much. Because the most expensive porridge here, wild ginseng porridge, costs 8,888 a bowl. Just two bowls a month will about suffice."

"That's ridiculous, isn't it? It's just a bowl of porridge," Huang Xiaolu exclaimed. "And, if they claim it's wild ginseng, is it really wild ginseng? There's no deception, right?"

"Don't worry about that. The customers here are either wealthy or prestigious, and when preparing this wild ginseng porridge, the owner retrieves it personally from a safe, with certificates and authoritative verification. These wild ginsengs are painstakingly collected by the owner over the years. Most wouldn't even dare to use them for porridge; they are fifty to sixty years old, weighing no more than twenty-something grams in the heaviest case. They say there's not much left now.

Every time the wild ginseng porridge is brewed, the owner personally slices it and puts it in the porridge, overseeing the entire process, with kitchen monitoring too. If they cheated, the shop wouldn't have lasted this long."

"So, if the owner happens to be away, would that mean no wild ginseng porridge?" Jin Xinyan asked with a unique perspective.

Kang Cheng was initially puzzled, then laughed, "It seems so. After all, wild ginseng now is extremely rare and precious. Fifty to sixty-year-old ones are worth about 2,000 to 3,000 per gram in the market now, and you need connections to get them. Otherwise, even if you have the money, you won't get the real thing and will mostly get fakes."

Xinyan couldn't help but laugh, "Hearing this, 8,888 a bowl doesn't seem too expensive after all. If there are two or three grams per bowl, it breaks even."

Kang Cheng shook his head, "As I said, there's no business that doesn't make money. Typically, a bowl of wild ginseng porridge only contains two grams unless the owner deliberately adds more."

"So, this way, he earns at least two or three thousand per bowl?" Huang Xiaolu countered.