Happy Little Farmer
Chapter 320

Chapter 320: Chapter 320

"The day’s earnings?"

Liu Sanleng grabbed two handfuls of his thick chest hair, cocked his mouth to the side, and thought hard for a moment before raising two fingers to Yang Fan, "There’s nothing I can’t say about it. My place, you see, the performance level is high, and the girls are pretty smart. So the business for a day is still pretty good, the average is about two thousand yuan."

Yang Fan just predicted ten thousand, but he actually said two thousand...

Such a big dance hall, earning just two thousand a day, doesn’t seem to make much money.

Yang Fan immediately had his excuse. He shook his head, "Boss Liu, I’m afraid you can’t call this business good?"

"How can it not be good? Subtracting various expenses, the net profit a day is two thousand, do you get what I’m saying?" Liu Sanleng got a bit upset when Yang Fan said that.

"Boss Liu, how many girls do you have here?" asked Yang Fan.

"Eleven!" Liu Sanleng patted his round belly and said with a hint of pride.

"Can you make that happen?" asked Yang Fan.

"Sure, but usually it’s not here in my place. The girls take the guests back to their rooms to play," Liu Sanleng explained, "Occasionally it happens here, but not often, after all, if you really do that kind of business, there are some risks involved."

"I’ve been handling that kind of delicate situation quite securely, and the business is steady too."

Yang Fan nodded.

Although he didn’t know how other dance halls operated, this did seem like a relatively safe choice.

"Any other services?" Yang Fan continued to ask.

"Yeah, there’s a lot more going on in this place," Liu Sanleng started to sound proud again, "Foot massages, movie screening, those count as the more expensive services. The least you’ll spend is about two to three hundred yuan."

"How is customer feedback?" Yang Fan asked.

Liu Sanleng made a slight hissing sound and suddenly looked at Yang Fan with scrutiny, "Are you here to talk business or to dig into my affairs?"

Yang Fan smiled lightly, "I need to understand the general situation before we can properly talk business, right?"

Liu Sanleng patted his belly and hesitated before saying, "To tell the truth, the customer feedback isn’t that great, especially this year, it’s even harder to do business. Our little town might seem big, but the number of people who come to places like this is just the same old crowd."

"That two thousand I mentioned might have been a bit of a boast; nowadays it averages around three to five hundred a day."

Yang Fan was stunned; he felt like this guy’s business was on its last legs.

He nodded and asked, "Can you tell me what the clients usually say?"

"What else can they say? Everyone who comes in says something like ’Why is it still the same few people?’ They’re tired of it, don’t want to play anymore, they feel there’s no novelty anymore," Liu Sanleng shook his head and let out a light sigh.

Yang Fan nodded, "It seems that Boss Liu is quite aware of the problems in his own venue."

"What good does being aware do? You see, I’ve opened up foot massages, I’ve arranged movies, but still hardly anyone comes!" Liu Sanleng’s voice suddenly rose, "They just don’t want to see the same old faces in the shop, feels like there’s no fun in that."

Yang Fan nodded again, quietly comparing this place to Han Palace in his mind.

There’s just no comparison.

He pondered briefly before speaking up, "Boss Liu, I feel that it’s not just a lack of novelty that’s the issue here, but mainly a lack of excitement. At a place like ours, which is service-oriented, service must come first. The girls can’t be too temperamental."

"There’s no way to say it. Those girls are like living ancestors here at my place. I’m really at their beck and call. They earn much more than I do every month. I don’t dare to say a word because if I do, they’ll just drop everything and quit," Liu Sanleng shook his head as he spoke.

"My business relies on them to stay alive. If I offend them, it’ll be even harder for me to keep going."

Yang Fan, who had originally used this as a pretext, now seriously began to consider it.

He always felt that Liu Sanleng was somewhat held hostage.

Looking at the situation now, if it hadn’t gone bad yet, it would inevitably do so sooner or later.

"So, Boss Liu, your current situation is that you’re only taking a very small cut from these girls, right?" Yang Fan asked, "As for other matters, you don’t interfere or inquire?"

Liu Sanleng nodded, "That’s the deal."

"Your business, I feel it’s a bit risky now. If you’re willing to spend a little money, I think there might still be something to earn in the future." Yang Fan said earnestly, somewhat mixing truth with falsehood, "That’s the kind of training I provide."

"Oh, after all that, you’re here to get me to spend money?" Liu Sanleng suddenly sat up, instantly losing interest in continuing the conversation.

Yang Fan nodded, "That is indeed the case. Otherwise, I don’t think your business is ready for deeper cooperation."

"First tell me, what’s your deal? I’ll listen and see," Liu Sanleng reclined again, but his demeanor had become guarded, as if he was afraid Yang Fan would steal his money.

"To put it simply, your customers are no longer excited about this way of drinking and dancing. If you want to upgrade, you have to upgrade everything," Yang Fan stated seriously, "Also, improving service to get customers excited, so that they can’t stop thinking about it after spending money and will want to come back in a couple of days."

"What kind of service should I provide? If I demand it, those girls here would all be done for!" Liu Sanleng patted his belly and said, "I’m already bending over backward for them and they’re still not satisfied, walking out one today and two tomorrow."

"How many regular customers do you have here?" Yang Fan inquired.

"Back when times were good, it was easy to have two to three hundred people a night," Liu Sanleng recalled the prime of his days, "Back then, I earned more in one night just by selling drinks than I do now."

"There’s no one else vying for your business in this town, so your customer base is very stable, right?" Yang Fan asked.

Liu Sanleng proudly declared, "Absolutely, if it wasn’t stable, my place would’ve gone down the tubes a long time ago."

"As a businessman, Boss Liu, you worry about your employees instead of your customers, isn’t that putting the cart before the horse?" Yang Fan said with a smile.

This was the key issue he had just uncovered during their conversation with Liu Sanleng.

Liu Sanleng seemed stumped by that remark, staring at Yang Fan in confusion for a long while before muttering, "That’s not right, if I don’t take care of my employees, where would my customers come from? It’s hard to find girls like them these days."

Yang Fan was taken aback.

What kind of thinking was this?

How did he manage to get his business off the ground like this, this...

After a dry laugh, Yang Fan nodded, "Boss Liu, your line of thinking, um... really leaves one at a loss for words."

"Is there something wrong with my thinking? They are my cash cows!" Liu Sanleng said, naively looking at Yang Fan.

Yang Fan: ...