That night, Tongdao Xu was very busy. Not only was he busy, but also all the employees in his store were busy, including Ge Lianghua, Xu Tonglin, Cao Min, Fang Fang, Huang Mei...
Yes, including Huang Mei, the dishwashing aunt, is also very busy tonight.
Not only did she have to be busy washing dishes, sometimes neither Ge Lianghua nor Xu Tonglin could spare time to deliver food to Legend of Hungry Wolf, so she was required to act as a food delivery person, running between places in a hurry.
Winter!
The weather is so cold, the whole street is not very popular, but the business of Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant is as good as the summer business season.
Every employee in the store is very busy, making other nearby store owners and stall owners across the road envious.
That's really jealous.
Everyone's business is off season, but your business is so good. Do you want to be embarrassed? Are you sorry?
No, Fatty Lu across the road was sitting behind the oven, smoking a cigarette, looking at this scene with cold eyes and lips, and almost cursed.
His barbecue stall is really in the off-season, but the barbecue restaurant opened by the guy across the street is no different from the peak season. Who do you think you should blame this matter for, not jealous?
After looking at it, he turned and looked at the open space next to him...
There used to be Bald Zhang's stall there, but now, no! A few days ago, Bald Zhang stopped setting up a stall here. Fatty Lu heard someone say that Bald Zhang went to open a shop in front of the county No. 2 Middle School.
Ordinarily, this is an enviable thing.
After all, from setting up a stall to opening a store, the business has been upgraded no matter what, which is gratifying and enviable.
However, Fatty Lu was not envious at all.
Because he knew that was not what Bald Zhang wanted. In fact, Bald Zhang was setting up a stall here and there was no business left. He remembered that before Bald Zhang disappeared, he had beaten all eggs for three consecutive nights.
Three nights! Not a single business was done, and not a single customer visited Bald Zhang’s stall.
At that time, he and his wife were joking about his bald head!
Unexpectedly, Bald Zhang waited for three days and then never came back to the stall.
If you can’t do business by setting up a stall here, can you do business by opening a shop in the County No. 2 Middle School?
Fatty Lu expressed doubts.
But tonight, I looked at the barbecue restaurant opened by the guy across the road. Although there were not many customers in the restaurant, there were still five or six tables of customers, and takeaways were constantly being delivered to Legend of the Hungry Wolf.
Seeing such a scene in his eyes, he was jealous and inevitably thought: Should I change places?
Set up a stall in another place? Or open a barbecue restaurant in County No. 2 Middle School like Bald Zhang did?
After all, the County No. 2 Middle School is mainly engaged in student business, so it should be easier to earn money from children.
Does he even want to open his own store next door to Bald Zhang?
Anyway, I bake better than him. When I set up a stall here, Bald Zhang's business was not as good as mine. If I can't compete with that kid, can I still compete with Bald Zhang?
As soon as this thought of not being a son of man emerged, it became stronger and stronger. As he thought about it, Fatty Lu turned around and waved to his wife.
His wife came to him confused and asked, "What's going on?"
Fatty Lu immediately lowered his voice and told her what he had just thought.
After saying that, he asked her expectantly, "How's it going? Do you think my idea is good?"
"What a fart!"
He didn't expect it! His wife's first sentence was this.
He was still confused, so his wife said, "Do you think Bald Zhang's store in No. 2 Middle School will be a good business? I've already asked people about it, and no one eats there at Bald Zhang, even if it happens occasionally.
There are students going in to eat, but how much money do students have? If you order mutton skewers for two yuan, you can sit in his shop for more than an hour. You are afraid that Bald Zhang will be too lonely opening a shop by himself, so you want to accompany him.
Is he keeping him company? Are you out of your mind?"
"Yes, really?"
Fatty Lu looked stunned.
His wife rolled her eyes at him and said, "Do you still want to accompany him?"
Fatty Lu shook his head quickly, but... not long after, he let out a sullen breath and sighed: "But if we don't think of something, if we keep going like this, we will set up a stall in the cold weather every day, and we won't be able to make a single penny in a night.
Packing cigarette money, this won’t work!”
"No!"
This time his wife did not scold him, but looked at a fried rice and fried noodles stall not far away.
She whispered to him: "Look over there! The guy selling fried noodles, his business has been quite good recently, how about we also sell fried rice and fried noodles? What do you think?"
Fatty Lu followed her gaze, and slowly his heart moved.
"Hey, don't say it yet! This is a really good idea!"
…
At around 11:00 that night, Comrade Xu, who was almost driving his colleague to death, smiled and sighed, feeling a little helpless.
He has realized that he was wrong.
He miscalculated tonight's business. He didn't expect that the business would be so good if he did takeout from Legend of the Hungry Wolf on the first day tonight.
The food sold in Legend of the Hungry Wolf is much more than what customers eat in his shop.
No, it's only 11:00 now, and all the ingredients in his store have been sold out. If he wants to sell anymore, he has to cut his own meat and roast it.
When he went to the vegetable market to buy ingredients this morning, he deliberately bought twice the usual amount.
At that time, he was mentally applauded for his courage.
I feel great and brave enough.
But now... reality slapped him in the face, reality told him - you are a coward! You deserve to be poor!
Even so, he was still very happy.
He likes to be educated in this way by reality, and he loves to learn.
"Notify Hungry Wolf Legend that we are closed!"
Walking out of the kitchen, Xu Tongdao ordered Xu Tonglin at the bar, and then shouted to several other people, "Everyone clean up! Once you finish cleaning up, we will close and get off work!"
This should be good news worth cheering for.
But everyone just smiled and no one cheered.
The smiles on everyone's faces showed exhaustion. Comrade Xu announced the closing time. When everyone laughed, their shoulders slumped.
Everyone was relieved.
"Finally got off work, exhausted..."
Fang Fang, who was clearing the dining table with Cao Min, sighed in a low voice.
It's like escaping from death.
Cao Min also whispered: "Yes! Now I understand what it means that money is hard to make and shit is hard to eat..."
…
After closing time and returning to their residence, Xu Tonglin still insisted on counting the money with a tired face. Xu Tonglin was no longer interested and sat aside to drink water because it was still early and Ge Lianghua was also in their room at this time.
Despite Ge Lianghua's good figure, he was a little tired at this time. He lay lazily on Xu Tongdao's bed and said self-deprecatingly: "If I am so tired every day in the future, Xiaodao, even if I am your cousin, you will have to give me a salary increase.
I have been so busy growing up, do you know how many times I went to the Legend of the Hungry Wolf tonight to deliver food to you? At least twenty or thirty times! I ran there and back every time!"
"Haha...one thousand four hundred and forty-eight...haha! One thousand four hundred and forty-eight were sold tonight..."
Xu Tonglin's sudden cheers shocked both Xu Tongdao and Ge Lianghua.