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"Qin-home-restaurant."
A young man in a white short-sleeved T-shirt and blue jeans stopped in front of the door of a small restaurant. It was open, so he walked in and stood in front of the counter near the door.
A fat man shaking all over his body was lying on the counter, staring dazedly, half asleep.
"Boss, business is booming. I am the general manager of Ocean Printing Flagship Store. I passed by your store and saw that your billboards are very shiny. I came here to visit Hehehe"
A young man in his early twenties, slightly thin, with a local accent, pretending to be old-fashioned and familiar, with an undisguised youthfulness.
"Thank you! What are you doing? Do you want to learn how to do it, or are you going to order food from me later?"
The fat man called the boss sat up straight, his teeth yellowed by smoke were exposed in a mass of buttery fat, his eyes were narrowed, and the black and yellow eyeballs were almost completely sunken under the bulging blisters under his eyes. Rely on people's imagination to think about its existence.
"No, no, how dare you learn skills empty-handed? It's not even noon for dinner. I just came out from home after breakfast. Hehe, I just want to ask you about the advertisement page of the billboard, do you want to update it? , I will do it for you, so that your business will prosper. Hehehe"
The young man stood in front of the counter, maintaining a respectful attitude. Although his movements were restrained, the smile on his face was bright and sincere. The long and narrow eyes behind the black half-rim glasses were also narrowed into a line in this technical smile.
If you take a closer look, you can see that although his black eyelashes are short, they are thick and can be counted, just like his height, although he is only two centimeters short of 1.7 meters, and his weight is only two catties short of 110 catties. But thin but not weak, revealing the toughness of the bones.
"Then you are saying that my billboard is not good? My business can only be good after you renovate it?"
The face full of fat turned from a smile to sullenness in an instant, and the eyeballs sunken in the flesh bubbles did not float up, but there was a light of vigilance and contempt, piercing the young man opposite him like a silver needle.
"Where is it, ah, ah, what I mean is, the neighbors in your billboard street see it every day, and you can add something new to make everyone's eyes bright, so you want to come over and try something new, so the business is just hehehe"
"Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, I will come to you when I need it! You, turn left when you go out, it is the street, there are many people there, you can grab anyone to chat with, I don't have time now! "
The fat boss is already very impatient. At ten o'clock in the morning, he was indeed going to start preparing for the arrival of the guests at noon.
This small restaurant is one of dozens in this small town. It has a white wall and brick floor, and six wooden square tables are placed against the wall. When there are few people, each square table can seat two people, and when there are many people, it can seat four people face to face. However, when the restaurant is most crowded, each of the six tables is not full of four people at the same time.
Even though the time has passed through the 20th century, in 2005, in Qinfang Town, a small fourth-tier town, there were not many people eating out on weekdays.
Qinfang Town is located in the west of Guangdong, near the sea. With a large population, it is easy to support a small restaurant, but it is not easy to make this small restaurant live comfortably.
After all, most of the people who can stop to eat in the midst of people coming and going are rural people who come from the village to the city to buy things. They don't come to the city very often, but when they can't go back at noon on the day they come out, they will find a small restaurant with a reasonable price and a comfortable look for a light meal, just to avoid the summer in the South Seaside. After noon, there is even more unobstructed heat.
As for the other people who come and go on the street, whether they are working in the city or coming out of the village to do small business, they are used to going home to eat after finishing their work, or they just brought pickles and rice from their homes early in the morning. As soon as noon arrives, find a cool place downstairs, open the lid of the enamel lunch box or aluminum lunch box, put the sweet and delicious food into your mouth, put the lunch box in a plastic bag after eating, and take a nap against the tree trunk next to the wall , save money and be comfortable.
Otherwise, the wages of twenty or thirty yuan a day are no more than forty yuan, and a simple lunch in a small restaurant is almost ten yuan, which is almost half of the meal. Who wants to work half a day for nothing?
The owners of small restaurants are also conscientious. In order to save costs, they are basically mom-and-pop stores, or they call a relative to help. The owners themselves also want to be chefs. Therefore, the businesses on this street are all regular customers. For the salesmen who come to sell various products, the bosses must also welcome all comers, and they will greet them patiently at the beginning, so as not to miss the opportunity for one more person to come in for dinner.
"Ah, that's good, boss, you are busy, here is my business card, Qin Wanfan, Ocean Printing Flagship Store.? Manager. Hey, you put it away first, call me anytime if you need it, I don't rest 24 hours a day. "
The young man respectfully handed over a business card printed on a cardboard that he just took out from his gray-black suit pants.
"What? Are you annoying the frog?"
As expected, the fat boss read countless people, without moving his eyelids, he picked out the key points from Qin Wanfan's long string of words.
"Ah, yes, Qin Wafan, hehe."
Qin Wanfan pretended not to hear the boss's ridicule, and used his correct name pronunciation to correct the boss's slip of the tongue just now, whether it was intentional or unintentional.
"Frogs are quite annoying. They croak at night, and they wake people up when they fall asleep."
The boss muttered such a sentence, which was quite appropriate.
Fifteen minutes ago, the boss was lying on the counter and immersed in daydreams of getting rich. When Qin Wanfan came in, his daydreams were abruptly interrupted. As a result, the two of them talked for a long time, but the kid didn't say he wanted to. The meaning of staying at noon to order food is that I feel annoyed if I don't get anything in return.
As for Qin Wanfan's refurbishment of the signboard and promotional pages, the fat boss never thought about it. The four big characters "Qin's Restaurant" are bright and majestic on the lintel, and people who pass by can see clearly and remember it. That¡¯s enough. The restaurant¡¯s income is not much. After excluding the costs of materials, labor, rent, etc., it is not bad to make a profit of 2,000 a month. Why waste money and effort to get fancy? ! It's better to greet the guests with such trouble!
"Oh, boss, my name is Qin Wanfan, and I'm not annoyed by frogs. However, frogs don't annoy people either. How poetic and poetic it is when they cry at night. People in big cities can't hear it even if they want to! Hehe. "
"I said if you don't leave, it will be really annoying!"
The boss raised his volume, lost the patience to continue talking, and said very bluntly.
"Okay, hey, boss, your business is booming!"
Seeing the boss's impatient face, Qin Wanfan put his business card on the dark red half-person-high counter on the left, turned his back to him, and was busy counting the wine bottles in the closet. The boss bent his back and bowed before turning around and stepping out the door of the small restaurant.
He walked a few steps away, and when he stopped and looked back, he could still see the figure of the boss in the restaurant who continued to wipe the counter without even raising his head, his movements were lazy, like a shadow puppet figure embedded in the door frame that would wave - he put The business card on the counter must have been thrown into the trash by the fat boss without looking at it, or thrown in a corner, waiting to be lost after being dusted.
He couldn't help tilting his head and sighed silently in his heart, raised his head and tried to close his eyelids in the glare of the sun, looked again at the restaurant signboard that he wanted to lobby the boss to renovate, twitched his lips, and said silently He winked, but the plastic signboard with red background and yellow letters seemed to welcome him with enthusiasm when he entered the door just now, but now it is because he is not only not a diner in the restaurant, but is actually trying to replace it. The one who turned into a face of refusal stuck horizontally above the dusty red lacquered door lintel, and sneered arrogantly at him, "Go, don't see me off".
It wasn't until his back disappeared, and the four big yellow characters of "Qin's Restaurant" on the red-bottomed signboard, no matter who came or went, continued to wait lazily under the increasingly dazzling sun at noon, as in the past. Entry and exit of guests.
Qin Wafan didn't rush to go to other shops beside the street to continue his sales. It was exactly as the fat boss said, and he turned left after going out. Of course, when he reached the street, he didn't grab people to chat with to pass the time. Instead, he continued to walk along the street for nearly a kilometer, turned into a narrow alley that could barely accommodate one person, and walked straight for another two to three hundred meters between the mottled walls of the buildings on both sides.
Out of the small alley, he suddenly saw a patch of red brick and gray tiled houses. He walked straight into a large room twice as high beside a row of gray tiled houses. The fat boss said "Ocean Printing Flagship Store".
This is an abandoned house in a brick factory. No one is managing it, let alone using it. After he found out, he chose one of the large factories as his business base.
The large factory building was empty, with a pile of iron-gray scrapped old machines messily piled up in the corner, and a dilapidated yellow-painted wooden couch in the center. This sofa was planned to be replaced by his father a while ago, and after more than ten years of use, he moved it here.
Next to the sofa is a flat gray-black pig iron machine, which he picked out from a pile of old machines in the corner of the factory building to use as a table. Next to it is a tall bamboo chair with a backrest, which was also brought from home.
At this moment, he lay down on the sofa tiredly, put his feet together, and stared up at the high roof that was originally red but has turned black. Finally, an angry expression appeared on his face, as if he had just recollected it. The owner of Qin's restaurant has hurt his self-esteem. He snorted angrily, slammed his fist on the sofa cushion, and said loudly:
"What annoying frogs, you are like a frog, you are annoying! You are more annoying than frogs, hum! Frogs are not annoying you!"
After scolding, he seemed relieved a lot, then raised his head, thought about the appearance of the frog and himself in his mind, made a careful comparison, and felt that he was different from the frog no matter what, so he moved comfortably. He turned over, closed his eyes, and forgot about having lunch, so he fell asleep and dreamed about Duke Zhou. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)Yu showed an angry expression, as if he had just realized that the owner of Qin's restaurant had hurt his self-esteem. He snorted angrily, slammed his fist on the sofa cushion, and said loudly:
"What annoying frogs, you are like a frog, you are annoying! You are more annoying than frogs, hum! Frogs are not annoying you!"
After scolding, he seemed relieved a lot, then raised his head, thought about the appearance of the frog and himself in his mind, made a careful comparison, and felt that he was different from the frog no matter what, so he moved comfortably. He turned over, closed his eyes, and forgot about having lunch, so he fell asleep and dreamed about Duke Zhou. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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