Chapter 467

After all, the Tongfu Teahouse no longer belonged to the Su family.

Besides Su Fu, there was also a public-sector manager involved in the management.

No matter what business is done, or what supplies are procured,

these all need to go through the public-sector manager's approval.

Su Fu worked well with the public-sector manager and also had some personal friendship with them.

For small things, they could turn a blind eye.

But if you go too far and become too eye-catching,

then that friendship probably won't be of much use.

After all, behind the public-sector manager is the Neighborhood Office.

The Neighborhood Office's eyes are fixed tightly on the street.

Anyone who thinks the comrades at the Neighborhood Office are just sitting around eating for free is courting death.

Su Fu understood Cao Weiguo's meaning, but a businessman's nature is hard to change.

Great profits are right in front of him, but he can see them yet can't take them, he has money yet can't earn it.

This feeling is too unbearable!

"Hey!"

Su Fu was heartbroken: "What a pity! It's truly such a pity!"

Cao Weiguo said with a smile: "Uncle Su doesn't need to feel so sorry; if you don't sell tea, you can sell other things."

"Aren't your family's snacks and refreshments also very popular?"

"If you don't have tea, you can just sell more snacks and refreshments."

Su Fu laughed: "My teahouse is almost changing its profession to become a snack shop."

Tea, or rather good tea, is hard to get.

The tea quota allocated to Tongfu Teahouse is very small.

Cao Weiguo also has a limited amount of tea on hand.

Changing professions is both a last resort and a way of adapting to the market.

The atmosphere of these times is changing rapidly.

In the future, fewer and fewer people will come out to drink tea.

It might even lead to trouble because of drinking tea.

Everyone is worrying about their livelihood and food, and you actually have the leisure to come out and drink tea?

Do you think those who are not fed or clothed well can look at you favorably?

If they don't look at you favorably, they'll slap a few labels on you.

Dragging you to the street to educate you for a while is already being lenient.

If they are even more ruthless, they will follow the vine to find the melon and raid your nest.

To see if you are hiding filth.

If those drinking tea have trouble, can those selling tea escape?

So!

Instead of struggling with tea, it's really better to change to making snacks.

The main ingredients for making snacks are rice, flour, and oil.

As long as you have the ability to get these things,

and have built good relationships in advance, plus have a justifiable path,

the Neighborhood Office and relevant personnel won't go too far.

People on the street buying some snacks to eat won't be too eye-catching either.

Even if a big storm blows in the future, you won't be labeled.

Earning some money to support the family in a low-key way is quite good.

Being too greedy leads to indigestion; it's a curse, not a blessing.

Cao Weiguo chatted with Su Fu, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Su Fu himself indeed had the idea of changing to making snacks.

Although the teahouse is a family business, one has to eat to live, right?

During this period, Cao Weiguo had secretly obtained quite a few supplies for him.

Flour, vegetables, fruits, and game were not lacking.

It was also relying on these ingredients that his business could recover its popularity so quickly.

After all, in an era of material scarcity, eating well and being full is more important.

There is no shortage of rich people on the streets of Jingcheng, but most of these people have money but no coupons.

Among the old customers of Tongfu Teahouse, there are quite a few such people.

When Su Fu brought out honey twists, mung bean cakes, pea cakes, and sugar-fired buns that didn't require coupons...

The eyes of these old customers turned green.

They were exactly like a pack of hungry wolves seeing a little fat sheep.

They were swallowing their saliva and scrambling to buy.

If it weren't for Cao Weiguo repeatedly reminding Su Fu to be low-key and careful,

Su Fu's small business could have become popular across several streets.

Even so, the old customers spread the word privately,

which still attracted quite a few new customers to the door.

These people were not short of money either.

Once they came, they wished they could buy everything up.

This made Su Fu happy yet painful.

The feeling of having money but not being able to earn it is unbearable!

At the entrance of Tongfu Teahouse, Liu Huaien's face was incomparably ugly.

Seeing Cao Weiguo chatting warmly with Su Fu and Su Mei,

his teeth were grinding and his eyes were almost spitting fire.

Ever since he found out that Cao Weiguo was actually a director at the rolling mill,

Liu Huaien had been filled with both jealousy and hatred for Cao Weiguo.

Not only did Cao Weiguo snatch away the woman he loved, but he was also doing better than him.

This was simply intolerable by heaven's laws!

But he didn't dare to confront Cao Weiguo head-on; after all, their status and strength were not equal.

A small clerk like him clashing with a section-level official—

what difference is that from an egg hitting a rock?

Liu Huaien, having some self-awareness, had been avoiding Cao Weiguo ever since.

Just like today, seeing Cao Weiguo at the teahouse,

Liu Huaien felt deep hatred inside, but he still endured the resentment and turned to leave.

He didn't want to go in and ask for trouble; if a conflict occurred, it would just be self-inflicted humiliation.

It must be said that Liu Huaien was much smarter and more sensible than Shazhu.

"Cao Weiguo! You are just a smelly cook!"

"A piece of trash who got lucky!"

"Don't get cocky too early!"

"Just wait!"

"Watch how I teach you a harsh lesson!"

After leaving the teahouse, Liu Huaien rode his bicycle back to the alley.

He found a strong man wandering the streets: "Brother Dao! Help me teach someone a lesson!"

Cao Weiguo didn't know yet that someone was targeting him.

After lunch, he went with Su Mei to attend the public-sector manager's wedding.

This public-sector manager of Tongfu Teahouse was the same age as Su Fu.