Chapter 108: Let You Open a Food Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

When it was nearly five in the afternoon, Lu Feng rode his electric scooter to Food Street.

Just as he turned into the street, he saw from afar a large crowd gathered at his shop entrance.

These people stood in small groups, holding mobile phones and power banks, their eyes glancing now and then toward the shop door and the intersection.

Lu Feng felt some doubt in his heart; this week he had not yet announced his business hours, so logically there shouldn't be so many people waiting.

And judging by the power banks in those diners' hands, and the garbage bins near the shop filled with various empty lunch boxes,

it seemed these people had probably been waiting at the shop entrance for a long time.

What was going on?

Could it be that after not opening for two days, this group of people had become so thirsty for food that they were guarding here all day?

Carrying the doubts in his heart, Lu Feng rode his electric scooter slowly toward the shop.

Soon, among the crowd gathered at the door, someone sharp-eyed noticed him.

"He's here! Boss Lu is finally here!"

With a loud shout, everyone turned to look at Lu Feng.

The gazes of the crowd were like wild beasts seeing prey, making him feel his chrysanthemum tighten.

Before Lu Feng could react, he was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.

"Boss Lu! You're finally here!"

"Boss, why did you come so early today? Did the business hours this week move up?"

"Boss Lu! Tell us quickly! What time do you open for business today?"

"I haven't eaten Boss Lu's food for two days, I feel like I've lost several pounds!"

"Boss, forget everything else! Tell me quickly! What time do you open for business this week?"

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The crowd surrounded him, shouting all at once, saliva flying everywhere.

Fortunately Lu Feng was wearing a helmet; he quickly pulled down the face shield, lest he be sprayed in the face with saliva.

But the sounds coming from all around made him feel his head buzzing.

When the surrounding sounds had quieted a bit, Lu Feng raised his hand and waved it in front of him: "Everyone don't rush, please make way first, let me pass."

After hearing this, the crowd then moved to both sides, making a path for Lu Feng.

Lu Feng rode his electric scooter to the shop entrance, and the group of diners behind him still followed him closely.

Several diners even stood at the gate; judging by the situation, if Lu Feng didn't tell them the business hours, they wouldn't let him go in.

Seeing this situation, Lu Feng became even more doubtful in his heart.

He had never encountered this kind of situation before; he knew you were anxious, but weren't you too anxious?

After parking the electric scooter, Lu Feng stood at the shop entrance, looking at the diners before him who were gazing with longing, and then he spoke: "This week business starts at six in the evening and ends at seven; other foods are temporarily not provided, this week only soup noodles are sold."

After saying this, he quietly waited for the diners' complaints.

This week there was only one hour of business time each day; if he still prepared all the ingredients like last week, he worried there wouldn't be enough time.

In order to sell 500 portions of soup noodles within five days as much as possible, Lu Feng decided not to make other things temporarily this week.

Originally he thought that after hearing this news, these diners would surround him again to complain.

Unexpectedly, after his voice fell, those diners moved in unison, immediately taking out their mobile phones to type crazily.

Basically no one reacted to what he said.

Lu Feng was somewhat at a loss, but since they had no objections, it saved him from opening his mouth to explain.

He was just about to turn around and go back to the shop when he heard someone behind him shout excitedly.

"Hahaha! I was the first to post! Boss Zhao really transferred me a thousand yuan!"

A male student wearing glasses in the crowd held up his mobile phone, jumping up and down with joy.

Hearing this, others immediately cast envious and jealous gazes at that male student.

"Broken phone! Opening WeChat took half a day, making me miss out on a thousand yuan!"

A man wearing a white short-sleeved shirt complained loudly with anger, raising his hand as if to throw the mobile phone in his hand to the ground, but in the end he reluctantly put it down.

"I was just a little slow, ahhh! I'm so angry!" Another male student clutched his hair in pain, his face full of regret.

"Brother, your hand is too fast! I hadn't even finished typing my words!" Someone shook his head and sighed while speaking.

Lu Feng stood to one side listening to everyone's discussion, and was suddenly a bit bewildered.

What thousand yuan?

He couldn't help but curiously walk to the side of the male student wearing glasses and glanced at the mobile phone in his hand.

After Lu Feng clearly saw the name of the group chat, he was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

This group of diners, in order to know the first moment when he opened for business, had actually created a group chat.

As for Boss Zhao who sent red packets in the group just now, Lu Feng thought of Zhao Zhenhui first.

After all, among the diners who often came to eat here, Zhao Zhenhui was one of the wealthier ones.

"By the way Boss Lu, why don't you join the group too? That way you can notify everyone in the group when you open for business in the future."

The male student wearing glasses, the excited expression on his face not yet faded, looked at Lu Feng standing to one side and said.

Join the group?

Lu Feng frowned and thought for a while.

He couldn't help but recall the scene from when he worked at the company, where, for work purposes, he had joined dozens of business groups.

Back then, there were all kinds of messages in the groups every day; if he didn't check his mobile phone for a while, WeChat would show over 99 unread messages.

Even on Sundays when he was resting at home, he would be disturbed by all sorts of messages in the groups and couldn't find any peace.

Their company had a rule that messages in the groups had to be replied to within one minute.

Once, he was just eating when he replied a little late to the messages in the group.

As a result, after he finished eating and returned, he was scolded by his superior.

After the company went bankrupt, the first thing Lu Feng did when he got back was to quit all the groups.

Only then did he feel that the world had become much quieter.

If he joined this group chat, wouldn't he have to reply to all kinds of questions from those customers every day from then on?

How would that be any different from the days when he was a drudge?

Of course, as the boss, he could also choose not to reply to messages.

But Lu Feng happened to have obsessive-compulsive disorder; seeing unread messages displayed on WeChat, he couldn't help but click to look.

So, for the sake of future peace and quiet, he absolutely did not want to join this group no matter what.

During the time Lu Feng ran the shop, quite a few customers wanted his contact information, and Lu Feng didn't tell them for this very reason.

Thinking of this, Lu Feng decisively shook his head: "No, I like peace and quiet."

Hearing Lu Feng's words, the customers around him couldn't help but show a bit of disappointment on their faces.

However, after thinking it over, if Boss Lu wasn't in the group, wouldn't they be able to snatch a one-thousand bounty every Monday?

One thousand yuan in Zhao Zhenhui's eyes might not even count as one hair from nine oxen.

But for these customers, it was still a considerable sum, enough for them to eat well at Lu Feng's shop for a long time.

The bespectacled young man seemed to want to persuade Lu Feng a few more words, when suddenly someone in the crowd shouted loudly: "Boss Zhao is sending red packets in the group again!"

Hearing this, everyone lowered their heads to look at their mobile phones.

For a moment, Lu Feng was left aside by them, and no one bothered to pay attention to him anymore.

Seeing this, Lu Feng just shook his head, and taking advantage of the time while everyone was looking down to snatch red packets, he quietly walked into the shop.

In the group chat named "Lu Boss Business Notice Group," it was very lively at this time.

Quite a few people expressed satisfaction with Boss Lu's business hours this week, after all, the business hours of the previous two weeks were too bizarre, and they had been tormented enough.

Another part of them kept sending "Thank you boss for the red packet" emojis, enthusiastically discussing who had snatched the largest red packet.

At this time, someone sent a message in the group.

"Don't any of you notice that Boss Lu is only open for one hour every day this week?"

After the message was sent, the group fell silent for a few seconds, and then suddenly boiled over.