Chapter 123

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

There was probably no hope on An Liang's side; he knew An Liang's personality, and this time he had likely thoroughly offended him, so getting him to help eliminate the article's influence was also impossible.

He thought it over and over, and in the end decided to go to Lu Feng's side and try again.

Li Hong'an did not believe he could not move a young man who ran a small restaurant; he thought the reason Lu Feng had refused his invitation before was probably that he felt the money offered was too little.

Thinking of this, Li Hong'an made up his mind and hurriedly walked out of the office.

He now had to make a trip to Food Street and look for Lu Feng again to talk.

However, what he did not know was that Lu Feng's business hours this week were 6 p. m., so he was destined to make another wasted trip.

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At 5 p. m., Hu Xiaoyun arrived at Food Street early right after finishing class.

Today was her first day working part-time at Lu Feng's shop; she wanted to give the boss a good impression and absolutely could not be late.

So Hu Xiaoyun didn't even bother eating dinner, rushed back to the dormitory and hurriedly changed into a set of clothes she had just washed yesterday, and without waiting for Lin Meimei to return to the dormitory, immediately hurried to Food Street.

Arriving at the entrance of Lu Feng's shop, Hu Xiaoyun looked at the large crowd of diners already gathered at the entrance and couldn't help but open her mouth wide in surprise.

Even though she had already witnessed the booming business of Lu Feng's shop yesterday, at this moment she still felt a bit shocked.

There was still an hour before opening for business, yet so many people were already surrounding the entrance — this was a bit too exaggerated, wasn't it?

But then she recalled the taste of the Yangchun Noodles she had eaten here yesterday, and instantly felt the scene before her eyes seemed somewhat reasonable.

Judging by the looks of it, this shop's boss's culinary skill was indeed very popular.

Hu Xiaoyun did not go over to the shop entrance, but stood quietly in a deserted corner by the street.

Being somewhat socially anxious, she didn't dare get too close to those diners laughing and chatting around the shop entrance.

She stood in the corner, her eyes glancing toward the shop entrance from time to time.

On one hand she was looking forward to Lu Feng appearing a bit earlier; on the other hand she felt a bit nervous inside.

About twenty minutes passed, and Hu Xiaoyun heard a commotion coming from the shop's direction and looked over.

The diners gathered at the shop entrance began to queue up spontaneously; the originally scattered groups of people quickly formed a long line at the shop entrance.

She instantly felt a bit disappointed; the commotion just now had made her think Lu Feng had already arrived.

Hu Xiaoyun clutched her ID card and health certificate in her pocket, her palms slightly sweaty; she didn't know when the boss would come, and slowly walked a few steps toward the shop's main door.

She had just reached the shop entrance when a venerable voice sounded beside her: "Little girl, if you want to eat you have to queue; cutting in line is not a good habit!"

Hu Xiaoyun turned her head and saw an neatly dressed old grandpa in the queue standing with his hands behind his back, looking at her with a somewhat stern expression.

Behind the old grandpa stood three other old people of similar age who looked somewhat imposing.

Several surrounding diners also cast somewhat strange looks at her.

Hu Xiaoyun remembered seeing this old grandpa yesterday, and couldn't help but look behind them, but did not see that pretty police sister from yesterday.

"Grandpa, I'm not here to eat, I am..."

She had just wanted to open her mouth and explain to the old grandpa that she was the shop's new waiter, but unexpectedly the old grandpa's face hardened and he cut off her words: "Not here to eat? Little girl, this grandpa isn't stupid; yesterday several line-cutters all said the same thing. I'm kindly advising you to go queue at the back; if you don't listen to advice, this grandpa will just lie down at your feet!"

Quite a few diners in the queue also noticed Hu Xiaoyun standing at the shop entrance and began to accuse her one after another.

"Little sister, you're new here, right? Don't you know you have to queue to eat here?"

"With so many people queuing, how can you have the nerve to run to the front?"

"You look so quiet and gentle, how can you cut in line?"

"Hurry up and go queue at the back, don't delay everyone's mealtime in a bit!"

Hu Xiaoyun stood rooted to the spot, at a loss; being originally somewhat socially anxious, surrounded and accused by so many people, she became even more nervous and couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

She never expected to encounter such a situation on her first day of work; if it weren't for the fact that she was reluctant to give up this good part-time job, she would really want to turn around and run back to school immediately.

Hu Xiaoyun bit her lip, somewhat helplessly walking toward the end of the queue; she could only wait until the boss came and then explain.

However, what Hu Xiaoyun didn't know was that just as she reached the end of the queue, Lu Feng arrived at Food Street on his electric scooter.

On the electric scooter's front pedal sat a food ingredient box, inside which was the red braised beef brine made this afternoon at the villa.

Lu Feng arrived at the shop entrance, parked the electric scooter, and stood at the entrance looking around.

By the looks of it, that little girl who came to interview for waiter yesterday still hadn't arrived.

But it wasn't business hours yet, so he didn't think much of it, hugged the food ingredient box, and walked into the shop.

Lu Feng entered the kitchen, bought another can of lard from the System Mall, then took out the flour and started kneading dough.

The dough had just been kneaded when the mobile phone in Lu Feng's pocket rang.

He patted the flour off his hands, rinsed them under the tap, dried his hands, and answered the call.

From the other end of the phone came Hu Daye's somewhat panting voice, saying he had just gotten off the vehicle and would arrive at Food Street shortly.

After confirming this week's business hours, Lu Feng had notified Hu Daye early on.

Lu Feng exhorted a few words on the phone, telling Hu Daye to pay attention to safety, then hung up and walked out of the shop, preparing to welcome Hu Daye's arrival.

He stood outside the door looking around, and still did not see that little girl who came to interview yesterday.

Lu Feng glanced at the time displayed on his mobile phone, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Didn't I already tell her yesterday that business hours this week are 6 p. m.?

It's almost time now, how come she still hasn't come?

Late on the first day of work?

That girl yesterday looked quite obedient; today she doesn't come and doesn't even give me a heads-up in advance.

Lu Feng wanted to call Hu Xiaoyun to ask about the situation, but after flipping through his contact list a couple of times he realized that yesterday he had not only forgotten to ask that girl's name, but also forgotten to leave his mobile phone number.

He couldn't help but shake his head a bit helplessly, feeling that he appeared somewhat unprofessional in the matter of hiring people.

No choice, it's the first time hiring, no experience!

Lu Feng stood in the original place scratching his head, thinking that if the shop opened for business and he still didn't see that girl's shadow, he would have to hire people all over again after business ended today.

Thinking that he would have to find people all over again, he couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache coming on.

Looking at the length of this queue at the door today, if it was just him alone, he estimated he would probably be busy until he was dizzy and disoriented.

Had he known earlier, he might as well have agreed to that cross-dressing big shot or the falsetto tough guy yesterday.

Lu Feng was just thinking about whether to ask that pair of crouching dragon and phoenix chick if they were willing to come work as waiters at the shop when he ran into them, when he raised his eyes and saw Hu Daye carrying a bamboo basket walking over slowly from a distance.

Forget it, won't think about it for now.

He waved his hand toward Hu Daye's side, then slowly walked over toward that side.

Lu Feng had just walked up to Hu Daye when he suddenly heard a cry of alarm from the queue beside him: "Grandpa? How did you come here?"

He was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look over, and saw yesterday's girl staring at Hu Daye with a face full of surprise.

Hu Daye also froze, looking at Hu Xiaoyun and couldn't help but ask in puzzlement: "Xiao Yun? Why are you here?"