Chapter 325

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

There were indeed many customers coming to buy drinks from the vending machine; they saw the long queue clearly.

To say they weren't envious at all would be a lie.

"What do you have to be smug about?"

The ramen shop boss couldn't help walking over, pointing at the long queue at Lu Feng's shop entrance, his tone full of disdain: "If it weren't for you basking in Boss Lu's reflected glory, who would come buy your drinks?"

"Yes yes yes, it's basking in that kid's glory; I'll just give him two bottles of drinks later as thanks, won't that settle it?"

The boss's wife smiled until her eyes narrowed, looking at the vending machine at their own entrance, her gaze like she was looking at the God of Wealth: "Besides, this just shows my unique vision; it's still far stronger than some people who only know how to guard their own tiny patch of land and wouldn't even know how to bask in reflected glory!"

"You..."

Seeing her smug look, the ramen shop boss's face flushed red; he choked for a long time before squeezing out: "Only someone like you would have the nerve to earn this money!"

"Earning money is all that matters, what's this about nerve or no nerve!"

The boss's wife put her hands on her hips and retorted smugly: "I didn't steal or rob; this money is earned legally! You're all big bosses who look down on this petty small change, unlike me, a poor person."

"Furthermore, opportunities were clearly given to you, but you failed to seize them yourselves; now that you see me earning money you come over green with envy? You couldn't grab the money-making opportunity yourselves, that's not my fault!"

The boss's wife's words were not wrong.

Back then, that glasses man didn't just approach her shop.

After discussing cooperation with her, the glasses man went to several other nearby shops and talked cooperation with those bosses too.

However, they were all clearly aware of the situation when Lu Feng rejected the glasses man that day.

In their view, this kind of thing — using Lu Feng's customer flow to make money for themselves — was a bit unethical.

Boss Lu himself disagreed; if they agreed, wouldn't that be deliberately making things awkward for him?

Moreover, they all knew that their shops' business being better than before was entirely thanks to the customer flow Lu Feng brought.

One cannot be insatiably greedy; this kind of unscrupulous thing they also couldn't bring themselves to do.

Therefore, the several shops the glasses man approached later, including the ramen shop boss, without exception all rejected the glasses man's cooperation invitation.

"Indeed we look down on this kind of unscrupulous money; Boss Lu helped bring us business, we know that in our hearts; you're borrowing his traffic to make money and still think you're clever? We're not like you; we have face!"

The ramen shop boss was a straightforward man; he said directly and rudely to the braised food shop boss's wife.

"Can't be bothered talking to you lot, a bunch of rigid minds; letting ready money sit there and not knowing how to earn it; seeing me earn money you say I'm unscrupulous?"

The braised food shop boss's wife sneered, patting the vending machine's cold body: "This vending machine of mine, in just this short while, its pure profit has already matched a whole day of you selling ramen; you think you're so noble? Aren't you also relying on that surnamed Lu to eat right now? If you're so capable, go open a shop somewhere else! What we do is six of one, half a dozen of the other; what are you putting on airs for here?"

"You..."

The ramen shop boss was choked until his face flushed red, pointing angrily at the boss's wife: "We're riding on Boss Lu's traffic, but we rely on our own culinary skill; that's different from you! Doing business like this won't last; you'll go under sooner or later!"

"Heh heh, curse me? Impossible!"

The boss's wife pointed smugly at Lu Feng's shop: "Unless this surnamed Lu's shop goes bust, my drinks won't worry about selling!"

After she spoke, she glanced at the vending machine again; the Cola stock wasn't much left either.

Just in this short while, quite a few more drinks had been sold.

For her now, earning money was the most important thing.

As for the ramen shop boss's words, she didn't take them to heart in the slightest.

She just treated it as envy over her earning money; sour grapes because she couldn't eat them.

"Not wasting more time blathering with you here; I still have to restock; the drinks stored in the shop are almost sold out; I have to call that young guy again to bring in more drinks to stock up."

After the boss's wife finished speaking, she turned to look at the vending machine, still muttering: "This machine sells too well; it's just that restocking every so often is a bit troublesome; in a couple days maybe I'll also be like that surnamed Lu kid, hire a cheap university student part-timer specifically to help me restock, save me having to personally haul things back and forth."

The braised food shop boss's wife twisted her bucket waist and walked briskly back into the shop, humming a little tune as she went.

The ramen shop boss watched her swaggering-away back, watched the customers continuously coming to the vending machine to buy drinks, and let out a heavy sigh.

To tell the truth, he wasn't unenvious of the boss's wife making money.

But even earning money, there has to be a bottom line.

This kind of money, even if he earned it, holding it in his hand he would also feel uneasy.

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Lu Feng's shop was still as lively as ever.

The hall was full of diners come to eat, lively as usual.

If one had to say what was different.

It was probably that many of those coming to eat today were holding a bottle of drink in their hands.

During business hours, Lu Feng walked out of the kitchen into the hall to observe several times.

He noticed that quite a few diners were eating while drinking drinks bought from outside.

"Looks like there really are quite a few people coming to buy drinks."

Lu Feng looked toward the outside of the shop.

Through the gate, he could see the braised food shop boss's wife carrying a box of freshly opened drinks, currently squatting behind the vending machine restocking.

Even separated by this distance, he could still clearly see the smug smile on the boss's wife's face.

Lu Feng withdrew his gaze, his face showing not the slightest special emotion.

He already had his own plan in mind.

The hotter the vending machine's drinks sell today, the greater the boss's wife's psychological drop will be tomorrow when no one buys.

Lu Feng's gaze fell on the window seat in the hall.

Zhao Zhenhui, Qian Laoban, Zhao Yiming, and the others sat at one dining table, eating while pointing at the vending machine outside.

Earlier, when they ordered, they told Lu Feng they wanted to give away free soy milk in the shop tomorrow.

Lu Feng knew they were trying to vent for him, and did not refuse.

Moreover, what they did did not conflict with his own plan.

As more and more customers came to Lu Feng's shop, the sales at that vending machine also increased accordingly.

The braised food shop owner's wife almost every ten minutes would go out to take one glance at the drink stock inside the machine.

Her restocking frequency also rose.

When Lu Feng's business hours for today ended, the owner's wife squatted beside a pile of empty cardboard boxes, holding a calculator in her hand, looking at the numbers displayed on it, her mouth nearly twisted happily.

The truckload of drinks she ordered from the bespectacled man this morning now had only three cases left in the corner.

She took out her mobile phone from her pocket and called the bespectacled man.