Chapter 497: Let You Open a Food Shop, But You Operate at 3 AM

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Hu Ge looked up at Lu Feng and said with incomparable sincerity, "Lu Boss, we truly came today to sincerely apologize to you. If you don't believe us, we can go out right now and bow to apologize in front of all the diners outside, letting everyone bear witness. What do you think about that?"

Things having come to this, Hu Ge could no longer care about face or no face; as long as he could calm Lu Feng down, he was going all out.

Face was important, but compared to his own personal safety, it wasn't worth mentioning.

As soon as these words came out, Fatty and the other two also hurriedly nodded in agreement; by the looks of it, they had been scared by last night as well.

Lu Feng didn't speak, nor did he show any intention of accepting; he stroked his chin and fell into serious thought.

Seeing Lu Feng remain silent for a long while, Hu Ge's brain spun rapidly, his eyes rolled, and he put forward another suggestion: "Lu Boss, look, your shop gets so many customers queuing every day, all kinds of people come. That little girl in your shop is a girl after all; if she runs into unreasonable customers, it would be a bit much for her to handle."

Lu Feng's eyes flickered slightly upon hearing this. Hu Ge saw there was hope and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Us brothers don't have other skills, but when it comes to maintaining order, watching a venue, we have plenty of experience! We can come be greeters at your shop, help you maintain the queuing order of these customers every day, for free, and you don't have to pay us a single cent of salary. How about that?"

Lu Feng fell into serious thought, carefully considering Hu Ge's suggestion.

As early as a week ago, he had also noticed the queuing order problem.

Before Lu Family Restaurant became popular, the old regulars who came to the shop were all very self-conscious; basically no queue-jumping occurred.

As the shop's reputation grew larger and larger, nowadays quite a few new diners come from all over having heard of its fame, but not all diners are willing to queue obediently.

Some people pay scalpers in the queue to buy spots; this doesn't really count as disrupting order, it's a willing buyer willing seller matter, and Lu Feng didn't stop it either.

But some people simply don't want to queue; for example, last time there was a self-styled famous influencer who brought five or six team members, relying on their numbers, they directly ignored the queuing diners and just tried to enter the shop.

This naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of those queuing diners, who accused them one after another.

Who knows if that influencer team was used to being fawned over elsewhere; they actually argued back with those accusing diners, and the scene became somewhat chaotic.

Hu Xiaoyun stepped forward to dissuade them at the time, but was instead mocked with sarcastic remarks by that influencer.

In the end it was still Lu Feng who stepped in, plus the queuing diners chiming in, before that influencer left with a displeased face, leading their team away.

Because of this matter, after business ended that day, Hu Xiaoyun was still a bit downcast, apologizing non-stop to Lu Feng, saying she hadn't done well the work Lu Feng had entrusted to her.

Lu Feng comforted her for a while, but in his heart he also felt that letting Hu Xiaoyun, a little girl who had just entered university, manage so many queuing diners was indeed a bit too much to ask of her.

Now Hu Ge and the other three voluntarily offered to help maintain the diners' queuing order; the few of them standing by the queue would indeed deter those unruly diners.

In this respect, the few of them were indeed more suitable than Hu Xiaoyun.

An even more important point was that they had just said they were willing, working for free, and he wouldn't have to pay wages.

Free labor, Lu Feng was still very willing to accept.

However Lu Feng's face remained very stern as he stared at Hu Ge and the other three and said, "You're willing to maintain order, that's fine, but last night you attempted to gang up and beat me, that can't just be let go so easily either."

The hearts of Hu Ge and the other three instantly leapt into their throats, all wearing tense faces as they waited for Lu Feng's next words.

"I can not pursue your responsibility for laying hands on me, and you don't need to compensate anything either; after all, you've also received a lesson, so let's call it even."

Lu Feng changed the subject, his gaze sweeping over the four tense faces, and continued, "However, for the recent month, I won't do business with you few; even if you queue, I won't sell anything to you."

He paused, looking at the four pairs of eyes that instantly dimmed, and added, "If you can accept this condition, starting next Monday you can come over and help maintain the customers' queuing order. If unwilling, I won't force you either; just don't appear in my shop again from now on."

Lu Feng had always been mild-tempered; for Hu Ge and the others laying hands on someone, he was still very repulsed.

If not for the fact that he had the System Reward of a Max Level Fighting Skill this time, he would probably still be recuperating in the hospital right now, and wouldn't be standing here opening for business at all.

Hu Ge and the others wanting to obtain Lu Feng's forgiveness — of course it wasn't so simple that a mere apology would settle it.

Hearing the conditions Lu Feng proposed, Hu Ge's face didn't reveal the slightest dissatisfaction; on the contrary he heavily let out a breath of relief, looking at Lu Feng with a face full of gratitude and saying, "Lu Boss, we few all understand. This time it really was us being muddleheaded, almost causing you trouble. We completely understand that you won't forgive us few immediately."

"To tell the truth, we few came already prepared to be chased out by you; we didn't expect you'd still be willing to give us a chance to make amends. We few have remembered it in our hearts. Thank you, Lu Boss!"

Afterward, Hu Ge turned his head and said loudly to the three behind him, "Brothers! Since Lu Boss gave us a chance, I say we shouldn't even wait for next Monday; starting today we'll help Lu Boss maintain order well, and we mustn't betray Lu Boss's trust in us!"

Yellow Hair and the other two's eyes lit up, and they nodded in unison: "Good! Listening to Hu Ge! Thank you, Lu Boss!"

Speaking, the four turned and walked toward the shop entrance, their steps also becoming much lighter.

"Wait."

Lu Feng's voice suddenly came from behind them.

The four's just-stepped-out feet halted, and they turned around to look at Lu Feng with apprehensive faces.

Lu Feng looked at the four's tense expressions, couldn't help but smile, and his tone became gentle: "I'm not a miser either; although you're voluntarily doing unpaid labor for me, I can't let you work for nothing."

He pointed at the kitchen behind him and said to the four, "After business ends every day, each of you can come to me to collect a portion of Yangchun Noodles to take away; that'll count as your wages. However, what I give you is only Yangchun Noodles. As for whether a month from now you can still come to my shop to order like other diners, that'll depend on your subsequent performance."