Chapter 519

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Even during the period when he had just arrived, because he was unfamiliar with the work and occasionally made small mistakes, the boss would only patiently remind him, and had never once scolded him harshly.

And what made Hu Xiaoyun even more satisfied was that there was also an employee meal here every day.

The boss's culinary skill was now known to everyone; every dish he made was a hundred times more delicious than those in any restaurant outside.

Compared to those part-time jobs she had done before, this place was simply like a paradise.

Most of the diners who came to eat at Lu Family Restaurant were also very kind to her; regulars would smile and greet her every time they came to order, just like a group of elders and friends.

Hu Xiaoyun's days working part-time at Lu Family Restaurant were relaxed and comfortable every single day.

In her heart, she had long since regarded Lu Family Restaurant as a second home.

When she heard on the weekend that a big company wanted to acquire the shops on Food Street, and that it might very well include Lu Family Restaurant, she panicked at once.

Thinking that if the shop was acquired, she might never find such a perfect part-time job again, she couldn't help but feel very anxious.

Now seeing Lu Feng so certain, the big stone in Hu Xiaoyun's heart finally settled.

Lu Feng looked at Hu Xiaoyun's back as she hummed a little tune and seriously cleaned the hall, her mind now at ease, and a faint smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

The acquisition matter Hu Xiaoyun had just mentioned, he truly knew nothing about.

On one hand, over the two days of the weekend, he had stayed almost entirely in the villa at Yunding Huating, not stepping out the front gate or the second gate, busy flipping through the mountain of culinary books piled up at home, completely unaware of what was happening on Food Street.

On the other hand, because last week no one had come to talk to him about acquiring Lu Family Restaurant at all.

It seemed his previous refusal of Qian Laoban's million-yuan annual salary was also known to the other party.

He estimated the other party knew that even if they came to negotiate, they would absolutely be refused, so they simply didn't come to waste their breath.

Now even though he knew about this matter, he didn't have the slightest intention to worry.

Regarding the tax issue, he, as this restaurant owner, had the most say.

Some time ago, when he went to the Tax Bureau to pay taxes, the staff, seeing the tax amount he declared, all had surprised expressions on their faces, and even deliberately re-verified it several times.

And that tax payment made Lu Feng's heart ache for a good while.

Lu Feng knew very well in his heart that although his small shop wasn't large in area, its daily turnover was rising rapidly.

From the ten thousand-plus daily turnover when he first opened, to now it had already multiplied several times over.

With more and more returning customers, and more and more new diners rushing over from all over every day, the current daily turnover was still climbing rapidly.

Lu Feng was very confident that on this Food Street, there was no shop whose tax payment could compare to his.

Even those high-end restaurants in the city center, probably not many could surpass him.

If contributions were truly judged by tax revenue, Lu Feng had full confidence that the higher-ups would absolutely not force him to hand over the shop.

As for that high-end restaurant about to be established, Lu Feng also didn't take it to heart.

Even if the other party's scale might be much larger than his, and the renovation might be more luxurious.

But when it came to profitability, he didn't believe the other party could beat his small restaurant.

After all, he had a group of loyal diners here, and more importantly, he had the existence of the system, this cheat.

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Time flew by day after day, and in the blink of an eye three weeks had passed.

On the Garden Road Food Street side, the few shops to the right of Lu Family Restaurant had long been emptied; the hustle and bustle from when those shops were still there was gone, replaced by the "ding-dang-clang-clang" of renovation noise from morning to night, day after day, not stopping for a moment.

Lu Family Restaurant's diners, at first every single one had a big stone hanging in their hearts.

Before, the news on Food Street about a big company wanting to acquire shops had spread wildly among the diners.

Before long, those few shops to the right of Lu Family Restaurant pulled out one after another.

Those days, every old regular who came to eat at Lu Family Restaurant, when ordering, couldn't help but ask with a worried face: "Lu Boss, your shop won't move away, right?"

Every time, Lu Feng would smile and reassure the diners: "Everyone rest assured, this shop of mine absolutely will not move away."

Days passed one by one, the shops next door all started renovation, yet Lu Family Restaurant still opened punctually at six p. m. every Monday to Friday.

At this point, the diners' hanging hearts finally settled.

The only thing that made them somewhat displeased was that every time they came to eat at Lu Feng's shop, the renovation noise from the restaurant next door more or less disturbed their dining mood.

But as long as Lu Family Restaurant didn't move, this bit of noise disturbance was endurable.

During this period, Lu Feng's life was still very simple, every day two points and one line.

After finishing business at the restaurant, he would return to the villa to gnaw on those food ingredient books piled like a mountain.

But the good news was, the books the system had him read this time, he had already finished reading most of them.

At this rate, he estimated in about two more days he could complete the task, which was almost five days earlier than the time set by the system.

During that time, Lu Feng stole moments of leisure every day, squeezing in time to flip a few pages, even while preparing ingredients and prepping vegetables, he was reading books while handling ingredients.

Now the task was about to be completed, these few days he could finally breathe a slight sigh of relief, no longer needing to keep his nerves taut fearing delays in task progress.

Before, after he finished business every day, his mind was full of those food ingredient books in the task not yet finished, only thinking of hurrying back to the villa to read, not having the slightest thought to pay attention to the renovation progress of the restaurant next door.

This evening, after seeing off the last batch of diners in the hall, Hu Xiaoyun had also finished cleaning and left.

Lu Feng closed the shop door, looked at the restaurant next door whose hoarding had already been removed, and suddenly a curiosity arose, wanting to go see what this restaurant about to become his new neighbor looked like.

Lu Feng walked a few steps that way, just as he neared that restaurant's main gate, his gaze was drawn by the signboard already hung above the door.

That signboard was black metal material, its edges inlaid with a circle of bright light strips, which looked exceptionally eye-catching when lit up at night; on it, in flowing cursive script, was written an English shop name.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at this high-end signboard, it looked several grades more upscale than the wooden signboard above his own shop entrance.

"sunshine……garden?"

Lu Feng stared at the signboard for a good while before he could vaguely make out the restaurant's name from those intertwined English letters.