Chapter 524: Let You Open a Gourmet Restaurant, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

In the kitchen of Lu Family Restaurant, the red-braised lion's heads simmering in the pot on the stove gave off a tempting aroma, drifting through the kitchen door into the hall, and then out the door.

Lu Feng was currently standing before the chopping board processing ingredients, his movements flowing like clouds and water; the pork belly on the chopping board was cut into evenly sized pieces under his skilled knife work.

There was still one hour until today's business hours, the diners were all outside the restaurant finding something to eat to fill their stomachs, the hall was very quiet, and Hu Xiaoyun had not come yet.

In the entire restaurant, only Lu Feng was alone in the kitchen making preparations before opening.

"Lu Boss! Lu Boss! Something terrible! A big deal!"

Zhu Chang ran in from outside in a hurry, quickly walking from the hall to the counter, and shouted loudly at Lu Feng in the kitchen with an anxious face.

Hearing Zhu Chang's shout, Lu Feng stopped the movement in his hand, raised his head to look at Zhu Chang standing before the counter, and asked somewhat doubtfully: "What's wrong, Zhu Chang? What's the matter that has you so flustered?"

"Aiyo, my Lu Boss! Something big has already happened, how can you still be so calm?"

Looking at Lu Feng's usual expression, Zhu Chang couldn't help but become even more anxious in his heart: "The Western restaurant next door is about to open for business, why aren't you anxious at all?"

Lu Feng raised his eyebrows and said with a faint smile: "They open, they open, what does that have to do with me? I run my little restaurant, they sell their Western food, they don't affect each other, what do I have to be anxious about?"

"Who says they won't affect you?"

Looking at Lu Feng's calm appearance, Zhu Chang said in a manner of hating iron for not becoming steel: "Lu Boss, if you don't become vigilant again, the customers in your shop will be snatched away by them!"

Saying this, he put his hand into his clothes pocket, looked around furtively, and took something out of his pocket.

It was a red envelope, and inside the envelope was an exquisite card.

Zhu Chang put the envelope on the counter, his tone carrying a bit of solemnity: "Lu Boss, look at this first!"

Lu Feng wiped his hands and walked out of the kitchen.

He picked up the red envelope on the counter and took out the exquisite card inside.

The paper of that card felt very comfortable to the touch, as delicate and smooth as fine silk.

Lu Feng's gaze casually swept over the gold-embossed three large characters "Invitation Card" on the card cover, and looking at Zhu Chang he asked: "Invitation card? Zhu Chang, are you getting married? That's not right, you've been here so long, I've never heard you say you have a girlfriend? Did you meet through a blind date?"

"What nonsense? This isn't a wedding banquet invitation card!"

Zhu Chang immediately shook his head and said.

"Oh?"

Lu Feng looked at the card again and guessed again: "Is it your company's annual meeting invitation card?"

He had just finished speaking when he immediately shook his head again, rejecting this guess: "That doesn't seem right either, it's still far from the end of the year, it shouldn't be an annual meeting invitation card, and I remember, you are an unemployed... uh, freelancer, there shouldn't be a company inviting you to attend the annual meeting..."

"Lu Boss, I said it isn't!"

Zhu Chang was tortured by his careless appearance until he almost had no patience; if not for the fact that Lu Feng's cooking was delicious, he really wanted to roll his eyes.

He pointed at the invitation card in Lu Feng's hand, his tone suddenly becoming solemn: "This is your competitor's, the high-end restaurant next door, they sent me this invitation card, inviting me to dine for free when their restaurant opens!"

"Oh, is that so, I understand."

After hearing this, Lu Feng's expression had not the slightest ripple; he just nodded his head and casually handed the exquisite invitation card and envelope back to Zhu Chang, without any intention of opening it to look at the contents inside.

"Lu Boss, you understand and are still so calm?"

Zhu Chang pointed at the outside of the restaurant and said with an anxious face: "That side is a high-end restaurant, the inside is decorated magnificently, it's right next door to you, aren't you afraid they'll snatch your business?"

He paused, lowered his voice and said softly: "And Lu Boss, you need to pay attention, I saw many people showing off this invitation card in the group; it looks like they are clearly trying to poach your core customers here! Are you really not anxious at all?"

When he spoke, he deliberately emphasized the words "core customers," and his tone carried a hint of pride.

"It's fine; since they invited you, if you want to go, just go; don't consider anything else, after all, it's free."

Lu Feng had a faint smile on his face and said in a very flat tone.

But Zhu Chang couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart; he thought his earlier shouting had made Lu Feng unhappy, and quickly said: "Lu Boss, rest assured! I, Zhu Chang, am your die-hard fan! I will continue to support Lu Boss you as always!"

"Thanks for the support."

Lu Feng smiled and nodded, his tone still carefree as he said: "I'm serious; if you should go, then go; this kind of opportunity to eat for free in a high-end restaurant is still quite rare."

Then, he suddenly remembered what Yang Zhenguang said to him last night; looking at Zhu Chang's clothes, he added another sentence: "By the way, that place is a high-end restaurant; they pay attention to appearance and dress; when you go there to eat, don't forget to wear formal attire, otherwise you might get kicked out by them."

"What formal attire?"

Zhu Chang scratched his head with a blank face and muttered a sentence.

Then he looked at the invitation card on the counter and asked solemnly: "Speaking of which, Lu Boss, you really don't plan to carefully look at what's written inside?"

Looking at Zhu Chang's eager appearance, Lu Feng smiled helplessly and had to pick up the invitation card, opening it wide to symbolically sweep a glance at the contents inside.

To say or not to say, this invitation card is made quite formally.

On the rose-red cover, it also wrote "Mr. Zhu Chang, please open" in several very conspicuous large characters.

The text inside was neatly typeset, the handwriting was clear, and the content was quite long.

Lu Feng quickly read through it once and summarized it himself.

The general meaning above was roughly: This shop will officially open next Monday; with this invitation card, you can taste a free steak set meal on the opening day.

The remaining content was introducing the restaurant's brand, as well as some blessings and such.

Lu Feng returned the invitation card to Zhu Chang and evaluated it quite objectively: "Hmm, not bad; a rather gorgeous invitation card; it looks quite formal too."

"How is it, Lu Boss? Do you feel that restaurant is very threatening?"

Zhu Chang took the invitation card and asked with a probing look in his eyes.