RIPPED OFFThanks to one night of bad sleep, at dawn Xu Yun felt really sleepy when he got up. He arrived at the panacea restaurant after a dozen yawns.
Ruan QingShuang looked at Xu Yun’s condition, and couldn’t help feeling sorry asking, “Are you too tired from yesterday?”
Xu Yun did a downwards stretch. “Nope, it’s because I didn’t sleep well last night.”
“Daddy, don’t tell me yesterday you were lying about taking care of your health?” GuoGuo had a suspicious face as she moved to bite her white, delicate finger.
Xu Yun was speechless, this kid really understood something of everything. “Uhhh… healthcare fluffy hair!”
Ruan QingShuang looked at the time and quickly changed the subject. “The early shift for the public transport to the wholesale vegetable market is about to take off. We should quickly go. GuoGuo if you want a bunny plush toy then be well-behaved!”
“Mm mm, I guarantee I won’t keep mentioning daddy lying about taking care of his body.” GuoGuo’s two hands immediately covered her mouth.
Ruan QingShuang helplessly shook her head.
Xu Yun’s face black-lined. He rubbed it off, ge really didn’t do it!
HeDong’s wholesale vegetable market had a wide range of groceries of a fairly large scale on sale. Whether it was melons, fruits, vegetables, or even dried seafood – it had everything! Xu Yun held GuoGuo and with Ruan QingShuang in front, they walked around for a whole two hours.
They at last negotiated with two distributors for a fair price and guarantees of freshness: One was for fresh vegetables and the other was for fresh meats. They also worked out a long-term partnership at the lowest price.
With the clever-speaking GuoGuo, these two distributors also agreed to deliver the goods for free. After all, there was probably no one that could withstand GuoGuo’s bitter crying negotiation tactic. Because the restaurant didn’t have enough workers, GuoGuo’s tactic of improving something already good was executed beautifully.
After buying essential things, the three people took the bus back to the restaurant. All that effort and in a blink of an eye it was past 9 am. A day’s frantic business was about to start.
Although on an ordinary day in Yi River Plaza, there are rather many people walking around in the evening, but on this fine day in broad daylight several bored roving hoodlums appeared of the indecent type. While serving food and observing the situation outside through the rear kitchen, Xu Yun’s heart felt a faint sense that something was up.
Two hoodlums pa.s.sed the panacea restaurant’s entrance. The shifty-eyed sly-looking leader glanced around, but in the end they didn’t do anything and quickly left.
The devil had sent a troublesome little imp.
Xu Yun felt compelled to mention to the others three words of vigilance when the business of the panacea restaurant picked up. Even if a few thugs messed with them, he was too busy to deal with it.
“Shuang-jie, GuoGuo, the past few days are still important and there are numerous things to pay attention to: place money in the drawer and lock it well. Protect against fire, and vile characters.” Xu Yun reminded Ruan QingShuang and GuoGuo both. He wasn’t worried that someone will retaliate against him, but he was afraid of disaster falling upon Ruan QingShuang and her little shop.
“Okay. I will take note.” Ruan QingShuang nodded, she also had a somewhat strange feeling at the moment.
GuoGuo’s face showed that she was proud of herself. She patted her newly purchased waist pack. “Rest a.s.sured, I carry all of the important things on my belt! And mama also has one!”
Xu Yun looked at GuoGuo’s waist pack, and looked at Ruan QingShuang’s waistpack, his gaze moving unconsciously up a few inches. He didn’t know how to compliment it. “Not bad.”
“Daddy you’re no good! Looking at mommy’s chest and drooling.” GuoGuo snorted, and once again petrified both Xu Yun and Ruan QingShuang.
It already became lunch time without anyone noticing, and the panacea restaurant had a large, continuous stream of customers. There were guests that didn’t eat yesterday and quickly left, and there were also those repeat customers from earlier who had tried it out and felt it was pretty good. After the store had many people inside, Xu Yun didn’t have spare time to ponder or watch the suspicious people from the early morning.
White jelly pear soup, wolfberry chrysanthemum pork rib soup, quail eggs and red braised pork, simmered pig trotters… each delicious delicacy was brought to the customers by Ruan QingShuang.
The chef’s food was good, the lady boss was beautiful, and there was also an unequaled, adorable little cashier!
The most important thing is fair prices and ample proportions. In addition, there was free sarsaparilla green bean soup. The panacea restaurant’s survival was perhaps not in danger, but it still faced difficulties. After the customers eat the food, isn’t it a joy? The customers that hadn’t yet ordered food were constantly very impatient.
Ruan QingShuang saw their eyes filled with joy and delight in their hearts. She very clearly knew the amount of credit that went to Xu Yun.
“F*ck!” Someone suddenly cursed in a fit of rage inside the restaurant scaring the guests, causing them to jump high.
In the southern row of tables sat a few hooligans of students’ age but without students’ style of dress.
Among them, one long-haired guy slapped the table and got up, shouting loudly, “What the h.e.l.l is this f*cking stuff! No wonder I feel so sick! There are dead flies! Everyone come look! Look isn’t it disgusting!?”
Next to him a guy with short hair followed after him to leave, arguing noisily along the way: “Too f*cken disgusting! How are you supposed to eat this? Poisoning someone to death, you should pay with your life!”
As Ruan QingShuang witnessed the accusation her eyebrows rose, she walked towards the front, seeing the person facing the sarsaparilla and green bean soup with dead flies, she had an expression of disbelief. “This…can’t be. Our kitchen is really clean! This mistake is absolutely improbable.”
“Clean?!” the long-haired guy stared at Ruan QingShuang, “Ms. Manager, what do you mean by that? Are you saying that we specifically brought dead flies to blackmail you with dead flies?!”
The short-haired guy screamed, “House of horrors! House of horrors! This place also even accuses us of bringing houseflies. These flies were definitely fried in a pot! You can’t possibly say that we, ourselves deep-fried it?”
With such a disturbance from these people, very many customers having meals all left. Customers that were still eating also wrinkled their brows.
A restaurant’s greatest fear is this type of situation. Everywhere had been affected by the circulation of waste oil by criminals. Food without flies and c.o.c.kroaches was many peoples’ minimum requirement!
“Everybody look, this fly was fried into paste! There’s no way it could be us that put it in just now!” The merciless long-haired guy stood on his chair. This was very effective. Most customers no longer wanted to eat anymore.
With such a small amount of effort, people in the restaurant stopped eating, and everybody all watched to see how the lady boss would explain.
The long-haired young guy violently slapped a table. “How do you say we settle this dispute!? Ge and the rest of us won’t let you go just because you’re pretty!”
“I’m sorry, we must be careful in the future.” Ruan QingShuang was absolutely convinced that Xu Yun was not the cause, but she had no evidence that proved that the flies were from the young hooligans. Therefore she could only bow her head and admit fault. “I can have the chef re-make it in a minute.”
The short-haired guy was not satisfied with this apology. “Re-make it in a minute?! What are you serving? Simmer-fried flies?”
“Hey, oh, my stomach hurts like h.e.l.l!” The long-haired guy used the opportunity to clutch his stomach, leaning over a table. “I’m a goner, I’ve been poisoned. I was poisoned to death by this restaurant with filthy stuff! I will tell the authorities about you guys!”
“Ge, then go quickly to the hospital to take a look!” The short-haired thug pretended to be surprised, the other three also spoke. “But we don’t have any money! It costs money to go to the hospital!”
“We have to urgently save you, even if we have no money we can’t just leave you ge!”
“Manager, this happened because we are here. You pay the fees!”
This time it is evident that the young guys were deliberately finding fault, but Ruan QingShuang clenched her teeth and decided to accept the financial loss to avoid calamity. “How much do you guys want?”
The short-haired guy didn’t bother being polite, opening his mouth wide like a lion, he extended five fingers: “5,000!”
“5,000?!” Ruan QingShuang was alarmed when she heard. “Why don’t you guys rob a bank!”
“You haven’t even found out how expensive it is to go to the hospital!” The short-haired guy was irritated. “Having a cold and going to the hospital costs 2 or 3,000! My brother was food poisoned! Poisoned okay! 5,000 might not even cure it!”
At the moment GuoGuo was charging over. Depending on her G.o.dfather’s support for battle, she wouldn’t be afraid of these few hoodlums. “I saw it, it was him putting in the flies himself! And he has even more small bottles of flies in his pants pocket!”
GuoGuo’s one phrase gave a jolt of surprise like a thousand waves! The several small fry were frightened by this fart of a little kid and her extraordinarily sharp eyes!
“Please also use your head first before you try to extort someone. The sarsaparilla and green bean soup is boiled clear, even if there were flies, they would be blanched to death!” GuoGuo couldn’t help but to shake her head. “Ai, did you guys come here to show the lower IQ limit?”
One diner after another that was present stared blankly and began to whisper “Yeah, green bean soup is boiled, if there are any flies, they would be blanched! These young gangsters are really wicked!”
“These people’s conscience must have been eaten by dogs! There are always those that want to use devious means to cheat people out of money!”
GuoGuo’s face showed that she was pleased with herself as she looked at the small fry. The short-haired thug saw in a moment that his plan was smashed by this tiny little girl. Suddenly furious, he moved up and gave GuoGuo a huge slap in the face!
“Daddy!!” Danger like a thousand pounds were hanging by a thread, GuoGuo screamed!
At once, the short-haired thug looked at his palm which had slapped GuoGuo, but was unable to advance half a minute! A pair of large hands like iron pincers crushed the short haired thug’s wrists. He couldn’t help but be alarmed, with his heart leaping.
GuoGuo patted her little chest, and let out a relaxed breath. “That was close!”
Xu Yun appeared like a demon facing the small fry. Tightly grabbing the short-haired thug’s wrists, he chuckled faintly. “Isn’t 5,000 too little? How about 10,000?”
Ruan QingShuang immediately knew what Xu Yun wanted to do.
GuoGuo had an amazed expression, “G.o.dfather, did your brain get water in it?”
The long-haired guy heard this and his stomach stopped hurting. He got up and stared wide-eyed at Xu Yun. He really didn’t think that this job was such a soft, easy egg – unexpectedly they wanted to give double! If they knew earlier they would’ve asked for more from the start!
“I want it! I want 10,000! The short-haired thug was wild with joy, with his mentality hard to conceal! He even entirely forgot the stabbing pain in his wrists!
Xu Yun suddenly picked up the bowl of green bean soup from the table and not saying anything further, splashed it showering all over the short-haired thug’s face! Followed by a rapid kick, he sent the thug flying out of the place!
“Ahhh!” The short-haired guy hugged his stomach in unbearable pain, besides him, everyone in the panacea restaurant was scared silent.
“One bowl* not enough? Xu Yun’s smile was gone, coldly asking the remaining 4, “There’s still more. Who wants some?”
*TN bowl sounds similar to 10,000 in Chinese
The small fry that had come for extortion were stunned – who expected that this cook would be so very fierce!
The small fry, apart from the long-haired guy, were merely high school students, nothing more. Ordinarily at school their might was powerful and they didn’t experience any major upheavals. Thus in this moment, they were stupefied.
But the long-haired guy was certainly a bad one to send, with fury, he lifted a table!