The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

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The faucet was turned on, and the cold tap water gushed out continuously. It hit the stainless steel plate of the sink and splashed water droplets, then fell weakly, and finally rushed to the sewer along with the big flow.

The icy natural water splashed on his face, and Wang Chao's slack spirit was restored.

In fact, the current dynasty does not need to be cleaned, because when it turns into a thunderbolt, all the dust and dirt will be completely removed by the thunderbolt. The dynasty is spotless and does not stir up dust.

Wearing a yellow uniform and hard hat, Wang Chao is a delivery boy working in Huaihai.

Huaihai, the most prosperous city in inland China, has the largest population in China, Asia and the world. This is the most populous city in the world. The city has a permanent population of more than 20 million, a floating population of more than 6 million, and a short-term floating population that has not been counted. There are nearly 30 million people living in this city. Every day, young people with dreams arrive here from long-distance stations, high-speed rail, and airport exits. How many people have stood on the Bund and looked at the skyline of Lujiazui, secretly He became ruthless, thinking that one day he would have his own place in this city.

And how many edges and corners are smoothed every day, lose fighting spirit, lose youth, and leave the city with scars and frustrated middle-aged people.

Huaihai is like a giant whale, it devours all directions. The flow of people is like a school of sardines brought by the warm Atlantic current. They are engulfed by the ocean current and drawn into the stomach of the giant whale in the Huaihai Sea, caressing the giant whale. Some became part of this giant whale, but more were excreted by it.

Everyone who works hard in this city has his own dream, whether he wants to make a name for himself here, or he wants to return to his hometown after earning some money. In this city, everyone is so busy that there is not enough time to eat.

The takeaway boys in red, yellow and blue uniforms hand over bags of takeaways with residual temperature to the hands of customers. Those not hot meals warm every hungry and cold stomach, in the morning light, in the scorching sun Under the sun, in the afterglow, in the night, relying on the only temperature in the stomach, how many people who want to give up tell themselves "try again" in their hearts, and then get up again and again to continue to struggle, work and study. Among these people are you, me, and him.

The great wheel of the times will never stop for anyone, just like the wheels of the takeaway boy are never blocked by traffic lights.

"Are you 1174, three rice bowls with fish-flavored shredded pork. Take it from the counter."

"Meituan 7673, mapo tofu rice bowl and shredded pork noodles, find it yourself."

In a small shop, the stove in the back kitchen is busy and hectic. Like the quartermaster who distributed ammunition to the army during the war, the boss handed over the packaged food to the three-color knight. The three-color knights ran after receiving their 'ammunition', eagerly packed the food into the incubator like a logistics army transporting supplies to the front line, and then rode away on a small electric donkey.

With the switch fully open, the horsepower reaches maximum. Dynasty likes to ride a small e-donkey, because the small e-donkey can run very fast, as long as it is given enough electricity, it can carry itself to the ends of the earth, and for Dynasty, electricity is free.

Traveling through Huaihai City, Dynasty never cared about the distance of the transportation, nor did he have any battery anxiety.

Although Wang Chao has only been working as a food delivery worker in Huaihai for a short time, he has already become a gold medal delivery person. Delivered more than 1,500 orders a month, with an average of nearly 50 orders delivered a day. Because of the over-delivery of many takeaways, Dynasty can earn 6 yuan per order. You can earn about 10,000 yuan a month.

After careful calculation, it turned out that his salary was about the same as that of his database work in the capital. Apart from being more tiring, there was nothing wrong with it. At least very free.

There is an incubator on the rear of the battery car, just like the takeaway incubator that is standard in all cities in China. Wang Chao drove the battery car across a road that was not very spacious, and drove into the Caoyang Railway Vegetable Market to deliver his last takeout order at noon.

"Meituan takeaway." The car stopped in front of a stewed vegetable shop in the vegetable market, and Wang Chao was about to leave after delivering the takeaway. But when he saw the person ordering takeaway, he froze for a moment.

"Hey, it's Brother Chao." A woman with eyes like crescent moons when she smiled took Wang Dynasty's takeaway.

"Xu Shanshan, this is your shop." Dynasty knew this woman. This woman is his neighbor, she was the one who gave him a piece of pork head meat last night.

Because the rent in Huaihai is very expensive, the house rented by Wang Dynasty is in the old community. There are many unreasonable designs in that kind of old house, for example, three families share one gate, one toilet, and one kitchen. Each house is only about 20 square meters, or even smaller. In this way, the rent can be around 2,000 rooms.

The woman named Xu Shanshan is her neighbor who lives next door. Because of another identity, Dynasty has always lived in seclusion, rarely going out except for work and punishing prisoners in the name of Thunder. And never open a fire, although it is said that the three families share a kitchen. But his stove has never been used.

For Xu Shanshan, Wang Chao only had acquaintances with her a few times. But this woman has a very cheerful personality, she always smiles when she sees everyone, and she even gives herself some stewed vegetables from time to time. Although Xu Shanshan always said that it was leftovers from the store.

"Brother Chao Chao, come and drink a bottle of ice water." Xu Shanshan took out a bottle of water from the refrigerator in the stewed vegetables shop and handed it to Wang Chao: "It's hot in summer, it's hot to take out food."

Now that the temperature outside is thirty-two degrees, it is not an easy task to deliver food at noon under the high temperature. Dynasty did not evade Xu Shanshan's kindness, he took the water bottle: "Thank you."

"Come and come, if you're not busy, sit and rest for a while, drink some water before leaving." Xu Shanshan's eyes looked like crescent moons when she smiled, making it hard to refuse her kindness. Wang Chao nodded and sat on the bench handed over by Xu Shanshan.

"Brother Wang Chao, how long have you been delivering food?" Xu Shanshan opened the takeout box, chatting with Wang Chao while eating a rice bowl with mapo tofu.

"Three or four months." Wang Chao sat on the bench, took a sip of water, and stared at the floor instead of Xu Shanshan, as if there was something beautiful on the floor.

"Sometimes when I go back at night, I see you go out in your uniform. Are you going to deliver food?"

"Well, sometimes."

"Then you are giving both Chinese food and dinner, and you are still adding supper?"

"That's right." Dynasty sometimes goes out not to give supper, but to deal with some things that must be dealt with and deal with some people that must be dealt with in the identity of Lei Dian.

Xu Shanshan said in an appreciative tone: "Brother Wang Chao, you really work hard. Where are you from?"

"In the capital."

"What are you doing in the capital?"

"It's also a food delivery." Dynasty didn't want Xu Shanshan to continue asking about his past, so he took the initiative to change the subject and said, "What about you, Xu Shanshan. We have been neighbors for a long time. Where are you from?"

"I'm from northern Hunan." Xu Shanshan ate a rice bowl, not as refined as many urban girls, especially female white-collar workers. She ate very unrestrainedly, the kind of stuffing mouthfuls into her own mouth, but what was amazing was that her way of eating didn't make Wang Chao feel that she was rude.

Wang Chao raised his head and glanced at Xu Shanshan: "Then you have been in Huaihai for a long time?"

"Two years."

"Have you opened a stewed vegetable shop here for two years?"

"Ha, where can it be. The rent of the vegetable market here in Huaihai is very expensive. How could I afford to rent a store here at the beginning. I first pushed a cart and sold braised vegetables at He Jialang."

"That's hard work." The previous dynasty worked in an office from nine to five. Now several months of work experience for the delivery boy has made him understand how hard it is to work in the wind and sun. It was hard for him to imagine how hard it would be to push a cart to sell stewed vegetables on the street with a weak-looking woman like Xu Shanshan.

"Hey, it's nothing hard. Just get used to it." Xu Shanshan smiled and waved her hands. The smile on her face seemed to confirm that what she said was true. It's just that the calluses on her hands are very eye-catching.

Wang Chao was silent for a while and said, "Now that the shop is open, life should be better."

"That's right." Xu Shanshan didn't finish her sentence when a customer appeared: "Hey, boss. And forty yuan of beef."

Xu Shanshan put down her unfinished lunch and quickly picked up a knife to cut beef for customers.

"Boss, is forty-five yuan okay?" Xu Shanshan seemed to cut a few extra yuan, and the customer opposite thought for a while: "Okay."

A customer bought the beef, and another customer came again: "Little girl, cut the large intestine for twenty-five yuan."

"Ma'am, I'll cut it for you. Oh, can you get twenty-eight yuan?" Xu Shanshan seemed to have cut a few more dollars.

"Yes." The aunt took out twenty-eight yuan.

During a meal break, Xu Shanshan's business seemed to be doing well. Several customers came before and after, but every time Xu Shanshan cut the knife, she seemed to be inaccurate.

Xu Shanshan didn't have time to sit down and continue eating her lunch until the meal was cold.

Wang Chao jokingly said: "You still need to practice your saber technique. Every time you cut it, you won't be able to do it right."

Xu Shanshan said softly: "Shh, it's not that the cutting is inaccurate. It's on purpose."

"ah?"

"Customers don't care about more cuts and two or three yuan. But I can sell an extra one hundred and eighty yuan a day. If I don't work hard, how can I make more money." Xu Shanshan has her own way of doing business: "More Cut more and sell more, as long as there is no shortage of weight, and the taste is good, there will be many customers."

"By the way, Brother Chao, is the pork head meat I gave you last night delicious?"

"Mmm, it's delicious." Wang Chao drank four bottles of cold beer with a pound of pork head meat last night.

Xu Shanshan rolled her eyes, and suddenly said with a smile: "Then I'll bring you something tonight."

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