Chapter 267

On the early morning of the following day, Yuan Zhou was stopped when he was jogging as usual .

“Boss Yuan, can you do me a favor?” Huang Ling stopped Yuan Zhou straightforwardly with her shadow in the first ray of the morning sun .

“What’s the matter?” While jogging in the same place, Yuan Zhou didn’t stop exercising .

“It’s like this . . . ” Huang Ling then slightly explained to him .

“Reservations are not allowed . Besides, are you sure they will come to eat?” Yuan Zhou was a little curious .

“Yes, they will . Don’t worry about that . ” Huang Ling nodded the head affirmatively .

“Ok . It’s a total of 100 RMB only . ” Yuan Zhou considered for a while and then brought out the price .

“That’s not correct, is it?” Huang Ling doubted .

“It’s indeed that much,” answered Yuan Zhou affirmatively .

“But I remember dishes in your restaurant are very expensive . ” Huang Ling didn’t really know the exact prices, but she was pretty sure they were very expensive . After all, she frequently swept the floor along this street .

“I’m the boss . The first three can enjoy discounts today,” said Yuan Zhou solemnly .

“Boss Yuan, I don’t wish for you to do so . ” Huang Ling lowered her head and got a little unhappy .

“Humm . Every time I have a good mood, I will offer discounts . The dish of Honey Tremella is sold at only 1 RMB . ” Yuan Zhou used an example to illustrate .

After thinking back carefully, Huang Ling realized it was true . Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was the star restaurant of the street right now and was even listed on the gourmet map, therefore this 1 RMB event was known to Huang Ling .

“Ok . Thank you, Boss Yuan . But please don’t mention me . ” After an earnest nod, Huang Ling took out a brand-new note of 100 RMB .

“Sure . That’s it . ” Yuan Zhou received the money and put it in his pocket and then continued the morning jog .

“Bye, Boss Yuan . ” Huang Ling then walked further with the broom and the hand cart filled with trash .

Having jogged for two circles around the side street, Yuan Zhou returned to his restaurant . He first went to the second floor to wash up and change the informal clothes and then came back to the restaurant . After that, he began to knead the dough and prepared to cook the soup dumplings .

Yuan Zhou cooked while leaving the front door open this time in order to catch sight of Zhou Jia at the first moment she arrived .

Zhou Jia was quite a hard-working girl, who always arrived at the restaurant half an hour earlier every morning and helped to maintain the line .

“Zhou Jia, come here . ” Yuan Zhou’s sound passed to her through the face mask .

“Morning, boss . ” With a big smile on her face, Zhou Jia appeared quite delighted .

“You are very happy today . ” Yuan Zhou paused slightly and asked her first .

“Yeah . Thank you for your help . Thank you so much, boss . ” As soon as she recalled the phone call last night, Zhou Jia felt pleased .

Finally, that cocky Li Fang would no longer entangle her . Having been refused again by Zhou Jia, he agreed not to bother her anymore . Therefore, Zhou Jia became happy ever since last night .

After all, Li Fang not only was a male chauvinist, but also liked talking to her father and using her father to exert pressure on her, which was totally unacceptable to Zhou Jia .

“Humm . You are welcome . ” Yuan Zhou nodded the head and appeared as if that was the obvious result .

At the next second, however, he asked, “What’s it about?”

“Well . . . , nothing . I just want to thank you for providing me with such a good job . ” Zhou Jia hesitated for a while and even wanted to wipe her perspiration .

The way her boss spoke was really odd, but luckily Zhou Jia had gotten used to that . Therefore, she changed to another subject immediately .

“Not at all . Just work earnestly here,” Yuan Zhou instructed her carefully .

“Don’t worry, boss . ” Speaking of the work, Zhou Jia was quite serious .

Having heard Zhou Jia’s “grievance”, Yuan Zhou felt, as a boss, he was really not bad and even knew to care about his staff’s spiritual life . Then he began to talk about his proper business with her . Yet, he totally forgot it was he himself who first started the topic .

Of course, Zhou Jia had no idea of that . After all, Yuan Zhou was talking to her solemnly .

At the other side, three people in the black car likewise stretched themselves . Of them, a man that appeared to be a senior white-collar talked first .

“Ok, let’s go to get some breakfast . A moment later, Mouse will take charge over here . ” The man had a crew cut and was plain-looking . But when he talked, he was, nevertheless, rather decisive .

“That’s great . Boss Zhao, you didn’t forget what you promised last night, did you?” The younger man on the passenger side leaped up . He was dressed up like a newbie of the workplace .

“Lin Cong, you brat, you rip me off every time . ” The person who was called Boss Zhao was the one speaking . He said smilingly upon hearing that .

“It’s not true . Zheng Xing, you testify for me . Didn’t Boss Zhao say that by himself?” Lin Cong turned the head immediately and said to the one seated in the backseat .

The smiling expression of the person made him look like a goody-goody in the workplace who wouldn’t give offense to anybody around . But once he talked, it wasn’t like that anymore .

“I can testify that . Boss Zhao, I have inquired about that restaurant . Customers need to wait in line for the dishes . Shall we go now?” said Zheng Xing after he opened the car door with a smile .

“That’s corruption . As far as I know, the dishes there are awfully expensive . ” With a frown, Boss Zhao revealed a look of reluctance to spend the money . Nevertheless, he didn’t have any hesitation, but instead opened the door and got off the car following them .

“Come on . We must hurry up, otherwise, we won’t get the seats in time . ” Lin Cong walked faster than the other two . While speaking, he had gone half way .

The three people had three characters that were totally different from each other . But the only thing in common was probably being plain-looking . Basically, none of them could be found if they were thrown into the crowd . Contrarily, Yuan Zhou had a currently popular uncle-style look, especially when he was solemn, although he wasn’t really handsome .

Yuan Zhou could more or less catch the eye of the crowd while these three persons were nevertheless like the passers-by on the streets .

The side street wasn’t long at all . In just a few minutes, the three people arrived at Yuan Zhou’s restaurant in the middle .

Coincidentally, there wasn’t anybody inside .

“Please come on in,” as soon as Zhou Jia saw the three people, she became delighted and then went up and greeted them .

“Huh . What a coincidence! I’m the first customer . ” Lin Cong walked into the restaurant excitedly in big strides .

“It’s indeed a coincidence,” Zhou Jia answered with a smile .

“We have long heard that your restaurant serves extraordinarily delicious dishes, so we are here today with the purpose to have a taste . He is paying,” Zheng Xing first complimented Boss Yuan smilingly and then said while pointing at Boss Zhao .

“I’m sorry, but we provide only soup dumplings for breakfast this morning . ” Zhou Jia reminded .

“How many soup dumplings in each steamer”? Lin Cong looked at the food steamers stacked up over there suspiciously .

“Only one . ” Zhou Jia kept answering mildly .

“No problem . Get one for me . I’m hungry . ” With his sharp nose, Zheng Xing smelled a glimmer of the remaining fragrance, thus he directly ordered .

“Alright . One moment, please . ” Zhou Jia went up and carried the soup dumplings to them .

“Vinegar?” Zhou Jia set down the soup dumplings and then asked .

“Of course . Bring some for me, please,” Boss Zhao answered .

Even if he didn’t really like vinegar, he still ordered it . He had just seen the surprising price of 66 RMB for each soup dumpling . It would be a loss if he didn’t eat it with the vinegar .

“Some vinegar for me, too . ” Zheng Xing came prepared this time . He had once logged on to the gourmet forum and of course, he would savor the perfect combinations of soup dumpling and the vinegar .

“Tsk-tsk . An adult man surprisingly eats vinegar with soup dumpling?” Only Lin Cong grunted . He couldn’t wait to take the chopsticks and prepare to eat .

“It looks so good,” Zheng Xing first smelled the fragrance of the vinegar and then looked at the soup dumpling before he said contentedly .