"It looks like today's turnover will easily exceed one thousand." He Shan was very excited. Although she was just an employee, her boss was her childhood friend, and she hoped that He Wenlin's business would flourish.

He Qian asked with a grin, "With a turnover of one thousand, Linlin, can you earn five hundred?"

"Sis, what are you thinking? Earning five hundred? I'd be laughing in my sleep. Now that we have the insulated truck and freezer, our daily electricity bill is going up by several tens of yuan. Your wages, food expenses, water bills, and rent will cost at least three hundred a day. And that doesn't even include the cost of raw materials. Plus, we have to deliver eggs for breakfast. This is really a loss-making venture."

He Qian, after hearing her parents' guesses, no longer believed He Wenlin's words. She said, "Linlin, are you lying to me? A thousand yuan a day, and you can't even make money? I don't believe it. If you can't make five hundred, you must make three hundred. We have such a good relationship, and you're not telling the truth."

He Wenlin disliked He Qian's tendency to pry and ask too many questions, finding her lack of boundaries.

"First of all, I'm in business, not charity, and I'm not just doing this for fun. I work myself to the bone every day, putting in so much effort, so it's only right that I make money. Sisi, don't you agree?"

He Qian: "That means you make money."

“Making money is only natural, considering how much money she invested,” Lin Fei said. “Why do you like to pry so much, like you’re checking her background?”

He Qian was rebuffed and awkwardly shut her mouth, feeling a little annoyed. She became even more convinced of her parents' words: He Wenlin must have made money!

He Wenlin said, "It's getting late. You guys eat your popsicles and then go take a nap. We'll start work promptly at 2:30 this afternoon. I'm going out for a bit."

He Wenlin now has more than two thousand yuan in her hands.

These days are quite chaotic.

Especially since they lived in a chaotic rural area where all sorts of people could be found, He Wenlin became much more vigilant after being robbed once, and she no longer carried too much cash with her.

He Wenlin rode her bicycle to the bank and deposited 1,800 yuan into her card.

He still had 560 yuan in change on him, which he used for making change and buying things.

He Wenlin rode her bike to the College of Arts and Sciences, where she found an advertising company and ordered six red banners for seventy-five yuan. She agreed to pick them up at 8:30 the next morning.

On her way back, she passed by the market and bought a chicken and sixteen catties of shiitake mushrooms for forty-seven yuan.

He Wenlin promised He Shan that she would buy the chicken to make braised chicken.

I got back to the store at exactly 2:30.

The team members have woken up from their afternoon nap and are ready to get to work.

This afternoon's dishes are stir-fried bean sprouts, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and eggplant with minced meat.

These dishes don't require much preparation, mainly because the bean sprouts were all washed this morning.

He Wenlin asked Lin Fei to cut the eggplant, demonstrated it to him, and told him how to cut the eggplant and to put the cut eggplant in a bowl with water to soak.

He Qian was in charge of washing and chopping ginger, garlic, and chili peppers, while He Shan was in charge of peeling tomatoes.

Because they're having braised chicken tonight, they didn't use up the eggplant and tomatoes they bought this morning.

I kept about five or six pounds of eggplant and tomatoes.

Fortunately, it didn't rain in the afternoon.

Today, Mr. and Mrs. He's factory is not working overtime, so they will be off work at six o'clock. Many of the customers who ordered boxed lunches and fried noodles from He Wenlin's shop are from the factory, so He Wenlin's cooking time was slightly delayed.

As long as they can prepare all the boxed meals for their stalls by 5:20, that's all that's needed.

At 5:25 PM, He Qianlinfei went out with 35 boxed meals, 6 servings of fried rice, and 8 servings of fried noodles.

He Shan still went out with her receipt book and pen; her task was to get reservations.

Other customers have already made reservations, and we haven't finished packing them all yet. The dishes are all already cooked, except for a dozen or so boxes of fried noodles, but we'll definitely get them done before 6 PM.

Because the Perth Garment Factory closes late, the large crowd of customers hadn't arrived by 5:40 pm today, and the store was noticeably quieter than it had been a few days ago.

At six o'clock, He Qian and the others returned.

"Linlin, I bought a box of our competitor's fried rice." He Shan handed the fried rice to He Wenlin.

He Wenlin opened it and exclaimed, "Wow, Yangzhou fried rice!"

He Wenlin took a couple of bites and found the taste quite good. This person's skills were much better than the local person who sold boxed lunches before. Moreover, she probably knew that she couldn't outsell her by selling boxed lunches, so she only sold Yangzhou fried rice. She was quite capable.

I estimate that business will be good in the future.

"You should all try it, especially Lin Fei, since you're the chef, you should definitely try it."

He Wenlin put down her chopsticks and handed him the fried rice.

"It doesn't taste as good as ours."

In Lin Fei's eyes, everything on their side was good, very good, excellent, and the best!

"The taste is not bad. This person's business will not be bad in the future. In the next few days, the three of you should go out and try to get as many reservations as possible and bring customers into the store. We can reduce the number of times we go out to set up stalls."

"Boss, two servings of fried noodles, please."

"I'd like three portions of fried noodles to go."

Customers arrived at the shop, and He Wenlin and Lin Fei quickly returned to the stove.

At this time, a large number of people arrived to collect their meals.

The others were busy distributing meals, taking reservations, writing receipts, collecting money, and giving change, each performing their duties in an orderly manner.