"Linlin, shall we go out and get some orders now?" He Shan asked enthusiastically.

Lin Fei hurriedly said, "I'll go too, I'll go too."

“You don’t need to go. Stay home and wash vegetables with my brother, otherwise we won’t have time for lunch,” He Wenlin said. “Let’s put the order-taking on hold for now. I’ll write up the job posting and put it up outside first. You guys should quickly take stock of the money and orders and calculate how many popsicles we need to deliver.”

Since He's parents were unwilling to resign, He Wenlin had no choice but to hire someone else.

He Wenlin spread out the red paper and then wrote in calligraphy: "Hiring: Two vegetable washers needed. Excellent benefits, salary negotiable."

I wrote three sheets in total. One was posted at the store entrance, and the other two, with the address written on them, were posted on the utility poles by the roadside outside.

Back at the store, He Shan had already sorted out the orders.

"I've sorted it out. Today I received a total of 76 orders for glutinous rice balls for tomorrow, all of them are glutinous rice balls. There are 72 lunch boxes for lunch, 20 orders for fried noodles, and 60 orders for lunch boxes, 30 orders for fried noodles, and 2 orders for egg fried rice for dinner."

Lin Fei and his younger brother He Wenjun were counting money, and the final amount was 555.8 yuan.

The actual price should be 561.6 yuan, so the order amount differs from the actual amount by 5.8 yuan.

"How many popsicles do we need to send out?" He Wenlin asked again.

He Shan: "I've counted, and there are 46 to give away right now."

"Then we'll need to buy at least sixty of them," Lin Fei said.

He Wenlin shook her head: "Sixty-odd sticks are definitely not enough. We still need to get more orders. We need to prepare at least 100 sticks. If we don't have enough, we won't be able to deliver them, which will affect the store's reputation. Even if we can't deliver them all, we can sell them or eat them ourselves."

Buying so many popsicles from a convenience store is definitely not cost-effective; it's only worthwhile to go to a popsicle wholesaler.

"You guys hurry up and wash the vegetables first. Prepare the bean sprouts, chili peppers, scallions, ginger, and garlic. Wash the shiitake mushrooms in the freezer and slice them. Also, blanch the pickled green beans and then chop them up. I'll go buy popsicles first."

Today's lunchbox A prepared the following dishes: minced pork with pickled green beans, stir-fried lotus root, and stir-fried mushrooms with pork.

The dishes in Boxed Meal B are stir-fried pork blood with pickled cabbage, stir-fried pork with shiitake mushrooms, and stir-fried lotus root.

After arranging things at the store, He Wenlin rode her bicycle directly to Chengnan Avenue.

She ordered three boxes of mung bean popsicles, two boxes of green apple popsicles, and two boxes of old-fashioned popsicles.

The seven boxes totaled 140 sticks, costing a total of 28 yuan, averaging 2 mao per stick.

After buying the items, He Wenlin quickly returned to the store, unpacked all the popsicles, and put them in the freezer to freeze.

It was already nine o'clock.

Because two people were missing from the workload today, He Shan, Lin Fei, and their underlings all felt a sense of urgency, which led to a significant increase in their work efficiency.

The bean sprouts have all been washed, the pickled green beans have been chopped, and the shiitake mushrooms, scallions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers are all ready and waiting to be chopped.

"Shanshan, let's go get some orders!" After He Wenlin finished speaking, He Shan quickly grabbed a pen and receipts and followed He Wenlin to the Bosi Garment Factory.

"Whether you get any orders or not, you have to be back at the store by 10 o'clock, otherwise it will affect the lunch service," He Wenlin instructed He Shan.

When He's mother saw He Wenlin and He Shan arrive, she found it strange.

What are you doing here? Aren't you busy today?

“How could we not be busy?” He Wenlin said. “Your factory has nearly 160 people, and my store only has so many orders? It means that many people from your factory haven’t come to my store to make purchases. Shanshan and I are here to get more orders.”

Now that He Xing has also started selling boxed lunches, and since He Xing came from this factory and his wife still works there, He Wenlin must strike first!

He Wenlin and He Shan split up and acted separately.

"Hey lady, I work at the fast food restaurant next to your factory, and I'm also the daughter of the group leader of Group 5 in your factory. I'm not a scammer. Want to order a boxed lunch? If you spend over four yuan today, we'll give you a free popsicle at noon. It's a great deal."

"I only earn a few dozen yuan a day, and a meal costs four yuan, which is too expensive!"

"Sister, it's not one meal, it's two meals. You can order a boxed lunch and a plate of fried noodles, then eat the boxed lunch for lunch and the fried noodles for dinner. It all comes out to four yuan and thirty cents a day, and you even get an ice cream. Many people in your factory are my regular customers. You can ask them if you don't believe me."

The woman sitting next to this older sister is He Hui.

He Hui immediately chimed in, "We eat there every day. She's a great cook. You can't go wrong buying lunch from her."

An older woman in another parking space said, "If you buy fried noodles for lunch and eat them for dinner, won't they go bad?"

"Auntie, it's not like that. For example, if you buy a boxed lunch and fried noodles, I will give you two receipts, like this one. One receipt will say that you picked up the boxed lunch at noon, and the other receipt will say that you picked up the fried noodles in the afternoon. The date will also be noted."

We produce according to this order, and all the ingredients are fresh.

More importantly, our boxed lunches are only 2.8 yuan each, with two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, and the portions are quite generous. You can ask other customers; besides Brother Hui, there's Xu Jing over there, Zhou Liping, and those others over there—they're all my regular customers.”

...

Many of He Wenlin's regular customers work at the factory. In fact, even those who haven't ordered food from He Wenlin have heard of her fast food restaurant.

Now He Wenlin comes to our door to promote her products, addressing each customer as "sister" and "auntie" and asking them questions one by one. In less than an hour, He Wenlin has attracted 23 customers, with orders totaling 102.8 yuan!

Seeing He Wenlin raking in orders all over the factory, Liang Xiaoying felt that her husband's business was probably not going to do very well.

Not everyone has the courage of He Wenlin to go out and sell to strangers.

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