Chapter 18

Lin Huiling walked to the front of the van and saw a tall and strong man sorting lunch boxes. She stopped instantly because of the big muscles on his arms.

“He shouldn’t dare to hit anyone in broad daylight.” Lin Huiling gave herself courage and walked over aggressively.

"Brother, this is our seat." Lin Huiling deliberately spoke louder so that she could appear more imposing.

The man looked up and glared at Lin Huiling, then said viciously: "If you say this is your place, then it is your place. If I say this is my place, then it is my place. Do you have any evidence to prove that this is your place? If not, then get out of here and don't stand here and affect my business."

The man's voice was twice as loud as Lin Huiling's, and more ferocious.

After being scolded, Lin Huiling became even angrier, "We sell lunch boxes at this location every day. Now you've taken our place. Where should we put our products?"

Lin Huiling became angrier and angrier as she spoke. This person was deliberately taking their place.

"This is a public area. Either you have set up a stall here or it is your place. If that's the case, I can still say that I have set up stalls around here and all around here are my places." The man glared at Lin Huiling again, and then said fiercely: "If you continue to stand here and make trouble, don't blame me for being rude."

Lin Huiling was planning to continue arguing, but the man had already walked up to her and was about to push her away, "You bitch, get out of here now, don't disturb my business."

At this time, Chen Kangle came over and pulled Lin Huiling away, "Aunt Huiling, there's no need to argue with him."

Chen Kangle knew that the issue of occupying a spot was unclear in theory. After all, the spot in front of the construction site entrance was a public area, not the stall she rented. So even if it was occupied by someone else, they had no way of asking them to give it back.

"Aunt Huiling, this spot is gone. We can just put it over there." Chen Kangle planned to put it on the left side of the construction site entrance, not far from the original location.

"Kang Le, look at his price list and his dishes, they are all the same as ours. He is clearly imitating us and trying to steal our business."

This is blatant malicious competition. The more Lin Huiling thought about it, the angrier she got. "I've never seen such a shameless person. We're all doing business. It's not that we don't allow you to set up a stall here, but can you compete openly? You're taking up space and offering the same dishes and prices. It's obvious that you're deliberately trying to disrupt things."

Lin Huiling had seen two stalls in the same place selling exactly the same things, and also at the same price, such as a pancake stall. But a lunch box stall could make ten dishes exactly the same, how could it be such a coincidence, it was obviously intentional. If he had a few dishes that were different, Lin Huiling would not say anything to him.

Lin Huiling was angry and said a lot in one breath. The man was not ashamed at all. Instead, he said confidently: "What's the matter! Did you apply for a patent for this price and this dish?"

Lin Huiling didn't know how to refute for a moment and could only huff. It was really bad luck to meet such a shameless person.

The man continued, "I think you are just afraid that you can't sell more than me, so you are throwing a tantrum here."

"Haha, what are you crazy about? We are afraid that we can't sell more than you. This is an international joke." At this moment, Lin Huiling wished she had a two-meter-tall and burly figure so that she could kick this shameless man away.

The man was not afraid of Lin Huiling at all. "I think you are the one who is crazy. Are you going to leave? If you don't leave, I will take action."

The man raised his arm and prepared to attack. Lin Huiling, who was a little emotional, said directly, "Go ahead and hit me if you have the guts!"

Chen Kangle held Lin Huiling, "Aunt Huiling, calm down. Let's go back first. The most important thing now is to sell lunch boxes."

The other party was a tall and burly man. If they started fighting, they would definitely be the ones to suffer. Chen Kangle didn't want to get into a conflict. There were still many lunch boxes waiting for them, so there was no need to waste time here.

Chen Kangle also looked at the food in the man's van. The ten dishes in it were exactly the same as the ten dishes she had yesterday: braised pork trotters, steamed egg custard, stir-fried pork with sour bamboo shoots, water spinach with garlic, braised eggplant, curry chicken, crispy pork, sweet and sour hairtail, cold seaweed, and mapo tofu.

It can be seen that this man came prepared, with the purpose of stealing their business.

Since the other party is here to steal our business, everything depends on our strength.

Chen Kangle is not worried at all. There is a popular saying on the Internet: "It's not scary to wear the same clothes as others, but it's embarrassing for the ugly one."

"It's not a big deal if the dishes are the same, but it will be embarrassing if the food tastes bad." Chen Kangle is confident in her dishes. Even if the other party's dishes are the same as hers, she doesn't worry about not being able to sell better than the other party.

There will be competition when doing business. Only by constantly improving your own level can you be invincible in the competition.

Taste is king. As long as the taste is good, there is no need to worry about any competition. Chen Kangle is not afraid at all.

After Chen Kangle's persuasion, Lin Huiling calmed down and said to the man, "Our lunch boxes are tastier than yours anyway, and they won't be able to outsell us soon, so just don't cry."

After saying that, he turned around and left with Chen Kangle, not wanting to give another look, leaving the man shouting wildly on the spot: "The lunch boxes all taste about the same, no one is more noble than the other, and you may not be able to sell better than me."

Li Shizhong originally worked at a construction site. Later, he heard that he could make a lot of money selling boxed lunches at the construction site, so he switched his career and started selling boxed lunches.

His cooking skills are average, but I heard that construction workers don’t have high requirements for lunch boxes, as long as they are cheap and can fill their stomachs.

In order to reduce costs, Li Shizhong bought the cheapest ingredients. However, the cheap ingredients and his average cooking skills meant that the lunch boxes he made were of course hard to describe.

But Li Shizhong was very confident that his lunch boxes were cheap and in large quantities, and the construction workers would definitely buy them.

At the beginning, Li Shizhong set up a stall to sell boxed lunches at the southern construction site because the flow of people at the southern construction site was greater than that at the northern construction site.

After selling for almost half a month, the lunch box business was very bad. Construction workers would just walk past the lunch box stall without even looking at it.

Li Shizhong found that he had chosen the wrong location for his stall. The wages of the construction workers here might be higher, so they were willing to spend money to eat in restaurants and did not look down on the cheap boxed lunches sold at the stalls.

He began to look for a construction site suitable for setting up a stall to sell boxed lunches. Yesterday when he had nothing to do, Li Shizhong drove to the surrounding construction sites and found a stall selling boxed lunches at the north construction site that was particularly busy, with a long queue forming in front of the stall.

It seems that the workers at this construction site like to buy lunch boxes from the street stalls. Li Shizhong thought that if he set up a stall here to sell lunch boxes, maybe business would be good.

There is only one lunch box stall at the entrance of the construction site. There are so many workers queuing at the stall. As long as half of them go to his stall to buy lunch boxes, he will make money.

Li Shizhong decided to come to the construction site in the north to grab business. Li Shizhong went down to observe Chen Kangle's lunch stall on purpose, and then wrote down the dishes and prices of Chen Kangle's lunch stall.

If the dishes and prices of two lunch box stalls are the same, and there is a long queue at one of them, some people will definitely run to the other stall to buy lunch boxes for convenience.

So Li Shizhong made the same dishes as Chen Kangle and priced them the same way. He came to the north gate of the construction site with great anticipation to sell lunch boxes. He felt that he would definitely succeed this time.

Chen Kangle and his friends returned to their van and started to set up their stall. Lin Huiling said as they worked: "Kangle, it's a good thing you held me back. That man was so tall. If they had really fought, I would have been beaten to death."

Lin Huiling also felt that she was a bit impulsive just now. The location for the stall was indeed not their exclusive land. It was other people’s freedom to decide what dishes to sell and how much to set the prices.

The main reason she was so angry was that she felt the other party did it on purpose.

"Well, never mind. Our lunch boxes are so delicious anyway. Even if they sell the same ones as us, they can't sell as well as us." Lin Huiling said confidently.

Chen Kangle nodded: "Well, don't be angry, we just need to do our business well."

Chen Kangle always believed that as long as the lunch boxes she made tasted good enough, she would not be afraid even if there were ten identical lunch box stalls competing with her.

As soon as Yao Chu and his friends got off work, they habitually walked to the place where Chen Kangle had originally set up his stall.

Li Shizhong was particularly excited when he saw five guests coming at once, and he quickly greeted the guests: "Handsome man, what kind of box lunch do you want to eat? We have a lot of delicious dishes here, and the prices are affordable."

Yao Chu found that the man who greeted them looked a little strange, so he asked: "Brother, why are you selling lunch boxes today? Are you a new employee hired by the beautiful boss?"

When Li Shizhong was about to answer, Yao Chu's friend pointed to the other side and said, "Brother Chu, this is not the stall of the beautiful boss, the stall of the beautiful boss is over there."

"Ah?" When Yao Chu saw that Chen Kangle was indeed selling lunch boxes on the other side, he turned around and walked to Chen Kangle's lunch box stall without hesitation.

Li Shizhong hurriedly tried to persuade him, "Handsome guy, our lunch boxes are also delicious. You can buy them from us. What do you like to eat? We have braised pork trotters and crispy pork here."

No matter how he shouted, Yao Chu and the others walked towards Chen Kangle's stall without looking back.

Although he lost a few customers, Li Shizhong was not discouraged. After all, he was a new stall, and it was normal for some customers to be nostalgic and like to patronize familiar stalls. When more people came, some people would naturally come to his stall.

Yao Chu and his friends are already Chen Kangle's old customers. They only buy Chen Kangle's lunch boxes and are not interested in any other lunch boxes.

When he came to Chen Kangle's lunch box stall, Yao Chu said to Chen Kangle, "Beautiful boss, we almost bought the wrong lunch box just now."

"Why did that new lunch stand take your place? And I noticed that the dishes he sells are exactly the same as yours, and the prices are the same. He must be deliberately trying to steal your business." Anyone with a discerning eye could see Li Shizhong's intention. Yao Chu said angrily, "Beautiful boss, why don't we go and take that place back?"

Chen Kangle said calmly: "It's okay, we are all doing business. Since he occupies that position, I will change my position. It's no big deal."

Yao Chu admired Chen Kangle's calmness. If he encountered the same thing, he might have fought with the other party eight hundred times.

But Yao Chu felt that Chen Kangle's reaction was normal. After all, the lunch boxes she made were so delicious, so she didn't have to worry about her business being taken away. Even if she changed the location of the stall, there would still be many people coming to buy.

This is what it means to have confidence when you have strength!

Yao Chu began to feel that the man who came to compete with Chen Kangle was a little overestimating his abilities, and he would probably run away if his business failed in a few days.

Yao Chu bought a box lunch. On the way back, he kept reminding the workers who had just come out of the construction site, "Brother, the beautiful boss's box lunch stand has moved to another location. It's on the other side. Don't go the wrong way."

He was worried that someone would go to the wrong place and get cheated by another lunch box stall.

As soon as twelve o'clock arrived, a large number of workers poured out of the construction site. Many people, like Yao Chu, habitually walked to the place where Chen Kangle had set up his stall.

Of course, like Yao Chu, they also discovered that the lunch box stall was not Chen Kangle's, so they turned around and walked out of Chen Kangle's stall.

Customers came one after another, and then turned around and walked towards Chen Kangle's stall one after another.

Seeing that there was already a long queue of people in front of Chen Kangle's lunch stand, Li Shizhong was very unhappy. "These workers are idiots. The lunch boxes at the construction site all taste almost the same. I have the same dishes she has, and the prices are the same. Why do these people go there to eat?"

Faced with the dismal business, Li Shizhong decided to cut prices, reducing the price of meat dishes to four yuan and vegetarian dishes to two yuan. Anyway, the ingredients he used were all cheap, so even with a price cut, the profit would still be considerable.

The top priority now is to attract customers first, and then slowly raise the price once the customer base stabilizes.

For the same dishes, his price is one dollar cheaper than Chen Kangle's. Anyone who is not a fool would choose to buy his.

Li Shizhong was very confident. When he saw a customer coming, he greeted him warmly: "Brother, what do you want to eat? Our dishes are delicious and cheap."

Yu Gaocheng is also a loyal customer of Chen Kangle and eats Chen Kangle’s boxed lunches for lunch and dinner every day.

He hurried over after get off work today, and when he found out that the owner of the lunch box stall was not Chen Kangle, he turned around and prepared to leave without hesitation.

Li Shizhong hurriedly stepped forward and held Yu Gaocheng, saying, "Brother, our prices are cheaper than those over there. You see, our meat dishes are only four yuan, and the vegetarian dishes are only two yuan. If you eat two meat dishes and two vegetarian dishes, it will cost 17 yuan over there, but only 13 yuan here, which is 4 yuan cheaper than over there. And ours tastes good too."

Yu Gaocheng looked at the dishes on Li Shizhong's lunch stand with curiosity. There were braised pork trotters, curry chicken, and braised eggplant...

The dishes were exactly the same as Chen Kangle's, but the presentation was not good. The braised pork trotters didn't look red at all, there was half more potato than chicken in the curry chicken, and the crispy pork was fried a little bit burnt, which was totally unappetizing.

The smell is not good either. When you get close to Chen Kangle's lunch box stall, you can smell the charming fragrance, but when you get close to this lunch box stall, you can only smell a greasy smell, and it smells like gutter oil.

Yu Gaocheng looked at her with more and more disgust, shook his head and said, "No need."

Then he turned and walked to Chen Kangle's stall. Even if it was a few dollars cheaper, Yu Gaocheng would rather go to Chen Kangle's lunch box, which was delicious, clean and hygienic.

Even though the price was lowered, the construction workers still chose to buy Chen Kangle's lunch boxes.

Watching the customers approach Chen Kangle's stall one by one, the incompetent Li Shizhong suddenly became angry and yelled: "This construction worker is a fool. He doesn't buy cheap things but goes to buy expensive ones. He must be mentally ill."

Zhao Jiekang was a worker at the south construction site. His coworkers brought him to the north construction site to eat boxed lunches. From then on, he became addicted to it. He would specially run to the north construction site to eat boxed lunches after get off work every day.

He also came today and saw Li Shizhong at the lunch box stall. Li Shizhong had sold lunch boxes at the construction site in the south before, and Brother Zhao Jie had bought lunch boxes from Li Shizhong's lunch box stall.

He will never forget this lunch box. Not only was it unpalatable, it also smelled of gutter oil and was extremely unclean. He found a fly in the lunch box and almost vomited on the spot.

"Why is this person here?" Zhao Jiekang was a little confused.

Zhao Jiekang quickly explained to his friends, "You must not buy this lunch box. It tastes bad and is not clean."

After hearing what Zhao Jiekang said, Li Shizhong came over and threatened: "Shut up, kid. If you dare to say another word, I'll break your arm."

Li Shizhong was tall and mighty. Zhao Jiekang was frightened and dared not say anything. He ran away.

Chen Kangle's lunch box business is booming, while Li Shizhong's lunch box business is deserted, forming a sharp contrast between the two sides.

Ma Wenwen and Feng Da got off work a little late today, so Ma Wenwen planned to take Feng Da to buy lunch boxes for the construction site. He fell in love with Chen Kangle's lunch boxes when he ate them for the first time yesterday, so he brought his friends over to eat them today.

When Feng Da arrived at the lunch stand, he saw that it was deserted and said, "This is the lunch stand you mentioned. It's said that if you come late, you have to queue up. Why is there no one here?"

Feng Da had never eaten Chen Kangle's lunch box, and he had no interest in it. It was Ma Wenwen who forced him to come over.

"This isn't the lunch stand owned by the beautiful boss." Ma Wenwen realized something was wrong, and then he saw a line of people in front of the lunch stand on the other side. "It's not this stand. The stand I'm talking about has moved over there."

Ma Wenwen was about to pull Fengda over there to queue up when suddenly a man stopped them.

Because business is slow, Li Shizhong will not miss any opportunity to attract customers.

"Please stay, handsome guys. Would you like to take a look at our boxed lunches? They are cheap and delicious, and you don't have to queue." Li Shizhong was very attentive.

Feng Da looked at the lunch box stall over there by Chen Kangle. There was already a long queue. If he wanted to queue up, it would take at least ten minutes. He hated queuing the most.

"Brother Ma, why don't we buy it here? I'm too lazy to queue."

"The lunch boxes over there are delicious. It's worth it even if you have to queue for more than ten minutes." Ma Wenwen was not interested in any other lunch boxes. He only wanted to eat Chen Kangle's lunch box. He had already decided yesterday that he wanted to eat crispy pork today.

"The boxed lunches all taste almost the same. Even if they are delicious, they won't be that good. I think the taste here should not be bad." Feng Da refused when he thought about queuing.

Seeing Feng Da's willingness to buy a box lunch, Li Shizhong took advantage of the situation and said, "This handsome guy is right. The box lunches all taste almost the same, and you don't have to queue up here. If you want to buy one, I'll get it for you right now."

It was very relaxing without having to queue up. Feng Da was tempted. "Brother Ma, let's buy it here. It's just a box lunch. There's no need to queue up so hard."

Ma Wen looked at the dishes at Li Shizhong's lunch stall. Every dish looked yellow and oily, and it was obvious that they were far inferior to Chen Kangle's.

"I don't want to eat the boxed lunches here." Ma Wenwen was determined not to buy Li Shizhong's boxed lunches.

As long as he could keep one customer, it would be a good one. Li Shizhong continued to persuade him, "Handsome guy, since you two have different opinions, why don't you each buy what you want? This handsome guy will buy from me, and the other handsome guy can go to the other side if he wants to wait in line."

Feng Da really didn't want to queue, so he said, "Brother Ma, why don't you go and queue up by yourself, I'll buy it here."

Since Feng Da was unwilling to queue, Ma Wenwen didn't want to force him, "Okay, I hope you won't regret it later."

Even though he had never eaten the lunch boxes from this stall, Ma Wenwen knew that they were not delicious just by taking a look at them. He felt that Feng Da would definitely regret it soon.

"OK!" Feng Da watched Ma Wenwen leave and ordered a box lunch from Li Shizhong. He ordered crispy pork, curry chicken, and braised eggplant.

Feng Da took a photo of the lunch box and sent it to Ma Wenwen: [Brother, I have already bought the lunch box, you can wait in line, I have to go back to eat.]

Seeing that Feng Da bought crispy pork and curry chicken, Ma Wenwen also bought some crispy pork and curry chicken from Chen Kangle. He would show Feng Da what the really delicious crispy pork and curry chicken were later.

Ma Wenwen waited in line for more than ten minutes before she could buy a lunch box. When she returned to the dormitory, she saw Feng Da eating a lunch box. Feng Da frowned and said, "I will never buy lunch boxes from street vendors again. They are really unpalatable. None of the dishes are delicious. I will spend a few more dollars to eat in a restaurant in the future."

Feng Da pushed the lunch box aside and said, "I won't eat it anymore. It's really too bad. It's not as good as what I made myself. I'd better go eat instant noodles."

"Hahahaha, I just told you not to buy it, but you insisted on buying it. Now you regret it." Ma Wen said with a gloating look.

Feng Da rolled his eyes and said, "Don't laugh at me. The lunch you bought was from a street vendor, so it won't taste that good."

"Tsk, although they are all lunch boxes sold at street stalls, mine is different. It must be a thousand times more delicious than yours." Ma Wenwen proudly opened the lunch box in his hand, and then began to tempt Feng Da, "Look at my curry chicken and my crispy pork, they are so delicious."

First there was the rich smell of curry, followed by the rich aroma of crispy food. Fengda was instantly attracted by the aroma of the lunch box, and stared at Ma as he smelled the crispy pork and curry chicken in the lunch box.

"Your curry chicken and crispy pork seem to be delicious." Feng Da swallowed his saliva and said, "Can I try a piece?"

The bright yellow curry chicken and the golden and crispy crispy pork look really tempting. Feng Da really wants to eat it.

"OK, I'll give you a piece of crispy pork and a piece of curry chicken." Ma Wenwen wanted Feng Da to experience the deliciousness of Chen Kangle's lunch box, so she agreed to give some to Feng Da.

Ma Wen took out a piece of crispy meat and curry chicken from the lunch box and gave it to Feng Da. "I'll give you one piece. There will be no more after you finish it."

"Thank you, Brother Ma!" Feng Da, who was tempted, picked up the crispy pork and put it into his mouth. The first thing he saw was the crispy fried coating, a thin layer of fried coating, which was fragrant and crispy, and did not taste dry or burnt.

When you bite into it, you will find tender and smooth tenderloin. The meat is plump, with the right amount of fat and lean. It is fragrant and not greasy. It tastes a little chewy and is very fragrant!

Feng Da thought of the crispy pork he had just eaten. The skin was burnt and bitter, and the pork inside was fat, greasy and soft, like stale and low-quality meat. After just one bite, Feng Da spat it out.

After eating the crispy pork, Fengda picked up the curry chicken. The chicken was coated with thick curry sauce. The curry flavor invaded the entire mouth after one bite. The chicken was tender and tasty, and very delicious.

Feng Da thought again of the curry chicken he had just eaten. The curry sauce was so thin that there was no curry flavor at all, and the chicken was hard and woody, making it difficult to eat.

It's like one is in heaven and the other is underground, they are not on the same level at all.

"Brother Ma, can you give me some more?" Feng Da's appetite was aroused, and he wanted to eat more.

Ma Wenwen protected her lunch box and said, "If you don't give it to me, it won't be enough for me to eat. If you want to eat, go buy it yourself."

"I'm so angry. It's all my fault for being so stupid and lazy. I didn't buy the delicious lunch box and had to buy the unpalatable one. Such a delicious lunch box is worth queuing up to buy." Feng Da regretted it so much that he ran out of the dormitory in a hurry, hoping that he could still buy a lunch box.

On the other hand, Li Shizhong deceived some workers who had never eaten Chen Kangle’s lunch boxes by offering low prices, and sold some lunch boxes to them.

Chen Kangle quickly sold all the food and was packing up to leave.

After Chen Kangle and the others left, Li Shizhong continued to sell some boxed lunches.

Li Shizhong is very good at fooling customers. After Chen Kangle left, some customers thought that Li Shizhong's lunch box was Chen Kangle's lunch box.

"Why did we change people today? The beautiful boss is not free today." Some customers asked when they saw that the person selling lunch boxes was not Chen Kangle.

Li Shizhong always gave an ambiguous answer: "Well, I'm the one selling the lunch boxes today."

In this way, some customers were deceived into buying Li Shizhong's lunch boxes.

Some customers came for unknown reasons. "Boss, this is the legendary delicious lunch box at the construction site. My friend told me that your lunch boxes are delicious, so I came here specially to try them."

Li Shizhong: "Well, my lunch boxes are really delicious."

Including some tricks and lies, Li Shizhong sold more than 30 lunch boxes. Although it was not a lot, Li Shizhong was satisfied.

He felt that business would be better in the afternoon. After eating his lunch boxes, the customers would find that his lunch boxes tasted similar to Chen Kangle's, and his were much cheaper, so they would definitely come to buy his.

Li Shizhong was full of confidence and decided to continue selling lunch boxes in the afternoon.

At noon today, some fans of "Hai Shi Mei Shi Jun" also came to the construction site to buy lunch boxes, because the netizens who won the prize last time all praised the lunch boxes at the construction site as delicious, so they also wanted to come and taste them.

Then, there were many more comments praising the lunch boxes at the construction site under the Weibo post of "Hai Shi Mei Shi Jun".

Among some good reviews, a bad review suddenly appeared.

Red Dripping Guanyin: [Who on earth said that the lunch boxes at the construction site were delicious? I just bought one and it pissed me off. It tasted terrible and I felt like I was cheated.]