As Zhao Yu drank the soup, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "It smells so good! Miss Lin, I'll come over to eat it as soon as I get off work tomorrow. Remember to save me a portion, okay? We can't sell them all!"

Lin Yiran nodded and said, "Okay, there's plenty of this stuff. Come over and eat it tomorrow."

"This will be available for sale in the future," she promised.

But Lin Yiran's initial plan wasn't like this. The variety of spicy hot pot options wasn't quite complete. She originally wanted to have a trial run, but she didn't expect so many people to want to eat there, so she decided to use other things to tide her over for now. She had plenty of vegetables in her storage space, so she could use vegetables to make do tomorrow. If it wasn't too busy in the morning, she could have Lin Fu watch the shop while she went to the meat section and add some lamb rolls, beef rolls, chicken rolls, etc., which would be quite delicious.

Mala Tang (a type of spicy hot pot) is soulless without meat!

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Lin Yiran washed up, gave Senran some nutritional supplements, then went downstairs, opened the door, and welcomed Lin Fu in. After telling him what to do, she set off for the nearby fresh meat market to get some fresh meat.

Before leaving, he asked Lin Fu to put up an advertisement at the door, saying that they were hiring two people, one to do barbecue and one to do mala tang. The plan was to hire two people for now, and they would hire more if there were more customers.

But there aren't many customers right now; two people are enough.

After that, Lin Yiran started heading east of the city. Her shop was located at the border of the rich and poor areas. There were no places to buy fresh meat there. Only in the east of the city, near the shantytown, was there a large wholesale market with a few meat vendors.

Lin Fu told her this because the place was quite remote, and most people wouldn't be able to find it. The ingredients Lin Fu used to sell for barbecue were actually brought back by his brother, so it was essentially free.

When Lin Yiran arrived at the wholesale market, she selected a fresh yak, three mutated wild goats, and eight pheasants from the first household and stored them in her spatial storage. Perhaps it was the first time she had seen such a large customer, because the shop owner was stunned and immediately gave Lin Yiran a wild rabbit as a gift, which she accepted with a smile.

A yak, three goats, and eight pheasants cost Lin Yiran less than three thousand star coins, which was really too cheap.

She only now realizes how low prices are here.

Previously, when she was at the Mercenary Guild, she was thirsty and went to a nearby supermarket to buy a bottle of water. The cheapest bottle of water cost 500 star coins, and the famous 'Divine Sound Spring Water' was even more outrageously expensive, costing more than 10,000 star coins per bottle!

It's more expensive than the tens of thousands of kilograms of meat she bought.

Moreover, it's just a bottle of ordinary water. Add a few drops of nutrient solution to ensure the body's basic needs are met, and it can be sold for a higher price than nutrient solution.

That's absolutely outrageous.

That was nothing compared to what happened on the way back. It was then that Lin Yiran truly witnessed what heaven and hell were like.

Because there were many elderly people in the wholesale market holding red meat patties and trying their best to hawk them, they even asked Lin Yiran if she wanted one when she passed by, offering to sell it to her at a cheaper price.

At first, she didn't realize what it was, but after the system reminded her, she discovered that it was actually just a cake made by crushing up the meat of various small insects and adding a little starch. It was the insect cake that Lin Yiran had heard about before.

The one with three ten-star coins.

The old lady even offered Lin Yiran a price of eight insect cakes for twenty star coins, with the promise of "buy more, get more free".

Unfortunately, she found the food repulsive and couldn't bear to look at it. She then bought a small bamboo basket from the old lady's stall and hurriedly ran away with it.

Once she left the slum, Lin Yiran finally felt a sense of relief. This was the life of the lower class. Not having enough to eat was nothing compared to the fact that they ate such unhealthy food and lived listlessly all day long. In Lin Yiran's eyes, this was simply a great tragedy of life.

Even in this era of such advanced technology.

Various flying cars whizzed overhead, and trackless trains on the ground moved as fast as lightning. In the distance, there were layers of deep blue transparent protective shields, each layer thinning out as you went further out, rendering them almost useless. It seems that the difference between people is greater than the difference between people and pigs.

The survival of the fittest in nature is always so cruel, and she has no right to comment.

When they arrived at the store, Lin Fu had already hired people.

"Hey sis, you're back? These two just came for their interviews. What do you think of them? They both seem pretty hardworking and efficient, so I had them wait for you here."

"This one is called Xiaohui, she's a bit younger, about the same age as you, little sister. This one is called Xiaofang, she's a bit older, but she's quite efficient."

Lin Yiran glanced at them and then asked about their family situations.

"My dad is a D-level mental strength martial artist, he's pretty powerful. He's a member of the Sunflower Squad. I just finished my studies, so I was thinking of finding a job to help support my family." This is Xiao Hui.

“My parents are gone, and I live with my sister and brother-in-law. But I graduated many years ago and haven’t worked since. This time I want to find a job so I won’t be a burden on my family.” This is Xiaofang.

Judging from their clothing alone, Xiaofang's family situation should be better than Xiaohui's. I don't know what kind of person she is.

"Then you can try it out for one day. Don't worry, you'll be paid. After the trial period, each of you will receive 29,000 star coins. The longer you stay, the higher your salary will be. If there are no problems, you can stay."

Both agreed, and just then a customer arrived, so Lin Yiran told them to get busy and take the opportunity to assess their customer service skills.

To Lin Yiran's surprise, business was exceptionally good today for some reason.

After selling three servings of mala tang (spicy hot pot) in the morning, the shop experienced a surge in customers at lunchtime, with over twenty people coming in to eat. Each serving of mala tang costs thirty star coins. The shop sold a considerable amount of star coins that morning. Although not a huge amount, the customer feedback was quite positive. Everyone who came in initially just wanted to try it out, but ended up leaving with smiles and recommending the shop to their friends online.

What surprised everyone the most was that when it was time to leave work in the evening, her shop saw its first peak, with more than a hundred customers coming in. Many of them were regular customers who came to buy skewers. When they saw that new products had been launched, they insisted on sitting down and trying them.

So on her first day of business, she served 145 customers and earned 155 popularity points! She sold 56,330 star coins!

I was so busy all night that I didn't even have time to eat.

Xiao Hui and Xiao Fang were cleaning up the dishes, Lin Fu was doing some chores outside, and Lin Yiran simply made a chicken stew with mushrooms in the kitchen as a staff meal.