Lu Xueping was still thinking hard.

After a while, Gu Shuangcheng put away his pen and said, "Okay, I've roughly written it down. I'll write the article based on it when the time comes."

Lu Xueping hadn't figured out what "chicken out" meant yet, but she was delighted when she heard this.

"Will you write down her attitude towards us?" Lu Xueping asked.

Gu Shuangcheng nodded, "Yes, of course. You see, after the reform and opening up, there are more individual businesses. Now when we go to a roadside stall, the stall owner will welcome us with a smile. This rice noodle shop doesn't have that attitude. The attitude is very average. I just warned you. How is it different from the state-owned hotels in the past? We spend money to eat, not to see other people's faces."

So, things really developed in the direction he hoped for? Is Lin Minjun going to be notorious in the newspapers because of her bad attitude?

Lu Xueping was simply delighted. She now felt that Shen Hongyu was indeed smarter than herself. Her own tricks were useless, but Shen Hongyu's tricks worked.

The more she thought about it, the happier she became. She couldn't help showing off when she looked at Lin Minjun again, as if she had already seen Lin Minjun being despised by everyone after being in the newspaper, and returning to Yunnan in a miserable and miserable state.

Lu Xueping covered her mouth and laughed out loud with a look of happiness. Seeing that Lin Minjun was free, she couldn't help but run over to show off.

"Your business is doing well, right?"

Lin Minjun felt like she had seen a ghost, and glanced at Liu Xueping: "Not bad."

Lu Xueping gloated and said: "It looks okay now, but you have to think about the future. Anything can happen in this life. In my opinion, you should think about your options early. After all, it is not safe for women to do business." , you are not married yet. If the business fails at some time, you will have to go back to Yunnan. I kindly advise you to make preparations as soon as possible. "

Lin Minjun was too lazy to pay attention to her and just said a few perfunctory words like "hmm" and "ah".

"Don't take it lightly. This store will go bankrupt sooner or later. Listen to me and go back and pack up your things early. If it really can't be opened, you still have a way out." Lu Xueping was even more aggressive.

In someone else's store, she would say the store was going to go bankrupt. Lin Minjun thought: Lu Xueping really grew up in a greenhouse and has never been beaten. If this happened in another store, she would be chopped on the head immediately.

When she heard Lu Xueping cursing that her store would not be able to continue operating, her first reaction was of course to get angry. She was extremely furious and was ready to chase this person away, but after taking two deep breaths, Lin Minjun suddenly calmed down.

There was something wrong with what Lu Xueping said. Her implication was that her store was going to fail, and she said it so surely and confidently.

Lin Minjun looked at Lu Xueping's expression carefully again and found that he looked gloating and taking advantage of others' misfortune.

Lu Xueping comes from a well-off family and knows a lot of people. Could it be that she knew about the policy direction and that her store was in danger, so she came here on purpose to make fun of us?

Lin Minjun calmed down and sneered deliberately: "Come on, you are just pretending to be kind, how can you be so kind to say this to me? Stop being hypocritical, my store is doing well, and it will be bigger in the future, stop talking nonsense, you said the store is going to go bankrupt, why don't I believe it, you are just talking nonsense."

Lu Xueping felt that she was superior to others. She was not in the same class as ordinary people like Lin Minjun. Thinking of this, she was not angry at all. Instead, she said sympathetically, "I just feel sorry for you. Wait, you will be in the newspaper soon. Soon everyone will know how dirty your store is and how bad your attitude is. When everyone sees the newspaper, can you still run your store?"

Lu Xueping felt that she was too kind-hearted and fell into the mentality of being the savior. "I am just reminding you kindly, do you think I am the same as you?"

Lin Minjun lowered her eyes and said nothing.

She kept thinking about the words "in the newspapers", "famous", "infamy", and so on.

Lu Xueping came here today for unknown reasons. When she arrived at the store, she looked around furtively and brought a man in his thirties or forties with her.

That man was definitely not a relative, because she had seen all the relatives of the Lu family in her previous life, but this man was not one of them.

There was no way he could be Lu Xueping's partner. Even if she was crazy, she wouldn't find someone so much older than her.

Lu Xueping just said confidently that she would be in the newspapers...

While thinking, Lin Minjun looked at Lu Xueping and the man she brought with her, with her focus on the man. The man looked like a scholar, with a temperament similar to Luo Lin. He was also carrying a bulging black bag. At first Lin Minjun did not recognize what the bag was, but after a closer look, she realized it was a camera bag.

With a camera and an educated person, Lin Minjun immediately guessed the man's identity. Is he a reporter?

By combining their actions after they came in, Lin Minjun gradually guessed that Lu Xueping brought a reporter here today with the intention of grabbing her by the hair and reporting in the newspapers how bad things were in her store, so that she could not continue to run the store?

That's why she was so confident and so high-handed, and she quickly prepared her retreat.

But is it possible? After finally taking root here, Lin Minjun can't leave easily. She was weak enough in her previous life, and she must become more courageous in this life. Doesn't Lu Xueping want to see her leave in a miserable state? She won't.

Lin Minjun thought back to what had just happened and began to find a solution for herself.

Thinking back to the moment Lu Xueping and the reporter entered the store, they didn't look familiar with each other, and the tone of their conversation didn't sound like acquaintances. So this reporter shouldn't be biased towards Lu Xueping. He just asked himself if he had any personal grudges with Lu Xueping, so he probably wasn't a black reporter?

Lin Minjun decided to take a gamble.

At this time, Lu Xueping kept saying, "You are a person who doesn't know what is good for you. You can't even seize the opportunity right in front of you. Do you know what my brother is doing now? He has made a lot of money in business and is about to contract medical equipment and open a factory. You almost became his wife. What a pity! You must regret it, but it's too late to regret it now. Now I kindly remind you to go back to Yunnan as soon as possible. Your store won't last long. Don't regret it later when you have no way out."

"Thank you for your reminder, but I have to tell you two things. First, I dumped your brother. I don't want him anymore. I, Lin Minjun, can let go easily. I won't regret it now that we're separated. Even if he becomes the richest man in the future, I won't regret it." Lin Minjun grabbed Lu Xueping and pushed her out of the counter, retorting, "Second, your little plan won't work. I won't let this store go bankrupt."

She pushed Lu Xueping aside and walked directly to Gu Shuangcheng. Seeing that he was trying to get closer to the kitchen, she simply said straight to the point, "Hello, I know you are a reporter. Do you want to see my kitchen?"

"Uh, yes." Gu Shuangcheng was also confused. Why was this lesbian so straightforward? Wasn't she afraid that he would expose her back kitchen?

Lin Minjun smiled: "If you want to see it, come on, follow me."

It’s still the same trick, using the straight to transform the crooked.

Don’t you, Lu Xueping, just want to see me make a fool of myself in the newspapers and have a bad reputation?

No way!

She is upright and honest. From setting up the stall to opening the store, everything she has done has stood the test. Her younger brother Erwa eats exactly the same food as the customers. The food in her own store can be eaten by her own family.

Lin Minjun opened the door to the kitchen and let Gu Shuangcheng in to take a look. "You can look around. From the sanitary environment to the raw materials, you can look at anything you want."

This move of hers actually surprised Gu Shuangcheng a little. He murmured, "Comrade, if I see anything that doesn't meet the standards in there, I will expose it. It's okay if I can't see these things. If I see them, I will definitely tell you."

"Just tell me, there's nothing shameful about it." Lin Minjun said.

She opened the door and took Gu Shuangcheng directly into the back kitchen. The two of them walked one after the other and started from the stove.

Lin Minjun pointed at the stoves and introduced them: "These are the stoves I use to boil water, soup and rice noodles. When boiling water to stew soup, I take the clay pots down and put them back up after the water is boiled. The stoves were custom-made before I opened the shop."

She took Gu Shuangcheng inside.

The two of them had already gone completely inside. Lu Xueping, who was standing outside at this time, saw this scene through the glass and was a little dumbfounded.

She was a little confused. What was going on? Wasn't Gu Shuangcheng eating rice noodles just now? How did he suddenly go into the kitchen with Lin Minjun? When did the two of them talk?

And why are these two people talking and laughing? They seem to be on friendly terms?

Lu Xueping stopped being dazed and quickly chased after him and followed him into the kitchen. However, what happened before her eyes shocked her even more.

She saw Lin Minjun walking in front and Gu Shuangcheng walking behind. As they walked, he introduced the layout of his kitchen and the functions of these things, such as where to store ingredients and where to store tableware.

Isn't Lin Minjun afraid? Isn't she afraid that the dirty scene in her store will be seen by reporters?

Lu Xueping suddenly had a bad feeling.

In the back kitchen, Lin Minjun was introducing everything to Gu Shuangcheng, from equipment to ingredients. "I just talked about cooking tools. What you see here is where the ingredients are stored. This cabinet is for ingredients that have been processed but not yet used."

As Lin Minjun spoke, she pulled out an enamel basin from the cupboard, a very old-fashioned porcelain basin with flowers on it. On top of it was a piece of moist, clean white gauze. There was no plastic wrap as in later times, as this was to prevent dust from falling in and contaminating the food.

Uncovering the gauze, "This is the pickled cabbage I made myself using the pickled cabbage shipped from Yunnan. These basins are basically filled with processed ingredients, tofu, and chopped pork."

Gu Shuangcheng nodded as he read, and also took notes in his notebook.

Lin Minjun took him to a separate room at the back: "I use this to store unprocessed food. It looks a bit too much now because the weather is not warm enough. When it gets warmer, I will buy food once in the morning and once in the afternoon, otherwise I won't be able to store it. The coal is stored to the side. This bed belongs to my friend. She is staying here temporarily, but she doesn't walk back and forth during the day. She has to go to work and doesn't come back until the store closes."

Gu Shuangcheng wrote down several things in his notebook before he looked up and said, "Actually, I didn't have much hope for your store before I came here. I thought the hygiene was just so-so, but after I came here, I realized I was wrong. It's really rare that your store can be so clean. It's not much different from my own kitchen."

"I just saw you throwing away all the sprouted potatoes?"

Lin Minjun explained: "You can't eat potatoes after they sprout, they are poisonous."

"But now many people don't know, or even if they know, they don't care and just cut it up and sell it to customers." Gu Shuangcheng said, "My daughter ate some tofu pudding outside two days ago, and she started vomiting and having diarrhea when she got home. She is still receiving intravenous drips in the hospital."

Lin Minjun smiled and said, "I don't know. But there are black-hearted merchants. I believe there are also many honest businessmen like me. Especially in the catering business, food safety and hygiene are the most important. Even if only one customer gets sick from eating, I will feel guilty."

"Conscience." Gu Shuangcheng chewed on these two words, suddenly closed his notebook, and said with a smile: "You are right, we must have a conscience. I just checked and there is nothing wrong with your kitchen. It is even more meticulous than our own cooking. I will let my daughter come to your restaurant to eat in the future."

"Of course." Lin Minjun nodded.

However, when she glanced around, she saw Lu Xueping standing at the kitchen door with a silly look on her face, one hand tightly grasping the corner of her clothes. She didn't know who had provoked her. When Lu Xueping heard it, she rubbed the corner of her clothes as if she had a life-and-death grudge. When she heard Gu Shuangcheng's words, she was still full of resentment and looked very angry.

Lin Minjun knew at a glance that this idiot still had no good intentions. She must still be thinking about how to treat her and how to do mischief to her.

Today, Lu Xueping brought reporters here to pick a fight, but failed. This was entirely because Lin Minjun herself was strong and therefore immune to all poisons.

But who knows what else she has up her sleeve?

After much thought, in order to prevent Lu Xueping from doing anything bad again, Lin Minjun invited Gu Shuangcheng to the front again, "Reporter Gu, I have something else I want you to see."

Lin Minjun walked to the counter and pointed to the business license behind her counter. "Look, this is what I got from the Industry and Commerce Bureau. I have permission to sell rice noodles."

Because she couldn't find a place to frame it, Lin Minjun didn't hang it up for fear that it would be damaged. She took it out now to show it to Gu Shuangcheng.

Gu Shuangcheng looked at it, nodded and said nothing, but his eyes showed high praise.

What Lin Minjun took out next really surprised him.

"And here's one, take a look at it." Lin Minjun said, slapping two pieces of paper into his hands.

Gu Shuangcheng flipped through two pages, his expression changed from confusion to shock, his head nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, "Inspection report? Comrade Lin, is this yours?"

"Yes." Lin Minjun said.

"You need a physical checkup every three months. You've already had two?"

Lin Minjun: "I own a shop. I do everything from cooking to cleaning by myself, so I cannot get sick, let alone have any infectious diseases. You see, I paid for all the tests myself."

Before Gu Shuangcheng could say anything, Lin Minjun said, "I will definitely need to recruit more people for my restaurant. When I do recruit people, I will also let them conduct an inspection. What do you think, Reporter Gu? My restaurant is not much worse than a state-owned hotel, right? At least in terms of hygiene, I can say that my family would dare to eat here."

"Not bad, really not bad." Gu Shuangcheng said, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He asked suddenly, "Comrade Lin, do you want to be in the newspaper? I want to report your store."

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The second update is here. This is a big fat chapter.

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From today on, I will resume normal updates, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and I will update more if my health permits.