What is the reason for being angry?

Is it that the rumor spread by the Lin family came true, or is it that the rumor is untrue?

This is really hard to guess.

* The next day, Lu Youxi did not eat lunch at school, but went to his own restaurant.

As soon as I walked to the door, I could hear the bustling sounds in the restaurant before I even entered.

When I walked in, I saw that the place was full.

They are all students and office workers from nearby, who come here to eat.

"Boss." The waiter outside was a student from Peking University who came here to work and study. He was one grade older than Lu Youxi, but when he saw Lu Youxi, he still called him boss.

The students themselves made the distinction very clear.

In school, I am a senior.

But here, Lu Youxi is their boss.

Lu Youxi greeted them with a smile and went to the kitchen.

Because the tables outside were full and everyone was eating, no new customers came in for the time being.

Liu Yusu and Grandma Xu took the time to sit down and rest.

"Mom, Grandma Xu." Lu Youxi walked in.

"You're back!" Liu Yusu called Lu Youxi this morning and asked her about the follow-up matters regarding the promotion of Hexingcun rice.

Since the details were not given on the phone, Lu Youxi said he would come back for lunch and talk to them about the matter.

"What do you want to eat?"

Liu Yusu was about to stand up, but Lu Youxi pushed her back, "Please sit down and rest for a while. I'm not hungry."

"When the guests have left and you guys are ready to eat, I'll eat with you and we can talk while we eat."

"That won't work. You still have to go back to class."

"The class starts at 3:30 this afternoon, so there's no rush." ​​Lu Youxi took out some biscuits from his bag and gave them to them. "Are you hungry? How about we eat some biscuits first?"

"That's fine." Liu Yusu was also afraid that she would be cooking while customers came.

So the three of them sat down and chatted while eating cookies.

"Mom, I looked at the bill of our restaurant." Lu Youxi said, "Let's hire an apprentice to help in the kitchen. You and Grandma Xu can just talk. If you can't do it, you can use your hands. It will be much easier."

"This will free up more time and manpower to further develop our restaurant." Lu Youxi said, "Then Grandma Xu can just sit outside and take care of the accounts."

Lu Youxi smiled and said, "We need to develop our restaurant. We can't keep opening this kind of small restaurant, right? Didn't we say this before? We need to expand the restaurant, turn it into a big hotel, and then turn it into a chain."

"By then, we will definitely have to hire more people. By then, you and Grandma Xu will be the owners of the hotel, responsible for the operation of the hotel, and you won't have time to be in charge of the kitchen." Lu Youxi said, "Look at the food brands of those founders. Now they are not made by the founders themselves. They all provide the recipes and the factories make them uniformly."

"When the time comes, the same will apply to our restaurant. You can give the recipes of the dishes, including what seasonings to use, how much to use, and the order of preparation, to the chefs we hire, and let them cook." Lu Youxi said, "Besides, we have many other more important things to do, such as promoting the rice of Hexing Village."

"That's right. We can't just keep running this small restaurant forever. If we want to expand it, we have to learn to let go." Liu Yusu nodded. "Then I'll listen to you. Anyway, you can see the future better than us."

The guests finished their meals one after another. Lu Youxi heard the noise in front and helped to clean up the food.

"Boss, we're here." The sophomore girl from Peking University who was working part-time here said quickly when she saw Lu Youxi was busy.

"It's okay, just clean up early and you guys can eat early too." Lu Youxi said with a smile, "We are all classmates, don't be polite to me."

Lu Youxi helped with the cleanup, while Grandma Xu and Liu Yusu were in the kitchen preparing lunch for everyone.

It is now past mealtime for nearby office workers and students to come over for dinner.

So Lu Youxi closed the door and hung up a sign saying "temporarily closed".

Liu Yusu prepared lunch, and in order to discuss the matter of Hexing Village rice, Lu Youxi sat at a separate table with Grandma Xu and Liu Yusu.

"Since our restaurant opened, customers have said that our rice is delicious. Many customers also asked us which rice we use and wanted to buy it to cook themselves." Liu Yushu said with a smile, "Aunt Xu responded quickly and said that it was the special rice we found and it is not available on the market now."

"I didn't lie. Our rice is indeed specially supplied. The village chief picked the best rice from our village and gave it to us." Grandma Xu said, "Before, our village's rice was sold to those purchasers. I don't know what labels they put on it before selling it. Now I think about it and feel that we lost a lot. The quality of our village's rice is so good."

"Before, when I was in the village, I didn't know, and we only ate rice grown at home, so I didn't feel it. Now that I'm in the city, I find that city people have tried many brands, and even they say they are delicious, which shows that the rice in our village cannot be wrong."

"That's right." Lu Youxi nodded. "We used to live in the village, and we couldn't bear to eat out when we went to town, so we didn't know the situation of the rice used in restaurants. We only ate the rice grown in our own home, and we thought the rice we ate outside was similar to ours, or even better in the city."

"Until I ate the rice in the cafeteria of Beijing University, I realized that the vegetables and rice in Beijing University are specially supplied. This is to ensure the food safety of teachers and students. Those vegetables are strictly inspected and tested. In fact, they are better than those sold in supermarkets. Even so, I feel that the rice in our school cafeteria is far worse than that in our village."

"That's right." Two part-time students who were having lunch at the table next to them couldn't help but say.

The girl felt a little embarrassed when she saw Lu Youxi looking at her, thinking that she had interrupted rashly, but she still said, "I think the rice here tastes better."

"I have registered a trademark for the rice from our village. From now on, it will be called Hexing Rice," said Lu Youxi.

"Hexing rice is really good." Liu Yushu repeated the three words "Hexing rice" several times, "It also mentioned the place of origin, and the name is festive and has good meaning."

"Since customers like it, let's sell it in our store." Lu Youxi said, "Pack the rice like the ones sold in supermarkets, in 5-kg and 10-kg packages for customers to choose from. Put it next to our cashier counter. Customers can see it when they pay the bill after their meal, and if they want to eat it, they can buy a bag to take home."

"I'll contact some supermarkets to see if we can sell rice from our village in the supermarkets." Lu Youxi always had a plan.

(End of this chapter)