"Bai Yejin, Xu Wanxia, you two watch the shop. It's daytime now, so no one should come to cause trouble."
"If anyone comes to the store and causes trouble, don't provoke the other side. If you can retreat, do so. Wait for me to come back!"
Lin Yifeng decided to go find Xu Qingyi. After giving instructions to Bai Yejin and Xu Wanxia, he took a knife from the kitchen and tied it to the inside of his calf.
"careful!"
Bai Yejin looked like a young wife seeing her husband off at the door, her eyes filled with worry.
Lin Yifeng smiled and patted Bai Yejin on the shoulder amidst the envious and jealous gazes of the other boys.
Lin Yifeng went out and rode a rented pedal tricycle. He hadn't gone far when he heard the distinctive "putt-putt-putt" sound of a diesel tricycle.
It's Xu Qingyi!
Lin Yifeng felt relieved and parked his car on the side of the road to wait for Xu Qingyi.
Thick black smoke rushed towards Lin Yifeng, but Xu Qingyi was intercepted by him. Lin Yifeng looked at Xu Qingyi, whose forehead was bleeding and whose clothes were dirty, and his expression became serious.
"Boss, I..."
Are you hurt?
This was Lin Yifeng's first sentence.
"Let's go to the hospital."
This is Lin Yifeng's second sentence.
From the moment Lin Yifeng met Xu Qingyi, he didn't ask if the goods were alright; he only cared about whether the other person was alright.
"Need not!"
A ruthless glint appeared on Xu Qingyi's face:
“I ran into a few thugs. Damn it, they saw I was young and blocked the road with stone blocks, trying to rob my diesel tricycle.”
At this point, a hint of sarcasm appeared on Xu Qingyi's face: "These thugs are all talk, but when it comes to actually fighting, they're all cowards."
"I've come all the way from Northeast China, and I've never seen such a cowardly thug."
Xu Qingyi spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva: "So cowardly and still trying to make a living in the martial arts world? Bah! If this were back in our area, he wouldn't even be a damn beggar."
They even used dialect and profanity, so it seems Xu Qingyi really looks down on those thugs.
However, this also shows that the atmosphere in the three northeastern provinces is indeed much more aggressive than that in the central provinces.
Lin Yifeng patted Xu Qingyi on the shoulder, then took out a wad of cash and handed it to her.
"Go to the hospital to treat your injuries first, and then come back and tell me about this in detail."
"These thugs dare to block the road and steal a car in broad daylight; they must be a gang."
At this point, Lin Yifeng's lips curled up slightly: "It's been almost ten years since the crackdown, and these people have almost forgotten how their predecessors ate peanuts."
Nine years have passed since the crackdown in 1983, and some scoundrels have started to cause trouble again.
"Boss, I'm fine, just some superficial injuries!"
Xu Qingyi lowered her voice and whispered in Lin Yifeng's ear, "The blood on my body is from those thugs. I stabbed them once, and they didn't dare to attack me."
Finally, Xu Qingyi asked with a slight worry, "Boss, I should be alright, right?"
"What could possibly happen? Even if you kill him, at most you'll be charged with excessive self-defense."
Lin Yifeng didn't care. Killing someone intentionally and being forced to do so are two different things. Xu Qingyi's matter, let alone just injuring someone, even if she actually stabbed someone to death, wouldn't be serious.
unless...
Those thugs can control everything.
Xu Qingyi insisted on not going to the hospital, and Lin Yifeng couldn't persuade him otherwise, so he had to let him return to the store to help move the ingredients he had purchased from Shuanghui from the diesel tricycle to the Wallace kitchen.
...
This batch of ingredients solved Wallace's immediate problem and helped them get through the peak period from 5 pm to 7 pm.
As dusk settles, the queue outside Wallace's restaurant has dwindled.
Bai Yejin and Xu Wanxia, who had been busy from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., finally had time to sit down and rest for a while. Lin Yifeng and Xu Qingyi took advantage of this time to start taking stock of the remaining ingredients.
"We're running low on ingredients. Take the blackboard outside. We'll close at 9 o'clock."
Lin Yifeng took a blackboard out and placed it at the door. Wallace originally planned to stay open until 10 o'clock, but the number of people today exceeded Lin Yifeng's estimate. If Xu Qingyi hadn't gone to Shuanghui to pick up another truckload of goods in the middle of the day, they would have had to close at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
"I'm so tired!"
"It feels even more tiring than doing farm work at home!"
Bai Yejin rubbed her calves, sticking out her red tongue and sighing. Her feet and calves were sore, even more so than when she was harvesting wheat in the field.
"Madam, we made so much money today!"
Xu Wanxia smiled happily, her face showing shallow dimples and cute tiger teeth when she smiled, which, combined with her age, made her look very adorable.
"Yes, we made a lot of money."
"The drawers are almost full; they're all filled with money!"
Bai Yejin suddenly felt that her feet and calves were no longer sore. She stood up, walked to Lin Yifeng's side, and asked him with a look of anticipation.
"Lin Yifeng, can Wanxia and I count the money?"
Wallace belongs to Lam Yat-fung.
The money naturally belonged to Lin Yifeng.
Bai Yejin naturally didn't want the money, but she wanted to count it. She wanted to know how much Wallace, who almost never stopped having customers, actually earned in a day.
Xu Wanxia and Xu Qingyi both focused their attention on Lin Yifeng, who nodded with a smile: "We'll count after we close the door."
"Okay!"
Bai Yejin's eyes were like crescent moons; she was already imagining how much money she could earn today.
Is it two thousand, three thousand, or three thousand five?
As for anything more, she didn't dare to think about it.
"White Hibiscus!"
Lin Yifeng suddenly spoke up. He got up and sat on the stool, smiling, "I'm so tired, let me massage your shoulders."
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