Chapter 4
The next morning, it was summer in the south. Facing the morning light, Ke Xin got up and made a simple bowl of egg noodles. The space in the rental house was small, and there was no air conditioning in the hot summer. There was only an electric fan that cost a few dozen dollars. Even though it was blowing loudly, after cooking the noodles in front of the hot stove, a thin layer of sweat still appeared on her forehead.
He slurped the steaming noodles, brushing away the loose hair from his forehead.
After cooking, Ke Xin felt she had no appetite and her eyes couldn't help but fall on the west-facing window. Not far from the window was an overpass with heavy traffic. Not far from the overpass were two overlapping small peaks. From here, she could see the ever-changing sunset and the setting sun every day.
Thinking of the sunset, Ke Xin thought of her childhood. After school, she would walk to the village entrance and stare longingly at the old man pushing a sweet soup stall and shouting in her hometown Chaoshan dialect, "Selling grass cakes, selling grass cakes!"
When she was a child, a serving of grass cake cost fifty cents. She could only eat the few bites of grass cake left in her brother's bowl if her brother wanted to eat it. But even if it was just a few bites, the taste accompanied her throughout her childhood.
Until now, she and her daughter occasionally like to buy a piece of grass cake on the street in the hot summer, but the taste seems to have changed. As for why it has changed, she can't explain it.
She leaned against the wall and thought for a long time, then suddenly thought: "Oh, why don't you try setting up a street stall to sell sweet soup? Sell Guangdong sweet soup. In the hot summer, add some seasonal fruits. It's refreshing and delicious. Most importantly, it's suitable for all ages."
Thinking of this, Ke Xin decided to set up a stall to sell sweet soup. She started to place orders for tricycles, tables, and disposable bowls from the second-hand market.
After everything was done, Ke Xin opened the instructional video and started learning how to make sugar water in advance.
In the following days, Ke Xin was either running around the venue or learning how to make sweet soup and assemble a tricycle. In order to make the stall look better, she even took out the painting tools that she hadn't used for a long time. Fortunately, her painting skills were still there, and she soon painted several delicious sweet soups on the canvas.
Ke Xin was so excited that she took a photo and sent it to Jia Qi, adding: "Look, my trophy!"
The car used for the stall was originally a bit old and damaged, so Ke Xin specially painted it with turquoise paint, making it look like a newly bought car. Under the stall was a curtain painted by Ke Xin, with two bowls of interlaced sweet soup painted on the curtain, and the top was decorated with various fruits and pearls, which made people very appetizing at first glance.
Jiaqi quickly replied: "Not bad, your painting skills are online. It's a pity that you are not a painter. I will take care of your business after get off work!"
Seeing Jiaqi's flattery, Ke Xin contentedly put away her phone, and without hesitation, pushed her tricycle and started her first day of setting up a stall!
Fortunately, the rental house is very close to where the stalls are set up, about a ten-minute walk away. Both sides of the street are lined with various milk tea shops, restaurants and a small business district. At night, the lights are bright, the streets are smoky and various night markets are set up one after another. There are endless pedestrians on both sides of the street. At four o'clock in the afternoon, there are already a few sparse stalls.
But before they reached their destination, Ke Xin noticed something was wrong.
I saw the auntie next to me packing her things, while the uncle on the other side was pushing the cart and running out.
After looking for a long time, Ke Xin still didn't react.
Suddenly, a man pushing a barbecue stall turned around and said, "If you don't run away, the urban management will come to catch you."
"Ah!" Ke Xin was stunned. When she reacted and turned around, he had already run ten meters away.
The people setting up stalls behind him gradually retreated.
Ke Xin only stayed for a while, then quickly turned around with the team, clumsily packed up and followed the main group back. The first time she set up a stall, she was chased by the urban management. There were so many stalls on the road that she couldn't keep up. Some people who didn't have cars took their stalls and hid in the alleys.
This scene reminded Ke Xin of a sushi buffet. No matter what you want to eat, there are all kinds of goods and a dazzling array of delicacies flashing before you.
At the same time, there was a traffic police driving a car behind us, like a cat catching a mouse. It was both novel and exciting!
Ke Xin ran into the alley, but because she was in a panic and the road was bumpy, the sugar water on Ke Xin's stall kept falling out as she ran. Cream, black sugar water and white sugar water splashed all over Ke Xin's body, and her shoes were covered with sticky sugar water. She looked so embarrassed...
Everyone tried to hold back their laughter when they saw this.
At this time, the big brother pushing the barbecue stall grinned and said: "Little girl, I have never seen you before. This is your first time to set up a street stall!"
"Yes, what's your name?" Ke Xin responded in a panic, wiping the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve.
"Just call me Liu Xun!" Liu Xun was suddenly shy for a second when he heard such a polite response.
That second was almost negligible. After all, Ke Xin only shook for one second, and subconsciously thought it was an illusion.
Liu Xun, speaking with his experience, said, "There's a lot to learn about setting up a street stall. First, you have to learn the basics: keep your eyes open and your ears alert..."
As a novice in setting up stalls, Ke Xin stared at Liu Xun's eyes with sharp eyes, listened attentively, and nodded in agreement from time to time.
At this time, a Porsche Cayenne 911 slowly stopped by the roadside. "Boss, isn't that the woman I met in the bar last time? Why is she here suddenly?" The driver looked at Ke Xin for a while, looking at the disheveled Ke Xin, who was standing on the street and talking seriously with a second-rate man.
Fu Xuan's heart sank subconsciously, his eyes wandering over Ke Xin, his vision half blocked by the car window, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
“What a coincidence!”
I heard his voice before I saw him.
Ke Xin turned around and recognized the man at a glance. Her eyelashes trembled subconsciously: "Why is it you?"
Fu Xuan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said concisely: "Why, are you disappointed?"
Ever since she slept with him that day, the two of them parted ways and thought they would never meet again. But when she suddenly appeared here, Ke Xin felt a little embarrassed.
At this moment, a person suddenly inserted himself between the two of them, bowed his head and said to Fu Xuan: "Hello, hello, President Wang, I have heard a lot about you."
Suddenly, a man in a suit appeared. His gestures and tone were full of official tone. He said something to Fu Xuan with a smile. Ke Xin subconsciously stepped back to distance herself from Fu Xuan.
Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan shook the other person's hand with the same enthusiasm.
"Our street office is just across the street. Can we discuss this over there?"
Looking at his departing back, Ke Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, how do you know that president?" Liu Xun behind him looked curious. Even though he was asking Ke Xin, his eyes were still glued to Fu Xuan.
Ke Xin waved her hands and subconsciously avoided his gaze: "I'm not familiar with him, I don't know him!"
Liu Xun exclaimed, "This is the famous Fu Xuan, one of the richest men in the city. Not to mention you, even a well-known small-time wealthy businessman would have a hard time getting close to him."
"I didn't expect him to greet you on his own initiative!" Liu Xun's eyes sparkled as he spoke.
"Does it matter to me whether he is rich or not, or what his status is?" Ke Xin stared with innocent eyes, subconsciously distancing herself from Fu Xuan.
"Do you know why the urban management suddenly came to drive us out of our stall on this street today?
It's because this Fu Xuan is coming. I heard that he seems to be here to inspect the project. Maybe he will buy the whole street when the time comes. Do you think it has anything to do with you? "
"Buy the whole street." Ke Xin looked in the direction he left in surprise, wondering secretly that she might not be able to buy a house even if she worked hard all her life. He bought the whole street with just a few words. It turned out that the gap between people is as far as the Milky Way.
"Yes, whether our stalls here can survive depends on his words," Liu Xun sighed, as if he was also lamenting the constraints of fate.
Ke Xin couldn't help but interrupt: Some people were born in Rome, while people like us were born among cattle and horses...
"Yes," Liu Xun nodded in agreement.
"Hey, let's go back today. Now that Fu Xuan is here, we won't be able to set up our stall today," Liu Xun kindly reminded.
"Then your whole truck of barbecue will be wasted," Ke Xin said with regret as she stared at the dazzling array of meat skewers.
"We have a refrigerator here, we can freeze them and make some tomorrow," Liu Xun said indifferently with his eyes drooping.
"Yeah, it's a small business after all," Ke Xin nodded in agreement, "Why don't I buy some? I haven't had barbecue in a while."
Upon hearing this, Liu Xun said generously, "Pick whatever you want. I'll treat you today."
Upon hearing this, Ke Xin quickly took out her phone, scanned the payment code, and paid 100 yuan directly, muttering, "How can I have the nerve to eat for free?"
"Thank you then. Wait, you are my last customer today." After saying that, Liu Xun suddenly took two chicken wings, two chicken legs, a grilled eggplant, and casually grabbed a handful of crab sticks, green onions, cabbage, hot dogs, and sausages.
After a few rounds of this, they were casually piled up into a small hill and placed in front of Ke Xin.
Ke Xin was stunned: "Why is this one hundred yuan so much? Are you going to empty all the barbecues on your shelves for me?"
"Hehe, no big deal, today's barbecue is all you can eat." The eldest brother scratched his head innocently and thought: This is a beauty, and she looks kind. The intuition he has acquired from doing business for more than ten years tells him that it is a sure win to curry favor with this beauty.
The barbecue on the table was filled with aroma, and Ke Xin was drooling even before she started eating.
Although there was no income today, I had a delicious barbecue and a kind brother. Ke Xin took a bite of the tender and juicy grilled eggplant and felt very happy.
“Is it that fragrant?”
A charming voice came from behind.
"Ah..." Even though the sound was pleasant, it scared the defenseless Ke Xin. She almost dropped the barbecue in her hand and turned around suddenly!
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