Li Xiaoyu carefully examined A Ping, finally looking down at her calves.
"Standing at the door for several hours every day, won't your legs swell up? If it's really not working, I'll arrange something better for you to do later."
Li Xiaoyu mainly felt that A Ping was too beautiful, and that if she stood there, it would be easy for some customers with bad character to bully her!
I wonder if A-Ping will be scared.
Li Xiaoyu was mentally prepared that A Ping wouldn't talk to her, but to her surprise, A Ping smiled at Li Xiaoyu and said softly, "It's okay."
At this moment, Li Chunya, who was sitting to the side, suddenly stood up, as if she had just thought of something.
She went to her cashier's counter, rummaged around for a bit, and then came back with a bottle of ointment.
"Sister Ping, this is for you. I almost forgot. Use this ointment on your face to make it fair and supple. It can also help remove scars."
Li Chunya was afraid of mentioning anything sad about Aping, so she only briefly mentioned the main function of the ointment at the end.
The main problem is that A-Ping's old and new scars are too shocking to look at. Her arms are like that. When it gets hot, she can only cover herself up tightly, which must be so uncomfortable!
This ointment was bought for her by her younger sister before. At that time, she had injuries from Sun Gui, and the wounds gradually disappeared after using it.
A-Ping was surprised that Li Chun-Ya would give her this scar-reducing ointment. She took it and asked softly, "Is this... expensive?"
Li Chunya gently shook her head, "It's not expensive, you can keep it. You've been very diligent lately, doing many things that you shouldn't have done. Consider this my way of thanking you."
"Thanks……"
"Let me wipe some on for you!"
Li Junsheng and his group stayed until evening, and when there were no more customers, they prepared to close the shop early and go home.
It's not that there are no customers, it's just that the customers have all gone to the other side and are coming in a steady stream, instead of coming to Li Junsheng's side!
As he was about to go home, Li Junsheng sensed something was off about the restaurant across the street, so he thought he'd ask an acquaintance to check it out to see if they were having a promotion or something.
"Tang Liang, wait a moment before you go. I have something I'd like to ask you to do!"
Li Junsheng stopped Tang Liang and whispered something to him. Tang Liang nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, leave this to me. I guarantee I'll have news by tomorrow morning."
After saying goodbye to Li Xiaoyu, Tang Liang hurriedly left.
"Dad, why did you call Tang Liang here? You're being so secretive."
Li Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask Li Junsheng, but Li Junsheng just smiled and said, "You'll know tomorrow morning. Go ahead."
"Okay! Ah Ping, we'll be going now. You can keep this flashlight for light. I also boiled some chili water for you. If you see any bad guys on the road, just splash it in their eyes, okay?"
Aping smiled sincerely, not expecting Li Xiaoyu to be so thoughtful.
She nodded and watched Li Junsheng and his group leave, and then A Ping left on her own!
The next morning, Li Junsheng arrived at the restaurant early as usual, opening the door to welcome guests.
As Ji Xiaocui watched the customers walk into the restaurant across the street, she said rather dejectedly, "Honestly, this street is so long, why did they have to open a restaurant right across from our house? Watching customers go into the restaurant across the street, it really doesn't feel right."
"Who can argue with that!"
Li Xiaoyu rested her chin on her hand and teased Xiaotian next to Li Chunya.
Compared to Daya and Erya, she was lucky to have been raised to be plump and adorable.
Li Guohua and Li Junsheng remained silent.
Just then, Tang Liang, with a serious expression, rushed into the store.
"Dad, I have news about what you asked me to find out!"
Upon seeing Li Junsheng, Tang Liang hurriedly spoke.
Li Junsheng stood up and asked him, "What do you mean? Is the 'Good Taste' restaurant across the street really acting strangely?"
Tang Liang first glanced back at the gate, then went back to close it before speaking mysteriously to Li Junsheng: "That 'Good Taste' restaurant across the street is clearly there to ruin our restaurant!"
Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoyu and the others were all taken aback.
Why do you say that?
"We can't let them ruin our restaurant! It's not just about losing money, but how are we going to explain it to Boss He!"
"Don't rush, let Tang Liang explain in detail!"
Tang Liang nodded and said to Li Junsheng and the others, "Yesterday, before I went home, my dad asked me to find someone I knew to go to the restaurant across the street to confirm some things, so I sent my friend."
"He went into the store, ordered a free bowl of rice and a side dish, and then ordered some other dishes. He found that the food at his restaurant was unusually cheap; he could get a large portion of food for very little money."
"My friend asked the restaurant owner if the low price was a new opening promotion or if the price would always be the same. The restaurant owner assured him that the price would always be that low and that he would never raise it!"
"My friend even got a small gift before he left. He wrote down all the vegetable prices for me. Look at these prices, they're just trying to crush us and make us do business at a loss."
Tang Liang took out a piece of paper, on which the price of his friend's meal last night was clearly written!
Li Junsheng glanced at the prices of the dishes across the street; they were almost half the price of his restaurant's. If they were doing this, they would definitely lose money.
Moreover, Tang Liang had other questions he hadn't finished answering.
"There's another thing. We're all restricted from buying rationed grain and oil. The restaurant across the street doesn't seem to have this problem. They charge customers cash instead of grain coupons."
Li Junsheng's mind raced, and he immediately understood what Tang Liang meant.
"Are you saying they're in cahoots with that fat Liu?"
Tang Liang nodded vigorously, "Besides that, is there any other possibility? Such a big restaurant across the street just opened up like that. It's impossible that no one is providing financial support behind the scenes, right?"
Indeed, the situation described by Tang Liang is very likely.
But Li Junsheng wasn't sure why Fatty Liu was targeting him!
When cutting off their food supply failed, they immediately opened a restaurant across the street to suppress them.
This time, Li Guohua really couldn't sit still anymore.
"Dad, we have to think of something. If this continues, the restaurant won't be able to stay in business."
Tang Liang thought for a moment and then added to Li Junsheng, "Dad, last night after my friend finished eating, he stopped a few people outside the restaurant and asked them whether our restaurant was better or the one across the street was better."
"Our customers all say our food is delicious and the staff are friendly, but they only go there because it's cheaper than ours, and they even get a free meal and side dishes!"
Li Junsheng nodded. In this day and age, not everyone can afford to eat out.
Many people still have a tough time making a living and need to be careful with their money. In that case, the delicious food restaurant across the street, where you can eat for free, is obviously a better choice!
Faced with this situation, Li Junsheng remained unusually silent.
He can't possibly be operating at a loss while letting people eat and drink for free, can he? This kind of behavior is truly shameless and despicable!
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