Chapter 272 Tasting
Zhu Xiu Yu did not set up the stall the next day. She started preparing food after Zhuang Chaoying went to work and went to Yuesheng Department Store at around four o'clock in the afternoon.
Huang Ling and Li Yiming were sitting in the office on the third floor. The employees downstairs told them that Zhu Xiuyu had arrived in the meeting room.
Huang Ling raised her eyebrows at Li Yiming and extended her hand.
Li Yiming reluctantly took out two dollars from his pocket and placed them in Huang Ling's palm.
Huang Ling made a bet with him. Li Yiming said that Zhu Xiuyu would come during the afternoon shift. He thought that it would take at least several hours to prepare the food, so it would definitely not be possible in the morning. She would come as soon as possible in the afternoon. Huang Ling said that she would come before getting off work.
"You are really awesome. If I were afraid of being late, I would definitely come earlier and would not wait until this time. But why..." Li Yiming felt inferior.
"Are you hungry now?" Huang Ling asked him.
"A little bit."
“When you are hungry, everything tastes delicious.”
Li Yiming suddenly realized and asked, "I'm curious, I'd like to join in. Would you like to go?"
Huang Ling shook her head.
Li Yiming and two staff members, Lin Yuanyuan and Li Lijun, entered the meeting room.
After her maternity leave, Yuanyuan returned to the workshop to work. Her originally easy position was taken by someone else, and she was replaced by a tiring job. After working for a while, she felt a little tired.
Xiao Ye felt very distressed and went to Huang Ling to discuss it.
Although Huang Ling has a good relationship with Director Lin, the factory is now redundant and Director Lin is in a difficult position. So Huang Ling simply asked Yuanyuan to take unpaid leave and work with her.
She also worked in the office at the garment factory. When the department store opened, Huang Ling transferred her to help Li Yiming.
Seeing them come in, Zhu Xiuyu placed six lunch boxes on the table and opened them one by one.
There are two boxes of pickles, four different varieties in total. All you need to do is cut and pack them. They are already prepared and can be eaten with porridge or noodles.
One box contains braised pork.
One box contains pickled duck.
One box contains preserved vegetable pork.
One box is fried fish.
"Sister Zhu, so many?" Li Yiming said in surprise.
"Please try it and give me some suggestions. These are my home-cooked recipes. I used to work in the canteen of a cotton mill, and I was responsible for making the pickles and salted vegetables in the factory." Zhu Xiu Yu also took out a few pairs of new chopsticks.
Everyone tasted it separately.
As they tried it, Zhu Xiuyu introduced:
"I'll make the food at home just like I do in the cafeteria, and sell it at the stall. There won't be any fire or soup. I'll sell as much as I make. If I can't sell all that day, I can sell it to our department store employees at a low price before leaving get off work, just charging the cost."
Li Yiming ate while listening to her, and sighed in his heart, this woman looks simple and honest, but I didn't expect her to be so smart!
Every move and word she made was carefully planned.
He thought that his Aunt Huang was really good and could judge people at a glance. Huang Ling had already foreseen what Zhu Xiu Yu would do, and what she said was exactly the same as Zhu Xiu Yu's current behavior.
The three of them made notes on the form while trying.
Then, the three of them asked some more questions from the form. After all, Zhu Xiu Yu worked in a large factory cafeteria, and she was very familiar with food safety, hygiene and other aspects, and answered them fluently.
Finally, Li Yiming said to Zhu Xiuyu, "Sister Zhu, please sit down for a moment and let's discuss this."
The three returned to Li Yiming's office.
Huang Ling asked: "How is it?"
"Exactly as you said." Li Yiming exclaimed.
"I'm asking if the food is delicious."
The three of them nodded at the same time.
Yuanyuan said: "I think it's much better than the ones in state-owned restaurants, especially the pickled duck, it's really delicious."
Li Lijun also agreed: "Yes, I want to ask her to buy some of those pickles."
Li Yiming put the three forms together for review, then said to Huang Ling, "The overall opinion is all acceptable."
"Then just follow the normal process." Huang Ling smiled.
In the conference room, Zhu Xiu Yu stared at the scenery outside the window in a daze.
This is the city center, and even on a weekday, there are many people going in and out of the department store.
I was thinking about the investment required.
I need to pay the first quarter's rent and deposit, and I also need to purchase some additional items for the stall, which will cost about five hundred yuan.
The stall cart can be resold.
The money she had saved before and the money she earned from setting up the stall this year could pay the rent and deposit, but she would have no more money to buy ingredients, so she planned to ask Zhuang Chaoying for 100 yuan.
After Zhuang Chaoying no longer had to pay back the debt, he still had enough money to support his family's normal life and had some savings.
Just as I was thinking about it, Li Yiming and Lin Yuanyuan came back.
"Sister Zhu, we held a meeting and unanimously decided to rent you a shop. The next step will be to hand over the connection work to our management department colleague Lin Yuanyuan, who will manage the food court from now on."
Zhu Xiu Yu was very happy and hurried to express her gratitude.
"Sister Zhu, the prices of the shops are different. Please take a look at the shop map and decide which one you want." Yuanyuan pushed the shop map in front of Zhu Xiuyu.
Everyone knows that the one closest to the door is the best, and it has a small window facing the outside, so shoppers can buy food without entering the mall.
Of course, Zhu Xiu Yu also took a fancy to this shop, but the monthly rent of this shop was twenty yuan higher than that of other shops.
She gritted her teeth, pointed at the bunk and said, "Comrade Lin, I'll take this one."
"OK."
Yuanyuan helped her with the subsequent procedures, including signing the contract and paying the deposit, and then prepared to visit the stall in person.
"Sister Zhu, don't forget your things." Yuanyuan pointed to the six lunch boxes on the table.
"Comrade Lin, share these with your colleagues. I'll give you lunch boxes as well. This is what Huang Ling taught me when I was setting up a stall before. Put the braised pork in lunch boxes and sell them together. That's why I got a lot of lunch boxes."
"That's not good!" Yuanyuan wanted to refuse, but Zhu Xiuyu was very firm.
Yuanyuan didn't say anything else and took her to see the stall.
Zhu Xiuyu took out the small notebook from her bag and wrote down the measured dimensions bit by bit.
"Your picture is very professional!" Yuanyuan took a look.
Yuanyuan knew Zhu Xiuyu, but Zhu Xiuyu didn't know Yuanyuan. She smiled and replied:
"My stepson taught me this. He's an undergraduate at Tsinghua University, majoring in architecture. I'll have to give him a call later to ask him about the best way to arrange the shop. He understands this; he's quite clever."
Yuanyuan smiled and nodded, and after she finished recording, she sent her out the door.
Huang Ling stood by the window on the third floor and watched Zhu Xiu Yu leave the department store and get on the bus downstairs.
When Zhu Xiu Yu returned home, Zhuang Chao Ying had not yet returned home. She walked to the chest of drawers and gently pulled the drawer with a keyhole.
Zhuang Chaoying locked that drawer after she took out money to start a snack stall at the beginning of the year.
She found out the next day, but she pretended not to know.
Whenever money came in and out of the house, Zhuang Chaoying was very active and would rush to withdraw or deposit it, and she never argued with him.
Zhu Xiu Yu chuckled, then lay down on the bed facing the wall.
Pengfei came back first and saw Zhu Xiu Yu lying there. He thought that she might be tired from setting up the stall during the day. Without thinking much about it, he took the initiative to cook.
When Zhuang Chaoying came back and saw Zhu Xiuyu lying down and Pengfei cooking, he asked with concern:
"What's wrong? You don't feel well."
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