On the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, He Wenlin and her family of four, along with the brothers He Wenhua and He Wenjun, plus Lin Fei, a total of seven people, went to Shanghai for tourism.
Uncle He Dashun wasn't interested in going, so Aunt He Wenlin told them to stay and watch over Grandma's small supermarket.
When the elderly go out to play, what they worry about most is her small supermarket.
The car couldn't fit so many people, so Mr. He drove a minivan.
I visited the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Bund, and strolled along Nanjing Road...
He Wenlin particularly liked the villas in Shanghai. She found a local real estate agency, left her contact information, and asked them to contact her if they had any villas or townhouses for sale.
At that time, villas were not cheap, but they were available for sale. He Wenlin was willing to borrow money or sell the newly built building in Zhenzhou to raise cash.
It wasn't until noon on the eleventh day of the first lunar month that everyone returned to their homes in Caijiang Village.
Tomorrow is the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and the fast food restaurant is preparing to open for business.
The nearby factories actually resumed work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, but most of their out-of-town employees have not yet returned. Moreover, after the Lunar New Year, most of them will bring things from their hometowns, so the fast food restaurant doesn't have much business at this time of year.
With no business, everyone can take a break, and Mr. He can relax a bit too.
Once the Lantern Festival was over, the staff at each factory were basically back in place.
He Wenlin has also started school.
But at this point, Liu Meihua resigned.
She is the manager of He Wenlin's Hot and Sour Rice Noodles Shop.
She resigned not because she disliked the pay, but because she saw that the store was doing well, so she wanted to open her own store.
She used to be a boss, and she always had a restless spirit. Seeing how well the hot and sour noodles business was doing, she naturally became envious.
“Mr. He, actually I wanted to quit my job last year to learn a skill and open my own shop, but you appreciated me and made me the shop manager. I resigned after less than half a year, and I’m embarrassed to say that,” Liu Meihua said. “Actually, Sister Sun in the shop is a good worker, and she is fully qualified to be the shop manager.”
"How long do you plan to work here?" He Wenlin asked.
"I can only work for another two weeks at most," Liu Meihua said. "So the shop needs to hire someone as soon as possible. I can train someone before I leave, and I'll come back to you to learn more after I leave."
You can learn most of the recipes at that shop, but only He's father, He Wenlin, and Lin Fei know how to make the chili sauce for the sizzling tofu and wolf tooth potatoes.
“Alright then, I’ll come over in half a month to learn how to make chili sauce,” Liu Meihua said.
He Wenlin frowned upon hearing this: "You know how to make the soup base for hot and sour noodles?"
A hint of unease flashed in Liu Meihua's eyes as she said, "I mainly want to sell wolf tooth potatoes, not hot and sour noodles. By the way, could you make the price a little cheaper? I only want to learn how to make chili sauce."
He Wenlin said, "Since you've decided to do this, why not learn how to make hot and sour noodles as well? If you open a shop, you can't just sell wolf tooth potatoes and sizzling tofu, can you?"
Actually, sizzling tofu is divided into sizzling water tofu and sizzling rice tofu.
"If I'm not thinking of learning how to make hot and sour noodles, I'm thinking of setting up a stall on the pedestrian street to sell snacks, hot and sour noodles..." Liu Meihua shook her head, looking interested.
"Mr. He, I'd like to learn how to make chili sauce. Could you give me a discount? How about two thousand five?"
“That’s definitely not going to work. I’ve had friends ask me how to make it before, and I never taught them.” He Wenlin hesitated for a moment. “The price is six thousand eight hundred yuan, no discounts. That’s the price for all my acquaintances.”
"Boss, can you give me a discount?"
"I'm sorry, no, it was originally 8,000, but that's already a discount," He Wenlin said. "If I give you a discount, what will our other relatives and friends think?"
"Alright then, if there's nothing else, I'll head back now."
"Okay, hire people for the store as soon as possible," He Wenlin instructed.
As soon as the person left, He Wenlin immediately said to her mother, "Mom, tomorrow, please go to the hot and sour rice noodle shop and call Sister Sun over."
"Why are you looking for her?"
"Ask her something."
"You look so serious, has something happened?"
"Liu Meihua just resigned; she's going to start her own business."
“That’s normal,” said Mrs. He. “With such a good business, most people would want to open one themselves. Your dad and I used to work in a garment factory, and he always wanted to open his own garment factory.”
“We sell over two hundred bowls of hot and sour noodles a day, but Liu Meihua doesn’t want to learn how to make hot and sour noodles; she only wants to learn how to make chili sauce. Don’t you find that strange?”
Hearing this, Aunt He didn't speak, but thought for a moment: "She doesn't think it's a good idea?"
He Wenlin shook her head and said, "Wolf tooth potatoes and sizzling tofu also sell well, but hot and sour noodles are not bad either. I think she knows how to make hot and sour noodles."
“She works at the store every day, so it’s not surprising that she knows how to do it.”
“Mom, the soup base for hot and sour noodles is a secret. Only Xiao Yang knows how to make it. When Xiao Yang is resting, the soup base is delivered from here. How would Liu Meihua know?” He Wenlin said. “I think she doesn’t think it’s good, so the chances of her not learning it are very small.”
"You suspect that Xiao Yang taught her?" He Ma finally understood what He Wenlin meant.
“I think it’s possible, but I have no evidence,” He Wenlin said. “So I’d like to ask Sister Sun to see if I can find out anything. I also hope I’m just overthinking it.”
“Don’t make things up without evidence, or you might wrong someone…” Aunt He said, “There are security cameras in the shop and in the mall. You can watch the footage. If she’s going to learn, she’ll definitely do it secretly. When no one’s around, Xiao Yang is the first one to arrive when he’s making soup. If she’s going to learn from him, she’ll definitely work with Xiao Yang.”
“What if Xiao Yang teaches outside?” He Wenlin asked. “That way, we can avoid being monitored.”
"Then what should we do?"
“Investigate. As long as you learn it, there will be clues,” He Wenlin said. “Let’s question each of the employees one by one. I’ll do the questioning.”
We can't alert them, so I'll do it myself; Aunt He isn't capable of this.
He Wenlin immediately met with the other employees one by one to try and get some information out of them, but she didn't get anything out of it.
He Wenlin was also afraid of wrongly accusing someone, so she didn't get anything out of her and stopped caring about the matter. She was just waiting to see whether Liu Meihua would sell hot and sour noodles or not!
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