After the crayfish restaurant closed for the night, Feng Haidong assigned everyone to clean the restaurant inside and out.
While she was cleaning, Liu Cuiping's eldest son, Chen Zhiyong, arrived.
These days, Chen Zhiyong has been following Feng Haidong's advice and has been coming over every night to pick up Zhang Yongyan and Liu Fang.
Feng Haidong could also see that Chen Zhiyong and Zhang Yongyan's relationship was becoming increasingly intimate.
Even when leaving, Zhang Yongyan would take the initiative to hold Chen Zhiyong's arm and share some interesting things that happened in the restaurant with him.
This is clearly a very good sign, indicating that Zhang Yongyan accepts Chen Zhiyong.
Feng Haidong believes that as long as they can accept each other, their relationship will gradually warm up, and everything else will fall into place naturally.
As soon as Chen Zhiyong entered the restaurant, he saw Zhang Yongyan busy mopping the floor, so he immediately reached out and took over mopping the floor for her.
However, Chen Zhiyong's mopping was clearly not as meticulous as Zhang Yongyan's; the mop in his hands was haphazardly waved around like a fire poker.
After watching for a while, Feng Haidong finally couldn't help but say, "Dayong, if you don't want to work, why don't you go outside and wait? After we've all finished, you can pick up your sister and Zhang Yongyan and leave?"
Chen Zhiyong felt a little embarrassed after being told that.
"Uncle, it's not that I don't want to work."
When Zhang Yongyan saw that Feng Haidong had spoken, she quickly reached out to take the mop back from Chen Zhiyong so she could do her own work.
Chen Zhiyong naturally refused and quickly grabbed the mop, saying, "It's okay, it's okay, I'll do it. You sit down and rest for a bit. You've been busy all night, you must be tired too."
Zhang Yongyan said somewhat reluctantly, "Then can't you just do your job properly?"
Chen Zhiyong quickly replied, "No problem, I'll definitely do my best. It's my uncle's restaurant, how could I not work hard for him?"
Feng Haidong then walked up to Chen Zhiyong and said, "Dayong, you put it quite well. Then you should do a good job and stop talking nonsense to me."
Chen Zhiyong quickly replied, "Okay, Uncle, you'll see. I'll definitely do my best for you."
Next, Chen Zhiyong really took it very seriously and cleaned the restaurant floor thoroughly as Feng Haidong had requested.
After finishing his work, Chen Zhiyong was covered in sweat and panting heavily.
Standing to the side, looking at the results of his labor, Chen Zhiyong suddenly asked curiously, "Uncle, why do you clean like this every night? You could just sweep, why do you have to mop?"
Feng Haidong said, "If I don't mop it, the oil stains on the floor tiles will remain. If there are too many oil stains, it will be difficult to clean them, and the floor will look very dirty. This is a place where I eat. If the floor is not clean, how can people have an appetite when they walk in?"
Liu Fang said, "That's right, that's right. Brother Yong, you don't even understand this, yet you're just doing things blindly."
When Chen Zhiyong saw his sister lecturing him, he immediately put on a stern face and said, "You little brat, you're lecturing your brother now? What doesn't your brother know? Do you need to teach me?"
Liu Fang was blunt: "If you know all that, then why are you asking Uncle Feng?"
Feng Haidong laughed and said, "Alright, alright, you siblings stop bickering. Dayong did a great job tonight, keep it up tomorrow night."
Chen Zhiyong couldn't help but say, "Uncle, are you treating me like free labor?"
Feng Haidong said, "I'm already giving your salary to your future wife. Why don't you come a little later tomorrow? Wait until your future wife finishes her work before you come to pick her up?"
Being referred to as Chen Zhiyong's future wife by Feng Haidong made Zhang Yongyan blush with embarrassment.
Chen Zhiyong said happily, "Uncle, it's okay. It's only right that I help my wife with chores. From now on, I'll take care of all the night cleaning for you."
Feng Haidong joked, "That won't do. If you take on all of them, won't I have to pay you extra?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhiyong quickly replied, "No need, no need, Uncle, I came to work voluntarily."
Yang Chengjian came out from inside at this moment, and said with a smile, "You're really silly, kid. Your uncle has already spoken up, why don't you take this opportunity to tell him to hire you too? That way you can come and keep your wife company tonight."
Chen Zhiyong was stunned, and for a moment he couldn't quite grasp what was happening.
But soon, Chen Zhiyong realized: "Oh, right, Uncle Dong, why don't you hire me too? That way I can come over and work for you tonight."
Yang Chengjian reminded Chen Zhiyong to stay and work while he could because he knew that Feng Haidong meant it.
Feng Haidong did indeed want Chen Zhiyong to stay and work at the restaurant.
On the one hand, it was because Sister Liu Cuiping had privately approached Feng Haidong before, expressing her hope that Chen Zhiyong could also come and work.
Liu Cuiping wanted her son to work at Feng Haidong's shop mainly because her eldest son would help her go to the wholesale market to buy vegetables in the morning, then help set up the stall in the market, and after delivering goods to some restaurants, he would basically have nothing else to do.
As a result, after finishing his work at the vegetable market, Chen Zhiyong, having nothing to do, started hanging out with his cronies and doing all sorts of unsavory things.
Liu Cuiping hopes her eldest son will come work for Feng Haidong so that he can fill his afternoons and evenings.
This would both improve his relationship with Zhang Yongyan and prevent him from going back to his group of bad friends.
This stems from the needs of Liu Cuiping's mother.
On the other hand, Feng Haidong still hoped to have a trustworthy person help out at the restaurant.
Yang Chengjian and Dong Xia are a couple who can be completely trusted, but they are both honest people, so they might not be able to handle some difficult customers.
Feng Haidong had already considered that he might need to leave the restaurant for a while.
Even when he's not around, there needs to be someone who can handle difficult customers.
Feng Haidong felt that Chen Zhiyong was a very suitable candidate.
Therefore, tonight Feng Haidong will test Chen Zhiyong to see if he is willing to stay at the restaurant to work. If he is willing, Feng Haidong will take the opportunity to keep him at the restaurant.
Now that Chen Zhiyong has brought it up himself, Feng Haidong naturally smiled and said, "Sure, if you're really willing to do it, then come and do it. As for the salary, let's start with the same as Zhang Yongyan and Liu Fang."
Chen Zhiyong said, "Uncle, you can let me do it, I don't need to take a salary."
Feng Haidong said, "It's definitely not okay not to take a salary. Everyone gets a salary, even Song Rui does. How can you be an exception?"
Song Rui chuckled and said, "Yes, yes, Brother Yong, you'll definitely get paid for coming here."
Chen Zhiyong glared at Song Rui and said, "What do you know? My mother told me that my brother's schooling was helped by Uncle Dong and Aunt Ling. Uncle Dong and Aunt Ling are my own uncle and aunt. I can work for them without taking a penny."
After hearing Chen Zhiyong's words, Feng Haidong realized that he had not trusted the wrong person.
Although Chen Zhiyong was once a street thug, he had principles and knew how to be grateful, so he was obviously trustworthy.
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