After the brief incident, Feng Haidong invited the customers to sit down and continue eating.
Among the customers waiting at the entrance, some seemed to mind the presence of young people at the construction site inside, so some customers chose to leave.
Feng Haidong didn't pay any attention to this.
He knew very well that he was an outsider to the provincial capital.
If even I am reluctant to eat at the restaurants frequented by people from the construction site, then am I, an outsider, not qualified to open a shop?
When Feng Haidong served the dishes to the young people at the construction site, several of them immediately stood up excitedly.
Feng Haidong said with a smile, "Sit down, sit down and eat. Don't worry about the others. It doesn't matter if you make a mess; we'll clean it up when we do it tonight."
After listening to Feng Haidong's words, the young people looked at each other in bewilderment.
Soon a young man said, "Thank you, Brother Feng."
The other young people also said "thank you" to Feng Haidong.
Feng Haidong asked curiously, "What are you thanking me for? Just because I didn't kick you out? My shop even delivers lunch to your construction site. Why would I kick you out?"
A young man said, "No, Brother Feng, thank you for speaking up for us, and thank you for not looking down on us."
Feng Haidong added, "There's no question of looking down on you. I'm just like you, I came to the provincial capital from out of town. We just do different jobs, how could I look down on you?"
Another young man said, "Brother Feng, we are actually not well received."
Feng Haidong smiled and said, "I understand that feeling. I was like that when I first came to the provincial capital. It was as if our clothes were more rustic than others, and we spoke with our hometown accents. People in the provincial capital looked at me differently."
Several young people immediately nodded, indicating that they had also experienced these things.
Feng Haidong said, "If you think about it from another perspective, if a stranger comes to your hometown and has a different accent, wouldn't you look at them differently?"
These words made the young people nod again.
Feng Haidong continued, "So, don't worry about what others think of you. We came to the provincial capital to earn money through our own labor, and we haven't done anything wrong. There's no need to be afraid of being seen by others."
The young people nodded frequently in agreement with what Feng Haidong said, feeling that he was absolutely right.
Feng Haidong added, "Also, when you're resting in the future, remember to wash up before going out shopping. It's okay if you're like this when you come to my place to eat, but if you're going out shopping, at least change into clean clothes."
Several young people said that they would take a shower before coming to eat in the future.
Feng Haidong laughed and said, "You really don't need to come to my place for dinner. I've seen you all dressed like this for so long, I wouldn't even recognize you if you came clean."
These words immediately made the young people laugh.
Feng Haidong said, "Alright, you guys eat. I have to get back to work, so I can't keep you company any longer."
The young men quickly said in unison, "Brother Feng, you're busy."
After Feng Haidong returned to the kitchen to get busy, the young people ate and chatted.
"This Brother Feng is a really good person."
"Yes, he owns such a successful store, he's a big boss, but he's not arrogant at all."
“I heard from my uncle that Brother Feng also came from another place. He used to farm in his hometown and also worked in a factory.”
"People like this are the truly capable ones."
"Now I think that having Brother Feng's shop deliver meals to our construction site was the best thing the foreman ever did."
Upon hearing this, everyone else nodded in agreement.
Feng Haidong himself may not know that his lack of discrimination against construction workers who came to eat because of the dust on their clothes has won him a lot of support from them.
This actually made his shop's food delivery service to construction sites more stable.
That evening, after closing time, Feng Haidong, his older cousin, and her husband were settling the accounts when they started talking about the conflict that had occurred between people from the construction site and other customers.
Liu Fenzhen and Ma Bangcheng both supported Feng Haidong's approach.
Liu Fenzhen said, "Young people these days have never experienced hardship. Back then, your brother-in-law and I worked in a factory, which was no cleaner than the construction site. Who were they working so hard for? Wasn't it for the construction of our city? Did they not want to be clean? They just had no choice because of their jobs."
Ma Bangcheng said, "That's right, I've been to the construction site. The conditions there are really bad. They can't even take a shower every day in this freezing weather, so they have no choice. Young people these days really can't understand others at all."
Seeing that his older cousin and her husband shared the same idea, Feng Haidong smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as you and your husband don't mind. Anyway, I won't kick out the people from the construction site. As for those young people from the provincial capital who mind, they can stay away. We'll make sure the food is good, and I'm sure we won't miss those few people."
Ma Bangcheng thought for a moment and said, "However, Haidong, you should also be careful about this matter. Don't let people criticize you because of this, and let the villains accuse you of discriminating against locals."
Feng Haidong was amused when he heard his cousin-in-law say that.
However, he understood what his cousin-in-law meant.
After all, the other party is a local. If some negative things about Feng Haidong's store spread among the local young people, it could indeed affect the business of Feng Haidong's store.
Liu Fenzhen said, "I don't think so. How could a few young people influence the entire provincial capital?"
Ma Bangcheng said, "This matter should not be underestimated. If it spreads among young people, it will indeed have some impact."
Feng Haidong thought for a moment, then said with a smile, "It's alright, sister and brother-in-law, it's nothing. Even if young people in the provincial capital reject our shop, there are still people from other places, right? There are so many people from other places in the provincial capital now, we don't lack customers. As long as our food tastes good, there will definitely be people willing to come and eat."
After thinking about it, Liu Fenzhen and Ma Bangcheng both agreed that Feng Haidong was right.
There are quite a few people from other places in the provincial capital now, so even if some local young people don't come to eat, it won't have a big impact.
Moreover, the store now relies on delivering meals to nearby construction sites at noon, which provides a very stable source of income.
After settling the accounts with his older cousin and her husband, Feng Haidong carefully inspected the store, then locked the door and left with them.
First, he took his eldest cousin and her husband back to their rented house nearby, and then Feng Haidong took a bus back to his third cousin's house.
On the way to work, Feng Haidong began to think about what had happened at the store that day.
After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't help but feel that if this matter were written into an article, it would be a very good article that could reflect the reality of today's society.
So, Feng Haidong started to plan in his mind, preparing to go back to his third cousin's house that evening and write something down.
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