While his family took the children out to play, Feng Haidong, his older cousin, and her husband were busy with everyone at the shop.
Knowing that the newspaper was coming to interview them, Liu Fenzhen took it very seriously and insisted that everyone keep the shop clean and tidy. She even led everyone in cleaning the shop repeatedly.
It had the same attitude as back in the factory, where they were determined to eliminate every unsanitary corner.
Looking at his older cousin's expression, Feng Haidong couldn't help but laugh and say, "Sister, there's no need to be so meticulous. When the newspaper comes to interview, they can't possibly scrutinize every nook and cranny."
Upon hearing this, Liu Fenzhen immediately said, "What are you talking about? How can we not take it seriously? Our shop is going to be featured in the newspaper. We have to give people a very good impression and let everyone in the province know that our shop is one of the best in the province, not just because our crayfish and grilled fish taste good."
More importantly, our store maintains excellent hygiene, allowing customers to eat with peace of mind, which truly sets us apart.
Ma Bangcheng smiled and said to Feng Haidong, "Haidong, don't worry about it. This is the first time your older sister has been featured in the newspaper in so many years. She must be very excited."
Upon hearing her husband's words, Liu Fenzhen looked at him and asked, "Aren't you agitated?"
Ma Bangcheng said, "I'm very excited too. Back then, even though I was an outstanding individual in the factory, I was never featured in the newspaper. This time, we opened a shop with Haidong, and a newspaper actually wants to interview us. How could I not be excited?"
Seeing that his older cousin and her husband were very excited, Feng Haidong said with a smile, "Don't get excited, let's not get excited. Maybe we'll have many more opportunities to report in the future."
Ma Bangcheng laughed when he heard this: "Hahaha, Haidong is still quite confident."
Liu Fenzhen then led everyone to check every nook and cranny of the store.
Almost everything is ready, and Feng Haidong has prepared everything in the kitchen.
Now we're just waiting to open for business and welcome customers and newspaper staff.
Before long, the first to arrive were people from the newspaper.
This surprised Feng Haidong and his team.
Feng Haidong poured tea for them and said with a smile, "You've really worked hard. You didn't even get a holiday for Labor Day."
The newspaper staff member took a sip of water and said, "There's no way around it, May Day is when we need to be busy, especially this year's May Day, which is particularly important."
Liu Fenzhen asked curiously, "Why is this year's May Day holiday so important?"
Before the newspaper staff could speak, Ma Ling interrupted, "Mom, this year is '97, and the Special Administrative Region will be returned to China on July 1st."
Liu Fenzhen suddenly realized: "Oh, right, I almost forgot about such a big event. It's a really big event, and we definitely need to prepare a celebration."
A staff member from the newspaper said, "Therefore, during the May Day holiday, we also wanted to do some special reports to showcase our better living conditions today and let everyone see that we are in a very good state to welcome the return of the special economic zone."
Everyone nodded in agreement, agreeing that what he said made sense.
The whole nation was overjoyed and welcomed the return of the special economic zone to China.
In such immense joy, everything else can be temporarily set aside.
The newspaper staff asked Feng Haidong, "What time do you usually open for business?"
Feng Haidong said, "We usually open for business at 5:30 pm, but today is May Day, so we have to see when customers come. Once we have customers, we will definitely open for business."
Then the newspaper staff asked, "Where do you usually get your raw materials from?"
Feng Haidong said with a smile, "Then let us take you to see our fish and crayfish, and we'll also introduce our sourcing channels to you."
The newspaper staff immediately agreed, and several people got up to go with Feng Haidong to see it.
Actually, Feng Haidong didn't need to specially lead them; several people from the newspaper had come here to eat grilled fish before.
However, now, next to the fish tank with live fish, there is a new fish tank with crayfish.
The people at the newspaper were still somewhat surprised.
Feng Haidong explained to the other party, "Our fish are now purchased from professional fish farms. All the fish are very fresh. They deliver them to us about every two or three days. They are all fresh, live fish. When our store is doing well, we can use up a batch of fish in about two days."
The newspaper reporter naturally took careful notes.
Feng Haidong then added, "The crayfish are also delivered from professional farms. We deliver a batch of crayfish almost every day. All the crayfish are live. As for the crayfish that die during transportation, we will screen them out and keep only the tails to fry as snacks."
The reporter couldn't help but ask, "If those shrimp tails are from dead crayfish, won't they be stale?"
Feng Haidong laughed and said, "No, that won't happen. The shrimp died during transportation, meaning they just died today. We just keep the shrimp tails and fry them. The oil is also changed every day to keep it very fresh, so there won't be any problems."
Another reporter said with a smile, "Mr. Feng is very honest. He just lays this out and explains it to us."
Feng Haidong said, "Because I feel that there is no need to hide this kind of thing. Even to customers who come to the store, I will tell them directly that the shrimp tails are made from crayfish that died during transportation today, as well as some smaller crayfish that were deep-fried. If they really mind, I will not sell them to them."
Faced with Feng Haidong's honesty, the newspaper reporters felt somewhat embarrassed.
Next, Feng Haidong took the reporter into the kitchen for a look.
Seeing the clean and tidy kitchen, the reporters immediately gave Feng Haidong an even higher evaluation.
After the interviews, the reporters prepared to wait for the guests to arrive before conducting further interviews.
Suddenly, the shop door was opened, and a group of customers rushed in from outside.
"Boss, are you open for business?"
Liu Fenzhen immediately smiled and said, "We're open for business! Everyone, please come in and have a seat. You can start ordering grilled fish and crayfish now."
Under Liu Fenzhen's warm greeting, the guests filed in and found their favorite seats.
As soon as they sat down, some customers expressed their relief that they had arrived early.
"Great, we came early and there was no one there. Otherwise, we would have had to wait in line if we came late."
"Yes, yes, it's good that we came early today."
"Today is May Day, if you come late there definitely won't be any seats left."
Hearing the customer's words made the reporters realize that Feng Haidong's store might be doing even better than they had thought.
Afterwards, several reporters went over and spoke with the customers at the first few tables of guests who had entered, and began interviewing them.
At the same time, Feng Haidong also invited customers to start selecting fresh fish and crayfish on the spot, and the two sides did not interfere with each other.
But as time went on, the number of customers coming to the store really increased.
When it was 5:30 p.m., the opening time that Feng Haidong had mentioned, the store was already full, and people were queuing outside.
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