Chapter 22
"Is 30,000 really enough to open a store? Boss, did you miss a ten?" In Guo Shujie's opinion, 30,000 is not enough for him to spend for a few days, so how could it be enough to open a box restaurant.
Chen Kangle said seriously: "Thirty thousand yuan is enough."
Guo Shujie thought that 30,000 yuan might not be enough for decoration, but Chen Kangle said she didn't plan to decorate. Guo Shujie looked at Chen Kangle's house, an ordinary house with simple decoration, just white walls without any decoration.
"Are you sure you don't want to renovate it?" Guo Shujie asked again.
"The decoration will make it look more upscale, and it won't cost much. I can lend you some more." Guo Shujie said very generously.
Chen Kangle adheres to the principle of saving as much as possible. In her opinion, decoration is unnecessary. The most important thing when opening a restaurant is the taste. As long as the taste is good enough, there will naturally be more customers.
"Okay, you decide on your own lunch box restaurant." Guo Shujie respected Chen Kangle's choice.
Later he thought about it and decided that it was not very important for Chen Kangle’s lunch box restaurant to be decorated or not. After all, people were willing to come from far away to eat at her stall.
After the two of them discussed it, Chen Kangle sent his bank account number to Guo Shujie, and then prepared to write an IOU to Guo Shujie.
When writing the IOU, Chen Kangle remembered that he didn't know Guo Shujie's name.
"What's your full name?" Chen Kangle asked awkwardly.
Chen Kangle suddenly felt a little strange that a customer whose name she didn't even know lent her money to open a lunch box restaurant.
As someone who had borrowed money from everywhere before, she knew that borrowing money was a very difficult thing. At that time, her grandfather was sick and needed money urgently. She had just graduated from college and had no savings. In order to treat her grandfather, she could only shamelessly ask others for money.
She was rejected countless times when she tried to borrow money.
"Xiao Le, I'm sorry, Auntie is a little tight on money lately. I really have no money."
"What a coincidence! Uncle just lent tens of thousands of yuan to someone yesterday. If you had come earlier, I would have had the money to lend you."
Every time she called to borrow money, she was prepared to be rejected. Everyone has their own difficulties, not everyone has money or is willing to lend money to others.
So the thing Chen Kangle fears most now is borrowing money. If Guo Shujie hadn't taken the initiative to lend it to her this time, she would never have gone to others to borrow money to open a lunch box restaurant.
Guo Shujie directly typed the three words "Guo Shujie" on his phone and handed it to Chen Kangle, "This is my name."
"Guo Shujie." Chen Kangle wrote Guo Shujie's name on the IOU.
"I also want to ask what Boss Chen's name is." Guo Shujie didn't know Boss Chen's full name. Customers who bought lunch boxes called her Boss Chen or the beautiful boss.
This was also the first time that Guo Shujie lent money to someone whose name he didn’t know. I can only say that the charm of boxed lunches is too great.
Chen Kangle couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and smile. In comparison, Guo Shujie was even more casual. He actually took the initiative to lend money to a person whose name he didn't even know.
"What are you laughing at!" Guo Shujie felt that Chen Kangle was laughing at him.
Chen Kangle smiled and replied: "No, I just think it's a little funny that you are willing to lend money to someone whose name you don't know."
"What's so funny about this? I'm lending you money because of Hefan. It doesn't matter what your name is. Even if your name is Zhang San or Li Si, I'm still willing to lend you money to open a Hefan restaurant."
After that, Guo Shujie continued to ask: "So what is your full name? You need to fill in the recipient's name when transferring money."
Chen Kangle also typed his name on his phone and handed it to Guo Shujie, "Chen Kangle."
Guo Shujie glanced at Chen Kangle's phone and said, "Chen Kangle, this is a good name. It means being healthy and happy."
Guo Shujie filled in Chen Kangle's name on the payee line and confirmed the transfer. "30,000 yuan has been transferred to your bank account. Please check to see if you have received it."
In a short while, Chen Kangle received a text message regarding the remittance.
"Thank you. Here is the IOU. I will return it to you when I make enough money." Chen Kangle handed the IOU to Guo Shujie.
"It's quite formal. There's even an IOU." Guo Shujie couldn't have imagined that there would be an IOU for just 30,000 yuan. Usually, when he lent tens of thousands of yuan to his friends, he would just transfer the money directly and there would be no IOU at all.
"Okay, I'll keep the IOU. Remember to notify me when the box restaurant opens, and I'll come to support you." After saying that, Guo Shujie turned and left, leaving behind his handsome back.
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On the other side, Li Zhaogao was sitting in the urban management car. They planned to rest in the car for an hour and continue patrolling nearby in the afternoon.
Li Zhaogao took out a box lunch from his bag and handed it to his colleague sitting in the driver's seat, "Xiao Gu, do you want to eat a box lunch?"
Gu Huaicong waved his hand and said, "I'm not going to eat anymore. Didn't I just have lunch at 11 o'clock? Why are you buying another lunch box?"
"Oh, it's not easy for that little girl." Li Zhaogao sighed. The little girl won't be able to go out to the stall for the next few days. He wondered if it would affect her life.
"Old Li, you really have a kind heart like a bodhisattva. You are always like this." Gu Huaicong remembered that once when they went on patrol, they met an old lady selling fruit. Li Zhaogao felt sorry for the old lady and bought all the remaining fruits from her.
When I got it back, I found that not only was it short in weight, but there were also a lot of rotten fruits in it.
"You're spending money on something that doesn't taste good. I really admire you. If you have money but nowhere to spend it, you can spend it on me." Gu Huaicong thought Li Zhaogao was a fool. Every time he pitied others, he was always the one who got hurt in the end.
Li Zhaogao held the lunch box and said unconvincedly: "Who said the lunch box is not delicious? The customers who lined up to buy lunch boxes just now all said they were delicious."
"If it tastes good, eat more." Gu Huaicong didn't want to eat at all. They had just had lunch at a nearby restaurant at 11 o'clock. The food there was just average, and he wasn't full. But Gu Huaicong didn't want to eat the boxed lunch at the construction site. He would rather wait until the afternoon after work and then go back to the city for a full meal.
Li Zhaogao was a thrifty person and he didn't want to waste anything. Since Gu Huaicong didn't want to eat it, he would eat one portion now and save one portion for dinner.
"If you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it myself."
As he spoke, Li Zhaogao opened the lunch box in his hand. As soon as he opened it, a rich aroma of curry wafted out of the box.
The lunch box contains two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, namely curry chicken, crispy pork and cold seaweed salad.
Li Zhaogao took a liking to the curry chicken at first sight. The yellow curry with scattered carrot cubes looked very appetizing.
Especially the rich aroma of spices, which makes people salivate.
Gu Huaicong, who was taking a rest with his eyes closed, also smelled the aroma of curry. He immediately opened his eyes and said, "Damn, where does the aroma of curry come from?"
Then I saw the curry chicken in Li Zhaogao's lunch box, "Is this aroma from the lunch box?"
Li Zhaogao did not answer him, but picked up the chopsticks, picked up the curry chicken and started eating.
The rich aroma of curry fills your mouth, the taste is rich and smooth, and the chicken is tender and tasty.
Li Zhaogao started eating with big mouthfuls. There was a faint milky aroma in the curry, which made the fragrance of the curry more gentle.
Even the potatoes inside are extremely delicious. The potatoes are full of the aroma of curry. When you take a bite, the fragrance of potatoes and curry flows freely in your mouth.
Li Zhaogao ate with gusto. The more Gu Huaicong watched, the more greedy he became. He licked his lips, stared at the remaining lunch box, and said, "Old Li, can you give me that lunch box?"
"If you want to eat, just take it." Li Zhaogao was not a stingy person. He handed the lunch box to Gu Huaicong and said, "This lunch box is really delicious."
"Thank you, Lao Li!" Gu Huaicong took the lunch box and couldn't wait to open it. Seeing that there was no curry chicken in the lunch box, his face was full of disappointment. "Why does your lunch box have curry chicken, but mine doesn't?"
His lunch box also consists of two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, including crispy pork, chicken stewed with potatoes, and water spinach with garlic.
Li Zhaogao: "The other dishes should be delicious too, you can try them."
As soon as Li Zhaogao finished speaking, Gu Huaicong smelled a rich crispy fragrance.
"It seems that this crispy meat is quite fragrant."
The golden crispy meat is shiny and keeps tempting people.
Without saying a word, Gu Huaicong picked up a piece and took a big bite. The outer layer of fried bread was extremely crispy, and the crispy meat inside was tender and firm, fragrant and crispy, making people unable to stop eating.
"Lao Li, this crispy pork is delicious, fragrant and crispy, especially delicious."
Li Zhaogao was also eating crispy pork. He picked up a piece of crispy pork and showed it to Gu Huaicong, "I have crispy pork too, it's so delicious!"
In this way, the two of them happily ate their box lunches in the car.
"I'm full, so refreshed!" Gu Huaicong leaned back in the car seat. After finishing the box lunch, he felt full.
The crispy pork was extremely fragrant, the chicken stewed with potatoes was tender and juicy, and the water spinach with garlic was crispy and delicious. Gu Huaicong was still thinking about the curry aroma he smelled at the beginning. He thought that the curry chicken must be very delicious as well.
"Lao Li, I want to eat curry chicken tomorrow." The aroma of the curry was unforgettable, and Gu Huaicong decided that he must try it.
Li Zhaogao: "Xiao Gu, you forgot that we have to patrol this area these days, so we definitely can't set up the stall these days."
"Damn, we scared away such a delicious lunch box." Gu Huaicong felt a little sad when he thought about not being able to eat curry chicken tomorrow.
"Old Li, you said we scared away those delicious lunch boxes. Do those workers hate us to death?" Gu Huaicong asked.
"You didn't go down just now. When I was down there, the workers looked at me fiercely, as if they wanted to eat me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhaogao sneezed, and then Gu Huaicong also sneezed.
Gu Huaicong: "They are not scolding us, are they?"
Gu Huaicong's guess was correct. At this time, there were many people among the workers scolding them.
Yang Minghui: [Comrades, because the urban management will be patrolling our area these days, the beautiful boss will not be setting up a stall these days. She may not come out until next Monday. Please tell each other.]
Wu Minhao: [It’s really annoying. The city is so big that they can’t patrol. They have to come to our suburbs to patrol. They really have nothing to do.]
Wang Guiyang: [We won’t be able to eat the beautiful boss’s lunch boxes these days. I’m so pissed. Can these urban management officers stay away from our area? ! ! ]
The urban management department will be patrolling for a few days, so Chen Kangle plans to stop setting up his stall. It just so happens that he has time to buy some things needed to open a lunch box restaurant and handle some related procedures during these few days.
That night, Chen Kangle did some calculations. She had earned more than 10,000 yuan from selling lunch boxes at the stall. If the city management hadn't come to inspect, she could have made a lot more money if she had continued selling for a few more days.
The original plan was to pay back 10,000 yuan to his classmate in a few days, and then pay back a few thousand to his second uncle. Since he owed his second uncle the most money, Chen Kangle planned to pay back part of it first.
But in this situation, after paying back 10,000 yuan to her classmate, she doesn't have much money left, and she is also planning to open a store, so there are places where she needs to spend money.
Chen Kangle first returned 10,000 yuan to his college classmate, then crossed out the account in the account book and wrote a new debt: 30,000 yuan to Guo Shujie.
Then, Chen Kangle called all the relatives and friends who had lent her money, explained her current situation to them, and promised that she would pay them back as soon as possible.
These relatives and friends all understood her difficulties and told her not to worry and to pay it back slowly.
During the most difficult times in his life, Chen Kangle has witnessed the indifference of human nature and also the warmth of human nature.
She will remember all the people who have helped her in the past, and will do her best to help them when they need help in the future.
After calling relatives and friends, Chen Kangle started browsing second-hand websites again. She was determined to spend the least money to buy the most suitable items.
The first things she picked were the dining table and chairs. She had already collected some items when she browsed the second-hand website last time. When she clicked on those collected items, Chen Kangle found that the cheapest and most cost-effective one had been sold.
It was a pity, so Chen Kangle had to keep looking. Most of the items on second-hand websites do not include delivery, and they are all picked up in the same city, so Chen Kangle tried to find a place that was closer, otherwise the price of finding a truck to move it would be very high.
After various comparisons, Chen Kangle found the one with the best value for money. It was resold from a braised food shop and came with dining tables and chairs and a food warmer display cabinet.
The dining table and chairs were about 80% new and cost 350 yuan. Chen Kangle found a similar dining table and chairs on a shopping website, the original price was 450 yuan.
The food insulation display cabinet has 6 compartments, 18 small boxes and a fully sealed glass cover, and the price is 1,140 yuan.
I found a display cabinet of similar model on a shopping website, the original price was 1,450 yuan.
Chen Kangle felt that the price was still a little high, so he had a private chat with the merchant to negotiate the price. In the end, the merchant was willing to lower the price to 300 yuan for a set of dining tables and chairs and 1,000 yuan for a food insulation display cabinet.
In order to ensure that the goods match the pictures, Chen Kangle made an appointment with the merchant to go to the braised food store tomorrow to inspect the goods. If he is satisfied, he will find a truck to take them away.
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