Two vans were parked outside the gate, their trunks open and filled with boxed lunches. Several foremen were already standing in front of the vans.
One of the foremen saw Qiao Xingguo nod at him, found Qiao Xingguo's name on the list in his hand, crossed it out, and then gave him a boxed lunch.
Qiao Xingguo took the lunchbox and weighed it in his hand; it was rather light, weighing less than two pounds.
Other workers arrived one after another. Qiao Xingguo took his boxed lunch and stepped aside, looking at the shop name on the outer packaging—Lihua Hotel.
Wow, what a grand hotel! I heard that a single boxed meal at this hotel costs over ten yuan. They must be really spending a fortune.
Qiao Xingguo suddenly felt that it wasn't so bad that the factory canteen was gone; the food quality had actually improved.
I happily carried the lunchbox, wanting to go home, but then I hesitated, realizing it was so light and I didn't think I'd get full.
Then he looked at the boxed lunch stall that Xu Heping had set up and asked, "How about I get one as usual?"
Old Zhou got up at around six o'clock in the morning and ran into a lot of acquaintances when he went downstairs to buy breakfast.
Upon seeing him, they all gathered around, asking him all sorts of questions. Some even inquired about his experience of the day trip to the detention center.
Old Zhou had to explain again and again that he had resigned the day before yesterday and hadn't been arrested, and that he knew nothing about it.
After dealing with these people, he took his breakfast and sat under the shade of a tree some distance from Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, but where he could still see what was going on there, and waited for the restaurant owner to appear.
7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 12 o'clock...
I waited until 1 a.m., until everyone had eaten and returned, before I saw someone with a key opening the door.
Old Zhou stared intently, then murmured in confusion, "This figure looks so much like one of the two guys selling boxed lunches at the construction site entrance. How could they be the ones who rented the shop?"
Old Zhou suddenly hesitated. Should he give it a try, or not?
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