At 4:58 a.m. the next morning, two minutes before the alarm clock rang, Xu An suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in bed.
Time to get busy!
I tiptoed out of the room, quickly washed up, and quietly walked out into the yard.
First, I went to the wholesale market in Qianhai Town to bring the meat to the store, then received the fruits and vegetables delivered by Uncle Lin. After that, I put on an apron, a chef's hat, and a mask, and went into the kitchen to start working.
A short while later, Liu Daxi and Zhou Qi, along with eight others, also appeared in the kitchen and began to busy themselves as instructed by Xu An.
At seven o'clock, Ah Wei appeared at the entrance of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant right on time.
Various photography equipment and instruments, as well as Xu's fast food packaging supplies that Xu An commissioned to make yesterday afternoon, were all hanging on his body in large and small bags.
Upon seeing Xu An, she quickly handed him the bag in her hand, then carefully placed the equipment on the table before yawning and complaining.
"I usually start work at nine, but this order is urgent, so I have to get up at six. I'm so sleepy!"
"You've worked hard, Wei-ge. Have some water and rest." Xu An handed Wei-ge a glass of cool boiled water and headed to store number two with the packaging materials he had just made last night.
When Xu An returned, he was followed by a string of people carrying trays with freshly made lunchboxes in new packaging, still steaming hot.
The original transparent plastic packaging box has been replaced with a white plastic box with thickness and texture. The front of the box features the eye-catching new logo of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant. The new packaging has greatly increased the value of this boxed meal.
Just by looking at the packaging, you could believe this boxed lunch costs 15 yuan. It really shows that clothes make the man!
Most importantly, the price of the upgraded packaging from the factory that Awei contacted, based on the current purchasing volume of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant, is about the same as what they used to buy from the wholesale market.
Rounding it off, it's like getting a free upgrade for the packaging materials.
The Shanghai Machinery and Equipment Expo lasted for six days, so Xu An prepared all the dishes for the remaining six days and packed them into new lunch boxes.
After more than a month, almost two months of working together, Awei understood Xu An's ideas very well. He picked up his camera and snapped a bunch of photos, then sat behind the cashier and edited them on the computer. The whole process took about an hour and twenty minutes.
After checking that the photos were in good condition, Xu An took over and sat down at the computer to insert them into the files he had prepared the previous afternoon.
After carefully checking the document twice to ensure there were no typos or awkward phrasing, Xu An sent it to the print shop owner.
It was exactly 8:45 a.m. when the print shop owner handed Xu An the neatly bound, still-steaming, and fragrant documents.
I rushed as fast as I could and finally made it.
After reviewing the requirements in the email one last time and checking it again, Xu An breathed a sigh of relief but couldn't help but start complaining.
Why didn't you send the email after all the companies had closed at 6 PM? That would have been much more exciting!
Just as he caught his breath, the private car driver that Uncle Dongliang had contacted pulled up in front of Xu's Fast Food Restaurant. A young man in a suit and tie got out of the car. He was probably around the same age as Uncle Dongliang and was likely one of Uncle Dongliang's classmates from his school days.
After exchanging greetings, Xu An got into the car and then noticed that the logo on the steering wheel was actually BMW.
Uncle Dongliang is amazing! He rented a BMW for only 500 yuan a day, including himself and the car!
The journey from Xu's Fast Food Restaurant to the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Center takes about half an hour at normal speed. Along the way, the driver chatted with Xu An.
As they chatted, the conversation turned to Uncle Dongliang, specifically how Uncle Dongliang used to tease him when they were in school.
He had never done farm work or housework since he was a child, and his knowledge of fruits and vegetables was limited to what they looked like and what they tasted like.
Uncle Dongliang brought a box of cherry tomatoes to school as fruit. He specially picked out the largest one, which was slightly cracked, and told him that this kind of tomato was naturally ripened on the tree until it cracked, which was very rare and tasted amazing.
Young and naive, unaware of the dangers of society, he believed it, thanked them profusely, took the tomato, and swallowed it whole.
The initial taste is indeed full of the fresh, sweet aroma of tomatoes, but after a couple of chews, the flavor changes. A hint of spiciness hits the tip of the tongue, and the next instant, this fiery sensation explodes throughout the mouth, rushing to the cerebral cortex and bursting through the top of the head.
Yes, that's right.
Uncle Dongliang cut this tomato open and stuffed a small chili pepper inside!
I never imagined that Uncle Dongliang, who seems so mature, serious and reliable, would do such unreliable things when he was young.
Chatting and laughing, half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the two arrived at the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Center.
Guided by security guards, Xu An parked his car and entered the convention center with the documents. With the help of staff, he found the meeting room mentioned in the email.
When registering visitors' identity information, Xu An saw that four people had already signed in. The names of the organizations all ended with "hotel," indicating that they were all well-known hotels in Shanghai!
Just looking at these names, Xu An felt like an innocent, pitiful, and weak little thing who had wandered into a pack of wolves.
The moment he pushed open the door, the three people sitting in the conference room looked at Xu An at the same time. Their sharp and scrutinizing gazes made Xu An feel as if he were surrounded by wolves.
Xu An flashed a standard eight-tooth smile at the four of them to ease the atmosphere, and then sat down in front of the 'Xu's Fast Food' restaurant in their line of sight.
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