Chapter 23 Grand Opening

Amid the heated discussion, Kang Ping bowed to everyone and said, "Thank you all, our Jufulou has been renovated and turned into a buffet restaurant. This buffet means you can eat and drink as much as you want!"

“Wow——”

The scene suddenly became like a boiling pot, and everyone was boiling with excitement.

"All you can eat and drink!"

“Is this true?”

"What's there?"

"It's true, absolutely true. Our buffet restaurant has fruit snacks, a variety of cold dishes, roast chicken, roast meat, roast duck, and even free drinks!"

Everyone around was excited.

"There's barbecued chicken and barbecued meat? Roasted duck and barbecued meat? All kinds of meat are unlimited?!"

"Mom, I smell the aroma of meat. It smells so good!"

"Shopkeeper Kang! How much does this cost?"

"Thanks to all our guests for their kindness, we are opening a new store. The original price is 40 wen per person, but we will offer you half price, 20 wen per person. Children under 10 years old and seniors over 50 years old will get half price!"

The more Kang Ping spoke, the more his tongue became tangled.

My dear uncle! This is not a restaurant! This is a charity hall!

Even charity organizations can’t do this!

"Oh my goodness! All you can eat meat is so cheap!"

"You're not trying to trick us, are you?"

"Jufulou has been open for more than ten years. It is the property of Ningyang Marquis Mansion. How could they cheat you?"

"But this price doesn't seem real to me!"

"What are you thinking about? Hurry up and grab it!"

After Kang Ping finished his quotation, most of the people who had been surrounding to watch the excitement rushed in.

The other half was simply 20 wen, which was not enough for one person to afford. After all, it was really hard to earn money these days. A dozen wen in the pocket was enough food for the whole family for several days, so one would never dare to squander it easily.

They could only continue to watch, as the people in front of them who had some savings rushed into the Ju Fu buffet and burst into cheers of surprise.

"Oh my God! Oh my God! It's true!"

“Lots of snacks, eat them quickly!”

"There's really meat! Hurry up and grab it!"

"The Ningyang Marquisate has done a good deed!"

The poor people outside felt as if they had entered heaven when they heard the sounds inside. The aroma of barbecue wafted in the air, making them extremely jealous.

After a large group of people rushed into the buffet restaurant, a carriage followed outside the door.

A young couple in elegant clothes got off the bus.

When the woman saw the scene, she got excited and said, "Yun Shuo, did you see that? I told you my buffet would definitely make money! There are so many people here, we're going to be famous!"

Cheng Yunshuo looked at the Jufu buffet that was gradually overflowing with food, frowned slightly, and said lovingly, "You are amazing!"

"No, I have a lot of ideas. Just pamper me and love me. If you make me angry, you will lose a mountain of gold!"

Cheng Yunshuo smiled, "Okay, okay, I will never let my gold mountain run away."

"Hmph!" Xing Dairong snorted arrogantly.

At this time, in a single room on the second floor of Jufulou.

There are also some private rooms on the second floor of the buffet restaurant, and the best one was occupied early.

Qiu Ling looked at the two people quarreling outside the window and couldn't help but curl her lips sourly, "The prince must have been drugged to allow that vixen to waste the family's money like this!"

Lu Lingjun just glanced at Cheng Yunshuo and the other man who were coming over, and his eyes fell on the dishes that had already been served on the table.

There are cold dishes and hot dishes, snacks and main dishes, as well as grilled meat skewers and bright red squeezed watermelon juice.

“It’s really novel.”

Apart from anything else, the tricks Xing Dairong came up with really made her eyes light up.

Especially the charcoal-grilled meat skewers and the watermelon juice.

If nothing else, these two things are indeed very novel.

The taste is also good.

In her previous life, perhaps because Lu Hanyi was obsessed with competing for favor with Xing Dairong, and because she was the de facto steward of the Qin family, she had not heard that Xing Dairong had set up a buffet restaurant.

In this life, she let those two people go and asked Xing Dairong to make something new. Regardless of the cost, it really broadened her horizons.

Lu Lingyun is not someone who is unwilling to learn from other people's strengths. In her eyes, she will find the strengths of others even if they have shortcomings.

She is happy to learn anything that she thinks is good.

For example, in addition to these two new dishes that she tried, she also learned a completely new way of counting from Kang Ping's account book.

"Madam, this is called one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Miss Xing said some Arabic numerals to make it easier for us to keep accounts."

Lu Lingyun took a sip of the sweet watermelon juice, while the shopkeeper Kang next to her showed her the account book showing the costs of the first day of business.

Lu Lingyun quickly understood the meaning of these figures. She nodded and said, "Today your daily cost is fifty taels of silver?"

"Yes."

"At this rate, how many more people will be needed to break even?"

"Madam, we can't make it!" Kang Ping looked at Lu Lingyun with a bitter face, "More than 200 people just came in at once, and all the food we prepared is sold out! Today it's still half price!"

Now downstairs you can no longer choose between cheap and expensive items. All the snacks, cold dishes, hot dishes and barbecued meats have been snapped up.

Even the steaming and cooking was done with nothing left.

Xing Dairong thought that a person could only eat two or three kilograms of food at most, but in reality, how many people of this generation had ever eaten a full meal? Her prices were not high, and those who came in were all lower-class people. With unlimited food, they had to stuff it into their stomachs as hard as they could. They had no idea what it meant to eat badly for their health.

It is common to eat 70 to 80 kilograms, or even more than 10 kilograms, in one meal.

What's worse, many of them have stomachs that ruminate like cows. When they come across a good meal, they will fill themselves up and wait for the food to be digested slowly later.

A group of women with green eyes inside were stuffing food into their stomachs with all their might, just waiting to go back and open their throats, spit out the food, and feed their children.

How could they not eat heartily when such a kind-hearted person was doing charity?

"There are quite a few elderly people and children among them. I made a rough estimate and found that today's revenue was only around 60 to 70 taels of silver. We have lost 90% of our money directly."

Lu Lingyun blinked, waved at him, and whispered a mysterious instruction in a low voice.

After receiving the order, Kang Ping said, "Yes, Madam."

He went down.

Facing the losses, Lu Lingyun had a very good attitude.

She thought that, firstly, it was a good deed, and secondly, it was to make Cheng Yunshuo and Xing Dairong, two fairies who were not interested in worldly affairs, tear off the gauze that was covering their eyes as soon as possible and see the reality.

It is impossible to forcefully wake up people whose minds are filled with only passion and beauty. Mediocrity and reality will kill them, and then they will see each other's truest side.

She had prepared that side for them.

Kang Ping went downstairs and quickly put up a closing sign outside Jufulou.

Xing Dairong saw that he closed the shop so early, and quickly pulled Cheng Yunshuo over, "Why are you closing so early?"

"Girl, we've eaten all the food. We can't supply any more."

Xing Dairong raised his head proudly after hearing this, "I told you to prepare more! My business is so good, I don't have enough to sell!"