"Today's total turnover is 442 yuan."

Everyone looked at each other, excitement evident on their faces.

Before opening, Shen Mingzhu did some calculations for everyone and found that a monthly turnover of around 5,000 yuan would be needed to maintain a balanced income.

On average, the daily turnover must reach at least 166 yuan to break even.

Unexpectedly, we sold 442 yuan on the first day of opening, which was a good start.

"Okay, it's getting late. Let's all go back and rest. Come half an hour early tomorrow morning so we can have a morning meeting."

After all the employees left, Julie closed the doors and windows, locked the front door, and then returned to the dormitory.

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"I don't know what those people were thinking. They only sold a few dishes for 88 yuan, and a large table for 138 yuan. They were willing to pay for it and traveled all the way out of town. They must have nothing better to do."

In the dormitory, Jia Yuemei was soaking her feet in the foot tub while whispering to Shen Xiangnan.

Shen Xiangnan looked at her and said, "I was just wondering what you think. People are willing to come to our restaurant to eat and let us make money, but you are not grateful but instead you are insulting them. I don't want you to be the foreman for a reason."

Jia Yuemei curled her lips, "What money did you make? You sold so much, but how much of it went into your pocket?"

"We do all the dirty work, and she pockets all the money just by talking."

Shen Xiangnan retorted, "What do you know? This restaurant is located in a remote place. If it weren't for my sister's connections, do you think people would come here to eat?"

Seeing Jia Yuemei's face full of dissatisfaction, Shen Xiangnan said again: "If you have the ability, you can also take out 10,000 yuan to open a store. When the time comes, whatever you earn will be yours, and no one will compete with you for it."

Jia Yuemei was so embarrassed that she lifted her wet feet and placed them on Shen Xiangnan's legs.

"What are you doing? You've wet my pants. How am I going to wear them tomorrow?"

It has been raining continuously since the beginning of winter. Clothes cannot be dried even after ten days or half a month of washing. Shen Xiangnan did not bring many clothes with him, and the only one he was wearing was the one he was wearing.

"You can wear whatever you want. If you have nothing to wear, just be naked!"

Outside the door, Julie turned around with the empty basin and went to the dormitory where the waitresses lived.

Her thermos was broken, so she wanted to borrow some hot water from the couple to soak her feet.

…

Early the next morning, Julie rode her motorcycle into the city to purchase goods and reported her work to Shen Mingzhu.

Shen Mingzhu was not too surprised about the turnover, after all, the tables were booked in advance.

The only exception is probably if the guest might cancel or postpone their reservation.

"Very good, how many tables are reserved today?"

"Table three."

Shen Mingzhu nodded, and then asked about the performance of the employees during the opening ceremony yesterday.

Julie reported to Shen Mingzhu some minor problems that occurred in the work of several waiters, but did not mention that Jia Yuemei blamed Shen Mingzhu.

After all, eavesdropping is not a good behavior.

What's more, Jia Yuemei is the daughter-in-law of the Shen family. After all, this is Shen Mingzhu's family affair, and it is not her turn as an outsider to interfere.

…

After Julie left, Shen Mingzhu finished the work at hand as quickly as possible, then picked up her bag and went home, preparing to take Guoguo to the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital for a check-up.

As winter comes, Guoguo always starts coughing at night.

She had been to the hospital to see a pediatrician before.

The doctor diagnosed that there was no problem and it might be lung heat, so he asked her to buy autumn pear paste and mix it with water to feed the child.

After drinking it for two days without seeing any effect, Shen Mingzhu decided to take her daughter to the Municipal Maternity and Child Health Hospital for another check-up.

…

During the transition from autumn to winter, many children catch colds, and the city's maternity and child hospital is as crowded as a vegetable market.

While waiting for the consultation, I talked with other mothers and found out that there are many young children like Guoguo who have unexplained dry coughs.

The mothers have also tried various folk remedies privately, such as stewed pears with Fritillaria cirrhosa, salty orange water, loquat juice, radish water, etc., but none of them had any effect, and in the end they still had to go to the hospital to see a doctor.

Waited in line for nearly two hours.

This time the doctor's diagnosis was slightly different from the last time. He said that the child had excessive body heat and was a congenital physical problem that many children had. It was not a serious problem and no medicine was needed. The child just needed to pay attention to a light diet, eat less meat and more vegetables.

Since he started eating complementary foods, Guoguo doesn’t like to eat vegetables. He only likes to eat meat, eggs and fruits.

But for the sake of my daughter's health, I have to find a way no matter how difficult the problem is.

If coughing lasts for a long time, it can easily cause pneumonia.

…

After coming out of the clinic, Shen Mingzhu carried her daughter to the parking shed. After walking a few steps, she heard her daughter's baby voice, "Mommy, car."

"What kind of car is that? Mommy, come and have a look too."

While Shen Mingzhu was teasing her daughter, she looked around and saw a black Santana parked in front of the gate of the maternity and child hospital. A young woman in a beige wool coat was bending over to get into the car.

Shen Mingzhu was about to look away, but when she saw the young woman's appearance clearly, she paused slightly.

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In order to coax Guoguo to eat more vegetables, Shen Mingzhu thought of some ways.

For example, making vegetable pancakes, vegetable meatballs, vegetable wontons, and colorful noodles with vegetable juice.

Even the baked cookies are filled with various vegetables.

But even though Shen Mingzhu racked her brains to make all kinds of vegetable snacks, Guoguo still didn't like to eat them. Even if she fed them into her mouth, she would spit them out and even knock over the rice bowl in anger.

That morning, when Shen Mingzhu brought the vegetable noodles that took nearly an hour to make to her daughter, she was slapped over by her daughter. She was so angry that she picked her up and slapped her on the butt twice.

It was not until she heard her daughter's heart-wrenching cry that she realized she had just hit her daughter.

This was the first time she hit her daughter.

The child cried so hard that he was out of breath, and she herself was so angry that she burst into tears.

"Why won't you listen? Is mom trying to harm you? Do you want to cough up pneumonia?"

How could a one-year-old child understand the good intentions of adults? He just thought his mother was fierce and cried even louder.

The father and son, one coaxed their daughter, the other coaxed her, while Sister Yu cleaned up the house.

Watching her daughter slowly stop crying in her son's arms, Shen Mingzhu suddenly felt a sense of exhaustion and frustration.

She has always believed that she has done a good job in balancing her family and career.

Her son, who was born a villain, is also growing up healthily according to her ideas.

But she could do nothing about her own daughter.

When she went to work in the factory, she kept thinking about this matter.

I reflected on whether I was too strong and impatient, forcing my daughter to eat food she didn't like.

But on second thought, maybe she spoiled her daughter too much, giving her whatever she wanted, which led to her daughter's spoiled and willful personality.

I can't calm down and can't concentrate on my work.

After barely finishing the work at hand, Shen Mingzhu left work early and went home.

"Guoguo is upstairs, and Ziheng is playing with her."

Sister Yu was picking vegetable leaves in the yard. When she saw her daughter come home early, she smiled and spoke without waiting for her to ask.

As someone who has experienced this, how could I not see that Shen Mingzhu was worried about her daughter.

Shen Mingzhu came to the second floor and saw her daughter happily playing with toys through the study window. She felt a pang in her heart.

She walked into the study.

Pei Ziheng saw her first, and with his sparkling black eyes he called out "Mom".

Guoguo looked at her a little slowly.

Just when she thought her daughter would be angry and ignore her because of what happened in the morning, her daughter happily stretched out her little hand towards her.

"Mom, hug me!"

Shen Mingzhu walked over with sore eyes, and when she hugged her sweet and soft daughter in her arms, she couldn't help but shed tears.

All the unhappiness and sadness in my heart were comforted and healed by my daughter's soft and sweet call of "Mom". (End of this chapter)