"Have you found out what happened? Tell me in detail."
Li Hai told everything he had learned about the state-owned restaurant.
Sun Shi slammed the table in anger: "Zheng Dayong, this old fox, how come he has so many tricks? How much does he want to create people for the country? After arranging blind dates and wedding banquets, now he even uses other people's pursuit of partners to make a fuss. I'm so angry, so angry." This old guy can't just be quiet. Why does he have so many unconventional tricks?
Sun Shi walked around his office with a frown on his face, then sat down on a stool dejectedly.
I have made so much effort just to stay in Q City. Is there really no other way?
Seeing Sun Shi remained silent, Li Hai became anxious. "Manager, what should we do next? Are we really going to close it? Think of another way. We really can't bear to leave the State-owned Hotel South."
Sun Shi immediately cheered up. "Yes, there are still ten days left. How can I give up before the last minute?" He still had a chance to turn the tables. "Giving up is not in my dictionary, Sun Shi."
"Li Hai, inform everyone that no one should leave after get off work. Stay for a meeting and discuss what to do next."
"good."
After Sun Shi finished explaining the situation, he immediately rode his bicycle to find the director of the pig farm and asked him to take an extra 50 kilograms of pork belly the next day.
The pig farm director was shocked: "You want them too? Are you sure? If you can't sell them all, you will be responsible." He had to say the ugly words in advance.
Sun Shi said confidently, "Sure." If you don't take a gamble, how can you know the outcome? Even if I really lose in the end, I'll accept it.
"Okay, I get it. The pigs we brought back last time didn't adapt to the climate and didn't eat much, so they became very thin. Plus, there have been heavy rains every evening in recent days, and the roads have been unable to be cleared. The city has decided to slaughter these pigs, so there will be plenty of meat in the next few days." Anyway, he didn't know who would be able to stay, so it was better for him not to offend anyone.
"Thanks."
When they got off work in the evening, all the employees of the State-owned Hotel South stayed behind for a meeting. After an intense discussion, everyone decided to take a risk in order to stay in the city and decided to learn from the method of the State-owned Hotel East again.
A group of people from the state-owned hotel went home to look for their families, relatives, and friends. They lowered their dignity to look for anyone they could name and asked them to cooperate with the publicity.
Then the next day, the specialty dish of the State-owned Restaurant Nan, Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables, became famous in the nearby machinery factory and steel plant, attracting many young men and women.
In a short time, the saying that there is braised pork in the east and braised pork in the south spread, and State-owned Restaurant East and State-owned Restaurant South became very popular.
Seeing how successful Sun Shi and Zheng Dayong were, Zheng Fei became anxious, fearing that he would be the one to suffer in the end, so he immediately decided to join in. He also took 30 kilograms of pork and made sweet and sour pork. Then he became embarrassed, as he only sold 1/5 of the 30 kilograms of sweet and sour pork, which made Zheng Fei never dare to do it again.
On March 25, Zheng Dayong handed 60 kilograms of pork to Zhang Yao, "Old Zhang, today is the last day. There will be no extra meat for braised meat tomorrow. We have to go back to the normal amount tomorrow." Alas, if only this amount of meat could last a few more days.
"Okay, I'll have Xiao Jiang write something on a blackboard later to tell the guests who come."
At lunch time the next day, the state-owned restaurant suddenly became deserted, with only a few people coming, which made everyone feel a little uncomfortable.
After lunch, when everyone had left, Qian Xiaoni finally said, "Alas, when it was busy the past few days, I thought it was too busy, but now it's suddenly quiet. I'm not used to it and really want it to be busy again. Shushu, do you think we can maintain our third place? The preserved vegetable braised pork at the State-owned Restaurant South is also very successful. Now that business has suddenly slowed down, I'm really worried. What if we're overtaken in the last few days?"
Jiang Shushu encouraged, "It will definitely work. No matter how good the business of the State-owned Restaurant Nan is, it's not as good as ours. What's more, we are already ahead of them. We will definitely not lose. We are not far away from the first and second place. We may even be the first place." If it really doesn't work, he will pay someone to come and pack up the food. He will spend money to get the third place. No one can stop him from staying in the city and enjoying himself.
Zheng Dayong came out and heard Jiang Shushu say this, and immediately responded, "Xiao Jiang is right, I've asked around, and during the period of our big sales, the business of State-owned Restaurant North and State-owned Restaurant Central is not very good. As long as nothing unexpected happens in the next few days, we are likely to surpass them." If the business is very bad later, the worst that can happen is that we shamelessly ask relatives to come and spend money again.
Everyone was praying in their hearts that business would be booming in the next few days, but unfortunately, the opposite happened.
On March 27th, there were even fewer people, only about 20 in total for the day. When it was almost time to get off work, only 1/3 of the meat and vegetables were left.
Jiang Shushu stepped forward and said, "Chef Zhang, my relatives have come to see me from far away and are staying at my house tonight. I plan to entertain them in the evening. Please leave three servings of each of these three meat dishes for me. There are quite a lot of people here, otherwise I'm afraid there won't be enough to eat." He put them in a small space and ate them slowly.
Zheng Dayong: "Today is the tenth anniversary of my marriage to my wife. Lao Zhang, please save one portion of each dish for me. I need to go back and comfort my wife."
Zheng Juanjuan: "My son and daughter both scored 100 points on their exams. I promised them that I would reward them with meat and leave two meat dishes for me."
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Then everyone had a reason to take a little, and they divided the leftovers before leaving get off work. No one suggested reducing the amount of food the next day.
"Chef Zhang, Chef Han, I'm on vacation tomorrow. My cousin ate the food you cooked last time and thought it was delicious. He gave me money to bring another one. Could you please make another one for me tomorrow?"
Zhang Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll pack it for you when the time comes."
After work, Zheng Dayong and his team went to visit relatives, shamelessly soliciting business from them. They eventually told their families not to cook for a few days and instead to go to state-owned restaurants to grab food and eat it back home, planning to sell any leftovers themselves.
After Jiang Shushu got the food box, he returned home and put everything except the braised pork into the small space. Then he took the buns, egg pancakes and braised pork back to Jiangjia Village.
Jiang Shushu went to the old place to meet Yang Xiaobei. When he saw him, he was shocked. "Yang Xiaobei, what's wrong with you? It's only been half a month. How come you've lost so much weight? Are you sick?"
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