Chapter Nineteenth: Business is Booming

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  Days are passing by, and these days are also the happiest and most comfortable ones in Chen Zhiyuan's life. He no longer has to work like a dog on construction sites doing physically demanding jobs that earn him less than what he earns now in an hour. Without others' cold ridicule and scorn for his physique, everything is beyond his wildest dreams.

  The barbecue business is booming, with roasted lamb already booked three months in advance. Every day, phone reservations and walk-in customers are endless, making this small barbecue shop's daily earnings a fortune.

  One day's gross income is nearly 20,000, and the net income can reach 10,000. If it weren't for the high failure rate of processing those medicinal materials, this net income could be increased by a lot.

  However, the workload is also extremely large. Chen Zhiyuan has to get up at 5 am every day and take Li Jian to the wholesale market to purchase ingredients. There's no way around it, as the barbecue has very high requirements for ingredients. After finishing, he goes to the medicinal materials market to buy medicine, and when he returns, he has to process the medicinal materials while teaching Li Jian at the same time. Fat chef and a few others, Chen Zhiyuan plans to observe them for a while, if they are trustworthy, he also plans to teach them these things, otherwise, after he leaves, it will rely on Li Jian. The processed medicinal materials can be used by one sheep, but he can use it for four days. The failure rate is extremely high. He originally wanted to exchange some of the medicine pills for Li Jian to eat, but the system doesn't allow it. Chen Daguoren can only watch as Li Jian wastes money!

  Every day, watching Li Jian processing medicinal materials, Chen Da Guan felt like he was playing a game where money was being burned to level up, it was too painful. After finishing the processing of the medicinal materials at noon, they had to start doing business, no choice, the business was too hot, customers came in at noon, plus Fat Chef and several others, there were 7 people in total, from noon till late at night, Fat Chef's figure clearly lost two sizes.

  After more than ten days, Chen Zhiyuan brought over his uncle and aunt, and hired two waiters. If not, with this workload, Li Jian and a few others would be exhausted, let alone himself.

  Li Jian Shu is in charge of buying ingredients at the farmer's market every day. Chen Ya Lan, the younger sister-in-law, who is not in good health, is responsible for collecting money. With these four people, the workload has become much lighter.

  A month later, the family made a profit of 340,000 yuan after deducting labor costs. Li Jianxu was so happy that he drank all the medicinal wine that Chen Daquan had managed to get on the same night, leaving Chen Daquan heartbroken and bleeding in his heart.

  The small door curtain is obviously no longer enough to meet the needs of the business, Chen Zhiyuan plans to rent a larger one. After calculating the money, adding the 150,000 yuan income from selling wine to Old Man Su, plus this month's profit, Chen Daren's assets have soared to over 500,000 yuan. With a large sum of money in his pocket, Chen Daren went out to find a new storefront with high spirits, but returned home that night with his head hung low and dejected.

  Lin City may seem like a second-tier city, but the housing prices are not cheap either. The rent for good storefronts in this area is even more unaffordable. 500,000 yuan can actually get you a decent storefront in a good location, but after renting it, you still need to renovate and decorate, which would clearly exceed that amount.

  After going home and thinking about it, Li Jian Shu rubbed his head and came up with an idea. He simply took down the small door curtain on the side of his house, opened it up, and this place was big enough. Chen Zhiyuan had originally wanted to open a decent storefront, but the money really wasn't enough, so he could only follow his uncle's idea and do it that way.

  He took down the two small door curtains next to him without much trouble, rented it out, and Chen Zhiyuan posted a notice to suspend business for three days. He spent over 3 million yuan on rent and renovation, which made Chen feel a bit painful again. However, after the store expanded, the business improved significantly. Many people couldn't get enough of that roasted lamb, so they settled for eating at Fat Chef's place instead. These few people used Chen Zhiyuan's secret medicinal formula to roast their dishes, which turned out to be several grades higher than before.

  Chen Zhiyuan's barbecue business was getting better and better every day, with more and more people coming in. The waiters were not enough, so Chen had to hire 4 more, which finally made the place busy.

  During this time, Zhao Zhuangzhuang and his wife often came over to play, which was very normal, after all, the three of them had been friends for nearly ten years. However, Su Bingxuan, that big iceberg, would occasionally follow along, and every time she came, Chen Da Guanren's heart would skip a beat, who made him have a guilty conscience, having done something wrong. But when this beautiful woman Su came, she didn't look for trouble with Chen Zhiyuan, and rarely spoke to Chen Zhiyuan, just sitting there listening to Zhao Zhuangzhuang and Chen Zhiyuan bragging and boasting.

  Today, Su Dami and Zhao Zhuang came with the couple again. Chen Zhiyuan had just roasted a lamb and let Li Jian take over, cutting the lamb into slices and sending it over. He wiped his hands and invited them to sit outside: "Come on, Big Zhuang, I'll get them to prepare some food later, we two brothers will have a drink!"

  Zhao Zhuangzhuang this foodie as soon as he heard the food immediately drooled: "Brother, let's hurry up, I'm starving!"

  Chen Lili slapped him on the head: "Didn't you just eat? How can you be hungry again?"

  Zhao Zhuangzhuang wiped his mouth and said: "Zhiyuan, this is too delicious! I'm getting hungry just smelling the aroma!"

  Chen Zhiyuan laughed and went in to take a few plates of cold dishes, and then asked the fat chef to casually prepare some food. He carried a dozen beers over, opened two bottles, and said: "Come on, drink! You two girls can go get whatever you like from the fridge!"

  Su Dami's beautiful face turned cold and looked at Chen Zhiyuan without saying a word. Chen Lili responded with a sound, went in and brought two bottles of chilled drinks over.

  Chen Zhiyuan looked at Su Bingxuan's cold face and felt a twinge of discomfort in his heart. This little girl, following Zhao Zhuangzhuang's couple over to eat and drink together, what did brother say? Not even giving me a good face, just saying that brother took advantage of you, but after so many days of good food and drink, how can this be erased?

  Su Bingxuan looked at Chen Zhiyuan and then back at herself, her good-looking eyebrows furrowed as she coldly hummed: "What are you looking at!"

  Magistrate Chen was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't dare to retort, fearing that this young woman would go mad, so he turned his head and continued drinking with Zhao Zhuangzhuang.

  Chen Zhiyuan had been in a good mood lately, and without realizing it, he had drunk a bit more. Just as he was starting to feel a little dizzy, a strong light flashed before his eyes, causing him to cover them with his hands. "That son of a gun is blinding me!" he cursed. A few people got out of a Mercedes-Benz, the first being a very young man who was slender and had a delicate beauty about him. The man walked over to Chen Zhiyuan's table, looked at Su Bingxuan with some displeasure, and said, "Bingxuan, what are you doing here? I called you and you didn't answer. Is this the kind of place you come to? Come with me!" He then tried to pull Su Bingxuan away.

  Su Bingxuan's face turned even colder as he saw the man approaching, and he roughly shook off his hand: "Zhao Ningyuan, who am I to you? My going there is my own freedom, what business is it of yours?"

  At this time, the headlights of that Mercedes-Benz had already been turned off. Although Chen Da was not pleased, he saw that this kid was looking for Su Bingxuan, and now seeing that this girl was extremely displeased, he didn't say anything. He hugged his arms, ready to watch the show, secretly thinking: A rich and handsome guy is chasing after a beautiful rich woman, but the beautiful rich woman doesn't care about the rich and handsome guy. The rich and handsome guy can't get the beautiful rich woman, so he's itching with frustration, planning to drug her and take advantage of her, or spend some money to hire people to harass the beautiful rich woman, then heroically rescue her himself. This plot is a bit too old, I wonder if today will bring something fresh to watch!

  "Bing Xuan, come back with me. If you want to eat barbecue, I'll take you to the best hotel in Lin City and have the best chef cook for you. Look at this place, it's so dirty, eating here will make you sick!" Zhao Ningyuan said with a sincere face.

  "Thanks, no need, I just like eating here!" Su Da Mei didn't even bother to get up and instead picked up another piece of meat and put it in her mouth.

  Zhao Zhuangzhuang was about to speak, but before he could, Chen Zhiyuan grabbed his arm. "This kid is really something," Zhao thought, "if he says that, isn't he implying that Chen's store is low-class and has hygiene problems?" Just as he was about to scold the kid, Chen Zhiyuan pulled him back.

  Chen Da Guan Ren heard that and curled his lip, "You little brat, can't you come up with something new? This kind of joke is all over the internet, I can watch eight segments for one cent, and it's been done to death by five or six people. Who knew not only did it lack taste, but also brains? You're really insulting the three words 'high rich handsome'!"