Chapter 14: Business Doesn't Come to the Door
How can there be a small restaurant that only sells one type of food, or beef ramen? Even the Lanzhou ramen restaurant on the street will also have stir-fried vegetables, rice bowls, and so on.
Not to mention the scarcity of varieties, the 100 yuan a bowl? Do you think your beef is Kobe beef? No wonder there is no one, this is treating people as idiots.
Looking at Cao Lei's appearance of Jiang Taigong taking the bait, the young man immediately soberly thought: This is a black shop! Oops! Why did I accidentally enter the black shop, I have to slip away quickly, if I take a step late, I may be slaughtered as a fat sheep!
Seeing the young man who had fled as if he was hiding from his death, Cao Lei muttered: This price is not expensive at all! This flour and beef are for the emperor (president) to eat.
He told those people outside the door yesterday, but those people looked at Cao Lei with contempt: Do you know how much Markfa flour is produced in a year? It's only a few hundred kilograms, and it's your turn? Do you know that Kobe beef is not for sale, the emperor eats it three times a year, and eats half a catty each time.
Cao Lei, who couldn't explain clearly, felt very aggrieved. It's impossible to tell people that I have a system. If that's the case, all the immortals will soon come to the door, and Cao Lei will soon evaporate from the world.
"Let's go, let's go! Blame you for not having this mouth!" Cao Lei continued to sit down and smoke.
As soon as he lit a cigarette, a man in his thirties in a suit walked in at the door, carrying a black briefcase in his arm and a white-collar man.
This man is a white-collar worker who works in a multinational company in front of him, and his monthly income is 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.
But his wife doesn't go to work, she is a pure housewife, and she is the kind of tigress.
Usually, this man does not go home for lunch, because his wife plays mahjong until five or six o'clock every night. When she went to bed, she didn't wake up until more than twelve o'clock every day, and when she woke up, she ate Chinese food as breakfast and dealt with it sloppily, so that she didn't have time to make lunch for her husband.
So, his wife asked him to eat out every morning and midday, and when he came home in the evening, his wife would cook a rich dinner to treat her husband.
My wife always remembers the saying "When a man is rich, he becomes bad", so she guards against it everywhere and does not dare to give her husband more money. The cost of breakfast and lunch is too small, only 80 yuan a day, including the money to buy cigarettes.
However, the man was in pain and happy, and every day, before going to bed, his wife would put eighty yuan bills in the man's purse. But the man was begging: "Give me five more yuan, I want to drink a bottle of Coke." ”
After fighting guerrillas outside for a long time, this man ate all the restaurants in the neighborhood, and finally got tired of eating, so he came to the side street to have a look. Looking for something fresh and flavorful.
As soon as he entered the small street, he smelled the fragrance of Cao's small restaurant, which shocked his spirits. He chased him to Cao Lei's store.
Come in and see, the environment is not bad, there are few chairs, there are few people, only the boss is alone, there are green plants with small flowers on both sides, the decoration is also simple and generous, the table is also distinctive, and it is cleaner than the table in the food street.
When Cao Lei entered the store, he kept looking at him: "Do you want a bowl of beef ramen?"
"You're a Lanzhou ramen restaurant?" the man asked, sitting on a clean high chair.
"No, it's a restaurant. But now only beef ramen is served. Cao Lei took a puff of his cigarette.
The man's nose twitched, and he was sure that the source of the aroma was the beef broth: "Bring me a bowl of beef ramen!"
Cao Lei pointed to the price list: "Look at the price first and then decide whether you want to eat it." ”
"What do you mean......"
The man was halfway through his words and immediately stopped it. Because he followed the direction of Cao Lei's finger, he saw the three words of the price list, and even saw the price of beef ramen. I was surprised when I saw it.
"100 yuan? Is your surname rape?" The man was surprised, he didn't expect that the owner of this small shop wanted to get rich and wanted to go crazy, and a bowl of noodles was more than ten times higher than the outside.
"My surname is Cao, my name is Cao Lei, not a profiteer. Cao Lei immediately understood what the other party meant.
"That's the price list you wrote wrong," the man said.
"I have been right dozens of times about the words written on the price list, and there is no mistake, this is the price. Cao Lei immediately sat down, looking like another person who was ready to escape.
"Is the beef in your ramen a dragon meat, or is the noodles a dragon whisker?" the man looked at the price list again.
"It's good to go, don't send it!" This time, Cao Lei didn't bother to reply, and directly stretched out his hand and made a send-off appearance.
The man feels that he is being underestimated by Cao Lei! You know, I am a successful person with a monthly income of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, but you think I can't afford it?
The man decided to be hard and immediately took out his wallet. But when he opened his wallet and saw the eighty yuan bill lying in his wallet, he immediately softened: "I forgot, I'm allergic to beef!"
The man lowered his head and quickly walked out of the store, hurrying away, otherwise, he would hear the sarcasm of the little boss.
Cao Lei didn't tease him at all. Seeing the embarrassment of this man when he looked at the leather bag, he thought of the common problem of this society - men have a lot of ears!
The next morning, Cao Lei got up early and left Cao's restaurant.
Boss Li next door asked, "Xiao Lei, go out!"
Cao Lei: "Hello Aunt Li! Today is the expiration of my contract, and I will go to the company to go through a procedure." ”
Boss Li nodded: "It's finally come out, there is no contract constraint, you can go to other companies." ”
Cao Lei had just walked out of the alley when a brake sounded. Cao Lei looked up and smiled: "Why are you here?"
A mulberry leaf car stopped beside Cao Lei, and from the driver's seat, a head stretched out: "Today is the expiration date of your contract, and I will send you to the company." ”
Cao Lei didn't say a word, and immediately got into the car.
This driver, surnamed Zhang Mingjie, is Cao Lei's high school classmate. Later, Cao Lei was poached by talent scouts and went to the group, and Zhang Jie went to college.
But the two were in Xijing together, and they did not break off contact because of separation, but their relationship was getting better and better. The funeral of Cao Lei's parents was helped by the Zhang family.
"What are you going to do after the contract is terminated?" asked Zhang Jie.
Cao Lei lit a cigarette: "I'm going to continue to open the small restaurant." ”
Zhang Jie sighed: "Don't worry, do this first, and find an opportunity to fight again later." I know you have a star dream in your heart. ”
"Maybe that day. Cao Lei said.
Zhang Jie looked at Cao Lei, if it was before, hearing this, Cao Lei would definitely say, "I won't think about the red carpet anymore." However, today's Cao Lei is a little different.
The car drove to Xiyu Company, which is Cao Lei's original company.
After Zhang Jie parked the car, he accompanied Cao Lei into the building.
This building, which is the office building of Xiyu Company, has thirteen floors.
When Cao Lei entered the door, he was stopped by the security guard.
"I'll do the formalities. Cao Lei said.