Chapter 4 (2/2)

He was about to say something else when he saw Boss Tong outside with a middle-aged man dressed in plain clothes. He turned around and asked, “Is this the man who collects scrap metal?”

“This is Master Li, who always gives fair prices. He’s the most suitable man to do business with.” Boss Tong was still quite annoyed with the smiling Fatty Wang. She couldn’t help belittling him indirectly with sarcasm.

“This is all thanks to you Aunt Tong. Hi, Master Li. Here is all the stuff. Please take a look.” Yuan Zhou greeted them warmly. He didn’t care about Aunt Tong’s jab, after all it wasn’t meant for him.

“Little brother, these are not worth much,” Master Li said while he was going through the rubbish. He smiled revealing an honest face.

“How could that be? Look, these are made of stainless steel. This flour barrel is in a good state and can be still be used. It might not be able to be sold as new, but for a second-hand, it is considered to be pretty good,” Yuan Zhou said while picking up the legs of a chair and a table and pointing to the aluminum iron flour barrel standing at the side.

“Stainless steel is of little value, and look at this…” Master Li was not easily deceived. He broke off one chair leg and showed to Yuan Zhou.

During the next few moments, Yuan Zhou brought out all the physics knowledge he acquired from middle school into play, describing different kinds of iron along with their value, and finally succeeded in getting 320 RMB for all of them.

Boss Tong was stunned by the scene. Master Li finally couldn’t stand Yuan Zhou’s incessant chatter, even helping him throw the rest of the rubbish away free of charge. Wiping the perspiration on the forehead, Boss Wang felt that he had been quite fair. Who could match Yuan Zhou by rounding up 318 into 320?

Having earned more money than expected, Yuan Zhou refreshingly turned his head around and said, “Boss Wang, please look after my restaurant for a moment. I’m going to obtain the business license.”

“No problem. Go ahead. I will also need a while to finish,”, Boss Wang agreed immediately. If Yuan Zhou were still here and saw that the repair work was so simple, it would be a huge trouble to bargain over with him again.

Yuan Zhou went upstairs to get the documents that had already been prepared and then left.

It was a Wednesday morning, before 9:30a.m, thus pedestrians were rare. But after walking out of the side street onto the main street, Yuan Zhou found it to be a different situation altogether. Cars were coming and going, white-collar beauties dressed in business suits, men dressed in cheap suits like poor insurance salesmen and metropolitan beauties dressed fashionably were all quickly coming and going in the great numbers passing through the tall buildings.

Yuan Zhou was dressed in khakis, a white Moga Brand T-shirt and a pair of sporting shoes.He looked like a graduate that just completed university, if you didn’t take into account his face, which looked like a 30-year-old man.

Of course, there was a reason for Yuan Zhou to dress like that. There were many benefits for the graduates who just got out of the universities at the moment. The mature looking Yuan Zhou, had actually only graduated two years ago.

The business license and food sanitary permit was easier to apply if you were a new graduate at the moment. As for the certificate for health, he had already obtained it while he was working at the big restaurant. Even though it had to be renewed every 6 months, the one he had currently was released just a month ago thus had no problem at all.

Wandering around in the street, Yuan Zhou finally found the bus heading to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. As he was filling in all the blanks, he then realised he forgot something, the name of his restaurant.

“Duk Duk Duk”

Yuan Zhou knocked at the table subconsciously, he then filled the blank with a “Master Chef Restaurant” decisively. For following contents, they were just standard procedures.

He then handed over the papers to the Graduates Startup Counter. The staff at the window looked at Yuan Zhou’s certificate of graduation and his appearance carefully, he even checked Yuan Zhou’s certificate number on the official website. Only then did he input the information for the application of Yuan Zhou’s business license.

The Public Health Bureau was not far away from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, thus Yuan Zhou tried to get the sanitary certificate done before he had the lunch. He made it just in time. Finally, as he looked at the two licenses in his hands, Yuan Zhou couldn’t help but feel a little excited..