Chapter 51 (1/2)

Chapter 51: A Red Packet from the System

“Zhida, you are playing this betting game again?” A muscular man pulled the man in the suit close in a familiar manner.

“It’s almost 9:00. I’m merely playing it for fun. Don’t worry, it won’t affect my job,” the man in the suit said in an easygoing manner.

“Hurry up and bet! The maximum bet is 1RMB. Any more will be rejected.” He made another round again while clutching to his briefcase.

“Gee! Why don’t you have the option that Boss Yuan doesn’t open the restaurant?” A pretty girl with large eyes took out a 1RMB note and asked curiously.

“Beauty, you don’t understand. We are just playing for fun. We are all here for the breakfast, so of course, we wish he would open the restaurant. If he sleeps in again, then we won’t have anything to eat.” The man in suit gestured wildly as he explained. His hilarious gestures amused the pretty girl.

“Haha, so it’s like that. Then I bet on Soup Dumplings.” The pretty girl set the note down without hesitation.

“Hopefully you can win today.” The man in suit winked at the girl and left after wishing her.

Time passed, minute by minute. Nevertheless, there was still no sign that the restaurant would be opened this morning

“I’m leaving. It seems Boss Yuan went to buy ingredients late again last night.” a fat regular customer said as he patted his belly and walked away.

“Eh… Why does Boss Yuan always go and buy ingredients at night?” the man in suit returned the money to those who laid down bets. It was not much, only a dozen 1RMB notes in all.

“Exactly. If he goes to buy ingredients at night, of course, he can’t get up early.” The muscular man started to head back as well.

Yes, the excuse that Yuan Zhou gave his customers was that he had to go to purchase ingredients at night, thus he couldn’t get up early and needed to sleep in. In order to get the freshest ingredients, he certainly had to put in the greatest efforts. Therefore, not matter how much the customers complained, they could do nothing but flap their gums a little, all for the sake of their lunch and dinner.

As for the truth, only God would know.

However, Yuan Zhou’s sweet dreams also came to an end.

“Ding”

The system suddenly emitted a sound which woke Yuan Zhou up from his dreams.

“What’s wrong?” Lying on the bed, Yuan Zhou murmured. He was still in a daze and hadn’t fully woken up.

The system read, “Congratulations to the host. You have successfully opened the restaurant for a month. The system offers the reward of one red packet, filled with cash. The host can receive it any time.”

“Oh, a red packet, alright.” Yuan Zhou muttered, still sleep-talking.

“Wait, a red packet, a red packet filled with cash. Jesus.” After repeating what he said once, he immediately woke up fully. He leaped from the bed and tried to confirm the authenticity of what the system said in a hurry.

The system read, “It is a red packet filled with cash, available to be received anytime.”

“System, I never expected you to give me a red packet. You are so cool.” Yuan Zhou asked incredulously.

The system read, “The red packet is available to be received anytime.”

“All right. It’s shouldn’t be only 0.1 RMB, right?”

As a young man with a mature looking face, Yuan Zhou had attended several red packet activities [1] during the Lunar New Year holiday. One event that left a deep impression on him was that some group members would first grab it himself after sending a red packet with a large sum, and then released other red packets with the pathetic sum of 0.1RMB to others. Some others would send a 1RMB red packet to be divided by 20 persons among the rest. Those that were lucky might be able to grab 0.1RMB.

Now that the system had unexpectedly sent a red packet to him for no reason, Yuan Zhou’s first thought was that it was probably not real; the second thought was that, knowing the stingy character of the system, it would probably send a 0.1RMB red packet to him.

Former experiences of being cheated by the system were still fresh within his memories.

The system read, “Host, please receive the red packet as soon as possible.”

“Wow, it’s even urging me. Ok, receive.” Yuan Zhou tapped open the red packet marked with Wishing You a Successful Business, helplessly.