Chapter 68 (2/2)

Customers waiting in line at noon were usually less than those in the evening since the limited time during their lunch break. Time was aplenty in the evening after they got off work. However, today was different. The audience from the live broadcast kept crowding around the entrance of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.

“My apologies. Business hours of my restaurant at noontime are almost up, thus I can no longer serve anymore customers.” Yuan Zhou said as he looked at the customers waiting in line.

“How could you be so heartless? I haven’t managed to eat your dishes yet.” Someone started complaining immediately.

“Me either. I even endured a full week before coming once!” a short-haired girl said in grievance.

“Boss Yuan, why don’t you extend your opening hours today? See, there’re still so many customers who haven’t managed to eat your dishes,” a slightly elderly middle-aged man said.

“Sorry, this is the rule.” Yuan Zhou still maintained the same expression on the face and said lightly.

This is right the epitome of aloofness.

But capable as Yuan Zhou, he was, nevertheless, quite upset in the heart. He not only was driving away his loyal customers but also money, more specifically, money that he could have a share of.

“I hate Boss Yuan. How could he do that do us? It isn’t easy for us to come once.” the customers went away while complaining.

“Eh, when will Boss Yuan stop being a Compass?”

After pulling down the door, Yuan Zhou climbed up the stairs and started to think over how to accomplish this new mission. Normally, he had a fairly large amount of customers. Nevertheless, few of them could meet the basic requirement of eating at least two times per month in his restaurant. After all, this was the current situation of his customers.

He looked at the mission completion status, thankfully finding that he had only a few more to go.

Lying in bed, Yuan Zhou drifted off to sleep, until he heard loud noises coming from downstairs.

“Boss Yuan, Boss Yuan, open the door.” anxious yells came from the downstairs, repeatedly. It was extremely noisy, thus as soon as Yuan Zhou woke up, he sat up immediately from his bed.

He stood up, walked to the window and opened it. There, he saw lots of people gathering around the entrance. There were so many that Yuan Zhou became clear-headed instantly. In his mind, these people were all his precious customers necessary for accomplishing the mission.

“Pi Li Pa La”, after cleaning up, Yuan Zhou ran heavily down the stairs. He only opened the door after slightly catching his breath.

“You are all so early today.” Yuan Zhou first greeted the customers.

“It’s not early, Boss Yuan. It’s already 5:30 p.m.” Wu Hai walked into the restaurant slowly.

“So it is.” Following him, Ling Hong entered. The remaining few others then came in in succession.

“Boss, are the Soup Dumplings available now?” Ling Hong directly ordered the Soup Dumplings served specially only in the morning.

“Sorry, this is a dish for breakfast.” Yuan Zhou pointed to the small characters behind Soup Dumplings on the menu and said.

“All right. Then give me a serving of Egg Fried Rice along with a plate of beef mince and a bowl of Clear Broth Noodle Soup.” All the dishes he had ordered and eaten at noon merely made him feel slightly stuffed. Since it was getting dark, he felt it better to eat less in the evening. While thinking this way, Ling Hong decisively ordered two different dishes.

………..

Opening hours of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was normally fixed in the evening. Nevertheless, it was unusual today. Many customers were still waiting in line outside the entrance even when the time was almost up. The crowd included not only the regular customers from the nearby districts but also the live broadcast audience who had eaten here during noontime and waited until now to eat dinner. Apart from these people, others were the live broadcast audience who only had time in the evening and thus came for the dinner.

Most of the customers today were attracted here via Meng Meng’s publicity. They were now all convinced of Yuan Zhou’s superb culinary skills.

When it arrived at the closing time, there were still many customers outside Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. At this time, the wealthy guy Ling Hong said, “Boss Yuan, I think you can close the restaurant later today. All of us are waiting for a late snack.”

“No, I can’t.” there were only 5 minutes left before he closed the restaurant.

“What if I treat all these people to dinner. Can you close the restaurant later?” Ling Hong said while pointing to the dozen of customers who were still waiting for their turn.

“How wonderful for you to treat them. Then tomorrow is good. He said he would invite you guys a meal,” Yuan Zhou said to the remaining people directly, setting up a trap for Ling Hong.

“Boss Yuan, I meant if you extend the opening hours a little longer, then I will treat them to dinner.” Ling Hong kicked the ball back to Yuan Zhou with ease.

As for Yuan Zhou’s decision…