Chapter 280 (1/2)

Chapter 280: Matter of Spring Wound Clock

It was the girl who liked eating the sandwich along with the Beef and Blueberry Jam very much.

Being dragged out suddenly, Yuan Yuan looked blankly at the customers who were all looking at her.

“Yuan Yuan, you will help me, won’t you?” the girl asked directly.

“Humm, I will.” Friends were to help each other, although Yuan Yuan, who had stared somewhere blankly just now, didn’t actually know what happened.

Then, other customers lost their interest and had only to continue their discussions about Dongpo Pig Knuckle.

Of course, it was much too common right now to publish something on Wechat Moment or QQ Zone. Someone even especially made calls to notify his friends.

Zhou Jia was quite delighted to see that. She returned to the restaurant with a big smile and waited there silently for the dinner time.

Nevertheless, Wu Hai just looked at his watch attentively and waited very patiently for the business time of dinner.

The watch had been specially adjusted according to the clock in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. There was even a tiny interlude concerning that.

“This clock is slow, isn’t it?” Wu Hai said sensitively.

Other customers beside him also echoed affirmatively, “Yes, it’s slow. Boss Yuan, your clock is three minutes slower than Beijing Time.”

“Humm. The clock has been working for so many years,” with a nod, Yuan Zhou said bluntly.

“I can help you to adjust the time. I’m able to handle this kind of spring wound clock.” A customer said enthusiastically.

In order to prove his word, he specially revealed the spring wound watch on his wrist.

“No need. It’s too high to reach,” Yuan Zhou looked at the clock that almost reached the ceiling and said dumbly.

“I can provide a ladder.” Man Man put up her hand.

It seemed that they all volunteered to offer help to make the time right. What a joke! If they could manage to adjust it three minutes earlier, they would likewise wait for three minutes less. From this perspective, it was merely an easy job to adjust the clock.

Even if it was a spring wound clock and even hung at the top of the wall, the foodies were no way to stop.

“It’s unnecessary. I feel it’s fairly good that way. Then you guys can stay here for three minutes more,” said Yuan Zhou earnestly.

“It truly makes sense. But why do I feel something is off?” Man Man looked at other companions with puzzlement.

As for those companions of hers, they didn’t find anything wrong in that short instant. As a result, Yuan Zhou muddled through.

As a matter of fact, the total business time neither increased nor decreased. After all, Yuan Zhou opened and closed the restaurant as per his own clock time. He didn’t open the restaurant according to Beijing Time nor closed it according to his own clock time. Therefore, the total business time still remained the same.

Smart and clever as Wu Hai was, he specially bought a watch and made it the same time to that of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.

The three minutes before breakfast was an extraordinarily tough time, especially for Wu Hai who had only drunk plain boiled water and didn’t eat anything for lunch.

“Time for dinner, everybody,” said Zhou Jia at the last second before the dinner hours.

“Shoop shoop”. The first ten customers got seated immediately as if they had used the skill of sliding over the water. They seemed to be waiting for nothing but ordering the dishes.

Fortunately, Zhou Jia was quite used to that.

Actually, these people were truly like those elderly men and women who went to buy the vegetables when the supermarket opened the door.

Every morning, the supermarkets would sell vegetables at discounted prices like the Chinese cabbage at 0.25 RMB/kg. Having once worked as a cashier in a supermarket, Zhou Jia felt they resembled those old people.

Every time they came to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant for meals, the seemingly tepid and urbane white-collar workers moved far extraordinarily fast as if they had eaten a magical elixir.

“Good evening, you are back.” Yuan Zhou caught sight of Wu Hai who sat opposite to him very easily.

“Humm. Get me all the new dishes, please,” said Wu Hai generously.