Chapter 7 (1/2)

Translated by Yan of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

The entire ChaoYang Street knew everything that happened at XiQin Restaurant that night. However, they knew that there was a handsome guy there before they knew that there were tasty noodles.

At the end of the month, when Old Man Yang balanced his books, he was given a fright when he saw that he had made more than five times the usual amount. This restaurant had been open for so many years, but he had never made that much money before in a month. Even though he did typically accept money, he had never calculated it, since he opened the restaurant merely because it was a hobby. It had been open for so many years too, so he couldn’t bear to close it, which was why money wasn’t the most important point. As a result, naturally he didn’t count his money every day, but then when he counted at the end of the month, there was actually so much more.

Old Man Yang was elderly, so he didn’t know the effect of the Internet. Normally he was somebody who didn’t even use a cell phone, and besides the landline in his house, he rarely even called people. So he didn’t know at all that these were the blessings conferred by worshipping those microblogs that had Lin ShuYi’s face on them.

However, even though he didn’t know how his shop grew so popular, he still knew that these were all tied to Lin ShuYi, because the majority of people in the shop were an unending flow of young women. Now, slowly even people who were very far away would run over to come eat, and the amount of young people in the store increased all at once. No matter what, it had something to do with Lin ShuYi.

Lin ShuYi formally took over Old Man Yang’s work at last, and he was completely qualified for the role. Every morning, he got up and boiled the broth and sauce, and Old Man Yang could be a little lazier and sleep in for two more hours.

Old Man Yang carefully counted the money once more before he separated half of it. “Xiao Yi, come over here for a moment.”

Lin ShuYi was currently boiling soup in the kitchen, and he wore a clean white cotton T-shirt, light blue jeans, as well as an apron with a funny cartoon bear on it. “Grandpa, what’s up?”

Old Man Yang beamed at this gentle and handsome young lad, and he handed over the money. “Here’s Xiao Yi’s pay.”

Lin ShuYi narrowed his eyes. The amount of money in Old Man Yang’s hand was at least several times the usual amount, how could he not tell? “Grandpa, it’s too much.”

Old Man Yang stuffed the money into Lin ShuYi’s hand. “What do you mean? It’s not too much. You help out grandpa with everything now, so you earned this money. If you don’t want it, grandpa doesn’t dare to keep telling you to do things.”

In the end, Lin ShuYi wasn’t someone from this world. Even though he knew that money was very useful, he never had an extreme notion of what money was. So in his mind, as long as Old Man Yang was happy, it would be fine no matter how much money he gave him. As a result, Lin ShuYi didn’t refuse it, and he put the money away in his pouch.

When Old Man Yang saw him put it away, he also grew happy. He was already so old now, so it wasn’t as if he sought money. Even though this restaurant was his, and everything that was eaten and used was also his, he was still willing to give Lin ShuYi money. What’s more, the increase in money was partly because of Lin ShuYi’s contribution in the first place.

Lin ShuYi was already thoughtful enough, but Old Man Yang still couldn’t help but think: it would be great if his grandson was as good as Lin ShuYi. If that was the case, he would probably be able to wake up from his dreams smiling.

“Xiao Yi ah, where did you put all your money?”

“In my home.”

When Old Man Yang heard that, he shook his head. “How can you leave it in your home? That’s not safe. How about this, you’re already eighteen years old. Grandpa will take you to a bank in a few days to store the money, and when you need it you can withdraw it.”

Lin ShuYi nodded. “Okay.”

Lin ShuYi had been in XiQin Restaurant for three months now. When he counted the money that Old Man Yang had given him, he found that he actually had more than ten thousand. When Old Man Yang saw that that money had been casually placed in the bedside dresser by Lin ShuYi, it made his heart leap with fear.

“You silly child, how can you put money here? What if it’s stolen?”

Even though the folklore surrounding ChaoYang Street was pretty good, there was no guarantee that there wouldn’t be people with greedy, evil hearts who targeted it.

Lin ShuYi had never considered this. Before, he had just placed the silver he had received inside of a small box and locked it before putting it in a cabinet. He didn’t really see any problems with putting his money here now either.

All in all, Old Man Yang was older, so he carefully found a piece of cloth to wrap up the money in. He wrapped numerous layers around it, and then he placed it in an unremarkable but very sturdy bag. Grandpa and grandson left and went to the bank.

Not far away from ChaoYang Street, there was an X Commercial Bank. It was the closest one, so it was easy to store it and convenient to withdraw.

Since it was still working hours, there weren’t that many people in the bank. However, there were still a few people in the line. This was the first time Lin ShuYi came to such a place, and he was inevitably curious. He looked left and right before he finally took out the pamphlet from next to the seat to read.

“XX Bank current financial management… interest rates… earnings…”

Lin ShuYi read it through once with difficulty. He memorized it all, but he just didn’t really understand it. As he was reading, the electronic voice on the other end had already announced a number. Lin ShuYi looked at the call number in his hand and walked up according to Old Man Yang’s beckoning gesture.

At least 12,000 RMB, all deposited. Old Man Yang decided to use the remaining two thousand to buy a cell phone for Lin ShuYi.

Even though Old Man Yang was old and didn’t need it, Lin ShuYi was still young. He was clever and learned quickly, so he should be able to figure out how to play with it very fast. Only Lin ShuYi didn’t have a cellphone in today’s age. He was smart and thoughtful, and even though he had money he didn’t ask to buy one.

How could he have known that it wasn’t that Lin ShuYi didn’t want to buy one, but rather he had only ever seen cell phones on television. He simply didn’t understand them, so naturally he had no desire to go buy one. After all, he thought that you used cellphones to make calls, but there was nobody Lin ShuYi could call.

Lin ShuYi wasn’t actually that interested in cellphones, but since Old Man Yang said to go buy one, he didn’t refuse. In any case, there was nothing much he wanted to buy besides food. For him, money wasn’t all that useful.

Old Man Yang didn’t really understand cellphones because he was old. He could only listen to the sales assistant’s introductions.