latelenovela Chapter 121 Being targeted
Chapter 121 Being targeted
The next day, Lu Hai woke up Jiang Wenbai who was still sleeping early.
Let him look after the store. After all, even though it's Kyoto, it's not peaceful these days.
Plus, there are a lot of idle people in Kyoto right now, so who knows, someone might come to the store and cause trouble.
I have to go to the market to wholesale the ingredients, so Jiang Wenbai naturally needs to keep an eye on things here.
After a simple wash, Lu Hai went out and just in time saw Yang Huaiding and Luo Yongfeng pushing a cart.
Seeing this, Lu Hai took the three of them directly to the slaughterhouse.
When the boss saw Lu Hai and his friends coming, he also smiled happily.
There are still only a few people who really do wholesale these days, so Lu Hai and his companions could only go to the slaughterhouse to discuss things with these bosses.
Fortunately, because Lu Hai needs a large quantity, the price they offer is much more favorable than the retail price.
Lu Hai can still afford this tiny price difference, but the issue of the source of the ingredients must be resolved. After all, in the long run, the extra money will be quite a lot.
However, Lu Hai has no good clues at the moment, so the plan can only be shelved for the time being.
"Young comrade, are you planning to purchase more goods?" the boss greeted with a smile.
"Yes, boss, give us 500 kilograms of beef, 300 kilograms of mutton, and..." Lu Hai had already made the list last night, so he just had to read it out.
This is only for noon. The flow of people at noon is probably not as much as at night, so the amount of ingredients Lu Hai prepared is not too much.
However, in order to prevent the situation where there was not enough food last night, I still prepared more than yesterday at noon.
Even if I can’t sell them, I still have the refrigerator and other things to keep them in the evening. It’s better than having customers come with high expectations and leave disappointed.
As for the evening, I will prepare the food after considering the situation at noon.
After all, for hotpot, fresh ingredients and stale ingredients have two different tastes.
Therefore, fresh meat that has just been slaughtered at the slaughterhouse will naturally be much better than meat that has been stored for a while.
Soon, the necessary meat was prepared. As for the vegetarian dishes, Lu Hai asked Luo Yongfeng and Lai Anbang to go and prepare them.
After all, the slaughterhouse and the vegetable market are not in the same direction. If we run from one place to another, it will be too troublesome and time-consuming. It would be much faster than splitting our forces into two groups.
However, several people returned to the store at the same time.
The sun had just come out at this time.
Seeing this, several young guys quickly worked together to move all the ingredients to the kitchen.
Afterwards, several people divided the work and some cut vegetables, while others prepared breakfast.
Lu Hai recorded the money he spent in the morning into his account.
When everything was ready, it was already past nine in the morning.
At this time, several people also started to eat breakfast.
The rural guys had big appetites, and they were worried that they would be too busy to eat at noon, so Lu Hai asked them to eat more. After all, they would be busy until the afternoon.
So, for this breakfast, the few of them ate a large bowl of noodles and two pounds of meat.
However, this is naturally just a drizzle for Lu Hai and is not worth mentioning.
After breakfast, we start preparing for the opening at noon.
After cutting the remaining meat and vegetables, it was already 11 o'clock in the morning.
Lu Hai naturally opened the shop door as well.
In order to completely attract the flow of people, Lu Hai also specially wrote a sign.
[Big opening promotion, within seven days of opening, order hot pot and get a pound of meat for free]
Although a portion of meat was given as soon as one entered the store, with yesterday's successful start and the fact that this method was indeed feasible, the few people did not ask Lu Hai as they did yesterday.
Although the meat was delivered for seven consecutive days, the money from the meat must have been quite high.
But as Lu Hai said, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb...
As Lu Hai opened for business, customers began to come in one after another.
With the first experience yesterday, the few people today were not as flustered as yesterday.
With division of labor and cooperation, although it is busy, everything is still well organized.
Seeing this, Lu Hai nodded secretly. It was worthwhile for him to take classes with them in the morning...
Gradually, more and more people came into the store, especially the leaders from Beijing Railway No. 1 Factory who came yesterday. Lu Hai also saw many familiar faces.
After all, Director Niu was chatting and laughing with Lu Hai yesterday, and Uncle Liu and others were present in person to show their support, so these smart guys naturally wanted to see if they could get in touch with Lu Hai.
As for what these people were thinking, Lu Hai naturally knew it at a glance, but he did not look down on them in his heart.
After all, isn’t it true that one has to fight for one’s own connections?
Moreover, these people may be able to help you in the future.
So Lu Hai accepted all their smiles.
Soon, the store was bustling with activity.
Lu Hai took a quick look and found that the attendance rate was at least 80 percent.
This is already a very good result for the catering industry, although it has not reached the point where the entire store is packed with people queuing up.
But don't forget, it's only noon now. According to your situation yesterday, the evening is when the busiest flow of people occurs.
Therefore, Lu Hai estimated that today's turnover would only be higher, not lower than yesterday's.
After all, there is no such thing as free meals today.
Moreover, with yesterday's experience, Lu Hai will naturally prepare more meat today.
At the same time, on the street opposite the hot pot restaurant, a gangster saw the hot pot restaurant opened by Lu Hai and quickly said to another gangster next to him,
"Brother, this store is doing good business, and this is not a state-owned guesthouse. I think we can..."
With the opening up of policies, some gangsters have also tasted the sweetness over this period of time.
Although restaurants are a minority nowadays, some people open grocery stores.
These shops opened by ordinary people have no official background, so naturally they become popular in the eyes of gangsters.
They will make a lot of trouble first, but if you want to do business in peace, just pay some protection money.
Although these shop owners will call the police.
However, there is less surveillance these days, and the difficulty of arresting people is much greater than in later generations.
In addition, the public security in Kyoto was far from as stable as in later generations. So even though it was under the emperor's feet, such incidents were common, and there wasn't enough time to catch the thugs who extorted a few dollars from you.
So we will wait until more people report the case and then take unified action.
This will naturally make some small gangsters more rampant. They will move to another place after shooting, fight guerrilla warfare with your police, run to other areas, and make more money.
Moreover, they never mess with guesthouses with official backgrounds, but always look for individual shop owners like this.
In this situation, unless there is an order from above and all districts act together, no matter how angry the police are, there is no good solution.
And these few have just fled here from other areas.
Seeing that Lu Hai’s hotpot restaurant is doing such a good business, people naturally think that it is a big fat sheep.
"There are many people in the store now, so let's come over later. The business is so booming, it should not be difficult to get a few hundred dollars. After we finish this deal, we can live a carefree life for two or three months." said the gangster who was called the big brother.
"Let's go back first and come back in the evening..."