254: Chapter 253: Shattering Pride (Part 2) 254: Chapter 253: Shattering Pride (Part 2) Xu Niannian t these people for the first ti and found each one to be incredibly handso.
After seeing off these friends who seed like Jin Yu’s clones, evening soon arrived.
Jin Yu’s hospital room had an adjacent bed for overnight companions.
Xu Niannian slept on it, and though Jin Yu’s bed was big and he originally wanted Xu Niannian to sleep with him, considering they weren’t married yet, he had to suppress the idea.
In the middle of the night, Xu Niannian heard faint noises.
As she turned over, she saw Jin Yu frowning deeply, clearly asleep, yet very restless.
He was in so much pain that he couldn’t even sleep peacefully.
He wouldn’t admit it or cry out in pain, but the fact that he was seriously injured was undeniable.
Xu Niannian felt terrible for him.
She went over to his bed and instinctively took his hand.
But she underestimated Jin Yu’s level of vigilance.
As soon as she grabbed his hand, Jin Yu’s eyes “whooshed” open.
At the sa ti, he flipped his hand over and gripped hard, and with a “snap,” Xu Niannian cried out in pain.
“Jin Yu, you’re gonna kill !” Xu Niannian shouted.
Finally realizing sothing was wrong, Jin Yu was startled and imdiately let go of Xu Niannian.
“Niannian, why is it you?”
Anxious, Jin Yu jumped out of bed and pulled Xu Niannian over.
With her hand covered, Xu Niannian’s little face turned deathly pale from the pain.
“Jin Yu, you didn’t break my hand, did you?”
Her soft voice carried a pitiful tone.
Jin Yu was imdiately filled with regret.
“Let see.”
Xu Niannian, trembling, extended her hand, and in a fit of pique, bit his arm.
His hard muscles were tough on the teeth.
After examining her hand, Jin Yu found it was only dislocated, not fractured, and he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
“It’s okay, it’s just dislocated.”
Hearing it was dislocated, Xu Niannian slapped him again.
“Go die, will you?
Just dislocated, what more do you want?”
Jin Yu knew he was at fault and ekly offered his face.
“Do you want to hit to blow off so steam?”
Xu Niannian was practically beside herself with anger.
“Forget it, it’s not like you did it on purpose.”
She just hadn’t expected his vigilance to be so high.
Thinking about sharing a bed after getting married, Xu Niannian shuddered.
Would she end up being broken in two if she accidentally touched him in her sleep?
Seeing Xu Niannian distracted, Jin Yu seized the mont when she wasn’t paying attention, and with a “crack,” he set her hand back in place.
Xu Niannian scread again, this ti even more piercingly.
So, patients in the other rooms of the hospital were awoken, trembling and hiding under their blankets in fear.
Oh my god, I’ve got to leave the hospital tomorrow.
This place is haunted by a female ghost.
In the hospital room, after getting soft punches and kicks from Xu Niannian, Jin Yu caught her and took her to bed to cuddle and sleep.
“This way, I won’t hurt you again.”
Xu Niannian’s imdiate reaction was just silence.
Before long, holding Xu Niannian, Jin Yu was fast asleep.
He seed more peaceful than before.
Xu Niannian didn’t struggle and playfully poked his forehead, whispering softly, “Idiot.”
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Three days flew by in the blink of an eye.
Xu Niannian left the hospital with breakfast for Jin Yu and, under his reluctant gaze, left.
With nurses around during the day, Xu Niannian confidently left Jin Yu behind.
Back at the shop, it was peak dining ti, and the number of custors had increased by half compared to when she had left.
Though business wasn’t as booming as before, it was no longer as bleak as when the rival shop had first started to take their business.
Seeing Xu Niannian enter, one of the custors said, “Boss, I’ve tried a lot, but your beef butter noodles are still the best.
The ones from across the street can’t hold a candle to yours.”
Xu Niannian smiled with pursed lips, “I’m glad you like it.”
Chard by her smile, the custor was ecstatic, grinning from ear to ear.
Xu Niannian then headed to the kitchen.
Today, Yang Cuihua wasn’t at the shop, and since it wasn’t the weekend, Xu Sisi was also absent.
There were only three employees and Xu Zhiqiang in the store.
Upon entering the kitchen, Xu Niannian asked Chen Xiaorou, “How’s the competition doing lately?”
Startled by Xu Niannian’s sudden voice as she was adding seasonings, Chen Xiaorou jumped, “Ah, Niannian, when did you get back?”
“Just now.” Xu Niannian saw Qin Feng washing dishes on the side and asked Chen Xiaorou, “How’s the business at the rival shop these past two days?”
As soon as that topic ca up, Chen Xiaorou livened up, “Niannian, you really hit the nail on the head.
Their business couldn’t stay hot for that long.
The day you left, our business slowly started to pick up.”
“I guess everyone still thinks ours tastes better, but indeed, half the custors were lured away.
Those who still co to our place seem to be in better financial shape.”
This was within Xu Niannian’s expectations.
Indeed, given a clear choice, barring the price difference, people would definitely prefer coming to her place.
So now, those who ca to her restaurant were mostly better off, at least not willing to save that bit of money, only willing to go for the tastier option.
It seems that the rival restaurant hasn’t changed their prices yet.
Leaving the kitchen, Xu Niannian went over to Xu Zhiqiang and asked him, “Did that woman co looking for in the store?”
Xu Zhiqiang knew who Xu Niannian was referring to and replied, “She did co.
Just like you instructed, I told her to co back after three days.
She seed pretty desperate.
What on earth did you tell her?”
Xu Niannian lifted her lips slightly, “Nothing much, just helped her analyze how long before her family’s shop would close, that’s all.”
Actually, it wasn’t just that.
Xu Niannian simply helped her analyze the outco of her family’s shop’s vicious competition.
While the two were talking, Du Wenwen arrived.
The reason she ca so promptly was that she happened to see Xu Niannian return while she was in the store.
Both shops were just across the street, the road wasn’t very wide, and with Xu Niannian in a white long dress, in an era where most wore black, blue, and grey, the occasional few wearing brightly colored clothes stood out—so Du Wenwen spotted Xu Niannian at first glance.
As soon as Du Wenwen entered the shop, Zhao Pang looked at her with an unfriendly expression, nearly throwing her out.
Walking straight over to Xu Niannian, Du Wenwen’s youthful face was confident and defiant, “We need to talk.”
Xu Niannian curled her lips, “I don’t have ti now, let’s talk later.”
“You…” Du Wenwen’s face flushed with anger.
Xu Niannian spoke calmly, “Since you’ve co, it ans I’ve guessed right about the situation in your family’s shop.
If you want to ask for help, you should adopt the right attitude for it.”
Having said that, Xu Niannian turned, walked from the front of the counter to the back, pulled open a drawer, took Xu Zhiqiang’s account book, and leisurely sat down to look through it.
Actually, there wasn’t much to the account book; she was just aiming to make Du Wenwen wait.
She did not care for those with too much pride.
Being proud of one’s own abilities was one thing, but it was another when soone’s pride ca with copying her stuff; that wasn’t appealing.
Though the person in question was indeed the talent Xu Niannian needed, she wasn’t about to blindly recruit everyone under her command.
She needed to see if this person was fit to use.
Though Du Wenwen was infuriated, she knew her family’s situation wouldn’t last much longer.
She could only turn around indignantly and head to the cornermost table in the store, sitting there to wait.
In fact, her family’s situation was even worse than what Xu Niannian had analyzed.
With business getting worse and her father lying in the hospital every day costing money, she ran to Xu Niannian’s restaurant, hoping to discover the secret recipe for Butter Sauce through her abilities.
The reason their Butter Noodles tasted so good was because of the Butter Sauce and the broth Xu Niannian had stewed.
After a week’s ti, she had finally figured out most of the seasonings.
After experinting a few days ago and realizing that, although the taste wasn’t quite there, it was indeed delicious, she let her mother start selling it.
She just hadn’t expected her mother to crazily change the na and the price as well.
Exactly because of this, Du Wenwen had fought with her mother several tis.
Copying sobody else’s recipe to compete was already unethical, let alone stealing their pricing and na.
This level of vicious competition was sothing Du Wenwen did not wish to see.
Xu Niannian analyzed their situation in a note, and certainly, she was right.
Instead of earning three cents, her family’s shop couldn’t make a penny and was even losing money.
Because her mother was giving away too much Butter Sauce.
Butter Sauce was costly to produce; just the beef cost a lot of money, not to ntion the other spices.
With the situation of her family’s shop now, it wouldn’t be long before not only could they not make money, but they’d also have to keep pouring money into it.
The reason that made Du Wenwen anxious to find Xu Niannian was a sentence Xu Niannian had written at the end of the note.
“I can change the profit situation of your family’s shop.”
Just one sentence had shattered Du Wenwen’s pride.
For money, she would do anything.
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