Feng Ruoruo returned to her grandfather's restaurant and found that there was no one in the restaurant. The little girl immediately became unhappy. The smile she had when she entered the restaurant disappeared, and she shrugged her little head and turned back to her mother.
When Lu Cuiling saw her granddaughter's expression, she immediately asked in surprise, "What's wrong with little Ruoruo? Why are you so unhappy?"
Feng Ruoruo jumped from her mother's arms to her grandmother's arms again. The little girl said with some sadness: "Grandma, there are no customers in the store today. There were so many people when Ruoruo came back yesterday."
Hearing her granddaughter's words, Lu Cuiling immediately understood what she was thinking. She squatted down with a smile and took her granddaughter into her arms.
"Oh, what did I think happened? So it's because there are no customers? This must be Dad's fault. Let's ask Dad to go to the door and shout. Grandma is sure that customers will come soon."
After listening to her grandmother's words, Feng Ruoruo felt that it made sense, so she turned around and wanted to go out and shout in person.
Seeing her granddaughter's eagerness, Lu Cuiling pulled her back and said, "Baby Ruoruo, don't go. Let Dad go. Baby Ruoruo can't go and shout."
Feng Ruoruo shook her head and said to her grandmother, "It's okay, Ruoruo can also shout, Dad has to cook, he is very busy."
Feng Yifan pushed his father-in-law over and said to his daughter, "Okay, no need to shout. The reason why there are no customers is because Dad and Grandpa are trying new dishes inside, so they didn't open the door to welcome customers in."
As he spoke, Feng Yifan asked his wife and parents to look after his father-in-law. He walked to the front of the store and took down the "Temporarily Closed" sign hanging there.
Feng Yifan took down the "Temporarily Closed" sign and opened the door of the restaurant. Sure enough, people started to come in one after another soon.
"It's finally open for business, but we've been waiting for a long time."
"It was indeed a long wait. I watched the video at noon and came here in the afternoon."
"Finally, you guys came here after watching the video, right?"
"Yeah, it seems like everyone is like that, right?"
"Hahaha, that's all."
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Seeing someone coming in, Su Ruoxi pushed her father aside, while Lu Cuiling and Feng Jiandong protected their granddaughter and moved away. Soon, two tables with six or seven people were seated in the restaurant.
Feng Ruoruo's little face immediately broke out into a smile. She took her grandmother's hand and said, "Grandma, look, I told you that Dad's cooking skills are great. Look how many people have come in."
Lu Cuiling smiled and responded to her granddaughter: "Yes, Ruoruo's father is the best."
The little girl naturally lowered her chin with pride after hearing what her grandmother said, and then she shouted to her father, "Dad, hurry up, start cooking."
Feng Yifan turned around and nodded to his daughter, saying, "Okay, then Dad will go to the kitchen. I'll leave this to Ruoruo."
Feng Ruoruo said with a smile: "Okay, Ruoruo will definitely help dad to entertain the guests."
Feng Yifan wanted to say a few more words to his parents, but his mother was even more impatient and didn't give him a chance to speak: "Hurry up and go to the kitchen. We can help you with the preparations here. Don't delay their meal."
Being urged by his mother, Feng Yifan had no choice but to smile bitterly and said to his father, "Dad, you guys take Ruoruo to eat first, otherwise when there are more guests, it may be very late for dinner."
Feng Jiandong understood his son's thoughts and nodded: "Okay, you go to the kitchen first, we will take care of the preparations in the front, we don't have to rush to eat."
Finally, after saying hello to his wife and father-in-law, Feng Yifan quickly walked to the kitchen, turned on the fire and started cooking.
Because her husband did not write down any special dishes today, Su Ruoxi naturally took the menu to the two tables of guests to order.
When Feng Ruoruo saw her mother ordering food, she naturally shook off her grandmother's hand and went to her mother.
When Su Ruoxi saw her daughter coming over, how could she not know what she was thinking? She just wanted to give the menu to her father, so she could only smile and shake the menu in her hand and said, "Don't worry, I haven't ordered yet."
As Su Ji opened for business and welcomed the first batch of customers, the night market in the old street also opened its first round of business in the evening.
When the lights came on, Su Lanxin led a group of people, seemingly accompanying someone, and entered the bustling old street from the west end of the old street.
Su Liancheng did not travel with them. Su Lanxin was accompanied by her personal female secretary and another quiet and pretty woman with a ponytail.
The people Su Lanxin and the others were accompanied by an old man with silver hair and a middle-aged man with a neutral face.
A group of people walked on the old street, passing through the bustling crowd, looking at every shop on the street, but without any intention of entering any of them.
After walking for a while, at Su Lanxin's signal, her personal female secretary said, "As you two have seen, this night market is actually a little less formal nowadays, because there are some other shops interspersed among the restaurants."
The silver-haired old man did not speak, but glanced around, looked at the shops interspersed among them that were not restaurants, and then nodded.
Seeing this, the female secretary continued, "Our President Su has deep feelings for this old street, because President Su can be said to have grown up on this old street, so President Su has always hoped to renovate this old street and turn it into a standard food street.
It’s not like now, with all kinds of shops interspersed among them, which gives people a somewhat chaotic look. "
This time, the middle-aged man spoke up: "We have no objection to your proposal, but I think it is inappropriate for you to completely take over the catering project of the food court."
After the middle-aged man spoke, Su Lanxin did not let the female secretary speak, but asked herself: "Do you think it is inappropriate? Can you tell me the reason?"
Hearing Su Lanxin's words, the silver-haired old man said: "This is a very old food street in Huaicheng. Perhaps under your long-term Western influence, President Su, there are too many non-standard things here.
However, the urban atmosphere here can best reflect the appearance of Huaicheng.
Moreover, we at the Huaicheng Catering Association feel that after the renovation, this place should be a gathering place for the flavors of Huaicheng.”
The middle-aged man took over the words of the silver-haired old man and continued: "So, Mr. Su, I'm afraid that the Western dishes of your catering group cannot represent the taste of Huaicheng, right?"
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, the woman with a ponytail said, "Our chain restaurants have always had Chinese restaurants, and our group's Chinese food is absolutely authentic Huaicheng local flavor."
When the old man and the middle-aged man heard this, they looked at the woman with a ponytail and Su Lanxin in surprise.
Su Lanxin smiled and said, "President Lin, when it comes to the taste of Huaicheng, I should know it as well as you do. You and Director Jiang probably don't know that my father's restaurant is on this street, and it has been open for many years."
The silver-haired old man, Lin Youqi, the president of the Huaicheng Catering Association, looked at Su Lanxin in confusion and asked, "Your father's restaurant? It has always been open on this street? Which one is it?"
Su Lanxin smiled and pointed ahead, saying, "It's the 'Su Ji' near the east."
Lin Youqi looked at Su Lanxin in disbelief and asked, "Is Su Ji your father's restaurant? Is your father the chef Su who participated in the state banquet?"
Su Lanxin nodded again. When someone mentioned that her father had participated in a state banquet, she felt quite proud.
The middle-aged man, Jiang Zhongjian, the director of the Catering Association, still couldn't believe it: "How could it be? I know Su Jinrong, the owner of Su Ji, but why haven't I heard him mention you?"
Su Lanxin's expression dimmed for a moment, but then she smiled and said, "There is an inside story of our family here, and I can't explain it in detail. If Director Jiang doesn't believe it, then we can go to Su's today and you and President Lin can ask him in person."
Lin Youqi and Jiang Zhongjian looked at each other. They vaguely felt that Su Lanxin's invitation to them to the old street for inspection tonight must have been premeditated.