Rebirth 07: Starting with Saving a Bankrupt Restaurant

After hesitating for a long time, Shan Wei finally spoke: "I had some conflicts with others."

"Ouch~ Sister Shiling, it hurts a little, could you be gentler?"

"Just bear with it while I disinfect, I'll try to be gentle," Shi Ling said, her movements becoming lighter as well.

Dan Wei's last delivery was probably a construction site order. The conflict with others must have happened either in the middle of the delivery or on the construction site.

After thinking about it, Zhou Wen roughly understood and had his own guess.

"Who struck first?"

"Them," Shan Wei said through gritted teeth, enduring the pain from the alcohol irritating his wounds.

"You didn't fight back, did you?" Zhou Wen asked.

"My fellow workers protected me."

After wiping with alcohol, Shan Wei relaxed again.

After such a thing happened, Zhou Wen naturally had to ask him about it.

However, there are still quite a few customers at the restaurant, so we'll have to wait until it closes before asking around.

Sometimes Zhou Wen was quite puzzled as to why Shan Wei kept getting into these kinds of troubles, and he didn't know what to say.

However, this incident really cannot be blamed on Shan Wei.

After the restaurant closed for the day, Zhou Wen found Shan Wei, gave him a look, and told him the whole story.

"When I was delivering food to the construction site, I happened to run into the owner of the construction site restaurant."

"There were quite a few people there, so it attracted a lot of attention."

Zhou Wen nodded slightly, then gestured for Shan Wei to continue.

"At that time, two people came up and made trouble. They kept saying all sorts of things, saying that the food in our restaurant was not fresh and that we used some kind of additives."

"Then I got angry and started arguing with them, and it got more and more heated..."

"And then you took action?" Zhou Wen raised an eyebrow.

Dan Wei shrank back and said, "Boss, they started it. I didn't even have a chance to fight back. That guy pushed me down, and just as I was about to stand up and fight back, I was stopped by that group of workers."

"In the end, it was those coworkers who escorted me away and told me not to get angry."

"Then they escorted me away."

After saying that, Shan Wei looked at Zhou Wen with a guilty look on his face, thinking that he would feel much better if his boss scolded him.

However, how could Zhou Wen blame Shan Wei for what happened?

Zhou Wen nodded and said, "Well done."

For a moment, Shan Wei thought he had misheard. His boss hadn't blamed him at all, and even said he had done a good job?

I'm still a bit confused.

This incident had absolutely nothing to do with Shan Wei.

From Shan Wei's words, it is clear that he was responding to someone's slander against the restaurant.

Fortunately, with the help of his fellow workers, Zhou Wen was genuinely a little scared, fearing that Shan Wei might have gotten into a fight with someone in a moment of anger.

Since the other side had a large number of people and it was their territory, Zhou Wen was extremely grateful that he didn't lose any limbs when he came back, regardless of whether he could win the fight.

However, getting revenge is indeed a difficult task, as a canteen on a construction site like this must have some kind of business relationship with the construction site.

I reckon that if something goes wrong, even if we're in the right, it won't do us any good.

On the construction site, the people you can talk to are definitely those standing on the other side.

Zhou Wen nodded and said, "This matter is indeed a bit difficult. After all, it's their territory, so we can only suffer a loss."

"Eat more lunch to replenish your energy, as you still have deliveries to make this afternoon."

After saying that, Zhou Wen patted Shan Wei on the shoulder, then got up and went to the kitchen to prepare the meal.

"Are you alright?" Ren Xuan asked with concern.

Shan Wei shook his head: "It's nothing, just some small things."

Ren Xuan nodded slightly and didn't say anything more.

Shan Wei glanced at Ren Xuan again, but didn't say anything more.

……

In the afternoon, there were still delivery orders from the construction site.

So far, we've had plenty of orders from internet cafes and construction sites every day.

And they have gradually started to order food together as a group.

"Boss, please deliver some food to our construction site around 6 PM."

Zhou Wen also received orders from the construction site.

What happened at noon naturally needs to be prevented from happening again.

So a brief negotiation took place.

Before leaving, Zhou Wen patiently instructed, "I've already told the other workers to go to the other end, away from the canteen, to get it."

"If you can't find me, keep an eye on your phone, or call me."

As Shan Wei put on his helmet, he nodded and said, "Okay, boss."

"If the same thing happens again, don't argue with others. Just deliver the food and leave."

"Understood, boss."

Zhou Wen nodded and watched Shan Wei drive away.

Then they went back to the restaurant to continue cooking. Several workers came to the restaurant along the way, and unexpectedly, they turned out to be the people involved at noon.

Zhou Wen also inquired about the situation from them.

"Your employee got into a conflict with someone at our construction site at noon."

"I've heard him say that."

"That cafeteria owner is usually very stingy. The food there is greasy to the point of being unappetizing, and he always gives out small portions."

One of the workers spoke up.

The other workers nodded in agreement.

"It has some connection with the people on our construction site."

"Boss, it would be great if you could open a restaurant right here at our construction site. Then we wouldn't have to travel so far every day."

Zhou Wen also laughed and said, "Ordering takeout doesn't make much difference."

The other coworker who had spoken shook his head.

"The construction site is in such poor condition that it can't compare to your restaurant."

Zhou Wen also spoke up, saying, "If we encounter something like this again in the future, let's all help each other out."

"Naturally."

The workers responded in kind.

He said he would help, but would he really? Zhou Wen wasn't sure.

However, it's still best to go through this formality.

……

After Shan Wei finished delivering all the orders at the construction site, Zhou Wen asked, "Did you deliver them safely?"

"Yes, it was delivered safely."

Zhou Wen nodded. Since nothing bad had happened, that was the best outcome. Zhou Wen could finally relax a little.

In the following days, the delivery went smoothly and no further incidents occurred.

Just when Zhou Wen thought this was just a minor incident...

However, Shan Wei called one day in the middle of the journey.

"Boss, we can't deliver meals to the construction site; someone's watching over it."

After receiving the call, Zhou Wen hunched over, listening to the call while cooking.

Seeing that her boss was struggling, Ren Xuan took the phone and put it to Zhou Wen's ear.

His mind was racing, trying to come up with a solution.