Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 479 A Little Bit Erotic

Xiao Wei was stunned. Chen Hui raised his hand and said, "I was wrong, I admit my guilt. When we get back, Xiao Wei and I will fire all the waiters. From now on, Xiao Wei and I will do the serving and cleaning. We'll fire all the kitchen helpers and let Lao Wu do it all. Hey? Xiao Wei is a chef too. Okay, I'll do the cooking, and Xiao Wei can prepare the dishes. We can even save the chef's money and use it to buy you two clothes, okay?"

Xia Maosheng glanced at Xiao Wei and said, "That won't work, will it? Who'll do it on my side then? Xiao Wei will have to do it all day!"

Everyone laughed, and the owner said, "You guys run a restaurant too? Where is it located?"

Xiao Wei said, "In Fengtian, I'm just a nobody. I didn't go to school much, and I can't do anything else. She was studying in Fengtian, so she had to find something to do there. That's how we opened this place together."

Chen Xiao asked, "Boss, how much would it cost for us to stay and eat for a day? Just for this one table?"

The boss glanced at his wife and said, "This is nothing, we're all family here. Director Li called to say hello, and the bureau will settle the bill. You don't need to worry about it."

Chen Xiao said, "No, I just wanted to ask, how much does it cost per day to stay in that kind of room? And how much does a meal normally cost?"

The owner said, "That room costs 81 yuan a day to sell. This meal, prepared like this, would cost around 200 yuan, 250 yuan, that's about right. And you didn't drink any alcohol." His wife reached out and patted him. The owner paused for a moment, then waved his hand and laughed, saying, "No, no, I was just calculating the dishes and forgot about that. Don't worry about it."

Chen Xiao said, "Three meals a day, a simple breakfast, let's say 100, that's 600 a day. Lodging is 240, that's 840 a day. That's 140 per person on average, really not expensive. At this price, how can we make a profit?"

Geng Hui leaned against Xiao Hong and laughed, saying, "You don't have a concept of money because you're not short of it. You feel that 140 is nothing, but for two people a day, that's 280. Nowadays, a regular worker's monthly salary is only a little over 400. I work at a bank and only make 350 or 360 a month. How many days can that cover?"

Xia Maosheng said, "There are no more than four hundred. The average worker at the mining bureau earns only three hundred and a half points. Occasionally, a worker might earn three hundred and fifty points in a month or two, which is considered good."

Chen Hui said, "Right now in Fengtian, right here in Heping, a three-star hotel costs only ninety yuan a night, and a regular small hotel costs at most twenty or thirty yuan a night. There are ten or fifteen yuan hotels everywhere. If two people spend a day in Fengtian, including food, accommodation, and entrance fees, it will only cost a little over one hundred yuan."

Chen Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Really? It would cost three hundred just to go up and down the TV tower and have a meal."

Xiao Wei laughed and said, "How many times have you been there? Do you see how many people eat up there? Usually, people just go up to look at the scenery and then come down. Some people even bring their own bread up there."

The boss said, "You can't compare like that. There are so many people in Fengtian, the base number is different. If I had that many people here, I could be cheaper than them. No way. These prices were figured out bit by bit. In the first year I almost lost my children's money. Besides, if you book this place, don't you have to give some favors during holidays and other times? You'll have to cut the cost out of your earnings, won't you?"

Xiao Wei nodded: "These days, nothing is easy."

Xia Maosheng calculated for a long time, then asked doubtfully, "So you won't make much money in a year? Maybe a hundred thousand yuan?"

The boss shook his head and said, "Maybe. I can make 200,000 yuan. I've been doing this for three years, and it's basically always been like this. I've never made more than 250,000 yuan. After all the miscellaneous expenses, I'll only have a few tens of thousands of yuan left. Anyway, it's definitely better than working from home. It's just that with our bodies, I haven't been out of the county town for several months in a year."

Xiao Wei said, "Then why not go further in and go to Tanggou? Renting a small pond there wouldn't cost more than 100,000 yuan a year, right?"

The boss chuckled and shook his head, glancing at his wife before saying, "I wouldn't dare do that. It does make more money than what I do here, but there's a lot more work. It's full of hooligans and scoundrels, always looking for trouble and asking for money, and they even have to seduce you, you know? If they bring their own customers and you don't, you won't get any. You can't make money relying on families coming to play. Besides, the contract fees over there aren't low either."

Xiao Hong paused for a moment and asked, "What do you mean, 'a little bit erotic'?" Geng Hui also looked at the boss in confusion. Only Chen Xiao pouted and nudged Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong turned to look at Chen Xiao, her big eyes full of incomprehension.

Xiao Wei said, "It's just that you need a woman to sleep with you, what's wrong with that? It seems like this is happening more and more everywhere now."

Xiao Hong opened her mouth wide, blushed, glanced at Geng Hui, and remained silent.

The boss laughed and said, "That's right. I wouldn't dare touch this. No matter what you do, do you think you can escape a hooligan charge if there's even the slightest hint of trouble? Even if you're not convicted, the fines are unbearable. The few you earn in a year aren't even enough to pay one fine."

"I can't afford to go through all that trouble. I was thinking of making some money to buy a truck and run a transport business, but now even that's not viable. I don't dare to do it anymore. Forget it, I'm not thinking about it anymore. I'll just stay here. Anyway, that's enough to support the kids and my wife."

The boss's wife stood up and turned on the lights. It was evening, and usually it wasn't time to turn on the lights yet, but today it was raining, and it was pitch black inside and outside.

The boss looked out the window and said to his wife, "The wind is a bit strong today, so we can't go up into the lake. I'll go check first thing tomorrow morning."

Chen Hui asked, "What are you looking at?"

The owner said, "I set up a net in the lake, so you have to catch these fish one by one to eat them."

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Chen Hui got excited and said, "You booked this hotel along with the reservoir? So you can catch and sell fish?"

The owner shook his head and said, "How could that be? Renting this lake costs much more than renting this hotel. I just got a good deal. The restaurant can set a net and sell the fish there, but if they can't sell them, they'll only get a few hundred or a thousand fish a year. Nobody would do that much more."

His wife stood up, looked outside for a while, and said, "Why don't we go check? It's not dark yet. We don't want to miss it and find nothing tomorrow. If it's gone, we'll have to start all over again, which is such a hassle."

The boss glanced outside, took a puff of his cigarette, and said, "Alright, I'll take the boat over and check it out. Would you like to go up on the lake? My boat has a canopy, so you won't get wet. You can see the lake view in the rain; you definitely won't see that normally."

His wife said, "Pregnant women who get seasick shouldn't go; it rocks too much and is dangerous."

Chen Hui stood up and said, "None of you three should go. Xiao Wei, Lao Xia, and I will go and have a look around and experience it."

The three of them followed the boss out the back door and walked towards the lake. The hotel was on the side of the road, and to get to the lake, they had to walk down the slope and steps. There was a drop of more than ten meters between the lake and the road.

(End of this chapter)