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Chapter 35: Received over a dozen orders in one go

Because no one wanted to go out, everyone ordered takeout, and by midday, some good restaurants were overwhelmed with orders.

Shiweitian Fast Food Restaurant is a well-known fast food restaurant in Jinshi.

The food is fresh, the portions are generous, and the price is reasonable.

A boxed lunch costing 15 yuan, consisting of 3 meat dishes, 2 vegetable dishes, and a soup, is a popular choice for many people's lunch and dinner.

Even on a sweltering midday, the restaurant has no air conditioning, only fans, and the dine-in area is always packed with people.

"You have a new food delivery order. Please check it."

"You have a new delivery order..."

"..."

The announcements of food delivery orders started ringing continuously from 11 o'clock, with an order coming in almost every one or two minutes.

Sometimes several orders come in at once, and the announcements keep coming.

Zhao Feng and his wife were constantly busy packing lunchboxes, occasionally going to the kitchen to urge them to add more dishes, and cleaning up the tables left by the guests. Sometimes they didn't even have time to collect the money, relying entirely on the guests to pay on their own initiative.

"Brother Zhao, the orders from the 25th and 28th." A delivery rider entered the store and hurriedly took away two orders.

"Hey, Xiao Qi, why don't you take the order for the 26th too? You'll get extra money." Zhao Feng called out to him and asked.

Rider Xiao Qi revealed a face reddened by the sun, with even his lips chapped and dry. He gave a wry smile and said, "Brother Zhao, I really can't deliver that many. This weather is insanely hot. I suspect I'm about to be steamed alive."

"If it weren't for the mortgage payments, and if I hadn't drunk a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water before going out, I really wouldn't have dared to leave the house."

"To earn more money, I don't even have time to drink water."

"Today's weather is over 40 degrees Celsius outside, even higher than yesterday. I heard that yesterday two delivery riders collapsed from heatstroke while delivering food at midday, and one of them couldn't be saved."

"Making money is important, but life is important too."

"I plan to finish these two deliveries around noon, then take a break and continue delivering later in the afternoon."

After saying that, Xiao Qi left without further delay.

Zhao Feng looked at the few remaining delivery riders, almost all gone, and the huge pile of food delivery orders, feeling a real headache coming on.

He increased the delivery fee for the riders, but still no riders were willing to accept the orders.

Zhao Feng sighed with a worried look, "Does this mean we have to turn down so many orders and not make any money, and just cancel them?"

"Should I deliver it?" Zhao Feng's wife suggested.

“No.” Zhao Feng decisively rejected his wife’s suggestion. “You’re pregnant, even though it’s early stages, you still need to be careful. Besides, in this hot weather, even if I go out to deliver it myself, I can’t let you do it.”

However, he can't deliver them himself; the store is currently relying mainly on him for income.

Looking at the dozen or so orders he had already accepted on his phone, Zhao Feng gritted his teeth and decided to cancel them.

Just as Zhao Feng was about to cancel these orders, the order page suddenly changed.

"Hey, finally a rider accepted the order!"

"Really? Let me see?" Zhao Feng's wife, Li Meiyun, also came over to take a look.

If a rider accepts the order, then the order doesn't need to be cancelled.

Although the order-taking platforms on Meituan and Ele.me take a cut, you can still make money by selling more products at a lower profit margin.

These days, the economic situation is getting worse and worse, so we should try to earn as much as we can.

"The rider's name is Chai Jianguo. That name sounds a lot like my grandfather's name." Zhao Feng usually doesn't look at riders' names, but he did today.

But after he scrolled down through the dozen or so papers, he discovered—

"How come all of these orders were accepted by this rider named Chai Jianguo?!"

"You've received over a dozen orders at the same time, how can you deliver them all?" Li Meiyun peeked out and found that it was indeed true.

"Hello, comrade." Just as Zhao Feng and his wife were surprised, a male voice suddenly rang out, carrying a strong rural accent.

As soon as those words were spoken, the two noticed that the previously stuffy shop seemed to have cooled down a bit.

Is it an illusion?

Hello comrade? Did the police come to their store?

Zhao Feng looked up and saw no police officers at all. Standing in front of him, the one who had just spoken, was a man who looked to be in his thirties or forties and dressed like a beggar.

No, even today's beggars are dressed better than him.

He looks over 1.7 meters tall, but his body is as thin as a stick.

Seeing Zhao Feng looking at him, Chai Jianguo subconsciously smiled.

"Daddy, it smells delicious, and there's meat too~" At this moment, Zhao Feng heard a soft, sweet, and childish voice coming from behind the man.

Upon closer inspection, Zhao Feng and his wife saw that the man was carrying a large basket on his back, inside which was a little girl who looked to be two or three years old.

The little girl was timid, like a little rabbit with some yellow fur. She looked malnourished, very thin, and timid.

Zhao Feng and his wife, who had long been parents themselves, couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

The little girl's gaze was fixed on the dishes that Zhao Feng and his wife had laid out, and she stared at them intently.

Chai Jianguo looked in the direction his daughter was looking and gasped.

There are so many dishes! It's such a great spread!

There were vegetables, braised pork, chicken, fish, and a pork knuckle that looked tender and delicious...

Chai Jianguo thought, even during the era of communal dining, there weren't such lavish dishes.

No household, not even the village chief's, could possibly have this much food and meat during the Lunar New Year.

Seeing so much food, how could the father and daughter, who had starved to death, remain unmoved?

But Chai Jianguo knew that the food belonged to someone else.

So he still managed to look away with difficulty.

"Are you hungry? Want something to eat? Let me pack some for you." Li Meiyun could tell from their clothes that they were beggars who had come in to ask for food, and the way their eyes lit up when they saw food, how many days had they been starving?
They had encountered beggars before, and instead of chasing them away, they would give them a meal, which was considered as accumulating good karma for their unborn child.

Li Meiyun quickly and efficiently packed a full boxed lunch, then took out another box, put some of each dish in it, and topped it with a fish that was almost overflowing.

Two packed lunchboxes were handed to Chai Jianguo. "Here, eat."

Chai Jianguo didn't expect that as soon as he came in, someone would offer him something to eat. He had just seen the contents of the two boxes.

One box is full of rice, and the other box is full of vegetables and meat.

What did Chai Jianguo eat before? Black steamed buns that always stung his throat, and wild vegetable porridge so thin you could count the grains of rice…

Let alone rice, even refined grains are rarely eaten, let alone meat.

But now, upon meeting him, they gave him these two boxes of expensive food.

Chai Jianguo suddenly realized that there are so many good people in modern society.

but……

"No, no, no, I can't take it."

"I'm here to work."

"My name is Chai Jianguo, I'm a delivery rider, here to deliver food!" Chai Jianguo hurriedly explained, holding up his phone.

"What?! You're Chai Jianguo, the rider who just completed over a dozen orders?!" Zhao Feng exclaimed in surprise.

(End of this chapter)