You are my golden finger

The next evening, Liang Derong brought Lin Dong, Lin Nan and eight people from the breeding group to Qingsong Academy.

Lin Xijin asked the eight members of the planting and breeding team to go to the farm to hand over to the original staff. See if anyone is willing to stay. If there are willing to stay, they will be retained temporarily, and they will be dismissed if they are found to be unsuitable in the future. They will also have to compensate the original owner of the farm for the young crops.

Then he specifically told Lin Dong and Lin Nan to do this and that, and the two of them left.

Three chefs moved into the school cafeteria that night, and the accountant also moved in. The business will officially start tomorrow. Several people checked the original canteen's spare supplies, carried out a handover and liquidation, and finally took over the entire cafeteria smoothly.

Lin Xijin gathered the original staff of the canteen and learned about their original division of labor. There were a total of 18 employees in the entire canteen. One accountant, two purchasers, three chefs, two cooks who made pastries, and the other ten were errand boys who were responsible for cleaning, serving meals, and sweeping.

The two guys with shifty eyes I saw in the morning turned out to be, one the accountant and the other the purchasing agent, both of whom held extremely important positions in the canteen.

Lin Xijin asked them to work according to the original division of labor for the time being, and especially emphasized the newly-released canteen reward and punishment regulations. If anyone violates the regulations, those with serious circumstances will be expelled immediately upon discovery and will never be hired again.

On the first day, Lin Xijin asked the janitor to post the canteen's hygiene standards, various management regulations, and the price list of meals. The canteen's dishes that day were particularly rich, and the students ate them with great praise.

To facilitate management, Lin Xijin printed meal tickets and vegetable tickets. The paper and printing technology used were all produced by the space and could not be imitated by anyone at present.

The accountant posted a notice at the entrance of the canteen, announcing that starting from the next day, cash would not be accepted at the student window for food purchases, only meal and vegetable coupons would be accepted. As a result, the ticket window was crowded with people, and Xihui and others who came to eat could only act as temporary helpers and help out.

There are several private rooms in the canteen, which are usually booked by teachers and students, but the fees are relatively expensive. Lin Xijin asked the shopkeeper to unify the fees and the prices for external banquets for easier management.

The canteen was able to run efficiently and normally once it was taken over, which was beyond the expectations of the headmaster and the teachers. They had originally thought that the canteen would be in chaos for at least a few days. This made them look at the county lord's methods with new eyes.

After eating the food in the canteen, these teachers and their families thought that the food was cheap and delicious, even better than what they cooked themselves. So later on, it became a custom for teachers and their families to go to the canteen to get their meals.

In just three days, Lin Dong and Lin Nan's investigation yielded results.

On the evening of the fourth day, when Lin Xijin was off work, she came to the cafeteria and ordered Lin Dong and Lin Nan to close the entrance and exit of the cafeteria and gather all the employees in the dining hall.

The employees looked at each other, not knowing what had happened.

"Pah, pah, pah." Three people were pulled out by Lin Dong and thrown in front of everyone. One was the chef, one was the accountant, and one was the purchaser. They were all former canteen employees.

Two of them were the two suspicious-looking guys that Lin Xijin had noticed were not right with her sharp eyes.

"On the day the canteen opened, I stressed the reward and punishment rules to everyone, but some people were so used to it that they didn't take it seriously. I don't want to investigate what you did in the past, but I don't allow anyone to cheat or steal under my command. These three people took advantage of their positions to steal ingredients from the canteen, raised the price of ingredients, passed off inferior products as good ones, and falsified accounts, which is a taboo in canteen management."

"We didn't do it, you're spreading rumors! You're falsely accusing us!" The accountant thought that it would be impossible for Lin Xijin to find any evidence against her in such a short time, so she shouted.

"I didn't steal the ingredients!" The burly chef also defended himself.

"My Lady, it's unfair!" The purchasing manager certainly wouldn't admit it.

"Lin Nan, take a few people to search!" Lin Nan took a few curious employees and searched the fat chef's staff lounge first. They found various spices and valuable ingredients from the hidden layer under a suitcase. There were also two pieces of braised meat wrapped in lotus leaf oilcloth, which he obviously wanted to secretly take back to eat after work.

Lin Nan brought the suitcase and the stunned employees back to the hall, and threw out a few account books.

The purchasing and accounting staff were dumbfounded. This was the secret account they had kept for the past few years, which recorded the actual price of each purchase and the data on how they divided the spoils with the college's manager Liao and the other two.

The accountant hid the account book under the floor tiles under the bed at home. He never dreamed that the account book he hid so secretly would be searched out.

"I have only taken over the canteen for a few days, so the loss is not big, but the three of you must compensate for the silver the canteen lost. You will leave the canteen soon and will never be employed again. As for the silver you embezzled from the academy, the dean will handle it."

Before Lin Xijin finished speaking, footsteps were heard outside the door. The headmaster, Liao Bike, the school manager, and several teachers came to the cafeteria.

Of course, these people were invited by Lin Xijin.

Lin Xijin welcomed the group of people who were invited in for no apparent reason.

"Principal, teachers, these three people took advantage of their positions to steal ingredients from the cafeteria, raised the price of the ingredients, passed inferior goods off as good ones, and falsified the accounts, which is a cardinal sin in cafeteria management." Lin Xijin briefly introduced the situation to a few people and then presented the account book to the principal.

The headmaster flipped through the account book, his face darkening as he turned it over. Finally, he was so angry that his hands and feet were shaking, and he kept cursing, "Big rat! Big rat!"

When Liao Bike saw that his crime had been exposed, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and he did not dare to speak a word to defend himself.

"Principal, let's leave these people to the college. I only ask them to compensate for the cafeteria's losses in the past few days, and the cafeteria will never hire them again." Lin Xijin finally said to the principal.

The headmaster was helpless when such a thing happened, blaming himself for negligence. He had no choice but to escort the four people out of the canteen with a few teachers.

"Everyone, today's incident has taught us all a lesson. The commission our canteen gives everyone is composed of base salary plus profit dividends. The more profit the canteen makes, the more silver everyone gets. So everyone should treat the canteen as their own home. You should also supervise each other at ordinary times. Once you report any violation, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver." Lin Xijin once again enhanced the employees' awareness of self-management.

"We will listen carefully to the princess' instructions." The employees answered in unison.

"Jin'er, it's a good thing you're here! Otherwise, your uncle Jian'an and I would be ignorant and don't know when we can discover these bad guys." Aunt Jian'an was still frightened.

"Aunt, it's okay. As long as you pay more attention, you will be able to find the clues." Lin Xijin encouraged.

"Okay, I'll learn more from you in the future."

After this experience, Aunt Jianan learned a lesson. Later, she became more and more shrewd. From then on, everything in the canteen was back on track.

As the food in Qingsong Academy cafeteria was well-known far and wide, it attracted more students to study there. The open part of the cafeteria also attracted many diners, most of whom were students' families, so that in the end they had to buy land next to the cafeteria and build a restaurant for diners to dine and stay.

Lin Xijin was very generous to the front line of education. He continuously donated ancient books to the college and also donated money to build a number of school buildings for the college. Encouraged by the scholarship, teachers and students of Qingsong Academy worked very hard, and the teaching of the academy was fruitful, resulting in a shortage of admission places.

Of course, this is a story for later.

After the bookstore in front of the academy was expanded, it became a good place for teachers and students to go because of its wide variety of books, ice basins in summer, charcoal fire in winter, and cheap and good tea, snacks, and cold drinks. Sometimes it was hard to find a seat in the bookstore.