She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 111: 【111】90s cook 111 (second update)

Chapter 111: 【111】90s cook 111 (second update)

Don’t think Gong Mingxia paid low wages to the waitstaff; it’s because they were all from out of town, so she renovated her house a bit, bought bunk beds, and turned it into a dormitory for the restaurant, one room for girls and one for boys.

In a strange city, if you have a place to stay and three meals a day provided, then taking home eight hundred yuan clean each month is indeed a decent job.

Gong Mingxia hired a total of eight waitstaff, kitchen helpers, and general workers, all of whom were quite young. With two bunk beds per bedroom and still plenty of space left over, there was enough room for them to move around, plus with a kitchen and bathrooms, the accommodations might even be better than their own homes, so everyone treasured this job greatly.

They would start work at four in the morning and finish around eight or nine in the evening, as there weren’t many customers in the initial phase, so they didn’t plan to stay open until midnight.

In early July, Gong Mingxia reviewed the accounts from the trial operation phase last month and found a loss of one to two thousand yuan. Since it was a trial run and many dishes were discounted, losing money was within her expectations, and she accepted it.

At the end of June, the three record companies sent her a dividend of one hundred thousand and nine thousand yuan. Thinking of the hardship of riding a tricycle to buy groceries every day, Gong Mingxia decided to spend over thirty thousand yuan on a van. However, she didn’t have a driver’s license, and no one at the restaurant knew how to drive. In the end, the Police Station chief, who had a military driving license, took it upon himself to drive them to buy groceries each day before going to his own job.

Gong Mingxia realized she had overlooked this important matter, so in the following days, she made time to go to the driving school to practice.

Although she knew how to drive, she felt there was nothing wrong with going through the process again to pass on her first try.

The registration fee at the driving school was over two thousand yuan, and since she was confident she would pass, she didn’t bribe the Coach. She usually practiced driving when the restaurant was not busy in the afternoon.

If the child needed to be breastfed, the nanny would carry her downstairs to find Gong Mingxia, and after feeding, she would be taken back upstairs.

The nanny was found through a legitimate housekeeping company, charging two thousand yuan per month. She was in her thirties, efficient at her work—besides taking care of the child, she also cooked for the elderly and the children. With this arrangement, Xiao Xiao and the Old Lady’s lives were secured, so Gong Mingxia felt the two thousand yuan was well spent.

The child had not yet been weaned, so the nanny and the Old Lady temporarily shared a room. Once Yangyang entered his final term of high school, even though he only returned on weekends, they left his room untouched and for now, the Old Lady and the nanny slept together, which was much better than having them take care of the child at night.

She just had to get up at four in the morning, and Cao Yuan would also wake up to take her to the restaurant before he went to buy groceries.

Gong Mingxia wrote out the list of ingredients needed for the next day the night before, so it was not troublesome for Cao Yuan to go shopping.

Ah right, at the beginning of June, Cao Yang took the college entrance exams. Although he had already secured a spot through early admission, he still scored 708 points, ranking 42nd in the province for science subjects. Although the rank was shared with over five hundred others, it was indeed excellent. After all, there were not even one thousand people in the entire province who scored over 700. He truly became the exemplary child of other families.

After the college entrance exams, Gong Mingxia let Cao Yang take the driving test with her. It was better to get the driver’s license early for peace of mind. Fortunately, the boy didn’t resist and even showed a lot of interest. At the driving school, he scored one hundred on the first test, and even without going every day, he practiced better than her, an experienced driver. When it came to the road test, he passed on his first try. Really, if she weren’t an experienced driver herself, she couldn’t rival her own son’s excellence.