Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 391: Three hundred ninety-one Expansion is imminent_1

Chapter 391: Three hundred ninety-one Expansion is imminent_1

As the saying goes, many hands make light work, although for now, Jin Gui’s shop had only added one more person.

But the speed of making baozi had more than doubled.

Usually, it would take him four or five hours to make enough for the next day.

But today, he managed to finish in just two short hours.

Looking at the neatly stacked forty baskets of baozi beside him, Jin Gui felt very pleased.

Cui Hua might seem a bit slow, but she was very deft when working.

And she learned things very quickly too.

Although the first few she made were of uneven sizes, under the guidance of Jin Gui,

she improved rapidly, taking less than half an hour.

The baozi she made, in terms of size and filling portion, were almost as good as the ones Jin Gui made himself.

"Right, Cui Hua, go wash your hands first, then I’ll show you to your new living space,"

said Jin Gui when he saw Wang Cuihua standing still, lost in thought after finishing the work.

"Oh, right away, boss." Cui Hua nodded as if waking from a dream, then hurried to the kitchen sink.

Once he confirmed that she couldn’t see him,

Jin Gui quickly put all the baozi into his System Domain for preservation.

A few minutes later, Wang Cuihua had cleaned the flour off her hands and came out.

Jin Gui then took her to the back hall of the restaurant.

"Cui Hua, this will be your room from now on.

This place was previously occupied by the owner of Qiwei Vegetarian, but since I took over,

I have never lived here. All the bedding and such are brand new.

I estimate the room is about fourteen or fifteen square meters.

Although it’s a bit small, given our current limitations, this will have to do for now,"

Jin Gui said as he pushed open the door.

"Not at all, not at all, this place is already very big, and it has everything.

Boss, you don’t know, the basement I shared with my hometown sisters before,

was even smaller than this. There was only one bed, and we would take turns sleeping on the floor."

Wang Cuihua looked at the modestly sized room, her face brimming with joy.

Not only was there a large double bed, but also a table, wardrobe, TV, and radio,

and even the bedding was brand new.

Bright sunlight shone through the clean and tidy window at the moment.

Most importantly, the room had no hint of dampness.

For Wang Cuihua, who had come out to work, having such a nice living space

was like a dream come true, something she had not even dared to imagine.

"Boss, are... are you really letting me stay in such a nice place?"

Wang Cuihua asked with a trace of anxiety.

For Jin Gui, this small and cramped space was hardly even a break room,

but for Wang Cuihua, it was so good that she couldn’t help but wonder

if the boss was just teasing her.

Jin Gui scratched his head, feeling as if he had perhaps become so used to the good life that he had lost perspective.

In fact, in this era, many people were still living in the collective housing allocated by their work units,

a legacy of the public ownership era, and the time of massive demolition and construction had not yet arrived.

Nowadays, for many people, squeezing a whole family into a tiny space of twenty or thirty square meters was the norm.

As the saying goes, in Chang’an, finding a place to live isn’t easy, and it has always been that way from ancient times to the present.

In Gu Chen’s eyes, this room was only a dozen square meters in size, and at a glance, it appeared both small and claustrophobic.

But in this era, it was already considered quite a nice place to live.

"Mhm, from now on, this will be where you live, let’s just call it the employee dormitory," he said.

After saying this, Gu Chen took the keys to the room and the back door of Qiwei Vegetarian, detached one of each, and handed them to the other person.

He then reminded the person to try to get some rest early at night, and to remember to lock the doors and windows and the like.

The public safety of this era could not be compared to before his rebirth, and this was by no means an exaggeration.

Around the 1990s, there were many people who deliberately robbed taxis at night.

At first, it was just for money, but later it even escalated to throat-slitting and murder.

This made many cab drivers feel endangered and even forced to prepare various weapons in their vehicles for self-defense.

Master Xu’s Limitless Fighting Technique became hugely popular against such a backdrop.

But even so, the actual effect remained minimal until the successive crackdowns.

Only then did the tide of violence begin to be somewhat curbed.

Although the public safety in the year 2000, where Gu Chen now found himself, was much improved compared to the past,

he certainly didn’t want to hear one day that one of his employees didn’t come home all night and subsequently went missing.

So, he would repeat his warnings as often as he could; since the person was working under him,

Gu Chen felt he should take some responsibility for his employees.

"Oh right, Cui Hua, do you have any fellow townspeople who haven’t found work yet?

I’m planning to hire one more person for the restaurant. If you have a suitable candidate,

you could recommend them to come work with you," Gu Chen said after thinking for a moment.

There were many things to do in his shop at the moment,

but they were mostly repetitive tasks, like making steamed buns and the like.

Gu Chen’s time was valuable; it wasn’t necessary to waste it all on that.

Hiring one more person meant that he would only need to deal with dough making and filling preparation in the future.

The rest could be left to Cui Hua and her fellow villager.

That way, Gu Chen would be able to free up some time to launch new dishes.

After all, after a few days of promotion, his Qiwei Vegetarian had already made a name for itself in the vicinity.

Selling steamed buns was profitable, but for Gu Chen,

this small amount of money was just warming up.

"Yes, boss, I have a good sister who hasn’t found work yet.

I will bring her to meet you tomorrow morning,"

Wang Cuihua became visibly excited upon hearing this.

After all, at Gu Chen’s place, not only was the workload manageable, but there was also this great room to live in.

Maybe in the future, they could continue to stay with their good friends from the same village.

Wang Cuihua naturally didn’t want to miss such an opportunity.

She immediately patted her flat chest and repeatedly assured Gu Chen.

Gu Chen nodded in satisfaction; for him, it didn’t matter whom he used.

After all, they were all servers in the restaurant, and they could also help him with various tasks.

And even if he hired two people, their combined monthly salary would only amount to a thousand yuan.

This small sum, Gu Chen could earn back in just one day of selling buns; it was incredibly easy for him.

Having sorted out the new employee matters, Gu Chen checked the time and saw that it had just passed twelve o’clock.

He immediately got into his car and headed straight for the market.