The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead
Chapter 307 - 297: Jiang Nanzhou Gets Nervous

Chapter 307: Chapter 297: Jiang Nanzhou Gets Nervous

After leaving Carpenter Uncle’s place, the two of them headed to the nearby farmers’ market and bought several pounds of glass noodles and a few sheets of tofu skin, which all required tickets. When they got back, they stewed the beef bones that Xue Jianian had left behind.

They stewed them from a little past eleven until past one o’clock, and they didn’t start cooking the glass noodles and tofu skin until Xue Jianian returned.

"Why are you back so late? Did you see Uncle Cheung?"

"I did. It was quite a coincidence, the work he’s doing lately is right near his place, and his family took me there. Later, I took Uncle Cheung to check out the store. He said he could arrange for someone to come over this afternoon to work on the plumbing and electricity. But I have to buy the materials beforehand."

Luo Xinyue said, "I’ll go with you to buy the materials this afternoon."

"Okay, I’ll just have a bite and leave. He said someone will be there at two, so I gave him the keys to the store."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jingqiu hurriedly served food to the two of them.

The braised beef was good, and the flavor of the beef soup was also very nice.

After taking a sip, Xue Jianian said, "Yeah, this is the taste, adding some cilantro would be even better."

Lu Jingqiu said, "We don’t have cilantro at home, but I added some chives, and it’s not bad at all."

Luo Xinyue said, "Yeah, it tastes pretty similar. It’s just missing the pancake strips."

Xue Jianian said, "That pancake was something I left behind on the road. We don’t have any now, and we ought to find someone to make them for us, those thin baked buns soaked in would be even better."

Lu Jingqiu replied, "There’s no room in the back kitchen to make more pancakes. If only we had someone to bake them at home and deliver them to us."

As Xue Jianian was not a local, he didn’t know many families around, he looked at the two and said, "Both of you are locals, do you know any aunts who stay at home who could bake these buns? We could order from them."

"Alright, we’ll ask around."

"For hiring staff, should we post the ad now, or wait until next week?"

Lu Jingqiu said, "Carpenter Uncle told us that the custom work would take at least two weeks."

Xue Jianian said, "Then let’s hire people next week. Actually, we don’t really need any professional chefs in the back kitchen. I’ve got the braising of the beef down, and they just need to stew the beef bones. Just dealing with some beef offal and cooking it is enough."

Luo Xinyue remarked, "In that case, does it matter whether it’s a man or a woman?"

"Yes, as long as they can endure the whole day."

Lu Jingqiu said, "We’re talking about over ten hours, from morning till night. Is that okay? Should we work in two shifts?"

Xue Jianian asked, "Two shifts?"

Luo Xinyue also looked on curiously.

Lu Jingqiu then explained the employee system from later eras: "It’s split between a morning shift and an afternoon shift, with the morning shift running from four in the morning to one in the afternoon. The afternoon shift runs from one to nine at night. Each shift has one receptionist, two servers, two in the back kitchen... and one to wash dishes."

Luo Xinyue said, "We’re open from the morning until nine at night, so we’d need to double our staff. Could that make us lose money?"

Xue Jianian said, "Let’s first see how it goes during the first few days after opening. If we have a lot of customers, we can adopt the two-shift system."

Lu Jingqiu laughed, "In the morning, we should have at least twenty customers, and around lunchtime, another twenty or so, roughly speaking." Twenty customers weren’t considered many.

So, the staff at the store would have a relaxed time.

The few of them felt the same.

After eating, Xue Jianian and Luo Xinyue left in a hurry on their bicycles, leaving Lu Jingqiu at home by herself, feeling rather bored.

It was a good opportunity to clean the house and do some laundry.

As Lu Jingqiu and the others were busy pursuing their small goals, Xia Lin couldn’t stay idle during her postpartum period.

Ignoring Gao Shu’s objections, she ran off to the textile factory to order fabric.

She had heard the weather forecast saying that the temperature would drop within a couple of weeks, so she urgently needed to make her autumn clothes.

Recently, she had begun to believe that her autumn clothing designs would definitely be a big hit.

On the way back from the textile factory, she bumped into Xue Jianian and Luo Xinyue by chance, and it was uncommon not to run into Lu Jingqiu.

Upon reflection, she realized it had been months since she last saw her, not even during the big commotion at the Gao Family’s last time.

Isn’t she on good terms with Gao Qing, why doesn’t she stand up for her?

She has disappeared for too long, as if this person vanished from her life completely.

Has she become virtuous after marriage? How is she getting along with Jiang Nanzhou?

Ha, this life really is different indeed, why, why can Lu Jingqiu, so spoiled and willful, still find such a good husband, and lead a life that makes others envious, why.

Did God give her another life just to watch others be happy? She ought to be the protagonist.

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At this moment, Lu Jingqiu was at home doing the laundry, oblivious to the fact that Xia Lin had already started to "think" about her.

Some people can’t stand the sight of others, nor can they stand their absence, unless they see others not doing as well as themselves, only then can they feel balanced inside.

Xue Jianian and Luo Xinyue returned after four in the afternoon, saying that everything had been set up, the plumbing and electricity would be finished by the evening, and tomorrow they would build that large window for us, as well as the sink.

We’ll go to the countryside tomorrow to Uncle’s place to pick out some tiles for the sink.

"I’ll join you guys."

"No need for you to go tomorrow, just stay at home and rest. Here’s the spending for today, why don’t you do the accounts at home?"

Lu Jingqiu glanced at the list and thought for a moment, "Alright then. I’ll leave the rest to you two."

Luo Xinyue said, "What’s troublesome about that, we’re all working towards a small goal."

Lu Jingqiu laughed, "There’s still a lot of beef soup left from lunch, why don’t you eat up before you leave."

Xue Jianian replied, "Okay, if there’s a lot left over, I’ll take some back for my man."

"Enough, Xinyue, take some for your other half too."

"Alright."

Each of the few people had a bowl, there was a lot of leftover soup which they then embellished with some glass noodles and tofu skin, Lu Jingqiu made some pancakes in the afternoon.

Soaked in the bowl, they had hot beef pancake soup.

After the two left, Lu Jingqiu took out a small notebook and did the accounts for the past two days in the dining room.

It was at this moment that Jiang Nanzhou came back, immediately inquiring about her health as he entered the yard.

Seeing his anxious expression, Lu Jingqiu laughed, "Did you not study properly today?"

Jiang Nanzhou was taken aback, "How did you guess?"

"Because of our heart-to-heart connection, I bet you were thinking about me and the baby all day."

Jiang Nanzhou did not deny it, his mind had wandered off all day, whenever someone asked him a question, he was distracted, even at lunchtime, he kept thinking about whether his wife had eaten, whether she got up from bed, if she was feeling unwell.

"Right you are. How do you feel today? Did you take your medicine?"

"I feel great, I took my medicine on time. Niannian brought some beef over at noon, we had beef soup and I’ve saved some for you, along with the chicken soup you made, I had some in the afternoon."

"That’s good."

"Go wash your hands, I’ll get it for you."

Jiang Nanzhou grabbed her with one hand and helped her to sit down, "I’ll do it, do you want to eat any?"

"No, I’m full."

"Starting tomorrow, one egg every morning. I’ll go to the dairy tomorrow to order fresh milk for you, you have to drink it every day."

"Milk and eggs everyday might get boring."

"You can eat whatever you want. Occasionally, I’ll change it up for you, how about that?"

"Okay."