The white rose I picked up cried and said she liked me.

As it turned out, Xu Xi's idea was very useful.

For half a month, Xu Nian was able to sell 100-150 servings of dumplings every day.

Especially on weekends, when students don't have classes, they are even less inclined to go out to eat and instead take out their phones to order takeout.

Even though she never worries about business, Xu Nian insists on making and cooking dumplings by hand, ensuring that each dumpling is round and plump.

That day, Xu Nian was busy from dawn until late at night.

Xu Xi suggested more than once that her brother hire someone to help.

With the current profits, it's perfectly possible to cover the wages of a laborer.

But Xu Nian refused.

The reason was that there were very few people in Yuncheng who knew how to make noodles, and he was afraid that he would hire someone with poor skills who would ruin the shop's reputation.

This resulted in his dark circles getting worse and worse, and he was yawning constantly every day.

Xu Xi saw this and was very anxious.

The reason I persuaded my brother to open the shop was not only so we could continue living together, but also because I didn't want him to be as tired as before and wanted him to have more time to rest.

Now, things are really messed up. We have to get up before dawn to prepare the filling and knead the dough, and then work together until late at night.

This can't go on...

......

That noon, Xu Nian delivered several lunch boxes to the school gate as usual, waiting for Qi Yu to come and pick up the food.

Just then, someone patted him on the shoulder from behind.

Xu Nian turned around and saw the owner of Sakura Sushi Restaurant.

He had a big smile on his face, scratched the back of his head, and was holding a packaged sushi in his hand.

"Hey bro, I saw your shop started offering delivery to dorms, so I printed some flyers and handed them out in the dorms too. I also got an order from one of my roommates. Could you deliver that to them too?"

Xu Nian took the sushi and looked at the dormitory number on it.

Room 502, Building 2, Men's Dormitory.

I happen to have a serving of dumplings from the fifth floor of Building 2.

Xu Nian stroked her chin and pondered for a while.

Since we're all doing business on the same street, we should help each other out.

The last time the shop ran out of cooking oil, the sushi restaurant owner lent them a bucket.

"Okay, give it to me."

"Thanks, bro!"

The sushi restaurant owner clasped his hands in a fist salute to Xu Nian and left the small fence.

After a while, Qi Yu arrived at the fence on one side of the school.

To make food delivery easier, he even brought his old electric scooter to the school.

"Brother Xu, am I not late?"

"No, I just arrived recently."

Xu Nian squatted down and handed the lunch boxes through the gaps in the fence into the school.

"This pile is for the boys' dorm, this pile is for the girls' dorm, and this is your lunch."

He pointed to the sushi.

"This is a meal from a sushi restaurant. The owner asked me to deliver it for him."

"Okay, sure."

Qi Yu picked up the box of sushi, looked at it, whispered his dormitory number, and put it into the insulated box of his electric scooter.

"Let's go, Brother Xu."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

After seeing Qi Yu off, Xu Nian returned to the restaurant.

The shop was empty, with no customers at any table, and the tables were piled high with clutter.

Since we started offering delivery, there have been even fewer customers dining in; sometimes we don't even have one or two tables a day.

However, this did not stop the food delivery orders from pouring in like snowflakes.

Xu Nian shook her head with a wry smile.

It seems the money spent on renovating the store was wasted.

"Five servings of celery, three servings of shrimp, four servings of meat and seafood..."

Xu Nian glanced at her phone; her sister had sent her the organized order information. She then began preparing the meal.

After operating for a period of time, he has become very skilled at the delivery and packaging process.

The food was packed separately for male and female dormitories according to building number, and then further sorted by floor, with the higher-floor food placed at the bottom and the lower-floor food placed on top, making it easier for Qi Yu and others to deliver the food.

Just then, the doorbell hanging on the glass door rang out crisply.

"Welcome! What kind of dumplings would you like?"

Xu Nian looked up and saw a group of middle-aged men and women approaching.

They wore cooking aprons, their sleeves stained with grease.

They don't seem to be students.

"Hey bro, I work at Ma Xiaopang Rice Noodles next door. Could you deliver my rice noodles to Building 4?"

"I have two servings of barbecue rice from Building 6, can you help me out, buddy?"

"Hey bro, your store's campus delivery service is amazing! My store hasn't been open for almost three days, and I got three orders today! Could you please deliver them for me...?"

......

At 8 PM, Xi Nian Dumplings.

"This is outrageous!"

Wen Yao slammed her hand on the table in anger, her long hair swaying back and forth with the rise and fall of her chest.

"Those bosses are going too far. They not only copied our delivery model and stole our business, but they also have the nerve to ask Brother Xu Nian to deliver their food to schools. If they're so capable, they should go and deliver food to students themselves."

Qi Yu and Zhao Lin also looked rather gloomy.

They were naturally willing to help Xu Nian deliver meals.

It's perfectly acceptable to help a friend during your free time.

Occasionally delivering one or two dishes to other restaurants is just a side job.

But these bosses kept giving more and more meals, sometimes even sending more than a dozen at a time.

If they refuse to take a meal, the restaurant owners will approach Xu Nian and beg him for help, or they will block the restaurant and refuse to leave.

This put Xu Nian in a very difficult position; she didn't know whether to accept the offer or not.

"I'm sorry everyone... I'll make it clear to the other bosses next time that I won't deliver their food anymore."

Xu Nian lowered her head in shame, put her hands behind her back, and nervously rubbed her fingers together.

He knew that his act of kindness had caused his friends a lot of trouble.

Originally, I only had to deliver a dozen or so meals per trip, but now I have to deliver twenty or thirty. In addition, some of the dishes, like rice noodles and spicy hot pot, have soup and are easy to spill.

When I used to work as a food delivery driver, I always hated receiving food with liquid in it.

Because of the leaking soup, he cleaned the insulated box many times. Not only was it time-consuming and laborious, but even after cleaning, a strong smell would remain inside the box.

"If we go together, those bosses will take advantage of Xu Nian because he's easy to talk to."

Wen Yao rolled up her sleeves, angrily preparing to go out and argue with the bosses.

But Xu Xi grabbed the hem of her clothes.

"Yaoyao, don't worry."

Xu Xi frowned, her fingers stroking her chin, a storm raging in her mind.

Compared to the indignation of others, she considered the issue from a different perspective.

The food street itself has very little foot traffic, and Xinian Dumplings, as the first restaurant to open a delivery channel, was almost the first to turn a profit.

Other business owners would definitely be very envious if they saw a ready-made success story.

They don't have any familiar classmates at school, making it difficult to organize a stable group of boys and girls to deliver meals to them.

Therefore, asking my brother and friends for help is almost the only option.

Refusing orders may reduce competition for orders and delivery pressure in the short term, but in the long run, it will definitely have the opposite effect.

After a long while, she clapped her hands, a determined light shining in her eyes.

"I've got a plan! Listen everyone, we'll do this...and this..."