Chapter 447: – Opening
While Lin Jin was comparing the looks of Xia Tian and Chen Hao in her mind, she suddenly saw Xia Tian's closed eyes snap open.
Xia Tian: "..."
"Ah~ Time to get up, Xia Tian." Lin Jin immediately reacted, pretending as if she had just come over to his bedside. She reached out and pushed his shoulder. "We need to go support my dad's shop!"
Xia Tian blankly stared at Lin Jin’s weird acting, his face void of expression as he asked: "Is it embarrassing?"
"Embarrassing." Lin Jin nodded and her face flushed red in an instant.
What the f*ck! This should be the first time she observed a man sleeping, right? How was she caught already?!
She then straightened her face, trying to act nonchalant as she straightened her back and urged Xia Tian: "Hurry up. It opens at twelve. If we go there early, maybe we could even help out or something."
She sat back in front of the computer, not daring to look back at Xia Tian. She was afraid that he would notice her blushing face, so she could only stare at the blank computer screen.
"Give me five minutes, let me wash up." Xia Tian got up from the bed and did a big stretch. He glanced at Lin Jin’s back view, helplessly shook his head, and then headed to the bathroom.
In less than three minutes, Xia Tian was done. He put on a stylish all black outfit in the bathroom, a slim black T-shirt and black jeans.
Even though the outfit was a bit tacky, Xia Tian in all black did look quite handsome, yeah.
Lin Jin quickly glanced at Xia Tian's clothing. After marveling inwardly, she suddenly realized that her thoughts seemed a bit like those idiot fangirls’.
"Let's go." Xia Tian kicked off his slippers and put on black sneakers at the doorway. He then turned around to look at Lin Jin, who was still obediently sitting on the chair.
"Oh!" Only then did Lin Jin wake up, hurriedly rushing to the door to change into her height increasing shoes.
Speaking of which, these height increasing shoes were really nice to use. She was originally only 1.6 meters tall, but when she wore the 5cm increases, she didn't feel any discomfort. And the best part was, even until now, no one had actually noticed the shoes she wore were height increasing! Everyone just thought she was naturally 1.65m tall.
Xia Tian stood on the side and watched as Lin Jin suddenly grew taller after putting on her shoes. He casually asked: "Those are height increasing shoes, right?"
"Uh..."
Seeing Lin Jin's reaction, Xia Tian immediately showed a look of realization: "No wonder it always felt like you got a lot shorter after taking off your shoes. So they are height increasing shoes."
"Enough, let's go support my dad." Lin Jin turned her head and pouted a bit unhappily.
Xia Tian's rental unit was on the street by the school’s back gate. Walking out of the alley, they immediately saw the new shop across the street with a banner hanging.
Why did you need to hang a banner when opening a shop?
Her dad's milk tea shop was right next to a package pickup spot. So at this time, there were seven or eight students waiting to pick up packages or have already picked up packages and were just standing in front of the door, looking into the shop.
The two of them crossed the street and came to the door of the shop. Looking inside, they saw that in the small milk tea shop, Lin Jin’s dad was busy making milk tea. Three college students were sitting inside, seemingly waiting.
Not bad, there were customers right after opening.
Lin Jin walked into the shop and said to her dad, who had his back to her and was busy: "One classic milk tea."
"We just opened today. There’s three yuan off a ten yuan order, do you want another cup?" Her dad said without turning around. After finishing two cups of milk tea, he turned around and realized it was Lin Jin. Startled, he then wryly smiled and said, "Help me out as the cashier?"
"Sure, two milk teas. I'm treating my friend." Lin Jin agreed without hesitation, then went through the small side door into the counter area. She casually turned back to Xia Tian and said: "You can sit down first. If you're too bored, then go outside and help call in customers."
Xia Tian directly ignored the last part of Lin Jin's words. He plopped down on a chair inside the shop, pulled out his phone, and waited for his free milk tea.
Maybe out of curiosity for the new shop, customers kept coming in nonstop. Anyway, the shop was basically never idle. Her dad was also all smiles, treating each customer more enthusiastically than the last, nodding and bowing.
With business this good today, if the milk tea tasted good enough, then her dad’s shop should be able to pop off at school. Of course, that was assuming her dad also signed up with food delivery apps. After all, most students nowadays liked to stay in their dorm and just order takeout.
At least that was what Lin Jin was like back when she lived in the dorms.
Lin Jin had no trouble at all when handling the cashier work. Even though it was her first time doing this kind of job, it was simple enough. Plus, most payments were through Alipay or WeChat Pay now, so she basically didn't need to handle cash and didn’t need to worry about collecting too little or giving too much change. She just needed to print out the order and hand it to her dad making the milk tea in the back. Then just confirm the order and serve the prepared milk teas to the table. It wasn’t hard at all.
Around two in the afternoon, as the temperature started to rise, the number of customers began to gradually decrease. But the joy on her dad’s face never disappeared. Whenever he had some free time, he'd sit there with a calculator and, click click, calculate the net income so far.
When she was free, Lin Jin also grabbed a cup of milk tea and sat across from Xia Tian. She crossed her legs, lazily stretched, and complained to him: "I’m dying here, yet you don’t even look like you want to help at all."
"It's not my family’s shop." Xia Tian shrugged, looking indifferent.
However, her dad actually heard his words and immediately turned around to say: "If you marry Lin Jin, then this will be your shop."
Xia Tian’s face was full of WTF, but he still maintained that cold demeanor. His expression unchanged, as if her dad's words hadn't affected him at all. He just turned to Lin Jin and asked: "Aren't you a man?"
Speaking of which, he had long suspected Lin Jin’s gender. Before, when he went to her house and met her dad, he became even more suspicious.
So far, he had basically already thought of Lin Jin as a girl.
"Just treat my dad as crazy." Lin Jin turned back and glared at her dad, signaling him to not talk nonsense. Only then did she continue looking at Xia Tian "He has some problems with his head. Ignore him."
Her dad scratched his short hair. He clearly felt that Lin Jin liked Xia Tian, but when he tried to set them up, he got called crazy by her.
Could it be that his daughter was shy?
Her dad stopped thinking about this thing for now and continued focusing on calculating the income. His final conclusion was that although there seemed to be a lot of customers today, probably around a hundred people coming and going, the money earned wasn’t that much. Just around three to five hundred. And that didn’t include rent, renovation costs, and other expenses.
Well, it was only two in the afternoon.
He had great hopes for himself and this newly opened milk tea shop.
Maybe if this continued, he could pay off all his debts in just a few years.