Chapter 569: – Chinese New Year Soon
It was almost Chinese New Year.
This was probably the first time Lin Jin had such a comfortable winter break since her parents divorced.
Even though her mom and Lin Chen came back last year, her parents had a bad relationship and there was also her change in appearance. Although the festive atmosphere was stronger than before last year, it didn’t actually mean much and only made people feel more upset.
But this year, Lin Jin’s dad had started a new family and only occasionally talked to Lin Jin. Sometimes, three to five days would pass without them seeing each other. So her mom no longer felt annoyed because of him and was smiling every day, helping Lin Jin cook and decorating the house.
Her mom hung up all sorts of red things around the house, such as Chinese knots and other random things. She also stuck up the Fortune word and various couplets on the door outside. She even hung a red lantern on the door and would turn it on every night, saying it was to let Lin Jin have a happy Chinese New Year.
As a result, Lin Chen complained every day, saying that he must have been picked up from a trash can. Back when he and their mom were celebrating Chinese New Year in Guangdong, they had never made it so festive.
The house had a festive atmosphere every day. Ever since Lin Jin’s mom bought the New Year’s goods that day, she had started all sorts of things that needed to be done for the New Year.
So even though this apartment had just been rented and was quite clean, her mom still mobilized the entire household for a big cleaning. Her mom would also buy all kinds of good food every day and every meal was super rich. Aside from a vegetable dish and a soup, the rest were basically all meat.
Xia Tian was now slightly complaining that he had visibly gained weight. As for Lin Jin, her weight didn’t seem to have really changed, at least it didn’t look like it.
And for Lin Chen, this guy used to go to the gym whenever he had time in Guangdong. He had even joined a fitness club in university, which made him quite built. However, after coming to Xiamen for not too long, the muscles on his body seemed to have softened a lot.
Not only was he basically not exercising and just sitting on the chair or sofa playing games all day, even more importantly, it was because he had been eating way too much lately.
“Mom is so biased.” Sitting on their mom’s bed, Lin Chen had his head down as he muttered.
Lin Jin was currently huddled up on a chair with her chin in one hand as she watched Xia Tian live stream. Hearing Lin Chen’s complaint, she turned around and said with a chuckle: “Who told you to not be a girl?”
Lin Chen rolled his eyes at Lin Jin and continued to complain with some dissatisfaction: “Back when I was at home, I’ve never been treated this well, okay? During the New Year, she made me do everything she wanted done. She would never do it herself.”
“Well then this year, aren’t you basically hugging my thigh?”
“That’s true. It’s so much more comfortable this year, I just play games every day.”
Lin Chen yawned and flopped down on the bed.
Their mom was out today. Her phone had accidentally fallen in the water while doing laundry, so she needed to go out and have it repaired.
Though, her phone wasn’t some famous brand. So even if they needed to replace some parts during the repair, it shouldn’t be too expensive.
Xia Tian has been much more free lately. After all, he had busied around for a while, and the restaurant could be considered to be on track now. Even though he would always go visit the restaurant every evening, it at least wasn’t like before where he stayed at the restaurant all day.
As for streaming or whatever, Xia Tian had also started to be somewhat tired of it. He didn’t feel it before because Lin Jin would always be there to help him share the load. But now, since Lin Jin had streamed too much previously and because he also wanted her to have a break, he was now streaming by himself all day long. Lin Jin would now just watch TV shows on her tablet every day after waking up.
Tsk, this was what the New Year’s meant, alright! Shouldn’t the New Year’s just be having a good rest, sleeping, watching TV, and stuff? Streaming herself playing games or something every day was really too unbearable.
Lin Jin happily curled up on the sofa, watching In the Name of the People. To Lin Jin, this TV show was really attractive. Even though most of the plot felt a bit like filler, seeing those handsome older uncles appear on screen, Lin Jin still watched quite happily.
Lin Jin even began to suspect that she was about to develop an uncle complex because of this show.
However, it might be said, how could real older uncles possibly be as handsome and good looking as the ones in the show?
Anyway, among the few Lin Jin had met, none of them could compare to secretary Dakang.
“Oh, right.” Xia Tian suddenly paused for a bit, pulling out a slip of paper from his pocket and handing it to Lin Jin. “Here, the revenue for the month is out. This is subtracting the utilities and costs, but not wages yet. You help me put it away.”
“Huh?” Lin Jin blankly accepted the piece of paper. After glancing over it, she looked up, somewhat surprised: “It hasn’t even been a month and we’ve already made almost a hundred thousand?”
“The wages haven’t been subtracted yet.” Xia Tian helplessly shrugged. Even though Chinese New Year was in two days, because salaries were only paid on the fifteenth of the next month, none of the salaries had been paid yet.
“After calculating out the wages, being able to make twenty or thirty thousand would already be pretty good.”
Twenty to thirty thousand, huh….
Lin Jin pouted in disdain: “Me streaming every month can already make twenty to thirty thousand, and there’s basically no cost.”
“We just opened, after all. So there’s not many customers. There’s not much we can do about it.” Xia Tian sighed, then helplessly said “To be honest, I’m already surprised we’re even able to make money this month.”
There were just seven waiters in the restaurant now. According to the salary in Xiamen, each person was around four thousand. Then plus a manager, three chefs, as well as a cleaning lady and two dishwashers, maybe once the wages were paid, Xia Tian wouldn’t even have those twenty to thirty thousand.
This month could only be considered a small profit. But tomorrow, for Chinese New Year’s Eve, the restaurant should see a bunch of customers.
Apparently on Chinese New Year’s Eve, all the tables at the restaurant were already booked.
“Tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve. My mom should be making a table full of food.” Lin Jin picked up and took a couple sips of the yogurt on the table. She turned her head to Xia Tian and asked “When are you coming back tomorrow? You probably need to look after the restaurant, right?”
“Two waiters asked for leave, I’ll need to go help as a waiter.” Xia Tian shrugged. “Even triple pay was useless, others also need to celebrate the New Year.”
“Mhm, then do you need me to also go help?”
“It’s fine, what will you do there? Cause trouble?”
“You’re the one who’ll cause trouble, okay?”
Lin Jin suddenly thought of something. If she also ran over to the restaurant on Chinese New Year’s Eve to visit Xia Tian working, then he would definitely be very moved, right?
You have to know that aside from the opening day, their engagement, and her dad’s wedding, those three times, she hadn’t been to the restaurant.
On the way, she can go check if Xia Tian had hooked up with any beautiful staff members behind her back. Or take a look and see if anyone’s interested in him, stuff like that.
If there really were, then she would definitely have to make Xia Tian fire them!
Yep, then that’s settled!