The Villainess Female Supporting Character Raising Her Bun

Chapter 41 - Streaming (2)

Cheng Huan flipped over a few of the skewers and turned back over. The man next to her thought she was going to talk to him again. Just when he started to put on a smile, he heard her saying to him, "Please excuse me."

He gritted his teeth and didn't move. Someone pushed her way over. The older woman, a plate in hand, used her thicker body to squeeze him over to one side. After she had put the plate down, she said to him, "Hey there, handsome, which order is yours? I will go and check on it for you."

That person was just here to hit on a woman and didn't order anything, never mind whether it was ready or not. He buckled down and wanted to say something else to Cheng Huan, but he was already completely derailed by the other woman.

"Don't worry, handsome. Your order will be ready soon."

After she had chased away the flies there were bustling around, Xu Li went back over to Cheng Huan and said to her in a low voice. "This is not going to work with you by yourself. These people come and hang around every day. I don't want to scare you, but some unwanted incident just might happen one day."

Cheng Huan paused a little in the middle of her action.

Ever since she had started her booth, she had never stopped being hit on. Some of them even waited for her outside for her to close up and wanted to ask her out.

She would be lying to say she wasn't worried; which was part of the reasons that she hired on Xu Li.

Xi Li was in her 30s or 40s. She was experienced and has an explosive temperament. Having her here saved her a lot of trouble.

Except that Xu Li didn't live with her. She might be able to help her block out some of the unwanted attention during work, but not much she could do after they have closed up. Just like she had mentioned, who knows if there were some more reckless ones among them. It'd be too late to regret if something really happened.

Cheng Huan sighed to herself and pondered over her options.

She hadn't run into the same issue before in her real life. When she had a booth back then, she was still young, plus her booth was located right next to her school and most of her customers were her classmates. Nobody would do anything too crazy. When she went to college, she had already rented a place and wasn't really there very often. After she started running her private home cuisine after graduating college, there was even less traffic. Private home cuisine was on the higher end in terms of pricing, most of her patrons were of higher caliber. They were used to being around attractive women and respected mutual consent and chivalry.

The one next to her was still jabbering on. "Maybe you can have your husband pick you up and drop you off? That way it will be safer." Xu Li knew that Cheng Huan had a 4-year-old who just started kindergarten. She naturally assumed that there was a dad in the family, which was why she gave that advice.

Cheng Huan: "......"

Where was she going to find this husband from?

"Let me think about it."

"Well, go talk to him about it. If your husband doesn't want to come. I'll see that you get home safely. It is just a matter of a few extra steps for me anyway."

That would work too. Worse case scenario, she could walk her back. Cheng Huan nodded and said, "Thank you so much."

Xu Li took the orders out and Cheng Huan continued to work nonstop as she continued to mull over the issue.

Her work ended late and it was always more dangerous at night than in the day time. Even with Xu Li with her, there was no guarantee on her safety. She recalled her earlier plan – to save up enough to have her own storefront and hire someone to do the barbequing also. She would only be responsible for the sauce.

That way she wouldn't need to be out at night anymore and wouldn't be harassed as much.

Business has been going well and she was making about 2,000 yuan in pure profit a day, give or take 60,000 yuan a month. Rent for the storefront in the area went for about 20,000 ~ 30,000 yuan a month. That and cost for remodeling and hiring help.

Adding them all up....

That was way more than what she had saved up.

Cheng Huan did her math. Subtracting all her normal expenses, it would take at least three months to save up enough.

Three months was a long time.

Would she really need to find herself a "beau" to turn away some of the attention that she has been getting?

Cheng Huan shook her head violently and got rid of the crazy ideas in her head.

That would just be silly.