Chapter 11 Wait for You to Grow Up

Chen Yu was stunned on the spot; he hadn't expected Tong Ya to agree so readily.

Before Chen Yu could speak, Tuan Tuan had already packed the remaining ten fried cakes and stuffed them into Tong Ya's hands.

"Then it's settled, teacher comes to pick me up for school every day, and my dad gives you fried cakes for free every day!"

Speaking, Tuan Tuan directly took Tong Ya's hand and headed to the curb, not giving the two of them a chance to talk any further, fearing they might back out.

Chen Yu looked at Tuan Tuan somewhat annoyed: "You little rascal are getting more and more out of hand, even daring to boss around your own teacher."

With a mischievous stick out of her tongue, Tuan Tuan ran into the food cart like a little swallow.

Chen Yu wasn't idle either, taking advantage of the daylight, he phoned nearby shops to deliver a double-door large refrigerator and some tables and stools.

He also stocked up on a thousand yuan worth of various drinks and ice pops.

But when Chen Yu tried to hook up the electricity for the semi-trailer, he immediately faced a dilemma.

The system had provided three batteries in total. Although there were usually two batteries as backups, with a massive capacity, charging them was extremely troublesome.

Now that one battery was only half charged, after connecting it to the semi-trailer, the electricity meter ticked down even faster. If he didn't find a place to charge soon, he feared his food cart wouldn't last more than a few days of business.

To ensure there would be no power interruptions the next day, Chen Yu, to be safe, swapped in a new battery and then made a call to the raw material suppliers.

With the addition of the semi-trailer's cold storage, Chen Yu was able to expand his operations.

Twenty bags of flour, four hundred pounds of a mix of sweet potatoes and purple yams, original sesame seeds, brown sugar, and white sugar—all at two hundred pounds each, and thirty barrels of bottled water as backup.

All in all, these raw materials cost eleven thousand one hundred yuan, plus the additional expenses for the new semi-trailer refrigerator and tables and stools.

In total, he had spent thirteen thousand eight hundred yuan.

After accounting for the money spent on meals over the past two days, Chen Yu had exactly four hundred yuan left.

However, judging by the current progress of the breakfast cart, at least over ten thousand yuan in net profit would be made the next day!

After happily calculating it all in his mind, Chen Yu called to order two servings of braised chicken in soy sauce.

After a long day, he was hungry enough to feel his chest sticking to his back.

At the moment, Tuan Tuan was obediently setting up a table and sitting in front of the food cart doing her homework.

Only after Chen Yu was finished with his work did he sit down beside Tuan Tuan.

Although the kindergarten homework was simple, it was all rather odd—either drawing pictures from looking at patterns or figuring out abstract letter problems.

Chen Yu looked at it for a while and found some questions that even he, a graduate student, couldn't react to right away.

Fortunately, Tuan Tuan didn't ask Chen Yu to help with her homework; otherwise, it would have been truly embarrassing.

It wasn't long before the braised chicken arrived.

But Tuan Tuan was pouting, looking unhappy.

"Dad, ever since I ate your fried cakes, I just can't eat food from outside anymore! How about you just make fried cakes for me to eat from now on?"

"You can't just eat fried cakes as your regular meal!" Chen Yu quickly retorted, pushing a serving of braised chicken in soy sauce towards Tuan Tuan.

"Then how about we ask Teacher Tong Ya to cook for us instead?"

Chen Yu immediately rolled his eyes: "You're already asking too much for the teacher to specially pick you up from school, now you want her to come over and cook too?"

Tuan Tuan's eyes swiveled: "Dad, haven't you noticed that Teacher Tong Ya seems to have feelings for you?"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Although he scolded her verbally, Tuan Tuan's words touched a soft spot in Chen Yu's heart.

Today, Tong Ya and Chen Yu with his daughter indeed looked like a family of three, one making the deep-fried cakes, another packing, and the third keeping the books, coordinating seamlessly as if cut from the same cloth.

However, Chen Yu was extremely resistant to this beautiful picture.

Let's not even mention that Tong Ya herself is a single beauty, she's also a dance teacher, and I heard she even won a national competition.

But what about him? Not only had he been divorced, but he also had a child to look after. With such circumstances, desiring to be with her would just delay her life, wouldn't it?

Tuan Tuan clearly rolled her eyes, "Dad, you're really too dense! I clearly already feel that Teacher Tong Ya..."

"Alright, let's focus on making money first! Right now, we don't even have a house, only a food truck. Even if Teacher Tong Ya is willing to marry Dad, where would we live?"

Upon hearing this, Tuan Tuan also became enthusiastic.

"Dad, you said our deep-fried cakes are selling so well, why don't you hire a few more workers? That way, we could make more and earn more too!"

"But then the taste would decline!"

Chen Yu rubbed Tuan Tuan's little head, "The reason why the deep-fried cakes are selling so well is because they taste good, and others can't replicate my flavor!"

Tuan Tuan suddenly felt a bit disappointed, "That's true, is there really no other way?"

"There is a way; we could share the recipe, start a factory and make semi-finished products, providing them directly to fast-food restaurants!"

"But wouldn't that still sacrifice a bit of the taste?" Tuan Tuan was somewhat puzzled.

"The taste might be a bit off, but it would still be absolutely delicious! Besides, we would only be making a semi-finished product. Even if someone nitpicked, we would still have some leeway. Moreover, there are so many fast-food restaurants all over the world, if we could sign half of the orders, the factory might even go public!"

Naturally, Tuan Tuan couldn't understand all this; she still had to count on her fingers for addition and subtraction within a hundred, how could she possibly understand the market?

"Dad, you really deserve to be a postgraduate! That makes so much sense!"

The father and daughter finished their stewed chicken cleanly and tidied up the place a bit before heading back to the food truck.

Chen Yu had just lain down when Tuan Tuan pushed open the small window between them.

"Dad, I want to watch cartoons. Can that car-mounted TV up front be used?"

Chen Yu turned his head and glanced at the car-mounted TV set up in the driver's cabin.

"It should work!" Saying this, he found the remote control.

After all, the food truck was provided by the system, so it was unlikely there would be any unusable parts.

Soon, the image appeared on the TV.

Tuan Tuan excitedly clapped her little hands and leaned her head against the small window.

"Dad, do you have to wake up early tomorrow?"

Chen Yu nodded his head, "Of course! The supplier will come by at four in the morning."

"Then I won't watch cartoons, you should go to sleep early, Dad!"

Tuan Tuan obediently shrank back.

Chen Yu instantly felt a pang of sadness, and the thought of buying a house strengthened in his heart.

At the very least, he could give Tuan Tuan her own room where she could watch cartoons in peace.

"It's alright, Dad took a nap at noon! Tuan Tuan can watch for an hour."

Tuan Tuan immediately perked up and kissed Chen Yu through the small window.

"Thank you, Dad! When I grow up, I definitely won't let you work so hard."

A trace of contentment appeared on Chen Yu's face, "Alright, then Dad will wait for you to grow up!"