After the fast-food restaurant introduced noodles, business improved significantly. Many people who didn’t have time to eat would come into the store to buy a few mantou or buns to eat on the go.

Some students even suggested Yuan Chun sell breakfast.

Selling breakfast requires waking up at three in the morning, and Yuan Chun didn’t want to work that hard, so she didn’t plan to sell breakfast. However, in early March, when both stores were bustling with business, Yuan Chun decided to upgrade them.

She hired someone to merge the two stores into a small restaurant.

She also built a large kitchen in the courtyard and hired a chef. For those who didn’t like fast food and wanted to order dishes, the chef was responsible for cooking for these customers.

The fast food, braised meat, and noodles were still made as usual.

The eight fast food dishes were pre-cooked by the chef. Yuan Chun personally handled the braised meat, while Eldest Sister-in-law Chen and Second Sister-in-law Chen were in charge of the noodles.

Sanfeng was responsible for serving the dishes, and Shui Lian took care of selling braised meat.

After the store upgrade, business was so good that they couldn’t keep up with demand, so Yuan Chun brought in the Fourth Uncle’s wife and Fifth Wife from the Chen Family. They did tasks like washing dishes, serving food, and wiping tables.

Despite the increased staff, the small restaurant’s business was so good that during meal times, when students poured into the restaurant, the staff would be so busy they couldn’t catch their breath and became dizzy.

It was only after that rush that they could sit down for a breather.

Since there were evening classes in middle school, many students would also come to the restaurant for dinner, making Yuan Chun’s small restaurant a goldmine, which made many people envious.

By the Dragon Boat Festival, many other stores had opened around the small restaurant, including stationery stores, grocery stores, clothing stores, shoe stores, breakfast shops, and even another restaurant and braised meat shop.

However, the braised meat at the other shop didn’t taste as good as Yuan Chun’s. Even though the other place sold cheaper, they couldn’t steal Yuan Chun’s business.

In 1982, just after the Spring Festival, Yuan Chun received news of Granny Cui’s death.

said, "Host, maybe Cui Xiaohong was bullied too hard in her past life, so she’s become almost deranged in this life. If you saw the live broadcast from the system, it would make you sick that you couldn’t eat. Granny Cui was tormented to death by Cui Xiaohong."

Yuan Chun replied, "She deserved it. If it wasn’t for all the evil she did, Cui Xiaohong wouldn’t have treated her like that."

"True, after Granny Cui had a stroke, her daughters-in-law never entered her room, complaining about the smell. After Granny Cui died, the foul odor made it impossible to enter the room. The daughters-in-law blamed Cui Xiaohong for not taking good care of Granny Cui, and Cui Xiaohong cried and shouted, saying she was just a child, too weak to turn Granny Cui over and couldn’t bathe her."

"The reputation of the Cui family’s daughters-in-law was already infamous in the Shunfeng Team. In the Cui family, aside from Second Cui’s children, even the younger generation’s reputation was tainted along with the adults."

said gleefully, "After Granny Cui’s death, no one in the Cui family wanted to enter her room. Later, Second Cui was forced to go in to dress Granny Cui’s body. Also, when the Cui family held the funeral, only a few villagers came to eat, haha... They set up five tables, but only one was for outsiders, and all the others were Cui family members. The scene was incredibly awkward."

"Granny Cui’s coffin was carried up the mountain by her sons and a few nephews from her maternal family. No one else wanted to get involved with the Cui family’s affairs. If it weren’t for the nephews stepping in, Granny Cui’s coffin would never have made it up the mountain. Now, in the Shunfeng Team, the Cui family is like a rat everyone avoids."