I Have a Countryside Gourmet Restaurant

Chapter 350: Chapter 328: The Two Uncles Are Too Responsible

At the same time, the mission rewards were also a pleasant surprise.

Forget the lottery chance and the 20 ornamental fish of random varieties—the key was the special reward: Body Enhancement (III).

This was the most exciting reward of all.

Nothing was more important than having a healthy body.

He had already received Body Enhancement rewards from two previous side missions, and now this was the third.

After the first two enhancements, Li You’s physical condition was already excellent. Now, he was about to undergo a third.

’What level will my physique reach after this?’

It was something to look forward to!

...

Half an hour later, Li Zhong and Li Chi arrived together, each on a motorcycle.

Li You went up to greet them, smiling. ”Uncle Zhong, Uncle Chi, thanks for coming.”

Both Li Zhong and Li Chi said it was no trouble at all and told Li You not to be so formal.

Then, they both saw the pit Li You had dug where the fish pond would be.

Li Zhong asked, ”Are we building it right here?” ℴ

Li You nodded. ”Right here.”

Li Zhong said, ”This spot is good. Customers coming from the parking lot will have to pass by here to get to the restaurant.”

Li Chi agreed it was a good location. Then he added, ”Is this the final size? It looks to be only about five square meters. Won’t that be too small?”

Li You said, ”I was just planning to build a small one.”

Li Chi asked, ”Are you going to put a rockery in the middle?”

Li You replied, ”Yes, let’s add one. It’ll look better with one.”

Li Chi said, ”In that case, it might be a bit too small. It’s already this size, and if you add a rockery in the middle, the usable space will be even smaller. You won’t be able to keep many fish. Not unless they’re all very small. But for visual appeal, you’ll definitely want to have some larger fish in there.”

Li Zhong also chimed in, ”I think it’s a bit small too. If this was all the space you had, then there’s nothing to be done. But it’s so open here, you could easily make it bigger. Otherwise, you might feel it’s too small later and want to expand it. Expanding it then would be a hassle. It’s better to just build it bigger from the start.”

Li You thought about it and agreed. ’Just a few square meters... I probably will end up thinking it’s too small.’

’Might as well build it bigger, then. There’s plenty of room here, no matter how large I make it.’

’How about around twenty square meters?’

Both Li Zhong and Li Chi said that would work. That size was about right.

So they settled on it: around twenty square meters.

After that, Li Zhong and Li Chi began discussing the materials, figuring out how much cement, river sand, and so on would be needed.

Li You didn’t understand any of this, so he left it all to Li Zhong and Li Chi. They would also be in charge of buying the materials; Li You just needed to pay for them.

After some discussion, the two of them came up with a rough estimate of the quantities for all the necessary materials.

Then, they said they would go order the materials now and officially start work tomorrow.

Li You told them not to rush off and that they should discuss the wages first.

Li Zhong said, ”About that... we actually talked it over on the way here. Xiaoyou, just give us 100 yuan a day each. That’ll be enough.”

Li You shook his head repeatedly. ”100 yuan a day is too little. It should be at least 300 yuan a day.”

Nowadays, when villagers did odd jobs for others, they earned more than 100 yuan a day.

The price Li Zhong and Li Chi quoted was too low. Li You was determined to raise it.

In fact, even 300 yuan a day wasn’t particularly high.

The reason Li You didn’t offer more was that he knew they definitely wouldn’t accept it if the price was too high.

But 300 yuan a day was the absolute minimum.

Li Zhong and Li Chi both said such a high wage wasn’t necessary. It wasn’t particularly strenuous work. Just building a fish pond was a relatively easy job, so 100 yuan a day was about right.

But Li You insisted on 300 yuan a day, plus three meals included.

The two of them didn’t argue about the three meals. Of course they wanted to eat the delicious food here.

It was just the 300 yuan a day that they truly felt was too much. But in the end, faced with Li You’s persistence, they agreed.

Now that they had agreed, Li You was very happy as well.

Building a fish pond was manual labor. If he couldn’t even pay them 300 yuan a day, he would feel he was doing them a disservice.

Next, the two men took their leave. They were heading to town to order the materials and would be back tomorrow morning to officially start work.

Li You told them to come over for breakfast tomorrow morning.

They both agreed.

After they left, Li You returned to the front of his restaurant and relaxed for a while in his rocking chair.

There were no customers for the time being, and Li You had already put that big fella back into the Spatial Fish Pond.

...

「That evening.」

While Li You was busy in the kitchen, Ling Xiaoru came over.

She came to the kitchen doorway, poked her head in, and said to Li You, ”Boss, is that new pit outside for the fish pond?”

Li You nodded. ”What do you think of the location?”

Ling Xiaoru said, ”It’s great, the spot is perfect. Did you dig it yourself? Didn’t you say you were going to hire professionals?”

Li You replied, ”I did! Uncle Zhong and Uncle Chi from the village. They already went and ordered the materials today. They’ll officially start tomorrow morning. I was just bored and did a little digging myself.”

”Oh, I see.” Ling Xiaoru nodded and added, ”That’s good.”

Li You said, ”Also, four or five square meters felt a little small. We decided to build one that’s about twenty square meters.”

”Around twenty square meters?” Ling Xiaoru said. ”That works too. Bigger is fine.”

Li You said, ”To celebrate us catching that huge mountain crab today, I’m treating you to something special for dinner tonight.”