429: My dream job

"Of course it's true. No matter how unreliable I might be, I wouldn't joke about something like this, would I?" Ye Su said sincerely.

"The new company will probably be registered by next week, and only then can we sign the employment contract. As for the storefront at Joyful Gathering, they won't be moving out until the first of next month either.

You can take these next few days to think it over and give me your answer on the last day of the month. If you really don't want to work for me, I'll still have time to recruit someone else."

Hearing the sincerity in Ye Su's voice, Meng Feiyu nodded eagerly.

"Since you've put it that way, what is there left for me to think about? I'm with you from now on!"

Give up being a store manager making over ten thousand a month to keep driving that truck?

If he really made that choice, Meng Feiyu would seriously have to question if there was something wrong with his head.

Meng Feiyu had seen the life Ye Su was living now, with his luxury mansion and sports cars.

Following a boss like this, his chances of making it big were definitely much higher than running around blindly on his own in Yangcheng.

When he planned to open his own store before, he would have had to bear all the profits and losses himself.

Now, working for Ye Su, he didn't have to bear any risk at all, so why not?

[Ding!]

The moment Meng Feiyu agreed to the job, the system's notification chimed in Ye Su's mind.

[Congratulations Host on completing the hidden task: Teach a Man to Fish. Distributing rewards now!]

[Task Reward: 500,000 cash, 5 points in the [Physique] attribute, 1 storage space!]

[Host's current [Physique] attribute is 118 points. Rating: [Human Limit]!]

Along with the notification of the completed task, a familiar warm current surged from his dantian throughout his entire body, making Ye Su feel incredibly comfortable in both mind and body.

The phone in his pocket vibrated twice, indicating that the 500,000 cash reward had also arrived.

Suppressing his inner joy, Ye Su steered the conversation back to the main topic:

"Now we can talk about the salary and benefits. First, tell me your current monthly income. We'll make sure your base salary is high enough so you won't have to take a pay cut to come and help me."

"Sure." Meng Feiyu scratched his head. "After deducting the truck's expenses, I make about six thousand yuan a month."

Worried that he might state too high a figure when his monthly income was actually around six to seven thousand, Meng Feiyu chose to go with the lowest estimate.

"Alright."

Ye Su didn't sweat the small stuff with Meng Feiyu regarding whatever amount he might have rounded down.

Not to mention the extra one percent commission, just paying his social security and housing fund would be more than enough to make up for whatever he had left out.

"Then we'll go with what we just discussed: a base salary of six thousand yuan, plus a one percent commission on the turnover. Sound good?"

Meng Feiyu nodded excitedly. "Of course!"

Seeing that Meng Feiyu had no objections, Ye Su took out the leftover shacha sauce from the fridge from two days ago.

"This is the secret shacha sauce I was talking about. Give it a taste and see what you think."

After taking the shacha sauce, Meng Feiyu gave it a sniff first. Finding the aroma quite unique, he grabbed a spoon, scooped up a little bit, and put it in his mouth.

"Mmm!"

After savoring it carefully, Meng Feiyu's eyes lit up.

"This shacha sauce is indeed incredibly fragrant! From my hometown all the way to Yangcheng, I've never tasted such a fragrant shacha sauce in any Hot Pot Restaurant!"

With that, Meng Feiyu took another taste and realized that besides the savory aroma, the shacha sauce also had a complex blend of sweet, umami, and spicy flavors, making him crave it more and more with every bite.

Meng Feiyu's reaction was exactly as Ye Su had anticipated. "So, what do you think? I didn't trick you, did I?"

"No!" Holding the spoon, Meng Feiyu gave Ye Su a big thumbs-up.

"As long as the beef is fresh and of good quality, paired with this shacha sauce, people will definitely flock to eat here!"

If he had only been delighted upon receiving the job offer just now,

then after tasting the shacha sauce, Meng Feiyu's feelings could only be described as ecstatic.

Holding the jar of secret shacha sauce, he could already envision the scene once the Hot Pot Restaurant opened: a non-stop stream of customers from morning till night, sales climbing day by day, and his commission rising right along with it.

Maybe, just as Ye Su said, a single store's monthly turnover really could exceed one million yuan, netting him ten thousand yuan in commission every month!

He only had an associate degree from a private college; if he went out to look for a job, he would struggle to even make five thousand yuan a month.

A base salary plus commission totaling sixteen thousand yuan a month—this was undoubtedly the high-paying, respectable job he had dreamed of!

"I don't plan to sell this secret shacha sauce separately, so we don't have a factory right now. It has to be freshly simmered in the store, and I'm handing this task over to you."

Of course, it was impossible for Ye Su to simmer the shacha sauce himself.

Not only because he was lazy, but also because with just one store for now, simmering one pot a day would be more than enough.

If more and more branch stores opened in the future, the consumption of shacha sauce would skyrocket. Even if he wanted to simmer it himself, he wouldn't be able to keep up. It was better to arrange for Meng Feiyu to take charge of simmering the shacha sauce early on.

In the future, when other branch stores opened and Meng Feiyu couldn't handle it all alone, they could set up a central kitchen specifically dedicated to simmering the shacha sauce.

If everything went as smoothly as planned, and hundreds or thousands of Hot Pot Restaurants opened across the country, they would build an automated factory to handle the production of the shacha sauce.

The system-improved recipe was formulated in a golden ratio using the special ingredients provided by the [Grocery Store].

If they used external ingredients to simmer the shacha sauce, the taste would be greatly compromised, at best only slightly better than what Jiang Lingling made.

The quality of ingredients sold outside could also never be as stable as those provided by the system.

In addition, Ye Su had also applied for a patent for the secret shacha sauce.

With these three factors combined, Ye Su didn't need to worry about trade secrets leaking out even if more and more people came to know the recipe.

All he needed to do was use the system to restock the raw ingredients when no one was around.

"Sure."

Meng Feiyu didn't fuss over the minor detail that he hadn't officially onboarded yet and might not get paid for this work.

"Write down the recipe for me. I'll go buy the ingredients at the market in a bit, and when I get back to my rented place, I'll try simmering a few pots to see if the taste matches yours."

"There's no need to buy them at the market. These ingredients are specially supplied to me by a dedicated vendor. Even if you went to the market, it would be hard to find the same quality."

"Oh, so that's how it is," Meng Feiyu said, suddenly understanding.

No wonder the shacha sauce tasted so amazing; as it turned out, besides the secret recipe, even the ingredients were highly particular.

"I have some leftover ingredients here that you can take back to practice with. Also, when I simmered the shacha sauce last time, I specially recorded a video. Just follow the video step-by-step."

"A video makes it even better."

After sorting out the other minor details, Ye Su sent the video tutorial along with the secret recipe proportions to Meng Feiyu.

The lease on the store at Joyful Gathering hadn't expired yet, so they wouldn't be able to sign the lease contract until the first of the month.

Applying for business licenses and other documents required the lease contract as proof of business premises, so Ye Su could only wait a few days before arranging for Meng Feiyu to apply for them.

Therefore, besides having Meng Feiyu try simmering a few pots of shacha sauce, Ye Su also had him look around and ask which cattle farm had the best quality beef so they could source their meat from there in the future.