Chapter 167 Sanyuan Canteen
Sanyuan Canteen doesn't look very big, only about 30 square meters, but there is already a long line at the door.

Su Chen took a look and found that most of the people in the queue were elderly people, and there were basically no young people.

This surprised Su Chen. It seemed that this restaurant was extraordinary as it could make these elderly people line up voluntarily.

Unable to suppress his curiosity, he asked a middle-aged man in front of him who looked a bit hunched, "Uncle, what's going on at this Sanyuan Canteen? I see so many elderly people queuing up!"

The middle-aged uncle turned around and looked at Su Chen with a cloudy look before he spoke: "From your accent, you are not from Zheng Island, are you here for tourism?"

Su Chen nodded when he heard this, "Yeah~ I arrived yesterday afternoon."

The middle-aged uncle showed an expression of "as expected", turned his head to look at the busy Sanyuan Canteen, and then slowly said: "The owner of this restaurant is a kind man."

"Most of those queuing up are lonely elderly people living nearby. Their daily lives are very difficult. The Sanyuan Canteen provides three meals a day for free."

After saying that, he seemed to have thought of something and quickly said, "This store is also open as usual, but you can't dine in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Chen saw from the corner of his eye that several elderly people with hunched figures, yellow faces and little flesh on their bodies were coming from behind. One of them came on a homemade "two-wheeled vehicle".

The two-wheeled vehicle is very simple, with just two tires and an iron rod. The man's thighs are fixed on the iron rod, and he walks by pushing the wheels with his hands.

Su Chen was also a little shocked when he saw this scene. How could there be such a two-wheeled vehicle? Could it be that his family couldn't even afford a wheelchair?

While being shocked, Su Chen also listened to these elderly people chatting about their daily lives.

Things like where are you going to pick up trash today and where am I going to work as a porter? These words sounded like thunder in Su Chen's ears.

You have to know that these people look to be over 50 or 60 years old. Why do they still have to do these things to make a living?

Considering what the middle-aged uncle said before, that the people who come to the Sanyuan canteen to eat are all lonely elderly people who have trouble getting food, it seems understandable that they go to pick up garbage and work as garbage porters to make money.

Soon it was Su Chen's turn, and he also saw what the inside of Sanyuan Canteen looked like.

There were only two or three tables in the room, but they were occupied by people with limited mobility or in wheelchairs, all eating breakfast quietly.

"You want breakfast too?" The man who was distributing breakfast was a man in his thirties, looking at Su Chen strangely.

Judging from the way Su Chen is dressed and the watch on his wrist, he doesn't look like someone who can't afford to eat.

The man's words brought Su Chen back to his senses. He saw that the bag in the man's hand contained two steamed buns, two large meat buns and an egg.

The thermal box on the table is filled with bags like this, so that those in line can take them away easily. It seems that there are at least fifty or sixty portions, and there is also steaming seafood porridge next to it.

"This is my first time traveling to Zheng Island, so I'm not very familiar with the situation here. I want two servings of breakfast. How much is it?" Su Chen said, pointing at Jiang Hui behind him, indicating that the two of them were together.

When the man heard that Su Chen was here for a trip, the doubt on his face gradually disappeared. He took out two breakfasts from the incubator and handed them to Su Chen. "No need to pay. If you want to drink porridge, serve it yourself. There are disposable bowls and chopsticks there."

As he spoke, he pointed to a cardboard box not far away, which contained those transparent plastic bowls.

Hearing that it was free, Su Chen understood what was going on and did not act pretentiously. He said thank you and ordered two bowls of seafood porridge with Jiang Hui, then sat down on the flower bed nearby.

"Sir, why don't we find a clean place?" Jiang Hui saw Su Chen sitting casually on the flower bed and couldn't help but suggest.

Su Chen waved his hand and said calmly, "It's okay. It's not like I haven't done this before."

After saying that, he looked at the man who was busy in Sanyuan Canteen, his eyes full of curiosity.

"There are so many ingredients in this seafood porridge, including abalone and sea cucumber." Su Chen, who had just taken two bites, found that this bowl of seafood porridge was not as simple as he thought.

I thought it was just some crabs, shrimps and the like, but I didn't expect there were also abalone and sea cucumbers.

In fact, abalone, sea cucumber and the like are not very expensive in coastal areas, especially in coastal cities like Zheng Island, where there are special offshore farming and the prices are very low, even cheaper than pork in the mainland.

Regardless of whether it is expensive or cheap, the seafood porridge in Sanyuan Canteen is indeed carefully prepared.

He became even more interested in Su Chen, the owner of Sanyuan Canteen.

After finishing breakfast, Su Chen did not leave, but just sat quietly on the flower bed and watched the people still queuing for breakfast.

Su Chen also saw many elderly people who were similar to the "two-wheeler" before. Although their lives were difficult, everyone had a smile on their face. He knew that this smile was given by the Sanyuan Canteen.

"This world is in tatters, but there are always people patching it up!" Su Chen couldn't help but sigh.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, Sanyuan Canteen finally finished its work and was now packing up the things inside.

Seeing this, Su Chen stood up and patted his butt, "Let's go and listen to the story of this enthusiastic person." Then he strode towards the Sanyuan Canteen.

"I'm sorry, breakfast has been delivered. The shop is temporarily closed. If you want to eat, please come back at 11:30 noon." The man who was mopping the floor saw two figures walking in and said without raising his head.

"We don't want to eat, we just want to chat with you." Su Chen said softly as he looked at the busy man.

The man who heard this immediately raised his head, and seeing Su Chen's familiar face, he asked in confusion: "Aren't you here to travel? Why do you still have the time to chat with me?"

Upon hearing this, Su Chen did not respond immediately. Instead, he glanced around the cafeteria and found a whiteboard on the wall with many people's names, times, and donated items written on it.

"Your stories here are much more interesting than traveling. Can you share them with me?"

The man's eyes fell on Su Chen's face. He was silent for a long time before he put the mop in his hand aside and pointed to the table next to him and said, "Sit down and talk."

Su Chen didn't say anything polite. He asked Jiang Hui to sit down.

As soon as I sat down, I saw the man take out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to me, "Want to smoke?"

"Smoke!" Su Chen smiled and took himself a cigarette. As for Jiang Hui, he didn't smoke.

After puffing out smoke for a while, the man slowly spoke.

It turns out that the man's name is Chen Hao. He encountered many setbacks when he went south to make a living many years ago. At the worst time, he was desperate and couldn't even afford to eat. Fortunately, he met a caring restaurant, which saved his life and also saved his fighting spirit.

Later, after doing some business in the south and making some money, he returned to his hometown, Zheng Island.

At first, he opened this restaurant thinking of helping others in his spare time while making money, but later he gradually found that the people who came to eat here were lonely elderly people or homeless people from the neighborhood.

I simply changed the focus of the restaurant from making money as the main business and doing charity as a side job to charity as the main business and making money as the flow. I also specially changed the name of the restaurant to Sanyuan Canteen.

Seven or eight years passed in the blink of an eye. He didn't know how many people he had helped. He only knew that he had been caught in the rain and knew how to hold an umbrella for others.

In Chen Hao's words, "There are too many sufferings in the world. If you can help within your ability, please do so."

"Boss, the price of pork today is 30 cents less than yesterday, and even the price of vegetables is cheaper. I bought a lot more vegetables today than yesterday. Come and help me move them."

Su Chen was still thinking about Chen Hao's story when he heard a shout from outside the door.

Following the sound, I saw two aunties in their fifties and sixties busy unloading food from a tricycle on the side of the road.

Seeing this, Chen Hao apologized to Su Chen, then got up and walked out.

After a while, three people came in carrying large and small bags of things. The two aunts showed a hint of surprise when they saw Su Chen sitting there. After all, usually not many people came here, let alone a young man like this.

"I'm sorry, I can't chat with you. We have to prepare lunch!" After Chen Hao came out from the kitchen, he was already wearing a "battle armor" apron.

"Okay, you guys go ahead and do your work. I won't disturb you any more!" After saying that, he stood up and walked outside with Jiang Hui.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I vaguely heard the discussion of two aunts in the house, "Hey, I thought they came to donate supplies, but I didn't expect they were just curious and came to take a look."

"Who said it wasn't? Recently, there have been a lot more people coming to eat, and there are only four or five bags of rice and flour left in the warehouse. We have to buy supplies again in two days."

"Hey, don't say that again. We don't expect donations from anyone. We just need to do our current job well." Chen Hao interrupted their discussion. The room fell into silence again. Su Chen glanced and saw that the three of them were busy in the kitchen.

On the way back to the hotel, Su Chen looked deep in thought and even almost ran a red light when crossing the road. Fortunately, Jiang Hui pulled him back in time and nothing happened.

"Old Jiang, do you think I should do something?" Su Chen turned his head and asked Jiang Hui.

Jiang Hui naturally knew that this was because Su Chen was touched by the soft spot in his heart after seeing the Sanyuan Canteen.

He looked at Su Chen meaningfully and said, "Sir, don't you have the answer to this question?"

Su Chen was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he burst into laughter, "Yeah, I already have the answer in my mind!"

Just as Chen Hao said, there are too many sufferings in the world and it is impossible to help them all. Su Chen also does not intend to donate tens of millions here and hundreds of millions there like those business tycoons.

Who knows whose pocket those donations ended up in.

After all, the general public actually knows what those foundations that claim to have charitable purposes are doing behind the scenes. Of course, we cannot generalize and condemn them all, as there are definitely some that are fully committed to charity.

Looking back in the direction of Sanyuan Canteen, Su Chen had already figured out what to do.

“It’s so lively~”

When he returned to the hotel downstairs, Su Chen saw that the beach park was surrounded by people, each of them leaning on the fence with their cell phones in hand.

"Sir, do you want to go and take a look?" Jiang Hui asked hurriedly.

"No, we can watch the fun when we get back to our hotel room."

Su Chen knew that Deng Chao and his friends were filming the Running Man variety show at the beach park.

Sure enough, after returning to the room, Su Chen standing on the balcony could clearly see the situation on the beach, but of course people certainly couldn't see it clearly.

From Su Chen's perspective, he could only see a rough outline.

"It looks like they're having a lot of fun!" Listening to the sounds coming from the beach, Su Chen was curious about what they were doing, so he took out his cell phone and turned on the camera function.

"Wow, I didn't expect to see it so clearly." Su Chen lay on the recliner, fixed his mobile phone and watched the live broadcast.

After watching for a while, Su Chen found that it was not as good as he had imagined. There were still quite a few differences from what he saw on TV, at least in terms of humor.

I think it’s because of the post-editing process.

After sending a message to Deng Chao and the others, he put away his phone.

Thinking of what the two aunts muttered when they left, Su Chen called out into the house.

"Old ginger~"

Soon Jiang Hui walked quickly to the balcony and stood respectfully beside him waiting for Su Chen's instructions.

"Call Fade Chen and ask him to arrange for a batch of rice, flour, grain and oil to be delivered to Sanyuan Canteen." Su Chen paused before continuing, "Just three tons. If there's more, there won't be room in that small restaurant."

At the end, Su Chen did not forget to instruct: "When the time comes, you should go there in person."

"Um~Sir, aren't you going there in person?" Jiang Hui asked tentatively.

He knew that Su Chen had had some ideas about Chen Hao before, and once thought that Su Chen would poach him to be the person in charge of subsequent charity work, but it doesn't seem like that.

Su Chen hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said, "Go ahead, even though the chances are slim, give it a try."

From our previous conversations, I knew that Chen Hao was a man of his own ideas, otherwise he would not have opened the Sanyuan Canteen for seven or eight years. I also didn't know whether he would accept the olive branch I threw out.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Fade Chen called and said that they had arrived near the Sanyuan Canteen. Su Chen did not waste any time and went straight to the Sanyuan Canteen with Jiang Hui.

When they found Chen Fei, he was chatting with three or four people in security uniforms leaning against a Mercedes-Benz G, and there was a small box truck next to them.

"Sir~" Seeing Su Chen and the other two coming, he hurriedly asked the people next to him to stand up straight.

"Hmm~" Su Chen's eyes swept over Fade Chen and the others, "Thank you for your hard work later. Move all the supplies in the car to the Sanyuan Canteen."

"It's not hard!" Chen Fei asked everyone to start eating.

Seeing this, Su Chen also walked towards the Sanyuan canteen.

At this time, Chen Hao also noticed the movement outside. As soon as he walked out, he saw Su Chen and the people behind him carrying rice, flour, grain and oil.

"What are you doing?" Chen Hao was still very surprised that Su Chen came again.

What's more, they brought so many supplies.

Su Chen waved his hand, and Chen Fei and the others moved the things towards the warehouse. Chen Hao was about to say something when Su Chen pulled him to sit on the chair next to him.

"Just let them move, don't worry about it!"

Chen Hao opened his mouth when he heard that, then looked at the muscular bodies of Chen Fei and the others, and nodded silently.

"In addition to delivering supplies, I also want to discuss something with you." Su Chen went straight to the point.

"Things? I wonder what you want to discuss?" Chen Hao looked at Su Chen with a frown.

Su Chen also noticed Chen Hao's expression and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry that I have any bad intentions."

"Actually, I came here this time after learning about your good deeds. I want to promote this model to more places so that more helpless people can benefit from it."

"I thought of letting you take charge of this matter. After all, you have a lot of experience in this area."

Upon hearing this, Chen Hao was stunned on the spot, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

After a long silence, Chen Hao finally spoke: "I know how much I have. I am lucky to be able to run this small restaurant and do what I can. I don't dare to expect anything else."

"Looking at this, you should be a big boss, but you should find someone more capable to do this. Chen is really not up to the task."

Before Su Chen came, he had guessed that Chen Hao would most likely reject him, so he didn't feel much disappointed.

They did not continue the topic and chatted for about ten minutes. Then Chen Fei and his team moved all the supplies to the warehouse. Now the entire warehouse was full.

"We will send you a batch of rice, flour, grain and oil every month, which will also relieve some of your pressure!"

Chen Hao looked at Su Chen deeply, stood up and bowed to Su Chen very solemnly. He knew that Su Chen sincerely wanted to help more people.

"If you have any problems in the future, call this number." Su Chen said and gave Chen Fei a look.

Chen Fei immediately took out his business card from his pocket and handed it to Chen Hao.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Su Chen took his people away.

Coincidentally, as soon as I went out, I ran into two aunts I had met before. I nodded to them and left.

The two aunts were also a little curious about Su Chen's return.

As soon as the two of them walked into the restaurant, two bursts of happy laughter soon broke out.

(End of this chapter)