In the restaurant, the dad and daughter who had changed into parent-and-child clothes, started to get busy.

Lin Cheng was preparing ingredients in the kitchen, while Lin Momo sat quietly behind the cashier and continued the work she did not finish yesterday.

When Lin Cheng had something to do, Lin Momo usually liked to run up to him and hang around, or peek from outside the kitchen partition to see what he was busy with. But that morning, this girl—quite uncharacteristically—did not come over to ‘disturb’ Lin Cheng.

This surprised him.

During a lull in the busy period, Lin Cheng raised his head and glanced back at Lin Momo. He saw her quietly sitting behind the checkout counter with her head buried down her chest. He looked on in confusion—she seemed to be writing or drawing something.

“What are you writing?” Lin Cheng came over and asked.

“This is a delivery and takeout card!” Lin Momo handed the small card she made by hand to Lin Cheng.

Yesterday, she saw such a delivery and takeout card at the noodle shop next door. It had a simple menu and a phone number for orders.

Lin Momo decided that their small shop should also have one.

Seeing Lin Momo lower her head and continue to make cards, looking like she had no time to pay attention to him, Lin Cheng smiled helplessly and stopped disturbing Lin Momo.

… …

After a while, Lin Momo stood outside the kitchen and called Lin Cheng. “Dad?”

“Huh?”

“Can I go out for a while?” Lin Momo asked. Seeing Lin Cheng raise his head, she pointed in the direction of the restaurant entrance and said, “Just outside.” 

By now, Lin Cheng knew Lin Momo’s ‘can’t sit still’ character very well. Looking at Lin Momo’s determined look, Lin Cheng nodded.

However, he still emphasized, “Don’t go to the road, and don’t go far.”

“Okay,” Lin Momo agreed obediently. “I’ll be back in a moment.” 

After saying that, Lin Momo hugged the plastic bag in her hand and skipped out of the restaurant.

Lin Cheng watched Lin Momo go, but he was still worried after all, so he put down his work and followed her out.

Lin Cheng found that Lin Momo was handing out the small cards she had just made.

Seeing Lin Momo’s enthusiastic look, Lin Cheng thought for a while and did not interrupt her.

At this time of the day, there were not many pedestrians on Liuming Street. So Lin Momo first went to the shops on this street that were not restaurants.

“Boss, this is our meal order card. Please take a look.” 

“Auntie, ours is a small restaurant just over there. If you feel hungry later, you can try it at our place.” 

“Older sister, do you want to try this? We have good stir-fry.”

… …

Lin Momo walked into these small shops one by one to sell their family’s stir-fry.

When she met someone who was interested, Lin Momo would happily introduce their menu to them.

However, most of the stores didn’t seem to be interested in this.

“We cook all the food at home, so there is no need to buy it outside.” The owner of the water delivery station was processing orders on his mobile phone and said this to Lin Momo without looking up.

So Lin Momo said ‘Excuse me’, turned around and prepared to leave.

However, before leaving, Lin Momo carefully posted the small, heart-shaped, sticky note menu in her hand on the table next to the boss.

“There’s a phone number here. If you need to order food at any time, you can just call this number.”

This was like the small advertisements in the alley. Who knows, maybe it would be used one day.

… …

Lin Momo walked to the shops one by one. At this time, there were more and more pedestrians on the street.

Seeing a couple walking towards her, Lin Momo ran over and handed them the card in her hand.

“Older brother, older sister, my family runs the ‘One Day Small Restaurant’. This is the menu of our store. If you want to eat stir-fry, you can go to our restaurant, or you can order food.” 

The girl took the card in Lin Momo’s hand and glanced at it. “Home-style stir-fry. It seems pretty good.”

The boy next to her also looked it over. “’One Day Small Restaurant’? I haven’t seen this before. Does it do delivery and take out?” the boy said, preparing to take out his mobile phone to check the food delivery app.

Lin Momo shook her head and said, “We are not on the delivery platform.”

Lin Momo didn’t understand this either. Anyway, her father did the calculations and said that based on their sales volume, there was no profit for them to be on the food delivery platform. Don’t talk about making money, they may even lose money!

“But if you want it delivered it to your home, just call the number listed here and we can deliver it to you.” After saying that, Lin Momo added, “My dad can deliver it to you no matter how far away.” 

Lin Cheng, who was secretly following Lin Momo: “…”

It seemed as if he’s being pushed into the pit by his daughter again.

Hearing this, the young woman nodded and put away Lin Momo’s card.

“Okay, we’ll take a look and try it when we get the chance.”

“Okay.”

After saying ‘Thank you’ to the two, Lin Momo ran to another group of people and held out a card.

“Hello, our family is running ‘One Day Small Restaurant’, with all kinds of home-cooking…”

These people didn’t seem to want to listen to what Lin Momo was saying. They simply took the card from Lin Momo’s hand and chatted all the way, still walking forward.

As they neared the next trash can, the person who received the card extended his hand, preparing to throw the card away.

At this time, he was stopped by a person walking towards him.

“Give me the card,” Lin Cheng said to the group of people.

These people were surprised to hear this but still gave the card to Lin Cheng.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Lin Momo continued to hand out her own ‘meal delivery cards’ in the front, while Lin Cheng did some recycling work from time to time in the back—trying his best to prevent Lin Momo from seeing the cards she worked hard to make being thrown in the trash.

It was nearing lunch hour by the time Lin Momo finished handing out all the hand-made cards and returned to the store.

It was not known whether it was the customers who came to eat yesterday that played a role in today’s publicity, or whether it was Lin Momo’s meal order cards, but there were more customers in the restaurant today than yesterday.

From 11 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon, a total of 8 tables of customers came to their restaurant one after another.

After cleaning up the table of their last customer, Lin Momo was about to take down the ‘OPEN’ sign at the door, when she saw an old man with a cane by the door of their small restaurant. He was accompanied by a younger uncle.

Lin Momo felt a little strange when she saw these two persons standing at the door of their restaurant—they seemed to have stopped just to look at her.

She asked the two with a hint of uncertainty, “Do you want to eat in our restaurant?”

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: I wonder how many people would call that number after this week’s recording is done. The work phone belongs to the program team 😅