Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 548 Birthday Celebration (seeking monthly ticket)

"I'll wait until tomorrow to ask if it can be reduced. If not, forget it. At worst, if I delay the opening a little bit, I will lose a few thousand yuan in rent at most." Lu Xiao nodded and said.

"It's the only way to do it now, but I feel that the landlord is still pretty good. Wasn't it fun when I signed the contract?"

"I don't have any hope anymore. The current business is actually quite difficult, that is, there are still so many people in your store every day." Lu Xiao looked at Chen Nian enviously.

"Indeed, mine is pretty good." Chen Nian also nodded, "But sister, I don't think you need to worry at all, there are not many cake shops around here now, and I have tasted them all before. Actually average.

Your skills can definitely overwhelm them, and you will also put more effort into marketing. When the time comes, we will have a linkage between the two sides, and I think it will definitely work. "Chen Nian comforted again.

Recently, he taught his cousin all the dim sum that he had learned in Daxia, and he also hoped that these skills could be passed on, so that he would not die before he was born.

"I don't know about it. After all, if you are in business, you must be prepared to lose money. Okay, you have been busy for a day, so wash up and go back to rest. I have to go back to bed. It’s still under renovation, so I have to go there every day to keep an eye on it.”

Hearing what his cousin said, Chen Nian nodded, then turned around and went back to the bedroom, changed into his pajamas, washed up, and then went back to bed.

"Are you asleep?" Chen Nian sent a WeChat message.

Now there are only two top contacts in the old WeChat, one is An Hongdou and the other is my mother.

"No, I'm waiting for you."

As soon as the message was sent, An Hongdou replied in seconds.

Then Chen Nian called without hesitation, and began to lie on the bed and chat with An Hongdou with his eyes closed.

They chatted about the shows they were going to participate in for a while, and also talked about what happened in the store today and the creation of new works by An Hongdou.

"Actually, I think it's pretty good now. It's not particularly popular like this, but I can still get some work after a while."

"Yeah, if one day you really become popular, you probably won't be able to stop for a year. You have to run around every day, but you can earn a lot of money that way, maybe you can earn a house in a month."

"I don't think it's necessary. It's actually quite good now. Music has been a special hobby for me since I was a child. People say that once a hobby develops into a career and work, it will slowly become boring. So I Also don't want to push yourself too hard.

Things like a house can always be earned. In fact, I think being a star can still make money, but it is very easy to get lost by accident. It’s just that everyone has their own circle, and some people have made some money. Things will also be very hidden, although someone will break the news every now and then.

But I heard a saying before, when you can see the mouse in the sun, it means that the mouse will not be able to let it go in the dark. "

"That's true." Chen Nian agreed with this very much, "Oh, you said those people make a lot of money, why can't they control themselves?"

"That's hard to say. Otherwise, why have so many people used all means for money and fame? But when they have both, maybe they will pursue some spiritual things."

"Probably, but I think that when I have money, I just want to travel and eat everywhere, and of course I have to be with you."

"Me too."

The moon was getting darker, and the clock kept turning. As the lights of the high-rise buildings gradually dimmed, Chen Nian and An Hongdou also fell asleep one after another.

Chen Nian had a dream after falling asleep at night.

Although Chen Nian's sleep quality has always been very good, but occasionally he will dream.

It's amazing to dream about this thing, maybe the dream I had at night this time just happened to be a continuation of a dream a few months ago or to have another dream that was exactly the same.

But today's old dream is a brand new dream. He dreams that he has achieved financial freedom. Although An Hongdou has become a household star, he is rarely exposed to the public except for some programs that he is interested in. in the public eye.

Her fans are urging An Hongdou to release new songs every day. An Hongdou always plays and eats with her on the grounds that she is writing and going out to collect music.

So much so that when Chen Nian woke up in the morning, he found that there was still a puddle of saliva on the pillow!
This startled Chen Nian. You must know that Chen Nian never drooled when he slept after the age of eight. In the past, it was only because he slept dishonestly. When he fell asleep, his head might go down, and his feet would fall down. It's on the pillow.

I quickly searched the Internet for the keyword "sleep drooling." The results were quickly found.

At the top of the list is the saying that Chen Nian may have a cerebral thrombosis, and then there are scary words such as cerebral hemorrhage, intracranial tumor, and meningitis.

He was so scared that he quickly exited the browser and closed it directly from the background.

Because he just looked at it and a pop-up window popped up. In the chat box, Dr. Li even started to ask about Chen Nian's specific illness.

Throwing the phone aside, he went into the bathroom and looked left and right in the mirror, except that he could see a handsome face with eye feces in the corners of his eyes, but he couldn't see anything.

"It should be fine..."

Chen Nian directly washed his face with cold water, stimulated by the coolness, Chen Nian also forgot about it, and began to think about what to cook this afternoon.

Today is Xie Yu's daughter's third birthday. Originally, Xie Yu wanted to invite everyone to have a meal together, but after everyone's suggestion, Xie Yu put her daughter's third birthday party in the Red Hotel.

Although children can't eat much, Chen Nian still has to consider making something edible for children.

Therefore, when preparing the ingredients in the morning, Chen Nian was asking his mother, Aunt Wen, and Xie Yu's three-year-old child what would be better to eat.

After all, he just got off the order a few days ago, so he doesn't know anything about it.

If you ask him to say what kind of ingredients are in the ingredients, he can tell this, but when it comes to what age a child should eat, Chen Nian will be blind.

Then, after listening to everyone's chatter, Chen Nian knew it in his mind.

During the lunch break, Chen Nian also searched the Internet again.

In order to prepare for this birthday banquet today, Chen Nian plans to close the business in the evening, and they just have an internal meeting.

After sleeping on the table for more than an hour, Chen Nian got up and went to the kitchen to wipe his face, then rode on the electric bike and headed towards the vegetable market.

Entering the long-lost vegetable market, everything here is still the same. Outside is a row of fruit shops, and baskets of various fruits are placed outside, which seems to be competing for beauty.

There are still some stalls selling watermelons, but the price has more than doubled compared to two months ago.

I looked left and right at the fruit stand for a while, bought some grapes, a big pineapple, and some oranges.

After that, I entered the vegetable market and walked around several stalls.

When turning to a stall selling vegetables, the eldest sister who sold vegetables saw that Chen was coming, and a pleasant smile appeared on her face: "Xiao Chen, you haven't come for a long time, I still wondered Yours, how are you doing?"

"It's been pretty good recently, but I'm a little busy, so I asked Brother Liu to help me purchase and deliver the goods." Chen Nian said with a smile while squatting down to look at the dishes on the elder sister's stall: "Elder sister sees that your business is also good recently. , the dishes are also fresh, must the previous ones have been sold out?"

"Oh, it's not very good. The business is not doing well now. The dishes here are fresh, but the sales are still not as much as before." The eldest sister sighed, but then raised her head again, "Be busy, now Who doesn’t want to be busy in business? Only by being busy can you make money, and if you lie at home every day, you will starve to death.”

"That's right." Chen Nian nodded, "Sister, then I'll buy some shallots."

As Chen Nian said, he picked a small handful of shallots from the vegetable stall and handed it over.

Originally, I wanted my eldest sister to weigh it to see how much it was?This time I don’t want to haggle over the price, anyway, I just bought such a little, and the business is really difficult to do, and I finally came to the vegetable market once, and I was able to chat with the eldest sister for a while, which also shows that the previous relationship is indeed in place. .

But who knows that the eldest sister didn't even stretch out her hand: "You don't need to pay for it, just eat it, I'll give it to you." "

"How can I do that? How can I still eat and get for nothing? I can pay as much as I want, sister, please hold on."

"No, if you say no, then don't." The eldest sister pulled a bag and threw it over, "Pack it up and go, don't just squat here, wait for me to do business."

Nian Chen Nian was going to leave after talking, but Chen Nian knew about it, and the elder sister didn't want her to give the money.

"Okay." Chen Nian sighed, and put the handful of shallots into a plastic bag.

But just after he got up and turned around, he inadvertently took out a little change from his pocket, which he found when he was selling fruit outside.

He took out a ten-yuan bill from it and turned around with a thunderbolt, and threw it on the unpacking box in front of the elder sister: "Elder sister, quickly take the money, I'm leaving, and I will come to your place to buy vegetables when I have time later!"

While talking, he quickly got on the electric car, turned the key, unlocked it, and fled.

The speed was so fast that the elder sister didn't even react.

"This child..." The eldest sister had no choice but to pick up the money and put it in her pocket.

But I have already thought about it, anyway, the vegetables that Chen Nian needs in the store every day are also brought by brother Liu, who sells meat in the vegetable market, and he will just put a few more Hunan vegetables with garlic, shallots or something in it.

Afterwards, Chen Nian went to buy vegetables at a few stalls that he often visited, but everyone saw Chen Nian after a long time, and everyone said that they don’t need to pay for such a small amount, just take it back and eat it.

There is no way to age it, so I can only pack the dishes according to the previous method, and then leave the money and run away.

So much so that when I bought a bunch of vegetables this time, the average money I spent was at least 1.5 times more than the vegetables themselves.

However, Chen Nian is still satisfied with this result, and he feels warm when he is treated like this by everyone, not to mention that many of them are old enough to be their elders.

Back in the kitchen, Chen Nian was not in a hurry to deal with it, because everyone agreed that dinner would be served at [-] pm, and there were not many dishes to cook today.

Except for a few dishes that are relatively popular in the store, the rest are the dishes that Chen Nian intends to make additionally.

It's just that Chen Nian plans to cook these dishes by himself, and ask other people to help.

In this way, when it was around six o'clock, Chen Nian began to prepare the ingredients.

It took more than half an hour to prepare all the ingredients to be used. At this time, Xie Yu finally came to the store with his wife and children.

"Master, I'm back." Xie Yu first opened the door curtain, Xie Yu's wife came in with the child in her arms, and then raised her head to say hello.

"Here you come? Sit down and rest first. We've already started preparing the meal. We'll have dinner in a while." Chen Nian came out of the kitchen and quickly asked the family of three to sit down first.

But seeing that Xie Yu was about to roll up his sleeves to help in the back kitchen, Chen Nian stopped him: "No, you are a guest today, just wait for dinner, you don't need to help in the kitchen, there are not many dishes, there are The three of them are enough."

Xie Yu had no choice but to sit down first, but then he suddenly stood up after thinking of something: "By the way, I haven't introduced you yet, this is my wife."

Hearing this, Zhou Ying stood up awkwardly and looked at the crowd: "Hello, I am Zhou Ying, Xie Yu's wife. Zhou is Monday and Tuesday is Zhou. Ying is the pronunciation of English. Thank you for such a long time." Taking care of my husband for a long time, he often mentioned you as soon as he went back, saying that you are all very nice, and he also said that he learned a lot here.”

In the process of speaking, it can be seen that there is a little nervousness, and these words seem to have been drafted in advance.

But it can still be seen from the words that this is a slightly introverted, but very caring person.

"No, no, it's Xie Yu's own hard work. What he got is what he deserves." Chen Nian waved his hands quickly, and then looked at the girl in Zhu Ying's arms: "This is your daughter, she is so cute."

"That's right, it happens to be her third birthday today." Zhou Ying patted the child's head while talking.

Chen Nian nodded, then met the little girl's gaze.

As a result, the little guy burst out laughing.

When everyone saw this situation, they felt a little surprised.

"The little girl's name is Xie Ruoyun, right? The name is really nice. Your father told me earlier, come and give uncle a hug."

As Chen Nian spoke, he stretched out his hand.

Zhou Ying and Xie Yu knew that their daughter was usually shy of strangers. Even if they brought them home, some relatives saw the cuteness of the child and wanted to come and hug her. on mom's shoulders.

So Zhou Ying wanted to explain something, but then he found that his daughter actually stretched out her hand, leaning slightly towards Chen Nian.

(End of this chapter)