Shanhai Hot Pot Restaurant

After more than two months of renovation, the decoration team finally returned the store key to Mingqian.

During this period of time, Mingqian would visit the decoration site every other day, and he would never go empty-handed. Sometimes he would bring milk tea drinks, and sometimes snacks. The workers were hungry in the afternoon, so Ming Qian would go to the fried chicken shop next door to buy some chicken chops and drumsticks for delivery.

Many of the workers are middle-aged with wives and children, and they are not willing to buy these things. They usually eat the lunch box arranged by the team leader.

Therefore, whenever Mingqian passed by, he would be warmly welcomed by the workers.

Mingqian is also very familiar with the workers, he remembers everyone's name, and sometimes he will buy a pack of cigarettes for them to take away to smoke, but they can't smoke while working, so as to avoid any accidents.

"You have spent a lot this time." The team leader was still curious when he handed back the key, "You just need to pay enough money, and every time you come here and buy so many things, the young people in the team are almost drifting now, thinking that every day You can get this treatment every time you work.”

Ming Qian took the key, and he said with a smile: "It will be fine when he does a few more jobs."

The team leader patted Ming Qian on the shoulder: "Boss Ming, next time you come to me again, I can only give you a [-]% discount, otherwise it will be like we are taking advantage of you."

Ming Qian: "That's not necessary, I don't know when the next time will be."

Regarding the private restaurant, Mingqian’s plan is to take the staff out to play around this year’s Chinese New Year, and then come back to find a suitable restaurant. The decoration must be different from the hot pot restaurant. It needs stronger privacy and a more distinctive decoration style. , the initial investment will definitely not be small.

But Ke Yuan Mingqian was not worried, he didn't even need to advertise, Director Han had already advertised.

Last time, Director Han hoped that he could serve as the head chef for a relative's father's birthday party, but Mingqian refused, but Director Han still persevered, even bragging about how good Mingqian's cooking skills are on Weibo.

So much so that even the friends who saw him called him to ask him when the whole table would be eaten together.

It's just that Ming Qian was not in the mood before, and he was looking for reasons to prevaricate his friends, and he was going to invite friends over to eat when he officially decided to open a private restaurant.

By the way, when everyone gets together, he can also introduce Youjun to them face to face.

After all, Youjun and Pan Yang both knew about each other's existence, but they had never really come into contact with each other.

Ming Qian still hopes that his lover and friends can live in harmony, and they can hang out together if they have the opportunity in the future.

Mingqian returned to the store with the key. After several months, Mingqian's popularity finally dropped a little. It wasn't too many, and most of these fans asked Ming Qian if he could take a photo when he passed by, and they didn't do anything else.

However, Internet celebrities and anchors caused Ming Qian more headaches than fans.

Internet celebrities and anchors don't care whether Mingqian is working or serving customers. They only care about whether they can get popular, whether they can rush to Mingqian with their mobile phones on the live broadcast, and say a few words to Mingqian , to create some enthusiasm for your live broadcast room.

Often as soon as Mingqian walked by, a group of strange people would rush to him or behind him, singing or dancing, and suddenly kneeling on the ground and hugging Mingqian's leg and calling him daddy, which scared Mingqian enough.

He has said many times that once someone does this, he will be invited out of the store, but there are still anchors and Internet celebrities who persevere in doing this kind of behavior.

"Aren't they ashamed?" Ming Qian couldn't understand at all, he was scared into the kitchen again on the way back.

Ming Qian can understand that they want popularity, traffic and money, but this way of treating themselves like a monkey to win eyeballs is still too shocking. Anyway, Ming Qian feels that he can't do it no matter how much money is given to him, because of his self-esteem. Not allowed.

Porridge Congee: "If they are popular, they will be pushed to the homepage, and then link to promote products. If they are lucky, they can earn hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in one live broadcast. It could be in the tens of millions.”

"And they can't catch up with other people, they can't run to the crew, if they dare to go to the crew, the crew will dare to call the police, then they can only bully you."

Ming Qian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I didn't feel that I was being bullied, but I was a little flustered by being frightened."

Normal Internet celebrity anchors have their own regular programs, only these ghosts and snakes have time to scare Mingqian.

In addition to Internet celebrity anchors, several live broadcast platforms also offered an olive branch to Mingqian, willing to give a sky-high signing fee to let Mingqian live broadcast on their own platforms, but as Mingqian's popularity declined, the platforms offered The price is gradually decreasing.

When Mingqian was the hottest, the platform with the highest offer even reached a sky-high price of 8000 million.

It's just that Ming Qian didn't agree to all of them. His pursuit itself is not to become an anchor or Internet celebrity. He doesn't want to make money from others' liking for him, but hopes to live a stable life by relying on hot pot restaurants and his own craftsmanship.

"Have those people been invited out just now?" Ming Qian asked Chen Yan who came in.

He couldn't invite those people out personally, otherwise he would definitely be scared again.

The most outrageous thing is the anchor who hugged his leg and called him dad. He is a middle-aged uncle who looks like he is in his 40s. He is dark and thin. If you only look at his face, people will believe that he is Mingqian's grandfather.

Chen Yan: "Please go out."

Ming Qian breathed a sigh of relief: "Aren't you looking at the house? How is it going?"

After participating in the sculpture exhibition in Japan, Chen Yan sold two of his works while it was hot. Now he has more than 1000 million deposits. Originally, Chen Yan planned to continue saving, but after hearing what Zhu said about inflation and currency depreciation After theory, I decided to spend the more than 1000 million yuan to buy a normal house, which is around the Fourth Ring Road.

The rooms over there are much more normal than those in the third ring road. More than 1000 million yuan is enough to buy a second-hand house with good decoration and exquisite decoration in the community, and the area is not small.

But if you want to buy a large flat-storey mansion in the city center, the more than 1000 million yuan is not enough, especially Chen Yan's requirement for the toilet of the mansion is the size of a bedroom.

The reason why he didn't buy a new house was because Chen Yan was too lazy to wait.

Chen Yan sighed: "I haven't seen a suitable one yet."

He also doesn't understand why buying a house is so troublesome, either he doesn't like the decoration, or the orientation, or the environment of the community, or there is no nearby commercial area outside the community.

In short, Chen Yan has money but can't spend it now.

Ming Qian: "Take it easy. When my parents bought this house, there was no purchase limit. It took them more than a month to decide."

Chen Yan: "Why don't I buy the decoration that I don't like and redecorate it myself?"

Ming Qian: "That's fine."

So Chen Yan ran to the corridor to call the agent.

Yao said enviously: "Why don't I have the skills to make money? I also want to buy a house, a big house, and then take over my family."

Yiyi is not envious: "The place I live now is very good, with beautiful mountains and rivers, I can live there forever."

Ming Qian sat in the kitchen for a while: "I'm going to the first floor first."

After he finished speaking, he left the kitchen, walked down the stairs, and came behind the cash register on the first floor.

When business is not busy, Ming Qian is still more willing to sit in his old seat and chat with You Jun.

"What are you looking at?" You Jun looked at Ming Qian.

Ming Qian who just sat down was looking at his phone, You Jun: "Does the phone look good?"

Ming Qian raised his head and smiled brightly at You Jun.

You Jun's mood instantly calmed down, he always had nothing to do with Ming Qian, Ming Qian didn't even need to act coquettishly to beg for mercy, all he had to do was smile at him, and he raised his hand to surrender.

"No, isn't it the Chinese New Year? Where do I go for a trip when I see it?" Ming Qian leaned towards Youjun, leaning on Youjun's shoulder naturally, and showed Youjun the few scenic spots he just found .

There is no need to think about money, Mingqian is just looking at the scenic spots, because only Chen Yan can speak foreign languages ​​among the employees, so they don't consider going abroad, but travel domestically.

But although there are many scenic spots, there are only two specific projects - mountaineering and camping, or seaside beaches.

Seeing the option of "Camping", Youjun said calmly, "Let's go camping."

Ming Qian: "Then we can also rent a few RVs. I have always wanted to try the feeling of traveling in a RV. The one with the starry sky roof, you can open the roof and watch the night sky in the RV at night."

Youjun: "...don't live in a tent?"

Ming Qian blinked: "The tent is inconvenient. There is no toilet in the tent. If there is a RV camp in the scenic area, it is very convenient. You can go to the toilet and take a shower. There is air conditioning in the RV, as well as a bed and TV."

Youjun didn't speak, and looked a bit disappointed.

Ming Qian: "...Then we can also bring tents, those who are willing to live in a car can live in a car, those who don't want to live in a tent, okay?"

Youjun said righteously: "It's not that I want to live in a tent, I just think there should be another choice."

Ming Qian suppressed a smile: "I know, I know, of course I know."

You Jun: "Then have you decided where to go?"

Ming Qian took out the photo and showed it to You Jun: "What do you think of this place? There is a RV camp for supplies. You can park your RV in the camp, and then continue to go up to the camping area on the top of the mountain to pitch a tent and light a fire."

You Jun nodded, looking very satisfied: "Yes."

Ming Qian put away his mobile phone: "Then I'll ask them if they'd like to go before closing today. If they're willing to go, I'll first contact the RV camp over there, and I'll also contact the RV rental and sales company."

After a period of adjustments, Mingqian, who had come out of the fact that his parents had left, was in a state of vitality. After sitting at the cash register for a while, he started to enter the back kitchen again, and began to cook by himself side dishes.

Zhou Lin was also in the store today, after all, it was Saturday, and it was time for him to get together with his friends every Monday. This time he still brought his colleagues. On the Saturday afternoon of the second week, I asked him if he wanted to eat hot pot.

Everyone took the initiative to ask, and Zhou Lin was indeed going, so there was one more "friend" among Zhou Lin's "friends".

Many of the new customers in the restaurant are friends bringing friends, and acquaintances bringing acquaintances. Those who are interested in hot pot restaurants have already come to eat. The new customers who will come now are either foreign customers, or they didn’t like it very much before. People who eat hot pot and barbecue.

After Zhou Lin ordered the barbecue and hot pot, he turned to the column of side dishes.

Compared with the previous menu, there are more red soup glutinous rice cakes in the current side dishes.

Zhou Lin had never eaten at this restaurant, so he ordered two without hesitation, fearing that this new side dish would be limited and it would be gone after he ordered it.

But this time the store was well prepared. Zhou Lin found that every table ordered brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, and several tables ordered more than one serving. The brown sugar glutinous rice cakes were not removed from the app. Zhou Lin said to his colleagues: We didn't seem to have ordered snacks when you came?"

The colleague nodded, but he didn't think it was a big deal: "We mainly come here to eat barbecue and hot pot. The snacks are too much for my stomach. I guess I won't be able to eat the main meal after eating the snacks. Thank you."

Zhou Lin: "...Although we are aa restricting you to eat less, it's a bit of a loss, but I think you don't have to say it."

The colleague looked at Zhou Lin in confusion for two seconds, then nodded his head unresponsively, and then asked, "Why?"

Zhou Lin: "..."

He really can't do anything about this colleague!How can there be such a low EQ person in this world? !

Zhou Lin couldn't hold back and asked, "Was you popular when you were studying?"

The colleague fell silent.

Zhou Lin understood.

That's right, as far as this EQ is concerned, it's not bad if you don't offend all your classmates, but it's strange to have good popularity.

It took a long time for the brown sugar glutinous rice cakes to be served until the bottom of the pot was boiled. Unlike the glutinous rice cakes in the hot pot restaurant outside, the glutinous rice cakes here are not long sticks, but square and slightly bulging, and the brown sugar is not directly poured on it. The glutinous rice cakes are placed on the side of the small porcelain plate instead, whether it is poured or dipped depends on how the diners eat.

The glutinous rice cake is no longer snow white after being fried, but slightly yellowed. Because soybean flour is sprinkled, the color after serving is darker than when it was just out of the pan. If you like soybean flour, you can dip it on the plate containing the glutinous rice cake Dip the soybean flour on the bottom. If you don't like it, you can add it up with chopsticks and shake it off.

After seeing the glutinous rice cakes on the table, my colleague still said with a low EQ: "Why is glutinous rice cake? I don't like glutinous rice cakes. It's okay at first, but the inside has no taste at all, and it takes a lot of stomach. The more you chew, the harder it is to swallow."

Zhou Lin picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake, and finally couldn't help but said, "Shut up!"

After speaking, Zhou Lin dipped the glutinous rice cake in the brown sugar, raised it to his mouth and took a bite.

The hot air locked inside came out quickly. Compared with the flexible inside, the outside of the rice cake was crispy, which was completely different from the rice cake that Zhou Lin usually ate. Of course, the outside of the rice cake was also crispy, but the inside was not so soft, not so soft. Easy to chew.

But what is even more powerful is that the center of the glutinous rice cake is hollow. After mastering the shape, size and heat of the glutinous rice cake, as well as a certain chef's secret recipe, this hollow glutinous rice cake can be fried.

Compared with ordinary glutinous rice cakes, this glutinous rice cake will not make people feel hard to chew and swallow, but soft and delicate, chewy and easy to swallow, especially when it is only dipped in a little brown sugar, it will not make people feel that it is too late Will be bland.

On the contrary, if you don’t dip it in brown sugar, you can taste another fragrance, which is the taste of the ingredients themselves.

After Zhou Lin finished eating one piece, he stretched out his hand to grab a second piece. His friends did the same thing with him. Two servings of brown sugar glutinous rice cakes were not enough for them to eat, so Zhou Lin ordered another while eating the second piece. two copies.

"Eating in this restaurant is like smoking a blind box." The friend sitting opposite Zhou Lin sighed, "You never know what special surprise taste will come into your mouth, and there will never be any surprises. It's hidden money."

"Is it really delicious?" The colleague still hesitated, "Will I be full after eating two pieces? I still want to save my stomach for barbecue."

He came here to eat barbecue with a clear goal.

Every time, he can cook a whole portion of beef and beef tongue alone, as well as some average dishes.

Compared with hot pot, he now prefers barbecue.

Especially because he only had the chance to eat barbecue once a week, so he cherished it very much every time. He ate very little at noon, and just waited for the meal at night.

There are also many people like him among the guests. In order to have a good meal at one time, they often skip lunch and wait to eat more at the hot pot restaurant in the evening.

Mingqian has been saying on social media that there is never enough food to eat, and he should give priority to his body.

But... Except for those fans who go to his Weibo to blow rainbow farts, basically no one cares about him.

Zhou Lin didn't persuade him either: "Eat as much as you want, and forget it if you don't want to."

As a result... one of the two glutinous rice cakes served just now was eaten by a colleague alone.

The glutinous rice cakes just out of the pan are the most delicious, because the inside is soft enough. If someone wants to pack them, the waiter will also tell him that the taste will be very bad if they are eaten cold after packing them back. If they are fried again, the taste will be very different. Therefore, it is still recommended to eat in the store and eat it now.

The glutinous rice cakes in the store were also made by himself, but this time Mingqian used the golden finger - asked You Jun to help.

Youjun can use his magical powers to make the amount of glutinous rice cakes needed for a day in a few minutes, and there is no difference from the glutinous rice cakes made by hand, even thinner than the glutinous rice cakes made by machines, and the brown sugar glutinous rice cakes made are also more fragrant.

With tea, Ming Qian can finish two servings by himself, but he will feel very full after eating.

Since the amount of exercise has decreased, Ming Qian's food intake has also decreased a lot, and he has lost weight.

And once thinner, the abdominal muscles are more obvious.

Before going to bed last night, Ming Qian let You Jun touch his abdominal muscles quite proudly.

Youjun said with a sad face: "This is enough."

He had learned about the fit body that human men like before, and he was quite frightened, lest Ming Qian would also follow that path.

It is said to be bodybuilding, but those figures are not beautiful at all to the naked eye, the muscles are all drawn, and the pursuit of larger muscle dimensions, lower body fat, and very unhealthy.

But Mingqian didn't know why, so he said seriously: "I don't think my pectoral muscles are too obvious, or I'll go to a gym and find a personal trainer to train?"

You Jun: "..."

In the end, Ming Qian also forgot about the idea of ​​exercising, and was thrown on the bed by You Jun. You Jun personally expressed that he was very satisfied with Ming Qian's current figure, liked it very much, and even spoke sweet words rarely.

"You are in good shape now."

"very perfect."

"I love so much."

Amidst the ups and downs, Ming Qian felt in a daze that he didn't need to go to the gym, anyway, he wasn't fat, and he had muscular lines, and he didn't plan to rely on his body for a living, so there was no need to be too demanding.

He is very satisfied with Mingqian's work and life. The business in the store is very good, and there are fewer and fewer Internet celebrity anchors who come to the store. He is a skilled worker, and he will not make mistakes on the job.

Life is also very good, Yao has already moved out of his house, and rented a second apartment with Zhou Wei, which is very close to the hot pot restaurant.

Now only Mingqian and Youjun live at home, and their sex life is very harmonious, because Youjun is a beast, so even if they "play" for a long time the night before and are crazy, Mingqian can still go to the next day in good spirits. shop work.

The most important thing is that You Jun only speaks occasionally now, and he can even be regarded as a good man at ordinary times.

Time flies by, and autumn stays for a very short time. People quickly change into cotton-padded down jackets as soon as they take off their unlined clothes. It usually doesn’t snow in X city in winter, but this year, there was a small amount of snow on the day of Lidong. I collected some snow and made a little snowman and put it in the freezer.

A few days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Mingqian closed his business. Before Chinese New Year, he was the only one who ate a New Year's Eve dinner with only one dish, and then continued to be busy with his studies and life.

This year he has someone to spend the New Year with him, for the sake of atmosphere, Ming Qian even bought Spring Festival couplets with blessing characters and small red lanterns to decorate the house.

Youjun also made decorations at home with him.

"You can't stick it on the window like this. The word "Fu" on the window must be pasted face to face." Ming Qian walked towards You Jun, and he explained to You Jun, "The word "Fu" on the outward-facing door and window must be pasted face to face. , the blessing characters on the water tank and indoor walls are pasted upside down."

You Jun: "The human race is really troublesome."

There are so many rules for posting a blessing.

Ming Qian smiled and said: "It's customary, but now the city bans fireworks, but there are official fireworks in the square to watch, we will go there later, I don't know if there are many people going tonight."

You Jun expressionless: "There are many human races everywhere."

Especially in the past few days during Chinese New Year, there are not many people on the street, and many migrant workers have to go back to their hometowns for the New Year, but the people who stay here basically go to where there is excitement, and there are large fireworks to watch, of course. They will also swarm through them.

Ming Qian: "It's very lively, as long as you pay attention to safety, I still hope that the Spring Festival can be more lively."

After all, he has been alone for several years during the Spring Festival. Compared with people who are tired of the excitement, Ming Qian loves the excitement.

After dinner, Ming Qian and You Jun went out. They were wearing coats of the same style and color, Ming Qian also put on a scarf, and walked hand in hand on the deserted street.

After crossing a few streets and crossing a few crosswalks, they came to the leisure square in the city center.

Many families are dispatched as a family. Parents are holding or holding their children, and young fathers put their children on their shoulders, waiting for the moment when the fireworks bloom.

Ming Qian and You Jun did not attract too many people's attention, even though they were holding hands.

When the first firework rose into the sky, Ming Qian trembled all over, and he suddenly felt a great sense of happiness.

Passers-by beside him exclaimed "Wow", Ming Qian held You Jun's hand but exerted force involuntarily.

Youjun: "What's wrong?"

He whispered in Mingqian's ear.

Ming Qian's blood boiled for a moment, and he couldn't help saying: "I want to kiss you."

"Now."