Chapter 56: Demand Outstrips Supply

The teacher was not very old, only about 30 years old. He felt a little embarrassed when he said this.

Shen Xiu immediately lowered her head, feeling a little embarrassed and not daring to look at anyone.

Shen Qingyue said, "I'm sorry, this is my last day. Please return the money for the children's meals."

When the teacher heard Shen Qingyue's words, he realized what Shen Qingyue had misunderstood and said, "No... no... I mean, can you order one for me too?"

He is a teacher who lives on campus. It is inconvenient for him to make a fire, and he worries about what to eat every day.

But he was too embarrassed to look for Shen Xiu, so when he saw Shen Qingyue coming, he took the initiative to bring up this matter.

I didn't expect it to cause misunderstanding.

Shen Qingyue said: "Oh, that's it."

The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief without leaving any trace.

Shen Qingyue said, "It just so happens that I brought an extra box. Teacher, please try it. If you find anything that doesn't suit your taste, please tell me."

The teacher was a little surprised. He thought he could eat it tomorrow at the earliest, but he didn't expect to eat this delicious lunch box today!

Take out the money quickly.

Shen Qingyue said: "Just treat the first day as a trial. If you want to order tomorrow, you can pay later."

The teacher said, "How can that be possible?" But he didn't have a penny in his pocket, so he said awkwardly, "Well, I'll give it to you tomorrow."

Only then did Shen Qingyue leave the school!

The teacher had a lunch box in his hand.

Soon, school was over.

The teacher took the lunch box to the boiler room to heat it up for free. Just put the lunch box on the stove and it will be ready in a minute!

The steaming hot lunch box has not even been opened yet, but the fragrance is already coming out through the gaps.

The moment when the teacher returns to the office and opens the lunch box.

All the teachers in the office turned around at the same time.

Shen Qingyue made spicy chicken feet, spicy tofu, and eggplant with sauce. Each of them was a super delicious dish that went well with rice.

It smells delicious. I take a mouthful of rice and put some spicy tofu on it. It tastes so good. I finish it in two bites.

And the chicken feet, plump and soft, fall off the bones easily when you suck them in your mouth. They almost melt in your mouth.

He ate with great pleasure, but the other teachers in the office were tortured.

They all cooked their own meals, such as stir-fried cabbage slices, and had already had enough of them.

I want to eat out, but the school is too far from the city, and the one-yuan stir-fry is expensive.

It is too luxurious for teachers like them who don’t have high salaries.

But the fragrance is too tempting. Who can stand it?

"Hey, where did you buy this and how much did it cost?" my colleague asked. After smelling this smell, the food I brought with me no longer tasted good.

"Fifty cents," he said.

"What? Fifty cents is so affordable."

"Where did you order it? I want to buy it too."

"You're so mean! You know we worry about food every day, but you don't share this great place with everyone."

The teacher said, "It's not that I don't want to share it with you, this is what the students' parents did."

There was almost a misunderstanding today. Then I told everyone what happened this morning.

Others didn't care about the misunderstanding he caused, they just wanted to order the meal.

The teacher asked, "How many copies do you want?"

"I want one."

"I want one too."

"Count me in."

After he made the statistics, he was speechless. It turned out that all the teachers in the office wanted to order meals.

Even the oldest teacher in the grade said, "Order a portion for our principal and the security guard, too. Don't let them eat it all and then have another idea if they don't have any."

How can such a big job be unanimously agreed? The teacher plans to talk to Shen Qingyue again tomorrow and add 30 more boxed lunches.

I don’t know how to tell Shen Qingyue when I see her tomorrow.

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Malatang is a hit in the steel mill and continues to be so.

As soon as noon arrived, not only people from the factory lined up, but also many people from outside the factory lined up.

Eating steaming hot spicy hot pot and drinking a bottle of lychee soda is so comfortable and refreshing.

Generally, people buy fresh food first, then go to buy fresh food.

The raw bag format is so convenient.

Those who cannot come to the steel plant are asking others to buy it for them.

The phenomenon of one person buying more than ten or twenty copies appeared.

Shen Qingyue kept saying, "This thing can't be kept. It must be eaten within a day. Otherwise it will go bad."

The buyers kept saying: "I don't even use it for a day. I take it home and it's gone the same day."

Shen Qingyue clearly increased the quantity, but it was still not enough to sell!

Their special little window has been packed for two hours straight, so those who wanted to take away food never had a chance to get in!

"Why are there so many people here? Why don't we talk to the security guard and tell him not to let anyone else eat at our factory? Isn't this just stealing resources?"

"If you dare to say it, go ahead. I won't say it. Our steel plant has always wanted to be a model plant and benefit the county. We have always shouted this slogan, but we have never achieved it.

Now that a special window is going viral, our factory director is so excited! Hasn't he heard that a cafeteria is going to be built on that large vacant lot to the west? Who dares to pour cold water on this?"

"Then we can't buy our spicy hot pot either." It's so frustrating to talk about this.

Ever since Malatang became popular in the steel factory, I don’t know who promoted it.

Now everyone in the county wants to try this. I heard that if you ask someone to buy it for you, the price will be raised to one yuan per bowl.

Even this is in short supply. They work in a steel factory, so there are always some relatives and friends who ask them to buy a copy to take back.

There is no opportunity at all.

There is always someone at the Malatang window. If relatives and friends saw this, they would think that they didn't want to buy anything!

"Our spicy hot pot is so delicious. I bought some and cooked it, and it attracted all the neighbors. They insisted on trying it, and I just saw our neighbors lining up."

At noon, the queue lasted for more than 40 minutes. My neighbor even skipped lunch to queue.

Just this kind of perseverance is something that most people don't have.

"Well, after all, it's our steel mill's stuff, so we have to protect our factory first. We don't even have enough to sell ourselves."

People at the steel mill are still complaining.

"Maybe it will be fine in a couple of days. You know how people in our county love to join in the fun."

"Yeah." Everyone is waiting for Malatang to become outdated so that they can achieve Malatang freedom.

But two days passed, and Malatang not only did not become outdated, but became even more popular.

Shen Qingyue had just finished her work at noon when the director of logistics and Director Jiang of the workers' union came to see Shen Qingyue together.

“Miss Shen, for such a thing, can you get more raw buns? We can buy them here. Everyone in our factory is going to explode.”

Now everyone wants to rebel.

I just wanted to take advantage of the factory's convenience and buy directly, using the green channel instead of queuing with outsiders.