A customer in the store ordered pork elbow rice noodles, which is a dish in which a large piece of halved pork elbow is placed on top of the rice noodles. The sauce is rich and aromatic, and the pork skin is soft, chewy and very delicious.
But this thing is also difficult to make, especially you have to keep an eye on the heat and be careful not to burn the pork elbow. Lin Minjun temporarily heated the pork elbow and stared at the pot wholeheartedly, so of course she had no time to look outside the store.
At this time, she didn't know that two people were slowly approaching her outside the store.
It is said that some time ago, Lu Xueping and Shen Hongyu discussed together how to deal with Lin Minjun. They agreed to find a reporter to expose Lin Minjun's shop, take two photos of her shop being dirty and filthy, criticize it in the newspaper, and make her shop unable to continue operating.
This matter had been on hold before because Shen Hongyu boasted that she knew the deputy editor-in-chief of Capital Youth Daily, but she was unable to contact him until yesterday. Today, she agreed to come over to check on the situation after the editor-in-chief got off work.
So the people coming outside the store at this moment were Lu Xueping and Gu Shuangcheng, deputy editor-in-chief of Capital Youth Daily.
Both of them came on bicycles, but they parked their bicycles far away from the store, and they came very quietly, with their behavior a bit obscene.
He first looked at it from a distance for a while, then quietly moved over. Gu Shuangcheng was very puzzled, "Comrade Lu, why are we doing this? We are like thieves."
"Undercover investigation! Do you know what undercover investigation is? How could a businessman put dirty things out in the open? They must be put in the kitchen. We can't see it otherwise." Lu Xueping argued confidently. She learned the term "undercover investigation" from Shen Hongyu and put it into practice right away.
Gu Shuangcheng thought about it and felt that it made sense. He used to be a reporter and had seen many of his colleagues doing undercover investigations. Their profession was to use the pen as a sword to expose the sores and ulcers of society.
Suddenly I thought of the purpose of coming here today.
As the economy developed, everyone became richer and people's hearts became worse. Several years ago, he met a friend named Qiao Feng, who first made his first pot of gold by selling socks, and later assembled radios and made spicy hot pot by himself. He took every step steadily, without cheating or deceiving others, and he believed that making money was his due.
Now he has a successful career and a harmonious family. Some time ago, Gu Shuangcheng had dinner with Qiao Feng. He heard that his daughter is the class monitor and his face was full of smiles when he talked about her.
Later, Gu Shuangcheng also met many people who did business honestly. It was reasonable for these people to make any money, but he didn't know when the market started to become chaotic, and shortchanging was common. The worst thing was that many people sold inferior products as good ones, specializing in selling pencils that broke as soon as they were written and exercise books that fell apart as soon as they were touched.
There are also unscrupulous restaurant operators who don’t throw away ingredients even when they are moldy or rotten. Instead, they cut off the rotten parts and continue to make dishes and serve them to customers.
Gu Shuangcheng himself also has a little girl. The child ate something outside two days ago and has been vomiting and having diarrhea. She is now receiving an IV drip in the hospital. It was because of this market chaos and for the sake of his own child that he agreed to Shen Hongyu's request and came to take a look at what was going on in this store.
Gu Shuangcheng rubbed his hands in anticipation: "What you said makes sense, but we can't see it from the outside. Let's go in and take a look."
"Ah?" Lu Xueping was a little embarrassed, but seeing Gu Shuangcheng go in, she had no choice but to follow him in.
Just at this moment, Lin Minjun had just served pork elbow rice noodles to the customers, and when she turned around, she saw Lu Xueping.
She raised her eyebrows, a little surprised.
Lin Minjun thought Lu Xueping would never set foot here again.
Given Lu Xueping's personality, she was so embarrassed here last time, but she was still willing to come here. This is even more bizarre than red rain from the sky.
Lin Minjun glanced at Lu Xueping and asked directly, "Lu Xueping, what are you doing here? Are you planning to smash my store again?"
"Smash the store?" Gu Shuangcheng took a breath of cold air. He was a cultured man and a writer, so of course he was shocked and turned around to look at Lu Xueping.
Lu Xueping was walking fine, but she almost fell down when she heard this. She immediately bit her lip and started thinking of ways to explain.
Of course, I didn’t explain it to Lin Minjun, but to Editor Gu.
She had originally planned everything well, just waiting to make Lin Minjun lose her reputation and return to Yunnan in disgrace, but who could have thought that she would be turned upside down as soon as she entered!
Lu Xueping gritted her teeth and looked at Gu Shuangcheng, only to find that he was staring at her seriously.
Gu Shuangcheng also asked: "What's the matter, Comrade Lu Xueping, why do you have the idea of smashing the store?"
He narrowed his eyes, looked at Lu Xueping suspiciously, and asked again: "Did you have any personal grudges before? Let me make it clear in advance that I don't care about personal grudges. You can solve it yourselves."
If these two female comrades had a personal grudge and Lu Xueping brought him here to discredit each other, Gu Shuangcheng would have turned around and left right now.
Lu Xueping was of course very anxious. "No, we did have some unpleasantness before, but I don't like to make enemies with others, so I didn't take it seriously. Smashing the store was just a joke."
She smiled awkwardly and said to Lin Minjun, "Why do you take it so seriously? You were in a relationship with my brother. Even though we broke up, we were still family. You're just being angry and ruining things. I'm here to eat rice noodles today. Make me two bowls of rice noodles and we'll find a seat."
"A visitor is a guest. You won't refuse to receive him, right?" she asked again.
Lin Minjun looked at it for a while, then moved aside to make way for him. "Come in."
The visitor was a guest. She owned the shop. Lu Xueping walked in openly and did not act crazy. Of course she had to receive her. However, Lin Minjun also wanted to see what Lu Xueping was planning to do by coming to her shop for no reason.
Lin Minjun: "What to eat?"
"Whatever, I'll serve the most popular items."
After saying that, Lu Xueping took Gu Shuangcheng around the store, and finally walked to the seat closest to the kitchen and sat down.
Even after sitting down, he was still restless. Lu Xueping gave him a look, and the two of them looked around furtively, sometimes checking whether the table was wiped clean and the chopsticks were washed clean. Sometimes they stretched their heads to look towards the back kitchen and watched Lin Minjun cooking rice noodles through the crack in the door.
In fact, if you want to see the back kitchen, you can do so openly, because Lin Minjun has installed a transparent glass opposite the back kitchen, so customers can see the cooking process by standing in the middle of the store.
If Lu Xueping looked at them openly, Lin Minjun would not have noticed anything, but because of her sneaky and unorthodox look, Lin Minjun immediately realized that something was wrong.
Her relationship with Lu Xueping was not good in her previous life, and it was even worse in this life. It was not a relationship where they could support each other. Today, Lu Xueping came here inexplicably and brought a man with her. I wonder what she was thinking.
Especially since these two people looked so sneaky, Lin Minjun glanced over there and frowned slightly.
The rice noodles were cooked quickly and Lin Minjun brought them to the table. The two of them looked away only when she walked over.
Because the two of them came together and had the same guilty look, Lin Minjun's attitude was certainly not good.
If it is for other guests, Lin Minjun will considerately introduce the chili and vinegar on the table after serving the rice noodles, and tell them what they like to add. They can also add coriander or mashed garlic according to their own taste.
Lu Xueping's words "relatives" just now made her very upset, and she hasn't recovered yet. Lin Minjun is too lazy to pretend to be nice to her.
After placing two bowls of rice noodles on the table, she only said, "The chopsticks are in the chopstick cage, take them yourself."
Gu Shuangcheng just watched for a long time, and after watching the whole process of making this bowl of rice noodles, he felt that it was quite clean and there was nothing wrong with it. He took a deep breath of the fragrance of the rice noodles, couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and said: "Comrade, do you have any chili? How about vinegar?"
Lin Minjun: "Put it on the table yourself."
She saw Lu Xueping was still looking at him, "Lu Xueping, what are you looking at?"
"No, when did I see it?" Lu Xueping retracted her gaze and began to play innocent: "Besides, what's wrong with me taking a look? Is there something shameful in your store that cannot be seen by others?"
In fact, everyone knows the relationship between the two of them. They can't be called enemies, but it's almost the same. They both dislike each other.
At this moment, Lu Xueping suddenly looked innocent, which made Lin Minjun feel even more that she had done something wrong.
Lin Minjun: "It doesn't matter. I welcome you to come over and eat rice noodles quietly, but if you pick a fight with me, we can just have a fight and die together."
As he was talking, another customer came into the store: "Comrade, give me a bowl of rice noodles."
Judging from the voice, it was a regular customer. Lin Minjun gave Lu Xueping a warning look and turned to entertain the guest.
Lu Xueping choked up in her throat and didn't say anything for a long time. She was afraid that Gu Shuangcheng would find out that she had a grudge with Lin Minjun and then just ignore the matter.
She hurried to see Gu Shuangcheng, and saw that he had taken out a notebook and a pen at some point, and was writing with a frown, not even bothering to eat the rice noodles.
There is no such thing as privacy for Lu Xueping. If she wants to see something, she will. She immediately stretches her neck to take a look.
"Rice noodle shop, lesbian, bad attitude, warning..." Lu Xueping saw that it was all scattered sentences, and there was no coherence. She couldn't understand it either: "Editor Gu, what are you writing about? I don't understand."
Gu Shuangcheng held up a notebook and introduced: "I will record what I saw first, and then I will start writing the report after I return. Did you see these sentences? This is the tone of the article."
Although Lu Xueping was a high school student in name, she didn't study hard after all. She thought about it and couldn't figure out what "chicken off" meant.
She couldn't resist the delicious smell of the rice noodles and started eating with her chopsticks. She was still thinking hard while eating.
What exactly does "chicken off" mean?
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