Chapter 140 The hot pot is open
"Why don't you sleep a little longer? It's the time for growth. Only if you get enough sleep can you wake up quickly and have a clear mind..."
She rolled up her sleeves with a smile and took the basin of water, "...Mom will make breakfast."
Li Liuli shook her head.
"Mom slept too late last night, and I also want Mom to sleep a little longer."
Fan Qingyi's heart softened, and she was indescribably happy in her heart.
The eldest daughter's words were like an iron, ironing out her hard work in recent days one by one.
She smiled and said, "Mom is an adult, and adults don't sleep that much."
Li Liuli pursed her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.
But Fan Qingyi still heard it.
A'li's inner voice said, "Mom is lying, adults are not robots, how can they not need enough sleep? ! 】
【Teacher Zhao said that adults need to find out why they lied. Mom was lying to comfort me and not let me worry. I...can't expose her, but...I feel sorry for my mom! 】
【I'm too young. It seems that I can't help my mom in anything except studying hard. 】
【I want to grow up quickly. I want my mom to sleep and wake up whenever she wants! 】
The soft voice has the childishness that has not yet been lost, and it struggles with a bit of confusion, anger, and strength.
Fan Qing's heart was broken when she heard it.
She wanted to tell her daughter that the three of them were gifts from her father to her. For them, she never felt tired. She would only regret that she didn't wake up earlier and didn't bring them a more stable and better life earlier.
"Ali, Mommy doesn't feel tired, really."
But she knew she couldn't say that. If she did, Ali, who was as sensitive as she was, would definitely think too much.
Li Liuli didn't believe it.
But she nodded, "Mom, I'll make breakfast from now on, and I'll call you to get up and eat when it's ready."
As if she was afraid that Fan Qingyi would think too much, she explained it again.
"Our teacher Cao said that as long as a person sleeps enough for 1.5 hours, he or she doesn't feel sleepy, which means he or she has slept enough."
She counted on her fingers and told Fan Qingyi, "I went to bed at 10 o'clock yesterday, and it was already 6 o'clock when I got up. It's already five 1.5 hours, and I'm very energetic..."
As she said that, she tried to open her big eyes towards Fan Qingyi so that she could see.
Fan Qingyi, "..."
Knowing her eldest daughter's temper, if she didn't agree, the child might secretly get up early every day in the future. It would be better to agree to her, agree on a wake-up time, and give the child enough sleep.
"It's not impossible, but..."
Fan Qingyi smiled and touched her daughter's black hair. The previously dry, frizzy and split yellow hair had been carefully cared for by her in the past six months and was now black, shiny, soft and smooth.
Li Liuli's eyes lit up slightly.
"Mom has a condition. You go to bed before 9:30 pm and get up after 6:30 pm."
The light in Li Liuli's eyes disappeared instantly. Mom had to get up at 6:30.
Fan Qingyi smiled, "Mom will get up at 7 o'clock."
"Okay." Li Liuli's eyes widened in surprise. She was afraid that Fan Qingyi would go back on his word, so she agreed immediately.
Fan Qingyi patted her twice and said, "Go and wake Zhuzhu up for dinner."
"Yes."
Li Liuli nodded heavily, turned around and trotted out of the kitchen, even her back was full of joy.
Fan Qingyi's eyes gradually became hot as she watched her daughter.
When the child entered the west room, she heard her daughter's laughter from inside the room. She smiled and lowered her head, and saw a woman with disheveled hair, a haggard look, red eyes but a smile on her face reflected in the basin.
She scooped up the water and splashed it on her face. The warm water splashed on her face and washed away her inner fatigue.
When she looked up again, she was already full of energy.
While wiping her face and tying her hair, she thought about what she had to do today...
After sending her two daughters to school, she started a new busy day.
In the afternoons and evenings of the past few days, we have been preparing the rotating hot pot. Therefore, the daily buffet menu is based on the food in the warehouse that day. We quickly decide the menu, prepare the ingredients, and then start cooking.
Today, we have to serve the hot pot again. Fan Qingyi is so busy that she doesn't even have time to raise her head. She has transported the pure copper hot pots back and forth twice.
Although there is room for cheating, some things still have to be exposed.
For example, these pots, the charcoal needed, and the green vegetables.
When the bell rang for the textile factory to leave, she was still placing sauces on the table by the wall. She had asked her little daughter about the sauces, and she knew them from her little daughter's thoughts. There were peanut crumbs, seafood sauce, chive sauce, beef sauce, chopped green onions, sesame sauce, sesame oil, etc.
She put bamboo charcoal in all 20 pots in advance to avoid being in a rush when too many people ordered.
Four kinds of soup bases were placed in earthenware pots and labeled, and customers could choose when the time came.
Various vegetables, beef balls, lamb rolls, etc. were placed on the revolving table.
Her little daughter said to use clips to hold the food, and she asked how much each clip cost. Since she couldn't buy clips, she used rubber bands without wool entangled in them instead, and each rubber band cost one cent.
Meat dishes such as beef rolls and mutton balls are placed in small bowls and are charged by the bowl, 10 cents per bowl.
There is also a quantity for each dish.
She controls the cost of a hot pot meal to around 50 cents, trying to make sure most people can eat their fill.
For those who have a large appetite, a bowl of rice is provided free of charge.
For those who like noodles, Fan Qingyi will find Song Youwei and Jiang Yanhong and buy their hand-rolled noodles.
She has prepared all the problems she can think of, and if any problems arise, she will just... deal with them as they arise.
"Sister Fan, what are we having for dinner today..." dish.
The first customer who came in saw the new revolving table, and his eyes lit up before he could finish his words.
He cried out, and rushed over in three or two steps, "Is this the small hot pot that sister-in-law talked about?"
"Yes, a rotating hot pot."
About seventy or eighty people followed in, looked at the new turntable, and walked over.
Fan Qingyi smiled and pressed the switch of the revolving table.
After two creaking sounds, the wooden revolving table slowly turned.
"Huh? This table can rotate by itself?"
"No wonder it's called a revolving hot pot, it really can rotate! Sister Fan, how much does this revolving hot pot cost?"
"It looks very rare, I want to try it too."
"Can you not trust Sister Fan's cooking skills? Sister, give me one too."
Several young people asked for one each, and they were very tacit. Men and women sat opposite each other. The high revolving table just blocked the line of sight from the opposite side. They could eat whatever they wanted, and there would be no embarrassment of eating with unfamiliar opposite sex.
Fan Qingyi smiled and agreed, brought the pot over, pointed to the instructions posted on the wall, and let them choose the pot base, the vegetables and sauces they liked.
If there is not enough charcoal, she will ask her to add more by herself to avoid safety hazards to the guests.
When Secretary Zhou brought people over, there were less than five pots left.
Fan Qingyi was busy serving meals to the guests at the buffet and could not leave.
"We are one family. Sister Fan, there is no need to greet us. We... can do it ourselves by looking at the instructions."
Secretary Zhou pointed to the instructions posted on the wall and smiled gently.
His voice was neither high nor low, but the workers who were very sensitive to their identities were paying close attention to them. When they heard Secretary Zhou say one family, the workers looked at Fan Qingyi differently.