After finishing one bowl, if you're still not full, you'll boldly shout, "Boss, another bowl!"
The long-awaited relaxation brought together diners who were strangers to each other, and they chatted casually.
"No wonder everyone says that eating spicy food can release emotions when you are stressed. A bowl of spicy and sour cold noodles is so refreshing."
"Absolutely, it made me sweat profusely."
"You all know that Ziyuan Building has a new owner, right?"
"Of course I know. Our boss even came to the company specifically to renegotiate the contract."
"You have to be really rich to buy a building like that."
"There are plenty of rich people in the world, I don't care about that, I only care about why this cold noodle dish is so delicious!"
"It might be related to the ingredients; this cucumber really tastes like cucumber, you know what I mean?"
Although it was a very strange sentence, everyone present inexplicably understood it.
The cucumbers and tomatoes we eat nowadays don't taste as good as the ones we used to grow in the countryside.
When I was a child, the tomatoes and cucumbers we ate could be eaten like fruit; they were very flavorful and juicy.
Fresh tomatoes picked from the ground can be washed and eaten raw. One bite and the sweet and sour juice is incredibly refreshing. The taste is completely different from the tomatoes we eat now.
"Cucumbers are okay, there are even fruit cucumbers, but they don't taste good. Nowadays, when you buy tomatoes to cook, they don't release any juice, you have to add water. If you want a strong tomato flavor, you have to add tomato sauce."
"It's true, the tomato and egg rice I ordered last time was really awful, it didn't taste like tomatoes at all."
"The cucumbers the owner used must have been expensive; they looked very fresh, and you could taste the cucumber's refreshing flavor when you ate them with the noodles."
"I can tell the difference between good and bad sesame paste. I'm from the north, and I've always used sesame paste in all kinds of cold dishes or dipping sauces since I was a child. Bad sesame paste has no aroma and tastes sweet because other things have been added to it. Good sesame paste will become drier the more you stir it with water. The sesame paste in this shop is very rich and fragrant."
"This is just a roadside stall. If it were in a restaurant, a plate of shredded chicken cold noodles would cost you 38 yuan for just one small bite. I've been ripped off before. I thought it was a whole bowl when I ordered, but when it arrived, it was just one bite. It wasn't even as good as the shredded chicken cold noodles. It was bland and tasteless."
"Which restaurant is this? I'm avoiding it."
"It's in the shopping mall up ahead, that new Sichuan restaurant."
"Hehe, I didn't expect working overtime to have this benefit. Those who leave early don't get to enjoy the food, haha."
The group of people eating cold noodles were extremely happy.
Even the fatigue from working overtime was cured at this moment.
So much so that the next day, when it was time to leave work, none of those who had eaten cold noodles were in a hurry to leave; they all stayed to work overtime.
Working overtime to earn more money, then going out for a bowl of cold noodles after get off work—it's wonderful.
......
The 26th is Zhang Mingyuan and Lu Qian's engagement day.
Lin took the high-speed train back to Jiangdong City early in the morning and had his housekeeper wait for him outside the high-speed train station in a car.
Then I went home, changed my clothes, and went to the engagement party.
After the banquet ended, he drove his Bugatti back to the city alone to set up his stall that evening.
Butler Sun was terrified that Lin Zhou had been setting up a stall in Kou City all week, fearing that Lin Zhou might settle down there, which would mean they would be left alone in their villa.
However, as housekeepers and nannies, they naturally couldn't interfere in their employers' affairs and could only follow the boss's instructions.
After seeing Lin Zhou off, the butler and the others stood in the courtyard and sighed repeatedly.
"Oh, I never imagined that your business was in Kou City. I thought this was your home."
"Why should you know about your employer's affairs? We should just do our own jobs well."
“With Mr. Lin not here, I have no energy to work. I always feel that the villa is too empty.”
"Why......"
Lin Zhou drove his luxury car all the way back to Kou City on the highway, and it was already evening.
This time, when he arrived at the door, he rolled down the car window in advance. When the security personnel on duty saw Lin Zhou's face, they immediately came out, bowed, and opened the door.
Lin Zhou nodded and parked the car directly in the garage.
Think back to when he first got this luxury car, he was very careful when driving it, but now he can drive on the highway with peace of mind.
There is a direct elevator to the top floor of the building, but you need a top-floor work pass to access it.
Lin Zhou took out the president's work ID that Huang Zhenghao had given him and took the direct elevator from the garage upstairs.
The elevator leads directly to the corridor of the top-floor office area.
Even before getting close, Lin Zhou could feel the tense working atmosphere.
Everyone seems very busy.
Lin Zhou remained silent and quietly slipped into the president's office.
A short while later, Huang Zhenghao arrived.
"Do you all work overtime like this every day?"
Lin Zhou had already noticed last night that the people in this building worked very long hours.
Some people don't get off work until midnight.
"No, not at all. I've just taken over the work at the building, so it'll definitely be busy at first, but once things get on track, there won't be much to do."
Huang Zhenghao feels that working now is no different from retirement; he only needs to help the boss manage and maintain the building.
It's much easier than my previous job.
Everyone working overtime is just starting out; they need to quickly understand the information about Ziyuan Building. It's mostly just reading documents and organizing contracts.
"That's good, don't overwork yourself."
Lin Zhou didn't want anything to happen to the team of employees he had just acquired.
"Okay, I'll tell them that everyone except those on duty can go home."
Huang Zhenghao keenly sensed that the new boss wasn't the type to like a "wolf culture." As employees, they had to adapt to whatever kind of boss they were dealing with.
Lin Zhou nodded, and seeing that it was getting late, he went into the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for cold noodles.
The employee who helped him yesterday is here today.
"Boss, should we handle it the same way as yesterday?"
"Yes, that's right."
Lin Zhou started kneading the dough, then, thinking about the people on duty outside, he kneaded a little more dough.
There was a bit too much dough, and he couldn't knead it all.
Then a thoughtful employee brought over a dough kneading machine.
Lin Zhou: ......
I almost forgot about this labor-saving machine.
Let the dough mixer knead the flour into a dough first, and then Lin Zhou took a break to cook the shredded chicken.
Good shredded chicken is definitely not something that can be made simply.
First of all, the chicken breast used must not be frozen chicken breast; it must be fresh chicken breast.
Then add scallions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, cooking wine, and other spices to the water and boil them together.
Controlling the heat is also very important.
The appeal of shredded chicken lies in its tender texture. If it's overcooked, it becomes tough and the taste will be much worse.
......
(Chapter 3)
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