Chapter 228 The Grocery Shopping Girl in Combat Mode
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
After Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen took a short rest in the store, they bought several large bags of food from the farmers' market and put them back on the tricycle.
Although the meat and vegetables are not as fresh as in the morning, hotpot is greasy and spicy, so it doesn't make much difference if you serve it half a day later.
"Let's go, we haven't bought any vegetables yet, over there!" After putting the ingredients away, Zhao Xiaojing pulled Su Yuchen to the vegetable stall.
Su Yuchen turned his head and looked at Zhao Xiaojing carefully, speechless. Since entering the vegetable market today, she seemed to have transformed into a vegetable-buying girl in combat mode, wanting to buy all the vegetables.
"Mirror, is this our last meal? We won't be able to eat anymore in the future?" Su Yuchen teased as she looked at Zhao Xiaojing's enthusiasm.
"What are you talking about?" Zhao Xiaojing reached out and nudged Su Yuchen with amusement, then walked over to the vegetable stall where she usually bought groceries. "Boss Huang, cabbage, bok choy, Chinese cabbage, garland chrysanthemum, lotus root, yam, radish, spinach, lettuce, potatoes, corn, and these mushrooms. Give me a little of each, about a pound of each. Hey, you have rice cakes? Give me some too! One bag will do."
"Okay!" Zhao Xiaojing ordered almost all the dishes on the stall. After listening to her, the stall owner stood up quickly and packed up the dishes one by one.
"Wait here, I'll go to the tofu stall next door." Zhao Xiaojing patted Su Yuchen, turned around and rushed to the next stall, looked around and continued to point out the scenery. "Boss Li, I'll give you one of each of these tofu rolls, bean curd sheets, etc., and also put the kelp and bean sprouts on them. Um... except for your jelly, I'll give you one of each!"
Su Yuchen turned his head and stared at Zhao Xiaojing, feeling numb again. At first glance, there were more than a dozen varieties of tofu on the stall. The way Zhao Xiaojing was buying vegetables didn't look like she had eight people to eat, and even eight pigs might not be able to finish it.
Since arriving at the vegetable market today, Zhao Xiaojing's painting style has become crazy.
At the beginning, they were in a hot pot pre-prepared food supermarket. The two wanted to buy meat rolls. Su Yuchen also took one kind, and there were about a dozen boxes. As a result, Zhao Xiaojing took them one by one to look at the ingredient list, muttering "synthetic, synthetic, this one is also, this one is the same, this one is okay, this one is not okay, I don't want this one", while putting the meat rolls in the cart back one by one. The meat rolls on the last row of shelves were picked and chosen, and only two kinds were left in the cart. Zhao Xiaojing took three boxes of each kind.
Su Yuchen was originally still wondering if he had taken too little, as it wasn't enough for eight people, but Zhao Xiaojing pushed the cart forward, loading it with processed tripe, duck throat, duck blood, duck intestines, luncheon meat, air-dried sausage, corn sausage...
Zhao Xiaojing packed three boxes of each kind of food, and finally pushed a full cart of ingredients to the base material area in the front. She looked at the hot pot base and picked up ten pieces.
Su Yuchen was dumbfounded at the time, and asked her why she needed to put so much in one meal, two pieces at most would be enough. As a result, Zhao Xiaojing smiled mysteriously.
"Every day at noon, the food gets cold halfway through my meal, so cooking a hot pot is just right. If that doesn't work, I can also make a spicy hot pot."
Su Yuchen agreed and followed her lead. She then picked out several bottles of sesame paste, cooking oil, mushroom sauce, beef sauce, scallop sauce, and spicy sauce.
After struggling to load the food into the car, Su Yuchen thought she had finished buying the meat, but Zhao Xiaojing took her to the beef and mutton stall...
After a while, the two came out of a meat stall on the street, their hands full of various parts of beef and mutton, chicken gizzards, duck blood, Basa fish, pig intestines, chicken feet, quail eggs...
"Let's go to the dry goods store!" After buying soy products, Zhao Xiaojing's eyes lit up again at the dry goods store.
Su Yuchen was stunned. He looked at the plastic bags in the hands of the two men, which were once again full, and then looked at Zhao Xiaojing, who looked excited. "Mirror, what on earth did you do behind my back today? When did you go crazy?"
"Just buy a few bags of Gongcai. Don't you like it?" Zhao Xiaojing smiled at Su Yuchen, who looked stunned. She took the full plastic bag from her right hand with her left hand and used her other hand to push Su Yuchen. "Just buy Gongcai. I'll be back after I buy it!"
Su Yuchen had no choice but to follow, with a smile on his face that made him feel a little touched and he didn't know what to say.
It was almost four o'clock when they returned to the restaurant. The four of them had not gone home yet and had already packed up all the prepared dishes. Geng Mingyan and Hou Guihua had also finished cleaning up the dumpling restaurant next door and had just washed their hands and came over to help.
"Xiao Zhao and Xiao Su, let's go! Let's see the results of my and Lao Geng's hard work!" When Hou Guihua saw the two coming back, she happily supported Zhao Xiaojing who had just got off the car.
"Xiao Wu, Mosquito! Get the things from the car!" Su Yuchen shouted and gave instructions, and the two followed Hou Guihua to the dumpling restaurant in front in three or two steps.
Even though she had already taken a quick look at it in the morning, Zhao Xiaojing was still dazzled when she entered the room.
The entire restaurant of the former Dumpling House is refreshed.
The tile floor had been mopped somehow, and all the dirt that had been sticking to it had disappeared, and it even had some glittering reflections; the tiny cobwebs on the ceiling had also been cleared away, and the replaced lights were now emitting bright light, illuminating the entire hall.
The kitchen in the display window was also cleaned up. The two constant temperature fryers were washed clean and placed on the workbench. The frying tools, seasoning trays and lunch boxes next to them were neatly arranged and all cleaned carefully. The original countertops in the kitchen were also carefully patched, and a new chopping board was placed next to the moved braising pot. The traffic flow was arranged strictly according to her instructions. The display window that she did not instruct was also wiped clean.
Except for the sign which is still being made, everything is ready and can be used directly here tonight.
"Sister Hou, you two are so proactive! Your efficiency is so high. The whole restaurant is much cleaner now!" Su Yuchen praised.
"Well, it's nothing more than watching the workers install it and cleaning up after they're done. How can they do any work?" Hou Guihua was relieved to see that the two were satisfied, and smiled comfortably.
"Sister Hou and Sister Geng, please eat more tonight. We are having a dinner together today and having hotpot tonight!" Everything was said without words. Zhao Xiaojing turned her head and said to Hou Guihua.
When talking about hot pot at noon, the two elder sisters were not there. Ouyang Yidan came over and asked them what they wanted to eat. The two did not order any dishes and said that they just wanted to eat something casually and not waste money.
Although Hou Guihua said she didn't work, the two of them have been busy since taking over the store yesterday.
Before mealtime, the two of them were busy in the dumpling restaurant. When mealtime came, they came over to help with the rice. After meal, they sat for a while and then went back to the dumpling restaurant to work. They worked non-stop and took care of all the worries that Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen, the bosses, should have. In the end, they were busier than both Zhao Xiaojing and Su Yuchen.
"Well, I just want to eat something casually. It doesn't matter what I eat! You young people should eat more." Hou Guihua waved her hands naively.
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