When Xu Milu finished cleaning up, the entire stainless steel basin was empty, and the whole bucket of seaweed soup had been sold out.
Xu Milu breathed a sigh of relief.
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Liu Qingqing and Zhang Li are two white-collar workers who rent an apartment near Nanqiao. Every day, they take a bus from Nanqiao bus stop to their office building on the pedestrian street.
The two women work for a company that handles foreign trade settlements. They clock in early and leave late. Every morning, they buy breakfast and eat it hastily on the way home. After a busy day, they rush back home. They are exhausted every day and don't know when they will be able to become permanent employees.
Zhang Li had some complaints about buying breakfast at a different shop today:
"If I hadn't overslept, I would have gone to KFC. At least they have hamburgers. Steamed buns with eggs are so lame."
To save time, Liu Qingqing simply put the tea egg inside the steamed bun. The moment she took a bite, all thoughts of promotion and clocking in vanished; it was as if only the steamed bun could attract her.
The sauce from the tea egg seeped into the steamed bun, soaking it completely. But this slight soaking was like chocolate shavings on ice cream—not much, yet present in every bite, becoming a wonderful garnish.
The egg yolk and white were sandwiched between fluffy steamed buns, their colors—brown, orange-red, and white—intertwined, greatly stimulating her appetite. Another sip of seaweed soup, and she was immediately captivated by its savory aroma, eagerly anticipating the next bite.
After she finished eating the whole steamed bun, which wasn't big but was definitely not small either, she reluctantly drank the last sip of seaweed soup, regretting that she had just given the other tea egg to Zhang Li.
But when he turned his head, he found that Zhang Li also had a dreamy look on her face:
"Qing, Qingqing..."
Zhang Li looked dazed: "I feel like I've been eating breakfast all this time for nothing... Help me up, I can still eat..."
Liu Qingqing rolled her eyes.
Wake up, Your Majesty! The Qing Dynasty is already dead.
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After eating a whole steamed bun with an egg, Liu Qingqing was already seven-tenths full, but she couldn't bear to waste the seaweed soup, so she casually handed it to a colleague who had arrived earlier.
"Wow, that's strange. I've never seen a breakfast shop that sells seaweed and egg drop soup before. Aren't they mostly selling tofu pudding?"
As my colleague spoke, he inserted the straw into the cup and took a sip.
Although it was a bit cold, the moment the straw pierced the plastic wrap, the hot air carrying the incredibly delicious soup rushed into his throat. The egg was smooth, the seaweed was crisp yet chewy, and the soup was delicious. Every bite was a comfort to the cold morning.
It was just a seemingly ordinary bowl of seaweed and egg drop soup, but after drinking it, my colleague's forehead was covered in a fine layer of sweat.
"This tastes so good!"
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On the other side, Grandma Zhou and her husband Grandpa Jiang were having breakfast with their grandson.
She has two sons. Her eldest son's family lives in Beijing, which is far away, but they send money back every month. Her second son teaches at a university, and his grandson lives with her and her husband, who also send them money every month. So, together with their retirement pensions, they live a very comfortable life.
"Grandma, I want to eat it again tomorrow."
Today, my grandson Zhouzhou not only ate eggs, which he usually hates, but also ate a whole meat bun with seaweed soup by himself, something that has never happened before.
The elderly couple immediately beamed with joy, wishing they could buy breakfast from this restaurant every day.
"Hmm, Zhouzhou was so great today! You ate until your tummy was round and full, but it's all gone now. We'll eat again tomorrow."
Grandpa Jiang rubbed Zhouzhou's little belly:
"If you don't misbehave at school today, we can eat more tomorrow, okay?"
After coaxing his grandson to start school, Grandpa Jiang frowned.
To be honest, that egg and seaweed soup smelled so good. Did the owner put something in there that he shouldn't have?
These days, everyone says that the more additives and poppy shells you put in, the better it smells, right?
Looking at the eggshells his grandson had left on the table and the half-full cup of seaweed soup, Grandpa Jiang called his youngest son: "Hello? Jiang Liu... Who am I? I'm your dad!"
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A thousand families, a thousand stories.
After selling breakfast, Xu Milu immediately began preparing the mulberry juice she would sell at noon. After sorting out the morning's earnings, she sold another batch of juice, and that marked the end of her business for the day.
Sitting on a stool in the shop, Xu Milu had the box for collecting money that morning in front of her.
Neatly stacked bills and change were arranged in neat piles. After counting them two or three times, Xu Milu dared to confirm that she had sold a total of five thousand yuan worth of jade today. After deducting the cost of buying the jade, she made a net profit of three thousand nine hundred and fifty yuan!
Even with insufficient preparation, she believed that more eggs and seaweed soup could be sold!
This time, Xu Milu didn't feel bad about spending money on jade. She made another dimensional jump, this time with a clear goal in mind, and collected nearly five thousand wheat ear eggs.
On the third day, the store introduced boiled wheat eggs and tea-infused wheat eggs, which also sold out quickly.
There's no other reason than that boiled wheat-ear eggs have a unique flavor. Although they don't have the savory aroma of tea eggs, boiled wheat-ear eggs have the fragrance of wheat and allow you to better appreciate the taste of the eggs themselves.
Many people who like to eat eggs choose to have one of each kind.
Xu Milu also understood what "high-end flavored eggs" meant.
And so it went: selling breakfast, buying jade to recharge, frantically gathering resources... selling breakfast, buying jade to recharge, frantically gathering resources...
After three cycles, Xu Milu earned her first 50,000 yuan in just seven days.
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