The five-member team left, and silence fell around the blind box store.
Lu Yao stood in front of the store for a while, and felt that two benches could be placed at the door.
This place was too empty, which particularly inspired her to add on and renovate it.
Lu Yao made a note of this in her heart, turned around and put the two extra hot drink blind boxes in the warehouse into the blind box machine, and then turned to go to the snack bar.
The tables and chairs in the blind box store have not been made yet, and there are not many customers. It is boring to stay there, so it is suitable for placing play. It is okay to ignore it for the time being.
The snack bar will open for night food tonight, and she wants to go and see the dishes.
The first floor of the snack bar closes on time at 4 pm. Quan Shengju, Bai Ming, Xingzi and Xiaoqie are preparing dishes for night food in the kitchen.
Night food mainly does barbecue. The mustard greens and vegetables need to be cleaned and cut. The meat needs to be marinated in advance and then put on the skewers made by magic. You can start grilling when the store opens in the evening.
The meat currently only includes pork belly, lean pork, chicken wings, chicken skin, chicken gizzards, tiger skin phoenix claws, beef and monster meat from Alexandria, and we have 100 skewers of each.
Vegetarian dishes include green peppers, enoki mushrooms, green beans, cucumbers, lotus root slices, dried bean curd, potato skin, thousand leaf tofu, stinky tofu and cabbage leaves, and we have 50 skewers of each.
Lu Yao likes to eat grilled oysters and grilled shrimps, but both Shaguang City and Emerald Town are inland towns, and seafood ingredients are either expensive or simply unavailable.
The restaurant didn't prepare any seafood, so they only ordered 20 fresh crucian carps.
Lu Yao tried the barbecue ingredients made by Quan Shengju, and they tasted great.
There was a small pickle pot in the restaurant, in which some crispy and sweet carrots were pickled.
Lu Yao asked Xiao Qie to pick some up, and she cut some carrot cubes and grilled a few skewers of sweet potato skin.
After the thick and hard sweet potato skin was heated, it became soft and sticky. The surface was brushed with chili oil, sprinkled with salt and cumin, and the chopped pickled radish and chopped green onions were wrapped in the middle. Two skewers were used to roll it up, and it tasted sticky, sour and fragrant, and appetizing.
Quan Shengju ate a bunch of them. The outside of the sweet potato skin was slightly burnt and hard, but the inside was sticky and chewy. You had to bite it hard. The sour and crispy kimchi and the fragrance of scallions made it simple and rich.
"We don't eat it this way over there. This tastes great."
Bai Ming and his friends ate the roasted sweet potato skin and gave it a good review.
Lu Yao also introduced that roasting dried bean curd like this and wrapping it with small ingredients is also a must.
Compared to the chewy and sticky sweet potato skin, dried bean curd is dry and fragrant, which makes people want to eat more.
Quan Shengju learned the technique of roasting sweet potato skin from Lu Yao, and said that he would add two kimchi pots in the kitchen to pickle radishes. At
five o'clock, the second and third floors closed on time.
Qi Chen, Chi, Mo Cheng and Yu Cai also came downstairs to help.
The shop assistants discussed among themselves that the night food shop would be divided into groups of four, and a group would be changed every seven days.
From today when the night food shop started to open, Bai Ming, Xingzi, Xiao Qie and Quan Shengju would be the group working.
However, it was the first day of business, and Chi and the others were curious, so they just stayed.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the barbecue stall of the snack bar opened, and the brothers Du Chen and Duan had been eyeing this place for a long time.
When they saw the sign light up, they came together, and there were also guests staying in the hotel.
These guests lined up outside the snack bar during the day, but they didn't catch up, so they checked into the hotel next door and planned to line up again early the next morning.
They didn't expect that the snack bar would quietly open the night food shop, and they were so happy to run into it.
They were the first wave of customers. They ordered all the dishes in the restaurant and a whole case of beer.
Five or six people sat around a table, eating barbecue, drinking and chatting. They seemed to have returned to their past lives.
After a while, the guards Bai Jian and Qing also came, and with them came many NPCs from the park.
I heard that the guards were treating and brought their employees to barbecue.
The NPCs filled four or five tables, and the scene was extremely lively.
Soon, the guests from the KTV, dance studio, and painting studio next door smelled the aroma and ran out. They realized that the snack bar was open for late-night food, and it was open from sunset to dawn.
"Oh my god! I just came out after singing, and I'm going to have a barbecue before going home to sleep. Isn't it wonderful?"
"This smells so good. The people at that table are leaving. Hurry up and sit down!"
"Oh my god, it's barbecue! I can actually eat barbecue again in this life. It's worth dying for!!!"
"But you're already dead..."
"It's none of your business. Stop talking nonsense. Hurry up and get the food!"
"I like this kind of grilled fish with a charred and dry skin the most. It smells so good!"
"Beer and grilled fish are simply amazing!"
The news that the snack bar opened for late-night snacks spread quickly, and many people rushed in.
Not only was the store full, but more than a dozen tables were set up in the open space outside the store, and they were almost full.
On the first day of the store opening, customers thought it was fresh and rushed in.
Lu Yao was helping to grill skewers in the kitchen, while Qi Chen, Yu Cai and a few others also joined in to receive guests.
In the impermanent world, at the corner of the abandoned Shenghong Building.
Lu Yuanfan held a blind box of hot drinks in his hand, and the hot steam was spreading, with a faint scent of tea mixed with milk.
The air suddenly became quiet, and Zhou Yan, who had been talking for more than 20 minutes, finally stopped, staring blankly at the can in Lu Yuanfan's hand .
The team member who came out with Zhou Yan to look for someone came over, "It smells so good, does it smell a bit like coffee?"
"No, it smells a bit like tea to me?"
Zhou Yan took the hot drink from Lu Yuanfan's hand and raised the crystal core to move closer.
The green crystal core emitted a faint green light, and he couldn't see the contents of the cup at all. He leaned in to smell it, then lowered his head to take a sip.
The bitter and fragrant taste was blended with the fresh tea fragrance and a hint of milk.
Zhou Yan frowned slightly. This taste was familiar and unfamiliar. It should have a formal name, but he couldn't remember it. In the end, he just said, "It should be a drink mixed with tea powder and coffee."
Xing Shan leaned over, "Captain, let me taste it."
Zhang Lewei and Wang He leaned over, each took a sip, smacking their lips to taste it.
Zhou Yan is 28 years old this year, and his teammates are about 24, 25, or 26 years old.
When the Day of Impermanence came, they were only a few years old, but they knew a little more than the children born after the Day of Impermanence.
They all felt that they must have seen or tasted this kind of drink when they were young, but they couldn't remember the name.
It has been too long, and now there are few opportunities to come into contact with this kind of thing.
Zhou Ying came over and asked in a low voice: "Is it called Matcha Latte?"
Lu Yuanfan, Zhang Bai and other team members were a little excited, "A new flavor?"
Zhang Lewei clapped her hands and said excitedly: "Yes, that's the name! Matcha, I just thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't name it."
Zhou Yan looked at his sister, "How do you know this name?"
Zhou Ying pointed to the can, "There is a style introduction on it, and I heard you say it has a tea flavor, so I guessed."
She took out a square box from her arms, "Brother, we also drew a few blind boxes of instant noodles in that store, but we don't know what flavor it is yet."
Instant noodles?
Not only Zhou Yan, but also Xing Shan, Zhang Lewei and Wang He all had a change of expression. This thing really touched their memories.
When I was a kid, I would do everything I could to act cute and play with adults just to have a bowl of instant noodles.
In the past few years, I could occasionally exchange instant noodles that had expired for many years at the base, and they even cost a lot of money.
In the past two years, I basically didn't see anyone taking them out to exchange.
The days of uncertainty are getting more and more unpredictable, and life is hard to endure. If you have something to eat, you have to hold it tightly and dare not take it out.
In addition, the days of uncertainty have lasted too long.
Industry has been suspended, and the things produced before the days of uncertainty have long been consumed.
Now the land is polluted and normal food cannot be grown.
Animals and plants are still constantly mutating, and there are fewer and fewer things to eat, leaving less and less living space for humans.
Zhou Yan took the blind box, Xing Shan and Wang He each held a crystal core to help with lighting.
Zhou Yan did not hesitate and tore open the box. The items inside were all individually packaged. He touched the surface and knew that the largest package was a cake.
He pressed it twice and was reluctant to tear it open.
Zhou Ying and Lu Yuanfan came closer and counted. There were only three packages of ingredients inside, and they were slightly disappointed.
"This is a regular version. What the owner said is true. Only hidden small ingredients can be so rich."
Zhou Yan didn't pay attention to what they were saying. He immediately took Zhou Ying's hand and urged, "Take me to see the small shop you found there."
Zhou Ying immediately turned around and led the way, with a little pride in his tone, "It's in the Fairy Tale Square. The shop is very bright and you can see it when you walk over. Brother, do you have crystal cores with you? We brought too few and couldn't draw many."
Xing Shan, Wang He and Zhang Lewei looked at each other. They didn't quite understand the blind boxes that the children were talking about, but it was a pleasant surprise to find food, and they were all very excited.
However, the area around the Fairy Tale Square was a large shopping mall before the Impermanence Day, with Dalian Lock Supermarket, clothing stores, and snack streets. In the past, there were abundant supplies, and many people came here to hunt for treasures.
Over the years, I don't know how many people have looted it, and even the floor is as clean as if it has been licked.
In the past two years, people with common sense generally don't come here to search for supplies.
Only a kid who knows nothing would come here and find something good by accident.
Zhou Ying stopped and pointed to the brightly lit blind box store not far away, "Brother, it's over there."
Zhou Yan and his friends finally understood what the kid meant by "very bright". The store's sign was too glaring, and the street lights on both sides were pure white, which was completely different from the colored light they used the crystal core to stimulate.
They heard Zhou Ying and his friends say that there was only one young woman in the store who claimed to be the owner, so they didn't worry about it.
The group went straight into the blind box store, but found it empty.
Zhou Ying walked in the front, and Xianbao introduced it to his brother and his teammates in the same way: "This is the blind box machine. We put the crystal core into the blind box coin exchange machine over there, and then put the coin in here, and we can draw out hot drinks and instant noodles."
Zhou Yan and others walked around the blind box machine and came up with the same idea, but they still planned to take a look at what was in the machine first.
Several people took out a few small crystal cores from their pockets and exchanged them for 15 yuan of blind box coins each.
Zhou Yan was more interested in the instant noodle blind box, and without hesitation, he directly drew a box of instant noodles.
Xing Shan and Wang He also thought that instant noodles were more cost-effective, so they each drew a box.
Zhang Lewei touched her stomach, and her abdomen was sore and drooping, and she felt very uncomfortable.
She wanted to drink hot drinks slowly, so she chose a hot drink blind box.
Zhou Ying weighed several of her brother's instant noodle blind boxes one by one and was a little disappointed: "They are all very light, they look like ordinary ones."
Xing Shan was surprised: "What can you weigh?" Zhou Ying
proudly puffed out her chest: "The manager said that only hidden ones will have special ingredients. I drew a hidden one with spicy pork ribs flavor, which has fragrant pork ribs and crispy vegetables. It is especially delicious. Hidden ones with meat and vegetables should be heavier than ordinary ones." "
Yingying is lucky. She drew a hidden one for the first time."
"Now when I think of the taste of the meat, I can't help swallowing my saliva. It's so fragrant."
"The vegetables are delicious too, crispy and fresh. I didn't know before that vegetables tasted like that."
The members of Lu Yuanfan's team talked a lot, reminiscing about the hidden instant noodles they had eaten not long ago.
Several members of Zhou Yan's team were really surprised. How could there be mutated meat and vegetables in instant noodles?
They couldn't remember how long it had been since they had eaten normal meat and vegetables. After listening to Zhou Ying's description, it didn't seem fake.
Xing Shan looked at the blind box of instant noodles in his hand and suggested faintly: "Why don't you draw another one to try?"
Hidden instant noodles, I want it!
They didn't plan to open the ordinary ones in their hands, they just wanted to see what the hidden ones looked like first.
Meat, vegetables, this temptation is too great.
Xing Shan drew a new box, Zhou Ying weighed it and shook his head.
Wang He also drew a new box. Without Zhou Ying weighing it, he could feel that it was about the same weight as the previous box.
It was Zhou Yan's turn to draw. Zhou Ying raised his hand and said, "Brother, let me help you draw!"
Zhou Yan was actually quite interested in drawing from the box. This way of playing gave a strange sense of relaxation to people who were struggling to survive in the uncertain days.
But since his sister wanted to draw, he did not stop her. He stepped back and handed the coins in his hand to her.
The little red light next to the blind box machine lit up, and Zhou Ying squatted down to take it. As soon as she picked it up, she smiled: "Brother, I got it!"
"Oh my god, no way?" Wang He found it incredible.
Lu Yuanfan squeezed over: "What did the owner say Yingying was... oh yes, the emperor of Europe!"
Zhang Bai added: "And there is another one!"
Zhou Yan took the so-called hidden blind box and weighed it. It was really heavier than the ones he had drawn before, very obvious.
But when it was placed in the blind box machine, it was completely invisible.
"Captain, do you want to open it?" Xing Shan looked at the hidden instant noodles in his hand eagerly, eager to try.
"Open it!" Zhou Yan said.
Zhou Ying: "There is hot water over there, you can make instant noodles directly."
Several people in Zhou Yan's team turned their heads to look, thinking that this was too thoughtful, even hot water was prepared.
Several people started to study the water heater again, and it felt like peacekeeping everywhere.
"This machine is so new."
"It doesn't seem to be heated by the crystal core? It uses electricity?"
"The water is also very clean, not turbid."
They began to have a question in their hearts: Who opened a store like this here?
Zhou Yan suppressed his thoughts and tore open the hidden instant noodles. As expected, there were two extra packets of small ingredients inside.
"What kind of noodles is this?"
Whether it was the big team members or the small team members, they were all curious about this.
Zhou Yan took out a small piece of paper and handed it to them: "Yiyi seafood noodles."
"Seafood? Is it fish?"
"What are the hidden condiments?"
"I've never eaten fish, I really want to know what it tastes like."
Zhou Yan tore open the dough, the snow-white round noodles smelled of wheat, completely different from the moldy instant noodles he had exchanged for at the base before. As
soon as the seasoning and soup packets were torn open, the rich smell of seafood soup came out, and there were dried green onions and corn kernels in the condiments.
Finally, two packets of hidden condiments were torn open, and three cooked prawns were directly poured out of one packet, and two crab sticks were in the other packet.
"Oh my God, it's really shrimp!" Zhang Lewei exclaimed while holding her hot drink blind box, and even felt a little regretful in her heart.
This instant noodle is too worth it!
After the noodles were soaked, Zhou Yan took a bite and drank the soup. The eyes of the usually serious man lit up and he praised: "Delicious!"
"Captain, let me have a bite!" Xing Shan couldn't help it.
One box of instant noodles was definitely not enough, so they opened a few more ordinary instant noodles, including mushroom chicken soup noodles, pickled pepper beef noodles, and spicy pork ribs noodles.
The two teams of nine people shared four bowls of instant noodles. Although none of them were full, this was the most delicious thing they had eaten in the past ten years, and it was also the most normal food.
Zhang Lewei was given a small portion of seafood noodles and a small bite of shrimp. She sat on the ground, tore open her hot drink box, took a sip, and said in surprise: "I seem to have opened red date ginger sugar water!"
The warm brown sugar taste, with a little spicy ginger, and thinly sliced red dates floating on it.
Others took a taste and reacted relatively calmly, but Zhang Lewei was very happy.
When she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she drank brown sugar water once in an old base that has now been destroyed.
At that time, she was also on her period and was in great pain. She was lying in a tattered and rotten tent. A kind sister fed her some brown sugar water.
Today, that base is no longer there, and no one knows where that sister has gone.
Zhang Lewei was also in great pain during her period today, but she had to go out to do the mission.
At this moment, all emotions were soothed by this cup of ginger sugar water. The cold and painful abdomen felt a burst of warmth, and a sweet aftertaste remained in the mouth.
It seemed that she could hold on for a while.
After eating, Zhou Yan and his team members stared at the two blind box machines, and the deep meaning in their eyes was self-evident.
Xing Shan said: "This machine is quite interesting. It's a pity to smash it directly."
Wang He said: "If you don't smash it open, you can't take it away because it's so big. All the food inside must be taken back. This batch of supplies is very important."
Lu Yuanfan and his team members heard the adults' discussion and were a little confused.
Zhang Bai said: "Why smash the machine if you can exchange it with crystal cores?"
It's so interesting to draw blind boxes.
Xing Shan said, "The Eternal Night is prolonged, and supplies are so tight. If we don't take these good things, others will find them and come to grab them. Although there are not many things, everyone can get a little bit, and maybe we can survive until the end of the Eternal Night."
Zhou Ying couldn't help but say, "But this store has an owner. If we want food, we can exchange it with crystal cores. Why do we have to rob?"
Children are so naive. Xing Shan and others surrounded the blind box machine and began to find an angle, preparing to try to smash the machine.
Zhang Lewei walked to Zhou Ying's side and sighed.
She used to be similar to Zhou Ying, innocent and naive. No matter how difficult life was, she wanted to stick to the bottom line.
But if you want to survive in the unpredictable day, you should abandon these things as soon as possible.
No matter what the purpose of opening this store here is, and no matter who the owner is, if she/he puts these things here and does not have enough ability to protect them, she/he should be prepared to be robbed.
Seeing Zhou Ying sad, Lu Yuanfan walked to her side and whispered: "Yingying, since Zhou Yan and the others have made a judgment that these things must be taken away, you have to get used to this. No one knows how long the eternal night will last. With this batch of supplies, many people may survive."
But when the base collects supplies, they will exchange crystal cores or other things with others.
The things in this store are not ownerless supplies. Zhou Ying thinks this is wrong, but she knows the value of these supplies.
She felt very uncomfortable, but she couldn't stop it, so she could only stand there and sulk.
Over there, three young men have already started to smash the blind box machine.
Suddenly there was a sound at the door, and everyone turned around.
Lu Yao pushed the door open and walked in, "You smashed my blind box machine, and you still want to steal things? This is not good."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
