Chapter 77
"cheers!"
"Celebrating that we are completely sold out of stock!"
"marvelous!"
“It’s all thanks to everyone’s hard work!”
Four glass bottles collided, making a crisp sound and pineapple beer bubbling.
Chen Lanjun, Pang Xiaopeng, Atong and their aunt Chen Mudan sat together at the round table in the restaurant under the banyan tree. A chandelier emitting orange and yellow light illuminated the white mist rising from the hot pot.
The celebration banquet was a hot pot with plain water. Chen Mudan went to the river early in the morning and bought a black fish from a familiar fisherman. She kept it in a bucket and carried it all the way to the banyan tree on her bicycle.
Pang Xiaopeng went to get a large plate of oysters, some squid slices, pork kidneys, etc. Atong bought some fresh green leafy vegetables from the suburbs. They were all extremely fresh ingredients, and the table was filled with plates and bowls.
The key to this kind of hot pot is its freshness, so the boiling soup in the pot may contain only a few peanut oil and radish slices occasionally, while the taste depends entirely on the ingredients themselves.
The fish slices are prepared by Shen Mudan. They are sliced very thinly. Use a long chopstick to pick them up, blanch them in the clear soup for a few seconds, and when they curl slightly, pick them up immediately and roll them in the sauce dish.
They were all acquaintances, and Chen Lanjun didn't like to play by the rules of letting others share the food. She just picked up several slices of fish fillet, blew on them, and put them into her mouth.
That’s so fresh!
"How's my knife skills?" Shen Mudan said with a smile.
"Of course, wow, compared to that, what I ate before was bear meat." Pang Xiaopeng said vaguely with fish fillet in his mouth. Atong also nodded vigorously.
They were all children of the same age as her own children. Chen Mudan was happy just looking at them. She kept boiling fish fillets and kidney slices and spreading them to Chen Lanjun's bowls. "Eat more. If my Ah Hong was here, these wouldn't be enough for him."
Chen Lanjun heard her say this and knew that she was thinking about Zhao Hong. Chen Lanjun took an oyster to Shen Mudan: “Aunt, I wrote to ask before, Brother Hong will be back during the Chinese New Year.”
“Whoever wants him to come back will cause trouble.” Although she said this, the corners of Shen Mudan’s mouth rose wildly.
Pang Xiaopeng asked: "Sister Lan, are you spending the New Year here this year?"
"Oh, then I will definitely stay here to eat the New Year's Eve dinner." Atong's eyes lit up.
Chen Lanjun used chopsticks to pick at the fish in the bowl: "We should go to Pengcheng City to celebrate the New Year. My parents will also go. They haven't seen my sister for a long time."
Moreover, she had to go and see the industries in Pengcheng City in person. She couldn't just leave them there.
She looked up and said, "So, I'll have to rely on you guys to sell the New Year candies here."
Pang Xiaopeng and Atong were a little disappointed, but they also knew that this was quite reasonable.
"It's okay. We will do as we agreed and seize the New Year opportunity to sell the newly packaged candies to various places," said Pang Xiaopeng.
"Yes, and the car we rented earlier will be rented for two more days." Chen Lanjun said, "Take the candy and go around the surrounding countryside. Say it's direct sales from the manufacturer."
Atong asked, "By the way, Sister Lan, should we send some of this candy to Hong Kong? The workers in the factory are asking about this."
"Well, this..."
Chen Lanjun hesitated. When the contract was signed, it was indeed mentioned that some of the goods would be transported by rail from here to Pengcheng City, and then transferred to Xiangjiang for sale.
In order to make this deal happen, Director Qian went out of his way to run around, and finally got the quota for train carriages for the Hong Kong special train.
Although the current sales focus is actually locally, it seems unreasonable not to transport even a single carriage of goods there.
"We still need to prepare some. So you can ask the factory workers to pack up a batch of better goods and put them aside first. Send them out a few days before I go to Pengcheng." Chen Lanjun made the decision.
It's just goods. She can definitely sell it once it's in her hands.
"Don't just talk here. How much of the food in this pot is cooked? Eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold." Chen Mudan fished out a lot of cooked ingredients and put them into the bowls of Chen Lanjun and others. "People are iron, rice is steel, now eat well."
"Yes, sir." Chen Lanjun agreed with a smile.
The four of them concentrated on finishing the food beside the hot pot. On such a winter night, the steaming hot pot was the best way to warm the stomach.
After eating and drinking, Chen Lanjun touched her round belly and told Pang Xiaopeng and Atong: "Calculate the bonuses promised to the workers as soon as possible. Confirm the accounts, and then pick a good day nearby. Send them as soon as possible."
"I'm going to have my final exams soon, so I don't think I can spare any time to think about anything. I'm here to see the business here, so I'd like to trouble you to take care of it during this time."
She took Shen Mudan's hand and said, "If there is something very troublesome and I can't contact you for a while because I'm taking an exam at school, you can ask my aunt. She is very experienced."
The two agreed immediately.
"Don't worry, we have some experience now, just focus on your studies."
Chen Lanjun really needs to review her lessons well. It’s a bit embarrassing to say that she has been running around so much this semester and has not been too focused on her studies.
Therefore, before the exam, you must cram for the exam. Even if you don’t ask for excellent grades, at least you can’t fail.
After moving back to the school dormitory, Chen Lanjun began to spend every day in the library.
Because of the incident last time when a mysterious relative persuaded the company to send candy to college students for tasting, the classmates in the class were quite nice to Chen Lanjun. If there were any questions, she would answer them as detailed as possible.
Chen Lanjun also knows how to use sugar-coated bullets. She always has candies in her two pockets and gives them to everyone she meets. This makes the students even happier.
However, many of the students in the class were boys, and when some of them spoke to her, they either spoke in a strange and halting voice or lowered their heads and dared not look at her.
That day, Chen Lanjun was studying in an empty classroom on the easternmost side of the second floor. She really liked studying in this classroom because there was a tall kapok tree outside.
Although they have not bloomed yet, it is still extremely refreshing to look up and see the leaves of the kapok tree when I am tired of reading.
She was flipping through the pages of the book in her hands, thinking about the experiment she would do in the afternoon.
Suddenly there was a small notebook on the desk.
Looking up, a male classmate was looking at her, his dark cheeks slightly red.
"Um, classmate Chen, these are the notes I took in class. Do you want to see them?"
Chen Lanjun smiled and said, "I'm sorry, you have to review too. Thank you, I appreciate your kindness."
As she said that, she handed the small notebook back.
The boy hesitated: "Actually, I have always been to you..."
"Thank you." Chen Lanjun interrupted him gently, "I appreciate your kindness."
When she said this, the boy understood and quietly put away the notebook: "Well, I wish you a good grade in the final exam."
After the boy left, Chen Lanjun stood up and stretched. When she raised her hands to the highest point, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure near the back door.
It turned out to be Shao Qinghe?
How did he find it? When did he come?
Chen Lanjun asked in confusion: "Hey, when did you come?"
"Maybe, when you understand someone else's feelings."
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