Chapter 37
I upgraded again and got a special gift package
Ever since Yueting buffet breakfast opened, and with the influence of the kitchen window, Xiao Yue's business has been getting better and better.
The tables are fully occupied every day, and the flow of people on West Street has also increased.
The most obvious thing is that the number of customers in several stores that have recently lowered their prices has literally doubled.
At first they thought that lowering the price would affect their reputation, but now facts tell them that as long as there are many customers, they can make money even if the price is cheap!
Therefore, the prices in shops on West Street have become cheaper in recent days, and the residents of the entire street are filled with satisfaction, even comparing themselves with the busiest South Street.
Of course, there are also people who are not satisfied, namely... Zhang Mo, Sister Zhu and Lao Li.
Ever since the three men came to the door that day, they thought that if they told the customers in front of them that Yueting Self-service Restaurant was disrupting West Street, they would get support. However, the opposite happened.
The target of the crowd's attack was not Yue Ting Zizhu, but the three of them.
If Xiao Yue's business is getting better and better, then Zhang Mo and the other two's business is getting worse and worse.
Whenever a customer wants to enter the store, people passing by will stop him and whisper, "This store is expensive and tastes bad. A few days ago, I doubted Yueting's ingredients and wanted Madam Xiao not to make breakfast!"
Nowadays, most people come here because they have heard of Yueting Buffet, especially the "ten copper coins" breakfast, which has long been known.
There are actually stores that don’t allow this?
So the customer looked embarrassed and left quickly.
Although there are few food shops on West Street, this is not the only one, and it would be the same if you change one.
This situation is slightly better because Zhu Jie and Lao Li's store is at the end of West Street, and the impact is not so great.
Zhang Mo was annoyed. After all, Jixiang Restaurant was right next to Yueting Buffet and anyone could make a comparison!
But despite this, they could only swallow their anger and not utter a word of complaint.
Zhang Shui was sighing all day long, with the word regret written all over his face. He just looked at his elder brother's increasingly gloomy face and dared not say anything.
Xiao Yue had no idea of all this. Ever since she added three kinds of porridge yesterday, namely, century egg and lean meat porridge, purple sweet potato and yam porridge, and vegetable porridge, her breakfast had become more and more popular.
Fortunately, although it sounds like there are a lot of things to do, Xiao Yue can handle them all.
Because she prepares most of the ingredients in the backyard after closing for lunch every day.
For example, biscuits, dried fruits, meat to be consumed in rice noodles, and other ingredients that need to be soaked will be soaked in advance.
Of course, breakfast meals still have to be made on the same day, so that they taste the freshest and most delicious.
Even if they only come for this taste, there is no shortage of customers.
Sure enough, it started to drizzle the next day, but unlike the first rainy day when there were no customers near the opening, there were already people waiting early in the morning.
Xiao Yue pulled the awning over early, and together with Fang Sanhong cleaned the yard, allowing the customers to come in and sit down.
Fortunately, the rain didn’t last long and the sky cleared up by noon.
Compared with the morning, the lunch at Yueting buffet is more full of the flavor of life, and it can attract many passers-by just from a distance.
Until closing time, it was another perfect end to the day.
night.
Xiao Yue was lying on the bed, yawning and shopping in the mall when the voice of the system came into his mind.
[Beep beep!] The host's fame progress bar has been detected to have changed. The current fame level is well-deserved. Congratulations on the upgrade, please keep up the hard work! 】
[Rewards for upgrading the fame progress bar have been issued: points x12000, special gift package x1, please check! 】
Xiao Yue was stunned for a long time. Just when the system panel was about to disappear automatically due to no operation, she suddenly turned over and sat up.
"What?"
Upgraded again? ?
Why is it so fast this time! !
Xiao Yue was a little confused. If the crackling sound of the system's electricity was not real, she would have suspected that she was hallucinating.
[Host, it’s true!] 】
The system's electronic sound rose in a humanized manner, fully sensing her emotional fluctuations.
Xiao Yue came back to his senses, his heart pounding, and said in a daze: "It's only been a week since the last upgrade..."
The last time was almost half a month ago, and it was based on a limited free dish for new customers.
But this time he was promoted twice, all thanks to eating early, the influence is so great!
Xiao Yue's whole body went limp and he fell back on the bed. A smile appeared on his face belatedly and he also laughed out loud.
Twelve thousand points!
This upgrade is awesome!
[Host, host, you still have a gift package! 】
The system's voice continued to sound, urging her on a rare occasion.
Xiao Yue opened the panel and found the gift package. When he was about to click it, he saw the label on it and his finger paused.
"Special gift package?"
Xiao Yue spoke each word clearly, his tone full of confusion. Thinking carefully back to the system notification, it seemed to have said the same thing.
Why did it suddenly become special?
[clang clang!] This is in view of the host's outstanding performance, and the system has specially applied to the higher-ups! This gift package is a specially prepared surprise and does not include ingredients or kitchen utensils! 】
Listening to the system's excited tone, Xiao Yue suddenly realized that it had remembered what he said last time.
No wonder he couldn't hold back at the beginning, so he had a surprise for her?
Xiao Yue felt soft in her heart and chuckled, "Little guy is so good at preparing surprises, let me see what it is."
With a "hehe" sound from the system, Xiao Yue clicked on the gift package.
The gift package shook like the previous two times, and opened with a golden light, but this time it did not show something that looked like a card, but two lines of words...
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the "Security System". All stores under the host's name will be protected by security. Once an abnormal situation occurs, an alarm will be immediately triggered and defense will be triggered for the host! 】
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the "Permanent Discount in the Mall". From now on, all ingredients and kitchenware will be exchanged at 20% off! 】
Originally, Xiao Yue was still thinking about this security system, thinking that as the store became more and more popular, there would inevitably be more sinister practices than Zhang Mo's.
It's hard to guard against that kind of thing, so we really need to be vigilant and careful. This automatic defense is really good.
But unexpectedly, the next sentence Xiao Yue heard was - business, city, discount!
She sat up suddenly again, and this time she couldn't help but swear: "Fuck, is this true?!"
Discount? ?
20% off! !
[Of course it’s true!] 】
[If you don’t believe the host, look!] 】
This time, the system panel did not need Xiao Yue to operate, and automatically jumped to the kitchenware interface. There was a festive number "8" in the upper left corner of each utensil.
Look at the original price directly below, it is covered with a red line. For example, the original price of the ice machine is "25,000", but the current price is "20,000!"
Xiao Yue felt a little dizzy. After an unknown amount of time, he fell back onto the bed again, staring at the bed curtain with his lips touching each other.
"Tong, you know, when you were not around, Sister Sanhong and I played rock-paper-scissors, and we could only play scissors."
【Why? 】
Xiao Yue: "Because you are my fist, this family can't live without you!"
system:【……】
The host still loves to talk nonsense.
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Xiao Yue's good mood continued until the next day. While humming a tuneless song, he lowered his head to debone a chicken leg on the chopping board.
Because the mall was having a sale, Xiao Yue spent the whole night shopping and bought the last few seasonings. He even bought the wings, necks, legs and other individual parts of chickens and ducks.
At this moment, Xiao Yue was processing a sufficient amount of chicken legs, preparing to make a dish of Kung Pao Chicken that was red but not spicy, spicy but not overpowering, and tasted fragrant and moist.
The chicken legs were now completely boneless. Xiao Yue held the knife and used the sharp part of the knife tail to pierce the fascia bit by bit so as not to affect the taste.
After slicing them one by one, Xiao Yue cut the chicken thighs into strips, then into even small pieces, and began to marinate them.
Mix rice wine, soy sauce, pepper powder and starch, then add sesame oil to moisten it so that it will not stick when put into the pot later.
Then there are the seasonings: dried chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, ginger, garlic, onions, and the extra peanuts that were fried when making the old vinegar peanuts.
The next step was for Xiao Yue to prepare a bowl of sauce, which consisted of the simplest and most common ingredients: salt, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, starch and water.
Once all the ingredients are prepared, you can light a fire, pour oil and start frying.
Xiao Yue first added the dried chilies and peppercorns and stir-fried them until fragrant, then added the chicken, ginger, garlic and scallions and stir-fried until they changed color.
During the process, the chicken shrinks and matures. You can see that the pink chicken meat has turned into chicken cubes with distinct patterns, and the chicken skin has curled up together and become soft, chewy and tasty.
Not long after, Xiao Yue poured in the sauce, letting every drop blend with the chicken, stir-fried evenly, then added the peanuts, and fried until the sauce was ready to be served.
Such fragrant meat should naturally be paired with light stir-fried vegetables.
Xiao Yue is going to make another dish next - fried yam with black fungus.
This dish is very light and can bring out the purest flavor of food. It is also very simple to prepare.
The black fungus Xiao Yue has been soaked in advance. Now you just need to peel the yam, cut it into sections and then cut it into diamond-shaped slices, and then blanch them in the pot together with the black fungus.
In order to make the dish look good, Xiao Yue also cut a small amount of carrots and blanched them together.
Adding a small amount of salt during the cooking process can not only remove some of the earthy smell, but also make the yam slices less fragile when fried.
After blanching, Xiao Yue took them out and drained them, then started to stir-fry the garlic slices in hot oil.
However, the garlic flavor is not too strong, after all, it does not overshadow the flavor.
With a "bang", Xiao Yue put the drained yam and black fungus into the pot, and a fresh fragrance came to his nose.
Because it has been blanched in water, you don’t need to stir-fry it for too long in this step. Just lubricate it with oil, add simple salt and sugar, and finally add a thin layer of starch and it’s ready to serve.
This dish presents three extreme colors, black, white and orange. It looks really bright and translucent, and tastes crisp, refreshing, moistening the lungs and nourishing the stomach.
At this point, today's dish is ready.
However, Xiao Yue recalled the various flowers she exchanged last night and decided to temporarily change the jasmine milk to rose milk.
So when Fang Sanhong pushed the dish out, Xiao Yue quickly soaked the roses.
The steps were naturally exactly the same, except that the flowers were changed, so soon, Xiao Yue was handed a bowl of fresh milk for tasting.
She tried some herself and distributed some in small cups to customers watching at the window.
Seeing their amazed looks after tasting the food, Xiao Yue smiled.
"Are you in a good mood today?"
Just at this moment, Fu Xunzhou's voice came from the door.
He was delayed this morning by something and was unable to come for breakfast. It was still some time before noon when he arrived at the store.
As soon as he came in, Fu Xunzhou saw Xiao Yue's eyes full of smiles, so he asked this question.
Xiao Yue looked up when she heard the voice. It was almost noon and everyone went outside to wait. There were not many people in the kitchen. She still had the last cup of rose milk in her hand, so she greeted them with a smile.
"Fu Xunzhou, come and try it!"
Fu Xunzhou paused slightly, and inexplicably felt his ears numbing for a moment, then stepped forward and took the rose milk.
The rose milk was naturally cold, but there seemed to be residual warmth from Xiao Yue's fingertips on the wall of the small cup.
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