Chapter 42 Cute Restaurant
"Today is August 4th on the Gregorian calendar, which is also Chinese Valentine's Day on the lunar calendar."
Meng Le clenched her hands nervously and glanced down at her phone screen, which showed the news that Paradise had posted last night: a short line of text with an image.
v Fantasy Park: The Dwarf Restaurant is revealed for the first time!
The accompanying picture is the night view of the completed restaurant.
First photo: Under the quiet night sky, two clumps of tall, emerald green needle palms are separated by a wide cobblestone path. At the end of the cobblestone path is a three-story building, half-hidden behind the lush trees. Through the large glass windows, warm light falls on the oval dining table, creating a cozy atmosphere.
The second photo is from another perspective. A bunch of blurred roses occupies one corner of the photo, and the focus of the lens is on the kitchen that looks like a glass greenhouse. The square kitchen is made entirely of glass. The stove, kitchen utensils and cabinets are all clean and tidy. The vegetables that have just been washed are placed casually on the marble countertop, and water droplets on the leaves are faintly visible.
The third photo shows a corner of the restaurant's cash register. On the brown counter is a menu stand with a few words written on it: Welcome to the Dwarf Restaurant!
There is a fierce-looking label on the upper left corner of the counter, which is the logo she designed for Fantasy Park.
Meng Le has looked at these three simple photos over and over again dozens of times, and he loves them so much that he doesn't know what to do.
After all, this was the first time in Meng Le's life that she saw her independently designed work being built into a real building. The excitement, pride and joy in her heart were beyond words.
At this moment, she no longer cared about the shocking fact that the paradise had built a three-story building in two days and decorated it perfectly. Her mind was filled with only one thought, which was to rush to the scene and see her own work with her own eyes!
With a ding, the bus arrived at the station.
As soon as the car door opened, Meng Le was blown from the car to the entrance of the theme park like a gust of wind.
At this time, the snack stalls and food stalls near the park had already started business. She waved to the ticket seller inside the smart iron gate, "Chen Hui, open the door for me."
Chen Hui was stunned. "Xiao Meng, why are you here so early? It's only 7:30!"
Meng Le suppressed his excitement and said, "I want to go to the restaurant early."
Chen Hui smiled understandingly, opened the door and said, "Go ahead!"
Seeing Meng Le rushing in without looking back, she said to her colleagues, "I heard from the boss that he specially hired a very good chef. He will come to work at 8 o'clock. Starting tomorrow, there will be special employee meals. We will have a feast in the future."
A colleague asked in confusion, "The boss stays in the park all day, when will he hire the chef?"
Chen Hui was also puzzled, but what did this have to do with small employees like them? After a moment of confusion, the two of them quickly put the matter aside and concentrated on preparing for the opening of the park.
On the other side, Meng Le had already run to the restaurant.
Seeing the real thing with her own eyes gave her a completely different feeling from looking at the photo. She ran up and down, taking dozens of photos with her mobile phone, and was so happy that she couldn't help herself.
Then she went to the kitchen and found something incredible.
The kitchen countertop was at least several dozen centimeters shorter than her design! This was a major mistake!
Meng Le quickly called his boss.
Boss: "Ah, that countertop, I modified it myself after getting the design."
Meng Le: ...
Her brow furrowed unconsciously. The measurements she'd given were the most comfortable for the human body. As long as the chef wasn't a dwarf, they were standard sizes for a normal person's height and build. "Boss, why don't you discuss this with me?"
The boss's tone was very matter-of-fact: "It was quite late, and I think the size I modified is correct."
Meng Le: ...
I never expected that the big pit would be here.
She covered her face in pain, imagining the chefs going on strike to avoid shoulder and neck problems.
Well, at least the restaurant is built perfectly and at least we won’t receive complaints from tourists for the time being.
After this episode, Meng Le felt much calmer and was ready to take the blame when the chef complained. There was nothing he could do about it. Who made him a poor worker?
The park opens on time at 8 o'clock.
Aunt Liu, who has become a loyal fan of the park during this period, bought tickets to enter the park with her four children as usual.
I have to say that since discovering this wonderful place, Fantasy Park, Aunt Liu's childcare pressure has been greatly reduced. In the past, she had to take care of four dolls every day, and she could foresee the end of her days. She was busy from morning to night, and she was exhausted from taking care of the dolls, her temper became more and more bad-tempered, and she felt lifeless. But since coming to Fantasy Park, she only needs 100 yuan to put the four dolls in the children's area, and they can play for a whole day. Aunt Liu can also relax with some new old sisters she has met. After a period of time, she feels more relaxed and her gray hair grows slower than before.
Just as she stood in line, an old sister called her from behind. The two of them agreed to go to Jasmine Town today to see if they could defeat the three-headed snake. The ticket machine in front of them dinged and issued a ticket.
Melancholic Warrior, your merit value is 30, ranking 3,108th on the Merit List. This is your seventh ticket purchase. Please keep your receipt. You can enter the lucky draw after entering the park.
"Wow, the Melancholic Warrior!"
Tourists in another row looked sideways and found that it was a white-haired old lady. They couldn't help but laugh in a good-natured way, and some said, "Okay, the old lady may be old but her heart is young."
Aunt Liu was also a little surprised. Actually, when she bought her ticket previously, her nickname on the leaderboard wasn't displayed or announced. But just now, as she listened to the occasional announcements from the queue next to hers and saw the youthful energy of the young people, she suddenly wanted to be announced too. After all, she's getting older, and if she doesn't do many things now, she might never have the chance again. She was still wondering if she should ask the ticket seller to manually set it, but the ticket machine actually announced itself.
The older women in the queue behind her laughed at her, "You don't know, my daughter said this machine can read your mind and know what you are thinking!"
It was just a joke among young people, but Aunt Liu, who didn't understand modern technology, took it seriously and exclaimed, "This is amazing! My niece writes for the internet, and she often says her hands can't keep up with her brain. If she had a machine like this, she wouldn't have to sit in front of a computer all day, exposed to radiation. She could just lie in bed and finish her work just by thinking, and she wouldn't have to worry about damaging her eyesight."
The older sisters sighed with her, "Who says it's not? But this is high-tech. I heard one is very expensive. Most people can't afford it."
Aunt Liu bought her ticket and entered the park. The announcement above her head continued: "Dear visitors, the Elf Restaurant is officially open from 11:00 today. We offer a variety of nutritious and fresh meals... The Elf Kitchen is open for visitors. Visitors can enter with their tickets..."
Aunt Liu doesn't use the internet, but she heard from people close to her that the park was going to open a restaurant. Aside from the fact that it was more convenient, she didn't have much of a reaction. However, her older sister remarked, "This park actually lets visitors tour its kitchen. It seems they're really using healthy ingredients and ensuring hygiene!"
Aunt Liu nodded in agreement, "This will make lunch much more convenient for us."
Most tourists shared Aunt Liu's sentiment. They lined up early in the morning to enter the park, mostly to fight monsters and gain merit points in the experience area. A good half of the remaining group brought their children for playtime, and a small group simply wanted to relax and exercise at the purple lake. For most people, what was the point of visiting a restaurant? They'd just stop by for lunch.
Xiao Zhou is an exception.
He was the first anchor to do live broadcasts of the Fantasy Park. With his good looks and nice voice, he successfully became famous thanks to the popularity of the park. Now he is a full-time anchor for the park. He earns a lot of tips every day by live broadcasting the various monsters in the viewing corridor and the various embarrassing situations of tourists when fighting monsters.
He's been following Fantasyland since its opening and has great confidence in it. He believes the park's announcement about the Elf Kitchen, where visitors are being told to visit, must hold a surprise. So, as soon as the broadcast began today, he told the online visitors in the studio that he wanted to visit the Elf Kitchen.
Of course, the cloud tourists will follow whatever the host watches.
Xiao Zhou and his friend then walked forward with the live broadcast equipment. There was a new sign in the park, marking the direction of the Dwarf Restaurant.
They followed the sign and found the Dwarf Elf Restaurant just east of the purple lake. The restaurant's large floor-to-ceiling windows faced directly onto the scenery of the purple lake. Before they even got there, he exclaimed, "It must be wonderful to eat there!"
They continued walking forward and found that there were two ways leading to the restaurant. One was to enter the restaurant directly from the main door, and the other was to go around the back and then enter the main door. The latter had a spacious wooden corridor with fresh green ivy hanging down along the carefully carved patterns on the corridor. It was very elegantly built and it was obviously the passage to visit the kitchen.
Xiao Zhou smiled and said to his friend, "This is a bit like a viewing gallery!"
The online tourists in the live broadcast room also followed the camera to see the glass wall next to the wooden corridor. When everyone was sighing that Fantasy Park was so rich that it even built such a beautiful wooden corridor, a strange comment floated by: Has anyone noticed, that white mass in the glass room... what is it?
After this barrage passed by, many similar barrages emerged in the live broadcast room.
"I was just about to say that something white walked over. Oh my god, it's there again! It's still rummaging through the refrigerator!"
"Is it a cat?"
"Is there a cat this big? It must be a dog! Its fur is quite clean."
"Holy crap! Is the Fantasy Paradise restaurant going to fail on its first day of business? A dog this big is rummaging through the food in the restaurant, and no one is stopping it? Are these ingredients supposed to be served to customers?"
Xiao Zhou also noticed the animal rummaging through the refrigerator. Worried about the negative impact on the park's image, he explained, "There's no one in the kitchen. It might have been someone else who slipped in without the staff noticing. We'll report this to the park right away..."
Xiao Zhou's unfinished words got stuck in his throat.
Because he saw two other furry animals walking out from the blind spot of his sight, one holding a basin and the other holding vegetables.
They ignored Xiao Zhou and others who were filming outside the glass room, and walked to the operating table on their own. One washed the vegetables and the other cut them, cooperating very well. The gray furry one on the left passed the washed radish to the orange furry one on the right. The orange furry one stretched out its claws, and its sharp nails flashed with cold light. With a few brushes, it cut the radish into small, equal pieces.
At this time, the "dog" who had been rummaging through the refrigerator also stood up, holding a pot of meat in his furry paws. He stretched out his sharp claws, and with a whoosh, pieces of meat flew into the pot. The whole process was... very fantasy and fairy-tale-like.
Xiao Zhou and others opened their mouths wide.
The live broadcast room was also silent as if the screen had been cleared.
Inside the glass house, the dwarfs who were working hard naturally noticed the humans standing outside.
Their furry mouths moved and they began to communicate.
"Why are those humans staring at us?"
"Maybe he's too hungry. How pitiful."
"Look at that delicate skin and tender flesh, he doesn't look like a refugee!"
"Could it be an overseer sent by the owner of the park?"
"Why are there so many people coming? This is too much!"
"That's right, are we dwarves the kind of people who would waste food?"
The dwarfs were indignant, and the curled ears on their heads stood up hard!
"Brothers and sisters, let's show you our unique skills! We must not let them underestimate us!"
The furries sharpened their claws and put in their utmost effort!
Since the ingredients here are different from all the ingredients they have handled before, in order to determine the taste of the ingredients, the furries can't help but taste them a few times while washing them and exchange experiences with their companions.
In the eyes of Xiao Zhou and others...
"Someone actually stole some food!"
"Wow, so cute..."
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