Chapter 4 Meow meow meow
The next day.
Jian Yunlan set the alarm clock, got up on time at seven o'clock, and rode his tricycle to the vegetable market to buy goods.
"Master, why do you have to go to the vegetable market in person? We can just book the market and let you choose." The butler suggested sincerely.
Jian Yunlan: "..."
"No."
The housekeeper still doesn’t understand!
One of the great pleasures of being a snack stall owner is that he can pick out fresh and delicious ingredients in the market with a keen eye and cook them into flavors that diners can't stop craving.
Jian Yunlan decided to change the meat filling for wontons every two days, and tonight she would still make pork filling.
However, today he is not making pork and corn filling. He wants to select the best pork and season it only with chives to show the excellent taste of the fresh meat itself.
The quality of pork is important.
After entering the vegetable market, Jian Yunlan walked around and finally stopped at a stall:
“How much is pork per pound?”
The pork front leg meat on the stall was red and white, with distinct layers. The fat was two or three fingers wide and bright white in color, with abundant and clear bone marrow. Jian Yunlan reached out and pressed lightly, and the pork was extremely elastic and quickly returned to its original state.
It is worthy of being rated as a “good” ingredient by the Kitchen God System.
He didn't have enough time yesterday and searched the entire market, but could only find ordinary pork filling. However, with his maximum cooking skills, he cooked ordinary pork into a dish that was unaffordable.
I wonder what kind of surprise the “good” grade pork will bring him?
"Fifteen yuan a pound, all of them are top-quality farm-grown pork." The stall owner rubbed his hands with a simple smile on his face. Although he saw that Jian Yunlan was wearing luxurious clothes, he did not quote more.
Jian Yunlan nodded with satisfaction:
"Okay, I want them all."
The stall owner was shocked. Why buy so much? !
This is the amount that a normal person would need to eat for more than ten days.
After loading the pork onto the tricycle, Jian Yunlan wandered around the vegetable market again to buy onions, ginger and garlic.
Just as she was about to leave, Jian Yunlan suddenly heard a middle-aged woman's voice: "Come and have a look if you pass by! Homemade chili sauce, fragrant and delicious!"
Chili sauce?
Jian Yunlan stopped.
He looked in that direction and saw that the chili sauce in the woman's hand was covered with a faint light purple halo!
The chili sauce rated as 'Excellent' by the Kitchen God System!
He immediately turned the car around and stopped in front of the woman: "How much is a can of chili sauce?"
The woman was dressed simply and had gray hair, but she had a very gentle and calm aura around her and her eyes were powerful. It seems out of place with the noisy atmosphere of the vegetable market.
"Twenty yuan a can." She said with hope in her eyes, "You can get a discount if you buy more."
People in City Z prefer salty and sweet food, so her chili sauce is a bit unsaleable.
I've been selling here for three days, and only sold two cans in total.
The woman's son is studying at Peking University and has been forced to work part-time to support himself. Their family's financial situation has been a bit tight recently, so any money they can earn counts.
Seeing that Jian Yunlan seemed to be in deep thought, she mustered up her courage and said:
“They are all made by ourselves…”
Jian Yunlan: "I bought them all."
"Will you still sell it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? I'll buy as much chili sauce as you sell this week."
Having said that, he transferred the money very neatly.
woman:"!!!"
She was shocked.
Bought them all! What a big deal!
This solved the urgent problem. The woman smiled happily and said as she helped Jian Yunlan load the car:
"Boss, are you going to buy it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Otherwise, please leave me your address and I will deliver it directly to your home to save you the trip."
Jian Yunlan nodded: "Okay. Then add me on WeChat."
The woman quickly sent a WeChat application. Her profile picture was a photo of her and her son, and her username was 'Ning Menglian'.
Jian Yunlan accepted the application and changed the other party's note to:
【(High-quality chili sauce) Ms. Ning】.
Live broadcast room of all worlds.
In Jian Yunlan's live broadcast room, the barrage was filled with many layers of question marks.
【? ? ? 】
【? ? ? ? ? ? 】
[…No, bro]
[You are fucking kidding me!] Was it so easy for him to meet Mother Ning? Also added WeChat? …Turns out he just wanted to buy chili sauce from someone? ! 】
[Mother Ning’s WeChat profile picture was even a photo of her and Ning Sheng. This was all obvious, but he didn’t even click on it (holding his forehead and smiling bitterly)]
Ning Sheng comes from a single-parent family and was raised by Ning Menglian alone since childhood. The mother and son live a hard life, but they support each other and make their lives better and better.
It is no exaggeration to say that Ning Menglian is the most important person to Ning Sheng in this world.
In "Paranoia", one of the key nodes that caused the protagonist and the bottom to completely break up and the plot to be completely irreversible was the accidental death of Ning Menglian. When the accident happened, Ning Sheng was being held captive in the Gu family villa by Gu Xingzhou and was unable to see her mother for the last time.
After the opening of the "Paranoia Monopoly" dimension, among so many challengers, some people have been trying to find Ning Menglian and save her from the accident in order to repair the plot. However, because "Paranoia" is a typical melodramatic story about a top and a bottom, most of the content about Ning Menglian in the book is only briefly mentioned in Ning Sheng's memories, so no one has ever succeeded.
Other challengers tried to post missing person notices at the scene of the incident, went door to door in the surrounding residential areas, and even went to the chain housekeeping company where Ning's mother worked to inquire, but all came back empty-handed.
Who would have thought that at the beginning of the story, she would be selling chili sauce in the vegetable market!
And who would have thought that as the first challenger who had the honor of meeting Ning Menglian, Jian Yunlan actually, really only wanted to buy her chili sauce...
How embarrassing for other challengers!
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After returning to the villa, it was still early, so Jian Yunlan went to take a nap first.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, I get up and prepare the ingredients.
The highlight of today is still the pork from Liangdeng. Jian Yunlan chopped the stuffing herself until it was smooth and free of meat particles. She then added seasoning and beat in an egg white to make the taste more tender.
As for the soup base, he made pork bone soup base today. Put the pork shanks in cold water and blanch them. Then put the shanks in hot oil and fry until slightly golden. Add hot water, star anise, bay leaves and cinnamon.
Simmer over low heat for three hours, the soup base will have a thick milky white color, and the fragrance will waft out from the top of the earthenware jar.
In addition to the soup base, he also prepared a red oil dressing using the chili sauce he bought from Aunt Ning. Diners can choose how they want to eat it.
Everything was ready. At half past six, Jian Yunlan left the villa on his tricycle on time.
…
Li Mingxi, Li Yun and Tan Tingting were already waiting at the south gate at 6:50.
In addition to them, there were five or six college students scattered around, waiting at the place where Jian Yunlan set up his stall yesterday.
Li Yun and Tan Tingting seemed very excited and kept discussing something in a low voice:
"How many servings did you eat today?"
"Three servings of each flavor, how about you?"
"I'll have to get at least five copies, hehe, I hope there's no purchase limit."
Li Mingxi couldn't understand their enthusiasm.
Anyway, he just came here to accompany Li Yun today. After buying wontons for Li Yun, he would go back to the computer room immediately.
His code hasn't run yet.
These programmers are like this. As long as the code doesn't run, nothing tastes good to them. Even the most delicious food, such as the Manchu Han banquet, is tasteless in their mouths.
Not to mention a roadside food stall.
Because his sister Li Yun is a foodie, Li Mingxi accompanied her to every so-called "must-eat food check-in spot" in the city. They once waited in line for three hours at a century-old store, and the wontons they got were just average, with the meat a little tenderer. Otherwise, there was no difference from takeout.
Wonton? No matter how delicious it is, how delicious can it be?
Li Mingxi was so bored that he couldn't help but take out a small notebook and start writing and drawing on it, thinking about his own code.
"Hey, here he comes!"
Li Yun shouted excitedly.
Sure enough, just as the time reached seven o'clock, Jian Yunlan emerged from the crowd riding a tricycle.
Several other college students who were waiting also came forward impatiently:
"Boss, you're finally here!"
"I queued for a long time yesterday, but by the time it was my turn, they were all sold out. I went home and cried all night..."
"Are there two flavors today? I'll have one of each!"
Seeing that there were already guests waiting for her, Jian Yunlan was very touched.
He's only been setting up his stall for one day and he already has repeat customers.
Jian Yunlan parked the car, heated up the pork leg soup, and boiled another pot of hot water to cook the wontons.
The pork leg bone soup cooked in a clay pot, the unique freshness of the bone soup slowly wafts out, accompanied by the aroma of green onion, ginger and star anise, bringing a touch of warmth to people in the slightly cool autumn.
It smells so good!
In the blink of an eye, in addition to the seven or eight college students who had been waiting here, another five or six passers-by were attracted by the fragrance and lined up in front of the stall.
Jian Yunlan said:
"Today is also limited to 100 copies, two flavors."
"The first one is the wontons with bone soup, and the second one is the wontons with spicy red oil."
"Starting today, each person is limited to two copies. Please understand."
The Kitchen God System stipulates that only one hundred servings can be sold per day. Seeing that some customers waited in line for a long time but didn't get to eat, Jian Yunlan's heart was broken, so she decided to limit purchases starting today.
This way, at least more people can eat it.
——As expected, there is a purchase restriction!
Li Yun thought to herself that it was a close call, luckily she brought her brother with her.
Her brother wasn’t interested in wontons anyway, so he would give her whatever he bought, so she could have four servings herself!
Li Yun couldn’t wait to say:
"Boss, I want one each of bone soup and red oil!"
"OK."
Jian Yunlan swiftly scooped twenty wontons into the pot.
Tan Tingting also asked for one each.
Soon, it was Li Mingxi's turn in the queue. There was a lot of noise around, with many people looking around and discussing wontons, bone soup, and red oil... This made him feel a little irritated.
It’s just a wonton, is it that exaggerated?
"Boss, I want a bowl of bone soup." Li Mingxi wrote the formula in a small notebook and asked without looking up, "How much?"
Jian Yunlan replied: "Thirty."
"How much?!" Li Mingxi almost doubted his ears, "Thirty yuan for a serving of wontons, why don't you go -" rob them?
This is simply unheard of. The century-old store that Li Mingxi once accompanied Li Yun to only sold it for 15 yuan per serving.
Although the bone broth smelled delicious and the wontons looked small and exquisite, it was such a small portion, so it couldn't be worth thirty dollars, right? !
Li Mingxi began to wonder if there was something fishy going on.
Li Yun gave him several glances, indicating that he could just buy it and she would pay for it.
Only then did Li Mingxi pay the bill reluctantly.
"Okay, the wontons will take five minutes to cook. Please wait here for a moment." Jian Yunlan blinked.
Li Mingxi stood nearby, still looking down at his notebook.
He just couldn't figure out the answer to this question.
The major assignment this time is to write a version control system that can realize the historical version preservation, traceability, and integration of different files. It is one of the most difficult major assignments this year.
What stuck Li Mingxi was an instruction called fusion in this system. How can I automatically export a child file that is a fusion of two parent files?
He tried several data structures, but was unable to perfectly implement this function.
Just as I was thinking, a clear voice came.
"Sir, your wontons are ready."
Jian Yunlan handed the packaged wontons to Li Mingxi, glanced at the contents of his notebook, and said casually:
"This system shouldn't use a binary tree. Why not try a graph that can be traversed?"
Li Mingxi: “?”
He was about to say, ridiculous.
Wait, take a closer look...
Li Mingxi lowered his head, drew a concept map on the notebook, and began to deduce.
Beads of sweat as big as beans appeared on his forehead.
Jian Yunlan's casual words were like a pair of big hands, clearing away the fog that had been shrouding his eyes for the past few days. He immediately discovered the crux of the problem and suddenly understood which direction to change.
Three days! He was stuck on this problem for three whole days!
A word from the snack stand owner pointed him in the direction.
Great God!
"Boss, who are you?" Li Mingxi couldn't help but ask.
Such clear thinking, such amazing knowledge reserves.
This boss is not an ordinary person!
Jian Yunlan smiled slightly: "I'm just an ordinary snack stand owner."
In his previous life, he graduated from a prestigious university and worked on the front line of a factory for several years.
But, that's all in the past.
Now, he is the owner of a snack stand and lives a happy life every day.
Seeing Jian Yunlan returning to the food stall and skillfully starting to put wontons in, scoop them up, and pour sauce on them, Li Mingxi suddenly felt a sense of sadness:
Is this the ultimate way out for programmers?
He thought of the meme circulating on the Internet.
'At the age of 35, I was sent into society for flexible employment. My main job was selling snacks, and my side jobs were Java, Python, system design, and integrated testing...'
Li Mingxi: “…”
Shake your head and push those thoughts out of your mind.
There was a rumbling sound from my stomach.
——The problem that had troubled him for a long time was finally solved, and Li Mingxi actually felt a little hungry.
And just at this moment, a rich and fresh fragrance rushed into the nose.
Li Mingxi lowered his head and found that the fragrance came from the bowl in his hand.
The mellow aged pork bone soup has a slightly milky white hue, with the essence of the bone marrow dissolved in the soup and a layer of beautiful crystal fat floating on the surface.
In the milky soup, firm little wontons float up and down, and with the embellishment of chives, they look particularly tempting.
Because he was thinking about code every day, he hadn't eaten properly for three days and three nights, and could only make do with a few bites of bread. At this moment, the problem was suddenly solved, and the belated hunger suddenly struck.
He looked at the bone broth wontons in his hand.
...It looks delicious.
Li Mingxi swallowed and involuntarily scooped up a spoonful of bone soup and put it into his mouth.
The delicate and mellow bone broth flows over the tip of the tongue, slightly hot, but just right for this autumn night. The slowly cooked soup is extremely delicious, with all the collagen in the bone marrow cooked into the soup, along with the slight sweetness of the gravy.
The fragrant floating oil brings out the aroma of the soup.
Fresh, so fresh!
Li Mingxi even had tears in his eyes. This was an incomparable delicacy in the world. It reminded him of his childhood in the countryside when his grandmother would cook bone soup all night long. It was so healing and delicious when he drank it.
I don’t know what this wonton tastes like.
Regardless of the heat, Li Mingxi scooped up a wonton and put it into his mouth along with the bone soup.
Li Mingxi: “Fuck!”
The wonton skin was very thin but tough. Once you bit it with your teeth, the rich meat and oil from the plump meat filling would all come out, and it was a little hot.
With just one bite, he could tell that the wontons were definitely made with top-quality meat filling.
The pork was not lean meat. It had the aroma of fat, was greasy, and extremely tender. The rich animal oil flowed into the mouth along with the fragrant bone broth, giving it an extremely rich taste.
The meat is not too sticky, but half fat and half lean, chewy and tender. While chewing, you can taste the mellowness of the bone broth, the aroma of fat, the tenderness of the pork, and the freshness of the chives...
You can never get tired of eating it.
Li Mingxi had been hungry for three whole days. At this moment, all his fatigue was soothed by this bowl of small wontons, and his taste buds were completely satisfied.
By the time he realized it, he had already finished the whole bowl of wontons, even the soup base.
Li Yun: "Brother!"
Li Yun had already finished the two portions she bought. When she came over and wanted to eat the portion bought by Li Mingxi, she saw Li Mingxi holding a spoon and carefully scraping the remaining soup at the bottom of the bowl.
The bowl was completely clean. Not only wontons, but even a piece of green onion could not be seen.
"Didn't you say you were not interested in wontons?" Li Yun was about to cry.
Her wontons.
The wonton that was about to reach my mouth just flew away!
The brotherly and sisterly love between them, who were born of the same mother, was so fragile in front of this bowl of wontons!
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