Chapter 9 Meow
Another happy day of setting up the stall has ended.
Jian Yunlan hummed a little tune contentedly and returned to the villa. The housekeeper thoughtfully prepared aromatherapy and a jacuzzi, and also prepared snacks for Jian Yunlan.
Jian Yunlan soaked in the bathtub and tasted the snacks.
Well, not as delicious as his.
The bathtub exuded the aroma of hot plants and trees. The warm water wrapped around her. Jian Yunlan squinted her eyes comfortably, thinking...
What should I do tomorrow?
The taste these days is relatively light, so it would be better to change up the snacks sold at the stall.
How about making red oil wonton tomorrow!
Who says wontons don’t count as dumplings?
Although there has been an ongoing debate among the public as to whether chao shou is considered wonton, red oil chao shou is included in the "wonton recipe collection" released by the Kitchen God system.
Ms. Ning’s chili sauce is of good quality, but if you want to make wontons with red oil, you have to ask her to make some spicy seasoning.
Thinking of this, Jian Yunlan grabbed her phone and sent a message to her friend on WeChat with the note "(High-quality chili sauce) Ms. Ning": [Auntie Ning, can you make tomorrow's chili sauce into spicy red oil flavor? I also want to buy some spicy oil. 】
Ning Menglian replied quickly, she was smiling happily and said: [Of course [smile] I will still deliver it on time at nine o'clock, is that okay? 】
The boss who bought chili sauce from her had a good personality, paid promptly and efficiently, and bought large quantities of chili sauce. Ning Menglian especially liked doing business with him.
Jian Yunlan: [[Like][Handshake]]
…The conversation between the two was very much like that of veteran cadres.
Ning Menglian paused, remembered something, and said:
[Boss Jian, they are demolishing illegal buildings in front of my house. The road is uneven, so it’s not easy for me to ride my electric bike, so I may be late. Is half past nine all right with you? [Covering mouth and laughing]
Ning Menglian comes from a poor family. She is just an ordinary domestic worker. She has a paralyzed mother and a son who attends college. Although their family is hardworking, they still cannot afford to rent an apartment with an elevator in a new community and can only live in the old city area where illegal buildings are everywhere.
What Ning Menglian didn't know was that living in an old neighborhood to save on rent would cost her life.
In the original novel of "Paranoia", Ning Menglian had an accident around this time. The entire street in front of her home was under construction. When she went out to work in the early morning, she was hit by falling bricks and died on the spot.
This also became Ning Sheng's lifelong regret.
Later, Ning Sheng struggled all the way up, enduring endless abuse and contempt, and transformed from a poor student into a technology upstart that the media rushed to report on. He moved into a bigger house and moved into a wealthy area with his grandmother. They no longer had to walk through illegal buildings and wet clothes hanging out to dry, struggling to find the mossy little door.
Ning Sheng became popular and fully-fledged, and he could easily overturn the mountains that once weighed on his back.
But his mother will never see these again.
...The road is uneven?
Jian Yunlan frowned.
He called the housekeeper in, asked a few questions, and then sent a message to Ning Menglian:
[I have a vacant apartment in Haiping Community that I can rent to you. The furniture and decoration are all ready. One thousand dollars a month, you can move there today, I will help you find a moving company]
Haiping Community is a new community with elevators. The location is ordinary, but it has a good environment and convenient transportation. The rent is over three to four thousand.
Ning Menglian was flattered: [Mr. Jian, I appreciate your concern for me, but I feel bad for taking advantage of you [shakes head][shakes head]]
She was somewhat touched. Although Mr. Jian was a little strange, he was actually such a kind person.
They also care about her safety and take the initiative to provide her with cheap housing.
After a while, Jian Yunlan sent a few more messages.
[Auntie, the road is uneven. What if the chili sauce gets broken when you deliver it? 】
[You move, really]
[If the chili sauce is smashed, my food stall will be affected, and I don’t want to live anymore [smile][shy]]
He meant these words very sincerely.
To him, Ning Menglian was just a stranger he met by chance.
But Ning Menglian's chili sauce was rated as 'excellent' by the Kitchen God System!
If it breaks, where can he find a replacement? He might not be able to sell it that day.
Thinking of his precious chili sauce being placed carelessly in the trunk of the electric bike, going up and down on the bumpy road and bumping into things from time to time... Jian Yunlan couldn't sleep at night and his heart was bleeding.
I wish I could rush over and help Ning Menglian move.
Ning Menglian: "..."
no.
This Boss Jian is a little crazy.
Who on earth would say something like “I don’t want to live anymore” just for hot pepper sauce? And he even added "smiling" and "shy" expressions after the sentence "I don't want to live anymore"!
It looks a bit creepy.
But based on Ning Menglian's contact with him in the past few days, Ning Menglian felt that Jian Yunlan seemed to be sincere and he really cared about the safety of the chili sauce -
It feels even more upside down! ! !
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It's time for happy cooking again.
Today I’m making red oil wonton, so there’s no need to make soup. The key to red oil wonton is the seasoning. If the seasoning is good, even cooking shoe soles will be delicious.
Of course, as a master chef with top-notch cooking skills (self-proclaimed), Jian Yunlan would not be careless about any details.
He still selected the best quality pork filling from the vegetable market, and specifically chose three parts fat and seven parts lean. The red oil wonton should have more fat to taste better. The chopped pork filling is added with sesame oil, mashed ginger, and peppercorns, and a few farm eggs, and it is extremely tender.
As for the seasoning, the main ingredients are the spicy chili sauce and chili oil that Ning Menglian delivered this morning.
Ning Menglian was somewhat talented in making chili sauce. No matter what kind of chili sauce she made, it would be shrouded in a faint light purple halo and would be rated 'excellent'.
Jian Yunlan himself also likes to eat red oil wontons, and what he likes most is that he can taste the aroma of fried golden garlic in the spicy red oil, which is simply wonderful when paired with the wontons.
Therefore, he prepared a large handful of garlic, mixed with the right seasonings, and poured hot oil on it. The stimulating and appetizing garlic aroma instantly filled the air. He also squeezes his own sesame oil as he doesn’t want to make do with semi-finished products from the supermarket.
Regarding the question of whether wontons belong to the category of wontons, Jian Yunlan looked through the Chef God System again. The official explanation is that both chao shou and wontons belong to the general category of "wontons". Not only these two, but even dumplings evolved from wontons.
Although they are of the same type, wontons look quite special. With just a flick of Jian Yunlan's hands, a cute wonton in the shape of a gold ingot comes out.
Everything is ready, and after a short rest, it’s time to set up the stall.
Half past six.
The competition for buying wontons has become increasingly fierce recently. There is still half an hour left before the order is due, but there are already thirty or forty people queuing up at the south gate.
I didn’t get to eat wontons yesterday, and I even performed a skit in front of everyone. Li Yun and Tan Tingting arrived early, vowing to avenge their previous shame.
Li Yun's brother Li Mingxi also arrived. Because of the previous breakdown in the brother-sister relationship, the two had been a little awkward recently, but Li Mingxi took the initiative to give up his seat in the front row to Li Yun, and the two reconciled.
The owner of the bracelet stall has not been doing much business these days and is concentrating on waiting in line. The security guy even applied to be transferred from the North Gate to the South Gate for permanent duty, just to get the upper hand.
In addition to them, there were students from the algorithm group. They all wore plaid shirts and glasses. While they lined up in tacit understanding, some of them were typing codes.
GPA and wontons, they want them all!
Among a group of college students queuing up, an old professor in a suit and tie with a determined look attracted special attention.
Professor Wang was wearing a windbreaker and holding a small notebook in his hand, on which were drawn various route maps and several different plans. Around Professor Wang, several of his most successful students gathered together, whispering something.
"For this plan, I made a PPT," Han Lin explained while holding a tablet. "I referred to three review papers and one journal. The conclusion is..."
The other students nodded frequently and raised their hands to ask questions from time to time.
The undergraduate students around him stood in awe.
——As expected of a doctoral student supervised by Professor Wang, he never forgets scientific research even when he goes out to buy snacks. Such a spirit is admirable.
If they heard what the students were discussing, their worldview would probably collapse.
What about the tasting strategies of wontons of various flavors, what about the efficient queuing plan for rainy days or extreme weather, what about the evolution of concepts, overcoming cognitive dissonance, and delving into the methodology of buying wontons in interdisciplinary fields...
Li Yun and Tan Tingting were at the front of the line, very close to them, and when they heard these strange details of the conversation, they felt a tingling sensation on their backs.
It seems that what the predecessors said was right.
Academic work can drive people crazy!
"We don't want to become like that." Li Yun held Tan Tingting's hand, tears in her eyes.
Tan Tingting nodded with tears in her eyes.
As they were talking, the clock moved towards seven o'clock, and Jian Yunlan appeared on a tricycle on time.
“The boss is here!”
Someone shouted, and the crowd immediately perked up, surrounding Jian Yunlan's tricycle with joy.
"Boss, you're finally here!"
"Can you sell more today?"
"What flavor of wontons do you have today? They smell so good!"
Because there were so many people, many excited diners reached out to grab his cart, and Jian Yunlan almost had no place to park.
"Everyone, make way and let the boss park the car first." Professor Wang cleared his throat. The old professor with thirty years of teaching experience had a calm and majestic aura.
The crowd then reluctantly made way for Jian Yunlan to park the car.
"Professor, you are here!"
Jian Yunlan still remembered what Professor Wang had done for her yesterday, so she smiled at him sincerely and greeted him.
"Young man, the wontons you make are delicious," Professor Wang smiled lovingly and coughed. "Would you like to add me on WeChat? If you need any help in the future, you can always contact me."
...Mainly, it is convenient for Professor Wang to have free food and drinks and have his own meals.
Jian Yunlan readily agreed: "Okay."
He took out his cell phone and they happily added each other on WeChat.
The crowd looked at Professor Wang with envy.
That’s great! The professor actually added the boss’ WeChat!
Wouldn't it be possible for you to get the moon first by being close to the water? !
It turns out that if you get to the top of the food chain in academia, there will really be rewards.
Look at Professor Wang, isn’t he one step ahead and added the boss’ WeChat?
"We must study hard and strive to be promoted to professor as soon as possible." Li Yun held Tan Tingting's hand, tears in her eyes.
Tan Tingting nodded with tears in her eyes.
Suddenly, an unusual spicy smell hit my nose.
Hey, what's spicy?
Everyone followed Jian Yunlan closely, and saw him open the lid, and a large jar of bright red, boiling hot chili oil came into view...
On the chopping board, there are neatly arranged round dumplings like gold ingots, with thin skin and large fillings, which look very cute.
What we sell today is red oil wonton!
The diners were immediately excited.
In the past few days, they had been eating light and fresh wontons, and they thought that was the flavor that Jian Yunlan was best at. Unexpectedly, today he suddenly changed his attitude and served out red oil dumplings!
They must get a few bowls to try.
After all, in this autumn when the weather is getting cooler, who can resist a bowl of spicy and smooth red oil wonton?
"Boss, I want one!"
"We'll each have one, without cilantro, thanks, boss."
"Ahhh I'm so excited!"
Tan Tingting was also very excited.
She was at the front of the line, but still had to wait five or six minutes before it was her turn. At this time, the people in front had already started eating, and everyone was making happy and joyful noises. Professor Wang was sweating profusely while eating, but he was extremely satisfied and needed to take off his glasses from time to time to wipe the fog off.
This made her more and more excited about what the red oil wonton would taste like today.
Soon, it was her turn.
Jian Yunlan scooped out the floating wonton with swift movements, drained the water, put it into a bowl, and topped it with a handful of minced garlic. With a shake of the big spoon, the steaming red oil was poured over the wonton, making a popping sound, and then sprinkled with white sesame seeds, coriander and chopped green onions.
A bowl of red oil wonton was handed to Tan Tingting.
She had been swallowing her saliva since Jian Yunlan started to make the wontons. Now, looking at the bright red and hot wontons under the light in front of her——
Tan Tingting couldn't wait to eat.
But at this moment, her cell phone rang in an uncharacteristically loud manner.
It was her boyfriend calling.
"Hello?" Tan Tingting was in a bad mood when she was interrupted at this time.
She and her boyfriend Zheng Xiang had a conflict recently. Tan Tingting is the provincial top student and a top student at Peking University, but Zheng Xiang is only a junior college student in the city. His admission to graduate school is approaching, and Zheng Xiang has been trying to persuade Tan Tingting to give up the admission and return to his hometown in the county to get married.
Friends all think that Tan Tingting has lost her mind, but Tan Tingting has always been relatively simple. To put it bluntly, she is a little love-sick and has not made up her mind to break up recently.
At this time, Zheng Xiang's background was noisy, and he seemed to be in a bar: "Zhu Bao, what are you doing?"
Tan Tingting replied indifferently: "Eat wontons."
"Oh!" Zheng Xiang was interested. "Is it the delicious wonton you mentioned before?"
Tan Tingting: “Yes.”
Zheng Xiang said with a smile: "Leave your portion for me, honey, I want to eat it too."
Tan Tingting looked as if she had seen a ghost: "Are you kidding me?"
Zheng Xiang said, "Isn't it just a bowl of wontons? Do you have to eat it? Are wontons more important than me?"
Tan Tingting stopped talking.
She looked at the steaming, fragrant red oil wonton in her hands.
The bright and hot red oil, emitting sizzling steam, is poured over the thin and plump wontons, making them crystal clear. You can smell the spicy and refreshing aroma at the tip of your nose, accompanied by the fragrant smell of fried garlic. Just smelling it makes your mouth drool involuntarily.
The wontons were filled with light pink meat, and were drizzled with hot pepper oil, making them greasy. Sprinkled with chopped green onions, they were particularly appetizing.
What a filthy person Zheng Xiang is, he actually had the guts to snatch the red oil wonton from her!
Zheng Xiang gritted his teeth and began to use PUA tactics: "You don't even want to give me a bowl of wontons, how can you say you love me? Look at yourself, who would want you except me?"
Tan Tingting: "Oh, then let's break up."
"By the way, I will post those disgusting PUA things you did on your school's confession wall. Just wait for your social demise."
Zheng Xiang: “???”
"Wait a minute—"
But Tan Tingting hung up the phone neatly and added herself to the blacklist.
After cleaning up the garbage, I can finally enjoy my meal happily.
Tan Tingting stretched out her chopsticks and picked up a wonton with red oil. The tight and plump wontons were soaked in spicy red oil, trembling in the air, and the spicy oil kept dripping down——
She opened her mouth and put the wonton into her mouth with satisfaction.
The thin wonton skin broke instantly, and the delicate and juicy, half-fat and half-lean meat filling had been soaked in the red oil and absorbed full of juice. With one bite, the aroma of hot and spicy chili oil explodes in your mouth. The rich, spicy and refreshing taste makes your nose sweat and your tongue slightly numb, but you can't help but eat it one bite after another.
The highlight of this dish is the rich garlic aroma, which, when poured with hot oil, makes the spicy and chewy meat filling even more prominent. Pick up a wonton and put it in your mouth. The moment it enters your mouth, the soup with red oil and minced garlic flows all over your mouth along with the wonton. The tenderness of the meat, the spiciness of the garlic and the heat of the red oil make the whole taste extremely rich.
Such delicious spicy wontons make every capillary open with joy and secrete adrenaline. Tan Tingting was sweating profusely but couldn't bear to stop eating. The spiciness made her gasp and stick out her tongue but she still couldn't help eating the spicy and spicy food happily, having long forgotten the memories of her crappy ex-boyfriend.
It’s so delicious!
If she could eat such delicious red oil wontons every day, she would be willing to drive a luxury car and live in a mansion!
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