Three more days passed in the blink of an eye. Second Brother and Lin Fei finally learned how to make minced meat with eggplant and cowpeas and minced meat with pickled cowpeas. Now they are starting to learn how to make stir-fried pork with chili peppers.
Stir-fried pork with chili peppers is much more difficult to make than the previous two dishes. Many people don't know how to choose the right pork, and the pork they end up with is tough and dry.
He's father was unwilling to be ignored. Even though He Wenlin still treated him coldly, he still took the initiative to practice with her. Now he can stir-fry minced meat with pickled green beans and minced meat with eggplant and green beans without any problem.
On the contrary, it tastes better than what He Wenjun and Lin Fei stir-fried; perhaps this is what is called a naturally gifted player.
However, even if he is very skilled, He Wenlin will not let him go to the opening of her new store.
He Wenlin is still giving him the cold shoulder...
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Liu Xiaomei has been learning from He Wenlin for five days now. Every day, He Wenlin asks her to fry crispy pastries and wrap glutinous rice balls. Now she can do these two things very well.
"Aunt Liu, you don't need to come tomorrow."
Today's crispy treats were made entirely by her alone, from flour to finished product. He Wenlin tasted them and said they were fine.
"Have you chosen a spot to set up your stall yet?" He Wenlin asked again. "I'll bring you a flower basket later to show my support."
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiaomei chuckled and said, "It's just a stall, and you're even giving away flower baskets? Don't let people laugh at me. I've already ordered the food cart; I'll go to the Wenshan Village campus of the College of Arts and Sciences to sell it."
"It's not bad over there. You can sell there in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Business will be good."
There are quite a few students and faculty members at liberal arts schools.
"Then I'll take Master He's good wishes," Liu Xiaomei said. "I won't come tomorrow."
“You’ve already mastered it, so you don’t need to come over. Go set up your stall as soon as possible and start making money. If you have any questions later, you can come back and ask me.”
"Okay, I'll have my brother bring the final payment to you tomorrow."
He Wenlin laughed and said, "There's no rush for the final payment. Anyway, your brother and I have a business relationship, so I'm not afraid you'll run away."
He Wenlin now orders about 30 kilograms of goods from Boss Liu every day, and Boss Liu certainly won't renege on his debt.
After washing her hands and saying goodbye to Grandma He and Grandpa He, Liu Xiaomei went home.
As soon as she left, Old Mrs. He said, "I was really afraid she would come and steal my business. Luckily, thank goodness."
“Grandma, most people wouldn’t do that. You’re worried about others stealing your business, but they’re also worried about not being able to compete with us. This city is so big, there are plenty of places to do business. Besides, her brother has a business partnership with us. If she goes back on her word, her brother’s business with us will also fall through. So she won’t sell around here. Don’t worry about it,” He Wenlin explained.
If we're talking about learning how to steal business from others, Zhou Libo is a possibility, but Liu Xiaomei's chances are much lower.
However, He Wenlin now feels that Zhou Libo will not come to steal her business, because after getting up early for several days to learn from her, He Wenlin feels that Zhou Libo is already regretting it, because selling breakfast is too tiring!
He Wenlin felt that if the deal hadn't already been made and the money wasn't refundable, he probably wouldn't have wanted to learn it at all.
He Wenlin said, "We've been selling glutinous rice balls for a long time. No matter how delicious something is, customers will get tired of eating it every day, so I plan to add two new products."
"What new varieties will you add?" Everyone in the store looked at He Wenlin in unison.
"Steamed buns and dumplings," He Wenlin said. "We only sell them in the morning."
"Linlin, you can make this too?" Grandma He and Dad He looked at each other in surprise.
He Wenlin is now something they really can't understand. How did she learn so much at such a young age?
Especially Grandma He, who raised He Wenlin single-handedly. She did nothing at home, but now she's become an all-rounder.
"Actually, there's a secret I've never told you..."
At this point, the whole family looked at her, waiting for her to continue.
He Wenlin said mysteriously, "When I was picking mushrooms in the mountains, I met the God of Cookery who lived in seclusion in the mountains. He said that I was destined to meet him, so he passed on all his skills to me. So... my real identity is the successor of the God of Cookery - He Wenlin!"
Everyone: "Tch!"
He Wenlin spread her hands: "See, you still don't believe me? I really am the successor of the God of Cookery."
Lin Fei: "You've been watching too many martial arts dramas."
"To be honest, where did you learn that?" Mr. He asked.
He Wenlin also knew that she had revealed too much, and that her playful and silly behavior would not be able to fool anyone.
"I learned it at my classmate's fast food restaurant when I was studying in Xinglong Town."
He Wenlin transferred to Qingyun Middle School in Xinglong Town in the second year of junior high school. She lived at her aunt's house for the first semester and boarded in the second semester. At this time, parents, especially those in rural areas, did not know the true situation of their children at school.
Therefore, it is reasonable for He Wenlin to fabricate such an excuse.
Mr. He said, “You didn’t spend a penny, but you went to their shop to learn, and they were actually happy to teach you.”
"Of course they weren't happy about it, but I was still young and a student. They never thought I would steal their skills. I lost my allowance back then, and I was afraid you would scold me, so I went to their shop to help out every day and learn from them. Now that I think about it, it was probably fate. Otherwise, how could I have such skills now and open this shop?"
He Wenlin's reasoning was absolutely flawless.
Although it was a lie, He Wenlin wasn't worried at all that they would see through it.
Because under normal circumstances, they would not verify the truthfulness of He Wenlin's words.
Secondly, if you really want to get to the bottom of it, and ask her which shop she learned from, He Wenlin will tell them that the shop no longer operates there and she doesn't know where it moved to.
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