Chapter 12
Lou Dongli walked over involuntarily. The fragrance became stronger and stronger. He looked into the pot and saw the cracked tea eggs lying obediently.
"Boss, give me a tea egg." Lou Dongli said, licking his lips.
The aroma of tea eggs lingered in his nose, and he couldn't wait to taste it.
Chen Kangle took out a tea egg and put it in the bag, then handed it to Lou Dongli, "Brother, this is your tea egg."
He brought forty tea eggs, and now only a few are left. Chen Kangle is very satisfied.
Moreover, the aroma of the tea eggs attracted some new customers to buy lunch boxes. Now there are only two lunch boxes left, and sales are very good.
Lou Dongli took only two steps with the tea egg in his hand when he was tempted by its fragrance. He couldn't help but take out the tea egg and peel it quickly. The charming mesh pattern showed that it was very tasty.
I lowered my head and took a big bite. The tea aroma and salty fragrance filled my mouth, and the egg white was filled with the fragrance. The unique aroma and taste made me unable to stop.
Lou Dongli doesn't like eating eggs, but he likes tea eggs very much. The fragrance of tea can cover up the fishy smell of eggs, and the taste is hundreds of times better than boiled eggs.
His favorite part of tea eggs is the egg white, which has the strongest tea aroma, while the egg yolk does not have much tea aroma, so he does not like it very much.
As usual, Lou Dongli finished eating the egg white first and then started eating the egg yolk. What he didn't expect was that the yolk of this tea egg was also full of tea aroma and tasted mellow and rich.
"The egg yolk is delicious too." Lou Dongli finished the egg yolk in his hand in two bites.
Lou Dongli has eaten many tea eggs, but this tea egg makes him feel very different. The tea aroma is just right, which can cover up the fishy smell of the egg but not cover up the mellow aroma of the egg itself, making the mellowness of the egg and the tea aroma a perfect combination.
One tea egg was not enough for such a delicious meal. Lou Dongli turned around and ran back, "Boss, give me another tea egg."
At the same time, a man next to him also shouted, "Beauty, I want a tea egg."
The two shouted almost at the same time. Chen Kangle looked at Lou Dongli, then at his elder brother next to him, and said awkwardly, "There is only one tea egg left."
"I wanted it first, give it to me!" Lou Dongli took the initiative.
You Wenjing was not to be outdone: "It was obviously me who shouted first, you were one second slower than me."
Yesterday, You Wenjing had Chen Kangle's lunch box for the first time, and he was so fascinated by it that he came early today to buy a lunch box. Seeing that Chen Kangle also sold tea eggs, he bought one.
In fact, he doesn't like tea eggs that much. He prefers boiled eggs to tea eggs. He has eaten tea eggs twice before, and each time he felt that the taste of tea eggs was a bit bitter and not as refreshing as boiled eggs.
It was just that Chen Kangle's tea eggs were so fragrant that You Wenjing couldn't help but buy one. On the way back to the dormitory, because he was too hungry, he peeled it and took a bite. He was instantly fascinated by the unique aroma of tea eggs. Not only did it not taste bitter, but it had a wonderful aroma of tea and mellow aroma, which collided together, which was very charming.
You Wenjing finished a tea egg in just two bites. He was so greedy that he wanted to eat more, so he immediately turned around and went back to buy another one.
Unexpectedly, tea eggs were so popular. There was only one left, and a customer was fighting with him for it.
"Beautiful boss, I came over here first and shouted two words before he shouted. I was faster than him. The tea egg should be mine." In fact, You Wenjing didn't know whether he shouted first or the other party shouted first, but in order to buy the last tea egg, he had to say that he shouted first.
Lou Dongli was not convinced, "Nonsense, I was the one who shouted first, the tea egg is mine."
After saying that, he glared at You Wenjing.
You Wenjing was not someone who could be easily bullied. He glared back, "What evidence do you have to prove that you were the one who shouted first?"
Lou Dongli asked back: "Then what evidence do you have to prove that you were the first to shout?"
Everyone likes to bully the weak and fear the strong. The tougher you are, the less likely others will bully you. You Wenjing said in a tough manner: "I said I shouted first, so I shouted first."
As he said that, he reached out and asked Chen Kangle for the tea eggs, "Boss, give me the tea eggs."
Lou Dongli was not someone who could be easily bullied. He walked over and pushed You Wenjing aside, "Boss, give me the tea eggs."
You Wenjing, who was pushed away, got angry all of a sudden, "Why did you push me? Do you want to fight?"
As he said that, he pushed Lou Dongli aside and said, "Boss, my tea eggs."
"How dare you push me! I think you want to fight." Lou Dongli gritted his teeth in anger.
Chen Kangle watched the two people squeezing each other and starting to quarrel with each other. If they continued quarreling, they might really fight.
As the two of them were arguing, You Wenjing suddenly turned to Chen Kangle and asked, "Boss, tell me, was it me who shouted first?"
Lou Dongli also said: "Boss, did you see that I was the first to shout?"
The two looked at Chen Kangle, waiting for Chen Kangle's response.
Chen Kangle was stunned for a moment. In fact, she didn't notice who shouted first.
In order to avoid a fight between the two, Chen Kangle thought of a fairer method, "You two shouted at almost the same time, how about this, you two play rock-paper-scissors, whoever wins gets the tea egg."
Both of them seemed to have bad tempers. Chen Kangle was worried that they would not accept her proposal, so she added: "If you two can't coordinate, then I can only sell this tea egg to someone else."
When they heard that Chen Kangle wanted to sell the tea eggs to someone else, they became anxious, "Rock-paper-scissors, rock-paper-scissors, one round will decide the winner."
"The outcome will be decided in one game. You have to accept the loss. I hope you will stop making trouble after the result comes out." Chen Kangle emphasized again.
"Okay, I'll admit defeat!"
With that, the two began to play rock-paper-scissors.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"
You Wenjing played "cloth" and Lou Dongli played "stone".
Lou Dongli laughed loudly: "I won, boss, the tea eggs are mine."
You Wenjing was furious and unwilling to accept the defeat, but as a man he had to accept defeat, so he could only endure it.
Chen Kangle gave the last remaining tea egg to Lou Dongli. Lou Dongli looked proud when he got the tea egg and said, "The tea egg is mine."
You Wenjing looked at the tea eggs in Lou Dongli's hand with jealousy on his face. He also wanted to eat them.
"Beautiful boss, will you bring tea eggs this afternoon?" You Wenjing asked Chen Kangle.
He only had one tea egg for lunch, which was not satisfying at all, so he planned to buy two in the afternoon.
Chen Kangle: "Well, there will be tea eggs in the afternoon. You can come back to buy them in the afternoon."
The seventy lunch boxes and forty tea eggs that he brought for noon today have all been sold out. Chen Kangle drove home and started making tea eggs as soon as he got home.
Tea eggs need to be soaked for four hours to fully absorb the flavor, so they need to be cooked in advance.
After the marinade is cooked, put in the eggs and cook until they are half done, then start cracking the eggs. Cracking eggs is a task that requires both skill and concentration.
Chen Kangle controlled the strength and tapped them gently one by one, allowing the brine to seep into the eggs through the cracks.
After the eggs were cooked, Chen Kangle took the time to rest as he had to prepare eighty lunch boxes in the afternoon.
In order to make Chen Kangle more relaxed, Grandma Chen helped pick and wash vegetables at two o'clock.
When Chen Kangle got up to take a break, she saw her grandmother washing vegetables, and a feeling of sadness came over her. Recently, the number of lunch boxes has increased, and the amount of food that needs to be processed has increased. She herself, who is young and strong, always feels sore all over after she finishes her work, let alone her elderly grandmother.
"Grandma, go and have a rest. I'll leave these for a while and wash them later." Chen Kangle was worried that his grandma would get too tired.
"It's okay, grandma is not tired at all."
Grandma Chen said brightly.
The lunch box business has been increasing over the past two days, and Grandma Chen can clearly feel that Chen Kangle is in a better and better mood. As long as her granddaughter is in a good mood, she is in a good mood. No matter how busy or hard the work is, she doesn't feel tired at all.
Although grandma refused to rest, Chen Kangle still forced her to sit aside and said, "If you don't rest, I won't let you help me anymore."
Grandma Chen had no choice but to sit down and rest.
She had to prepare 80 lunch boxes in the afternoon, which was indeed a bit of a workload. Moreover, Chen Kangle had already planned to bring 100 lunch boxes over for lunch in two days. 100 lunch boxes required more ingredients to be processed, and she and her grandmother might not be able to handle it.
At this time, Chen Kangle thought of Lin Huiling from the same village.
Since there have been residential communities and construction sites around the village, many middle-aged women in the village have chosen to work in the communities or construction sites. Because there are not many farmlands in the village, and the weather in Hai City is bad, the crop yields are poor, and not much money can be made from farming, so many people choose to go to work.
Lin Huiling followed the crowd and went to work as a cleaner in the community. A few days ago, the community laid off employees, and Lin Huiling was fired because she was a little older.
Recently, she has been looking for a job, but the competition is too fierce. She is already fifty years old and she simply cannot compete with others.
Chen Kangle planned to talk to Lin Huiling in the evening. If she was willing, she could come over to help prepare lunch boxes.
After painstakingly preparing eighty lunch boxes, Chen Kangle drove to the construction site.
The reputation of the boxed lunches has spread to the construction site in the south, and several workers from the south construction site came today.
"Beautiful boss, your lunch boxes are very popular. People at our south construction site say that the lunch boxes at the north construction site are delicious."
"Boss, why don't you come to my south construction site and set up a stall to sell lunch boxes? We have more workers in the south construction site than in the north construction site. You can definitely make a lot of money here."
When the workers at the northern construction site heard this, they got anxious and said, "Tsk, you southerners, don't come and steal our lunch boxes. We have a lot of workers at the northern construction site, too. Don't spread rumors."
In less than ten minutes, more than fifty lunch boxes and more than twenty tea eggs were sold.
Lin Zhenghua also ran to the construction site after work. In the past, he always had terrible lunch boxes at noon, so after work in the afternoon, he would quickly escape from the suburbs and return to the city to eat delicious food.
Ever since he started eating Chen Kangle’s lunch boxes, he would go to the construction site to buy lunch boxes after get off work in the afternoon, and then slowly go home after eating the lunch boxes.
After get off work today, a friend invited him to a restaurant for dinner.
Guo Shujie: [Zhenghua, I see you eat lousy boxed lunches in the suburbs every day. I'd like to invite you to a seafood restaurant tonight. Do you want to go?]
Lin Zhenghua, who was only thinking about his lunch box, refused without thinking.
Lin Zhenghua: [I won’t go. I’m going to eat a box lunch in the suburbs today.]
Guo Shujie: [So miserable? Is your company going to require overtime again? ]
Lin Zhenghua had just bought a box lunch and a tea egg, and was happily taking the box lunch to go back to the company for a delicious meal.
Seeing the message from Guo Shujie, he smiled and replied: [No, I am not miserable at all. I am very happy now and can eat delicious boxed lunches.]
The day before yesterday, Guo Shujie heard Lin Zhenghua say that the box lunches there were delicious, but he didn't expect Lin Zhenghua to refuse his seafood dinner for the box lunches.
Guo Shujie: [Oh my god! Lin Zhenghua, are you a fool? You don't want to eat seafood dinner, but eat boxed lunch in the suburbs. No matter how delicious your boxed lunch is, it can't compare to seafood! ]
Lin Zhenghua bought a cola duck lunch box. He likes cola duck the best. It is fragrant and sweet, and every bite is a pleasure.
After receiving the message from Guo Shujie, Lin Zhenghua couldn't help but say, "You don't understand. Only those who have tasted it will understand."
Lin Zhenghua: [My lunch box is better than seafood. If you don’t believe me, I’ll buy one for you. You’ll know after you eat it.]
Guo Shujie suddenly became a little curious. He didn't believe that the boxed lunches at the roadside stalls would be better than the seafood at the restaurant.
Guo Shujie: [Okay, I want to try the lunch box you mentioned and see how delicious it is.]
In order to prove what he said, Lin Zhenghua hurried back to buy another lunch box.
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