Chapter 35
Today is Xiang Yunting's first day working at Hedian Restaurant. He is not yet familiar with the environment of Hedian Restaurant, so Chen Kangle first asked him to do some simple work.
Xiang Yunting did the tasks of cutting meat, cutting vegetables, marinating and seasoning very skillfully. With Xiang Yunting's help, Chen Kangle's life was indeed much more relaxed.
In addition to helping to process complex ingredients, Chen Kangle also taught Xiang Yunting how to make some simple vegetarian dishes, such as cold kelp salad, spicy and sour potato shreds, and cold black fungus salad.
Under the guidance of Chen Kangle, Xiang Yunting quickly learned how to cook these simple vegetarian dishes.
Xiang Yunting tasted the cold kelp salad he made. It was sour, spicy and crisp. He couldn't believe that he could make such delicious cold kelp salad.
"Oh my God, I'm so awesome!" Xiang Yunting felt very accomplished at this time.
This sense of accomplishment was even happier than when he had over 10 million fans as a food blogger. Xiang Yunting was completely excited and didn't feel tired at all.
"Boss, the fungus salad is ready. Let me help you turn the chicken."
"Boss, don't move. Leave the heavy lifting to me."
"Boss, your fried saury smells so good!"
Xiang Yunting is very active in his work and has a very cheerful personality.
Before Xiang Yunting came, Chen Kangle cooked quietly in the kitchen every day. After Xiang Yunting came, the atmosphere in the kitchen suddenly became lively.
At first, Xiang Yunting felt that Chen Kangle was a bit majestic, but after spending some time together, Xiang Yunting felt that Chen Kangle was a very friendly person, and he also began to warm up to Chen Kangle.
But he was also worried that Chen Kangle would think he was noisy, so Xiang Yunting asked cautiously, "Boss, will I bother you by doing this?"
Chen Kangle shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's good to have some fun."
Although Chen Kangle is a bit introverted, she is not averse to a lively atmosphere.
After a day of getting along, Chen Kangle felt that Xiang Yunting was very talented and could learn many things once taught. In time, he would definitely become a great chef.
At this moment, an idea suddenly popped up in Chen Kangle's mind. If she could open a branch in the city in the future, she could let Xiang Yunting go to the city to be in charge of the branch.
Of course, she is still a long way from opening a branch in the city. Her current goal is to pay off her debts first and then make money to open a branch.
During this period, Chen Kangle made a lot of money again. She planned to take out some of the money to repay her relatives and friends. Last time she repaid 2,000 yuan to each person, and this time she will repay 5,000 yuan to each person.
Chen Kangle wrote down the remaining debt in the account book: 25,000 to Aunt Axia, 26,000 to Uncle Yuan, 35,000 to Second Uncle, 14,000 to Uncle Chen, 16,000 to Aunt Zhen, 23,000 to Guo Shujie, 15,000 to good friend Hu Guanxi, and 6,000 to good friend Qi Hua.
There is still a total of 160,000 yuan owed.
Thanks to Xiang Yunting's live broadcast promotion, the daily revenue of the Heya Restaurant has doubled, and is increasing day by day. Chen Kangle feels that he will be able to pay off all his debts soon.
On the afternoon of the second day after working at the Hedian Restaurant, Xiang Yunting moved to a residential area near the restaurant.
Since he started working at Hedian Restaurant, Xiang Yunting has lived a very fulfilling life every day. When he was a food blogger before, he was sometimes so bored that he would surf the Internet every day and watch various videos.
Now working as a kitchen helper, he has completely forgotten that he is a food blogger. He used to go online every day to check his Weibo statistics and fans' comments, but now he has not been on Weibo for two days.
Xiang Yunting is now obsessed with the world of food. After returning from work, he will practice cooking by himself. While working, he learned some new knowledge from Chen Kangle, and he wants to come back and practice it himself.
The food he made using Chen Kangle's method tasted really good, but it was still not as good as what Chen Kangle made. He knew that he still had a lot of room for improvement.
Working during the day and studying at night, Xiang Yunting deals with food all day long.
Since his last live broadcast of visiting the Heya Food Restaurant, Xiang Yunting has not updated his Weibo or interacted with fans online.
In the past, even if he didn’t update his Weibo, Xiang Yunting would occasionally go online to reply to fans’ comments. Food bloggers rely on their fans, so they often interact with them.
In the past two days, Xiang Yunting's Weibo was full of compliments about the Kangle Box Hotel. Gradually, some fans noticed something was wrong and began to ask about Xiang Yunting's situation in the comment section.
Xiang Shao's fans: [Family members, you have been obsessed with lunch boxes recently and have forgotten about our Xiang Shao. Have you noticed that Xiang Shao has not appeared for a long time? ]
Likes striped clothes: [Damn! I checked and found that Mr. Xiang hasn't appeared for two days.]
Quail that doesn't lay eggs: [Mr. Xiang! Mr. Xiang! Mr. Xiang! Where have you been? Come out and squeak. We miss you.]
Chocolate Cake: [Hahahaha, if you hadn’t told me, I really would have forgotten. I’ve been reading your rainbow farts in the comments section every day these past two days and forgot to pay attention to Mr. Xiang’s updates.]
Lemonade's World: [He just didn't show up for two days. As fans, we should learn to be independent and stop staring at Xiang Shao every day. ]
Turning off the phone and sleeping: [Yes, I remember that there was a time when Mr. Xiang was offline for three days. That time, Mr. Xiang went on a trip. Maybe Mr. Xiang is also going on a trip this time.]
My elephant trunk: [But last time Mr. Xiang went on a trip, he told us in advance. This time Mr. Xiang didn’t say anything. I’m a little worried.]
167 times I wanted to resign: [Don’t get excited, maybe Mr. Xiang will come out tomorrow. ]
Fans were discussing enthusiastically on Weibo, but Xiang Yunting had already fallen asleep.
When he was a food blogger, Xiang Yunting would stay up late almost every day. He would lie in bed and scroll through his phone and couldn’t fall asleep at all. He would often go to bed around two in the morning and not get up until nine in the morning.
Now Xiang Yunting goes to bed at 11 o'clock every night. Tired from work, he falls asleep as soon as he lies down.
That night, Xiang Yunting had a beautiful dream. In the dream, he was wearing a chef's uniform and making stir-fried pork intestines. The pork intestines were sizzling in the pan and the aroma kept coming out.
Chen Kangle praised him: "Xiao Xiang, the dry-fried pork intestines you made this time are very fragrant."
After making the stir-fried pork intestines, he served them to the customer. The customer tasted his stir-fried pork intestines and gave him a thumbs up, "Handsome guy, you are awesome. The pork intestines are crispy and fragrant, very delicious."
Xiang Yunting was smiling while he was sleeping.
The next day, Xiang Yunting got up and went to work at the Heyan Restaurant full of energy.
"Boss Chen, guess what candy I brought today?" Xiang Yunting asked Chen Kangle happily, holding the candy in his hand.
Compared to the restraint of the first day, Xiang Yunting has now completely relaxed.
"Lemon drops, I guess."
Chen Kangle was no longer so restrained and she happily cooperated with Xiang Yunting.
Xiang Yunting spread out his palm, "Boss, you guessed wrong, it's durian candy."
Then he handed the durian candy in his hand to Chen Kangle. Chen Kangle took the durian candy from Xiang Yunting, opened it and put it in his mouth. The unique durian flavor and sweetness bloomed in his mouth.
She now agrees very much with Xiang Yunting's statement that a piece of candy a day can really make people happy.
"Boss, my durian candy is delicious." Xiang Yunting also opened a durian candy, put it in his mouth, and ate it happily.
Thanks to the promotion of the store live broadcast, the number of customers at the Boxed Lunch Restaurant has increased in recent days, with customers lining up to buy boxed lunches every day already stretching outside the store.
Chen Kangle was very glad that she had hired Xiang Yunting as a kitchen helper, otherwise she would not be able to handle the work by herself.
As the number of guests increases, the kitchen has to keep cooking. In the past, Chen Kangle would occasionally go out to help Lin Huiling get lunch boxes, but now the kitchen is busy and she no longer has time to go out to help get lunch boxes.
When there are many customers, Grandma Chen will go over to help, but Grandma Chen is old and her waist will ache if she stands for a long time.
Chen Kangle is planning to hire another waiter to help Lin Huiling share some of the work.
Knowing that Chen Kangle was recruiting a waiter, Lin Huiling wanted to recommend someone to Chen Kangle.
Lin Huiling’s neighbor Zhao Xiaodai is a young single mother with a four-year-old daughter. After her husband died of illness, her parents-in-law scolded her for being unlucky in marriage and disliked her for giving birth to a daughter, and refused to help her raise the child.
Zhao Xiaodai has to work and take care of the child at the same time. She has to send the child to kindergarten at around seven o'clock every morning and pick the child up from kindergarten at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Her previous job was cleaning the residential area. Every day at 4:30, she would secretly run to the kindergarten to pick up her daughter, then secretly run back to continue working.
Once she was accidentally caught by the property manager and was fired. Since she had to pick up her child from kindergarten every day, it was difficult for Zhao Xiaodai to find a suitable job. No job allowed her to pick up her child at 4:30.
Zhao Xiaodai lives next door to Lin Huiling. Seeing how hard Zhao Xiaodai works alone, Lin Huiling feels a little sorry for her.
When recommending Chen Kangle, Lin Huiling specifically explained Zhao Xiaodai's situation.
"Kang Le, Xiao Dai has a daughter who goes to kindergarten. She may have to pick up her daughter from kindergarten at around 4 o'clock every day, but it only takes her half an hour at most, and she will definitely be back when the Hedian restaurant opens for business. During the half hour when she is away, I can speed up her work."
After saying this, Lin Huiling began to feel a little regretful, feeling that she was engaging in moral blackmail.
After thinking for a while, Lin Huiling said, "Kang Le, it's okay if you don't want to. I can help her find another job."
The few years that Zhao Xiaodai had been married to Chen Kangle happened to be when Chen Kangle was in college, so Chen Kangle was not very familiar with Zhao Xiaodai. Moreover, the two families did not live close to each other, so she rarely saw Zhao Xiaodai and only occasionally met her on the road.
Chen Kangle remembers that he met Zhao Xiaodai at the intersection last week. At that time, Zhao Xiaodai was carrying a bag of rice in her hand, and her daughter followed behind her, fanning her mother with leaves.
"Mom, I'll fan you and you won't feel hot anymore."
Zhao Xiaodai's daughter is very well-behaved and cute. When she sees Chen Kangle, she will say hello: "Mom, they said that the lunch boxes made by this sister are delicious."
People in the village often discuss Chen Kangle’s boxed lunch restaurant, so the little girl also knows about Chen Kangle’s boxed lunch restaurant.
At that time, Chen Kangle stopped and said to the little girl: "Little friend, next time you come to my box lunch restaurant, I will treat you to a free box lunch."
Chen Kangle especially likes cute and sensible little girls.
After hearing what Chen Kangle said, the little girl said to her mother happily: "Mom! Mom! My sister said she would treat me to a free lunch. I want to eat the lunch that my sister made."
Zhao Xiaodai patted her daughter's head and said, "Next time, mom will take you there to eat."
Then he turned to Chen Kangle and said, "Thank you!"
This was Chen Kangle's most recent contact with Zhao Xiaodai. Although she didn't know Zhao Xiaodai very well, she could see that Zhao Xiaodai was a gentle mother and her daughter was a lovely little girl.
After thinking for a while, Chen Kangle said to Lin Huiling: "It's okay, you can go and ask her if she is willing to come to work. The work in our lunch box restaurant is very hard."
The Heya Food Box Restaurant only opens at 5pm every day. Chen Kangle doesn't mind spending half an hour to pick up the children before opening, as it won't delay too much of his work.
Chen Kangle was very happy that he could help a gentle mother and a lovely little girl.
"Okay, I'll ask her to come over this afternoon."
Lin Huiling didn't expect Chen Kangle to agree so quickly. In her eyes, Chen Kangle was like an angel, kind and beautiful.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Zhao Xiaodai went to the kindergarten to pick up her daughter and then took her daughter to Kangle Box Restaurant.
Chen Kangle took some time out to meet Zhao Xiaodai. When Zhang Muyun saw Chen Kangle, she shouted excitedly: "Mom, the beautiful lunch box sister is here."
The girl's voice was soft and sticky. Chen Kangle squatted down and said to the little girl, "Little friend, last time I said I would treat you to a free box lunch, why didn't you come over?"
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