Chapter 40
He updated his Weibo again after ten days, and his fans were very excited, with thousands of comments in less than a minute.
UUEElive: [Ahhhhhhhhhh…Xiang Shao, you finally came out. We were so scared. We thought something happened to you.]
Take a holiday soon: [Thank God, it's good that you're alright. You didn't show up for so many days, we were so scared that we almost called the police. ]
Fish in the swimming pool: [It’s good that nothing happened. We are relieved. Mr. Xiang, you don’t know that we have been worried about you for many days. If you don’t come out, we might really call the police.]
Be a cow or a horse, not a sheep: [Hahahahaha, was Mr. Xiang scared when he saw us saying we were going to call the police, so he immediately ran out to post on Weibo.]
Xiang Yunting was indeed frightened, but luckily he came out in time. Seeing so many fans worrying about him in the comments, Xiang Yunting was a little touched.
He suddenly felt that it was a bit irresponsible for him to disappear for ten days without telling his fans, and that he had made his fans worry for so many days.
Many fans have been following him for a long time. Without these fans, he wouldn't be where he is today. If it weren't for these fans' continuous support, he wouldn't be able to become a popular food blogger, wouldn't get any advertisements, wouldn't make a lot of money, and now he wouldn't be able to pursue his dreams without any scruples.
Xiang Yunting was moved and posted a comment: [Thank you for your concern. It's all my fault for not being considerate and causing everyone to worry. ]
After knowing that Xiang Yunting was fine, fans began to wonder why Xiang Yunting had disappeared for so long.
123 turn left: [It's okay, as long as you are safe. Mr. Xiang, why haven't you updated your Weibo for so long? Are you busy with something? ]
Red Elephant: [I am also curious why Mr. Xiang has not appeared in recent times. He is not like this normally. Has he encountered any troubles and therefore has no time to update his Weibo?]
Lovely Xiao Fangfang: [Is it because Mr. Xiang has encountered a bottleneck? A travel blogger I followed before also encountered a bottleneck for a while and then did not update Weibo for a long time. ]
Safety Helmet: [It is possible that he has really hit a bottleneck. I hope Mr. Xiang will not feel too much pressure. In fact, no matter what he posts, we like to see it. ]
After reading the comments, Xiang Yunting remembered that he seemed to have not told his fans about his work at Hezi Restaurant, so he posted another comment.
Few food items: [No bottleneck, the reason why I haven’t updated Weibo is because I’ve been working at the Kangle Box Restaurant recently, and I’ve been busy studying cooking every day, so I don’t have time to update Weibo. ]
Fans were shocked to see the news.
Work like a cow or a horse, not a sheep: [Ah? You went to work at a Hezi restaurant? Did I see it wrong? ]
UUEElive: [Kangle Box Restaurant? It's the Box Restaurant that Mr. Xiang visited and live-streamed last time. Mr. Xiang, are you sure you're right? ]
Cherry Hami Melon: [Mr. Xiang, did you write it wrong? Why don’t you stay as a food blogger and work at a Hezi Restaurant?]
Prince Xiang: [Damn, Master Xiang is working at the Kangle Box Restaurant? I go to the Box Restaurant to eat almost every day, why don’t I see Master Xiang? ]
No one would have thought that a food blogger with tens of millions of fans would go to work in a box-packing restaurant.
In this way, the news that Xiang Yunting went to work at Kangle Box Hotel spread throughout the food circle and also caused heated discussions in the food forum.
Let's share: [There are few food items? I followed him before, but later I stopped following him because he took too many promotions. He takes so many advertisements a year, he must be very rich, how could he fall to working in a Hedian restaurant. ]
Green bean cake without red beans: [It is impossible that he works in a boxed rice restaurant because he has no money. Food bloggers of Xiang Shao's level earn tens of millions a year. How could he be short of money! ]
Wang Wang is Huang: [Mr. Xiang is definitely not short of money. I heard that he went to work at that box-food restaurant because he liked it. He has been to that box-food restaurant and did a live broadcast of his visit to the restaurant.]
Yu Yu: [A food blogger with an annual income of tens of millions goes to work in a box lunch restaurant just because he likes to eat box lunches. How can this sound a bit outrageous? Is this box lunch a divine delicacy? ]
Ping Guoguo: [I am a fan of Xiang Shao. Many of our fans have eaten the lunch boxes of Kangle Box Restaurant, and we all love it. It is no exaggeration to say that the lunch boxes of this restaurant are delicious food, and anyone who eats it will love it.]
There are some fans of Xiang Yunting in the food forum, and they all came out to express their love for Kangle lunch boxes.
Many netizens in the food forum began to wonder how delicious the food in this box lunch room was that a food blogger with an annual income of tens of thousands of yuan would be willing to work there.
The next day, those curious netizens in the food forum came to Kangle Box Restaurant.
Niuniuniuniu: [Friends, I will go to the Kanglehe Restaurant today to help you taste it. If it tastes good, I will tell you. ]
Favorite silver-haired handsome guy: [I've arrived at the Boxed Food Restaurant. This Boxed Food Restaurant is quite busy. I guess it took a long time to line up for us.]
jiojio: [You guys are too late. I came earlier and already bought a box lunch. The food in this box lunch shop looks delicious. I won’t talk to you anymore. I’m going to start eating now.]
Liu Yunguan is one of the curious netizens in the forum. He went to Kangle Lunch Shop as soon as he got off work today.
As a food lover, Liu Yunguan often hangs out in food forums. Whenever he sees something delicious recommended on the forums, he will try it.
Although he would occasionally make mistakes because there are many advertisements in food forums and it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, Liu Yunguan still enjoys it. He likes this kind of adventurous food journey.
Yesterday I saw someone in a food forum discussing the matter of "Food Lover Xiang Shao" going to work at a Hefan Restaurant, and then some people said that Xiang Shao went to work at a Hefan Restaurant because the hefans were delicious.
Liu Yunguan thinks this statement is a bit outrageous. A food blogger with an annual income of tens of millions would go to work in a box lunch restaurant just because the box lunches are delicious, unless he is crazy.
Moreover, he thought that the fact that Mr. Xiang worked at Hedian Restaurant was absurd in itself, and it was possible that Mr. Xiang made it up. In the Internet age, many bloggers can make up anything for traffic.
Liu Yunguan had been following "Food Xiang Shao" for a while. He liked watching the live broadcasts of "Food Xiang Shao"'s restaurant explorations and had also followed Xiang Shao to eat in many restaurants. Some of the restaurants were indeed good, but some dishes were not as delicious as Xiang Shao praised.
Later, Liu Yunguan felt that Xiang Shao’s store visits live broadcasts were becoming more and more boring, and the traces of advertising were becoming more and more obvious. Almost every store visit live broadcast was a promotion, so Liu Yunguan unfollowed him.
Unexpectedly, he saw people discussing "Food Xiang Shao" on a food forum. Liu Yunguan felt that Heyan Restaurant was also promoted by Xiang Shao, and maybe saying that he worked at Heyan Restaurant was a marketing strategy.
But when Liu Yunguan saw that many people in the food forum said that the lunch boxes in the Hejia Restaurant were delicious, he became very curious. He wondered whether they were really delicious or just marketing, so he decided to find out.
When he arrived at Kangle Box Restaurant, Liu Yunguan was surprised by the restaurant which was so ordinary that it couldn’t be more ordinary.
He originally thought that the Boxed Rice Restaurant was promoted by Xiang Shao, but it seemed that this ordinary Boxed Rice Restaurant had no money to hire a food blogger like Xiang Shao who had tens of millions of fans.
Liu Yunguan became more and more curious about this box-shaped lunch restaurant. He walked into the restaurant and stood at the end of the queue. The customers in front of him were excitedly discussing today's new dishes.
"There's a new soup today. I heard it's winter melon and meatball soup. I'm going to order the new soup later."
"The seaweed and pork soup last time was delicious. I'm looking forward to the winter melon and meatball soup this time."
"Some workers have just tasted the new soup and they all said that the winter melon meatball soup is very delicious."
Liu Yunguan also likes to drink soup with his meals. When he heard the guests discussing winter melon and meatball soup, he decided to order some.
Today's winter melon meatball soup is very popular. Half a bucket was sold in a short time. In the kitchen, Xiang Yunting was busy making the winter melon meatball soup.
Chen Kangle gave him the job of making meatballs, and this morning Chen Kangle taught him some techniques for making meatballs. After a period of observation, Chen Kangle is now more and more confident in Xiang Yunting, and often lets Xiang Yunting complete some dishes independently.
Xiang Yunting did not let Chen Kangle down. He made the meatballs seriously, completing each step strictly according to the method taught by Chen Kangle.
Every time he watched Chen Kangle’s cooking, Xiang Yunting felt that everything he had learned before was wrong. No wonder he could never make delicious food.
In the past, when making meatballs, he liked to use a fat-to-lean ratio of 3:7, because he felt that if the fat ratio was too high, it would taste greasy. However, Chen Kangle used a fat-to-lean ratio of 4:6, which has a little more fat, but it is not greasy at all, and tastes tender and not dry.
Mixing the meat filling is a very important step. If this step is not done well, the meatballs will be tough and not tender.
Add salt, pepper, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, egg white and MSG to the prepared minced meat, stir clockwise until it becomes thick, then pour in the scallion and ginger water and continue stirring clockwise. The scallion and ginger water can remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor.
There are some tricks when adding the scallion and ginger water. You cannot pour all of it in at once, but add it in two or three times. This way, the meatballs will be tender and not easy to fall apart.
Stir until tender and sticky, then beat for two or three minutes, stirring while beating. Beating is also an essential step, which can make the meatballs taste more chewy.
While Xiang Yunting was cooking the winter melon meatball soup, the winter melon meatball soup outside was quickly sold out.
"Beauty, this is your soup." Zhao Xiaodai scooped out the last two spoonfuls of soup in the bucket.
Today, there was suddenly a large number of customers at the Box Food Restaurant. Zhao Xiaodai was unable to adapt at first and could not keep up with the speed of serving the meals.
Lin Huiling adapted quickly. She had experienced this kind of sudden increase in customers several times. She was used to it and could face it calmly.
After the winter melon and meatball soup was sold out, the customers in the queue started clamoring again.
"Damn! These are sold out too quickly. Boss, can you prepare more next time?"
"What are we going to do if they're sold out? We came here today specifically to try the new dishes."
Lin Huiling immediately stepped forward to comfort the guests.
"Everyone, don't worry. The kitchen is already cooking winter melon meatball soup. It will be ready soon. If you want to drink soup, please wait a little longer. Let those who don't want to drink soup come up and order first."
After saying that, Lin Huiling asked Zhao Xiaodai to go to the kitchen to ask how long it would take for the winter melon meatball soup to be ready.
Zhao Xiaodai went to the kitchen and asked Xiang Yunting: "Xiao Xiang, is the winter melon meatball soup almost ready?"
Xiang Yunting pressed the winter melon in the pot with a spoon. The winter melon was not soft enough. "Wait about five more minutes."
The winter melon needs to be cooked until it becomes soft to be flavorful, and Xiang Yunting waited patiently.
At this time, Chen Kangle was busy making sweet and sour pork, which was the most popular meat dish today. During the time when the store was open, Chen Kangle probably had a good idea of the customers' tastes and knew which dishes were more popular, so he would usually prepare more of these dishes.
But sometimes there are special circumstances. For example, when a food blogger specially recommends a certain dish, that dish will become unusually popular.
Chen Kangle had instructed Lin Huiling that if a dish sold well, she should tell her immediately so that she could replenish it in time.
The sudden influx of customers today made the kitchen very busy, but Chen Kangle was very happy and felt that he was getting closer to his dream.
After working in the Hedian restaurant for so long, Lin Huiling has become more and more clever. She not only knows how to read people's expressions, but also knows how to adapt to changing circumstances.
Facing a group of customers who wanted to drink winter melon meatball soup, Lin Huiling said very calmly: "The winter melon meatball soup will take about five minutes to be ready. Those who are willing to wait can wait. Those who don't want to wait can come up and order first."
Most old customers are willing to wait a little longer, because everyone wants to try new dishes, as if today would be incomplete without trying new dishes. But some new customers want to buy lunch boxes quickly, and for new customers, every dish is new, so there is no difference.
"I won't wait any longer. Auntie, please get me a box lunch first. I want sweet and sour pork, curry chicken, and garlic water spinach."
"It doesn't matter if you don't drink the soup. I really don't want to queue. If you want to wait, let me buy it first."
Liu Yunguan was one of them. He had been queuing for more than ten minutes. Now he just wanted to buy a box lunch quickly. Winter melon and meatball soup didn’t matter at all.
Many customers in front who were waiting for winter melon meatball soup stood aside to let customers who did not want to buy winter melon meatball soup come forward first. Liu Yunguan found that most people stood aside waiting for winter melon meatball soup, and many customers in the back lined up went to the front to get lunch boxes.
Liu Yunguan was ecstatic, knowing that it would be his turn soon.
As a result, when it was almost his turn, the winter melon and meatball soup came out, and the guests in front of him returned to the line one after another, and suddenly there were many more guests in front of him.
"Wow, the winter melon meatball soup is finally out. I've been waiting so long. I must drink this winter melon meatball soup today."
The other guests were all excited, but Liu Yunguan couldn't help but roll his eyes and muttered quietly: "This is too unlucky. Can't this lousy winter melon meatball soup come out a little later?"
"Sorry to have kept you waiting. Your favorite winter melon and meatball soup is here." Xiang Yunting and Chen Kangle brought out the winter melon and meatball soup.
Liu Yunguan felt that the boy's voice was very familiar, so he raised his head and looked forward. He had watched Xiang Yunting's store visit live broadcasts several times before and recognized Xiang Yunting at a glance.
"Damn! It turns out that 'Food Items' is really working at a box restaurant."
Originally, Liu Yunguan thought that Xiang Yunting's statement about working in a Hedian restaurant might just be a marketing tactic. He didn't expect that a food blogger with an annual income of over 10 million would actually come to work in a Hedian restaurant.
Liu Yunguan's curiosity about this box lunch restaurant reached its peak. He really wanted to know what kind of box lunch could trick a food blogger with an annual income of tens of millions into working for him.
Usually Xiang Yunting works in the kitchen and rarely comes out. When he appeared this time, many people recognized him and many of his fans greeted him.
"Mr. Xiang, is it really you? You really are working in the Box Rice Restaurant!"
"Mr. Xiang, I'm your fan. I didn't expect you to actually work at a Hezi restaurant."
"Mr. Xiang, you are more handsome in person than in the live broadcast, and your skin is so white! Mr. Xiang, is it hard to work in the Hezi Restaurant?"
For a moment, the scene seemed to have turned into his fan meeting.
Xiang Yunting smiled shyly, "It's not hard. Today's winter melon meatball soup is delicious. You guys enjoy it slowly. I'll go in and work first."
Xiang Yunting did not stay outside, but quickly returned to the kitchen. There were so many guests today that there was no time for him to chat outside.
Soon, the photo of Xiang Yunting at the Heya Restaurant was posted on the food forum, sparking another wave of discussion.
12.6℃ Love: [Big news in the food industry, a food blogger with tens of millions of fans is working part-time in a Hezi restaurant, shocking news! ]
The little yellow hat in the kindergarten: [I thought he was just joking, but I didn’t expect that he really went to work there. This lunch box restaurant is really too attractive. ]
The novel has not been updated: [It looks pretty good. I heard that he hasn't done a live broadcast for a long time because he went to work at a Hezi restaurant. 】
Hammer Hammer: [A blogger of his level can make a lot of money by doing a live broadcast. Working in a Hezi restaurant for a year may not make as much as one live broadcast. He is really crazy! ]
After this round of discussion, a group of netizens in the forum became curious about the Kangle Box Restaurant and expressed their desire to try it.
At this time, Liu Yunguan, who was at Kangle Box Restaurant, had already bought his lunch box. Seeing that others had ordered the new dish, winter melon meatball soup, Liu Yunguan also ordered one.
Liu Yunguan walked around the store with the food and finally found an empty seat to sit down.
He was used to drinking soup before meals, and the winter melon meatball soup in front of him was steaming hot, with a charming aroma. Each meatball in the bowl was smooth, round and full, and looked very chewy.
Liu Yunguan held the soup bowl and took a sip. The soup was fresh and fragrant. He could taste the aroma of meat and winter melon, as well as a light taste of pepper. The warm soup slid down his throat, refreshing and warming to the stomach.
It was so delicious that Liu Yunguan lifted up the bowl and took several sips.
"It's so refreshing, fresh and sweet." Liu Yunguan felt that he hadn't had such a delicious soup in a long time.
Then, Liu Yunguan picked up the plump meatballs and put them into his mouth. The meat burst with juice after one bite. The texture was very solid, delicate and tender, elastic but not dry. He felt extremely satisfied after eating one bite.
Liu Yunguan finished the meatballs in the bowl in one go, and finally ate the remaining winter melon. The winter melon was cooked very soft and full of soup, and every bite was fresh, fragrant and sweet.
After just drinking a bowl of soup, Liu Yunguan felt that his trip was not in vain.
A bowl of hot winter melon meatball soup instantly whetted his appetite. Liu Yunguan immediately set his eyes on the braised pork trotters in the lunch box and started to eat them in big mouthfuls.
After eating the delicious braised pork trotters, rich curry chicken, and refreshing cold-mixed black fungus, Liu Yunguan felt like the happiest person of the day.
"How can there be such delicious boxed lunches!" Liu Yunguan couldn't help but exclaim.
After being in the food forum for so long, Kangle Box Restaurant is the best restaurant he has ever eaten in the food forum.
Excited Liu Yunguan quickly opened the food forum. He was going to post something to praise the Kangle Box Restaurant. However, as soon as he opened the food forum, he saw that the homepage was full of posts about the Kangle Box Restaurant.
i in e: [Family, please go eat at Kangle lunchbox, it is super super super delicious, the best lunchbox I have ever eaten in my life, crispy dry-fried pork intestines, sweet winter melon meatball soup, tea-flavored tea eggs, I won’t say more, I plan to eat there again tomorrow. ]
I am the richest person: [I just finished a lunch box from Kangle, and I am still a little excited. How can there be such a delicious lunch box? You all can eat it. If it doesn’t taste good, you can come to me! ]
Maomao is not confused: [It is delicious and addictive. I started wanting a second meal after eating it once. There is no disadvantage except that the queue is a bit long. But such a delicious lunch box is worth waiting in line for. ]
Liu Yunguan also posted a post praising Kangle Boxed Lunch Restaurant. After eating the boxed lunch, he began to understand Xiang Yunting a little. If he were Xiang Yunting, he would probably make the same choice. It is a very happy thing to be able to work in such a delicious boxed lunch restaurant when he has no shortage of money.
In this way, Kangle Box Rice Restaurant became the most popular food restaurant in the food forum, and netizens in the forum rushed to check in at the Box Rice Restaurant.
The customer flow of Kangle Box Restaurant doubled instantly, and the daily revenue also doubled, which made Chen Kangle very happy.
After closing the business in the evening, Chen Kangle started to count the accounts at home.
Looking through the previous account books, she still owed a total of 160,000 yuan, including 25,000 yuan to Aunt Axia, 26,000 yuan to Uncle Yuan, 35,000 yuan to Second Uncle, 14,000 yuan to Uncle Chen, 16,000 yuan to Aunt Zhen, 23,000 yuan to Guo Shujie, 15,000 yuan to her good friend Hu Guanxi, and 6,000 yuan to her good friend Qi Hua.
Chen Kangle directly paid back the six thousand yuan to his good friend Qi Hua, and felt a lot more relieved with one less creditor.
Then, Chen Kangle paid back the remaining balance of the debt: 5,000 to Aunt Axia, 6,000 to Uncle Yuan, 5,000 to Second Uncle, 4,000 to Uncle Chen, 6,000 to Aunt Zhen, 3,000 to Guo Shujie, and 5,000 to his good friend Hu Guanxi.
Part of it has been repaid, and the total amount owed is still 120,000 yuan, including 20,000 yuan from Aunt Axia, 20,000 yuan from Uncle Yuan, 30,000 yuan from Second Uncle, 10,000 yuan from Uncle Chen, 10,000 yuan from Aunt Zhen, 20,000 yuan from Guo Shujie, and 10,000 yuan from good friend Hu Guanxi.
As the amount of debt becomes less and less, Chen Kangle sees hope and looks forward to the day when she can pay off all her debts.
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