Chapter 13
Lin Zhenghua bought a lunch box of braised pork trotters, scrambled eggs with leeks, and braised eggplant. In order to prevent the lunch box from getting cold, Lin Zhenghua rushed back to the city immediately after buying the lunch box.
Guo Shujie is a second-generation rich man with a rich family background. Eating, drinking and having fun are his strengths. Lin Zhenghua is his high school classmate and they have a very good relationship. Because Lin Zhenghua complains every day that there is no good food to eat when working in the suburbs, he often takes Lin Zhenghua out to eat delicious food at night.
Lin Zhenghua was also very happy to go with him, and every time he ate, he would complain about the bad food in the suburbs.
He particularly wanted to eat seafood today, and planned to ask Lin Zhenghua to go out for a seafood dinner together in the evening. However, Lin Zhenghua rejected him, saying that she wanted to eat a box lunch in the suburbs.
These past two days, Lin Zhenghua has been praising the delicious lunch boxes at the construction site near their company. Guo Shujie thinks that it is because the lunch boxes Lin Zhenghua usually eats at noon are too bad, so he gets particularly excited as long as they taste a little bit better.
How delicious can the lunch boxes sold at the stall in front of the construction site be!
Guo Shujie felt a little sympathetic towards Lin Zhenghua. He usually had a terrible lunch every day at work, so now even the boxed lunches sold at the stalls outside the construction site seemed delicious to him.
It was not until Lin Zhenghua refused his seafood dinner for the box lunch at the entrance of the construction site that Guo Shujie began to become a little curious about this box lunch.
As a food lover, all the delicacies in Haishi can not escape Guo Shujie's mouth, and he has tasted almost all the famous delicacies.
He has even tried some small restaurants and street stalls. According to his many years of experience in food, although the food in those popular online restaurants and street stalls is okay, most of them are not better than those in big restaurants and hotels.
I can only say that the food tastes pretty good at this price.
Therefore, Guo Shujie did not believe that the lunch boxes at the entrance of the construction site would be as delicious as Lin Zhenghua said. He thought that they might taste similar to other popular street food.
Lin Zhenghua was full of confidence. He believed that Chen Kangle's lunch box would definitely conquer Guo Shujie's taste buds.
Lin Zhenghua brought a lunch box to Guo Shujie's residence, "Brother Jie, the delicious lunch box is here."
"If it doesn't taste good, you can treat me to a seafood dinner next time." Guo Shujie said jokingly.
Lin Zhenghua patted his chest and said, "I guarantee that after you eat this, you won't want to go for a seafood feast anymore."
"Are you sure?" Guo Shujie raised his eyebrows and said, "I have very high standards for food. Are you sure a 14 yuan box lunch can conquer me?"
Lin Zhenghua put the lunch box in front of Guo Shujie and said, "I won't say much. You'll know after you eat it."
Lin Zhenghua raised his head, looking confident of victory.
Guo Shujie didn't know where Lin Zhenghua got his confidence from. He looked curiously at the lunch box on the table. There were two meat dishes and one vegetable in the lunch box, braised pork trotters, scrambled eggs with leeks, and braised eggplant.
The braised pork trotters were rosy and shiny, the leeks were emerald green, and the eggplants were soft and rotten. Guo Shujie instantly looked at the lunch box with new eyes. He never thought that a lunch box worth 14 yuan would have such an attractive appearance.
Guo Shujie quickly opened the lunch box in front of him. The rich aroma of soy sauce made his eyes widen instantly, "It smells so good!"
Without saying a word, he picked up the chopsticks.
"You can eat the braised pork trotter first. I like braised pork trotter very much." Lin Zhenghua likes braised pork trotter very much. He had braised pork trotter for lunch today.
Lin Zhenghua calmly opened his lunch box. The lunch box he bought contained cola duck, steamed egg custard and water spinach with garlic sauce. He also liked the cola duck very much. He took a bite and started to eat happily.
Guo Shujie next to him was already chewing on the pig's trotters. "The pig's trotters are really delicious. The pig skin is soft and sticky, the tendons are chewy, and very tasty. Is this really a 14-yuan lunch box?"
Guo Shujie couldn't believe that this was a box lunch from a construction site stall. If he hadn't been told, he would have thought the pig's trotter was from a five-star hotel.
No, this pig's trotter tastes better than what he ate in a five-star hotel.
Guo Shujie likes the taste of this pig's trotter, which is soft and chewy, and the more you chew it, the more you like it.
He picked up another piece of egg and put it into his mouth. The mellow aroma of the egg and the fresh fragrance of the leek filled his entire mouth.
"The eggs are so delicious!" Guo Shujie couldn't help but shout.
Lin Zhenghua was eating steamed egg custard. He looked at Guo Shujie who was obsessed with it and said proudly, "I told you that you would like it. No one would dislike our lunch boxes at the construction site."
"I didn't know it would be so delicious. If I knew it was so delicious, I would have asked you to bring it back for me."
Guo Shujie picked up another piece of eggplant with chopsticks. The eggplant was soft, tender and had a strong aroma of sauce. This lunch box at 14 yuan was perfect, and even the rice was fragrant and glutinous.
The two of them sat down and happily finished their lunch boxes, not even a grain of rice was left. Guo Shujie leaned back in his chair with a satisfied look on his face, savoring the lingering fragrance in his mouth.
Guo Shujie, who was enjoying his meal, posted a message on his Moments.
Guo Shujie: [I just ate a lunch box from a stall in front of the construction site. It was 14 yuan per portion, cheap and delicious. It tasted even better than the ones in the big restaurants!]
Most of Guo Shujie’s friends are second-generation rich people, and they all make fun of Guo Shujie in the comments when they see his circle of friends.
Lu Zhaoyang: [Our brother Jie went to inspect the construction site today. He is so dedicated that he even ate the lunch boxes at the construction site.]
Zheng Lizheng: [Brother Jie’s ability to lie is getting better and better. He can even brag about a 14 yuan lunch box. How amazing! ]
Ou Lingyi: [Brother, why did you go to eat this kind of roadside stall again? Be careful or you'll get diarrhea again. You really don't learn your lesson! ]
Guo Shujie once ate at a popular roadside stall and developed acute gastroenteritis. His friends often make fun of him about this.
Lin Zhenghua was also watching Guo Shujie's circle of friends and immediately retorted: "Don't slander our construction site lunch boxes. Although we are just a simple construction site lunch box, there is absolutely no problem with hygiene. I have eaten it several times and there is no problem at all."
"It looks quite clean to me." Guo Shujie took a careful look when he was eating just now. The pig's trotters were handled very cleanly, and there was no obvious pig hair. It can be seen that the chef is a serious and meticulous person, and the lunch boxes made by such a chef must be clean.
Guo Shujie ate with great confidence and wanted to eat more, so he asked Lin Zhenghua for the specific location of the lunch box stall.
On the other hand, Chen Kangle successfully sold 80 lunch boxes and 50 tea eggs. After returning home, Chen Kangle went to find Lin Huiling and asked her to help with the lunch box preparation.
The reason why Chen Kangle looked for Lin Huiling was that when her grandfather was sick, she and her grandmother often stayed in the hospital to take care of her grandfather. No one watered her grandmother's vegetable garden, so Lin Huiling took the initiative to help her grandmother water the vegetables.
Chen Kangle is a grateful person. She will do her best to repay anyone who has helped her.
"Aunt Huiling, my work here may be hard. If you are willing to come, you can help. If you don't want to, that's okay." Work in the catering industry is hard, and Chen Kangle doesn't know whether Lin Huiling will be willing to come to work.
Lin Huiling, who was sitting at home unemployed, agreed without thinking. She had been looking for a job in recent days, but was always squeezed out by people younger than her during interviews.
Many people asked her to find a job in the city, but she couldn't ride a bike, so she could only look for a job nearby. Now Chen Kangle gave her a job in the village, and Lin Huiling was very happy.
"Le Le, Auntie is not afraid of hard work, and Auntie can do everything, from washing vegetables to cooking and cleaning."
"Then can you come to work tomorrow?" Chen Kangle planned to make ninety lunch boxes for noon tomorrow, and she definitely couldn't handle it alone.
Lin Huiling: "Sure, I'll go over and help tomorrow."
The next day, Lin Huiling got up early and prepared to go to Chen Kangle's house to work.
When passing by the village temple, I heard a group of people discussing Chen Kangle.
"Have you heard that the granddaughter of the Chen family is selling lunch boxes at the construction site?"
"Alas, Old Chen worked so hard to earn money to send his granddaughter to college, but in the end, after graduating from college, she came back to sell lunch boxes at a stall. How miserable!"
"The granddaughter of the Chen family is really disappointing. The granddaughter of our Wu family can find a job without going to college, but she went to college for four years and ended up selling lunch boxes at a stall. Her four years of college were wasted. It's embarrassing to tell others about it."
Lin Huiling became angrier and angrier as she listened. She was very straightforward and stepped forward to say, "They are setting up a stall to sell boxed lunches. What's so shameful about not stealing or robbing? I think it's more shameful for you to gossip about them behind their backs."
After saying that, Lin Huiling left angrily.
When she arrived at Chen Kangle's house, she saw Chen Kangle busying around in the house. She knew that Chen Kangle had no choice but to set up a stall to sell lunch boxes because his grandfather was sick and owed a lot of foreign debts. If it weren't for the pressure of life, who would be willing to work so hard to set up a stall at the construction site?
When Lin Huiling thought about what that group of people had just said, she became furious.
"Le Le, we have to work harder to sell more lunch boxes, make more money, and make our business stronger and bigger." Lin Huiling hopes that Chen Kangle's business will get better and better, and anger those who say she is shameful.
Seeing Lin Huiling's passionate look, Chen Kangle found it a little funny and said with a smile: "Well, we need to make a lot of money."
The lunch box business has been getting better and better recently. Chen Kangle is very motivated. She hopes that one day she can earn enough money to open a lunch box restaurant of her own.
Ninety lunch boxes need to be prepared today, and Chen Kangle has already started making cola duck.
"Le Le, do we need to separate the leaves and stems of water spinach?" Lin Huiling also started picking vegetables.
Lin Huiling is very capable. In addition to picking and washing vegetables, she also helps to process pig's trotters, blanching them and draining them.
With Lin Huiling's help, today was a lot easier. Chen Kangle moved the prepared lunch boxes to the trunk, and Lin Huiling helped move the tea eggs.
When Chen Kangle got off the car at the construction site, the workers surrounded him and said, "Boss, you are finally here. I want a lunch box of stewed potatoes and chicken."
"Boss, I was a step too slow yesterday, and the Cola Duck lunch box was sold out. I came here early today. I want a Cola Duck lunch box. I like Cola Duck the most."
In less than five minutes, Chen Kangle sold more than 40 lunch boxes and more than 30 tea eggs.
There was still a group of workers surrounding the lunch box stall.
"Boss, I want two box lunches and two tea eggs."
"Beautiful boss, I want two more tea eggs."
There are more and more customers, and Chen Kangle is a bit overwhelmed to pack lunch boxes and tea eggs.
The anxious guests simply packed their own food. "Boss, I got a box lunch and a tea egg. I've already paid for it."
"Boss, you go ahead and do your thing. I'll take the tea eggs myself. I took two tea eggs and paid four dollars."
At this time, Guo Shujie drove a luxury sports car and arrived at the entrance of the construction site with a group of rich second-generation friends.
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