Qian Lizhen suppressed her anxiety and waited a little longer.
Half an hour passed, and Zhu's snack stall remained empty.
Zhu Qian turned the recording on and off, then impatiently grumbled, "Mom, is it going to work or not?!"
Qian Lizhen had no idea if it would work. She thought it would, but the reality was too much of a blow. She said, as if to comfort Zhu Qian, but more like to comfort herself, "It will work, it will work. People will be here soon."
The next second, she actually brought two people over, a man and a woman, a couple, from the food stall next door. They ordered two bottles of beer, two plates of grilled meat, and a dozen oysters, and asked her to hurry up and bring them over.
Qian Lizhen was overjoyed, beaming from ear to ear, and nodded eagerly: "Okay, wait, I'm coming right away."
As he spoke, he winked at Zhu Qian, as if to say, "See? I told you it could work."
Zhu Qian's worries turned to joy, realizing she had been too hasty, and she quickly went to help Qian Lizhen.
Everything was as usual. Qian Lizhen skillfully grilled meat skewers and oysters and served them to the guests.
Unlike usual, she used a new dipping sauce this time, and the meat skewers and oysters smelled incredibly appealing.
The woman in the couple's eyes lit up as soon as she smelled it, and she said, "Honey, this looks pretty delicious too. I wonder why there are so many people at the restaurant next door."
The man holding her arm flicked her nose and said affectionately, "Maybe they're deliberately making people line up to create a scarcity effect. Silly girl, we won't fall for their tricks."
Upon hearing this, Qian Lizhen, quick-witted as ever, immediately chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes, that shop next door is using scarcity marketing and unfair competition tactics. They've ruined the reputation of us honest business owners. Their food has even been in the newspapers; they were found to be unsafe. I'm not lying to you..."
"Oh, that's so despicable!" The woman covered her cherry-like mouth. "Darling, let's come to this restaurant more often, I'll feed you, ah—"
The man sweetly said "okay," opened his mouth, and then...
"Honey, honey, what's wrong? Don't scare me!"
The man, who had just swallowed a skewer of meat, clutched his neck tightly, his eyes bulging out, just like a palace maid in a TV drama who had overheard a secret and was being murdered to silence her.
The woman was so scared that she cried and grabbed the man's arm. The man, trembling, picked up the beer in front of him and took a big gulp, instantly relieving his poisoning.
He gasped for breath, as if he had just been reborn, then slammed his fist on the table and stood up, glaring angrily: "Damn it, are you making poison?! One bite and I almost died! It tastes so awful and you still dare to sell it? You'll lose money!"
Qian Lizhen was stunned by the scolding, her old face turning deathly pale. Zhu Qian rushed up and said, "Stop bullying us! You only ate one bite, why should we pay you back?"
The man's temples were throbbing with veins. He looked like he would have attacked Zhu Qian if she were a man. He roared, "If you're so capable, try taking a bite!"
Zhu Qian slammed her hand on the table: "Fine, I'll eat!"
After saying that, she picked up a skewer of grilled meat and stuffed it into her mouth.
Before she could even chew, an extremely unbearable strange taste suddenly burst from the tip of her tongue, and her stomach acid churned uncontrollably, causing her to vomit with a "whoosh."
It tastes awful!
It tastes awful!
It's like finding leftovers in a sweltering garbage dump swarming with flies on a hot day.
Zhu Qian leaned against the table, vomiting repeatedly. Qian Lizhen panicked, "Qianqian, what's wrong?"
Zhu Rui couldn't resist his curiosity and took a bite, then burst into tears.
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