Chapter 7

We really have guests!

Jiang Ci has tried the method of seducing people with smell, especially braised vegetables and stews with strong smell, which can attract people from the whole street!

She doesn't usually do that, though.Back then, she never lacked customers, and those who wanted to taste her craft lined up until the end of the year, so there was no need to recruit new customers.It is different from the current situation.

The aroma of Xiaolongtangbao is not as strong as compared to dishes with a strong taste, and it can only radiate a distance of four or five meters from the entrance of the store.

But that's enough.

Jiang Ci looked at the couple who entered the door, and smiled: "You two, what do you want to eat?"

Li Jianhong helped his wife into the store. Except for the aunt who was eating steamed buns at the door, there was no customer.

Moreover, after seeing them enter the store, the aunt stood up after hesitating for a moment, and walked to the cash register consciously.

Li Jianhong was taken aback for a moment, he dared not have a single guest!

It's mealtime now!

Li Jianhong suddenly hesitated, but the smell in his nose was too sweet, he turned his head and asked his wife: "Fang Ting, do you want to try?"

At this moment, it doesn't matter whether he wants to eat or not, what matters is whether his wife wants to eat or not!

Liu Fangting stared at the conspicuous menu and pursed her lips.

There were only two kinds of steamed stuffed buns in the store. When she saw the name, she recalled the choking taste of steamed stuffed buns, and she lost her appetite again.

As for the price, although have some doubts in heart, it is not unacceptable.

They started their businesses in the early years and had a lot of money. Li Jianhong was in charge of the factory. In terms of eating, he was relatively economically free. If he didn't get off the bus here today, he wouldn't usually come to this small street restaurant.

Liu Fangting looked at the menu and frowned.

Turning around, he saw the cashier's half-eaten bun, and wanted to lick his lips again.

Stuck back and forth for a few seconds.

Li Jianhong made a decision: "Two servings of steamed buns, one of each flavor. Fang Ting, try it, eat it if you can, and forget it if you can't."

"Okay, one hundred and two." Jiang Ci said yes, handed the cash register to Liang Hui, and turned to enter the back kitchen.

Li Jianhong helped his wife walk to the inner part of the shop and sat down, looking around.

Although it is a small restaurant on the street, the decoration is quite elegant. The tables and chairs are all Chinese style, and there are elegant and exquisite carvings on the back of the chairs.There are hollow carved screens between the side tables for partition.

There are a few green plants in the corner of the shop, which are placed in pottery pots, which are antique.

The ground is also very clean. At first glance, the sanitation is passable.

The steamed buns were already warming on the stove. Within two minutes, Jiang Ci brought up two bamboo steamers, and then lifted the lids of the steamers neatly.

"You two take it easy."

Li Jianhong was caught off guard by the steam.Across the white steam, he was also shocked when he saw his wife.

The two looked at each other, seeing surprise in each other's eyes.

After Jiang Ci served the dishes, she said to Liang Hui, "Aunt Liang, please continue eating."

Then Li Jianhong saw the cashier went to sit down at the table near the store door, and started to eat happily again.

The shop owner continued to instruct: "Eat slowly!"

The cashier aunt nodded.

Li Jianhong: "..." Damn!

So straightforward in front of customers, okay?Besides, he was hit by this trick just now!

But it worked.

Li Jianhong turned his head, and in front of him were two baskets of exquisite soup-filled steamed buns, and two dipping plates.

According to his experience of eating soup-filled xiaolongbao, it is estimated that the dipping sauce is made of rice vinegar, soy sauce and shredded ginger.

His wife had already started on the steamed buns with crab powder, so Li Jianhong picked up chopsticks and spoons and started on the steamed buns stuffed with shepherd's purse.

The reason why he took the spoon was that after he tried to pick up the steamed bun, the soup leaked directly into the cage drawer, and he didn't eat a single bite.

To be on the safe side, Li Jianhong always uses a spoon.

Once the chopsticks were clamped, they clamped the upper half of the steamed bun, and lifted it again. The originally slightly flat steamed bun was rounded in an instant, and the soup fell to the lower half, forming a rickety semicircle.

But the soup didn't break!

Li Jianhong didn't dare to be careless, quickly wrapped the bun with a spoon, and stuffed the bun into his mouth in one gulp.

After seven o'clock, he was already hungry, and he didn't have the idea of fine dining, he just wanted to eat quickly.

The slightly hot soup burst in the mouth, and the deliciousness of the shepherd's purse stuffing touched the taste buds and reached the nerves.

Shepherd's purse is a kind of wild vegetable. As the saying goes, "both ends are fresh in spring and autumn". This season is just in time to eat the newly grown autumn shepherd's purse.

The freshly born shepherd's purse is green, crisp and tender, with a delicious smell. When it is chopped with fresh meat, it can absorb the fat of the meat and neutralize the meaty taste with a unique fragrance, giving the Xiaolongbao a unique freshness..

Coupled with the infiltration of the broth, it seems to have eaten a fresh taste of the mountains!

Subconsciously, Li Jianhong couldn't help but took a deep breath.

At this moment, it seems that he is not sitting in a small shop in the city, but has returned to his childhood, running around the village, the soil is wet, the water is gurgling, the breeze is blowing, and it is full of vitality.

So... delicious!

After swallowing one steamed stuffed bun, Li Jianhong's slander about this restaurant has been forgotten. He didn't eat the second steamed stuffed bun in such a hurry. Instead, he took a sip of the soup first, and then chewed slowly.

I just want to eat slowly, slowly...

Let the time of enjoying delicious food be extended indefinitely.

Looking at my eyes again, my wife is nearly forty years old and has fine lines around her eyes. She has been unable to enjoy delicious food for a long time due to nausea due to pregnancy.

But at this moment, she was using a spoon to hold the steamed dumplings, and she was eating slowly mouthful by mouthful. The eating speed was not fast, but her expression was extremely intoxicated.

Li Jianhong was pleasantly surprised: "Wife, can you eat it?!"

"Yeah." Liu Fangting nodded, "This Xiaolongtangbao is very refreshing, and I don't feel sick at all when I eat it. It's also warm and very comfortable."

"Try the one stuffed with shepherd's purse and meat, it's more refreshing." Li Jianhong pushed the steamer in front of him away, and exchanged flavors with his wife.

Try again.

Both were also overwhelmed by another flavor.

"Two more servings! One serving of one kind of stuffing!" Li Jianhong raised his head and shouted at the shop owner.

In the end, Liu Fangting ate six buns, which was the limit for her who hadn't had a serious meal for a long time.

Li Jianhong ate three cages happily, and thought he could still eat it.

"Two hundred and four, thank you." Jiang Ci looked at the amount in the account and was in a happy mood.

"Boss, your steamed stuffed bun tastes so good, I'll come back tomorrow!" Li Jianhong said as he left.

"Okay, but we don't open until five o'clock, so don't come early." Jiang Ci reminded.

"Five o'clock?" Li Jianhong wondered, "You open at night?"

It's not like he hasn't seen a shop that only opens at night, most of them are barbecue stalls and food stalls, doing all-night business, but the shop in front of him obviously doesn't follow this route.

Jiang Ci smiled: "There is no way, there are not enough manpower, and other time has to be used for preparation."

"That's it." Li Jianhong had a regretful look on his face. He would not be able to bring buns at noon.

In the first few days, he wanted to eat this all the time, not to mention that this steamed stuffed bun can whet his wife's appetite!

"Okay, I will come at five o'clock." Li Jianhong left a message and helped his wife to leave.

While Li Jianhong was eating steamed buns, Jiang Ci brought in three more people at the door relying on the smell of the crabmeat dumplings.

One was an off-duty white-collar worker in a nearby building, wearing a plaid shirt, who was lured by the scent and ordered a small steamed bun, shaking his head.

The other two are a pair of girlfriends, who look like college students, taking pictures while eating.

Several people knew that Liang Hui was a clerk, and they were all speechless for a while.Let's say it's a trust, they eat staff meals!And she didn't say a word, she just sat there and ate, she was simply attracted by the smell.

After that, Liang Hui finished eating. A basket of steamed buns was eaten bit by bit, and it should have been eaten in half an hour.

Liang Hui: "Boss, I will try to extend this time as much as possible."

"It's okay, we have guests now." Jiang Ci said, "We will have a staff meal tomorrow."

Liang Hui was overjoyed and happily returned to the cash register.

...

"Anxu Road, hasn't it been in decline for a long time? What good food can be found in this place?" Song Feihang had just parked the car, when the girl on the co-pilot pushed the door and got out, then slammed the door shut.

"Are you polite? Your brother sent you here, and you have this attitude!" Song Feihang got out of the car.

Song Xinyu was already standing on the sidewalk, tugging at her skirt, feeling inexplicably nervous.

After she and her family tasted the shredded chicken porridge that day, she couldn't forget it for a long time, and her mother even found out the account she added by accident and asked Jiang Ci the address of her shop.

After more than half a month, the other party's store finally opened!

On this day, her parents were busy with work, so she dragged her brother to send her over.

"That's right here?" Song Feihang raised his eyes and saw a bright red maple tree. He took two steps to the side before he saw the signboard hidden behind the tree.

Song Xinyu said "hmm" and walked straight inside.

Unlike the reticent Song Xinyu, Song Feihang talked a lot: "This is the restaurant that made your parents, grandma, and you stupefied that day? It looks very pretentious, a small restaurant with such a name."

"Aren't you bluffed by your lack of knowledge? Your brother is different. Your brother has a lot of knowledge and knowledge. It is very difficult to conquer my appetite."

Song Feihang's words are really not nonsense. After graduating, he worked as a reporter and traveled around. He has tasted a lot of delicacies from all over the world, so he can be regarded as "well-informed".

"The elder sister who told you to 'bah' someone else is in there? I've never seen you protect others so much! Why did you get involved in Lao Liu's matter?"

"You talk a lot." Song Xinyu said dissatisfied.

"Do you dislike your brother?" Song Feihang cursed and followed into the store.

At a certain moment, a fresh and fragrant smell penetrated into the nostrils.

Uh-huh?

Song Feihang was stunned, looking around, there were very few customers in the store, only two sitting on the side and eating hard.

But the expression was very intoxicated, and the aroma came from there, so he couldn't help swallowing, and his stomach let out a "goo".

Song Xinyu was short in stature, so he could hear it more clearly than himself.

Song Xinyu raised her head and looked at her brother.

"Conquering appetite...is it difficult?"

Song Feihang: "..."