Chapter 18 White Jade Dumplings
Chen Kai was very surprised, turned his head to look outside the stall, and many diners were walking in the direction of Xijiekou.
"Hurry up, someone is handing out zongzi over there. ”
"Sent zongzi? It turns out that there is also this holiday benefit, not bad. ”
"That's it, how can there be no zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival?"
"Go and see what's stuffed. ”
Mi Yanran and Li Feifei heard the discussion on the street, and involuntarily stopped what they were doing and looked at each other.
Li Feifei was a little breathless, and asked worriedly: "Chen Kai, now that someone is distributing zongzi for free over there, if everyone receives zongzi, will anyone buy our zongzi?"
Mi Yanran hurriedly comforted: "Feifei, don't worry about it first, how can that kind of free zongzi be compared to the zongzi we wrapped." ”
Chen Kai touched his chin with his hand and thought for a while: "You don't have to worry about it first, what should we do, the first pot hasn't been cooked yet, I'll go and see the situation at the street entrance." ”
Mi Yanran nodded: "You go and take a look first, let's look at the stall first." ”
Chen Kai wiped his hands, explained to Mi Yanran, walked out of the stall, and walked quickly to the West Street entrance.
Looking up, a silver-gray pickup truck was parked on the side of the road, and the pickup truck was also painted with the "Rongfeng Food Company" propaganda logo, and several large iron drums were placed in the open rear compartment of the pickup truck.
People in the vicinity are gradually walking towards the pickup truck, slowly forming an encirclement.
Next to the pickup truck, there are two propaganda stands, and a male propagandist wearing a uniform with the words "Rongfeng Food Company" is holding a plastic horn and shouting:
"Dear customers, today is the Dragon Boat Festival, in order to thank you for your consistent support to our Rongfeng food, our company provides you with Dragon Boat Festival dumplings for free.
Everyone line up, as long as you pay attention to our company's official account and forward the screenshot, each person can receive three zongzi, and there are all kinds of fillings. ”
A property security guard at Xijiekou stepped forward to stop it: "Hey, hey, there is a food event going on here today, how did you sell zongzi here?" ”
The Rongfeng propagandist with the loudspeaker was confident: "We didn't enter the food street, besides, we are sending, not selling." ”
When diners heard that there were free zongzi to receive, they couldn't help but help:
"That's right, they're just doing publicity. ”
"People don't go into the street for free, and your property management is too wide. ”
The property security guard couldn't take care of it at first glance, so he could only say: "I can't control your delivery here, but remember not to peddle in the food court." ”
Rongfeng's propagandist nodded: "Well, I know, we're just doing a Dragon Boat Festival propaganda." ”
The property security guard saw that there was nothing else to do and left.
"It's very powerful, fortunately, I haven't gone to the supermarket to buy zongzi. ”
"Anyway, I can't eat much of this stuff of zongzi, and I can go home and eat three of them. ”
"I just looked at it, and it seems that there are both bean paste and ham. ”
People lined up in front of the pickup truck to scan the code, Chen Kai walked to the pickup truck, glanced at the bucket, smelled it, and immediately relieved.
There were also several nearby stall owners who came to receive the zongzi, and when they saw Chen Kai, they couldn't help but look at it, with sympathy on their faces, pointing and talking at the same time.
"Xiao Chen is miserable this time, the pot is almost boiling, no matter how delicious the zongzi he wraps, people will definitely choose free of them. ”
"I think he's still too young, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the time to make a lot of money, so I don't want to make some new rice bowls or something, so I have to make dumplings on the bad street. ”
Chen Kai didn't care about the stall owners' discussions, squeezed through the crowd of people swarming in the vicinity, and walked back leisurely.
When I was about to arrive at the stall, I saw Hu Yuqin and Huang Ping carrying three zongzi and talking to Mi Yanran.
Approaching, Chen Kai shook his head when he saw Mi Yanran, and said to Hu Yuqin in a firm tone: "We ourselves are selling zongzi, so there is no need to collect them." ”
Hu Yuqin wanted to say something, but just saw Chen Kai walking back, and immediately said with a smile: "Xiao Chen, this girl you invited is quite stubborn, there are zongzi over there, and there are bean paste for ham."
Our stall owners can also go and get it, you see that Lao Huang and I have received three, at least I bought it myself, I advise you all to get three, anyway, it's free, don't do it in vain. ”
Chen Kai couldn't laugh or cry: "But Sister Hu, what we sell today is zongzi, why do we have to get any zongzi, just eat our own family." ”
Hu Yuqin glanced at the pressure cooker in the stall, and her tone was slightly mocking: "But your zongzi have no filling, aren't you tired of eating glutinous rice?"
Chen Kai blinked his eyes and said calmly, "Don't get tired." ”
Huang Ping laughed dryly twice beside him, and dragged Hu Yuqin: "Okay, then Xiao Chen, you should be busy first, let's go, let's go back, the guests are still waiting." ”
Hu Yuqin glanced at Chen Kai and Mi Yanran with a little disdain, and changed her smiling face: "Okay, I wish you all the zongzi can be sold out today." ”
With that, the two turned and left.
Mi Yanran glanced at Chen Kai with questions in her eyes.
Li Feifei also walked over, with anxiety in her tone, and asked impatiently: "Chen Kai, how is the situation, are there many people receiving zongzi over there?"
Chen Kai said calmly: "Of course, there are more people who receive free things, but it won't affect our business, don't worry." ”
When Li Feifei heard this, her tone was slightly skeptical: "Really? Everyone went to get the free one, will it be ......?"
Mi Yanran slapped Li Feifei lightly, and said with a smile: "Chen Kai said that there is no problem, let's hurry up and make zongzi, you don't count the zongzi you made yourself." ”
Chen Kai also smiled, and just wanted to say something, when he suddenly turned his head to look at the stove, and said with some joy: "The first pot is cooked!"
Mi Yanran and Li Feifei turned their heads to see that the big pressure cooker on the stove had already burst into boiling steam.
Chen Kai lifted the shade cloth and walked to the stove, twisted the pressure relief valve, turned the pot handle to the open position, and lifted the lid of the pot.
Wow...... A piece of water vapor rises, and a scent of grass and trees of zongye spreads out.
"What a taste, it looks like a rice dumpling. ”
"Didn't you send it out at the corner of the street? Why are there still single rice dumplings? ”
Near Chen Kee's stall, a few scattered diners smelled the smell of the boiling rice dumplings and looked sideways, but they also looked fresh, and they didn't mean to come in to buy them.
Chen Kai first used a large colander to take out dozens of cooked zongzi and put them in cold water to cool down, and then put a pot of wrapped finished zongzi into the pot and lit the fire.
Looking at the scattered diners watching nearby, Chen Kai was also thinking in his mind.
After a while, Chen Kai slapped his head and shouted at Mi Yanran: "Teacher Mi, don't be busy with the bag yet, come, do me a favor." ”
Mi Yanran wiped her sweat with the back of her hand and got up.
"What do you want me to help with?"
Chen Kai took out a zongzi from the big colander and handed it to Mi Yanran with a smile.
"Teacher Mi, didn't you say you're hungry? ”
"Eat?" Mi Yanran took the zongzi and looked around.
"Right here?"
Chen Kai nodded: "That's right, the two of us will cooperate, you eat here, I will shout next to me, and the effect will come out soon." ”
Mi Yanran thought for a while: "Okay, it just so happens that I'm hungry too." ”
I saw Mi Yanran take off her disposable plastic gloves, wash her hands in the cold water pipe next to her, stand next to the stove, and start peeling zongzi.
"Wow!
A few diners who were close to seemed to have discovered something terrible all of a sudden, and they were still looking around, but now they all turned their heads to look at Chen Kai's stall and took a deep breath.
As Mi Yanran's slender jade hand peeled off the dumpling leaves little by little, a rich glutinous rice aroma that could barely be dissolved, with the fragrance of herb essence, suddenly spread around the stove.
Chen Kai stood next to him, sniffed deeply, and smiled: "Well, that's the taste!"
With a full breath, Chen Kai shouted loudly: "Don't miss it when you pass by, Chen Ji secretly makes white jade zongzi, special for the Dragon Boat Festival, the quantity is limited, first come, first served!"
"White jade dumplings, why are they so fragrant, what kind of glutinous rice is this?"
"Chen Ji secretly made, it seems that the famous rice bowl before was also his family. ”
"Mom, I'm hungry! ”
"It's an exaggeration, I can smell this aroma when I stand upwind. ”
More than a dozen diners in the vicinity were attracted by the rich aroma of white jade dumplings, and there were beautiful women to try and see, so they walked into Chen Kee's stall and watched near the stove.
The people standing outside the stall couldn't help but stretch their necks and watch curiously while twitching their noses.
Mi Yanran stood by the stove, facing many onlookers, holding the peeled zongzi in her hand, and she was also surprised.
The zongzi in front of him are pyramid-shaped, white and transparent, reflecting a jade-like luster in the sun, and the steam visible to the naked eye spreads to the surrounding circle with a rich fragrance.
Mi Yanran clearly wrote one word on her face: hungry.
After swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Mi Yanran opened her mouth and bit down gently.