Food Intelligence King

Chapter 80 Pancakes and Eggs at the End of Summer

The junior colleague was a bit slow to realize what had happened, and only talked to Chen Zhou about what happened at noon after work.

"Are the police still arresting people in our store?"

Chen Zhou laughed and said, "What are you looking at with those big, bright eyes?"

"I saw!"

The junior sister stretched out her hand and poked Chen Zhou with two fingers.

"It's not quite what I expected. Shouldn't he be repenting and crying in the shop? It seems like he didn't get to eat any of the steamed buns from the shop today."

Chen Zhou rode his open-top electric tricycle to the market to buy some ingredients.

As he reversed, he said to Zhao Yilin amidst the warning, "Please be careful while reversing":
"We still have to trust the current criminal investigation methods. I guess the police have been watching him for a long time. It's just a coincidence that he was in our store."

The junior sister nodded and glanced at the security cameras that could be seen everywhere on the street.

What does it mean to say that the net of heaven is vast and its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes it?

The next two days returned to the shop's peaceful daily routine.

The dishwasher that Chen Zhou ordered from the manufacturer arrived quite quickly.

On Friday afternoon, a technician came to help install it next to the kitchen sink.

Cooking is a joyful activity, and entertaining guests is also quite fun.

But washing dishes is not.

That's what Chen Zhou thinks, anyway.

After trying out the dishwasher's various functions under the installation technician's guidance, Chen Zhou thought to himself:
"I'll install one at home too, but I didn't leave a good spot for it, so I'll have to change it. Let me measure the dimensions first."

With the last ten days of summer approaching, the weather was hot and humid, so the family ate dinner and didn't go out again.

I stayed home and turned on the air conditioning.

Ms. Lin spent a long time studying Go herself and then explained the very basic rules to her daughter.

This can be considered as giving Tao Tao some basic education.

But Chen Zhou didn't quite understand, and he guessed Tao Tao was having a hard time too.

Ms. Lin looked at her husband and children, who were staring at each other, and then at the Go board in front of her, and she laughed.

The three of them started falling haphazardly from above.

The mother and daughter let Chen Zhou take the black pieces first, and then each of them took a white piece.

Ms. Lin and Chen Zhou surrounded each other, while Chen Taotao hid in a corner and secretly strung together five white pieces.

After several rounds, the mother and daughter unsurprisingly won all three rounds.

Following Chen Zhou's example, Chen Taotao patted her father's shoulder and said, "Dad, practice hard from now on."

Just as the elderly father was trying to save face, his phone rang.

Comrade Wang Meng forwarded an article from an official WeChat account.

[Haibin News: A fraud suspect who had been on the run for three months was arrested by police at a steamed bun shop.]

Looking at the large characters in the article's title box, Chen Zhou assumed that Captain Wang was completing some kind of publicity task again.

I didn't pay much attention to it at first.

After the other party sends a message saying, "Is this you?"

Chen Zhou glanced at it briefly.

Although a large portion of the article describes how the Haibin City police arrested the criminals, there is indeed a video screenshot in the article that shows a scene from the shop.

Chen Zhou replied:

"It is indeed our shop [clasped hands]"

"You're really something, Master Chen."

Chen Zhou chatted with him for a couple of minutes.

Then I found the original video online and showed it to my wife and children.

"Let me show you something interesting."

At the end of the video, there is a photo of plainclothes police officers leading Wang Moumou away from the store.

After reading it, Ms. Lin smiled and said it was pretty good.

Although Chen Taotao didn't quite understand the content of the video, she recognized the small restaurant.

“It’s my dad’s shop; it used to belong to my great-aunt.” Ms. Lin then asked for the link to the original video.

The "click-clack-clack" sound of typing on a mobile phone keyboard rang in Chen Zhou's ears.

Sure enough, the "gentle and serene" person has made it onto the list again.

A comment appeared below the video:
"Their steamed buns are so delicious!!!"

Chen Zhou: If you want to praise me like that, you can say it to my face, loudly, without being so restrained.

You should learn from the child's maternal grandmother.

It's been almost a month since the store opened, and I finally managed to catch a day of updating information from home.

Still the same.

People, cats, living room.

After waking up in the morning, Chen Taotao saw her father staring blankly again, so she came over to stare blankly as well.

And then there's Ms. Lin, who wanted to take advantage of this time to braid her daughter's hair, but suddenly remembered that it was Saturday, so she had to give up.

At 7:30, the intelligence was updated on time.

【Flavors of the Four Seasons (Rare)】: Pancakes with eggs during the hottest days of summer (the last ten days of the hottest period of summer) – a simple folk proverb that reveals the dietary wisdom of the people of this land in coping with the sweltering heat. The last ten days of the hottest period of summer are the most humid and physically demanding, a time when the body is exhausted. A crispy pancake with a soft interior, paired with a slab of oily, fragrant eggs, is a comforting combination during the hottest days of summer.

[By viewing this information, you have learned how to make pancakes with eggs.]

There's not much to say about this; it's just a seasonal recipe.

But what about my dumplings for the first ten days of summer and noodles for the second ten days?
Chen Zhou flipped through the pages, but couldn't find it.

Well, there's also the saying that dumplings are eaten on the first day of the lunar month and noodles on the second; these old sayings aren't important.

As proverbs are passed down, they come in all sorts of ways. As long as they are easy to recite and taste good, that's all that matters.

Chen Zhou glanced at the ingredients he needed and thought to himself: Breakfast is ready in a little while.

Second piece of intelligence—

[Customer Updates]: It is expected that your shop will see another surge in customers in five days, exceeding the usual customer traffic.

After the incident with Teacher Li, Chen Zhou already knew how to deal with it.

As long as I have enough steamed buns, that's fine.

This time, people can enjoy air conditioning in the store when they come to eat steamed buns, making the dining environment much better than last time.

It's reasonable to speculate on the source of this surge in popularity. Chen Zhou felt that the video he watched yesterday might go viral for a while.

Considering the current customer traffic in the store, the workload is already quite substantial.

If another wave comes, we'll really be overwhelmed.

I need to think about hiring people these next few days.

Temporary help is fine, but it would be best if someone could work at the store long-term.

Business is getting better and better, and it's only a matter of time before we expand our workforce.

This intelligence provides time for preparation, which is perfect for starting early and avoiding chaos later.

Finally--

[Market News]: Underneath the mat of a fishmonger at Xingfuli Market, there was a 100-yuan bill, which the stall owner, Sister Hong, had forgotten about for a long time.

Chen Zhou remembered that Sister Hong lived across from Old Zhang's house.

Before opening the shop, Chen Zhou often passed by Lao Zhang when he personally bought meat from him.

According to Lao Zhang, she has been killing fish at the market for over ten years.

If you go over there again, you can remind her.

It's like discovering a balance in a bank card you haven't used in ages. I bet that woman would be quite happy.

Shouldn't intelligence be used to its fullest potential?

Something convenient.

In the kitchen, Ms. Lin was preparing a simple breakfast.

Today, I used salad dressing, so it's a change of pace.

Chen Zhou walked to his wife's side and said, "It's the end of the hottest period of summer. Let's make a pancake and fry an egg."

Ms. Lin smiled and gave up her seat.

(End of this chapter)