The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

The new customers all come for the braised rice.

They had never eaten Lin Zhi's food, so they didn't know what it tasted like. Most of them turned around and left as soon as they heard that it was sold out.

A few people think that since they are already here, it would be a waste of half a day if they go back without eating something.

Of course, those old customers who had eaten Lin Zhi’s food didn’t think too much about it. When they heard that there was still food for sale, they immediately went to buy one.

"Why didn't I see this for sale just now?"

The grilled tofu and skewers of fragrant food had to wait, so the customers in the front of the line started chatting with Lin Zhi.

Lin Zhi smiled and said, "Originally this was something that I was looking after, but when she saw that I was too busy, she came to help, and the tofu and skewers were pushed to the back for now."

"So that's it." The guest suddenly realized.

As the temperature rose, fragrance began to waft from the pan of teppanyaki tofu. The guests in the front of the line sniffed and became more and more excited.

When the tofu was fried until golden brown, Lin Zhi sprinkled homemade seasoning powder on it. The aroma of the tofu immediately changed and became more tempting.

"Madam, are you ready yet?" the customer urged.

"We'll have to wait a little longer."

Lin Zhi answered him slowly, holding the bottle in his hand and pouring in homemade sesame oil, and the smell began to change again.

The guest began to urge again: "Is it not ready yet?"

It smells so good already, can it smell even better?

Lin Zhi did not answer again, but showed with his actions that it would be even more fragrant.

She took another bottle of unknown spice powder and sprinkled it on, and the fragrance became more layered.

"Would you like some onions?" Lin Zhi asked the first guest.

"Eat, eat, eat!"

The customer didn't hear clearly what Lin Zhi asked. All his attention was on the tofu in Lin Zhi's hands. It seemed... he probably heard Lin Zhi asking him if he wanted to eat it.

He replied that it must be food!

His saliva was about to flow out, how could he not eat it?

Lin Zhi sprinkled some chopped green onions on top, and then another handful.

The iron plate was big enough, so she sprinkled half of the tofu with chopped green onions, fried it for a while, and then scooped the tofu into a bowl.

A bowl of tofu weighs about half a pound, and it fills the bowl.

The golden tofu is decorated with chopped green onions, which makes it look more beautiful and more delicious.

"Ahhh....hot, hot, hot..."

The customer took the tofu and stuffed it into his mouth impatiently, but immediately jumped in pain because of the burn.

Even though it was scalding badly, he just refused to spit out the tofu.

"Ah! Delicious, delicious!"

The people behind him who were intoxicated by the aroma became even more anxious when they saw him like this.

"Boss, give me one serving, with chopped green onions!"

The tofu was fried in the same pan, so the second person didn’t have to wait and could just take it and start eating.

In less than a quarter of an hour, half of the pot of tofu was almost gone, but there was still a long queue of people waiting behind it.

"Daya, come here, I'll continue frying tofu."

Daya held a shovel and was responsible for putting the prepared tofu into the bowl, and was also responsible for counting the money.

She had just started learning arithmetic and could not count as fast as Lin Zhi. The team's progress suddenly slowed down, and the people waiting at the back began to complain.

Daya had never seen such a big scene. She thought she was just a temporary replacement, so she became even more nervous after hearing the complaints.

Things will get even more chaotic if you get nervous.

Lin Zhi had just brought out the tofu and immediately went over to take over when he saw this scene.

"First, pour oil into the empty space in the pot, pour the first can on your left hand, and when the oil is hot, spread the tofu on top..."

Lin Zhi was dealing with guests while teaching on the spot.

Without having to face strangers, Daya's hands and feet became more nimble, and she did it very well under Lin Zhi's instructions.

"mother!"

"mother!"

When the voices of Dalang and Erlang were heard, Lin Zhi realized that almost half an hour had passed.

No wonder the line suddenly grew so much longer, it turned out that it was time for the students to go home from school.

Thinking about what the two brothers said in the morning that there would be students coming to patronize the business, Lin Zhi felt that he had found the truth.

"You guys come here, I'll go make some skewers."

A customer just wanted to order some skewers, but Lin Zhi had his hands busy because the customer had been waiting there.

Dalang and Erlang are much braver than Daya, and they are also good at arithmetic.

One is responsible for collecting money, and the other is responsible for filling the bowls. They work together perfectly.

The three little ones were busy with the grilled tofu, while Lin Zhi started to prepare the skewers.

There are very few dishes in Chuan Chuan Xiang, and the various meatballs, gluten and meat commonly seen in modern times are not added.

It's not that Lin Zhi doesn't want to add it, but the conditions don't allow it!

The braised food and grilled tofu alone were enough to keep her and Daya very busy.

"Sir, what would you like to eat? Meat costs one penny for two skewers, vegetables costs one penny for four skewers, and mushrooms costs one penny for one skewer."

The meat is pork and offal. Most of the pork and offal she buys are made into braised food, and a small portion is used as an ingredient for skewers.

The vegetarian dishes include various green vegetables and soy products. She tried to make the soy products after making tofu in the morning. She hasn’t tried it herself and doesn’t know if it tastes good or not.

Since there are no large-scale mushroom farms here, mushrooms are all picked from the wild, so they are more expensive than meat.

The customer looked at the place where the food was displayed and felt that everything Lin Zhi sold could be described in one word: expensive!

A string of signatures was just a few vegetable leaves, and one penny was only for four signatures. With that penny, he could buy half a pound of vegetables at the market.

But no matter how expensive it is, as long as the food tastes good, he will buy it no matter how much it costs.

"Give me a little of everything."

The man didn't know which one was better, so he just asked Lin Zhi to help him choose.

Lin Zhi quickly picked out some of the various ingredients and poured them directly into the soup base to start cooking.

The soup base is made by Lin Zhi using pork bones. It is milky white and looks delicious.

In fact, Lin Zhi wanted to make a spicy soup base, but considering that the people here had never eaten spicy food, and the way Daya ate spicy food yesterday scared her, she simply gave up the idea.

The vegetables are easy to cook, and the meat has been processed in advance, so a finished product comes out very quickly.

"Do you like spicy food?" Lin Zhi thought about the chili pepper and asked the customer unconsciously.

"Don't eat."

The customer thought the spicy taste came from ginger, so he refused it without a second thought.

Lin Zhi had no intention of asking, so she did not continue to promote the product in response to his refusal.

It seems that from now on I will have to enjoy spicy food alone.

"You should give me some more spiciness!"

I don’t know what the man who had just refused was thinking about, but he changed his mind.

He thought that nothing Lin Zhi sold was bad, and the "spicy" taste might be a little different from the spicy taste he had in mind.

"Oh, ok, wait a moment."

Lin Zhi was about to hand over the skewers with seasoning, but when he heard that he wanted to add more chili, he took it back.

======Two-in-one dividing line======

Lin Zhi didn’t take out the chili sauce.

When she heard the man needed something, she bent down and took out a jar. As soon as the jar was opened, a smell she had never smelled before wafted out.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

A pungent smell.

The man immediately regretted his decision. Is this thing really edible?

Don't ruin his delicious food!

He wanted to tell Lin Zhi to stop eating too spicy food, but he kept sneezing and didn't find a chance to speak.

Lin Zhi thought that these people had never come into contact with chili peppers, so he only added a little bit of chili peppers.

Just a little bit, really just a little bit.

She mixed it carefully before handing it to the customer.

The man took it, looked at the contents of the bowl in silence, and finally picked up his chopsticks and ate it.

“Cough cough cough…..cough cough cough….”

As soon as the food entered his mouth, the man started coughing non-stop.

Lin Zhi was prepared and immediately handed over a bowl of cold bone soup.

"Thank you...thank you!" After gulping down a bowl of soup, the man felt alive again.

Seeing that he was crying from the spicy food, Lin Zhi hesitated for a moment and suggested:

"Why don't you just not eat it? I won't accept your money."

"Ah, no no no, I want to eat, it's delicious!"

The man was afraid that Lin Zhi would not believe him, so he immediately picked up another piece and put it into his mouth.

As expected, he kept coughing due to the spiciness.

There was a lot of noise here, and those who were queuing looked over here.

"It's delicious, very delicious!" the man said while crying.

"Hey! Are you a prostitute? How much money did the boss give you that you still eat the food even though it's so bad that you cry!"

The people queuing up to buy grilled tofu were suspicious.

I heard that this stall just opened today. Were those people who bought things just now hired by the store? !

Someone thought of this and quietly pulled out of the queue.

But more people trust their noses more. If they can make something so fragrant, it shouldn’t taste bad.

If they are all hired as agents, the worst that can happen is that they won’t come again after they’ve eaten there.

"Ahem... I'm not an agent... it's the spicy food... I'm feeling the spiciness!"

The man answered while eating.

Seeing that he really loved eating and was not just trying to show off, Lin Zhi stopped paying attention to him.

Because the first customer screamed in pain from the spiciness, some curious people moved from the Teppanyaki Tofu queue to the Chuan Chuan Xiang queue.

"Boss, give me one that's exactly like his."

"Ok."

"Remember to add more spiciness for me!"

Lin Zhi nodded, but only added a little bit of chili when serving the meal.

When the man saw it, he grumbled a few words in dissatisfaction.

"Eat it first. If it's not spicy enough, come over and I'll add more for you."

"it is good!"

With Lin Zhi's words, the man happily found an empty table and started eating.

After a short while, there was one more person in tears.

Most of the people who come to eat at this time are students who are just finishing school. Almost all of them are young men, and they are at an age when they are very curious.

Seeing others feel pain while eating, they all want to join the team and try it.

So the queue for skewers grew a lot longer.

"The tofu is sold out too. If you want to eat it, please come early tomorrow!"

While Lin Zhi was working hard on brushing the skewers, the stock of grilled tofu was cleared out.

But the people at the back of the line haven’t bought it yet.

Almost all of them came from college. They had been delayed here for a long time and it was too late to run to the other side of the street to eat. They really didn't want to go back to college to eat pig food, so they had to join the skewers team.

"The skewers are sold out. If you want to eat them, come back next time!"

"What? It's gone again!!"

The crowd became even more agitated.

Lin Zhi smiled and explained: "Sorry, we're sold out."

She prepared a thousand bamboo skewers for the skewers. Each person ordered at least 20 to 30, and some ordered 50 to 60. She really couldn’t stop selling them.

Lin Zhi would never admit that it was because the portion he sold was small.

"Ahhhhh..."

As soon as Lin Zhi finished speaking, several shouts were heard.

"I just ate something this morning! What should I do? If I wait until tomorrow morning to eat, I will starve to death..."

"Is it too late to rush to Zhongjie now?"

"It's too late. The academy is closed when we get back."

"what!"

.......

Ninety percent of the students who come out to eat live in the college.

There are two meals a day in the college. Breakfast is okay because it is almost porridge. No matter how bad the chef’s cooking skills are, it won’t be too bad.

The afternoon meal was different. Every day it was just rice and fried dishes. The rice was either burnt or undercooked, and the dishes tasted like the various flavors of life.

Therefore, students living in the college usually have breakfast in the college cafeteria and stay up until the afternoon when they rush out to eat after classes.

Today, they heard that there was delicious food here, so they didn't rush to the old place right away. Instead, they waited in line for a long time and ended up not getting to eat anything.

It’s no wonder they broke down as there wasn’t enough time to get back to the old place.

The remaining ten percent live nearby and come here to eat simply because they are tired of the food at home.

If they can’t get food here in Linzhi, they can just go home to eat, which won’t have much impact on them.

Lin Zhi was frightened by their sudden outburst. He couldn't understand why they reacted so strongly just because the food was sold out. Their crying was even more exaggerated than when their parents died.

"Lin Wenyang!"

"Lin Chengjun!"

The students who thought they would have to spend a long night hungry suddenly brightened up when they saw the two brothers.

They almost forgot that this stall was opened by their classmate's family.

Now that the food purchased from outside is gone, we must have some food for ourselves.

They saw that the two brothers went straight to the stall as soon as they came back and didn't have time to eat dinner.

"Brother Lin! Please save the children!"

The students who were acquainted with Dalang rushed over to him as if he had seen a savior.

Dalang, who didn't react fast enough, was hugged tightly.

"Anything is fine, just give me some food to get through tonight!"

"Let me go first."

Dalang pulled at his fingers and felt like he was almost suffocating.

The student was overwhelmed with sadness when he thought about going hungry tonight, drinking porridge that was like water tomorrow morning, and the deadly food in the college cafeteria.

"I won't let you go! Promise me I will let you go."

Dalang really wanted to agree to him, but he couldn't speak.

"Do you agree or not? Do you agree or not? Do you agree or not..."

Dalang:.......

If you want me to promise you, you have to let go first! Bastard!

When Dalang thought he would be reunited with his father today, his brother Erlang finally came to rescue him.