Chapter 19 - Chapter 19 - 19 Coming by Reputation (1/2)
Chapter 19 – 19 Coming by Reputation
Perhaps because he went to bed early, Chen Yu woke up before four o’clock.
Just as he got off the food cart, preparing to wash up, he saw Tong Ya’s car parked to the side.
Tong Ya was dressed in casual wear, wrapped in a coat, shivering slightly next to her car.
“Tong Ya?”
Chen Yu hurried over, “Why have you come so early?”
“Who knows, maybe after a whole day yesterday, my body clock has started to sync up with yours! And I’m not your teacher, so don’t call me ‘teacher’ anymore.”
Chen Yu felt a bit embarrassed, “Hurry into the food cart to warm up!”
The heat from cooking all day had kept the interior of the food cart at a constant temperature.
Just as Tong Ya was about to enter the food cart, the delivery guy with the raw materials arrived.
“Wow, boss, no wonder you work so hard, your wife is so beautiful!”
Tong Ya had always been praised for her beauty since she was young and was used to it.
Yet this praise made her feel an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.
Without waiting for Chen Yu to speak, she quickly directed the delivery guys to bring the raw materials inside the food cart, afraid that Chen Yu might break this feeling of satisfaction.
As soon as the delivery guys left, Tong Ya had already put on an apron, helping Chen Yu sort out the ingredients just like yesterday.
“I’ve been watching you make fried cakes and vegetable pastries these last two days, and there’s nothing strange about it, so how come they taste so good when you make them?”
Chen Yu, while mixing the dough, “Are you here to steal the recipe?”
“That depends on whether you’re willing to teach me!”
Chen Yu raised an eyebrow, “Actually, it’s not that difficult, you just have to control the details of every step of the process.”
Tong Ya stuck out her tongue playfully, “That’s as good as not saying anything!”
At four in the morning, Zhang Fan arrived at the food cart in a hurry.
“Chen Yu, could you prepare two hundred fried cakes and a hundred vegetable pastries for me? I’m in a bit of a hurry and need to go.”
“So sudden?” Chen Yu was surprised; it was his first time seeing Zhang Fan so flustered.
“There’s a math competition, and I just got the news, so I hurried over to pick up some breakfast for my colleagues from you.”
Chen Yu looked at the prepared raw materials on hand.
“Can you wait for twenty minutes?”
“Sure! I’ll come back to pick them up later!”
With that, Zhang Fan paid the money directly.
“Wow, what a lucky start to the day! Such a big order right from the get-go!”
Tong Ya exclaimed, genuinely happy for Chen Yu.
Chen Yu was calmly frying the cakes and pastries in the oil, “Zhang is a regular! He comes every morning and evening.”
“Yeah, food carts like this rely on returning customers. These past few days, I’ve noticed you’re getting more and more regulars. Have you thought about hiring some employees?”
Chen Yu shrugged, “It’s just a food cart; I can still manage. If I hire others, they might do the job half-heartedly, and the taste would suffer.”
“What about me?” Tong Ya suddenly turned to Chen Yu with a playful tone.
“I won’t do things half-heartedly, and I’ll only cost you some fried cakes and vegetable pastries!”
Chen Yu felt a bit embarrassed; truthfully, he didn’t know what to do.
Tong Ya said she was here to help, but after these two days, she was like a full-time employee, guarding the place day and night.
Yet paying her a salary and treating her like a regular employee didn’t seem quite right either.
As he was lost in thought, the local net cafe youths had gathered around the food cart as usual.