Chapter 33 (1/2)

Chapter 33: A Terrific idea

It was already evening when he woke up. He could be considered both lucky and unlucky. The lucky part was that he could enjoy Yuan Zhou’s cooking, while unlucky part was that he wasn’t able to have his meal immediately nor was he able to eat the new dish.

Not even after 7 or 8 minutes, Yuan Zhou carried out the dishes.

“Your set meals are done.”

The grandpa and grandma looked at each other. They seemed to agree that this Egg Fried Rice seemed rather decent.

The grandma had been cooking her whole life. A simple Egg Fried Rice was definitely not a problem for her. However, the Egg Fried Rice served here was golden in color. Nevertheless, it wasn’t the greasy kind of golden, instead, it gave people the feeling of the sunshine. The fragrance was also perfect, not too strong. Nevertheless, while thinking of the price, the grandma still felt severe heartache.

Yet, once the Egg Fried Rice was served, she felt the dish indeed deserve the price of 288RMB.

The grandma didn’t enjoy greasy foods, so she felt the Egg Fried Rice might be oily contrary to its appearance. Therefore, she picked up the bowl of seaweed soup, preparing to take a sip first.

“Hu”

As humans got older, their taste sense would deteriorate. They would subconsciously prefer food with a stronger taste, hence would put more salt while making dishes. The grandma had thought the seaweed soup would be as tasteless as water, like the soup served in other restaurants.

However, after the sip, the grandma tasted something she had never experienced before in her past dozen of years. She felt as if she had returned to when she was a young girl, with an extremely sensitive sense of taste again. She could even taste the slight sweetness in the water and the delicate flavor of the seaweed.

The grandma took another sip in disbelief, realizing it was not an illusion and she could truly taste all the various flavors in the soup. That made the grandma, who had been unable to taste any delicate flavors ever since she became old, quite delighted. After all, she was also fond of fine foods when she was young.

After the experience with the seaweed soup, the grandma started to look forward to the pickled radish and the Egg Fried Rice. However, she still decided to taste a piece of pickled radish first. The crystal jade-like radish and the brown chopsticks gave a fine contrast, making it look appetizing.

“What will the taste of the Egg Fried Rice eventually be like?

The grandma muttered in her heart. Her discontented manner had already vanished from her face, leaving over only curiosity for the next dish, and of course, a sense of delight.

Needless to say, the grandpa beside her was eating happily, as well. He only felt it was absolutely wise and lucky of him to go out for a stroll this morning. He was old, but had a harmonious and happy family. Their sons and grandsons all treated them well, hence the old couples now only had simple requests for their remaining life. To eat and sleep well. Yuan Zhou’s restaurant had fulfilled such requirements perfectly.

The man in a suit was Wu Zhou, with a rather rare surname. He was actually a programmer, the kind of job that usually included working overtime until late at night, with a demanding boss. But he was fairly lucky too, as he had a comely girlfriend whom he had been with for more than 5 years.

As a diligent programmer who loves his girlfriend, his biggest dream was to buy an apartment and marry her. Just for that, he voluntarily moved to this place far away from the city center to work and to get a better pay despite being further away from his girlfriend.

Wu Zhou was well paid, his monthly salary of 22,000 or so. He deposited 20,000RMB to his girlfriend’s bank account every month in order to save for a new apartment and only kept 2000RMB for his own living expense. As for other expenses, he had a lot of help from his friends. The telephone fees were paid by others and the house rent was paid by his girlfriend in case he forgot about it. Moreover, his girlfriend bought him his clothes, shoes and underwears. Just thinking about that, he felt quite happy.

Before Yuan Zhou started the business, he was unable to use up his living expense of 2000RMB as he was quite busy with work and neither smoked nor drank. Furthermore, his girlfriend would come and cook for him at home every weekend. Therefore, he often boasted to his girlfriend proudly.

“Your boyfriend earns so much yet never squanders money.”

Looking at the set meal worth 288RMB in front of him, Wu Zhou ate happily but also pitifully, since his expenditure today had already exceeded 400RMB. It was only the middle of the month, but he only had 500RMB left in his wallet.