Chapter 112 (1/2)

Chapter 112: Taste-Free Chopsticks

With a “Pa” sound, he closed the wooden box and decided to go upstairs for a little rest before coming down to open the restaurant.

Once the door was opened, he found many customers had gathered at the entrance, including his staff, Mu Xiaoyun.

“Master Yuan, how was the contest? There wasn’t any problem, was there?” Of the tens of people, the grandpa first asked.

The grandpa only got to know about the exchange of pointers this morning when he came to have breakfast. That old friend of his had also mentioned the contest once and probably it’s him who told that Chef Yu the detailed address of the restaurant. After all, other judges had never been to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.

“No, no problem. Thank you.” Yuan Zhou gave him a nod, indicating everything was good.

“Boss Yuan, does that mean you won?” immediately, someone from the crowd asked.

“Yes. Business hours start now.” after giving an affirmative answer, Yuan Zhou continued saying.

“Let’s go and eat. Look, didn’t I say already? How is it possible that Boss Yuan will encounter any problems?” Having gotten the affirmative answer, Wu Zhou immediately spoke happily while walking inside.

“I’m not worrying, merely confirming.” Indeed, the regular customers basically didn’t worry as they had all personally witnessed the culinary skills of Yuan Zhou.

“It feels like my wallet is going to lose a lot of weight today,” somebody covered his wallet and bemoaned.

“Come on. You haven’t been here for half a month.” immediately, another man ridiculed him.

With a solemn look on his face, he then said at once, “Eh…., I have been saving money. I can order two different dishes today.”

While turning around and walking ahead, Yuan Zhou revealed a tender smile on his face. It was such a nice feeling to be sincerely cared for.

Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was crowded with many regular customers tonight, who were basically asking about the contest in the afternoon and then let their wallets slim down by buying some of their favorite dishes. Therefore, the restaurant appeared to be extraordinarily boisterous.

The next morning, after the one-hour business hour, Yuan Zhou straightaway went out of the restaurant towards the small vegetable market not far away. Naturally, he didn’t forget to take his hand cart.

While the hand cart was moving on the ground and emitting slight creaking “Zi Zi” sounds. Yuan Zhou went directly to a grocery store instead of the vegetable market.

The items in the grocery store were fairly complete with reasonable prices.

Yuan Zhou spent hundreds of RMB on a full cart of stuffs, making the boss of the grocery think he was a wholesaler, yet not exactly appearing to be one.

How could a wholesaler buy only one of each kind of item?

Since the hand cart was full of all kinds of bottles and containers this time, Yuan Zhou had to pull it with great caution on the way back. Fortunately, the boss was very nice. He helped to put some cushions between the items, hence reducing the risk of anything breaking if handled carefully.

Usually, Yuan Zhou would enter the restaurant through the front door when he purchased things. This time was no exception.

After entering, Yuan Zhou immediately went to the kitchen and moved all the items in the hand cart onto the azure stone countertop. Next, he took out a stack of small plates and laid them out in a row.

He began to pour different flavorings into the small plates, one of each kind. The remaining plates would then be taken back and placed into the cabinet.

The row roughly amounted to more than 20 small plates. Seated in the chair, Yuan Zhou took out the reward of the system that he had felt disgusted the previous night, the Taste-Free Chopsticks.

There was still half an hour before the restaurant would open for business. Yuan Zhou felt the period of the time was just good to try the effect of the chopsticks.

The oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea were respectively in the first few plates, which were quite normal. The remaining plates basically contained all other kinds of flavorings while a glass of water was prepared at the side.