Chapter 197 (1/2)

Chapter 197: Attraction of Spiced Beans

Yuan Zhou preferred grinding these ingredients by hand, believing that only in that way could the fragrance of the ingredients be best utilized and the quintessence be distilled.

The stone mill then emitted a sound of “Zhi Ya, Zhi Ya”. Yuan Zhou had a good command of moving on to the next sequence. As the powder slowly came out from the mill, the fragrance of the Five Spice Powder also became more and more fragrant.

Yuan Zhou stopped after he had gotten a small bowl of the Five Spice Powder.

He then took out the box that contained the Faba beans, opened the cover and poured the beans out of it. Afterward, he started to add water to the beans and stirred them with a transparent stick that looked like a crystal.

This way, it could avoid damaging the skin of the beans to the utmost extent and then he wash them clean with the centrifugal force of the whirling water.

At last, Yuan Zhou reached out his hands to wash the tiny parts of the beans one by one and added water to wash them again before pouring them all into the thin bamboo woven strips to be filtered.

Subsequently, he put all the flavorings into a big copper pot and added water until the faba beans were submerged by a length of a finger. Following that, he boiled the beans with high heat and turned the flame down to simmer them for one hour until they became soft. Then, the dish of Spiced Beans was ready.

During the process, the fragrance of the Five Spice Powder slowly diffused into the beans and brought about an abundant aroma.

The fragrance of the spiced beans could not be contained. Without the system’s support, the aroma basically aroused everyone’s appetite.

“This guy always makes tasty dishes whenever I’m not there.” Wu Hai ran downstairs swiftly and arrived at the entrance of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.

Wu Hai went up to knock on the door with a sound of “Peng Peng”, disregarding that the door was still closed.

Others beside him nevertheless started to make a commotion, “Boss Yuan is so hateful. Every time he cooks delicious dishes, the door was always closed. Whoever eats alone has no girlfriend.”

“Come on. The way you talk indicates as if he could get a girlfriend if he doesn’t eat alone. But, it’s truly so fragrant though.”

“Exactly. I almost starved to death due to the fragrance.” A customer patted his belly helplessly.

“Knock the door with greater strength. I think Boss Yuan hasn’t heard us yet.” Another one directly instigated Wu Hai to knock the door even more heavily as if to smash it.

“Aren’t you guys curious what fragrance it is?” suddenly, a person asked.

After a short while of silence, Wu Hai said spitefully,” We’ll know that after the door is opened.”

“You are right. Then you continue.” Then the person made a gesture of “please continue.”

“Aren’t you guys going to knock on the door with me?” Wu Hai looked at other customers waiting in line behind and said helplessly.

“Wu Hai, you are tougher than us. You do it,” all the customers said so one after another.

“I won’t. Xiaoyun is coming,” Wu Hai stopped and watched Mu Xiaoyun walk up to him.

“What’s the matter?” When Mu Xiaoyun saw all the customers outside the door looking at her, she felt a little puzzled.

“Never mind. Your boss should open the door now,” Wu Hai said primly.

“Um. Just wait another five minutes,” Mu Xiaoyun nodded. She had already gotten used to the scene that the customers all waited at the door every day.

Sometimes, one minute went by too fast, and sometimes it went by too slowly, making people suffer. Like right now.

During those five minutes, the customers just stood there while smelling the fragrance of the Spiced Beans, which let everybody drool quickly.

Finally, five minutes passed and the door was opened following a sound of “Hua La”.

At that time, the positioning of these customers was clearly seen. Just after Mu Xiaoyun, Wu Hai crowded in the restaurant flexibly and occupied the middle position of the long curved table.

The one that waited after Wu Hai was the one who had felt curious about what tasty dishes Yuan Zhou cooked just now. Wearing a suit, he didn’t do any worse in grabbing a seat and got seated in the wake of Wu Hai.