Chapter 259 (1/2)

Chapter 259: Eight Unique Qinhuai Snacks

“Temporarily there are insufficient ingredients. Next time, ok?” While speaking, Yuan Zhou began to prepare to make the dumplings.

“You stinker, why didn’t you keep the good stuff for us to savor?” said Sun Ming discontentedly.

“Because it’s too good, it was sold out.” Wearing the face mask, Yuan Zhou was adding water to the pot.

“Honey Tremella is nothing special. It’s definitely the way you cook it that makes it delicious,” KFC muttered.

“It’s royal jelly,” with his sharp ears, Yuan Zhou answered him directly.

“Pardon? Do you know you are recklessly wasting the God’s good gift to cook dishes with royal jelly? It’s totally a waste. You might as well give it to me to drink so that I can keep fit,” Sun Ming stood up in surprise and said loudly.

“Sun, I’m not deaf,” said Yuan Zhou lightly.

“I’d say you are indeed deaf. You are selling such a superior dish at 1 RMB. Dear me, my liver is aching.” Sun Ming indicated that his balls ached. The royal jelly had a good market, but no one would like to sell it, not to mention that there were a lot of fake ones on the market.

As far as he knew about his brother, he would never sell the fake ones. How could one expect an honest person to resort to deceit? Therefore, the royal jelly definitely wouldn’t be fake.

“He’s not selling your stuff. Why do you love money more than Compass?” KFC said in surprise.

“Humph. I feel heartache in place of him,” Sun Ming pointed at Yuan Zhou and said deservedly.

“Come on, man. I think you feel heartache because you didn’t manage to eat the cheap dish of 1 RMB,” KFC didn’t believe in him at all, hence said unreservedly.

“I think so, too.” Yuan Zhou also nodded the head at the side, pretending to be serious.

“You get down to knead the dough. Don’t you see we are still waiting to eat?” Sun Ming directly waved his hands and then said to KFC.

“You are absolutely foolish. Apart from the tremella, you even sell the royal jelly at such a low price of 1 RMB.”

“Compass has said this is welfare price. I feel it’s really not a bad idea. Just think, he’s doing the high-end business. Of course, he has good reason to serve a superior welfare.” KFC was a salesperson and was quite clear about these strategies.

However, Yuan Zhou didn’t think that much. He just felt that rarely did he have an opportunity to set the price, why couldn’t he be capricious for just once? So after he got the number 1 by shaking the phone, he set the price at 1 RMB. It was way justifiable.

Hearing that, Sun Ming also felt Yuan Zhou’s words somewhat made sense and thus said straightforwardly, “You are right. Ok, forget it. I will just wait to eat.”

Then the two of them got seated again. As soon as they did that, they became curious about what Yuan Zhou was doing.

“Are you kneading the dough to make dumplings?” asked Sun Ming curiously. He was unable to stay idle for even one moment.

“Yes. It’s one of the Eight Unique Qinhuai Snacks.” Yuan Zhou spoke a few more words.

“Aren’t Eight Unique Qinhuai Snacks the southern snack? It’s not sweet, is it? If it’s sweet, I’d drop it.” Sun Ming was a person who never ate sweet food.

“He has told us it’s dumplings. How could the dumplings be sweet?” KFC gave a glance of contempt at Sun Ming.

“How can it not be? People there are said to put sugar in whatever they cook.” Thinking of the scene in his mind, Sun Ming felt a toothache.

“No, it’s not sweet,” said Yuan Zhou earnestly.

“That’ll be great,” Sun Ming got relieved and said mercifully.

“But I heard from you last time that the Duck Oil Sesame Seed Cake was also one of the Eight Unique. Why is there another one again?” KFC finally asked an ordinary question.

“Every unique stands for two dishes. These are the last two. Apart from the dumpling, there’s another sweet snack,” Yuan Zhou said lightly while wielding the dough ably and quickly.

“Which one is sweet?” asked KFC curiously. He had no special dislike for either sweet food or salty food.

“Sweet Osmanthus Sandwiched Yuanxiao①.” Yuan Zhou reported the name and then asked after a pause, “Do you want to eat it?”