Chapter 566 (1/2)
However, the grandpa still wouldn’t tell Yuan Zhou. He was triggered by this event. Intending to show off the good stuff in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant in front of his old friends, his limelight had been stolen by that old guy from the tax bureau, who said that he had drunk some good tea.
In the beginning, he described as if it were raining flowers and almost brought out that he actually drank the tea from the parent tree of the Dahongpao Tea.
After the grandpa asked about the address, he knew this old guy had drunk the tea in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. Then, he believed the words and thus rushed here hurriedly.
The grandpa had enough reasons not to believe in him at first. If it was at other places, the grandpa would have reservations about Division Chief Lin’s words no matter how perfect he described it. However, he wouldn’t feel surprised at all if Division Chief Lin told him that he had drunk the tea from the parent tree of Dahongpao Tea in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.
“This guy even dares to cook the Tea Eggs with the Keemun Black Tea.” The grandpa’s heart was bleeding while he was thinking of that.
Fortunately, the grandpa wasn’t the kind of people who pestered others endlessly. Having waited for a while, he left voluntarily when he found Yuan Zhou was indeed sculpting attentively.
By then, Yuan Zhou had just sculpted a donkey as promised.
“This grandpa is really persistent about tea?” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself and continued sculpting.
The whole afternoon passed as Yuan Zhou honed his sculpting techniques.
In the evening, the dinnertime commenced after Yuan Zhou had prepared the ingredients, just as usual.
“Tu Tu Tu Tu”, the sound of an electrically operated tricycle passed.
It was a bright red electrically operated tricycle just like those running in the streets for transporting passengers. Though this tricycle was not very new, it was quite clean. And that might be the only difference between this one and those ones in the streets, if any.
The blanket over the back seat for two was apparently very clean at first glance.
As soon as the tricycle stopped, a smiling old man who was dressed in an army green overcoat and a knitted woolen hat headed straight for Yuan Zhou’s restaurant.
“Hey hey. It seems that I arrive just in time.” The grandpa took off the gloves, put them on the back seat and then came over to line up, preparing to enter the restaurant.
This grandpa that drove the tricycle was about 60 years old. With a smile on his face, he looked quite amiable. Once he arrived, Zhou Jia greeted him.
“Grandpa Zhang, you are here. What do you want to eat today?” Zhou Jia asked smilingly.
“Me? I must eat some meat today. It’s the beginning of the month.” Grandpa Zhang was taking the reservation number. It happened to be his turn.
“Yeah, yes. What about the Dongpo Pig Knuckle?” Zhou Jia seemed to be quite familiar with Grandpa Zhang, thus she smiled and joked with him.
“This old guy can’t afford that. Let me just eat some other meat dishes.” On entering the restaurant, Grandpa Zhang took off his hat and overcoat deftly and then he sat down and prepared to order dishes.
“Here you are, Grandpa Zhang.”
“Hi, Grandpa Zhang.”
“What do you want to eat this evening, Grandpa Zhang?”
Seeing Grandpa Zhang get seated, most of the people who were waiting for their meals or eating greeted him immediately.
In response, Grandpa Zhang nodded the head smilingly and also greeted them.
“I want to eat the meatballs today.” Grandpa Zhang told Zhou Jia straightforwardly.
“Okay. One moment, please.” It was Yuan Zhou who answered him this time.
Grandpa Zhang wasn’t a regular customer of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant. He came once a month and that was all.
But even so, many regular customers were acquainted with him as he was an interesting person.
“Who’s that?” Huang Ya asked Ma Zhida beside him curiously.
“He’s Grandpa Zhang. He comes here for meals.” Ma Zhida said straightforwardly.
“I can tell. I mean, you all seem to know him?” Huang Ye was a little curious.
“Of course. This grandpa is very interesting. If only I can live as unrestrained as him!” Ma Zhida even revealed an envious tone.