Chapter 105: The Requested Quest

What Qin Huai didn't expect was that on the second morning, Luo Jun came to the canteen for breakfast in person again.

The third day was the same.

The fourth day was also the same.

For seven consecutive days, Luo Jun came out for breakfast in person every morning, rain or shine, opening his appetite with a bowl of dried tangerine peel tea and padding his stomach with two five-diced baozi, and the time he came was earlier day by day.

The first day he came after 9:00, the second day at 9:00, the third day before 9:00, the fourth day at 8:40, the fifth day at 8:30...

By the seventh day, he came at 8:17.

Now Luo Jun had really become an internet-famous check-in spot for the Cloud Canteen.

People who didn't know Luo Jun were stunned, let alone those who knew Luo Jun.

Qin Huai considered himself relatively knowledgeable about Luo Jun among humans.

Luo Jun had three major hobbies in life: one is ordering takeout and giving bad reviews, two is staying up late and getting up late, and three is watching TV series/movies.

There was also a little habit that wasn't known to others: Luo Jun hated crowded places and hated crowding.

When was the Cloud Canteen the most crowded?

It wasn't the lunch peak after 12:00 PM, but the breakfast peak after 8:00 AM.

Unlike the tense busyness of the morning when the passenger flow was full but no one was eating in, the speed of buying baozi in the morning was truly "flash in, flash out," and the speed could complete the whole process of walking into the canteen, ordering, scanning the code to pay, and taking the baozi to leave within 30 seconds, making people want to exclaim that the Flash was by their side.

The waiters' hand speed in the canteen had also been trained, and they packed quickly and accurately. After not being waiters in the future, they would also be good hands if they went to the assembly line to be front-line workers.

The residents of the Cloud Community were surprised that Luo Jun actually got up early every day to have breakfast, and Qin Huai was surprised that Luo Jun was actually willing to drink dried tangerine peel tea in the crowded and noisy environment during the morning peak.

Everyone had their own surprises, and Luo Jun was vividly surprised into the newest and hottest check-in spot in the Cloud Canteen.

"Is Mr. Luo really having breakfast in the canteen early every morning for the eighth consecutive day?" Qu Jing rarely took off her mask, stood at the kitchen door, gnawing on a baozi while looking at Luo Jun sitting by the window from afar.

I don't know if it was Qin Huai's illusion, but Qin Huai felt that Qu Jing looked more energetic today than before.

The specific manifestation was that her lips started to have color. The previous few times he saw Qu Jing take off her mask, her lips were as pale as her complexion, looking like a patient with severe anemia.

"That's right, today is already the eighth day. Yesterday he entered the store at 8:17, and today he came at 8:14. I heard that there are already people in our community starting to bet, guessing when Mr. Luo can enter the store before 8:00. The bet is a bag of fermented rice baozi."

"Fermented rice baozi are quite delicious." Qu Jing's focus wasn't on the bet at all. "Master Xiao Qin, are you really not considering lifting the purchase limit on dried tangerine peel tea? Although selling only 1314 cups a day is a very good gimmick, it's really not enough. Our department didn't grab any yesterday. The director went to the neighboring cardiology department to grab two cups back. When Director Liu of cardiology was eating dinner in the canteen yesterday, he didn't have a good face for our department."

Qin Huai:...

He really didn't understand your high-end private hospital very well.

Qin Huai knew his heat level, and also knew that the level of his dried tangerine peel tea could only be cooked to Grade C-. The dried tangerine peel tea would be popular all because of his unique heartwarming buff.

Everyone was drinking the buff, not his craftsmanship.

So Qin Huai accurately controlled the amount of dried tangerine peel tea per day not to exceed 1314 portions.

After trying, Qin Huai also found that the amount of each portion of dried tangerine peel tea couldn't exceed 300 milliliters. If it exceeded one portion, it counted as two portions, not letting the bug of scooping a large portion first and then dividing it into small portions.

In this way, the daily sales volume of dried tangerine peel tea was basically fixed.

Qin Huai asked Huang Xi to buy two large pots specifically for cooking dried tangerine peel tea, and Zhao Rong started soaking ingredients as soon as she arrived at the store every day, so that it could be cooked right when Qin Huai went to work.

The first batch of morning-running grandpas could drink the hottest one, and the rest of the diners could drink the warm one.

Originally, everything was arranged well.

Until one day, after a patient in the hospital took a sip of dried tangerine peel tea, he waved his pen and called an errand runner to buy 150 cups as employee benefits to distribute to the company's employees.

Not only did he distribute benefits himself, but he also shared it with equally rich patients, who followed suit and directly bought out the dried tangerine peel tea for the day.

It was bought out at 1:50 PM.

The office workers who were waiting to drink dried tangerine peel tea to continue their lives in the group order group were simply wailing.

After this buyout incident, Qin Huai had a clearer understanding of the world of the rich, and the sales of dried tangerine peel tea began to be limited.

Each person was limited to two cups per day. For those who exceeded the group order range, Huang Xi found someone to make an online ordering applet. After the group order was successful, the Cloud Canteen would call an errand runner to deliver the goods.

Of course, the canteen would charge an additional delivery fee.

Wealthy customers could also choose not to group order and pay the errand runner fee directly to deliver the goods.

The applet was well-received as soon as it went online. Basically, all the people ordering were doctors and patients from the hospital where Qu Jing worked, and the errand runners were almost opening a special line from the canteen to the hospital.

Of course, there were also customers in the group order group ordering through the applet. Even if it was 996, there was a day off. Drinking a bowl of dried tangerine peel tea that warmed the heart on the day off, life simply couldn't be happier.

With the strong support of customers, dried tangerine peel tea's sales in the Cloud Canteen were far ahead. It became the gold medal sales champion just 8 days after going online, contributing a stable turnover of 19,710 yuan every day. The first thing Huang Xi did when she arrived at the store every day was to wipe the dried tangerine peel tea's menu board.

The neurology department where Qu Jing worked obviously didn't have fast enough hand speed to grab orders, and couldn't even grab online orders.

"So Dr. Qu, you came over so early today to help your director buy dried tangerine peel tea?" Qin Huai asked, instantly looking at Qu Jing with admiration.

Although Qu Jing didn't socialize much, had no friends, and looked cold and was a bookworm, she still understood the survival way of the workplace.

"No." Qu Jing shook her head. "There's also one cup left for the late shift. Master Xiao Qin, isn't your store limited? You can only buy two cups a day."

Qin Huai:...

It was he who thought too much. Qin Huai thought for a moment and said: "Although it's limited to 1314 cups a day, in fact, only about 1300 cups will be sold a day. There are 14 cups left as employee benefits and for friends."

"Dr. Qu, you are also a friend. Today, I'll secretly open a back door for you and give you two extra cups."

Qu Jing struggled slightly and nodded slightly: "Then thank you, Master Xiao Qin."

"We're already friends, isn't it a bit too distant to call me Master Xiao Qin?"

"Master Qin?" Qu Jing wasn't very sure.

"Just call me by my name." Qin Huai realized that Qu Jing probably really hadn't made any friends.

"Qin Huai." Qu Jing smiled embarrassedly. "Then you don't have to call me Dr. Qu, just call me by my name."

"It just so happens that the two extra cups can be brought to the director when I go to work in the afternoon, so he can return them to Director Liu of cardiology."

"Are you on the late shift today too?" Qin Huai asked, knowing the answer.

Although Qu Jing had insisted on implementing Dean Qu's words to come to the Cloud Canteen to buy dim sum every day these days, except for the first day when she came in the morning, the rest of the time she came at dinner time, and it was clear at a glance that she came after getting off work.

Coming early in the morning today, she must be on the late shift.

"Yes, the director is very good. He said that my ultraviolet allergy makes it inconvenient for me to go out to work during the day, so he tries to arrange the late shift for me if he can. I'll be on the late shift for the next week." Qu Jing nodded.

Qin Huai:...

The director still thought too much. Arranging the late shift wouldn't delay Qu Jing from going out during the day.

Qin Huai even wanted to persuade Qu Jing to just rent a house in the Cloud Community. She didn't fear being sunburned by running back and forth every day.

However, Qu Jing's protective measures were indeed done very well. For such a long time, it was still midsummer before, and Qin Huai hadn't seen Qu Jing sunburned or have any allergic symptoms.

Sure enough, long-term illness makes a good doctor.

Qu Jing finished gnawing on the baozi, bought Jiang Mi nian gao and the freshly cooked fermented rice baozi, and left happily with the dried tangerine peel tea for the small stove.

Luo Jun had also finished breakfast and was playing on his phone at the table, looking like he had something to say to Qin Huai.

Zhang Shumei had already been sent away.

Qin Huai walked over silently.

The well-known check-in spot Luo Jun stood up: "Xiao Zhang went to buy vegetables, you accompany me back."

Qin Huai followed.

The check-in crowd on the side discussed heatedly.

"Could Master Xiao Qin really be Old Man Luo's grandson?"

"It's possible, eh. I heard Old Man Luo gave his car to Master Xiao Qin. Can a grandson give that?"

"Biological grandson?"

"How is that possible? Old Man Luo doesn't even have a son, where would he get a grandson? It must be a distant cousin grandson!"

"Ah, there's a distant cousin grandson???"

The distant cousin grandson followed Luo Jun to a place in the community with very lush vegetation, very good greening, and also quite a few mosquitoes, where no one usually came.

"How did you and Xiao Qu chat?" Luo Jun urged progress as soon as he opened his mouth, simply Qin Huai's number one career fan.

"Very smoothly," Qin Huai said.

"Then what about the quest? What's the use of being smooth? The point is the side quest. If you can't complete the main quest, can't you trigger the side quest?"

Qin Huai really wanted to say that the main quest had made breakthrough progress recently.

Thanks to the hunger marketing and popularity of dried tangerine peel tea, the name of the Cloud Canteen had recently resounded through several nearby blocks, not only were the group order group one and group two full and group three opened, but it also subverted everyone's understanding of dried tangerine peel tea.

Qin Huai heard that when a customer bought dried tangerine peel tea at a herbal tea shop on the pedestrian street, he asked the boss why there were no white fungus and lotus seeds in their dried tangerine peel tea.

The herbal tea shop boss was so angry that he renamed their white fungus and lotus seed soup as a new dried tangerine peel tea, and then was questioned by the customer why there was no dried tangerine peel in the new dried tangerine peel tea.

"I think the triggering of the side quest is still quite a test of luck," Qin Huai said. "Side quests are not like main quests where you get a new one after finishing one. I feel that side quests are more like random drops; one comes when the mood is good."

"I can't ask Qu Jing, 'Do you have any side quests you want me to complete recently? Drop one, I haven't done a quest for a long time.'"

Saying this, Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun, simulating the scene of talking to Qu Jing.

"For example, I can't meet you here, and the greeting is."

"Mr. Luo, do you have any unfulfilled wishes recently that you can issue a side quest to me? Drop one, I haven't done a quest for a long time."

Luo Jun:...

"Ding, congratulations to the player for discovering a new side quest 【The Taste of Memory】, please check it on the quest panel."

Qin Huai:?

No, side quests really rely on asking for them?!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 106 =====