[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-an-abnormal-food-novel":3,"chapter-an-abnormal-food-novel-an-abnormal-food-novel-chapter-2":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","An Abnormal Food Novel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2215485,3891,"Chapter 2","an-abnormal-food-novel-chapter-2",2,"\u003Cp>Qin Luo's anger came quickly and left just as fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhao Rong's words, Qin Luo had been Qin Huai's little tail since childhood; when a tail gets angry at the body it follows, it just flicks a couple of times, tells itself \"fine, I was wrong, let's both take a step back, I forgive you,\" and moves on. If the siblings had only a minor disagreement, Qin Luo would soon regulate herself, then happily stick close to ask Qin Huai what they were eating today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother, what are we eating today? I want hot pot, the extra spicy kind!\" The little tail put down her cola bottle and asked cheerfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too spicy. Look how many pimples have popped up on your face these past few days. We'll eat it in a couple of days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let's have barbecue!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's easy to get clothes dirty. Today is mainly about treating Sister Hong to thank her for letting us stay in her house these past few days. I saw on Sister Hong's Moments that Huihui is sick and took leave today; she might come at noon. It's not good to eat anything too greasy when one is ill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Luo thought seriously for a minute: \"Japanese cuisine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Huai put down his phone, looked at her helplessly, and asked the soul-searching question: \"You eat raw food?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Luo: ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what are we eating? We can't expect you to cook, Brother. The dough hasn't even been kneaded yet; if we wait for you to make something, when will we ever eat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Huai was just about to say he had found a nearby stir-fry restaurant with an average cost of over 200 yuan that looked decent, when Ouyang, one of the people they were theoretically treating today and who should have been working at the neighborhood committee, flashed into the convenience store. Grabbing straight onto the key point, Ouyang exclaimed in a loud voice, \"What?! Grandmaster Qin is going to cook personally? Luo Luo, quick, go to your house and put away all those pots and pans; you can only leave the steamers and rolling pins! Your brother's stir-fried dishes are truly inedible for humans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get lost.\" Qin Huai made a gesture of disgust, but his actual movement was to pull out a chair and signal for Ouyang to sit, asking, \"If they're inedible for humans, you ate plenty of them during our club activities back then. Aren't you supposed to be at work right now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ouyang was Qin Huai's senior from university and the head of their student club.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Qin Huai was a freshman, in order to earn comprehensive quality points, he was tricked by Ouyang into joining the Cycling Club, which claimed to be green, healthy, athletic, and environmentally friendly. Only after joining did he discover that out of the club's nine members, only Ouyang owned a bicycle, and that was only because he was a local whose family lived directly opposite the school, so he relied on cycling to attend classes daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Cycling Club was a case of false advertising and essentially a shell company that couldn't add many credits, its daily activities were excellent, ranging from picnics in parks to barbecues on riverbanks. Members didn't even have to pay, as Ouyang always had ways to secure funding. Everyone spent two happy years together, and the members all had great relationships with Ouyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After graduating and returning to his hometown, Qin Huai lost contact with his university friends, maintaining only a relationship of liking each other's posts on Moments. This time, returning to inherit the estate, Qin Huai figured Ouyang's family seemed quite wealthy, so they should understand the law well and he could consult them, so he contacted Ouyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, his family was extraordinarily wealthy. Upon Ouyang's graduation from university, his parents had recognized the appreciation potential and school-district value of the Yunzhong residential complex, purchasing a two-bedroom apartment in full and placing it under Ouyang's name. It was in the same building as the house Qin Huai inherited, making the two of them direct neighbors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more coincidentally, Ouyang worked at the neighborhood committee, and the Yunzhong Canteen that Qin Huai was about to take over was precisely the number one mess the committee was facing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister Hong remembered you were moving today and asked me to come help. I thought I'd stop by the convenience store first to buy a drink, and that's when I saw you two.\" Saying this, Ouyang directly handed his phone, already on the payment code screen, to Qin Luo. \"Luo Luo, do your Yang-ge a favor and grab a bottle of iced black tea. Take whatever snacks you want to eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Luo took the phone and went to pick out snacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Qin Luo left, Ouyang spoke with a serious expression: \"I heard from Sister Hong this morning that you've finished the procedures? Qin Huai, let me tell you, you must absolutely not act impulsively. These days, what falls from the sky isn't necessarily a pie; it could be an iron cake. Don't stick your head out to catch it only to get smashed and covered in blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you might feel that Sister Hong is enthusiastic, has taken great care of you recently, and helped solve the accommodation issues for your uncle, aunt, and Luo Luo, so you feel awkward refusing her. Don't feel awkward. Sister Hong is not the kind of petty person who would blame you even if you don't take over this community canteen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sister Hong mentioned by Ouyang was the protagonist of the side quest triggered by Qin Huai: Chen Huihong. Chen Huihong, female, 41 years old, a wealthy woman, a resident of the Yunzhong complex, the head of the community neighborhood committee under the sub-district office, and one of the bosses of the Yunzhong complex property management company (the other boss being her younger brother). She was the legendary warm-hearted neighborhood committee auntie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Huai did not know much about Chen Huihong, only that she had divorced a few years ago and had a daughter, Chen Huihui, currently in the third grade at Experimental Primary School. Her family assets were substantial; she held equity in a property management company, a large supermarket chain, and a logistics company, achieving financial freedom annually through dividends alone. Warm-hearted and fond of meddling in others' affairs, she could not stay idle even without a job, so she used her own money to establish the community neighborhood committee. She usually liked organizing group buys to bring benefits to the community residents. She was Ouyang's de facto boss and a famous figure in this entire district.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the period when the Yunzhong Canteen had no one to take over, Chen Huihong had been managing the canteen's trivial matters. After Qin Huai confirmed he would take over, Chen Huihong used her connections to publish recruitment information for him. Fearing that the money tree inside the canteen would be neglected and wither before the business even opened, which would be unlucky, Chen Huihong had even moved the money tree to the neighborhood committee to water and tend to it daily. Knowing that Qin Huai had decided to purchase appliances and move in, and that his parents and sister would come to help, Chen Huihong voluntarily offered that she had an unrented vacant apartment in the complex that the Qin family could stay in temporarily to save on hotel costs. She was truly warm-hearted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ouyang's worry that Qin Huai might feel Chen Huihong was too kind and that refusing to take over the canteen would cause her trouble, thus forcing him to take it on reluctantly, was not without reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It really isn't because of Sister Hong,\" Qin Huai explained. \"I truly believe this community canteen has potential, which is why I took it over. Anyway, it's ready-made and free; might as well give it a try.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The look in Ouyang's eyes instantly changed to: Old Qin, are you okay? Haven't seen you in years; did a donkey kick your brain?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you have any idea how much capital it costs to open such a large canteen in this area?\" Seeing that Qin Huai seemed determined to hit the south wall before turning back, Ouyang directly started counting on his fingers to calculate for him: \"A canteen with two floors and an actual area exceeding 700 square meters; you must hire at least two chefs, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll calculate one chef's monthly salary at 15,000 yuan; that's 30,000 right there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Waitresses, five shouldn't be excessive, right? Someone has to serve dishes, handle the cashier, and clear tables, after all. I'll calculate 8,000 a month—no, 7,000. That's another 35,000.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General workers, helping in the back kitchen with miscellaneous tasks and dishwashing; I'll count two, at 6,000 a month each, that's 12,000.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then there's the cleaner. Even if you find one of those cheap aunties, it's at least 4,000 or 5,000. With an area this large, offering 5,000 might not even be enough to get someone willing to do it. But let's assume you can find a cleaner for 5,000; just in wages alone, you're spending over 80,000 a month. I won't even calculate the remaining costs for water and electricity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you run this well, you could lose over 200,000 in just three months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, I know you also inherited a house, but you can't possibly sell a school-district property just for the sake of one shop, can you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Ouyang analyze the situation so logically, even calculating the exact loss over three months, Qin Huai frowned, suddenly feeling that things were not so simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... could it be that you... have lost money before?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ouyang: ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Back when I graduated from university, I was young, frivolous, and didn't understand things.\" Ouyang felt his eyes filling with tears. \"The predecessor of the Yunzhong Canteen was actually my fish hot pot restaurant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lost over 200,000 in three months?\" Qin Huai asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Including renovation costs, I lost 6.6 million in one year.\" Ouyang choked up. \"My father thought I had taken the money to gamble and refused to admit it; he nearly beat me to death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ouyang tilted his head back so the tears in his eyes wouldn't flow down: \"Qin Huai, running a catering business in this area is truly difficult!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1727,"2026-06-17T08:51:33.390Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","631c8f1534736b3b01dee44f7f7d3cb373f70002316723f6363b5806658acefa","an-abnormal-food-novel-chapter-3","an-abnormal-food-novel-chapter-1",4,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fan-abnormal-food-novel-cover.jpg"]