Chapter 14: Let You Open a Gourmet Restaurant, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

The mobile phone gave a busy tone, and Li Jiang had no choice but to helplessly hang up.

Calling back directly, no one answered.

"What's wrong, Brother Jiang? Did the Boss say when he's coming over?"

The one speaking was Jiang Chao, who had come with Li Jiang.

He lived very close to Li Jiang's home, and the two had been friends since childhood.

Judging by his layers of fat, this person was a seasoned foodie.

This morning, Li Jiang had dragged him out of bed before he was even awake, saying he wanted to treat him to the most exquisite delicacy in the human world.

Hearing the four words "exquisite delicacy," Jiang Chao became interested and trotted into Li Jiang's car to follow him.

"I got the time wrong; Lu Feng's kid doesn't open for business until nine in the evening." Li Jiang shook his head with a wry smile.

"Lu Feng?" Jiang Chao felt the name was a bit familiar, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly smacked his thigh.

"Isn't he the guy who cooked at your birthday party last year and almost poisoned you and Da Mao?"

"Is this the restaurant he opened?"

Jiang Chao had a deep impression of that incident, mainly because Li Jiang had vomited in the toilet for over ten minutes that day, which made him a bit afraid.

"What guy or not guy, he's my brother!" Li Jiang was a bit unhappy.

"Uh, I suddenly remembered I have something to do today, so I'll head back first."

Thinking that this restaurant was opened by Lu Feng, Jiang Chao got cold feet.

Others open restaurants to make money, but Lu Feng opening a restaurant is taking lives!

He certainly didn't want to die young.

"You kid, besides flirting online all day, what else do you do? Do you think I'm trying to harm you?"

Li Jiang knew what Jiang Chao was thinking without guessing, and bluntly exposed him.

"No, no... mainly Lu Feng's culinary skill is too... heaven-shaking and ghost-weeping, my ordinary mortal body probably can't bear it..."

"Stop it, I'm telling you, Lu Feng's culinary skill now is not just good; even five-star Master Chefs look a bit inadequate in front of him, it's truly heaven-shaking and ghost-weeping!"

Hearing Li Jiang say this, Jiang Chao didn't know if he was praising Lu Feng or not.

"Really or not? Did he get possessed?"

Anyway, he didn't believe that in less than a year, one person's cooking skill could change that much.

"I was like you yesterday, I didn't believe his food could be that delicious, but guess what? If I hadn't gone after eating dinner yesterday, I could have eaten ten steamer baskets in one breath! In the end, I couldn't eat anymore and had to take them back to eat slowly."

Li Jiang couldn't help but recall the taste of the soup dumplings yesterday, and couldn't help smacking his lips.

Just one night had passed, and Li Jiang was already missing the delicious soup dumplings.

Hearing him say this, Jiang Chao couldn't help but believe a few points.

They had played together since childhood, and he knew Li Jiang wouldn't screw him over.

"Brother, do you have any left from what you took home yesterday? Let me taste one."

"Mentioning this makes me angry!" Li Jiang seemed to remember something, and his expression suddenly turned ugly.

"The soup dumplings I took home yesterday, my dad and mom tasted them and couldn't stop eating."

"I barely managed to save a few, planning to keep them for breakfast this morning."

"Damn it, in the time it took me to turn around, Da Mao snatched them and ate them!"

"I treat it to good food and drink all day, and in the end it steals my soup dumplings! Does it deserve me?"

"I don't know what size pot is needed to stew a dog weighing over forty jin..."

Listening to Li Jiang's tearful description, Jiang Chao believed seven or eight tenths.

Last night around midnight, he indeed vaguely heard the howling of Li Jiang's family's Erha.

He probably got beaten quite badly.

"Nine in the evening is too late! Brother, can you tell him to come over now?"

At this moment, Jiang Chao couldn't help but want to taste the soup dumplings.

He knew that Li Jiang's family, including his Erha, were all very picky eaters.

The delicious foods Li Jiang had recommended to him before had never disappointed him.

And he only told him that the taste there was okay, worth trying.

For Li Jiang to give such a high evaluation, this was the first time.

Jiang Chao had eaten his way through this snack street long ago; overall it was mediocre, with no stunning delicacies.

To eat delicious food, he often scrolled through food bloggers' videos online.

Seeing something delicious, he would directly take a plane there to eat.

For food, he didn't feel heartache no matter how much money he spent.

"Just wait, I know Lu Feng; he's a very principled person. He says he opens at nine, and even eight fifty-nine won't do."

Li Jiang sighed and said regretfully.

"Ding ling ling..."

The mobile phone in Li Jiang's pocket rang.

"Jiangzi, I'm almost at the food street you mentioned, there's a traffic jam on the road now, where should we meet in a bit?"

Xu Tao on the other end of the phone, looking at the endless stream of traffic, felt somewhat irritable.

He and the three people sitting in the car were university classmates who were very close with Li Jiang, and after graduation they went to work in nearby cities.

Since they weren't far apart, the few of them would usually drive out to gather when they had nothing to do.

The few of them received a call from Li Jiang last night, saying he would take them to eat a delicacy they had never eaten before.

Even though they had to work the next day, they still decisively chose to ask for leave.

It can be seen that they trust Li Jiang very much.

"Taozi, let's go somewhere else first, the place I told you about hasn't started business yet."

Li Jiang said with a bitter smile.

"What? You called us few from so far away, and now that we're almost there you tell me it's not open for business yet?"

Xu Tao's voice on the other end of the phone raised a few degrees.

What kind of situation is this!

"This brother of mine set business hours that are a bit different from the norm, it only opens at nine in the evening."

Li Jiang was also very helpless.

He also wanted to eat the xiaolongbao Lu Feng made right now.

But the rules weren't set by him, what he said didn't count.

"Then what do we do now, we can't just turn around and go back, can we?"

Xu Tao was speechless, asking with a hidden meaning in his words.

"My fault my fault, how about this, see you at Junwang Seafood City in a bit, I'll treat you all to a seafood feast!"

Li Jiang naturally heard the meaning in his words.

After so many years of getting along, this bit of tacit understanding still existed.

"Fine, today we've driven for so long, if it's not as delicious as you said when the time comes, you'd better reimburse me for this tank of gas!"

Xu Tao, seeing the car stuck for half an hour without moving an inch, was also out of temper.

He only hoped the restaurant Li Jiang recommended was truly delicious.

"No problem, you guys just rest assured! Absolutely won't let you have made this trip in vain!"

Li Jiang hung up the phone, called Jiang Chao to get in the car, and drove off in the direction of the seafood city.

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Lu Feng slept once more and woke up, it was already almost noon.

He glanced at his mobile phone, there were a few missed calls on it.

They were all from Li Jiang.

Ever since he was woken up by the first call, he had put his phone on silent.

Lu Feng didn't plan to call back, estimating it was to ask him to open for business early.

The system did not stipulate that xiaolongbao must be made during business hours.

Even if they were made, at most they just wouldn't count toward mission progress.

But Lu Feng felt he couldn't set this precedent.

Otherwise in the future, one phone call would come and he'd have to go open the door for business.

Wouldn't that be the same as working a job before?

This old man has been a slave for so long, can't I enjoy myself a bit?