Chapter 19

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

"Lu Boss! Open the door for business already! We're all starving to death!"

"Xiaolongbao! I want to eat delicious xiaolongbao!"

"Ever since I ate your xiaolongbao yesterday, I feel like I can't eat anything else!"

"I came because of a Tieba recommendation, Boss hurry up and let me taste your xiaolongbao, if it's good I'll be a regular from now on!"

"Speaking of which, this boss looks so young, are his xiaolongbao really good?"

Seeing Lu Feng open the door, the diners queuing at the entrance immediately started chattering all at once, the scene instantly becoming extraordinarily lively.

Passersby strolling Food Street in the evening were instantly drawn over by this sight.

"What does this shop sell, why are so many people queuing?"

"Why are all these people queuing outside while there's not a single person inside the shop, is this some new kind of scheme?"

"I noticed when I came here for dinner tonight, this shop had a pile of people queuing waiting even before it opened."

"Eh? Sister Zhang and her group are in the queue too, no wonder I didn't see them square dancing today!"

"Doesn't Sister Zhang yell about losing weight all day, why is she queuing to buy food late at night?"

"Did you smell it, the scent drifting from inside the shop, why is it so fragrant!"

"Hiss, this fragrance is no ordinary one, smelling it made my stomach hungry again!"

"Come on come on, let's go over and have a taste!"

"With a queue this long, it'll take one or two hours just to reach the front, right!"

Lu Feng looked at this long queue with no end in sight, silently calculating in his heart.

Originally he planned to do the same as yesterday, limit each person to two portions of xiaolongbao.

But looking at the number of people queuing outside, definitely more than half wouldn't get to eat.

Still, limit one portion per person.

Although one portion of xiaolongbao isn't filling, there's no other way.

If he had to feed this many people full, two hours of business hours simply wouldn't be enough.

He's the only one in the shop running back and forth, this many people would work him to death.

Looks like after a while he'll have to hire someone to help, otherwise he really can't handle it alone.

He'll ask Li Jiang later if he's willing to come, anyway this guy is idle at home.

Speaking of which...

Where are Li Jiang and the others?

Didn't they say they arrived long ago?

Lu Feng's gaze swept around the entrance area, didn't see their figures.

Then he turned his gaze toward the queuing crowd, and with difficulty spotted Li Jiang and the others.

Li Jiang and the few friends he brought, seeing Lu Feng come out of the shop, each stretched their necks long.

Li Jiang even shouted Lu Feng's name at the top of his lungs, but helplessly the distance was too far, the other party simply couldn't hear.

Fortunately Lu Feng finally noticed them, and walked quickly over to them.

"Why did you guys run over here to queue?" Lu Feng looked at Li Jiang, who at this moment had a helpless expression.

"We didn't want to either!" Li Jiang said with a mournful face: "Who knew there'd be this many people at your place, we hadn't even had time to go in and find you before we were chased over here to queue!"

"Then... how about I bring you guys in?"

Lu Feng hesitated a bit, after all it was his good brother bringing people over, making them queue here seemed a bit unjustifiable.

"Forget it, queuing slowly is fine too."

Li Jiang hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, recalling those few tiger-eyed uncles and aunties just now, he didn't dare pull any special treatment.

Lu Feng scratched his head, a bit confused how Li Jiang, who never followed rules, suddenly became so obedient today.

Seeing Lu Feng standing chatting with Li Jiang, the people queuing all cast strange looks at Li Jiang and his group.

Li Jiang felt prickly under their stares, and hurriedly urged Lu Feng: "Alright Fengzi, hurry up and mind your business, don't delay your business."

Lu Feng glanced at the time, it was almost nine o'clock, so he patted Li Jiang's shoulder and said apologetically: "Alright, sorry to make you guys keep queuing, I'll treat you separately later."

Lu Feng walked quickly back to the shop entrance, opening the gate completely.

"Finally open for business!"

The queuing crowd burst into cheers, a few even had tears of excitement welling up.

Nearby snack shop owners stood outside their doors, looking at the long queue at Lu Feng's entrance, each drooling with envy.

Goodness, this many customers, even if half came to my shop I'd strike it rich!

Lu Feng returned to the shop, brought out the first steamer of Shrimp Xiaolongbao, and simultaneously put the pre-wrapped Fresh Meat Filling Xiaolongbao onto the steamer to start steaming.

Returning to the Front Desk, he shouted at the diners before him: "This shop is launching a new flavor today, Shrimp Xiaolongbao, same price as Fresh Meat Xiaolongbao, fifty per basket, those who don't want shrimp filling scan to pay then queue to the side, the next pot of fresh meat filling is already steaming."

"New flavor?" The first in line was a fat man visually estimated at two hundred jin, judging by the brands he wore he shouldn't be short on money.

Hearing there was a new flavor, the fatty's eyes instantly lit up: "Boss, I want ten portions of shrimp, ten portions of fresh meat!"

"Damn! Bro you're too ruthless? You alone eat twenty portions, what about all these people behind!" Hearing the fatty order twenty portions, someone behind immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Yeah! Brother, be a decent person, the people behind are all starving!"

"Eating that much is bad for your health, brother look at how fat you've gotten!"

"Brother, twenty portions is one thousand yuan! Think it through!"

Hearing the objections from behind, the fat man turned around in dissatisfaction and said loudly, "What's wrong with me eating more of Boss's delicious soup dumplings? One thousand yuan isn't something I can't afford! Last time at Bai Whale Restaurant, I spent over five thousand in one meal without blinking!"

Among the diners queuing behind, someone recognized the fat man's face and said somewhat surprisedly, "Isn't this Xiao Feilong? I've seen his short videos; he seems to be a food blogger on Douyin with quite a lot of followers!"

Hearing someone recognize him, Xiao Feilong immediately smiled happily: "That's right, it's me! I plan to put out a video to promote Boss; such delicious soup dumplings, let my fans learn about them too!"

Xiao Feilong was originally just a game streamer in Jiangcheng, sharing game operation techniques online.

Once after a livestream he forgot to turn off the broadcast, and the fans saw what he looked like while eating; the sight of him eating with oil all over his mouth, looking so fragrant, instantly attracted many people to watch, and the online viewer count in the live stream room directly broke ten thousand.

From then on, Xiao Feilong discovered the traffic code, and simply switched from a game streamer to a mukbang streamer.

His fans also witnessed Xiao Feilong go from a normal build of one hundred forty pounds to a fat man of two hundred pounds.

His fans trusted Xiao Feilong very much; basically, for the food shops he had been to with good reviews, the fans would also travel ten thousand li to patronize them, bringing those shops quite a lot of customer flow.

Xiao Feilong looked at Lu Feng and smiled, saying: "Boss, rest assured, these twenty portions of soup dumplings, I will definitely film the best effect for you!"

"Sorry, each person is limited to purchasing one portion of soup dumplings." Lu Feng responded faintly.

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Xiao Feilong stood stunned in place.