Chapter 233

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

He raised his head and sniffed hard a few times toward the kitchen, as if he felt it wasn't enough; his body unconsciously leaned forward, stretching his neck to peer inside the kitchen.

You should know, Grandpa Qin had three great hobbies in his life.

Smoking, drinking, and scalding... pfft, wrong, wrong.

It was chess, gourmet food, and tea drinking.

As an old tea friend who usually loved drinking and tasting tea, he had also done some research on tea leaves.

Right now, the tea fragrance drifting in the air was clear, sweet, fresh, and refreshing; he knew at a sniff that the tea leaves used were definitely not ordinary.

It was just that he still wasn't sure exactly which kind was used; he would have to carefully distinguish it later.

"This smell is so fragrant... is this tea fragrance?"

Among the queuing diners, someone asked tentatively.

"Hiss... this tea fragrance smells so authentic; is Boss brewing tea in the kitchen?"

The diners in the hall who had originally been burying their heads eating all raised their heads one after another; someone took a deep breath with an intoxicated expression.

Before the crowd could discuss for long, Hu Xiaoyun walked out from the kitchen carrying a small white porcelain dish.

She carefully held the dish and called out to Grandpa Qin: "Grandpa Qin, your tea eggs are ready."

Grandpa Qin took the dish from Hu Xiaoyun's hands, his gaze landing on the two oval tea eggs in the dish.

At first glance at the appearance of these tea eggs, his brows furrowed slightly.

These tea eggs looked... very ordinary.

They looked no different from the ones at the breakfast stalls outside Food Street that cost two yuan each.

Nothing more than the cracks on the eggs being a bit more even.

But at a price of 88 yuan, there should be something more special, right?

However, he didn't say anything either; he carried the dish to the table by the window and sat down.

Then he began to study the tea eggs in the dish from all angles.

Grandpa Qin touched the eggshell with his finger, feeling it still carried some warmth.

Just now, separated by the counter, he hadn't been able to carefully savor the tea eggs' fragrance.

Now the tea eggs were right before his eyes, the tea fragrance even clearer.

His whole person appeared serious and earnest, carefully smelling the tea eggs' scent, smacking his lips from time to time.

In the hall, some diners couldn't help but stare at Grandpa Qin's every move with curious eyes.

They also really wanted to know whether these tea eggs at 88 yuan a portion were truly worth this price.

Among the diners queuing at the entrance of Lu Family Restaurant, game streamer Zhang Chao was holding up his phone doing a live stream.

His lens first swept across the line extending to the street corner, then landed on those twenty young people behind him.

"Brothers, look at this queue, it's long enough, right? These twenty people behind me are the fans selected yesterday; today I'm treating them to eat at Lu Boss's place; my word counts!"

The fans behind Zhang Chao, with expressions of anticipation and excitement on their faces, greeted the lens one after another.

After what happened last night, quite a few people were very concerned about the follow-up.

At this moment, the online viewer count in Zhang Chao's live stream room had doubled compared to usual.

The bullet comments in the live stream room were already flying fast and furious; the dense comments said everything.

"Super Brother mighty! This shop looks like it has so many people! I feel Super Brother didn't lie."

"When you eat later, give a close-up; I'm already cooking instant noodles, I'll use this to go with rice later!"

"Super Brother, you better not flip the car! I bet with my roommate yesterday; I believe in your character!"

"Super Brother, don't forget your purpose for coming today; we want to see the shop's price list."

"Right, Super Brother, check the shop's price list; I want to see if the prices are really as outrageous as they say in the group!"

"What's the rush? I see quite a lot of people queuing at the shop; doesn't that explain the problem?"

"Hehe, if the prices really are very expensive later, I want to see how Super Brother spins it."

Immediately, the live stream room began to flood with comments, everyone demanding to see the price list in Lu Feng's shop.

"Alright, since it's everyone's request, then let everyone take a look."

Zhang Chao knew this segment couldn't be avoided, so he adjusted his phone angle, the lens slowly turning toward the price list on the wall on the left side of the hall.

He knew the prices in Lu Feng's shop were indeed a bit more expensive than outside.

But his purpose for coming today was to prove that Lu Feng's culinary skill was worth this price.

So while filming the price list on the wall, he smiled and explained to the fans in the live stream room: "First, a reminder to everyone; I've said the prices at Lu Boss's place are indeed a bit more expensive than other places, but the taste is absolutely beyond reproach, huh? There's a new dish today..."

Zhang Chao's lens moved slowly on the wall, but when the lens fell on the side just added today, he himself froze.

"The price of this tea egg... hiss—"

Zhang Chao's words got stuck in his throat and couldn't come out; he couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

The fans in the live stream room all clearly saw the price of the tea egg on the wall, and the pot instantly exploded.

The bullet comments refreshed so fast complete sentences couldn't be seen; the screen full of mockery and exclamation marks surged up.

"Holy shit! What did I see? 88 yuan? The fuck is this the price of a tea egg?"

"The fuck is this a gold egg? Our school's tea eggs are only one yuan each!"

"This price I'm truly convinced! 88 yuan for two tea eggs, is Boss robbing money?"

"Brother Chao, this is what you call a great deal? Tell me, does your face hurt?"

"You were laughing not long ago, swearing yesterday how good this shop was, and today you bring out a sky-high-priced tea egg—your car flipped clear as day!"

"Fortunately I didn't go! Otherwise I'd really have become a leek getting harvested!"

A barrage of condemnation filled the live stream room, and nearly everyone decided Lu Feng's shop was a black shop.

Which normal shop sells tea eggs this expensive?

Watching the dense scrolling comments in the live stream room, Zhang Chao broke out in a sweat on his forehead.

If this continues, this livestream is going to be ruined.

Zhang Chao quickly turned the lens back to himself, the smile on his face somewhat stiff: "Brothers, these tea eggs weren't here when I came yesterday; they must have just been added today, possibly... the price was written wrong? I'll go ask the Boss in a bit..."

But those emotionally agitated fans in the live stream room paid no attention to his explanation at all.

The barrage kept questioning the price, and Zhang Chao got scolded along with it.

"Brother Chao, stop explaining—seeing is believing, the more you explain the worse it looks!"

"The streamer definitely took money, otherwise who would recommend a shop like this? Isn't this screwing over the fans?"

"Brother Chao, fans treat you as an idol, and you treat fans as fools?"

"Car flipped, car flipped, hahaha, the streamer himself is dumbfounded!"

"Brothers, no more talk, unfollow if you should unfollow, and by the way please everyone click report!"

The questioning voices in the barrage grew sharper, and someone had already started typing words like "unfollow" and "report."