Chapter 339: Let You Open a Food Shop, You Open for Business at Three in the Morning

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Lu Feng looked at the more than ten diners crowding toward the cashier on this side, while outside the door people kept entering the shop.

He suddenly had an illusion.

Could it be that the Lu Family Restaurant across the street had already closed for the day?

He couldn't help but glance at the time on his mobile phone; the screen clearly showed it was not yet one-thirty.

It was still an hour and a half before Lu Feng's shop closed.

By rights, this should be the busiest time in Lu Feng's shop.

Why weren't these people queuing across the street, instead running over to his place?

Although he didn't understand why this sudden group of people didn't go to Lu Feng's restaurant across the street to eat.

But with so much business delivered to his door, why wouldn't he do it?

"Welcome, everyone! Please don't rush, come one by one!"

The fast-food shop boss pointed at the menu on the wall and introduced it enthusiastically: "See what you want to eat? The dishes in the shop were stir-fried not long ago, my prices are affordable, ten yuan for two meat and two vegetable dishes, eat as much rice as you want, I guarantee you'll be full!"

His words had just fallen when the young man at the very front waved his hand and asked in a very urgent tone: "Boss, I don't want dishes! How much is a portion of rice? Give me two portions to take away!"

"Right! No dishes, give me two portions of rice to take away too!"

"I want three portions of rice!"

"Boss, give me one portion of rice to take away, hurry up, I still have to go eat at Lu Boss's place!"

The young man's words had just fallen when others also started clamoring all at once.

"What?"

The fast-food shop boss doubted whether he had heard wrong, and couldn't help but ask again: "You all only want rice, no dishes?"

"Right! We only want rice!"

The diners answered in unison.

The fast-food shop boss was completely dumbfounded.

These people came to the shop, not eating dishes, only wanting rice?

If it were one or two people saying this, he wouldn't find it strange.

But these people actually all only wanted rice.

On the side of the gate, customers kept entering.

Just like this group, as soon as they entered the restaurant they clamored for rice to take away.

This left the fast-food shop boss completely at a loss.

His fast-food shop had been open on Food Street for more than three years.

He had never encountered such a situation before.

"Uh... you only eat rice, no dishes? Don't you feel it's dry eating only rice?"

The fast-food shop boss swallowed his saliva and asked with a face full of confusion.

The leading young man frowned and urged: "Boss, why are you asking so much? Do you sell rice or not? How much per portion? If not, I'll go buy it at another shop!"

"Sell! Sell! Rice is three yuan per portion, I'll serve it for you right away!"

The fast-food shop boss nodded quickly and hurried to the rice cooker next to him to serve rice.

Business was already not good, and finally such a big wave of customers had come.

Although these people only wanted rice and no dishes, there were just so many people!

In such a short while, there were already ten or twenty people in the shop wanting rice!

A portion of rice cost only a few mao, selling it for three yuan a portion he could earn over two yuan, how great is that!

The fast-food shop boss nimbly served several portions of rice and brought them out; after the young man paid, he took the rice and turned to leave.

The others also scrambled to pay, each one in a great hurry.

The fast-food shop boss hurried to keep serving them rice, and called the cashier, Little Sister, over to help too.

After going back and forth several times, he finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart.

"Brother, why do you only buy rice? Are you taking it back to make fried rice?"

The fast-food shop boss once again carried several portions of packed rice out, handed them to a young man, and couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's for hot pot."

The young man shook his head and said.

"Oh, so it's for hot pot..."

The fast-food shop boss nodded, then suddenly felt something was off, his eyes widened: "Wait, hot pot with rice?"

"Right! Soak the rice in hot pot soup to eat, the taste is absolutely amazing!"

The young man licked his lips, savoring the taste of the spicy hot pot base made by Lu Feng.

"......"

The fast-food shop boss looked speechless.

Eating rice soaked in hot pot soup, this way of eating he had never heard of before.

"Isn't hot pot soup for cooking dishes?"

He couldn't help but ask again.

"No way, Boss Lu's hot pot doesn't come with side dishes."

The young man shook his head somewhat helplessly.

"Boss Lu's hot pot only has the soup base?"

The fast-food restaurant boss was speechless again: "How do you eat hot pot without side dishes? Do people actually eat that?"

"How is there not?"

The young man spoke truthfully: "Not only do people eat it, if you go late you can't even get a seat!"

The fast-food restaurant boss looked at the young man carefully.

The other party had a dead-serious expression; judging by the look of it, he wasn't lying.

But this hot pot operation of not providing side dishes — he had never heard of it in his entire life.

"Who eats hot pot without side dishes these days……"

The fast-food restaurant boss racked his brains but couldn't understand what purpose Boss Lu had in operating like this.

"Why does eating hot pot have to come with side dishes?"

Unexpectedly, the young man countered with that question.

"Not needed?"

"Needed?"

"……"

The fast-food restaurant boss fell silent.

Looking again at the other few customers who came to buy rice, at this moment they also had expressions of taking it for granted.

Could it be that I've become disconnected from society?

Has hot pot without side dishes become the trend now?

"Boss! The rice is gone!"

Beside the rice cooker, the cashier girl shouted loudly at the fast-food restaurant boss.

Inside the huge rice cooker, at this moment there wasn't a single grain of rice left.

"I remember that ramen shop next to Boss Lu's place has covered rice bowls, they definitely have rice there too!"

A customer who hadn't managed to buy rice shouted loudly, turned around, and walked quickly out the door.

Those customers crowding around the cashier counter, upon hearing this, also followed and walked outside one after another.

"Boss, do you still want to continue steaming rice?"

The cashier girl walked up to the fast-food restaurant boss and asked.

"Steam it! Steam another big pot right now! I'll go buy two more bags of rice!"

The fast-food restaurant boss waved his hand broadly, saying it with absolute finality.

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"What's going on today? How come everyone's running out to buy rice?"

The fried skewers uncle not far from the entrance of Lu Feng's Shop, watching people continuously carrying takeaway rice into the shop, couldn't help but feel deeply puzzled.

The same scene, at this moment, was also happening at several other restaurants and small stalls near Lu Feng's Shop.

No matter what they sold, as long as they had rice, a large crowd of customers would rush up to snatch up takeaway rice.

Even the young lady selling sushi at a stall next to the fried skewers uncle — the bit of rice in her rice cooker was also snatched clean by several customers.

Seeing those stalls where people kept buying rice, the fried skewers uncle had a face full of envy.