Chapter 391

Chapter 391: Vegetables Stir-fried With Mushrooms

Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth

“Xiao Li, I’m waiting for you at Yuan Zhou’s restaurant along Taoxi Road . ” A young man dressed in a thin sweater said gently on the phone by the door .

“Got it . We meet there every time, but never eat there . ” A delicate grumble of a girl passed from the other end of the phone .

“Just wait until the end of the year . After I get my annual bonus, I will take you there to eat the Egg Fried Rice . ” The young man held his phone and said decisively .

“No need . I don’t really feel like eating it anyway, just saying casually . Wait for me . I’ll be there right away . ” The girl refused flatly and then said happily .

“No hurry . Just take your time . I’m waiting for you . ” The young man nodded his head and instructed her carefully .

Such matters often happened at the door of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant and the customers that lined up there didn’t feel strange at all at sight of that . After all, Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was the most famous place around there .

Three hours were too short . The man in a suit had barely swallowed up his last mouthful of mineral water that came with the set .

“Everybody, today’s opening hours have ended . Please come earlier tomorrow . ” Yuan Zhou stood in the kitchen and said earnestly .

“Zhou Jia, you can go back now . No need to clear these things away . ” Yuan Zhou turned his head and said to Zhou Jia who was prepared to tidy up at the side .

“Huh?” Zhou Jia looked at him with puzzlement .

“Go back now . ” Yuan Zhou waved his hand and moved the bowls and plates onto the transmission belt by himself .

“Boss, let me do it . ” Seeing Yuan Zhou doing the work by himself, Shen Min that had just arrived went up said that immediately .

“No need . You can go to the backyard to prepare now . ” Yuan Zhou gestured at the door of the sergestes wall .

“But . . . ” Shen Min also became puzzled .

“Just go . ” Yuan Zhou stressed again in the end .

“What’s wrong with our boss?” Shen Min asked Zhou Jia beside her with a low voice .

“I don’t know . I was not allowed to move them just now . ” Zhou Jia was also very puzzled .

“Who knows? As long as he isn’t angry . ” Wu Hai chose a seat and sat down randomly .

Generally speaking, when it was the time for the afternoon shift, Shen Min would always come earlier and help Zhou Jia to tidy things up . Only after that did she start to prepare for the opening of the pub . However, Yuan Zhou didn’t let them tidy things up today, which was very rare .

Other customers that stayed behind also felt it to be strange .

After dinner, some customers wouldn’t leave immediately, but would instead stay behind for a rest . And some stayed behind in preparation for drinking liquor . An example would be the novelist and Wu Hai that often came here for meals recently .

As well as the man in a suit that purely sat there and stared blankly .

Zhou Jia turned around and left when she saw Yuan Zhou almost finishing up the work . Shen Min, nevertheless, went into the pub and wiped all the tables first before she came back and stood quietly by the door of the sergestes wall .

“Hua La Hua La”, Yuan Zhou turned on the tap and started to wash his hands very earnestly .

“Boss Yuan, are you still going to cook?” Su Mu asked that when he saw the strange demeanor of Yuan Zhou .

“Yes . Everyone, you all can go to the pub to wait . ” Yuan Zhou said lightly .

“Ok . But I prefer to watch you cook the dish here . ” Su Mu said smilingly .

“As you please . ” Yuan Zhou nodded his head indifferently .

Having washed his hands, Yuan Zhou took out a new handkerchief to wipe his hands dry and then put on a thin glove earnestly .

“It feels like a new dish as I have never seen Yuan Zhou cook it . Do we have any opportunity to eat it?” Wu Hai looked at Yuan Zhou earnestly at the side .

“But it’s the very first time that I see Boss Yuan cooking at this time of the day . ” It was on this point that Su Mu felt strange .

“He might be busy recently and has time now . ” Wu Hai only cared about what Yuan Zhou would cook .

“It’s also possible . ” Su Mu nodded his head .

The man in a suit only watched them at the side .

“Hoo . ” Yuan Zhou let out a solid breath and then pulled open the cabinet, where there were bright shiny and green vegetables .

Of course, the green vegetables were still planted in the soil . They looked luxuriantly green and incomparably fresh . One could even faintly seen some drops of dew .

“Is that a green vegetable?” As a meat-eater, Wu Hai was a little disappointed .

“It really looks fresh and tender . ” The viewpoint of Su Mu was nevertheless different .

“Of course . The supply channel of Boss Yuan is quite mysterious . ” Wu Hai shrugged and said that .

“But is he wearing gloves because he is afraid of dirt?” Seeing Yuan Zhou draw out the vegetables in a very weird way, Su Mu asked with puzzlement .

“This guy definitely doesn’t want to touch the vegetable with his hands in order to make it maintain the best taste . ” Wu Hai had already witnessed what Yuan Zhou’s obsession was like .

Yuan Zhou took about a plate’s amount of vegetables and then stopped his movements . Afterward, he washed his hands quickly, changed another pair of gloves and opened another cabinet . Inside it was a length of wood with mushrooms growing on it .

“What the f*ck . The mushrooms are all so fresh that they are still on wood . ” Even a benign person such as Su Mu couldn’t help swearing .

“People that have seen little regard many things as strange . ” Wu Hai didn’t care about that at all .

What a joke! Who was Yuan Zhou? He was a person that could get the meat of an extinct cattle . Therefore, this little thing did not matter to him .

However, how would other chefs survive if Yuan Zhou cooked so perfectly? He had caused all the customers’ sense of taste to become excessively sharp .

“It’s said that the mushrooms have a nickname of ‘meat among the vegetables’ . It must be one of the home-made dishes, the Vegetable Stir-fried With Mushrooms . ” Su Mu revealed an expression of “I have already known it . “

“We know that even if you don’t say it . ” Wu Hai stroked his small mustaches and just waited for Yuan Zhou to get the dishes ready so that he could have a small portion .

“I can say anything I want . ” Su Mu humphed .

Nevertheless, Yuan Zhou wasn’t affected by that at all . He took the bamboo knife and started to cut the mushrooms off .

The mushrooms on the wood all looked more or less the same . This ‘same’ meant only the size, not the shape .

Having cut six mushrooms off, Yuan Zhou stopped and then put the piece of wood back into the cabinet .

“Hua Hua Hua”, the vegetables were washed very clean beneath the flowing water . After washing them, Yuan Zhou specifically placed the vegetables into water for a rinse and poured a thin layer of salt inside .

The washing method of mushrooms was a little more complicated .

Yuan Zhou put all the mushrooms into a big porcelain bowl and filled it up with water . Then, he stirred the water repeatedly with the chopsticks like how people stirred eggs . However, he couldn’t damage the mushrooms at the same time . After that, the sand in the wrinkles of mushrooms began to sink to the bottom of the bowl slowly .

The brown sand sank to the snowy bottom of the bowl . Yuan Zhou picked the mushrooms out with the chopsticks and changed another bowl of clear water . With the same method, he changed the water four times and stirred the mushrooms for about a thousand times .

Only then did he bring out the mushrooms, ready to be used .

The green vegetables were naturally washed clean . He didn’t use any ironware during the process, but just broke the leaves off with his hands .

“Duo Duo Duo”, it was the sound of the bamboo knife striking the chopping board . Along the board, the mushrooms were cut into uniform slices by Yuan Zhou .

After all the ingredients were prepared, Yuan Zhou started to create a fire and cook .

“I feel that it will look better to use the entire mushroom . ” Su Mu turned his head and looked at Wu Hai, saying that .

“Whole mushrooms are indeed used more often in restaurants for better plate presentation and decoration . ” As a person who ate in most restaurants, Wu Hai said positively .

“That way, the appearance will indeed be worse . ” The man in a suit chimed in and said that .

“But Boss Yuan definitely has his own intentions for doing that . ” The unreasonable phenomena of other people naturally became reasonable at Yuan Zhou’s end .

“Zi La Zi La”, there passed a pretty sound of the hot oil touching the green vegetables and mushrooms .

It had originally been a quick-frying dish . Not long after, Yuan Zhou started to scoop it into the plate and put it aside .

“Deng Deng Deng”, Yuan Zhou dragged out a folding table from one side of the stairway and laid it down quickly .

The table looked a little old but it was very clean . Having been soaked in grease for so long, it emitted the characteristic radiance of wood . The dish Vegetable Stir-fried With Mushrooms was placed by Yuan Zhou at the very middle of the table .

“Pub time has almost arrived . Shen Min, get ready . ” Yuan Zhou pulled off the face mask and said to Shen Min beside him .

“Ok, boss . ” Shen Min nodded her head .

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