Food: Starting with Wonton Noodles

As the two younger children in the family grow up, various expenses gradually increase.

Last year, Wu Hongyu finally decided to take a gamble. With his father's help, he went to great lengths and owed many favors to secure this year's sea enclosure aquaculture rights at a low price.

Some people might think that earning 20 yuan a year is a pretty good income for the average person.

If you think about it from the perspective of a working person, that's definitely correct.

However, Wu Hongyu contracted nearly a thousand acres of sea enclosure.

This doesn't even include hard costs like the land reclamation contracting fee, labor costs, and feed costs.

The uncertainties of natural disasters and man-made calamities, such as typhoons before summer and autumn in the Lingnan region and various diseases in aquaculture, are themselves huge costs.

Moreover, due to the special nature of aquaculture, they have to stay on the enclosure almost 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without rest.

So if the year-end surplus is only around 20 yuan, to put it bluntly, it means that you've worked for nothing this year, only earning the wages for your hard work throughout the year.

And this doesn't even include the favors Wu Hongyu's father owed.

Zhou Yu had previously heard Lin Wenhui say that seafood purchase prices had declined in the past two years.

Zhou Yu thought that only the aquaculture market was impacting the seafood fishing market, but he did not expect that the impact would be so widespread.

However, from another perspective, the economic downturn is not a one-dimensional phenomenon.

In today's world, which industry dares to say that it has been doing well and making money in recent years?

Zhou Yu had no solution for Wu Hongyu's wish at the moment.

Although I already knew from Jiang Yan's wish mission that even if I didn't complete it according to the system's text description, as long as I could solve the actual problem of the person who made the wish mission, it would be considered completed.

However, Wu Hongyu's wish is essentially a long-term economic pressure issue.

It would be ridiculous to try to persuade one's brother-in-law to learn to cook from one's own cooking skills.

Only with the support of a systematic approach can one have the courage to run a restaurant business.

But if you try to persuade others to enter the catering industry, wouldn't that also lead to certain death?

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh.

However, he immediately thought of another possibility.

Zhou Yu thought of a name for his system: the God of Cookery System.

Perhaps, once I truly become a master chef, the problems of those around me will no longer be problems.

For example, ingredients that you buy yourself will be considered the best.

At that time, resolving Wu Hongyu's problem was a matter of moments.

For the first time since he acquired the system, he felt a sense of urgency.

I really want to become someone with a huge influence in the food industry right away.

Zhou Yu had no great ambitions; the tide of the times was like a vast ocean.

Ordinary people are like drowning victims at sea.

Those who were lucky enough could sit on a wooden boat, but even then, the wind and waves could cause the boat to sink and people to die at any moment.

Zhou Yu could only be thankful that he was lucky enough to have the system, which was like sitting on a giant ship that would never sink.

He didn't believe he could save everyone in this vast ocean, but he wanted to save those around him.

Of course, if there are enough lifebuoys on the ship, he would also consider throwing one to other people as well.

***

A new week has begun.

Zhou Yu got up and looked out the window. Although the sky was still overcast, the rain had indeed stopped.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief. To be honest, the rain had been pouring down all night, and he was quite worried that it would continue to rain in the morning.

Although I don't need to set up a stall in the morning, I still need to continue exercising for the new week.

The system won't care whether it's raining or not; it will grant you leave.

Zhou Yu increasingly felt that this basic chef skill, which required practice to unlock, was extremely important to him.

Because one cannot rely solely on the recipes provided by the system to cook, one must gradually improve one's actual culinary skills.

After arriving at Jiangbin Park, I went for a run with Chen Mingyuan as usual, but this time we had arranged it in advance via WeChat.

After finishing their run, Zhou Yu and Chen Mingyuan went to Sun Zhigang's breakfast stall to buy breakfast.

Cao Xuezhen's breakfast was good, but too monotonous.

"Ada, could you please change your socks every day? They really smell bad."

There was still a lot of water on the road in the morning, and the two of them inevitably got their trousers and shoes wet after pushing the cart over so early.

Yang Jingda's smelly socks, which hadn't been washed for several days, became even smellier after getting wet.

Sun Zhigang only regretted that his nose was too sensitive.

"Brother Gang, I didn't want this either. I only have a few pairs of socks, and the ones I hung out to wash got soaked. What if the new ones get soaked too? Besides, I think it's not that bad."

Yang Jingda said with a grin, and even deliberately moved closer to Sun Zhigang and raised his leg.

Sun Zhigang was disgusted; he was indeed somewhat of a germaphobe.

If it were someone else, Sun Zhigang would have kicked him out long ago, but unfortunately Yang Jingda is his cousin.

Seeing that Sun Zhigang was indeed disgusted, Yang Jingda had no choice but to stand back in his previous position and then said:

"Ah, I wish it would rain tonight, preferably the kind of rain that Yu-ge can't set up his stall."

Zhou Yu didn't set up his stall last night, so Sun Zhigang's stall was unusually crowded.

Although he no longer harbored resentment towards Zhou Yu, Yang Jingda couldn't help but fantasize that Zhou Yu would still be unable to set up his stall due to the improvement in his business.

"What can I learn if I can't set up a stall? Ada, you can't rely on others to give you opportunities. Being strong yourself is what really matters. Besides, last night the students all went back to school, so of course there were a lot of people buying. If it rains again tonight, no one will come out of school specifically to buy fried noodles."

Sun Zhigang, however, was quite clear-headed, knowing that his strong sales last night were not entirely due to Zhou Yu.

On the last day of the weekend, most students go back to school, which is why they pick up a box of fried noodles at the school gate.

But Sun Zhigang doesn't think he has the appeal to get students to leave school specifically to buy things even on rainy days.

Perhaps Zhou Yu possesses this charm.

Sun Zhigang recalled that many students had come out of the school last night, and then went to the Haojiaxuan convenience store with umbrellas to find Zhou Yu's stall.

Finally, they discovered that Zhou Yu hadn't set up his stall, so they went to his stall to get their fried noodles to go.

Several people were still at his fried noodle stall, asking him about Zhou Yu's whereabouts: "Boss, isn't Zhou's stall next door open?"

Listen to that; they even call it Zhou Ji instead of Wonton Noodles, which shows that customers are completely captivated by Zhou Yu.

He even remembered the sign that Zhou Yu had temporarily put up at the stall.

Such enviable culinary skills!

"Boss, two servings of sticky rice chicken and two cups of soy milk, please."

Chen Mingyuan's voice interrupted Sun Zhigang's thoughts.

"Okay, two servings of sticky rice chicken. Good morning, Yu-ge! You're running again today?"

After habitually adding a comment, Sun Zhigang also saw Zhou Yu standing next to Chen Mingyuan.

He unconsciously straightened up before greeting Zhou Yu.

"Huh? So you two know each other!" Chen Mingyuan said, somewhat surprised.

Because when he brought Zhou Yu here last time, he remembered that the group hadn't interacted at all.