I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 766 - 339: A gust of autumn wind brings a chill; it’s time to eat some warming ginger candy! [Seeking Monthly Ticket]

Chapter 766: Chapter 339: A gust of autumn wind brings a chill; it’s time to eat some warming ginger candy! [Seeking Monthly Ticket]

Yan Lin had a string of question marks above her head.

So, by acknowledging a goddaughter, I inadvertently demoted myself? This deal... feels a bit like a loss.

"Lele, if you keep being naughty, you won’t get any ginger slice candy."

"I was wrong, Lin Xu," Geng Lele said. "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I was wrong. How about I write a thousand-word self-criticism? I have a lot of experience in this—I helped more than twenty classmates with theirs in high school..."

Chen Yan asked curiously, "How did you help people with that? By doing good deeds?"

"No, it was for money. I charged a minimum of two hundred yuan per paper, and the more heartfelt and profound the content, the higher the price. The most I made for one was two thousand yuan."

This time, it was the adults present who were stunned.

"Do kids these days have that much pocket money?"

"The social climate really has a significant impact on children, exposing them to the power of money at such a young age."

"Families with children really need to manage their allowances carefully. They can’t be allowed to use it for things like this."

"..."

Everyone discussed the social climate’s effects on middle school students; only Lin Xu was marveling at Geng Lele’s earning ability.

Two thousand yuan for a thousand words—a rate of two thousand per thousand words! When you thought about those web novel writers, they’d be over the moon to get a minimum contract of thirty yuan per thousand words. There was truly no comparison. And contracts for over a thousand yuan per thousand words? Usually, only top-tier authors could enjoy those. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Back when I was in high school and there were so many self-criticisms to be written in my class, why didn’t I think of this business? I felt like I’d missed out on so much easy money!

After dinner, Yan Lin left with Geng Lele under the pretense of preparing gifts.

Not long after they left, Cui Qingyuan received a message from Little Mushroom Head: "I’ve successfully infiltrated the enemy~~~"

Tsk, this girl, is she playing at being a spy?

Having eaten and drunk his fill, and also having encountered his green plum there, he decided to leave to prevent further gossip about the matter.

Once the main topic of today’s conversations had departed, everyone finally felt like they could breathe again.

Xie Baomin said regretfully, "If our Ms. Su were here, she’d be moved to tears. She absolutely loves this kind of TV drama. It’s such a pity."

Old Huang muttered, "I wonder when those two will finally make things official. I’m still waiting to give my congratulatory gift."

After a customer entered the shop, everyone dispersed to prepare for officially starting work the next day.

「The following days were relatively calm.」

The loan application was being processed. Chen Yan had a lawyer transfer ownership of the two-bedroom, one-living room apartment on the top floor of the residential complex out back to Dundun’s company. Lin Xu didn’t have a Beijing residence permit, so he couldn’t transfer it directly to his name; for now, it had to be registered under the company. He would handle the transfer once he officially obtained residency and completed the necessary registration.

As for the top-floor duplex they had looked at earlier, Feng Ge also investigated it. He found it to be a property with all its paperwork in order, with no issues regarding its legal status.

Consequently, Dou Wenjing withdrew five hundred thousand yuan from the company account to make the down payment on the house. She also commissioned a third-party company to conduct a comprehensive assessment and inspection of the property.

Meanwhile, Geng Lele’s family held a very ceremonial recognition ceremony in Lin Ji’s banquet hall, with the same guests who had recently given gifts for her school promotion celebration attending to give gifts once more.

Shen Baobao’s replacement Bentley Continental GT had been delivered. She tried it out and was quite satisfied. Compared to professional sports cars, this type of coupe-sedan had a higher chassis, better road clearance, and was more comfortable to drive. It was also slightly more low-key than a pure sports car. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

As the weather turned colder, hot soup dishes became popular in the restaurant. Dishes like steam-pot pigeon, Jade Soup, and stewed lotus root with pork ribs were often fully booked before mealtimes. Sales of hot and sour soup also saw a steady increase. Even customers ordering hand-pulled noodles would ask for them to be served in soup. The colder the temperature, the more everyone craved something warm.

"Boss, aren’t we going to introduce Ginger Duck yet?"

In the kitchen, Che Zai watched Lin Xu methodically slicing the recently available fresh ginger, feeling a bit anxious. Since the weather had grown cooler, customers couldn’t get enough of dishes that warmed them from the inside out, but the boss wasn’t in any rush and hadn’t even mentioned adding Ginger Duck to the menu.

Lin Xu said with a smile, "Don’t worry, it’s not truly cold yet. If we introduce all the winter-appropriate dishes at once, what will we do later on? We can’t just have no new dishes to release then, can we?"

Chinese restaurants make a point of regularly introducing new dishes. They had launched quite a few recently, so those needed to settle in with customers first. Moreover, there were quite a few people like Shen Baobao who could tolerate ginger flavoring but not actual pieces of ginger. They tended to instinctively reject a dish if they heard ’ginger’ in its name, regardless of how it actually tasted.

To change people’s perception of ginger, Lin Xu decided to make ginger slice candy first. He planned to sell it in the restaurant for a while before introducing Ginger Duck. He hoped that once customers re-evaluated ginger and came to accept it as an ingredient, launching Ginger Duck later might produce surprisingly positive results.

The fresh ginger he was currently slicing was for the ginger slice candy.

Ginger slice candy is renowned as an essential winter snack for warming the stomach. It’s recommended for everyone: middle-aged and elderly people who are susceptible to the cold and have weaker constitutions, girls during their menstrual period, or anyone who frequently suffers from cold hands and feet. They should all eat it regularly. Ginger helps to expel cold from the body, bringing a touch of warmth to the chilly winter days.

Seeing that Che Zai wasn’t busy at the moment, Lin Xu pointed to the basket of washed but unpeeled ginger beside him and said, "You can cut some too. Cut all this ginger. Since we’re firing up the wok anyway, let’s make a large batch today."

"Alright!"