My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Wild Rice and Water Bamboo

"So, do you want to order another one?" Chen Ze asked with a smile, looking at Alisa, feeling quite inflated inside.

"No need, Manager. I need to get back asap; there are a lot of affairs to handle at the guild." Alisa shook her head. It was just a meal out to relax, and she didn’t expect this kind of gain.

"Alright." Chen Ze nodded, and then Betty went to clear the dishes. She wanted to wash the dishes quickly so she could wait to eat the staff meal.

"I’ll bring the thing you want next time." Alisa left with a smile. Although the thin-skinned buns were delicious, she cared about her guild more since that was the key to the success or failure of her revenge.

"Okay, then I’ll wait for your good news." After Alisa left, Chen Ze returned to the kitchen, mainly because he couldn’t stand Betty’s looks.

Chen Ze felt like Betty was like someone who hadn’t eaten for days; her eyes were filled with hunger.

As he had made them once before, this time Chen Ze didn’t take long to place another basket of thin-skinned buns into the steamer. Then, as he turned around, he bumped into Betty.

Chen Ze silently wiped the unidentified liquid off his clothes and helplessly looked at Betty. "Betty, don’t rush. The buns will still take a while."

Chen Ze was really speechless. He started to doubt whether the one he’d hired was really a succubus. It seemed more like he had hired a starving ghost.

"Okay, Manager!" Betty jumped happily.

"So, speaking of which, Manager, have you bought that computer?" Betty looked at Chen Ze expectantly.

"Of course, I have." Chen Ze had bought a gaming laptop at a nearby computer store on his way back to the restaurant that afternoon.

"Where, where? Let me see!" Betty rubbed her hands excitedly.

Chen Ze’s mouth twitched; he knew all too well how a certain succubus would sometimes sneakily play his PS4 while he was taking a shower.

"Can you read it?" Chen Ze asked in surprise.

Although he had the Arcane Wisdom, Chen Ze could communicate normally with Betty, and they understood each other, but reading and writing were different matters.

So when Chen Ze wanted to play Monster Hunter in his room last time and found his save overwritten, he didn’t know what to say.

"Can’t read." Betty shook her head, looking dejected.

"Haha, do you want me to teach you? Otherwise, you picked a female hunter and named her a bunch of gibberish." Chen Ze calmly suggested.

"Oh, that was a female hunter...?" Betty was stunned, then noticed Chen Ze’s threatening glare.

"You bastard! It was you who overwrote my save!" Chen Ze was so annoyed he almost wanted to kick Betty in the butt.

"That... It wasn’t on purpose~" Betty gave Chen Ze a pitiful look, her tail swaying back and forth.

"Three weeks of your salary." Chen Ze suddenly pulled out three Gold Coins from his pocket.

"You’re the best, Manager! How did you know I wanted to buy those shoes?" Betty smiled happily, reaching out her hand.

"Gone!" Chen Ze put the three Gold Coins back in his pocket. He intended to teach Betty a lesson by docking three weeks’ wages.

"Eh? What? Huh?" Betty was confused.

"That jerk... definitely watched my anime too." Chen Ze decided that once off work today, he would lock his room.

Otherwise, who knows what kind of chaos will arise in the future.

"Manager, don’t do it!" came the tragic cry from Betty in the restaurant.

The next morning, Chen Ze slowly crawled out of bed. Today was the weekend; there were no classes at school, and Chen Ze was happy to have some leisure time.

"I haven’t slept in and woken up naturally in a long time." Chen Ze yawned. Last night, Alisa had been the only customer, apart from her there were no others, and Hastur hadn’t come either, probably busy gathering ingredients for buying the computer.

"Speaking of which, since it’s the weekend, Star should be coming back, right?" Chen Ze scratched his head. He had been so busy studying and cooking lately that he hadn’t paid much attention to his sister.

"Oh... right, Star went to Japan for a trip." After taking out his cellphone, Chen Ze put it back.

"I should buy some ingredients today; if I’m going to set up the stall tonight... then I have to open the restaurant during the day." Chen Ze looked at his WeChat balance. There wasn’t much money left in it.

"Buy some water bamboo? I suddenly feel like having water bamboo with shredded pork." Chen Ze was a very laid-back person, even when it came to running a restaurant.

Since he suddenly felt like eating water bamboo with shredded pork, Chen Ze didn’t mind going out to buy some water bamboo to cook for himself. This was probably the happiness of being a chef.

Speaking of water bamboo, Chen Ze recalled a kind of grain that had disappeared from Huaxia, once known as Job’s tears among the six grains.

Chen Ze learned about the existence of Job’s tears through reading some historical novels, so he was quite interested in this ancient staple.

"Let me check, the delivery should arrive today, right?" After seeing the delivery information for Job’s tears, Chen Ze nodded in satisfaction and decided to have Job’s tears and water bamboo with pork for lunch.

Water bamboo was not difficult to find, being a common vegetable with a reasonable price, so it didn’t take long for Chen Ze to return to the restaurant with the water bamboo and Job’s tears that he had purchased.

"Tsk tsk, both born of the same root." Chen Ze looked at the Job’s tears in his hand. Indeed, they were a bit black, forming a stark contrast with the white water bamboo.

Chen Ze had never eaten or even seen Job’s tears; it was a spur-of-the-moment idea to search for them on "a certain treasure". Chen Ze thought he would never have known this food in his lifetime otherwise.

"Tsk, they are so troublesome to prepare." But thankfully, there was the all-powerful Baidu, so Chen Ze still managed to find out how to prepare Job’s tears.

"Soak for five hours?" Chen Ze scratched his head; he had bought two kilograms of Job’s tears, not too much.

After soaking the Job’s tears in water, Chen Ze went to open the door. Since he was planning to set up a stall in the evening, he needed to open the restaurant for a longer time in the morning.

"I wonder if the other customers know that I open at this time." Chen Ze had previously told his customers that he only opened in the evenings.

Now he was opening during the day, tsk tsk, what a face-slapping, but fortunately, Chen Ze was the manager, having the final say was a really good thing.

Chen Ze casually touched the Arcane Wisdom Stone, then went back to the kitchen to cook the water bamboo with shredded pork.

Water bamboo with shredded pork; for Chen Ze now, it was no challenge at all. In no time, Chen Ze had stir-fried it and laid it out on the table. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

"Indeed, it’s a home-style dish, but almost an hour has passed, and still no customers? Am I that unoccupied?" Chen Ze was a bit bored.

"What place is this?" said an unfamiliar male voice.

Chen Ze looked out happily and saw an old man with white hair and a white beard already standing inside the restaurant.

"Welcome to the Dream Restaurant, dear customer!"