mtl008 Chapter 144 The roasted sweet potatoes at the roadside stall are delicious
Chapter 144 The roasted sweet potatoes at the roadside stall are delicious
"Okay! Then what time should I come to work tomorrow?"
Wang Yuncheng didn't have anything to do, so it would be better for him to go to work early and make money early.
Although the first lunar month has not yet ended, many places start working on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and some also start working after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
He is a young man in his thirties who has been staying at home and has not started working yet. Relatives and friends have started asking him about it.
His parents and sister also asked indirectly whether he had resigned. If he resigned, he should find another job. It would be difficult to find a wife if he worked as a security guard at such a young age.
Wang Yuncheng was distracted when Jiang Duoduo's voice brought him back to his senses.
"You're the only one in the security department right now, so you'll be working the day shift first! It's nine to five, eight hours total. The B&B isn't open yet, so your job is to familiarize yourself with the equipment. If there are any other arrangements, President Zheng will let you know tomorrow."
Jiang Duoduo glanced at Zheng Jingsi next to her and told Wang Yuncheng the general content of the work.
"Oh...ok, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Wang Yuncheng happily hummed a song and went back to his room to pack his things.
His home is in the southern suburbs, which is south of the northern suburbs. Not to mention that it is very troublesome to transfer buses, even driving by himself would probably take two hours.
What's more, Wang Yuncheng doesn't have a car, but the homestay has a staff dormitory. He thought about applying for a dormitory when he goes to work tomorrow, otherwise his ears will be callused by his mother's scolding at home.
And his sister, who is eight years older than him, is like Wang Yuncheng's second mother. She always tries to introduce him to someone when she has nothing to do.
She said he was already 32 and didn't even have a girlfriend, and when she was 32, her child was already 8 years old.
Wang Yuncheng shuddered at the thought of his sister. "I'd better get to work quickly. I'll leave early tomorrow morning!"
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After Jiang Duoduo and Zheng Jingsi separated, he drove his car slowly back.
The breakfast shop will open tomorrow, so my mother and elder sister will stay at the rented house tonight.
Jiang Duoduo didn't know how long she would be busy, so she called Chen Shuyue early.
She told them not to wait for her to eat at night, and to eat at the B&B after she was done. After eating, she would go back to Jingsheng Jiayuan to take a shower, and then go to Qinfen Road.
Jiang Duoduo also planned to stay in the rented house with her mother and elder sister in the evening. There was an empty room there anyway, so she could get up early to help tomorrow.
As dusk fell, Jiang Duoduo drove towards the city center, wondering what to eat in the evening.
At this time, her car just arrived at the busy commercial street.
There are hotels, restaurants, specialty shops, clothing and accessories shops and various snack bars here. Many foreign tourists who visit Kenmo Lake Forest Park stay here.
So the commercial street is still very lively at night.
"How about we eat here tonight? Okay! That's it!"
Jiang Duoduo asked and answered her own questions like a dramatic queen. She was very happy that the B&B could find a reliable and excellent manager. She decided to have something delicious here tonight and reward herself!
After finding a paid roadside parking space, Jiang Duoduo hurriedly got out of the car.
This street has a large flow of people, and most of the people walking on the street are tourists visiting Kenmore Lake.
It was dinner time, and Jiang Duoduo saw many shops soliciting customers at their doors.
She wanted to take a walk first to see what delicious food there was on this street before deciding which one to eat!
Unexpectedly, she had just been walking around for a while when she was attracted by the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes wafting over from the roadside.
I don’t know if she was hungry or what, but it smelled so good!
From a distance, this roasted sweet potato stall is located in a small alley beside the main road.
Jiang Duoduo walked through the bustling crowd of shoppers on the street and went straight to the roasted sweet potato stall.
A shabby tricycle that looked a bit old had a round charcoal grill made of iron sheets on it, and a circle of sweet potatoes of different sizes surrounded the grill.
Some of these sweet potatoes have been baked with black skin, looking crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, emitting a sweet sweet potato aroma. Some look like they have just been baked, and you can still see the fresh purple-red sweet potato skin.
"Uncle, how much is one of these roasted sweet potatoes?"
Jiang Duoduo walked from the road to the alley and asked the uncle who was guarding the oven.
"The big ones are five dollars each, and the small ones are three dollars each. Which one do you want, girl?"
The uncle asked while holding the pliers.
Jiang Duoduo thought he was about fifty years old, with obvious wrinkles on his forehead.
He was wearing a Lei Feng cap on his head, and the navy blue cotton jacket he was wearing was a little wrinkled, with obvious holes on both sleeves, revealing the white cotton inside.
It’s obvious that the burns were caused by working near the charcoal grill for a long time.
"I want the big one!"
Jiang Duoduo pointed at one of the big sweet potatoes and said.
The uncle rubbed the big sweet potato with tongs and said to Jiang Duoduo that the sweet potato was not cooked enough and needed to be baked for another five minutes.
He also said that if Jiang Duoduo was not in a hurry to eat, she could wait here for a while.
If you are in a hurry to eat, you can buy the small sweet potatoes next to them.
"It's okay, I can wait. There's no rush to eat."
Jiang Duoduo still wanted to buy the big one. She felt that the small one was not enough for her, but she couldn't finish two. After all, after buying the roasted sweet potatoes, she wanted to find something else to eat on this street.
"Okay, girl, I have a small stool here, you can sit and wait."
The uncle took out a small stool from under his tricycle.
Jiang Duoduo took it without hesitation. She thought it was quite fun to sit in the alley at night and watch people roast sweet potatoes.
At this time, two little boys who looked like students came over from the opposite side. They each bought a small sweet potato, blew on it to heat it up, and couldn't wait to put it in their mouths.
"Uncle, your business is doing well!"
Jiang Duoduo scanned the code and gave the 5 yuan to the uncle, then found a topic to chat with him.
"My business depends on luck. Sometimes I don't sell many in the whole night, and sometimes I can sell more than ten in just one hour."
"It's mainly because we're not allowed to set up stalls here, so small vendors like us are like guerrillas. If we see someone coming to check, we have to run away. So if we can make 2,000 to 3,000 yuan a month, we're considered lucky. Sometimes we only make a little over 1,000 yuan a month."
The uncle started talking while using tongs to turn over the big sweet potato that Jiang Duoduo wanted.
He didn't treat Jiang Duoduo as an outsider, and he told her directly how much money he could make from selling roasted sweet potatoes without hiding anything.
Jiang Duoduo felt that this uncle was an honest man.
"Grandpa, grandma and I brought you dinner! Are you hungry?"
Suddenly, a little girl's voice came from the alley.
"Mengmeng, slow down! The streetlights here are too dim, be careful not to fall!"
Behind the little girl was a woman who was also wearing a wrinkled cotton coat. Her left foot seemed to be a little inconvenient and she walked with a limp.