From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 18 Station police help with publicity
  Feng Zhengming's journey to the train station went smoothly, and he was very familiar with the journey.

It took about 20 minutes to ride a tricycle to the train station.

Still going to the same spot at noon, Feng Zhengming parked the tricycle.

Take the food bucket out of the car first.

There are still two wooden boards lying across the car, and three pots of food are placed on the wooden boards, with fast food boxes and chopsticks underneath.

As soon as he opened the lid of the pot, he heard a voice.

"Hey, are you coming here at night? I thought you were just here to sell lunch boxes at noon."

Feng Zhengming turned around when he heard the sound and saw it was the young policeman among the two policemen at the afternoon station.

Qiu Bin stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother Liu bought a lunch box from you at noon. It smelled very good. What kind of food do you have here tonight?"

Feng Zhengming pointed to the three pots and said: "There are still three dishes in the evening, two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, "Vinegar Shredded Potatoes", "Braised Eggplant" and "Twice-cooked Pork"."

While listening to Feng Zhengming's introduction, Qiu Bin also saw the dishes in the three pots.

The vinegar-coated potato shreds are very fresh and neat. The potato shreds look crystal clear and very beautiful.

Braised eggplant, a big pot full of eggplant, looks ruddy and attractive.

Of course, among the three pots, the most tempting is the twice-cooked pork.

The pot is full of pieces of meat.

The lean meat is shiny and the fat meat is also crystal clear. When paired with green garlic, it will make your mouth water just looking at it.

Qiu Bin looked at the three pots of food with eyes wide open.

Especially when I saw "Twice-cooked Pork", my eyes were almost glowing green.

Feng Zhengming saw Qiu Bin's look and said with a smile: "Comrade station police, would you like to have a taste?"

Qiu Bin woke up instantly and subconsciously took a sip of saliva.

He touched the corner of his mouth with his hand to make sure there was no drool.

Qiu Bin smiled awkwardly at Feng Zhengming: "Sorry, I was distracted just now."

Feng Zhengming smiled and asked, "I wonder what your last name is?"

Qiu Bin is also a real person and directly named him.

"Oh, my name is Qiu Bin."

Feng Zhengming said: "Hello, Officer Qiu, my name is Feng Zhengming. Have you just gotten off work this evening? Haven't you eaten yet? Want a box lunch? I'll give you one to try for free."

With that said, Feng Zhengming had already started serving Qiu Bin.

Qiu Bin quickly said: "No, no, you have to charge me. How can I eat your lunch box for free? You pay 5 cents for rice, [-] cents for vegetarian dishes and meat dishes? Right?"

As he said this, Qiu Bin had already taken out the money from his pocket.

Feng Zhengming saw Qiu Bin take out the money and said with a smile: "It's just a box lunch, not much money."

Qiu Bin said: "One yard, one yard. You are so far away from the brewery, so it is quite hard to prepare these meals and bring them here. I really feel sorry for not giving you money."

Seeing Qiu Bin's sincerity, Feng Zhengming did not continue to say that he would not charge money, but he gave Qiu Bin some more twice-cooked pork.

When Qiu Bin was distracted just now, Feng Zhengming noticed that he was distracted when he saw the twice-cooked pork.

Especially when saliva overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Feng Zhengming filled the dishes and rice, closed the lid of the lunch box, and took a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Qiu Bin.

After Qiu Bin took it, he took the money from Qiu Bin's hand.

"Thank you for taking care of the business. Sorry for taking the money."

Qiu Bin smiled and said, "Why are you so polite? You are in business, so you should be paid, but the food you cook is so delicious. When I saw Brother Liu eating at noon, I was really greedy."

Feng Zhengming said: "I just rely on this craftsmanship to make a living."

Qiu Bin wanted to say something more.

But other people had already gathered around, stretching their heads to look at the things on Feng Zhengming's tricycle. Feng Zhengming didn't have stage fright at all. When he saw someone looking around, he asked, "Want to eat? In the lunch box, two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, rice is 1 cents, you can eat as much as you want, [-] vegetarian dish, and [-] yuan and [-] meat dishes."

As soon as he shouted, someone started to come closer.

Qiu Bin was afraid of delaying Feng Zhengming's business, so he quickly moved out of the way of the tricycle.

Facing the people approaching, Feng Zhengming immediately continued: "Want to eat? They are all freshly fried dishes from the canteen, freshly cooked."

As a matter of routine, people who see Feng Zhengming’s box lunch stall for the first time will naturally ask questions.

"You cook all this food at home, and you bring it here to sell it?"

Feng Zhengming said: "It was made in the brewery cafeteria. I just finished it in the cafeteria and then brought it over. Look, the dishes and rice are still hot."

"What kind of food do you have here?"

Feng Zhengming continued to introduce: "The Braised Eggplant sold very well here.

There is also "Vinegar Shredded Potatoes", which is a new dish tonight. It is fried in a big pot and is guaranteed to be crispy and delicious, and it goes well with rice.

Tonight's meat dish is "Twice-cooked Pork". The pork is fresh, fat but not greasy, and lean and definitely not bad. "

After Feng Zhengming’s introduction, the people who came over took another look at the three dishes in the pot.

Suddenly, everyone was like Qiu Bin before, staring at the food in the pot, and their saliva began to flow almost uncontrollably.

Especially when you see the oily twice-cooked pork in the pot, it's really hard to look away.

Qiu Bin saw the looks of those passengers on the side and probably knew what he looked like just now.

But despite being greedy, some people still tried to make a counteroffer.

"Can it be cheaper?"

Feng Zhengming quickly said: "My lunch is already very cheap. A box lunch on the train costs 5 yuan. I really can't make much money per meal. These vegetables and meat are very fresh."

Although Feng Zhengming spoke clearly, many people still silently backed away.

The remaining few people were still hesitant, wondering whether to buy one.

Qiu Bin saw a few people who refused to leave, nor did they say they wanted to buy.

He could only help and talk from the side: "The food they cook is really delicious. You will know after you try it. To be honest, it is really not expensive to buy such a dish at this price."

Hearing Qiu Bin speak, everyone looked at him strangely.

Someone asked: "What do you do? Isn't it a job?"

Qiu Bin quickly said: "I'm not a bastard. I'm a policeman at the train station. After get off work in the evening, I passed by here to buy a lunch box. I also paid for it myself. I just think it's okay for someone to make such a good lunch box. It’s very hard work, tell people the truth, you should really try it, don’t buy it because I don’t want to buy it.”

Feng Zhengming smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. Thank you, comrade station police, for helping us speak. Whether you buy it or not is entirely up to your own free will. It doesn't matter if you don't."

Finally someone said, "Then give me one."

Feng Zhengming immediately agreed: "Okay, what dish do you want?"

The other party said: "Give me some of the same. I was busy catching the train and didn't eat, so I just thought it was dinner. You can add some rice, right?"

Feng Zhengming nodded: "Yes, you can add more rice when you've finished eating."

As he spoke, Feng Zhengming quickly filled the food, covered the lunch box and handed it to the other party.

The other party took out a handkerchief from his pocket, slowly unfolded the rolled up handkerchief, found a two-yuan note from it and handed it to Feng Zhengming.

Feng Zhengming took the money, helped hold the lunch box and said, "Brother, please keep the money first."

The other party originally wanted to reach out and take the lunch box directly.

After listening to Feng Zhengming's reminder, he quickly re-rolled the money in a handkerchief, and then carefully put it into the inner pocket of his coat.

After collecting the money, the other party reached out and took the lunch box that Feng Zhengming had been holding.

With one person taking the lead, naturally others also claimed to buy a copy.

This is how Feng Zhengming's box lunch business started.

(End of this chapter)