LATMAB Chapter 10

Dai Yao set an alarm clock for four o’clock and slept for seven hours, feeling full of energy. As soon as the alarm clock rang, he got up and went out to pick up Luo Bei who was sleeping on the sofa. Luo Bei was startled. He rubbed his big, sleepy eyes and said, “Ah? Is the time up so soon? Ah, I’m so sleepy!”

Dai Yao said speechlessly: “Do  you demons also can feel sleepy? Aren’t you guys able to fight for three days and three nights without getting tired?”

Luo Bei: What did you watch, kid?

The dough has risen and the softness was just right. Dai Yao laid out the table and started kneading the dough. He originally wanted to use a kneading machine and a dough press, but he didn’t prepare much stuffing today, and it was insufficient to clean up with these machines. So he got started right away!

He has worked in a bun shop for many years, and he works quickly and neatly. Little Luo Bei next to him took out the stuffing mixed last night from the freezer, a pot of pork and white radish, a pot of mutton and white radish, a pot of beef and white radish, and a pot of leek and egg white radish.

Dai Yao quickly set up steamer and boiled the water, and Luo Bei put the dough into the dough press. After pressing the skin, Dai Yao started making the buns. After the water boiled, Luo Bei put the buns on the steamer and started steaming. The steamed buns can be steamed in ten minutes, so after being busy for more than an hour, at 5:30, the ten steamed buns were put on the window and ready to be sold.

When Dai Yao was repairing the windows, he asked the craftsmen to install a simple signboard for him. Dai Yao named it “Shen Nong Buns Shop”. A signboard with gold letters on a black background, with his retro window, it look very antique.

The window hasn’t opened yet, and it was still early. It won’t be until about six o’clock that office workers start to come out to have breakfast. He and Luo Bei carried the steamed bun cages to the counter together. There were ten steamed bun cages with forty steamed buns in each cage, a total of about four hundred steamed buns. The vegetarian ones were sold for one yuan, and the meat ones were sold for 1.50 yuan. One hundred were vegetarian, and the rest were meat. Dai Yao was actually quite worried, what if no one bought them?

Anyway, the bun shops were already started, and even if no one buys them, the worst thing was that the leftovers will be distributed in the village, so that the neighbors can have a taste. So he opened the window a little, and as soon as he opened the window, several migrant workers who had gotten up early were looking in the window. Dai Yao was startled and asked tentatively: “You…you guys…this is?”

A black-faced brother in the lead said: “What is it that smells so good?”

Dai Yao lifted the steamed bun cage and said, “Oh, the steamed buns are out of the pot. Do you guys want some?”

Another black-faced brother asked: “How much does one cost?”

Dai Yao replied: “The vegetarian one is one yuan, the meat ones is 1.50 yuan.” As he spoke, he put out a small handwritten blackboard and said, “You can see for yourselves. Just order whatever fillings you want.” The small blackboard was used by Dai Yao when he was a child. It was written in chalk: Leek and egg for 1 yuan, beef for 1.50 yuan, mutton for 1.50 yuan, pork for 1.50 yuan.

Another brother asked: “Is there anything to drink?”

Dai Yao indeed didn’t prepare anything to drink. On the first day he opened, he was just doing an experiment. But when he heard someone asking, he immediately said: “Yes, yes, you guys eat the buns first, and I will get them for everyone!” Then he directed Luo Bei: “Bei Bei, get some buns for the uncles, I’ll go to third uncle’s place to get the soup.”

Third uncle owns a breakfast shop, but instead of selling steamed buns, he sells deep-fried breadstick, large flat bread, and soft bean curd. His deep-fried breadstick were very famous in Daijiayao, and many people from the central city come here to eat them. The third uncle’s family makes soup at any time. Dai Yao should have no problem ordering soup from his house! So he wiped his hands and ran to the third uncle’s place to order a pot of soy milk and a pot of egg soup.

Soon the workers from the third uncle’s family brought it over. After Dai Yao thanked him, he saw all the workers in the room holding a bun in their hands and munching hungrily. One of the black-faced brothers raised his head and said to Dai Yao: “Little brother! Your steamed buns are so delicious! How do you make them? Come on, give me ten more. I will take them back for my wife and children to try!”

At this time, the migrant workers brothers next to them also raised their hands and said: “Give me five, too, I’m going back to give my mother to try!”

“Give me six for lunch!”

“I want twenty. As thanks to the workmates who brought their own lunch, they are in for a treat this time. ”

“I want ten, too, hehe, it’s delicious!”

……

Dai Yao smiled happily, but he didn’t expect that he sold to hundreds of customers in the first wave. He served the soy milk to the guests again. The guests drank the soy milk and said one after another: “Little brother, your steamed buns are delicious, but the soy milk tastes just average. But it’s not bad to drink, it’s just ordinary soy milk. Hey, I said Little brother, do you have any secret recipe for these buns?”

Dai Yao wiped his sweat a little embarrassed and said: “There is no secret recipe. It is just the vegetables I grow at home. If you like it, you can come and eat it often in the future!”

Everyone said that they will definitely visit frequently in the future because it was so delicious!

Luo Bei was selling steamed buns by the window and accepted the money. When the hurried office workers passed by, they couldn’t help but slow down and murmured in a low voice: “Eh? It smells so good!”

“It smells so good. A new bun shop has opened here. Let’s go and try it.”

“Wow, it smells so good! Haven’t you had breakfast? Come on, let’s buy some buns to eat on the way!”

“Why does it smell so good? Huh? When did a new bun shop open?”

……

Luo Bei was in a flurry to collect the money, and soon the two basket of steamed buns were sold again.

Another group of customers came into the store, still dressed as migrant workers. There were a lot of migrant workers living in Daijiayao, because the rent here was cheap. As soon as he entered the door, the young man with dyed yellow hair shouted: “Brother Lin insisted that a delicious steamed bun shop has opened here, and I want to try how delicious it is. Hey, boy, I won’t give you money if it’s not delicious!”

The young man in the lead looked like a sloppy gangster. Dai Yao smiled shyly and said, “Try it first. If you don’t think it tastes good, I won’t charge you.”

The young man was obviously stunned. He obviously didn’t expect the young boss to be so honest. The older man next to him slapped blonde and said, “Don’t joke around. Don’t take it to heart, little brother. This little bastard is just making fun of you. Pick few buns for each of us, and give us a bowl of egg soup each.”

Dai Yao nodded immediately and got four buns for them respectively.

When he turned back, the ten buns basket was half empty. After this group of people finished eating, they packed up and ordered more. In less than two hours, Dai Yao’s steamed buns were sold out!

Luo Bei and Dai Yao looked at each other, they looked at the money in the small carton and at the empty cage in disbelief. Dai Yao said: “It’s…sold out?”

Luo Bei was obviously surprised. He didn’t expect Dai Yao to be able to sell the buns so quickly for the first time. But this was also expected. Even if the vegetables grown in Spiritual Field were mixed with ordinary ingredients, the taste of the food will be greatly improved. Luo Bei can even foresee that there will only be more people coming to buy buns tomorrow. So he suggested to Dai Yao: “Let’s increase the quantity tomorrow! Look, there’s not enough to sell today!” Then he turned down a few customers who came from following the fragrant smell: “Sorry, it’s sold out. Please come early tomorrow.” ”

Dai Yao nodded, wiped off the quotation on the small blackboard with a rag, and wrote three big words: SOLD OUT[footnote]Raw is 已售罄( Yǐ shòu qìng), hence three words. But it’s only two words in English[/footnote].

He couldn’t wait to take the small cardboard box and started to count the money. It was all small change. He counted it for a long time. There was a total of nine hundred and twenty yuan in the box, and there was a fifty yuan change that he put in it for change. There were more than 500 steamed buns in total, more than 100 vegetarian ones and more than 400 meat buns. One yuan for the vegetarian meal and one yuan and a half for the meat. The total should be 740 yuan. Then the rest should be the money earned from the third uncle’s soup.

He counted out one hundred and thirty yuan to Luo Bei and asked him to deliver it to third uncle. While there was no one around, he jumped happily in the room for a long time. Seven hundred and forty yuan, he got it just like that? He will increase the amount tomorrow. Even if he sell a thousand yuan a day, I will still have thirty thousand yuan in a month! Ahhhhh, he was going to be prosperous! Uncle Li[footnote]Raw is !三叔(Sān shū); third uncle. I’m very sure this is typos for Uncle Li[/footnote]’s medical expenses have solution! He don’t have to look at others’ countenance anymore!

Prosperous, prosperous la! Dai Yao happily turned around in circles, grinning from ear to ear.

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The whole day’s speech was a bit boring. Bai Chuan was a soldier and he was not interested in these things. On the contrary, Guo Yao was quite interested. He sat there and listened with great interest. Bai Chuan walked out of the venue with an irritated look, found a quiet place, and lit a cigarette.

In fact, he rarely smokes, and only smokes when he was irritable. Originally, he came to Nanjing Normal University just to meet that ‘Dai Yao’, but the endless speeches and the attentive expression of the school director next to him made him a little irritable.

However, Bai Chuan was a calm and collected person. No matter how irritable he was, he will only hide these emotions behind an expressionless face. Ordinary people would only think that he was cold and aggressive. Only those who have actually fought with him know that Bai Chuan was thoughtful and forbearing, and most people were reluctant to mess with him. The drug lords who have fought against him were afraid of running into him because he was too difficult to deal with.

After smoking a cigarette in the woods, Bai Chuan wandered around casually. Nanchuan University was located in the suburbs. If nothing else, the campus was really big and the environment was really nice. Birds were singing, the flowers were fragrant, and tree shades were everywhere. As he walked around, Bai Chuan came to the depths of the campus. When he looked up, he actually came to the door of the Finance Department. Isn’t the Department of Finance of Nanjing Normal University the same department that the kid named Dai Yao was in?

At this moment, Bai Chuan heard a series of whispers: “Look, Dai Yao! It’s Dai Yao from the Finance Department!”

Bai Chuan looked over at the group of girls whispering to each other, and saw a well-dressed boy with a very upright appearance walking out of the campus surrounded by others. Bai Chuan confirmed that it was the boy on the student registration list. This Dai Yao has a medium build, fashionable hairstyle, and fashionable clothes. He was indeed very attractive to girls. But…his whole body worth tens of thousands of dollars, how could he sold himself out for a mere hundred thousand dollars?

So he stepped forward and said, “Are you Dai Yao? Let’s have a meal together!”

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Hmmm…

Well…. is it me or no one really like this novel? (´。＿。｀)

I begin to question myself if I should continue translating LATMAB _(:3」∠)_

Sigh~ ( ´•︵•` )