Daddy's Gourmet Shop-Chapter 371 - 361: Can’t Bear to Disturb Her Sweet Dreams
At night, the winter rain started to drizzle, accompanied by the north wind, falling harder and wilder, continuing until dawn, still going, drip drip drop, drip drip drop...
Huang Tao and Xuanxuan were enjoying the warmth in their blankets.
Until a certain "consciousness" urged him, he hazily opened his eyes, hearing the sound of rain tapping crisply on the glass window.
He turned his head to look at the gray sky outside...
The winter rain occasionally fell on the window glass, with raindrops sliding down smoothly.
Got it!
It must have been a night of heavy rain, and now, it’s still raining!
"The temperature outside must have dropped quite a bit again, it’s very easy to feel cold..."
He muttered to himself in a soft whisper, turning his head worriedly to look at Xuanxuan sleeping beside him.
Perhaps it was because she slept too late last night, Xuanxuan was still sound asleep, with a faint, sweet smile at the corner of her mouth, probably dreaming something nice!
One couldn’t bear to disturb her sweet dreams...
Huang Tao took out his phone, glanced at the time, it was still early, Xuanxuan could sleep for at least another half hour.
If she hasn’t naturally woken up by then, well...
Let her continue sleeping warmly in the blanket!
Besides, with this dreadful weather, it’s not suitable to take Xuanxuan out early.
Moreover, his parents were around, they could help watch over her, so he could leave Xuanxuan at home to continue sleeping peacefully.
At this time, he routinely opened WeChat, wanting to scroll through the moments.
You don’t know until you check.
He was startled by what he saw!
His WeChat messages were nearly exploding.
The university classmates’ group, messages were already at 99+!
The family group was the same!
"What’s going on? Why were these groups so lively last night?"
A big question mark rose in Huang Tao’s mind, feeling these two groups were a bit unusual!
Normally, these two big groups wouldn’t be this active.
Like the family group, every day just those few elders, sending some health or funny videos to the group.
As for the classmates’ group, ever since the food festival when he was featured on "Food and Beauty" magazine, it’s been ages since it was this lively.
Who knows what they were chatting about late into the night in the group!
Curious, Huang Tao clicked on the university classmates’ group.
As soon as he opened it, he saw this message:
Gu Zhihao: @Huang Tao Tao, you made it to the hot search!
"Hot search? What hot search?"
Completely unaware of the hot search incident involving a cutting board last night, Huang Tao was utterly confused, simultaneously scrolling up...
Oh dear~
They were all talking about the hot search!
"What the heck... Our Tao is really something... unexpectedly made it to the hot search out of the blue!"
"When I saw the hot search, I could hardly believe my eyes, thought I was seeing things! But after repeatedly verifying, I had to accept that it was all real! By the way, Tao, you’re going to be famous..."
"Oh my, it’s even number one on the hot search! Tao, are you trying to shock me to death so you can inherit my Huabei?"
"Tao, take me to show off, take me on a flight!"
"Oh my goodness! There are quite a few first- and second-tier female celebrities leaving comments in the hot search, all saying they want to check in at your restaurant, Tao!"
"Damn, there are even some little fresh meats leaving comments on the hot search saying they’ll check in tomorrow, freakin’ riding on Tao’s fame here, Tao, you should hurry and put up a ’No Fresh Meat Allowed’ sign at the entrance of your restaurant tomorrow morning, don’t let these little fresh meats ride your coattails!"
"Oh my god! Tao’s restaurant will become an internet celebrity check-in spot tomorrow! My god, oh, I mean, don’t you think it’s just terrible?"
"Tao has the invincible cutting board, fear not the internet celebrity check-ins!"
"Whoever sings Tao’s real name, can eat all the delicious food in the Delicious Restaurant without queuing."
"In Wenling City, in the culinary world, there is Tao, and heaven is there!"
"Even if the queue at the entrance stretches endlessly, our Tao can still manage the culinary world single-handedly, dominating it."
Huang Tao: ???!!
He wordlessly massaged his forehead, suddenly feeling that while he was sleeping last night, he might have missed something important.
Otherwise, even though he recognized every word his classmates sent, he couldn’t understand what they meant together, nor decipher them?
He couldn’t help but scroll up again:
"Tao is silent, not responding, which means he acquiesces!"
"Yes, Tao’s silence implies agreement, let’s gather at the restaurant at six tomorrow morning."
Huang Tao: Agree my ass! What the hell did I agree to? Why is the person involved so clueless??
He wordlessly continued scrolling.
"Tao, tell us the truth, is your cutting board really worth six hundred thousand?"
"Tao, you’ve hidden it from me so well! We were at least university classmates for four years, even slept together for four years, yet I didn’t know you were a hidden tycoon!"
"Who doesn’t have a secret? Just like me, I rode a shared bike to school every day, but who knew I had an electric scooter under my name?"
"Wow... The roast duck I ate at night, was actually sliced on that six hundred thousand worth cutting board!"
"Tao, lend me a cutting board! Let me kneel for this punishment comfortably, honestly, and truly..."
Huang Tao was even more bewildered.
A 600,000 cutting board?
What’s going on?
He silently left this increasingly surreal group and then opened the family group chat.
The situation in the family group was similar to that of the college classmates’ group.
They were also talking about "trending topics" and "cutting board" and such.
He felt like he was looking at flowers through the fog, the more he looked, the more puzzled he became.
So he also left the family group and curiously opened Weibo.
When he saw the top trending topic, he was quite surprised.
With an incredulous look, he said, "Ah... no way, the reason for trending... is actually a cutting board?"
At first, he was puzzled about how he suddenly ended up in trending topics.
Now he knew; the reason he was trending was all thanks to that rich second-generation kid in last night’s live stream.
And this time, it wasn’t because of the food he made that he trended.
It was because of the cutting board awarded by the system...
He thought the focus of the internet users this time was really peculiar!
As he continued to scroll, he saw a streamer who specializes in appraising antiques, who specifically appraised his cutting board and stated that it was worth not just 300,000 but 500,000.
Oh my!
Seeing this, he was completely shocked!
He knew very well that the items rewarded by the system wouldn’t be bad, but he never thought it would be so valuable!
It’s unimaginable!
However, this 600,000 cutting board...
And I haven’t even mentioned how smooth it is to chop vegetables on it.
Knowing the value of this cutting board, the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up to his ears.
The reasons he was so happy were.
First, learning the cutting board was actually an antique-level item.
Second, although his small restaurant was quite popular, it was the first time it had become this popular!
Last time, even the release of the "Food and Beauty" magazine wasn’t this explosive!
However, business owners always love to see such a scene.
Getting popular is always a good thing.
At least it lets more people know about this restaurant’s existence.
He lay in bed, his fingertip continually sliding across the phone screen, checking out the comments from the wide range of internet users.
Those at the forefront were, without a doubt, the ones with the most likes.
And these were mostly some celebrities.
From Z-list to B-list and A-list.
And they spanned across acting, singing, and more!
These celebrities all left messages in the comment section saying they wanted to come to the store and check it out.
Many internet influencers also left similar messages.
Huang Tao knew these celebrities and influencers just wanted to jump on the trend.
He didn’t take it seriously!
Seeing Xuanxuan still sleeping without showing any sign of waking up, he decided to let her continue sleeping!
So he quietly got up, changed his clothes.
And tiptoed out of the bedroom.
Mimi, who was sleeping beside the bedroom door, heard the sound, lazily lifted her head, and meowed at her poop-scooping servant Huang Tao: "Meow~"
"Shh~"
Huang Tao made a shushing gesture at her.
Mimi, as if understanding, didn’t call out anymore, and continued lying down pretending to sleep.
Huang Tao then went to wash up.
"Tao, you’re up?"
Early-rising Song Cailian greeted him with a smile and looked behind him. Seeing Xuanxuan wasn’t there, she lowered her voice and asked, "Is Xuanxuan still sleeping?"
Huang Tao nodded: "Yeah, I guess she slept too late last night and isn’t awake yet. I figured I’d just let her continue to sleep!"
"That’s fine!"
Song Cailian said softly: "It’s very cold outside today, and it’s still raining, let her continue sleeping at home, anyway, your dad and I are both here! You go ahead to the store!"
Huang Tao thought for a moment and said: "If Xuanxuan wants to come to the store, you call me, and I’ll come to pick you up."
Song Cailian said with concern, "Your store is so busy, don’t worry about this, I can just call a rideshare."
Since his mom said so, Huang Tao didn’t say more.
After washing up, he changed his shoes and prepared to head out.
"Mom, I’m leaving."
"Did you take an umbrella?"
"Yes, I did!"
