Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country-Chapter 248 - 249: Born Stubborn and Hell-Level Difficulty
"Ding, task release: Please continue to attend the Danggui Province Adult Expo for five days...I refuse!"
"Ding, task release: Please continue to attend the Shenzhen Adult...I refuse!"
"I refuse!"
"I refuse!"
"I refuse!"
At this time, Wang Fan really didn’t have the time to send a message to Zhuo Qianqian. Today, the system, for whatever reason, just wouldn’t assign him the place he wanted to go.
He had been at a standoff with the system for over two hours, yet still couldn’t get Kainan University.
After searching, he realized that Kainan University’s cafeteria was entirely contracted out.
"Can’t you, with your System Power, squeeze a small shop in there? You’re a system, after all!"
Wang Fan was also quite stubborn. Once he decided he wanted to go somewhere, he had to go, no matter what tasks or rewards the system offered, he would refuse them all.
"Ding, the number of host refusals has reached 1000, unlocking the ’Born Stubborn’ achievement, rewarding one specified location."
"Please note, specifying a location will increase task difficulty, but the corresponding reward will also increase. Do you accept?"
"Accept!"
After all that refusing just for you, how could I give up over a small challenge?
"Ding, task release, please start next Monday, continuously operate at the fifth stall on the second floor of Kainan University’s Science Cafeteria for thirty days (excluding weekends and holidays) and sell at least 500 portions each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Note: This task is based on payments, each payment counts as one portion.)"
"Task reward: Chef Level +5, 10,000 points."
"Special task: Please start next Monday, continuously operate at the fifth stall on the second floor of Kainan University’s Science Cafeteria for thirty days (excluding weekends and holidays) and sell at least 1000 portions each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, no limitation on food variety, the host can decide. (Note: This task is based on payments, each payment counts as one portion, profits less than 20% per sale are not counted.)"
"Task reward: Once the host determines the main dish, corresponding green-quality cooking utensils will be awarded. Chef Level +10, 50,000 points."
Goodness, what a challenge!
Wang Fan felt a bit dry-mouthed looking at the system tasks.
Truly a task with increased difficulty, it was the first time he knew his lazy system could be so hardcore.
Five hundred portions for each meal of the day meant at least 1500 portions a day, and that’s not even considering the ingredient preparation, which alone is a massive undertaking, not to mention those few words in parentheses.
Without those words, he could just sell cheap things like steamed buns to quickly meet the requirement of 1000 portions, couldn’t he? What’s wrong with selling cheap if I don’t want to make a profit?
This way, the 1000 would be easy to complete, which was the system tasks’ lazy mode before. But since he insisted on a difficult location, the task difficulty had greatly increased, and the system patched the bug.
Compared to previous tasks, this one definitely rated as hell difficulty.
But if you ask if he regrets it, Wang Fan would say not a bit.
No one forced him — he chose this path himself, and he’d lick it clean if he had to.
Just do it!
...
Day one of the task.
Wang Fan opened his eyes at 4 o’clock, and the hardcore system made him jump right up.
Though the system’s demands were insane, Wang Fan considered himself no pushover. Did they really think adding a bug could hold him back?
Wang Fan smirked, today I’ll show you a bug of my own!
Come forth, Guangfu’s Shanghai Thumb-sized Pan-fried Buns!
Sure, there’s a bit of a mix of buffs, but there was no other choice since Wang Fan hadn’t been to Shanghai, he had to copy Guangfu’s version.
As for the ’thumb-sized’... well, the task demands were just that insane, making them smaller meant making them faster and selling them faster!
Last night, when he decided what to make, Wang Fan had already received his kitchenware — a green-quality pan specially for pan-fried buns.
If there’s anything special about it, it’s one word — big.
Very big, with a diameter of at least over one meter!
Based on his estimated size for the Guangfu’s Shanghai Thumb-sized Pan-fried Buns, one pan could fry at least 200 of them, and seven pans would be enough to complete the task.
Besides the final cooking step being different from steamed buns, the prior steps were mostly similar, and his previous experience and skills could all be applied.
Mixing the filling and wrapping buns were a piece of cake for him, especially wrapping buns, where two seconds per bun was basic operation.
The real hassle lay in making the bun wrappers.
The simplest way to save effort was to buy ready-made dumpling skins, bun wrappers, or wonton wrappers, but Wang Fan refused because the standards might not match, and what he bought could differ from what he needed. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Then Wang Fan thought of a lazy yet very fast method.
He placed the risen dough on a long table, after some kneading, sprinkled flour on the table, and used his rolling pin like a steamroller to press the dough into a thin sheet.
After sprinkling another layer of flour on the dough sheet, Wang Fan took out a glass cup used for drinking water.
Seeing the small cup rim, Wang Fan chuckled, then used the cup to cut out a round bun wrapper from the sheet.
Then he cut another one next to it.
As Wang Fan’s hands moved rapidly, the large dough sheet quickly became full of holes.
When there was no space left, he re-kneaded the dough and repeated the process, soon amassing a tall stack of bun wrappers.
Wang Fan placed his large hands over the bun wrappers and pressed lightly. With his incredible control, a stack of bun wrappers with thick centers and thin edges for thumb-sized Pan-fried Buns was complete.
If the system could talk, it would probably give Wang Fan a thumbs-up at this moment and praise, "I didn’t expect you and your righteous demeanor had such sly techniques."
In just under an hour, Wang Fan had already made 1600 bun wrappers.
Looking at the clock, it was 6 o’clock. Wang Fan seasoned the meat filling and stored it with the bun wrappers in the ingredient fresh-keeping box.
After checking his phone, he saw his girlfriend had sent him a bunch of emojis.
With a mischievous grin, Wang Fan replied, "Sorry, I was exhausted last night and went to bed early. I’m off to exercise, you should get up and train too."
After putting away his phone and taking off his brand new white chef’s uniform, he headed to the track.
The 6 a.m. sunlight was already very bright, and many students were already exercising on the track. Seeing these not only academically strong but also physically fit top students, Wang Fan felt he wasn’t totally unjustified in losing back then.
If smarter people than you work harder, what’s there to say when you lose?
But luckily, even though he still wasn’t that smart now, he had at least found the path that suited him, not ending up as completely defeated as in his past life.
Maybe he could even win a round this time?
