"Brothers, the soup bun shop in the second cafeteria has a new dish, mouthwatering chicken! The taste is superb!"
"Damn! I went for soup buns at lunch time, why didn’t I see it?!"
"Did you go too late? This mouthwatering chicken is limited to 50 servings per meal, of course it’s gone if you’re late!"
"Only 50 servings? That’s not enough, I’m going to queue up later, I just have to try it!"
"..."
"Hey, I heard the soup bun shop has a new dish, should we go line up early?"
"Really? How come I haven’t heard about it?"
"Some folks had it at lunch, it’s mouthwatering chicken; they say it’s numbing and spicy, the taste is awesome!"
"You’re making me drool just talking about it!"
"Let’s go, let’s queue up to try it!"
"..."
The news of the new mouthwatering chicken dish from the soup bun shop at the second cafeteria spread quickly, and soon all the students at Jiangzhou University knew about it.
What shocked the students the most was that the mouthwatering chicken was limited to just 50 servings per meal!
This fact drew a lot of complaints from the students:
"What is Senior Brother Jiang thinking? There are always so many people queuing, 50 servings aren’t enough!"
"Exactly! Only 50 servings, gone in a flash, it’s so frustrating for those at the back of the queue who won’t get any!"
"It’s really too few, only 50 servings! What does the chicken think about this? Is it that we can’t satisfy human appetites? Or that my meat doesn’t grow fast enough?"
"..."
Complaints aside, people still have to buy it!
With so many people wanting to eat mouthwatering chicken, but only 50 servings available, if you don’t act quickly, you won’t even get to drink the soup!
By just four o’clock, several students were already snooping around outside the second cafeteria.
Seeing no one queuing at the soup bun shop’s window, these few students breathed a sigh of relief, walked straight in, got a few bottles of cold drinks from a nearby convenience store, and sat by the soup bun shop, drinking and playing on their phones.
Before long, more and more students began to arrive, and the earliest students dared not rest any longer, immediately queueing up at the soup bun shop’s counter.
If they didn’t hurry to queue, once others took the spots in front, wouldn’t they have come early in vain?
People tend to follow the crowd.
The students who arrived later saw that people had started queuing, rushed to join the queue, and as more gathered, the line grew quickly.
Just past 4:30, there were already dozens of people queuing at the second cafeteria soup bun shop window.
"Huh? We came so early, how, how are there already so many people?"
Two girls, presumably just out of the library, carrying a few books, were chatting and laughing as they walked into the cafeteria.
As soon as they entered, the smiles froze on their faces.
It’s just 4:30, do we really have to queue this early?
One girl with glasses looked a bit upset, pouting as she said:
"I was planning to put my books back in the dorm and rest a bit before queuing, but now there are already so many people..."
"There’s no need to count, we definitely won’t get mouthwatering chicken tonight."
The other girl with a ponytail shook her head, looking helpless as she asked, "What do we do now? Go back to the dorm for a while or...?"
"Why go back? If we do, by the time we return, there will be even more people in line!"
The glasses girl didn’t think twice, pulling her to the back of the queue, muttering,
"We won’t get mouthwatering chicken, but if we don’t even get soup buns and hot and sour soup, life really won’t be worth living!"
"..."
The ponytail girl didn’t say anything else, she glanced at the long queue and couldn’t help but sigh:
These people sure go to extremes for a bite of delicious food, who knows what will happen next time the shop releases a new dish!
...
"What’s going on today, why are these students queuing so early?"
In the soup bun shop, Hu Zhihai was startled by the growing number of students and the lengthening queue in the cafeteria hall,
"They never used to come this early; what’s happening today?"
"Is that even a question?"
Lu Shuwu came out for a drink of water, glanced outside casually, and said,
"It’s definitely because of the new mouthwatering chicken our shop launched!"
"Mouthwatering chicken? What’s with the mouthwatering chicken?"
Hu Zhihai still didn’t get it, "The mouthwatering chicken is delicious, but our soup buns and hot and sour soup are great too, they never came this early before."
"Zhihai, you should eat more vegetables and less meat; that big head of yours is just full of fat."
Lu Shuwu shook his head helplessly and continued to explain,
"Our shop’s soup buns and hot and sour soup are plentiful, so if you’re late, you just queue longer, but the mouthwatering chicken is limited; if you don’t queue early, how can you get any?"
"Oh, if you had said that earlier, I would’ve understood."
Hu Zhihai rolled his eyes, quickly catching on, and retorted angrily,
"What do you mean my big head is full of fat? Your little brain has water in it!"
Meanwhile, Yan Tongtong and others were busy picking and washing vegetables, covering their mouths to stifle laughter as they listened to the two bicker.
Those two are just too funny!
"What are you arguing for, get to work!"
At that moment, Jiang Yu came out from the kitchen, telling Lu Shuwu,
"Brother Xiao Wu, pause the soup buns for a bit and help with the mouthwatering chicken ingredients, let’s speed up and get these done first."
"Okay." Lu Shuwu responded, turning to get busy.
"Zhihai, since you’re bored, go boil some water, cut a cross on the tomatoes, blanch them, and peel them."
Jiang Yu then looked at Hu Zhihai, instructing,
"We’ll need these tomatoes for the hot and sour soup later, oh, and take out those cucumbers from the fridge and wash them too."
Hu Zhihai: "..."
This boss really knows how to boss people around!
But he didn’t say much, obediently responding and got to work.
Ah, the things you do for the love of mouthwatering chicken; taking food comes at a price!
Yan Tongtong, Li Yue, and others, seeing Jiang Yu arrive, also shrank their necks, not daring to laugh anymore, quickly bowing their heads to work diligently.
After instructing everyone, Jiang Yu didn’t idle either; he took the chickens delivered that morning out of the fridge and began preparing the mouthwatering chicken.
From the cafeteria hall, you could see everyone inside working busily yet orderly, everything seeming methodical.
Soon, an enticing aroma wafted out from the shop...