Ch 200: Lotus Seed Porridge
What?
Du Zhu looked at her prospective son-in-law in surprise and said, “You mean the Jiadi Resort in our town?”
Bai Yi nodded: “Yes.”
Oh my.
Chu Tingting, however, wasn’t very surprised, because in her eyes, her boyfriend was simply invincible.
“Auntie, really, I think this beer duck is really good, I think it can be sold in a restaurant!” Bai Yi said earnestly.
“Okay, I’ll tell you the recipe later.”
Mm.
Bai Yi nodded.
After dinner, Bai Yi and Chu Tingting rested in their room for a while before returning home.
But as soon as Bai Yi got home, Wu Haotian called him.
“Brother! Help! I need your help urgently!”
Hearing Wu Haotian’s words, Bai Yi was stunned and hurriedly asked, “What could you, a rich second-generation, possibly need my help for?”
After a long silence, Wu Haotian said, “Brother, it’s like this, my business here isn’t doing so well. These diners are so picky, it’s unbelievable. Your vegetables and crabs have been supplied to me for a while now, and now they’re all getting a little tired of them. I’m telling you, this past week, my restaurant’s turnover has plummeted. If I don’t come up with some new dishes soon, I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold on.”
“If you want to come up with new dishes, just do it. There are so many vegetables, just change the cooking method. There’s no point in telling me, I only know how to farm, not cook.” Bai Yi spoke the truth.
At this time, Wu Haotian chuckled on the phone and said, “Brother, everyone’s had enough of the taste of your vegetables, so I can’t change them either.”
“Are you saying that everyone doesn’t like my vegetables anymore?”
“New customers still like them, but those old customers, their mouths have been spoiled by your high-end ingredients. They really don’t look at ordinary things anymore.” Wu Haotian said helplessly.
Sigh, doing too well is also a worry.
Then Wu Haotian said, “Now Wu Meng Hotel has taken the top spot in Shen City, but I recently heard that several large hotels are planning to join forces to deal with me. Brother, you can’t stand by and watch me die.”
Bai Yi also felt helpless, he spread his hands and said, “What can I do?”
“Brother, can you come up with something new?”
This…
Bai Yi was really a little helpless.
But at this moment, Bai Yi’s mother suddenly shouted from the room to Bai Yi.
“Son, your father’s stomach trouble has acted up again, quickly get some lotus seeds.”
After Bai Yi agreed, he said into the phone, “I’ll talk to you later.”
With that, Bai Yi hung up the phone, went to his family’s factory, and took some lotus seeds hanging on the wall.
Every time his father had a stomach ache, his mother would always make some lotus seed porridge to help him recover.
In fact, Bai Jianjun had also gone to the hospital for a check-up, but this kind of stomach trouble was a chronic disease, and there was no good medicine to treat it, so he could only adjust it through diet.
That’s why Bai Yi’s factory always had some lotus seeds hanging around.
Even Bai Yi, who had read so many medical books, had no better way to deal with his father’s stomach trouble.
Although there are curative medicines, the required herbs seem to be nonexistent in this world, or are extinct plants.
Actually, Bai Yi was also puzzled. The old man in his dream forcibly fed him so many medical books, but Bai Yi had never even heard of the herbs and other things recorded in those books!
So now Bai Yi had no better way to deal with his father’s stomach trouble.
But whenever his father had a stomach ache, his mother would cook some lotus seed porridge. Although lotus seed porridge couldn’t cure the stomach trouble, lotus seeds are quite effective in strengthening the stomach and clearing heat.
After his mother finished the lotus seed porridge, Bai Yi suddenly thought of something!
Why couldn’t he grow some lotus flowers?
The area where he raised crabs had nothing but crabs. If he planted a layer of lotus flowers on top, wouldn’t that be killing two birds with one stone?
Then when his father needed lotus seeds, he wouldn’t have to buy them from the market anymore. And lotus seeds from lotus flowers watered with his spiritual rain would definitely be better than those from the market.
And planting lotus flowers has another advantage, which is that you can dig lotus roots.
Lotus seeds, lotus roots.
Thinking of this, Bai Yi laughed.
He wondered why he hadn’t thought of this before, wasting such a large area of water.
Although it was a little late to plant lotus flowers in this season, his spiritual rain would make up for this deficiency.
After watching his father drink the lotus seed porridge, Bai Yi hurried back to his room and called Wu Haotian.
Wu Haotian, who answered the phone, was very surprised and hurriedly asked, “Brother, it hasn’t even been an hour, and you’ve already figured out how to save me?”
“Do you think everyone is as stupid as you and a pig? I’ve already figured out what to do.”
“What?”
“You know the area where I raise crabs, right? I want to plant some lotus flowers there.”
“Lotus flowers? Lotus seeds? That’s good! Lotus seeds can be used to make porridge and stir-fried dishes, and in autumn you can also dig up some lotus roots.”
Wu Haotian excitedly stood up.
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