[Past and present connected | Food | Building a business and getting rich | Leveling up | Farming]
Lin Nianqing was a carefree, lazy international student from a wealthy family. She had planned to scrape together a degree abroad, then return home and live off her parents.
But her father was betrayed by a business partner. The family company went bankrupt, and under the pressure, he jumped to his death.
When she rushed home overnight, all that awaited her was an enormous debt of eighty million yuan and a restaurant in a small county town.
It was called Lin Family Dishes. It sold only premade meals, and business was terrible.
Just as Lin Nianqing was planning to sell the place, a System appeared out of nowhere:
【Congratulations, Host. You have successfully bound the Gourmet Upgrade System.】
【As you serve more customers from ancient times, the System will accumulate experience points and raise the level of your premade dishes.】
“...What does that mean?” The sudden golden finger left her stunned.
【This System aims to upgrade industrially prepared meals beyond the limits of human culinary skill.】
【As your experience points increase, you can upgrade basic industrially prepared meals to higher levels: Improved, Premium, Supreme, Immortal Cuisine, and more.】
Lin Nianqing’s eyes lit up. In other words, if she kept serving customers from ancient times, she could turn her premade-meal restaurant into a three-Michelin-star establishment?
...Wait, no!
It was the twenty-first century. Where was she supposed to find customers from ancient times?
【Once the System is bound, a passage through time will automatically open at this shop, Lin Family Dishes.】
【Every day, from exactly 5 p.m. until 5 a.m. the following morning, the shop’s entrance will connect to ancient times, and customers from the past will visit.】
Lin Nianqing: !
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The Great Yong Dynasty, an abandoned post road outside the capital region.
Every day at dusk, when the city gates closed, the lights of a restaurant called Lin Family Dishes would shine as brightly as the midday sun beside the courier station at the Ten-Mile Pavilion.
The people of Great Yong were used to coarse salt with their meals and rough grains to fill their stomachs. Only when they stepped inside did they discover the greatest flavors this world had to offer.
The beautiful young proprietress, Shopkeeper Lin, greeted them with a beaming smile as one unheard-of dish after another was brought to the table.
Taro paste with thick milk, strawberry boba milk tea, and soft matcha cakes brought the noblewomen of the capital flocking to her door;
The aroma of fried chicken, hamburgers, and fries filled the air, as young noblemen from the Five Mounds rushed to claim seats;
Stinky tofu and river-snail rice noodles made people cover their noses, but one taste sent them into a state of bliss. A host of high-minded scholars secretly came to dine, unable to forget the flavors afterward;
Crawfish, grilled squid, lamb skewers, curry chicken... One delicious dish after another appeared. Even members of the imperial clan, accustomed to rare delicacies, couldn’t stop praising them;
Soldiers hauled crate after crate of instant noodles, ham, compressed rations, and self-heating hot pots to the front lines, helping them win one battle after another.
Noblewomen out on spring excursions, richly dressed sons of aristocratic families, merchants worn out from traveling, soldiers heading to the battlefield, and weary passersby... They flocked into the little shop without end.
Everyone wondered in secret: with all these delicacies filling the tables, was Miss Lin really running the kitchen all by herself?
Lin Nianqing: I’m dying. They’re premade meals. All I need is a few microwaves, a rice cooker, and a pair of scissors.
Later, she brought out potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, corn... and introduced high-yield crop seeds to Great Yong.
From then on, the people of the realm would never again suffer from hunger.
Note:
1: After earning enough money, the heroine will complete her studies.
2: There is a romance! The hero is from ancient times and appears much later.
Theme: Treasure food, eat your fill, and eat well.
Things from modern times, Nuanbaobao, can you still take them out? Ah this. But thinking about the epoch-making crops that will be released later in the introduction, do you feel it is acceptable?
The main thing is that everything is so fast. I feel like there is no preparation in advance. The plot of rehearsing the words, menu conception, etc. Starts right away. In modern times, when shooting a video or live broadcast, you have to debug the equipment in advance, prepare the theme, words, and the entire flow chart. Just, it feels a bit strange, but I don't know why it's strange. Maybe it's because it's too fast, too fast.
I beg you to update chapter 10 on a daily basis. Well, chapter 20 will be fine too.
In fact, prefabricated dishes, like the zombie meat forgotten in the refrigerator, are traditional arts that my family has grown up with since childhood... Even the local pork bought at the rural market has been frozen in the refrigerator for a year or two, and it will be the same when eaten [Shut up] How else to make a big pot at once, divide it into several packages and stuff them in the refrigerator to freeze, or even put them in the refrigerator and eat them for a week or two [Cracked]
Things from modern times, Nuanbaobao, can you still take them out? Ah this. But thinking about the epoch-making crops that will be released later in the introduction, do you feel it is acceptable? The main thing is that everything is so fast. I feel like there is no preparation in advance. The plot of rehearsing the words, menu conception, etc. Starts right away. In modern times, when shooting a video or live broadcast, you have to debug the equipment in advance, prepare the theme, words, and the entire flow chart. Just, it feels a bit strange, but I don't know why it's strange. Maybe it's because it's too fast, too fast.
I beg you to update chapter 10 on a daily basis. Well, chapter 20 will be fine too.
In fact, prefabricated dishes, like the zombie meat forgotten in the refrigerator, are traditional arts that my family has grown up with since childhood... Even the local pork bought at the rural market has been frozen in the refrigerator for a year or two, and it will be the same when eaten [Shut up] How else to make a big pot at once, divide it into several packages and stuff them in the refrigerator to freeze, or even put them in the refrigerator and eat them for a week or two [Cracked]