Coming soon: Setting Up a Food Stall Again in the Millennium and A Little Mountain Restaurant [Gourmet]. Completed Gourmet novels: The Nian Family’s Garden Restaurant by the Mountains and Sea and The Late-Night Diner at the End of the Alley
★In his previous life, Jiang Yunfeng was the greatest chef in the Great Liang dynasty. His secret recipes made everyone in the capital crave his food, and the five-story Jiang Family Restaurant was packed all year round.
After passing peacefully in his previous life, Jiang Yunfeng transmigrated to the modern world, flat broke but with a run-down little tavern left behind by his late parents.
A few days later, an unremarkable little tavern opened in Xichuan City, and Jiang Yunfeng began his journey to wealth through food.
At first.
Passerby: “A shabby little tavern like this dares to claim its food is exquisite?”
Neighboring shopkeeper: “Once this restaurant goes under, I can rent the place for storage.”
Later, they and everyone else in Xichuan were left drooling over the tavern’s food.
“Boss, bring me two more bowls of lotus root starch! I’ve never had any so smooth and glossy. I feel refreshed all over!”
“Their crab-stuffed oranges are amazing! The crab meat is tender, white, and savory, and the rich crab roe is practically dripping with oil!”
“Have you tried the Jiang family’s fruitwood-roasted duck? The skin is golden and crispy, and the aroma of the meat blends with the fruitwood smoke. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water!”
Later still, everyone realized the little tavern didn’t just serve incredible food. It was full of hidden talent, too.
A food blogger with a million followers came to help out.
A retired movie queen worked in the kitchen.
A theater’s principal musician played piano there.
The national sanda champion worked as the door guard.
Jiang Yunfeng waved a hand. “Every employee in sight was my underling in a past life or this one.”
Xiao Chuanlin toyed with his fan and sighed softly. “But I don’t just want to be your underling.”
[Notes]
1. One-on-one romance, devoted to each other in body and soul.
2. Great Liang is an invented dynasty. Please don’t scrutinize it for historical accuracy.
3. Blurb dated December 16, 2022, screenshot saved.
★Coming soon: A Little Mountain Restaurant [Gourmet]
[Blurb]
After realizing that being a corporate wage slave was no way to live, Lin Xi quit her job and returned to her village, planning to spend the rest of her life with her elderly grandparents and her dog.
In spring, she’d climb the mountain to dig up bamboo shoots. In summer, cicadas sang along the dirt roads. In autumn, she’d knock down chestnuts with long bamboo poles. In winter, she’d pick plum blossoms for flower arrangements.
Life in the mountains was quiet and leisurely. Lin Xi thought it would stay that way until she unexpectedly bound herself to a Gourmet business management System. Her task was to turn her ancestral home into a little restaurant, earn Gourmet achievement points, and receive rewards from the System.
The ancestral home was run-down?
The System rewarded her with a new roof, flooring, and kitchen equipment... turning the old house into a renovated courtyard home.
Ingredients were hard to transport?
The System rewarded her with a spirit-spring space, where the fruits and vegetables were lush and fresh, and the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs tender and plump.
Her cooking skills were limited?
The System rewarded her with ancient cookbooks, state-banquet recipes...
At first, Lin Xi thought a little restaurant wouldn’t last in such a sparsely populated mountain village. She could just cook for her elderly grandparents and her dog.
Her neighbor, Granny Li, wasn’t optimistic. “A Gourmet restaurant in an abandoned village? It’ll go under sooner or later.”
The wealthy and influential Uncle Zhang watched for fun. “Your place won’t last three months.”
Whenever the village chief passed by, he sighed. “Young people, stop making trouble for yourselves.”
Later, the little restaurant grew more and more popular. It transformed from a dilapidated single room into a luxurious courtyard home, and the aroma of its food never stopped wafting through the village.
The restaurant stood beside the woods, facing the lake. Eating to the sound of birdsong and the scent of flowers felt like a peaceful life in seclusion.
Golden, crispy salt-and-pepper shrimp had an archaeological scholar eating half a bowl. “Our excavation team is having all its group meals here from now on!”
The tangy, appetizing sour soup with beef kept a food critic coming back for more. “If you’ve never eaten here, you don’t know what it means to enjoy life!”
The creamy salmon melted at the slightest touch of the tongue, drawing the local richest man back again and again. “A restaurant this good deserves investment for your village!”
The exquisite, translucent peony-style fermented fish had an intangible cultural heritage food director savoring it carefully. “I’ve finally found the taste that disappeared years ago!”
Lin Xi gained financial freedom and found a leisurely life in seclusion, all while bringing investment to the village.
After receiving investment, the village, whose facilities had long been inadequate, gained the resources to build a school, a hospital, supermarkets, a movie theater...
Granny Li, Uncle Zhang, and the village chief: “This is all thanks to Lin Xi and her grandparents! Also, since we’re all from the same village, could you save us a table?”
Theme: Cherish the good things in life, and spend peaceful days with the friends from this life and past lives.
Spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers, spread the flowers~
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