Far away in Moscow

Chapter 95
It's been a long time since I've been cooking seriously, and Lao Wei is now at a time when he can't stand the skill, so he made six dishes at random.

The plastic bag he brought contained a sauced elbow and a piece of sauced beef. Li Baoqing cut them up and put them on a plate. Hu Yi and Zhou Dali cleaned up the table and bought beer. The four of them sat down and drank a cup, picked up their chopsticks and started eating Eat and drink.

In the past few months, the three of Hu Yi basically ate in the school cafeteria at noon and took out food made by Li Baoqing in the evening. It has been a long time since they had such a hearty meal.Hu Yi ate and sighed in admiration: "It must be said that it is Brother Wei's craftsmanship. Baoqing, have you learned it yet?"

Li Baoqing seemed very confident: "Almost, wait for me to try it a few times, it should be fine!"

"It's definitely no problem. They're all home-cooked dishes, simple. Unfortunately, I'm not used to using an electric stove, and I can't master the heat." Old Wei turned to look at Zhou Dali: "Brother, is this dish okay?"

"Yes! That's fine!" Zhou Dali nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and pointed his chopsticks at the table: "Especially the sauced beef and elbow, it's so delicious. It's full of flavor and tastes good!"

Old Wei grinned contentedly: "I made them all at home. If you want to eat them in the future, you can find me to get them, as long as you are not too far away."

"You made it yourself?!" Zhou Dali looked at Hu Yi and Li Baoqing thoughtfully, "If you two learn Wei Ge's skills, selling sauces in the dormitory will definitely become popular!"

"Yes!" Li Baoqing was startled, and said happily, "Brother Wei, teach me!"

"Well...hehe." Old Wei's smile was a bit far-fetched: "This is a secret recipe passed down from my master, which is quite troublesome. Moreover, the sauce is based on the old soup, and you have to add ingredients to the old soup frequently. Some things are not available in Moscow. It's so fun!"

"You don't need to teach us the secret recipe." Hu Yi said, "We can buy your cooked meat and sell it in school. How about this?"

"Of course it's no problem." Old Wei agreed with all his heart: "The purpose of making these things is to sell them, and I don't want to make more money from you, as long as I don't lose money."

"Well, let's try it in school first. If it sells well, you have to earn the money you should earn. How can you make your work go to waste?" Hu Yi smiled slightly, and then frowned again: " But... the distance is indeed a bit far, and running to you every day is quite strenuous."

Old Wei nodded and said, "That's right, it takes at least two hours to go back and forth."

The four looked at each other in a circle, picked up chopsticks and ate a few mouthfuls of food in a muffled voice.Zhou Dali suddenly said: "It would be great if you lived with us, we can still meet often."

"Yeah, anyway, you don't need to go to work now, so why not come and live with us next door!" Li Baoqing winked at Old Wei.

The two were just talking casually, but Lao Wei lost his mind for a while: "You can think about it."

The place where Lao Wei lives now is near Maji, where Hu Yi and Li Baoqing studied when they first arrived in Moscow. There are many Chinese businessmen and migrant workers gathered there. Dollars can only rent a bed in a two-bedroom apartment, but for the same price, you can rent a spacious double room in Zhou Dali’s apartment.

Because it is very close to the Huanghai Hotel where he used to work, Lao Wei has never thought of moving in these years.During the Spring Festival, a friend recommended him to work as a chef in a restaurant called China Dragon. Although the salary was not bad, he hesitated because of the distance.

"Chinese Dragon?! It's not far from here!" Li Baoqing patted the table excitedly: "Old Hu, do you remember? It's the restaurant I applied for!"

Hu Yi was stunned: "Oh! Scrambled eggs with tomatoes?" Then he raised his head and laughed, and vividly told Lao Wei the story of Li Baoqing's application for a chef to perform "big turning spoon".

The old matter was brought up again, and several people were still overjoyed.Li Baoqing touched the scar on his face and said with a smile: "Brother Wei, it's God's will. If you really go to work in China Dragon, then you might as well move here to live with us!"

"Yes!" Hu Yi broke his fingers and analyzed: "The living conditions in this place are good, the surrounding environment is good, and there are many Chinese people in the building. You can sell sauces when you live here, and there is also a Youda dormitory. …Well, it’s quite a large consumer group. What’s more, it’s convenient to go to work in the future, and we brothers can often get together, right?”

This topic was brought up too suddenly, and Old Wei just hesitated at first, but the three of them couldn't help persuading them in turns. After a few bottles of beer, they also thought it was a good idea to move here: "Okay! I'll go back and study, if the Chinese dragon Let me go to work at the same time—or the sauced meat is sold well in your school—then I’ll move here! We don’t have any valuable property, what a big deal!”

The three were overjoyed and drank and chatted with Old Wei until three o'clock in the afternoon before seeing him off.Hu Yi and Li Baoqing rested for a while, and returned to the dormitory to prepare dinner for the day.

Han Shangyun was about to go out, and when he saw Hu Yi, he pointed to a large storage box on the table: "Xizhen sent kimchi for you."

"Great! You can say thank you to her when you see her. Ah, by the way, help me give her money by the way, and I'll give it to you when I come back." Hu Yi couldn't wait to open the lid and smell it, then turned around and told Li Baoqing in satisfaction: "When delivering food today, each lunch box comes with a small serving of kimchi. Remember to tell them that it is a free gift, and ask them to give their opinions after tasting it."

"Okay." Li Baoqing said sullenly: "Send spicy cabbage? It's not a valuable thing, will this trick work?"

"You'll know if it works or not." Hu Yi took off his gloves and threw them on the bed vigorously: "I've made up my mind, I'll go to Lao Wei's house tomorrow to buy a few pieces of sauced beef, let's re-advertise, and I'll give my secretary away when I buy a lunch box One serving of five-spice beef and authentic Korean kimchi."

"Give sauced beef?!" Boss Li Baoqing was reluctant: "This is too... this is too... too expensive, right? Sauced beef is not cheap! Didn't we agree to sell it?"

"You think it's cheap to send spicy cabbage, and you think it's expensive to send sauced beef." Hu Yi laughed: "Wang Shen said that you don't turn your mind, and you really don't turn your mind at all."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"This is called a price reduction in disguise." Hu Yi patiently explained: "The content and price of our box lunch itself remains unchanged, one meat and one vegetable, 80 rubles. But at the same time, we will give a spicy cabbage and a sauced beef, which is actually two Meat and vegetarian!"

"Oh!" Li Baoqing's small eyes widened: "That's the same as Sixth Brother and the others!"

"That's right! Although these two are bought with money, they are of good quality and will bring a good reputation and save us from thinking about side dishes all day long." Hu Yi said confidently: "Since it is a free gift, We can keep the portion size a little smaller, so that they can’t get enough of it after eating it, and they still think about buying our box lunch the next day. In this way, the advertisement of Lao Wei’s sauce is also published, and there will definitely be people in the future I came here specifically to buy other things. This corresponds to the saying: People tell people to say no, and goods make people nod their heads!"

Li Baoqing was stunned for a while, and it took a while to come back to his senses: "Okay, I really have you, so let's do it like this!"

"Just do it like this!" Hu Yi was gearing up, eager to try: "Don't leave when you're done at night, let's discuss it carefully. Grandma is such a leg, these days I can't hold back lightly, it's time to have a good meeting with Sixth Brother It's a battle!"

(End of this chapter)