Chapter 14 Medium Lottery

"Hmph, didn't you say you'd come to try our fried cakes yesterday? Why are you only coming today?"

Tuan Tuan's words immediately left the Sichuan restaurant owner feeling extremely embarrassed.

He had actually heard about how popular Chen Yu's food cart was yesterday.

But remembering the bold claims he had made, he hadn't dared to come over.

However, his small Sichuan restaurant wasn't very far from the food cart, and yesterday, the aroma of fried cakes had filled his restaurant all day long.

"It's my ignorance, I never imagined that a fried cake could be made so famous, well-known near and far! Here I am, bringing my staff to have a taste, give me two hundred to start with!"

Although Tuan Tuan was still a bit annoyed, she didn't say much since business had come knocking, she took note of the flavors, received the money, and then handed the slip over to Tong Ya.

With Tong Ya's help, the efficiency of the fried cakes delivery greatly improved today.

By the time it was nearly seven o'clock, the queue had dwindled significantly, but in just three hours, he had sold over nine thousand fried cakes.

It was almost the same number as what he sold the entire day yesterday! The turnover also reached an impressive thirteen thousand yuan.

With this calculation, the initial cost invested yesterday had all been recouped.

Indeed, having an extra person meant extra strength, and the money earned doubled too!

However, Chen Yu was still somewhat worried, the self-service vending cabinet was a double-door refrigerator. Yesterday, he hadn't paid for it, only giving two hundred yuan for tables and chairs.

Such a modern refrigerator would need a trial period. Moreover, the owner was not far from the food cart and also liked Chen Yu's fried cakes very much, so he didn't even ask for a deposit.

He didn't know how much the refrigerator would cost. If it was too expensive, not much money would be left today.

"Chen Yu!" Tong Ya suddenly called out, it seemed to be the first time she had used Chen Yu's name, as she used to call him Tuan Tuan's dad.

"It's almost time, I'll take Tuan Tuan to school now!"

Chen Yu waved his hand, "Go ahead, there aren't many people now! And I've made so many semi-finished products, I can manage on my own!"

As he spoke, Chen Yu packed another fifty fried cakes.

"Take these, let the teachers at the school have a taste!"

Tong Ya gladly accepted without protest, "Then I'll consider this as helping you promote it!"

After taking off her apron and gloves, Tong Ya directly took Tuan Tuan's little hand and left, but she didn't take off the parent-child outfit she was wearing.

By ten o'clock in the morning, the number of people coming to buy fried cakes had trickled down considerably, most were heading to the semi-trailer to buy beverages.

After all, no matter how delicious the fried cakes were, they were usually just for breakfast or dinner, no one would eat them all day long as their main meal.

After preparing a batch of semi-finished products and replenishing the vending machine inside the semi-trailer, Chen Yu finally took a break.

By now, the amount on his phone's payment app had reached eighteen thousand yuan, of course, this included the turnover from selling drinks as well.

Seeing the half-remaining raw materials in the food cart, Chen Yu felt an indescribable sense of security.

It looked like he only needed to maintain this amount of raw materials in the future.

When he opened the system page, Chen Yu saw that his points had accumulated to eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty-eight point five.

As expected, the system's calculations were precise, subtracting yesterday's cost, the net profit up to now today was four thousand two hundred yuan, and naturally, the accumulated points were also four thousand two.

Adding to the previous amount, it was exactly this number!

The system had sent a message before that reaching a hundred points would allow one drawing opportunity. Besides the initial free drawing offered by the system, he hadn't yet taken any drawings.

Out of curiosity, Chen Yu clicked open the drawing page.

[Congratulations to the host for activating the medium-level lucky draw, 10,000 points per draw.]

Seeing the system message, Chen Yu subconsciously checked the information beside it and found that the slot for the previous 100-point draws was for the low-level lucky draw.

These points were all hard-earned, and at 10,000 a pop, Chen Yu truly hesitated to part with them.

After a moment's consideration, he clicked on the low-level lucky draw.

[Lucky draw result: None!]

Chen Yu was immediately shocked, which meant he had just wasted 100 points for nothing.

Indeed, you get what you pay for!

Gritting his teeth, Chen Yu directly selected the medium-level lucky draw.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining a new skill, deep-fried vegetable dumplings!]

Then a flood of information windows popped up before his eyes.

Chen Yu was instantly overjoyed, meaning that from now on his food cart wouldn't just have sweets.

Although deep-fried vegetable dumplings and sugar cakes were both fried, their preparation and techniques were entirely different.

It seemed that making vegetable dumplings was more complex than sugar cakes, with a variety of techniques and points for attention, making Chen Yu feel that this wasn't just about dumplings, but about crafting a work of art.

Fortunately, there was only one flavor.

However, for this one flavor, the filling required over twenty different ingredients, resembling some sort of secret recipe.

This time, the system also included several phone numbers, presumably those of ingredient suppliers it had automatically selected for him.

Even though the system had just swindled him out of 100 points, this feature was quite considerate, saving him a lot of time in sourcing the ingredients.

Without hesitation, Chen Yu immediately called these suppliers.

According to the proportions given by the system, he ordered ten pounds each of beef, lamb, pork, and codfish meat, forty pounds of leeks, forty pounds of cabbage, ten pounds of mushrooms, ten pounds of seasoned tofu, along with various seasonings.

The beef and lamb were thirty yuan per pound, while pork and codfish meat were eight yuan per pound. The leeks, cabbage, mushrooms, and seasoned tofu were supplied by one vendor, who provided them all for one yuan per pound.

All together, the total came to exactly one thousand yuan!

When making sugar cakes, the ratio of flour to filling was one to one, so there were still five bags of flour left from the first day.

Without any surprises, there would be ten bags left today.

Since flour can be stored for a long time, Chen Yu had bought a little extra when stocking up.

The afternoon would be a good time to try frying some vegetable dumplings!

With a plan in mind, Chen Yu didn't rest anymore but got up and continued making the semi-finished sugar cakes.

At twelve o'clock noon, the deliverymen from the three companies arrived with the ingredients for the vegetable dumplings almost simultaneously.

After calculating the time, Chen Yu dared not rest anymore, and only moved a chair to sit and continue working.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, all the sugar cake ingredients had been made into semi-finished products, and the food cart was packed full.

If the space hadn't been large enough, it probably wouldn't have all fit!

After a quick inventory, there were nearly ten thousand pieces!

Based on the sales experience of the past two days and to be strict, the ingredients today should be able to produce twenty thousand fried cakes.

But even with the system's support, Chen Yu's hands weren't precise enough, leading to an excess of around a hundred or so from the morning.