C35 Buddhist Boss

After this wave of guests left, the restaurant returned to silence. In the end, after 1 PM, after the peak of the dining period, not a single customer walked in.

When Lu Shan saw this situation, he could not help but feel a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

He wanted to receive sincere praise from 300 customers in this restaurant in a month's time! On average, he needed to get the sincere praise of at least ten people every day. But looking at the current situation, there might not be ten people who could enter this restaurant to eat in a day! If this continued, how could he possibly complete the mission?

Thinking of this, Lu Shan naturally could not be a little anxious.

On the contrary, Cui Wenwen, as the boss of this restaurant, might have long been accustomed to this kind of situation. She did not seem to be in a hurry at all. When there was no one around, she sat at the table by the window and quietly read the book. It was as if she didn't care about the good and bad business in the shop at all.

Lu Shan was speechless when he saw this. Cui Wenwen was simply Buddha-like boss! Whether the business was good or bad, it did not seem to matter to her!

However, Lu Shan could not be as Buddhistic as her. Immediately, he walked to the seat opposite Cui Wenwen and sat down. He then asked, "Boss, was the business here this bad in the past?"

Cui Wenwen put down the book in her hand. She blinked a pair of beautiful big eyes and looked at Lu Shan. She said, "Business was good in the past, but after this place was planned to be demolished and reconstructed, many of the residents nearby moved away. Of course, the most important thing is that Developer wants to buy my house at a low price. But I refused to sell it, so he deliberately found a lot of people to mess with my business. He even threatened the chefs and waiters here and scared them away! In the end, after a long time, very few people came to eat here. People who often eat in the vicinity know that there isn't even a proper chef in my restaurant. Who else is willing to eat here?!"

"So, do you regret it now? If you want to leave now, I won't stop you. Of course, if you're willing to stay and work for a month, even if I can't make money from this restaurant, I'll still pay you your salary."

Lu Shan shook his head. He was only worried about the restaurant's current situation. Even if he found a way to improve the taste of every dish and was confident that he could make people who had eaten his cooking praise him. But if there were no customers who came to eat, then no matter how good his cooking was, it would be useless!

It seemed that he still had to think of a way.

At around 2 PM in the afternoon, Cui Wenwen called the vegetable supplier and sent over the onion, ginger, and garlic that Lu Shan asked for. There was a big bundle of onions, and a big bag of garlic and ginger was in each bag. It seemed that Cui Wenwen still tried her best to satisfy Lu Shan's request.

After receiving these things, Lu Shan immediately took them to Back Chef excitedly. Then, he stuffed the big bag of garlic into the Upgrade Box.

The bag full of garlic weighed ten jin, but after putting it into the Upgrade Box, there was no reaction at all.

He could not help but feel nervous. He thought to himself, Could it be that this garlic was not considered a low-grade ingredient, so it could not be synthesized? Or could it be that the amount of garlic was too much and exceeded the limits of synthesis?

Thus, he hurriedly took out the bag and poured out half of the garlic. When he put it back into the Upgrade Box, there was still no reaction. He could only take it out again and pour out more than half of the garlic.

At this moment, he finally saw the [Material Synthesis] option underneath the Upgrade Box light up. Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.

Then, he took out the bag again and placed the garlic back into the Upgrade Box.

After repeatedly experimenting, he finally found the largest number of garlic that could be synthesized in one go. It was about six pounds.

Lu Shan immediately pressed the virtual button of [Material Combination] and saw the five-colored light dancing in front of him. After the multicolored light disappeared, he saw that the six kilogram garlic had shrunk significantly. He estimated that there was at most one and a half pounds of garlic left! And at this moment, each garlic had shrunk more than twice its original size, looking very small.

Indeed, the Upgrade Box's synthesis function was still so stingy. Why couldn't it let him synthesize more ingredients at a time?

These garlic had become so small. The difference between them and their original appearance was too great. If Cui Wenwen saw it when he usually used it, there was no way to explain it. He used a secret method to process some of these ingredients. She would not think much of it. But he should not have planned to become so small!

While he was busy with these matters, he had been listening to the commotion outside. He was afraid that Cui Wenwen would barge in and see these abnormal situations. But fortunately, Cui Wenwen probably heard him say that he wanted to use a secret method to deal with these things. So she had been sitting outside reading books and did not have any intention of coming in to peep.

Hence, Lu Shan hurriedly peeled off the cloves of the synthetic garlic and cut them into pieces. Although the sliced garlic looked a little different, at least it was not so conspicuous anymore. In this way, when he was cooking, he only needed to add some sliced garlic.

Of course, he didn't need that much now, so he only left a bowl outside. The remaining sliced garlic was stored in a fresh bag and then placed in the preservation cabinet.

Next, he used the same method. After synthesizing the onions, he directly cut them into chopped onions, and the raw ginger into ginger. Only then was he finally done.

In this way, it took him more than half an hour to process these three things. He relied on his good knife skills to cut the items at a very fast speed. If it was in the past, these things would have been enough for him to work for an hour or two.

After preparing these things, Lu Shan suddenly had a lot of confidence in his culinary skills. Now, he could only wait for the customers to come and display their skills. He received sincere praise from the bottom of his heart!

He believed that although the business in the restaurant was not good, as long as his culinary skills could be praised by the customers, the business in the restaurant would change very quickly if word of mouth continued to spread.

However, it was only three o'clock in the afternoon. It was almost impossible for people to go to the restaurant to eat at this time. He walked out of boredom and sat opposite Cui Wenwen.

Seeing Lu Shan come out, Cui Wenwen looked up and asked, "Are you done?"

"I am done!"

Lu Shan said confidently, "Now with the seasoning I made in secret, the dishes will be more delicious. I can guarantee that the guests will still want to eat it this time!"

Cui Wenwen heard him and smiled. She did not say anything else and continued to read the book.

At that moment, the sound of a motorcycle came from outside the door.