Food Stall: Customers Chase Me across the Country-Chapter 330 - 331: A Half-Buried Tire Emerging from the Mud

Chapter 330: Chapter 331: A Half-Buried Tire Emerging from the Mud

Xue Shi and others watched the Three Cup Chicken in their bowls without blinking.

The color of this Three Cup Chicken already reached master level, with a scent that perfectly balanced the seasoning and accentuated the natural flavor of the chicken to its fullest.

In Chinese cuisine, there’s no fixed and clear standard for adding seasonings when stir-frying, mainly due to the uncertain quality of ingredients.

Any given chicken might have subtle differences under different conditions. To achieve the ultimate taste, one has to adjust the mix and proportion of seasonings according to the unique characteristics of the ingredients in the pot, only then can a perfect dish be created.

Were there not hundreds of chickens in that young fellow’s pot?

The diverse aromas of these chickens blended together after stewing, with seasonings added based on this blend, ultimately creating such a perfect scent...

Feeling shaken, the big shots remained silent and quietly put the chicken into their mouths.

Soft, tender, smooth, fresh, and springy, yet the slightly firm chicken wasn’t dry at all, truly a perfect texture.

Alongside the salty freshness was a hint of sweetness and a smoky flavor, the rich taste charged deeply into one’s taste buds, as if the deliciousness would lift one’s skull.

Silence.

A dozen people said nothing, merely chewed the chicken solemnly.

After a long while, Xue Shi sighed and said, "I’m not as good as him, I’ll train more when I return."

"I’m not as good as him either, I can’t reach such a supreme texture."

"I don’t have such high culinary achievements in flavor, I’ll go back and smell seasonings every day."

"No wonder Master was so furious; comparisons are deadly."

It’s really easy to rank culinary skills, once everyone tastes the dish, they know if they’re inferior, no use being stubborn.

Just practice more dishes!

Wang Fan didn’t expect his Three Cup Chicken to shock these Cantonese cuisine big shots so much, his scalp was a bit tingling now.

Because Zhuo Qianqian told him that city leaders and reporters would come for inspection and consolation, expressing sincere gratitude to Wang Fan, who traveled from far away to aid.

Upon hearing this, Wang Fan felt a terrible headache; such social interactions were vastly beyond his scope.

"Shouldn’t I just skip this? I feel I can’t handle such scenes."

Zhuo Qianqian nodded: "I’ll explain to them, just take some simple pictures while cooking, don’t interrupt your work, discuss thanks after the work here is done."

Wang Fan shrugged: "I don’t want to discuss afterwards either."

Zhuo Qianqian chuckled: "Once finished, we’ll run away directly, could they possibly catch us back?"

Wang Fan laughed too: "That’s a good plan, decided then, you should eat too, we’ve been tired all day."

Wang Fan had been busy all day, while Zhuo Qianqian and her team weren’t idle either, many donations from Kainan University and numerous businesses arrived continuously, with tasks like checking, transporting, and distributing, they were indeed not relaxed at all, Shen Teng, Zhou Ruoqing, and others aren’t accustomed to labor, even an afternoon of work had exhausted them.

Zhuo Qianqian shook her head: "I’ll eat after the grandparents are served first, I’m young and strong, not in a rush."

...

Sukeng Village was covered by black clouds, big rain droplets kept falling, calling it heavy rain seemed conservative, it might have reached the level of a torrential downpour.

"Captain Chen, we need to evacuate quickly, such heavy rain could trigger a second flash flood at any moment."

Li Kai observed the water level changes while speaking to Chen Baoguo: "The villagers have all evacuated, they said only the regular occupants remain, no one else."

Chen Baoguo nodded, ready to issue the evacuation order, when his sharp eyes noticed half-inserted tire in the mud.

He pointed towards the tire: "Let’s go and check the situation."

Li Kai, frowning, looked at the river: "Captain Chen, there’s really no time left, a flash flood could happen anytime."

"Clear the mud, check if there’s anyone inside."

Chen Baoguo spoke firmly, then promptly headed toward the mud, and Li Kai had no choice but to follow with his team.

The place had already experienced a flash flood, Chen Baoguo feared the tire was more than just a tire, it was a vehicle buried within.

Upon reaching the mud, he tried lifting the tire, and its stiff immobility solidified his suspicion.

He picked up a soldier’s shovel and dug a spade of mud, the team followed suit, swiftly digging a pit around the tire.

It was a Wuling Hongguang van, its entire body sunken into the mud, merely a small part of the wheel exited.

Seeing it was indeed a vehicle, Chen Baoguo hastened his shoveling.

Roughly ten hours had passed since the first round of flash floods, if the vehicle had been buried from the start, the occupants inside might be close to suffocating or already there.

Li Kai dug and finally reached glass, wiped it clean vigorously and excitedly shouted: "There’s someone inside!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Baoguo swiftly retrieved a window breaker from his shirt pocket, pressed its thumb hard, a "duang" sound resonated, with the glass instantly spider-webbing, and with a shove and pull of the shovel, most of the window glass shattered, he hurriedly peered inside.

Illuminated by flashlight, he saw a middle-aged man with a bluish complexion gasping deeply, clearly suffocating heavily, plus his safety belt bound to denote half-suspension, his head being in a congested state.

Chen Baoguo was delighted, at least the man was still alive: "Break the door, rescue the man first, speed up!"

Li Kai was about to act, but his expression swiftly changed as he heard the deafening sound from the distance.

"Flash flood!"

At such a moment, he didn’t fuss, using two words to report their current situation.

Chen Baoguo responded quickly: "Forget breaking the door, I’ll pull the man out through the window, evacuate immediately afterwards."

Saying this, he opened the cap from the tail of the window breaker and punched it into the driver’s seat cabin.

He slashed the seat belt, and the middle-aged man toppled forward, Chen Baoguo’s sharp eyes and quick hands hurriedly threw away the glass breaker to catch him.

"Pull!"

At Chen Baoguo’s shout, Li Kai and others quickly exerted force, dragging both from the window, while Li Kai’s peripheral vision had already seen the oncoming clay-colored flash flood!

Li Kai’s heart tightened, filled with a sense of helplessness before nature’s might.

The flood carried immense force, destroying everything blocking its path. Trees uprooted, huge stones as tall as a person rolled along the rushing torrent, leaving their ears ringing with thunderous roars.

The flood was swift, advancing dozens of meters in a blink, appearing far off yet seemingly approaching in an instant.

"Hurry!"

Li Kai’s shout cracked as the team too heard the thunderous sound, unleashing all their energy explosively.

Dragged from the window were Chen Baoguo and the trapped middle-aged man, Chen Baoguo turned and squatted, instantly shouldering the middle-aged man.

"Run!"

The team spared no effort, with the flood bearing down, yet they were still over ten meters from the bank, getting caught in the flood meant certain death.

They were exhausted and drained, without much fuel left for bursts, two newcomers with lesser stamina even showed signs of slowing down.

Chen Baoguo grew frantic inside, indifferent to his own life, couldn’t let young lads in their early twenties lose promising future here.

"Run, you rascals! Get to the bank and I’ll treat you to Wang’s brother’s meals at my expense, set up dates, get girlfriends like Little Zhuo!"