"Is there any magic in our store?" Du Rourou said with a confused look on her face.
"What's wrong?" Ding Sha was adjusting the recipe of pickles for the third time and was curious when he heard this.
"No, I just heard about the third couple breaking up this month..." Du Rourou was speechless.
"Uh... breakup season?" Ding Sha thought for a moment.
Du Rourou thought about it and nodded, "Maybe. If there hadn't been the epidemic, it would have been graduation and breakup season... By the way, every time it's this time, it feels like the trees in the school have lost more leaves..."
"Hahaha, how about we shoot a sad jelly today?" Ding Sha suddenly had an idea.
"Sad jelly?" Um, I searched, Du Rourou was stunned for a moment, "Isn't that a spicy noodle?"
"No," Ding Sha put the prepared pickles in a small water- and oil-free glass jar and put it in the refrigerator.
"It's similar to Sichuan jelly, it's also a kind of jelly, and it tastes spicy and numbing."
“You’re not going to take pictures of the cakes?”
"Special cases should be treated specially. If they are cooked well, they can be put on the menu and sold."
The jelly is made of pea flour. After mixing it, it is put aside and wait for it to solidify. This time is a bit long, so Ding Sha took a newly bought round-bellied short vase to put flowers in.
The various flowers in the yard grew too wildly, and many thorny branches had spread beyond the originally planned flower beds and reached the road. Aunt Zhao was scratched a few days ago.
Ding Sha simply bought a lot of vases, pruned the branches that needed to be pruned, threw away the ones that needed to be thrown away, and the flowers were placed on the table and in the house, which were fragrant and beautiful.
After the jelly solidifies, cut it into small pieces and sprinkle it with onions, garlic, coriander and special Sichuan-style spicy seasoning.
It tastes spicy, fresh and fragrant, and the person who eats it will shed tears, snot and sweat, which really lives up to the name of "Sad Jelly".
There was a lot of jelly made, so Du Rourou took back the menu and asked Ding Sha to write this dish down, and then helped to take out the arranged flowers and arrange them.
A lot of new decorations and furnishings have been added to the house recently. Many of them were sent by Uncle Wei, and some were conceived by Xiao Jun himself. They are all placed in the restaurant, and look particularly childlike.
Aunt Zhao took Ping An to take a nap, and Xiao Jun went out and no one knew what he was doing.
Wang Wenhao was practicing his knife skills in the kitchen. He was too thin and had no strength, and had been eating a lot to gain weight recently.
A girl walked in and asked, "Are you open now?"
"We're open. Please sit down and I'll get you the menu." Ding Sha just handed her the menu in his hand.
"Well, I want a sweet and sour pork tenderloin, a sad jelly, and a freshly squeezed juice." The girl ordered the food very quickly.
Ding Sha went to the back and said something to Wang Wenhao, then brought up the jelly.
The girl didn't seem to be able to eat spicy food very well. Her nose and eyes turned red after just two bites. She even smiled at Ding Sha and said, "It's so spicy."
Ding Sha brought her some juice and said, "Take a sip to relieve the spiciness."
The girl took a sip and said, "It's quite delicious though."
After all the dishes were served, Ding Sha stopped disturbing her and sat aside quietly to continue communicating with Fan Xiangxiang.
After finishing her meal, the girl did not leave immediately, but sat for a while, looked at Ding Sha and said, "What a nice weather today."
"Yes, there is a breeze and the sun is shining, but it's not that hot." Ding Sha also replied with a smile.
"Your shop is beautiful too," said the girl.
"Thank you. You're welcome to come again next time." Ding Sha thought for a moment and gave her a handful of plum candy to freshen her mouth.
"Next time?" The girl smiled and said, "I think so."
The girl stood up to pay the bill. "Thank you for the hospitality. I'm glad to meet you and your store today."
Ding Sha didn't know why he felt a little strange, but he couldn't figure it out, so he could only smile and repeat, "Me too, I'm glad to meet you today, welcome to visit next time."
The girl left, but Ding Sha still felt strange.
After a while, I saw a large wave of people suddenly flowing in one direction outside the store.
She opened the door and stopped the neighbor's older sister who was coming back from the other side. "Sister, why are there so many people over there? Are there any activities going on?"
"Hey, what's going on?" The neighbor lady just sighed, "There's a little girl trying to commit suicide by the river!"
"Suicide?" Ding Sha was shocked.
"Yeah, she's pretty and seems calm, wearing a pink and white dress and long hair. I don't know why she's so depressed..."
Ding Sha was stunned for a moment. Isn’t that the girl who was eating just now
She subconsciously ran over there, and Du Rourou called out to her several times from behind but to no avail.
Ding Sha ran to the river, panting. It was not far from her family's small restaurant. There were already many people gathered there, and she could hear the faint sound of sirens.
The girl sat on a pillar by the river, looking at the sky with a calm face.
She looked very comfortable and calm, and didn't look like she was seeking death at all.
People around were pointing and talking, but Ding Sha became more and more worried and scared the more he thought about it.
She took two steps forward bravely and tried to strike up a conversation, "Girl?"
The girl had already seen her and smiled and said, "Thank you, boss."
"It's so dangerous there. Come here quickly. I'll catch you, okay?" Ding Sha took two more steps.
"Don't come over here, sister," the girl moved back a little and looked shaky, as if she would lose her balance and fall if the wind blew.
"Thank you for talking to me today. I am very happy."
"My sister just made some snacks. Do you want to try them?" Ding Sha's mind was blank and he could only say whatever he thought of.
The girl shook her head. "No, it's such a nice day today. I like it very much."
"Then why..." Ding Sha couldn't help but ask.
"I'm really a little tired," the girl shook her head slightly, "I don't think the good weather is good at all."
"There are still many possibilities in life..." Ding Sha tried to persuade her while trying to get closer to her.
The girl seemed to be in a trance, "I'm so tired..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the firefighters who came from behind the bridge pushed her in.
The girl fell heavily to the ground, still a little unresponsive. Ding Sha immediately went over to pull her, "Everything will be fine..."
The girl didn't struggle. "Actually, I regretted it a little after dinner today. I thought I could leave next time I come."
"Then come every day, I'll make delicious food for you." Ding Sha thought that if he told her every day that he was welcome to come next time, he would be able to keep her here...
The girl stopped talking and leaned in her arms, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Tsk, it's so real, I thought he was really going to jump, just trying to attract attention..."
"That's right, what a waste of my time..."
"Let's go, what's so good about this, you drama queen!"
Ding Sha was startled by the discordant voices coming from the crowd and quickly covered the ears of the girl in his arms.
The girl had heard it. She stood up, pushed Ding Sha away, and quickly jumped down before anyone could react.
"Ah!" Ding Sha screamed.
The firefighter was stunned for a second and then went down to rescue the man.
Ding Sha didn't care about those people. He rushed to the bridge and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the firefighters quickly found the girl.
Then this time she became even angrier.
Ding Sha turned around and walked up to the man who spoke first, "Do you really want her to die?!"
"Do you like to make sarcastic remarks so much? Is your time so precious? Is it more precious than a life?"
"Don't you have a heart? Don't you have a conscience? Do you have a grudge against her? Do you have to force her to death?"
The man didn't care. "If she wanted to die, she would have jumped down long ago. Why did I have to tell her to jump? Isn't she just pretending?"
"Hey, I have such a bad temper!" The big brother who was listening nearby and was so angry that he just threw his clothes and punched up.
"What are you doing? Hitting people?" The man was hit and fell to the side.
"I don't hit people. I hit bastards, scum and species. I just don't hit people." The eldest brother smiled in a very social way, and his fists as big as sandbags were clenched with a crackling sound.
The man wanted to be more aggressive but was afraid of being beaten. He glared at the eldest brother and wanted to leave, but the eldest brother pulled him by the collar and said, "Don't leave. This is not over yet."
"Wait for the little girl to come up and then go and apologize. Then leave after you're done, okay?"
Author's side note: I will reduce the description of cooking and focus more on the plot~