novelraw Chapter 364 - 176: Jiang Yi’s Favorability Increased, Meteorite Acquired! (Triple Combo)
Chapter 364 - 176: Jiang Yi’s Favorability Increased, Meteorite Acquired! (Triple Combo)
12:13 PM.
A Mercedes-Benz G-Class slowly drove into the B2 parking lot of Wanxianghui.
Jiang Tao found an empty spot, parked the car, opened the door and got out with Jiang Yi.
They took the elevator from the underground parking directly to the 5th-floor dining area, heading straight to the entrance of Meizhou Dongpo restaurant.
Jiang Tao had booked a private room and meal here in advance.
After confirming their identity at the service desk, he and Jiang Yi were led by a waitress into a delicately decorated private room.
They waited for about ten minutes.
At 12:23 PM, seven minutes before the scheduled time, the door to the private room was knocked on from the outside.
Han Mei didn’t dare to be late and arrived a few minutes early.
Seeing Jiang Yi sitting with Jiang Tao, Han Mei’s mind was filled with complex thoughts. It seemed that she could no longer manipulate Jiang Yi in the future.
She could no longer force her to submit.
On the way there, Han Mei thought a lot, her mind was in turmoil.
She wondered how Jiang Tao would use her weaknesses to coerce her.
But what she imagined didn’t happen.
Jiang Tao’s attitude towards Han Mei was very gentle and he didn’t even mention the incident at all, as if it had never happened.
At first, Han Mei was a bit reserved, of course, more tense and fearful.
But gradually, sensing that Jiang Tao had no malice towards her, her tense nerves relaxed quite a bit.
It was also Jiang Yi’s first time dining at the same table with Han Mei.
Moreover, recently, their relationship was tense and not harmonious.
Initially, she didn’t speak much, appearing very reserved.
Slowly, under Jiang Tao’s guidance, both Han Mei and Jiang Yi’s moods relaxed a lot.
Overall, the atmosphere of today’s lunch was quite harmonious.
Jiang Tao said nothing, but Han Mei knew what she should do in the future.
She wouldn’t need to treat Jiang Yi like a little ancestor, but she absolutely couldn’t suppress or target her anymore!
The meal went from 12:30 PM to a little after 1 PM, totaling about forty minutes, not even an hour.
Jiang Yi had class at 2 PM.
After the meal, Jiang Tao drove the Mercedes-Benz G-Class to drop her off at the gate of Eddy Kindergarten.
"Jiang Tao, thanks for today. You spent so much because of my issues. I should have been the one treating."
As Jiang Yi was about to get out of the car, she looked at him softly, once again expressing her gratitude.
[Jiang Yi’s favorability towards you increased by 5 points, now at 79 points. (Good friend)]
[Keep it up! Your friendship with Jiang Yi has increased to 80 points!]
"80 points, just 10 more to go!"
Seeing the increase in friendship with Jiang Yi to 80, Jiang Tao secretly rejoiced, feeling that his efforts from this morning paid off.
This meal was definitely worth the cost!
After coming to his senses, Jiang Tao smiled and said:
"Don’t worry about it, it’s just a meal. It doesn’t matter who treats. You can treat me next time."
Jiang Yi also smiled and said, "Hmm, I owe you a meal now."
"Aren’t you still in class? It seems you don’t have much time, you should hurry."
"Ah! Oh, okay, I really have to go now, bye-bye~"
Upon hearing Jiang Tao’s reminder, Jiang Yi waved at him in a flustered manner, turned, and jogged towards the school gate.
After watching Jiang Yi enter, Jiang Tao got back in the car and drove away.
"What to do this afternoon..."
"Oh right, go over to Wumart and stock up on ingredients for the barbecue sauce!"
"In the coming days, I’ll start training Mom and Dad, teaching them how to make barbecue sauce."
"The only tricky part is selecting the raw materials, which I can’t teach Mom and Dad."
"Also, get Jiang Jiaqi to quickly register the product’s name and patent."
Jiang Tao was pondering about the Delicious Barbecue Sauce while driving.
In about half an hour, he drove to the largest Wumart supermarket in Huilongguan.
However, the situation wasn’t very promising.
He spent over half an hour in the produce section, only managing to pick out less than 20 pounds of tomatoes.
There were more onions, but still limited, weighing only 31 pounds.
Garlic was even scarcer, with just a measly 9 pounds.
Fortunately, garlic’s proportion in Delicious Barbecue Sauce is the smallest, just barely enough!
Other ingredients like butter, chili powder, sea salt, pepper, apple cider vinegar, sugar, and mustard weren’t as stringent.
But it couldn’t just be any brand.
These materials had to be strictly selected according to Brother Tongzi’s recipe, which specified the brands.
Different brands at the same price point might taste similar, but the barbecue sauce they produce will taste very different.
The random combination of these different branded seasonings makes the secret recipe much harder to steal by hundreds of times!
After buying the materials, he pushed a full shopping cart back to the underground parking, loading everything into the trunk.
Then, Jiang Tao went on to sweep through a Yonghui, a Hema, and a RT-Mart nearby.
If one isn’t enough, just go to more; the more the merrier.
After this big shopping spree, Jiang Tao spent nearly 10,000 yuan.
At least he got enough raw materials to last a few days.
The first batch of materials was just for teaching his parents as a "learning tool."
A little past 6 PM, Jiang Tao drove to the food factory.
At this time, Jiang Jiaqi usually would have gone home after work, and the food factory would be closed.
Today, her parents were newly arrived, and she was there helping organize the bedding.
With the help of Jiang Jiaqi’s family of three, Jiang Tao unloaded the heaps of supplies from the trunk onto a wooden pallet in the operation room.