Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 692 - 687 New Cuisine, Cola Chicken Wings

Chapter 692: 687 New Cuisine, Cola Chicken Wings

It felt like a game of hot potato, with more and more people trying their hand at using and getting involved with computer games.

Gu Chen was certain that, at this rate, it wouldn’t take long before the entire internet cafe entered the gaming atmosphere.

By then, she could make one last profit and sell off the internet cafe, no longer continuing the business.

She could also upgrade the computer equipment, as the total investment wouldn’t require too much money anyway.

After observing the situation in the cafe, Gu Chen found there wasn’t much to do, so she didn’t bother to wait around any longer. After all, as long as there were no surprises, she was too lazy to handle the remaining matters.

She expected that group of people would probably come again in the evening, but she had no idea what to do then. Even though He Jingmei had offered to help, Gu Chen always felt that He Jingmei might not be able to really assist her.

The background of this night club she was considering was Haicheng’s Chamber of Commerce.

Although Gu Chen hadn’t had much contact with Haicheng, she sensed that it wasn’t an easy place to deal with.

The so-called capital represented by these chambers of commerce played a brutal game. Even now, their capabilities were no less than those of capital ten years later, as if the nature of capital remained constant no matter the era.

She indeed thought she could join a chamber of commerce; after all, everyone united made a formidable force.

However, joining a chamber could lead to various conflicts; maybe what suited her better would be to start her own chamber and then attract people to join it.

With this idea in mind, Gu Chen suddenly became hesitant.

Perhaps her idea could really become a reality. Establishing a chamber now for mutual assistance could become a significant force in the future, like some villages in the south.

These villages took their ancestry seriously and displayed something rather peculiar—they were incredibly united.

They might have conflicts among themselves on normal days, but when it mattered, everyone in those villages stood together as one.

At the same time, these villages also ensured the tradition of "the rich leading the way for the less fortunate."

Eventually, everyone in the village became wealthy, and after a few more years, such villages formed the so-called housing speculation groups.

Thinking of all this, Gu Chen couldn’t help but contemplate the possibility that she should really start rallying her own connections, at the very least to establish a footing in the locale.

She couldn’t allow herself to be like fish on a cutting board, helpless against others’ manipulations.

Just as Gu Chen was pondering these matters,

she had no idea what was going to happen that evening.

Having returned home with nothing much to do—since the bar was operating as usual—she decided to stay home tonight and spend time with Xiao Tangtang.

She hadn’t seen much of Xiao Tangtang lately, being busy with work all the time, so she planned to spend the evening with her.

After all, Xiao Tangtang had achieved second place in her exams, and it would be remiss of her as a father not to cook a celebratory meal for her great success.

She planned to make something different today.

Come to think of it, Qiwei Vegetarian hadn’t introduced any new dishes recently.

If it came down to it, she’d just add a couple of new dishes to Qiwei Vegetarian’s menu. Today would be a good day to test out new recipes and, if they turned out well, she would permanently add them to the menu.

She intended to prepare something quite innovative, cola chicken wings.

This dish often only appears in various gatherings, and is rarely featured in regular meals, mainly because it is a bit too unconventional. But Gu Chen believed that the dishes he made would definitely stand out.

The most important thing was that Xiao Tangtang would also tend to like these sweet things.

After Gu Chen had finished his research, he headed home with the cola.

The highlight of this meal was nothing else but the meat dishes; his water resource was not needed, unless he bred his own, but that was a bit too troublesome. However, during cooking, it was possible to pour a little bit of water into it, and he believed the taste would certainly be altered.

The dominance of Spiritual Spring needs no further elaboration.

He felt as if no matter what was added to the Spiritual Spring, the taste would change and become different.

Gu Chen quickly started cooking here at the house.

One pot followed another, and time passed bit by bit, soon reaching past six o’clock.

At this time, Xiao Tangtang and Ji Pianran returned from outside.

In the past, Xiao Tangtang would come into the house listlessly, but today, seeing that Gu Chen was also at home, the little girl’s spirits immediately soared.

"Dad, didn’t you go to work today?"

She immediately asked Gu Chen curiously.

"Seeing you got second place in the exam, Dad specially made some dishes for you today, including a new dish. You can try it out in a bit."

After hearing Gu Chen say this, Xiao Tangtang’s face immediately showed great joy.

"Dad, I love you!"

Gu Chen’s company was very important to Xiao Tangtang.

Ji Pianran had not expected Gu Chen to be at home today; he had been so busy recently that he was almost never seen around.

During this period, Ji Pianran felt like she was running a widow-style household, waking up early to make food for Xiao Tangtang, then taking her to school after cooking.

After dropping Xiao Tangtang off at kindergarten, she would hurry to work, then pick up Xiao Tangtang after work, and come back to continue cooking.

Initially, the idea of sending her to kindergarten was to free up more time, but since Xiao Tangtang started attending, the two of them hadn’t ended up with much more free time.

Ji Pianran was also very happy that Gu Chen was at home today.

If every day could be like this, it would be perfect.

By the time it was past seven o’clock, Gu Chen had placed all the dishes on the table.

Xiao Tangtang glanced over the table and immediately spotted the cola chicken wings Gu Chen had mentioned. There was nothing wrong with the cola chicken wings except that they didn’t look very appealing.

The cola’s color made the chicken wings look as if they were burnt, totally unappetizing.

If the dish hadn’t come from Gu Chen’s hands, she definitely wouldn’t have eaten it.

Even so, Xiao Tangtang hesitated for a moment, her little eyes seemed to harbor a small doubt about Gu Chen’s culinary skills, and it seemed that it was only out of familial trust that she finally picked up a piece with her chopsticks.

And when she tasted the dish, Xiao Tangtang’s eyes suddenly lit up.