After My Rebirth Chapter 10: First Customer

Chapter 10: First Customer

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

Zheng Ming left in a huff, and in his words, he was so angry at being used as a tasting tool that he would never come back. But before he left, Li Sinian brought him a cup of honey passion fruit and he didn’t refuse, and Li Sinian exchanged WeChat with him and he didn’t refuse either.

From today’s cup of honey passion fruit, the raw materials had a certain impact on the taste of food, and the impact is not small. He also mixed the honey passion fruit when he drank it himself while still living at home, but he clearly felt that today’s mix had a different taste.

The passion fruit was bought but what could determine the taste was certainly the honey.

The ingredients are really different from the ones bought outside. Li Sinian cleaned up the dishes, went out for a walk, and came back only after the food was almost gone. He didn’t even look at his phone while he was walking, and only when he got home did he realize that Zheng Ming had sent him a message.

[Zheng Ming: This is an activity of the C-Platform, food theme, I think it is quite suitable for you, you can try. http//…]

[Zheng Ming: Don’t thank me, I also read a little about the gentry feud from the novel, I just think that a rich person like you suddenly coming to live in the countryside must have been driven out by the family, pity you, so it’s to provide you with a channel that can make money.]

C-Platform is an original video site that covers a very wide range of content, and is one of the must-have software in modern young people’s phones.

Li Sinian smiled, returned an emoji, and turned into the bathroom to take a shower.

This kid, with a knife’s mouth and a tofu heart, is quite funny.

After the shower, Li Sinian played the game for a while and found nothing interesting, so he closed the game and prepared to do something else.

When he quit the game, he suddenly thought of the link Zheng Ming had sent him. He clicked into WeChat again and read the message again, a food-themed event on Station C.

In his previous life, Li Sinian was focused on work, but in this day and age, nothing can be separated from the Internet, so he knew a little bit about C-Platform.

He put up a C-Platform site on his cell phone, and the opening screen was the campaign sent to him by Zheng Ming.

#The videos that make people’s appetite move.

Li Sinian clicked into the thread and saw that the campaign was posted the day before yesterday, and there were already quite a few submissions.

Some videos were about cooking process, some were about eating process, more were about the process of mukbang eating, but with so many on eating there weren’t really any videos on what to eat.

This activity was really suitable for him, Li Sinian did not hesitate to register an account and apply to become a blogger.

One good thing about his life now was that he could do whatever he wanted. One day he can become a blogger because he finds it interesting to make videos, and the next day he can change to something else he is interested in because he doesn’t want to do it anymore.

* The next morning

The next morning, Li Sinian woke up and went for a run, and then came back to prepare breakfast.

In order to shoot the video, his breakfast today was made with some elaborate, Canton morning tea.

But with only him eating, this morning tea did not have to be very complicated, so he only made amber walnut flower branch cake, shrimp dumplings and walnut milk dew.

He only made a little bit of each, just enough for him to eat alone.

Li Sinian studied mathematics and economics, but in his previous life he managed the company and often came into contact with the publicity department.

He had contact with celebrities for endorsements or promotional videos.

He has also dealt with the photographer in charge of shooting videos a few times, and the other party has explained to him some of the ways of expressing the camera language and what kind of videos are eye-catching, so he had some of his own insights about shooting videos.

Li Sinian took several shots of the preparation and handling of the ingredients, focusing on the cooking process, and finally the finished product.

The video was shot for three minutes, the first two and a half minutes were the cooking process. For the last half minute or so, Li Sinian wore a white shirt to the camera, but did not show his face, only the location of the chin, and the hand holding the cutlery.

He took a bite of the shrimp dumpling with the sound of swallowing, and showed the bitten side of the dumpling in front of the camera, doing the same with the walnut cake.

The finishing touch was the sound of him drinking chestnut milk dew and swallowing.

The video was edited, Li Sinian added some ingredients and steps, checked that there were no problems and uploaded it.

Li Sinian was now an idle person, after eating breakfast, he had nothing to do, so he went to take care of the vegetables he grows in front of his yard.

The market in the village was not far away, it took about ten minutes to get there. After taking care of the flowers and plants, he went to the market to buy vegetables.

It was almost eleven o’clock when he started preparing lunch again.

When he used to work hard, he would occasionally watch TV, and there was a variety show called “The Tip of the Tongue in China”, which was a documentary about food.

At that time he watched the people in the program prepare lunch after breakfast and dinner after lunch every day and thought it was strange, he couldn’t believe how there could be people in this world who had so much time to spare, except for to eat and cook every day.

Now he knew, well, there were still such idle people, and now he was one of them.

Li Sinian participated in that food event on the C site just to pass the time, so he didn’t bother to think about it in detail, he just planned to film the process of making his three meals a day, cut it out and upload it.

So he filmed the process of the noon meal, the filming technique being the same as the breakfast.

When he uploaded the lunch video, the breakfast video had not been reviewed yet, so Li Sinian didn’t care, and went to take a nap afterwards.

In the afternoon he went to the interior designer to communicate about how to decorate his restaurant, and came back around five o’clock to shoot the video of himself cooking dinner again.

When the third video was uploaded, the first two videos had already been approved.

Li Sinian just shot to pass time, so he did not expect the effect to be surprisingly okay, the first two videos were released not long ago, and the click rate surprisingly exceeded a thousand.

But he thought the traffic could have been so big, also because he participated in the campaign.

Click on the video, every few seconds there are pop-ups floating by.

-This video is so comfortable to watch.

-The practice is quite authentic, good

-Looking so delicious ah

-Goddamn, the blogger’s hands are great!

By the time the finished product was ready, the number of pop-ups started to grow.

-Good! Yes! Eat!

-After that, I want to have morning tea, but it’s already late.

-You can have it tomorrow morning.

-Want to eat morning tea +1, tomorrow morning takeaway!

-I’m a Sichuanese and I’m gluttonous!

The largest number of pop ups appeared at the end of the video, when he ate those few bites.

-Ah ah ah ah ah ah! I don’t know whether to say the rice looks good or the blogger tastes good (bushi)

-This is a real life throat knot.

-This sound is so great, the popping juice seems to be bursting into my mouth!

-I’ve ordered shrimp dumplings for takeout

-The blogger is not popular, God forbid!

Li Sinian finished watching his two videos, closed them and found that the clicks and favorites had gone up again, and many people had given him coins.

He didn’t expect such a good effect, well… If the restaurant loses money, it’s okay to be a food internet celebrity in the future.

After uploading the videos, Li Sinian played two more games of “Play”, then went to bed.

*.

Li Sinian’s restaurant was small, but it still took two months to renovate even with the minimalist style.

After another month, when the smell of the store almost dissipated, he began to prepare for the opening of the restaurant.

Three months later, the vegetables planted in the front yard were also almost fully grown, so as the restaurant opened, he intended to take his own vegetables to make the original ingredients.

Li Sinian uploaded videos three times a day and became the most diligent blogger in the food section.

He was so diligent on the one hand, and his videos were so engaging on the other, that by the end of the event, he had reached third place in the number of entries.

The first and second place bloggers in front of him were old bloggers who have been on C-Platform for more than three years, so it’s not easy to overtake them, but originally Li Sinian participated in this event just for fun, so it didn’t matter if he couldn’t overtake them.

Although Zheng Ming was not happy about it, he actually came to his house to eat more often than anyone else.

After the two people got acquainted, Zheng Ming also brought his classmates to visit.

They knew that Li Sinian was preparing to open a restaurant, so they would write food reviews for him after each meal.

Li Sinian modified the dishes according to a few picky students, and his cooking skills became more and more exquisite.

On the opening day of the restaurant, Li Sinian’s neighbors in the village all came to help, and although Zheng Ming had a foul face, he did a lot of work.

It took another week to prepare for the opening.

When the summer vacation came, his small restaurant finally opened.

Li Sinian opened the restaurant with the mindset of indifference, the name was also very arbitrary.

It was called: Restaurant.

Zheng Ming looked up at the sign above the restaurant and turned his head expressionlessly, “Are you sure you don’t want to change the name? This name really doesn’t attract customers.”

“I think it’s fine.” Li Sinian rubbed his chin and said, “If it were me, when I saw the bare words, I would be curious about what kind of restaurant this is and come in to taste it.”

Zheng Ming pulled the corner of his mouth, “People who see a small store like yours without a name will just think you’re of low quality and turn around to go to the next one, thank you.”

Li Sinian smiled, “I don’t think the name is the most important thing, what matters is the taste.”

“You just say that because you can’t come up with anything better.”

“You know that.” Li Sinian pushed him towards the restaurant, “Come on, kid, the first meal of the store is made for you to eat, you are the first person to eat the vegetables I planted, you should feel honored.”

“I’m afraid I’ll be poisoned.”

Li Sinian intended to mix a cold dish for him, but unfortunately, before he could start, Zheng Ming was called home by his dear mother to help.

The location of the restaurant was desolate, and Li Sinian really did not put much effort into the decoration, as Zheng Ming said, his place was completely empty.

Li Sinian was bored, lying on the table, playing a few games of “Play”, but still did not wait for customers to come.

He looked up in despair, Is it really the name of the store? How about a new one?

Ah, forget it, it’s too much trouble.

The idea of reinstalling the name of the restaurant flashed through his mind for a moment before Li Sinian slumped back down.

After two more games, I guess God heard Li Sinian’s prayer, so when he was ready to close the door and go home to exercise, there was a commotion at the door.

Li Sinian looked back and a young man in a black sweatshirt pushed his way in.

His first customer.

 

 

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