"This medicinal cuisine restaurant, well, it's a gourmet establishment. But unlike other gourmet places, every single dish here serves a purpose!"
The young girls echoed Ju Yiqiu's words with curiosity, "Serves a purpose?"
Ju Yiqiu looked at the obviously interested young girls and explained the functions of the medicinal cuisines, "What kind of purposes? There are medicinal cuisines that make girls more beautiful after eating them, and others for weight loss, skin whitening, all sorts of medicinal cuisines."
Ju Yiqiu knew very well what could capture these girls' interest. After all, she was only about two or three years older than them, so she understood these young girls' preferences all too well.
As expected, the idea of becoming more beautiful attracted these girls. They didn't even pay attention to the rest of her words. The group of them tugged at Ju Yiqiu and said, "Then little sister, let's go quickly! There's bound to be a lot of people, will there be a queue?"
Ju Yiqiu was pulled forward by these little girls, thinking how these children had absolutely no sense of danger! Nevertheless, she still led them towards Meng Huai's shop.
Fortunately, they weren't late. The opening ceremony hadn't started yet.
Upon arriving, Ju Yiqiu saw Meng Huai standing at the entrance greeting the guests. She enthusiastically introduced the little girls to them, "See that beautiful little sister? She's the owner of the shop."
When the girls saw Meng Huai, they whispered amongst themselves, "So beautiful!"
"This sister has such great charisma!"
After their discussion, one of the girls asked Ju Yiqiu, "Can we become as beautiful as this sister if we eat here often?"
Ju Yiqiu, as a qualified 'salesperson,' didn't know how to respond to these children.
Meng Huai's beauty, *cough cough*, probably had little to do with these medicinal cuisines.
She was naturally beautiful...
Fortunately, Meng Huai noticed Ju Yiqiu waving and greeting her, thus rescuing Ju Yiqiu.
"Yiqiu, you're here! Are these your sisters?"
After greeting her, Meng Huai walked towards them. Looking at the children beside Ju Yiqiu, she asked.
The young girls heard Meng Huai's question, and a quick-witted one directly responded to Meng Huai, "Yes, yes, we're this sister's sisters! Are you the shop owner? We want to eat here later, will there be a discount?"
The girl's tone was gentle and soft, making it hard to refuse. Meng Huai continued, following up on the girl's words, "Of course, I'll give you a discount then. Here's a number tag first, otherwise, you'll have to queue if you're late!"
Upon hearing that there would be a queue, the girls looked into the shop. They saw unfamiliar decorations, and not many actual dining tables and chairs.
Someone 'suggested' to Meng Huai, "Shop owner sister, you have too few seats!"
"Not at all, not at all. If there were too many, the chefs would be overwhelmed, and the store assistants would be too busy taking orders."
Meng Huai patiently explained to these little girls, but they were clearly not satisfied with her answer. Someone nonchalantly said, "Then hire more people! Your shop area is a bit small, but the decoration is quite nice!"
The little girl who spoke clearly came from a wealthy and influential family. Although she didn't mean to show off, her expression betrayed her, and her tone naturally revealed it.
"Little sister, you seem to have been to many restaurants!"
Meng Huai was still chatting with this girl. The little girl's proud expression said, "Of course."
Meng Huai patted the little girl's head and said with a smile, "Then you must taste it carefully later and see if my humble medicinal cuisine restaurant is better than the restaurants you've been to before."
"That's natural. If it's delicious, I'll help you promote it on my homepage! I have many fans, and it's free!"
Although the little girl's words naturally exuded a sense of pride, it wasn't off-putting, so Meng Huai spoke a few more words to her. If all young ladies were as amiable as Shang Pingying from their logistics department and her sister Princess Xinxin, then Meng Huai wouldn't have wanted to say much!
"Then I'll be waiting for your help with the promotion!"
Looking at Meng Huai's confident face, the little girl was surprised, "Shop owner sister, you're quite confident!"
"Of course! Sister has to go now, I have friends arriving. You can look around the shop!"
The group of little girls gestured for her to go ahead and not worry about them.
As Meng Huai left, she saw that An Ran had also arrived.
"I didn't expect you to come too!" Meng Huai saw An Ran's assistant filming and asked, "Are you live-streaming?"
An Ran smiled and said, "Yes, I saw the notice about the shop opening today. Although I don't know what medicinal cuisine is, I definitely have to show my support! These friends also miss you and insisted I live-stream!"
Upon hearing this, Meng Huai waved to the camera and then led An Ran into the shop.
With An Ran's arrival, she naturally wanted to look around. Meng Huai walked her through the shop, showing her around and introducing it to the live-streaming audience.
Seeing the wooden signs behind the counter, An Ran asked, "What are these?"
"Those are the menus."
An Ran's assistant zoomed in on these wooden menu signs. Meanwhile, An Ran looked to the side. There were open little boxes, containing all sorts of strange items.
An Ran asked again, "What about these?"
Meng Huai then explained to her, "This is a medicinal cuisine restaurant, so the ingredients are medicinal herbs. These are all medicinal herbs."
"So many?!"
An Ran exclaimed. Although the boxes displayed were small, there were many of them. An entire wall had about five to six hundred boxes, all filled with medicinal herbs.
"Can all of these be eaten?"
Medicinal herbs were not very common in this era. The medicine they encountered was mostly in the form of medicinal agents. Moreover, the raw materials were not these kinds of plant-based medicinal herbs, so the audience was very curious about these items. The assistant had been closely following the audience's comments and, seeing their focus on this area, took more shots of this wall.
"Can medicinal herbs be consumed regularly? Like medicinal agents, which are only taken when one is sick!"
An Ran asked Meng Huai this, and Meng Huai explained to An Ran, "These medicinal herbs are all mild, and you don't need to be sick to consume medicinal cuisines."
Meng Huai paused and continued, "Let me put it this way, after staying up late live-streaming, don't you feel particularly tired?"
An Ran nodded, "Yes! Tired, right? Everyone feels that way."
"Exactly. Just like a robot needs to be recharged when it's tired, don't humans need recharging even more?"
An Ran pondered for a moment and nodded silently, "That seems to make some sense! But how do people get recharged?"
Meng Huai pointed to a sign in the very center and said, "Here, this one. Yellow Spirit Willow Ginseng Pork Rib Soup, a tonic for replenishing vital energy. This is the medicinal cuisine that recharges people!"