"Fine, you'll pay for yourself later!" Director Li pulled out his trump card.
Director Li was the leader, while Teacher Yu was merely a teacher responsible for logistics. The salaries of the two were worlds apart.
Moreover, Teacher Yu was someone who cared about his appetite, so he naturally had no money on hand.
Teacher Yu, whose spirit was diminished by poverty, reluctantly placed the plate he had already taken into his hand back on the table.
However, seeing the rough and uninhibited Teacher Yu still harboring some petty thoughts at this moment, he very carefully placed the plate on his side as he put it down.
After putting down the plate, Teacher Yu cautiously glanced at Director Li opposite him, then very quickly picked up a piece.
Director Li noticed Teacher Yu's small movement and glared at him with disdain.
What a spineless fellow. Even if he was greedy for food, he was just a pig's trotter. How could it be so delicious that he'd lose all his dignity?
But things often turn out this way. After taking a bite, Director Li felt that if he could taste such deliciousness, losing face was a small price to pay.
The two cousins began a battle for the remaining few braised pig trotters.
Su Xiaotian seized the opportunity to start her sales pitch.
"Director Li, Teacher Yu, braised pig trotters are also good for women. They are most effective in supplementing collagen and preventing aging! If you take them home for your family, they will surely be popular."
If they hadn't tasted it yet, they would have certainly scoffed and said that bringing back some pig trotters would be good if their wives didn't scold them.
But now that they had tasted it and knew the flavor was excellent, they had no such concerns.
"Pack a plate for me later, I want to take it home!" Director Li said immediately.
"I want one too, I want one too, classmate Su, do you still have some at your restaurant?"
Teacher Yu was a step behind, afraid they would run out.
In this era, with insufficient supply, things like pig trotters were usually pre-ordered at the slaughterhouse, and not many made it to the market.
Director Li glared at his cousin, wanting to tell him to buy his own if he wanted to eat, but then he thought that since so much money had already been spent today, this little bit wouldn't matter.
Teacher Yu ate happily and waited for them to be packed, without any sense of embarrassment.
Su Xiaotian smiled and nodded, "No problem, we just happened to braise a pot of pig trotters today, and there are enough."
Braised pig trotters were the latest dish Su Xiaotian had developed for Grandma Su, and naturally, there were more than just braised pig trotters.
Strictly speaking, braised pig trotters were just a trial run.
Su Xiaotian had planned meticulously. If the braised pig trotters received a good response, she planned to braise other pig offal next.
Such as pig hearts, pig lungs, pig intestines – as long as they were braised well, they would taste good. Of course, braised vegetables would also be very popular.
Most importantly, braised dishes didn't necessarily have to be eaten at the restaurant; they could be taken away.
The current shop space was limited. To make money faster, she had to think of more ways to expand the scope of business.
"That's good then. Xiaotian, you say, I'm your teacher after all, why didn't you tell me you had such good things?"
Teacher Yu mumbled while gnawing on a pig trotter.
This girl was really inconsiderate. If she had told him about such a good thing earlier, he would have come to taste it sooner.
Teacher Yu was a man who cared about his appetite. Ever since he discovered the delicious dishes at Yiming Pavilion, he would come for a feast every few days.
To put it bluntly, most of his meager salary was contributed to Yiming Pavilion.
"These are freshly made in the last couple of days. I took leave and haven't had time to go to school yet," Su Xiaotian said with a slight smile.
Su Xiaotian quite liked dealing with Teacher Yu, as he didn't have too many schemes.
"No wonder, I didn't have it when I came to eat last week."
Teacher Yu ate and spoke without missing a beat, and even his speed was much faster than the refined Director Li.
Director Li only ate two pieces of the plate of braised pig trotters before they were gone, and he was still unsatisfied.
He could only watch helplessly as his gluttonous cousin poured the last bit of gravy onto his rice.
Instantly, the white rice seemed to have gained more flavor.
After finishing the braised pig trotters, Teacher Yu, who was already six-tenths full, gestured to Director Li for the remaining three dishes.
"Cousin, these dishes are also good, try them!"
Director Li, with a look of resentment, could only hold his rice bowl and snatch the braised pork.
He decided that even if he had to snatch, he had to be quick, lest the gluttonous cousin ate all the good dishes by the end.
How unfair it was for him, the one paying!
Director Li even secretly resolved that he would never come to eat with this gluttonous cousin again.
Especially not when coming to Yiming Pavilion to eat. He absolutely wouldn't bring him.
Teacher Yu, unaware that he had already been blacklisted, was eating with relish.
Su Xiaotian, watching the two of them scramble for pig trotters, inexplicably felt a craving.
She decided to make herself a plate of braised pig trotters to gnaw on.
Su Xiaotian brought a few steaming braised pig trotters, a bowl of green vegetable soup, and a bowl of rice to the small table in the outer area for herself.
Not to mention, the taste of these pig trotters was truly excellent, perfect and flawless!
This scene was witnessed by the Christina siblings.
Seeing the red, shiny, and wobbly braised pig trotters in Su Xiaotian's hand, Christina became interested.
"Tian, what are you eating? It smells so good!" Christina ran over and asked.
Auguste, however, could tell that Su Xiaotian was picking up a pig trotter.
He couldn't help but frown.
How could such crude food appear in such a high-class restaurant?
Pig trotters were not even eaten by the lowest class of people. Why was Xiaotian eating them?
Most importantly, Christina actually wanted to eat them too?
How could this be?
Auguste's expression changed drastically.
"Tina!" he called out sternly.
Christina didn't know why her brother suddenly called her. She looked back and found her brother's expression somewhat strange.
However, Christina didn't know what her brother was thinking at this moment.
She was completely captivated by the pig trotter in Su Xiaotian's chopsticks, her bright eyes fixed on the piece of pig trotter in Su Xiaotian's chopsticks.
"Brother, I want to eat this!" Christina said without looking back.
Su Xiaotian's expression was also a bit hard to describe at this moment.
Foreigners generally disliked eating food with bones.
They were not accustomed to spitting out what they put in their mouths, not even fish bones.
But pig trotters were best eaten with bones.
It was precisely for this reason that she had not added pig trotters to the menu for the siblings.
"Miss Christina, this is a pig's trotter. You might not be used to it!"
Su Xiaotian saw Auguste's displeasure and quickly said to Christina.
Although she hoped for an opportunity to promote her new dishes, she also had to see if they were suitable for the guests first.
And this plate of braised pig trotters was clearly not suitable for the distinguished German guests!