Chapter 45: Delicious Trend

  October 21, more than a month after Du Le took over Yonghui Food Factory, the new flavor instant noodles "Mei Wei Xuan" were officially launched into the market. Three Wanjiafu supermarkets in Fuyang City simultaneously put them on shelves for sale on this day. Led by Jiang Yun's sales department, they were responsible for organizing trial tastings, gift-giving and other activities to fully promote Mei Wei Xuan instant noodles.

  At 12:00 noon, Ahua Technology's customer service representative Fang Yue went home on time. As a promotion customer service staff of a web game company, every day's work is to solve the problems encountered by players and collect player information and opinions, summarize and provide them to internal programmers.

  Every day's work is not difficult, but it's very tedious. So, Fang Yue cherishes every moment of rest time, unless the boss explicitly requires overtime, otherwise she always clocks in and out on time.

  Fang Yue is not a native of Fuyang City. In addition to paying one-quarter of her salary for rent every month, eating has become one of her biggest problems. As an out-of-town worker, Fang Yue thinks more about how to save more money and store up more wages. Breakfast and dinner are easy to solve, she can just cook at home. But how can she eat lunch more affordably?

  In this way, the fast food in the supermarket in the city became Fang Yue's choice. The reason is that chain supermarkets are equipped with convenient tools such as microwave ovens to facilitate customers' on-site heating and dining, so it is simple, cheap, and there are many choices.

  Most of the time, Fang Yue would go to Wanjiafu Supermarket at noon and buy a box of fast food for 8 yuan to fill her stomach. She could also take the opportunity to stroll around the supermarket and buy some snacks.

  Today, Fang Yue did as he usually did, left the company and walked towards the Wan Jia Fu supermarket not far from the company building.

  At noon, there were already many people coming and going at the entrance of the supermarket. When Fang Yue was still fifty meters away from the supermarket gate, a strong fragrance drilled into her nostrils, deeply captivating her heart.

  "It smells so good, what's for food?" Fang Yue rubbed her already empty stomach and muttered to herself.

  Following the direction of the fragrance, Fang Yue saw a crowd gathering at the entrance of Wanjiafu Supermarket, and more and more people were surrounding a large sun umbrella. As someone who often comes to the supermarket and is familiar with its sales strategy, Fang Yue knew at a glance that some product was either having a tasting event or a promotional activity.

  Fang Yue quickly sprang into action, walking swiftly over. This kind of supermarket activity was always a case of the quick getting the goods and the slow going without. Besides, this fragrant smell had really stirred up her stomach's strong reaction to hunger.

  She squeezed into the crowd and finally got a small cup of trial noodles. Finding a more spacious spot, Fang Yue picked up a plastic fork, first picking up a small strip of noodles and putting it in her mouth.

  What kind of flavor is this? The fragrance, the strange grassy flavor instantly spreads from the tip of the tongue to the entire nervous system. Especially the soup's flavor, it's both fresh and delicious, yet not greasy at all. Fang Yue was conquered in an instant.

  The noodles in the small bowl were all eaten up by Fang Yue, and she was not satisfied. Fang Yue's next thought was that such delicious noodles, how could they not be bought back to eat slowly?

  "Buy one get one free, buy one pack and get another pack free! Limited quantity available, while stocks last!" The salesperson waved the promotional leaflet and shouted out the slogan.

  I'm buying, Fang Yue shouted.

  I'll buy too, more and more people shouted.

  The crowd of people who have tried it before rushed in and filled the booth.

  The crowd mentality of the people has taken over again. Seeing so many people packed into the small stalls, even those who had no interest at first squeezed in to take a look. Fang Yue finally managed to buy two packets of delicious instant noodles after much difficulty, and when she squeezed out of the crowd, her hair was disheveled, but she felt very pleased with herself. The thrill of successfully snagging a bargain was exhilarating, and this feeling was no less than the sense of accomplishment she got from snagging limited-time offers online.

  Not far away, a wealthy young lady in a luxury car happened to see Fang Yue's satisfied expression as he squeezed out of the crowd.

  "Zhang Shu, go take a look at what they're scrambling to buy and get some for me to see," said the young lady with a thousand pieces of gold to the middle-aged driver in front.

  "Yes, miss," replied the middle-aged driver.

  After a while, the middle-aged driver handed over two bags of delicious Wonton noodles to the young lady with respect.

  "Miss, they are scrambling to buy this kind of noodle, it's said to be very delicious."

  The young lady took a glance and saw that it was instant noodles. "There's this kind of thing every day, nothing special," she said disdainfully. "What brand is this? I don't recognize it. Uncle Zhang, take it back and distribute it to the servants."

  The young lady in the sedan didn't smell anything, but Driver Zhang personally experienced it and was about to say something, but finally turned around and got back on the car, starting the engine and leaving.

  After getting instant noodles, Fang Yue didn't rush back to the company, but instead went to the supermarket to buy some side dishes before returning.

  Back in the office, looking at the drowsy and sleepy colleagues, Fang Yue made light movements, trying not to make any noise.

  "Xiao Fang, how did you come back so quickly? Didn't you have lunch?" said a colleague who had brought a boxed meal to the company. She had just heated up her boxed meal and was sitting down to eat.

  "This time I bought instant noodles, ready to soak and eat." Fang Yue replied.

  "Eating instant noodles too often isn't good for you," another colleague chimed in.

  The company occupies one floor of the building, with about fifteen people in the Fang Yue department on this floor, occupying two offices, a large and a small one, while the remaining space belongs to other departments of the company.

  Fang Yue smiled and didn't answer, instead taking out an empty rice box that was originally in the drawer. She followed the instructions on the instant noodles package, tore open the packaging, put the noodle cake into the rice box, and added seasonings step by step.

  A few minutes later, a steaming hot rice box was filled to the brim, emitting a rich fragrance.

  It smells so good! Fang Yue took a deep breath of the fragrance and couldn't help but close her eyes, indulging in it with relish.

  When Fang Yue opened her eyes and saw the crowd suddenly appearing at the edge of the table, she was startled.

  She didn't know when her desk was surrounded by a crowd of people, and colleagues from other departments also came over.

  It smells so good, Xiaofang! What is this? Is it your lunchbox? Can I have a bite? It's too delicious.

  Xiao Fang, give me a bite, I'll exchange it with you for a sausage.

  Xiao Fang, I have roasted chicken wings!

  Xiao Fang, I have three sandwiches and a box of milk!

  Little Square

  Fang Yue hadn't even responded when the lid of the lunchbox was already open, and the instant noodles were quickly divided up among everyone and disappeared in an instant. The noodle soup was also poured into various cups and drunk by everyone.

  Fang Yue stared at the snacks on the table, dazed.

  "Xiao Fang, where did you buy this noodle?" someone asked.

  "It's the Wanjiafu supermarket below, which is having a new product promotion with discounts and buy one get one free."

  As soon as Fang Yue's words fell, a buzzing sound was heard, and the surrounding colleagues suddenly disappeared.

  No, there was still someone smiling at Fang Yue, who was the manager of the customer service department.

  "Xiao Fang, this facial mask is buy one get one free, is there still a pack left?"

  Fang Yue saw that he was his direct superior, and with a painful expression, took out the last package of instant noodles. "Manager, there's only this one left..."

  The manager, with a sudden movement, didn't even let Fang Yue finish speaking, grabbed the instant noodles and walked away saying, "This month's best employee is you!"

  Fang Yue was stunned, half a moment later, she shouted "No! I still want to buy!" and rushed back to the supermarket like the wind.

  In the office, several colleagues who brought lunch boxes from home looked at each other and sighed, looking at the food in front of them, secretly making up their minds to buy a few packs to try after work.