After the divorce, he took care of his child and sold fried rice; his ex-wife was filled with regret

The dozen or so regular customers at the back of the line also sighed and dispersed, hurrying to the intersection to hail a taxi, afraid of missing their morning meeting.

……

Inside the Lin family shop.

The heavy doors completely shut out the cold and disturbances from the outside world.

Su Xiaoxiao stood in front of the bar, looking at the two large cast iron frying pans that had been turned off, and then at the four large buckets of steaming soy milk that hadn't been sold a single drop. She felt a little helpless.

"Lin... Brother Lin."

Su Xiaoxiao swallowed hard and asked in a low voice, "Really...really everything's closed? All those more than a thousand pan-fried buns prepared in the kitchen, and these huge buckets of soy milk, not a single one has been sold..."

Lin Fan calmly unbuttoned his chef's uniform cuffs and rolled them up above his forearms.

He walked behind the bar, poured a glass of warm water, and handed it to Su Xiaoxiao, whose face was pale, his tone completely calm:

"When you open a business, you want things to go smoothly. If people are blocking your door, yelling and cursing, refusing to buy or move out of the way, there's no need to waste time with them."

Lin Fan calmly pointed to the kitchen: "The raw dough for the pan-fried buns is all on the low-temperature refrigeration rack. The dough hasn't over-proofed. We'll take them all back to the warehouse to keep them fresh later. They won't spoil. We'll save the soy milk for later; we can drink it ourselves."

At this point, Lin Fan paused, glanced at the phone beside Su Xiaoxiao, and continued:

"Xiaoxiao, send a message in the customer notification group to say hello to our regular customers."

"Today, due to special circumstances, there is severe congestion at the entrance of Jin Street, which has affected public order. For safety reasons, our store will be temporarily closed today."

Lin Fan said calmly, "I apologize to those regular customers who lined up in the snow at four or five in the morning. They made a wasted trip today. Once the opening time is set, I will notify them in the group in advance."

"Today, customers who lined up but didn't get any can get a free cup of soy milk."

"Okay, I'll send it right away."

Su Xiaoxiao sniffed, took out her phone, and opened the pinned 【Lin Family Shop Diner Notification Group】.

Her fingers flew across the screen as she typed out a notice and sent it out:

Once the message was sent, the group chat, which had been quiet due to the closed doors, was instantly flooded with countless messages.

When the regular customers saw the announcement, not one of them complained about Lin Fan. Instead, they all vented their anger in the group chat against the group of internet celebrities and troublemakers outside the door.

"Boss Lin, don't take it to heart! This isn't your fault at all! I arrived at 4:30 this morning and saw those brats with selfie sticks blocking the window, not buying anything but making a racket, taking over the whole street! Closing the door was the right thing to do, to teach those clueless idiots a lesson!"

"Boss Lin handled it very well. If this irrational blockade hadn't been closed in time, it could have easily led to a stampede. We regular customers understand, and we'll just go home and catch up on some sleep today while we wait for further instructions."

"Exactly! Those out-of-town food review livestreamers are so annoying! They don't have money to eat, yet they're blocking our way! They made us regulars freeze for an hour for nothing! Boss Lin, please don't let them affect you!"

"Support Boss Lin! Yesterday, our entire company had takeout pan-fried buns, and they were absolutely amazing. I was planning to buy two more for breakfast today, but I heard they were surrounded by online celebrities."

"Boss Lin, take a good rest for a day! We'll go queue up again after these onlookers leave!"

Looking at the screen full of heartwarming understanding and support from her loyal customers, Su Xiaoxiao felt most of her grievances and panic dissipate.

She rubbed her eyes and put away her phone: "Brother Lin, the regular customers in the group are very understanding and told us not to be affected."

"Um."

Lin Fan nodded, turned around, walked through the corridor, and went into the kitchen.

He carried the eight hundred pan-fried buns, neatly stacked on the low-temperature refrigerated shelf, and four large buckets of freshly ground soy milk into the small warehouse one by one.

After locking the door, with a slight thought, he transferred all the semi-finished products to the deep processing temperature-controlled cold storage of Lingtian Farm.

Under the farm's strict preservation rules, the dough for these raw biscuits will not continue to ferment, and the meat filling will not lose any moisture or flavor. They can be taken out and cooked at any time, and the taste is exactly the same as freshly made ones.

After walking out of the warehouse, Lin Fan washed his hands and took off his chef's apron.

The lobby was very quiet, and the heavy solid wood doors completely kept out the cold wind from outside.

After realizing that the shopkeeper showed no signs of backing down, the crowd that had been banging on the door and shouting outside finally dispersed, cursing and swearing, after enduring the sub-zero temperatures for more than half an hour.

A soft footstep came from the second-floor stairwell.

Tuantuan, with pigtails and wearing a bear-patterned pajama, rubbed her eyes and slowly walked down in her little cotton slippers.

The orange cat, Shrimp Dumpling, followed the little girl with light steps, its tail slightly raised.

"Daddy," the little girl called out softly, opening her two little arms.

The coldness on Lin Fan's face completely melted away in that instant.

He stepped forward, bent down, and scooped his daughter into his arms, gently pricking the little girl's rosy cheeks with his stubble.

Tuantuan giggled as she was pricked, clinging to Lin Fan's neck and refusing to let go: "Daddy, it's so noisy outside today, aren't we going to work?"

"Yeah, I'm not going to work today."

Lin Fan carried his daughter to the sofa, sat down, gently patted the little girl's head, and said with a soft smile:

"Dad is off work today, so he's making delicious food for Tuantuan at the shop."

The chandelier in the lobby cast a warm yellow glow, and the noise outside completely subsided, leaving only the daughter's clear laughter and the orange cat's comfortable purring inside.

Since the restaurant was closed to the public today, he decided to cook a hearty brunch for himself, Tuantuan, and Su Xiaoxiao.

I put the frying pan back on the low heat and pan-fried eight golden-brown, crispy buns.

I scooped out a large bowl of freshly ground hot soy milk and cooked a large pot of steaming hot tomato soup with beef brisket and hand-pulled noodles.

"Time to eat."

Lin Fan carried the steaming hot plates out of the kitchen and placed them on the square table in the lobby.

Su Xiaoxiao tied a small bib on Tuantuan, and the four of them sat around the table.

Su Xiaoxiao picked up her chopsticks, took a freshly made pan-fried bun, first bit a small hole in the side to suck up the hot and rich meat broth, and then took a big bite of the crispy bottom.

"Snap!"

The crisp cracking sound was particularly loud in the lobby.

The meat is juicy and has a rich wheat aroma.

Su Xiaoxiao chewed on the pan-fried buns, her mouth full of oil, and let out a long breath. The mood that had been disturbed by the people outside was instantly soothed by this hot meal.

"It's so delicious..." Su Xiaoxiao exclaimed. "Those people outside making a scene and refusing to buy it are really blind. They're missing out on such good stuff."

While eating her noodles, Su Xiaoxiao took out her phone to check the screen.

At that moment, Da Peng had just edited and posted a short video clip he recorded that morning in front of Lin's shop onto a short video platform.

The video title was particularly eye-catching: [#RealTest of Ye Wanxing's Breakfast! Unscrupulous Owner Raises Prices, Shop Closes Down After Being Questioned!#]

In the video, Da Peng portrayed himself as a righteous blogger who spoke out for the interests of ordinary people, and set the scene of Lin Fan closing down his business to heavy music, claiming that it was the power of the masses that forced the black shop to have nowhere to go.

Within just one hour, the video garnered over 100,000 likes, and the comment section was flooded with thousands of comments.

The comments section was almost entirely filled with insults and condemnations.