After picking out the meat and pork ribs, Tong Lan lifted the bowl and downed the entire bowl of soup in one go.

Seeing that she still seemed unsatisfied, Lin You returned to the kitchen and served her another bowl.

After dinner, to pass the time, the two of them watched a movie, and by the time it ended, two hours had passed.

After turning off the tablet, Lin You suddenly asked Tong Lan, “Isn’t it time for you to apply your medicine?”

With that reminder, Tong Lan remembered. “I would’ve forgotten if you hadn’t said anything.”

She pulled out an ointment from under the table and directly rolled up her pant leg. “I’ll do it myself. I can still handle this small task…”

However, the moment she exposed the wound, she frowned.

The originally deep wound that had exposed the flesh had healed significantly. The scabbed blood had started to fall off, and even the deep marks had noticeably faded.

Tong Lan looked up in disbelief, her gaze hesitant as she looked at Lin You.

“The wound scabbed over this fast… or am I just seeing things?”

Lin You nodded and said, “That’s right. The wound is healing.”

Tong Lan furrowed her brow. “This… what’s going on?”

Lin You comforted her. “Isn’t healing a good thing?”

Seeing that the ingredients indeed had a healing effect on Tong Lan’s leg, Lin You found herself in a dilemma again.

The items in the breakfast shop were now clearly more than just food. They might even have medicinal properties.

In that case, these resources probably shouldn’t be used solely for herself.

However, for now, she could still bring some of the ingredients from the freezer to Tong Lan to help her leg heal faster.

That night, Lin You slept at Tong Lan’s place.

The next day, she got up early, said a quick goodbye to Tong Lan, and drove the van to the breakfast shop.

She thought that if she were to hand things over to the government, the earlier the better, so citizens could eat fresh vegetables as soon as possible.

Lin You was eager to find out exactly how many ingredients were in the freezer. She needed a clear picture in order to report accurately.

The ingredients she had brought back from the vegetable wholesale market were very limited. Once they were used up, the breakfast shop would no longer be able to operate. So she had to know how long the freezer’s contents could last.

With that in mind, she kneaded the dough and took advantage of the proofing time to quickly open several freezers, pulling out all the radishes, cabbages, Chinese kale, broccoli, frozen beef, frozen pork ribs, and more.

But no matter how much she took out, the freezers just wouldn’t empty.

For every vegetable she removed, a new one appeared.

When Lin You emptied the previous batch of vegetables, a fresh batch instantly filled the freezer again.

Strange. Was this freezer really a bottomless pit?

Determined to see how much it could produce, Lin You kept working non-stop to move items out.

About ten minutes later, her arms were sore and a mountain of vegetables had piled up at her feet, but the freezer was still full, crammed with vegetables and fresh meat.

And this time, it was even more bizarre. Nestled beside the vegetables was a dragon fruit.

What now… new varieties?

There had definitely been no dragon fruit in the freezer before.

Hesitating for a moment, Lin You cleared out this batch again.

Then, even more dragon fruits rolled out from the freezer.

At the same time, the emerald-green cabbage turned into more tender baby cabbage, and the spinach turned into mustard greens.

Lin You was completely stunned.

Seeing that opening time was approaching, she finally gave up.

The mountain of vegetables at her feet couldn’t be stuffed back into the freezer. Today, she had to either sell them all or cook them and serve them to customers.

At the same time, Lin You noticed more than a dozen baskets stacked at the back of the kitchen.

These were used to store ingredients that didn’t need refrigeration and could be kept for a while.

She walked over and opened the lids one by one, finding that yesterday’s row of carrots had turned into sweet potatoes.

That was even stranger. Sweet potatoes typically ripen in autumn and winter.

Even though the weather had turned unusually cold lately, the season was still wrong.

What’s more, the sweet potatoes in these baskets came in a variety of types.

Cracking them open, she found red, white, and yellow flesh varieties. Even the honey sweet potatoes, best for roasting, were included.

With a gentle turn of her hand, under the dry white-fleshed sweet potatoes, she found two small purple sweet potatoes.

This was truly astonishing.

She tried emptying all the vegetables from the baskets, and the result was the same—new batches of sweet potatoes appeared again.

And these sweet potatoes looked freshly harvested. Their roots and stems still had fresh soil clinging to them.

Since the sweet potatoes kept coming endlessly, Lin You didn’t dare dig out any more.

What she had already pulled out needed to be eaten quickly.

The freezers and baskets had already been taken over by the latest ingredients, and there was no room left.

It seemed that on her own, she could no longer empty out the freezer and baskets.

If this really was a bottomless pit that could produce vegetables and meat without limit, then it could indeed be considered the hope of all the people in Ancheng City.

Seeing that it was getting late and that pedestrians were already passing by outside, Lin You decided to start preparing breakfast.

Looking at the kitchen floor piled full of vegetables, she couldn’t help but frown. These vegetables needed to be handled quickly.

Otherwise, if the vegetables couldn’t be put back into the freezer, they would easily rot.

After thinking it over, she decided to add an extra item to the breakfast menu today.

In addition to meat-stuffed flatbread, she would also add a vegetable pancake.

So, besides the dough that had already risen, she had to prepare a new batter.

The batter wasn’t difficult to make. It was just like adding more water than usual when kneading dough, turning it into a paste that could flow smoothly in a continuous stream when scooped up and poured down.

To make the pancake’s crust more flavorful, Lin You added over a dozen eggs into a large bowl of prepared batter, then mixed in salt, five-spice powder, and Sichuan pepper powder.

After stirring everything evenly, she set it aside for later use.

Next, she shredded cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, added a bit of seasoning, and mixed them well by hand.

After that, she began preparing supplementary ingredients.

Lin You picked out a few stalks of scallions from a basket and rinsed them under running water.

When she laid them on the wooden cutting board, the scallions were still glistening with water droplets.

She swiftly chopped the scallions into fine pieces and gathered them onto a plate.

Then came the fried peanuts.

Lin You washed the plump white peanuts, then with a “sizzle,” dropped them into hot oil.

As soon as the peanuts touched the oil, a strong aroma began to rise.

Lin You stirred the peanuts continuously with a spatula.

Seeing the skins of the peanuts in the pan turn slightly yellow, she quickly added a small pinch of salt.

After stirring evenly, she removed them from the pan and poured them into a dish.

She picked up a peanut with chopsticks and placed it into her mouth.

The peanut, still not fully cooled, was half crispy and half soft, and felt like it was missing something.

She set the peanuts aside to cool. Once completely cooled, they would become perfectly crisp and tasty.

Lin You then used a rolling pin to crush the peanuts into pieces. She didn’t crush them too finely so that the peanut pieces remained visible.

While letting the peanut pieces cool, Lin You began preparing various sauces to spread on the pancakes.

Because time was tight, she didn’t have time to make her own special sauces. She had to use the ones stocked in the kitchen: sweet bean sauce, fermented bean paste, and chili sauce, each spooned into separate dishes.

Lastly, to accommodate some customers’ preferences, Lin You chopped some cilantro and plated it separately, just like the chopped scallions.

Everything was ready—except for the customers.

But Lin You waited and waited. Though people kept walking past the street, none even glanced at the breakfast shop.

Looking at the bowl full of batter and the prepared vegetable filling, Lin You couldn’t help but feel a bit worried.

What would she do if all of this didn’t sell?

Even if she went home and tried eating it all for lunch and dinner, and then again tomorrow, there was no way she could finish all this prepared food by herself.

But if she didn’t prepare this much, then all those leafy vegetables at her feet would spoil quickly.

Since it was still early and the relevant government offices probably hadn’t started work yet, Lin You decided to wait until office hours to report this via the special line, and then sell the vegetables separately.

Lin You stood for a while and started feeling hungry.

She had spent quite a bit of energy earlier, moving the food back and forth between the freezer and the baskets.

So, she thought, why not make a vegetable pancake for herself first—fill her stomach and get the energy to keep working.

More importantly, once she started cooking, the smell of food would spread along the street from the kitchen.

Once a passerby caught a whiff and had their appetite awakened, they might notice this Hope Breakfast Shop and maybe come over to buy a meat flatbread or pancake.

Lin You got the skillet ready for cooking pancakes and turned on the heat.

Once the pan started to warm, she scooped up a ladle of batter and spread it evenly over the pan.

Then she used the spatula to smooth out the batter. After about one to two minutes, the batter had set.

At that point, she used the spatula to lift one corner of the pancake and checked the side in contact with the pan.

Once the bottom had turned slightly yellow, she flipped the pancake and added the vegetables she had prepared nearby, spreading a layer about one centimeter thick.

This time, she had to wait a bit longer. The hot pan not only had to cook the pancake but also heat the vegetables on top.

Lin You monitored the heat carefully. When it looked ready, she folded the pancake in half like a fan, sandwiching the vegetables inside.

She then flipped it again to make the previously yellowed side a bit crispier.

Once both the pancake and vegetables were fully cooked, she moved the pancake to the side of the pan and spread on sweet bean sauce and chili sauce, then sprinkled chopped scallions on top.

Finally, she folded the pancake once more and placed it into a special paper wrapper.

Holding the vegetable pancake in her hand, Lin You felt the warmth radiate through.

The outer crust was soft with a slight crisp, and the inside vegetables gave off a grilled aroma.

The chili sauce was the finishing touch, perfectly blending the flavor of the vegetables with the pancake.

Inside the pancake were green cabbage, pale yellow shredded potatoes, and bright red carrots.

Together, the colors were rich and the whole thing looked nutritious.

One bite in and the freshness of the vegetables filled her mouth.

The taste of the vegetables from that magical freezer was truly beyond expectation.

Take the cabbage, for example—the stems and leaves were extremely tender, almost without any fibrous texture.

Even the outer leaves felt like the tender core of a cabbage.

Because the pancake was cooked on a hot skillet, the aroma of the vegetables and pancake had already begun to waft out the shop’s window.

Soon, passersby began to stop.

“Boss, what is that? Smells amazing!”

Lin You set down the vegetable pancake in her hand and said, “A new kind of pancake. Want to give it a try?”

The person readily scanned the payment code and said, “Sure, give me one.”

Lin You skillfully heated the pan, spread the batter, added vegetables, and applied the sauce. Very quickly, she finished one and handed it out the window.

The man took it, said thank you, and left the breakfast shop.

He had urgent matters to handle today.

The few convenience vegetable chain stores he had opened had lost their wholesale vegetable supply and had to shut down operations today.

Clearing accounts, dismissing employees, cleaning up and closing the store…

There were still many things to do.

The man held the vegetable pancake and got into the driver’s seat.

Before handling those matters, he let out a deep sigh.

Then he forced a helpless smile—

At this moment, he did not want to think about those unpleasant things.

Then he sat in the driver’s seat, held the vegetable pancake, and took the first bite.