Second watch, requesting pink.
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"After the New Year, they say the number of people will at least double. By then, our business will be even more prosperous," Lian Shouxin said with a smile. "Manman, shouldn't we prepare more of the soup dumplings?"
These past few days, all forty of the soup dumplings they made each day sold out. Old Huang, the coarse-voiced foreman, had become a regular, coming every day to eat a few buns, sometimes bringing other people with him. Forty dumplings weren't enough; sometimes customers wanted to buy dumplings, but they had already sold out.
After considering the volume of customers over the last few days, Lian Manman thought they could increase the number of dumplings made.
"Then let's steam ten more, fifty a day, just right for one steamer basket," Lian Manman said.