Chapter 11 The Truth Comes Out
Chapter 11 The Truth Comes Out
Chen Chen slept groggyly, but woke up from hunger the next day. The patient next door was eating happily with the lunch box brought by his family, and the smell of food permeated the room.
"Gulu Gulu" his stomach protested again, and Chen Chen couldn't help but feel ashamed. He was really pregnant and was always in a state of hunger, so he might as well eat to death.
Tucao belongs to Tucao, you can't wrong yourself as a human being.
After rubbing his belly, Chen Chen glanced at the space box on the ground and thought: Forget it, in order not to scare the patient next door, I'd better not open this box.
However, Chen Chen got up from the bed, his hands and feet were weak from hunger, how would he eat now?
The food Han Ling left behind was limited, and Lu Chen didn't know when he would return to Earth. He had to figure out how to eat on his own.
Confused, Chen Chen walked to the small restaurant opposite the hospital with rather flamboyant steps.Because it was not yet lunch time, the entrance of Xiaofan was still relatively quiet, and Chen Chen, who was still wearing a hotel uniform, stood there very eye-catching.
"Hey, young man, do you want to eat? Come in!" The shop owner is a very enthusiastic middle-aged man, and his face has been stained dark by years of dealing with oily food.
After hesitating back and forth at the door a few times, Chen Chen replied to the shop owner: "Um... big brother, can I borrow your kitchen? Me, I don't mean anything else, it's just that I have a quirk and can only eat meals I cook. Otherwise, I will vomit, since I was sent to the hospital yesterday, I haven’t eaten, it’s so uncomfortable!”
Chen Chen's crying made people puzzled. Fortunately, the owner of the small restaurant saw that he was wearing the uniform of a five-star hotel chef, so he agreed to him: "Young man, you have such a mouth. You can’t be hungry all the time, come in quickly.”
"Thank you, brother!" Chen Chen smiled brightly and entered the kitchen impatiently.
The owner followed Chen Chen and walked into the kitchen together.
"It's okay to let you cook, but I have a condition."
"Brother, you just say it directly, as long as you don't sell yourself, I can probably accept it." Chen Chen stuck out his tongue, and only then did his pale face shine.
The shop owner was also amused by him, slapped him on the shoulder, and said heartily: "Of course not, I just thought that you must be very good at cooking in the uniform of a high-end restaurant. How about half of it being used in the store to pay for your meal?"
It wasn't a harsh condition, Chen Chen readily agreed, nodding straight to the shopkeeper, his little head shaking like garlic.
The shop owner trusted Chen Chen very much. After finishing all the materials he needed to use, he walked out of the kitchen and sat outside alone waiting.
Inside, Chen Chen boiled the hot water, picked the chicken on the kitchen table, and frowned.
To be honest, he doesn't like to use this kind of small chickens for cooking, especially when he wants to cook nutritious chicken soup. Chickens cooked with too tender feed are not as thick as old hens.
Chen Chen seemed to be able to feel the aroma of the stewed chicken soup when he carried the cleaned chicken. Although he was not satisfied with the quality of the chicken, he was hungry and no longer picky about it.
Although he couldn't accept the fact that he was pregnant for a while, Chen Chen subconsciously bought some foods with high nutritional content to eat. For example, he thought of chicken soup when he entered the kitchen, and put some angelica ginseng in it to increase nutrient absorption.
After all the ingredients were put into the pot, Chen Chen cut a few more potatoes, which were still crooked, looking like they were cut out by a child playing tricks.
Anyway, he had to wait for the chicken soup to be stewed, so Chen Chen simply used another pot to make a stewed beef. Most of the ingredients in the small restaurant were not fresh, and the beef was also frozen, so the taste was not as good as in the hotel.But he can't be picky about the current situation, he can only make do with it.
"Speaking of the hotel, I don't know what's going on with Brother Li. Will he talk to me?" Chen Chen frowned, took out his phone, and sent a text message to Li Huan, but there was still no response.
The smell of chicken soup wafted into the owner's nose, leading him to the kitchen.
"Young man, it's not bad. I'm hungry after smelling the scent." The shop owner admired Chen Chen's cooking skills, and laughed out of the corners of his eyes.
"Well, brother shopkeeper, you are such a good person. I thought I would run into a wall, but I didn't expect you to agree right away. Don't worry, I can't eat much, and I can have a lot of leftovers for you to sell." Chen Chen said After turning off the fire, I gave the owner a bowl of chicken soup, "Brother, how does it taste?"
The owner gladly took the chicken soup, and after blowing it a few times, he couldn't wait to take a sip. At that moment, he seemed to have tasted the handicraft made by his mother many years ago, and the warmth of the family was transmitted to his heart. Aftertaste for half a lifetime.
"Wow..." After taking several more sips, the owner was very excited, "Young man, I did not misread you, this chicken soup is the most delicious chicken soup I have ever tasted in my life, and it will be a big seller later, yes Can you help me survive a little longer?"
"Of course, I'll put all the ingredients away, and you can start cooking when the time is about right." Chen Chen packed up the meal he wanted to eat, and wanted to go back to the hospital to eat it, so that the sister nurse would not find him missing, and then go to the hospital. Talk about him.
When Chen Chen happily left the small restaurant with a lunch box on his front foot, Yan Shu in a suit and leather shoes came to the door of the shop on his back foot.
"Sir, what would you like to eat?" The shop owner was obviously very happy to get a pot of delicious soup, and he came out to entertain Yan Shu himself.
Yan Shu followed him into the shop, his brows never relaxed.He has always been picky when it comes to food. He even takes care of the three meals a day for his mother who lives in the hospital. However, there are a lot of things recently. He just sent Mr. Qing He away yesterday, so he doesn't have much time to prepare today.
His mother had just come back from the ghost gate and needed to replenish her body, otherwise he would not have come to such a small restaurant with poor sanitation and average standards.
The owner of the store saw that Yan Shu had been silent, and also saw that the suit he was wearing was very elegant, and he knew that he was not an ordinary person.
Seeing his hesitation, the boss took the initiative to serve him a bowl of chicken soup: "Young man, try the chicken soup we just brewed here. It's delicious. I think you just came out of the hospital. Is there a family member living in the hospital?" , Chicken soup is the best for nourishing the body, so take some away."
The hospitality is hard to come by, Yan Shu dispelled the last trace of doubt, sat down beside the small dining table, and took a sip.
Originally, he didn't have any hope, and Yan Shu didn't expect that the standard of chicken soup in the store was no less than that of his own five-star hotel.
Unable to believe that the taste he tasted was similar to Li Huan's previous dishes, Yan Shu casually ordered another dish of shredded pork with potatoes. Sure enough, the taste was mediocre, only the bowl of chicken soup was familiar and delicious.
"Boss, there is something wrong with your food." Yan Shu put down his chopsticks, still with his frozen three-chi poker face.
The shop owner who was called thought that something was wrong with his shop, his hands shook, and he asked nervously, "Why, what's wrong?"
Yan Shu pointed to the half-drinked chicken soup and shredded pork with potatoes on one side, and said, "The taste of the two dishes is completely different. I'm not interested in anything else. Just tell me, who cooked this bowl of chicken soup?"
"This... I don't really know who he is, but he is wearing the uniform of the Eisen Hotel. He came to borrow the kitchen from me just now. I saw him pitiful and asked him to cook some dishes for himself. This chicken soup is left over from him .”
"Are you sure it's the Eisen Hotel?" Yan Shu tilted his head, could it be that Li Huan ran over?
The shopkeeper nodded again and again, sure that he read it correctly.
Yan Shu pondered for a moment: "Help me pack a portion of chicken soup, and I'm making some light side dishes."
"Okay, wait a minute."
The boss packed Yan Shu's takeaway as quickly as possible.
After taking the food for his mother, Yan Shu hastened his pace back to the hospital.
At the same time, Chen Chen also finished his meal. Since he knew that he was not sick, he strongly demanded to go through the discharge procedures, and passed Yan Shu again in the hospital lobby.
"Chen Chen, take the paperwork." The sister nurse in the window shouted, and her voice reached Yan Shu's ears without causing any ripples.
That's right, he didn't know who made the food he had eaten for so long, let alone his name, so how could he react to a stranger's name.
Thinking about chicken soup and Li Huan in his heart, Yan Shu hurried back to the hotel after taking care of his mother after eating, regardless of the backlog of work in the past two days, he went straight to the back kitchen.
Noon was the busiest time in the back kitchen, and the people coming and going were very chaotic. Seeing Yan Shu's arrival, everyone cheered up, for fear that they would not do their best enough.
"Manager Wang, come here."
Manager Wang trotted to Yan Shu's side immediately: "Mr. Yan, do you have anything to tell me?" He felt that Yan Shu was in a state of anger, and immediately lowered his head, not daring to meet his cold eyes.
"Can you find Li Huan now? I have something to ask him." Yan Shu glanced inside, but he didn't find Li Huan, and felt even more irritable.
Manager Wang hesitated: "Now is the busiest time. I wonder if Mr. Yan can wait for a while? After a while, I will call him to your office immediately."
Thinking about the gains and losses, Yan Shu still didn't force it, but the doubts in his heart were still there, so he simply asked Manager Wang for confirmation: "Well, that's fine, tell me now, did Li Huan leave the hotel just now?"
"That's not the case. Since this morning, he has been obediently helping out in the back kitchen. There is no difference except that he is more diligent than before."
After hearing this, Yan Shu came to a conclusion in his mind, and left the back kitchen without looking back.
Sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, Yan Shu crossed his hands and tapped the back of his hand with his index finger. This was his habitual action when he was thinking.
Before Li Huan came up, Yan Shu was worried about something like this for the first time. He was restless and unable to make the most accurate judgment on work, so he simply gave up work and took a nap on the sofa in the office.
"Tattoo!"
After a while, there was a knock on the door, which disturbed his sleep.
"President Yan, it's me, Li Huan." Li Huan's voice sounded a little excited, probably thinking that Yan Shu might give him a chance when he saw him again, so before going upstairs, he replied Chen Chen's text message, taking the opportunity Win over Chen Chen.Poor Chen Chen thought that Brother Li was only sincerely treating him well, and he couldn't bear to be angry with him all the time, so he was so happy.
"Come in." Yan Shu smoothed the wrinkles on his clothes, sat upright at the end of the sofa, not getting angry.
When Li Huan came in and stood in front of him, Yan Shu asked again: "Mr. Qing He was very dissatisfied yesterday, and I was also very angry. Now I will give you a chance to explain. I only want facts, not excuses."
"I, I really just didn't perform well, and there is no other excuse." Li Huan insisted on this point, and still had hope for his return to the position of chef.
"Oh? Really?" Yan Shu stood up, "Well, let's go down and try it together, and you finish a dish by yourself in front of me."
Li Huan was startled, his legs were weakening, but now he was riding a tiger, if he flinched, there would be no room for recovery. A while ago, Li Huan had watched Chen Chen cook many times, so Li Huan decided to imitate it and try his luck.
So the two went to the back kitchen one after the other, and other employees who saw this kind of battle for the first time gathered around, discussing how Yan Shu would make things difficult for Li Huan, and how Li Huan would disappoint others.
Yan Shu ignored the surrounding voices and just watched Li Huan cooking. Li Huan was very confident in the first half of the cooking, and the gorgeous knife skills aroused everyone's admiration, and he couldn't help but increase his confidence.
Li Huan just messed up once yesterday, and now Yan Shu asked to do it face to face. After cutting all the ingredients, he looked at the wok, not knowing what to do.But surrounded by colleagues, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and imitate Chen Chen's previous process to make a phoenix Yu Fei.
Just looking at the appearance, it was not much different from before. Yan Shu took a look and picked up the chopsticks.
Sure enough, after Yan Shu tasted it, he found that it didn't taste that way at all, and immediately spit out the half-chewed dish into the trash can, and when he raised his head, he glanced at Li Huan coldly, and the meaning he wanted to express was self-evident.
Knowing that he was wrong, Li Huan stopped struggling to die, bowed his head, and admitted his mistake: "I, I admit, my cooking skills are very average."
"And then?" Manager Wang who was standing beside him couldn't stand it anymore, and ran to Li Huan to question.
Li Huan glanced at Yan Shu, and found that the other party's gaze was still on him and never left. He was so guilty that his legs were weak, and he stammered to explain: "Then, then... I didn't cook the dishes before, but I just pretended to be delicious. It's just a plate modification."
"Including the sandwich I ate for the first time?" Yan Shu said coldly.
"Well, including the time when you appointed me as the head chef, Mr. Yan. Actually, the sandwich was made by a man named 'Chen Chen' secretly using public ingredients in the back kitchen. He was afraid of being blamed, so he dared not admit it."
Chen Chen?So familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere.
Li Huan knew that Mr. Yan was really angry, even worse than yesterday, and if he didn't confess, he might not be able to walk around, so he hurriedly said: "When Manager Wu came to ask for someone, I had the courage to stand up for him. But did not expect……"
"I never thought I would appoint you as Aisen's chef without even thinking about it?" Yan Shu interrupted him with a cold expression, as if watching a farce, but this time he was blinded by the farce, Inevitably angry.
"I really just wanted to take advantage of it. I never thought about doing the following things. But you know, CEO, that people's greed is endless, and I can't stop after that." Li Huan was very excited Sincerely reflect.
"Hmph, would it be too disgusting to think about it now? I knew why I was there? From today onwards, you can either quit your job, or you can clean up the waste in the kitchen for me, and you don't need to intervene in the back kitchen."
Yan Shu turned to Manager Wang and asked, "Where is Chen Chen now?"
"Should still be in the hospital." Manager Wang replied immediately, watching Li Huan get the result he deserved, showing a reserved smile.
"Send someone to check on his condition. All medical expenses will be paid by the company." Yan Shu turned around and was about to leave.
At this time, the director of the catering department heard about Yan Shu's face-to-face test of Li Huan, so he rushed from the office, and stood up silently after hearing Yan Shu's words.
"Well, Mr. Yan, there is no need to send someone..."
"Why?" Yan Shu frowned, and the obvious displeasure made the supervisor subconsciously tighten his neck.
"Chen Chen, Chen Chen, he just called to resign..."
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