"Boss, I have something else to do, so I won't go back with you." When they arrived outside the Haitian Company's office building, Xing Sen said to Ye Chui with a smile. Ye Chui had already been confirmed as the chef for the banquet, so it was time for him to prepare. He pointed at the boiled fish in his hand and continued to say to Ye Chui, "But what should we do with the packed dishes?"
"Take it back for lunch." Ye Chui said with a smile.
"Okay then." Xing Sen did not refuse. The fish he took back would be perfect for lunch.
After waving to Ye Chui, Xing Sen walked directly to a motorcycle parked outside the office building, got on it, started up and drove away.
Han Yuyan looked at Xing Sen's leaving figure with a look of surprise on his face: "Eh? Master, Xing Sen's motorcycle doesn't seem to be an ordinary motorcycle. I have seen this motorcycle in Xizhou City. It is worth at least 100,000 yuan... I didn't expect that Xing Sen, who doesn't look good, can actually drive such a good motorcycle!"
"It's obvious that he's a man with a story. Stop interfering." Ye Chui tapped Han Yuyan's forehead with his finger. "Let's go. We should go back."
Let’s not talk about Ye Chui for now. Xing Sen drove his motorcycle all the way to a residential area in the suburbs.
This place was a rural area a few years ago, but was transformed into an urban village due to urban expansion. Xing Sen's motorcycle was parked outside a courtyard that maintained a farmer's style. After parking the motorcycle, he took out the key and opened the door while carrying the packaged boiled fish.
The door of the courtyard next door just happened to be opened, and an old lady who was about to go out to walk her dog saw Xing Sen and said with a smile: "Xiao Xing, you're back."
"Yes, Grandma Zhang, are you out walking the dog?" Xing Sen greeted with a smile.
"Go out for a walk and stretch your muscles."
After a few polite jokes, Xing Sen waited for Grandma Zhang to walk away, then pushed open the door and entered the courtyard. Walking through a cleanly swept courtyard, Xing Sen pushed open the door of the main house and shouted, "Wife, I'm back."
“Crack.”
This was the sound of a pistol being loaded. A beautiful woman with short hair and a tall figure pointed a gun at Xing Sen's forehead: "Come on, call me wife again, try it?"
"..." Xing Sen looked at the black muzzle of the gun. A helpless expression appeared on his face. "Xiao Li, can we not draw our guns all the time? I am doing this for cover, don't you understand? We are pretending to be a couple this time."
"There's no one else around, so why are you pretending?" The short-haired beauty put the pistol back into the holster at her waist and said in a cold voice, "If you call me your wife again next time, I will make sure you will be punished."
"Okay, okay..." Xing Sen looked frustrated as he watched the short-haired beauty turn around. He muttered in a low voice, "Tomboy!"
"What did you say?" The short-haired beauty turned her head coldly.
"No, nothing..." Xing Sen laughed dryly twice, picked up the boiled fish in his hand and put it on the table next to him, "This is the dish Ye Chui just made. I brought it back just in time for lunch. By the way, do you have any steamed buns at home?"
The short-haired beauty glanced at the vegetables in the bag with some displeasure in her eyes, but she still walked towards the refrigerator. She asked, "Is it done?"
"It's completely done." Xing Sen smiled and went to the bathroom to wash his hands, then went to the kitchen to get a large bowl and poured the vegetables in the bag into the bowl, while continuing to explain, "Ye Chui is really amazing. Qin Yue was clearly ready to use a backdoor to hand over the chef job to Jun Le Xiang, but when he ate Ye Chui's food during the cooking competition, he changed his mind. Don't you think he's amazing?"
The short-haired beauty took the bag of steamed buns and sneered when she heard what Xing Sen said: "How old are you? Why can't you see through this? This must be the group of vegetarians who want to target Ye Chui. So they made arrangements with Qin Yue in advance and deliberately let Ye Chui win."
Xing Sen shook his head: "I don't think so. At least during the cooking competition, those vegetarians hadn't contacted Qin Yue yet."
The short-haired beauty still had a faint sneer on her face. In her eyes, Ye Chui was just a 17-year-old boy. How good could the food be? She could guess what was going on without even having to see it with her own eyes. If Ye Chui had not been chosen in advance, how could he have won a five-star hotel? She even looked at Xing Sen with some displeasure. Xing Sen was her subordinate, but he had no vision at all. She was so disappointed...
Xing Sen probably knew the short-haired beauty's temper. He didn't say much to her. He tore open the steamed bun packaging, picked up a pair of chopsticks, glanced at the boiled fish in the bowl in front of him, and said with some anticipation: "This dish Ye Chui made won the competition before he had time to compete. I heard Ye Chui say that this dish is better than the three dishes he used to win Jun Le Xiang before. Haha, I can't help but want to try it quickly."
"You actually believe such bragging?" The short-haired beauty still didn't take it seriously and also picked up a pair of chopsticks.
The boiled fish had just been bumpy all the way and now was poured into the bowl. From the outside, it no longer looked as delicious as when it was first served, but it still exuded a strong fragrance and the temperature of the dish remained the same. This was mainly because this dish used a lot of oil. There was a thick layer of oil floating on the top of the whole dish, which served as a heat-insulating layer. The oil was also dotted with half-fried red peppers and Sichuan peppercorns, with occasionally one or two pieces of tender white fish floating in it.
The short-haired beauty poked the food with chopsticks a few times and said with disgust, "Does this Ye Chui know how to cook? How much oil did he use for the whole dish? Did he think that using more oil would make the dish taste better? And there are so many peppers. Is it edible if it's spicy? There are too many peppercorns, right? It makes people lose their appetite at first glance."
"Xiao Li, don't you like spicy food the most?" Jiang Xingsen said with a smile, picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. Just as he was about to take a bite of the steamed bun, he was suddenly stunned. Then he said to the short-haired beauty, "This dish tastes really good, even better than I thought - Xiao Li, go ahead and try it, I will definitely not let you down."
The short-haired beauty glared at Xing Sen unhappily, as if she hated the tone of Xing Sen's words: Do you think she is an ordinary girl who is so easy to fool? She picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks and put it into her mouth. Then she wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks, but the words were swallowed up in her mouth. A look of surprise appeared on her face.
The fish used in this boiled fish is ordinary grass carp, but after being processed in this dish, the grass carp meat, which originally had not been considered the best in taste among fish, has been cooked to have a smooth taste and rich fragrance. The most important thing is that although this dish uses a lot of oil, it is still not greasy. The large amount of red pepper and Sichuan peppercorns also make it spicy but not dry, and numb but not bitter.
Chew it gently, and you will no longer smell the fishy smell, but the delicious fish meat remains. It is truly a rare delicacy.
When the short-haired beauty looked at the dish that was covered with oil and countless chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns, she no longer felt any desire to delay. Instead, she felt that the layers of red peppers were bright and pleasing to the eye, which whetted her appetite. Her chopsticks uncontrollably picked up another piece of fish along with a red pepper and put it into her mouth. She took another bite of the steamed bun, and the short-haired beauty's face, which was always cold, was filled with an expression of enjoyment, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.
This made Xing Sen stunned. He thought that he had known this tomboy for four or five years, and she had always been a cold person. This was the first time he saw her showing such an enjoyable and smiling expression.
When she was about to take the third bite of fish, the short-haired beauty suddenly came to her senses and noticed Xing Sen's hateful smile. She froze and said in embarrassment, "Humph... This Ye Chui is quite good!"
"It's more than just two tricks." Xing Sen thought to himself. He suddenly remembered something and said to Xiao Li seriously, "This operation will definitely be dangerous. We will follow Ye Chui on board as chefs. If anything unexpected happens, I hope to protect Ye Chui as soon as possible."
Ye Chui had a brief discussion with Xing Sen in the supermarket before. Ye Chui would be responsible for the chef work at the banquet, and Xiao Yu would definitely be too busy to cook for so many people, so it would be normal for Ye Chui to hire helpers. Xing Sen planned to lead the food police to pretend to be kitchen helpers and sneak into the ship together - this was simply a good disguise. Since the food police were in the name of food, even if they did not have a chef certificate like Xing Sen, ordinary vegetable cutting work would not be difficult.
Of course, Ye Chui did not mention the most important point to Xing Sen: that is, his safety must be guaranteed.
"I know this without you telling me." The short-haired beauty nodded, "After the operation begins, I will arrange for someone to protect him."
"Yeah." Xing Sen nodded.
…
Ye Chui was going to attend the cruise carnival as a chef and secretly assist the food police in their mission. This was obviously a bit dangerous, so Ye Chui did not plan to let Tian Xiaodu and Han Yuyan go on the adventure with him. However, he became busy right after returning to the hotel. He did not take the time to tell them about this, and in the afternoon, Han Yuyan disappeared again in the blink of an eye—this sister went out to buy clothes for the cruise carnival in a few days. He did not ask whether she could go with him or not. Even if she went, she would stay in the kitchen as a chef. Was she going to go there to play while buying clothes...
Ye Cui knew that he shouldn't expect this sister to have any workplace awareness.
Even Tian Xiaodu was taken away by Wang Shiyu in the afternoon. He was sneaky and no one knew what he was doing.
By the evening, when Han Yuyan returned from shopping, Lin Wei and An Jing had just returned to the hotel after school.
As soon as she saw Ye Chui, Lin Wei immediately said to him excitedly: "Ye Chui, I have good news to tell you. I was planning to tell you at noon, but unfortunately you were not there. There will be a cruise carnival in Xizhou City in a few days. My father got some tickets. I can take all of us there at that time!" (~^~)
PS: I had an argument with someone at noon, and I became hoarse after just shouting twice. It seems that I have been writing and smoking too much recently... I am so sad, please give me monthly votes and recommendation votes to comfort me...