After sending his children to school today, Jiang Miao went with others to get vegetables. Jiang Miao was at the back of the line, discussing pest control with a few aunts, when he suddenly heard Li, a helper working in the kitchen of the canteen, calling him softly outside the door.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Miao spoke to a few aunts and followed Li the helper outside.
Li looked around and found no one around. He immediately whispered, "Brother Jiang, from now on, the canteen will not bring you food."
"Ah?" Jiang Miao didn't understand what he meant. What did he mean that the canteen wouldn't help him bring food
"Chef Hu said that you are not considered a member of the Imperial College, and the canteen will not bring you food in the future." Li, the helper, thought Jiang Miao was a good person, so he called him out to tell him the truth in order to prevent him from being ridiculed for going to get food. A few days ago, he fell while working, hit his head, and bled a lot. Chef Hu thought he was unlucky and asked him to leave quickly. He was seen by Jiang Miao when he was leaving with his head covered. Then Jiang Miao took him to the doctor Yang who was in charge of the Imperial College to get medicine. Not only did he pay for the medicine, but he also brought him a few handfuls of red dates from home, saying that red dates can replenish blood.
Jiang Miao was puzzled: "Did the Imperial College's chief academic officer or dean speak? Although I am not from the Imperial College, I am a student's family member."
Assistant Li thought for a moment and said, "It should be Chef Hu who said that. He has been unhappy these past few days. When the shoppers were about to go down the mountain to go home yesterday, he stopped them and gave them instructions. I happened to hear it."
Jiang Miao racked his brains but couldn't understand why he suddenly gave such an order. He was still very grateful to the helper Li for his kind reminder. The line inside was getting shorter and shorter. Aunt Luo saw that Jiang Miao had not entered yet, so she came out to call him.
Jiang Miao responded and said, "Thank you, Brother Li, for your reminder, but I have to ask about this matter clearly." The people from the canteen go down the mountain to buy vegetables and bring them up. This is a welfare provided by the Imperial College to the residents in the back mountain. They paid money to live in the back mountain, so how could they just not bring the vegetables
Helper Li looked at Jiang Miao's receding back and couldn't help but sigh. Chef Hu was a relative of the chief priest's family. What would it matter even if he found out the truth
After Jiang Miao joined the line, it was his turn immediately.
The helper who was distributing the vegetables glanced at him and said, "There's no vegetable for your family today." After that, he motioned for the next person to come forward without even looking at Jiang Miao, let alone explaining.
"Excuse me," Jiang Miao refused to give up his seat, "Please tell me why there is no food from my restaurant today."
The man frowned and said, "No, that's all. Why are you wasting your time? Get out of the way and don't delay my work."
"It is the rule of the Imperial College to provide food in the dining hall. You cut off my food without saying a word and didn't even give me an explanation. Is this how you do things? What's more, I paid the money at the beginning of the month!" Jiang Miao was also angry. He didn't even give any explanation for not bringing me food. Bringing me food was not a good deed for them to do to help, but their obligation.
The man finally raised his head and looked at Jiang Miao carefully: "It's not your turn to worry about how we do things. As for your little money, I will return it to you when the time comes." He looked extremely arrogant, as if he was the owner of the cafeteria.
"Oh," the man looked at Jiang Miao sarcastically, "This was ordered by our Chef Hu." Chef Hu was a relative of the chief priest's family, so it was useless to tell anyone about this.
Jiang Miao came to the conclusion that this man was a stalker who made threats. They only looked at the clothes and didn't even know who he was. In fact, apart from this man, there were many people who didn't know Jiang Miao's identity. Jiang Miao was always restless and liked to find something to do. The clothes that Pei Che bought for him looked good, but they were not very durable. Therefore, the clothes Jiang Miao wore every day were still the ones he wore before. In the eyes of some snobs, Jiang Miao should be just a poor man living in the back mountain.
Jiang Miao turned and walked out. Aunt Luo and the others were waiting outside. When they saw him coming out, they were about to call him to stop, but they found that Jiang Miao was walking hurriedly to the other side. They were a little worried, so they followed him.
"Knock knock knock!" Jiang Miao knocked on the door hard. The sun was already high in the sky, and Chef Hu should have gotten up by now.
Sure enough, after a while, the person inside shouted "My life is coming!" and then the door was opened roughly.
"Who are you?" After seeing Jiang Miao, Chef Hu's anger subsided a little, but soon his expression became disdainful again.
"What do you want from me?"
"What can I ask you for? Of course it's about bringing food." Jiang Miao saw that he was going too far and no longer spoke as kindly as before.
"You are not from the Imperial College, so it is naturally not your turn to bring the food. I have already done my best by letting you take advantage of me for a few days without pursuing the matter." The man surnamed Hu smiled cunningly, and the smug expression on his face made people feel very uncomfortable.
"Whether I am a member of the Imperial College or not, this should not be under your jurisdiction, right? Your responsibility is just to help everyone bring food." Jiang Miao said.
Chef Hu's face darkened when he heard that. "Anyway, you can forget about getting this dish from the canteen. Don't you like going down the mountain to buy it from farmers? You can still buy it yourself."
Jiang Miao suddenly realized that it was the grocery shopping that caused the trouble, but what did it have to do with them that he went down the mountain to buy vegetables? Why was he so unhappy about something that had nothing to do with him
Jiang Miao felt that there must be some connection between the two. If there was no conflict of interest, why would they care so much? Could it be that Chef Hu took a kickback
In an instant, Jiang Miao understood. When he went to buy vegetables recently, he always met other people carrying baskets to buy. With more people buying, his business was naturally affected. No wonder Chef Hu disliked him!
(End of this chapter)