Chapter 113 Opening Ceremony

Cai Zhiyuan looked at this face that was not dislikeable. He stretched out his hand to pinch her cheek and sighed softly: "Bad girl."

Yue Ning looked at Sophie and said, "Brother, bring another one up."

Cai Zhiyuan glanced at her and said, "Why don't you just train one yourself?"

Yue Ning looked at Yang Zhijie and Chen Zheng who were approaching: "I have it!"

Yue Ning greeted them and said to Cai Zhiyuan, "He's a sophomore at HKU, studying business. I asked him to do business development and grow with Ning Xiaochu. He will be my business partner in the future. Let's go! Come sit in my office for a while and have some tea. What else can't you, a playboy, let go of?"

Cai Zhiyuan didn't know how to refute this girl.

Miss Zou came over and said to Yue Ning: "Ningning, it's time to worship the gods."

"Brother Zhiyuan, I'm going."

Yue Ning didn’t understand the traditions of worshipping gods and performing lion dances when opening a business, but his grandfather would take care of it anyway.

There was already a roast suckling pig, a whole white-cut chicken, a roast duck, and other offerings such as fruits on the table.

Yue Ning took the three incense sticks from Asong and burned incense to the gods with his grandfather, chanting auspicious words such as "good luck", "a good start", and "prosperity".

The incense was inserted into the incense burner, and Yue Ning was invited over again. Grandpa put the finishing touches on the lion's eyes. Yue Ning waited for the lion to pick the greens and then took the lettuce. Lettuce is a homonym for "making money", which means that money will come in abundance.

After the lion dance, Yue Ning took the red envelopes from his grandfather, distributed them to everyone present, and said auspicious words to each other. Yue Ning also kept a red envelope for Cai Zhiyuan.

"Brother Zhiyuan, congratulations on your prosperity!"

Cai Zhiyuan took it with a smile: "Good luck!"

The guests were just beginning to arrive. Yang Yuhe and Xu Lemei arrived together. When they saw Cai Zhiyuan, they immediately came over to greet him, "Good morning, Mr. Cai!"

It was just a normal greeting, but Cai Zhiyuan felt guilty for some reason and said, "I'll come and see for Ningning."

Although HTV has obtained the right to interview inside the venue today, that is something the subordinates have to do. What does it have to do with Cai Zhiyuan?

Xu Lemei is an old employee of the TV station. Yang Yuhe has also been appearing on the TV station and often contributes articles to Hengtong's newspapers.

How could they not know what Cai Zhiyuan was thinking? Why bother to expose the young boss's thoughts? The two chatted with Cai Zhiyuan for a few words and walked to the sign-in desk to sign in.

Xu Lemei and Sophie have been colleagues for six years. She watched Sophie busy around the TV station with exquisite makeup and a bright look every day. She also listened to people gossiping about her behind her back, saying how amazing she was that after the boss changed girlfriends one after another, she was never exposed to the public by the boss, but she had enough influence on the boss that even the future Mrs. Cai could not shake her position in Hengtong.

Sometimes Xu Lemei had to record a program in the evening, and she would run into Sophie at the TV station. She would see Sophie blankly making coffee in the tea room, then pinch her eyebrows, hold the coffee and drag her tired steps back to the office. After she finished recording the program, she passed by Sophie's office and saw through the glass that she was still looking at documents.

Xu Lemei sighed in her heart at that time, thinking that if Sophie was a boy, with her ability and hard work, she would be able to get such a position without having to sleep with the young boss, and everyone would definitely praise her for being young and promising.

Thinking back to my own journey when I was young, I can only lament that it is so difficult for women to achieve success in the workplace.

Later, gossip spread in the TV station that Sophie decided to leave the TV station and even rejected the proposal of the boss. Those people were speculating whether Sophie had switched to another TV station, perhaps because the title and salary there were better?

The boss of that TV station is a pervert. He has made a list of all the female stars in the TV station and ordered them to those people like dishes. It is better to stay in Hengtong than to go to that company. The young boss is still romantic but has a sense of propriety. The Cai family has a bottom line. Xu Lemei is not very familiar with Sophie. She wanted to persuade her, but she was too close.

Later, she learned that Sophie had gone to Yue Ning's place, and she was relieved and happy for Sophie. Yue Ning was really good at recognizing talent, and Sophie was also a good bird choosing a good tree to live in.

Now they were seen standing side by side to greet the guests. Yue Ning was wearing Chinese-style attire and had an extraordinary temperament, while Sophie's curvy figure was wrapped in a fitted suit. The smile on her face made people feel that she was very happy.

Sophie came over and hugged her: "Sister Lemei, welcome!"

"Sophie, I'm really happy for you." Xu Lemei said in Sophie's ear.

Just these words made Sophie feel deeply moved. There was warmth in her eyes as she said, "Thank you!"

"you busy!"

Yue Ning exchanged a few pleasantries with Yang Yuhe, and Xu Lemei went over: "A viewer called and said he wanted to learn how to play shrimp balls. Can I learn it?"

"certainly."

The guests were waiting at the back, so Yang Yuhe and Xu Lemei walked in.

Qiao Junshen came over with Cui Huiyi on his arm. When Qiao Junshen saw his cousin, he went over and hooked his arm around Cai Zhiyuan's shoulder: "Why didn't you bring a female companion?"

Cui Huiyi looked at Sophie: "When a playboy becomes affectionate, it's so scary!"

"Come on, come on, follow your brother." Qiao Junshen couldn't bear to see his cousin alone, so he wanted to take Cai Zhiyuan inside.

Seeing Cui Huiyi chatting with a young man, he called out, "Huiyi, come here!"

Cui Huiyi particularly likes Yang Zhijie, this kid is very smart, down-to-earth and hardworking.

Hearing Qiao Junshen urging her, Cui Huiyi said, "Zhijie, let's talk about it in detail tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"OK."

Cui Huiyi walked over, and Qiao Junshen asked, "What are you doing?"

"That's the Yang Zhijie I told you about, the one I particularly like." Cui Huiyi said.

Qiao Junshen snorted and laughed: "You don't like it, you admire it. If you don't know how to use words, don't use them randomly."

"Qiao Junshen, why are you quibbling about words? It's okay to like it or to appreciate it. Isn't it the same meaning?" Cui Huiyi rolled her eyes at Qiao Junshen. She had known him since childhood and had never seen him have so many problems.

Cai Zhiyuan suddenly laughed out loud: "But Qiao Junshen believes that liking is liking, and admiring is admiring, and they cannot be confused."

"It's his business that he can't be confused. What does it have to do with me?" Cui Huiyi just felt that these two cousins ​​were more crazy than the other. She should go and hug Ningning first!

Cui Huiyi was hugging Yue Ning. Cai Zhiyuan looked at Qiao Junshen and smiled and shook his head: "It seems that you are having a hard time too."

Qiao Junshen whispered, "I just want her to come to her senses. What about you? She will leave you only when she comes to her senses."

Yue Ning hurried her brothers and sisters in, and she was busy welcoming Zhou's father and daughter.

She said to Mr. Zhou, "There is a dish on the table today that I haven't asked you to try."

"Which one?"

"Pheasant roll." Yue Ning said, "Axing's knife skills, my seasoning, and I use white truffles to pair it with it."

The last time she went to the European food import company, the boss of the company told her yesterday morning that there were newly arrived white truffles and asked her if she wanted any.

Yue Ning had them sent over and tried the new dishes, but he didn't have time to inform Grandpa Zhou.

Zhou Wenting asked her: "The chicken I sent you is very good, right?"

"It's very good. I made traditional white-cut chicken today."

The father and daughter went in. The president and vice president of the catering association, probably had an appointment to come together.

Both of them are industry insiders. They were unable to attend the first show because of something. When they heard that Yue Baohua's apprentice eliminated Chef Zhang from Chunfenglou, they both thought it was Chef Zhang's mistake. After watching the TV show, they were both shocked that Yue Baohua, the weakest apprentice, had such a low skill level. If he hadn't used any seasoning on the white-cut chicken, the possible result would be that Baohualou would have been better than Chunfenglou throughout the show.

After exchanging greetings with Yue Baohua, the two came to Yue Ning.

The president said to Yue Ning with a smile on his face: "Ms. Yue, you have won a great victory this time. After watching the show, we are going to try the dishes from the competition today."

Yue Ning was slightly stunned: "Ah? Are you two uncles going to eat the dishes from the competition that day? The food here at Ningyan is different from that of the competition that day. In order to satisfy everyone's curiosity, my uncle Ming went to Baohualou today. Baohualou launched a set meal for the first day of the competition."

"Baohua Building?"

Yue Ning nodded: "Yeah!"

After the competition ended that day, Yue Ning knew that the dishes made by Uncle A Ming would definitely be popular. The prices of Ning Yan's dishes were already there, and if people wanted to come and eat, they had to consider their wallets. Yue Ning decided to order a few dishes from Baohua Building.

Speaking of those dishes, Yue Ning praised Boss Liu of Chunfenglou again. He clearly saw how they cooked that day, but Chunfenglou has not imitated those dishes until today. He really has the demeanor of an old-fashioned gentleman.

Boss Liu is graceful, but others may not have this grace. For example, Boss Guo of Yulongxuan would grab whatever she wants to do. Yue Ning is sure that he would try every means to imitate what he saw on the TV show yesterday.

For white-cut jelly chicken, Ning Yan uses dried scallops, air-dried chicken and dried matsutake mushrooms to make soup, and then scalds the chicken. Ah Ming also used local ingredients that day, and put sandworms in when he saw them, which was considered the right thing to do, and the others were just random. Even if they knew how to remove those, without the air-dried chicken and dried matsutake mushrooms, the flavor of the jelly would still be different from Ning Yan's.

On the contrary, the affordable version of Baohualou removed the dried matsutake mushroom, and the taste was almost the same.

The shrimp balls shined in the show because the only suitable shrimps in the show were tiger prawns and frozen shrimps. Ah Ming could only use tiger prawns, while Ning Yan used prawns which were cheaper than tiger prawns. The key point of this dish was the juice in the shrimp balls, while Ning Yan used crab meat. The ingredients used by Baohualou were basically the same as those in the competition.

The ingredients of grass carp fillet rolled in beef soup and sweet and sour pork with pineapple are nothing special, and what is tested is the knife skills.

Yulongxuan wants to follow Ning Yan, but the problem is that they can copy and imitate, but Ning Yan and Baohualou are from the same company, and they can even develop two versions of the same dish. Does Yulongxuan want to compete with Baohualou in terms of cost-effectiveness?

The president of the catering association had a strange look on his face.

Yue Ning remembered that their family also ran a restaurant in Wan Chai. Its positioning was much higher than Baohua Building and slightly lower than Yulongxuan, so they also promoted these dishes?

"Please come in, both of you." Yue Ning reminded the two presidents.

The president and vice president walked in.