Chapter 167 The Betrayed Brother

Lu Peide was pacing anxiously in the ward. When he was out, what he feared most was going to the hospital.

He had been out for so long and his family gave him a gold bar. He didn't know the market price at first and was cheated. He sold it at a very low price and has almost spent all the money.

Fortunately, Shou Bo took me in. Shou Bo was old, so the noodle shop was open until noon. It was barely surviving before. After I came, I changed the recipe of the soup base and braised meat, and the business improved a lot. Shou Bo wanted to raise his salary, but I turned it down.

Shou Bo gave him a job and a place to live when he was in the most difficult time. He also supported him in participating in the competition. To be honest, he would be willing to do it even if he didn't get paid. He was very grateful for the pay. After all, he also regarded the place as a temporary place to stay.

It would be fine if I didn't have other expenses with that salary, but I can't afford it after I enter the hospital.

Just now Mr. Yue said that there were too many people in the large ward and it affected his rest, so we moved him to this private ward. How much does it cost for one night?

He was worried about the money, but then he felt lucky that Yue Ning came to see him. But he didn't know why. Now he was worried again.

Hearing footsteps in the corridor, Lu Peide walked out and found that it was the Yue family's grandparents and grandchildren who came together.

"Mr. Yue, Yue..." Lu Peide didn't know how to address Yue Ning for a moment, so Yue Ning called him "Brother Lu" all the time.

"Brother Lu, just call me Ningning! Everyone in our restaurant calls me that." Yue Ning said.

"Ningning." Lu Peide entered the ward with her.

As he walked away, he asked, "Ningning, why did you come back to see me?"

"I remembered that you only make 500 or 600 Hong Kong dollars a month. I wondered if it was enough for your daily life. I wanted to go back to find you and get some money, and this happened to happen." Yue Ning took out a wad of money from his bag, "Here is 5,000 Hong Kong dollars. Take it first. It should be enough until the end of the game."

Lu Peide quickly pushed back: "No, no, no, Ningning. You have already helped me, I can't take this money."

"It's not a gift to you, it's a loan to you. When you join Ning Yan, the master chef there will get a bonus of over ten thousand a month! You can use it as a guarantee." Yue Ning said to him.

Lu Peide felt warm in his heart, so he just took the money he had lent him. He said, "Also, tell me about the medical expenses and rent, and I will pay you back later."

Yue Ning smiled: "Brother Lu, don't settle this with me. If all these are calculated clearly, what kind of friends are we?"

"How can this be so embarrassing?"

"I'm going to make friends with you for decades." Yue Ning asked him to keep the money. "I've warned Guo Shijie that he won't bother you again. If you have any difficulties, don't be afraid to bother me, just call me. If you're too late, go find my uncle Rong."

"I..." Lu Peide shed tears.

"Brother Lu, when I was in trouble, it was my dog ​​Dahei who saved his dog food and caught mice to feed me. It will be fine after this."

"Know."

"Have a good sleep and go back tomorrow to prepare for the next game. You have skills, but I have all kinds of tricks. It's not easy to beat my Uncle A Ming." Yue Ning stood up.

"I will prepare seriously." Lu Peide sent them out.

After the two of them left, Lu Peide felt relieved. He was now able to focus on watching TV. As long as the news involved Yue Ning, it would be a hot topic. Several TV stations in Hong Kong reported this incident, but from different angles:

"The evil man was violent on the street, and Yue Ning kicked him in the kidney."

"The owner of Junhao Hotel failed to recruit someone with a high salary, so he asked his gang members to beat him up."

"Brother with a kidney failure is unable to pay for the medical expenses, Yue Ning will pay for it."

"At the entrance of the police station, Yue Ning angrily slapped Guo Shijie, saying that Lu Peide had her protection."

"In today's Chef King Competition, Yue Ning personally went down to serve as Lu Peide's assistant, intending to recruit Lu Peide."

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Lu Peide's assistant A Jiang just joined the Junhao Hotel today and became a linen cleaner. He was taken to the laundry room at ten o'clock in the morning.

In the laundry room, the hot and humid air seemed to be able to wring out water, and the roar of the machines echoed in my ears all the time.

Ah Jiang was bent over, struggling to pull a bed sheet stained with stains out of the pile of dirty linens. There was something sticky on the bed sheet. Ah Jiang frowned and scrubbed it vigorously, but the stain seemed to have taken root and could not be washed off. He had to pick up a strong detergent and spray it repeatedly on the stain. The pungent smell made him cough.

Sweat continued to drip down his forehead, soaking his work clothes. His back was already soaked with sweat, sticking tightly to his back. His arms were sore from the long hours of scrubbing, but the pile of dirty linens in front of him seemed to be endless.

"Ah Jiang, what's wrong with you!" the supervisor yelled, "What time is it? Why are there still so many things to wash?"

Ah Jiang's body suddenly stiffened and he turned around: "So many..."

Before he could finish his words, the supervisor interrupted him impatiently: "Is that a lot? Are you slacking off?"

Ah Jiang threw down the bed sheet in his hand, and the veins on his neck bulged: "Boss Guo invited me here."

"Boss Guo invited you to come?" The supervisor sneered, "Why not invite you to the upper office? Let you do this kind of dirty and tiring work?"

A Jiang looked down at his hands that had turned white from being soaked, and the disgusting smell still lingered between his fingernails.

Unable to bear it any longer, A Jiang turned around and left, taking the elevator upstairs.

Arriving at the door of Guo Shijie's office, the secretary saw a worker coming in without warning and asked, "Did you go to the wrong place?"

"I'm looking for the boss." said A Jiang.

"Which department are you from? Why are you here to see the boss? I'll write it down for you and I'll tell the boss later."

Just then, Guo Shijie's office door opened, and Guo Shijie came out with a guest. When he saw A Jiang, he frowned and showed a look of disgust.

He sent the guest to the elevator and walked in. Ah Jiang came to greet him: "Boss Guo, you hired me and promised to give me generous treatment and a good job. Now you send me to do the dirtiest and most tiring work. What does that mean?"

Guo Shijie had just been summoned by the police. As soon as he walked out of the police station, Yue Ning slapped him in public, and she also recounted the whole incident in detail on the spot. Now almost all TV stations and radio stations are reporting this incident.

The business of Junhao Hotel at the end of this year can be said to be the worst in history. In the past, they never received tour groups, and their reservations were all from business people and individual travelers. Now they have no choice but to cooperate with travel agencies to receive tour groups.

The discount they gave to the travel agency was already low enough. When the boss of the travel agency saw what happened to him, he was sure that Junhao's reputation would further decline, so he came to negotiate the price again.

Still talking? What kind of quality do the tourists in the tour group have? Don’t they know? Junhao has only been open for a few years. These days, the rooms and facilities are damaged more than before. The repair and cleaning costs have increased a lot.

Guo Shijie was also very angry. When he saw Ah Jiang say this, he smiled contemptuously: "You are a mainlander with no skills. I assign you to do this and give you this salary. Isn't it good enough? What else do you want? If you can't do it, get out now."

Ah Jiang was so angry that his face turned red. "I am doing the most tiring work, but I am treated like an animal. Do you think I am a fool?"

Guo Shijie didn't want to get entangled with a mainlander, so he waved his hand impatiently: "If you can't stand it, get out. Don't waste my time here."

"I betrayed my brothers for you. Now you've used me and want me to get out?" Jiang clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms: "You are bullying me! I tell you, you must give me an explanation today, otherwise this matter will not end!"

Ah Jiang's words also made Guo Shijie's suppressed anger come out: "If you treat him as a brother, you won't betray him."

When Guo Shijie saw the security guard coming in, he sneered, "Throw this mainland kid out."

Ah Jiang was caught off guard by two security guards and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Guo Shijie, you lied to me..."

It was useless for him to struggle. Thinking about his belongings that were still in the dormitory, he said, "Brothers, my things are still in the dormitory. Let me go back and get them."

The two security guards were just part-time workers. One of them said, "Don't make things difficult for us. Just take the things and leave."

Ah Jiang put an old teacup into his bag. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He thought he had found a good job with free food and accommodation and a salary of over HKD 1,000, but who would have thought that Guo Shijie was a liar... But he had no choice. Now he had quit his job in Aocheng and could no longer be brothers with Lu Peide. Ah Jiang's tears fell drop by drop.

Seeing him like this, a security guard sighed, "Don't feel wronged. Our boss is very upset now! Your brother hooked up with Yue Ning from Baohua Building. Yue Ning took out his anger on your brother and beat up our boss, and even scolded him until he was humiliated. You went upstairs to argue with our boss, aren't you walking into trouble?"

"What?" With tears still on his face, A Jiang looked up at the security guard.

"Go out and buy a newspaper, and you'll know everything," the security guard said. "Change your clothes and leave!"

A Jiang changed his clothes and was pushed out of Jun Hao. Jun Hao and Ning Yan were separated by only a few hundred meters. At this moment, the lights were just coming on, and it was the busiest time for Ning Yan.

He walked towards Ning Yan. He had been in Hong Kong and Macau for more than half a year. He had lived in a pigeon cage with many people squeezed together. He had also seen too many luxury cars on the road that cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

In this place called Gangcheng, the poor live worse than dogs, while the rich live like emperors.

While watching TV, I said to Lu Peide, "Ade, if you can have the opportunity to work as a chef at Ningyan, it will be more prestigious than your second uncle being a royal chef in the mainland."

Lu Peide said to him, "Don't talk nonsense. My second uncle prepares state banquets and entertains foreign guests. He is not a royal chef who cooks for the emperor in feudal society. Besides, I have been in Hong Kong for so long, and I have learned that I can't expect to rise to the top overnight."

"If you get into Ningyan, help me out! Let me be a waiter. I heard that if you do a good job, you can make 1,500 to 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a month! It's higher than the clerks in the Hong Kong government office."

"I told you, don't think too much..."

Now Lu Peide is really going to enter Ning Yan, but it has nothing to do with me?

He saw a book and newsstand in the distance, so he ran over and read the newspaper under the light. The picture on the newspaper was a scene of Yue Ning beating Guo Shijie.

"Yue Ning: If you touch Lu Peide, you touch me!"

He asked for the newspaper and squatted under the lamp to read...

"Ningning, are you finishing work so early?" The newspaper stand owner called her when he saw Yue Ning walking the dog.

Yue Ning stopped, stroked Dahei with his hand and said, "Yes! I was supposed to rest today, so I came back and told my uncle Ming about today's game, and then I took Dahei back."

"You're all over the newspapers today! It seems that Ning Yan has a new master chef." said the boss.

Yue Ning said happily: "Yes! But I have to wait until Brother Lu finishes his game before I can come to Ningyan."

"I heard that he is a chef from the mainland who prepares state banquets. I wonder if we can have a chance to taste his cooking skills?"

"Yes, whoever comes here will have to take turns eating at Baohualou and Ningyan. Just go to Baohualou to eat, isn't that enough? His cooking skills are really good. I'll save a seat for you when the time comes."

"Then it's settled."

"It's settled." Yue Ning picked up a few newspapers and said, "Uncle, I'm leaving now."

"Goodbye Ningning."