Chapter 638 This Time It’s Cash

When Li Ye saw Zhen Rongrong off, he gave her a sum of "confidence money" and told her to concentrate on her studies after arriving at Dengta and not to miss the opportunity to study because of financial difficulties.

Working and studying sounds very inspiring, but human energy is limited. If you are so tired after a long day of work that your pants stick to your buttocks, how efficient can your studies be?

The country sends highly intelligent talents like Zhen Rongrong to schools like UCLA. How much knowledge she can absorb depends entirely on her ability. If she puts all her energy into studying, the rate of return will be higher.

But at this moment, Li Ye was looking through the window of "Cao's Restaurant" at Zhen Rongrong hurriedly wiping the table, serving dishes, and clearing plates, and he really didn't know what to say to her.

[Could it be that she really wanted to save money by working part-time so that she could fulfill her promise to treat all her classmates to a big meal when she returned home? ]

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye's slightly frowned brows and whispered, "Why don't we go to another restaurant? Let's go to school to find her tomorrow."

"Well, just pretend you didn't see it."

Li Ye, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiru turned around and walked back, but just after taking two steps, Zhen Rongrong's surprised cry was heard behind them.

"Li Ye? Wen Leyu? Is that you?"

Li Ye turned around suddenly and found that Zhen Rongrong had walked out of the restaurant and was running towards them quickly. As she ran, the smile on her face bloomed like a flower.

Wen Leyu laughed and whispered, "You think you can't see her, but she sees you!"

Li Ye pinched Wen Leyu's palm, reminding her not to be so stingy.

Because Zhen Rongrong was obviously very happy at this moment. Even when she was at Beijing University, Li Ye had never seen Zhen Rongrong smile so happily.

Meeting an old friend in a foreign place is indeed a great blessing in life.

Zhen Rongrong trotted over to Li Ye and the others and said happily, "It's really you! Luckily I had sharp eyes and happened to glance out the window, otherwise I would have missed you. When did you arrive in San Francisco?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "We just arrived today, so we thought we'd come over for a stroll and then go to school to find you tomorrow, but we didn't expect to run into you first."

Zhen Rongrong said happily: "So you are planning to spend the Spring Festival here? I have been looking forward to it since I received the letter from my classmates. I thought you would come after the Spring Festival!

That's great. We international students will hold a Spring Festival party. It will be very lively for everyone to celebrate the New Year together. By the way, you just arrived today. Do you have a place to stay?"

Li Ye pointed to the tall buildings not far away and said, "We live in the St. Francis Hotel over at Union Square."

"You actually live in St. Francis? Why are you so greedy?"

Zhen Rongrong was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion: "Is Mr. Pei so generous? He actually arranged for you to live in St. Francis?"

San Francisco's Union Square covers an area of ​​only about one hectare, but it is one of San Francisco's famous tourist attractions. It is surrounded by a large number of high-end boutiques, galleries and luxury hotels, and is a standard high-consumption shopping area.

The St. Francis Hotel is one of the oldest and most luxurious hotels in San Francisco. It has appeared in many Hollywood movies and has hosted celebrities such as the Queen of England, MacArthur, and President Kennedy. It is considered one of the landmarks of San Francisco.

So when Zhen Rongrong heard that Li Ye lived in St. Francis, she was immediately surprised that Li Ye was so wasteful, and subconsciously wanted to say something.

Zhen Rongrong was Li Ye's former class monitor. She had repeatedly reminded Li Ye in school to "pay attention to influence" and not let others use the excuse of "being greedy for enjoyment" to attack Li Ye, thus affecting his promotion and regularization as a member of the D team.

However, Zhen Rongrong immediately remembered that Li Ye was interning at Pei Wencong's company, so the hotel accommodation fee would of course be borne by Hong Kong Island.

"Yes, yes, the generosity of capitalists is as fascinating as juicy bait. Especially for a fish like me who only eats bait and not the hook, it is simply delicious."

Li Ye teased Zhen Rongrong with a smile, but Zhen Rongrong refuted seriously: "Don't describe Mr. Pei like that. After you come out and see, you will know that Mr. Pei is really sincere to us."

"Okay, okay, I was just kidding. I left the letters from my classmates at the hotel. I'll deliver them to you tomorrow."

"Yeah, yeah, I've been looking forward to it! I don't know what Xiao Ling and the others said to me."

Zhen Rongrong was very happy to hear that the letters from her classmates had arrived. However, she was only happy for a few seconds before she heard someone calling her from behind.

"Xiao Zhen, what are you doing? The food is served!!"

"Here I come, Sister Zhen, give me a minute, I'll be right there!"

Zhen Rongrong turned around and agreed, then said to Li Ye: "One of my classmates is sick. I have to work for her here for the next few days, otherwise the restaurant owner will hire someone else."

"Oh~"

Li Ye agreed and suddenly realized that this sentence was specially explained to him by Zhen Rongrong.

So he immediately said, "Working and studying is also good. You can also communicate with customers and practice English. Wen Leyu and I have been in Dengta for a few days and I feel that my English level has improved a lot!"

"Yes, yes!" Zhen Rongrong smiled at Wen Leyu, then said, "I have to go back first. It's hard to make money from capitalists if you have to serve them and be managed by them."

"Let's go, let's go back together," Li Ye said with a smile, "We haven't eaten yet. Let's go and taste the hometown food."

"Okay, okay! I'll treat you guys today and I promise you'll have authentic Chinese food."

Zhen Rongrong was smiling happily and led Li Ye and others back to the Cao's Restaurant where they worked.

After entering the restaurant, Zhen Rongrong first arranged for Li Ye and others to sit down, and then hurried to the kitchen to remind them that since they were family members coming to eat, they must not make weird "Chinese food" according to the taste of the lighthouse people.

Wen Leyu, who was sitting down, whispered to Li Ye: "She didn't expect me to come."

"What?"

Li Ye was helping Wen Leyu iron the tableware out of habit, and did not understand what Wen Leyu meant.

Wen Leyu narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I mean, she was very surprised when she saw us just now."

Li Ye's classmates knew that Li Ye was coming to the Lighthouse, but they didn't know that Wen Leyu would also come, so Wen Leyu felt that Zhen Rongrong was more surprised to see him, but she was truly happy to see Li Ye.

Compared with state-owned restaurants in the mainland, the efficiency of the Dengta restaurant is extremely high. It only took Li Ye and others five or six minutes to sit down before the food was served, and it tasted very good.

The white bodyguard who came in with Li Ye saw that the dishes on Li Ye's table were different from his own, and whispered a few words to his companion.

The companion smiled and said in Chinese: "Girl, give us the same one as that."

"Wait a minute! Let me ask the kitchen if they have any ingredients left."

“.”

It was the time to serve guests, and Zhen Rongrong was already very busy.

Li Ye realized only now that Zhen Rongrong was really not very skilled and was obviously covering for her classmates.

"Hey, Miss Zhen, come over and order some food!"

Li Ye was just about to serve Wen Leyu some soup when he suddenly heard a familiar voice. He turned around and saw that the guy selling jade rings had also come in to eat.

The guy named Ai was sitting on a chair. He glanced at Li Ye first, then raised his chin and said, "Give me some fried shrimp with broccoli, and some braised beef. For soup, I'll have some mushroom and egg soup! You don't have any better dishes."

"Broccoli fried shrimp, braised beef, and mushroom egg drop soup, right? Twenty-nine dollars and forty cents in total."

"I understand. Hurry up and serve me the food. I have an important contract to discuss later. Don't delay my business."

Zhen Rongrong took a pen and wrote it down seriously, but did not go back to the kitchen immediately. Instead, she stood in front of the guy named Ai and refused to leave.

The guy named Ai frowned and said unhappily, "Why don't you go to the kitchen to urge the food to be prepared? What are you standing here for?"

Zhen Rongrong said calmly, "Mr. Ai, the total is twenty-nine dollars and forty cents. Please pay first."

“.”

Mr. Ai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly he flew into a rage and shouted, "Is this your first day here? Don't you know who I am? Do you know who owned this restaurant before? And you want me to pay first?"

Are you afraid that I can’t afford a few dozen dollars? Call your boss Chen over here, what kind of workers did she hire?”

Li Ye frowned, but Zhen Rongrong said calmly: "If you can afford a few dozen yuan, please pay for the meal on Monday first.

Our boss said that she is not familiar with you, so the thirty-one dollars will be charged to my account."

“.”

Many people in the restaurant looked over. They had just heard that Mr. Ai had three dishes by himself, and they thought he was very rich! It turned out that he was a bad account.

You have to know that the average monthly salary of a lighthouse worker is 1,200 to 2,000 yuan nowadays. This meal of his will consume most of an ordinary person's half-day salary.

But Mr. Ai asked Zhen Rongrong, "What do you mean by thirty-one dollars? I gave you forty dollars. Do you think that was a tip for you?"

"Can't you tell the difference between a tip and a meal? Do you know the consequences of embezzling a customer's money?"

“.”

Zhen Rongrong's face immediately turned red. Of course, she knew the difference between tips and meal expenses, but how could she explain this matter to a scoundrel? What if the boss misunderstood her?

The key point is that this job belongs to her classmate. If the other party loses the job because of her mistake, Zhen Rongrong doesn’t know how to explain it to her classmate.

Mr. Ai saw Zhen Rongrong's face flushed, and said proudly: "You are new here and don't know the rules. I won't argue with you.

But you have to remember, there are some people you can’t afford to offend. I can report you for working illegally and make you lose your job in a matter of minutes.”

The gangster understands the hearts of the lower class people best. He will poke at whatever Zhen Rongrong is afraid of.

Li Ye stood up with a cold face and was about to go over to talk to this bully, but Zhen Rongrong's colleague called "Sister Zhen" had already rushed over.

"Ai Laosan, are you going to report us? Go ahead, if you have the guts, go now and see if all the bosses on this street will strangle you to death after you report us."

"Tsk, I will report your family, others will be stupid to care"

"That's not necessarily true. Everyone knows that you reported it, and other people's reports are also attributed to you. Believe it or not, if you report it today, the Immigration Bureau will come to conduct a major inspection tomorrow."

“.”

Li Ye looked at the fierce Sister Zhen and really wanted to applaud her.

It takes another evildoer to deal with a bad guy. She played the "fight to the death" strategy very well.

Just in Chinatown, there are so many illegal workers. International students like Zhen Rongrong are still okay, but they are not allowed to work outside the school. Those who come here illegally don’t even have an identity card. They are really like those who are barefoot and are not afraid of those who wear shoes. If you destroy someone’s job, they will really fight you to death.

Ai Laosan looked at the two waiters angrily. After a long stalemate, he took out a few small US dollars from his wallet and threw them on the table.

"Fried shrimp with broccoli. Don't take the rest. This time it's cash."

(End of this chapter)