Chapter 534 The Little Cook
Meng Bai originally bought a large flat with a river view near Lujiazui, but later "lent" it to Yang Chaoyue so that she could arrange for her sister to go to school.
With this girl's family around, it was naturally inconvenient for Mr. Meng to go there again, so he bought another manor villa in Sheshan, mainly to have a place to rest, so as not to have to stay in a hotel every time he came.
Sheshan Manor is also one of the top luxury residential areas in Shanghai, with a very good environment and supporting facilities. The only problem may be that it is a bit far from the city. But it doesn't matter, as few people who live here need to drive themselves.
Meng Bai went upstairs to take a shower, and went to the cloakroom to find a pair of gray casual pants and a white T-shirt to change into. He wiped his hair casually without blow-drying it, and went straight back to the first floor.
"Mr. Meng."
The middle-aged woman in uniform greeted him when she saw him coming down. "The ingredients you ordered have been prepared and cleaned, and all placed in two freezers. The specific partitions are noted on the refrigerator screen, and you can choose them directly."
"Okay, thank you for your trouble." Meng Bai nodded at her. "If everything is arranged, you can leave first. Someone will contact you when you need to clean up later."
"Okay, Mr. Meng, we won't bother you then. Have a nice day!"
After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she showed a standard smile, and then directed the other housekeepers to leave the villa together.
Meng Bai came to the kitchen, opened the freezer and took a look. Sure enough, there were neatly stacked meat, eggs and vegetables inside, and most of them had been preliminarily processed.
Perhaps because he did not specify the quantity when he ordered, he prepared it directly according to the maximum capacity, filling the two freezers. After
an estimate, if it were just Bai Lu and himself, it would be enough for at least a month.
He laughed in his heart. Since the flu, it seems that everyone has developed the habit of stockpiling supplies at any time. The white appliance market should be doing well in the past two years.
Meng Bai casually picked up two bottles of water and walked to the backyard. From a distance, Bai Lu could be seen sitting on a beach chair on the shore taking selfies. After taking the selfies, she sent a voice message to her phone, as if she was chatting with someone.
"Here, have a drink of water."
"Ah!"
Bai Lu, awakened by the voice, turned back like a frightened little rabbit and found Meng Bai standing behind her.
She grinned habitually. But she quickly reacted, immediately pursed her lips, took the water bottle from the other party, and tried to make her smile more gentle: "Thank you, thank you boss!"
Meng Bai didn't pay much attention to the change in her expression. He walked to another beach chair next to him and sat down, and asked casually: "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I think this swimming pool and yard are pretty beautiful. I want to send it to my friends."
As she said that, Bai Lu clicked on the photo she had just taken and handed over the phone.
Meng Bai took a look and found that they were basically all selfies of this girl, with only a little bit of the surrounding environment revealed in the corners.
"Um, boss, is it okay for me to take pictures here?" Bai Lu asked cautiously.
"It's okay, just do whatever you want." Meng Bai didn't care. "Is it sent to your best friend's assistant? I remember, her name seems to be Hehe."
"Yes, boss, you still remember her!"
"To be honest, it's hard not to remember her nickname."
Bai Lu immediately puffed out her chest and showed a proud expression - this nickname was originally given by her and has been used until now.
After the fun ended, she suddenly felt that the yard seemed to be much quieter than before. She couldn't help but look back at the house, but found that the housekeeping staff who were busy just now were gone.
"Boss, where are they?"
"Gone."
"Ah?" She blinked her doe eyes and said stupidly, "I thought you hired them to work here."
"I may not be able to live in this villa for more than a month a year. I can just find someone to tidy it up before I come. Why do I hire so many people when I have nothing to do?"
"Oh, that's right."
Bai Lu nodded, but then asked, "Then how are we going to eat? How about I call someone to send it over? After all, it was agreed that I would treat you, boss, to a meal."
"I remember and I didn't intend to forget." Meng Bai said, "But there's no need to ask someone to send it. There are all the ingredients in the refrigerator, including oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. You can cook this meal."
"Ah?!"
Bai Lu's eyes suddenly widened: "Boss, are you kidding me? How can I cook?"
"No? I remembered that I saw your vlog before. Haven't you been learning cooking? I've cooked a lot."
"Then boss, you must not have watched it carefully. I prepared for a long time and even made notes in advance, but I barely made it."
"It's okay, I had breakfast late, there's plenty of time, you can prepare slowly."
Meng Bai said, crossing his hands behind his head, leaning comfortably on the beach chair to bask in the sun: "I'll take a rest, I hope to see the finished product when I wake up. It doesn't have to be too troublesome, just four dishes and one soup will do."
"Four dishes and one soup is not troublesome!!"
Bai Lu complained in her heart, looking at Meng Bai who closed his eyes and looked comfortable, she couldn't help but grin at him "fiercely".
But even though she complained, she still had to get up and go to the kitchen. Looking at the dazzling array of ingredients and the fully prepared pots and pans, she couldn't help but sigh.
I thought I was here for a date to look pretty, but I didn't expect that I was actually here to be a little cook.
She took out an apron from the cabinet next to her and put it on herself, then picked up a shovel and came to the table in a daze.
What should I do first?
After thinking about it for a while, she had no idea, so she decided to wash her hands first.
After washing and drying, her phone beeped. She took a look and saw a WeChat message from her best friend.
He Handan: [The photo is nice, it would be better if the person on it was smaller. How is the battle going now?]
Bai Lu: [Don't mention it. (sigh.jpg)]
She immediately told him about her current situation.
Bai Lu: [Four dishes and one soup, is this a request that a person can make? I can't wait to go out and see if there is a dog in some yard, so that I can let it cook four dishes for me. ]
He Handan: [Stupid, why bother so much. You can search for the videos of those food up masters on Bilibili, and then follow them step by step. ]
Bai Lu: [Is it okay to learn now? You overestimate my talent for cooking. ]
He Handan: [You should find something that looks good and is easy to make. Something like Caesar salad, red wine steak, etc. It's not like you are asked to make Wensi tofu or boiled cabbage. ]
Bai Lu: [Hey, what you said seems to make sense. ]
He Handan: [And I think that when Mr. Meng asked you to cook, he should have prepared for the taste to be average, just for fun. Don't say, Mr. Meng is quite sentimental. I thought you were already a little lamb who was stripped naked. ]
Bai Lu: [Pah! You are the one who was stripped naked! I went to find a teaching video. 】
On the other side, He Handan looked at the message sent by her bestie and snorted.
What is there to deny? It's only a matter of time.
...
Meng Bai didn't really fall asleep, he just sat up after resting in the sun for a while.
As a young man with a regular schedule and daily fitness, he still has plenty of energy.
He walked into the house and took a look at the kitchen. He saw Bai Lu doing two things at the same time. While watching the teaching video on the mobile phone, he followed the ingredients in front of him. The whole person was in a state of panic.
As He Handan said, Meng Bai did not have high expectations for the girl's cooking skills, but just thought it was fun to tease her.
He couldn't blame himself. The girl said she would treat him to a meal, and now this helped her save some money.
After watching for a while and making sure that she would not burn the kitchen, Meng Bai returned to the study upstairs to start working.
Although today is the weekend, for business managers at his level, there is no distinction between working days and rest days.
Being a boss is like this. Employees only need to go to work and leave on time, but the boss has a lot to consider.
Several major projects of Huguang this year are currently being promoted normally. His main concern recently is the newly launched "Pumpkin Short Drama".
Since the official launch of this short drama platform at the beginning of the year, with the help of the promotion of short video platforms, the development speed can be said to be very rapid. In just two months, the monthly active users have exceeded 20 million and are still growing rapidly.
Unlike long video platforms, short drama platforms do not worry about content output issues at all.
Affected by the film and television winter and influenza, the film and television market has shrunk greatly in the past two years, and even the crews and film and television practitioners in Hengdian have difficulty finding jobs.
It just so happens that the short drama trend is now on the rise. Anyone who pulls a million or so funds can directly save up a mature crew. After working overtime for half a month, a short drama was completed.
This is easier than Meng Bai's online drama shooting back then. Of course, the quality of this kind of drama that is rushed out can be imagined.
For the platform, it is obviously not enough to rely on such low-quality works. At least there must be a batch of high-quality short dramas to keep the place.
If it were someone else, there might not be any good solution, but it is different for "Pumpkin Short Drama". Behind the platform stands Arc Light and the well-known "Arch Light Screenwriter Group".
It just so happens that many people have accumulated some ideas over the years, but they may not be suitable for being filmed into dramas. Now that there is a new platform for short dramas, it is just right for them to try the waters.
Who knows, some good ideas can be dug out from them, which can be upgraded to formal film and television dramas.
Including Meng Bai himself, he is also thinking about joining in the fun. In addition to those formal stories, there are a lot of unsystematic inspiration fragments in his mind. It is a bit small to make a growth drama, but it is just right to shoot a short drama.
Like a book he is writing recently, it is a similar situation. The theme is about the lost cultural relics overseas, and the subject matter style belongs to the fantasy type.
This kind of story is a hassle to review for a growth drama, but at present, short dramas are just like when "Soul Ferry" was made. There is no review jurisdiction, so you can give full play to it.
While thinking about the role setting of the script, Meng Bai's phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and took a look. It was a WeChat message from Yang Chaoyue, saying that she saw the location he posted on his Moments was in Shanghai, and it just so happened that she would come over these two days.
Yang Chaoyue: [Brother, brother~ I'll go find you, brother~~]
Looking at this girl's WeChat, Meng Bai couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows.
I don't know who she learned it from. Since she asked her to call him "brother" before, this girl has been chatting in this style recently.
Meng Bai: [I have something to do these two days, let's wait for two days. ]
Calculating the time, two days is almost enough. After all, Xiaobai is no longer the third- or fourth-tier little transparent person he used to be, and his schedule is still quite full.
Yang Chaoyue: [Okay, then I'll find you, brother~~]
When she comes, I must ask her to change this chat style, or let her call dad!
Putting away the phone, Meng Bai began to concentrate on polishing the script again. When he came to his senses, it was almost one o'clock.
The girl downstairs hasn't finished cooking yet, has she?
Meng Bai muttered to himself, then got up and went downstairs.
"I say, Xiaobai..."
Meng Bai looked at the progress which was almost the same as before he went upstairs, and couldn't help frowning and said, "It's definitely too late for lunch, are you sure we can have dinner?"
"It's definitely no problem, boss!"
Bai Lu showed two rows of small white teeth and smiled, "The soup is almost done and will be out of the pot soon, and the dish in my hand is almost done. Then there are salad and steak, I have already prepared them in advance, so it will be quick to cook."
"Salad, steak, and this is... Is it tomato sirloin soup? And the one in your hand, it should be cola chicken wings."
Meng Bai touched his chin: "Are your cooking styles so mixed?"
"Hehe, food knows no borders..."
There is no way. What she does does not depend on herself, but on which teaching video is simpler.
In fact, she originally wanted to use salad and cold dishes to fool people, but considering that people are under the eaves, she finally gave up this plan.
(End of this chapter)
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