Chapter 75 Chapter 75 Spending Day 75
Xinrongji is a very famous Michelin restaurant, and Sang Yu booked a private room in advance.
Following Liu Yue's instructions, she ordered some dishes in advance and left the rest to her roommates to choose from. When treating someone to a meal, of course you should order what they like.
Lin Feiran and Wen Huiyi were immersed in studying the menu. It was not often that they could come across an opportunity like this where they had no upper limit on their budget and could only order dishes based on their own preferences. They couldn't let Liu Yue, a big customer, go.
The two of them called Ke Yan to join them, but the latter forced a smile and declined. She was not in the mood to do so.
"Thank you, Yueyue."
This was the fifth time Ke Yan thanked Liu Yue. "If you hadn't accompanied me today, I would have met him alone..."
She still couldn't forget the moment he took out the knife, and she also understood why in many movies, the characters just stood there stupidly and had to rely on others to save them.
In particularly dangerous moments, the human brain really cannot react. She was completely dominated by fear and her body did not obey her commands.
"It's okay." Liu Yue clapped her hands to comfort her, "Luckily I'm here with you, we're both fine."
As for whether the man was okay, she didn't know.
Ren Zhen is very knowledgeable about the human body structure and knows where it hurts the most when he hits. And no matter how he examines it, the injury will be minor.
To be honest, he had to be thankful that Ren Zhen's reaction was quick enough, as the knife fell to the ground before he could swing it.
Otherwise, if he had a chance to hurt someone, and Ren Zhen snatched the knife, stabbing him a few times would be considered self-defense.
"The dishes have been ordered!"
Lin Feiran was talking over there. Liu Yue nodded to the waiter and didn't ask her to check with her. She just asked her to place the order.
At the dinner table, everyone talked about where they would go after graduation.
There is no need to say much about Sang Yu, she is the housekeeper in Liu Yue's life; Liu Yue has long stopped considering finding a job, her goal has changed from lying down where she is to lying down while traveling around the world.
Lin Feiran was admitted to the graduate school of the same university, and Wen Huiyi officially joined Tencent. So, all you think about it, they are all still permanent residents of Shenzhen.
Ke Yan had originally planned to stay in Shenzhen and work for her family's company, but after hearing her ex-boyfriend's disturbance, she decided to move to another province to work.
Today, Liu Yue was accompanied by a bodyguard. What if it was someone else? She couldn't imagine the scene.
Although Liu Yue said that the man would never dare to come to her again, Ke Yan was still scared when she thought of the knife.
Liu Yue didn't know how to comfort her, but her hatred for that scumbag increased a little more.
Ke Yan is clearly the victim, yet she has to live in fear and hide. How can this be justified?
Sang Yu looked at Liu Yue's expression and knew what she was thinking.
...Given Ren Zhen's usual style of doing things, it would be better for that man to reform himself in prison and not think of any bad ideas.
Everyone at the table tacitly started talking about other topics, such as Xinrongji's almond slices.
The almond slices were really fragrant and not too sweet. Liu Yue ate several slices in a row, and thought of the famous advertising slogan, and couldn't stop eating.
“It’s delicious.”
Because this was a gift, Liu Yue called the waiter, hoping for another serving. No, two more servings, as there were too many of them.
Liu Yue even wanted to buy a package of them back, but unfortunately the Xin Rong Ji store in Shenzhen didn’t sell them.
But they gave the recipe for almond slices to Liu Yue, and she could ask the nanny at home to replicate it whenever she wanted.
Liu Yue didn't think about whether this was a treatment available to all customers or the restaurant gave her the green light. Anyway, the almond slices were delicious.
The appetizer fruit provided by the restaurant was also good. The blueberries were crisp and sweet, and the cherries were almost thicker than her wrist.
It’s amazing, are cherries available all year round?
Liu Yue bought it in January and thought it was very fresh then. It still tastes fresh now. It must be grown in a greenhouse in China.
However, April is indeed a great time to eat asparagus!
White asparagus in sauce is a spring dish at Xinrongji. It tastes very crispy and refreshing. Liu Yue had never eaten this kind of ingredient before, and she fell in love with it the first time she tried it.
Today's seasonal spring dish is scrambled eggs with Chinese toon. When it was first served, she thought it was scrambled eggs with some sour beans on top. When she looked closer, she found that the green dots were Chinese toon.
This one is obviously fried separately, but Liu Yue likes this method very much. If you mix the Chinese toon and the egg liquid, the finished product is fried Chinese toon, and you can't taste the egg flavor at all.
There were two kinds of fish on the table. One was the golden crispy hairtail ordered by Wen Huiyi, which is a must-order signature dish of Xinrongji and tastes very crispy; the other was the home-roasted wild yellow croaker, the ingredients of which were specially searched by the restaurant for Liu Yue.
Before the meal began, the chef had shown the guests this large yellow croaker. Honestly, this was the first time Liu Yue had ever seen such a yellowish fish, and it was the main source of her meal bill.
This fish weighs 7.3 kilograms, and the price per kilogram is 15,800 yuan. The whole fish is worth more than 110,000 yuan.
When Lin Feiran heard the price, he almost couldn't pick up his chopsticks.
She was so obsessed with "making a killing" that she tried her best to order dishes worth eight or nine thousand yuan. To her surprise, it was less than one-tenth of the price of this fish...
The poor person's thinking is still limited to the fixed menu, but the truly rich person does not follow the beaten path at all. Whatever she wants to eat, the restaurant must find and cook it for her.
"This time I really understand what it means to be a king." Lin Feiran swallowed his saliva frantically, "I got to eat a hundred thousand yuan worth of fish today."
Wen Huiyi: "Don't round it up like that! It's worth 115,340 yuan. How can you round off more than 10,000 yuan?"
"Everyone, eat it quickly while it's hot."
Liu Yue said to them, "When you get to your side, just pick up the food and eat first. We're eating among ourselves, so there's no need to follow the rules of who gets to eat first. When we ate hot pot together before, you guys weren't so polite."
After she said this, the others started eating.
Home cooking is a common way of cooking Taizhou cuisine. It may look greasy but it actually tastes quite light when you eat it.
Liu Yue didn't detect any overt sauce flavor; her most immediate feeling was freshness. No wonder the word "fresh" is next to the character for "fish." The yellow croaker meat also had a slightly sticky, gelatinous texture that inexplicably reminded Liu Yue of pudding.
Xin Rong Ji also gave away a few pieces of rice cakes, and the waiter recommended that they be dipped in fish soup.
Liu Yue tried it, but she thinks rice cakes taste best when dipped in brown sugar, and fish soup is more suitable for soaking rice. It tastes so delicious when mixed together.
Maybe because they were lucky today, the dishes ordered by Liu Yue and others were very delicious and the production quality was very good.
The soft-boiled shrimp are rich in wine aroma and sweet and delicious; the braised pork with abalone is melt-in-your-mouth tender and not too dry; and the braised gourd with razor clams is a fresh seasonal dish, combining both sweet and savory flavors...
Today's barbecued pork is charcoal-grilled black pork fat barbecued pork with blueberry sauce. Although it is called this name, Liu Yue thinks the fat-to-lean ratio of the barbecued pork is quite appropriate.
She was originally worried that adding blueberry jam would cause a problem, but after tasting it, she was amazed. The barbecued pork still had the familiar taste to her, and the fruity aroma made its taste more diverse and not so greasy.
Although Xin Rong Ji is often criticized for its high premium, Liu Yue’s judging criteria are not price but deliciousness.
When she eats delicious food, she feels the urge to bring the chef home.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be the chef from Xin Rong Ji, but Liu Yue really wants to hire a professional chef recently.
After all, Aunt Zhang's main job is still a nanny, and cooking is just her specialty. After Liu Yue got a cat, she had to cook for both humans and cats. If she only cooked, of course she could do it, but then she would have no time to come up with new ideas or continue to improve her cooking skills.
Moreover, people can eat anything, and Liu Yue can also express what she doesn't like to eat; cats' stomachs are not so strong, and their preferences can only be guessed. Cooking for Lucas inevitably requires considering more issues, which takes up a lot of time and energy.
This feeling was not obvious before, but Liu Yue discovered this problem after staying at home for a few days.
She mentioned this to Sang Yu at the dinner table. She planned to hire a professional chef and let Aunt Zhang concentrate on cooking for the cat.
Liu Yue thought for a moment and said, "Let's hire a professional team of chefs who can cook all kinds of cuisines."
Since she was already prepared to spend the money, Liu Yue didn't mind spending a little more.
Sang Yu nodded, wrote this matter down first, and searched quickly in his mind at the same time.
Although no one was going to rush to pay the bill for this meal, out of professionalism, Sang Yu still found an excuse to go out and settle the bill when everyone was almost done eating.
She also took out a camera and asked Zhang Cheng to take a group photo of everyone in their dormitory.
Lin Feiran said that this part was carried out too early and should be left until the graduation ceremony. Although Liu Yue also felt so, she happened to have a camera today, so she decided to take a picture. It was not stipulated that she could only take one picture.
Sang Yu didn't express her concerns - everyone has their own things to do, and when June really comes, not everyone may come to take graduation photos.
So, let’s record the beauty of the present moment first.
Sang Yu is very efficient. Liu Yue asked her to find a chef team on Tuesday. She collected a lot of information on Wednesday and started to arrange interviews with candidates on Thursday.
Some teams were originally teams, while some teams were put together by Sang Yu. These chefs each have their own strengths, and she brought them together.
Honestly, the former is far superior to the latter in terms of tacit understanding in pairing cuisines. However, independent teams often specialize in one area, and the production of other cuisines is very unstable, which shows that they are learning on the spur of the moment.
Because Liu Yue already had a nanny at home, she was looking for a chef who could do the cooking, so she couldn't lower her standards. She was in charge of the salary and other benefits, but she was very strict about the chef's level of skill.
During dinner on Friday, Liu Yue mentioned this matter to Pei Jianing.
She could understand that it was difficult to find a professional chef. It was fine to hire one to cook a few meals at home, but long-term service was not an option. With such skills and no immediate plans to retire, a chef would definitely want to build a reputation and move up the career ladder.
Pei Jianing thought for a while and recommended a few people to her.
However, she warned Liu Yue in advance: "These chefs are very skilled, but you have to help them solve some minor problems first."
"What trouble?" Liu Yue asked curiously.
Pei Jianing: "They are three sisters. I met them when I went to a private restaurant."
When she saw the menu for all kinds of dishes and saw that they could cook any dish when she made the reservation, Pei Jianing was worried that the meal would not be good.
But their cooking skills are really that great. Whether it is Cantonese cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Sichuan cuisine or Shandong cuisine, they are all very good. The seafood is handled very well, and even the noodles and desserts are not inferior. The taste is not inferior to Michelin. They are definitely hexagonal warriors at the level of Sweeping Monk.
Pei Jianing originally thought that this private restaurant would be packed with customers, but the three sisters had parents who were particularly hindering them, and a younger brother who was a big shot in the eye.
Because they didn't obey their parents' arrangements and didn't want to be Yaozu's blood bag, their parents often went to their private restaurant to make trouble. Later, when the private restaurant couldn't operate, they went to work as chefs in a restaurant, and their parents followed the same routine of throwing a tantrum.
The three sisters called the police, but because these were their biological parents, the police could only try to smooth things over when they arrived.
Liu Yue understood. It turned out to be this kind of trouble.
She turned to look at Ren Zhen, and Ren Zhen smiled at her. Liu Yue knew that the matter was settled.
The guy who dared to stab people with a knife in broad daylight is now sitting in the detention center very obediently after being taught by Ren Zhen.
I heard that after his family knew he was imprisoned, they wanted Ke Yan to issue a letter of apology.
Of course, Ke Yan didn't agree, and her family even tried to find Liu Yue. When he found out about this, he was so frightened that he almost fell to his knees, begging his family frantically not to bother.
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong is the instinct of this type of people.
Liu Yue thought, no matter how shameless this pair of parents were, they probably wouldn't last more than a single round against Ren Zhen... not to mention they had such an obvious weakness.
Moreover, if she hired them as her personal chefs, they might not even be able to find out who she was, let alone use the same methods they used before to deal with her. Liu Yue didn't run a restaurant, so who could threaten her?
After talking about finding a cook, Liu Yue also asked about the "real and fake young master" of the Pei family, whom she was very concerned about.
Pei Jianing told her that Pei Yuan had collected the hair of Pei Laodeng, Pei Fang and Ye Jiashu and sent them for DNA testing.
Ye Jiashu is the name of the "real young master", and the result is just as they expected, Pei Fang really picked up the wrong child.
Pei Yuan did not announce this matter to the public for the time being. She planned to tell him the good news on Pei Laodeng's 60th birthday.
Liu Yue sighed, Pei Yuan was really mean, he didn't even intend to give Pei Deng any face at all.
Yes, Pei Laodeng’s name is Pei Deng, which is very appropriate.
"What kind of person is Ye Jiashu?" Liu Yue asked while eating melon seeds. "Will he compete with you for the family property?"
Pei Jianing: "Although he started a technology company with his friends, he is a technical person and lacks emotional intelligence."
It could even be said that his ability to read people's expressions and navigate the world was negative. His personality was already set, and even if his material desires expanded after returning to the Pei family, and even if he developed these desires, he would never be Pei Yuan's opponent.
Moreover, he is very talented in the field of artificial intelligence and has a deep relationship with his adoptive parents.
Pei Yuan was currently trying to win him over. Since he was a talented person, they could be allies rather than rivals. As long as he was sensible, Pei Yuan would never be stingy with capable people.
Liu Yue thought to herself, she had just thought Pei Yuan was reckless, but in fact, she had a profit-oriented work style.
She recalled her previous meeting with Pei Yuan, and couldn't help but picture in her mind the image of a decisive and business elite woman.
"Can you invite your sister to my yacht party?"
Liu Yue mentioned this: "Hearing you say that, I really want to meet her."
"Of course." Pei Jianing's lips curled slightly, "She also wants to meet you."
Pei Jianing breathed a sigh of relief. After playing with Liu Yue for so long, she finally completed the task assigned to her by her sister.
Pei Yuan had invited Liu Yue once, but she was unavailable at the time. She didn't give up on the idea, but she never took the initiative to ask Liu Yue out again. After all, if she was too eager, there wouldn't be much to talk about.
This is when Pei Jianing needs to appear. She reveals her family scandal and shares gossip with Liu Yue. She is definitely not idle.
Pei Jianing knew that her routine was not very clever, and Liu Yue would come to her senses later, or she already knew it now.
But so what? People like them don’t need to consider their motives when doing something, as long as the process and results are pleasant.
Pei Jianing's mind turned and he suddenly thought of another thing.
She followed up on the gossip she was telling and showed Liu Yue a photo of Ye Jiashu.
"Wow, this guy is so handsome without makeup?"
Liu Yue exclaimed in surprise. While eating melons, she had been following Pei Jianing and calling her dad Pei Laodeng. She also heard that the "real young master" looked very similar to Pei Laodeng, so she imagined him to be an ordinary passerby face.
But she didn't expect that Ye Jiashu was so handsome. It can be seen that Pei Laodeng was also quite handsome when he was young.
The photo is Ye Jiashu's ID photo. Even from this photo, you can see that he has sharp features and has clear edges and corners. He has the kind of dark complexion that Liu Yue likes most.
So, when Pei Jianing suggested taking him on board, Liu Yue did not refuse.
Pei Jianing smiled even more deeply, already thinking about how to match clothes for Ye Jiashu so that he could appear in a more handsome and stunning way.
I'm going to take him to get a beauty treatment these days. He needs to take good care of his face. Beauty is the most important thing for a man.
The meal ended happily. According to Liu Yue's usual habit, she would take a nap after eating.
But today she can't go home and lie down for the time being, because she still has a spending task of 10 million.
Liu Yue felt that she was becoming more and more relaxed. She had drawn 10 million last night and was able to sleep until 10 a.m. today. She even had a leisurely lunch before she started to think about how to spend it.
She poked the system and asked if it had any fragment tasks.
The missions to Mount Yasur and Hengdian are very close in time. If there is a mission recently, she will use the money to make travel plans.
Unfortunately, no.
In fact, she could just find a place to play by herself... but she doesn't have any particular place she wants to go at the moment, so it would be more fun if the system opened a blind box for her.
Decision made, let’s go buy a watch!
When she was watching short videos before, she took a fancy to Audemars Piguet's new products. Today she went to the store to ask about it. It would be best if she could buy it in stock.
As soon as Liu Yue got in the car, she received a call from Li Jiamin.
She didn't really want to answer the call, but Li Jiamin rarely contacted her. If she really had something urgent...
She hesitated for a moment, then picked up the phone.
She could hear Li Jiamin crying on the phone. She was crying and complaining that Liu Hui had cheated on her and had an illegitimate child. He also transferred the marital property and didn't want to give her and her daughter a penny.
Liu Yue had to interrupt her: "Is this what you came to me to talk about?"
If Li Jiamin wanted her to seek justice, then she really found the wrong person. Liu Yue didn't want to get involved in their family affairs.
"No, no, Yueyue, this matter is also related to you."
Li Jiamin quickly said, "Mom and Dad bought you a house back then, but Liu Hui never told you. He gave the house to another woman!"
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