Chapter 168 Old and Young Companion
How could "The Master Chef Contest" miss this popularity? In the trailer that night, Lu Peide's braised fish head and Yue Ning's braised fish head appeared one after another, giving the audience a suspense. Who would win in making the same dish, Yue Ning or Lu Peide?
Another TV station was broadcasting a financial commentary program.
Today Yue Ning is popular again, and their topic is to analyze the reasons why Yue Ning became popular in Hong Kong within half a year.
The host revealed that today's third round of the "Chef Contest" eight-to-four competition is the one with the least suspense. Lu Peide won, so the next round will be the competition between Lu Peide and Zhang Junming.
Moreover, Yue Ning personally agreed to continue to be Lu Peide's assistant, which means that Yue Ning will cooperate with Lu Peide to play against his own team.
Scholar guests analyzed what Yue Ning did right.
"Originally, Zhang Junming might not have won the championship, but now that she has recruited Lu Peide, she has already won the title of Chef King."
"It's not that others can't see Lu Peide's value. Didn't Guo Shijie from Junhao see it a long time ago? Didn't Lu Peide not want to go?"
"Who among the chefs nowadays doesn't want to work at Baohualou? The salary is high, but you can really learn a lot. Yue Ning is willing to teach, and they also have a master-apprentice system."
“What is mentor-apprentice performance?”
"The apprentice will give 150 yuan to the master after receiving 3,000 yuan in bonus this month."
"That means if I have ten apprentices, I can earn a lot of bonuses just by relying on my apprentices without doing anything for a month?"
"The key is that your apprentice must be capable and able to earn bonuses. The more the apprentice earns, the more money you will make. I encourage you to teach more apprentices and tell you that teaching apprentices will not starve you to death."
"Why not? Once the apprentice learns it, won't he be able to take over the master's job?"
“…”
A Jiang lives in a small hotel with six beds in one room. He watches the TV talking about the management model of Baohua Building, from the kitchen to the lobby, how to motivate employees, and how to make Zhiyuan worry-free.
"Is there such a boss in the world? Our boss will squeeze every penny he can."
“I want to be a cook, too.”
"You can't go into the kitchen, and the lobby requirements are not low either."
“…”
Ah Jiang was lying on the bed. He really didn't want to betray Ah De. He was in debt and his family was waiting for him to make money and send it back to pay off the debt.
As a porter, he only takes care of a bed but not his stomach. There is nothing he can do!
Ade is kind-hearted, and will definitely understand him and be willing to give him a chance.
He thought all night about how to ask Lu Peide for help, and the next morning, he took the early boat to Aocheng.
When he arrived at Zhang's, there were only Uncle Shou and an auntie doing odd jobs in the store. He walked in and asked, "Uncle Shou, where is A-De?"
Uncle Shou ignored him, poured the noodles into a bowl, added a spoonful of soup, and put the offal and beef into the bowl. Auntie came over to serve the noodles, and he continued to make the next serving.
"Uncle Shou, I'm here to find Ade." A Jiang said again.
Shou Bo finally couldn't bear it anymore. He raised a spoon in his hand and said, "You ungrateful thing, you still have the nerve to come here."
Yesterday afternoon, Ade called him immediately and told him that he had a small problem and would not be back until today.
Shou Bo just gave him a few instructions and didn't know that A Jiang was not with him.
It wasn't until I watched TV that night that I found out what had happened.
Ade always saves money, and whenever this kid comes to his house, he always tries his best to help.
"You heartless thing, how dare you come to Ade! I'll break your legs." Shou Bo said angrily.
The owner of the grocery store across the street said to Uncle Shou unhappily, "Uncle Shou, don't get involved in the feud between these two mainlanders. This guy has no conscience, and A-De is not one with a conscience either. Didn't you see on TV that he has promised Yue Ning that he will marry someone rich? He will be a chef at Ningyan in the future. Will he remember that he was soaked like a dog in the rain and begged you to give him a bite of food?"
Shou Bo looked at the grocery store owner with a somewhat dejected expression and said, "Ade is a good kid. It's a waste for him to have such great skills in such a small shop like mine. He should go to the best restaurant and be a chef."
The grocery store owner sighed slightly: "Are you stupid?"
Shou Bo didn't reply. He turned around and looked at Jiang fiercely: "Get lost!"
A Jiang took a few steps away.
Uncle Shou continued to cook noodles, glaring at A Jiang from time to time, feeling more and more sad. He was an unlucky man. He and his wife had no children. After his wife died of illness ten years ago, he was left alone to run such a half-dying shop.
I just thought that if I could do it, I would do it. If I couldn't, I would sell the store and find a nursing home to wait for death.
A few months ago, the guy who didn't speak a word of Cantonese came to apply for a job. How could he understand what the customer wanted without knowing Cantonese? How could he do the work? I rejected him outright.
There was a heavy rain, and Ah Tak was soaked like a drowned chicken, with a pair of big eyes that looked very pitiful. Shou Bo remembered how he came to Australia from the north, and he also didn't understand a word of Cantonese, so he took Ah Tak in.
A lonely old man lived with a young man who was making a living in a foreign land.
Fortunately, he took in the child. That night, he suddenly became unable to move half of his body, and it was Ade who took him to the hospital. Fortunately, it was just a minor stroke.
He knew that this child had great talent, so he supported him to participate in the competition, bought ingredients for him, and let him try the dishes. Shou Bo felt that these few months were the happiest days he had in the past ten years.
After a few months together, do you still want to stay with someone else's child until you die? This is someone else's child. As long as Ade can remember him in the future and come to see him when he has time, he will be satisfied.
"Ade!"
When A Jiang shouted, Shou Bo looked up and saw Lu Peide coming back with a bag.
Lu Peide didn't expect A Jiang to be here. Didn't he go to Guo Shijie's place?
The night before yesterday, when A Jiang suggested not to participate in the competition with him, he was filled with disappointment and anger.
After yesterday, Lu Peide's heart had calmed down. It was never too late to see through such a person, especially before he entered Ning Yan.
"What are you doing here?" Lu Peide walked into the store.
With a thud, Ah Jiang knelt on the ground, holding Lu Peide's legs tightly with both hands: "Ade, I was wrong, I was really wrong!"
His voice was filled with tears, and he shouted in despair, "I shouldn't have been tempted by Guo Shijie's sweet words and money. I was so stupid!"
Lu Peide was calm, that was after Yue Ning came down to be his assistant yesterday. That was after he thought he would never have any contact with A Jiang again, but now he was here, hugging his legs.
The clay man still had some earthiness. He swung his legs violently, shook off Jiang's hand, and stepped back several steps, his eyes full of disgust and anger: "Do you know what that game meant to me?"
Ah Jiang sat on the ground, still unwilling to give up, and continued to beg: "Ade, I know I was wrong. Guo Shijie kicked me away after taking advantage of me. Now I have nothing. Ah De, please give me another chance, okay?"
Lu Peide laughed sarcastically, "Do you think I will still believe you? If you can betray me once for money, you can do it a second time and a third time."
"Ade!" Jiang's tears and snot flowed down his cheeks. "Don't you have any sympathy for us?"
A Jiang crawled over crying and hugged Lu Peide's legs tightly, begging non-stop.
Shou Bo picked up the kitchen knife from the chopping board and rushed over: "Get lost or not? If you don't leave, I've had enough of living like this. I'll chop you up so that you won't be a burden to Ade in the future."
Seeing Shou Bo's ferocious look, A Jiang was so frightened that he rolled over and crawled on the ground and ran back.
Shou Bo saw A Jiang running away and said with a complaining tone: "A De, you can't reason with this kind of person, you have to be fierce. He won't understand and will come to your house to pester you again and again."
Lu Peide took Shou Bo's knife and said, "Shou Bo, the doctor said you had a minor stroke. Don't let your emotions fluctuate too much. I'm going to wash my hands and I'm going to cook noodles."
Shou Bo looked at Lu Peide, who still had bruises on his face. The TV said he also had a cut on his arm?
"You are still injured! Rest first."
"It's just a minor injury, nothing serious." Lu Peide said with a smile.
He said to the grocery store owner, "He is actually no different from that Ah Jiang. He is treating you well now. If he has a chance outside, won't he still go?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Why don't you ask your son who is in college to come back and inherit your grocery store? Besides, Ade is not my son." Uncle Shou said to the grocery store owner.
"What a fool!" The grocery store owner was speechless.
Lu Peide didn't understand what the two were saying, so he asked, "Uncle Shou, what did the uncle say?"
"Nothing, nothing, he was just talking nonsense!" Uncle Shou walked into his shop.
The grocer just shook his head.
Lu Peide washed his hands, put on his clothes and came over: "Uncle Shou, I'll do it. You go sit for a while."
Shou Bo was replaced by Lu Peide. He sat on the side and looked at Lu Peide from time to time, telling himself that his child was promising and would have a good future, and he should be happy too.
Lu Peide noticed Shou Bo's gaze and said, "Shou Bo, I'm fine. The wound on my face will heal soon."
Ever since Lu Peide changed the recipe, and he has become popular recently, everyone knows that he is the inheritor of Lu family cuisine. Their shop has been doing very good business, and is open from morning until closing at 1:30 in the afternoon.
At around ten o'clock, Shou Bo took advantage of the fact that there were few people around and replaced Lu Peide, letting him eat first.
Lu Peide was eating and watching Shou Bo who was cutting the beef heart.
Looking at his wrinkled face, I thought about that night when Uncle Shou fell to the ground and I took him to the hospital. Uncle Shou is old and if he lives alone, what if something like that happens again?
They had only been together for a few months, was he going to have to bear the burden of supporting an old man? He thought about it over and over again on the way.
Until he saw Shoubo going to chop Ajiang for him, Lu Peide made up his mind. Besides, instead of saying that he was taking care of him in his old age, wasn't it also like he was accompanying him?
At the end of lunch, the old man and the young man closed the shop. Shou Bo pulled Lu Peide to see his wound and asked him about the situation of the Hong Kong City competition.
Lu Peide told Shou Bo everything that Yue Ning had said to him.
"When I saw her on TV, I felt that she was a kind girl. It's your blessing to work with such a boss," said Uncle Shou.
"I think so too." Lu Peide looked at Shoubo seriously, "Shoubo, come with me to Hongcheng, okay?"
"You take me to Gangcheng, take me, an old man, to Gangcheng to take care of me in my old age? It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate!" Uncle Shou shook his head.
Lu Pedra held his hand and said, "Uncle Shou, if you rent out this shop and transfer the recipe, you can get some money, which is enough for your retirement. Why do you want me to take care of you in your old age? I will be very busy if I go to Hong Kong City. My mother is still young, only 45 years old. She can only come to Hong Kong City after she retires. I want you to come with me and take care of me!"
The formula belongs to the child, but he said it was his retirement money? The child was just looking for an excuse to keep him around.
Shou Bo couldn't hold back any longer, tears fell down: "Okay!"
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