Chapter 194 A Plain Rejection
"It's me! My sister stayed at my place that night." Yue Ning said with a hint of guilt in his heart.
"You..." Cai Zhiyuan looked at her in disbelief, "Yuening, why did you lie to me? Am I not good enough to you? I really treat you as my sister!"
"I asked her to keep it a secret from you." Sophie put down the documents in her hand. "I didn't tell you then because I didn't want to continue this relationship. I let you misunderstand that I had other men so that I could leave smoothly. Look, now that you know I don't have a new relationship, you start to pester me again. It shows that my initial worry was not unnecessary. Now I let you know because I hope you can understand that I am determined to leave."
Cai Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and looked at Yue Ning: "That's not a reason for her to hide it from me."
"You see, you were angry because I kept it a secret from you, but you never thought about why Sister Sophie and I didn't know each other well at that time, so she stayed at my place?" Yue Ning said, "She was very sad that day, and ran to my place in a daze. We ate something together, and it was already midnight. Mong Kok is a place, and I was worried about her taking a taxi as a single woman at night, so I let her stay for one night."
Cai Zhiyuan recalled the situation that day. He immediately regretted scolding Sophie and called her...
Seeing Cai Zhiyuan's guilty expression, Sophie didn't want him to feel guilty at this time, so she stood up and said, "Okay, okay! This happened too long ago. Why bring it up again?"
She stood up and walked to Cai Zhiyuan: "We can't go back to the past. I was the only subordinate in the entire Hengtong who could call you out of the bed of a female star when you were sleeping with her."
Yue Ning's eyes widened: "Brother Zhiyuan, you are too..."
Now, Cai Zhiyuan recalled another scene: when he was in high spirits, the phone rang, and Sophie urged him to go back to the TV station immediately. He said his clothes were dirty and asked Sophie to bring him clean clothes. Sophie walked into the hotel room, and the actress was still in bed. He got up slowly, put on his clothes, and listened to Sophie's work report.
Because they had an intimate relationship, he asked her to do private things, and because he never thought of marrying her, he allowed her to see such scenes.
"I haven't seen it with my own eyes. I just heard from your secretary who you gave something to today. It's not that bad actually. But the moment I saw it with my own eyes, all my fantasies about the position of Mrs. Cai were gone." Sophie suddenly felt that she was really naive at that time. She actually had fantasies about a playboy.
Cai Zhiyuan felt depressed. When she had feelings for him, he acted recklessly. But when she no longer had feelings for him, he wanted to marry her and take her home.
"From a friend's perspective, you are flirting. But from a relationship between a man and a woman, you still say you want to be serious..." Sophie chuckled, "I think the best relationship between us is that I am the friend who can call you down from the bed of a female star with just one phone call. We can have a drink together and chat."
"That's true! As a wife, if you deal with all these affairs every day, you will have breast problems sooner or later. As a friend, my brother is very loyal." Yue Ning interrupted.
Cai Zhiyuan glared at her and Yue Ning stopped talking.
Sophie looked at him with a smile: "What do you think?"
These things were common gossip in the newspapers. Usually, Cai Zhiyuan acted like an older brother in front of Yue Ning. Sophie didn't want to mention it, but if she didn't, he would keep pestering her.
She put away the documents on the table and picked up her handbag: "I'm going back. Ningning, will you come with me?"
"You can take me back too. My car has already taken a passenger." Cai Zhiyuan said. His driver is on call 24 hours a day. Could it be that after taking the passenger to Causeway Bay, he can't come back to pick him up?
Sophie smiled and nodded: "Okay!"
There was a knock on the door. Yue Ning opened the door and saw Qiao Junxian standing at the door.
"I saw the live broadcast was over, so I called your house. Grandpa said you hadn't come back yet, so I came to check on you."
Originally, Yue Ning was also going to take Sophie's car home, and Cai Zhiyuan wanted to ride with them, which Yue Ning thought was fine, but now... She said, "Brother Zhiyuan, would you like to take our car with you?"
"Yuening, I think I'm really too good to you."
Seeing Cai Zhiyuan's ugly expression, Qiao Junxian asked, "What's wrong with Brother Zhiyuan?"
"Take her away quickly and ask her yourself what good thing she has done!" Cai Zhiyuan drove Yue Ning away.
Yue Ning still refused to leave, so Sophie smiled and said, "Go back quickly! You have to believe in your brother Zhiyuan's character."
Since her sister had said so, Yue Ning pushed Qiao Junxian and said, "Let's go, let's go."
After the two of them left, Qiao Junxian asked, "Didn't they separate a long time ago?"
"I'm telling you..."
Downstairs, the young couple was talking quietly. Upstairs, Sophie asked Cai Zhiyuan, "Shall we go too?"
Cai Zhiyuan sighed helplessly and followed Sophie. When he got downstairs, Qiao Junxian's car had just left. He got into Sophie's car and looked at her sideways.
Sophie started the car, and Cai Zhiyuan said calmly, "Didn't you say that working overtime every day at my place was tiring and unbearable? Why are you still working overtime at Baohua Building?"
"Baohua Building and Ning Xiaochu are going to open in Hong'an Shopping Mall, Lufu Family Banquet is going to open in Central, Ning Xiaochu's two stores in Japan have also been confirmed, and a cooperation agreement has been signed with Fuyun Building in Yuecheng. In addition, the management company has recently recruited a lot of people, and the space here is not enough. We don't want to spend money on renovation, so we rented another office building in Central. It just so happens that all kinds of reports have been submitted today. You are going to shoot today, and Ningning asked me to welcome the guests on behalf of Ning Yan. I'll just stay here and do my job. If you hadn't come to find me, I would have been leaving just now." Sophie talked about her work as if she was chatting with an old friend, and finally said, "Besides, am I not working for myself? I own 5% of the shares of Baohua Building Management Company."
Cai Zhiyuan laughed and said, "It seems that Miss Su will be able to occupy a place among the wealthy people in Hong Kong City in the future."
Sophie said naturally: "With Ningning's development speed, I believe it will happen."
Cai Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment. He looked at Sophie and knew why he couldn't let her go. Half a year after entering Baohua Building, she became more calm and her temperament was improved to a higher level. Now he understood that, just like Yue Ning said, she was ready to be a golden toad.
He asked, "Since you said we are friends who can have a drink together, Shen Wenqi did a great job on this show. This is also the first time she is in charge of such a large project, and I want to celebrate her success. You and Ningning helped her a lot in this show. Ningning has to prepare for the college entrance examination and may not be available. Will you come?"
Sophie nodded: "Okay!"
The car had already arrived downstairs of the apartment building where Cai Zhiyuan lived alone. Cai Zhiyuan looked at her and said, "Be careful on the road."
"Bye-Bye!"
Sophie drove away, Cai Zhiyuan looked in the direction where the car disappeared, then turned back into the building. What else can he do now?
After opening the door, he pressed the message button on the phone, and Shen Wenqi's lively voice came: "Mr. Cai, something went wrong with the live broadcast in Taiwan! They put on a dragon-tiger fight today. The president and his wife of NC left angrily on the spot."
Hearing this, Cai Zhiyuan immediately turned on the TV. If HTV didn't report the embarrassing moment of the rival, it must be that HTV was not professional enough. Sure enough, the first screen was broadcasting this news. Their first dish was the an's nose. When eating the an's nose, the guests said that the meat of the an's nose was soft and sticky and tasted bad.
When the dragon-tiger fight, the final dish, was served, a man in a long gown sang the name of the dish loudly: "Dragon-tiger fight, also known as leopard, cat and three snakes stewed together, dragon, tiger and phoenix stew, is a famous dish in Cantonese cuisine. It uses three kinds of snakes with excellent taste, cobra, bungarus, and banyan tree snake, plus cat meat and black-bone chicken..."
After hearing the translation, the Japanese lady stood up angrily and was about to leave. The president of NC also immediately stood up and left.
The man in the long gown quickly explained to them: "The traditional method is to use cat meat, but this time we used civet cats."
However, the two still insisted on leaving, saying they didn't want to eat anymore.
Yue Ning was also watching this news. In this era, Yue Ning didn't know how the dragon-tiger fight dish was in Taiwan, but it was very common in Hong Kong. This is indeed a traditional Cantonese dish. The traditional method really uses cat meat, and in order to pursue a better taste, civet cats are also used. After all, Yue Ning has memories from his previous life. Many ingredients have been banned by law in the new century for various reasons. Baohualou used to make dragon-tiger fights, but after Yue Ning came, this dish was deleted from the menu. There are so many ingredients, and deleting these ingredients will not affect the business of the restaurant.
"Didn't they ask the guests about their dietary restrictions before drawing up the menu?" Yue Baohua was puzzled. His granddaughter had studied cuisines from all over the world, and she had discussed this menu with the other party countless times. How could such ingredients appear on the menu?
"They only wanted to showcase rare ingredients, but didn't try to understand the food culture of the customers. Three days, 108 dishes, who has time to learn about each one in detail?" Yue Ning shook his head secretly, "When doing this kind of program, the chef must know the purpose of the filming, which is to attract tourists, not to make them feel uncomfortable. For example, the Japanese eat raw octopus. Can people who eat it for the first time bear to see a twisting octopus in their mouths? And they also eat whale meat. Needless to say, the scene of killing whales is extremely cruel. And the French eat calf's thymus."
"Calf's thymus?" Yue Baohua, a veteran chef, had never heard of it before.
"This is as precious as goose liver. It is the main immune organ of young cattle. It only exists when the calf is feeding. Once the calf reaches adulthood, the thymus will shrink and disappear. So the French get this ingredient from cows that have not been weaned for three to six months. The calves have not yet started to eat grass. The glands are fat and have a milky flavor. The thymus of a cow is only half a pound to one pound. Can you imagine how precious this thing is?" Yue Ning was talking when he saw the camera on TV cut to the other party's kitchen. Maybe because they saw that they were always broadcasting the kitchen behind the scenes, they also prepared related content.
This scene is exactly the chef Mr. Chen Jinlong preparing the moose nose. The moose nose they used is said to be airlifted from Canada. Yue Ning watched their production process and found that they used the traditional Shandong cuisine grilling method. The Canadian moose nose is actually the nose of a moose. The indigenous people of Canada also have a traditional delicacy called moose nose jelly. Yue Ning had eaten it in his previous life. The method is similar to Zhenjiang Yaorou. The moose nose meat is rich in gelatin and the nose is a bit black. The jelly made does not look as crystal clear as Zhenjiang Yaorou. The meat is a bit like turkey. Yue Ning thinks it is just average!
Yue Ning was watching the cooking process of the anbi, and she noticed that several cooks were asking a female cook in her thirties for advice from time to time. Yue Ning asked Yue Baohua: "Grandpa, why do I feel like this female cook is the head chef in the kitchen?"
Yue Baohua also noticed it: "That Chen Jinlong seems to be taking the last step."
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