Chapter 202 Chen Dexiang's good idea
After lunch, Chen Jinying took off her chef uniform and rode her motorcycle to Xingguang Department Store. She asked the staff inside with a piece of paper with the address on it. The staff said in confusion, "That's our general manager's office."
General Manager's Office? Never mind. Chen Jinying went up to the office area on the third floor and walked towards that office. A lady in a business suit came towards her: "Ms. Chen, please follow me."
The lady took her into a reception room, helped her dial the phone, then closed the door and left.
Chen Jinying picked up the microphone, and Wu Zhihai's excited voice came from the other end of the microphone: "Master, I am Ah Zhi."
"Azhi, how are you?" Chen Jinying asked.
"I told Ningning that I want to send you a telegram. Ningning was afraid that the telegram might not be able to express itself clearly with just a few words, so she arranged for me to make this call. Xingguang Department Store owns shares in Singapore's Hong An Group..." Wu Zhihai told Chen Jinying on the phone about his experiences after arriving in Hong Kong.
The apprentice talked about everything in Hong Kong City, but after only being there for a few days, he already called me "Ningning" affectionately?
"Miss Yue arranged for you to learn cooking skills from Chef Ma?"
"Yes! Ah Xing is a very nice person. I have learned several Cantonese dishes. Not only Ah Xing, but other colleagues are also very nice." Wu Zhihai excitedly talked about the situation in Baohua Building.
Although Taipei has developed well, it is still far behind Hong Kong. However, she couldn't imagine that a cook could get such a high salary in Hong Kong. Moreover, Yue Ning let the cook be on the list and become famous. Wasn't she really afraid that the cook would leave? Oh! It turned out that she let the cook get shares.
After Wu Zhihai introduced Baohualou, he said, "Ningning meant that what you hear is not as good as what you see. No matter how good I say it is, it cannot replace your own judgment. You still have to come and see it in person. She discussed with me and asked me to write a letter to my former colleagues and ask them to tell the situation here in the kitchen of Dexiang. You can take the opportunity to tell the boss that you want to use me to learn from Ningyan and come to Gangcheng to talk to me. In this way, you can come to Gangcheng smoothly, understand the situation of Baohualou, and then decide whether to join Baohualou. If you want to stay, then stay; if you don't want to stay, go back to Dexiang, and you won't have any grudges with the boss."
Chen Jinying wanted to leave Dexiang and never thought about retreating. Unexpectedly, Yue Ning, a person she had never met, left a way out for her.
"Thank Miss Yue for me."
"Master, when you come, you can also call her 'Ningning'. The whole Baohua Building calls her that, and even many people in Gangcheng call her that." Wu Zhihai said with a smile.
Chen Jinying smiled, but she couldn't bring herself to address someone she had never met in such a familiar way, so she responded, "Okay."
"Oh, yes! Master, don't forget to buy your pipe. I called you here on this pretext."
Her father's birthday was indeed coming soon. Last year she chose tea sets over pipes, so this year it was just right to buy a pipe. She hung up the phone with a smile, walked out of the reception room, and said goodbye to the lady.
The lady gave her a business card and asked her to leave a phone number, saying that if she had any news about Gangcheng or she wanted to contact Gangcheng, she could come here.
Chen Jinying went downstairs and picked out a pipe from the counter. It was the last birthday present she bought for her father!
As soon as she got back to the hotel, the girl at the front desk saw her and said, "Miss Fifth, the boss is asking where you've been?"
Ever since her father asked her to drive Wu Zhihai away, he seemed to be very uneasy and had been testing her attitude, not quite believing that she could be so calm.
She sighed slightly and walked to the door of her father's office. The door was open. Her father and Chen Jinlong were smoking and drinking tea with a friend, the kind of gangster friend her father mentioned.
She called out, "Uncle Tai, this is so rare."
"Fifth sister, where have you been?" Chen Jinlong came out.
Chen Jinying smiled and glanced at him, then picked up the gift bag in her hand and said, "You! Do you still remember Dad's birthday? Only Yulian remembers, right?"
Chen Jinlong suddenly felt embarrassed. Uncle Tai, who was sitting there, laughed and said, "Dexiang, your daughter is still very caring!"
Chen Dexiang seemed to be relieved and said with a smile: "Not really, Jinying is the most caring of the children and the most like me."
Chen Jinying sat down next to her father, took out the gift box and handed it to her father. When Chen Dexiang saw the pipe, the smile on his face became even brighter.
"Uncle Tai hasn't been here for a long time." Chen Jinying said.
"You're busy! Besides, your mother just passed away, so you need to take some time off." Uncle Tai flicked the ash from his cigarette, "You should also accept my condolences."
"It's good that mom is gone. It's been five years, and I've been undergoing surgery and chemotherapy. It's really painful." Chen Jinying sighed.
Uncle Tai nodded: "Yes!"
"Uncle Tai, I'm going to the kitchen. Is it still the same as before today?"
"Old rules, you arrange it." Uncle Tai said with a smile.
Watching Chen Jinying go out, Uncle Tai looked at Chen Jinlong: "Jinlong, aren't you going to open a dinner market?"
"I'll go too, Uncle Tai, please sit for a while." Chen Jinlong walked out.
Uncle Tai smoked a cigarette and said, "Dexiang, we have known each other for more than 30 years. I will speak frankly."
"you say."
"Your son is too petty. Jinying only wants to cook and she doesn't even want to get married. She has given up her fame to Jinlong, but he is still so wary of Jinying. So what exactly does he want Jinying to do to satisfy him?" Uncle Tai flicked the ash from his cigarette. "Your son is forcing your daughter to leave. If I were you, I would just hand over the store to your daughter since my health is already like this. She won't get married anyway, so you can let her run the store and let her make the decision. As long as she doesn't have her own children and as long as she focuses on your grandson, won't your descendants inherit the family business?"
Chen Dexiang stopped talking. Uncle Tai looked at him and said, "She still thinks of you as her father. If you asked her to drive away the apprentice, she would. Now you also know that Wu Zhihai did go to Gangcheng. You can finally rest assured. Listen less to your son and pay more attention to your daughter."
Seeing that things were going so smoothly, Chen Dexiang was worried that his daughter might have lied to him, so he asked this old friend to investigate. Now the old friend told him that Wu Zhihai had indeed gone to Gangcheng, and there was nothing suspicious about his daughter, and he immediately felt guilty.
Now that his old friend said this, he was a little shaken: "Let me think about it."
"Let's go, let's go eat first, there's no rush."
Chen Dexiang accompanied his old friend to dinner, and the two chatted while eating. His daughter's cooking skills were indeed inherited from him, and his son could never compare to her.
He just had a headache. He couldn't even teach his son himself, so how could his daughter expect him to teach his grandson wholeheartedly?
"Of course I won't do my best if I don't have feelings for you. But if you have deep feelings for me, it will be different."
Chen Dexiang took this to heart. After dinner, Chen Dexiang saw his old friend off and went home first. When he got home, his two grandsons ran out and called him "Grandpa". The eldest grandson was five years old, and the second grandson was already three years old.
He walked into the house with the children, holding one in each hand, and saw that his fourth wife was holding her little grandson in her arms. The little grandson seemed to be having a sweet dream with a smile on his face.
I tried my best to give birth to a son, and my daughter-in-law gave birth to three children in a row. She is really a great contributor to the Chen family.
Daughter-in-law Yulian came out and called out, "Dad is back."
The fourth wife patted her grandson and asked, "Did Zhang Yutai find out where Wu Zhihai went?"
Thinking back to these days, his fourth wife had been whispering in his ears every day, saying that Jinying was too calm, too calm to be like someone who was forced to drive away her apprentice.
"I did go to Hong Kong City."
"That's good."
Chen Dexiang looked at his eldest grandson who was talking to his daughter-in-law. His eldest grandson was clever and cute, and he really liked him. The idea in his mind just now gradually took shape. He had already suffered a stroke, and he didn't know when the stroke would recur. He had to do things while he was still alive. When he died, he didn't know what would happen!
After playing with the child for a while, I heard the sound of a car outside and the child shouted, "Dad is back."
The daughter-in-law came out with the child. When Chen Jinlong saw his son, he adjusted his mood, touched the child's head, and the family walked in.
The little son in the fourth wife's arms woke up at this time. The fourth wife said happily: "He woke up when he heard that his father came home."
Chen Jinlong came to see the child. Seeing his little son's big, round eyes, he finally calmed down. He smiled and reached out to pick up the child: "Give dad a hug."
Looking at his son's family, Chen Dexiang said, "Jinlong, Yulian, sit down. Dad has something to discuss with you."
The couple sat down with their child. Chen Dexiang looked at his eldest grandson and said, "Jinlong, Yulian, you also know that your fifth sister is not planning to get married. She is a good craftsman, and we will definitely rely on her to support the store in the future. I was thinking, should we let her take care of Xiaohao? When Xiaohao grows up, your fifth sister can also do her best to teach him the craft, so I can rest assured."
"Dad... you... you want me to give Xiaohao to my fifth sister?" Yu Lian asked in a trembling voice, tears welling up in her eyes.
Not to mention Yulian, the fourth wife couldn't hold back her tears either, she shed tears: "Master, do you think that children are just things that you can give to anyone you want? Besides, Xiaohao is the eldest grandson of our family, how can you let him follow his aunt who refuses to get married?"
"Xiao Hao is my son, he is my life, I will not give him to anyone else." Yu Lian cried.
"It's not a gift! Xiaohao is of course your son. What I mean is that you want him to live with your fifth sister so that she can develop feelings for him. This way, she will teach him carefully in the future. I'm old, and I can't wait until Xiaohao grows up, so I won't be able to teach him personally." Chen Dexiang said from the bottom of his heart.
However, Chen Jinlong has been holding a lot of anger today. Just now, his fifth sister said in front of his father and outsiders that he didn’t remember his father’s birthday, and also said in the kitchen that his cooking was not right. He had had enough. He wondered when Chen Jinying, who always bullied him, would leave?
When he got home and saw his children, he felt better. Now, when he heard his father say such things, he was suddenly enraged.
"What? Now let me be Emperor Guangxu, and she can't even rule the country from behind the curtain?" Chen Jinlong roared.
Chen Jinlong's loud roar scared the two children and made them cry. It also alarmed the third wife in the room. She walked to the second-floor platform and looked down.
The sound of a motorcycle came from outside. Normally, Chen Jinying didn't live in a big house. These days, her mother had not yet reached the 49th day after her death, and there were still some memorial ceremonies to be performed. She also wanted to spend more time with her mother. After she left Taiwan, she didn't know when she would be able to come back, so she lived in her mother's room.
Knowing that Chen Jinying was back, Chen Jinlong raised his voice even louder: "I have no say in the kitchen. I have to listen to her in everything. She even said that I didn't remember your birthday. She also scolded me for my poor performance in front of the apprentices."
Amid the crying of the children, Chen Jinlong smiled somewhat sadly: "What? Now that I am not allowed to be a puppet anymore, are you going to snatch my child away? In the future, she will take my Xiaohao with her, and in the name of training the heir of the Chen family, she will skip me and directly take control of the store, right?"
Chen Jinying heard everything at the door. When Chen Jinlong finished speaking, she walked into the house. Her sister-in-law Yulian rushed over, crying very sadly, and held her back: "Fifth sister, please, don't take Xiaohao away, okay?"
Chen Jinlong shouted angrily: "Don't beg her!"
Chen Jinying didn't know what wonderful idea her father had come up with after having a meal with Uncle Tai. She looked at her father and said, "What's wrong? What's my relationship with Xiaohao?"
Chen Dexiang originally had a good idea, thinking it would be good for both his daughter and his son. However, he did not expect that as soon as he proposed it, everyone opposed it.
"I thought about what your mother said about you not getting married, and she was worried that you would have no children to rely on when you are old, so she hoped that you could adopt a child. I don't think it is necessary for you to adopt someone else's child. Let Xiaohao stay with you more and develop feelings for you. He will also take care of you when you are old. One of you is my son and the other is my daughter, and I love you both." Chen Dexiang said.
Hearing this, the fourth wife became excited: "You still said you wouldn't give Xiao Hao to her."
"I'm in the kitchen all day, how can I have time to take care of the children?" Chen Jinying walked over to Xiaohao, "Besides, our Xiaohao is so smart, we need to train him well and let him study hard. He doesn't have to be a cook in the kitchen when he goes to college or study abroad."
She looked at everyone: "What do you think?"
Yulian quickly hugged her son and said, "Yes! Yes! Fifth sister is right."
Chen Jinying walked up to Chen Jinlong and said, "Jinlong, can you be more mature? I reminded you to remember your father's birthday because he is old. I scolded you and said that your cooking was not good because he is old. I hope that he can see that your cooking skills have improved and that you can support Dexiang. Think about it carefully. Should you give me a cold look, lose your temper, and leave early today?"
Only then did Chen Dexiang realize that his son had lost his temper with Jinying in the store and left early.
Chen Jinying glanced at the others again, then looked at Chen Dexiang: "Dad, I'm tired. I'm going to rest."
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