Chapter 209 Father and Daughter Breakup
Chen Jinying originally planned to wait until dinner was over tonight and then return to the hotel to have a frank talk with her father, hoping that he would understand her thoughts and not end up in a complete falling out. She also wanted to go back to Taiwan every year to pay tribute to her mother.
It's not bad to have this opportunity now. She said, "Dad, I never thought about the family store. I also know my position. In the kitchen, I can endure it if I can, and don't say anything if I can. I really can't stand some things, so I have to speak up. But what about now? No one will think that I am really doing it for Jinlong's good. I never planned to take care of Xiaohao. To be honest, it's hard for me to take care of Jinlong with you around. Xiaohao is only a few years old. When he can enter the kitchen, can you still come to the store often? If I treat Xiaohao as an apprentice and am strict with him, everyone will hate me; if I am slack with him, he can't learn the skills, and you will still hate me."
Chen Dexiang panicked and said, "Jinying, don't listen to your fourth mother."
"Dad, tell me the truth! You also said that you are old, and your attitude is not important. What is important is their family's attitude towards me. If I keep spending time in the store, it will be fine when you are here, but if you are gone, I will definitely be driven away by their family." Chen Jinying showed a bitter smile on her face, "Mom passed away and left all her things to me. The things she had were only about 200,000 New Taiwan dollars in total. I took a look at the money I had. Except for the apartment that I bought in time and has increased a lot in the past two years, I only have a few hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars in my hand. I didn't save any money in my best years. If I continue to work in the kitchen like this, when I am in my fifties or sixties, I will have little money. How can I rely on for retirement? I have to think about myself."
Chen Dexiang said anxiously, "Jinying, what are you talking about? What I give my daughter is not a salary. It's just living expenses. If you don't have enough, you can just tell me! Isn't the money I earn all for them? Don't get it confused, we are a family, and we are all earning money for our family."
"Dad, are they and I a family? Ask yourself, do you believe this? Don't you know why Fourth Madam came with you? Don't you know what Jinlong thinks of me?" Chen Jinying looked at Fourth Madam, "Just like Fourth Madam said, the salary here is high enough. If my apprentice can come in, then I can stay too. Stay in Hong Kong City, earn money to support myself, and earn money for my retirement."
The fourth wife looked at Chen Jinying in disbelief: "Do you really want to stay here?"
Chen Jinying nodded, looked at Chen Dexiang, and said, "Dad, let me go, and let Jinlong go. I'm tired, and he's tired too! As long as I'm here, you'll make comparisons, and you'll feel that Jinlong doesn't suit your taste. But, like Fourth Mother said, will you give your property to your daughter? If you really could do that, you wouldn't have given birth to Jinlong when you were nearly fifty. If I'm gone, you won't be able to make comparisons, and Jinlong won't have to be distracted by me. With less pressure, he can focus on cooking, and his cooking skills might improve."
The fourth wife found that she and Chen Jinying were on the same side. Chen Jinying was right when she said they would drive her away. She could see clearly that Chen Jinying didn't want to stay at all, and it was the old man who forced her to stay.
"Master, as the saying goes, a forced melon is not sweet. Jinying herself doesn't want to do it, so why do you force her?" She also followed suit to persuade the old man.
Chen Dexiang looked at his concubine and cursed, "Idiot, you want me to die without closing my eyes."
Chen Jinying smiled and said to her father: "Dad, let's eat!"
Wu Zhihai also advised: "Boss Chen, eat first. After you have finished your meal, if there is anything, go back to the hotel and discuss it slowly."
"Can I eat more?" Chen Dexiang asked his daughter.
"This contradiction was suppressed because you were in good health before. After you became ill last year, everyone had to plan for the future. You thought the best arrangement was that everyone was willing to follow your arrangement. However, I am a human being, and Jinlong is also a human being. We all have our own ideas. You were worried about handing over the store to your only heir, Jinlong, and appointed him a 'regent'. In history, only one of the regent and the emperor could stay. Which one do you want to stay?" Chen Jinying cut into the glutinous rice crispy chicken.
She put a piece of chicken with sticky rice on her father's plate and said, "I'm worried that they will chase me away. Think about it, with my position in the kitchen, they are worried too. If you leave, I will take control of the kitchen and chase them away. I even don't want this store anymore. I'll open a similar store in Taipei, take the kitchen staff away, and the old customers will follow. What will happen to this store? So it might be the best solution for me to stay away from Taipei."
She also cut a piece of chicken for the fourth wife, looked at her and said, "Fourth wife, you should also talk to dad calmly. He thinks we are a family and we all make money for this family. In fact, it is not the case at all. Otherwise, when my mother was sick and spent money, you would not feel that your interests were infringed and desperately bought jewelry."
Although the Fourth Wife was unhappy, this result was beneficial to their family no matter how you looked at it.
Chen Dexiang was so upset that he had no place to vent. He had spent so much time and effort to plan, but his son didn't appreciate it at all. He looked at his daughter who was eating chicken calmly. If Jinying was a son, how could he have so many troubles?
He said to his concubine with hatred: "As you wish!"
"That's how it should be!" said the fourth wife aggrievedly.
Wu Zhihai said happily: "Master, I will call Ningning and tell her that another chef has joined Baohualou. She will definitely jump for joy."
"Are you so impatient?" Chen Dexiang said in a low voice.
Wu Zhihai said awkwardly: "We have rewards for internal referrals."
Chen Jinying smiled and said, "There's no rush. We can talk about it after dinner."
Chen Dexiang couldn't eat anymore. He wanted to leave immediately, but he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.
A dish of duck feet stuffed with various flowers was served, and Wu Zhihai introduced that this was also Ma Yaoxing's specialty. Chen Jinying picked up a piece and ate it, chatting with Wu Zhihai while eating.
"Dad, why don't you eat? This duck feet stuffed with various flowers is delicious." Chen Jinying said to him nonchalantly.
From the death of the second son to the funeral, his daughter was too calm. He thought his daughter would beg him to let Jinlong wear mourning, but she didn't. The whole funeral process was too calm, even to drive Wu Zhihai away, she agreed very readily and let him go very quickly.
It was she who suggested coming to Hong Kong this time. The fourth child pestered him to come to Hong Kong. He knew that his daughter didn't have a good relationship with the fourth mother, and that they were here to do business. He didn't want the fourth child to come. Instead, his daughter said, come if you want! Anyway, coming to Hong Kong is just to eat and drink, and one more person can give more suggestions.
But after coming here, my daughter became different from what she was at home. Just like when she spoke just now, it seemed that she was deliberately provoking the fourth child. When the fourth child was provoked to speak out his true feelings, she took the opportunity to speak out her own thoughts.
Chen Dexiang looked at his daughter with an inquiring look and sneered, "Jinying, you know I hate it most when people plot against me. If I knew..."
Since she is heartless, don't blame him for not caring about the father-daughter relationship.
Chen Jinying calmly finished a piece of chicken, looked at him and said, "My mother is dead."
"Your mother is dead, but I'm not dead yet!" Chen Dexiang yelled again.
Just then, the waiter brought in a dish, put it on the table and said, "Mustard dumplings, this is our chef Fan's dish."
"Isn't this a cold dish? Why is it served at this time?" Chen Jinying asked.
The waiter looked at Chen Dexiang and said, "Chef Fan said that Mr. Chen is related to her. She only heard from the elders that Mr. Chen likes to eat mustard dumplings. She made one on a whim. I don't know if Mr. Chen likes it or not."
Chen Dexiang looked at the plate of mustard dumplings. It wasn't that he liked to eat mustard dumplings, but he was using his love for them to get close to the widow.
That was his apprentice's wife. His apprentice died of an acute illness, leaving behind a widow with three sons.
He wanted a son so much. The widow gave birth to three sons in a row, so he wondered if he could ask her to give him a son too.
He often went to their house on the pretext of visiting the mother and her four children. The widow had nothing good to offer him, so she made him mustard dumplings. He didn't go there for the sake of eating, so he naturally wouldn't mind having only one dumpling.
This mustard dumpling finally helped him achieve his wish. After the woman became pregnant with his child, she negotiated with him and asked him to marry her as his concubine. She also asked him to raise their three sons, teach them skills, and let them make a living with their skills.
In order to make her give birth to the child, he agreed readily.
But later, the woman had a difficult labor and died after giving birth to Jinying. Before she died, she begged him to take good care of her three sons. He didn't have that much money to raise another useless daughter and three other people's sons.
He responded casually, took the child and left him to be raised by the second child.
Chen Jinying picked up a mustard dumpling and put it on his plate, saying, "Dad, this tastes like an old friend."
Chen Dexiang reacted and stared at Chen Jinying with wide eyes. His daughter knew everything?
The fourth wife finally figured out something. It turned out that Chen Jinying was a traitor and colluded with Wu Zhihai. She first asked Wu Zhihai to come, and then she found this excuse to come. Anyway, Chen Jinying would definitely not return to Taiwan, so she quickly spoke up for the old man: "Jinying, don't change the subject. Why don't you reply to your father? Do you treat your father as your father?"
Chen Dexiang stood up and said to his concubine, "Let's go!"
He pushed the door open and walked out, his feet felt a little shaky, and the fourth wife quickly supported him: "Master!"
When I walked downstairs, the evening market was almost over and there were not many people in the hall. However, there was still a lot of noise at the door.
Wu Zhihai saw He Yunbang looking outside with a worried look on his face. He followed He Yunbang's gaze and saw Fan Xiuqin supporting herself with one hand, with her legs hanging to the side.
When she saw them coming out, she immediately jumped up and trotted over: "Brother Wu, you are done eating."
"alright."
Fan Xiuqin looked at Chen Dexiang and said, "Hello, Boss Chen! I'm Fan Xiuqin. Is this mustard dumpling delicious? Does it taste the same as before?"
"At that time, there was nothing to eat, so I liked mustard dumplings. Boss Chen went to Taiwan, where there were so many delicious foods, how could he remember mustard dumplings? You are just making trouble!" He Yunbang came over and called Fan Xiuqin, "Let's go, we are going to tour Taiwan."
Fan Xiuqin followed He Yunbang inside, muttering, "I learned this from Uncle Dong. Uncle Dong, Uncle Dong, and Uncle Dong all miss Boss Chen very much."
Chen Dexiang was dizzy and his blood was boiling. He got into the car in a daze. He only came to his senses when the car arrived at the hotel.
After Wu Zhihai left, Chen Dexiang said to the fourth wife, "You go upstairs first."
"I'm worried about you."
"You've achieved your goal, what else are you worried about?" Chen Dexiang said angrily, "Get out of here."
The fourth wife then turned and left. Chen Dexiang looked at Chen Jinying: "My dear daughter, you are so cruel!"
Chen Jinying glanced at him and said, "I wanted to save face for both sides, but you insisted on tearing it apart, so I can only go to the mustard dumpling. It is said that after my biological mother died, your junior brother Mr. Huang Binggang felt sorry for the three brothers of the Dong family and helped them and let them learn to cook. My second half brother is said to have the best cooking skills and is also a famous chef of this generation."
Chen Dexiang wanted to clench his fists, but after the last stroke, his hands were no longer strong. Just like now he understood that his daughter could set up this trap, without Yue Ning's support, it would be impossible to do it. Yue Ning helped her set up the trap, so he would naturally protect her. This is Hong Kong City, what can he do to her?
Chen Jinying smiled and said, "Come upstairs! For Jinlong, you still have to hold on for a few more years."
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