This was in the courtyard of Chengjiacai Restaurant. Therefore, Chengjiacai's helpers and Cheng En's other apprentices all gathered together with curiosity in their eyes.
The kitchen that Cheng Baizhi burned today was specially prepared for her by Cheng En, because she always had a spell to burn the kitchen and was afraid of causing a fire, so this kitchen was specially built, and after the fire inside, it could be dealt with quickly, so there was no need to worry about fires, etc.
Now that these people have dealt with their problems, they are also in the mood to gossip.
Bai Zhi glanced at everyone. Compared to her, the new head of the family who was always cooking in the kitchen, Xiang Beiyin, the chef, was more popular with them. Since Cheng En's death, these people have supported Xiang Beiyin and admired him very much.
That's why, after Xiang Beiyin left Chengjiacai, the restaurant collapsed so quickly.
——Most of these people followed him.
Bai Zhi's gaze stopped on Xiang Beiyin.
Cheng Baizhi really likes him. She cooked today because of him. She thought, he likes Cheng Dingxiang but doesn’t like her, is it because she always messes up the kitchen?
So she went to practice again. She wanted to become a chef, hoping to win back Xiang Beiyin's heart.
"I've always wanted to be honest with you, but Master and his wife just passed away, and I'm afraid you'll be sad..." Xiang Beiyin's eyes were filled with guilt. "I will cook the Cheng family's dishes well, and I will take good care of you, my younger sister, so that Master and his wife can rest assured."
"Sister, if you are unhappy about something, just vent it on me, don't blame Beiyin. Beiyin wanted to tell you before, but I told him not to because I was afraid that you would be sad." A young woman walked in at the door.
The high heels look particularly imposing when stepped on the ground.
"Lilac..." Xiang Beiyin looked at her with emotion.
Cheng Dingxiang stepped forward quickly, stood beside Xiang Beiyin, and looked at Cheng Baizhi with her, like a pair of star-crossed mandarin ducks ready to face the storm together.
Bai Zhi watched calmly the entire time, as if she was watching a good show.
Such a scene also appeared in Cheng Baizhi's memory. When they stood together, Cheng Baizhi was so angry that she trembled and always said some unpleasant words, making her seem particularly domineering and vicious.
Xiang Beiyin and Cheng Dingxiang occupy the moral high ground.
But in fact, Cheng Baizhi never hurt Cheng Dingxiang. After the Cheng family's dishes fell, she was extremely angry. For the first time in her life, she really did something bad. She took a knife and ended up losing her own life.
"Have you said enough?" Bai Zhi chuckled.
Xiang Beiyin and Cheng Dingxiang were both stunned, and even the onlookers were shocked.
Cheng Baizhi's reaction...isn't it too calm?
"Baizhi..." Xiang Beiyin murmured.
Bai Zhi looked at them and clapped her hands. "What a star-crossed couple you are! It's as if I'm the villain who broke them up. But Xiang Beiyin, when you were with Cheng Dingxiang, you seemed to be my fiancé, right? Is this... cheating?"
She looked at Cheng Dingxiang and scoffed, "So you are... the mistress?"
"Baizhi! How can you say that to Dingxiang?!" Xiang Beiyin raised his voice and looked at her angrily.
Cheng Dingxiang's face also showed embarrassment, and she couldn't help but say: "Sister, calm down a little. I know that Beiyin and I are sorry for you, but emotions are hard to control."
"Yes, Baizhi, I'm sorry. I have always treated you as my sister. Only Dingxiang is my lover and the person I am willing to marry." Xiang Beiyin held Cheng Dingxiang's hand with a loving look on his face.
Cheng Dingxiang was also touched. She shook his hand back and whispered, "Love cannot be controlled, and neither can the heart. Marriage nowadays is no longer arranged by parents or matchmakers. It's free love now. Uncle is using the relationship between master and disciple to ask Beiyin to be with you. This is not right in the first place!"
She tilted her head slightly and said, "Actually, I could have waited until Beiyin broke up with you and not told you the truth, but I don't want to lie to you. People should be honest about their mistakes and face their hearts calmly."
System 444: "Damn... This woman can talk about secretly being with someone else's fiancé so confidently and elegantly. What a talent!"
Cheng Dingxiang has always been like this. Now she is speaking with a clear conscience about Xiang Beiyin's betrayal, and in the future she will be speaking with a clear conscience about breaking the promise of separation and opening another Chengjiacai restaurant.
She was so confident that others seemed to think she was right. Cheng Baizhi couldn't beat her, so naturally she had no way to do anything, and her right became wrong.
"Pa pa pa!" Bai Zhi clapped her hands, her lips curled up slightly, "Well said."
Cheng Dingxiang was stunned again. Cheng Baizhi's reaction really surprised her, and even made her words stuck in her throat and unable to speak.
Shouldn't she be jumping up and down?
Why is it so calm?!
"You're right. If my parents used the master-disciple relationship to force Xiang Beiyin to marry me, that really shouldn't have happened." Bai Zhi said.
Xiang Beiyin was delighted and took a step forward, "Bai Zhi, have you thought it through? Are you willing to forgive us?!"
Bai Zhi's eyes gradually turned cold as she looked at him and said, "But was my father blackmailing you? Or did you do this voluntarily? You made your promise in front of everyone. If you didn't want to, no one would force you, right?"
She glanced at the kitchen helpers and Cheng En's other apprentices, and said, "You're not the most talented cook, nor are you the first one my father took in. You're even the last one. If you hadn't said you wanted to marry me, why didn't we teach the Cheng family dishes that have been passed down in our family to other apprentices instead of you?"
"I..." Xiang Beiyin was stuck.
Bai Zhi: "You have so many senior brothers and sisters. My father once told me that I couldn't be the head chef, so he taught all his skills to all his apprentices. If each of them learned a secret Cheng family dish, they could support our Cheng family cuisine. But he changed his mind after you showed that you wanted to marry me. Now you say that my father used the master-disciple relationship to blackmail you? It seems that you agreed first, and then learned Cheng family cuisine?"
She spoke slowly and calmly, without a trace of anger or complaint.
However, Xiang Beiyin's lips became tighter and tighter, and his expression became flustered.
As soon as the words fell, the onlookers, including Xiang Beiyin's senior brothers and sisters, were no longer silent, and the atmosphere exploded in an instant -
"What?! Master originally wanted to teach each of us a secret Cheng family dish?!"
"So that's how it is! Master never even said that!"
"Junior Brother Xiang Beiyin wants to be the son-in-law of the Cheng family, so Master taught him everything he knew. Now you're going to quit?!"
"That doesn't make sense! Xiang Beiyin, you volunteered at the time. I still remember you said you liked Bai Zhi!"
"Yeah, when did Master threaten you?!"
"If you don't want to, you said at the beginning that I like Bai Zhi very much, and I am willing!"
…
These people were angry. Cheng En was dead, and the one who mastered the cooking skills of Cheng family cuisine was Xiang Beiyin, who was also the junior disciple. These people had always been more protective of him.
But what if the junior fellow apprentice became the head chef by encroaching on their original interests?
That must be infuriating!
Since he didn't want to be the son-in-law of the Cheng family and didn't want to marry Cheng Baizhi, why didn't he agree in the first place?
If he didn't agree, each of them would be able to learn a secret Cheng family dish.
Or one of them could marry Bai Zhi and inherit the entire Cheng family cuisine!
"Xiang Beiyin, you've gone too far!"
Xiang Beiyin's face flushed red, and he stammered, "No, no... I, I'm not..."
"Bei Yin was young at the time and didn't know the seriousness of the matter. He thought he liked Cheng Baizhi, so he agreed! And although he doesn't want to marry me, he is still willing to be the head chef of Cheng family cuisine!" Cheng Dingxiang shouted angrily.
She didn't consider Cheng Baizhi as her sister at all, which was evident from the fact that she subconsciously said her name just now.
"He was young at the time, but what about my coming-of-age ceremony? What about those years when my dad taught him the essence of Cheng family cuisine? What about those years when my dad introduced him to some connections?" Bai Zhi continued, hitting the nail on the head.
You could be said to be young back then, but what about after you became an adult?
"But until my dad died, you always acted like you wanted to marry me and become the son-in-law of the Cheng family, so he would let you know how to cook!" Bai Zhi sneered. "Now that my dad's dead, you're going to stop pretending, right? Now that you've learned how to cook Cheng family dishes, you don't need to worry about anything else, right?"
"No! It's not!" Xiang Beiyin shook his head frantically.
But if you look closely deep into his eyes, you'll find...guilt hidden within.
There were many times when he could have said that he didn't like Bai Zhi and liked Ding Xiang, but he didn't say it. He just told himself -
"No, I didn't know at first. I thought I could take care of you. But then I realized that wasn't love. I just treated you like a younger sister. I didn't want to make Master sad, so I kept it to myself. When I finally mustered up the courage to tell you, Master had an accident. You were so sad, and I couldn't bear to make you suffer any more, so I've endured it until now."
Now, he said it again.
Bai Zhi laughed lightly when she heard this: "Xiang Beiyin, who are you trying to fool with all the talk you've said? It's like you didn't tell me until you learned the Cheng family's dishes, but now that you've learned them, you want to tell me."
"Cheng Baizhi! Don't be so aggressive. Emotions cannot be controlled. Beiyin feels a little sorry for you, but he also promised to always be the head chef of your Chengjiacai restaurant! Without Beiyin, Chengjiacai restaurant will not be able to operate at all!" Cheng Dingxiang raised her chin slightly, with a look of pride on her face.
——It seemed as if it was an honor for Chengjiacai that Xiang Beiyin was willing to be the head chef of Chengjiacai.
However, Cheng Dingxiang is definitely not a simple person. This also tells Baizhi that Cheng's cuisine cannot be separated from Xiang Beiyin.
It was threatening her.
If Baizhi feels threatened, she will hold her breath.
If Bai Zhi was not threatened, she might impulsively let Xiang Beiyin leave Chengjiacai.
No matter which one it is, it will make Baizhi unhappy.
System 444 was jumping up and down in its head: "This is too much! This person is too much! Shameless! So shameless!"
Baizhi won the Rookie King title. It should have gone to other wish systems to celebrate together and show off on the system forum.
But these two people made it so angry that it didn't care about anything else. It jumped around in Baizhi's mind and cursed them.
"Master, take care of them!" 444 clenched his fists and said angrily.
Bai Zhi was calm. She didn't even show any anger at Cheng Dingxiang's words. She just looked at them calmly and said -
"You're right. Your love is uncontrollable. There are no rules that stipulate who you must and cannot like."
Cheng Dingxiang looked at her and raised her eyebrows. Baizhi...is this a sign of weakness?
Sure enough, Cheng Jiacai is now inseparable from Xiang Beiyin, and Cheng Baizhi can only bow to them!
Her chin was raised higher, and Xiang Beiyin also breathed a sigh of relief.
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