He Lifeng looked slightly embarrassed: "Old Liu, even if you want to leave, you can't use such a lame excuse."
Chef Liu held out his hand wrapped in gauze in front of him and said, "I'm not kidding. Look at my hand. It must have been bewitched by a ghost. Would a chef like me joke with my own hand?"
“Last night, I was training my carving skills with carrots when I heard a noise in the utility room. At first, I thought it was a mouse, so I asked the cat outside the door to check it out.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the cat went in, it let out a shrill cry, and all the hair on its body stood up. After it rushed out, it bared its teeth at me, barked a few more times, and ran out without looking back.
It was only then that I realized something was wrong. I was afraid that a thief had entered the restaurant, so I called the security guard outside the door and asked him to go in with me to check it out.
After the three of us went in, we searched every corner where something could be hidden, but in the end we found nothing. The security guard even laughed at me for being too old and timid.
After they left, I was still terrified, so I turned on all the lights in the kitchen and played TV series on my phone to ease my fear."
"At two o'clock in the morning, there was another noise coming from the utility room. This time, I didn't call anyone and went in with a knife. The result was the same as before: there was nothing inside.
After closing the door to the utility room, I decided that no matter what happened, I would never open it again.
I went back to the kitchen and lay on a chair watching TV. Half asleep, I heard someone breathing next to me. I opened my eyes, but there was nothing. However, the TV series on my phone had changed to a series I had never watched before.
"I suppressed my fear and tried to turn off my phone, but when my hand was close to it, I heard a deep laugh behind me.
I turned around suddenly and saw a dark shadow leaving the windowsill. He seemed to notice that I was looking at him and let out another low laugh.
At this time, my mentality was a little broken. I grabbed my phone and ran to the security booth outside the door. I used the excuse that I was bored to stay with them until dawn.
The sky was getting light and my apprentices came to work, so I went back to the kitchen with them to prepare the food.
When I picked up the knife again, a thought suddenly came to my mind: if I use this knife to cut the palm of my hand, will it bring me a surprise?
I knew in my mind that this idea was wrong, but I couldn't control my hands, so my right hand held the knife and cut my left hand fiercely.
It was the apprentice next to me who noticed something was wrong and forcibly took the knife from my hand. Otherwise, my left hand might have been in danger.
Boss He, everything I said is true. You can go and verify the statement with the apprentice who hired me.
I really can’t do this job anymore. I’m afraid if I stay a few more days, I’ll be dead.”
He Lifeng knew he was not lying after hearing what he said. "I understand. This is our hotel's responsibility. You don't have to pay for the liquidated damages. I will also pay you your salary and reimburse you for the treatment of your hand.
I just hope you don't tell anyone about this, I'm afraid it will bring bad reputation to the restaurant."
Chef Liu was grateful for his thoughtfulness. "Don't worry, I've been a chef for so many years. I know what to say and what not to say."
Before leaving, he couldn't help but make a suggestion: "Boss He, the restaurant has been a bit unstable lately, you should ask a master to take a look!"
"Business people are somewhat superstitious, so after listening to his advice, I went to find a famous local feng shui master to look at the layout of the hotel.
He visited all the buildings and items in the hotel and my home, and assured me that there was no problem with the feng shui of the house, and there was no sign of damage.
"After hearing his answer, I felt relieved. I thought the incident with Chef Liu was just an accident, so I put it out of my mind.
But the hotel did not have two days of peace before another accident happened. This time, two waiters had a fight and spilled food on a guest, forcing the hotel to close for the day to deal with the accident.
The two employees who got into the fight were a relative's kid who came to help out, and a mute. They're both known for being honest people, and I can't figure out why they would get into a fight."
"After the situation calmed down, I asked them why. They said they felt very hot inside at the time, and there was a voice in their head telling them that the people on the other side wanted to kill them, and if they didn't take action first, they would definitely be hurt by them."
"Based on the on-site surveillance, I have to believe this very unreliable answer. Their experiences tell me that what Chef Liu said is true. There really are unclean things in the hotel."
"But I didn't want to compete with Guan Ye. Just when I was struggling with this, the workers on the construction site nearby also had an accident.
While he was painting the wall on a ladder, the horizontal bar supporting his feet suddenly broke and he fell from it. Although a co-worker caught him, he still suffered a fractured right arm.
"When my father found out, he forced me to close the shop, even though he never cared about anything else. He also told me not to open the shop until I found out the reason for these strange things."
"After closing the shop, I consulted several Feng Shui masters, and their answers were surprisingly consistent. There was nothing wrong with my home or my ancestral grave.
Just when I was at my wit's end and felt I was in a hopeless situation, something happened to my son."
"His head teacher called to say that my son had suddenly collapsed in class. When my wife and I rushed to the hospital, we found that his face was extremely pale.
What surprised everyone was that, despite his terminal illness, the hospital's examination results showed that his physical indicators were normal and he was even healthier than the average child.
"He looked like he was about to die, so I couldn't believe the doctor's diagnosis. I took him to a higher-level hospital, and the test results were the same as the previous one.
The cause of the disease could not be found, and the doctors could not prescribe any medicine. My son was crying and refusing to stay in the hospital. In order to avoid putting pressure on him, we took him home.
"Things have come to this point, and I am no longer able to handle it. I can only invite the Feng Shui master to my home once again."
"When the Feng Shui master saw my son's condition, his expression became very serious. He pinched my hand for a long time and finally said to me, 'I can't see your son's fate. You should find another job.'"
Later, I took him to find all the Feng Shui masters, Taoist fortune tellers and witches that we could contact in the surrounding area, and we got two kinds of answers. One was to let us find another job, and the other was to simply return the divination fee to us and let us leave.
My son is now much weaker than when he first came back from school, and I worry every day that he won’t be able to see the sun the next day.”
"Master, please tell me, which great god did our family offend to make him torment us like this?"
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