Chapter 18 Cooking for Two
Zhao Yunduo also approved of the new housekeeper's cooking skills.
Braised eggplant is her favorite dish. The minced meat is so well-seasoned that she licks her chopsticks clean.
"It's delicious. It's so delicious!"
With Zhao Yunduo's approval, the housekeeper's salary increased by another 500 yuan.
After finishing her meal, Zhao Yunduo passed the bowl back. She rolled over on the bed, licked her lips, and recalled the taste of the braised eggplant.
She sent a text message to Shen Linglan:
【I also want to eat braised eggplant in the evening! 】
Shen Linglan replied immediately: [No problem.]
After eating and drinking, Zhao Yunduo turned on her tablet, which contained hundreds of TV series downloaded by Shen Linglan for her. She skillfully opened "Empresses in the Palace" and saw the episode where Concubine Xi returned to the palace. It was the exciting part, but before the opening song "Who Can Pass the Love Test" was finished, she suddenly heard a strange sound coming from downstairs.
After the incident with the fat woman, Zhao Yunduo was extremely wary of this world. When he heard any unusual movement, he immediately turned off the sound of the tablet, grabbed the mace beside the bed, walked to the window, and carefully looked out at the street.
Sure enough, the zombies that were originally wandering around downstairs all walked towards a convenience store opposite. There was also a ding-dong sound coming from the convenience store, and no one knew what they were knocking on.
Zombies have no ability to think, and when they encounter edible humans, they just mechanically bang their bodies against the glass door of the convenience store.
Although the glass door was strong, it could not withstand the constant pounding of a dozen zombies, once - twice - countless times -
Zhao Yunduo took out a telescope from the sundries that Shen Linglan had just packed for her two days ago, and looked at the glass door through the telescope. It already had a crack.
Through the telescope, Zhao Yunduo saw two other figures in the convenience store, who seemed to be a woman and a child.
After a while, the woman suddenly rushed out of the glass door and ran madly towards the road, attracting the attention of more than a dozen zombies.
Behind her, the children in the convenience store kept calling her, "Mommy—Mommy—don't—"
The woman ran and shouted to her child, "When mom takes the corpse away, you leave immediately. Do you understand?"
Zhao Yunduo saw that the child was only about ten years old. In the past, she should have been in the sixth grade. If her mother died, could she survive?
Before Zhao Yunduo could think, he heard the woman yelling at the zombie, "Come on! Come on! Come and bite me!"
Sure enough, the group of zombies walked towards the woman in a crooked manner. Although humans were more agile than zombies, they were outnumbered and would be assimilated by the zombies after a bite. Even gods could not save them.
The little girl downstairs was crying heartbreakingly, and the woman was shouting that she was ready to die. Zhao Yunduo felt compassion for them for a moment. At least, she felt intuitively that a woman who could sacrifice herself for her child should not be so bad that she would not bring about a fatal disaster.
Take a gamble!
Zhao Yunduo thought about it, took out her old cell phone from the drawer, opened the playlist, selected the most festive song "Good Luck Comes", turned up the volume to the maximum, and then she threw the phone into the green belt beside the road.
As for whether the phone will be damaged, it depends on luck.
If the phone stopped making any sound after it fell, it meant that the mother and daughter were destined to die. If there was still sound, then it would be considered that Zhao Yunduo had done a good deed by saving a life.
I didn't expect that although the old phone was a little damaged, it was still quite durable.
Zhao Yunduo threw it onto the grass in the green belt, still singing loudly "Good Luck Is Coming", attracting all the zombies that were walking towards the woman.
The woman who was ready to die calmed down immediately. Her eyes fell on the window of the hotel, but there was no one there.
Without any hesitation, the woman rushed back to the convenience store, pulled her child out, and then she and the child kowtowed towards the hotel window.
Unlike the fat woman's previous kowtow, this time it was full of gratitude.
Zhao Yunduo, who was hiding outside the window and peeking, had her heart pounding, fearing that the mother and daughter would rush up and steal her supplies.
Although she had locked the burglar-proof door, she didn't dare to try it. What if they were going to do something sneaky to her?
But fortunately, this mother and son are good people. Zhao Yunduo did not save the wrong person.
She retracted her head and no longer paid attention to the direction of the mother and daughter. She could only help them this time, and let them fend for themselves for the rest.
Thinking of the inconvenience just now, Zhao Yunduo sent a message to Shen Linglan:
[Baoer, please buy me two drones when you have time.]
With the drone, if anyone comes downstairs in the future, she can lead the zombies away quietly, or take advantage of the zombies' tendency to follow sounds and drive away the invading strangers.
After seeing the news, Shen Linglan immediately sent a message to Chen Mengxue, asking her to buy two drones after buying the car.
Chen Mengxue was at the 4S store, hesitating among several cars. In the end, she sent all three cars to Shen Linglan to see. Shen Linglan liked white cars, so she finally decided on a white car with good performance and beautiful appearance. Although it was not a luxury car worth millions, it would not attract too much attention.
This car was also bought for Chen Mengxue to drive. Shen Linglan herself had not yet decided to buy a car to drive, but at least she would have time to arrange it after she finished her internship and returned to school.
Lunch time
Chen Mengxue drove her new car, carrying two shopping bags containing drone boxes, and stepped into the gate of Shen Linglan's company.
The receptionist saw her in a well-cut work suit. Her temperament made it clear that she was not an ordinary person, but an elite in a certain industry. She stood up naturally and greeted Chen Mengxue: "Hello, are you here for a visit?"
Chen Mengxue was stunned. Did bringing food to her own lady count as a visit?
She hesitated for a moment and asked, "I'm here to see someone. Do I need a signature to visit?"
The receptionist thought she was here to see her boss, so she nodded and took out a visit form. "Please sign your name and phone number on it."
Chen Mengxue put the lunch box on the table and freed one hand to sign.
After she signed, the receptionist called the boss's assistant while checking the visitor list.
"Assistant Zhang, someone is here to visit us. Yes, it's someone named Chen Mengxue. She's looking for Shen Ling..."
Before he finished speaking, the receptionist suddenly paused, looked up at Chen Mengxue, and asked uncertainly, "Are you looking for Shen Linglan?"
Chen Mengxue nodded, "Yes."
The front desk clerk apologized and hung up the phone immediately.
They are looking for interns! Why do they need to sign the visit form?
Although she felt a little resentful in her heart, the receptionist did not dare to neglect Chen Mengxue after seeing her outfit and the valuable things in her hands, and took her to find Shen Linglan's workstation.
"Ms. Suzuran."
After many twists and turns, Chen Mengxue finally saw Shen Linglan. She was still shocked when she saw Shen Linglan's simple work station.
Who could have imagined that a lady who bought a house worth millions and could afford to hire a housekeeper and an assistant would actually live in a small company and work in a workstation without partitions?
She placed four dishes and a soup in front of Shen Linglan, and left amid the surprised looks of everyone in the office.
After she left, Sun Xiaolin came up to her and asked, "Linglan, who is this..."
Shen Linglan stopped pretending and said directly, "My personal assistant."
"Wha…what?"
Song Zhangling also looked surprised.
Even the regular employees in the company asked Shen Linglan in surprise, "You have a personal assistant?"
Shen Linglan nodded. "I used to eat takeout, which I felt was not very healthy, so I asked my assistant to bring me food."
The old employees who used to look down on others came up to see Shen Linglan's dishes and found that her meals were colorful, fragrant and delicious, and looked very tempting. It seemed that they were made by a skilled chef.
"That's a lot, Xiao Shen. Can you finish it?"
Someone asked.
Shen Linglan nodded, "I can finish it. I have a big appetite."
She knew they wanted to try it, but Shen Linglan disdained other people's saliva. Besides, Zhao Yunduo was waiting for her to feed her.
Seeing that Shen Linglan didn't want to talk too much, they looked at the food, touched the drone in the box, and left.