Chapter 51 Wedding Banquet, Please Be the Chef
"Hey, Director Wu, calm down first. It's not right for them to do this. However, Comrade Chen Jizhou's condition was indeed very serious at the time. If it was delayed for a long time, someone might die."
"That can't be so reckless. If everyone handles the problem like them, wouldn't it be a mess?"
"You can't say that. There is a saying that in an emergency, you should take the right measures. Didn't he ask Lin Zuo for leave? But Lin Zuo refused to agree. What do you want him to do? Wait for death?"
Everyone read the hospital's diagnosis and heard another version of the story from Deputy Director Xu.
Soon, the conference room was filled with gunpowder. Everyone present expressed their opinions and had a lot of fun.
Wu Mingde looked at Deputy Director Xu meaningfully, while Deputy Director Xu sat on the Diaoyutai, with no intention of compromising at all.
In fact, everyone present knew the grudge between Wu Mingde and Chen Jizhou and Du Shaojie.
Last time, Wu Mingde excluded Chen Jizhou from the first list of staff members to be reinstated, and no one said anything, simply because they did not want to offend Wu Mingde.
But this time was different. Wu Mingde and Lin Zuo had gone too far. If someone died, they would be implicated.
More importantly, there had been rumors recently that Wu Mingde was related to the case of his brother-in-law Dai Tong. Although they did not know whether the rumors were true or not, they still understood the principle of leaving a way out for others.
Except for a few of Wu Mingde's confidants, no one present wanted to offend Chen Jizhou to death.
"Everyone, be quiet! Since Chen Jizhou is indeed seriously ill, his behavior of leaving the study group without permission this time will not be investigated.
However, Du Shaojie, as the master chef of the farm canteen, insisted on getting involved and must be dealt with. My opinion is to give him a warning and delay his regularization for half a year."
Wu Mingde was also a man who had seen the wind and waves. Seeing that the wind was not in the right direction, he immediately avoided Chen Jizhou and decided to single out Du Shaojie, the troublemaker.
If neither of these two people is dealt with, who will listen to him in the future?
"It's too severe. Director Wu, I think it's forgivable for young people to be impulsive, not to mention that Du Shaojie's starting point is to save people.
I think this way, didn't we say before that as long as Du Shaojie is willing to go to the farm, he can be regularized at least three months in advance? Now that he has violated the discipline, then cancel the arrangement for early regularization and transfer him back to the canteen of the bureau to work."
Deputy Director Xu brought up the old matter again and tricked Wu Mingde.
Director Wu was silent for a long time, knowing that his goal today could not be achieved.
"Since most comrades tend to deal with it leniently, let's make a verbal criticism of Du Shaojie and tell him that this is just one time and it won't happen again! Let him work at ease on the farm, and we'll talk about regularization later."
After the meeting, everyone looked at Wu and Xu and said something unclear.
Three days later.
Chen Jizhou's condition has improved significantly. After resting at home for two days, he returned to the farm.
"Xiao Du, I'm sorry for getting you into trouble this time. Thank you!"
The first thing he did after getting off the car was to find Du Shaojie in the cafeteria and express his sincere gratitude to him.
The young man was able to stand up in that situation at the time, which many people could not do.
Moreover, Du Shaojie was not blindly reckless. From the fact that the other party asked his family members to take the diagnosis to Deputy Director Xu, we can see that there were many problems.
This made Chen Jizhou look at Du Shaojie with new eyes.
"Uncle Chen, it's not that serious. I just criticized him verbally. It's okay."
Du Shaojie took Chen Jizhou to sit down in the cafeteria and poured him a bowl of water.
Two days ago, the people from the bureau and Zhao Dajun criticized him together, and then... nothing happened.
No one expected that the bureau's handling of this matter would be raised high and fell lightly. Du Shaojie has gained the favor of many people again, and his popularity in the entire farm can be said to be "among the best".
Chen Jizhou sat in the cafeteria for a while and then went to the labor study group.
Du Shaojie returned to the kitchen to continue working. At noon, he prepared three dishes, stir-fried lotus root, braised white strips, and garlic cucumber.
White strips are a kind of miscellaneous fish, and there are many in the Laolong River. Today's fish was still caught by Chu Xiaowei and his men. The people in the field office shared some, and the rest was given to the canteen.
This time, Du Shaojie did not take the food for nothing, but converted it into food tickets and asked Zhao Dajun to distribute it.
"Master Du, the field director asked you to go to his office after you are done."
The three dishes at noon were very popular. This is normal in the canteen. No one will doubt Du Shaojie's cooking skills now.
After the meal, Du Shaojie, Qin Xiaomei and others sat down to eat.
Just after eating a few bites, someone from the field office came to pass on the message that Zhao Dajun had something to do with Du Shaojie.
"Well, I'll go after I finish eating."
Du Shaojie ate lunch in a few bites and hurried to the field office.
Knocking on the door of Zhao Dajun's office, he saw that in addition to Zhao Dajun himself, there was also a middle-aged man in the room. He knew this man. He was the director of the next-door regiment, Lu Yiming.
"Hello, Director Lu! Director Zhao, are you looking for me?"
"Hello, Master Du."
Lu Yiming wore a pair of glasses. If it weren't for his dark and rough skin, he really looked like a scholar.
After Zhao Dajun and the others greeted each other, they said, "Master Du, Old Lu's nephew is getting married this Sunday. He heard that you are a good cook and wants to invite you to be the chef that day. Is it convenient?"
"We are not planning to have a big wedding. There are only five tables of guests. Master Du, please help us."
Lu Yiming followed up with an explanation. Five tables of banquets were not too many. Du Shaojie felt that he could handle it by himself with an assistant.
"Director Lu, let's not talk about anything else. Director Zhao has come forward, so this face must be given. You decide the menu first, and then show it to me later. I will tell you what needs to be prepared in advance."
After Du Shaojie said this, Zhao Dajun immediately felt very proud.
Lu Yiming was also very happy. Before he came, he was worried that Du Shaojie was young and energetic and difficult to deal with, but he didn't expect that he was so easy to talk to.
"Okay, okay, I will finalize the menu as soon as I go back, and I will come again then. Then I won't disturb Master Du's lunch break, I'll take you out."
Lu Yiming and Zhao Dajun still had things to discuss, so after a few words, they finished their business and sent Du Shaojie out the door.
Du Shaojie returned to the dormitory, feeling happy and a little nervous.
This was his first time to cook for a wedding banquet. He had served as Liao Yongxin's assistant in the previous few times, and the two were not comparable.
He didn't do any simulation training these days because he had a lot of things to do.
It was just right that when Lu Yiming sent the menu, he could choose the dishes for training in a targeted manner.
Sharpening the knife before the battle will give him more confidence.
Lu Yiming acted quickly and sent the menu that afternoon.
There were [Dry-fried Carp], [Hand-pulled Lamb], [Spicy Chicken], [Sweet and Sour Pork Loin], [Tiger Skin Spicy Braised Eggplant], [Candied Apple], and four cold dishes, a total of ten dishes.
These dishes were already considered very rich for the regiment.
Du Shaojie took a glance and felt that these dishes were not difficult for him, but he still made a small suggestion:
"Captain Lu, how about changing this [Spicy Chicken] to [Big Plate Chicken]? I am personally better at making [Big Plate Chicken], and the taste will never be worse than [Spicy Chicken]."
(End of this chapter)
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