Chapter 171 Chapter 171 The Truth
Jiang Xi looked around and found that every table was occupied, and there were two or three dishes on each table. It seemed that there were a lot of rich people now, especially rich people in Shanghai.
Jiang Xi thought about it and decided to order more gift box sets of Wu Ji Zao Lu and improve the specifications.
After Qian Lili made a fuss, she got Jiang Xi's promise that she must eat and drink well today no matter how expensive it was.
Qian Lili ordered with confidence. The two of them ordered three dishes. Even though they ate with confidence, they did not have the habit of wasting food. They ordered a must-order dish for every table, a dish of braised pork, a dish of steamed spare ribs, and a soup.
The atmosphere in the restaurant is very lively, with waiters walking around, and most of the people who come here to eat are well dressed.
Some people come for family gatherings, some come to discuss business, and some come to get together with friends, etc.
The dishes were served. The bright red braised pork was piled tremblingly on the plate, the steamed spare ribs exuded a rich aroma, and even the soup was clear in color.
Qian Lili couldn't help swallowing her saliva, it seemed to be delicious.
Jiang Xi said, "Please pick up your chopsticks. You're welcome."
The two of them simultaneously extended their chopsticks to the braised pork. The braised pork was fatty but not greasy, with three layers of fat and lean meat alternating. The fat was completely free of oil and melted in the mouth. The same was true for the lean meat. The most delicious part was the skin, which was tough, elastic and very chewy.
Qian Lili couldn't help but eat another piece: "It's so delicious, better than the braised pork I ate outside." Now she no longer complains about the high price. Although the price is expensive, the environment here is good and the taste is good. When she gets her salary next month, she will come here for another meal.
As the two of them were eating, Qian Yang came over. Qian Yang had a gentle smile on his face, and his speech and behavior were like a mature gentleman: "Boss Jiang, why didn't you tell me you were here? Is the food okay? Have we done anything wrong in our hospitality?"
Jiang Xi put down his chopsticks: "Hello, Boss Qian."
Qian Yang nodded to Jiang Xi, then looked at Qian Lili again. His gaze lingered on Qian Lili's face for a second before he asked with a smile, "Who is this?"
Jiang Xi said, "Her name is Qian Lili, and she's the sales manager at Wu Ji Zao Lu."
Qian Yang was surprised and said, "Such a young girl is so capable, but it's not surprising to Boss Jiang. After all, if you are so capable, then everyone under you must be capable too."
Qian Lili always praised others first, but she never expected Qian Yang to praise her so much, and he was the owner of such a big hotel. Qian Lili immediately felt that Qian Yang was easy to get along with: "Thank you for the compliment, you are also very good, and your food is delicious."
Qian Yang: "I see you ordered braised pork. Braised pork is indeed my family's signature dish."
Qian Yang smiled and said, "Do you mind if I sit down next to you?"
Qian Yang's question was abrupt, and Jiang Xi and Qian Lili didn't answer. Qian Yang continued to talk to himself, "I just want to introduce my signature dish to you. If I disturb your meal, I will leave."
Qian Yang was about to leave. Jiang Xi and Qian Lili had come to discuss business with Qian Yang. The business hadn't even started yet, so they couldn't offend Qian Yang. Jiang Xi said, "Please take a seat."
Qian Yang sat down next to Qian Lili. "Our braised pork is truly amazing. Anyone who has tried it will definitely want to come back for more. This is also our signature dish. We buy fresh pork every day and cook it right away. This braised pork takes more than two hours to make."
Qian Lili was a little surprised: "Will it take more than two hours?"
Qian Yang smiled and said, "Yes, the meat needs to be fully stewed to achieve this texture. You can't just do it casually. There are also certain rules for how to cut and handle the meat. But this is an exclusive secret recipe that cannot be disclosed."
Qian Yang made a joke and continued to introduce himself to Qian Lili. He was very friendly to Qian Lili, so friendly that it was almost showing off, as if he was trying hard to show off his strengths and advantages.
Jiang Xi had a vague bad feeling. Although Qian Yang deliberately kept a distance from Qian Lili, she always felt that Qian Yang was getting too close to Qian Lili.
Qian Lili was unaware of this. She felt that Qian Yang was humorous, knowledgeable, and capable at work, and he was very knowledgeable when talking about restaurants.
Qian Lili couldn't help asking Qian Yang several more questions, and Qian Yang answered them patiently. The two of them had a very pleasant conversation, as if they had met too late.
Jiang Xi sat aside and observed Qian Yang's expression, his expression becoming more and more solemn. There was definitely something wrong with this Qian Yang.
Qian Lili has always been a smart girl. Qian Yang was more restrained at the beginning, but now his behavior is becoming more and more obvious. Qian Lili cannot fail to see that Qian Yang is basically seducing her. He is talking to her in a state of courtship.
But Qian Lili seemed not to notice anything. Instead, she chatted with Qian Yang very enthusiastically and was amused by Qian Yang so much that she fell over and laughed happily.
Qian Lili is less than 20 years old this year, but Qian Yang is already in his 40s, two years older than Qian Yang.
Although Jiang Xi told herself not to think about it that way, but thinking back to Wu Li's words, she felt that Qian Yang's marriage to Wu Li was not as simple as a matter of incompatibility of personalities.
Qian Lili's attitude towards Qian Yang made Jiang Xi feel heavy-hearted. Although she wanted to make this deal, she didn't want Qian Lili to jump into the fire pit.
Although Qian Lili is smart, she is ultimately a simple girl. She has never encountered any difficulties and her family is very obedient to her. Therefore, Qian Lili always has a good attitude and treats strangers she meets with the idea that everyone is a good person.
However, Qian Yang is not a good person and he cannot go on like this.
Jiang Xi decided not to discuss this deal for now. She stood up and pretended to be anxious and said, "I forget about time when I eat. Lili, have you forgotten that we haven't prepared our posters yet? We're going to have an event tomorrow, so we have to hurry back to prepare."
Qian Lili was stunned for a moment. Hadn't the poster been prepared long ago? Besides, Liang Jie could just ask someone in the store to do it. Although Qian Lili had her doubts, she still listened to Jiang Xi's words and stood up cooperatively: "Then let's go back quickly."
Qian Yang was a little disappointed. He looked at Qian Lili. Qian Lili had a round face and big eyes. She smiled very charmingly. She happened to be the type of girl he liked the most.
Qian Yang has always liked girls like this, especially young girls. He divorced Wu Li because such a girl appeared by his side.
Qian Yang did want to get back together with Wu Li, but when he saw Qian Lili today, he couldn't help but think of that again. Qian Lili was eloquent, her looks met his aesthetic standards, and she was not like those girls before who were just noisy. Instead, she had a high emotional intelligence, which made Qian Yang feel that he had met her too late.
Hormones occupied Qian Yang's brain, and primitive desire made him forget the idea of getting back together with Wu Li. Qian Lili in front of him was delicious and fresh, like a piece of freshly made strawberry cake. Qian Yang couldn't help but want to take a bite.
Jiang Xi keenly observed his thoughts. Qian Yang knew that Jiang Xi had seen through them, but so what? Jiang Xi wanted to beg him for business, and people who ask for help from others are always inferior to others.
Moreover, there are many such things in the business world, especially in sales. However, Qian Yang prides himself on keeping public and private affairs separate. Even if he and Qian Lili are together in the future, he will have to think carefully about cooperation with Jiang Xi.
He was not worried that Qian Lili would make a fuss because he was confident that he could subdue Qian Lili.
Besides, if he and Qian Lili sleep in the same bed at that time, Qian Lili will be his. If she still sides with Jiang Xi, it would be like being disloyal. Qian Yang would never allow such a thing to happen.
Qian Yang was just sitting here chatting with Qian Lili for a while, and these dirty thoughts came into his mind. But does Qian Lili know about these thoughts?
Jiang Xi took Qian Lili out of the restaurant with a serious face. After they walked a few steps, Jiang Xi couldn't help but ask, "Lili, what is your impression of Qian Yang?"
Qian Lili looked at Jiang Xi, who had a serious face, and was stunned for a few seconds. "I have a pretty good impression of him. He knows a lot and is different from those young boys. Besides, he's pretty good-looking too."
Jiang Xi's heart sank to the bottom. Qian Lili's evaluation of Qian Yang was completely a woman's evaluation of a man, not an evaluation of a partner.
Jiang Xi stopped beating around the bush and went straight to the point: "Qian Yang is quite old, and he has a son. He's still entangled with his ex-wife. Maybe it was because of these things that he divorced his ex-wife."
"Don't be impulsive. I brought you to Shanghai so that you can work with me and have better development. If you insist on being with Qian Yang, I think I have to think carefully about whether to continue to let you stay in Shanghai."
Qian Lili was shocked. She stared at Jiang Xi blankly for a few seconds, and finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Jiang Xi, you look pretty when you're angry."
Jiang Xi was stunned, then reacted: "Okay, you are teasing me on purpose, right?"
Qian Lili smiled and said, "I don't dare anymore. I won't dare to do it again. Don't be angry. But Jiang Xi, I'm already grown up, and I've been in Shanghai for so long. Don't treat me like a child."
"I know you care about me, but I'm not stupid. He's already done that, so of course I can tell. Although we're not officially in a relationship yet, and Jiang Tao is still pursuing me, I've had someone I liked before."
"I've seen other people fall in love, and I know that old man just wants to show off in front of me and make me admire him. I'm just playing along. But don't worry, I absolutely don't like that old man. I don't want to be a nurse taking care of the elderly."
Qian Lili was clear-headed, so Jiang Xi temporarily put aside his worries and asked, "What about you just now?"
Qian Lili said, "Because we want to do business with him, we just flatter him a little and act accordingly."
Although Jiang Xi was touched by Qian Lili's hard work, she did not want her employees to be harmed because of work.
Jiang Xi said cautiously, "It's great to be able to reach a cooperation agreement with Yuexiang Hotel, but there's more than one hotel in Shanghai. If he has any intentions towards you, or even wants to hurt you, we won't do this business. We'll look for other channels."
Qian Lili was touched: "Jiang Xi, you are so kind. Don't worry, I will never let him hurt me."
"Qian Yang is the only connection we have with established restaurants right now. It would be a shame to give up on him like this. I'll talk to him again. I'll keep my distance from him. As long as we close this deal, I won't have any contact with him again."
Qian Lili's idea was very simple, but Jiang Xi was not so optimistic. Qian Yang was obviously a person who would not release the eagle until he saw the rabbit. Who knew what tricks Qian Yang would use next, what if he forced himself on her?
Jiang Xi couldn't stay with Qian Lili all the time, so she decided to give up on this deal. But now that Qian Yang was gone, Jiang Xi was wondering who else could help her connect with the old restaurants in Shanghai?
Suddenly Jiang Xi had a bold idea. She leaned close to Qian Lili's ear and said to her, "Let's do this. Instead of defending all the time, why not take the initiative to solve the problem?"
Qian Lili's eyes lit up as she listened: "Jiang Xi, you're so smart. I'll listen to you. Let's go!"
Jiang Xi and Qian Lili returned to the Lihua Hotel.
Jiang Xi had a hunch that they would fail to reach a deal with Qian Yang, and Wu Li would be happy to see this happen. There should also be a high probability that she could help them connect with people from other established restaurants in Shanghai. Although he was not completely sure, Jiang Xi still wanted to give it a try.
She relied on herself and groped her way to where she is today step by step. Sometimes her judgment comes from this intuition, so when this intuition appeared again, Jiang Xi took Qian Lili to verify this intuition without hesitation.
Wu Li was a little surprised to see Qian Lili and Jiang Xi and asked, "Why are you back? Is there anything else?"
Jiang Xi said bluntly: "Boss Wu, thank you for your reminder just now. If it weren't for your reminder, we might have suffered a loss this time."
Wu Li immediately understood what Jiang Xi meant. Her face darkened as she gritted her teeth and asked, "What did that bastard do to you?"
Jiang Xi: "He didn't do anything to us, but he was too extreme towards Lili, like..."
Wu Li snorted coldly: "It's like he wants Qian Lili to be his mistress, right? Humph, that thing is still a dog that can't change its bad habits."
Jiang Xi also sighed: "When I chatted with Boss Qian before, I thought he was quite normal, but I didn't expect him to be such a person. Although we went to him to discuss business, we will not let him control us just to close the deal."
Wu Li stared at Jiang Xi: "So you came to me because you don't want to discuss business with him. What did he do to you? You think the same as I do."
Wu Li looked at Qian Lili, her eyes lingering on Qian Lili's face for a moment. This face seemed familiar and had made Wu Li toss and turn before. Even Qian Lili's name was the same as hers. This was really...
This incident was like a reincarnation for Wu Li. She was once at a loss because of what happened suddenly. She broke down and cried, couldn't believe it, and even began to doubt herself.
God knows how much effort Wu Li put in to restrain herself and not lose her composure when she saw Qian Lili for the first time. But would the person this time stab her as hard as before?
Wu Li looked at Qian Lili: "What did he tell you?"
Qian Lili sensitively noticed that there was something wrong with the way Wu Li looked at her, but Jiang Xi was by her side and would protect her.
Qian Lili calmed down and answered honestly, "He didn't say anything to me. He just told me about the specialty dishes in the building, how they were prepared, the difficulties he faced in starting his business, and some other interesting stories. He even asked me to meet him next time."
Wu Li folded his arms and sneered. It was still the same few tricks. He thought that these tricks were more than enough to deal with the little girl, but he didn't expect that the little girl nowadays was not easy to deceive. Jiang Xi and others came to her and confessed the matter. They should have known about her previous relationship with Qian Yang.
Thinking of the past, Wu Li felt a surge of anger in her heart. It was a tragic past that she did not want to recall, and it was also a major failure in her life that she could not talk about. She was not defeated by that bastard Qian Yang, but by her own naiveté and confusion in judging people.
Wu Li's expression changed several times, and she turned to Jiang Xi and said, "You came to me, I probably know why, but I want to hear it from you."
The paranoia Wu Li displayed at this moment was completely different from her calm appearance just now. Jiang Xi knew that Wu Li was asking her to take sides, and she had already made her choice when she came to Wu Li.
"We won't associate with people like Mr. Qian. If we really want to discuss business and expand our restaurant-related business, we would like to seek your help."
"After all, our ideas are very similar, and we are both women. Although I don't know exactly what you went through back then, I can imagine how it felt."
Although Jiang Xi had his own plans, his words were sincere. If a person is badly evaluated by even his partner, it means that there is something wrong with his character. Jiang Xi will not cooperate with someone with questionable character, even if this person can bring him huge benefits.
Wu Li looked straight into Jiang Xi's eyes. Jiang Xi was a young girl, a beautiful, capable and ambitious young girl. Now her eyes were still firm, with a hint of unwillingness to admit defeat, but very clear, without a trace of jealousy or filth. She was a girl with principles.
Wu Li couldn't help but feel some admiration for Jiang Xi, because what Jiang Xi said just now touched her.
As a woman, she could empathize with Jiang Xi. Wu Li didn't know why she suddenly felt like talking. It might be because of those dirty things that Jiang Xi and the others had just experienced, and it was not difficult to imagine. Since it had already been guessed, Wu Li had no need to hide it.
Wu Li said slowly, "Actually, there was another hidden reason behind my divorce from Qian Yang. It wasn't the rumored reason. That was just a fig leaf to cover up Qian Yang's scandal!"
"I divorced him initially because of our incompatibility, but in reality it was all because of his betrayal! Shameless betrayal!"
Wu Li almost gritted her teeth as she spat out the word betrayal. This was the greatest humiliation in her life. Wu Li was such a proud person, and that betrayal almost changed her principles of doing things and her views on many things.
Wu Li fell into memories. At the beginning, she and Qian Yang had just inherited the family business and were busy with work. They had no time to take care of the family and their feelings were very weak.
But later, Wu Li gradually became adept at her work and began to spend more time on her family. She and Qian Yang had a sweet time together, and it was during that time that Wu Li became pregnant.
But what she didn't expect was that during her pregnancy, this husband who took such good care of her actually cheated on her.
The person who had an affair was a young girl. That girl was Wu Li's secretary at the time. Wu Li felt sorry for Qian Yang because he was too busy at work, so she often made some things and asked her secretary to send them to Qian Yang. The girl was only 15 years old, with a round face and looked very similar to Qian Lili, and even her personality was similar.
Wu Li still remembers the young woman, who always loved to laugh and was incredibly obedient. When she was pregnant, she was deeply concerned and would sometimes even offer to massage her swollen legs. But she never imagined that her trusted secretary would end up sharing a bed with her then-beloved husband. How ironic!
Wu Li was devastated when she found out. She was a proud person and could not tolerate that her husband would do such a thing. Moreover, the person he cheated with was her secretary, who was only 15 years old. Wu Li suffered a double betrayal and a shock to her concept, so she decided to divorce Qian Yang.
But Qian Yang knelt down in front of Wu Li, confessed to her, and promised her that he would never do that again. He was just confused for a moment. He promised to break up with the secretary and live a peaceful life with Wu Li in the future.
Their marriage was also a marriage of arrangement. The elders on both sides tried to persuade Wu Li that although she had given up on Qian Yang, when she thought of the child in her belly, she couldn't bear to let the child be born without a father, so she decided to maintain the marriage with Qian Yang.
However, in the following years, Wu Li found that the people around Qian Yang kept changing. The only thing that remained unchanged was that they were all young girls with round faces. Qian Yang had a special liking for this type of girl, and he especially liked young girls. The girls he found every time were much younger than Qian Yang.
Moreover, not all of Qian Yang's female companions are voluntary. Some of them do not want to be with Qian Yang, but Qian Yang always uses tricks and both soft and hard tactics to force the young girls to do it. Qian Yang is also complacent because of his great charm, so these young girls are willing to follow him.
After being discovered by Wu Li, Qian Yang always acted remorseful and said that he was bewitched and seduced by those young girls.
He is successful in his career and is such a big boss. It is inevitable that he will have affairs when he goes out. Sometimes he will be set up when he drinks too much. Those young girls throw themselves at him one by one, and he is also fooled. Wu Li does not believe a word of these lies.
Wu Li couldn't stand it anymore. She couldn't imagine that when her son grew up, that shameless Qian Yang would find a woman as old as her son as his lover. Thinking of that scene, Wu Li felt sick and wanted to vomit.
Yes, Qian Yang is not just cheating, he is also a pervert.
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