When it was almost time for dinner, there was a knock on the door outside the yard.
Xiao Zhang, the canteen cook, was standing outside. He was a 1.8-meter-tall guy with a black felt hat on his head and a brown apron with oil stains on his chest. It was obvious that he had just come off the stove.
His master Li Damao asked him to come and inform Captain Liu that the dishes were ready and they could eat at any time.
Normally, when it’s time for dinner, the cooks would stand at the window like old men, holding their spoons with stern faces, and all the employees who came to get food had to look at their expressions.
There's no need to go and personally notify people, even if they have to ask for permission many times.
But today, Xiao Zhang was not at all impatient of being ordered around. Instead, there was a smile on his face.
Because a few days ago, Captain Liu brought his own ingredients and paid 50 yuan in processing fees, asking the canteen to help prepare a table of meals.
Moreover, these fifty yuan were given to Li Damao privately and do not need to be confiscated.
Xiao Zhang is Li Damao's apprentice and has been helping him all along. This time he actually got 20 yuan.
An ordinary cook in their canteen only earns 35 yuan a month, while a chef like Master Li can earn 60 yuan. Now, he can earn nearly half a month's salary by cooking a table of dishes for Captain Liu. Naturally, he is very happy and even wishes there would be more such good things.
So he was particularly enthusiastic today and ran to Captain Liu's house to inform people.
Liu Yuzhou opened the door, and Xiao Zhang immediately said with a smile: "Captain Liu, the food is ready, we can eat anytime!"
Liu Yuzhou nodded at him, then turned around and called a few teammates from Team 1 to go out with him.
Everyone was a little confused. Why were they going outside instead of eating in the house when it was time for dinner?
Besides, isn’t this Chef Zhang from the cafeteria? He usually has a stern face when serving food, so why is he so polite to them today?
Wang Li couldn't hold back his words, so he scratched the back of his head and asked, "Captain Liu, where are we going?"
"canteen."
Liu Yuzhou cherishes words like gold.
Xiao Zhang, who was standing nearby, saw several members of the Geology Team 1 coming out of the house and knew that today's reception was for them. He explained, "Captain Liu is really taking care of you. He specially asked my chef to prepare ten dishes for you."
Wang Li and the others finally understood, and as they followed Liu Yuzhou towards the cafeteria, they sighed in their hearts.
When someone in the team hosts a reception, they usually just cook a few dishes at home, or each family contributes a specialty dish and they all get together to eat.
Their team leader was so generous as to prepare a special meal in the cafeteria.
Cooking your own meals is not as good as cooking in a big pot, and the price alone is comparable to that of a state-owned restaurant.
Everyone felt flattered. The captain was so nice to them!
But for Wang Li, the only one among them who had been married for more than five years, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was not right.
Captain Liu's kitchen was built by them together. It has a stove, coal briquettes and firewood. Why don't they light a fire at home?
Cooking is not difficult. Which woman doesn’t have a few specialties?
Before he had time to think about it, a sweet voice suddenly came from behind him, but it was obviously not calling him.
"Liu Yuzhou~"
Liu Yuzhou paused, turned around and saw his wife running up from behind, panting, her little face as pink as a peach.
Meng Zhen stood in front of the man. He was tall and had long legs. He walked like flying and he had exhausted her to death by chasing him.
Her lips, as delicate as petals, complained: "Wait for me a moment, I'm almost exhausted from chasing you~"
"Why are you running?" The man's voice was low and a bit scolding, but his hands did the exact opposite. His slender fingers gently tucked the few strands of hair that were scattered on the woman's forehead behind her ears.
Meng Zhen subconsciously took a step back. There were other people nearby, and she didn't want to be carried back.
She chased after him to ask Liu Yuzhou to bring her a bottle of chili sauce. The chili sauce fried by Chef Li in the cafeteria was amazing. She had tasted it once and was craving it so much.
Since I’m having a special meal today, of course I have to order a bottle.
But after glancing around at the employees passing by whose eyes and ears seemed to be clinging to her, she decided to just go to the canteen and get it herself.
Otherwise, if others heard it, they would think that she was taking advantage of Liu Yuzhou to eat and eat in the cafeteria.
She followed Liu Yuzhou and said to Wang Li and the others, "Let's go, I'll go help too."
Everyone continued walking towards the cafeteria.
Wang Li looked at Meng Zhen's delicate and flower-like back and suddenly had an epiphany!
Their captain is not good to them at all, he is clearly good to his wife.
Although my sister-in-law can make clothes, she may not be able to cook.
Generally speaking, the more beautiful a lesbian is, the worse she is at working.
When you work hard to prepare a table of food, not only will it taste inedible, but all your efforts will be wasted, and you will be tired and unappreciated.
Captain Liu certainly doesn't want his wife to work so hard, nor does he want everyone to have opinions about his sister-in-law's cooking skills.
Wow, I didn’t expect that the captain, who looks cold, actually dotes on his wife so much.
Wang Li, who had secretly gotten the sugar, looked at Liu Yuzhou and Meng Zhen again, with a meaningful smile on his face.
Zheng Qiang was the first to notice Wang Li's expression as if he had found some money, and he nudged his shoulder: "Hey, what are you so happy about? Tell me about it."
Wang Li glanced at Zheng Qiang and said, okay, it’s really not fun to eat sugar alone.
So he leaned over to Zheng Qiang's ear and repeated his thoughts.
After hearing this, Zheng Qiang also sighed, and then agreed in his heart that if he also had such a beautiful wife, he would probably spoil her even more than Captain Liu, and would kiss, hug and lift her up every day.
The two of them were whispering with their arms around each other, and their teammates next to them were also curious, so they passed the message on and everyone in the team knew about it.
First, Captain Liu dotes on his wife, and second, his sister-in-law is not a good cook, and the food is so bad that it is difficult to swallow.
The two parties involved didn't know this.
Liu Yuzhou has never eaten the food cooked by Meng Zhen. He doesn’t care whether the food is delicious or not. As long as there is a canteen, it’s fine.
But the smoky and hot kitchen is definitely not suitable for my delicate daughter-in-law.
Just when everyone went to the cafeteria to get their food, a few people came uninvited outside Liu Yuzhou's new home.
The leader was Li Li, and next to her were several family members of the second team members.
Knowing that Liu Yuzhou was moving today, Li Li strained her neck to keep an eye on his and Meng Zhen's movements.
When she finally got the chance to see the two of them go out, she called over a few equally curious family members of employees who came uninvited.
The geological team staff always follow the project. When the work location changes, they have to move to the new location.
The houses here can only be lived in for three to five years at most.
Most employees will not spend too much money or effort on decoration, as long as the house is clean and tidy, they can move in.
Because she and Chen Wentao were newlyweds, they secretly bought a lot of things and decorated the house quite well.
Many employees' families who visited her home envied her.
After the house was taken back, she and Chen Wentao made a mess of it before moving out. They took away everything that could be demolished and couldn't be demolished, just to make things more difficult for the two people.
Today she just wanted to see how two people could live in such a shabby house.
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