Food Bureau

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when the family banquet ended. When Chen Xilin and Ming Yue left, they came to the kitchen to thank me. They were very polite and made me feel a little embarrassed.During the conversation, I heard that Shang Wan arranged the two of them in the presidential suite of the Shanggu Hotel, which can be regarded as very considerate hospitality.

Shang Wan sent the two of them to the car, and arranged for the driver to take Yu Qi home. When I returned to the kitchen, I was almost done packing.

"It's really hard for you today." She walked across from me, looking at me with a little sympathy in her eyes.

Do I look miserable?I really wanted to find a mirror to take a picture, but suddenly found that she was a little shorter than before. It turned out that she changed into flat shoes at some point, and finally she was no taller than me.

She seemed to understand my question, and smiled playfully, "Change your shoes and rest for a while." After speaking, she raised her face and smiled at me.

"Hey, I'm not tired. I usually do it at night, but you are with the guests all night."

"Not to mention accompanying guests, I'm very happy. Lynn and Ming are very comfortable people. We hit it off very well, otherwise I wouldn't invite them to my house."

I suddenly thought, then I also came to her house, would I also feel that I hit it off?I thought so in my heart, but said in my mouth: "Yes, I also got to know those two people and tasted such precious wine."

She was about to say something when the phone dinged, as if a message had come in, "Sorry," she said as she looked down, frowned, and quickly swipe something on the screen with her finger.

When she raised her head, she only said: "You, why are you so polite."

This sentence seemed to be a continuation of what was said before, and it seemed to be referring to something else, so I couldn't catch up for a while.Just as I was hesitating, my cell phone rang. When I looked down, it was Jing Yi:

——Miss Lai, according to Mr. Shang's intention, I transferred another [-] to you just now, please check it.

ah? ?I looked up at Shang Wan, and handed the phone forward, "What... what do you mean? Why did Miss Jing transfer money to me again?"

She shook her head, "Don't be so polite to me, don't talk about this, let's go to the yard to rest."

Before, Jing Yi and I received 5000 yuan, thinking that it would be enough to recover the cost of the ingredients, but Shang Wan gave me [-] yuan.

"No...Miss Shang, the Bureau's fee has always been [-] per hour. From this afternoon until now, you have not been charged less. Don't worry."

In fact, I charge less. If it is done by the hour, the bureau’s price is [-] per person per hour, but I don’t want to earn Shang Wan’s money, even though she is not short of money.

She shook her head, "It's different, such a big private banquet," she waved her hand, "Don't worry about it anymore."

I stopped, "It's really enough, just treat me as a friend and stop talking, or I will feel..." I stopped talking suddenly, and I was a little panicked when I went too deep.I lowered my head and knocked back the [-].

What would I feel?I would feel that I was a paid cook in her eyes, but what right did I have to ask her not to see it that way?Just now she called me a friend in front of the guests, it was a scene, she said so, I can't listen to it.

But at least, I can control the cost. If I don't make money from her, at least I can tell myself that I am not working for her.

She looked at me, and when I finished speaking, she couldn't wait to continue, so she paused, "If you're not in a hurry to go home, why not have a drink with me?"

This is too good, but, haven't you had enough?

"Miss Shang is really good at drinking." I watched a man who looked like a housekeeper push two bottles of red wine over, thinking that she must have drunk a lot of wine tonight.

The two of us sat in the courtyard outside the glass door, and there was a cool breeze at the moment, which was very comfortable. At night, the warm light of the courtyard lamp shone in the corner, accompanied by insects that were rarely heard in the city.

"Let's drink this Mouton 2003, and I'll take you another Millennium 2000." Her voice was peaceful and gentle on such a night, just like... like a summer night when I was a child, when my family sat around Gossip in the yard.

"I don't want it." I answered firmly.

Shang Wan was slightly taken aback.

"It's too expensive." Realizing that I was being reckless, I hurriedly explained.

Her face softened, "They're all belongings. Besides, wine is for sharing. What's the point of drinking alone?"

The butler has poured the 03 bottle into a decanter.

"Ah Ruan help me pack this bag, and take it away with Miss Lai later, there's nothing else going on here, you should go to bed early."

"Okay miss, are you staying here tonight?"

Shang Wan thought for a while, "Well," she remembered something again, and turned to me and asked, "Did you come here by car?"

"Yes, a side-by-side stretch car."

Shang Wan was stunned for a moment.

"The van."

That thin smile crossed her face again, "In this case, after you drink for a while, if it's convenient, you can stay here. If it's not convenient, I'll ask the driver to take you back, is that okay?"

I didn't know how to choose for a while, and I felt that I was bothering others. For a person like me, bothering others is a very troublesome thing.But what can I say?You can't pat your butt and say that I won't drink with you...

Got it!

"I'll call a car to go back later. If you don't mind my minivan, I can park it in your yard for one night."

Shang Wan laughed, "What do you dislike? But you can't get a taxi here."

That's right, whoever lives here doesn't have a driver?Still take a taxi?

"Do you live far from here?" Seeing my hesitation, she asked again.

I shook my head, "If there is no traffic jam, it will take 10 minutes on one or two."

"It's very close, you can decide later, it's convenient for me anyway."

"Oh..." I agreed, and then I relaxed a little.

She smiled at me, her eyes twinkling like stars in this quiet night.

"Miss Shang..."

I raised my head, but I didn't know what to say. At that moment just now, being watched by her with a smile like that, my heart was full of emotions. It seemed that I had to call her so to resolve it.

She waited for me to finish, but didn't wait, and didn't ask much, "Why is your cooking so good? It's not like cooking, but like art. Have you ever studied it?"

"Oh... this is a compliment. I cook, mostly because of my innate feeling. My father is also a cook, and I learned a little bit the day after tomorrow. New Oriental~"

As soon as I said it, I regretted it. Which one is better in terms of destroying the atmosphere?I will not answer the latter sentence.

She actually laughed out, and under the moonlight, there was a pool of autumn water, and she vaguely saw the little mole of tears floating on the water.

"Seriously, why didn't you finish studying at Rice?" She smiled, but her eyes were still soft.

This talked about my sore spot, and I caught a glimpse of the quiet liquid in the decanter from the corner of my eye, "The wine is sobered up, let me pour it."

She didn't make a sound, watching me pour both glasses, "Thank you." She said softly.

I raised my glass, "Thank you!"

I poured out half of the cup in one gulp and put it on the table. I looked at the thin stem of the cup, watched the liquid rippling in the aftermath, and raised my eyes, "You remember Ruliu, right? My dad opened it."

I saw the ripples on her face and eyes, layer after layer, what was she thinking?Think, no wonder I made that lost dish of tofu?Think, the last time she praised me, I pretended to be mysterious and didn't take credit for it?Think I'm not just a cook, but the daughter of a criminal cook?think……

"Then you have lived a much harder life than your peers these years." Her voice was still gurgling like a clear spring.

Tears poured out so unapologetically, I subconsciously tapped my finger on the foot of the red wine glass in front of me, and subconsciously wanted to divert her attention.She looked at the wine glass, and then at me, with a light in her eyes like a mother watching a fallen child. At that moment, I was shocked by the soft light, and I wanted to die there.

"Everything will be fine," she said.

The tide in his eyes receded quickly, "It's okay, people, contentment is always happy, I can live freely by opening this small restaurant, look, I can still meet people like you, and I can still be like tonight It's not in vain to drink a bottle of famous wine with your guests." A smile was already on my face.

She nodded. "Freedom," as if to herself, "to liberty!"

I poured another cup, and I saw that her eyes seemed to be slightly flushed, "Is Miss Shang okay? I seem to have drunk a lot today."

As if sensing my gaze, she raised the back of her hand and pressed it against the skin under her eyes, "Today is a bit too much, but I seldom drink like this usually, so it's an indulgence."

"Okay," I clinked glasses with her lightly, pouring Mouton 03 into my mouth, "Well, this wine is really good."

"It's fine if you like it," she thought for a while, "Although you are content and happy, I don't know if you plan to pick up your studies again in the future? I always think that being admitted to Rice as an undergraduate was pretty good."

"Ah, this..." I sneered, "Hey, let's talk about it, my mother always said that I have no ambitions," I drank the liquid in the glass, "Why don't we change the subject?"

She looked at me and raised the corners of her lips, "Okay, what do you want to talk about?"

After a burst of alcohol, and the opportunity delivered to the door, "Can I ask, do you and Zhuo Bing know each other?"

The author has something to say: Xiao Lai: Do you know what my impression of you was at the beginning?

Xiao Shang: Beautiful?

Xiao Lai: Alcoholic.

Xiao Shang: ...

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感谢在2020-09-0610:59:02~2020-09-0809:20:09期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who cast deep-water torpedoes: 44 for a lazy person; 30 for the sky in the water; 1 for Qian Qingchuan;

Thanks to the little angels who cast the rocket launcher: Jiang Feng, Luo Yixiao, choose the one who is good and watch it, Miao Xinghe L.c1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: Yiye Zhiqiu is still there, and there is still 1 monster;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: 45 for Nanchuang; 5 for cheese head brown trousers; 2 for Xiulan, Yanyan, Mulinda, Aikanwen, and Ling; You are a good guy and a bad guy, Qing Huan, Always hungry, have a toothache and have to go to the dentist, Lang Weixian, love diving D cat, happy and comfortable, Xuyu, podie, Oha, ah ah ah hibiscus. , Orange Tree, Xiao Jing, Kang Kang, Jun Mo You Pei, choose the one who is good and watch it, half-length plain clothes, ink, dazzling, Xin, a bucket of matches, standing loose, floating a big white, so many years have passed , 1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 168 bottles of kakaka; 5 bottles of a pot of tea on the other side; 2 bottles after going to sleep;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!