Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 265

On the second day, Li Xiao woke up early and returned to the town, and brought her resigned mother into the city.

Originally, he wanted to pick up his father, but his father's goods hadn't been finished yet, and it would take a day or two.

After all, my father was about to resign after finishing this trip, so Li Xiao didn't do much to stop him, so he could do whatever he wanted. Anyway, it only takes more than half an hour from the town to the city, so it would be good to pick it up again when the time comes. .

Moreover, Li Xiao can understand his father's thoughts very well. The boss who has worked in the factory for more than 20 or [-] years is also good to the employees. Some colleagues spend more time meeting each other than many relatives.

We have become old friends for a long time, and we will have some feelings more or less.

He even remembered that when he was in junior high school, his grandfather was sick and the family didn't have enough money, so the factory boss and his fellow workers pooled it together.

Such a harmonious atmosphere is indeed very comfortable. If it weren't for his father's age, Li Xiao would rather his father continue to work in the factory, for no other reason than to have someone to play and chat with him.

But after all, he is almost 50, and his physical strength and spirit are much worse than before. He is really reluctant to let his father work hard.

The mother in the car brought up the old story again, and asked Li Xiao to take his girlfriend home to have a look.

Although she was anxious before, she never said it. After all, she also knew that her son's job was not stable at that time.

Without a stable job, and the financial strength of my two elderly people is not strong, it is unrealistic to force my children to find a girlfriend.

It will only increase the pressure on your children in vain, let alone a house or a car, even if it is a bride price, if you are not looking for a local girl in Guangdong Province.

The 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of bride price alone is enough for them to drink a pot. The two are no more than ordinary workers, and the money saved by the family is only a few hundred thousand.

The money can be used to pay a down payment, but if after paying the bride price, there are banquets and messes, it will be a bit stretched.

But it's different now, my son is promising, not only bought a car, but also bought such a big villa, and his daily income is so high.

The important matter of marriage that I didn't dare to rush, I have to bring it up quickly.

Especially after knowing that Li Xiao was dating, he urged him to bring it here quickly and show them two old guys.

Of course, Li Xiao also asked Jiang Yingxue's opinion, but Jiang Yingxue felt that it seemed a little too fast, and the New Year's visit was too formal, so she was not mentally prepared.

Of course, this matter was asked by Li Xiao not long after he came back. If the time for asking has been delayed until now, then maybe Jiang Yingxue should nod and agree.

After all, in order to make up for his girlfriend's mistakes, he threw out 200 million without blinking an eye.

You said that he has no feelings for his girlfriend, just playing casually, that is purely a joke.

Besides, Jiang Yingxue is also very clear about Li Xiao's current situation. Although he can earn a lot of money, 200 million is really a good half of his net worth to him.

Even the three elder sisters in Jiang Yingxue's dormitory found out about this, and they took turns bombarding him with phone calls, telling her to call Li Xiao quickly to pay New Year's greetings and meet the parents of both parties, otherwise such a high-quality man would be killed by others. If you get there first, there is really no place to cry.

After all, that is more than 200 million yuan, not 200 yuan, not 2 yuan, but 200 million yuan. Even if you earn 1 yuan a month without eating or drinking, it will take 200 months.

So 200 million is really an astronomical figure for girls who have not yet left school. Whether some public servants can earn 200 million in their lifetime is a question.

But this kind of thing is too difficult for Jiang Yingxue to talk about. If Li Xiao speaks again, she will definitely agree to it, but it seems a bit too fast for her to take the initiative to go to Li Xiao's house for the New Year.

After all, the two had only officially dated once, and that time was a date before the relationship was confirmed, and it was a large group of people hanging out together.

After confirming their relationship, the two immediately started a long-distance relationship due to their respective busy schedules. Such a strange way of dating made Jiang Yingxue not even sure if she was really dating.

After all, apart from receiving phone calls or text messages from Li Xiao in his spare time every day and before going to bed at night, he can only watch Li Xiao in the live broadcast room for the rest of the time.

But after all, Jiang Yingxue has never been in a relationship before, so she has been maintaining it in a daze, which is pretty good.

While waiting for the green light at a traffic light intersection, Li Xiao turned around and repeated to his mother:
"Mom, I've told you that Xiaoxue planned to come over to us for a few days during the summer vacation, but it's really hard to make it through the Chinese New Year now, and we've only been dating for more than a month, which is really too short. "

Liang Jinjian sighed, and accepted the fact with some helplessness.

She also understands that girls must have a thin skin, and it's true that her son hasn't been dating her for a long time.

It's just that my son is doing well now, he has a house and a car, but he lacks a girlfriend, and he will have a reunion dinner in a few days.

She also wants to show off in front of other relatives, but since the other party can't come, forget it, and sooner or later they will meet each other.

When the two returned to the villa, they immediately started cleaning. Although according to the tradition, cleaning started on the 28th of the year, many people started cleaning on the 26th or 27th.

After all, it is very tiring to pile up all the things in one day, and the workload of cleaning in two days is much easier.

In fact, Li Xiao originally wanted to hire a housekeeper, but was flatly rejected by her mother. After all, she has worked hard for decades, and she is really reluctant to pay for housekeeping.

But in fact, the cleaning this year is also very easy. After all, it is a new house. Although it has been vacant for a while, in order to keep the room tidy, the agency has always sent people to clean it, so the house is quite clean.

Cleaning the windows, washing the floor, mopping the floor, and wiping away some corners and corners of the dust, it took half a day to finally complete most of the cleaning tasks.

After cleaning, Li Xiao wanted to take her mother out for dinner, but was also rejected by her mother.

After all, many restaurants have started to close one after another, and there are so many people on vacation, and they have to line up and spend money when going out to eat, which is completely inconsistent with mother's consumption concept.

However, when I heard Li Xiao say that it is a restaurant opened by a friend, there is no need to queue up for meals, and there are discounts available, I was a little moved.

After all, the concept of being cheap and not taking advantage of bastards is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. When I drove to the squad leader's [neighborhood], the phenomenon of queuing was even more popular than before.

Fortunately, I asked the squad leader to reserve two seats for me on the phone just now. Otherwise, there is a long line outside your door. It is estimated that the line at noon can be eaten before three o'clock.

Liang Jinjian was also startled when she saw this posture, she quickly pulled her son's arm, leaned to her ear and asked in a low voice:

"Son, your friend invites people to line up, right? This is too exaggerated. Will it scare away real customers?"

Li Xiao felt a little funny when she heard what her mother said. My mother often plays Douyin recently, and I don't know if she was led by the bias of public opinion above.

To actually think that the team outside [Neighborhood] was created by inviting people to be hot. This is too underestimating their own propaganda and He Beibei's skill.

The young lady who waited in line recognized Li Xiao immediately, with a respectful smile on her face:
"Welcome, Mr. Li Xiao, I'll take you in."

He still recognized the other party, but he couldn't call the other party's name, so he smiled, nodded and said:

"That would be too much trouble for you."

The little sister blushed and nodded:
"No trouble."

Under the leadership of the young lady, the two entered the crowded team.

Immediately, there was a commotion around.

Some of the elder brothers with relatively loud voices didn't have any scruples, pointing to Li Xiao who passed through the crowd and shouted:
"Hey, hey, why is there someone here who can jump in line?"

"That's right, we worked so hard to line up, why should he be an exception?"

"Yes, if there are scalpers, I can also buy them. It's not that I don't have money."

"Yeah, why don't you have to line up for this one? Everyone is queuing up!"

Apparently these big brothers with loud voices also understood that it is difficult to fight against evil forces alone, so they directly pulled other people into the battle group and united everyone to form a united front.

For a while, other people who were playing with their mobile phones or chatting with friends also looked over, and the whispering voices around them became louder and louder.

Li Xiao touched his nose in embarrassment. He didn't expect this to happen. He knew that he would have entered through the back door.

And the young lady in charge of the grade next to her quickly spoke to appease her:

"Don't get me wrong, this is a friend of our boss, who has already reserved today's position a few days ago, and this gentleman is the instructor of our head chef. It’s not the queue jumping that everyone thinks, so please don’t misunderstand.”

This time the discussion became louder.

"The chef's instructor? It sounds very advanced. Is it that woman?"

"What about the boss's friend? Can the boss's friend jump in line?"

"Didn't they say that they made reservations in advance?"

"Hey, look at what you said, why can't we see that we can make reservations in advance? This is obviously a queue jump!"

"Wait, how come the more I look at that person wearing sunglasses, the more familiar he looks? Which star is it?"

"Look at this outline, it does look familiar!"

Immediately, someone searched Moments based on memory, and then discovered Li Xiao's identity.

"Convex (艹盘艺), isn't this the anchor who often appears in the circle of friends these days? I actually met a real person today!"

"No way, this is the main course, delicious little brother? This real person is too good-looking."

That's right, Li Xiao came here wearing sunglasses today, and what he was worried about was that he was afraid of being recognized by others and being watched by others, which would be bad.

After all, he has a serious social phobia. He speaks freely on the Internet and strikes hard, but in reality he is submissive. He didn't expect to be recognized even though he was wearing sunglasses.

But since he was recognized by others, Li Xiao had no intention of avoiding it. After all, he was already trapped in the sea of ​​people, and he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

He quickly took off his sunglasses and stuffed them back into the inner pocket of his jacket. He hurriedly greeted the crowd. The crowd's reactions were varied, some were curious, some were puzzled, and only a few people showed excited expressions on their faces.

It seems that although many people know Li Xiao in this [neighborhood] high-end restaurant in Moments because of the recent explosion, they don't know much about him.

But those men and women with excited faces immediately left the team and ran towards Li Xiao.

One of the young ladies with short red hair and lip nails, dressed very stylishly, greeted Li Xiao with a hearty smile
"Anchor, we are all your fans. I didn't expect to meet a real person today. We have been watching your live broadcast all the time. You see, we are wearing the clothes you brought in your live broadcast room. Can you take a photo with us? "

Hearing Miss Sister's words, Li Xiao turned his attention to their clothes, and sure enough, they were all Ding Yougang's clothes.

It's just that all he showed was men's clothing, so he didn't realize it for a while.

However, this men's clothing fits well on this cool young lady. He didn't hesitate when he heard the other party's request. After all, the request was not too much. It was just a group photo. He quickly said:
"Then let's take a group photo, Xiaoqin, can you hold the camera for me?"

Xiaoqin is the young lady in the queue, Li Xiao, and I saw the name of the work badge on him.

Xiaoqin nodded with a blushing face, and took the latest banana phone from Miss Fairy Tale. Li Xiao posed a retro scissors hand among several people, with an embarrassed yet polite smile on her face.

After taking a few photos in a row, the few people walked away with satisfaction, and there were no other excessive demands.

He was relieved when he saw a few people leaving. Although this was not the first time he had encountered such a thing, it still made him a little nervous.

Seeing that there were still a few people in the crowd eager to come over, Li Xiao hurriedly urged Xiaoqin to take him in, good guy, those guys knew at a glance that they were here to join in the fun.

Once the herd effect of the crowd is triggered, and other people see so many people looking for themselves to take pictures, then they have no way to leave.

Under the leadership of the young lady, as soon as I entered the store, the inside and outside of the store became two worlds. The outside of the store was cold and noisy, while the inside of the store was warm and quiet.

The squad leader reserved a good place for the two of them. It was very quiet in the corner of the second floor, but the view was very wide.

When I passed the front desk just now, I didn't see the squad leader. Obviously he wasn't in the store, but it was normal.

Li Xiao wanted to come to this restaurant for the squad leader, it should be just a restaurant for practicing hands, of course, it is impossible to devote too much attention and time.

After all, my father is the director of Baiyi Group, so there are probably a lot of things that need to be dealt with at home.

But not long after sitting down, He Beibei, the chef, came over in person.

He Beibei greeted generously:

"Long time no see, I thought you forgot our side."

Hearing the other party's complaint, Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. People who didn't know this sentence thought he hadn't come for a long time.

I added up the back and forth within a week, but I have been here many times, and I just haven't come in these two days.

Li Xiao ignored her groundless complaint, but turned her head to look at the crowd queuing outside:
"Is it because there are so many people queuing these days? Have you noticed how everyone feels about queuing? After all, it's only a dozen degrees outside, and it's still so windy."

He Beibei also glanced outwards and nodded:

"Of course there is. We always have hot tea and snacks outside, and once the waiting time is too long, we will suspend the issuance of numbers, and let them continue to queue when the number of people decreases."

After hearing this, Li Xiao shook his head. There are at least 200 people outside, and there are at least 100 people at a table for two.

He frowned and thought for a while, then suggested:
"It's better for us to get a number calling machine here, let everyone use their mobile phones to scan the code, and then they don't have to queue outside, and just let the mobile phone send out reminders when they are ready to arrive."

He Beibei was a little surprised:
"Your idea is the same as that of the boss. The number calling machine is already being ordered, but it is estimated that it will not be shipped until the next year. After all, many companies have already closed their holidays, so the situation will probably be much better in the next year."

The two chatted for a few more words, and He Beibei hurried back to work in the back kitchen. After all, the workload is not low now, and it is quite a face to be able to take the time to chat with Li Xiao.

You said that you didn't talk about the production issue just now, but asked He Beibei to make a copy for him according to the normal production quality.

After all, Li Xiao is also worried, and the number of guests he receives now is far more than expected.

Although the manpower in the back kitchen was replenished immediately, the kitchen is so big, even if it is replenished, the instantaneous workload distributed to each person is still huge.

Therefore, Li Xiao was worried that the quality of the products might decline due to the heavy workload.

However, his worries were obviously unnecessary, the quality of the products did not decline, on the contrary, their proficiency increased a lot due to the large number of repetitive operations.

Especially in some of the more difficult dishes, the improvement is the most obvious. No wonder He Beibei said that he has a new feeling recently and is going to participate in the four-star chef evaluation.

It was also the first time Liang Jinjian came to such a high-end place to eat, and he was a little nervous at first.

But seeing the waiters and sisters around speak softly, and even the boss of the back kitchen is polite to his son, the tension in his heart is much less, especially when his son is by his side, his confidence is naturally strong become fuller.

And she has never eaten such a delicate and delicious dish, and she forgot to be nervous while eating.

And Li Xiao also found out that they seem to have changed the ingredients.

However, it is different from ordinary restaurants that switch to cheaper ingredients after they become popular to obtain more profits.

Here, it has been replaced with more expensive ingredients, the most obvious being sea urchin, Li Xiao eats a lot of sea urchin.

As soon as you eat it, you can tell that the sea urchin in front of you has become fresher and sweeter. Although its appearance has not changed much, the level is higher.

(End of this chapter)