The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 199 Zhang Li's Helplessness

Zhang Li and Li Shuang walked home alone after finishing their licking.

The cool night still retains the warmth after the day's noise in the silence.

There were very few vehicles and pedestrians on the street, and the lights of the shops along the street were also turned off. The street lights cast a long shadow on people, making them lonely and lonely.Occasionally, a rider on an electric bike came by, passed by, and then slowly went away, heading for a warm home.

Walking in such a night, Zhang Li suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette like a man.

In her bag was a box of cigarettes bought when she went out to do errands a few days ago, and she only took out two.She doesn't smoke, but now she wants to smoke, so she took out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, lit it with a lighter, and took a light puff.

Not sucking the smoke into the lungs, holding it in the mouth, and then blowing it all out again.

The smoke drifted in front of her eyes, she looked at it, and felt a kind of joy in her heart.

So I took a second puff, spit out a large part, and left a small part to try to inhale into my lungs.As soon as the smoke entered the duct, there was a reaction, and he had to cough twice and spit it out.

But she didn't throw away the cigarette, and continued to hold it between her index finger and middle finger, and the cigarette butt flickered on and off as she walked.

At the end of the month, the Lingdong store will open, and the Northbound store will open next month. The two store managers have made arrangements to intern at the Taishan store and the Chishan store respectively.According to the usual practice, the intern store manager returns to his store when it opens, and officially starts work.

But now she has a new plan.

At present, the store managers of the five stores are all old except for the newcomers of the University City store.Being old has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages.

After working in a store for a long time, I naturally have feelings and enthusiasm, and treat the store as if I opened it at home.At the same time, there will also be a slack mentality-feeling that everything is straightened out, everything is normal, and there is nothing wrong with it, so there is less initiative.

Not only the store manager is like this, but also the old employees, who work step by step every day, with little creativity and passion.

She wants to swap the old store manager with the intern store manager, ask the old store manager to go to the newly opened store, and let the intern stay on the spot.In this way, the experienced old store manager opens the new store, which not only reduces the fuss, but also mobilizes their enthusiasm and enthusiasm.

Of course, this is an idea of ​​hers, which is still immature, and she needs to face two problems in order to implement it.The first is whether the old store manager is willing, and the second is whether the new store manager can manage the old employees.

No one is willing to leave the shop that has already been established. After all, it is the country that has been laid down by oneself, so how can it be handed over to others.What's more, if you are familiar with everything, you have to start all over again when you go to a newly opened store, and it is difficult for the store manager.

In addition, the old employees have their own ideas, and they are used to working with the old store manager. The new store manager is difficult to manage, and it is impossible to be obedient. If the old store manager is transferred, some employees will leave. The loss outweighs the gain.

Sometimes the idea is good, but it is difficult to implement, and all previous efforts will be wasted if it is not done well.

She wanted to talk about this idea with Yanhua first, and then discuss it with Qin Lili to see if it would work.Of course, she was going to talk to Tuya, because if it was implemented, she wanted to transfer Tuya to the Lingdong store, and wanted to know Tuya's thoughts in advance.

It stands to reason that you don't need to tell others about this matter, just chat with Lao Tan, but she doesn't want to find Lao Tan, she has to do it alone, to prove that Zhang Li and I can do without you, Lao Tan, and the brains are not given for nothing.

Of course, she wasn't competing with Lao Tan, or fighting for something, she just wanted to accomplish something with her own ability.

What she is now struggling with is whether to talk to Yanhua or Qin Lili first or talk to Tuya first, and she will get nothing more than two results from Yanhua or Qin Lili, agree or disagree.Of course, you will also get some pertinent suggestions and methods to further improve your own ideas, or you may be stillborn.

If Yanhua and Qin Lili disagreed with her idea, there was no need to find Tuya.

If you agree, but Tuya doesn't agree.

It seems that it is better to negotiate with Tuya first, first, to understand her true thoughts and clear the disadvantages in it, and second, to predict in advance where the resistance will be in the implementation, so as to be able to lay it out in advance.

Zhang Li thought about this while walking, and unconsciously finished smoking a cigarette.When she threw away the cigarette butt, she couldn't help smiling, and said in her heart: Smoking is also very good, I can't complain that men like to smoke, especially when thinking about things.

In front is the community where Zhang Li lives.

The obviously sleepy security guard yawned, rubbed his face with his hands, and nodded to her.She nodded politely and walked through the door.

The street lamps in the community exude soft light, illuminating the trees on both sides indistinctly.There are not many lights on in the entire community, and everyone has fallen asleep.

Zhang Li walked through four buildings, turned left, and came downstairs to her house.I took out the key from my bag, and when I was about to open the door, I realized that the door was broken these days and couldn't be locked, so naturally I didn't need to open it.

Putting the key back into the bag, he stretched out his hand to open the door, and with the sound of the door being pulled, the sensor light in the corridor turned on, illuminating the stairs clearly.

Zhang Li didn't know that Ren Qingyun was sitting in a black car parked at the entrance of the building, waiting for her to go home.

It was impossible for Ren Qingyun not to see Zhang Li when he was eating at the Huangshan restaurant, but he didn't pay much attention, because there was a woman who had just been dating next to him, and the two were in the period of passionate love.

He was very excited today, because he had an appointment with a woman to go back to his house for the night after dinner, which he had always wanted.

The whole eating process was very pleasant. Although Zhang Li went out with Li Shuang without even looking at him, it didn't affect his good mood at all. He even boasted that he knew the manager here, and added fuel to the matter between Zhang Li and the military representative. He talked a lot, but he didn't talk about his relationship with Zhang Li.

But the good mood was ruined when the meal was about to finish.The woman she was with received a call from home saying that her father suddenly felt unwell and was sent to the hospital, asking her to go there quickly.

The woman hurriedly took a taxi and left, which made him extremely frustrated.

After eating, sending friends away, and preparing to go home with the loss of stealing jade and incense, Zhang Li's beautiful face suddenly popped into his head.So under the stimulation of drunken head fever and male hormones, he couldn't think like a normal person, wishful thinking that Zhang Li could have a relationship with the military representative, what's wrong with him?

As soon as this idea came up, his whole body became hot, and his blood circulation accelerated, prompting him to make the decision to find Zhang Li, and to take her down tonight.

Zhang Li lived on the second floor, and quickly climbed more than a dozen steps. When she was about to take out the key, she heard the door rang. She thought that someone would come back later than her, so she didn't care, and took out the key to open the door.

The sound of footsteps going upstairs was very clear in the quiet night.

She inserted the key into the keyhole, and turned her head curiously, wanting to see who was going upstairs.

In the end, he saw Ren Qingyun who was smiling cheaply at her.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Li asked coldly, pulling out the key and holding it in her hand.

Ren Qingyun had already stood in front of Zhang Li, breathing alcohol and said, "Look at you, I miss you."

"You don't have to think about it." Zhang Li said seriously.

Ren Qingyun reached out to touch Zhang Li's face with a wretched smile, Zhang Li turned her head away and stared at him fiercely.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Lili asked.

"What are you doing, look at you, what's the matter? Don't invite me in?" Ren Qingyun said rascally, his eyes sized up Zhang Li unscrupulously, and finally fell on the towering chest.

No matter how stupid Zhang Li is, she still knows what Ren Qingyun wants to do, which makes her angry and scared, but after all, she is no longer a little girl who doesn't know anything, and knows that she can't be timid at this time, the more timid she is, the more she will die.

Even if you are bluffing, you must pretend to be a tiger.

"Tell you Ren Qingyun, leave now, I don't want to see you." Zhang Li raised her voice to a height that could be heard up and down the stairs.

The high-pitched voice acted as a deterrent, Ren Qingyun put away his rascal and hooligan expression, but it was impossible to be so reconciled and said, "But I want to see you."

"Get out—" Zhang Li's ultra-high decibels turned on the sensor lights in the entire corridor. "Get out now, or I'll call someone if you don't get out."

Zhang Li's violent reaction was unexpected by Ren Qingyun. He thought that Zhang Li would tell him to come in the same way as last time, instead of standing here and telling him to get out.

He was so angry that his face became gloomy and ferocious, but he was also calmed down by Zhang Li's yelling, worried that someone in the family would be awakened, so he opened the door to look out.There must be some aircraft factory workers living in this building, if you recognize yourself, it will be over——
He stared at Zhang Li, and Zhang Li also stared at him.

"Leave now, and I'll pretend you haven't been here." Zhang Li lowered her tone, her expression was still serious, and she couldn't see anything.In fact, her heart was beating violently at this time, and she was so nervous that she was always on guard against Ren Qingyun's abnormal pounce on her, and then she would be finished.

Ren Qingyun was frightened.

He is not a bold person, and he wouldn't dare to come today if it wasn't for the two liang of wine.

Although timid, the dignity of a man cannot be lost.He glared at Zhang Li viciously, and pointed his finger, which means you wait for me.After doing these two actions, he turned around and walked downstairs in frustration like a defeated rooster.

When Ren Qingyun completely disappeared behind the corner of the slow-walking platform, and heard the sound of "bang" closing the door, Zhang Li hurriedly took the key to open the door, but because of nervousness and fear of trembling, it took a long time to find the keyhole.

After entering the room, he quickly locked the door tightly, walked to the bedroom in three steps at a time, sat down on the bed, stared at the locked door in a daze, without any sound in his ears, and listened quietly——
Silence, deathly silence.

My heart was beating wildly in the aftermath, thumping.

It took a full ten minutes before she recovered from her stupidity and let out a long breath.

It wasn't until then that she realized that she didn't even change her shoes in a panic, and went in directly.

She dragged her limp body to the shoe rack with two feet, kicked off her shoes, put on slippers, came to the closet, took off her business attire, didn't change her pajamas, and went straight to bed. Get into the sofa and light a cigarette to calm your throbbing heart.

(End of this chapter)