Rebirth: Starting from the Cafeteria

Chapter 20 Come with us

"Yeah, I remember that. Shaojie, thank you so much."

Liang Meiqin took note of Du Shaojie's instructions, and after sending him away, she stayed in the kitchen and watched obediently.

Du Shaojie was riding his bike towards home when he was stopped by several people not far from his doorstep.

"Du Shaojie, please come with us to the station. We have something to ask you."

There were three people, two of them were in plain clothes and one was in police uniform.

Their expressions were very serious, which scared Du Shaojie.

"No, comrade, you must be mistaken. I didn't do anything wrong."

"I didn't say you made a mistake. I just wanted to find out some information from you. I hope you can cooperate."

The man in the police uniform was a local policeman. He felt that Du Shaojie was a little nervous, so he made a special explanation.

Du Shaojie knew he couldn't refuse, so he went home to say hello to Wang Yuxiu and left his schoolbag at home.

In his schoolbag was the kitchen knife that he never left behind, and it was inappropriate to bring this thing to the police station.

"Du Shaojie, do you know this person?"

When they arrived at the station, the three men took Du Shaojie into an empty office and began questioning him.

Du Shaojie sat face to face with the three people. Someone took out a photo and held it in front of him for him to identify.

The photo shows a young man, who looks to be in his twenties.

"I don't know this person."

Du Shaojie looked at it for a long time and finally shook his head.

"You don't know him? Think about it carefully. You have fought with this person before."

Someone reminded Du Shaojie, and at this moment, the figures of three gangsters suddenly flashed through his mind, and the person in the photo seemed to be one of them.

Those three guys were hired by Dai Jianguo. They blocked Du Shaojie just to teach him a lesson.

However, Du Shaojie's fighting power was overflowing at that time. Not only did he not suffer any loss, but he knocked down one of them with his schoolbag, the guy in the photo.

"Now that you mention it, I do have some impression of them, but it was dark at the time, and the three of them suddenly rushed out to attack me, so I don't remember their appearance very clearly."

Du Shaojie did not evade the question and directly told the story of that day.

He also said that he suspected Dai Jianguo was behind this incident, and he had never seen these three gangsters since that day.

Finally, he asked, "Can I ask you something? What happened?"

"Don't spread the news that the person in the photo is dead. If you remember any useful details, come to the station and report it to anyone."

The two plainclothes men looked at each other and decided to reveal a little bit of the inside story to Du Shaojie.

One of the three gangsters died and two were missing, and the case was classified as a serious one.

There was no clue about the case, so we had to start investigating from their social relationships.

But it is also very difficult to investigate. These three guys have done a lot of bad things, and many people have had conflicts with them.

After questioning, Du Shaojie was basically ruled out as a suspect.

Du Shaojie's activity trajectory was very simple. The conditions for committing the crime were not met during the time period of the crime, and the circumstantial evidence was relatively sufficient.

After completing the routine questioning, Du Shaojie left the police station.

"This guy is dead? Good thing he died."

Du Shaojie didn't take it too seriously. Strictly speaking, he didn't have any deep hatred with the three gangsters. Even if he did hold a grudge, it should be directed at Dai Jianguo.

When he got home, it was almost midnight. He washed up and lay down on the bed.

【Bound chef: Du Shaojie】

【Level: Apprentice (third year)】

【Current Works: Braised Beef in Soy Sauce】

[Overall rating: bad] [Bonus: How to make braised beef in soy sauce]

[Reward: Chicken drumstick (1 kg)]

[Special Reward: None]

After opening the light curtain to check, Liang Meiqin's braised beef was already cooked.

This time the overall evaluation was "very good". Du Shaojie didn't expect that his first time making braised beef with soy sauce would turn out to be a hit.

His previous bad mood suddenly improved a lot, and he immediately started to read the teaching materials. He then found that the spices in the teaching materials were not much different, but the proportions were strictly quantitative.

There are specific quantitative standards from pickling to braising. This set of teaching materials is simply the "secret recipe" for making braised beef.

According to this method, the taste of braised beef in soy sauce will be perfect! Apart from anything else, after the reform and opening up, it will be easy to become a millionaire with this skill.

The first batch of millionaires, it’s exciting just to think about it.

There was no change in the rewards, as Du Shaojie had already figured out the pattern. For a comprehensive evaluation of "the worst", if the reward was "meat", it would definitely be only 1 kilogram.

If the evaluation is "poor", the reward of meat is 2 kilograms, and so on.

As for what kind of meat will be rewarded, it is completely random and there is no pattern at all.

Later, after receiving the reward, Du Shaojie froze the chicken legs outside the window. It is still relatively easy to store them in this season, but when the temperature starts to rise in a few days, the natural refrigerator in winter will gradually lose its effect.

The next day.

Du Shaojie arrived at the company cafeteria early.

It was his turn to be on duty today, so he had no time to see Liao Yongxin off.

He was in charge of cooking at noon. The second and third chefs had been on duty the previous two days, so they didn't come today. But tomorrow they would be back to work as usual, so no one should be lazy anymore.

Du Shaojie cooked two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian. The vegetarian dish was stir-fried cabbage and the meat dish was stewed beef brisket with radish.

When Liao Yongxin was not around, Dai Tong had the final say on matters concerning the kitchen. He did whatever he said, and Du Shaojie had no objection.

"Du Shaojie, after you've prepared the dishes, go to the window to get them. We're short on staff today, so you can share more of the burden."

It cannot be said that Dai Tong was deliberately looking for trouble. There were only three people on duty today. The other two were cleaning the kitchen as required, so he was the only one standing at the window.

Du Shaojie nodded and then brought the two pots of food to the window.

Today's staple food is white flour steamed buns. After all, it is the New Year period, and we can't just feed everyone with steamed corn bread or cornmeal steamed cakes.

Of course, the steamed buns are made from Bayian dough and are gray in color.

"Xiao Du, why are you standing at the window?"

There were a few more people coming to eat at noon than in the previous two days.

Wang Liwen walked in and saw Du Shaojie getting his meal, so she asked with a smile.

"We are short of manpower today, so I am here to fill in temporarily. Doctor Wang, what do you want?"

Du Shaojie responded and waited for the other party to speak.

Wang Liwen glanced at the dish and ordered a dish of beef brisket stewed with radish and a steamed bun.

Du Shaojie took the other party's meal ticket and gave him some more beef, which was equivalent to one and a half portions.

"Thanks!"

Wang Liwen smiled sweetly, picked up the rice bowl and turned away.

Others did not have this treatment when it was their turn, but the big spoon in his hand did not shake at all, and each dish was filled with enough.

When it was almost time to close the canteen at noon, there was still some stir-fried cabbage left, and about ten servings of stewed beef brisket with radish, and these were the lunch for the canteen staff.

If the food is not finished, it will be consumed in the cafeteria.

This is how Du Shaojie got the food he used to bring home.

In the afternoon, Dai Tong was obviously a little absent-minded, so he was not in the mood to cause trouble for Du Shaojie.

Du Shaojie felt a little puzzled. This guy usually seemed to be full of energy all day long, so why did he look so listless today?
(End of this chapter)