Chapter 170: Stealing Shazhu's Opportunity
Now that the meal time has been set and the ingredients are ready, Lee Seung-ri began to prepare.
We started with a few home-cooked dishes and added boiled pork slices and pickled fish at the end.
"Come on, try the chef's pickled fish. I've eaten this dish before, but none of the dishes are as tasty as this one." The big boss happily called on everyone to pick up their chopsticks when he saw the pickled fish being served.
"Come, let's try it and see what this highly praised dish tastes like."
"Well, it tastes really good." The visitor's eyes lit up. The sour taste of the sauerkraut and the fresh fragrance of the thinly sliced fish blended well together.
"Yeah, I remember that when we were in Sichuan, we had this dish at a fisherman's house. But it wasn't so refined back then. The fish were killed and put directly into the pot." The big boss missed his previous life a little.
"Xiao Yang, the chef in your factory is very skilled. I haven't eaten such authentic Sichuan cuisine for a long time." The senior leader began to praise Director Yang again.
"I really didn't expect that Chef Li could cook such delicious Sichuan cuisine." Director Yang was used to eating Sha Zhu's cooking. After comparing the two's cooking skills, Director Yang still felt that Sha Zhu's cooking skills were better. "We also have a chef who specializes in Sichuan cuisine in our factory. I'll bring him over to show you when the time comes."
"Haha, let's talk about this later." The big boss waved his hand to indicate that they didn't want to talk about this for now, and then asked someone to call Li Shengli out to question him.
When Li Shengli arrived in the living room, the boss was amazed at how young he was and how he had such great cooking skills. Then he asked where Li Shengli was from and how he came up with the idea of improving the sauerkraut fish.
Li Shengli first looked up at Director Yang before answering the boss's question: "Boss, it's like this, I learned this dish from someone else, and I thought if the fish was sliced thinly like boiled fish and then used to make pickled fish, would it be better?"
Li Shengli said neither humbly nor arrogantly, watching on TV, it seems that this big leader is a good eater, and he easily guessed what dish Sha Zhu would serve. In fact, Li Shengli wanted to say that this was all a lie. You have so many ingredients from your kitchen for home-cooked Sichuan dishes, and you only haven't served the pork elbow. Can Sha Zhu, the person behind you, serve you a duck?
"Big boss? Haha." The big boss smiled.
Li Shengli didn't know the leader's name, and it wasn't mentioned in the TV series. Director Yang didn't tell Li Shengli on the way here, and Li Shengli was too lazy to ask.
"Don't you know my name?" The big boss was a little curious.
Li Shengli shook his head and said, "Who cares what your name is?"
"Leader, I didn't tell him." Director Yang explained on the side.
"Then you can continue to call me that." The big boss became a little interested and then let Li Shengli go down. Li Shengli did not look as honest as Sha Zhu and did not show any surprised look, which made the big boss's slight sense of pretentiousness disappear at once.
Now the big boss no longer had the interest to ask Li Shengli to come to his house often to cook. Moreover, the big boss also knew that Li Shengli had cooked for the person behind Deputy Director Li, and the big boss did not get along well with him. Naturally, he did not plan to let Li Shengli come to his house often to cook. What if someone heard what they discussed and spread it out?
In fact, the main reason is that Lee Seung-ri doesn’t look as honest as Shazhu.
After the big boss finished his meal, he asked Director Yang to send Li Shengli back to the factory. Director Yang was quite satisfied with Li Shengli's performance and took out a few industrial coupons as a reward for Li Shengli.
Li Shengli thanked Director Yang, then rode his bicycle back home.
Director Yang looked at Li Shengli's performance and felt that Li Shengli was not like Deputy Director Li's man. He also heard that he was not only good at Sichuan cuisine, but also other dishes. Director Yang nodded while sitting in the back seat of the car. It seemed that he could take him out more often in the future. "Director, where are we going next?" Director Yang's secretary Xiao Sun interrupted Director Yang's thoughts.
"Take me home." Director Yang pressed his head and thought about whether there was anything he had not done. He had a headache after drinking a few glasses of wine at his leader's house.
Following Secretary Sun's instructions, the car slowly drove towards Director Yang's home.
Li Shengli doesn't have the ability to read minds, so he doesn't know what Director Yang is thinking. At this moment, he is riding his bicycle and is about to reach the courtyard.
When they reached the back wall of the courtyard, Li Shengli saw Shazhu in front of him wearing leather shoes stopping a woman who was pushing a bicycle. She was wearing a blue work suit, had two pigtails, and a red and white scarf around her neck. She looked very elegant.
Li Shengli immediately understood, this was Ran Qiuye, seeing how Sha Zhu was almost begging for help, Li Shengli rolled his eyes and thought of a way to both do Sha Zhu a favor and cause trouble for Yan Bugui and Qin Huairu. Li Shengli did not forget how Yan Bugui used his bicycle.
"He Yuzhu, what are you doing?" Li Shengli rode his bike forward and blocked Ran Qiuye's path intentionally or unintentionally.
Sha Zhu was originally worried about how to explain to Ran Qiuye, but when he saw Li Shengli coming over and blocking Ran Qiuye's way, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"This is Teacher Ran." Sha Zhu hurriedly introduced him to Li Shengli and winked at him.
"Oh, this is Teacher Ran, whom Teacher Yan promised to introduce to you." Li Shengli pretended to be suddenly enlightened.
"Hello, Teacher Ran, I'm Li Shengli who lives in the front yard." Li Shengli glanced at Sha Zhu and greeted Ran Qiuye.
Sha Zhu was delighted when he heard what Li Shengli said. Now it explained clearly why he stole Yan Bugui's wheel.
Ran Qiuye was about to get angry when she saw someone stopping her, but then she thought that this person didn't know who she was and was just coming up to say hello, and her family education didn't allow her to ignore others.
"Hello, I'm Ran Qiuye." Ran Qiuye greeted Li Shengli in a light tone. After saying hello, Ran Qiuye stepped back and prepared to push the cart and leave, thinking in his heart that Li Shengli might be saying good things for He Yuzhu.
"He Yuzhu, why are you so angry? Isn't this the person that Teacher Yan called to meet you?"
"Don't talk nonsense. This uncle never mentioned my name in front of Teacher Ran. If this uncle hadn't accepted the gift and didn't do the job, how could I have stolen his wheel?" Sha Zhu looked at Ran Qiuye with squinted eyes and pretended to explain to Ran Qiuye as if he was explaining to Li Shengli.
Ran Qiuye then understood why Sha Zhu wanted to steal Yan Bugui's wheel.
"Comrade He Yuzhu, even if Teacher Yan was wrong, you can't steal his things. How can you set a good example for the children in the yard?" Ran Qiuye said to Sha Zhu in a serious tone.
"Yes, yes, I was wrong. I will apologize. Teacher Ran, how about you come to my place and sit for a while?" Sha Zhu said without hesitation.
"No need. I still have three more families to visit." Ran Qiuye flatly rejected Sha Zhu's suggestion, glanced at Li Shengli, and pushed his bicycle away.
(End of this chapter)