The story of a cook

Chapter 371 Zheng Jiaqi's Distress
The chairman came back on the second day of Xiaonian.

Mr. Huo told me that at night, but the chairman didn't come to the hotel. Mr. Huo said that the chairman would be there at the party tomorrow, but he didn't say anything else.My salary has not increased this month, so I want to ask Mr. Huo.Although I don't have much hope for a salary increase, but I am really unbalanced, so I want to ask.

"Mr. Huo, I have been the head chef for three months. Is my work okay?" I asked.

Mr. Huo is smart, and he understood what I meant immediately. He said: "Master Tan, you have done a very good job. I know what you mean when you ask this. Is it about salary?"

I said, "Yes, it's about the salary."

He said in a bit of embarrassment: "Although I am the general manager now, some things still need the approval of the board of directors to pass, and sometimes I am quite difficult to handle."

I smiled and said: "I understand, I understand. It's nothing, I'm just asking, it's a good thing if it can go up, it doesn't matter if it doesn't, I'll continue to work, don't worry about that."

Mr. Huo said: "It stands to reason that your salary should be adjusted now that you are the chief chef. This time the chairman comes back and I will tell her." After speaking, he smiled unnaturally, and continued: "The chairman will go home after getting off the plane. Well, I haven't seen him until now."

I half-jokingly said: "Then you don't go home early, and you will be criticized if you go back late."

He smiled and said: "The chairman is also tired, let her take a good rest when I get home."

It seems that my salary increase is really hopeless.If there is no hope, there is no hope. After the new year, I will quit my job for two months, and then serve Lin Yan's confinement. After serving the confinement, I will find a new job, and find someone who can earn more money.I need money, I have to earn money for milk powder for my children.

I'm going to be a father soon, and the burden on my shoulders is heavy.

When I came to the third floor, the kitchen on the third floor was cleaning up. I came out of the kitchen and looked in the corridor of the private room. Zheng Jiaqi was patrolling the stage and walked towards me after seeing me.

She came to her and said, "Boss, let's drink some wine after get off work tonight."

I looked at her and found that she looked a little unnatural and depressed today. Thinking that the chairman came back today, I knew something in my heart, and I also knew what she meant by asking me to drink.

I said: "Drinking is good, where do you want to drink?"

She said, "You decide, just the two of us."

I said, "Okay, is the hot pot restaurant in front of your house still open? Go there."

"His house is closed. Now it's a barbecue restaurant. It's okay to eat barbecue. Let's go to his house to eat barbecue." She said.

"Okay, then it's settled."

I went to the kitchen on the second floor to see that Du Dapeng was standing on the stove and cleaning the exhaust hood. This made me feel very novel. In the past, he would go out to smoke and chat after cooking. He didn’t wipe the exhaust hood at all. My younger brother cleaned it up, and today he cleaned it up himself, which impressed me a lot.

Recently, Du Dapeng has performed really well. He has never been late since the last chatter, and Wang Chun has never played mahjong. It seems that people really don't know when to learn well.It is better to learn well than to learn badly.

"Chef Tan, is there any reward for performing at the party tomorrow?" Du Dapeng asked while squatting on the stove when he saw me.

I said, "Yes, why not."

He said, "That's okay, what rewards are there?"

"I really don't know about this. Mr. Huo bought the prize, and I didn't even look at it." I said.

"Don't bother with toothpaste and toothbrushes, it's too cheap," he said.

"It can't be so cheap. How can we say that Linjiangxuan is also a well-known company, so we can't be too shabby."

I really don't know what the prizes will be. Xiaonian has been busy in the kitchen for the past two days and hasn't paid much attention to the party. Zhang Li and Mr. Huo are all communicating, and I need to cooperate as much as I can.

When I came to the kitchen on the first floor, the cold dishes and pastries were closed for cleaning.Liu Liang, the boss of cold dishes, was opening the menu. I asked him how the raw materials for the Spring Festival were prepared. He said that the meat was almost ready, and the only thing missing was the green vegetables.

"This year, the preparations are sufficient and the staff is sufficient, so I didn't go home for the New Year." He said.

"How many days ago were you on vacation?" I asked.

"Two, all of them have finished their vacation. After the Chinese New Year, there are three more who will take a vacation. The rest will not rest, and they will have to work overtime." He replied.

I said, "It's very good, but you arranged it well, it's amazing."

"What's my job? Our family's policy is good this year, and I will implement it."

Chatted with him a few more words, and then came to the pastry room.Li Dashan is on duty in the kitchen today, remind him to do the finishing inspection.

Li Dashan was brushing the grate of the meat grinder when he saw me coming in and said, "Chef Tan is here."

I nodded and said, "Today you are on shift, check the media, water and electricity, and make records."

He said: "Don't worry, I promise to do well."

I said, "I don't worry if you are careful, except for you, Chunlai is the one who is careful."

"I'm not as careful as Chunlai, he is the head chef." He said.

I smiled, noncommittal.

I don't like to comment on Du Dapeng, Wang Chunlai, and Li Dashan. The three of them came from the same village, and they all came to Linjiangxuan on the [-]th or [-]th. It can be said that they grew up in Linjiangxuan. The boy grows into an adult, and the crafts learned in Linjiangxuan become a family.Linjiangxuan trained them, and they also made great contributions to Linjiangxuan.

The current Linjiangxuan is the same, it just needs to move forward, but it seems that it doesn't want to go forward.

If you don’t move forward, don’t move forward. This is something the boss decides. We can’t decide, just do our own job well.

After checking everything in the kitchen, I went back to the sixth floor to change clothes. At this time, Zheng Jiaqi called and said that she had finished changing and went to the bus stop opposite the hotel, and she was waiting for me there.

I went downstairs to the bus station, took a trolley and went to the barbecue restaurant in front of her house.

I ordered skewers and asked for wine, and then started to drink.

"Why do you want to drink today?" I asked.

"I'm upset today and want to drink," she said.

"Is it because the chairman is back?" I asked directly.

She looked at me in surprise.

I smiled at her and said, "I know about you and Mr. Huo. I saw you two eating hot pot together twice, both at the Chongqing hot pot restaurant on Taishan Road."

She asked, "You know all about it?"

I nodded and said, "I've seen it with my own eyes, but I don't believe what could have happened to you two?"

She looked at me silently, slowly turned the wine glass in her hand, then drained the beer in the glass and filled it up again.

You could see she was confused.

She didn't speak, and I didn't know what to say.This kind of thing cannot be said, it is a matter of mutual affection, although it is not accepted by people morally, but the two people who have such a thing agree with each other.

Extramarital affairs are a double-edged sword, hurting yourself and hurting others.

I don't know how far she and Mr. Huo have developed now, whether they are the same as me and Zhang Li, or whether they are going further.What is my relationship with Zhang Li?lover?Tiezi?Still a good friend?

soulmate?

Not sure.

"He was very kind to me." Zheng Jiaqi said softly.

"Anyone like you is good to you." I said.

"I know it's impossible for the two of us, but I'm too embarrassed to say no," she said.

"Actually, you are playing with fire, it is very dangerous." I said.

"I know that too, but I—how should I put it, I don't know what's going on, I like being with him."

"Boss Huo is very masculine, and ordinary women will like and appreciate him."

"What do you think I'm doing now? I don't even know what to do." She asked me.

"You ask me, I don't know what to do, mainly because I haven't experienced it before." I said, and then asked, "How far are you two now?"

"He lived in my house." She whispered, blushing when she said it, and then said: "I don't ask him to take me home."

"No one can predict what will happen in the future, and I can't blame myself for this." I said, "But you are so quiet and quiet, and you actually do something earth-shattering."

"Just laugh at me," she said.

"I'm not kidding you." I continued: "I don't think Mr. Huo and the chairman are in a good relationship, but it's not easy to get a divorce. You can only be sneaky with Mr. Huo, and you don't really want to spend time with him." Forever."

She said: "After we had a relationship, I regretted it. We are not the same as him at all, and it is impossible to be together. Even if he divorces, we cannot be together. I am not suitable for him, and he will not find him. I do."

There is no medicine for regret in this world, you have to bear the consequences for what you have done.

Mr. Huo and Zheng Jiaqi will have no results together, this is my opinion.First, Mr. Huo cannot divorce the chairman. Mr. Huo is always the leader of the government department, and the chairman is a representative of the National People's Congress. Divorce between two people will have an impact on their reputation and status, and the gains outweigh the losses.Second, even if we get divorced, Mr. Huo will not marry Zheng Jiaqi. Through this long-term contact, I know who he is. I can only say that Zheng Jiaqi is beautiful, attractive, and gentle. Mr. Huo has been separated from the chairman for a long time. In order to relieve loneliness, I found Zheng Jiaqi.

Zheng Jiaqi has been divorced for many years and has been alone. It is normal for men to think of women when they are single, and women to think of men when they are single.

When two people meet together, it is inevitable that they will not be able to control themselves, and what they want to happen will happen.

Things happen, but after they happen, you have to bear the consequences.Mr. Huo feels sorry for the chairman. If the chairman knows about this, he will be furious like a volcanic eruption. According to her personality, she can scold Mr. Huo and Zheng Jiaqi for nothing. Can do it.

Zheng Jiaqi knew that she would not have a result with Mr. Huo, and now she regrets it.

I said to her, "Just treat it as a one-night stand, nothing happened."

After a while she said: "Boss, do you think I am stupid?"

I looked at her and said, "What's so stupid about this? It's human nature. His wife has been away for a long time, and you've been single for a long time. It's normal for the two of you to have a relationship together."

After finishing speaking, she looked at her, and then said: "I know, everyone wants this to happen, but they are afraid of it happening. Everything is normal if it doesn't happen. Once it happens, many people will pay attention to it. How can I say that, after all, Mr. Huo is not divorced. , if you get divorced, nothing will happen."

"I feel so ashamed now that I can't hold my head up," she said.

"Not many people know about it. Zhang Li, Li Shuang and I know about it, but others don't." I said.

"Did you go to that hot pot restaurant to eat hot pot?" she asked.

"Well, can I see you with him if I don't eat hot pot?" I laughed.

She said: "Now I feel that everyone knows about it. If anyone looks at me like that, I feel that he seems to know about it, which is shameful."

"That's because you are guilty of being a thief." I said.

"I feel ashamed to stay in the hotel." She said.

"Let's have an affair for the first time." I said.

"From the beginning, I thought he was a nice person and could talk. He said that his wife was treating him badly. Why was he so unreasonable? How could he act like a shrew? He said that he and his wife had been separated for more than ten years. It’s no different from a divorce.” She said: “I feel sorry for him, and I sympathize with him, but somehow we had a relationship after going back and forth, in the first two days of the new year.”

The first two days of the new year?It was the day when Li Shuang and Master Tong met for the first time for dinner.

Zheng Jiaqi said: "I'm very upset now, and I regret it all the time. I'm not in the mood to go to work. I always feel that everyone is laughing at me. You said that if you let everyone know how I stay in Linjiangxuan, I might as well jump into the river and die. .”

I said, "It's not that serious."

"I'm destroying someone's family and acting as a mistress for them."

"It would be great if you were a mistress, the main thing is that you are not a mistress." I said, "It's useless to think so much, just treat it as a one-night stand, and we'll be friends in the future."

"A wrong thing happened between you and Mr. Huo under the right circumstances, and it will all be a memory in the future."

"Who doesn't do absurd things when they are young, right?" I enlightened her and said, "Don't put so much pressure on yourself, besides, only Zhang Li and Li Shuang know about you, others don't know, so we won't go out Said."

"Hey—" she sighed regretfully, and said, "Why did I lose my insurance at the end of the festival?"

(End of this chapter)