From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Some people were envious and naturally started to target Feng Zhengming.

Furthermore, those who were envious quickly formed alliances with each other.

Feng Zhengming was the first to realize that someone was following him and his wife.

The other party would also take pictures of them with a camera from time to time.

This discovery was made one day when Feng Zhengming and his wife took their daughter out to play.

He went alone to buy small balloons for his daughter. Because there were many people buying balloons, and many of them were children, he stood aside and watched the children wait.

As he was looking around, Feng Zhengming inadvertently glanced towards his wife and daughter.

As his gaze swept across the area, he quickly spotted a figure that looked rather furtive.

Holding a very professional-looking camera, it appears as if he is taking pictures of scenery.

However, from Feng Zhengming's perspective, it is very clear that the other party's camera lens was pointed at his wife and daughter.

Feng Zhengming immediately became alert. He quietly took advantage of the group of children playing and hid in the crowd.

Originally, Feng Nuanyou was in her mother's arms watching her father go to buy her balloons.

But in the blink of an eye, I realized that my father was gone.

The little girl squirmed in her mother's arms, trying to find her father.

Luo Qing also found it strange?
I don't understand why my husband suddenly disappeared.
Feng Zhengming bought several balloons and, with the help of the balloons and the children as cover, slowly approached the person taking the photo from behind.

When he got close enough to grab the other person, Feng Zhengming gave the balloon to the child next to him.

He even had several children run over to give one to his daughter as well.

The child obediently agreed.

Several children carrying balloons ran past the person taking photos.

The person taking photos had their view blocked by the balloons in the children's hands, and couldn't help but open their mouth to drive the children away.

Then someone patted me on the shoulder from behind.

Feng Zhengming's shot startled the person who was secretly filming.

The other person didn't turn around; their first instinct was to run away.

As a result, Feng Zhengming reacted quickly, grabbed the other person's camera, and used the camera strap hanging around the other person's neck to strangle him.

Then he forcibly dragged the person who was secretly taking pictures to a corner.

First, he kicked the other person without any politeness.

After kicking the other person to the ground, Feng Zhengming grabbed the other person's camera, skillfully disassembled it, and took out the film.

Then he took a few more steps forward and searched the other person's entire body.

At this moment, the person taking the photos tried to struggle.

Unfortunately, Feng Zhengming's kick was incredibly powerful.

He struggled several times, but he couldn't get up to resist.

He could only watch helplessly as Feng Zhengming searched his person and took away all sorts of negatives.

Moreover, Feng Zhengming took his phone and looked through his call logs and text messages.

"Um, Chef Feng, I, I was also hired by someone."

Feng Zhengming: "Private investigator?"

The other person looked up at Feng Zhengming, then lowered his head and admitted it.

"Yes, we were hired by someone else to follow you and take photos."

Feng Zhengming: "You're not telling the truth, are you?"

As he spoke, Feng Zhengming stepped forward, grabbed the other man by the collar, and forcibly pulled him up from the ground, punching him in the stomach.

"what……"

This punch was incredibly powerful. Over the years, Feng Zhengming has been traveling all over the country, but he has never neglected his physical training.

Originally, he was the strongest among his fellow apprentices.

The training he has received over the years, especially the arm strength training from stir-frying and flipping the wok, has made his arms incredibly strong.

So this punch really hurt the person who was secretly filming.

"No, no, Feng Zhuangyuan, I'll talk, I'll talk. A few bosses contacted us and asked us to help investigate you. They want to find out some problems with you, they want to report you."

Feng Zhengming: "Report me? That's interesting. It seems I've really offended quite a few people."

He tossed the camera back to the person taking the photos: "Tell me, who exactly contacted you?"

The person who took the photos is now too afraid to hide it, as they are genuinely afraid of getting another beating from Feng Zhengming.

Feng Zhengming's kicks and punches really terrified him.

I never imagined that Feng Zhengming's power was so ruthless.

After listening to the person who secretly filmed him, Feng Zhengming finally realized who was the person who had secretly filmed him, hoping to find something to use against him and report him.

It turns out to be the guy whose identity I exposed when he participated in the national individual cooking competition.

That guy used to be a street thug in their area.

In previous years, he relied on his daring and hard work to help several local business owners close some deals, which earned him their support and enabled him to start a catering business in the area.

It has to be said that the person was quite capable, as he actually managed to gradually expand his business.

It has also become a well-known catering enterprise in the area.

As the business grew, people started to want to clean up their image.

After all, some of the things I did in the past weren't exactly respectable.

So he changed his image from a street thug who used to fight and kill, and started supporting some local specialty snacks.

Nominally, he claimed to be providing support, but in reality, he was acquiring local traditional crafts so he could monopolize them.

This is why he insisted on participating in the National Culinary Competition.

He wanted to learn from Feng Zhengming and win an award in the national cooking competition to increase his fame.

In that case, when he goes back, he can openly reveal his identity as the inheritor of the old craft.

With his awards from the national culinary competition, he felt he could completely monopolize the local catering industry.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky and ran into Feng Zhengming as a judge.

After being publicly criticized by Feng Zhengming, he voluntarily withdrew from the competition.

Then he developed a deep-seated resentment towards Feng Zhengming.

He previously used his withdrawal from the competition as an excuse to give interviews to various newspapers and magazines, trying to ruin Feng Zhengming's reputation.

The result was that he shot himself in the foot, almost destroying his own business in his hometown.

Although he seemed to have faded into obscurity over the years, he still harbored resentment towards Feng Zhengming.

Seeing that Feng Zhengming's business was growing bigger and bigger, and his reputation was also growing.

He was still unconvinced, so he joined forces with some others who also disliked Feng Zhengming and hired a private investigator to keep an eye on Feng Zhengming and his family, hoping to find something that would be detrimental to Feng Zhengming.

By taking photos of the person who secretly filmed him, Feng Zhengming was able to learn some information about that person.

"You guys really know how to play both sides, huh? How come you even know so much about the other side?"

The person taking the photos smiled and said, "This is also for self-protection. If we don't know the other party, and something really happens, they might turn around and sell us out. If we can't protect ourselves, how can we fight them?"

Feng Zhengming nodded, thinking that the private investigator who was secretly filming was indeed quite professional.

"So you're telling me all of their information so you can sell this insignificant guy, keep the information on the others who are contacting you, and then extort money from them?" These words left the person who was secretly filming speechless and dumbfounded.

Then he saw a sinister smile appear on Feng Zhengming's face.

This smile was one that few people had ever seen on Feng Zhengming's face.

Then the person secretly filming watched him take out his phone and dial a number.

The private investigator who was secretly filming panicked when he heard what Feng Zhengming was saying on the phone.

"No, no, Scholar Feng, I'll tell you everything, please! You, you mustn't..."

Before the other party could finish speaking, Feng Zhengming had already hung up the phone.

"I'm not interested in the rest anymore. You can go inside and talk about it slowly."

The person who took the photos was completely bewildered, and it took them a long time to come to their senses before staring at Feng Zhengming.

"You, you're being too cruel!"

Feng Zhengming: "I was just doing what I should do. People like you are breaking the law. You arbitrarily investigate other people's privacy. If everyone did this, how could ordinary people like us live our lives in peace?"

The person secretly filming: "You, you can't even be considered an ordinary person, can you?"

Feng Zhengming: "How can I not be considered an ordinary person? I'm just an ordinary cook, very ordinary."

After chatting for a short while, several police officers came over, handed over the matter to Feng Zhengming, and took away the person who was secretly filming and all the things he had.

By this point, the person who took the photos had completely given up.

He seemed to realize that he had underestimated Feng Zhengming's abilities.

Feng Zhengming was able to summon people to arrest him so quickly.

Moreover, it was clear that the police officer he contacted was not an ordinary police officer.

After handing the matter over to the police officers who had arrived, Feng Zhengming went to a street-side ice cream stall, bought two cold drinks, and quickly returned to his wife and daughter.

At that moment, his wife was playing with their daughter and a group of children.

The little girl was overjoyed to receive the balloons her father had sent.

Playing and having fun with a group of older brothers and sisters.

While playing, the little girl looked up and saw her father had come home.

She immediately stopped looking for her older brothers and sisters and staggered towards her father.

Feng Zhengming smiled and reached out to pick up his daughter.

His wife's voice came through the phone: "Your daughter has been looking for you so many times, where have you been?"

Feng Zhengming: "It's nothing. I ran into a few friends and chatted with them for a bit."

Then Feng Zhengming said to his daughter in his arms, "Didn't Daddy ask your sister to bring you back some little balloons?"

Feng Nuanyou smiled and then hugged her father's neck tightly.

Luo Qing: "Don't you understand your daughter? She wants her dad to play with her older siblings."

Feng Zhengming smiled and slowly put his daughter down.

"Okay, Dad will play with you and your older brother and sister."

For the rest of the time, Feng Zhengming spent some time playing with his daughter and a group of children.

The little girl played until she got tired, and then the other children went back to their parents one after another.

Feng Zhengming, holding his daughter and holding his wife's hand, said goodbye to a group of children and left.

Before they even reached the parking lot, the daughter had already fallen asleep in her father's arms.

Taking the opportunity, Feng Zhengming told his wife what had just happened.

Luo Qing frowned upon hearing this: "Why are those people like this? Why did they hire a private investigator to film us?"

Feng Zhengming smiled and reassured his wife, "It's okay. They hired a private investigator to film us, which just proves that we're celebrities now."

Luo Qing: "I'd rather not have this kind of fame."

Feng Zhengming: "Don't worry, we'll be more careful in the future. I've also spoken to the relevant departments, and they will help us handle it."

Luo Qing: "Really, those people don't think about how to cook well, they only think about ruining others."

Feng Zhengming: "If they knew how to cook, they wouldn't resort to these petty tricks."

Luo Qing was taken aback at first, but then she realized that her husband was right.

“Then let’s go there. We want to open a branch there and recruit some apprentices locally. There must be young chefs there who want to learn the craft properly. We’re sure to find the right people to run the branch.”

When Feng Zhengming heard his wife say this, he knew that she was really angry.

“They’re said to be very influential locally, so it might be difficult for us to establish a foothold if we open a branch.”

Luo Qing: "What's there to be afraid of? So what if they have influence locally? We have the strength. We're not afraid of anyone when we open a branch."

Seeing his wife's serious expression, he knew she was truly angry this time.

Feng Zhengming smiled and agreed to his wife: "Okay, let's go. Let's open a branch there, okay? Don't be angry. It's not worth getting sick from getting angry."

After comforting his wife, Feng Zhengming led her into the parking lot.

After driving away and returning home, Feng Zhengming immediately began making contacts.

Although the other party did have some influence in their area, Feng Zhengming was not afraid of them.

Moreover, Feng Zhengming's strategy was to start with their provincial capital.

Their provincial capital city also welcomes Feng Zhengming to open a branch there.

Even the experienced chefs from the provincial capital's chef association recommended young chefs to Feng Zhengming.

Feng Zhengming did not directly refuse the kindness of the local experienced and master craftsmen.

He simply told them that he would make a decision after he had some free time to personally go and investigate.

But Feng Zhengming set off before he could finish arranging things at the restaurant.

His wife had already set off ahead of him.

The daughter was temporarily entrusted to her aunt's care by the wife.

Feng Zhengming felt somewhat helpless about his wife's anxiety.

All he could do was call his wife and warn her to be careful.

Then some people saw that Feng Zhengming would bring his daughter with him when he went to work at the restaurant every day.

He would even bring his daughter into the kitchen so she could watch him lead the kitchen staff in cooking from afar.

My aunt initially thought this was inappropriate.
"Zhengming, don't worry, I can take care of two children."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "Auntie, it's not that I don't trust you. Of course I trust you to take care of Youyou. But I still want to keep Youyou by my side. My mother and I have been taking care of her since she was little."

Now that her mother isn't around, she feels a bit insecure, so I'm bringing her along to help her adjust.

To reassure his aunt, Feng Zhengming added, "There are many people in the kitchen, so I'm not always busy. As the head chef, I'm relatively relaxed, and I have time to spend with Youyou."

In the end, the aunt had no choice but to follow Feng Zhengming's arrangement and let him take his daughter to work in the restaurant's kitchen.

Feng Nuanyou, who is already quite sensible, knows that her mother has gone on a long trip, so the little girl followed her father into the kitchen very obediently.

When her father is cooking, the little girl will sit quietly in her chair and watch him.

The subtle chemistry between the father and daughter in the kitchen surprised many viewers.

Meanwhile, Luo Qing had already rushed to hire a private investigator to investigate the local area where they were.

According to Feng Zhengming's plan, she first conducted market research in the provincial capital of their home province. (End of Chapter)