Chapter 374: Down the Kitchen

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After Christmas, Guo Shouyun didn't stay at home for too long. A week later, he continued his work plan and flew from San Francisco to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong International Airport, strictly speaking, Guo Shouyun should be the second time to come. In his previous life, he once came to travel once when the company was expanding. But ten years later, Hong Kong in 2003 was still slightly different from his impression.

In 2003, the fourth year of Guo Shouyun's rebirth!

"Boss...!"

Walking to the entrance of the plane, Guo Shouyun saw Zhang Lei standing below, waving to him with a smile on his face.

Walking down the spiral ladder quickly, the two had a tacit understanding and gave each other a hug.

"You guy, you look a lot fatter!"

"Thanks to the boss's Hongfu, the company has developed smoothly. In addition, the quality of my wife's food is good, and my weight has increased by almost 20 pounds in the past few years! And the temperament is more mature and stable!"

"Isn't it better to say that I'm older than before? … Oh yes. To introduce you, this is Rebecca Mark. He is currently working as my assistant for the time being. ”

"Hello, Ms. Mark!"

"Mr. Zhang, it's a great honor to meet you!"

They didn't know each other well, and after a brief hello, they each stopped.

"Let's go, the airport is windy and cold, let's go back and say!" Guo Shouyun said.

Zhang Lei nodded, and the two of them got into the black Mercedes-Benz SUV next to them.

"By the way, I should have been there to congratulate you on your marriage in person in the first half of the year, but things at home were in a mess. I was afraid that my stinky face would affect everyone's good mood, so I didn't come!"

"It's okay, I can understand that. And isn't your gift here!" Zhang Lei smiled, "Is your lover okay?"

"It's still the same, I've been in a coma!"

"I don't know how to persuade you, but I think your ability and wisdom will be enough to deal with it. ”

"Of course!"

Guo Shouyun nodded affirmatively, "By the way, where are we going?"

"Your home in Hong Kong, of course!"

Guo Shouyun suddenly realized that long before he planned to travel, he asked Zhang Lei to help him find a house in Hong Kong. After a few months, with Zhang Lei's efficiency, this matter has naturally been settled a long time ago.

"No. 28 Pak Ka Road, six bedrooms and four living rooms, with swimming pool and tennis court, 1,570 square meters, with a total price of 208 million Hong Kong dollars!"

After taking the information in his hand and briefly browsing it, Guo Shouyun nodded. In Hong Kong, where there are many people and little land, this kind of villa of more than 1,000 square meters can already be called a super mansion. Moreover, the house price in 2003 is not as good as it was in the future, and if it were another ten years, the value of the house could increase tenfold.

"Not bad... Where do you live?"

"I'm also in the Peak District, but the house is not as big as you!" As the CEO of Hanhua Holdings, Zhang Lei has not only a high salary, but also tens of millions of dollars in dividends over the years. Although Hong Kong's housing prices are high, they are still affordable for him.

"The size of the house is just like that, it's enough to live. … By the way, you are now half of Hong Kong, should you do your best to be a landlord when I get here?"

"Okay! Boss can serve whatever you want to eat or play in Hong Kong!" Zhang Lei said with a smile.

"There's no rush for now. I haven't eaten authentic Chinese food for a long time. Didn't you just say that your wife is very good at her craft, so how about we go to your house for dinner tonight?"

"That's fine!"

"Rebecca, prepare me with a good bottle of red wine. It's not okay to go to someone's house to eat empty-handed!"

"Okay!"

"Actually...!"

After waving his hand to interrupt Zhang Lei's words, "Huaxia people pay attention to courtesy and exchanges, and if you go empty-handed, doesn't it seem that my friend is too unruly to be polite!

Zhang Lei, who knew his character, didn't say anything more. Reaching out and taking out a stack of documents from the briefcase he was carrying, he handed them to Guo Shouyun.

"This is the company's operating data and financial data for the whole year of 2002, you can take a look!"

After taking it and flipping through it briefly, Guo Shouyun handed it to Rebecca casually.

"I'll go back and see again. Today we are not talking about work, but about home. ”

Work is very important, but Zhang Lei, as one of the most important capable generals under him, also needs to maintain his feelings.

The distance from the airport to the luxury residential area in Mid-Levels is not close, but an hour is enough.

"Boss, this is my home. ”

Looking at the two-story villa in European style surrounded by a row of green shrubs in front of him, Guo Shouyun nodded.

"Not bad!"

Zhang Lei led the way, and after pushing open the courtyard door and walking in, a middle-aged woman in plain clothes walked out of it. When she saw the person coming, her expression instantly became a little nervous, but when she saw Zhang Lei in front of her, she relaxed again, but her attitude became more respectful.

"Sir!"

"Sarah, is Sook-jin back?"

"Madame said she had a lecture and would come back later. ”

Zhang Lei nodded, "Where are you going?"

"Madame said that she wanted to eat abalone porridge in the evening, so let me go buy some abalone and come back. ”

"That's right. … How much food do you have at home?"

"I just bought it in the morning, it's enough to cook three meals. ”

"Go buy more. In the evening I had guests entertained. ”

"Yes!"

"I almost forgot. Boss, what do you like to eat and let Sarah buy it?"

"Don't be deliberate, just cook it at home!"

Hearing him say this, Zhang Lei didn't insist. However, based on his experience of having eaten with Guo Shouyun a few times, he quickly confessed: "You go to the seafood market to buy three Australian lobsters and six hairtail fish." If you have sea bass, buy a sea bass. For dishes, buy celery, leeks, mushrooms, and yams. ”

"Sir, there are already celery and leeks at home. ”

"If you have it, you don't need to buy it!"

"Yes!"

"You know my hobbies very well!" Guo Shouyun smiled, "Rebecca, do you have any favorite foods? If you have one, tell someone, and I'll make you a piece when the time comes." ”

"I'll forget it, I'm not a picky eater!"

Rebecca shook her head.

After waving his hand to let the Filipino maid leave, Zhang Lei beckoned Guo Shouyun and Rebecca into the house.

"Do you want to change your shoes?" Guo Shouyun said.

"No, there's no carpet at home. ”

"Is your house tidying up?"

After entering the door, Guo Shouyun looked at the blue and white in the living room, and said with a smile on the Mediterranean-style decoration.

"It's all made by my wife, and they live more delicately than me. Laughing, Zhang Lei took out the tea leaves from the drawer under the coffee table in the living room, "Boss, I only have this ordinary Yunnan red here, so you can drink it." ”

"The best Yunnan red is not ordinary. However, didn't I just give you a jar of wild fir robe from Dongran Tea Garden a month ago, and I drank it so quickly?"

The wild fir big red robe is the black tea that Guo Shouyun drank for a long time, and the current market price is over 10,000 yuan. As for the top three mother trees of Wuyi Mountain, the annual output is less than forty catties, even if he has money, he can get two or three catties from the market in a year, which can only be used to relieve addiction or entertain distinguished guests, which is not enough to drink.

"I was taken by my wife to honor my father-in-law!"

"I see... But how do I feel that after you get married, your quality of life seems to have declined?" Guo Shouyun said with a smile.

"I used to be a person, and I could spend the money I wanted. Now that I have a family, I have to hand over the financial power, and I still have to approve the spending of money. This quality of life has of course declined. The most obvious example is that I used to love stamp collecting, and when I saw a stamp I liked, I wanted to buy it. But now that right is gone. Last time I was on a business trip in the capital, I happened to meet Guardian auctioning a version of the monkey ticket, and promised three conditions to others, which was allowed. … Alas, now I think that if I had found a Western wife, I might not have so many troubles!"

"I think you're overthinking. The cultural divide between China and the West is much more difficult than a simple financial problem!" Guo Shouyun said.

"Is that an exaggeration? When I was a student at Princeton, the Western girls I saw were very open-minded!"

"There are some things that look like two different things on the surface and when they actually get married. Guo Shouyun shook his head, although he and Molly were not married, since the other party was pregnant, they had been getting along as husband and wife again. Therefore, Guo Shouyun, as a person who has come over, still has a lot of say in this regard.

"Looks like the boss doesn't seem to have suffered less?"

As he spoke, Zhang Lei poured out the first pot of tea, washed off the possible dust and insect eggs on the tea leaves, and then refilled the water, and poured a cup for Guo Shouyun and Rebecca.

"Of course, if I don't have the tone of the person who came over now!" After a pause and a glance at the other party, Guo Shouyun continued, "However, seeing the happy death look when you mentioned your wife just now, you know that you are talking nonsense in front of you." ”

"Haha, I was seen by the boss!"

"Hey, it's not like I've never felt loved!" Guo Shouyun pouted.

To be honest, he still likes this kind of free and casual chat.

"By the way, it's kind of boring to sit and talk here. Why don't we cook together, the food will be fragrant!" Guo Shouyun suddenly proposed whimsically after putting down the teacup.

"You're a guest, how can you cook!"

"Why are we still so polite between us?"

Saying that, Guo Shouyun got up and pulled Zhang Lei into the kitchen, and after a brief look, he opened his refrigerator.

"Trotters?"

Looking at the food that he hadn't enjoyed for a long time, Guo Shouyun was pleasantly surprised to take out two big pig's trotters that had been shaved off and slippery.

"You like to eat this bite too?"

Zhang Lei smiled and nodded, "The boss likes it too?"

"Well, it's a pity that it doesn't sell in the United States. ”

Pig's trotters, pig's ears, plus the small intestine and pig's arch mouth, were his favorite delicacies in his last life when he just graduated from college. Almost every weekend, I buy some tooth beatings.

"I like to eat too, but my wife doesn't like it. I don't understand, what does the pig's trotters have to do with the smell of foot sweat?" After shaking his head helplessly, "These two pig's trotters have been bought back and haven't moved for a week!"

"Then let's do it today. I think as a guest, it's the first time I've come to the door, and your daughter-in-law should give me some face!" Guo Shouyun shook the pig's trotters in his hand.

"Okay. I don't have to be criticized!"

After the two men finished speaking, they each happily began to discuss how to do it. Soon, including pig's trotters, the plan of seven dishes and two soups was put on the table by them.

In high spirits, they took off their expensive suits, rolled up the sleeves of their shirts to their elbows, and began to get busy.

Rebecca, as a serious Westerner, knows nothing about Chinese food, and she can only stand aside and watch the two busy. However, she really didn't understand why cooking could make a usually serious man so excited? Finally, she glanced at the two pig's trotters, and then at Guo Shouyun and Zhang Lei, and slowly shook her head. Men, especially the previous friendship of Chinese men, she really didn't understand it at all.

After Sarah, who was shopping for groceries, came back, the two made abalone porridge and fried hairtail, and the time passed in constant busyness.

"Click!"

With the sound of the door opening, a young woman in a white coat, with her hair pulled high, and a dignified temperament, pushed the door and walked in.

"Madame!"

Sarah hurriedly walked over to say hello, and then took the other party's coat and hung it on the hanger next to her.

"Sarah, there's a guest at home?"

"Hmm... Seems to be the boss of the gentleman!"

"Boss?" Pan Shuzhen was stunned for a moment, "Where are they? Who is in the kitchen?"

"That's it, sir, they're cooking... The boss is too!"

Pan Shuzhen nodded thoughtfully, "I'll take a look!"

But she hadn't taken two steps when she bumped into Rebecca coming out of the restaurant with a ready-made dish. The two were stunned when they met, but the older Rebecca quickly reacted. After placing the plate on the table, he took two steps forward and stretched out his right hand.

"Hello, I'm Rebecca Mark. President of Enron Pacific and administrative assistant to Mr. Guo Shouyun!"

"Hello...!"

Before she could finish speaking, Zhang Lei, who heard the movement outside the door, had already walked out.

"Shuzhen, you're back?... Oh yes. I forgot to introduce you. This is Ms. Rebecca Mark. This is Bruce Guo, the chairman of Hanhua, and my boss!"

turned her eyes to Guo Shouyun, who came out behind, because of her husband's relationship, Pan Shuzhen naturally had a deep understanding of him. Moreover, this business and financial wizard, who has a growing reputation all over the world, is indeed able to make everyone curious.

"I'm sorry, you see my hands are covered with fish, I can't shake hands with you!" Guo Shouyun smiled and raised his hands.

"It doesn't matter. Mr. Guo, it is a great honor for you to visit our home. Pan Shuzhen hurriedly said.

Although the Chinese people's concept of hierarchy is not as heavy as that of Japan and Korea. But when her husband's immediate boss comes to the house as a guest, she naturally will not slack off.

"You're welcome. And Lao Zhang and I are nominally superiors and subordinates. But in private, we're all very good friends. So you don't have to be so outside. Also, I'm glad to be here after coming to Hong Kong. ”

"Then you won't be allowed to cook in my house!

"No need. We've got the dishes to be done. Let's just wash our hands and eat together!" Guo Shouyun said.

"How embarrassing is that!"

"Nothing to be embarrassed about. And if you're polite, I'm sorry!"

"Shuzhen, don't be too outward. The boss doesn't have as many shelves in private as you think!"

Looking at her husband with a smile on his face, Pan Shuzhen couldn't help but glance at him. The traditional thinking of the East makes her naturally feel that there is no "no shelf" for leaders in the whole world. And his husband is too solid-eyed, and he believes what people say. But in front of people, she is not good at criticizing anything in person.

Hurriedly greeted Sarah, and the two of them went into the kitchen together to help. However, it is true that as Guo Shouyun said, the dishes they want to fry are basically done.

After exchanging pleasantries, everyone sat down around the table. (https:)

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