This part of Nanli Community used to be called Nanli Village, just at the foot of Dongshan, only a twenty-minute drive from Chenjia Village, and Chen Anxiu's aunt was married to this villageNine years ago, when Chen Anxiu was in high school, it was demolished, and the housing prices in the entire Ludao City were generally not high at that time, Dongshan District as a new urban area was far away from the central urban area, and people outside did not buy much, as the villagers of the demolition village bought less than half of the market price, Chen's father had some spare money in his hand at that time, so he asked his eldest sister to help get such a set, more than 130 square meters. With the eastward shift of the economic center of gravity of Ludao City, the rapid development of Dongshan District, the national housing prices have been rising like rockets in recent years, and this house has appreciated a lot.

When Chen Anxiu just retired, he came to the mountain to look for a job and lived here temporarily for more than half a year, but now Tianyu is also twenty-three years old, which is the age to find a partner, he sometimes brings his girlfriend back for the night, Chen Anxiu is always inconvenient here, so he moved out of Lu with tons of tons. The place where their father and son live is just behind this community, not far away, and they can take care of each other.

Chen Anxiu rummaged inside and out in the kitchen, only to find a handful of rice and half a bag of noodles under the cabinet, and there was a large bag of cooked quail eggs and a box of fried meat sauce in the refrigerator.

"Wangwang, it's not early, hurry up and wash up, I'm going to the morning market, what do you want to eat?" Chen Anxiu packed the garbage from the kitchen and living room in a large plastic bag, ready to take it downstairs and throw it away.

"Brother, don't make any noise, I'll sleep again, I only slept in the middle of the night last night, what time is it?" Chen Tianyu muttered twice dissatisfiedly, pulled up the quilt and arched it, burying it deeper.

"It's seven o'clock, you're not going to work today?" younger brother Tianyu didn't like to study since he was a child, he finished junior high school and went to secondary school, and after graduating from secondary school, he floated in the society, and he didn't make money.

"Zhilu said, Zhilu said, brother, our mother is not verbose with you, brother, you help me bring two meat cakes back, count the second old Liu's baked cakes from the beginning, and I will get up. Chen Tianyu just wanted to send people away quickly.

"Do you still dare to dismiss me for being verbose? When I come back, if I see that you are still sleeping, I will smoke you carefully. ”

This morning market near Nanli Community, there are people at five or six o'clock in the morning every day, there are vegetables that sell, fruits, seafood, in addition to some early shops, the morning market is full of old people, young people are busy with work, I can't wait to sleep for five more minutes in the morning, I don't eat breakfast, who has the heart to catch the morning market. Like Chen Anxiu, sandwiched between a group of uncles and aunts, it is particularly conspicuous. The morning market is east-west, vegetables and fruits are in the westernmost side, March is the vegetables in the greenhouse under the market, the vegetables in the field have not grown out of the transition period, you can choose not many types, Chen Anxiu went straight to the stall selling spinach, the stall owner said that they planted it in the wheat field, not a valuable thing, pesticides have not been hit, they can't eat it at home, take it out and sell it for a point is a point, otherwise it is a pity to bloom in the ground.

Chen Anxiu asked for two catties, the stall owner was very talkative, I heard that he was from Chenjia Village, and said that he used to go there when he used to harvest corn, and with this relationship, he would grab an extra handful for him when he weighed it. Chen Anxiu went to buy eggs, big ham and two catties of apples, and bought meat cakes for Tianyu when he went back, this kind of thing is to eat it while it is hot, the skin on the outside is very crispy, and after biting into it, there is a hot meat filling inside, and after it cools, the skin and meat filling are pasted together. When he got home, Chen Tianyu was really obedient, he was brushing his teeth, he washed himself, sat on the sofa and watched the animation channel, Chen Anxiu glanced at it, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was playing, he saw lightning and thunder, a sheep and a wolf talking happily in a broken house, and they had the feeling of seeing each other late.

"Look, I put the baked cake on the table. Chen Tianyu had a toothbrush in his mouth, and he came out of the bathroom and promised, Chen Anxiu looked at Tonton: "I'm going to cook, if you're hungry, I'll serve you a bowl of porridge first." ”

Tonton's gaze moved from the TV screen to Chen Anxiu's face, shook his head, and quickly moved away.

Chen Anxiu was a little accustomed to this kind of nothing to say between father and son, brought something into the kitchen, washed the spinach, blanched it with hot water, chopped it with the ham and mixed it in the egg mixture, added flour, and waited for the oil in the pan to be hot, scooped a spoonful of batter into it, spread it into a thin layer, and in less than two minutes, a golden spinach omelet was out of the pot, green spinach, red ham, the color looked very good, the omelet just out of the pot was soft and tender, brush it with a layer of fried meat sauce while it was hot, roll it up, it couldn't be more fragrant, Chen Anxiu quickly rolled three sheets, cut it from the middle with a knife, and the meat sauce flowed out and stained it on his fingers, he naturally put it to his lips and took a sip, homemade, the materials are willing to be put away, and the taste is fragrant enough. Mom makes fried meat sauce is first cooked with hot oil such as pepper, star anise, fennel and other seasonings, and the residue is drained out, only those fried pork belly in oil, and the most soybean sauce is added at the end of the year, so you don't have to worry about eating the seasoning. Chen Anxiu remembered that when he was in high school, his mother would make a big can and bottle for him to take to school, and it would be very fragrant to eat by digging a little bit and sandwiching it in a steamed bun.

As soon as Chen Anxiu turned around with the egg cake and the porridge that he had scooped out earlier, he saw his younger brother at the door of the kitchen, and he didn't eat the baked cake in his hand, his eyes were gloomy, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking.

As a brother for more than 20 years, his younger brother is the older he is, the more incomprehensible he is, when he was a child, he was obviously a very cute boy, "Don't eat, the pestle is here early in the morning, the porridge is not hot, and I will go to work soon after eating." ”

Chen Anxiu's words were like activating a certain button, Chen Tianyu immediately returned to his usual nonchalant expression, smiled sideways, let him over, and complained in his mouth: "Brother, you are so biased, I knew that Lu Dao had egg cakes to eat this morning, who would eat any baked cakes." ”

The remaining egg cakes are not enough for you to eat, in addition to instant noodles and fire, the rest of the batter is ready to be spread into egg cakes: "You don't talk nonsense in front of tons, you still think we have a good relationship? ”

"Brother, are you still worried about Sister Meizi?" Lin Meizi and Chen Anxiu grew up together, with good results in the college entrance examination, studied law in Shanghai, and now works in the Ludao City Procuratorate.

Chen Anxiu stirred the batter, and the movements in his hands did not stop, "She is Jiang Xuan's girlfriend now." This is said to Tianyu, and it is also said to himself.

"Did Sister Meizi break up because she refused to forgive you because of the tonnage incident?" He knew that others said that his brother stepped on two boats and had children with other girls, and Lin Meizi proposed to break up when he was sad.

"No, we've never been together, where can we talk about breaking up?" He has known Lin Meizi since he was three years old, and when he was in junior high school, there would be rumors of love or something when men and women got closer, and the two didn't take it seriously at first, and they were in the same school in high school, and they were at the age of youth and youth, both of them had a little ambiguous meaning, and they understood each other in their hearts, but no one had ever broken it, and said the closest sentence to love, probably Lin Meizi said, let's work together, and we will be admitted to the same university in the future, and we will still be together.

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The central primary school where Ton Ton is located is less than ten meters in front of Nanli Community, Tianyu sent him over by the way, Chen Anxiu cleaned up the house inside and out after breakfast, washed the wash, wiped the wipe, this busy work, most of the morning passed, more than ten o'clock went out to the supermarket to buy a bunch of quick-frozen dumplings, glutinous rice balls, wonton stew, ham, and milk stuffed into the refrigerator, he was afraid that his lazy brother would starve himself to death at home one day. Scraped the yam, simmered the beef in a small casserole, tons of tons of noon after school at half past eleven, Chen Anxiu picked him up, the beef yam soup was thick, just ready to eat, at noon father and son two slept for an hour, one and a half tons of tons sent to school, he made dinner hot in the pot, three and a half to pick up tons of tons back, Chen Anxiu should be ready to go to the middle shift at four o'clock, this is also the reason why Chen Anxiu deliberately transferred the middle class, do not delay taking care of the children, the engineering department married colleagues have wives at home to take care of the children, no one wants to go to the middle class, day and night upside down。

The engineering department of Junya Hotel has a director, a manager, two supervisors and six foremen, the supervisor and above are fine, you can sit in the office, the foreman is not so good, although there is a desk, eight hours of work, it is good to be busy and can sit there for eight minutes, six foremen are now four on the morning shift, one in the middle shift, one in the night shift, because the middle shift is also very busy now, the last meeting said that the middle shift will be transferred to two shifts, but it has not been coordinated, so now it is still Chen Anxiu they are a middle shift. Chen Anxiu went to work and did not finish the handover of the morning shift, he took two urgent jobs, one is the housekeeping department, a female guest in the guest room when the shower head suddenly does not come out of the water, the other catering department, the Japanese restaurant has been booked out of the private room, the guest arrived half an hour later, the big ceiling light in the private room is broken, there are not enough people, everyone else is busy, received these two repairs, he went with the toolbox, non-stop busy until more than seven o'clock, during the time to the sales department for a trip, good voice asked the secretary of the sales department to help sort out the report。 When it was almost eight o'clock, I could finally take a breath and go to the staff cafeteria for dinner.

"Director Han?" is the old man Han Pengcheng, the director of their engineering department.

"Chen Anxiu, you are limited to five minutes to appear in my office. ”

"I've been busy for a long time, and I haven't eaten a bite of food. "Do you want to be so unkind?

"It's a good thing, I can't wait when it's late, what are you going to eat. ”

Before he swallowed a mouthful of buns in his mouth, the phone over there hung up with a "snap", Chen Anxiu looked at his mobile phone and was speechless.

Several colleagues from the engineering department who were also eating asked him: "What is Director Han looking for you, I won't let you eat the meal." That's not usually the case with him. ”

"I don't know what to do, I'll take a look, and help me collect the dinner plate. Chen Anxiu grabbed a bun and walked out quickly while eating.

When I arrived at the office of the director of the engineering department, a bun had already been stuffed in, and I knocked on the door and entered: "Director Han, you have something to do with me?"

Director Han raised his head from the desk, motioned for him to close the door, and beckoned, "Sit, sit, I have something good to say to you." ”

The buns were eaten too fast, and his chest was uncomfortably blocked, and after Chen Anxiu closed the door, he automatically went to the water dispenser and poured a glass of water to flush it.

Director Han's chubby figure moved from the office chair to the reception sofa where Chen Anxiu was sitting, "Chen Anxiu, let me tell you, this time it's done, you have to thank me, please go to the fish fresh shop to have a good meal, you have a friendship with Chef Qi, ask him to do it himself, bring tons and tons together." ”

"You haven't said anything yet?"

Director Han no longer continued to sell Guanzi, "Here's the thing, there is a distinguished guest in Yuetang District today, who will stay here for about two months, and he wants to find a temporary assistant in the hotel." He originally had an assistant, and it seemed that he had something to fly to Hong Kong tomorrow. ”

Chen Anxiu resisted the urge to roll his eyes, he thought that what was a good thing, it was just a temporary assistant, there were so many clerks in the hotel, which department could not transfer two, how could it be their turn to be in the engineering department.

Director Han patted him on the shoulder, "Why are you so impatient, listen to me, people said, it's inconvenient to bring a girl with you, and they designated to find a male assistant this time." ”

"There is a personal butler in Yuetang District. "The housekeeping department of Junya Hotel is mainly divided into two parts, two 21-storey east and west main buildings, and part of the villa area, Bauhinia District and Yuetang District, of which Yuetang District is not open to the public, only receives a part of the specific group of people, does not need to go through the front desk registration, the ten villas there are different, specially equipped with high-end personal items, the decoration of each villa can be rearranged according to the liking of the parties, Chen Anxiu was also sent there two days ago to overhaul the operation of various equipment. The above standards of the presidential suite of Junya Hotel are equipped with personal butlers, not to mention the distinguished guests in Yuetang District.

"It's inconvenient for the personal housekeeper to go out during working hours, not to mention that people still have requirements, the assistant must be able to drive, this Mr. Zhang is going out, it is best to have a little cooking, the others are not clear, I listen to the general manager meant, find a steady and reliable, the mouth should also be tight, don't see something and go out casually. I thought it would be appropriate for you to come and go, so I came over and asked for your opinion, and people hope to meet people tomorrow. ”

Chen Anxiu thought to himself, isn't this going to serve an ancestor? This is not an easy errand, I don't know that Director Lu Dao Han's brain is wrong, so he thinks that this is a big pie falling from the sky, and sure enough, the possibility of bird poop falling from the sky is far greater than the probability of falling a pie. He hurriedly made an excuse to shirk, "Director Han, it's not that I don't want to do it, it's just that I can't do it, this assistant is just careful work, where do you see I did this job?"

Director Han slapped his broad forehead, "I don't seem to be telling you about the salary, right?"

"They still pay salaries?"

"To be exact, they pay extra salaries, and the general manager speaks, and the hotel's share is taken. ”

"How much can they give?"

Director Han stretched out three chubby fingers.

"Three thousand?" Chen Anxiu guessed, three thousand is not bad, it is almost a month's salary.

Director Han hated that iron could not become steel: "Look at your little energy, people say three times, no matter how much the original salary is, you will pay three times the salary to be a temporary assistant." ”

"Isn't that just an extra 10,000 yuan a month?"

"If it weren't for this, would I still be looking for you? I want to grab this job more, if it weren't for my old friendship with the general manager for so many years, I strongly recommend you, where would it be your turn?" He also felt sorry for this child, he was not very old, and it was really not easy to take care of a child by himself, and it was not easy to help him. And he looks at the child and has a lot of cleverness, and he can get things done.

"Then I'll try it tomorrow?"

"Well, go and try it, put on a good dress tomorrow, the young man looks so decent and clean, I don't think people will look down on it,. "Director Han is full of confidence.

Chen Anxiu muttered in a low voice, "It's not a blind date." "Looks or something?

"Don't think I'm too old to hear. Director Han got up and paced back and forth in the office for two times, Chen Anxiu saw that he was thinking about things, and he didn't bother, after a while, he stopped and said, "Chen Anxiu, you are from my engineering department, I have to be responsible, there is something I have to explain to you, don't think I don't speak well." ”

"Director Han, you said, I'm just angry, and I won't do it in front of you. Chen Anxiu made a gesture to close his mouth.

Director Han laughed out loud when he was angry, and the atmosphere in the room eased down again, "This Mr. Zhang, it's not small, when you follow others, it's better to do things honestly than anything else, don't think about things you shouldn't have." ”

Chen Anxiu's face was weird, what could he think of a man, and he who needed an assistant with him might be an old man who couldn't take care of himself.

Originally, it was a serious matter, but Director Han hesitated for a long time before deciding to say these words, and was troubled by Chen Anxiu, he felt that he was thinking too much, and what could not be put on the surface, "I mean, the identity of the person, don't have the idea of clinging to the stutter, as soon as the person leaves in two months, you can't get off the stage yourself." Regardless of it, Director Han finished yelling.

Chen Anxiu dug his ears, "I think it's a big deal, I understand this, two months later, the bridge will return to the bridge, the road will return to the road, I will work for two months, and they will pay me two months' salary, two clear." ”

"You know the best. I knew you weren't that kind of person. Director Han smiled and then sent a high hat.

In order to let him have a full spirit, Director Han let Chen Anxiu go for two hours early, and let him get off the middle shift at ten o'clock in the evening.

Although he said it easily, Chen Anxiu still attached great importance to this job in his heart, and early the next morning he was ready to put on the suit that Chen's mother bought when he was looking for a job, but the sky was not beautiful, the rain outside was howling, he came out in a suit, his teeth were so cold that he finally decided to wear a shirt inside and a down jacket outside.

The time to make an appointment is ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Anxiu sent tons to school, too lazy to go back to the hotel directly, the periphery of Yuetang District is a half-moon-shaped lake, this lake completely isolates Yuetang District from other places, the covered bridge on the lake is the only passage to Yuetang District, there is a security room at the other end of the covered bridge, and the security measures are still very good. In the summer, the lake is full of lotus flowers, but it is still early, and all that remains in it are the dead stems and leaves that were dusk last year.

Chen Anxiu and the security guards are very familiar, chatting in their security room for half an hour, to see that the time is about the same, the rain is a little smaller, the clothes are holding an umbrella and passing, there are many flowers and trees in Yuetang District, and the villas are far apart, it is really a good choice for people who value privacy, although the price of privacy is quite large, the price of staying here for one night is not cheap, but whoever can live in it is not the master who is short of money, that Mr. Zhang lives in the second building on the right-hand side, and the yard is planted with two large magnolias。

As soon as Chen Anxiu stepped on the steps in front of the courtyard, someone came out of the house, and when he came to him, he frowned when he saw that it was him, but his good professionalism made him not say much, Chen Anxiu knew him, and he was a very good personal butler in this hotel, Liu Yue, who also made a report at the hotel conference last month, about tapping the deep-seated needs of customers or something, Chen Anxiu was confused, and he didn't listen carefully. Looking at his reaction now, he probably thinks that he has robbed him of his job.

The two of them simply said hello, Liu Yue asked Chen Anxiu to wait on the porch, and he went in first. About ten minutes later, I came out and invited him in, the house was carpeted, Chen Anxiu changed his indoor slippers at the entrance, and the first thing he saw was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, with high eyebrows and deep eyes, white temples, a bit of mixed blood, and a very well-educated appearance, "It's Mr. Chen, right?"

Chen Anxiu smiled and nodded, it didn't seem difficult to get along with, "Mr. Zhang, you ......"

The man knew that he had misunderstood, smiled a little, and said to him, "I am Mr. Zhang's assistant Zhou Jiawei, you can also call me Joe, Mr. Zhang is waiting for you in the reception room." ”

The reception room is on the right hand side of the living room, Chen Anxiu knocked on the door and entered, the man sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looked up from the book spread on his lap, his eyebrows were so fine that he could not be described by pen and ink, behind him was the tall magnolia tree in the drizzle, the man was dressed casually and comfortably, gray casual pants, cotton white shirt, he didn't look very young, about thirty-five or sixteen, there was already a trace of fine lines at the corners of his eyes, his eyelashes were very long, his eyes looked particularly deep when he looked up, his temperament was calm and introverted, and there was a kind of elegance and calmness exuded from the bones of a man of this age。

Chen Anxiu's first reaction when he saw him was, I don't know if this person has a daughter? If his daughter can inherit his color of five or six points, she must be a big beauty who can't take her eyes off, but after thinking about it, even if he has a daughter, he is probably about the same age as Ton Ton, at most he is a little radish head, and there is really nothing to fantasize.

The second reaction is, why does it look a little familiar?

At the same time that Chen Anxiu was looking at the man, the man was also looking at him, and after seeing his appearance clearly, his pupils shrank very slightly.