Chapter Ninety-Nine: Poaching

The narrow victory in the county test doubled Ning Le's confidence, and the truth that the effort will be rewarded was clearly explained, and the long-standing uneasy heart was finally calmed, and he was full of energy after the release of the list, working harder than before the county test, every day from morning to night, forgetting to sleep and eating, and actively preparing for the government test in three months.

At the end of March, the renovation project of the new restaurant in Fengzhou was nearing completion, and Su Chan came back from Fengzhou to let Su Miao take time to accept. Su Miaoying responded, on the last fixed day before the closure of Su Caiguan, she and Huiwei went to Fengzhou and walked around the inside and outside of the renovated restaurant.

The restaurant is a wooden structure, and the materials used at the beginning are all good antiseptic wood, and only need to be repainted in the damaged place. There are still 30 tables on the first floor, which are basically unchanged, except that the floor has been paved and the ceiling has been renovated. A long red lacquered dining table that can be used as a single seat stands proudly under the opposite wall at the entrance, and a small stage with two steps is built in the northeast corner of the lobby on the first floor, which is used for pure girls to play and sing and tell stories. It's just that a monotonous meal is easy to be boring, not to mention the high cost of preparing singing and dancing performances, Su Miao is not a high-end club that wins with elegance, it is interesting and not low-grade, and telling bizarre or beautiful stories in the form of playing and singing is a kind of storytelling. Su Miao has already discussed with Chun Niang, in order to whet the appetite of the guests, she only plays and sings twice a day at noon and at night during the peak of the meal, each for an hour, and the rest of the time Chun Niang volunteers to be a part-time partner for Su Xian.

To the left of the lobby on the first floor is a solid wood staircase leading to the second floor, which has been greatly altered. In order to improve the style as much as possible, Su Miao asked people to build four boxes around a circle of windows: plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, of which the two boxes of plum and bamboo were the largest. There is a small terrace with two pots of plum and bamboo. The rest of the seats were replaced by quiet and comfortable private seats, and a small tea table was erected on the second floor near the staircase.

Going out along the secret door connecting the restaurant and the inner courtyard, the three main rooms with two ear rooms were simply tidied up, and the three main rooms were originally decided to be inhabited by the women of the Su family because they were spacious and fine, so the decoration and furnishings were also arranged according to the girls' boudoirs. Strip flooring. Glazed lanterns, shelves and beds with curtains, and dressers carved with peonies. The red lacquer wardrobe and the willow round table are not complicated but full of the feminine atmosphere of a girl. These three rooms will be lived in by two people in the future, and who is in the same room with whom Su Miao plans to let them draw lots tomorrow.

Two transept rooms were converted into single rooms. Although small. But it has all kinds of organs.

The three rooms on the left side of the courtyard are thatched baths and firewood rooms, and on the right are also thatched houses and bathhouses, which are used by the men who live in the restaurant. As a dormitory, Su Miao also opened up two small rooms at the beginning and end, the one at the end is the utility room, and the one in front is smaller than the ear room, but it is independent, and the furnishings are quite simple, one bed, one box and one desk. Ning Le needs to prepare for the exam. Su Miao took extra care of him.

The floor of the inner courtyard is paved with stone slabs, and a vegetable garden is built in the middle. There is also a small fish pond under the east window, which is used to raise fish food for the day.

The most difficult and most expensive thing in the whole restaurant is that all the dragons are paved for heating in winter, plus the water is diverted from the well in the backyard to the kitchen and bathroom with a bamboo tube, this technology has just taken shape in Yueliang Kingdom, similar to tap water, the bamboo tube is connected from outside the wall and flows into the water tank, and it can be plugged when not in use, which is much more convenient than fetching water every day. In addition, it took a lot of effort for Su Miao to communicate with the construction team with the underground drainage system of the entire restaurant.

The renovation project cost a lot of money, although she bought this restaurant as her permanent home, and she was very satisfied with the effect of the new restaurant, but the thought of spending such a large sum of money still made her heart ache.

Su Miao turned around, sat down on a chair on the first floor, and discussed with Cheng Tie the allocation of kitchen staff when it opened in the future. After the opening, there was no doubt that Cheng Tie was going to be the hot dish supervisor in the back kitchen, the old man was illiterate, and when Su Miao read to him the remaining people in the pigeon building and everyone's specialties, he shook his head vigorously:

"These beaters are okay, they are all leftovers, except for the original sous chef, who is still a little useful, and the others are useless. And this kid," he stared at the aftertaste, and said dissatisfiedly, "The sous chef is not just a person who can do it, Sister Miao, don't make a random decision just because you are dazzled, the sous chef has a heavy burden, can he?" Cheng Tie used to be the sous chef of Pinxian Building, but now that the new restaurant has reopened, his place has been snatched up by a hairy boy. The new owner is a young girl, this hairy boy's face is indeed handsome, but he is not competitive at all with his unshaven beard, so he automatically consciously included the aftertaste in the ranks of fox men who win with "beauty".

Su Miao glanced at the aftertaste and smiled slightly:

"Even though he often doesn't care about himself and doesn't like to work with people, he still does what he needs to do, and I'm sure he can do it well."

I believe......

The aftertaste was slightly stunned, and he glanced at her in surprise.

"If there is something unsatisfactory, Uncle Cheng, you can teach him well." Su Miao said with a smile.

Cheng Tie snorted from his nose, seeing that the aftertaste became more and more unpleasant, and he was sure that this kid must rely on his "beauty" to confuse people's little white face, and the young girl will eat this set. He stared at the aftertaste with eyes as if he were staring at people, and he looked at the aftertaste as goosebumps, inexplicable.

"I'll train him well, boy, please!"

Aftertaste feels that he has been intimidated, what is the matter with this old man?

"As for the problem of kitchen manpower, there is indeed a shortage of a few capable people, I have already decided on the candidates, and the rest is to persuade them to come." Su Miao looked out the window, "I specially changed the fixed holiday, Uncle Cheng, let's take a trip!" He stood up.

"Where?" Cheng Tie was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Uncle Niu's family." Su Miao replied with a smile.

"Niu Laoqi?" Cheng Tie's eyebrows furrowed, "Tsk, it's hard to persuade him to come over, that old boy is now in charge of cold dishes in the Tong family's Pinxian Building, and the location is high and silvery, even if you agree to let him take care of the cold dishes, how can our newly opened restaurant compare to the Tong family's financial resources." He doesn't necessarily want to come. Hmph, one by one ungrateful, the older he gets, the more he goes back. For that bit of broken silver, he was instructed to do this and that every day under the hands of Zhou Cheng's little Wang Balamb, and he didn't even want that old face! That's why I annoy that old boy, who has always had a stuffy face and spoke harshly, which makes people look unpleasant, and loves money! ”

It's not a love of money, but it just continues to work in the Pinxian Building, which has changed hands. Others are different from Cheng Tie, they have families to support, which is like Cheng Tie who eats enough and the whole family is not hungry. Su Miao thought so in her heart, but she didn't say it, and said with a smile:

"That's why I have to convince him that my financial resources are indeed inferior to the Tong family. But I won't treat him badly. Celebrity chefs under the Tong family abound. No matter how strong the craft is, it is useless not to be taken seriously. The cold dishes on the menu of Pinxian Lou are less than half of the hot dishes, and he can't play much effect at all, and I'm afraid he can't speak, and I can give him the most space to let him play his full strength. What's more, he should be enough for Zhou Cheng for so long. The most important point is that his three sons have obviously accumulated enough experience, but they are still miscellaneous apprentices. There are too many apprentices in Pinxian Building, and the road to get ahead is too narrow. If you continue to stay, it's just a waste of youth, I can make the cow one, two cow and three all on the stove. For the sake of the son. Uncle Niu will also think about it. ”

Cheng Tie pulled his beard and thought for a long time, then smiled: "You girl is clever, you actually think of one stone and four birds." The second and third of the Niu family don't say, his boss's craftsmanship is really good, and he is a person who can come in handy, that is, he is honest and inconspicuous, and if he goes on like this, he will just waste his years in vain and will not be able to get out, Niu Laoqi has to think hard for his son. ”

"Uncle Cheng, you only know that Niu San is good at hand, but you don't know Niu San, I used to follow my father in the kitchen when I was always impatient so I don't understand, now I think about it, Niu San has been stealing teachers since he was a child and followed his father to work in Pinxian Building, Uncle Cheng, you don't know, he is good at your best fish fillet."

"Really?" Cheng Tie asked in surprise.

Su Miao nodded and said with a smile:

"As far as I know, Niu Yi Niu San is not interested in cold dishes, if Uncle Niu agrees to come over, Niu Yi Niu San will definitely be used by you. Uncle Cheng, Uncle Niu used to always say that you are not good at craft, if Uncle Niu's baby son is all working under your hands who are said to be "not skilled", what do you guess Uncle Niu will say? ”

Cheng Tie imagined that picture, then slapped the table and laughed heartily, Huo Di stood up and said loudly as he walked out:

"Let's go meet that old boy!"

Huiwei glanced at Su Miao, who was smiling, and was sure that she was fanning the flames.

Su Miao didn't have any prestige, and Su Dong's old employees were willing to look at her and listen to her because of Su Dong's face, and they were grateful to Su Dong for his kindness in the past. In the poaching negotiations, she didn't even have a chance to show her strength, and the only thing she could do was to set conditions that would make the other party feel convincing and exude a convincing aura. She couldn't do it at all when she played the biggest role in lobbying and looking back on the past, so she could only rely on Cheng Tie, who was the former chef.

Cheng Tie bought roast chicken, smoked fish and dried tofu to go to Niu Laoqi to drink, and then in a scolding battle that started with the strength of wine, the angry Niu Laoqi agreed to change jobs.

The picture of the two fat-headed and big-eared old men arguing is quite interesting, Su Miao swallowed melon seeds and smiled.

Liulin Lane, two streets away from where Niu Laoqi lives, is Ah Yang's home, Ah Yang is the first batch of guys hired when Pinxian Building first opened, he has been working in Pinxian Building for more than ten years, more than ten years, but in the last two years, he has felt strong pressure and disturbing unpleasantness. He himself can't say why, before Pinxian Lou changed hands, he was relaxed and happy every day, no matter what kind of guests he greeted, no matter how hard the work was, he could face it with a smile, but now he couldn't laugh, and he was tired every day. The restaurant is still the same restaurant, and the number of colleagues is just increasing, but the atmosphere is changing invisibly, and the pressure is increasing day by day. He wanted to quit his job several times, but he had to do it head-on because of livelihood problems.

Today is a monthly holiday, he was bored, he went around outside until dusk before returning home, just walked into Liulin Lane, and met Zhou Cheng wearing a bright robe made of fake silk and holding a folding fan from the depths of the alley, followed by Qian Ai, who was holding his son.

Qian Ai is an aunt who came back from Linxian County, and in the past, they would politely call her "Aunt Qian", but although she is an aunt, she is almost the same as a maid, and she is probably a soft child, plus the women of the Su family are like wolves and tigers than the other, Aunt Qian is like a frightened rabbit every day, Su Dong is not very concerned about women, but I didn't expect that Aunt Qian, who has always been timid and afraid of things, has the courage to elope with a man, and anything can happen.

Every time he sees these two people, Ah Yang has an urge to scold his mother, and the yard that Tong Ran bought for Zhou Cheng is at the very back of Liulin Lane, and the two can always meet.

"Chef Zhou." After a pause, he bent his neck and called, Zhou Cheng is a chef who attaches great importance to the rules, although he has never studied under the shopkeeper Su who has never cared about this.

Zhou Cheng glanced at him with his eyelids, snorted as if he looked down on people, and walked straight forward, Ah Yang had to turn sideways to get out of the way when he saw this, and Qian Ai hugged his son and followed Zhou Cheng timidly.

Ah Yang was annoyed in his heart, he was older than Zhou Cheng, this kid was so arrogant just because he was the head chef, what a thing!

After spitting hard, he walked home in a sullen manner, and when he reached the door, he heard a voice in the courtyard, as if a guest had come. Stepping over the threshold, he was greeted by people who surprised him very much, Su Miao, Cheng Tie and the young man he saw last time were sitting in the courtyard, and the guests were accompanied by Ayang's eldest brother, the second-in-command of the original Xianlou in charge of the board, and Chen Sheng, the "knife kitchen" who was the best at innovation with exquisite knife skills. "Knife Kitchen" is the nickname given to Chen Sheng by Su Dong when he joked in the past, but unfortunately after the change of ownership of Pinxian Building, Chen Sheng's innovation was not accepted, and the new owner paid the most attention to seniority, Chen Sheng was relegated to the third position, for the sake of the high quality of the restaurant, a qiē must follow the tradition, Chen Sheng was also suppressed in many ideas.

"Second girl! Uncle Cheng! Chen Yang didn't expect to see these two people as soon as he went home, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Brother Ayang, you're back!" Su Miao said with a smile, looked at Chen Sheng, who was contemplative with low eyebrows, and said softly, "I can't guarantee anything that hasn't happened yet, but I promise you that I will give you the maximum freedom, and on the premise of not affecting your original work, you can do what you want, and I will cooperate with you, how about it?" ”

Chen Sheng glanced at her and smiled: "The second girl's big mouth has become able to speak, and she used to be like a gourd." I promise you. ”

"Promise what?" Chen Yang was anxious, and stepped forward to ask hurriedly, "Big brother, what did you promise?" ”

Su Miao looked at him and smiled slightly: "Brother Ayang, do you want to come to my restaurant too?" (To be continued......)

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