Under the cover of night, a black sedan quietly stopped in the reserved parking space at the back door of Gordon's kitchen.

The driver of the car took out a card and swiped it lightly on the automatic toll collection machine, and whispered to the middle-aged man sitting in the passenger seat with his eyes closed: "Mayor Zhu, we have arrived." ”

"Qiude, it's the deputy mayor."

Zhu Baiju, deputy mayor of Tianwen City, opened his eyes, took out a wet towel that exuded the smell of traditional Chinese medicine and wiped his face, then put on his glasses, he slightly tidied up his appearance in the rearview mirror in the car, re-twisted the unbuttoned clothes, and meticulously pulled the tie knot to the top.

Zhang Qiude, director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, knew very well that this party school student paid attention to personal appearance even to the point of nitpicking, he rolled down the car window, pulled out the car key and prepared to wait for the waiter to come and guide the way, and said to Zhu Baiju: "Lao Li of Dachun Winery prepared mutton soju today, and we will meet Mr. Gao in a while, so we will go to his side." ”

"Sheep? Lao Li has a heart. Zhu Baiju nodded slowly. Mr. Gao is Gao Gordon, the Chinese name used in the old Gordon's passport.

"Hehe, it's not my cousin who makes trouble, she has to go back to China to eat sheep when the weather is the hottest every year, it is said that she can sweat and detoxify, and she is not afraid of cold in winter, I really don't know where I heard it." When Zhang Qiude mentioned his distant cousin, he looked proud.

"Hey, this time it's thanks to Qiu Ya, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to take the big order of 200 million." Zhu Baiju sighed, and then he said in high spirits, "Although the two cities of Zhaowu and Dazang are brother provinces and cities with us, since foreign businessmen insist on investing in us to build a Greater China headquarters, then we have no reason to push it out." ”

"yes, yes." Zhang Qiude said with a smile. An investment of $200 million is not common, especially in the cultural sector.

With this single alone, Tianwen City can add at least 500 new jobs, which is not counting the drive for the related industrial chain. With this credit, he can get a high score in this year's assessment. In the next re-election, he Director Zhang Da may not be able to enter the Standing Committee, and Vice Mayor Zhu next to him will have to be called Mayor Zhu and Deputy Secretary Zhu at that time.

At this time, the waiter in Gordon's kitchen walked to the window of the car and asked politely, "Is it Mr. Zhang Qiude?" ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Qiude frowned unhappily, he was not called Director Zhang, which made him a little uncomfortable, but Zhu Baiju looked indifferent, and he couldn't see what he was thinking.

The waiter opened the door for Zhang Qiudra and asked him to get out of the car. Another waiter ran forward to open the door for Zhu Baiju, but Zhu Baiju waved his hand to stop him, he opened the door by himself and walked out of the car, and looked at several young people in chef jackets gathered at the back door.

"Please go this way."

The waiter moved his steps slightly, blocking Zhu Baiju's sight with his body.

"Please." Zhang Qiude flatteringly asked Zhu Baiju to go first, and he was half a body behind him as a sign of respect.

The two crossed the small road and entered a small box with a terrace on the second floor through the passage reserved for VIP customers, and each sat down.

"Nice view." Zhu Baiju came to the second floor of Gordon's kitchen for the first time, and he did not sit down on the chair that Zhang Qiude had specially dragged out, but sat at the table on the terrace.

A refreshing breeze swept across the terrace, and Zhu Baiju closed his eyes comfortably.

After more than half a century of green planting, the green coverage area of Tianwen City, especially in the downtown area of Tianwen, has reached a very high standard. The air is no longer full of annoying sand and dust, and people like him dare to wear white shirts to and from work, and no longer have to worry about being blown by the wind and sand on the side of the road, and the shirt will turn gray.

"Seek virtue, come here." Zhu Baiju beckoned to Zhang Qiude, for this party school classmate, Vice Mayor Zhu has always been like leaving, he very much despises Zhang Qiude's bureaucratic habits and the clan mentality of a small peasant society, and officials of all sizes in Tianwen City know that Zhang Qiude, director of the Cultural Bureau, advocates the idea of loving the family, loving the clan, and loving the country, and likes to put the interests of individuals and small groups above the system.

To put it mildly, Zhang Qiude is abusing power for personal gain.

"Look outside, this is our city." Zhu Baiju is an authentic foreigner who has eaten fish and chips, and he knows very well that Zhang Qiude's idea will sooner or later make a mess in this era of industrialization. However, he thinks that he, a classmate of the party school, thinks so, but he has been with those so-called cultural people for a long time, and his ideas have been assimilated by them, and the essence is still good, and he belongs to the object that can be saved.

Zhang Qiude looked at the astronomical city at night, although from the terrace on the second floor of Gordon's kitchen, there was a lot of light in front of him, all kinds of famous and unnamed lights sparkling in the night, illuminating the whole street as bright as daytime, but retaining the tranquility of the night.

"It's really pretty." But Director Zhang, who didn't have a little bit of ink in his chest and abdomen, held back for a long time before he came up with a famous saying, "I am happy here, I don't think about it." ”

"Don't think about it? Haha, Qiude still loves to laugh so much. Zhu Baiju chuckled a few times, he heard Zhang Qiude's voice, but he didn't believe that Zhang Qiude really thought that Gordon's kitchen was better than Dachun Winery.

What I just said is just a statement.

Zhu Baiju turned his head and suddenly saw that across the street, the young men in chef's jackets he had just seen downstairs had taken a decorative fence for welcoming guests and placed it across the street, symbolically casting a colored light as a waiting area.

Several middle-aged people dressed as substitute drivers wore very formal work clothes and entered the waiting area with dinner plates.

"Little brother." Zhu Baiju stopped the waiter who was pouring water for them, pointed to the group of young people who were busy spreading out their stalls and asked, "Those are also your Gordon kitchen people, right?" What are they up to? Don't know if you can't set up a stall on this street? ”

In the end, Zhu Baiju's voice already carried a trace of majesty.

"It was a preferential tasting event prepared by our assistant store manager and Chef Lin." The waiter didn't know that sitting in front of him was the deputy mayor of Tianwen City, a big man who could close the restaurant with a phone call. But that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to deal with it, "If my husband wants to, I can let them go somewhere else." ”

"Tasting event? Do you have a new dish in your house? Zhang Qiude interjected and asked, he is a frequent customer of Gordon's kitchen, whether public or private, he should help this restaurant speak, otherwise at tomorrow's tasting party, how can he pull his face down and do business?

"The dishes prepared for a competition are in charge of Chef Lin." The waiter replied.

"Chef Lin? You've got a new chef again? Zhang Qiude saw Zhu Baiju's expression as usual, and knew that the deputy mayor just mentioned setting up a stall in violation of regulations, just to scare the young man in front of him, asking him to tell the truth, and had no intention of holding him accountable, "It's really strange that old Gordon will also let people interfere in kitchen work." ”

"No, it's the player chef, there's always only one chef in Gordon's kitchen." The waiter said with some pride. The old Gordon, who has stepped from an ordinary waiter to his current position, is a legend in the industry, and many waiters are inspired by his inspirational legend before they decide to join the industry, starting from the most basic hospitality.

"Player Chef? It's unusual. Zhu Baiju snorted, he flexed his index finger and knocked on the table a few times, "Bring all the dishes they prepared to us to see." ”

"Sir?" The waiter looked at Zhang Qiude with an inquiring gaze, and Director Zhang had already found the dishes when he made an appointment, and the kitchen was almost ready.

"Pack, pack it all." Zhang Qiude still didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Zhu Baiju, although the single investment of 200 million yuan was his lead, but Zhu Baiju is not the kind of person who looks at people's feelings. Director Zhang was familiar with the personality of this party school classmate, and he knew very well that Zhu Baiju would not have agreed to go out to eat outside of work if it weren't for the fact that he had added hundreds of jobs and a considerable amount of taxes to Tianwen City.

There are four big characters between public and private, but Zhu Baiju loves to give others ink.

In private, others call him a clear distinction between death and death.

The waiter quickly pushed a food cart full of disposable lunch boxes and disposable paper cups into the room, and one of the waiters removed their water glasses and replaced them with three clean goblets and a wine glass, and poured orange juice, lemon iced tea, ginger soda, and a black contradiction.

"What is this?" Zhu Baiju frowned slightly, looking at the cup of black liquid that emitted a faint sour smell.

"Kitchen tea? In the past, Qiao Brazil Restaurant used this as an employee benefit. Zhang Qiude picked up the wine glass, took a big sip of it, smashed his mouth quite enjoyably, and smiled at Zhu Baiju, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, when I was in the cultural relics department before, I liked to go to the Qiao Brazil Restaurant to check the protection of the building, just to drink this sip." ”

"Really?"

Zhu Baiju also took a sip, the black liquid is better than the smell, it feels a bit like a sweetened mixed coffee, not like Italian, not like American, the taste is a bit like the instant coffee brewed in the supermarket, faint, lacking the bitter taste that coffee should have, and it is very fast. As he tasted it, he noticed a hint of a strong mellow taste, as if he was eating handmade milk chocolate, the kind of not very sweet and mellow fragrance, as if there was an inner precipitation, which is really difficult to describe in words.

"What do you think?" Zhang Qiude was very happy to see the same look on Zhu Baiju's face, and he instructed the waiter who came to add tea, "I'll come by myself, you just leave a pot." ”

The waiter glanced at a young man who was following him, and with the latter's nod of promise, he put down the cheap electric kettle.

The young man in the chef's jacket and a waiter held a disposable lunch box containing appetizers and placed them on the table.

"Good evening, gentlemen." He didn't leave immediately after putting down the lunch box, but put his hands behind his back and introduced himself to the two faces that he had seen in the monitor not long ago, "I'm Lin Ling, who is in charge of the kitchen, this time the player chef." I will serve you two meals. Please bear with me if there are any shortcomings. ”

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In the second hundred chapters, one-fifth of the plot is finished.

A little celebration.