Allen is reticent, he's a geek with a keen sense of taste. Today, he lost to Zhou Liang here, and I am afraid that he will feel very uncomfortable. I tugged at his sleeve, "Allen, you sit." ”

After he sat down as he said, his eyes fell on Napoleon, who I hadn't finished eating on the table, and suddenly reached out and picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, eating naturally the one made by Zhou Liang, and his eyes suddenly dimmed.

I was a little sorry to see his lost appearance, and I was about to comfort, but I heard Zhou Yu say: "My personal preferences are different, I like this kind of original thing." Second, the desserts you make can be described in three words - too fancy, you always like to sell guanzi, but if I want to eat something for its taste, you make me something else, why don't I just eat something else? Of course, I'm not the referee tonight. ”

I couldn't help but look at him sideways, thinking that he wanted to tease Allen again, but listening to what he said was helping Allen speak. And his opinions are pertinent, not that the desserts made by Zhou Liang taste bad, but that he added fresh elements that are very eye-catching and catchy, but as Zhou Yu said, personal preferences are different, not everyone likes freshness. Some people can even eat something with feelings, and they miss the original taste.

Allen smiled bitterly and finally spoke: "If you lose, you lose, since you say that Jia Ru is the referee, it is to determine the winner or loser according to her taste." Every time I make a new dessert, I call her to taste it, and I can say that she is a very experienced taster. If it weren't for today's war, I really wouldn't have thought that Napoleon could hide so many mysteries in it. ”

Zhou Liang didn't seem to care so much about winning or losing, his expression was bland, and he even looked a little bored, "I'm hungry, I'll cook two dishes." When he walked back to the back kitchen, Allen came to me in amazement and asked, "Does he still cook?" ”

As someone who has tasted Zhou Liang's craftsmanship, I nodded honestly, and said in my heart that I am afraid that Zhou Liang is better at cooking than desserts.

When I saw that the time was ripe, I pretended to speak casually and asked, "Allen, how is your business lately?" He was still immersed in the loss of winning and losing just now, and replied to me with a sad expression: "That's it." ”

"Didn't I hear you say that you wanted to take in an apprentice, have you found a suitable person?"

Allen looked up at me and said bluntly, "I don't find anyone else with this talent but you." ”

I paused slightly, and said with a smile: "You know, I also open my own shop, and I have to bring rice grains, so I can't find time to learn how to bake." "I wasn't interested in it, so I politely declined when he offered it.

He frowned slightly when he heard this, "I heard that your Bashan Night Rain has been a little troublesome lately?" What's going on? ”

When it finally came to the point, I said with a straight face: "I thought you didn't hear anything outside the window, but I heard about it." I did run into some trouble, a customer insisted that drinking my drink caused his wife and children to vomit and diarrhea and was admitted to the hospital, even though the health bureau gave a certificate that there was no problem with the drink, he still held me accountable and said that he would sue me. ”

"Do you use the ingredients I taught you to make drinks later?"

"It's always been, I've only improved the proportions slightly, the taste is heavier than tea, and the coffee flavor is complementary."

Allen: "Then there shouldn't be a problem. ”

"So what do you think is the problem?" Zhou Yu suddenly interjected at this time, causing Allen to turn his eyes to look over.

There was silence for a moment, but Allen asked, "Who are you?" ”

Zhou Yu smiled calmly, "Jia Ru and I are partners. ”

Allen was stunned, and with more surprise in his eyes, he asked me, "Is your store partnering with someone?" Just because of this? ”

I shook my head, "It's not, it's a partnership on another project." ”

"You're not going to open your shop anymore?"

I was about to answer, but Zhou Yu preemptively responded: "It's just a drink shop, the profit is too small, we are cooperating on a big project, and Jia Ru will definitely spend all his energy on it in the later stage." ”

Allen's eyes sank after hearing this, although I didn't know what Zhou Yu meant, but I also cooperated with him to keep silent as a default. After half a sound, Allen suddenly got up, his face stretched and said to me: "I originally thought that you were in love with coffee, so there was Bashan Night Rain, I didn't expect you to give up so easily when you encountered a little thing, it can be seen that your love for coffee is nothing more than that." He said that he was slightly agitated at this point, and his hands waved wildly in the air, "So be it for tonight." ”

After the words fell, he turned around and walked towards the door, Zhou Yu raised his voice and asked in a slightly mocking tone, "Do I need to send you?" ”

Allen walked into the night without looking back, afraid that he was very angry.

I wasn't too worried, I was surprised by Zhou Yu's attitude: "Why do you want to provoke him? ”

"Enraged? Then this person is too petty. Zhou Yu took away the edge just now, lazily wanted to fool me, was glared at by me, and finally said seriously: "I just tested him just now." ”

"Temptation?" My heart moved, "You doubt him?" ”

Why? I've already said that Allen is the one who taught me how to make drinks, and he can't frame me because of his peers' jealousy, and that's not Allen's character.

But Zhou Yu pursed his lips and smiled: "Some things can't just look at the surface, but also look at the inside." At present, there are many possibilities for this dispute, and we will not consider it on Zhou Bing's side, and the inference of peer jealousy is just a possibility we have raised. And just after hearing Allen's words, I became suspicious of him. ”

I was stunned for a moment, "Which word?" ”

"He said, I didn't find anyone with that talent except you."

It's true that Allen said that, but what's wrong with that? Zhou Yu saw that my expression was blank, and he didn't sell it, so he directly explained my confusion: "There is no problem with this sentence, the problem lies in his intentions." It can be seen that this person is arrogant and lofty, and ordinary people can't get into his eyes, but he looks at you differently. ”

Why do I feel a little sour when I hear this? But seeing that his expression was as usual, he collected his distracting thoughts and listened carefully to his analysis.

"So I thought of a possibility that he was secretly doing these tricks to make you want to be an apprentice, so that you couldn't open your shop. You will definitely go to him, and then he will take the opportunity to invite you again. ”

"It can't be." I didn't want to deny it, "Allen is not this kind of person, as you said, he is a noble and arrogant person, even if he wants me to be his apprentice, it is impossible to use such despicable means, and my shop has been open for more than three years, but if he has this kind of thought, he doesn't have to wait until today to do this, he will not teach me to make drinks himself." ”

Zhou Yu smiled and continued to put forward his thoughts: "What if there is also an element of jealousy among peers? More than three years ago, you were just a customer in his shop, and you fell in love with you and developed the drink, and he never imagined that you would rely on this drink to build the store and affect the business of his coffee shop more and more. ”

I still disagree with him: "Allen is a master, he knows the recipe and ingredients of this drink, but if he wants to, he can sell this drink in his coffee shop, so why should he come and destroy my shop?" ”

Zhou Yu shook his head and smiled, "Jia Ru, you are really not suitable for business. There is a saying called the first opportunity, the business is the first opportunity, you use this drink to start the "Bashan Night Rain" brand, others and then similar drinks belong to the trend, not to mention the customer who walks into a coffee shop, is to drink coffee, who would want to drink coffee with a coffee flavor? That's why he didn't sell it in his shop in the first place. In other words, your ideas and ideas are in a coffee shop, and there is no market at all. ”

At this point, my heart was shaken.

In addition to the reasonableness of the analysis of Allen, he was also surprised that Zhou Yu was able to talk about these businesses and business opportunities in such a straightforward manner. He doesn't look like a novice at all, but like a businessman who has been immersed in the mall for many years, and he has analyzed all the motives that the other party may have hidden.

"So you just deliberately provoked him?"

A smile appeared in Zhou Yu's eyes, "I just want to see his reaction, you think carefully about what he said just now, do you think there is a problem." ”

After his analysis just now, I have actually noticed it. Allen's attitude is indeed a bit abnormal, he had a great backlash after hearing that I had a cooperative relationship with Zhou Yu, is it really as Zhou Yu said?

After all, Allen is not a deep friendship, and even if there is a friendship, it is difficult to guarantee whether the human heart is pure or not. But if Allen is the leader of all this, I can only say that I have seen the wrong person and believed the wrong person.

Zhou Liang walked out of the back kitchen, took two plates in his hand, and when he put them down, he drifted his eyes and asked, "What about the cakemaker?" Let's go? "I couldn't help but be speechless, the two brothers were really in agreement, Allen, a pastry chef with a French professional certificate, became a cake maker in their mouths.