Chapter 33: The Hired Craftsman
It turns out that it doesn't take ten days to completely conquer Dongfang Le, a tricky foodie.
On the fifth day, Yongle Houye, who was biting stinky tofu in his mouth and moved to tears because of the food, couldn't wait to throw out a few silver tickets: "Open, open, open!" Hurry up and open the restaurant! Woo woo woo this is a stinky lip and tooth, it stinks, this Hou Ye can still eat such delicious delicacies in his lifetime——"
Stinky tofu smelled extremely stinky, and at first he actually refused. Finally, under Chi Jing's repeated assurances, he pinched his nose and took a small bite, and in an instant, the feeling of his taste buds being impacted made his back tingle, and this tingling went straight to his brain. Inexplicably, his eyes were a little hot and his nose was sour, as if the emptiness that had lasted for thousands of years because of waiting was finally fulfilled at this moment.
Crispy and crispy, crispy and soft, soft and spicy, spicy with onion and garlic... With this taste, it's no problem to open a branch all the way to the capital! You have to recruit more people, otherwise you will rely on the jade bottle to slowly fry the tofu alone... It's far from enough to stuff your teeth..."Is there anything else, leave a few pieces for this grandfather..."
No one had time to put away those silver tickets. The jade bottle dried his hands, and poked a piece of crispy tofu with a bamboo skewer and put it in his mouth, and immediately opened his eyes in surprise. Taking advantage of no one's attention, he secretly hid two pieces, blushed slightly and pretended to look outside.
Not only Dongfang Le and Lan Yimo, but Chi Jing was also busy snatching stinky tofu, praising them one by one, and enduring nostalgia in the smell of this room.
Homesickness, nostalgia. Nostalgia is the beautiful mountain of the hometown, the dense water of the hometown, and the delicious food cultivated by the water and soil of the hometown.
...
Hou Ye deserves to be Hou Ye.
Chi Jing happily secretly boasted in his heart about Dongfang Le, it was really the wisest choice to find such a big Buddha as a backer. It only took ten days, just ten days. From site selection to settlement, to store layout, to purchase and then to select the auspicious day of the zodiac. The housekeepers sent by Dongfang Le were all done one by one, except for the matter of hiring carpenters and stonemasons, Chi Jing made a request, she had to choose people personally.
Everyone stood in a row, without squinting. Hired craftsmen usually look at craftsmanship, and no one cares about whether they are beautiful or ugly. The first time someone was chosen like this, the atmosphere was inevitably a little serious and tense, and Chi Jing, who was still veiled outside, added a bit of mystery. She walked in front of everyone, stared into each other's eyes for a moment, and then looked at the next person's eyes. Sometimes she shook her head, sometimes regretful, sometimes with admiration.
Finally, Chi Jing walked up to the butler of the Houfu and whispered something, and the butler took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and handed them over very respectfully and flatteringly. As the old housekeeper of Houfu, he has read countless people in this life, and he has long seen that this woman is not a thing in the pool, although the other party covers his face, no matter what he looks like, he can get the favor and trust of the little Hou Ye, and it is always no harm for him to have a lower posture.
Xiao Hou Ye is more than 20 years old. But I don't know if it's because there are too many female dependents in the family, and things must be reversed, in short, Hou Ye is still alone, usually not close to women, and goes alone. Even if I occasionally go out to make friends in diplomacy, most of them are men. For this reason, many people in the house have gray hair - the Dongfang family has withered, and the vein has been passed down to this generation, and the little master will not be a broken sleeve...
God pity to see that a woman finally appeared next to him. The housekeeper held back his excitement and wiped the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes.
Chi Jing didn't know that this old butler had such a rich inner drama, so she saw that after reviewing the paper for a while, she whispered a few words in his ear. The butler looked slightly surprised, and soon regained his composure. He bowed his head respectfully to Chi Jing with the attitude of treating the housewife, and then slowly came to everyone, stretched out his hand and clicked a few of them: "You, you, you, and you, you can not use it." ”
There was an uproar in the crowd.
Ignoring the chaos behind him, Chi Jing left with the jade bottle.
"Girl, why don't you hire those people?" Jade Vase couldn't see any difference between the people who had been named and eliminated from the others, but she knew that the girl wouldn't do it for no reason. It's just that these craftsmen value their reputation more than their lives, and now they are openly disliked, and the dignity of craftsmen will not allow them to swallow their anger.
"Because I found out from their eating appearance that these people are not very good." Chi Jing replied, and the jade bottle understood why the girl insisted on inviting the craftsmen to have lunch before deciding whether they would stay or not, the girl's trick was really...
"Just because of the looks?" Just because of the problem of eating, the girl is not afraid of offending these craftsmen? Although I haven't had much contact with the jade bottle, I have heard a lot of gossip about these craftsmen.
When she was still in Wanjia, she had heard other maidservants say that there was a large family in the countryside, and when she helped the craftsmen to eat the ceremony, she did not know how to offend one of the masons, and this masons were born to be a narrow-minded person, taking advantage of the middle of the night when there was no one to use some sideways techniques, some of the dead dug out of the pile of bad luck and funeral things into the foundation of this family, and then broke the original good feng shui and prosperous fortune of the family.
Within a few years, the family died, went crazy, and finally cut off the incense. If it weren't for the craftsman's drunken remarks once leaked, who would have thought that there would be such a vicious villain in the world? However, people live for a lifetime, and peace is the supreme thing, and the villagers are even more reluctant to speak up in the face of these craftsmen.
Now the family's magnificent building is still there, but there are rumors of haunting when people go to the empty building, even if the sun is shining in the blue sky, passers-by will feel a gloomy cold wind blowing...
The jade bottle hurriedly rubbed his arms, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
"Well, yes. I have already noticed that the man in the green cloth always eats with large pieces of meat in his own bowl and keeps the small pieces of meat for others, and such a person is also insatiable in his actions. Chi Jing said seriously, "Another craftsman in a yellow shirt also has a very bad habit when eating, every time he puts a piece of food in his mouth, he will hold the chopsticks in his mouth and taste it for a while before continuing to pick up the vegetables. It is not advisable for such a person to do things only as he pleases, without taking into account the feelings of others. “
He also listed several kinds of eating appearances of other people, and the jade bottle was disgusting when he heard it, and suddenly felt that the girl was reasonable. It turns out that from the etiquette of eating, you can also see the quality of a person's morality! The jade bottle was taught to remember in my heart, and I couldn't help but think of it, I don't know what it was like to dine with that person... The pretty face was slightly red.
Of course, it's not just because of bad food! Moreover, because those people will all die in the recent collapse of the building, Chi Jing said in his heart.
If an unopened restaurant causes a fatality, how will her business continue? Those people are also dead, and they shouldn't die in her restaurant, otherwise even if she produces delicious food, it will taste like a fish in her throat.
Maybe she could send people to protect these people in turn during this period, and it can be regarded as saving their lives. But firstly, she has not saved anyone, and she is not sure if she can change the fate of these people, and she does not want to use the reputation of Wuhua Lou to take this risk, and secondly, it is indeed true that those people do not look good, and their faces are all treacherous people.
She couldn't say that to everyone calmly, otherwise it would really attract resentment. So, Chi Jing repeated the same wording to the housekeeper of the Houfu to the jade bottle.
"And, of course, the most important reason..."