Chapter 4 A bald head emerges from the crowd

"I heard that a new restaurant has opened in Tongjia Town in recent years, called Canglanju, with a wide variety of dishes and rich flavors, this Canglanju is opened by the little boss, right?" Lian Kecheng gently rubbed his chin with one finger, looked at Hugo with interest and asked.

Hugo was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand why the colonel staff officer in front of him suddenly asked himself such a question, could it be that he was interested in his restaurant? It's not right, I am a pledge pawn, and I sold the restaurant that I and Sister Hong have worked hard to open in the past few years, and it is far from the amount of loan owed by Yuqiu, and there is no need for the other party to do more...... Yuqiu glanced up at Lao Yang while thinking, and Lao Yang saw Yuqiu looking at him, and shook his head lightly to say that he didn't know.

Hugo nodded with a little hesitation: "It's right that I opened Canglanju, what does this have to do with my father's debt?" ”

"Can Canglanju have a signature dish, stir-fry with yellow-backed lamb spine chops and red peppers, serve with fragrant flax seeds, and serve it after pouring oil?" Even Kecheng didn't answer Hugo, his eyes were brighter, and he asked again.

"It's our signature dish, lamb chops with peppers." This Hugo is even more inexplicable, could it be that this staff officer wants to go to his own restaurant for a meal first?

Lian Kecheng looked at Hugo's puzzled expression and laughed.

"I want to ask the little boss to be a chef for me for a few days, your father's outstanding accounts are settled, what does the little boss think?"

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The name Canglanju is very high-end, very high-end and atmospheric, and it sounds like those high-end restaurants that are flashing with colorful laser lights on the bustling commercial streets of Shangdu, and diners are turning like flowing water. However, it is basically difficult for this kind of elegant restaurant to survive in Xiaye. A miner who has just gotten off work after a long day's work, sweating and hungry, urgently needs a bowl of hot noodle soup or a small pot of stewed broth to warm his body, he walks down the street and sees a shop with an ancient signboard full of "Canglanju", and another store with only a few simple words "hot soup beef noodles" written on the door, how will he choose?

So at the beginning, Hugo and Sister Hong spent money on the central avenue of Tongjia Town to buy shops and tidy up and decorate, until they hung out the Canglanju signboard with inlaid decorations on the edge and a trace of ancient charm, and no one in Tongjia Town could be optimistic that this store could stand on the central avenue. Because Canglanju is not the first restaurant opened by people from other towns, and it is not the first to want to take the route of food quality and grade.

Before Canglanju, the people of Tongjia Town were accustomed to seeing many foreigners who came here to use those exquisite and precious side dishes, and they looked down on those small dishes that were served on palm-sized plates, which could be swallowed in one bite but could not touch some taste for a long time, and they looked down on those foreigners who obviously wanted to cook the so-called luxury with low-grade ingredients to empty their own pockets that were not rich. They still walked into the restaurants that sold hot soup and hot noodles and simple meals, and watched coldly, waiting for the newly opened Canglan Residence to die down and turn off the lights and stoves.

In the first two days of the newly opened Canglan House, there was really no business, and every day when people went to and from work, people could see the little boss who looked less than twenty years old sitting on the side of the black wattle wood steps in front of the restaurant, stretching his arms forward at will, and his elbows gently resting on the curled up knees, looking at the people of Tongjia Town who passed by with a smile. After watching it a few times, the people in Tongjia Town felt that although the eyebrows and eyes of this little boss were not particularly good-looking, his smiling appearance was not formal and honest at all, and his partiality made people feel very comfortable. After seeing each other for a long time, there will always be the first person who walks into the restaurant curiously, and this person is Yang, the head of the security center in Tongjia Town.

Lao Yang's first time he stepped into Canglan Residence, he didn't go to eat specially. The work of safety and fire protection in all administrative districts, cities, towns and towns is always one of the priorities of the work of the Federal Garrison Office. In fact, that day, Lao Yang only took two subordinates of the security office to conduct a routine inspection of the newly opened shop, and it stands to reason that the inspection of the store in the past was only half an hour, but people only saw the people from the security office stepping into the Canglan House, and it was not until a long time after lunch that a few people touched their round bellies and burped out.

Since then, the people of Tongjia Town have been surprised to find that this newly opened restaurant has almost become a small canteen of the security station. What kind of food can seduce these people like this? More and more people walked into Canglanju for the first time with curiosity, but they fell in love with this restaurant with elegant and ancient signboards like people in the security station.

Mutton, ham, pies, seasonal vegetables, why does the same dish taste so much better than others in Canglanju? Opened in Tongjia Town, a place where the mountains are eaten, how can there be seafood to eat in Canglan Ju? Is the price of this dish so low? The diners in Canglan Juli sometimes sat at the table and shook their heads in confusion, and immediately showed satisfied expressions and feasted on the food in front of them.

In this way, Canglanju has established itself in Tongjia Town with its outstanding cuisine, and more and more people in the town are impressed after tasting the food cooked by the little boss who looks less than 20 years old. However, what really made the people of Tongjia Town sincerely accept Hugo and Sister Hong, and regard them as a part of Tongjia Town, was because of the mining disaster in Tongjia Town a few years ago.

Two years ago, in the middle of summer, it rained heavily for several weeks in Tongjia Town, and as a result, the rhododendron mine was soaked in water, and more than a dozen people were stuffed in, and the only few excavators in the town happened to be borrowed to Xiaye City. It was when he was at a loss, the small boss of Canglanju, who was always smiling, took the initiative to find Director Yang, and used a pair of alloy exoskeleton robotic arms for firefighting in the security station, together with the young people in the town, to dig out a life-saving passage with the alloy robotic arm before the water completely flooded the safety hole, and more than a dozen miners were all saved. After the rescue, Hugo also vomited blood due to overwork and was in a coma all night. From that day on, Director Yang and other people in Tongjia Town really regarded Hugo as a part of their side, and Canglanju, like his owner, became the most popular restaurant in Tongjia Town.

Today, the owner of the most popular restaurant in Tongjia Town heard the staff officer of the Second Garrison Department from Shangdu say that if he let him be a cook for a few days, the huge debt owed by his father would be written off, and his brain was blank, and he didn't know what to say. When the people of Tongjia Town, who were watching outside the mediation hall of the public security office, heard this, they were even more eager to remove their ears and wash them with an automatic cleaning machine to listen to them again. Did you hear that right? If you go to be a cook for a few days, the huge debt of hundreds of thousands will be written off? This staff officer probably has a broken head...... The noise in the crowd gradually subsided, and the big guys crowded at the door looked at each other, and then they all looked at Hugo.

It was Sister Hong who reacted first, she suppressed her voice that was slightly trembling because of excitement, leaned over and asked softly, "...... Are you serious? You can't be a big officer who speaks, you can't count, Director Yang is listening here......"

Lian Kecheng looked at Hugo, who was still stunned, with a smile, and said, "Of course my words count." More than ten years ago, when I was a federal road maintenance soldier, our road maintenance team was near Tongjia Town, which was still very small and not many people, but it was also very beautiful. At the beginning of summer, a whole field of dark green grass covers the surrounding wilderness, flowing quietly like water with the wind. Saying that, Lian Kecheng looked at the gray and white main building of the police station outside the window, and there was a look of nostalgia in his eyes: "I still remember that this was a large pothole at that time, and it was muddy when it rained. Lian Kecheng retracted his gaze, took a sip of the teacup and looked at Hugo and said: "The Federal Garrison sent me to take charge of the safety of the winter fishing in Lake Milal in a month's time. More than ten years ago, I met this old man because of Tongjia Town, but because of the separation of Tongjia Town, I wanted a good cook in Tongjia Town. ”

"Before the colonel came to Tongjia Town this time, he sent people to inquire about the local good restaurants and people who are skilled in cooking, and some of them recommended your Canglanju and the little boss you. Your father happens to owe a loan from Tongshengfang, which is why today's mediation is here. Adjutant Xu looked at Hugo and said in a deep voice.

Hugo understood this, and then laughed at himself, for the people in Shangdu, the money they have to earn for half their lives may really be insignificant to them, and it is not even as good as a good table to entertain friends.

"The greater the difference in people's social position and identity, the greater the difference in ideology and values. You're right......" Hugo whispered to himself, "But what does this have to do with me, I still have to wipe your ass......"

Lao Yang watched Hugo not squeak for a long time, just lowered his head and muttered to himself, anxiously put down the LCD notebook in his hand, and gently knocked on the desktop in front of Hugo with the knuckle of his index finger. Hugo heard Lao Yang's voice, reacted, raised his chin and nodded at Lao Yang, and then looked at Sister Hong sitting next to him. Sister Hong kept nodding her head, her eyes were full of joy, and she flashed excitedly: Hundreds of thousands of debts are written off, not to mention the banquet of the big officers at the chef of Lake Miral? I'm afraid it's not a private banquet, it's a fish banquet on the day of winter fishing! I'm afraid that the signboard of Canglanju will go to Xiaye City, and when the time comes, those lords in Xiaye City will also have to follow the taste to Canglanju...... The more Sister Hong thought about it, the happier she became, and she couldn't wait to stand up and squeeze Hugo's hand and shake it well, thinking that it was hopeless to repay the debt, and even wanted to pawn the family property for Yuqiu's old bastard, but she didn't expect that a bad thing would become a good thing, and it was a great good thing......

Hugo took a deep breath, put his slightly trembling hand on the table, and said, "Thank you Colonel for your trust, I will do my best." I don't know what the specific requirements are, and ......"

"Wait."

Hugo was interrupted by a sudden voice at the door of the mediation hall. Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw a fat man in his forties standing at the door of the mediation hall, with a short, stocky stature, and a brown beanie with a low front. Xu is crowd is too crowded and standing for a long time, the fat man squeezed out of the crowd with two steps on the door frame, and stood in the mediation hall panting and took off the hat on his head, showing a shiny bald head.

"Staff Officer Company, Director Yang." The low and fat man held the hat in his left hand and raised his chest lightly, bowed slightly, and said loudly: "I have also opened a small restaurant in Tongjia Town, for decades, I ask myself that I am more proficient in cooking skills than the small boss of the rain, maybe I am more suitable for the staff chef......"

"Oh?" Lian Kecheng obviously didn't expect such a play, and couldn't help laughing. "The federation says that Xia Ye is a place where you are at ease from the bones, and now it seems that Xia Ye people really have something to say, and they dare to fight, I appreciate you."

Sister Hong saw that the familiar low and fat man squeezed out of the crowd and said this, the nameless fire in her heart rose early, glared at him and gritted her teeth and said viciously: "Which pants are not zipped, and you are exposed." ”