Lao Wu raised his hand to throw away the whole pack of cigarettes, but Meng Shi stopped, "Don't, if you lose it now, you have to stop and buy it, trouble." ”

It's so easy to quit.

Meng Shi quit three times in two months, each time for a few days, and then smoked more fiercely.

The fifth child smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.

Li Jiangshan pulled the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy beside him and said to Meng Shi, "You help me take care of Li Ji for a while." ”

Meng Shi recognized Li Ji, and that day in Li Jiangshan's private restaurant, he came to deliver the ingredients.

At that time, Li Jiangshan wanted to sell the store to pay liquidated damages to "Qin Chuan", so that Li Ji would not use it to clean in the future.

Li Ji didn't understand and asked, can I come to practice knife work?

Meng Shi knew that Jia Shudao couldn't take away the liquidated damages, and Li Jiangshan didn't have to sell the store, so he said, come on.

But that's not what he said.

"What can I take care of him?" Meng Shi didn't look like Li Jiangshan was joking, and said, "He doesn't look too young, you can take care of yourself, or I'll take him to the station, he will go home first, and when you come back to open a shop, he will come back." ”

"His parents separated when he was a child, and now they have their own families, so they don't care about him." Li Jiangshan reached out and touched Li Ji's head, "I originally wanted him to go back to my mother, but this kid didn't want to go back." ”

As she spoke, she took out a bunch of keys and handed them to Meng Shi, "He can take care of himself, but I am not in the capital, so I can't rest assured, you can help me take care of it......"

"I don't go home, I don't need to be taken care of, I practice knife skills in the shop by myself!" Li Ji obviously didn't want to be treated like a child.

Meng Shi couldn't help but think of himself who left home and came to the capital, he was not afraid of anything, and his face was dio.

So, Meng Shi didn't say anything, and reached out to take the key in Li Jiangshan's hand.

"Come back and invite you for a drink." Li Jiangshan turned his head and got into the car.

Seeing this, Li Ji didn't look around, obviously very angry.

Two cars with white towels hanging from their rearview mirrors drove away.

Meng Shi put the key left by Li Jiangshan in his pocket and said to Li Ji, "Let's go." ”

"You give me the key, and I'll go to the store." Li Ji stretched out his hand to Meng Shi.

Meng Shi ignored him and walked to the bus stop on his own.

The key to the store was in Meng Shi's hand, and Li Ji had no choice but to follow him.

Meng Shi didn't say anything, and if my parents were divorced when I was a child, I came to distance myself from Li Ji.

He asked, "Do you like to cook?" Want to be a chef? ”

Li Ji didn't answer, and looked at Meng Shi stubbornly, "I don't need you to take care of me." ”

"I don't want to take care of you either, who isn't a baby yet."

Meng Shi's actual age is only in his early twenties, not a few years older than Li Ji. It's just that he is comfortable with whomever he is, so it's easy for people to subconsciously ignore this.

"Then you give me the key." Li Ji stretched out his hand again.

When the bus Meng Shi was waiting for arrived, he went up directly.

The key was in Meng Shi's hand, and Li Ji could only follow him to the car.

No. 9 is unmanned, Meng Shi went to the CY area, threw two yuan, turned back to Li Ji and said, "Two yuan, you give it yourself." ”

Li Ji snorted, reached out and touched his pocket, and found that there was no change.

At this time, the driver glanced at the two of them and shouted, "Get in the car and put coins, and people go inside!" ”

Li Ji gritted his teeth, took out a ten-yuan sheet, and stuffed it directly into the ticket box.

Meng Shi smiled and said to the driver, "Master, you see that he invested ten yuan to go in." ”

The driver started the car and replied, "No change." ”

"Didn't let you give change, I mean, wait for someone to come up, he'll charge eight bucks."

"This one does."

This is a lot of things that the driver has encountered. It's just that two young men have never seen such a thing, after all, young people love face.

When Li Ji heard that Meng Shi asked him to collect money at the door, he was anxious, "I don't want it." ”

Children from unsound families are more sensitive and have stronger self-esteem than the average person.

Throwing more money into the bus, and then asking the next wave of people to collect tickets, this thing feels humiliating when you think about it.

Meng Shi knows this kind of psychology very well, and too much self-esteem is actually another kind of inferiority.

It's not good, it needs to be polished.

Meng Shi felt a sense of responsibility surging in his heart. Li Jiangshan was right to hand him over to me.

"You do as I say, and I'll give you the key." Meng Shi took out the key in his pocket, and the key ring was clasped around his finger.

Li Ji stretched out his hand to grab it, but Meng Shi raised his hand and pinched the key in the palm of his hand and raised it high.

Li Ji jumped up subconsciously.

"Don't mess around here! If you vote more, you can collect it here, I don't care, make trouble in the car, I'll send you to the police station! ”

The driver's scolding made Li Ji's face red, and he felt that everyone in the carriage was staring at him and scratching all over.

Meng Shi didn't care what the others thought, and shook the key in his hand, and the keys collided with each other, making a crisp sound.

It wasn't until Li Ji's eyes seemed to be about to erupt that he said: "This is the key to the kitchen, you really like to cook, you want to practice knife work, you can't do this thing?" ”

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After getting off the bus, Li Ji stared at Meng Shi deadly, he felt that his face in his life was lost, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You can give me the key!" ”

Meng Shi shrugged, "You haven't answered my question yet." ”

"You!" Li Ji clenched his fists, his chest kept rising and falling, obviously angry, "What do you want!" ”

"I asked you if you really wanted to learn how to cook."

"Yes!" Li Ji really wanted to punch Meng Shi in the face.

Meng Shi looked at his flushed face, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I know a master of Lu cuisine......"

Li Ji twisted his shoulders and raised his hand to knock Meng Shi off his shoulder, "I'll learn from my aunt!" ”

"I didn't let you apprentice." Meng Shi walked towards the Hongjie Building, where Qingxue Media was located, and said, "Look, if you practice knife work in Li Jiangshan's store, what will happen to the ingredients cut out?" ”

"And she doesn't know when she will come back, maybe ten days and half a month, maybe a month or two, is this the time you have been consuming wasted ingredients? And your daily living expenses, the water and electricity bills in the store, all these money have to be given by her. ”

Meng Shi walked forward quickly, no matter what Li Ji thought, and continued:

"I know she must be happy to train you, and she won't care about the money."

"But what do you think in your heart?"

"This is my aunt, she deserves to be good to me, I can love her in her store?"

"I deserve to suck her blood in this life?"

Li Ji was angry when he heard Meng Shi say this. "I didn't take it for granted! She was so good to me, I remember it all! ”

Meng Shi's hurried footsteps suddenly stopped, turned around and handed over the key, "Go, let's practice knife work." ”

Li Ji was stunned by Meng Shi's transformation, looked at the key in his hand, and did not reach out to take it.

He lowered his head and was silent for a few seconds, and said in a low voice: "The master of Lu cuisine you said ......"

"What I just said is that I am afraid that Li Jiangshan will raise a white-eyed wolf, eat her, drink her, use her, and I don't know how to be grateful in my heart, but now I know that you have this heart, and it is enough."

Meng Shi said, and directly stuffed the key into Li Ji's hand.

Li Ji clenched the key tightly and did not speak.

Meng Shi rubbed his head like an elder and said, "Go back, buy some ingredients every day and practice hard, I believe that you don't need anyone to take care of you, you are already a mature adult." ”

"I don't need my aunt's money anymore, I can rely on myself!" Li Ji shook his head vigorously, "You're right, she doesn't know when she will be able to come back, I can go somewhere else to help first!" ”

Li Ji made a statement, but Meng Shi looked embarrassed, "That...... Actually......"

He said very entangledly: "Let's put it this way, this great chef Cheng Cui Hualou's former head chef Mr. Zhang Dezhang has first-class skills. ”

He only heard Ye Shangmo say this yesterday, and he is now learning and selling.

"He is now alone in the alley, opening a small restaurant, and cooking some of the dishes he wants to cook every day."

Li Ji listened very carefully.

Li Ji of Cuihualou knew that Li Jiangshan had taken him to eat in all the major restaurants in Sijiu City.

He suddenly felt that the chef in Meng Shi's mouth was like a reclusive master in the world, if he could learn a few points, his aunt should be happy, and couldn't help but say anxiously, "I'll go to him, I'm not afraid of hardship, and I don't want to be paid!" ”

"He's not short of helpers." Meng Shi shook his head, "If you want to go to his store, you have to give him money." ”

"Give him money?" Li Ji was dumbfounded.

Then I pondered, I still have to pay for teaching when I go to New Oriental, and I don't have to pay money to learn things in the master store of Lu cuisine.

"How much?" Li Ji saved thousands of yuan by himself, but he didn't know if it was enough.

Meng Shi took out the phone, "That's it, I'll make a call for you to see if he can give me some face." ”

Meng Shi said and dialed Old Man Lu's phone, then turned on the speakerphone, and signaled Li Ji not to speak.

"What? When will you give me the two hundred food money you paid yesterday? ”

As soon as the phone was connected, the old man's voice came out.

Meng Shi pointed to his mobile phone, shook his head helplessly at Li Ji, and then said politely:

"Chef Lu, I called today to ask, I want to help you in the store for a period of time, how much do you think is appropriate?"

Meng Shi has never been so polite since he first met him, he has always opened his mouth and closed his mouth to the old man, and the old man is called.

Old man Lu heard him say this, and his first reaction was - this wilted radish must be not kind.

"Help in my shop? How much is the right amount to give? If you give me tens of thousands of yuan, I can consider it! ”

After Old Man Lu finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Not to mention, the feeling of hanging up the phone like this is quite cool.

The first two times, Meng Shi hung up on him like this, and now he is beautiful.

Li Ji was completely dumbfounded when he heard the other end of the phone say tens of thousands of yuan.

This is still Meng Shi asked, if he is a stranger, he must not be 100,000! "I'm not going......"

Meng Shi looked at Li Ji seriously, "Do you really want to be a good chef?" This opportunity is rare. ”

Li Ji nodded firmly, and was frustrated, "But I don't have so much money." ”

Meng Shi patted him on the shoulder, "I'll help you out with this money!" ”

"Huh? I don't have the money to pay it back. Li Ji looked at Meng Shi blankly, if he didn't know that the person in front of him had a good relationship with his aunt, he would have thought that he had met a fraudster.

"You don't have to pay it back." Meng Shi shook his head, "I have a short film here, and this money is my salary for you in advance." ”

"Salary? Tens of thousands? What kind of short film? Li Ji began to panic.

"Serious short film." Meng Shi led him to Hongjie Building, "Have you seen "Thorn Qin"? Does the person who played Jing Ke know? ”

The popularity of "Thorn Qin" is very high.

Li Ji nodded, "Guan Bin is my idol." ”

The actor who plays Jing Ke is called Guan Bin, a young actor in his twenties, and his acting skills are outstanding.

Meng Shi said solemnly: "I need three actors for this short film, and now there are two, one is named Chen You, who is now the leading actor of a movie, the director of this film, who won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, and the other is Guan Bin, and the last one is for you." ”

"Huh?!" When Li Ji heard such a formality, he waved his hand again and again, "I can't do it, I can't do it!" ”

Meng Shi looked at him seriously, "Be confident!" The top Lu cuisine master of Cuihua Building is waiting for you! Whether you can make your aunt proud of you depends on this wave! ”

"How could I possibly act."

"According to the play, it will work."

"Script? I have a headache when I read a book. ”

"There are emojis, you watch the emojis in the script."

"Huh? Memes? ”

"Gone, gone, so decided."

Meng Shi said, and quickly stepped into the Hongjie Building.

Li Ji followed him, panicked.