After Jing'er finished the meeting today, she said to the old man: "Have you made an appointment with anyone at noon? Let's have dinner together!"
The old man was a little flattered. After Jing'er got married, he had very little communication with him. Unless they were at home, the two of them never went out to eat alone. He didn't expect that Jing'er would take the initiative to ask him out, so he nodded hastily and agreed.
"I'll ask Assistant Yang to book a table!" the old man said happily, the smile lines on his face getting deeper and deeper.
"No need to book a table, I have a good place to go." Jing'er said with a smile, "I'll call you after get off work. Just let the driver rest and I'll drive there with you."
"That's great!" the old man said. Looking at Jing'er, he always felt that there was something strange in her smile, but he couldn't tell why it was strange. It seemed that she didn't just want him to go to dinner. Could it be that she had other plans?
The old man has been designing many people, and he always feels that he will be set up by others all the time. But he can't take precautions, because in the understanding of Jing'er and Lin Lefeng, this is a contract marriage, but the old man sincerely treats Jing'er
The son has become his granddaughter-in-law, so he longs for a quiet place to cultivate the relationship between grandfather and grandson with his granddaughter-in-law.
The old man thought that Jing'er would take him to some special restaurants for dinner, but he didn't expect that it was an affordable seafood restaurant. There are many seafood restaurants in New City. Because it is close to the sea, people in New City are not very keen on eating seafood, but there are many tourists from other places.
I still like it very much, so I opened one affordable seafood restaurant after another. Because the price is relatively low, it attracts many local middle and lower class people and foreigners to patronize. The old man also eats seafood occasionally, but basically he goes to more high-end hotels to eat expensive food.
I rarely come to such a popular seafood restaurant to eat seafood. This is because the seafood sold in such restaurants is relatively common and cheap, such as scallops, clams, turtles, shrimps, crabs, etc., abalone, lobsters, etc., are not available in a slightly higher quality.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier if you wanted to eat seafood? I can call Uncle Tao to reserve some for you." The old man said to Jing'er.
Jing'er took him to find a table by the window and sat down. She smiled and said, "Maybe the seafood here has another flavor?"
The old man asked strangely: "What flavor? Aren't they all the same?"
Jing'er shrugged, "You won't know until you try it." She looked up and looked around. The restaurant was not big, about two hundred square meters at a glance. Business was good, and the lunch market was basically full. The counter was on the right side of the door.
There is a wine cabinet behind the counter, and regular customers usually store wine here. They usually drink it all in one sitting, write their names on it, and continue drinking when they come next time. There is a long-haired woman sitting at the counter, and there are about three people.
She is about ten years old and has a round face. She occasionally looks up at the customers in the store, and then she has a satisfied smile on her lips. She should be the proprietress of this restaurant.
The waiters wore yellow jackets and shuttled among the guests to serve food and tea. The service was quite attentive.
Jing'er called the waiter and said familiarly: "Hey, why don't you see the boss today?"
The waiter took out a pen and paper to place an order. When he heard Jing'er ask, he replied: "The boss went to get the goods and will be back in a while. Miss, are you familiar with our boss?"
Jing'er smiled and said, "I'm not familiar with it. I just used to eat here often, so I think we know each other." She saw a sign hanging on the chest of the waiter that said intern, so she knew that she was new here, so
Say this.
As expected, the waiter believed her. She smiled and said, "Oh, we are all regular customers. So what do you want to eat today?"
Jing'er thought for a while, "Your boss used to make the decision for me. It's really nerve-wracking to order food. I don't know what to eat. Do you have any suggestions?"
The waiter said: "How about a pound of mantis shrimp and steamed scallops with vermicelli and garlic paste."
Jing'er frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Is there anything special? Are there lobsters? What about geoducks? Or fresh abalone?"
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then looked a little happy and said, "Miss, wait a minute, I'll ask the landlady." After that, he walked quickly to the counter.
Jing'er saw her saying something to the proprietress at the counter. The proprietress looked over with surprised eyes. After a while, the proprietress came over in person. With a smile on her face, she said: "Miss, you want to eat lobster? Really?
By coincidence, there wasn't one originally, but because a customer called to make a reservation last night, the customer didn't come today, so we can give it to the lady."
The person who called to make a reservation last night was Yuxuan, who was arranged by Jing'er. This kind of seafood restaurant usually does not carry expensive seafood, but it will be available if you call to make a reservation. Yuxuan's phone was turned off today, so the restaurant could not contact her.
Yuxuan, when the landlady was feeling worried, Jing'er's appearance made her ecstatic.
Jing'er smiled and said, "That's great, place an order for me right away. Where's the lobster, baked with cheese, steamed fresh abalone, and a pound of salted mantis shrimp."
The proprietress quickly asked the waiter to place the order, and then personally added tea to the old man and Jinger.
Jing'er took a sip, said thank you, and then asked casually: "I remember there used to be a seafood restaurant across the street, why is it now a Hunan cuisine restaurant?"
The landlady looked a little strange, but she soon regained her composure and said with a smile, "Oh, she stopped making it and passed it on to someone else."
"Oh, that's such a pity. I've been there once. The chef's skills there are pretty good and the business is pretty good. Why did he suddenly stop doing it?" Jing'er said with a hint of regret.
The landlady reluctantly said, "Then the landlady must have gone back to take care of her grandson? Or maybe she has earned enough? I don't know that much."
Jing'er smiled, "Maybe."
The landlady once again served tea to Jing'er and the old man, and said, "Miss, wait a minute. I'll go to the kitchen and watch them make it."
Jing'er said: "Okay, thank you!"
After the landlady left, the old man looked at Jinger seriously and said, "You have evil intentions!"
Jinger rolled her eyes at her, "Are you talking about me or her?"
"You are the same as her." The old man hummed.
Jing'er was a little surprised and asked: "Oh? Let's not talk about me first. Can you tell me how she has evil intentions?"
The old man glanced at the Hunan Restaurant opposite and said: "This seafood restaurant and the predecessor of the Hunan Restaurant across the street opened at almost the same time. However, there was a fire in the restaurant opposite and several people were killed. Later, the owner applied for insurance money to reopen.
After renovating it, I rented it to a Hunanese to open a Hunan restaurant. The proprietress was also burned to death, but she said that he had gone back to take care of his grandson. It was clear that he even cursed his grandson, and he was not an ordinary vicious person."
Jing'er raised her eyebrows, "How do you know so much?"
The old man smiled with a somewhat arrogant expression, "Because I purchased all the shops in this area privately, and I am the owner."
Jing'er hadn't investigated yet, so she couldn't help but feel a little surprised. She asked, "How much do you know about the inside story of the fire?"
However, the old man took advantage of Qiao and glanced at Jinger, "It's a lie that you came to me for dinner today. You have another purpose. Tell you your purpose and I will tell you what I know."
Jing'er raised her eyebrows and raised her eyes, "You old man, why don't you bargain with me?"
The old man drank tea with a leisurely expression, "You don't have to hide it from me. Anyway, I know all your secrets."
Jing'er pretended to beat him, but he chuckled, "I'm not Le Feng, you dare to beat me?"
Jing'er snorted, "I'll go back and beat your grandson tonight to see if you feel bad or not."
The old man smiled slyly and said: "I can't see anything now!"