"Come, eat some food. These are my hotel's signature dishes. They all taste good. Try them." Wang Aiqin greeted.
"Hey, okay..." Ma Xiaoyao picked up the chopsticks. Just as he was about to pick up the vegetables, his hand suddenly stopped. Then he raised his head and looked at Wang Aiqin: "Um, Mr. Wang, there's nothing special about eating, right?" Ma Xiaoyao was asking.
The rules for drinking red wine have changed.
Wang Aiqin was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "It doesn't matter, just eat whatever you want..."
"That's good." Ma Xiaoyao felt relieved, picked up the chopsticks and started eating: "Well, not bad, the braised pork is very fragrant and tender... Well, the pork trotters are also cooked well..."
Seeing Ma Xiaoyao devouring his food, Wang Aiqin suddenly couldn't help but laugh.
"Uh...Mr. Wang, why are you laughing?" Ma Xiaoyao stopped picking up vegetables and looked at Wang Aiqin in confusion.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just find it interesting to see you eating." Wang Aiqin said with a smile.
"...Well, Mr. Wang, I look a little ugly when I eat, I hope you won't be offended..." Ma Xiaoyao said embarrassedly.
"No, no, I don't mean anything else, I just... How should I put it, I have hosted a lot of officials over the years. No matter they talk, drink or eat, they are all serious and almost unsmiling. Like you
This is the first time I have seen such a casual official," Wang Aiqin explained.
"Is the king always praising me or degrading me?" Ma Xiaoyao smiled.
"Of course I'm complimenting you." Wang Aiqin picked up the wine glass: "Deputy Section Chief Ma, let me toast you."
Ma Xiaoyao put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine glass and touched it with Wang Aiqin. Just as he was about to drink it down, he suddenly remembered that it was red wine. He hurriedly stabilized the glass and took a small sip. The wine was good, but it was a pity that it was not a happy drink. Ma Xiaoyao
Xiaoyao secretly cursed in his heart: I wonder which bastard invented the method of drinking red wine? Isn't this torturing people?
The wine table is the place where the most emotional connections are made. No, after a few glasses of wine, the relationship between Ma Xiaoyao and Wang Aiqin became much closer, and they began to talk more casually.
"Mr. Wang, to be honest, I really admire you. With your own efforts, you have created such a huge industry, which is better than big men like us." Ma Xiaoyao said with admiration.
"Alas... you only see my glamor on the surface, but not the hardships behind me." Wang Aiqin said with a wry smile: "In the beginning of my business, I suffered too many hardships and tests. In order to save business capital, I worked all day long.
I had several jobs, moving bricks on a construction site during the day, and working as a waiter in a bar at night. I could only sleep four or five hours a day, and that didn't count. When I was working as a waiter in a bar, I was harassed by many customers. If I hadn't been alert, I don't know what would have happened.
How much loss will I suffer? One time, a customer deliberately tried to get me drunk, and then did that disgraceful thing... Fortunately, the manager of the bar came to help me out, otherwise I would have suffered a lot that time...
"Speaking of this, Wang Aiqin sighed softly: "I wanted to give up many times, but in the end I persisted. I can persist until today only with one breath and one breath of unwillingness to admit defeat. I have always persisted.
I firmly believe in one sentence: If you put in the effort, there will be rewards. Although the rewards are not necessarily directly proportional to the effort, if you put in the effort, you will have the hope of success. If you don’t put in the effort, you will never have the hope of success.”
Ma Xiaoyao nodded: "Mr. Wang is right, one must work tirelessly and never admit defeat. Once one surrenders to fate, he will only do nothing in this life."
Wang Aiqin picked up the wine glass and took a sip: "When I started doing business, it was not very smooth. I lost money several times, but I finally got over it. In fact, I never thought that I would be able to achieve what I am today. At that time, I just thought
It was enough to become a millionaire, but then I encountered several good opportunities and made the company bigger all of a sudden. The assets under my name now are estimated to be tens of millions." Wang Aiqin has never counted her own wealth.
One can only roughly estimate the number.
"Mr. Wang, you are a role model for our generation, we should all learn from you." Ma Xiaoyao said sincerely.
"Deputy Section Chief Ma, you really praise me too much. I am not a role model. I just have better luck." Wang Aiqin said modestly.
"Mr. Wang, I heard that you want to expand overseas markets?" Ma Xiaoyao suddenly asked.
Wang Aiqin nodded: "Yes, now that the country is vigorously developing foreign export trade, I also want to get a share of the pie. If this big cake in the foreign market is ready, the profits will definitely be astronomical."
"Mr. Wang is so courageous." Ma Xiaoyao praised.
"It's better to say that I am ambitious than courageous. I want to open up foreign markets, just because I want to make more money." Wang Aiqin did not hide her thoughts.
Ma Xiaoyao admired Wang Aiqin's straightforwardness. Wang Aiqin was an ambitious woman but not pretentious. She was a friend worth keeping.
"Deputy Section Chief Ma, you must be in your early twenties, right?" Wang Aiqin brought the topic to Ma Xiaoyao: "It's amazing that you became the Deputy Section Chief at such a young age."
"Mr. Wang made a mistake this time. I am not even in my early twenties. I am already a man. As for the deputy section chief... To be honest, there are many people at my age in the city who are deputy section chiefs. Even
There are many people who serve as section chiefs and deputy directors, so I really don’t mean anything." Ma Xiaoyao waved his hand and said modestly.
"Is Deputy Section Chief Ma almost 30 years old? I really didn't see it!" Wang Aiqin's face was full of surprise.
Ma Xiaoyao smiled, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a harsh ringtone coming from outside. Ma Xiaoyao was startled: "What is the sound?"
Wang Aiqin's expression suddenly changed when she heard the ringtone: "No, this is the fire alarm ringtone!"
"The fire alarm bell..." Ma Xiaoyao was startled, and then his face changed drastically: "So, there is a fire outside..." As he spoke, Ma Xiaoyao stood up and strode to the door. As soon as he opened the door,
Thick smoke rushed in, choking Ma Xiaoyao and causing him to cough. Ma Xiaoyao covered his nose, took a look outside, then quickly retracted his body, and closed the door.
"How is the situation outside?" Wang Aiqin walked over and asked anxiously.
Ma Xiaoyao leaned against the wall and took a deep breath: "There's a fire outside... such a big fire..."
"It's fine, why did it catch on fire?" Wang Aiqin frowned. At this moment, the mobile phone in Wang Aiqin's pocket rang. Wang Aiqin hurriedly picked up the mobile phone to answer the call. After listening to a few words, his expression changed. Wang Aiqin put down the mobile phone.
, said to Ma Xiaoyao: "The gas tank in the kitchen on the fourth floor exploded, causing a fire. Now the fire has burned to the fifth floor! Someone has called the police now, and the fire truck will arrive soon!" At this point, Wang Aiqin paused.
Next: "But the fire station is more than 20 kilometers away from here. It is estimated that it will take at least half an hour for the fire truck to arrive at the scene." There are two kitchens in the restaurant, one on the first floor and the other on the second floor.
On the fourth floor, the gas tank explosion occurred in the kitchen on the fourth floor.
"Half an hour?" Ma Xiaoyao's face darkened: "I'm afraid we can't wait half an hour."
"Kakaka..."
A strange noise suddenly sounded. Ma Xiaoyao looked back and found that the door to the VIP room had begun to slowly deform. A burning smell came out within a moment. Ma Xiaoyao's expression changed: "No, the fire has already reached here.
"It's gone!" Wang Aiqin used a lot of wood to decorate the hotel, so the fire spread so quickly.
"What should I do?" Wang Aiqin asked anxiously.
"Go through the window!" Ma Xiaoyao glanced around and walked towards the window sill diagonally opposite. When Ma Xiaoyao opened the curtains, he was stunned. There was a security net welded outside the window, making it impossible to get out.
"All the windows in this building are equipped with anti-theft nets. It is impossible to get out through the windows. Besides, this is the fifth floor. Even if we can open the windows, we can't escape." Wang Aiqin said from behind: "We are still here.
Just wait, this VIP room is built quite solidly, and it should be okay to hold on for half an hour. As long as the firefighters arrive at the scene, we will be saved..."
Before Wang Aiqin finished speaking, she heard a crisp sound of "crack, crackle...", cracks appeared on the surrounding walls, and large areas of white ash fell off the walls.
"What's going on?" Wang Aiqin was frightened.
Ma Xiaoyao's face twitched several times: "The wall was roasted by the fire... Mr. Wang, if we wait any longer, we will probably be burned into dried meat."
"What should we do?" Wang Aiqin was really anxious: "It will take more than twenty minutes for the firefighters to arrive..."
Ma Xiaoyao shook his head: "We can no longer count on firefighters."
Wang Aiqin was stunned: "Then who should I count on? My two bodyguards were blocked by the fire and couldn't get in, and the other waiters can't even count on them."
Ma Xiaoyao breathed out softly: "Now we can only count on ourselves." As he spoke, Ma Xiaoyao took off his coat, then tore it into two pieces, and then wet the two pieces of clothing with tea.
"What are you doing?" Wang Aiqin asked doubtfully.
Ma Xiaoyao handed one of the wet clothes to Wang Aiqin: "Cover your mouth with this, let's rush out."
"What?" Wang Aiqin's eyes suddenly widened: "Rush out? There is such a fire outside, it will be very dangerous for us to rush out!"
Ma Xiaoyao frowned: "If we rush out now, we may still survive. If we stay here all the time, we will definitely be burned to death!"
I wonder if he was confirming what Ma Xiaoyao said. As soon as Ma Xiaoyao finished speaking, the cracks on the surrounding walls gradually became larger. Countless dust fell off the walls. Flames and thick smoke could be faintly seen through the cracks.
Flowing into the VIP room along the cracks, what made Wang Aiqin most uneasy was that slight cracks began to appear on the ground.
Ma Xiaoyao grinned, the quality of this building is too inferior.
