After hearing his father's instructions, Zhao Tiekai naturally agreed: "Dad, you are right. Xue Chen is my buddy. Of course I have to treat him well. You don't need to tell me."
"Well, that's good. As for the competition, don't worry about it." Zhao Sihai said.
Zhao Tiekai nodded in agreement.
"Game, what game?" Xue Chen took a sip of tea and asked casually after sitting down.
"Oh, it's a chef competition. It's like this. In order to promote tourism in Bao City, the Municipal Tourism Bureau and the Health Bureau jointly organized a cooking competition and invited some medium and large restaurants in Bao City to participate. My second uncle represents us.
I went to the hotel to participate and made it to the top eight two days ago." Zhao Tiekai sat aside and briefly talked with a smile, talking about his second uncle, who was also the chef of the hotel.
"The top eight? That's really good craftsmanship. No wonder the food just now was so delicious. Maybe we can get the first place." Xue Chen said with a smile,
"First of all, I don't want to think about it. It's not certain whether I can advance from the quarter-finals to the semi-finals in the next competition." Zhao Sihai sat aside and said.
The three people chatted in high spirits for a while. Suddenly, the office door was knocked open, and a waitress said with a somewhat unpleasant expression: "Mr. Zhao, manager, those three people came over again and refused to pay the bill after finishing their meal.
Said the food was unclean."
Zhao Tiekai stood up in a hurry, stared, and said angrily: "It's really a slap in the face, no end, it's too much!"
"Take me to have a look." Zhao Sihai frowned, stood up, nodded to Xue Chen and walked out of the office, following the waiter.
"Xue Chen, you stay here for a while, I'll go over there." Zhao Tiekai turned around and said to Xue Chen before going out.
"Let me go with you. What happened?" Xue Chen stood up and walked out of the office. Seeing an angry look on Zhao Tiekai's face, he asked.
"It's three little scoundrels. This is the third time this month that they have come to find trouble." Zhao Tiekai took a deep breath and spoke to Xue Chen in a deep voice as he walked over.
The three gangsters came to the hotel for dinner three times, but each time there were twists and turns and caused a lot of trouble to the hotel. The first time, all three of them were drunk and vomited in the lobby, causing trouble in the lobby.
There was an unpleasant smell, and many diners felt disgusted and left in a hurry.
The second time, they were also drunk. As soon as they walked out of the hotel door, they started urinating in front of the door. When Zhao Tiekai found out, the three of them had already pulled up their pants. As a result, the door was stinky and they used several buckets.
The water was flushed cleanly, but it also affected the business during the meal.
"Drunk?"
"Huh, of course I'm pretending to be drunk, just deliberately looking for trouble." Zhao Tiekai said with a cold face.
"Who did it?" After Xue Chen asked, he suddenly remembered the restaurant called Mingxuan opposite, and blurted out, "Is it that restaurant opposite?"
"Although there is no evidence, it should be." Zhao Tiekai frowned and nodded.
Xue Chen suddenly understood. The two restaurants were just across the street and were of similar size. So the competition must be very fierce. It was not surprising that they would make some small moves.
When the two of them were talking, they had already walked to an open private room door. Zhao Sihai was standing inside the private room door. There were three men in their thirties and less than forty sitting at the dining table in front of them. All of them were drinking and their faces were red.
One was lazily leaning on a chair, another was picking his teeth, and another was talking to Zhao Sihai with squinting eyes.
The three of them were all wearing vests, and without exception they all had tattoos on their arms, either dragons or tigers. Coupled with the malicious looks on their faces, they only had two big characters carved on their foreheads: Ruffian.
"You are the boss here. Well, take a look, what is this?" The one who spoke was the strongest of the three men, who seemed to be the leader. He was wearing a black vest and his hair was shaved very short, revealing his green hair.
He looked at Zhao Sihai with crooked eyebrows and pointed at a plate next to him.
Zhao Sihai took a look, and Zhao Tiekai took a look after he walked in. Both of their expressions turned very bad.
Xue Chen stood quietly aside after entering. He glanced at the three ruffians first, and then glanced at the table. A total of seven or eight dishes were eaten in a mess, leaving only some soup and water, and the wine bottles were also filled.
table.
There was clearly a foreign object left in the plate that the leader was pointing at, which was a dead gray-brown cockroach the size of the pad of his little finger.
Seeing the dead cockroaches on the plate, Xue Chen raised his eyebrows and chuckled in his heart, secretly thinking that this was a method of finding trouble that would not be out of date even after a thousand years of use.
"I think you are old, so you may not be able to see clearly. Then let me tell you, this is a dead cockroach!" The man in the black vest pointed hard with his hand several times, tilted his mouth, and spoke loudly.
said.
Zhao Sihai frowned and said in a calm tone: "The hygiene in the kitchen of our hotel is very good. There is no way there are cockroaches, let alone in the dishes."
"Tch, if you say hygiene is good, it is good. I only believe my own eyes!" The man in the black vest snorted heavily.
Zhao Tiekai clenched his fists angrily and said angrily: "Don't think we don't know where the cockroaches came from. You must have brought them in and put them on the plate!"
Seeing what Zhao Tiekai said, the three ruffians all laughed strangely. The leader in the black vest sneered and said angrily: "Hey, you said we brought it in. What evidence do you have? If you have it, bring it out, otherwise be careful with us.
The three brothers are suing you for defamation."
"Yes, do you have evidence? If so, bring it out."
"Huh, if you don't have any evidence, just shut up."
The other two scoundrels yelled and laughed harshly.
Zhao Tiekai gritted his teeth and glared angrily, as if he couldn't help but beat these three people.
Not only Zhao Tiekai, but also Xue Chen on the side was disgusted. It was really unpleasant to meet such a scumbag. What's more, Zhao Tiekai also said that this is the third time this month that he has come to make trouble.
Zhao Sihai glanced at the three of them, with helplessness flashing in his eyes, and said: "You three, let's go, this meal is treated as an invitation to our hotel."
Zhao Tiekai seemed a little unconvinced, but was stopped by Zhao Sihai's eyes.
Seeing that Zhao Sihai chose to compromise, Xue Chen could probably understand that doing business was all about peace and wealth. The other party was deliberately looking for trouble. If the entanglement continued, it would be what the other party was most happy to see, and it might even affect the situation.
Other diners.
If other diners hear that someone has eaten cockroaches in their dishes, even if a discerning person knows that someone is deliberately causing trouble, it will definitely leave a shadow in their hearts, and more diners who don't know the truth will simply stop coming.
, apart from taste and service, the most important thing in a hotel should be hygiene.
Therefore, although it is useless to compromise, the best way to deal with it is to call the police. It has no effect at all. Without definite evidence, there is no way to deal with these three people. The most they can do is criticize and educate them.
Seeing that Zhao Sihai chose to compromise and not charge for the meal, the three ruffians quietly looked at each other, their eyes full of pride. The leader in the black vest snorted and said sarcastically to Zhao Tiekai: "Learn more
,Young people should not be so angry."
Zhao Tiekai gritted his teeth, and the blood vessels on his forehead burst. He was obviously furious.
"In that case, forget it. I hope the food will be a little cleaner next time we come to eat." The leading ruffian in a black vest stood up unsteadily.
The other two little ruffians also stood up, burping, and prepared to leave with satisfaction.
Zhao Sihai and Zhao Tiekai both took a step forward and opened the door, but Xue Chen stood still and did not move.
Seeing Xue Chen blocking the door, the leader in the black vest glanced sideways and said with a mouth full of alcohol: "Get out of the way, a good dog won't block the way."
Zhao Sihai sighed and said: "Xue Chen, let the three of them go."
Xue Chen looked back, his eyes filled with coldness, and said lightly: "You ate a cockroach while eating vegetables?"
"Not bad, any questions?" the black vest asked with his eyelids drooping.
Xue Chen raised his eyebrows and said suddenly: "Did you know, cockroaches are actually very delicious, chicken-flavored, crunchy and crunchy, and they are a great tonic, rich in protein, eight times as much as beef."
"What are you talking about? Cockroaches are delicious and chicken-flavored? Haha, have you ever eaten them?" The ruffian in the black vest laughed exaggeratedly, and then two people on the left and right said to him, "Hey, did you two hear that?
He said that cockroaches are delicious, but why are they eight times as good as beef? Did this kid have his head squeezed through the door?"
Xue Chen stared into the eyes of the ruffian in the black vest. Suddenly, an imperceptible silver light flashed through the depths of his pupils: "If you don't believe it, you can have a taste."
The black vest heard Xue Chen asking him to eat cockroaches and taste the cockroaches. He wanted to laugh, but also felt inexplicable. He turned back and looked at Xue Chen. He was about to call Xue Chen a lunatic and asked Xue Chen to get out of the way, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was too slow.
It closed slowly.
"This guy said cockroaches are delicious and asked Brother Gao to try them. It's really funny."
"Cockroaches are delicious, so why doesn't anyone eat them? You really think our brother Gao is a fool. Who would eat cockroaches to death?"
The two little gangsters, one on the left and the other on the right, were laughing and joking. They were both in a very good mood. They had a free meal and could get paid later. It was a good thing that you couldn't find even with a lantern, and you didn't have to worry about calling the police.
Because there was someone behind to protect the three of them.
At this moment, the man in the black vest who was facing Xue Chen, who was also referred to as Brother Gao by the other two ruffians, turned around and walked towards the dining table.
"Brother Gao, have you forgotten something?" A ruffian turned around and asked.
But Brother Gao didn't agree. He walked to the dining table and paused, then reached out and pinched the dead cockroach on the plate with two fingers.
"Um?"
Not only the other two ruffians, but also Zhao Sihai and Zhao Tiekai and his son were confused for a moment. They had already waived the bill, what else did he want to do? (To be continued)