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Chapter 52
The line waiting for Feng Qianguan to open was noisy, and in the middle of the line, a small, strange silence spread between the two.
Feng Pingfeng was embarrassed for a moment, and took the initiative to break the silence: "You...didn't go to see the teacher?"
What the hell, touch a sore spot.
"No, it's not there yet. The teacher is still in class, so you won't be free to see me until dinner time. What about you? Why are you here?" Old Zhao was embarrassed, and quickly threw the topic back.
He is also speechless, isn't this your home?After all the calculations, never expected Feng Pingfeng to come in person!
Feng Pingfeng was still relatively calm, looked at his face, and explained: "You already know, the boss here is the chef of the Qi family's annual banquet. I came to... to find out about the enemy. What about you?"
To spy on the enemy?
Old Zhao had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly said: "I, I think so too, I am here to help you find out the enemy's situation. Your business is my business!"
Old Zhao smiled dryly, feeling that he finally got his reason back.
Old Zhao: "By the way, have you got the number yet?"
"I didn't catch up." Feng Pingfeng said honestly, he glanced at Lao Zhao hesitantly, "How about..."
After receiving the signal, Lao Zhao quickly said: "It's okay, I'm in line, what do you want to eat, let's order together later."
...
At the end of the year, when everywhere is the busiest time, after Jiang Ci posted the news on Feng Qianguan's account, she ignored the hustle and bustle on the Internet, and devoted herself to the preparation of new products.
As a local landmark event, the food festival in Province A will last for three days, and will even attract food lovers from home and abroad to come and try it out.
Jiang Ci intends to bring some new products over there.These days, she spends a lot of time running around the market, picking the best ingredients she can get at hand, and confirming with the suppliers that the supply is okay.
Wang Jianian has already asked for leave to go home these few days. This time, he needs to help Wang Hechang prop up the stall of Wang Pinlou for the food festival in province A.Even, it will become Feng Qianguan's competitor.
It was his Wang family's business. As a boss who only paid... 7,000 yuan a month, Jiang Ci really couldn't say anything.
However, once the competent staff left, Jiang Ci was indeed busy.So he didn't refuse Qi Yan's offer of help - during the days of the food festival, he asked the chef who had worked with her at the Qi's annual banquet last time to come and help.
A few days in advance, Qi Yan sent three cooks over, and let Jiang Ci take care of them.The level of the kitchen assistant is the average level of the hotel, but the basic skills of cutting and preparing vegetables are still done very neatly, and they can also help with tasks such as greeting guests.
Qi Yan's kindness was too obvious.
Jiang Ci stared at the text he sent, pursed her lips and thought about it—the kindness was not for nothing, there must be something behind it, probably Qi Yan wanted to trick her into the next banquet.
However, it is not a big problem.
Jiang Ci raised her eyebrows. For this diner who often helped her, she was willing to give him the privilege of being Party A.
...
Recently, in the big restaurants all over City A, the employees are basically so busy that they don't touch the ground.
In Jiang's auspicious building, all the cooks were taut, not daring to make mistakes at all, and no one dared to touch the Jiang family's bad luckrecently, none of the Jiang family has a good face.
Jiang Deyong suffered from a chronic disease, and his face was pale, that's all. Even Jiang Zhe, who was usually smiling and good at superficiality, didn't bother to put on a good face.
In a box, Jiang Zhe's voice came out——
"President Zhao, I won't hide anything from you. To be honest, you let Feng Qianguan participate in the grand ceremony, and you are doing our Jiang family a disgrace!"
"How much of your annual sponsorship comes from our Jiang family? Five years forward, what is the food festival like? What is the Jiang family's situation? Now you don't recognize anyone?"
"I'm not threatening, I just want to talk to you calmly."
"Hello? Hello!"
Jiang Zhe listened to the hung up phone in a daze, and the busy tone of "di, di" came from the phone.
This is something that has never happened before.
He paused for two seconds before he remembered to look up, and met Jiang Deyong's angry eyes.
——The Jiang family was hung up!
This fact shocked the minds of the Jiang family present.
In the box, besides him and Jiang Deyong, there were other members of the Jiang family sitting.At the end of the year, they customarily hold a family dinner.There are only a few days left until the Spring Festival, and it was only today that they accidentally learned that Feng Qianguan was stationed in the food festival.
After this investigation, was shocked—President Zhao actually let Feng Qianguan in without notifying them!
Jiang Haisheng became annoyed when he realized that his son had been hung up on the phone: "This guy, the grand ceremony has become big and frustrating, so he doesn't take us seriously? A few years ago, did he dare to treat us like this?"
Thinking of his daughter's appearance, Jiang Haichao was still in a daze: "It's just a small restaurant, how could it be like this...how did she do it?"
"How did she do it? I still want to ask you. The news hasn't spread yet, but when the directors inquire among themselves, they all know about the scandal in our family. It's you!"
As Jiang Haisheng said, he couldn't help standing up, tilting his upper body, pointing at Jiang Haichao with his chopsticks: "You have raised a good daughter! She was very obedient, but you didn't raise her well, you run, you run——”
Jiang Haisheng was emotional, and he regretted it when he said this.At the dining table, everyone's faces were ugly, and the ugliest ones were Guo Donglian and Jiang Haitang who were sitting next to Jiang Haichao.
Guo Donglian: "Jiang Haisheng, what do you mean? Show me some respect!"
"Dad!" Jiang Zhe hurriedly called to stop.
Jiang Haisheng stopped his mouth and said with a straight face: "Sister and brother, I didn't mean that."
Jiang Deyong was extremely angry, and angrily knocked on the table with his chopsticks: "Stop talking! Give me food!"
Jiang Haichao glanced nervously to the side, and saw his second wife's face was gloomy and dripping black, and the daughter next to her was also tightly pursing her lips with a look of resentment.
Both of them had the same anger on their faces.From this point of view, they are really mothers and daughters.
It's a slightly different temperament from Jiang Ci's mother and daughter.
Jiang Haichao was in a complicated mood, thinking about what would happen when he returned home, he couldn't taste the taste of a meal.
Sure enough, as soon as she got home, Guo Donglian started to explode.
A woman in her forties, with a slender figure and well-maintained body, her skin is tender and fair under long-term meticulous care, but after all, it has begun to relax, and with her ferocious expression, it is frighteningly pale.
Guo Donglian: "Okay, Jiang Haichao. How did I fall in love with you at the beginning? I'm so stupid. It's because that woman has been waiting for you outside for so many years. Who am I? I am the Eldest Young Lady of the Guo family. I was blind at the time."Who is it not easy to find you?"
Guo Donglian: "If you didn't rely on the things I brought, would you be able to get to where you are today? No, you would not be as good as you are now. What you said at the beginning was good. After I came, I would give me delicious and spicy food. As a result,Well, you are getting worse and worse, and your brother is still making me angry!"
Guo Donglian: "Have you considered your daughter? Your own daughter has been bullied by that guy like this, and she hasn't laughed recently. What about you, you still give money to that guy?"
Jiang Haichao was holding back at first, but when he heard this, he also exploded: "Did I send money to her? I sent money to you! Where did the money go in the end, don't think I don't know!"
Jiang Haichao: "Also, Jiang Xiaotang, you spend the money I earn every day, going out to play and having fun. Later, you will let your mother say that about me. You still don't laugh. You are too happy to laugh, right?"
Jiang Xiaotang listened to the quarrel between the two, with a sullen face, and went upstairs without saying a word.
...
On the other side of the phone line, Chairman Zhao felt his heart beating. He pressed the phone off and subconsciously touched the position of his heart.
What the hell, he even said that he didn't threaten him. What he meant was to force him to withdraw Feng Qianguan's stall.
Next to him, the assistant looked at him worriedly: "President, are you really not worried about angering the Jiang family? They are indeed our big sponsors..."
The president snorted and shook his lips: "Don't withdraw. You dare to threaten me, so you won't withdraw! This grand ceremony is originally open, and we have no reason not to let Feng Qianguan participate. The Jiang family, who do they think they are?"? The restaurant is getting bigger and you want to monopolize it?!"
"Sponsorship? Sponsorship is sponsorship. Have we treated them badly? Which one is not the best exposure?"
The president spoke righteously: "For the fairness and future of the catering industry, I will never listen to him this time!"
The corner of the assistant's mouth twitched.
I'm ashamed to say... Was it really because of Qi Yan's phone call?
...
The gourmet festival in Province A attracted hundreds of merchants from across the province to participate, each of which was a well-known local merchant.
The organizer contracted several luxurious commercial plazas in City A, set up a total of four sub-venues, and started to set up greenhouses and assemble equipment a few days in advance.
In order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, the ingredients can only be delivered on the same day.However, the construction of the booth can be prepared in advance.
Two days in advance, Jiang Ci has suspended the business of Feng Qianguan, and chartered a truck to deliver the needed equipment and kitchen utensils in advance.The three cooks sent by Qi Yan, two men and one woman, are all good at work, and the big items like the steam oven were carried onto the car quite smoothly.
However, after the truck arrived at the venue, Jiang Ci encountered difficulties.
Trucks cannot enter the venue, and the contents inside can only be moved.Jiang Ci looked at the large items in the truck and felt a little headache.
It is not impossible to move it, but it is easy to bump, and it will be even more troublesome if the employee is injured.
She stopped a staff member wearing a work badge: "Hello, how many carts are there? Can I borrow them?"
The staff took a look at her, surprised by her appearance, and then looked up at the truck behind her. There was no logo of a big store, and it looked like it was rented.
Generally, well-known restaurants will have their own transport vehicles.Only small shops with no name need to be rented temporarily.
The girl in front of her was quite young.
The staff moved their lips: "Oh, why didn't you bring it with you. Our carts are limited and have been borrowed. If you need them, you may have to wait for a while. I'm really sorry——"
As he was speaking, his words suddenly took a turn.
"President Zhang! Why are you here?" The staff greeted with bright eyes.
Jiang Ci turned around, and saw a slightly fat Mediterranean in an iron-gray suit coming here with a smile on his face, his face was wrinkled, and his steps were quite hurried, as if he was trying to keep up with the man next to him.pace.
Beside him... Qi Yan walked over with long legs.
He was wearing a black woolen coat. The woolen material was straight and thick, and it was dark black, which seemed to absorb all the nearby light.
Jiang Ci raised her eyebrows slightly: "Mr. Qi?"
"Boss Jiang." Qi Yan smiled and introduced, "This is President Zhang."
Mediterranean Sea quickly said: "So it's Boss Jiang. I've admired you for a long time. When I watched the episode of "Xun Wei A City" before, I was almost greedy for your food! Oh, my dream is full of pickled fresh food!"
"President Zhang, hello." Jiang Ci smiled and shook hands with him.
President Zhang: "By the way, why were you standing here just now? Why didn't you go in?"
On the side, the staff were all stunned and didn't remember to answer the phone.Jiang Ci said truthfully: "Our equipment is not very easy to move, and all the carts have been borrowed, so we have to wait."
President Zhang: "Have you been borrowed?"
The staff member couldn't get off the tiger: "Well... yes, there are too many shops here today, everyone borrows..."
In fact, if you want to look for it, you can definitely find it, but he is too lazy to go.
"There is no cart? Can I just move it?" Qi Yan heard this, went around to the back of the truck and looked, and thought it was okay, so he simply took off his coat, "Let me do it."
How dare President Zhang let him move, wishing he could kick the staff's ass: "Go find it! It's really impossible, there are so many commercial streets nearby, why don't you borrow it?"
The staff ran away in fright, and came back with the cart a few minutes later.
With the cart, the rest of the work is easy.Jiang Ci and several kitchen helpers transported all the things down smoothly.
President Zhang wanted to check other venues, so he left first, but Qi Yan didn't leave, and silently helped.He was dragging the cart in front, and let Jiang Ci pay attention to the equipment behind.
Jiang Ci was very embarrassed, my God, she was letting Qi Yan pull the cart!Party B in the whole world is not as courageous as her, right?
Thank you have been said too many times, Jiang Ci didn't know what to say at this time, so he just said: "I happened to bring food testing equipment, can I make you something delicious? What do you want to eat?"
Qi Yan looked at the front, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised: "It's okay. Let's see what you brought."
Jiang Ci said: "I have to test the steamer later, so I'll make you a glutinous rice chicken, okay?"
The glutinous rice chicken in lotus leaf is already wrapped, it is ready-made, and it does not take time.
Of course.Qi Yan said "Yes" and said, "Thank you."
Feng Qianguan's stall is at No. 18, District A, and there is still some distance away. Jiang Ci looked at the stalls on both sides of the road while walking.
The stalls here are not the kind of food stalls with a size of a few square meters, but larger and more delicate ones - each store has a space of about thirty to forty square meters. After careful decoration, it is just like a temporary small shop.
The booth space is limited, and many stores adopt the mode of letting customers take away to eat directly. However, there will still be a few tables in the booth.Some are even beautifully decorated, with several display cases containing medals, souvenirs, or exquisite peripheral knick-knacks.
It's as fun as a temple fair.
Jiang Ci felt nostalgic, and couldn't help licking her lips when she saw a few candied haws planted in the distance.
Looking back, Qi Yan was still concentrating on dragging the car, carefully avoiding the equipment being touched.
Jiang Ci had nothing to say: "Where is Mr. Ye, why didn't you see him?"
Qi Yan vaguely felt that this question was a bit familiar.
At that time in City C, Jiang Ci seemed to ask him where Ye Hongliang was the first thing he asked.
Why... always care about him.
Qi Yan was silent for a while: "Ye Hongliang has gone to work, and he will send a car after the arrangement here. Your truck is gone, you can take his car together."
The rental of the truck requires money every hour. After Jiang Ci moved the things, he asked the truck master to go back. Hearing this, he said gratefully: "Thank you so much."
Jiang Ci raised her head and saw a huge display screen erected on one side of the venue, which was obviously erected for the food festival.
She asked curiously, "What is that?"
Qi Yan is the first time to come to a place like the Food Festival, and he is quite unfamiliar with these, so he can only say based on experience: "I don't know. Maybe... I will release some promotional videos tomorrow."
Jiang Ci said "Well".
After another two minutes, the two arrived at the stall and met with He Mingcan and others.This time, there were He Mingcan, Liang Hui, Lin Wu, and three help cooks sent by Qi Yan.With the joint efforts of eight people, the booth was ready in no time.
For this event, Jiang Ci specially customized a new temporary plaque, personally handwritten the three characters "Feng Qianguan", and re-engraved the glass lamps and wooden menu boards in the restaurant, making the scene look likeIt is the branch of Feng Qianguan.
"Boss, I brought Xiaocaicai too! Where do I put it?" He Mingcan said cheerfully.
Small fortune?
Qi Yan looked over suspiciously, and saw Feng Qianguan's male employee holding a...fat fortune tree in his hands.Looks very familiar.
Qi Yan: "..."
Jiang Ci happily patted the counter: "Come on, put it here. It's not bad, it's pretty strong today."
After everything was ready, Jiang Ci began to test the equipment.She didn't bring much, just ten sticky rice chickens in lotus leaves, a few winter bamboo shoots, and a small handful of diced pickled cabbage.
Jiang Ci put the lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken into the steamer, and briefly fried a dish. After confirming that the equipment was operating normally, it was over.
After a while, the steaming glutinous rice chicken came out of the oven. Each employee shared one and ate it directly near the counter.
It was five o'clock in the evening, and the arrangement of the venue was coming to an end. Many employees of large restaurants were exhausted. After moving half of their things, they couldn't help but stop and rub their sore shoulders and sore palms.
It was at such a point in time.
The rich and tempting smell of chicken thigh meat, the fresh aroma of glutinous rice, mixed with the unique umami flavor of mushrooms, scallops and sausages, spread out faintly around the No. 18 booth in Area A...
"Who's eating?"
"Oh my god, what store is that? Feng Qianguan?"
"Mist grass, I'm so hungry... Do you want to eat here?"
"This is the gourmet area, where can I eat if I don't eat here? But it's so bad, I have to find something to eat."
"Let's go, let's finish work and have dinner!"
All of a sudden, the employees of the nearby stores all speeded up their work.
Jiang Ci inspected the entire stall, cleaned the used equipment, and said, "No problem. Let's stop here today."
Ye Hongliang first sent a minibus, and the driver could only seat six people. Jiang Ci waved his hand and told the employees to go back first.
"Ye Hongliang also drove a car, but now there is a traffic jam outside...Maybe, it will be later." Qi Yan explained.
"It's okay, it's too much trouble for you. The city center is relatively congested." Jiang Ci smiled, peeled off the last glutinous rice chicken with lotus leaves, and pushed it to Qi Yan, "Have another one?"
The aroma penetrated into the nostrils, and the appetite exploded instantly.
A glutinous rice chicken is not enough to fill the stomach.
The corners of Qi Yan's mouth curled up slightly, and he lowered his eyes to take the small paper bowl, which contained hot, golden lumps of glutinous rice.
He took the spoon and dug up reservedly.
Qi Yan's eating is very beautiful, gentle and noble, it is the result of the combination of character, etiquette and appearance.
From time to time, passers-by nearby looked over, and even female employees eagerly stood and watched from a distance.
Qi Yan is not a celebrity, except in the industry, there are not many people who recognize him.When most people see him, they just think he is a handsome and beautiful young man.
However, Jiang Ci didn't pay attention.
She got a business distribution map of the food festival and is studying it.In fact, no matter what merchants were present, it would not affect her arrangements for the next three days, but Jiang Ci glanced at it in general.
Then, immediately saw many familiar store names.
The Jixiang Building of the Jiang family, the Wangpin Building of the Wang family, the Zhenwei Restaurant of the Feng family, and the Shangxian Banquet of the Chang family are all inside.In addition, there are many well-known foreign restaurants in province A, a series of foreign names completely beyond Jiang Ci's cognition.
The layout of the baking area, dessert area, and snack area also has its own characteristics.
The organizer probably took into account the distribution of the flow of people, and did not arrange all the well-known restaurants together, and also avoided the situation of meeting each other and being extremely jealous.
Jiang Ci took a photo of the distribution map with her mobile phone to prevent herself from accidentally getting lost.Then, I drew a small circle around Feng Qianguan's position, and posted it on the account.
[@Feng Qianguan: I'm here![picture.jpg]]
After Qi Yan finished eating, he looked at Jiang Ci's back at work, but didn't speak.After waiting for about ten minutes, he reminded: "Ye Hongliang is here, you can leave at any time."
"Okay, let's go." Jiang Ci folded the distribution map and put it away.
...
Outside the venue, Ye Hongliang stood in the cold wind and waited. When he saw Qi Yan and Jiang Ci coming out, he stepped forward and opened the car door.
Ye Hongliang greeted Jiang Ci familiarly: "Oh, I'm so sorry, the road was too congested just now."
Jiang Ci smiled and said: "It's okay, it's time to get off work, please."
"Where is there?" Ye Hongliang was excited, "Boss Jiang, if you really want to thank me, you must leave me something to eat at your stall later, I'm afraid I won't be able to grab it!"
"Must." Jiang Ci glanced at Ye Hongliang curiously, "Are you free to come?"
"Available! Is it the Spring Festival holiday? My boss is coming too!" Ye Hongliang caught Qi Yan's gaze from the rearview mirror and quickly shut his mouth.
Half an hour later, Jiang Ci returned to Feng Qianguan smoothly, and Ye Hongliang continued to drive Qi Yan back.
The atmosphere in the carriage suddenly became quiet, Ye Hongliang moved his butt subconsciously, suddenly felt that the familiar cold and silent atmosphere made him a little uncomfortable.
How nice it is to be as lively as just now?
Ye Hongliang glanced at the boss gossipingly: "Boss Qi."
Qi Yan looked back: "Yes."
Ye Hongliang: "How is today? After He Mingcan and those guys left just now, have you made any progress?"
Qi Yan hesitated for a moment: "I... ate a glutinous rice chicken."
"Glutinous rice chicken?" Ye Hongliang was slightly stunned, "Where's Boss Jiang?"
Qi Yan: "I'm looking at the business distribution map."
Ye Hongliang: "What else?"
Qi Yan: "...not anymore."
"Boss, no!" Ye Hongliang didn't know how to express it, "I stood in the cold wind and waited for so long to create a chance for you."
Ye Hongliang: "You just ate a glutinous rice chicken?"
Qi Yan: "..."
Qi Yan: "Yes."
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