Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 444
Chapter 444 Spicy Crayfish
When she and Zhou Ting had an appointment to eat at the grilled fish restaurant, Lu Xiaoxian, who never liked to keep people waiting, rushed over after work. Moreover, the business of the grilled fish restaurant was always very good, so if you went late, you had to wait for a seat.
Lu Xiaoxian asked for a seat by the window, drinking barley tea and waiting slowly.
The good thing is that Zhou Ting is not a person who likes to be late, not a moment to arrive, raised his hand to greet her, Gu Nianbin disappeared, Zhou Ting about every other week like, about her to eat meals. Lu Xiaoxian know Zhou Ting is afraid that she is too bored, although the relatives are around, but only missing the closest one, the heart of that empty feeling no one can feel the same, only Zhou Ting understand her.
But Zhou Ting never mentioned Gu Nianbin, nor comforted her, just like a good friend chatting, talking about how her florist, talking about how her employees, talking about what good-looking clothes she recently bought, and found somewhere delicious, and sometimes also talked about Shen Li, complaining about his philandering, complaining that he was never serious about her, when Du Xiaoxian had to turn around and comfort her.
Lu Xiaoxian didn’t talk much in front of others, but with Zhou Ting, she chatted vigorously, and without realizing it, time passed quickly. Halfway through the meal, both of them were so spicy that they were huffing and puffing and pouring drinks.
Zhou Ting laughed and said, “At the end of the day, I’m old, I can’t stand a little spicy food.” Although she is laughing, but the look more or less some melancholy, indeed is old, are more than thirty old girl, still alone.
Lu Xiaoxian then advised her, “Sister Zhou, I think Shen Li is quite good, why don’t you get along with him?”
“Didn’t I say so?” Zhou Ting chucked a piece of fish into her mouth, huffing as she said, “He’s not even square with me.”
“He proposed to you, and it was you who refused!”
“I promised, and I’m afraid that I’ll regret it,” Zhou Ting took a sip of her orange juice and added, “I’m also afraid that he’ll regret it.”
“In fact, you have no confidence in yourself,” Lu Xiaoxian analyzed her, “Many things, just think, not to do, never know what the final result will be? Just like when I first started learning, I felt that my foundation was weak and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to learn well, but I persevered step by step, and now I’m doing quite well.”
Zhou Ting laughed and said, “Xiao Xian, you really kinda surprised me, I’m sure you’ll make an excellent CEO.”
Lu Xiaoxian humbly shook her head, “I don’t want to be some outstanding CEO, I just want to hold on to Gu’s so that I can deliver when Nianbin comes back.”
They seldom talk about this kind of aspect, Zhou Ting heart chi, everyone knows that Gu Nianbin can not come back, only this silly girl is still obsessed, but she is not willing to splash Lu Xiaoxian’s cold water, just smiled and did not say anything.
Suddenly there was a flash of light and someone greeted Lu Xiaoxian, “Mrs. Gu, what a coincidence.”
Lu Xiaoxian looked up, but it was Cheng Rui Chang, she was surprised, “You come here to eat too?”
Cheng Rui Chang nodded, “I heard that this place tastes good, so I came over to try it.”
Seeing him alone, Lu Xiaoxian asked, “Where’s Secretary Meng? Not with you.”
“I was alone, and she didn’t seem to like spicy food, so I didn’t call her.”
Zhou Ting interjected at that moment, “Since you’re alone, eat with us.”
Cheng Rui Chang smiled slightly, “Good.” Saying that, he extended his hand, “I’m Cheng Rui Chang.”
“Zhou Ting.” Zhou Ting introduced herself and shook his hand gently before letting go, “Mr. Cheng is Xiao Xian’s friend?”
“To be precise, it should be subordinate, I am Mrs. Gu’s general manager.”
“Oops! So it’s Mr. Cheng, out of respect!” Zhou Ting smiled like a flower and was busy laying dishes for Cheng Rui Zhang.
Lu Xiaoxian looked at the two of them and was straight happy, they were both generous people, there was absolutely no need for her to introduce them, and the two of them got to know each other.
Zhou Ting and Cheng Rui Chang were both tied to Gu, so they chatted about some of the things they had done at Gu and quickly became acquainted.
Lu Xiaoxian occasionally interjected a few words, and was basically an audience.
Zhou Ting’s eyebrows fluttered, talking about the former general manager Shao Boqing, it was a carriage full of running tongues, with endless anecdotes. In the end, she summarized with great emotion, “Gu’s general manager is a feng shui throne, Mr. Shao married the general secretary Nina home, and Mr. Cheng fell in love with the first secretary Ms. Meng, if I had insisted on insisting in the first place, maybe it wouldn’t have been Ms. Meng’s turn.”
Cheng Rui Chang laughed out loud, “Miss Zhou is so funny.”
Lu Xiaoxian saw Cheng Ruichang gulping down the grilled fish like it was nothing and said, “Mr. Cheng, so you’re so good at eating spicy food.”
“Can’t see it,” Cheng Rui Chang said with a smile, “There is something more difficult to see, when I first went abroad, I was worried about the spicy food, not to mention the spicy food, even those Chinese restaurants have gone out of flavor, and the result is that I forced myself to become a chef, and next time, I will cook for you myself, and the taste will definitely not be worse than this one. The flavor is definitely not worse than this.”
“Really!” Zhou Ting’s eyes went straight, “Mr. Cheng, it’s not that I’m praising you, if you didn’t already have a famous husband, with your looks and conditions plus the chef’s skills, the girls would be fighting for you, yo!”
Lu Xiaoxian had the intention to give Shen Li extra points and said, “Shen Li also knows how to cook ah, the red wine steak he made is also quite delicious.”
Zhou Ting said disdainfully, “He that is specially learned to pick up chicks, two white candles on the dining table, a romantic candlelight dinner or something, in fact, it’s a gimmick, in the middle.”
“I see you have a preconceived notion about him.”
Zhou Ting, however, grabbed onto Cheng Rui Zhang’s words just now and didn’t let go, “Mr. Cheng, you can’t just talk about it if you personally cook!”
“No problem, you set the time, I’ll make spicy crawfish for you guys.”
When Zhou Ting heard this, her mouth watered and she hurriedly set the time, “How about this weekend?”
Lu Xiaoxian said, “Not on the weekend, I have to stay with Niannian.”
“Tomorrow then, tomorrow is fine, right?”
No one had any objections, so it was set for tomorrow.
Zhou Ting was always positive about food, and went directly to Gu’s the next afternoon to wait for Lu Xiaoxian to get off work. Lu Xiaoxian was a bit uneasy, it looked like Cheng Ruizhang didn’t invite Meng Zihe, she didn’t pay attention to other people’s gossip, but she couldn’t disregard Meng Zihe’s feelings.
Secretly telling Zhou Ting, Zhou Ting was unimpressed, “Maybe the two are playing tricks, what does it have to do with us? Let’s just eat.”
Lu Xiaoxian said, “Otherwise, I’d better not go. It’s not good for Secretary Meng to know.”
“Is there any mistake?” Zhou Ting’s voice raised, “I’ve only met him once and I’m going up to someone’s house alone, do you think I’m that casual?”
“Don’t yell,” Lu Xiaoxian almost went to cover her mouth, “Be careful of giving people an earful.”
As he was talking, Cheng Rui Chang walked in, smiled, greeted Zhou Ting and said, “Can we go now?”
Lu Xiaoxian’s afterglow glanced at Meng Zihe probing at the door and asked Cheng Ruichang in a low voice, “Aren’t you going to call Secretary Meng?”
Cheng Ruizhang said lightly, “She doesn’t eat spicy food, let’s go, there’s still traffic on the road, it’s good to have food at 7:30.”
Out of the door, Meng Zi He has not yet left, is packing things, Du Xiaoxian greeted her, the expression is a little unnatural, but Cheng Ruizhang greatly said, “They went to my house to eat crayfish, would have liked to call you together, you do not eat spicy, go and eat something, next time, the next time to do something else and then invite you to go.”
Not waiting for Meng Zi He to react, he lifted his foot and walked ahead.
Zhou Ting whispered to Lu Xiaoxian behind her, “These two people have a strange relationship, neither of them look like boyfriend and girlfriend.”
“It’s okay,” said Lu Xiaoxian, “They’re dating.”
“Is that so?” Zhou Ting looked back at Meng Zi He and said, “Why do I look like falling flowers and flowing water.”
Lu Xiaoxian laughed and dragged her two quick steps to catch the elevator.
Cheng Ruizhang’s home is in a luxurious apartment building with a butler in the city center, not a large area, but not too small for one person to live in.
Entering the door Cheng Rui Chang said, “Go to the kitchen and watch the crayfish.”
Zhou Ting then ran to the kitchen and exclaimed, “Goodness, you really prepared so much, when did you go shopping?”
Lu Xiaoxian also ran over to see, a plastic bucket, loaded with a small half a bucket of crayfish, densely packed, are waving a small pincer, teeth and claws look.
Lu Xiaoxian hadn’t messed with this before, so she asked, “How is this going to work, let’s all help.”
Cheng Rui Chang said nonchalantly, “Didn’t intend to let you guys eat for nothing, no help until at least nine o’clock.”
Zhou Ting had done it before, and did not wait for Cheng Rui Zhang to assign the task to roll up her sleeves and began to work feverishly, she used a small scissors to cut off the heads of the shrimp, leaving only the shrimp balls, one by one, reddish and thrown on the plate, Lu Xiaoxian was responsible for cleaning and pumping shrimp intestines, Chef Cheng Rui Zhang got the side dishes ready, and came over to help do it together.
Zhou Ting saw his skillful technique, whether it was cutting the shrimp head or pumping the shrimp intestines were fast and good, heartfelt praise, “Mr. Cheng, those who don’t know still think you used to do this, more than a professional.”
Cheng Rui Chang laughed and said, “You even guessed right, I really have done this before.”
“Really!” Zhou Ting and Lu Xiaoxian were both surprised.
“I did it when I was working and studying, in fact, I’ve done quite a few professions oh!” Cheng Ruizhang said it with a bit of smugness.
Lu Xiaoxian glanced at him, Cheng Ruizhang to her feeling has always been gentle and elegant, like a very good birth, the last time I saw his mother, temperament is also good, how to see is not like to be a person to work and study ah!
Zhou Ting asked him, “Mr. Cheng, what else have you done?”
“The first job was tutoring, then a part-time job delivering newspapers, handing out flyers, doing odd jobs in restaurants, selling beer, construction handyman, chauffeur, rental vice, trimming flowers and trees, unclogging drains … Anyway, what ever was available, at the most, I was working six jobs at the same time. Awesome, right?”
Zhou Ting and Lu Xiaoxian looked shocked and in complete disbelief.
Lu Xiaoxian always thought that no one would have a more bitter life than she had in her childhood, but she did not expect Cheng Ruizhang …
She is the simplest, what she thinks in her heart, what she shows on her face, Cheng Rui Zhang laughed and waved his hand in front of her, “No need to be like this, eat the bitter, to be a man of the world, I can be better off than all my classmates now!”
Lu Xiaoxian hadn’t known him for a short period of time, and they were quite familiar with each other, but today she had a whole new outlook on him, she had always been grateful to him because he had taught her a lot, and now she had an additional admiration!
Cheng Ruizhang as a chef in style, familiar with the oil, stir-fry, peppercorns and spicy oil in the pot, the kitchen suddenly filled with a spicy flavor, although the high-power hood is open, or let Lu Xiaoxian choked a few times.
Cheng Ruizhang waved the spatula to drive them out, Lu Xiaoxian walked two steps, suddenly looked back, the man in the white shirt stood in the kitchen, waving the spatula stir-fry, and occasionally pinched up a shrimp to try the taste …
She watched quietly, and saw the figure of another man, wearing the same white shirt, the same skillful movements, the same calm expression, watching, the corner of her mouth suddenly floated up a smile.
