Sesame Green Bean Garlic

After Qiu Xinzhi left, Chen Langxin sat in the dining room, drinking her third cup of coffee.

Huo Zian came out from the back kitchen and asked concerned: "Is it still cold?"

As soon as Chen Lang heard the word "cold", Chen Lang wanted to fight a cold war, "I don't wear enough clothes, I didn't expect that the apricot blossoms were all in bloom, and it was snowing heavily."

"It's a bit cold," Huo Zian sat down, "But it's not bad to go out on a date with a handsome guy."

Chen Lang tilted his head and said, "Huo Zian, you really don't know if you don't know, I come here every time because of you."

Huo Zian laughed, "This one doesn't suit you either?"

Chen Langxin sighed deeply, "Arrogance, narcissism, chicken thief, do you know what he said? He said that I was a negative figure in society and dragged him down. Is he a zebra or a giraffe, how long are his hind legs? I can't beat him with eight strokes, can I get his back leg?"

Huo Zi was overjoyed, "Yes, then he is hopeless."

Chen Lang suppressed his smile, thought for a few seconds, and said, "No, I plan to give him a second chance."

"Oh?"

"Others are annoying, but they have money and a career, and they are handsome enough. If I can't find a suitable job in the future, if I find such a capable person, at least I won't be hungry or cold."

"Hey, you really have the cheek to drag your feet."

"That's right! He has another big advantage: Have you heard of his name? Qiu Xinzhi."

"It's a little familiar, who told me?" Huo Zian searched for the memory in his mind.

"It's not surprising that someone told you. He is the editor-in-chief of "Le Zhi" and he is in charge of the most important lifestyle magazine in the city. Although it is said that we are in the era of self-media, the influence and resources of traditional media groups, Personally, I can’t compare. According to legend, Qiu Xinzhi can decide the life and death of a restaurant with a single word.”

Huo Zian didn't believe it: "How is it possible? With so many platforms, it's impossible for one person to dominate public opinion,"

"It's not the kind of beheading, it's chronic poisoning. Public opinion is easy to follow the trend. Qiu Xinzhi has a group of the most popular commentators, big V Internet celebrities, and writers in Beijing. It is not difficult to guide public opinion. If someone takes the lead, someone will line up. The general public, the information is not equal, how many people can choose independently?"

Huo Zian thought, this is not unreasonable.However, after he returned to China, the media praised him for a long time, and it was hard to avoid his enthusiasm.Lao Bao also advised him to take the initiative to deal with the media before, but he was not very keen. For him, public opinion is a two-sided sword. If you care too much about what others say, you will put yourself in the middle of the knife.

He smiled at Chen Langxin: "Even if he can call the wind and call the rain, it has nothing to do with you. Do you also want to open a restaurant?"

"No! I'm exhausted. I don't think too much about it. I just want him to find me a job that suits me. Following him, I have a partner, a job, and kill two birds with one stone. It doesn't matter if he is a giraffe, Elephants are fine too, let me give this leg a hug."

Huo Zian was curious: "What job are you looking for?"

Chen Langxin smiled: "We are traveling together."

Huo Zian was shocked: "You are also a chef!"

"Well," she said ambiguously, "do you want to hire me?"

"You want to work here?" Huo Zian asked back, knowing that Chen Langxin was not serious.

"Of course not! Your kitchen is too small and stuffy. And the equipment is too poor."

This sentence aroused Huo Zian's interest, "I think it's enough, what do you think is lacking?"

Chen Lang said lazily: "It's enough for you, but it's not enough for me. Hey, can we not talk about work?"

It snowed intermittently for four days, and when the snow stopped, the temperature dropped suddenly.The down jacket that had just been put away was put on again.

There are only a few tables in the restaurant these days, and it is as cold as the temperature.

With a click, Lao Bao pushed the door open and entered the store, exhaling two breaths of white air. "Hey," he said to Huo Zi'an, "Chef, you are really free."

Huo Zian was playing chess with You Dacheng, You Liangchen was leaning against the wall listening to music, Zhou Dongxi was sitting at another table drawing drawings, and there was no one in the restaurant.

"Didn't you line up a few days ago?"

You Dacheng interjected, "Isn't that right? That man blocked the door. I thought he was here to collect debts."

Huo Zian smiled wryly: "After the snow fell, people disappeared in an instant like the snow on the road. Alice came out of the rabbit hole and returned to the real world."

Old Bao sighed: "Then you still don't know why."

He sat next to Huo Zian, turned on his phone, and showed him a feature article.The title is: "Five things you need to know before falling into the Michelin pit."

"My assistant read it to me one by one, and you were mentioned in it. This is the official account of "Lezhi", which has been widely spread, and many people have read it—how did you offend Qiu Xinzhi?"

Huo Zian looked blank, did I offend Qiu Xinzhi?

Lao Bao continued: "I asked him to come here for dinner, but that guy said he had already been here and was not interested. Damn it, this article was published the next day, and it was written by his little guy."

Huo Zian read the title and knew that this article must be scolding Michelin.But he didn't remember that he provoked Qiu Xinzhi.

Looking back on the situation that day, he didn't know that Chen Langxin's blind date was the editor-in-chief, and the food and drinks were ordered according to the normal procedures, and nothing major went wrong.Afterwards, he came out to greet them, and the two exchanged a few polite words, but they didn't see any dissatisfaction from him.If you want to offend, you Liangchen can only fight for Chen Lang's injustice and run on him.Huo Zian thought, this is indeed a bit too much for the guests, but You Liangchen is like that, and it is also the same for him.He has been with the people in the alley for a long time, and he knows that when they hurt others, they are mostly targeting acquaintances or finding things interesting, and they don't have too much malice.

Is Qiu Xinzhi angry because of this?If he wanted to bring it up at the time, Huo Zian must have apologized, but he was fine on the surface, but he found someone to scold him behind his back, that would be too much of a fuss.

He flipped through the content of the article, and all he wrote was doubts about Michelin.There are many examples in it. For example, a restaurant claims to be a Michelin restaurant, but it is actually just a branch of a Michelin restaurant in another city, because the chef and service team are completely different, and the standard is also very different.There are also some Michelin starred chefs who come to Beijing for two days as a guest, but the fees are ridiculously high, and the finished products are also very ordinary.

Lao Bao sighed, "Chef Zi'an, I thought you could last at least a year or so, but I didn't expect that you would hit such a big wall in less than two months! You really can't help but wash away the things you said in it." I don't know."

Huo Zian also had a bit of trouble reading Chinese, especially this kind full of Internet slang, he read slowly, and he hadn't seen his name yet.Asked: "What about me?"

"Say you buy word of mouth and hire people to fake reviews."

Huo Zian froze.

Lao Bao observed his words and said in surprise: "You don't know...you really did it?"

Huo Zian couldn't argue, so he had no choice but to say nothing, which was tantamount to acquiescing.Lao Bao patted the table, "Zian, you really did it! You're dead this time. It's easy to say anything else, even if you scold you for cooking bad food, you can still say he has no taste. If he made a fake, it's a It’s a matter of professional ethics, you deserve it no matter how others scold you.”

Huo Zian was discouraged, "I didn't know about this before, but no matter what, it was all my responsibility."

"Of course it's your responsibility!"

"Old Bao, just tell me, how can I remedy it?"

Lao Bao was silent for a while, and said with a serious face: "First of all, you have to make sure whether you have offended Qiu Xinzhi."

Huo Zian glanced at You Liangchen.I saw him leisurely listening to music, completely immersed in another world.Huo Zian said uncertainly: "Maybe... Yes."

Following Huo Zian's gaze, Lao Bao immediately guessed what happened.He said again: "Then take You Liangchen to apologize, treat him to a good meal, drink a bottle of wine, say a few nice words, and calm him down before he fully attacks you. Maybe you'll be happy, he I can also help you speak well."

Apologize? !Huo Zian glanced at You Liangchen again.He prefers Yu Liangchen, likes his own way, and apologizes for his preferred character, isn't that denying Yu Liangchen, and then denying himself!This is absolutely impossible.He got angry and refused, "No apology!"

Lao Bao was helpless: "Then you are finished in the paper media and those pretentious food review circles. We can only go another way."

"What way?"

"Pole dancing."

"..."

But Lao Bao looked serious: "Didn't you say that someone forced you to dance pole dancing on TV? When you are on TV, you can speak for yourself and tell others that your craftsmanship is not fake, but real. And if more people know you, they will be curious to come and eat, and then they will have their own comments, not affected by such articles. TV and video sites are controlled by other people, and Qiu Xinzhi can’t control it. What is pole dancing? ,Jump!"

"Jump!" Huo Zian replied, "I don't want to be on TV, is there another way?"

"Yes, immediately pack up and go back to Shanghai."

Huo Zi'an was restless and suffered from insomnia for two consecutive nights.He thought about the situation of the restaurant, thought about the bad reviews on the Internet, and thought about what Chen Langxin said: things like public opinion are easy to follow the trend, this is chronic poisoning...

This is more tormented than when no one patronizes when it opens.

Today was a rest day, he was restless in the apartment, unable to sleep, so he simply rode his bicycle back to the alley.He felt that something had to be done to get himself out of this predicament.But what can he do?He couldn't explain it well, and he couldn't beat the person who caused the situation.He didn't want to curry favor with Qiu Xinzhi, and of course he couldn't argue with him.What else can he do?

The only thing that can be done is to go back to the kitchen and mop the floor.

While he was washing the mop in the yard, You Liangchen came out.Seeing Huo Zian, he wondered: "It's so cold, what are you doing in the yard?"

Huo Zian shook the water off his hands, and said numbly, "It's not cold. Have you eaten yet, shall I cook noodles for you?"

You Liangchen thought, Huo Zian will catch up with his mother soon, no, Aunt Kong is not that devoted to him, she cooks sloppily, and sends him to Uncle Ma's to eat steamed buns whenever she gets lazy.He couldn't help showing a smile, "Don't eat, I'm going out soon."

"Yeah." Huo Zian lowered his head to wash the rag again.

You Liangchen saw that he was depressed, and knew that he was depressed.He yelled: "Old iron!"

Lao Tie came out slowly from behind the tile vat, and called You Liangchen resentfully.In the past few days, it kept going into the warm restaurant, but was thrown out again and again by the ruthless human beings. It squinted at Yu Liangchen, and thought to itself: Should I forgive him?While struggling in his heart, his body was obediently leaning against Yu Liangchen's side, and his head kept rubbing Yu Liangchen's big palm.

You Liangchen fed Lao Tie the fish and changed the water.Huo Zian came over and stroked Lao Tie's prickly short hair, "The longer Lao Tie grows, the more majestic he becomes."

"It's still cute when I was a child," Yu Liangchen said.

Lao Tie immediately meowed aggrievedly: Isn't my head a bit bigger, hair a bit thicker, thighs strong and powerful, eyes sparkling, so why isn't he cute?

But You Liangchen didn't notice it at all, and only looked at Huo Zian.

He asked Huo Zian, "What's up tonight?"

"fine."

"Go play together?"

The author has something to say:

Go clubbing.