Baguettes and Macarons

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Yu Chen was really faithful to the afternoon tea this afternoon. In the morning, before the guests arrived, he personally delivered his own dessert stand.Louis was ashamed to let him down, so he tried his best to pile up freshly baked Oprah, Madeleine, Macarons and Colliers in layers, arrange them in flower patterns, and decorate the dessert stand like A court lady in a large bustle.

He carefully carried the dessert stand, and helped it to Yu Chen's coffee table, and by the way, helped Yu Chen sort out the information on the coffee table, making the tea party venue look more tidy and luxurious.

Not only Yu Chen, but Louis was also looking forward to the lady's reaction.After all, no one will struggle with money. It is a beautiful thing to be able to sell dim sum on the basis of making good bread.

However, the elegant and stubborn Mrs. Alley is a woman that Louis is not good at dealing with. He doesn't want to meet her until the critical moment. After delivering the dessert, he returns to his bakery, staring at the oven in a daze.

In fact, today's baguettes have already been baked, and there is only a bare grill in the oven, which is nothing to look at.

It was Jean-Luc who finally broke the dead silence in the store, happily counting tips.He proudly slapped a handful of coins on the counter: "Louis, I'm rich, bring me a bag of chocolate fried cakes, and I'll take them home for my brothers to eat."

Louis perfunctory said: "Half a dozen younger brothers, one for each, so six fried cakes? Twelve euros."

"Ah? Is it so expensive?" Jean-Luc slumped his shoulders, "I saw fried cakes in the supermarket for [-] cents each, and I thought I bought six for today's tip."

Louis said unhappily: "Since the supermarket is cheap, why don't you go to the supermarket to buy it? Anyway, I sell expensive and have a bad temper, why come here?"

"You really have a bad temper!" Jean-Luc grimaced, "but your bread is delicious. If it was the hard and cold baguette in the supermarket, my brothers and I would have been unable to eat it long ago." Go down to the baguette and have to starve to death."

Louis felt relieved suddenly, and bent down to count Jean-Luc's coins: "It's six euros in total, you can buy three fried cakes, why don't you go back and cut everything, and eat half of each?"

"Okay, I'll buy another six when I earn enough money." Jean-Luc said with a playful smile, "I really hope the boss of the newsstand will pay me this week's wages earlier."

Louis wrapped up three fried cakes and handed them to him, and flicked his forehead: "Don't spend all your money, and next time you should spare some money to buy vegetables and meat. Children who are growing can't just eat it." Bread and pastries."

Jean-Luc let out a cry of pain, rubbed his forehead and said, "They will be happy because they can eat dessert. Bread is cheap, and I can afford it."

Louis sneered and said, "After that, your younger brothers will also be dwarfs. Let me tell you, don't think of yourself as the head of the family too much. Tell your younger brothers to work part-time too. Wouldn't it be better to eat meat together?"

"I will consider your suggestion." Jean-Luc exaggerated his face, "Speaking of which, you have been much gentler than before recently. Is it the power of love?"

"love?"

"Grandma Mary said that you and Mr. Yu are lovers." Jean-Luc said blushing, "That's great. I also want to find an Asian partner in the future, who is gentle and beautiful."

Louis swished the rag: "Grandma Mary misunderstood. Yu Chen's French is not good, and what he said is ambiguous. He and I are not lovers."

"I think he speaks French very well." Jean-Luc sneaked away the fried cake and hid it behind his back. "If it wasn't for his different appearance, he would look like a native."

Louis frowned and said, "Maybe he can only speak seriously and doesn't know what swear words mean. Have you heard him say swear words?"

Jean-Luc shook his head: "Isn't that good? How gentle. Don't teach him to swear."

"As long as he doesn't call me Mr. Baguette casually."

Jean-Luc laughed loudly: "Does he not know the meaning of baguette! Shall I tell him?"

"I don't think you understand, little devil." Louis glared at him, "Please go back if you have nothing to do, and bring more money next time."

Jean-Luc hopped out the door humming a little tune, and a few seconds later, he rushed back excitedly, shouting: "There are three expensive-looking cars at the door, and two very rich women! "

Louis bared his teeth and said, "Keep your voice down, this floor is not well insulated, you will hear it. Are you ashamed?"

Jean-Luc gestured his middle finger disapprovingly, and went out again.Louis shouted behind him: "Mr. Yu, whom you like, probably doesn't like to watch you give your middle finger."

"Anyway, I won't snatch your boyfriend, and I can't pursue Mr. Yu."

"You little kid in middle school, you still want to pursue someone?"

Jean-Luc slammed the door and gave him another finger through the glass.

Although this brat was annoying, Louis felt that the inexplicable heat on his face should not be caused by his anger.He took a glass of tap water and drank it in one gulp, finally feeling cooler.But he glanced at a note under the cash register, and suddenly remembered the vague words the owner of the note said that morning, and his face became hot again.

Tsk, next time I have to teach Yu Chen what is a bad word.If no one taught him, this kind of upper class must not understand the tricks of swearing in poor neighborhoods.

But the more he thought about Yu Chen, the more he felt awkward and couldn't sit on the chair.After struggling for half an hour, he finally couldn't take it anymore, locked the door of the store, and put up a sign saying it was closed.

Now that the shop is closed, of course he wants to sneak into Yu Chen's shop from the upstairs balcony.Due to the fact that there were two female guests that he didn't want to see in the lobby of the studio, Louis only sneaked into Yu Chen's bedroom to help him clean up the trash to pass the time.

Different from the bright and beautiful surface, Yu Chen's bedroom is really messy and messy. After cleaning last time, he quickly accumulated a large plastic bag of bottles and placed it next to the bed.Louis opened the bag and saw that there were wine bottles, plastic bottles of soda, cartons of milk and cans of juice drinks.

Although they are all recyclable garbage, glass products, paper products, aluminum products and plastic products must be recycled separately.Yu Chen couldn't remember how many times he said this rule.

He stored the three kinds of bottles separately, dragged three bags to the stairs, and planned to remind Yu Chen to take them and throw them away tomorrow.At this moment, the voices of the female guests reached his ears.

Due to the special structure of the house, there is a room between the stairs and the storefront, which can be used as a warehouse, so that people in the store cannot see the stairwell, but the sound can be transmitted.

He heard Yu Chen warmly praise a certain female guest: "Your outfit today is perfect, I can't think of a better look. Your curly hair is also very suitable for this retro dress, Ms. Emily."

Ms. Emily said with a smile: "If I can get the approval of professionals, I will be able to wear this dress with confidence in the future."

"Your vision is already very professional, so I would like to ask, why did you entrust me with image design?"

"I like the style that Ailei made here with you, and I want to try it. I am better at exaggerated styles, not the kind of gentle and solemn designs."

"With all due respect, your appearance and figure are very sexy, and solemn clothing may not be able to set off your appearance better. I can't find a style that suits you better than your current style."

"Just kidding, I actually run a creative planning company, and I often cater for weddings and other banquets." Ms. Emily explained, "But we recently had an expensive wedding, and the bride was not satisfied with the MC's costume design. .”

Yu Chen said, "Is that so, do you want to outsource the design of the master of ceremonies to me?"

"That's right, we think it's better to entrust a professional designer to be in charge of their styling. At the banquet last week, Ai Lei's dress caught my eye, so I followed her to find you."

"Can you send me the wedding information first? I want to know the style of the wedding banquet."

"Here are the pictures, the dresses of the groom and the bride, they have chosen themselves."

There was a moment of silence in the front hall, and Mrs. Alley said, "Emily, try this macaron first. It's very delicious, and it's softer than the dim sum you used for the buffet last time."

"Don't be kidding, last time I hired a pastry chef from a famous restaurant."

Yu Chen said as if nothing had happened: "I want to study the information first, please use some time to pass the time. I think the macarons in this store are really good, and the madeleines are also very good."

Louis tensed his back and pressed close to the door panel.

"Since you highly recommend it, I'll give it a try." Ms. Emily said, "Let's start with Madeleine. The naked cake of Madeleine is very suitable for buffet parties and open-air banquets, and it is not easy to leave it for a long time." It's going to go off. If it's really that delicious, I'll order some...uh."

Yu Chen smiled and said, "The taste is not bad, right?"

"I think I really want to try macarons." Ms. Emily said briskly, "Well, macarons are also soft and sweet, and he is a very good chef who is not easy to meet. I guess it is Radu Beautiful macarons?"

Ms Airey disapproved: "It's a little less sweet than Laduree."

Yu Chen was confused: "Actually, it was made by the LaGrand bakery next door. When I discovered this secret, it seemed like I discovered a treasure hidden in the rocks."

The two female guests were silent for a moment, and Ms. Emily, who was more lively, spoke first: "The bakery next door, isn't it the bakery with all the windows turned gray? How is this possible?"

Ms. Ai Lei also echoed: "Such an exquisite dim sum should be made by the chef of a high-end restaurant, right?"

Yu Chen said firmly: "No, it's Mr. Legrand next door. Although the store looks ugly, he has superb craftsmanship and is a graduate of Renault. He serves all my afternoon tea."

Ms. Alley took up the conversation: "Could it be the baker who looked after your store last time? I remember that you had desserts in your store at that time, but a little boy ate them all up, and I was too embarrassed to taste them. "