"行不行的关我什么事?不过,正义打电话骂你,倒是提醒我一件事,他好象就是厨师学校的老师,你不如去他那里挂个职,教孩子们做菜,怎么样?"
"Why are you asking me about that? Anyways, Zheng Yi's call to scold you reminded me of something. I think that he is one of the teachers at the Culinary School. Why not go over there and help him to teach the kids about cooking?"
白路摇头:"我是野路子,和学校教的不一样,还是自己开班比较好."
Bai Lu shook his head and declined. "I am the Wild Lu Zi 1 . I am too unorthodox for the school. It is better if I start my own class."
"那随便你,我出去排队."
"Then so be it. I will go out and queue."
"哪敢让你出去站着,为了您,饭店得再改个规矩,以后像您这样岁数的,可以进屋等候."
"How would I dare to let you stand outside. For your sake, the restaurant will have to change its rules again. In the future, elderly people who are around your age would be able to wait inside the restaurant."
"这还差不多,公共汽车都有老人专座,你这里敢没有?"高爷爷喝口水:"没有茶叶?"
"That's more like it. Even in the public transport, there are already designated seats for the elderly. How could you not provide the same privilege here?" Grandpa Gao took a sip of water, and he asked, "There's no tea?"
"没有."
"Nope."
"明天让高远送一包过来,老年人吃饭..."
"Tomorrow, I will ask Gao Yuan to send over a bag of tea leaves. Elderly that eats here—"
"这个可不行,你想喝茶,别人想喝酒怎么办?"
"That's unacceptable. If you let you drink tea, what would happen if someone else wants to drink alcohol?"
一老一少坐着聊天,豹子过来请假:"白哥,我买手机,叫沙沙陪我一起好不好?我不会挑."
The old and the young were sitting together for a friendly chat. Bao Zi came over to request a leave of absence. "Brother Bai, I want to buy the handphone. Could you let Sha Sha accompany me to go together? I do not know how to choose."
"去吧,出去好好玩,晚点回来也没事."国庆节本来就是假期,当然要好好玩.
"Go ahead and have fun outside. It is also fine if you want to come back slightly later." It was the National Day today, so it was natural to have fun during the holidays.
It was an eventful day today. To be accurate, all the other days were also very eventful.
After chatting for a while, Bai Lu started to reread his cooking manual while Grandpa Gao read his newspaper. His newspaper was delivered by a young guy who was nimble and full of vigor.
The young guy came into the restaurant, without making any noise from his steps. Bai Lu suddenly felt a shiver ran down his spine. He pondered in his heart. "The Gao Family was truly impressive. They even had bodyguards accompanying them. And they were even the crème de la crème."
At the same time, he was also impressed with Grandpa Gao. Since he had a personal guard, he must have been quite an extraordinary person. But when he came over to the restaurant the other day, he was willing to queue behind the others outside. And every time he came over, he was always strolling in by himself. The bodyguard would secretly keep watch by a distance.
They sat around reading until 5 pm. Bai Lu went back to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients. At the same time, Bao Zi came back, followed by Sha Sha and Ding Ding who was wearing large shades.
豹子一进屋就找活儿干,白路说:"不是让你在外面多玩会儿么?"
The moment Bao Zi came back, he started looking for work to do. Bai Lu said, "Didn't I ask you to enjoy the day off?"
Bao Zi did not respond; He took the cloth and wiped the tables.
沙沙举着个盒子说话:"这个电话好看吧,我选的,号也是我选的."
Sha Sha raised the box and said, "This phone looks nice right? I chose it, and also the number as well."
After hearing this, Bai Lu was surprised. He thought, "Has she become more cheerful? She seems a little different as compared to half a month ago."
First, he looked at Bao Zi. He thought, "That guy is even more obstinate than the old Sha Sha. All he cares about is work." On the other hand, Ding Ding was hugging Sha Sha while they chatted. It looked like they were as close as sisters. And Sha Sha also had a smile on her face.
He had a revelation that he must keep Ding Ding around.
Sha Sha was starting to mature into a woman. Naturally, there were differences between men and women. Also, she had a very dark history in her childhood, so she would not share her feelings with Bai Lu and Bao Zi. But Ding Ding was different; She was a celebrity, but she was friendly. It was quite easy for them to connect.
心里有了计较,整个人马上热情许多:"丁大小姐,晚上想吃什么?"
In his heart, he has made a decision. Thus, he became much more passionate. "Lady Ding, what would you like to eat tonight?"
丁丁说:"回家做吧,要不打包带回去也行,不在这吃可以不?"
She said, "Can you cook at home instead? Otherwise, can I bring the food home, so we do not have to eat here?"
"完全可以,沙沙,你俩回去,我和豹子干就成了."
"Perfectly fine. Sha Sha, you two should go home. Bao Zi and I would be alright here."
沙沙说:"我回去换衣服,马上下来."
Sha Sha said, "I will go back and change my clothes. I will be back in an instant."
豹子一听,马上丢掉抹布:"我和你回去."
Bao Zi heard her, and he threw down his cloth immediately. "Let me go back with you."
Bai Lu secretly smiled. He thought, "This guy is so worried about Sha Sha."
After a while, Sha Sha returned with a new set of clothes. She tidied up the place a little, and the restaurant started its business.
The rules were the same. The customers only had the freedom of paying the money. Once they entered the restaurant, Bai Lu had the right to choose what they could eat.
As he wanted to make Shuizhu Beef for Grandpa Gao, he laid the cabbage on the bottom of a small iron cooking pot. Then he added some ginger and garlic slices; he placed the pot on the counter for prepared dishes. Bai Lu had to cook for the other customers first.
All the three stoves were fired up simultaneously. He worked very nimbly and served up a table of dishes every 10 minutes. Bai Lu could manage with the full capacity, as his hands were moving at maximum velocity.
Bao Zi was envious. He thought, "If I master this culinary skill, I could open a small restaurant and support my mum, and even Sha Sha as well." However, he was a little unwilling to give up his big dreams, and he was not content with being a measly chef. He wanted to make a quick buck like how it was portrayed in the movies, whereby the character would suddenly be wealthy.
乱想中,白路吩咐:"上菜."豹子和沙沙开始忙碌.
In the midst of his daydreaming, Bai Lu instructed him. "Serve the dishes." And Bao Zi and Sha Sha began to work.
做好的菜也是放在备菜台上,豹子捎带脚的把小铁锅端上去,正好送到程来来那张桌子.程来来指这铁锅问:"这是什么菜?"
The dishes that were ready to be served were also placed on the counter. Bao Zi accidentally served the iron cooking pot to Cheng Lai Lai's table. She pointed at the iron pot and asked, "What kind of dish is this?"
豹子急中生智:"干锅白菜."
Bao Zi reacted resourcefully. "Hotpot Cabbage."
"干锅白菜? 白菜好象是生的."程来来有点犹豫.
"Hotpot Cabbage? The cabbage looks raw to me." She was a little hesitant.
边上一个客人说话:"管他生的还是熟的,五星大饭店出品,必属精品,吃."带头开动.
The customers beside her interjected. "It doesn't matter whether it is raw or cooked. As long as it is a dish by the Great 5-Star Restaurant, it must be of exquisite quality. Eat it." Then they started to dig in.
Cheng Lai Lai pondered for a moment. "Yea, right. Even if the chef is a prick, he still cooks amazing dishes." She started digging in as well.
可是一吃之下,发觉味道不对.看看别人,多是古怪表情,刚想问话,就听到厨房里传来白路的声音:"白菜呢?豹子,水煮肉片的白菜呢?"
As soon as she bit into it, she realized that the taste was weird. She looked at the others next to her, and they also had strange expressions on their faces. Then they heard Bai Lu's voice emanating from the kitchen. "Where's the cabbage? Bao Zi, where's the cabbage for the Shuizhu Beef?"
After she heard him, she spat out the cabbage right away. Then she took out her phone to record the incident; She wrote that this restaurant was unique.
当天晚上,网上出现"干锅白菜"的笑话.做为发贴人,程来来很认真,详细的记录饭店里发生的事情,并把装修后的店铺重新展示一遍,照片中,小小饭店满是客人,一个个吃的专心致志,终于引出许多吃货的兴趣.
On the same night, the Hotpot Cabbage incident became an internet joke. As the person posting, Cheng Lai Lai was very meticulous. She detailed everything that happened in the restaurant and re-introduced the newly renovated restaurant in a different light. In the photos, the little restaurant was full of customers. Each one of them devoted single-heartedly to eating the food. This post has finally attracted the interest of the online foodies.
有人问:"这就是你上次吃过的地方? 完全是两家店么!"
Somebody asked, "Was this the same restaurant that you have posted the last time? These are two entirely different restaurants!"
The newly renovated Great 5-Star Restaurant was indeed very appealing. Even though the place was small, but it was clean and unique, especially the spacious open-style kitchen with the transparent glass. The environmentally friendly automatic dishwashing machine, plus the chef dressed in pure white uniform, made the entire place look like a high-end Western restaurant. The best thing was that the price was very reasonable. Thus, the group of foodies decided to take the opportunity of the long holidays to visit this place for a sumptuous meal.
Cheng Lai Lai was ecstatic in front of her computer, as she finally won the approval after her hard work. However, she also unleashed a little taste of her evil intentions. She kept refreshing the web pages to observe how those people were discussing passionately. The foodies confirmed the timing, name list, the meeting location, and right when they were about to go offline Cheng Lai Lai posted the extremely annoying rules of the Great 5-Star Restaurant. It mentioned that the restaurant would not be selling any alcohol or beverages and only six tables of customers would be served every meal. The most depressing rule was that the restaurant would open only if the boss were in the mood.
As soon as the foodies saw the new updates, they compared the number of people with the available seats in the restaurant. They became depressed as they found out that they would exceed the maximum seating capacity.
After Cheng Lai Lai finished posting those updates, she shut her computer and went to sleep. However, she 'forgot' to mention the most critical information: The Great 5-Star Restaurant was trendy; A customer must queue for at least two hours for a meal.
But if those foodies were genuinely brilliant, they should be able to deduce this out by themselves. After all, there were photographs and information included in the post. The introduction of the restaurant was also written in great detail. If they could not even connect the visible dots, then there should be nothing much to blame on the Great Lady Cheng!
Bai Lu did not know that someone was helping him with the advertisement. While he looked at Bao Zi who was dozing off in the living room, he contemplated how he could earn the additional $3million, as he wanted to buy a house.
Bai Lu was equipped with a lot of skills, like gambling and stealing. He thought, "Why would I use these methods to get the money? I might as well go and dig out the treasures from Zhang Lao San's coffin again."
He seriously considered for more than 10 seconds. Then he thought, "Forget it. It's better to just dig for the treasure."
Speaking of the money, he recalled the Top Chef Contest. "What kind of shitty contest is this? Every contestant has to pay more than $1k. The first place would only receive $2k, while the second place would only receive back $1k. And the third place would only receive a certificate of participation." He condemned the bunch of organizers of this contest.
第二天早饭后,豹子去饭店开门,沙沙在屋里学习,丁丁赖在客厅看电视.白路很虚心,拿着手机问丁丁:"这玩意怎么用?怎么没有游戏?是不是买到假手机了?"
After they had breakfast the next day morning, Bao Zi went to the restaurant to help, Sha Sha stayed at home to study, while Ding Ding lazed around in the living room and watched television. Bai Lu was very humble, he passed the phone over the Ding Ding and asked, "How do I use this gadget? Why are there no games inside? Have I bought a fake phone?"
被丁丁鄙视:"智能手机就这样,里面什么游戏都有的才是假手机."
Ding Ding despised him. "That's how a smartphone should be. The phone with all kinds of games inside would be fake."
"哦,那去哪买假手机?"
"Oh. Then where can I buy a fake phone?"
丁丁甚是无语:"买什么假手机? 上网下游戏."
Ding Ding was stunned. "What do you mean by buying a fake phone? Just go online and download some games."
"你这不是难为我么?"白路理直气壮:"我怎么知道去哪下?"
"Aren't you being harsh on me?" Bai Lu said with a bold and confident tone. "How would I know where to download the games?"
丁丁一把抓过手机,好一通捣鼓,十五分钟后还给白路:"给你下了几个."
Ding Ding snatched the phone away from him and fiddle with it for a while. After 15 minutes, she returned it to him. "I have downloaded a few for you."
白路捧着好一顿看:"怎么没有坦克大战?"
Bai Lu fumbled around with the phone. "How come there isn't the game Battle City ?"
"我大战你个脑袋."丁丁怒了.
"I will battle your brains." Ding Ding lost her temper.
白路用无辜的表情看她:"你是明星,怎么可以骂人?"
Bai Lu looked at her with an innocent expression. "You are a celebrity. How could you scold people like this?"
"明星你个脑袋,从认识到现在,你什么时候把我当明星了?现在倒想起来了?"这是丁丁最大的愤怒.
"Celebrity? From the day we met, when have you treated me like a celebrity? Now you suddenly recalled that I am a celebrity?" This word was the actual trigger for Ding Ding.
Ding Ding was very, very, very, very stunningly beautiful. There could be an additional 10 plus signs behind the word: Beautiful. She was more beautiful than He Xiao Huan. In fact, she was much more attractive than most of the other celebrities. Any ordinary guy would not be able to take his gaze off her. Even if it was a successful individual who was trying to hold back his identity, or even if it was some guy who was trying to play it cool, they would all secretly check her out a couple of times.
Bai Lu was the only guy that treated her like air. Although they spent more than half a month together, he would hardly speak a word to her even though they saw each other every day. Today, she has finally managed to catch a few more words with him, but the real reason was still that he needed her help to download the games.
白路眨巴眨巴眼睛:"在心里以为你是明星,那才是明星,我是藏着不说,如果天天挂在嘴边,你信啊?"这招很毒,蒙人哄骗大法,就不信你不迷糊.
Bai Lu blinked his eyes innocently, and he said, "In my heart, I have always acknowledged you as a celebrity. To me, you are everything that I dreamed a celebrity should be like. However, I have decided not to say it. If I say it all the time, would you still believe me?" He made a sly move, and it was a great deception technique. He believed that he could smoke her with this blatant lie.
可惜,他低估了自己的对手,丁丁认真说道:"我信,为什么不信? 你说吧,我听着."
Unfortunately, he has severely underestimated his opponent. Ding Ding said, "I believe you. Why would I not believe you? How about you try and say it? I am listening now."
"Oh my God!" The most terrifying living organism in the world was a smart and beautiful woman. Bai Lu conceded defeat, he took the phone and left the house.
丁丁大喊:"就知道你在骗我,你个大骗子."
Ding Ding shouted, "I knew that you were trying to cheat me. You big fat liar."
声音好大,引出沙沙,从卧室路探出个脑袋:"白哥骗你什么了?"
Her voice was so loud that it attracted the attention of Sha Sha. She poked her head out from the bedroom. "What did Brother Bai do to you?"
After Bai Lu left the house, he kept sighing continuously. He thought, "How I am supposed to live here?" As he walked, his phone rang. It was Bao Zi who called from the restaurant, and he said that the organizing committee of the Top Chef Contest had called in to ask if he wanted a copy of the examination outline.
"What the hell. This is the Top Chef Contest, not the Chef Grading Examination! Why is there an examination?" Bai Lu was mad.
豹子继续说:"人家说,五十块钱一份,如果有需要,赶紧去买,明天放假."
Bao Zi said, "The other person also mentioned that it would cost $50 each. If you want it, then you should hurry up and buy it. Tomorrow is an off day."
今天就放假好不好?大过节的都不忘赚钱,果然是好本事.白路说:"知道了."
"Today is already an off day right? He did not forget to earn money even on the holidays. What a hardworking boy." Bai Lu said, "Got it."
After he hung up the phone, he walked to the neighborhood and saw that someone was selling tangerines. He bought close to 3kg of the fruit, and he walked around while eating it. Suddenly, he had an epiphany. He has decided to not return to the restaurant and loitered about on the streets instead. He thought, "This is how my life should be. Looking at others walking hurriedly, and yet I am strolling so peacefully. This is what I call happiness."
Pun for Bai Lu. Slang for unorthodox.