Actually, Ye Linlin knew how to make most Sichuan dishes, but she didn’t dare to reveal everything completely. Su Chenghuai was too observant, and she was afraid of being discovered that she had a different soul.
“I think Linlin is right. It’s not too late to change now. There aren’t many customers these days anyway, so Jianjun, you should study Sichuan cuisine properly. Let’s give it a try. It can’t get any worse than it is now.”
After hearing Ye Linlin and Su Chenghuai’s words, everyone nodded. No one knew the crisis of the restaurant better than them.
With the direction decided, everyone felt that the food tasted even better.
While they were eating, someone pushed the door open and came in.
Liu Yan immediately stood up to greet the customer, but when he saw the face of the person who came in, his enthusiastic face immediately collapsed.
Seeing Liu Yan’s change, Ye Linlin turned her head to look at the door and was slightly stunned.
Two men stood at the door, looking somewhat similar. When they saw Ye Linlin, their faces were also full of surprise.
“Boss Wang, what brings you here today? Is business in your restaurant not doing well?”
Liu Yan asked, but the butt that had just been raised fell back onto the stool.
The person who came was Wang Junzhi, the owner of the restaurant across the street. The man next to him, who looked five parts similar to him, was Ye Linlin’s former fiancé, Wang Junbao.
“I heard that your boss is back, so I came to ask if you want to transfer the store to me now. It’s going to happen sooner or later anyway.”
Wang Junzhi was Wang Junbao’s older brother. He was a little surprised to see Ye Linlin, but he didn’t say anything. He knew that his younger brother and Ye Linlin had broken off their engagement.
He also felt that this marriage was not suitable.
Although Ye Linlin was beautiful, she had a rural household registration. In his opinion, his younger brother could completely marry a city girl.
After all, the Wang family was now a real ten-thousand-yuan household.
It’s just that no one knew.
The villagers, including Wang Junbao, thought that the breakfast shop belonged to Wang Junzhi and his wife.
In fact, the capital for the breakfast shop was provided by Wang’s parents, so Wang Junzhi gave half of the money he earned to his parents.
After tasting the sweetness of doing business, Wang Junzhi and his wife used their savings to rent a shop on Jixiang Street to make home-style dishes.
The income from this shop completely belonged to Wang Junzhi and his wife, so they put almost all their energy into this shop.
Because the prices were affordable, the daily traffic was huge, and the original shop area was not enough to support it, Wang Junzhi began to think about Su Chenghuai’s shop.
“We’re not transferring. Boss Wang, please leave.”
Su Chenghuai turned around and issued an order to leave. He didn’t expect to see Wang Junbao here. He turned his head to look at Ye Linlin and saw that she didn’t react, so he turned his gaze to Wang Junzhi.
He could roughly guess the relationship between the two from their appearance.
“You’re the boss? No wonder you, Ye Linlin, would take a fancy to him. You’re just looking at him because he’s rich, right?”
Wang Junbao had now forgotten that he and Bai Ni had used a trick to break off the engagement. It was as if he had been abandoned by Ye Linlin.
“What a coincidence! You’re the Ye family’s new son-in-law? Your old Ye family really misjudged this time. The new son-in-law is about to become a pauper. Haha.”
Wang Junzhi also didn’t expect that the owner of the restaurant across the street was actually the new man Ye Linlin had found. He mocked the two of them, and Wang Junbao also laughed along, his laughter arrogant and treacherous.
As soon as Wang Junzhi’s offensive words came out, Liu Yan and the others immediately stood up, looking at the Wang brothers with cold eyes.
“If you haven’t taken your medicine, go home and take it quickly. Don’t go crazy in other people’s shops. Do you want me to contact a mental hospital for you?”
Hearing Ye Linlin’s words, the two men’s laughter stopped abruptly.
Wang Junbao was so angry that his face turned red. He clenched his fists and roared loudly at Ye Linlin.
“Who are you calling crazy? You…”
Before he could finish speaking, Wang Junzhi pulled him away. As soon as they left the door, Wang Junbao shook off his hand and asked dissatisfiedly.
“Brother, what are you doing? That bitch is scolding us. Why are you pulling me?”
“Didn’t you see that the waiters all stood up? I heard that they are all veterans, each one big and burly. Do you want to be beaten? Why say so much to them? When their shop is squeezed out by us, let’s see if her mouth is still so hard.”
Hearing this, Wang Junbao shrank his neck. He didn’t want to be beaten. His brother was right. When their restaurant couldn’t continue and closed down, it would be time for him to laugh at her.
“Sis-in-law, do you know the owner across the street? Who is the man next to him?”
Wang Wu watched the two leave and sat back on the stool, asking Ye Linlin curiously.
This Wang Wu was a muscular man, a typical simple-minded person.
“Yes, I know him. The man next to him is the fiancé that my parents arranged for me before. We broke off the engagement later. The owner across the street is his older brother.”
Ye Linlin answered calmly. Wu Dayong next to her supported his forehead. He felt embarrassed for Wang Wu. The other two also quickly lowered their heads to eat.
Looking at Wu Dayong and the others, Ye Linlin didn’t feel embarrassed. She and Wang Junbao were originally engaged by their parents. The two had no feelings, and they didn’t continue to pester each other after breaking off the engagement.
“Sis-in-law, you have good taste. You were right to break off the engagement. Our boss is definitely a hundred times better than that person, no, ten thousand times better.”
Liu Yan tried to smooth things over, joking.
But unexpectedly, the room suddenly became silent, so quiet that Liu Yan didn’t dare to breathe.
“Yeah.”
Just when Liu Yan was secretly scolding himself for being talkative, Ye Linlin and Su Chenghuai spoke at the same time.
Ye Linlin secretly turned her head and looked at Su Chenghuai’s expressionless face. It was as if the voice just now didn’t come from his mouth.
She was too embarrassed to say that she was the one who was dumped, so she just hummed. She didn’t expect the man next to her to agree.
Was this man so narcissistic? Did he think that the engagement was right to be broken off, or did he think that he was ten thousand times better than Wang Junbao?
Driving away the messy thoughts in her head, Ye Linlin turned her head and assigned tasks.
“Jianjun, you should buy a Sichuan cookbook to study first. Dayong, you need to purchase some Sichuan cuisine ingredients, mainly chili peppers and peppercorns. Be sure to choose ones that are spicy and numbing enough.”
Although there weren’t many customers recently, someone needed to greet them, so Ye Linlin didn’t arrange any tasks for Liu Yan and Wang Wu.
“Dayong, I need you to do me a favor.”
Hearing that Ye Linlin wanted him to help, Wu Dayong didn’t expect it and quickly responded.
“Sis-in-law, tell me, I’ll definitely do it if I can.”
Although Wu Dayong was shrewd, he didn’t have bad intentions. He was sincerely doing it for the good of this shop and these people.
“You know a lot of people from your daily purchases. Can you help me find a few herbs? I’ll write a list in a while. If you have them, buy some for me first with this money.”
Ye Linlin handed Wu Dayong ten big unity bills.
The herbs she wanted were the ones missing from Chef Huang’s secret recipe. She planned to make the seasoning for the shop to use. She could guarantee that this would definitely bring in a lot of repeat customers, and even old customers would bring in new customers.
Wu Dayong looked at the money Ye Linlin handed over and didn’t immediately reach out to take it.