Silly Zhu's Moving: The Old Neighbor's Nightmare

Chapter 204 Newcomer

"Master He, Director Zhang said that a chef will be coming to the kitchen this morning to take charge of the special cooking. What should we do?"

Squad Leader Zhao recalled what Director Zhang had said last night and felt a little worried.

Just as Squad Leader Zhao finished speaking, Director Zhang's voice rang out from outside the door. Director Zhang was leading a fat man into the kitchen. He had a big head and a thick neck; this was the cook.

As Director Zhang entered the kitchen, he walked towards Squad Leader Zhao.

The cook, following behind, walked over with an air of self-assurance.

He just didn't notice the threshold at the doorway, tripped over it, and fell forward.

In desperation, he tried to grab Director Zhang's clothes with both hands, but to no avail, and fell to the ground face-first.

Sha Zhu covered his eyes with one hand; it was terrifying. He landed headfirst on his forehead, knocking out two of his teeth.

Director Zhang heard the commotion and turned around to look. He was shocked to see what was happening and quickly went to help him up, but the new cook had already fainted.

"What are you all standing there for? Come and help! Zhang Long, go and call the doctor from the medical room!"

After shouting to everyone, Director Zhang hurriedly instructed Zhang Long, who had arrived first, to find a doctor.

The kitchen staff swarmed around, but apart from a few people inside who could lend a hand, no one knew what to do.

"Why are you all crowding around? Two or three people are enough."

Well! You're the one who made everyone come over, and you're also the one who made everyone leave. Luckily, Sha Zhu didn't get too close.

Director Zhang and several kitchen helpers helped the new, overweight chef up, patting his face a few times, but he didn't wake up.

Director Zhang checked again and found that the person was still breathing. He quickly asked several people to help carry the person to the medical room.

He's got a concussion, why send him to the medical room instead of the hospital? Sha Zhu was speechless.

Squad Leader Zhao couldn't hide his smile.

Director Zhang hasn't left yet. I don't know why you're so happy. If Director Zhang finds out, you'll be in big trouble. Silly Zhu thought to himself.

After Director Zhang and several kitchen helpers saw the people off, Squad Leader Zhao could no longer hide his smile.

"Master He, this new guy is really unlucky. I just told you that we were getting a new chef in the kitchen, but before I could even introduce him, he was carried away!"

"What's so funny? What if it's not a big problem? They'll come over sooner or later anyway! You're just afraid that the cook is better and will take your position as class monitor, aren't you?"

Sha Zhu was quite amused; how could someone be so unlucky?

"It's alright, don't worry. How dare he come here? Even if he didn't get hurt, it would still be embarrassing enough for him to come back!"

Squad Leader Zhao tried to encourage himself, but it was clearly a case of burying his head in the sand. If his skills weren't up to par, wouldn't someone else replace him sooner or later?

As the group was chatting, Director Zhang hurriedly returned. "Old Zhao, we're having two tables of guests for lunch today. Go to the market and buy two fish to make boiled fish."

Zhu Zi, prepare two tables of braised dishes, one meat and one vegetarian, to entertain us at noon today. Make sure everything goes smoothly.

I have to go to the hospital with him; the new guy fell pretty badly. I'll reimburse you for the fish when I get back.

Director Zhang hurriedly finished assigning the tasks and then hurriedly left.

Squad Leader Zhao said angrily, "Well, now that we can't cook special meals for the new guy, he's thinking about boiled fish again."

Sha Zhu thought to himself with disdain, "You're making me cook for a private kitchen? Those VIP guests who come over won't even look at me."

“Master He, what should we do? We still need to cook mutton for the workers in the workshop at noon. Now the director wants you to continue making braised dishes. What should we do with the mutton? Old Yang can’t handle it all by himself.”

"Let Zhang Long make braised dishes. I'll keep an eye on things. Zhang Long often learns from the small restaurants near my house, so it shouldn't be a problem."

After Sha Zhu finished speaking, he realized that Zhang Long, who had gone to help take people to the medical room, hadn't returned yet. Reluctantly, he had to go and handle it himself.

This noon, I didn't need to use the food from my own space, so I could cook for myself. Sha Zhu noticed that he had grown quite a bit stronger, but it definitely wasn't because he was fat.

He's grown quite a bit taller, and he's only recently changed out of his rainy clothes, so his own clothes are already a bit too small.

After taking Sha Zhu's bicycle keys, Squad Leader Zhao went out to buy fish.

Sha Zhu started arranging for people to prepare the ingredients. Since there was no one in the small kitchen, the braising liquid would have to be made slowly, although there was already some braising liquid in the available space.

It can be poured directly into the pot in the small kitchen and used directly. Unfortunately, if the braising liquid used to braise meat is taken out and used directly, Squad Leader Zhao will definitely find something wrong when he comes back, and he won't be able to be lazy.

Just then, Zhang Long returned, and Sha Zhu tossed him a packet of spices.

"Go to the small kitchen later to make some braised food. Here are the braising spices. How is the person who fell?"

Zhang Long was quite happy to receive the braising spices; he used to always be the one helping out.

Even in small restaurants, the main focus is on studying. Of course, the reason I frequented those places was not only because I could study, but also because I could eat meat.

Now I can do it myself.

"Sir, when we got to the medical room, the doctors there couldn't do anything either. I helped lift it onto the car and took it to the hospital before coming back. Director Zhang went to the hospital with the car."

Sha Zhu chuckled to himself after hearing this.

"Okay, then you can go and get busy in the small kitchen,"

I made stir-fried mutton for lunch, but there wasn't enough mutton for the factory workers. Half a spoonful wasn't even enough for each person. How could I possibly divide it up?

The workers won't cause a fuss if they don't have enough to eat; it's none of my business anyway, let Foreman Zhao worry about it.

Originally, Sha Zhu had planned to make some mutton soup in the kitchen to serve as a perk for the kitchen staff to eat with noodles, but he changed his mind.

They were afraid that if the factory workers caused a commotion and saw that there was mutton soup in the kitchen, but they didn't get to drink it, they would die.

After stir-frying the mutton and cooking the vegetables in the big pot at noon, Sha Zhu went to the small kitchen.

Squad Leader Zhao instructed the food servers to give each person a small spoonful, less than half a spoonful, to the people who came to eat.

Since it was free, and the meat was served for free, although not much, it didn't cause the commotion that Sha Zhu had imagined.

The lunch service was fine, but Liu Lan complained that there was no meat left on the table, only a boiled fish soup base. She went to the small kitchen hoping to have some meat to satisfy her craving.

"Master He, I want to learn cooking from you too. I'm a little envious of Zhang Long. When I'm following behind you two, I can only eat what you leave behind," Liu Lan complained.

"When did I ever let you eat leftovers? Every time you went out to accept banquets, weren't yours and Zhang Long's the same?"

"You're still not satisfied? You envy Zhang Long, but the kitchen staff outside are probably envious of you more than anyone else!"

This shameless Liu Lan came to the small kitchen to eat meat, and she wasn't satisfied yet.

Liu Lan dared not talk back to Sha Zhu now; she relied entirely on Sha Zhu and his apprentice for extra income.

Sha Zhu was especially generous; he never accepted money when he went to the countryside, but instead exchanged it for various supplies, and he would give about half of them to Zhang Long and himself.

After working in the city for a while, I earned almost as much money as I did at the factory.

Unfortunately, both the master and apprentice were too young and not yet of marriageable age. Even Zhang Long, the apprentice, would have been willing to marry.

"Master He, do you have any plans this weekend? I've only had two wedding couples from the city come looking for work, I don't have any jobs in the countryside!" Liu Lan said.

"You've turned down jobs in the city. If you two want to earn some extra money, you can work as assistants for Master Ge." Sha Zhu refused to take any jobs in the city.

"If the banquet is simple, you can ask Squad Leader Zhao or Chef Yang."

"They're all so stingy!" Liu Lan muttered.