"What are you doing, Chen Yang?"

  Liu Xiaoting was startled and quickly snatched the phone.

  "This is my business, I'll handle it myself." I pushed her away and continued speaking into the phone, "You're Duan Fangtian, President Duan, right? Don't bother Liu Xiaoting, if you're a man, come at me."

  "You're a clever kid, aren't you?" Fang Tian's voice on the phone was hard and cold. "I'm not in a hurry to settle accounts with you now. I, Duan Mou, need to figure out your relationship with Crab Old Seven first, and then we'll follow the rules of the Jianghu."

  The phone hung up.

  I returned the mobile phone to Liu Xiaoting.

  "Chen Yang, what were you just doing?" Liu Xiaoting said angrily. "This matter has nothing to do with you, why did you do this?"

  "I know he's looking for trouble with you, this is all because of me, letting a woman take the blame for me, am I still a man?"

  I turned around and was about to leave.

  "But was stopped by the other party, 'Halt!'"

  "You came to find me so early in the morning, it must still be because of your wife's matter, right?"

  Since you've changed the subject, I won't be polite anymore. "You must have known my wife before, and you must know her very well, right?"

  "Why did you say that?"

  "I know I shouldn't say this because it's your own private matter and I have no right to ask. I just want to ask, is it that you want my wife to extract the secret recipe?"

  Liu Xiaoting shook her head, "You were just acting like a man, now you're acting like a little woman. You're really interesting."

  "I admit I want your secret recipe, but I won't go around you through your wife."

  She smiled slightly and said, "Do you still need to hide it from your wife?"

  I see.

  Liu Xiaoting never found my wife because of this matter.

  I sighed and said, "Boss Feng had specifically entrusted me with the secret formula, which absolutely cannot be leaked out. Not even to my own wife."

  "Do you know why I asked you to come to Emperor Hotel as the head of the catering department?"

  I didn't mince words, "There's no such thing as a free lunch, you're after the secret recipe."

  "Tell me more about it."

  "You give me a salary of 10,000 yuan per month and pay me two months' wages in advance. Why are you so good to me? Isn't it all for that secret formula?"

  "Damn you!"

  Liu Xiaoting's face suddenly turned red.

  I realize what I just said was a bit heavy, so I quickly explained, "I'm not the kind of person who likes to hide things. This is just what I think in my heart and what I've said. If there's anything that wasn't right, I hope you won't mind."

  "Since you're being honest, I shouldn't be dishonest either." Liu Xiaoting pointed to the sofa, "Don't rush off. Sit down! I have something to tell you."

  His tone was commanding.

  After I sat down, she spoke up, "There's one thing you said that was right, the sky won't drop meat pies. I let you come to Emperor Hotel's catering department as a manager, wanting you to play to your strengths."

  "I believe your chicken soup can turn things around at Imperial Mansion."

  The other party then made some explanations.

  It turned out that the Emperor Building was located in the golden area of the city center, and the cost was too high. The current competitive pressure is also particularly great.

  The Emperor Group is now operating with great difficulty.

  So, Liu Xiaoting thought of using catering as a breakthrough.

  If we launch Feng's chicken soup and create a taste on the tip of the tongue, it will set off the business of Emperor Hotel.

  "If the chicken soup shop hadn't gone under, I wouldn't have been able to dig you up and bring you here, and you wouldn't have come."

  "Now that the chicken soup shop is gone, you won't let your skills go to waste, right? So, I thought of cooperation."

  "This is a win-win situation. You won't be against it."

  What he said is reasonable and well-founded.

  I nodded, "I agree."

  In fact, I have no choice now.

  What she said is right, it's a win-win situation.

  "Your monthly salary is temporarily 10,000 yuan, if business is good, I'll give you a raise."

  Liu Xiaoting smiled and said, "Alright, let's get down to business."

  I suddenly understood.

  They let me be in charge, just to give me face.

  In fact, it's equivalent to hiring me as a chef.

  As I turned to leave, she seriously reminded me, "Remember, if Duan Fangtian gives you trouble, tell me."

  I went back to the catering department.

  I made out a list and told one of the cooks to go shopping.

  There are six kinds of medicine on the list, which can be bought in a pharmacy.

  In addition, there are two more that are not in pharmacies.

  Need me to go to the mountain to pick.

  Mr. Feng instructed me repeatedly when he passed on the secret recipe to me, the names of the eight flavors of herbs must not be reversed, they must be memorized and remembered in my heart.

  I was very puzzled at the time, what's the difference between upside down and mixed together anyway.

  When I asked Boss Feng, he didn't say anything, his eyes were very unusual.

  At that time, I didn't think much of it and thought it was a symptom after recovering from cerebral hemorrhage.

  I packed up and headed out the door, preparing to enter the mountains.

  There is a mountain 30 kilometers south of Ning City, and Mr. Feng took me there once.

  The purpose is for me to identify the herbal medicines that cannot be bought in pharmacies.

  At this time, my mobile phone rang.

  It's an unfamiliar number.

  After connecting, it was a man's voice, with a very magnetic tone, "Is that Chen Yang?"

  "Who am I? And who are you?"

  "What? Can't you even hear my voice? I'm Huang Peng!"

  Huang Peng!!!

  I suddenly woke up.

  Isn't that guy the one who made that composite Douyin video that Zou Miao Miao was talking about?

  Also, the one sitting next to Duan Fangtian at the Hive Casino last night should be him too.

  "Do we... know each other?"

  I hesitantly responded.

  The other party's tone seems familiar to me.

  It's really strange.

  "Do you still remember An Hong?"

  I suddenly remembered.

  No wonder I thought he looked familiar last night.

  So it was him after all.

  I attended vocational college, and in my junior year, a girl named An Hong from our department had a crush on me, but I didn't take a liking to her.

  An Hong did not give up easily and looked for me very frequently for a period of time.

  One evening, a boy suddenly found me and fiercely warned me to stay away from An Hong.

  I asked him who he was.

  He said his name is Huang Peng and he is An Hong's boyfriend.

  I didn't mind, I said I and An Hong's relationship is also nothing.

  Later, An Hong didn't look for me again. I also never saw Huang Peng again.

  "So you're the one?"

  "Remember now? You're still my love rival after all." The other person chuckled, "Are you free at noon? I'll treat you to lunch."

  "Why?"

  "About the chicken soup shop."

  "Can't you say it over the phone?" I immediately realized that the other party should know the inside story of the chicken soup shop.

  "Let's just have a face-to-face talk instead. You won't refuse because it's beneficial for you."

  "Right at the old Feng's Chicken Soup place. 12 o'clock sharp, don't be late."

  12 o'clock sharp.

  I came to Feng's Chicken Soup Restaurant.

  I was surprised to find that the chicken soup shop had reopened.

  However, the sign changed to "Huang's Chicken Soup Restaurant."

  The store was just transferred by me less than two weeks ago, and it has already changed hands again?