Chapter 458: Is Master Xia's mood so bad today?

Good news, for some reason, Beiping City was not congested at all today. Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan arrived at Fen Garden smoothly.

Bad news, the two arrived too early, arriving at 5:24 PM.

Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan, who had never eaten at Fen Garden and had never eaten in the courtyard house, faced the tightly closed Fen Garden gate, naturally lacking confidence and not daring to step forward to knock on the door. They could only wander, hesitate, hesitate, and step on the spot in front of Fen Garden, looking like two new stupid thieves preparing to do a big job in Fen Garden tonight.

"Why don't we stroll around the surroundings first? I saw someone selling Fulfilling Shaobing on the way here just now. Why don't we walk over and buy a Fulfilling Shaobing?" Qin Huai suggested.

Zhao Chengan waved the menu point on the mobile phone screen with hatred for iron not becoming steel, and said: "Qin Huai, can you have some ambition? We are all going to open a blind box and eat a big meal, and still eat Fulfilling Shaobing. But I saw a convenience store on the way here just now, so I can go to the convenience store and buy two bottles of Coke."

"Coke is bloating, and you won't be able to eat if you drink too much."

"Hungry for a day, eating a Fulfilling Shaobing before dinner will make you able to eat."

The dining duo had a disagreement about whether to go buy Fulfilling Shaobing first or Coke first, triggering a conflict. Seeing that the stupid thief duo was about to break out into a fierce quarrel in front of Fen Garden, the door opened.

Zhang Guanghang wore a very basic and ordinary chef uniform, holding a list in his hand, appearing brilliantly as if he were a waiter who had just started work.

Don't know if it was because he was tall enough, or the modeling was up to standard, Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan looked at the ordinary chef uniform on Zhang Guanghang, always feeling like this year's runway new style.

"Are you Mr. Qin Huai and Mr. Zhao Chengan?" Waiter Xiao Zhang casually checked two on the list, "The double set meal you two booked for 6 o'clock tonight."

"Yes, yes, yes." The two said in unison, "Came early."

"Please come in." Zhang Guanghang turned sideways, making a gesture of invitation to signal the two to come in.

The two stepped in very carefully and cautiously, looking around, and found that Fen Garden was really a proper courtyard house larger than they imagined, immediately switching to the mode of Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

"There are flowers."

"Yes, yes, yes, look, there is grass over there."

"And rockery."

"There won't be a pond inside, right?"

"There is a small pond, but it is not open to guests. There are a few fish that my master likes to eat inside, caught and eaten at any time." Zhang Guanghang said.

Zhao Chengan excitedly said to Qin Huai: "There are fish, you say can I eat oil-drizzled silver carp today?"

Zhang Guanghang didn't speak, just silently remembered, leading the two towards the dining seat.

Fen Garden was opened in a courtyard house. Maybe it was a gimmick deliberately done by Xia Mubing, or maybe Xia Mubing just happened to buy this courtyard house, feeling that since it was so big, he lived in it anyway, so it was better to take out one entrance to open a restaurant, saving the extra money to buy another restaurant.

Therefore, there was no fancy special decoration in the dining place. It was just purely placing dining tables where antique shelves and furniture should have been. They were all eight-immortal tables of the same size, no larger.

No wonder Fen Garden didn't receive large tables of more than 6 people. These eight-immortal tables were a bit reluctant for 6 people to sit, and more than 6 people couldn't sit down.

"You two are the first guests to arrive, please sit for a while and rest. There are no waiters in Fen Garden. If you need tea, you can go over there and refill it yourself." Zhang Guanghang said and went into the kitchen to continue being busy, leaving Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan to continue looking.

There were 5 eight-immortal tables in the hall, and separate private rooms further inside. Because the hall was full of tables, there was no extra space for extra decorations, resulting in it looking a bit simple, like a banquet in the countryside.

But considering that this location was a courtyard house within the Second Ring Road of Beiping, this simplicity could also be "Great Dao is Simple."

Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan really wanted to stroll around, but were afraid of breaking the rules before eating, and accidentally strolling into the living area and being driven out by Xia Mubing.

Being driven out was a relatively good result. If they were caught on the spot by Xia Mubing and sent to the police station to call Ling Guangzhao to fish them out, Qin Huai and Zhao Chengan would also be famous in the Beiping chef circle.

The kind that people would mention many years later, and remember how many years they were sentenced.

The two could only discuss constantly with bold eyes, careful movements, wretched figures, and lowered voices.

"Wow, I have always heard others say that Fen Garden is opened in a courtyard house. I had no concept when I heard it. Just now, I followed Zhang Guanghang in. Did you count the time? We walked from the gate to here and walked for three minutes!" Qin Huai made a voice that had never seen the world, "Three minutes, enough to walk 4 laps at my house."

"Yes, yes, yes, look at this table, simple, simple, atmospheric, it looks like good wood." Zhao Chengan touched the table a few times quietly, having never seen the world.

Zhang Guanghang, who was plating cold dishes in the kitchen while looking up at the surveillance, silently complained in his heart: It is indeed good wood, yellow pear wood, but just ordinary yellow pear wood. Back then, the master was pitted by a second-hand dealer and bought it at the price of Hainan yellow pear wood.

Zhang Guanghang didn't show it on his face while working, but his gaze shifted from the surveillance to Xia Mubing's face.

Zhang Guanghang keenly discovered that his master had been staring at the surveillance. Although he could only see the back of his master's head and couldn't see his master's expression, he could also see his master's focus when watching the surveillance from his back.

Not far away, the meat stewing in the pot on the stove was already cooked, but Xia Mubing seemed not to notice it and was still looking up at the surveillance.

There was no special surveillance room in Fen Garden, only two places could check the surveillance screen, one was the kitchen, and the other was the room opposite Xia Mubing's bedroom.

There were only three screens in the kitchen, used to watch the situation in the dining area. When Xia Mubing was young, he was a super roll king, one person could be used as 5 people, and operating Fen Garden alone could easily cope without hiring anyone.

Now Xia Mubing's energy was far less than before. He and Zhang Guanghang operating Fen Garden was actually a bit powerless, but Xia Mubing was used to not hiring waiters and kitchen helpers. In order to better take care of the dining area, Xia Mubing installed surveillance.

If guests had any needs, felt that the dishes didn't suit their taste, or had other things and didn't know where to find the chef, they would wave at the surveillance, and Xia Mubing would go out if he saw it and had time.

Under normal circumstances, Xia Mubing wouldn't look up at the surveillance. He would just scan it a few times while cooking. Under normal circumstances, he didn't need to watch the surveillance—

If Zhang Guanghang was in Fen Garden, Zhang Guanghang would pay attention to the surveillance. If Zhang Guanghang was not in Fen Garden, Xia Mubing would only receive 6~8 tables of guests a day, and sometimes he would close the business. There were so few people that he didn't need to watch the surveillance.

But today, Xia Mubing could be said to look up at the surveillance from time to time, sometimes looking for four or five seconds at a glance.

Zhang Guanghang didn't say anything, just worked silently, and spoke up to remind when he should: "Master, the meat in the pot seems to be cooked."

Xia Mubing withdrew his gaze and went to the stove to deal with the braised meat. When he turned around, Zhang Guanghang could see his expression clearly. It was a kind of expression he rarely saw on Xia Mubing's face.

A bit of surprise, a bit of happiness, more of nostalgia, melancholy, and some complex emotions he couldn't describe.

These expressions, Zhang Guanghang hadn't seen on Xia Mubing's face for many years.

Ever since Xia Mubing contacted the descendants of the Li family, wanting to buy back Taifeng Restaurant at a high price, three times the market price, and was rejected, wanting to buy it every year, and being rejected every year, Xia Mubing was rarely happy.

Xia Mubing lived to this age, and few things could surprise him. After all, he had seen, experienced, and heard of most things in this world, and there were too few things he had never heard of or seen.

And the melancholy and nostalgia that often appeared on old people, Zhang Guanghang rarely saw on Xia Mubing either. Zhang Guanghang always felt that this was because his master had been alone for many years, and ever since returning to Beiping, he had been alone, without any particularly close friends, let alone old friends, friends, and friends' descendants for many years, so he had nothing to be melancholy and nostalgic about. ===== CHAPTER 459 =====