Chapter 561: Amazed Shazhu, I Slept with Lou Xiao'e?

Shazhu had his back to the door, didn't see Yu Li come in; hearing Liu Lan say that, he thought Liu Lan was making fun of him, gave Liu Lan a glance, and said, "I'm not so foolish as to fall for your tricks, Liu Lan."

Liu Lan saw Shazhu not believing, didn't worry about many things, relying on her long-term colleague relationship with Shazhu and also on her good relationship with Yu Li, she stepped up to him, placed her damp hand on his cheek, and, like twisting a machine gun, turned his head so his eyes could see Yu Li.

At the moment Yu Li's figure entered Shazhu's field of vision, he finally realized Liu Lan wasn't lying this time; Yu Li had really come to the back kitchen looking for him.

He rose from the stool, quickly walked toward Yu Li, and a question flew out of his mouth.

"How did you come here?"

"Two guests have come up front; you need to personally prepare two of your signature dishes."

The expression on Shazhu's face.

He was somewhat indifferent.

Guests have arrived.

I also need to personally handle it.

"What kind of guest is so impressive that I, He Yuzhu, need to personally go to the kitchen?"

Thus: Thus: Mahua has learned fifty percent of Shazhu's cooking skills; the dishes he makes are also quite good in color, aroma, and taste, but only true gourmets can discern the difference.

It's not that Shazhu deliberately refuses to teach Thus: Thus: Mahua.

But Shazhu is a person who has lived two lives, benefiting from the experience of his previous life.

Thus: Thus: Mahua has nothing.

This is also because Thus: Thus: Mahua has opened this aperture in cooking; for anyone else, even if Shazhu taught them wholeheartedly, at best they'd only grasp thirty percent of the skill. Take Pangzi as an example: for the same dish, Shazhu tells both Pangzi and Thus: Thus: Mahua how to do it, the details where, and the rice Thus: Thus: Mahua makes tastes a bit better than Pangzi's.

For this reason, Shazhu brought Thus: Thus: Mahua out to work independently, delegating most of the back-kitchen tasks to Thus: Thus: Mahua; only when Thus: Thus: Mahua is overwhelmed or a high-ranking guest arrives does Shazhu personally step in.

In Shazhu's view, only someone like a high-ranking leader can make him give his all to cooking.

He looked at Yu Li and said.

"What kind of guest requires me to personally handle it?"

"Just do it, why all this nonsense?" Yu Li glared at Shazhu, turned and walked outside; as she was about to leave, she still used a commanding tone to urge him, "Hurry up, don't delay people's meals."

Love deep.

Responsibility strict.

Facing Yu Li, Shazhu really couldn't bring out the aura from his previous life.

He took an apron, put it on, and prepared two signature dishes: one was braised pork intestine nine times, the other was stir-fried bok choy with mushrooms, one meat and one vegetable, fully showing Shazhu's skill.

Ordinary dishes better reveal a chef's skill.

He refused the help of the serving staff, held a plate in one hand, stepped out of the back kitchen, wanting to see which great person could persuade Yu Li to come out.

The people at Bai Xu all know that Shazhu is the linchpin here; ordinary people hardly ever get his personal reception. When a familiar customer sees Shazhu come out of the back kitchen, they promptly tease him.

"Yo, it's actually Master He personally serving the dish; this guest sure has face."

Shazhu took a look at the person who spoke up.

Half-acquainted.

The reason he says that is because this person, said to be a minor leader working at the textile factory, has been coming to show support ever since Bai Xu opened, rain or shine.

His name is Yang Yuxuan.

As for whether he's spending his own money, Shazhu couldn't be bothered to care; anyway, the customer pays for his meal, and he doesn't give IOUs.

Don't strike a smiling face.

These are all his providers of food and clothing.

Shazhu chuckled and replied to Yang Yuxuan.

"Section Chief Yang, you're picking a fight, alright, come tomorrow and I'll personally receive you tomorrow."

"Master He, then we have a deal; I'll come again tomorrow evening, you must personally receive me."

"We men of the Capital City, a spit and a nail—you're eating it."

Shazhu, casually agreeing with Yang Yuxuan, turned his gaze toward table nine.

Xu Daming had his back to Shazhu; Lou Xiao'e, sitting opposite Xu Daming, was effectively facing Shazhu, looking at that cheek full of collagen.

Shazhu froze on the spot; the memory fragments stored in his mind immediately surfaced.

In his previous life.

Qin Huairu saw that Shazhu had the idea of taking a wife; worried her family would lose their 'blood-sucking bag', she pretended to introduce a match for Shazhu, deliberately taking Qin Jingru to Xu Daming's special movie screening, telling Xu Daming that Qin Jingru was the woman she had introduced to Shazhu.

As Shazhu's rival, Xu Daming saw Shazhu's only advantage as being married, while Shazhu remained a bachelor.

He wanted Shazhu to remain childless for life.

He thus intended to ruin this marriage, and in front of Qin Jingru he spoke some ill of Shazhu.

Actually, it wasn't really bad talk.

He simply spoke of those things Shazhu did in the Siheyuan: saying he looked after the deaf old lady in the Hou Yuan, saying he looked after Yi Zhonghai and his wife, saying he helped the Jia Family widow, saying the neighbors in the courtyard all treated Shazhu badly, and so on; after saying all that, Qin Jingru also understood what kind of person Shazhu was; later many couples expected Shazhu to support them; if she married Shazhu, she wouldn't end up being made to work like an ox or horse; that extinguished that idea.

Xu Daming took the opportunity to bring Qin Jingru to a restaurant, they ate well, then he brought her to a mall and bought some things.

The turtle took a liking to the big tortoise.

Qin Jingru wanted to use the ploy of turning uncooked rice into cooked rice to make herself a city person.

Xu Daming again treated Qin Jingru as an ignorant country bumpkin.

The two slept together.

Later, after Qin Huairu found out about this, they made a fuss, and then came Lou Xiao'e's divorce and other events.

Lou Xiao'e, as the victim, after the divorce moved into the deaf old lady's house; the deaf old lady summoned Shazhu under the pretense of having him cook for her, in order to matchmake Shazhu and Lou Xiao'e; Shazhu cooked for several days, Lou Xiao'e and Shazhu gradually became acquainted, their plain vegetables and fiery passion blended together.

In the meantime, a melodramatic incident occurred: Lou Xiao'e's parents did not agree to her marrying Shazhu, saying it would stimulate Xu Daming.

But Lou Xiao'e paid no heed; under the circumstances, her parents agreed to this marriage.

Upon hearing that Shazhu wanted to marry Lou Xiao'e, Qin Huairu felt as if she had taken bitter medicine, wore a displeased expression, came to the door and said a few hypocritical words, and also sent over a bedsheet.

It cannot be ruled out that Lou Xiaoe has thoughts of revenge against Xu Daming; you dumped me, so I will marry your rival.

However, because of this action, he completely angered Xu Daming; Xu Daming found Deputy Factory Director Li and reported Lou Xiaoe's family.

Lou Xiaoe's family was arrested; Shazhu appealed to the big leader, and only then was Lou Xiaoe's family released, they went to a distant place, and only returned after ten years.

Along with her, there was also Shazhu's son He Xia.

Shazhu originally thought he had forgotten all of this, but the moment Lou Xiaoe matched his memory of Lou Xiaoe, the memories he had deliberately buried instantly revived.

He Xia!

After Lou Xiaoe brought He Xia back, Shazhu immediately took He Xia to see Xu Daming, earnestly saying that he had a descendant.

Xu Daming's face looked bad; Yi Zhonghai's face looked even worse; then came Qin Huairu, Jia Zhangshi, Bangeng and these bastards and beasts, they were even more like seeing a flood and ferocious beast, regarding Lou Xiaoe and He Xia as a thorn in the eye and a splinter in the flesh, wishing to eliminate them as soon as possible.

Lou Xiaoe opened a restaurant; Shazhu worked there.

Yi Zhonghai, Qin Huairu, and Jia Zhangshi worried that Shazhu would run off with Lou Xiaoe, and all day long they brainwashed him, saying Qin Huairu was a good woman and Bangeng was a good child.

What an eggplant.

Lou Xiaoe brought He Xia back half a year earlier; it was estimated that Shazhu would have run off with Lou Xiaoe, because the moment He Xia saw Shazhu, Shazhu had just finished the seven-year period of being strung along by Qin Huairu, and he and Qin Huairu had obtained a marriage certificate.

The subsequent events.

It simply cannot be mentioned again.

Shazhu opened the Dayuan nursing home, providing end-of-life care for the beasts; among them were the bastards who had caused Lou Xiaoe's family to be destroyed; when he ran out of money, he went to Lou Xiaoe to demand payment.

Finally, Lou Xiaoe saw through the truth of the nursing home, asked Shazhu whether he would choose his son or Qin Huairu; Shazhu chose Qin Huairu, and Lou Xiaoe took He Xia away from the Capital City, never contacting Shazhu again.

The restaurant was transferred by Lou Xiaoe to someone else; Shazhu could no longer continue serving meals, so it fizzled out; under Bangeng's manipulation, he opened a eatery, but due to the Jia family's influence it closed down; thereafter he just lived off his savings, until he transferred the Siheyuan to Bangeng's name and was driven out of his home.

These miserable events from the previous life were rekindled the instant the resplendent Lou Xiaoe appeared.

This made Shazhu realize he still harbored hatred.

Hatred toward Qin Huairu and them.

Only when Lou Xiaoe shouted Shazhu's name did he snap out of the sea of resentment.

"Are you Lou Xiaoe?"

"Master He, I've been gone for over ten years, and you don't dare recognize me?" Lou Xiaoe took a sip of tea, looked at the still dazed Shazhu, and said: "I am indeed Lou Xiaoe, genuine through and through."

Lou Xiaoe's tone was somewhat flat.

One could not hear anything good in it.

Nor could one hear anything bad.

Purely a calm mind.

The instant she saw Shazhu, she felt relieved of the oppression caused by Xu Daming's deceit in her heart.

"When did you come back?" Shazhu put the vegetables in his hand onto the table, saying: "No wonder my wife just had me make my specialty dish; it turns out the house is full of honored guests."

The latter sentence.

Shazhu lowered his voice unnaturally.

The eatery runs an open-door business; he told Lou Xiaoe that she was a distinguished guest, making other customers seem lowly; if she were to spitefully stay away, could the eatery stay open?

"I've been back for over three months; because I've been busy, I haven't returned to the Siheyuan to visit our old neighbors."

"That's right; career comes first."

Xu Daming is also a ghost.

He learned the truth of certain matters from Yan Fugui's mouth.

Again seeing Shazhu's attention on Lou Xiaoe, he deliberately stayed silent, waiting until Shazhu's gaze unintentionally swept over his figure before waving at Shazhu.

Shazhu was stunned.

His mind was dazed.

He never expected to see Lou Xiaoe today, let alone Xu Daming; moreover, it was strange that the two people who divorced over ten years ago both appeared before Shazhu at the same time.

"What are you looking at? You don't recognize me?"

Xu Daming saw Shazhu staring straight at him, made a joking remark, slightly paused his body, and then smoothed his hair.

"You guys, what is this?"

Shazhu truly had a head full of fog.

How did these two end up together?

It's not like in the previous life.

In the previous life, after Lou Xiaoe brought He Xia back, they learned that the deceived Qin Jingru divorced Xu Daming; in this life, Xu Daming still did not avoid the fact of divorcing Qin Jingru.

"Lou Dong is a friend who returned to invest; I am a member of the Yagangchang liaison team; you say how we ended up together."

"You all eat first; I'll go prepare a few more dishes; tonight we'll gather."

Shazhu told Yu Li, and Yu Li handed the task over to You Fengxia.

The kitchen affairs were entrusted to Thus: Thus: Mahua and Liu Lan.

Shazhu prepared several more dishes, packed them in a food container, and walked together toward the small Siheyuan.

Having not seen each other for years, there is certainly much to say, but because these words cannot be heard by outsiders, Shazhu's solitary small Siheyuan is just right.

From beginning to end.

He never let You Fengxia see Xu Daming.

Shazhu can still remember those things from the previous life.

You Fengxia is truly a ruthless person; she colluded with Deputy Factory Director Li, and at the same time ruined Xu Daming's family.

If Xu Daming had not fallen for You Fengxia's scheme, could he have literally angered his father to death? Could he have ended up homeless?

……

The next day.

Shazhu, who had just woken up, did not rush to get dressed and get up, but lay in the quilt, thinking about what Lou Xiao'e and Xu Daming had said to her the previous night.

Xu Daming told Shazhu, saying that in the three months he had been in contact with Lou Xiao'e, he had seen many changes in her and felt he could not continue living in such a muddled way.

He wanted to go south to have a look.

He heard that there, one could easily earn over a hundred yuan a month.

He had skills.

He was afraid of nothing.

He said that if he ended up with nothing, he hoped that when he returned, Shazhu could help him with a bite to eat.

Shazhu recalled the scene from his previous life when Xu Daming had collected his corpse, and he chuckled while making a guarantee.

If I'm not mistaken.

Xu Daming will leave today.

Relying on Xu Daming's eloquence and holding back, he went south, and it is not impossible for him to make a career.

As for Lou Xiao'e.

Shazhu felt it was troublesome.

Last night, taking the opportunity when Yu Li went inside to boil water, Lou Xiao'e secretly whispered to Shazhu, saying that the child in her womb was Shazhu's.

Seeing Shazhu so good, she hesitated whether to let the child acknowledge his ancestry and return to the clan.

Shazhu was so frightened he almost cried out.

In his previous life he stabbed Louzi, and in this life he stabbed Louzi again?

He wanted to refute Lou Xiao'e's words, but when they reached his lips he didn't know what to say, because the damned Xu Daming, standing nearby, admitted the matter and even spilled the beans, saying he had borrowed that thing from Shazhu.

Only then did Shazhu recall that damned drunken episode; he really knew nothing, only knowing he had had a very comfortable, very comfortable dream.

Who could have imagined Xu Daming would scheme against him like this?

Yet there was no way to blame Xu Daming.

Lou Xiao'e doesn't hold a grudge, so what do I have to complain about?

He had a headache.