Chapter 282: Bringing trouble upon oneself

Pangzi finished saying this, seeing Yu Li unmoved, still looking at him coldly.

He frowned, fidgeting as he said:

"No, I really can't cook some dishes."

"Don't you think, could Shazhu possibly teach me every dish?"

"As the saying goes, teach the apprentice and starve the master."

"What kind of person is Shazhu, could he possibly teach me every dish?"

Yu Li asked coldly: "Then when I first asked you, did you still guarantee it to me?"

"You said you could cook any dish?"

Pangzi: "Well, well, you can't blame me for this either."

"You should ask Xiao Chen, who handles the ingredients."

Yu Li hurriedly called Xiao Chen over.

"Xiao Chen, tell me, where do you buy the ingredients from?"

Xiao Chen: "Ingredients? Some ingredients, Shazhu doesn't even let me buy."

"He buys them all himself."

"Moreover, he doesn't mind the trouble, buying only enough for two days at a time."

Pangzi: "Listen, listen, this isn't my fault, is it?"

Yu Li thought for a moment, pointed at Pangzi, and said:

"Starting tomorrow, let Pangzi buy the ingredients."

"If it happens again that customers don't pay because the dish's flavor is wrong,"

"I will deduct your wages."

Having said that, Yu Li turned and left.

After a moment of stunned silence, Pangzi looked at Yu Li's back and said:

"No, this, how can you say this....."

Then.

Seeing everyone stop what they were doing and all looking at him.

He shouted angrily: "Look, just look, hurry up and get to work."

Now that Shazhu has left, the back kitchen is left to him alone to decide.

Afternoon.

Yu Li came to Shazhu's home.

Wanting to ask Shazhu where he got the ingredients from.

But no matter how Yu Li asked, Shazhu simply refused to say.

Yu Li let out a long sigh and said: "Shazhu, you can't be like this, can you?"

"Why won't you tell me where you get the ingredients from?"

"Actually, you should understand, since you're unwilling to tell me, I already know where you get them from."

Shazhu grinned: "You're really annoying!"

"Since you already know, why come ask me?"

Yu Li, of course, didn't know; she was just trying to bluff Shazhu.

Seeing Shazhu not fall for it, she secretly took a deep breath and gave him a forced smile, saying:

"Shazhu, actually there are some things you can't blame me for."

"You say I'm just doing business, right?"

"I can't not calculate, right?"

"If I don't calculate, how would I make money?"

"This is business talk."

Shazhu laughed: "I don't blame you, we should speak with conscience."

"Ask yourself, after you fired me, have I ever uttered a complaint?"

Yu Li: "Well, that's you knowing, you already knew Pangzi alone couldn't possibly hold up the back kitchen, right?"

Shazhu: "Ah, you're bringing this up again now, fine, let's go, I can't be bothered to talk nonsense."

Yu Li: "Don't drive me away, wait while I settle the accounts with you."

Shazhu laughed: "I can't settle accounts, I'm illiterate with numbers."

"If you let me go back, that's fine too."

Saying this, Shazhu raised five fingers and then said:

"Five thousand dollars."

Yu Li exclaimed: "What? Five thousand?"

Shazhu: "What are we going to do about it, right?"

"When you fired me, you should have already considered the consequences."

"Hmph, you won't give me two thousand five, yet you're willing to pay five thousand— isn't that your own doing?"

Yu Li: "Shazhu, you're going too far!"

Shazhu: "There's nothing I can do; if someone treats me unfairly, I treat them unfairly."

"Let's go, I don't welcome you here."

Yu Li also had no recourse; Shazhu is impervious to persuasion.

She could not possibly give five thousand yuan.

The next day.

Chunfeng Fandian had an incident where the dishes tasted wrong, customers smashed plates and left without paying.

Yu Li could no longer bear it.

She had Yan Jiecheng go to the back kitchen to fetch Pangzi.

After Pangzi arrived, Yu Li pointed to the food on the floor and said:

"Pangzi, take a look yourself."

Pangzi was dumbfounded: "This, this... what are you saying..."

Yan Jiecheng impatiently interrupted: "What the hell is this? Huh?"

"The customers said several dishes were all wrong."

Pangzi looked aggrieved and said: "Didn't I already tell the manager?"

"There are some dishes I'm still learning."

Yan Jiecheng: "Learn? By the time you learn, our restaurant would have gone bankrupt already."

Pangzi: "Then can it be blamed on me?"

"You're forcing me to do something impossible, what can I do?"

Yu Li frowned and said: "Go pack your things and leave quickly."

Hearing this, Pangzi became anxious.

He still thought this job was secure, but yesterday he had quit the cafeteria job after arguing with Shazhu.

If he can't keep this job, he'll have to drink the northwest wind.

"Don't, don't..."

"I did this for you guys, I even lost my factory job."

Yu Li gave Pangzi an annoyed look and said:

"That's what you deserve!"

"Hurry up and leave, hurry up and leave."

Pangzi stomped his foot, on the verge of tears: "You, you can't treat me like this."

Yan Jiecheng: "Let's go quickly."

Pangzi gritted his teeth and said: "If you want me to leave, that's fine."

"Settle my wages for these days."

Seeing that Yu Li and Yan Jiecheng were determined, Pangzi could only say that.

Yu Li snorted coldly and said nothing.

Because she knew Yan Jiecheng would say that.

As expected.

Yan Jiecheng quickly said: "You're dreaming, huh?"

Having said that, he pointed to the food on the floor and continued:

"Not making you pay is already giving you face."

"Go, go, go, hurry up and leave."

"You're lifting a rock only to drop it on your own foot."

"It's your own fault."

Evening.

Xu Damao couldn't sleep.

Today he argued with Yu Haitang.

It turned out Yu Haitang wanted him to take money to open a restaurant, but he had none.

As they talked, they started arguing.

He took a bottle of wine and knocked on Liu Haizhong's door.

"No, you, what are you doing today?"

Opening the door, he saw Xu Damao walk straight in, still holding a bottle of wine, and Liu Haizhong couldn't help but ask:

Xu Damao sat at the table and said: "Yu Haitang and I argued, I'm upset."

"Come over and have a couple of drinks with you."

Liu Haizhong smirked gloomily and said: "If I were Yu Haitang, I'd argue with you too."

"Not only would I argue with you, I wouldn't even be with you."

Xu Damao became depressed: "No, why do you say that? Can't you not say it?"

Just then, Second Aunt walked over.

Liu Haizhong chuckled: "You're not letting me speak, are you?"

Having said that, he pointed outside and continued:

"Well, then please go ahead."

Xu Damao frowned and said: "Alright, alright, go ahead and speak."

Second Aunt: "You two chat, I'll go make you some scrambled eggs."

Liu Haizhong nodded and said: "Go ahead, and make a couple more dishes."

Second Aunt acknowledged and left.