Chapter 72 The original ideal turned into a dream?
Chapter 72 The initial ideal turned into a dream?
Author: Lao Tuo
Chapter 72 The original ideal turned into a dream?
Next to the coffee machine in the kitchen, Zhang Wentao was grinding coffee beans, and Xu Hongdou took a glass filled with ice cubes and a mug for drinking hot coffee.
While waiting, she said: "I found out that you are quite funny. You insist on drinking iced drinks even at night."
"Well, ice and fire, isn't this pretty good?" Zhang Wentao smiled, then handed the ground coffee powder to Xu Hongdou and said, "So you have decided to go to a small restaurant?"
After Xu Hongdou took it, he nodded: "Well, I see that you all have something to do, so I want to find something to do. The main reason is that I am afraid that I will always have random thoughts while I am here. After all, it is too comfortable here."
"Very good." Zhang Wentao said with certainty.
"My teacher once told me that time will heal everything. If you happen to be too busy here, it would be nice to find something to do to balance it out."
"Time will heal everything?" Hearing the familiar words in his ears, Xu Hongdou was stunned for a moment and stopped making coffee. Then he came back to his senses when he heard the sound of the coffee machine and smiled at Zhang Wentao:
"By the way, what do you think of the restaurant?"
"What do I think?" Zhang Wentao pursed his lips, then touched the beans of his cup of coffee and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter what I think, the key is you."
"Hey, tell me." Xu Hongdou was looking forward to the other party's answer. She suddenly realized that this person actually seemed to talk nicely.
"Actually, I'm quite curious about what you do in a Michelin restaurant."
"I do everything." Zhang Wentao said casually: "You have to understand the things in the front office, take care of the things in the kitchen, and study often. Anyway, it's quite tiring."
Xu Hongdou, who had a deep understanding of the hard work she had done in the past, nodded in agreement. After making her own coffee, she looked at Zhang Wentao and prepared to make his cup:
"Go on, just remind me and see if there's anything I need to pay attention to."
Zhang Wentao thought for a while and smiled: "Actually, the problem with the small restaurant is quite simple. The two aunts are too old; Xie Xiaochun, as a manager, is too close to the aunts; although Nana is capable, she is unable to work alone and has no time.
Take other things into consideration. If you want to solve it, just start from these points."
"So you saw it early on?" Xu Hongdou said concisely.
Zhang Wentao smiled slightly and didn't care. Instead, he waited for Xu Hongdou to make his cup of coffee before he said, "Don't you see such a superficial problem?"
Xu Hongdou nodded silently, and the two of them returned to the dining table with their own cups of coffee, each busy with their own affairs.
As Zhang Wentao said, no matter how the small restaurant is run, the problems that still exist are not very difficult to solve. Thinking about what he saw and heard in the small restaurant, Xu Hongdou wrote down one by one in his notebook.
She figured it out and then gave her own solution. When she encountered something she didn’t know much about, she looked up cases online.
As for Zhang Wentao, he also concentrated on handling his own affairs after returning to his seat.
The two people sitting opposite each other did not communicate with each other. They would only pick up the cups on the table from time to time and take a sip of coffee to refresh themselves.
After finishing writing what he had written, Xu Hongdou stretched and straightened his sore back before making some noise. Seeing that Zhang Wentao, who was not disturbed by him, was still recording something seriously in his notebook,
She looked at the time and found that it was already eleven or twelve o'clock.
I didn't expect that time would pass so quickly...
"ding ding"
On the table, Zhang Wentao's cell phone made a beep as it received a WeChat message.
It interrupted the tranquility of the night, interrupted Xu Hongdou's emotion, and also interrupted Zhang Wentao's train of thought.
He frowned and gave Xu Hongdou an apologetic smile, then picked up his phone and opened it to look at it. It was a message from the madman and a reminder that the money had been returned.
"This guy." Zhang Wentao smiled silently.
Seeing Zhang Wentao smiling at the phone, Xu Hongdou was slightly startled. Zhang Wentao's change was too fast, which made it difficult for her to adapt.
This change made the other party appear very approachable, but during the conversation just now, she could not feel the intimacy of communication between friends.
It's as if the other person always has an indescribable sense of distance from me.
After replying with a "Pay attention to safety" message and sending it back, Zhang Wentao put down his phone and looked up just in time to see Xu Hongdou looking at him with a slight frown.
He took a deep breath quietly and said, "When you're done, go and rest early. You have to go to work tomorrow."
"Yeah." Xu Hongdou nodded obediently. Then he saw the empty cup next to Zhang Wentao's computer, raised his eyes and asked, "What about you? Are you still busy?"
Zhang Wentao obviously paused before saying, "Well, I'm not done yet."
"Then I'll make you a cup of coffee. You can go to bed early after your work." Xu Hongdou suggested, thinking that the other party might have to sleep very late again.
Zhang Wentao shook his head: "No, I'll go to bed after I finish my work."
"Okay, I'll go back first." Xu Hongdou smiled, stood up, packed her things, waved and left the restaurant.
Under the night, after her beautiful figure walked into the night fog, Zhang Wentao's eyes were always staring at the direction she left. After a long time, he seemed to let out a sigh of relief, and then started busy with his work...
Xu Hongdou returned to the room and turned on the light in the room.
The bright moonlight outside the window was covered outside the house as the curtains were closed. In the darkness, only the chirping of insects disturbed this quiet night.
"The initial ideal turned into a dream?"
After muttering, Xu Hongdou silently stared at the photo wall on the wall...
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Early the next morning, Xie Zhiyao was in a good mood and rushed over from home.
After briefly showing off his dancing skills in front of Mr. Ma, who was concentrating on meditation, Xu Hongdou came downstairs.
Although she went to bed late last night because of her trip to the restaurant today, when she woke up early in the morning she looked a little overflowing with joy.
Coupled with a white pantyhose, a smart suit jacket, and some light makeup, her smile inadvertently exuded the beauty that only a mature woman can have.
"You look pretty good today." Xie Zhiyao looked at Xu Hongdou, who was walking towards him, with a smile on his face.
"Didn't you ask me to be more formal? Why did you wait so long?" Xu Hongdou looked at her decent attire and smiled.
"Very good, very good."
"Let me tell you first, don't have such high expectations of me. I don't know exactly how much help I can do."
"I can pay you."
"That won't work. Volunteers can just be volunteers and take care of the food. I made some suggestions and improvement plans last night. Let's talk about it on the way."
While talking and laughing, the two walked out of the windy courtyard while talking and laughing.
As soon as they left, Mr. Ma, who was sitting on the futon, started to feel restless...
In front of the window sill of the restaurant, Damai and Hu Youyu, who were watching Xu Hongdou and Xie Zhiyao leaving, sighed in unison as if they were in despair.
"What do you mean, Wen Tao chose to give up?" Hu Youyu's words were quite helpless.
Damai rolled his eyes at the guy next to him who didn't even bother to use his brain, and lamented: "Hey, didn't I tell you...you can't taste it yourself."
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