Gourmet and actor

Chapter 41

Hearing someone calling his name, Xiao Ke turned around subconsciously, but found that there was no one behind him.Some of the passing crowd were also looking at his sunglasses and goggles, but there was only curiosity in their eyes, and there was no surprise of reunion of acquaintances.

It's an illusion.He stood there for a while, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he apologized to He Lun who had been holding the door open, and stepped into the restaurant.

Although He Lun didn't hear the sound, he followed Xiao Ke's gaze to look at it.The moment he lowered his head and closed the door, he seemed to catch a figure out of the corner of his eye, but when he looked up again, there was nothing.

He Lun felt that he might have been mistaken, so he didn't take this matter to heart, walked quickly to Xiao Ke's side, and introduced to him: "Mr. Xiao, the restaurant is made of environmentally friendly materials. After half a month of wind, and repeatedly invited people to remove formaldehyde, the smell is gone now. The design plan is checked by Mr. Han, and he said that you will like it."

This is really like what Father Han said.Xiao Ke smiled knowingly, glanced at the door which was covered with red silk, turned to the front desk which was designed as a tall table at the entrance, walked around the empty screen and walked inside.

Although no one else was there, the restaurant was brightly lit.When I walked in, I found that the entire area was larger than expected from the outside, at least [-] square meters by visual inspection.

But in comparison, there were not many dining tables. Xiao Ke counted the square wooden floor under his feet, and roughly estimated that there were about sixty tables.Each table is separated by a hollow board with a classical rhombic bat pattern, and is equipped with a complete set of retro tables and chairs, which is quite elegant.

The glass doors and windows on both sides are pasted with dark thin wooden plaques with the same pattern as the screen, and in the middle are embedded the names of Han Li signature dishes written by Xiao Ke and also made of empty wooden plaques. The styles echo each other and are perfect and unified.

Xiao Ke took off his sunglasses and put them on the dining table beside him, and knocked on the panel by the way.Although this unknown wood is not as good as the one used in the previous life, it looks good, with beautiful color and texture.

He Lun said: "This batch of furniture is designed by a special person. While retaining the traditional elements, it is thin and not so old-fashioned. After all, this is in a commercial area, so it needs to be made more fashionable."

Xiao Ke nodded slightly, and said in his heart that it was right to leave it to Father Han and Xiao Deng to handle it, and he would never have thought of these details.

After looking at the business area, Xiao Ke went to look at the kitchen behind the corner.

Just one step away, the kitchen and business area have completely different styles.The place is bright and spacious, and all kinds of Xiao Ke's favorite electronic equipment are placed in an orderly manner.On both sides of the long cooking table, there are five stoves on each side, a total of ten stoves.In this way, there is no need to worry about the speed of serving food even if it is full.

Regarding these facilities, He Lun, who has never been in the kitchen, can't say anything.Standing at the door of the kitchen waiting for Xiao Ke to test one by one, he suddenly received a call from the boss.

"Han Dong, are you looking for Mr. Xiao? He is right next to me." He Lun thought, the task assigned to him by the boss this afternoon is to accompany Xiao Ke well, and he should not look for him for other things.

But Han Xilin said: "No, I'll ask you about the situation. Stand far away so that Xiao Ke can't hear you. How is it? Is he satisfied?"

He Lun walked to the business area as he said, and replied: "Well, although Mr. Xiao didn't say anything, he should be very satisfied with his expression."

"Did he say what was going to be changed, or what else needed to be added?"

Han Xilin has always focused on the big and let go of the small in official affairs, leaving the tasks to his subordinates. As long as the tasks are completed on time and within the rules, he never asks for details.It was the first time in history that he had been involved in such a detailed manner today.

Moreover, He Lun always felt that when the boss mentioned Mr. Xiao's name, his voice was more gentle than before.Being very familiar with the tone of the boss, he can be sure that this is not an illusion.

However, He Lun only dared to murmur these thoughts a few times in his heart, and dared not speak them out even if he was killed.Gathering his thoughts, he said, "Not yet."

"What about the kitchen equipment? He should have tried it, did you say it was inconvenient?"

……

Han Xilin asked one question after another until He Lun was almost exhausted before he said, "Okay, that's all for now."

He Lun quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "Director Han, shall I drive Mr. Xiao back to your apartment later?"

"Need not."

The "no" seems to have an echo.He Lun looked up and saw the boss standing outside the glass door.

He was startled immediately, and hurried forward to open the door, "Han Dong, why did you come here in person?"

Han Xilin's suit was still dangling on his arm, obviously he had just walked over.He ignored He Lun's question and only said, "You can get off work."

"Oh……"

The appearance of the boss, coupled with the attitude of earnestly admonishing him before, made He Lun inexplicably have the illusion that the younger brother accompanied the boss's wife to go shopping and carry bags, and the boss who rushed over thought he was in the way.

Moreover, the boss is so considerate that he uses the walking time to ask the proprietress if she is satisfied with the street shopping, so as not to waste time talking about trivial matters when meeting...

This idea is really outrageous, He Lun decided to rot in his stomach for the rest of his life, "Then I'll go first, see you, Director Han."

"Goodbye."

After inadvertently saying goodbye to the assistant, Han Xilin walked through the outer hall and into the kitchen.He chose this place himself. He came here a few times during the renovation period, and he was very familiar with the layout. He found Xiao Ke who was squatting in a recessed corner and studying a large oven right away.

Hearing the familiar footsteps, Xiao Ke didn't turn his head, but asked, "Han Dong, why are you here?"

"You opened a restaurant, of course I want to come and see it." Although He Lun had already asked He Lun in advance, Han Xilin couldn't help but confirm it again, "Are you satisfied with this restaurant?"

"Of course I'm satisfied, but I feel that the initial investment is too high, and I don't know if I can get back the money in the future." Xiao Ke said, "It seems that I have to work hard in filming in the future to subsidize the restaurant."

"..."

The biggest original intention of Han Xilin to increase per capita consumption is that he does not want Xiao Ke to spend too much time in restaurants after filming.Hearing Xiao Ke's words now, he suddenly felt depressed as if he had lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

Fortunately, Director Han Da has experienced many battles, and immediately decided to order his subordinates early tomorrow morning, no matter how bleak the business is, they must make the financial statements colorful, even if they pay more taxes.

Silently adding something to the list of important things to do tomorrow, Han Xilin said: "You didn't eat anything on the plane, how about we eat outside today?"

Xiao Ke asked in surprise: "Aren't you not used to eating outside?"

Han Xilin has always been embarrassed to tell Xiao Ke that he has no appetite for other people's food.He mistakenly thought that Han Xilin just didn't like eating out.

"It's okay to have an occasional meal. You will be busy all day tomorrow, so try to rest as much as possible tonight."

Although it is not open for business on the opening day, it has to entertain more than a dozen tables of friends, and it has to start preparing materials tomorrow, and the workload is not small.

After closing the oven door, Xiao Ke said, "Why don't you go back and cook something casually?"

Seeing Xiao Ke caring so much about him, Han Xilin nodded happily, "Then I'll leave it to you."

After discussing dinner, Han Xilin asked Xiao Ke to go outside the door first, and he found the main power valve, and after pulling it off, he turned on his mobile phone and came out.

Passing the front desk, something reflected light, and he noticed a pair of familiar sunglasses on the dining table next to him, so he went back to get them.

Xiao Ke stood in front of the door, trying to push the unconnected revolving door, with a naughty face, like a child.Han Xilin pulled him over with a funny face, and put on sunglasses for him, "Why do you keep forgetting?"

"I'm not used to wearing it." But it's okay not to wear it, otherwise you will be surrounded by people from time to time.

The lights outside the glass door are bright, but the inside is dark and gloomy.While talking, Xiao Ke couldn't help but think of what Han Xilin asked himself in a room with the same dim light on a rainy evening.

It seems to be a human instinct to think about personal problems.Xiao Ke hadn't thought about this question at first, but Han Xilin reminded him that day that he would think about it occasionally these days when he had nothing to do.But the more I think about it, the more pessimistic I feel, and I feel that it will probably take a lot of time to get rid of the habit of being hesitant when talking to girls.

Why can't he be as natural as he is with men when he is with girls?Or is it because he hasn't met a girl with the right personality?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help saying: "Han Dong, if only my future girlfriend is like you."

"...Ah?" Han Xilin's hand on the sunglasses slipped and almost hit his nose.

Xiao Ke didn't pay attention to his subtle expression, his thoughts jumped, and he remembered what happened before that day, and asked: "By the way, last time you said that you would tell me something after the Ching Ming Festival, but you haven't said it until now. What is it? What?"

Regarding this matter, because Xiao Ke was so busy during this period, Han Xilin couldn't find the right time to confess, so he delayed it.The atmosphere seems to be good today, but——

Thinking of what Xiao Ke said just now that he wanted to find a girlfriend like himself, Han Xilin, who was half worried and happy, decided to postpone the plan.In order not to accidentally speak out what is in my heart like that day.For example - "Then what do you think of a boyfriend who looks like me" and so on.

"No big deal." After thinking for a while, Han Xilin nonsense said, "It's the result of Lou Min's investigation."

Xiao Ke asked suspiciously, "Huh? Didn't I say that earlier?"

The day after receiving Wen Siping's text message, Xiao Ke showed it to Han Xilin.Within a few days, Han Xilin had the results of the investigation, confirming that Wen Siping was indeed Lou Min's artist when he debuted.But considering the moisture in the text message and the inconvenient questioning in person, Xiao Ke decided to put the matter aside for the time being.

But this is just Xiao Ke's idea.Han Xilin, on the other hand, was determined to investigate to the end, and asked people to continue digging.It's just that it's difficult to find out this kind of past events that are not written in black and white and only exist in conversations.Han Xilin was going to tell Xiao Ke when he had a definite result, but now he was just using this matter as a cover.

He said: "I want to remind you that this person has a bad character. If you have any contact with her in the future, you must be careful and careful."

"I know this, Xiao Deng reminded me." After speaking, Xiao Ke looked at the time, "So it's already so late, go home quickly."

He blurted out the word "go home", which made Han Xilin smile involuntarily.

Back at the apartment, I used the new shrimp oil that my father sent me to make two servings of three shrimp oil noodles, and then filtered out the egg whites, added ingredients and stewed a stomach-warming fresh milk soup.While waiting for the noodles to cool, Xiao Ke dug out the memo and began to write invitations for the special guests.

The invitation was also made by Father Han. It was made in the shape of a jade wat held by an ancient minister when he went to court, and it was scaled down to the height of an ordinary book, about three fingers wide.The front and back covers are made of white chalcedony about 5 mm thick, with carved patterns on the top and three large characters of the name of the restaurant "Imperial Food Palace" engraved in the middle.The inside is mounted on thick paper with high-quality yellow silk, and the invitation content is pre-printed, and the small red seal of the restaurant is stamped on the bottom.Just wait to fill in the name.

This invitation not only costs money to make, but also weighs a lot.When he was in Province Y before, Xiao Ke always took the time to write a few copies after filming, and never took them outside.

When Han Xilin saw it, he couldn't help but wondered: "Didn't the person who should be invited already sent it half a month in advance?"

"Before I invited Uncle Han's friends, Director Zhong, Brother Qin's family, Congee Congee's family, and Director Xu's gang." Xiao Ke said, "Before I came here, Yin Jueyi gave me a list. , Said that his friends also wanted to come, so I hurried to make up. Fortunately, Uncle Han thought that this kind of invitation could be used as a feature in the future, so he did more, otherwise it would be a headache now."

Looking at the names on the memo, Han Xilin frowned, "Is there anyone from the media?"

In order to keep Xiao Ke from being tired, Han Xilin insisted on keeping a low profile instead of striving for perfection in the decoration.First, he strictly stopped Father Han's unreliable idea of ​​making headlines, and then slapped Deng Yibo, who wanted to publish a press release to make a big splash.Except for a limited number of friends, even fans who browse Xiao Ke's Weibo every day to beg for the opening of the restaurant don't know the date of the restaurant's opening.

Hearing that Yin Jueyi had recruited another group of people, Han Xilin couldn't help asking.

However, Yin Jueyi still had that weird temper, and he didn't introduce the origins of these people, he just gave a list and it was over.Xiao Ke guessed that most of them were friends in his director circle, so he said: "There is only one media outlet, but they didn't report on the opening, but came to interview me."

This is almost the same, Han Xilin's expression eased, and he continued to eat noodles.

The things given to Xiao Ke must naturally be the best.As for business, it doesn't have to be too good, so as not to be too tiring.Low-key and low-key, lest too many guests come to the door.

It is a pity that Director Han Da does not know many things.This painstaking effort is destined to go to waste.

In the past few days since the opening, Xiao Ke specially arranged a whole period of vacancy.The next day, he stayed in the restaurant all day, instructing Ding Haili to prepare various ingredients.On this side, Father Han and Deng Yibo are in charge of directing and transporting another part of special ingredients.

As early as half a month ago, after the restaurant menu was determined, some special ingredients were being prepared one after another.It's just that because of the decoration of the restaurant, they are all stored in the Han family compound.There are so many bottles and cans of ingredients, and several workers have been busy for three or four hours before putting them into the storage room by category.

Father Han was commenting on Ding Haili's craftsmanship again. As for Deng Yibo, who hadn't seen Xiao Ke for a long time, he chattered around him like he was seeing a relative.The central idea is nothing more than, I have worked hard and done my best, and I will beg to cook and feed myself at the banquet tomorrow.

For the dozen or so tables of family and friends banquet tomorrow, Xiao Ke has long planned to cook some hard dishes by himself.At the moment, he patted Deng Yibo's shoulder dumbfounded, and said, "Don't worry, no one will miss you."

Deng Yibo was immediately elated, but at the same time he felt resentful: What a man, why does the eldest brother refuse to accept it?In this way, he can also match and thread from it.But after all his talking and talking, the eldest brother finally agreed to come over tomorrow to join in the show, and then the two of them will meet first, maybe they will fall in love at first sight, and they don't need to do it themselves?

Thinking of this, Deng Yibo said: "Xiao Ke, introduce my brother to you tomorrow."

"En." Xiao Ke said, "Tomorrow Director Xu, Chen Shangxing and Director Yin will also fly from Province Y. Since we know each other, will you sit at the same table then?"