Chapter 685

The astonishment of the girls did not affect the other frequent customers . They merely felt melancholic recalling how they had been shocked like this in the past as well .

For example, in his melancholy, Chen Wei sighed, “Yet another year has passed . I’m getting old . “

It was not enough for Chen Wei to feel like he had grown old alone, he had to go ask Jiang Changxi about it as well .

“Time flies . Yet another year has passed . You feel like you have grown another year older, right?” Chen Wei directly asked Jiang Changxi .

“No, I don’t feel that way . I am still young and beautiful,” Jiang Changxi said grudgingly and glared at Chen Wei .

“Oh, fine . Wu Hai, don’t you feel old?” Chen Wei did not give up and thus, he repeated his question to Wu Hai .

Unfortunately, Wu Hai was still busy eating and had totally ignored him .

“Chen Wei, you won’t succeed,” Jiang Changxi calmly remarked .

Chen Wei did not mind that he had been seen through . He said naturally, “If he does answer me, it will be a success . “

“But Wu Hai will ignore you,” Jiang Changxi expressionlessly said .

“Why?” Chen Wei asked .

“Simple . Because he’s a glutton, an extremely dedicated glutton . He will ignore everyone until he finishes eating and starts snatching the food of others . He’s quite similar to how Boss Yuan is, ignoring everyone when he’s cooking,” Jiang Changxi said .

Chen Wei then thought back to how Wu Hai would normally act . Instantly, he agreed to what Jiang Changxi said .

However, Yuan Zhou was not as ready to acknowledge what Jiang Changxi said . He started cursing inwardly, “My concentration is something necessary for me to become a Master Chef . As for Wu Hai, he is nothing but a pig . The only thing he can do is eat . How can we be compared to each other?”

Yes, in Yuan Zhou’s heart, Wu Hai was a pig . His nature as a pig would grow stronger whenever there was free food . He would be able to eat a lot, also eating very quickly .

An example was the current Wu Hai who was eating with the free meal ticket .

Time passed quickly . In the blink of an eye, the third day of Chinese New Year arrived . Some companies had already started their operations again . Naturally, Wu Zhou’s IT company was one of them as well .

The employees of Jiang Changxi’s company were starting to return to work as well .

As for Yuan Zhou, he was preparing to release a new dish . After all, it was a brand new year .

“Now that I have the complete Chengdu School of Sichuan Cuisine, I have many options . ” Yuan Zhou was in deep thought while looking at the long list of dish names .

His eyes scanned through the menu rapidly and abruptly stopped at one spot . Then, he made up his mind .

This was a dish that Yuan Zhou himself had never eaten . Therefore, at noon, he had this dish for lunch .

“Happy new year, boss,” greeted both Mu Xiaoyun and Zhou Jia at the same time with a bow .

“Happy new year . ” Yuan Zhou nodded .

“Why are you two here?” Yuan Zhou asked after he double checked and confirmed that they shouldn’t be back for work yet .

“The college opened earlier so I came back early,” said Zhou Jia, sincerity filling her delicate face .

“I don’t have to go visit relatives today so I came here to have a look,” Mu Xiaoyun said, her apple-shaped face was slightly flushed red .

“Ok . Come in then,” Yuan Zhou invited them in without commenting much even though the two were obviously lying .

“Hu . ” The two exchanged gazes and heaved a sigh of relief .

In fact, they had arrived so early because they found out in the chat group that Yuan Zhou was going to officially reopen his restaurant after the Chinese New Year today . Therefore, Zhou Jia rushed back to Chengdu, while Mu Xiaoyun decided to not go visit her relatives today . That was why both of them had arrived here .

Of course, they had only arrived when it was nearly noon . It was quite fortunate that they were able to make it in time for the lunch hour .

“We’re releasing a new dish today, the Dongpo Garra Fish,” Yuan Zhou suddenly said while looking at the two .

“This is the first new dish after Chinese New Year . Everyone will be very happy when they find out,” Zhou Jia said cheerfully .

“Yeah . Let me announce this in the group chat . ” Mu Xiaoyun immediately took out her phone .

Thud . Yuan Zhou took out a basin with warm water in it . A spotlessly white cloth was in it as well . This was meant to be used to wipe the tables and chairs .

Since winter, Yuan Zhou had been using warm cloths all the time . With this, one would not feel cold when cleaning the restaurant .

“Thank you, boss,” Zhou Jia thanked with a wide smile .

“Um . ” Yuan Zhou nodded and returned to the kitchen to start preparing the ingredients .

While Yuan Zhou was busy working in the kitchen, Mu Xiaoyun was busy advertising the new dish . The advertisement this time was rather different as the name of the dish was already known .

Since the name was already known, Mu Xiaoyun was putting even more effort in the advertisement . As for Zhou Jia, she focused on wiping the tables and chairs .

The moment Mu Xiaoyun shared the news about the new dish that had its name confirmed, the gluttons were instantly attracted .

Because of this, these people that were returning back to work on the third day of Chinese New Year all got excited . Everyone was lamenting on how there was still an advantage to returning back to work early . They got to be the first to try Boss Yuan’s new dish .

Among Jiang Changxi’s employees, there were naturally those who were loyal customers of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant among them as well . Among them was a certain person who would visit Yuan Zhou’s restaurant at least once per month . He was naturally paying close attention to the release of this new dish . This person was Geng Xiao .

“Dongpo Garra Fish? Fish? Isn’t this my goddess’s favorite food?” Geng Xiao’s eyes lit up as he immediately thought of the beautiful assistant of Jiang Changxi .

That’s right . In this company, Jiang Changxi was not the goddess . Instead, she was the queen while the assistant named Tang Min was the publicly acknowledged goddess .

After all, Tang Min had a pair of long legs, a slender waist, and a beautiful face . She was also rather gentle in character . Therefore, her reputation as a goddess spread far and wide .

Geng Xiao immediately stood up and headed straight towards Tang Min’s desk .

“Tang Min, thank you for your help with the real estate company . Do you want to have lunch together today?” Geng Xiao was from the marketing department . Therefore, it wasn’t hard for him to look for an excuse to talk to Tang Min . Just look at how easily he was able to find a topic to talk about with her .

“No worries . I’m just doing my job,” Tang Min politely replied with a smile .

When Geng Xiao saw that Tang Min was about to reject his lunch invitation, he immediately interrupted her, “Actually, Boss Yuan is releasing a new dish today . It’s a gray mullet dish . I feel like the dish will be quite nice . “

The moment Tang Min heard about the gray mullet, she paused slightly before nodding in agreement .

After all, she truly loved eating gray mullets . This was a type of fish with very little bones, while its meat was springy and delicate with extremely delicious taste . It was a perfect fish to be cooked as fish fillets .

“Ok, I will have to trouble you then,” Tang Min politely thanked .

“No worries . It’s just lunch between colleagues,” Geng Xiao nonchalantly said .

Looking at how he was behaving, Tang Min eased up and nodded with a smile .

“Ok, I’ll come to look for you again during lunchtime,” Geng Xiao said and directly leave .

When in a courtship, timing and how tactful the person was would be very important . It wouldn’t work if he kept sticking close to her . It was clear that Geng Xiao was rather good in the matters of courtship .

With his back to Tang Min, Geng Xiao smiled . He was extremely pleased with his performance thus far . Inwardly, he was feeling smug, “With this, my first connection with her has been established . “

At the same time, Geng Xiao felt extremely thankful for Yuan Zhou . After all, Yuan Zhou was the one who had given him this chance to ask his goddess out .

At Sichuan, gray mullet was also called the black fish due to its black body, since it was as dark as ink .

However, the Dongpo Garra Fish Yuan Zhou was planning to release was obviously different than the gray mullet Geng Xiao had in his mind . Something interesting was about to happen soon . [1 . An explanation here . In Chinese, Garra Fish actually shares the same character as black/ink fish, which is the nickname of gray mullet, hence the confusion here . ]