Chapter 648 They Are All Acquaintances
"Hiccup~, this hot pot seems to be more authentic than the ones from the mainland."
"Yeah, it's better than the Chinese food at Cao's Restaurant."
Li Ye, Wen Leyu and others left the hot pot restaurant, hiccupping comfortably but still wanting to know more.
The Sichuan cuisine restaurant Li Ye picked today is mostly filled with middle-aged and elderly Chinese people. Therefore, it is not like Cao's Restaurant, which changed the seasoning ratio to cater to Westerners' tastes. Instead, it retains the original flavor as much as possible. Taste of Sichuan cuisine.
It's a bit spicy, but in San Francisco's humid winter, I feel super refreshed after eating it.
Fu Yiruo looked at Li Ye and suddenly asked, "Brother, are we sending your female classmate back to school today?"
Li Ye shook his head: "No way! We'd better try not to disturb her life too much."
Fu Yiruo nodded in agreement: "Well, brother, you did the right thing."
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Li Ye turned his head and glanced at Fu Yiruo, feeling that what she said was a bit strange.
He didn't know that Wen Leyu had just talked to Fu Yiruo about the topic of "your brother only talks nice to me", so he didn't think in the direction of "your brother can only treat me well".
But when Li Ye, Wen Leyu, and Fu Yiruo walked to Cao's Restaurant, they found that Zhen Rongrong, who should be busy in the store at the moment, was arguing with a man outside the door.
"Boss Cao, I'm just here to replace Ruan Shujun these days. If you plan to replace her, after I let her come tomorrow, can you tell her personally?"
"I don't have that much time to waste on you. Her absenteeism from time to time has seriously affected my store's business. It stands to reason that she should compensate me for my losses. Now it's kind enough to just fire her."
"But."
Zhen Rongrong swallowed and said anxiously: "But Boss Cao, if you ask me to tell Ruan Shujun now, it will make her misunderstand that I lost her job, so please wait one more day and I will bring her over tomorrow."
"Doesn't it have anything to do with you? Do you think it has nothing to do with you?"
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Zhen Rongrong was stunned.
She looked at the short restaurant owner in front of her and seemed to see a lot of teasing in his eyes.
Zhen Rongrong gritted her teeth and asked, "Boss Cao, please tell me, what does your dismissal of Ruan Shujun have to do with me?"
Boss Cao slowly raised the corners of his mouth and raised his chin: "Let's go! Let's change places and I'll tell you the reason carefully."
Zhen Rongrong raised her eyebrows and said seriously: "Boss Cao, if you have anything to say, just say it here! We flower growers are aboveboard, and I admit it was my fault.
It's not my fault. Please don't blame it on me. "
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The corners of Boss Cao's mouth were stiff, and his whole face looked weird.
After a moment, he finally said angrily: "It's your fault, because you don't know the current affairs, because you don't know how to promote. You go! I don't need to explain anything to you. This is a lighthouse, not the mainland. I don't have to do anything for you." You serve the people.”
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Zhen Rongrong opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something soft, but in the end she gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, then please pay me the salary for these two weeks. You didn't give me the salary for the last week."
"You still want a salary?" Boss Cao said with a sneer: "I can keep you fed here just to take care of you. You are clumsy and foolish. You have a good skin for nothing, but you don't understand the world and don't know. How did you choose a government-sponsored international student?”
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Zhen Rongrong panted violently, stared at Boss Cao with red eyes, clenched her hands tightly into fists, and wanted to punch him in the face.
"Sigh~, idiot!"
Boss Cao spat, turned around and was about to return to the restaurant, but was suddenly blocked by three young people with frosty faces.
Li Ye, Wen Leyu and Fu Yiruo were standing across the street just now, listening clearly to what Boss Cao and Zhen Rongrong said.
The three young people were almost furious at this moment.
Everyone knows that it’s not easy being in a foreign country, but if the Lighthouse people bully you, that’s it. If the Chinese bully your own people, how many times should the hatred be multiplied at least?
Boss Cao was startled. He took a step back first, and then shouted in a sullen tone: "What are you going to do? This is my shop, Lao Xiao, why don't you bring people out?"
There are many international students who come to work in Chinatown, and sometimes they show solidarity, so Boss Cao feels that he must call out the workers, otherwise he might be beaten by these stupid young people.
But before anyone in the restaurant came out, Li Ye asked coldly: "Are you Cao Yuanmao?"
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Cao Yuanmao was stunned, looked at Li Ye carefully, and asked angrily: "Who are you?"
Li Ye said coldly: "I advise you not to know who I am, pay the due wages, and let's break up."
"What if I say no?"
The waiters and chefs in the restaurant had already come out. Cao Yuanmao became more courageous and glared at Li Ye.
"You don't want to? Then we need to get to know each other better."
Li Ye smiled softly and moved to get out of the way.
Cao Yuanmao looked at Li Ye who was getting out of the way, snorted coldly and returned to the restaurant. But when he and Li Ye passed by each other, his heart was pounding.
He looked back at Li Ye again, and then said to the chef and waiter who were watching the excitement: "What are you doing standing outside? No need to entertain the guests in the store? Why don't you come in and start working?"
The chef and waiter returned to the restaurant. No one expressed dissatisfaction with Cao Yuanmao's inconsistency. This submissive attitude made Cao Yuanmao feel extremely satisfied and regained his confidence.
[A child who has not even grown all his hair dares to threaten me? Who gave him the courage? But how did he know me? Why don't I remember it? ]
"Brother, how do you know this boss Cao?" Fu Yiruo outside the restaurant also asked curiously.
Li Ye said: "I don't know if you still remember a news article published in our Beijing Youth Daily in the summer of the previous year.
There was a young man named Cao who abandoned his adoptive mother and fiancée after going abroad. It was Cao Yuanmao. There was a photo of him in the newspaper, and I just remembered it."
"Oh, I remember it," Wen Leyu said in surprise: "His adoptive mother raised him for 20 years, but after he returned to the mainland, she didn't even send a letter. What a beast."
"It turned out to be him?"
Zhen Rongrong also remembered it. After all, there were so many news these days, and such infuriating news could easily spread across the country.
Li Ye asked again: "This Cao Yuanmao should have a wife, right? I remember that he abandoned his fiancée and married a foreign student named Chen."
Zhen Rongrong nodded and said: "Yes, Mr. Cao. Cao Yuanmao's wife is surnamed Chen. It is said that this store was bought by her, but she is pregnant recently and doesn't come here much."
Li Ye chuckled, shook his head and said nothing.
Fu Yiruo said strangely: "Brother, you don't even know who his wife is, do you?"
Li Ye smiled and said: "I really know her, she is the cousin of Lin Qiuyan."
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Wen Leyu and Fu Yiruo were both stunned. They didn't expect that they were all acquaintances.
"Okay, don't worry about who he is. Xiaoruo, go and call Jeff, is there any news about the lawyer I found?"
Li Ye didn't hesitate any more and asked Fu Yiruo to call and ask if the lawyer he asked Jeff to find was settled. If so, let him come to Chinatown for an interview.
Hearing that Li Ye was going to use a lawyer, Zhen Rongrong hurriedly said: "Li Ye, don't hire a lawyer! The lawyers at Dengta are too expensive. And they are very proud."
Li Ye shook his head slightly, indicating that she didn't care.
If he still showed pride to his employer, then he was not a qualified lawyer.
As for whether it was expensive or not.
If he couldn't earn back the lawyer's fees, then was he still a good lawyer?