Logically speaking, he shouldn't refuse the request according to the usual practice. However, Yuan Zhou had his own considerations. To put it bluntly, his obsessive-compulsive disorder caused by the system had reached the late stage.
"Mr. Zhou, regarding the matter of assistants, I refuse. If you have any questions, you can come to my restaurant in person and I'll prove it to you." Yuan Zhou said euphemistically.
After a long silence at the other end of the phone, Zhou Shijie said, "Do you mean you don't want any assistants?"
"Yes." Yuan Zhou answered cleanly.
"Can you tell me the reason?" Zhou Shijie asked with puzzlement.
He just couldn't figure it out. He was obviously not a very arrogant person, but why was he more difficult to deal with than Chu Xiao?
Anyhow, Chu Xiao managed to choose two that were acceptable to him.
"I'm just used to running the restaurant alone." Yuan Zhou said indifferently.
"Some of the precious ingredients need to be processed in an extremely short time. How many apprentices are you prepared to bring along?" Zhou Shijie didn't insist on asking more, but changed the topic.
"Only me." Yuan Zhou said affirmatively and earnestly.
"Let's not talk about other things. Someone has to do the washing, cutting and plate presentation." Zhou Shijie was suddenly choked. Only after quite a while did he say that.
"Of course, those are also mine." There was puzzlement in Yuan Zhou's tone.
In Yuan Zhou's opinion, since he didn't hire any assistants, he naturally had to do it alone. Otherwise, why didn't he want an assistant?
"Are you sure?" Although Zhou Shijie didn't understand, it was the rule and thus he didn't say anything.
"Wait." Yuan Zhou thought Zhou Shijie was going to hang up the phone, so he said.
At the other end of the phone, however, Zhou Shijie was relieved. He thought Yuan Zhou was going to find an assistant and thought, "Fortunately, this guy has realized his mistake. Someone has to wash the vegetables."
"I don't have any requirements on the hotel. I just want it to be close to Taoxi Road. Besides that, I want the cooking time to start at 8: 30 in the evening." Yuan Zhou suddenly brought out his requirements.
"I thought it was something important. Got it. Old man will arrange it." Zhou Shijie almost rolled his eyes, but he still agreed to Yuan Zhou's request.
However, after thinking about it, Zhou Shijie said unwillingly, "That's not a problem. But I have to tell you in advance that you don't need an assistant, so you need to cook in the open kitchen. Is that okay?" Zhou Shijie said seriously.
"Sure." Yuan Zhou nodded.
"One more thing. You will officially start at 9: 00 am. In the first half hour, you need to convince those chefs who can't participate in the cooking." Zhou Shijie stroked his beard and appeared solemn.
This tradition was originally a benefit for those chefs. Since the winner was unwilling to give it, it was naturally up to the winner to explain.
"Um. Okay." Yuan Zhou also gave an affirmative answer.
"Okay. Then I will wait quietly for Master Yuan's culinary skills." After saying that, Zhou Shijie hung up the phone.
After resting for a while, Yuan Zhou suddenly asked in the quiet restaurant, "Do you think the ingredients provided by them or yours are better?"
Naturally, Yuan Zhou said that to the system. However, the system never responded to Yuan Zhou's chatting.
Naturally, Yuan Zhou waited quietly at the side. Three days later, he would taste the top-notch ingredients provided by others. It was known that there were some dishes that even the current Yuan Zhou hadn't tasted. Therefore, Yuan Zhou was also quite expectant.
Zhou Shijie couldn't be said to be quiet at the side. Just after he informed his subordinates that Yuan Zhou wouldn't hire assistants, his phone rang again.
"Engineer Cheng, what's the matter?" Zhou Shijie asked as usual.
"Is what you said true? Master Yuan doesn't need assistants? All of them come alone? He doesn't even need someone to wash vegetables? "Engineer Cheng appeared to be an impatient person. Once he got the phone through, he couldn't wait to ask.
"Yes. That's right." Once Zhou Shijie heard that, he said habitually.
"Okay. Sorry to bother you." Engineer Cheng kept silent for a while and hung up the phone after he said that.
More than ten chefs almost all called and inquired about him. Only in the evening did Zhou Shijie's phone stop ringing.
"These chefs are too anxious. Fortunately, there are no more." Zhou Shijie muttered to himself.
However, just after he said that, the phone rang ear-piercingly again, "Ding Ling Ling, Ding Ling Ling."
Without even looking at it, Zhou Shijie directly answered the phone and said, "Master Yuan indeed doesn't need assistants. He will officially explain the reason at 8: 30 three days later."
"It seems that the rumor is true." It wasn't the voice of any chef that passed from the other end of the phone, but the arrogant voice of Chu Xiao.
"So it's Master Chu. Are you also asking about this?" Zhou Shijie took down the phone with puzzlement. Only then did he see the two characters of Chu Xiao glowing on the screen. It was indeed Chu Xiao. "Um.
If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up. "After that, Chu Xiao really hung up the phone.
"This guy seems to be a little unconvinced." Zhou Shijie shook his head. He didn't really care about these trifles.
After he hung up the phone, he went home directly.
At the other side, several chefs that participated in the food ingredient exchange met. After almost all the chefs confirmed, they understood that Yuan Zhou wanted to monopolize the benefits of the rare ingredients.
"Ho Ho. Let's wait for that Master Yuan to be stuffed to death. He cooks dishes with 20 kinds of rare ingredients alone." A round-faced chef snorted coldly with his arms crossed.
"Isn't that so? What a greedy snake trying to swallow an elephant." Being robbed of the benefits, even if the benefits didn't fall on him, he still felt very unhappy, not to mention that the benefits might fall on him.
"Do you think it's possible? He doesn't even want the worker that washes the vegetables? Just by himself? "The chef tidied his chef's hat and sneered.
"Nonsense. It's simply impossible. Of course, it's possible if he cooks for a whole night. But I'm afraid that the dishes won't even be edible." Master Cheng said so angrily that his words almost came out from his nostrils.
"Although Master Yuan is indeed knowledgeable, I can only laugh at him in other aspects." Master Fang who had once quit voluntarily also said with a sneer.
Judging from that, nobody believed that Yuan Zhou could process these ingredients in a short time alone.
After all, the rarer and more delicious the ingredients were, the shorter the preservation period was. That was to say, Yuan Zhou needed to use up all the ingredients and cook them into dishes within two hours.
However, Yuan Zhou said that he wouldn't bring anyone with him, including the worker that washes the vegetables.
Then, these chefs didn't believe that Yuan Zhou could accomplish that. After all, in their opinion, even if Yuan Zhou didn't want them to cook, they could at least wash the vegetables and sculpt the flowers. Originally, they didn't need to do that, but for the sake of the rare ingredients, they didn't mind being a helper.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Zhou didn't even give them the chance. It was simply like Yuan Zhou was eating the meat and didn't even leave a mouthful of the leftovers for them to drink. How could they bear that?
"I'm just waiting for the yawning toad to taste the bitter fruit." That was the thought of almost all the chefs.
However, would Yuan Zhou be flustered?
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