Chapter 458: Revised: Chapter 458 Narrow Road for Enemies
And the middle-aged man in the store, seeing Zhang Dadan and Bai Jie come in, frowned and said helplessly:
"Boss Zhou, it’s useless no matter how many people you call over! There are only two ways now, either you pay more, or you leave!"
Zhang Dadan walked over, patted Zhou Yong’s shoulder, signaling him not to get angry, then smiled at the shop owner and said:
"We had already agreed on the price before, it seems a bit unscrupulous for you to do this, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t there be integrity in everything we do?"
The shop owner, upon hearing Zhang Dadan’s sarcasm, immediately looked somewhat embarrassed, had to turn around, and ignored him.
Bai Jie, having heard the gist of it, understood what was going on; the owner was trying to raise the price taking advantage of the situation!
"Boss, let’s not get angry first, let’s talk calmly! Has someone else contacted you to take over this shop?" Bai Jie asked.
Seeing Bai Jie seemed to be easy to talk to, the owner sighed and said, "To be honest, that’s the case! Although I’ve agreed with you, we haven’t signed the contract yet. I should have the right to back out, right?"
"These days, nothing is more important than money, since they offered more than you, I am definitely leasing it to them!"
Zhou Yong, who had just calmed down, immediately got angry again upon hearing his righteous and natural tone, and questioned:
"This was something we agreed upon yesterday, how can you turn back on your word in the blink of an eye? Don’t you have a little bit of integrity?"
Before the owner could speak, he heard several people laughing at the door, and one of them said: "Integrity? Is integrity more important than money?"
Everyone looked towards the voice and saw a middle-aged man with a big head and thick neck, leading four or five young men and walking over slowly.
The more Zhang Dadan looked at the middle-aged man, the more familiar he seemed. The middle-aged man also noticed Zhang Dadan and his face immediately turned embarrassed.
Zhang Dadan could not recognize him, but he already recognized Zhang Dadan. The middle-aged man said fiercely: "It’s you? Truly a narrow road for enemies to meet!"
Zhou Yong and Bai Jie, seeing this person knowing Zhang Dadan, couldn’t help but look at Zhang Dadan, but he seemed a bit confused.
The middle-aged man, seeing he hadn’t remembered who he was, felt insulted and cursed: "You can’t recognize me? That really pisses me off!"
"Me? Who the hell are you?" Zhang Dadan, although still couldn’t remember who he was, couldn’t let him be arrogant.
The few young men following the middle-aged man, seeing Zhang Dadan angry, seemed about to rush over, quickly drew several kitchen knives, holding them in front, and grinned at Zhang Dadan.
The shop owner, seeing them showing knives, felt afraid, quickly retreated to the corner of the wall, watching the two groups confronting each other!
Zhou Yong knew Zhang Dadan’s abilities and naturally wouldn’t fear such scenes, laughed and said: "Brothers, are you planning to chop people?"
"Have you brought your brain when you came out? Nowadays it’s a harmonious society, with one call, I can have you all caught and jailed!"
The few young men, upon hearing Zhou Yong’s threat, suddenly became a bit panicked; they were just there to support their master, didn’t want to get locked up!
Unlike these young men, the middle-aged man was not panicked but laughed unscrupulously and said: "Caught us? On what grounds? We are law-abiding citizens."
Zhang Dadan pointed at the kitchen knives they were holding and laughed: "Law-abiding? This is how you law-abiding?"
But the middle-aged man was still fearless, sneered: "Fool! These are kitchen knives, not controlled knives; what can you accuse us of? I am a chef, carrying a kitchen knife, what’s wrong with that?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Dadan immediately figured out his identity and confirmed: "A chef? Are you the chef at Sunx Liancheng’s house?"
"Correct! I am the chef who lost the job because of you!" The middle-aged man said fiercely.
Last time at Sunx Liancheng’s house, to maintain his dignity and suppress Sunx Liancheng and his son’s arrogance, Zhang Dadan had lied that Chef Li’s skills were poor.
But fair to say, his cooking, although not as delicious as Jiji’s, was still considered delicacies, and he was regarded as a famous chef of his generation.
But Zhang Dadan not only belittled him but also exposed his kickbacks issue, causing him to lose his job directly.
It’s said that cutting off someone’s livelihood is like killing someone’s parents; all these things naturally made Chef Li hate Zhang Dadan to the core.
Chef Li didn’t know Zhang Dadan’s background before and had to bury this hatred in his heart and let it go with time.
But man proposes, God disposes; after losing the job, Chef Li relied on his former savings, gathered a bunch of apprentices, planning to open a restaurant in his hometown, Qing City.
The chosen restaurant location happened to coincide with Zhang Dadan’s branch location, and now seeing the enemy, naturally, his eyes turned red.
Chef Li, seeing Zhang Dadan alone and a woman beside him, unscrupulously threatened:
"Zhang Dadan, you caused me to lose my job; I haven’t settled that score with you yet, and now you dare to compete with me for the store? You must be tired of living!"
Zhang Dadan and others, knowing their kitchen knives were not controlled knives, had to give up the threat and decided to reason.
"Brother! Let’s put personal grievances aside first. This shop was chosen by us first; it should naturally belong to us, right?" Zhou Yong said kindly.
Beside Chef Li, a young man with a scar on his face sneered upon hearing Zhou Yong’s words: "You chose it first, so it’s yours?"
"Fine, the girl beside you, I fancy her first, does she belong to me then?"
As he finished speaking, Chef Li and others burst into wild laughter, their eyes maliciously scanning Bai Jie.
Bai Jie, seeing them so rude and speaking lightly about her, felt extremely angry but didn’t dare to show dissatisfaction, after all, the others had knives.
Zhang Dadan, although intending to distance Bai Jie to avoid getting too involved with her, couldn’t tolerate her being insulted.
"Brat, you dare to say that again?" Zhang Dadan pointed at the scar-faced youth and cursed viciously.
Chef Li saw Zhang Dadan angry and quickly stopped everyone, raised his ears, and asked Zhang Dadan: "Divine Doctor Zhang, right? What did you just say? I didn’t hear clearly, could you repeat that?"
Before Zhang Dadan could react, Chef Li’s apprentices laughed again, treating Zhang Dadan’s words as an idiotic remark.
Facing everyone’s unscrupulous mockery, Zhang Dadan couldn’t swallow this insult, casually grabbed a chair threateningly: "Damn, looking for death, aren’t you?"
Bai Jie saw him grab the chair, ready to charge at Chef Li and the others, feared he would get hurt, quickly held him tightly.
"Zhang Dadan! Calm down, don’t let anger cloud your mind! They have knives!" Bai Jie shouted.
Zhang Dadan, feeling the softness on his back, suddenly became tongue-tied and said: "Bai... Bai Jie... can you let go first?"
Chef Li saw them being affectionate and sneered: "Damn! Divine Doctor Zhang, you really have a good fortune?"
"But, by the principle of first come, first served, this girl was first fancied by my apprentice; she belongs to him!"
Bai Jie, although holding Zhang Dadan, couldn’t control him with her weak strength,
Zhang Dadan, immersed in the tenderness, regained consciousness upon hearing Chef Li’s mockery, raised the chair, and threw it at them.