Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 689: Six hundred and eighty-four top female chefs

Chapter 689: Six hundred and eighty-four top female chefs

She had seen female chefs before, but she had not expected Xiao Ping to be so young.

"You! How did you manage to do it, you are far too young."

Her exclamatory voice carried a tone of amazement as she looked at Xiao Ping as if she were looking at a giant panda.

In the face of her surprise, Xiao Ping suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

Xiao Ping had not anticipated that He Jingmei would start off with praise.

"To have accomplished so much at your age, you must have gone through a lot of hardships," she said to Xiao Ping.

Xiao Ping immediately shook her head in embarrassment after hearing this.

"It’s not too bad, our boss taught me well, all of my skills were taught to me by the boss," Xiao Ping quickly explained to her.

When she heard that everything Xiao Ping knew was taught by Gu Chen,

She looked at Gu Chen with some surprise.

Did that not mean that Gu Chen possessed even greater culinary skills than Xiao Ping?

At that moment, she regarded Gu Chen with even greater esteem.

In the past, she had always heard Old Master Wei speak of how good Gu Chen’s culinary skills were.

But hearing is one thing, and seeing is another. Only after coming to Gu Chen’s restaurant today did she truly understand the meaning of "in the presence of a master, the novice sees how far they have to go."

"With your skill level, you would definitely make several thousand to tens of thousands of yuan a month easily in an outside restaurant.

If you were to be a private chef for some wealthy businessmen, you could very likely earn up to twenty thousand yuan," she said to Xiao Ping very seriously.

Judging a chef’s skill level by their salary may not be entirely accurate,

but it is extremely straightforward!

In this day and age, the white-collar workers who can earn tens of thousands yuan are no simple folks.

And for someone like Xiao Ping, who can earn this money through traditional skills, they’re definitely the crème de la crème, the top of the top.

Xiao Ping, upon hearing this, showed a complete lack of interest.

"No matter how much money is out there, I’d stay right here. I owe everything I have today to the boss. Without the boss, I’d be nothing,"

Xiao Ping was very resolute at this moment, uninterested in whatever salary and benefits He Jingmei had just mentioned.

For her, just being able to stay here was more than enough.

Even if Gu Chen didn’t pay her, she’d accept it with pleasure.

Because Gu Chen had truly given her a second life.

Without Gu Chen, she could not imagine what she would be doing; she’d probably just be an ordinary girl from the countryside.

With such loyalty, there was no way she could do anything that would betray Gu Chen.

"I was just speaking casually. Of course, it’s good for you to stay here; I think the business of this restaurant is pretty good,"

He Jingmei suddenly realized that what she had said seemed a bit like undermining someone, so she quickly added a sentence.

It was as if she was slightly worried that Gu Chen might take it to heart.

At this time, Gu Chen, the person concerned, actually wasn’t thinking anything at all.

The reason was very simple: he knew himself well. In fact, he hadn’t taught Xiao Ping any real skills—a few straightforward cooking procedures was all.

The success of Qiwei Vegetarian didn’t depend on any outstanding skills but on his ingredients and the water source.

In other words, if Xiao Ping really decided to leave, Gu Chen actually wanted to persuade her not to go.

It wasn’t about being reluctant to part with her, but rather that her cooking skills might not be enough to feed her outside.

Without those ingredients and water resources, the food she could make with his cooking techniques would be nothing more than ordinary, without any novelty.

Therefore, Xiao Ping’s decision to stay was indeed very correct. Gu Chen also knew that whether it was Xiao Ping or Xiao Fang, once they left the restaurant, it would be very difficult for them to find jobs elsewhere; Gu Chen had a simple thought about this.

He felt that now that he had the capability, it was like providing them with insurance. When they got older, he could leave them a large sum of money that would ensure a worry-free life in their later years.

This was a very simple idea of Gu Chen’s, all to ensure that they could survive on their own pensions even after leaving the restaurant.

After the meal was finished, He Jingmei’s expression showed that she was still not satisfied.

In Gu Chen’s car, she couldn’t resist asking him again, "Gu Ge, I heard you also have a café, can we try it out?"

She was curious and asked Gu Chen, looking like she wanted to see all of his businesses in one day.

"Sure, today you’re calling the shots. Whatever you say, we’ll do," Gu Chen said.

After Gu Chen said this, He Jingmei immediately smiled brightly.

So Gu Chen drove to the café he owned. The café was as busy as ever, with seats almost always full, but upon Gu Chen’s arrival, they still found a spot.

When Xiao Jun saw how crowded the café was, she was surprised and questioned why a café would draw so many people. Coffee wasn’t something that necessarily had to be sat down and sipped slowly; it could simply be taken away.

She didn’t quite understand it, nor did she know why.

Then, looking around at the other tables, she was startled to find that almost every table had ordered three or four cups of coffee, even up to six cups, which looked rather alarming.

Even if the coffee was that delicious, it wasn’t something one could drink so much of.

At that moment, the server came over, curious, and Gu Chen directly said to her, "Let’s start with two cups of specialty coffee."

"What kind of coffee do we have here? What is specialty coffee?" He Jingmei quickly asked Gu Chen, as it was the first time she had heard of this so-called specialty coffee.

"We only have two kinds of coffee in this store: ordinary coffee and specialty coffee, which has some subtle differences in flavor," Gu Chen explained briefly to her, and after he finished, she seemed to get the idea.

In other words, these two types of coffee names were entirely created by Gu Chen. There was no such thing as specialty coffee on the market, but despite sounding interesting, she still wanted to try it.

Not long afterward, the server brought over the specialty coffee.

When the two cups of coffee were placed on the table, she immediately picked one up curiously and gave it a sniff.

"It smells pretty good," she said, smiling at Gu Chen, who nodded in response.

Although the coffee was still hot, He Jingmei was already getting impatient, because it smelled really good.