Yan Jiecheng's Leisurely Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 34 Distress
After Sha Zhu was taken away, Director Wang called Yan Jiecheng to the third canteen in the afternoon and announced in public that Yan Jiecheng would be the squad leader of the third canteen.

The people in the third canteen were quite welcoming to Yan Jiecheng's arrival. After all, Ma Hua and Liu Lan had both worked for Yan Jiecheng before.

They had already introduced Yan Jiecheng to the people in the kitchen.

The kitchen staff in Canteen No. 3 is much larger than those in Canteen No. 9 and Canteen No. 6, with a total of twelve people including temporary workers.

There are three chefs alone. In addition to Yan Jiecheng, there are two other big pot chefs, Zhou Wanli and Lin Hai.

Speaking of Lin Hai, he is an old acquaintance of Yan Jiecheng. Logically, Yan Jiecheng should call him senior brother.

However, after the incident of stealing pork, Yan Jiecheng's master Liu Haining never admitted in front of others that Lin Hai was his apprentice.

In addition to the three chefs, there are two kitchen helpers in the cafeteria, Ma Hua and Fatty.

They were both originally considered He Yuzhu's apprentices, but it was only verbal and they had not formally become his apprentices. Of course, Sha Zhu did not teach them any real skills.

As for Liu Lan, although she is also a kitchen helper, she is mainly responsible for the service work of entertaining banquets.

There are four aunts in the kitchen. In addition to being responsible for the staple food, they are also responsible for the hygiene of the restaurant.

The only ones left were two temporary workers, who did the heaviest work in the kitchen for the lowest wages, and were complete slaves.

Yan Jiecheng had just arrived and had no intention of making a big splash as a new official. After saying hello, he started to get busy with everyone.

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Although Yan Jiecheng's award was due to his own efforts, the support of Li Huaide and Director Wang was also indispensable, so he must express his gratitude.

Gifts? Although Yan Jiecheng has a portable supermarket, most of the things inside are not visible to the public. In addition, Yan Jiecheng himself does not have much savings, so if the gifts are small, they will not be able to be given away.

Since giving gifts doesn't work out, I can only think of ways to improve my cooking skills. It seems that I have to go to the Pigeon Market after get off work.

At that time in the old city, there were many underground trading markets, which could be roughly divided into three types: black market, ghost market, and pigeon market.

Unlike the other two trading markets, the black market is managed by someone and you need to pay a certain fee to enter and trade.

At the same time, because the goods traded in the black market are almost all contraband such as food, weapons, gold, silver, and bills, it has always been severely cracked down by the government.

The goods traded in the ghost market are relatively simple, just some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the owners are generally old people and young people.

However, people can't afford to live these days, and not many people are interested in these things, so ghost markets are rare.

As for pigeon markets, most of them are located at the junction of urban and rural areas. The main items traded there are chickens, ducks, game, coarse grains, etc. The quantities are also relatively small.

Therefore, the government generally takes a tacit attitude towards the pigeon market, turning a blind eye.

After get off work in the evening, Yan Jiecheng did not go home, but went directly to Pigeon City. This was also Yan Jiecheng's first time to Pigeon City.

After a stroll around the Pigeon Market, Yan Jiecheng gained a lot and bought a lot of good things.

What Yan Jiecheng was most satisfied with was the soft-shelled turtle, which was obviously an old wild turtle that had been there for many years.

In addition to the soft-shelled turtle, Yan Jiecheng also bought two wild rabbits and three pheasants. In addition, he bought some chickens, ducks, fish, mushrooms and other things, which filled a whole sack.

After seeing that he had almost bought everything, Yan Jiecheng left Pigeon City with a sack on his back.

However, not long after leaving Pigeon Market, Yan Jiecheng noticed something was amiss. He felt like someone was following him, but when he looked back, he saw nothing. Pigeon Market wasn't a black market; there shouldn't be any black market robbing black market lords. Was it just his imagination? Impossible.

Next, Yan Jiecheng did not follow the same route he came from. Instead, he tried to choose some remote and deserted paths as much as possible.

When he walked near a deserted yard, he saw a masked man holding a short blade blocking Yan Jiecheng's way.

Then two more masked men appeared behind Yan Jiecheng, one of them holding a box gun in his hand, and it seemed that he was the leader of the three.

"Brother, we are here for wealth, not life. You'd better be sensible and save us from having to fight."

After the leading thief finished speaking, he waved to his two subordinates, and the three of them began to slowly approach Yan Jiecheng.

Yan Jiecheng did not feel any fear when facing the three robbers, but he still looked panicked.

Just when the three opponents were less than half a meter away from Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiecheng suddenly jumped up and kicked the man with the gun.

This was also because the other party saw that Yan Jiecheng did not resist and lowered his guard, which allowed Yan Jiecheng's attack to be successful.

After kicking the opponent's pistol away, Yan Jiecheng quickly punched and knocked down one person and kicked another one away, leaving only the leading thief.

When the other party saw Yan Jiecheng being so fierce, he immediately became intimidated and begged for mercy.

"Brother, I didn't expect you to be a martial artist. Today I admit defeat. What do you want to do? Draw a line."

Looking at the other party's skilled appearance, you know that this is definitely not the first time they have done this kind of thing. God knows how many people they have harmed. How could Yan Jiecheng let them go easily?
He kicked out again, knocking the leading robber unconscious.

Seeing that the three men had lost their fighting ability, Yan Jiecheng collected the weapons they dropped.

Then he took out a rope from his personal space, tied them up tightly, and blocked their mouths.

Yan Jiecheng is not capable of killing anyone, but whether they can survive depends on their luck.

This place is remote and the three people can neither move nor call for help. If they can be rescued in this way, it means that they are not destined to die.

After dealing with the three robbers, Yan Jiecheng simply packed up and then set out on his journey home.

As soon as Yan Jiecheng arrived home, his father came to Yan Jiecheng's room wearing his clothes.

"Jie Cheng, why are you so late today?"

"Oh, something happened at the factory and I was delayed. Dad, is there something wrong?"

Father Yan waved his hand and said.

"Nothing much. It's already so late, and the idiot from the middle courtyard hasn't come back yet. I want to see if you know anything."

This afternoon in the cafeteria, Yan Jiecheng heard people in the kitchen talking about Sha Zhu being arrested, but he didn't know the details.

"Shazhu, I heard that he was arrested by the security department for attempting to assault the cafeteria director. Dad, why are you asking this? Did the old man ask you to ask?"

Yan Fugui hesitated for a long time before continuing.

"Old Yi came to my house today and said that you were dishonest and stole Sha Zhu's job. Jie Cheng, we can't do anything that would make people criticize us."

(End of this chapter)