This is terrible! My future prime minister keeps trying to kiss me forcibly.

Chef Sun pointed to the bag in Ye Xiaoxiao's hand.

"This is smoked wild boar meat from our own farm, would you like to take a look, Master Sun?" Ye Xiaoxiao handed over the smoked meat in her hand.

As soon as Chef Sun took the food, he smelled a wonderful aroma, a mixture of pork fat and the unique fragrance of plants.

Upon closer inspection, he saw that the smoked meat was a beautiful reddish-brown color and looked excellent.

Good ingredients always bring a chef great joy.

Chef Sun's eyes lit up: "He Jing, your smoked meat looks good! How much is it?"

Ye Xiaoxiao spoke up: "Fifty coins a pound, this one is a little over three pounds, let's call it three pounds. How about that?"

Chef Sun was in a dilemma. Although he was in charge of purchasing ingredients for Yipinlou, the smoked meat at fifty coins per catty seemed a bit expensive.

The purchasing power was indeed in their own hands, but the manager of Yipinlou was not a generous person. He was very frugal with every expense regarding ingredients.

Normally, the game that He Jing sent over was inspected by Chef Sun himself, who would then estimate a reasonable price before giving it to He Jing.

He Jing never haggled over prices; he would accept whatever price was offered.

Chef Sun glanced at the smiling Ye Xiaoxiao; this little girl was indeed more shrewd than his older brother.

“Girl, the fat meat at this butcher shop is only twenty coins a pound. Your price is a bit too expensive.”

Ye Xiaoxiao counted on her fingers for Chef Sun: "Chef Sun, you were talking about the fatty meat from the butcher shop. Ours is genuine wild boar meat, with tender and firm texture, which is 10% better than ordinary pork. Besides, not to mention the marinade, just the smoking process alone takes half a month, not a day less. You can see our quality for yourself. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for."

As Chef Sun watched Ye Xiaoxiao speak eloquently, he cast an envious glance at He Jing: "He Jing, your sister is quite something, she has a good business sense!"

He Jing's face stiffened, and he explained somewhat awkwardly, "Chef Sun, this is..."

"I am his wife!" Ye Xiaoxiao said with a smile in her bright eyes, thus helping He Jing out of the predicament.

Some people are just a little shy and uncomfortable.

He Wuyang and the other person covered their mouths and chuckled behind them.

"I'm so sorry, I was blind. You two are truly a match made in heaven!"

Chef Sun looked apologetic, then glanced at the two children behind him and thought to himself that they must be He Jing's younger siblings.

"Alright, how much of this smoked meat do you have? I'll take it all!"

Chef Sun didn't want to miss out on such good ingredients.

"Wait!"

Before Ye Xiaoxiao could speak, a voice interrupted.

Chef Sun stood to the side and said respectfully, "Manager, what brings you here?"

Manager Li glanced at him, seemingly a little displeased: "Chef Sun, I entrusted the purchasing to you because you're a long-time employee of the restaurant, but you can't do something unethical behind my back, can you?"

Chef Sun looked puzzled and asked, "Manager, what do you mean by that?"

"What do you mean? I heard that you always pay a much higher price than others when you buy from this hunter He. It's the same game, so why is there such a big price difference? Or are you in cahoots with this hunter?"

Chef Sun glanced at Chef Xu behind Manager Li and saw a smug look on his face, instantly understanding the situation.

It seems someone exaggerated the story to Manager Li.

He explained, "Shopkeeper, the reason we paid Hunter He a higher price is because the game he brought was of the best appearance and tasted the best..."

Manager Li flatly rejected the idea; as long as it saved money, he didn't care what ingredients the kitchen bought.

He waved his sleeve and said, "I don't care about appearance. No matter what, a pheasant is still a pheasant, and a rabbit is still a rabbit, right? Whether a dish is good or not ultimately depends on the chef's skill. From today onwards, the purchasing will be handled by Chef Xu, and Chef Sun, you just need to focus on cooking the dishes well."

Upon hearing this, Chef Xu, standing behind him, looked quite smug. He cast a triumphant and mocking glance at Chef Sun, and then gave Manager Li an extremely fawning and ingratiating smile.

Manager Li nodded in satisfaction, then turned and left.

Chef Xu, with a smug look on his face, said, "Old Sun, hurry up and go help in the back kitchen. There's nothing for you to do here."

Chef Sun looked ashamed and sincerely apologized to He Jing and the others before going into the kitchen.

Chef Xu, with his nose in the air, looked down on the ingredients that Ye Xiaoxiao and her group had brought.

He said arrogantly, "These things will be given to you for a total of two hundred coins."

After saying that, he took out a money bag from his sleeve: "Put your things down, take the money and you can leave."

"Sorry! We're not selling this item!!"