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Young is the capital, but "dark" can help you more valuable

By Urquhart CalliganPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Psychology believes that a person's certain expression if it lasts more than ten seconds, 80% are fake, a person who is afraid of being seen by others, will deliberately make the opposite of the inner actions. If a person is too nice to you, like a spring breeze, like hot boiling water, so nice that you feel restrained and uncomfortable, probably, he does not really like you.

Belinda comes twice a week, but the meals rarely change. She's a big eater and can eat a nice salad plus seafood pasta or a cheese bake with a glass of Americano at the end of the meal. By the second month of her patronage, I asked her what she liked about my little restaurant and she said bluntly, "It's cheap and it's big."

My confidence took a bit of a hit because I thought the taste was competitive, but I didn't think it was the low labor price that people would miss.

She said, "Why are you losing your temper? In today's world, what seems to be the easiest to replace is the hardest to replace."

Later I realized that she was talking about foolishness.

It is rare for a son to be foolish and straight. The same is true in business occasionally.

However, I dare not go on so foolishly, not researching new dishes, no skills to compete, sooner or later will have to become a small shopkeeper like my father can only eat. During that period, when I was free, I dragged Asa and Xiaoyu to study new dishes. Xiaoyu used to work in a university cafeteria and was full of "dark dishes" such as fried fish with orange stew and fried mooncakes with tomatoes, so at his urging, Asa brought fried rice with spicy strips and watermelon veal tenderloin to the table, and for dessert, it was bubble noodle jelly.

We each had a spoonful, shoveling a little bit of the new dish, fearing that whoever tasted more would eat a big loss. The fried rice, with carrots, green peas, and pink shrimp topped with salty spicy strips, chewed in the mouth like a disobedient problem student arriving in a good class. Watermelon veal tenderloin is too much water, the meat is tender, chewy, and weak. Zhu Zhu tasted a bite and frowned: "Black pepper sprinkled on the watermelon how a sweaty smell ah!" The noodle jelly became the most refreshing presence, and the recipe for instant noodles with peach juice tasted quite harmonious. This dessert was later on the menu for a while, from the beginning to the end with a click rate of only ten, and then also withdrawn.

The "dark experiment" of developing new dishes continued for a while, sometimes when Belinda was around, most of the time she would decline our invitation to try it, sometimes we would tempt her: "Just try it, it's free anyway."

"I only pay for what I like, money or my stomach."

Belinda's style of speaking and acting is as clean and crisp as her short hair.

We like to talk to her, and she never refuses to do so, and she talks eloquently. It seemed like she came in every quiet afternoon just to gossip and chat with us.

We asked her what she did for a living. She didn't answer.

I guess she had many kinds of jobs. She had a complex air about her, sometimes downbeat, sometimes sly, exhibiting both good phrases and foul language.

There was a distinct scar on her right index, middle, and ring fingers when they were together, and when I stared at it long enough, she said, "You've never seen a scar before?"

"From a fight?"

"Cut by a fruit knife."

"Ha." I laughed disdainfully, I thought it was a story, but it turned out to be a kitchen tragedy.

But Belinda said, "More than ten years ago, I took a fruit knife against a female colleague, the fight folding knife pressed on the finger ......"

Belinda, when we first met, I thought she was a villainous character.

The first time I heard Belinda Hai Kan, she was talking to a young boy, later she said that her new assistant, recently encountered some trouble, chasing girls seriously hampered. I remember that the boy had small flat hair, thin, tall, and clean, but a bitter face, honest and honest.

Belinda chewed spaghetti while admonishing him: "You are so useless, which girl can look at you ah! Can you straighten your neck first?"

The boy straightened his back and his face turned red.

"Eat! I'll talk to you while you eat."

I remember the day Belinda told him about the "repulsion-suction" principle.

Belinda's tip: To chase a girl, you have to "fish for three days, sunbathe for two days"!

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