NOVPUBChapter 1018: Chapter 1018: Floating_1 Chapter 1018 -1018: Floating_1 It’s really not easy, not everyone can do this.
Doing it once or twice is fine, but it’s hard to keep doing it.
It can be said that the effort and reward are equal.
“If there’s hard evidence, that would be great.” Peggy Lewis said.
“Even if there is evidence, it’s not appropriate for you to confront it personally.” Lyke Zhekova said, “Even if it’s Jacob Zahn’s fault, if you confront it personally, some people will still put part of the blame on you.”
“It’s like you were specially investigating him in order to grab Jacob Zahn’s contract.” Lyke Zhekova said.
Lyke Zhekova’s worries were not unreasonable.
Even if Peggy Lewis investigates it personally, what does it matter?
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The responsibility isn’t on Peggy Lewis.
But the bystanders will still drag Peggy Lewis into it.
“You leave this to me, okay?” Lyke Zhekova said, “Tomorrow, those photos will appear in your employee’s email inbox.”
Surprisingly, Lyke Zhekova takes full responsibility.
“Okay.” This time, Peggy Lewis didn’t hesitate and simply agreed.
She happily and confidently left the matter to him to handle, without saying polite words or fearing to trouble him.
This attitude finally made Lyke Zhekova happy.
His mood also lifted quite a bit.
The hotpot restaurant was near Peggy Lewis’s home.
It’s a 15 to 20-minute walk.
But at this time, the parking spaces at the restaurant’s entrance were not enough.
Lyke Zhekova drove around the hotpot restaurant but did not find a suitable parking space.
Peggy Lewis then said, “Why not park the car in my residential area since the restaurant is nearby?
We can walk there.”
Lyke Zhekova couldn’t ask for more.
In this way, doesn’t he get another chance to go to Peggy Lewis’s house?
Think about it, after eating hotpot, he’d have to go to Peggy Lewis’s house to pick up the car, right? n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
But when everyone is already at Peggy Lewis’s house, wouldn’t she invite him in?
After eating hotpot, with the greasy feeling, isn’t it necessary to go in and have some tea or something?
Lyke had planned out what to do next.
He nodded and said, “That sounds good.”
So, they drove to Peggy Lewis’s house first.
They parked the car at the foot of Peggy Lewis’s house.
When they got out of the car, Lyke Zhekova saw that Peggy Lewis still wore high heels.
Although the heels were not high, about three or four centimeters, walking for ten to twenty minutes in them would definitely not be comfortable.
He suggested, “We are already at your house, would you like to go back and change into a comfortable pair of shoes?
We are going to walk to the hotpot restaurant.
Walking in high heels may not be comfortable.”
Peggy Lewis hadn’t thought about that.
Reminded by Lyke Zhekova, she suddenly realized it.
Peggy Lewis quickly said, “Thanks for the reminder, I’ll go change my shoes.”
It wouldn’t be appropriate to let Lyke Zhekova just wait downstairs, so they simply went to her house together.
Peggy Lewis just took a pair of flat shoes from the shoe cabinet and quickly left the house with Lyke Zhekova.
When they arrived at the hotpot restaurant, as it was a branch restaurant and although it was under Lyke Zhekova’s name, everyone thought it still belonged to Pingla.
Lyke Zhekova visited the restaurant under the pretense of inspecting it and didn’t plan to check every branch.
So, the waitstaff in the restaurant didn’t recognize Lyke Zhekova.
When Lyke Zhekova and Peggy Lewis walked in, Lyke Zhekova said, “I made a reservation, my last name is Zhekova.”
The waiter quickly confirmed it and said, “Mr.
Zhekova, please follow me.”
There were no private rooms in the hotpot restaurant, it’s all big halls.
The only difference is the table size.
Eating hotpot is more lively amidst the hustle and bustle.
The restaurant was full of hustle and bustle, everyone was eating hotpot, drinking beer and chatting, so nobody cared about what others at different tables were saying.
The restaurant reserved a small table for two.
As soon as they sat down,
Lyke Zhekova, ordering on the iPad, asked, “What level of spiciness can you normally tolerate?”
Peggy Lewis thought that Lyke Zhekova had just started to investigate the customer’s taste.
“I can eat pretty spicy food.
I’ve been here before for hotpot.
I always ask for local Sichuan spiciness.” Peggy Lewis said, “I figure, if you come to eat, you should eat something authentic.”
“How about you?” Peggy Lewis was worried Lyke Zhekova was accommodating her taste and forcing himself.
“Isn’t that coincidental?” Lyke Zhekova laughingly said, “I’m able to handle spicy food too.
The reason I insist on having a heavy spice level is because I like it too.
I can’t be as willful as Bertrand York, who only has one heavy spice setting on his menu, but I want to ensure that guests who want to eat authentic flavors are satisfied.”
“Shall I order heavy spiciness?” Lyke Zhekova asked for Peggy Lewis’s opinion.
Peggy Lewis nodded and said, “But still, let’s order a split pot.
We should cook vegetables in the non-spicy pot.”
Vegetables absorb oil and spice.
She still couldn’t manage to cook vegetables in the spicy pot.
Once, she and Cindy Clarke took Morgan Zhekova to travel in Sichuan, both of them ate authentic Sichuan hotpot for the first time.
They were overzealous novices.
Even though they ordered a split pot, they cooked the vegetables in the spicy pot.
They cooked all kinds of veggies, lettuce, crown daisy, shiitake mushroom, cabbage, cucumber in the spicy pot.
Leafy green and cucumber are specially made to soak up flavor.
They were so spicy that Peggy Lewis and Cindy Clarke began to doubt their life choices.
Finally, they had been so spiced out that they couldn’t even cook fatty beef and tripe in the spicy pot.
Because they couldn’t negotiate the spiciness anymore.
Peggy Lewis definitely learned a lesson from that experience.
From then on, she always cooked the kind of vegetables that absorbed a lot of spicy soup in the non-spicy pot when eating hotpot.
Lyke Zhekova then happily ordered a bone soup chrysanthemum pot.
The split pot in this restaurant is different from the common Yin-Yang symbol style split pots, it’s a pot within a pot.
The big outer circle is all spicy pot.
And there’s a small pot in the middle, which is a non-spicy pot.
“Have ever tried this bone soup chrysanthemum pot?” After the soup was served, Lyke Zhekova asked her.
“No, previously we always ordered bone soup pots, river-fresh pots, and occasionally a tomato pots.” Peggy Lewis said.
“Then you try this.
It’s a bone soup with chrysanthemum added to it.
Chrysanthemum has the effect of clearing the intestines and reducing internal heat.
When you feel uncomfortable from eating the spicy pot, you can use chrysanthemum to reduce internal heat.” Lyke Zhekova said.
The dishes Lyke Zhekova ordered were all based on Peggy Lewis’s preferences.
“Don’t just order what I like.” Peggy Lewis said, “What do you like?”
She remembered that Lyke Zhekova said that since they were eating together this time, it was a good opportunity to get to know Lyke Zhekova’s preferences and then decide what to give him.
“Isn’t it a coincidence?
The dishes you like, are my must-order dishes when I eat hotpot.” Lyke Zhekova laughingly said.
