Life is a Game

Buying gifts is a technical job, especially buying gifts for unfamiliar but high-status people. As far as Jiang Feng's current social skills and experience are concerned, he does not have this skill.

What Wu Minqi said was correct, the apprentice banquet was the same as marriage and full moon wine, the host invited guests to dinner, and the guests had to follow the ceremony. But the etiquette of accepting apprentice banquet is more complicated than marriage and full moon wine. At least marriage and full moon wine can be wrapped with a red envelope, but apprentice accepting banquet is not.

So now comes the question, what does Peng Changping like?

Jiang Feng didn't know anything except that Peng Changping liked to eat melons and watch plays, and sometimes he liked to perform in person.

Jiang Feng, who really couldn't think of what to give, could only send a message to Xu Cheng and Han Guishan to insinuate, to see what the bosses with rich social experience would give.

Xu Cheng returned the news first, and Xu Cheng told Jiang Feng that the gift he prepared was a piece of Pu'er tea cake that he had bought at an auction a few years ago.

Han Guishan replied at around 9 o'clock in the evening. The gift he prepared was also tea, but not Pu'er. It was Lu'an melon slices that he also bought at the auction last year.

Jiang Feng: ...

The business tycoons in other novels are all buying antiques, jade, calligraphy and paintings at the auction house, why are you all buying tea here.

Because Jiang Feng had been thinking about what to give during the whole evening business hours, he seemed absent-minded, but he lost sight of Wu Minqi at noon.

Wu Minqi returned to normal, and Jiang Feng began to wander off.

Sun Maocai, as the only head chef in Taifeng building who was also working as the head chef while earning the head chef's salary, noticed Jiang Feng's absent-mindedness as early as the first time. But he didn't say anything before, he just walked up to Jiang Feng to remind him when he was about to get off work.

"How is Ge Tunyan doing today?" Sun Maocai asked.

Jiang Feng was already preparing to clean up his area. Seeing that Sun Maocai came to care about the progress of Ge Tunyan, he quickly said, "It's okay, there's nothing wrong with it."

"That's good." Sun Maocai nodded with a smile, watching Jiang Feng pick up the things, "Actually, you don't need to do these things, just leave it to others."

The head chef's time is usually precious, and he never spends it on these meaningless chores.

"I'm used to it." Jiang Feng didn't stop his movements.

Sun Maocai smiled understandingly, knowing that Jiang Feng hadn't gotten used to what he should be used to. He felt that Jiang Feng had made great progress, at least he finally learned to direct other chefs to help him cut and carry things.

"Did something happen in the afternoon? I feel that you are a little absent-minded tonight." Sun Maocai asked casually, as if asking a random question like what are you having for dinner tonight.

Sun Maocai's question really got into Jiang Feng's heart. He had originally planned to send a message to Sun Maocai to ask him what congratulatory gift he was planning to have when he went back tonight, but now Maocai asked him directly, so he asked him face to face.

"There is something, Master Sun, what gift did you prepare for Master Peng's apprentice banquet tomorrow?"

Peng Changping didn't expect Jiang Feng to ask this, so he was a little surprised.

"I didn't prepare anything. The time was too short to prepare anything good. It happened that I still had a can of good Maojian, so I was going to take that can of Maojian as a gift." Sun Maocai said.

Jiang Feng: ...

Can't you give me something other than tea? Could be a little innovative.

Noticing that Jiang Feng's expression was not quite right, Sun Maocai thought that he had committed some taboo. For example, Peng Changping hated people giving tea as a gift the most in his life, so he immediately became serious.

"Is there something wrong?"

"No...it's nothing." Jiang Feng subconsciously bit his lips, "It's just that I haven't decided what to give. I asked you today, Mr. Xu Cheng and Boss Han, and it turned out that the three of you gave tea."

Sun Maocai suddenly became interested: "Oh, what kind of tea did the two of them send?"

"Mr. Xu Cheng gave Pu'er, and Boss Han gave Liu'an melon slices."

Sun Maocai nodded: "It's all good tea. If you really don't know what to give, I still have a can of Tieguanyin, why don't I give it to you first?"

Jiang Feng was overjoyed: "Thank you so much. I have a headache and don't know what to give. The time is really tight. Please go back and check how much this Tieguanyin is. I will transfer the money to you through WeChat."

"Not much. I don't remember the exact amount I bought at the auction a few years ago. You can give me an integer of 100,000." Sun Maocai said.

Jiang Feng:? ? ?

Jiang Feng resisted not taking a breath on the spot, pretending to be calm, but the slightly trembling voice still betrayed him: "This... How many catties of tea leaves?"

"It should be two liang. This can of Tieguanyin is the king of tea in the past. It is a fragrance type. I like it better, so I bought a catty. This time I came to Beiping in a hurry and didn't bring a lot. If you like it, I will ask my wife to send it over. , give you two cans." Sun Maocai is very generous.

"No need, no need." Jiang Feng refused again and again. He didn't have enough private money for this can of tea, so he had to ask Wang Xiulian for extra, and he didn't deserve another can.

A poor tea taster like him is not worthy of such fine tea.

After the gift matter was settled and the wallet was empty, Jiang Feng wanted to care about other things.

"Master Sun, I want to ask you something."

"you say."

"Why are all the gifts you prepared tea leaves?" Jiang Feng felt that he needed to study the knowledge of gift giving carefully, and it would definitely be useful in the future.

As he became more and more powerful and knew more and more bigwigs, he would definitely face this situation of needing to give gifts in the future. Even if these bigwigs may not have marriage and children's full moon wine, they still have their children's full moon wine, and birthday parties such as 60th birthday, 70th birthday, 80th birthday, and 90th birthday are all to be given as gifts.

Ask and learn a little more now, and you'll save two hairs when preparing gifts later.

"Well, Mr. Xu Cheng and that Han...Han boss, I don't know why they sent tea, but the reason should be similar to mine, mainly because they don't understand Master Peng's preferences." Sun Maocai explained, "If you know the other person's preferences, then of course you can match them up, but if you don't know, it's the safest way to give tea."

"Why?" Jiang Feng didn't understand.

"Antique calligraphy and paintings and other things, although valuable is good, but there will always be people who don't like it and will step on thunder. The precious tea, even if you don't like to drink it, it's good to keep it as a collection. If it doesn't work, you can give it to others, which is safer. "

"By the way, do you know any shop that handles gift wrapping near us? I can't just bring a tea pot, I have to wrap it nicely." Sun Maocai said.

"I know. I'll go to your house to get the tea when I go back. I'll send it to the store to pack it when I go out tomorrow morning. I'll take it with you in the evening." Jiang Feng agreed without hesitation.

On the way home from get off work, Jiang Feng thought about it more and felt that something was wrong. Peng Changping personally cooked the dinner for Peng Changping's apprenticeship, but the congratulatory gifts from everyone were all tea.

Why the more I think about it, the more I feel that this is not a gift for Peng Changping, but a gift for Lu Sheng.

Dare to accept Peng Changping as an apprentice, but Lu Sheng became the final winner instead.

Eating and taking it again, it really makes people a little jealous when I think about it.

Jiang Feng felt his wallet hurt.