Marry the Master Duda!
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“I'll give you free but you have to give an honest assessment,” Lucio said.
Lucio, Yuni, and Harry sit down before Jeremy to listen to his honest judgment for the sake of their business continuity.
Jeremy started his first bite. He took one piece of chicken from the thigh.
“Hmm!”
“How, how?”
“I think your restaurant will go forward. The chicken meat was tender, and the skin was very crisp. And most importantly.”.
“What is it?”
“Seasoning fits! I think you will be successful and many like your chicken.”
“Really?” Harry could not believe it.
“Finally you are useful too, Lucio,” Lucy said.
“I'll take one more, yes.” When Jeremy's hand was about to take the chicken, Lucio immediately prevented it.
“Hey, I see your face is good too. Clear, smooth, and shining. How about you hand out our restaurant opening flyer? You can eat chicken as old as possible after that,” said Lucio.
Yuni immediately hit her son. How could he do that to someone who had just met?
“Eat here forever, then I agree,” Jeremy replied.
“Ah, Jeremy, don't listen to the boy's words. How about we go to another place to eat?” ask Lucy.
“Lucy, I also just realized that your face is okay too. How about you guys help market our restaurant?” lucio.
Be Lucy and Jeremy hand out Harry's newly opened chicken restaurant flyer under the name “Ayam Kriuk Hap-Hap!”. The restaurant was very crowded thanks to Jeremy's face that captivated customers when distributing flyers. Harry and Yuni are overwhelmed at serving customers. While Lucio is in the kitchen alone frying chicken.
“Lucy, Jeremy! Stop handing out flyers! Help us inside!” Yuni called out to the two.
“Hey, are you really okay helping us?” ask Lucy. Lucy and Jeremy were wearing restaurant aprons before helping out.
“It's okay. As long as I can eat free chicken here. I help serve customers, you help your brother in the kitchen, yes!” answer Jeremy.
“Tuh, right! It is not wrong I told him to distribute flyers, our restaurant became crowded,” said Lucio with Lucy in the kitchen.
“By the way, how old is he? What's the job?” ask Lucio.
“Because he's Kylian's friend, maybe his age is too.” Lucy replied.
“What? Is he Kylian's friend? But she looks much younger than Kylian.” Lucio surprised.
“How can you be friends with your ex-husband's own friend?” ask Lucio then.
“We met at the course. That'sthat's all. Quickly raise your chicken, tuh!” answer Lucy.
When she realized that it was time to pick up Evan, Lucy took off her apron and came out of the kitchen.
“Dad, mom, I have to pick up Evan school. Jeremy, see you later!” Lucy pammit.
He picked up Evan from school. Upon arriving at home, Evan immediately looked for his father in his room to be invited to play games together. But his father was not in the room.
“Young master Evan, the leader is out,” Gita said.
“What papa works?”
“No. He just looks for the wind outside.”
“Say only briefly, filter 2 hours has not returned.” Bi Yola said.
“What papa back to the office, yes?”
“No, coke. Earlier Chairman didn't wear a suit, so, he couldn't go to the office.”
“Main game later wait for papa to come home. Now Evan takes a shower and eats first, yes,” Lucy said.
“OK, ma.”
Meanwhile, after desperately searching for her father Lucy's restaurant, Kylian finds her. But he was worried in his car wanted to go down or not. Because her relationship with Lucy's family is not good since the last time. Then she's Lucy's mother coming out of the inside to take out the trash. Kylian wants to come down and greet him but he sees his friend Jeremy also coming out from inside.
“Let me, tan,” said Jeremy.
“Ah, it's okay. You have helped a lot.”
“They look familiar...how can they know each other? Jeremy also wears an apron, does he work in a restaurant?” Kylian.
Kylian gets a call from Evan looking for her. Soon he'll be back home.
“Yayy! Papa is home!”
“You've been home a long time?” ask Kylian.
“Ho’oh.”
Kylian saw Lucy. “It looks like you can't stay home, yeah. Happy to wander, keep.”
Lucy doesn't understand Kylian's intentions.
“Evan, let's play a game together.” Kylian held Evan and took him to the room.
“What's with that guy? Why so weird?” Lucy was astonished by Kylian's attitude.
“Evan, play the game for a while, yes. Evan has to learn. If you do not learn later mama is unemployed and goes to wander.” said Kylian pda Evan.
“OK, pa.”
The next day, the children were ready to go to school. Also with Kylian coming out of his room in a neat suit.
“Today let me take Evan to school. You at home just help Bi Yola.” Kylian told Lucy.
“Why is that so, pa?” ask Valerie.
“It's okay. Let mama not fatigue,” replied Kylian.
“Mama is not easily tired, mama is still easy and her energy is a lot. Unlike the papa-“ Ethan does not continue his sentence anymore.
“Is that? Well, since you are also young and have a lot of energy, it is better to do something useful than play games. Come on, go to school,” said Kylian.
The children leave for school and are escorted by Kylian. When the kids get in the car and Kylian puts Evan in, Jeremy comes to his house.
“Hai, Kylian.”
“Eh, Jer? What happened early in the morning to my house?”
“I want to meet Lucy. I have something to discuss with him. You took Evan to school? Not Lucy?” ask Jeremy.
“Oh. Yes, today the children go to school with me.”
“Alright, be careful. Lucy's inside, ‘right? I'm going inside first, yeah.” Jeremy then enters Kylian's house.
“What did Jeremy meet with Lucy so early in the morning? Up to my house?” Kylian wondered in his heart.
“Pa, come! We're late for school!” ethan shouted from the car.
“Good morning Bi Yola, good morning-eh who is in?” Jeremy doesn't know Gita, Kylian's new housekeeper.
“Good morning, son Jeremy. Oh, this is Ms. Gita, the new housekeeper in this house. Bu Gita, this is Jeremy's son, his best friend, Chairman,” Bi Yola said.
“Good morning, sir. I'm Gita.” Gita introduced herself.
“Oh, quickly also Kylian get a replacement for Selly,” said Jeremy.
“By the way, the Chairman just left, son Jeremy.”
“Oh, yes, I met him in front of.”
“Then, son Jeremy looking for who? Looking for breakfast, huh, over here? Wait a minute, yeah, auntie make it first.”
“Eh, no, no, bi. I had breakfast before I came here. I'm looking for Lucy. Is he here?”
“Oh, it's on top. Maybe you're cleaning up a kid's room.”
“I'm here. Jeremy, what's up?” Lucy came down the stairs.
“You're going to a restaurant?” ask Jeremy.
“Then, come with me.”
Jeremy and Lucy go together to the restaurant.
“You want to work at a restaurant again? Looks like you should stop. I'm not feeling good with you.”
“What's really why? Working in a restaurant was fun too. I've never felt like working so hard yesterday.”
“But it's very tiring, ‘kan. Do you not have a job? What if your work is interrupted due to working at a restaurant?”
“My work is all the things I want to work on.”
“Hah?”
“You don't understand?”
“No. Explain to me.”
“Unfortunately we have arrived. Come down.”
Lucy does not realize that Jeremy's car has arrived right in front of the restaurant.
“Dad, mother.” Lucy and Jeremy enter the restaurant.
“Halo, um, aunt.”
“Jeremy, you came again?” ask Yuni.
“Hehehe yes, tan. Not too late, ‘kan?”
“Assyc! If there is you, the restaurant becomes crowded, and make me the spirit of frying.” said Lucio.
“But, before that, there's something I want to talk to you about first. Let's sit down first,” said Jeremy.
The five of them sat together at one of the round tables. Jeremy showed me the screen on the laptop.
“I've marketed an ad about Chicken Hap-Hap restaurant on social media with a reach of more than 500,000 people. And I've listed the restaurant in an online meal messaging app. So, it is expected that there will be many new visitors in the restaurant.”
“Yesampun, Jeremy. You did that?” ask the astonished Yuni.
“Wait. Not only that, because there will be many who order online, but we do not yet have people to be couriers between foods and looking for people also takes time, I registered to the shipping service with a commission of 2% per menu ordered. So it's easier and we just make the order.”
“Marketing ads? Doesn't that cost a lot?” ask Lucy.
“For the long term does require a large cost. Therefore, we also need a sponsor or people who want to invest. And I will be the first sponsor of this restaurant.”
“Wah, what exactly do you do, Jeremy?” ask Harry.
“I'm just a freelancer handling the marketing part. But you guys take it easy, even though I'm a freelancer, I've been proven to increase a company's sales turnover. Even sales turnover in Kylian company increased to 150%.”
“You work for Kylian too?” ask Lucio.
“I work for anyone who needs my services. The system is like a contract with a target, if the target has been reached, I don't work for him anymore. The Kylian company yesterday formed a team called Creative Marketing and I run it. When the target was reached, I stopped, and the team was still running.”
“Then why don't you continue working for Kylian alone? The company is big, you will definitely get a high income.” said Yuni.
“I don't want to be tied to anyone. I like working for different people. And Kylian is my friend. I can't accept payment from my own friend.”
“So now you decided to work in our restaurant?” ask Lucy.
“I have to eat to survive. And it just so happens that this restaurant has a nice chicken menu. Oh, yes, since fried chicken alone is not enough to keep people interested, I guess we should add more menu.”
The tririring……. Jeremy's phone rang.
“Sebentar.”
“Halo. What's up, Kylian? At Lucy's dad's restaurant, why? Is 150% not enough? No, I'm not coming back. Bye!”
“Kylian asked you to the office? Then go,” said Lucy.
“My deal with the company is done. So, what am I coming back for?”
Stand up….! The sound of bells in the restaurant when someone comes in.
“The first customer we've da-Eh? Kylian?” yuni said.
The five of them were surprised by Kylian's arrival at the restaurant.
Kylian arrives with flowers to congratulate the opening of Lucy's family restaurant.
“I hope I'm not late in coming to give this,” said Kylian.
“We don't need this. So you can go,” replied Harry.
“Harry... Aren't you too evil? Kylian, let's sit down with Jeremy there,” Yuni said.
Kylian sees Jeremy in the middle of the family. He also joined his friend.
“So, you decided to stop working at my company?” ask Kylian.
“Iya.”
“Can't you consider one more time? My company needs you badly.”
“No. There are many reasons why I should quit. First, the atmosphere in your company is very tiring and easily makes me sleepy. How can all employees work from morning to night in front of a computer screen without communicating? When I was joking around to melt the atmosphere, how could no one laugh? My heart is already sick. Secondly, all those who work in your company are corporate slaves, and I don't want to be one of them. Third, I have worked on a contract and have achieved more than we agreed. The contract is only 120% but I gave you 150%. Fourth, your payment is very high and enough to finance my life for 1 year. So, I want to laze around. You can't hire lazy people, ‘kan?”
“Didn't usually people stop because the salary is small? You quit because the salary is too big.”
“Yes, and I feel I deserve it. You don't know how my mental state is when I work at your company. No one laughs with my guyonan, communicates only at meetings, and all eyes glare at me when I get home at 7 p.m. And are all your employees fasting? When I took lunch outside, no one agreed. So, looking at my mental state, I guess it's comparable.”
“Is that?”
“After all our contracts are done. You have to let me go. Just like Lucy in 2 months. Isn't that right, Lucy? You agree, ‘kan with me?”
“Betul, I agree with you. The contract is black on white that must be obeyed. If a contract is breached, how can we believe a word that has no power?” sahut Lucio's.
“Alright, alright. I won't hold you back.”
“By the way, you didn't come to persuade me, ‘kan?” ask Jeremy.
“Of course not! You are too confident.”
“Then because what?” ask Jeremy.
“A-me... I want to congratulate you on opening a family-owned restaurant Lucy.”.
“We are not opening event. You do not have to bother coming here,” said Lucy.
“Sorry so much brother-in-law, but soon customers will come. We need to get ready. And.. dad doesn't seem to like seeing big brother,” added Lucio.
“Is that? All right, then I'll go. Come on, Jeremy,” said Kylian.
“Eh? Why take me?”
“You want to continue here indeed?”
“Iya. I'm here until the restaurant closes.”
“Hah?”
“I work here.”
“What? Is that true, Lucy?”
“Iya.”
Jeremy deserves to be very familiar with all of Lucy's family. Jeremy turned out to be working here, Inner Kylian.
“Good. Then I say yes, mom, dad, Lucio.”, Kylian said.
“I also have to pick up Evan. I go first, yes,” Lucy said goodbye to pick up Evan.
Lucy and Kylian are out together. From the outside, Kylian sees familiar Jeremy laughing with his family Lucy on the inside.
Why am I jealous? Ah, this must be because I haven't been with my parents for a long time.
Seriate...
