The story of a cook

Chapter 100 Meeting Yanhua
After New Year's Day, it will be the Spring Festival in more than a month, and it will be another year.

There is no time to work part-time, and it is years in a blink of an eye.Every year is similar, every year is not the same age.

The wave of migrant workers in the 90s swept across the country. At that time, the most migrant workers from rural areas to cities continued. It lasted until about [-], and then slowed down.

In the 90s, rural people went to work in cities, and urban people began to work abroad.At that time, the countries I visited the most were South Korea, Japan, the United States, and Singapore.It's all for livelihood, for life.I remember that there was a TV series called "BJs in New York" at that time. I watched a few episodes, and it talked about Chinese people going abroad to work hard.

In fact, it was not after the reform and opening up that the Chinese went abroad to develop. As early as the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese began to develop abroad as laborers. From the first generation to the second generation, to the third generation, until now Today, "Chinatowns" around the world are a good proof.

The tenacity, hard work, thrift and housekeeping spirit and character of the Chinese people enable the Chinese people to develop for a long time abroad. With the development of China and its growing strength after reform and opening up, China has become the second largest economy in the world, showing its The rise and demeanor of a great country.The descendants of Yan and Huang who were outside also began to feel elated, and they really straightened their backs and behaved like men.Today, the number of Chinese people going abroad has begun to decrease, and the number of foreigners coming to China to work is increasing day by day. Take chefs as an example. They used to want to go abroad. They can earn tens of thousands of yuan or even more in a month abroad. Now they are working in China. , As long as the chefs are well-off, the average monthly salary is tens of thousands of yuan, and the monthly salary of the better ones is between [-] and [-] yuan. There is no need to go abroad, and sometimes foreign countries can not earn as much as domestic ones.

It is really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.

That night I sent Lin Yan back, and when I walked to Beiling, I saw Yanhua walking alone on the street, so I called her, and she saw that it was me walking over.

I asked, "Why are you walking alone on the street in the middle of the night? You're not afraid of running into bad guys who will snatch you away."

She said: "Who will rob me? I'm still waiting for someone to rob me."

I asked, "What's the matter, are you upset again?"

She said helplessly: "After you got off work, Zhan Ze asked Sister Zhang to call me. I didn't want to see him, so I told Sister Zhang that something was wrong going downstairs, and then I came here after I went downstairs. I’ve been shopping around until now, and I’m thinking of going back.”

I said: "You too, just tell him directly that you don't want to have sex with him, or it's over, and you still use it to hide, it doesn't feel cold."

She said: "I told him a long time ago, but who knows that he is like having a convulsion. Every few days, Sister Zhang will call me, and she will not say who she is, but invite me to dinner-that is to say to this kind of person." not understand."

I said, "That's right, Zhan Ze is a bit grumpy, but he is also a very persistent person, and he has never given up on you." I looked at Yan Hua, and said, "If you don't want to, you should think about it."

Yanhua said, "I won't think about him, but if it were you, I might think about it."

I said, "Hehe, don't be kidding, I have been taken over by others, and you want second-hand goods."

She smiled wryly, and said, "Are you second-hand? As for me, I'm a lost flower. If you don't know, it's okay. If you know, who would want me?"

I looked at her. In fact, she is much better now than before. At least she dares to joke, and she is not always working like before, not saying a word all day.

I said: "Just kidding, you are the most beautiful and feminine now, how about it, do you want to have a drink with me, I will treat you to dinner just like Zhan Ze."

She said: "You are not afraid that Lin Yan will scold you, I dare not go drinking with you."

I said: "Then we will go back if we don't drink, it's so cold, I'll take you back."

She looked at me and said leisurely: "Actually, it's okay to go back after drinking some wine. After drinking, go back to sleep and sleep soundly."

At that time, there were many small restaurants in front of the main gate of Beiling, all of which were open until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and some were open until one o'clock in the morning.I found a small hot pot restaurant nearby to eat hot pot.Coincidentally, it happened that Zhan Ze's younger brother Zhan Gang and a waitress were also eating hot pot there, which was quite embarrassing.

Zhan just asked us to eat with them, but we didn't go over and sat at a table alone.

Yanhua said: "It's okay this time, maybe they won't say anything tomorrow."

I smiled and said: "It's useless to care about those things, you can say whatever you want, the main thing is to eat hot pot now."

Yanhua also laughed, and said, "That's right, I would have thought about it a lot before, but I don't think about it now, and it's useless to tell you."

I said: "That's right, thinking too much will affect your drinking mood, now is the time to eat hot pot and drink."

I didn’t eat much that day. I just finished eating for a long time, and I wasn’t hungry. I just drank some wine and chatted for a while, and the chat was very happy. Yanhua would laugh out loud from time to time, which was unprecedented in the past. of.

It was a little faster when I came out of the hot pot restaurant, and I sent Yanhua back to the dormitory.

At noon the next day, there were not many customers. After finishing my work, I was helping Sister Cui to clean up the squid in the pool. Sister Zhang came over. As soon as she came, I knew what was going on. Otherwise, at this time of the day, she would be washing dishes with Zhan Ze. chatting.

Sister Zhang asked: "Did you send Lin Yan back yesterday?"

I said: "Yes."

Sister Zhang asked, "Did Lin Yan be with Yanhua again after seeing off Lin Yan?"

I said, "Yes, together."

Sister Zhang stared at me and said, "Tanzi, this day's work is not enough for you."

I said, "It's not like you don't know that I am busy with the entire restaurant every day. Don't you all call me the kitchen steward."

Sister Zhang hit me hard and said, "You know what I'm going to say, don't work with me for nothing."

I smiled and said: "Yesterday, when I came back from seeing Lin Yan off, I ran into Yanhua walking alone on the street when I walked to the main gate of Beiling. She's still a woman, I asked her what's the matter, she said you called her, that Zhan Ze was looking for her, she didn't want to see Zhan Ze, so she hid, right? Is there such a thing?"

Sister Zhang said, "Yes, I thought she went downstairs with Zhan Ze."

I said, "Didn't they tell you that you couldn't see Zhanze when you went downstairs? You didn't tell Zhanze."

Sister Zhang said: "I saw that she went downstairs not long after talking to me. I thought she had talked to Zhan Ze herself."

I said: "Sister, actually you also know that Yanhua doesn't like Zhanze, especially because Yanhua Zhanze and the food passer almost got into a fight, that matter is plainly Zhanze did something wrong, he's not a man, Everyone knows that Zhanze never looked for Yanhua again after that incident. I guess he was afraid that the passer-by who left would come back and beat him up again, so he stayed honest for a month. Go to Yanhua, do you think Yanhua is possible?"

Sister Zhang said, "Yes, I told Zhanze that Yanhua would not agree. He just didn't give up and had to find someone else."

I said, "If he wants to look for it, let him look for it by himself. You said what are you doing with me, and you know that Yanhua disagrees."

Sister Zhang said, "Zhanze just asked me to pass on a message, but I'm too embarrassed not to pass it on."

I said: "My silly elder sister, if you pass on something that can be done, it's a good thing, and maybe you can help a family. Why do you tell it about things that you know are impossible? It's a waste of time. Yanhua is good at face. Alright, she's too embarrassed to agree when you say it, she's afraid of embarrassing you, and she doesn't want to date Zhan Ze, what can she do? She can only hide."

Sister Zhang said, "Who knew she hid in the street."

I said: "Sister, let's not say it's bad in this society, but there are also a lot of hooligans, Yanhua is beautiful and tall, just because of your words, people are walking on the street, Yanhua didn't have anything wrong yesterday , if something happens, do you regret it, I guess you thought she was with Zhan Ze."

Sister Zhang thought for a while and said, "I won't pass on messages to Zhan Ze from now on."

Yes, we don't pass that on.I said: "If Zhanze really likes someone, he can find him himself. Why, it's embarrassing. If you are afraid of being embarrassing, don't think about it. If you want to marry someone as a wife, don't be afraid of being beaten. Even if you wait until midnight every day, the wife is The one I chased after myself didn’t rely on someone else to send me a message, right, big sister.”

Sister Zhang said: "Yes, Zhan Ze is also finished, he dare not even talk to others."

I said, "He still doesn't want to marry her. He just wants to find a relationship because he looks good. If you don't send him a message in the future and tell him to go directly to Yanhua, I guess he won't dare to do it himself. "

Sister Zhang nodded, turned around to leave, turned around again, and asked, "Then you met Yanhua yesterday and sent her back to the dormitory, so it's over, why did you go to eat hot pot with him?"

I said: "I'm hungry, I want to drink too much. Are you worried about me?"

Sister Zhang said: "Don't let Lin Yan know, women are small-minded."

I said: "It's okay, I didn't do anything, she won't be angry, besides, how would she know."

Sister Zhang smiled and said, "I won't tell Lin Yan."

Zhan Ze didn't talk to me all day.Looking at him, I laughed in my heart, when will he be a man?But Zhan Gang is fine, he and I are laughing and joking, as usual, in his words Brother Tan is not that kind of person, it’s normal to eat with other people, several women come to the restaurant to look for Brother Tan, so there’s nothing wrong with that .

When Lin Yan got off work in the evening, I sent her back. Lin Yan said, "It flies so fast. The Chinese New Year will be in just over a month."

I said, "No big deal, another year."

Lin Yan said: "The last time I went back to your house, I kept [-] of the money your mother and sister gave me, and the rest was given to my mother. My mother has no money to buy feed."

I said, "It's your money and you have the final say, but I feel a little wronged for not buying you clothes."

Lin Yan said: "I don't feel wronged, and I don't like clothes very much. I can wear only one piece. I don't wear it very well."

I saw that the down jacket she was wearing was a bit worn out, and the lower part of the skirt was open, so I sewed it on myself.

I said, "Let's buy a new down jacket someday."

She said: "Don't buy it, it's quite expensive. I can still wear this one. I've been wearing it for three years." Then she said a little worriedly: My mother spends a lot of money raising pigs at home, and my younger brother has to take medicine every day. The medicines are so expensive, I don’t want to waste money, I want to give my mother more money—my elder brother also wants to learn to drive and get a driver’s license, so he needs a lot of money——”

I said: "It's okay, isn't there still me, let's come together."

She said: "You still have your mother, you can't always help me and ignore your mother."

I said: "It's okay. My family's burden is not heavy now, but your family's burden is heavier. In the future, you will take the rest of my salary except for my mother. You can use it directly and don't worry about me. I can't spend much money a month, just wait until I go out to cook, and I can earn more."

She said: "Then we have to get married in the future, we can't have some money in our hands."

I said: "Hey, it's okay. We both have hands and feet. If we don't have any money to earn money, we will go there. First, settle down your home, let your elder brother marry a wife and start a family, and give money to your younger brother until he graduates from college. It is an honor to complete the task.”

She said: "It will take many years, my little brother is only in the first grade of junior high school now."

I said: "A few years will pass in a flash, and we will have to live a lifetime."

Go downstairs to her rented house and hug her tightly.

She ran into the corridor and went upstairs.

(End of this chapter)