The story of a cook

Chapter 11 Goodbye Li Yanhua

In this world, we are all ordinary people, living an ordinary life, there is no greatness, and there is no blockbuster.

As long as you live this ordinary life well, you will have a clear life.

There are too many things that tempt us in life, such as money, power, success, and the enjoyment of prosperity.

For men there are women who seduce them, and for women there are men who seduce them.

For a migrant worker, the biggest temptation is a good job and high wages.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, I said goodbye to my mother and five older sisters, and returned to Shengmei Hotel in the provincial capital.

All the kitchen staff are back, and they are still in the same team. After a year, everyone is working together again. It feels very cordial, and the relationship has also improved.

Sister Wang didn't come back, she must have done it at her sister's restaurant.

Li Yanhua didn't come back either, so it seemed that she was no longer a waiter.Maybe her sister didn't want her to do it here. After all, I saw something I shouldn't see, and I was afraid that I would tell her sister.

There was a shortage of waiters at the front desk, and the manager in the lobby did not come back. The boss asked me to go to the labor market with him to recruit people.

After a year, I came to the labor market again, and it felt like revisiting the old place.It's just that the purpose is different. I used to come here to find a job, but now I'm here to hire people. I feel pretty awesome.

The boss said he was looking for two young girls who just came out of the house. They are honest, they work hard, and they don't cheat or play tricks.Since it was just after the new year, there were many people who came out to work, and soon found two little girls standing silently, who looked like they had just come out of home.

They are from the same village, both are 20 years old, one is Zheng Li and the other is Yao Liying.There was another reason for hiring them. It was Aunt Yao Liying who led them out to look for jobs. She was an employee of an aircraft factory in Santai. Her home was not far from Shengmei Hotel.

Years ago, my boss raised my salary by 60 yuan after I became a criminal case, and after the new year, he raised my salary by [-] yuan. Now my salary is [-] yuan, which is the same price as Li Jianhan. I feel a little satisfied and work harder. Come on.

The power of money is enormous.

Master Chen loves to drink, and so do I, and we have become out-and-out drinking buddies.

He took me to the trade union building again, and this time I met the chefs of Cantonese cuisine, and heard them speak with a different accent, just like the Hong Kong people on TV.

Seeing how other people’s water tables work, Chen Ge said that the side dishes in Northeast cuisine are called water tables, and the side dishes in Cantonese cuisine are called chopping boards.The one who takes the plates, prepares the seasonings, and makes the plate decorations for the chef is called the lotus table, and it is also the lotus.

The ingredients I cut are simple shreds, slices, segments, and blocks. The chopping board is very strict. The ingredients are cut into shapes such as bunnies, butterflies, and birds, which are very beautiful.Northeast chefs add ingredients to the stir-fry, grab it with their hands, and it looks almost ready, and then stir-fry it in the pot.The chef of Cantonese cuisine carefully selects the ingredients, and puts a few small rabbits or butterflies according to the proportion.

This is the gap. There is a reason why people earn more than us.After reading other people's work and then looking at myself, I feel that I am just a primary school student who has just started, and I have to learn a lot, not only knife skills, but also people's attitude towards work.

I found that I was quite capable, but not rigorous enough, nor serious enough, and the work I did was rough and crazy.If you want to make money, you have to be rigorous, serious, and work honestly. You can’t start to get flustered when you think you know how to serve dishes. In fact, it’s nothing.

After I came back, I also learned to cut small rabbits, small butterflies, and small birds. When I saw other people’s chopping boards, I found it very simple and easy. When I cut it myself, I found out that I couldn’t do it. I didn’t know where to cut it. Call yourself stupid.

"It's easy to look at flowers but difficult to embroider them. It's easy to look at other people. If you don't have any skills, you won't be able to cut them when you cut them yourself." Master Chen said: "Remember, there is no quick way to learn to be a chef. Everything needs effort. Craftsmanship is learned.”

Master Chen cut a butterfly and told me to follow suit.

"Do you know how much their chopping boards cost per month?" Master Chen asked.

"I don't know, how much?"

"The chopping board costs 2000 yuan a month, which is still not very good technology, and the technology is more than 3000 yuan."

I didn't believe it, and asked, "Can it be so much? Isn't it just cutting vegetables, and you can earn that much money by cutting vegetables?"

"Why are you lying to me? It's really so much money." Master Chen said, "Don't underestimate other people's cutting boards. It's not as simple as cutting vegetables. It's just basic skills. Willows, steaks, and pork chops all have to be marinated, and the raw part of one dish, two meals, is done on a cutting board, sometimes better than a chef."

"What is one dish and two meals?"

"Two meals in one dish are two ways to eat one dish. For example, lobster is usually eaten by the husband, which is sashimi. After eating the lobster meat, it is taken to the back kitchen to cook porridge, or salt and pepper. This is one dish and two meals."

Seeing that I listened seriously, he went on to say: "The raw part of the lobster is completed by the cutting board. It is necessary to remove the lobster meat completely when the lobster is alive, cut it into slices, and then keep it as it is. Put the lobster shell on the prawn meat , it looks like a whole lobster. This is the work of the chopping board, not the chef, do you think he is very good?"

"Great, that knife is so old and domineering." I said, I couldn't help admiring the cutting board.

"It's not a big deal. You have to continue to practice your knife skills. If you want to earn the money from others, you have to calm down and practice hard. Craftsmanship is not a lie, and you can earn what level of money you have reached."

Hearing what he said strengthened his determination to learn to be a chef.

I hardly leave the kitchen when there is no important thing, I take a kitchen knife and finish cutting the water table to help cut the cold vegetables, and after the cold vegetables are cut, I cut the work meals.For a period of time, the work meal was potato shreds for the first meal, and potato shreds for the next meal, which made everyone tired of eating. Master Chen told me to stop for two days, and I might be beaten if I made potato shreds again.

I am crazy about knife skills. After a month, I can skillfully cut out small rabbits, small butterflies and birds. The dishes that come out are much more aesthetically pleasing to the senses, and have a pleasing feeling.

Not only can the head flower be cut, but the kidney flower, squid flower, squirrel fish, and panlong eel can also be cut, and they can reach the same level as Li Jianhan.

Li Jianhan's attention is not on work now, after Yao Liying came, he began to pursue her, and now he is in a passionate relationship.Sometimes I think he is a little relaxed emotionally, first Li Yanhua, then Wang Jie, and now Yao Liying.I hope he can have a good relationship with Yao Liying and achieve a positive result.

When I was about to get off work at night, I was tidying up. Someone patted me from behind, and when I turned around, it was Li Yanhua.

"Oh, it's you." I said.

She looked at me with a smile.

I thought she would never see her again like Yingzi and Sister Wang, but I didn't expect her to come here, and I was a little overjoyed.

"Didn't expect it to be me?" she asked.

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it."

"Hehe, I have a surprise for you."

Li Jianhan felt a little embarrassed seeing Li Yanhua, but Li Yanhua greeted him generously, and then greeted Master Chen.

Now that she's here, let's go for a while, go out to have dinner with her, and have a good chat.After coming out of the store, I asked her what she wanted to eat. She said hot pot, so she went to a small hot pot restaurant and ordered a spicy pot.

She said that she went back to her hometown with her sister during the New Year, and her sister came back first after the New Year, and she stayed at home until the first lunar month.Her sister found her a job selling clothes in a shopping mall. She worked six hours a day, divided into morning and afternoon, which was quite brisk.

"Where do you live?" I asked.

"My sister rented a house in more than 400 buildings and lived there," she said.

More than 400 buildings are not far from the hotel, on a street.

"What about eating, do it yourself?" I asked.

"Yes, do it yourself every day."

"Will you do it?"

"I won't learn."

"Do you like selling clothes?"

"It's not bad. It's easier than being a waiter. When it's good, I can sell a few pieces a day. If it's not good, I can't sell a single piece a day." She sighed and said, "Actually, being a waiter is also very good. She refused to let me do it like crazy. She told me to ask someone to find this job, but most people don’t need it. I said I wanted to learn cosmetology, but she didn’t let me. She told me to do it here first, and learn it later cosmetic."

I laughed, knowing that her sister was afraid that her affairs would be leaked, so I found her a job selling clothes.

"Any news about Yingzi?" she asked.

"No, Sister Wang didn't come back either, and we lost contact," I said.

"You are pathetic enough."

"You didn't come back, I think you lost touch too."

"Afraid of losing contact with me?"

"That's not right. It's hard to get to know a fellow villager. It's not good to lose it."

"It's lost, as if I'm an object, I'm a big living person." She was upset.

"It would be great if you were an object that could fit in your pocket. The bigger you are, the easier it is to lose it. I don't know that." I smiled and said to her.

"How can I not lose it?" she asked.

"Find a rope and tie it up."

"I'm telling you the truth."

"People are easy to lose and not easy to lose. If you keep her in your heart, you will never lose her in your life. If you can't pretend to be in your heart, it will be easy to lose her when you stand in front of you all day." I said.

"I have to remember this sentence. It's the truth. Do you have a pen?" She asked seriously.

"What to remember, how can there be any truth, everyone understands this."

"Understand? Why don't I know."

"You just eat hot pot. You forget everything that is delicious, but you can still remember these. Look at how fat you are."

Hearing that she was fat, she was so angry that she dropped her chopsticks on the table and said to me angrily: "Don't say I'm fat, I'm not fat." After speaking, she laughed at first, and then said a little worriedly: "Brother really, this year After that, I felt a lot fatter, and my whole body was full of flesh, so what do you think?"

She is the slightly chubby kind, with a round face and chubby baby fat.Fat is a little fatter, but she is tall and doesn't look fat.

"You're okay, you're tall. According to your size, your current figure is just right. Don't worry about it. You should eat. You're pretty." I said.

"Hey - I can't help it, I don't want to gain weight, but I want to eat something delicious, I can't control myself."

"Why don't you care about her? If you don't eat, you will die. Don't care if you are fat or not. If you like you, he will like you no matter how fat you are. If you don't like you, no matter how thin you are, he will not see you. Don't care, what do you love? What the hell."

"So do you like fat or thin?" she asked.

"I just forgot after I told you. I like it or I like it. I am fat or thin. It doesn't matter. I like what I like."

She looked at me blankly for a long time, and then said: "I don't understand you."

Come out from the hot pot restaurant and send her home.On the way, she said that her sister was going to introduce someone to her, but she didn't want to see it.I said it's time to find a partner at twenty.she
Say someone in your heart.I said that's better, get along well with others.She said that the person was in her heart, and she was afraid of losing it.

Downstairs where she lived, she gave me a hug and said to invite me next time, and then went upstairs.

(End of this chapter)