The story of a cook

Chapter 209 Going Home ([-])

When I got up in the morning, the second sister cooked all the meals. After the meal, the second sister, the second brother-in-law and the three of us went to the eldest sister's house together.

The eldest sister has many family members, all of whom are relatives.

I know a lot of people, and some don't, and everyone is busy.It doesn't help much to look around, so I went to Lanjun's new house to have a look.

Several children in the new house were watching cartoons, and when they saw me coming in, they all stared at me blankly, I smiled at them and told them to continue watching.

On the north wall of the room is a set of modular furniture, next to the furniture is a computer.At that time, computers were used for marriage, which was standard equipment.There are two single sofas, and there is a tea table in front of the sofa.The kang is covered with bright red floor leather, and on the top of the kang are new-style kangqin.There are two pots of flowers on the windowsill.

The whole hut is very cozy and warm.

When I was about to go out, Lan Jun came in, saw me in the room and said: "My uncle is here, you are tired, and if you are tired, just rest on the sofa for a while."

"I'm tired and I haven't worked. I'm going to visit your new house." I said.

Lan Jun smiled and asked, "How about you, old man, are you okay?"

I said, "It's pretty good, I don't need anything." Then I asked, "Is this combination of furniture ready-made?"

Lan Jun said: "Yes, the ready-made ones save trouble, and the ones that take the trouble to kill monsters by themselves are not as good as the ready-made ones."

I said, "Very good."

Lan Jun handed me a cigarette to light, and said to me: "Stay in the house, uncle. I have to go out if I have something to do. I'll get the motorcycle key." After speaking, he took the key and went out.

The children who watched the cartoon watched the two children fighting, and hurried over to fight.Children are like this. After playing together for a while, they start fighting, just pull it away, don't worry about it, don't talk to each other, and the two children reconcile within 5 minutes, forgetting about the fight just now.

After a while, a girl came in, aged eighteen or nineteen, well dressed, followed by a middle-aged woman in her forties.Seeing her, I quickly stood up and said, "Elder Sister is here."

She is the eldest sister of the eldest brother-in-law, and the eldest brother-in-law has two younger sisters.

The eldest sister of the eldest brother-in-law said: "Isn't this Guohua, when did you come back?"

I said, "It's been a few days since I came back, I came here yesterday."

The elder brother-in-law's elder sister said: "Look at you, you are not the same as when you were at home, you are also fat, and you are still working in a restaurant?"

I said, "Yes, I'm still working in restaurants, cooking for others."

The eldest sister of the eldest brother-in-law said to the girl beside her, "Xiaojuan, this is your uncle, Lan Jun, your eldest brother's uncle, have you forgotten?"

I watched Xiaojuan gradually get a little impression, but at that time Xiaojuan was about the same as Qiuping, and she was still a child in school.

Xiaojuan looked at me and said, "I remembered." Then she called, "Uncle."

I smiled and nodded, and said, "It's so old, I really didn't recognize it if you didn't tell me, big sister."

The eldest sister of the eldest brother-in-law said: "No, how many years have you been out here? She is eighteen, one year older than Qiuping."

I chatted with my eldest brother-in-law’s eldest sister for a while, and I remembered that she was smoking, so I handed her a cigarette.Sitting beside her, Xiaojuan also took out a cigarette from her pocket and lit a cigarette. She seemed quite skilled.I don't object to women smoking, but it seems that a girl who has just turned eighteen is not used to smoking.

The eldest sister's family of the eldest brother-in-law and the second sister's family are in the same camp, not far away.I heard from my second sister that her husband divorced her two years ago, and that she lives with the girl now, and probably didn’t take care of the girl well. I heard from the second sister that this girl is crazy. He doesn't stay at home all day long, and hangs out with some naughty children outside.

It seems that children learn to be good and learn to be bad not because they go out to work or not. If it weren't for that, they would also learn to be bad at home.

After sitting for a while, the fifth brother-in-law came out from the new house after looking for me.

The fifth brother-in-law came with the fifth sister, the fourth sister, and the fourth brother-in-law. After calling back, he didn't see the fourth sister, so he chatted with the fourth sister for a while.

The fourth sister doesn't like to talk, chatting with her so much that you ask her what she says, and she doesn't open her mouth if you don't ask her.The fourth sister is like this, she doesn't like to talk to anyone, even with our own sisters and sisters.

The master came over in the morning and started to work on the kitchen.

At first, some people killed chickens, some cleaned haggis, some chopped ribs, some tidied up fish, some washed rice for cooking—everyone was busy.

When the adults work, the children run around to join in the fun, and the elders sit on the kang in the house to drink tea and chat.

I don't need to do any work, just stand in the kitchen and watch the chef cook.

The master and I have the same camp, surnamed Zhang, who works in the canteen of the mine.The dishes are well cooked, and any family nearby asks him to cook for big or small affairs.

He is making pork head stew.

First, put the dried tofu on a curtain, one by one, leaving no gaps.After the dried tofu is laid, take out the good pork head meat from the pot, start to dismantle the bones to get the meat, cut the removed pork head meat into small pieces, spread evenly on the dried tofu, and spread a thick layer, It is five centimeters thick.Cover the pork head with another layer of dried tofu, connect it with the dried tofu below, tighten it, and cover it with a curtain.In this way, the pork head meat in the middle is sandwiched between the upper and lower curtains, and then a square table is placed on it, and a heavy object is pressed on it, and the pig head stew is pressed for four hours before it is compacted and weighed, and it is done.

Slice the pressed pork head stew into thin slices, and it tastes very good when dipped in garlic sauce.

I also made stewed pig's head in a restaurant. I improved the original one, and it sold well.It’s just that later I changed the pig’s ears into pig’s head stew, which is called “thousand-layer crisp”, and it sold better than pig’s head stew, so I canceled the pig’s head stew.

It may seem simple to make a large banquet in the countryside, but it is actually not easy to do, and it is impossible to do it without some experience.

Now the big seats in rural areas have formed a one-stop service, and all of them have become professional.I once thought about going home to do a rural banquet. First, I could keep my family and land, and second, I could take care of my mother. Unfortunately, it was just an idea at the time and I didn’t implement it. Earn a lot of money every year.Even if I don't earn much money, at least I can stay at home every day without leaving my mother.

Now I think that if someone has an idea and thinks that the idea is right, then go for it. If you don’t want to do it, it won’t make a difference until then.

There were more people eating at noon than yesterday, and there were eight tables in total.They are all round tabletops, with eight to ten people seated at each table, and it is lively and bustling. If you look in from the outside of the gate, you can see people doing business.

At our table, there are the uncle of the eldest brother-in-law, and the uncle of the eldest brother-in-law. The two eldest brothers in the family and the second brother-in-law are also at this table.When the table was about to start, Lanzhi's partner came over after giving the patient an injection, and sat at our table.

Lanzhi's target is my high school classmate, and now they are calling me uncle, and I'm not used to it.

After drinking a glass of wine, Lan Jun came over to pour wine for everyone. This is a rule. When he got married, everyone came to help congratulate him. He had to take care of him and pour a glass of wine to express his gratitude, because tomorrow is a good day, and everyone has to work hard.

After Lan Jun finished pouring the wine, the people at the table started chatting and drinking with each other, talking about their parents.

Lanzhi's partner held a wine glass and said to me: "Old uncle, we two have to drink one, we have dual identities, you are my uncle in Lanzhi, if we are classmates, we haven't seen each other for several years Yes, drink one."

I said: "Yes, I didn't rush to the house when you got married, so I can drink whatever I say this time."

Drank one with Laneige object.

The second brother-in-law saw that Lanzhi and I finished drinking, and said to me: "You two have drank, we should drink one too, this wine is not other wine, wedding wine, just drink it without getting drunk."

I laughed and said, "We always drink, so stop drinking."

The second brother-in-law said: "That won't work. Today's wine is different from every day. It's a wedding wine. It won't hurt your teeth after drinking it."

I laughed and said, "You, you always have something to say, come on, have a drink."

I didn't drink much at noon, and it was almost enough. Many people still had to work in the afternoon.

In the evening, some leaders from the town and the village came, and the elder brother-in-law asked me to accompany him, saying that the deputy head of the town was my high school teacher.Looking at it from the past, it really is Zhang Tiejun, the head teacher of the first year of high school.

I also know the mayor of the town. My eldest brother-in-law’s town is next to ours. I worked at the town’s fruit tree station when I was not in high school. The brother-in-law is a distant family.When I was working at the fruit tree station, I had a drink with the mayor and met once.

The village cadres in the village are very familiar with each other. When they are at home, they always run into them at the elder sister's house and drink together.

Shaking hands with Mr. Zhang Tiejun, he still looks like a literati, wearing glasses, speaking in a slow voice and orderly.I remember that he caught me smoking at school and criticized me.When he was in the second year of high school, he was transferred away. I heard that it was thanks to his father-in-law, who was the director of the Education Bureau.

In high school, there were several teachers who left a deep impression on me. One was Mr. Zhang Tiejun, the class teacher in the first year of high school, the other was Li Jianhong, the Chinese teacher, and Meng Hengwu, the math teacher who had been teaching us.Li Jianhong graduated from a normal university, and she came here to teach in a rural high school. After two years, she was directly transferred to a junior high school in the city to teach. Later, I heard that she went to a municipal vocational high school, and there was no news after that.I was impressed by her because she was like a girl next door. She was a little scared in class, and she looked so weak.Waiting for the math teacher Meng Hengwu is the teacher I admire the most. He is a graduate of the third class. He is well-educated and talented.It is said that he was sent to the countryside to teach because of his high family status.Not only is he good at teaching mathematics, but he is also good at physics and chemistry.At that time, I loved to read "Tao Te Ching". He read "Tao Te Ching" for me.

The mayor was born in the army in his early years, changed his job when he was a deputy regiment, and was assigned to be the mayor of the town. He talked loudly, laughed heartily, and was very straightforward, a bit like a big brother-in-law and his family members.

Several cadres in the village have been familiar with them for a long time. There is a senior one who I have to call Uncle.

The leaders of the village and the town usually come to the wedding on the first day of the official day. There are too many people on the official day, and it is not good for the villagers to watch.

Drinking at the same table with them requires organizing vocabulary. Sitting at the same table with village cadres and town leaders is a bit restrained. Also very happy and lively.

Zhang Tiejun said: "Tan Guohua, when you were in school, you felt like an adult. I didn't expect you to be so good at speaking after years of training."

I said: "It's not because you educated me well at the beginning. It's all your credit for educating me like this."

Zhang Tiejun asked: "Are you married now?"

I said: "No."

Zhang Tiejun said: "It's time to start a family, your mother is quite old."

I said, "Yes, I'm 66."

Zhang Tiejun said: "You are already 66, and it's time for you to get married."

"Well, I plan to get married during the Chinese New Year." After I finished speaking, I asked, "Mr. Zhang, where does our Chinese teacher Li Jianhong teach now?"

Zhang Tiejun said: "She doesn't teach now, the vocational high school is yellow, she is laid off, and now it seems to be running a preschool education at home."

I said, "That's good too. Preschool education is very important now, and we in China pay attention to it."

Zhang Tiejun said: "Yes, education is always the top priority."

Zhang Tiejun focuses on education in the town, and Fifth Sister is directly under his leadership.

Halfway through the drink, the female director of the village stood up and raised the wine, saying: "Today, the village head is holding a wedding for his son. I will borrow a glass of wedding wine from the village head's house. Let's all drink one together. One is to wish the village head's old son a happy marriage." All the best for the daughter-in-law and promotion to father-in-law; secondly, I wish our mayor and deputy mayor a happy life and a happy family! I will do it first as a respect." After finishing speaking, he raised his neck and drank the wine, and everyone followed suit.

I still remember this female director. She can speak very well and looks well. She can be regarded as a figure in the elder brother-in-law's village.I had a deal with her once, when the second sister was pregnant with Xiao Hehe, the second sister had an unplanned pregnancy, and the second sister wanted this child, so she went back to her mother's house to avoid the inspection.

They are all from Sanliwutun, no one knows who, the women's director brought the town's family planning commissioner to my house,
My mother cooked a few dishes that day and entertained the women's director and commissioner at home.I accompanied them, they did not convince me, but I convinced them.As a result, the female director said: "Brother, you are right, today we will all pretend that we have never been here, and we have not found your second sister."

In fact, family planning is a basic national policy, and calling for fewer and better births was in line with our national conditions at that time.

In my opinion, eugenics is correct, and it is right to make every child born healthy and free from disease and disaster.How can a man be without brothers and sisters?Among other things, like in the past when several children in a family bought a watermelon for their children to eat, they had to wait until the eldest, second, and third child came back to eat together, otherwise no one would dare to eat it first.But what is it like now?There is only one child in the family. After buying a watermelon, the child has to eat it immediately, even his parents don’t care. He thinks that this watermelon was bought for him. At home, he is the father and the ancestor.

Many parents complain that children are not easy to manage now, they have no shortage of food and clothing, and give them whatever they want, even if they have no money, but the children are still disobedient and sometimes do not understand human language.The reason is very simple, that is, from the day a child is born, he feels that he is the sky, and everything must revolve around him. If he is not happy, no one will be happy.When we were young, when we had guests at home, we had to wait until the guests had finished eating before serving the table. Now when the guests come to the house, the children sit on the table before the guests are served, and put their favorite dishes in front of them and eat with chopsticks. , it doesn't matter whether you are a guest or not, the business is to eat first.

Children don't lack anything, what they lack is education—the education of how to be a child of human beings.

The women's director finished drinking, followed by the village secretary.

The village secretary told my elder brother-in-law that I had to be called uncle.He is an old Communist Party member with great prestige in the village. He has been working with his eldest brother-in-law for many years and has been working together since they were in the production team.

That is to say, when these old Communist Party members were here, the village atmosphere was good, and there was no such thing as corruption and bribery.Now sometimes I drink and chat with my elder brother-in-law, and the elder brother-in-law always says: "At that time, I was stupid, I knew that I was only thinking about working for the Communist Party, and I didn't know how to cuddle myself. When I figured it out, I would be old, and the election was for the election. Come down." After speaking, a look of regret and pride appeared on his face.

Everyone took turns to bring wine, and finally it was my turn, and I represented the owner.When it comes to me, I can't raise a glass. After everyone has done the work together, they have to toast one by one. If you don't drink too much, you really can't drink it.

Start with the mayor.

I said: "Old leader, first of all, thank you for coming to drink my nephew's wedding wine in your busy schedule today. I would like to toast the old leader as an uncle. They say that after drinking the wedding wine for three days is a fairy, let's not call it a fairy, just be happy Everything goes well, everything goes well, go out to pick up gold ingots, go home to Taiping and the whole family is safe, old leader, I will do it first."

The mayor was very happy, and we drank the wine after clinking glasses.

Then there was teacher Zhang Tiejun, who had a few drinks with him and chatted a lot, so he didn't have those excuses, and simply said a few words to dry up the wine.

Just as he put down his wine glass, the mayor said to Zhang Tiejun, "Xiao Zhang, it's not easy for you to be a student, and I think I will surpass you in the future."

Zhang Tiejun said: "The blue is better than the blue."

I said: "When I was studying, Teacher Zhang taught me a lot. If I didn't have such a good teacher, I might not be begging now."

After drinking with Zhang Tiejun, I ate some food. Although it was a small cup, it was still a lot, and the eight-cent cup was almost one tael.You can't drink without eating vegetables, you have to eat vegetables to suppress wine.

Then there was the village secretary, and I said to him: "Old uncle, today we don't talk about leaders. We are all family members. I have loved listening to you since I was a child. You watched me grow up. Today is your nephew and grandson." Let’s drink more of your wedding wine, and I respect you.”

The village secretary said: "Yes, I am very happy to drink the wedding wine of my nephew and grandson today, and our father and I have drunk this cup."

Another drink.

Then comes the village accountant and the assistant to the village head. The so-called assistant to the village head is the next village head.The old secretary will retire next term, the eldest brother-in-law will be the secretary, and the assistant to the village head will be promoted to be the village head.Both of them are familiar, my name is brother, and I had a drink with each of them.

Finally, when I arrived at the women's director, I said, "Sister, what kind of panacea did you take, why are you getting younger and more beautiful."

The women's director laughed and said, "Okay brother, don't bury your sister, why are you still young when you are already in your forties?"

I said: "Sister, what you said is wrong. People now say that women have 41 flowers and men always have 28. You just forty, and you are just one flower. It's a good time." Then I said: "Sister, today's wedding ceremony You must drink it, I wish you more and more youth!"

The women's director smiled and said, "Brother, your mouth is so dead that you have to make it up. I lost my one-year bonus just because of your mouth."

The mayor heard this and asked: "What's the matter? And this matter, tell me what's going on?"

The women's director said: "I'll tell you after I finish this glass of wine with my brother."

Clinked glasses with the female director and drank the wine.

The women's director put down the wine glass, told the mayor about the unplanned pregnancy of the second sister, and finally said: "Actually, I really have to thank my brother. After hearing what my brother said, I think that's the same thing. After that, I will talk about it again." Go find unplanned pregnancies and explain the truth to them, then they choose for themselves, they want what they want, and just pay a fine. After that, in our village, there are unplanned pregnancies every year, and those who go to the town to hold a meeting always suffer If I get criticized, I will be criticized, and I don’t care if there are too many criticisms. It’s true that no one scolds me, so I’ve accumulated some virtue for myself.”

The women's director said very emotionally.

The mayor said: "There is no way to say this. Fortunately, the common people see it now, even if he is asked to have a second child." You have to be respectful, you have to be human, and if a child runs after his parents, he has to live, so he has to be born. I shouldn’t say this, but it’s okay to say it, just drink for fun.”

Then everyone chatted for a while.

Drink a lot.Village cadres and town leaders are all tested for alcohol, drinking a catty of baijiu is like not drinking at all.In the end, the eldest brother-in-law came over to drink a glass of closing wine after he was busy, and the battle ended.

(End of this chapter)