The story of a cook

Chapter 215 Back to the provincial capital
It was already eight o'clock in the evening when I returned home in the provincial capital.

Lin Yan was not at home, so she opened the door to put away her things, lay on the bed and began to think about the matter in front of her.

First of all, you have to find a job, which is the most important thing.Then I went to Lin Yan's house to have a look. It would be unreasonable not to go, and I had to discuss with Lin Yan about getting married.

It may be that I was a little tired at home these days, and fell asleep thinking about it.

As if he knew I was coming back, he sent me a message shortly after the National Day when he woke up the next day. When he called him back, he asked me if I was back, and I said I was.

He said: "Third brother, you miss me so much, you have suffocated me these few days."

I said, "Really, miss me that much?"

He said: "I don't want to worry about you, wait for me at home, I will go to your house in a while."

Put down the phone, call Lin Yan, tell her that I am back, and ask her to come back with Qiuping when she gets off work at noon, and cook chicken for them.Lin Yan was very happy to know that I was back, and said that she would come back with Qiuping after get off work.

Then I called Master Chen. Master Chen was in class and told me to contact me with work in the next two days and told me not to worry and stay at home for two days.I called Master Li Changqing, and he has already started working in the restaurant I introduced, and his work is very good and smooth.Explain to me that you will invite me to dinner the day after tomorrow, and you will also bring Sister Ma with you.I laughed and asked how he and Sister Ma were going, and he said it was okay, we are in a relationship now, and I don't know what will happen in the future.

It seems that the power of love is great, not only regardless of national boundaries, but also regardless of nationality.

I called the fourth child and told him that I am back and come over with the second child when I have time, and order whatever I want for them to eat and drink some wine.The fourth child said it was two days. These two days are a bit busy. There is a wedding banquet and a funeral banquet tomorrow. I will come back when I am done.

After the phone call, I returned home, chopped up the little stupid chicken, peeled two potato skins, and prepared to make chicken stewed with potatoes.

The National Day is here, and I am wearing a small padded jacket, shivering from the cold.

I asked, "Why don't you wear a down jacket, isn't it cold?"

He said: "I didn't think about the cold, my house is quite warm, but I think it's not cold outside."

I said: "It's been nine days and it's still not cold. I think you are trying to keep in shape."

He said: "What kind of body shape do you still maintain? I am a thin and dry person, which belongs to the standard body type."

I said: "Today I invite you to eat the little stupid chicken, brought back from home."

He immediately said: "That's good, see, I just have to eat, and I can eat the little stupid chicken when I come to you."

I said, "What else are you talking about? Aren't you the National Day of Santaizi?"

He said, "Hebei will also come later, so I called him."

I said: "If you are willing to contact me, I don't have any dishes here, and I have to go out to buy two dishes. You can go out and buy them yourself later, and I will stew chicken at home."

He said: "No, I gave Hebei an order to bring two vegetables by himself, and he will not be allowed to come without vegetables."

Stewed the chicken and fried peanuts.After a while, Hebei came, bringing a stewed duck, pig's trotters, and a cauliflower. Seeing that the vegetables were enough, they didn't do anything else.

At that time, the house was shabby, and cooking was enough for one meal. There was no refrigerator in the house, and there was no place to put leftovers after cooking too much. The kitchen was shared by three families, and there was nothing to do except cooking and washing clothes.

The elder brother’s house diagonally across the door is the same as my house. There is no one at home during the day, and at night when the children leave kindergarten, the elder brother and sister-in-law come back to cook.His family bought a house in Shenbei and they haven't come down yet. It is said that they will come down in the spring of Chinese New Year, and then his family will move there, and they won't be able to live here for a few days.Wait until the house next door to my house has been empty and unoccupied.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, someone knocked on the door. When I opened the door, it was a girl in her 20s who I didn't recognize.

The girl asked me: "Is your sister not at home?"

I said, "It's not off work, you are—"

"I'm upstairs from your house, and I want to borrow a washboard from your house." The girl said.

"Oh, upstairs, it's okay, take it."

Handed the washboard to the girl, the girl said thank you and went upstairs with the washboard.

After the girl left, National Day asked: "Who is it? The one above your house?"

I said: "Yes."

Guo Qing said: "She looks pretty, do you have a date?"

Hebei asked: "What's wrong? What else do you think?"

Guoqing said, "If you don't have any ideas, why don't you ask?"

Hebei said: "You're asking the wrong thing. If you have a wife, you can't ask other girls if they have a partner."

Guo Qing said: "I just asked, but I didn't say that I want to date her. You have children, why are you still paoing Miss every day?"

Hebei said: "Miss Pao, have you looked at it? I'm at work, and it has nothing to do with Miss."

I asked Hebei: "By the way, is it okay for you to work there?"

"It's okay, I don't have much work for a day, I just make a few fruit plates, and I can't cook a few dishes. It's okay for the past two days. When it's cold, I have a little cooking, and that's not much." Hebei continued: "Working there is just Depending on time, I have to wait until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night to get off work."

I said, "It's fine if you can get paid, and you won't be tired."

Hebei said: "I don't want to work hard on cooking anymore. That place is quite suitable for me. I can earn some money steadily. When the time comes, I will find a better place to open a small restaurant by myself. It's not too big, [-] to [-] square meters." That’s fine, doing it yourself is better than working for someone else.”

I said: "You can do it, you have a foundation, you have a family and have children, and the whole small shop of mine is pretty good. I also think that the whole small shop has no foundation. I have to continue to struggle for a few years and save a little. Then I feel that it is almost the same." Do it yourself."

Guo Qing said: "Yes, you all do it yourself, and I will join in the show when the time comes, as long as you don't charge me for the meal."

"You don't call it flattery, it's called eating for free." Hebei ran out on National Day.

"What's the matter with eating for free? Some people told me to eat for free. I didn't go there. I thought I would go to everyone. I am also a person of status. Who doesn't know the three." National Day began to brag again.

I laughed and asked National Day: "National Day, is the hotel in the Cultural Palace open?"

"I was just about to tell you about this. We're right if we didn't go." Guoqing said in a spirited manner: "His house caught fire within a few days of opening, and the kitchen was burned down, you know?"

I was surprised and asked, "When did it happen? I don't know."

"In just these two days, it should have been last Friday, yes, it was last Friday, it seemed like a week after opening, the kitchen caught fire, and the whole kitchen was burned down."

"Is it burning?" I asked.

"I haven't heard of this, it seems that no one was burned." Guoqing said.

I said: "It's fine if you don't burn people. If the kitchen burns out, you can reinstall it. There's nothing wrong with it, as long as you don't burn people."

Hebei asked National Day: "Do you know what's going on?"

Guo Qing said: "It seems that the hose burst open after pouring hot water into the big tank."

I said: "That's inexperienced. The hose collapsed and the big tank was closed directly. Just pinch the hose. I guess the kitchen people were frightened at the time. They started to run out when they saw the fire. It was too late when they wanted to put out the fire." gone."

Guo Qing said: "Maybe, I didn't look at it. I heard that the fire brigade went to give the kitchen a meal. After the fire brigade was done, the fire brigade left. The fire was extinguished. People who went in said that there was half a foot of water in the kitchen. , the refrigerator and the stove inside are useless." Then he said a little relieved, "Well, tell them to look down on people. If you let the third child go, you will definitely not catch fire."

"Water and fire are ruthless. I don't know if I will go. I should get what I deserve. Maybe the loss will be smaller." I continued: "Don't say anything, the fire is good luck, as long as it doesn't burn people, it's a good thing. If it burns people No one can afford it, even if they have money.”

Guo Qing said: "It's okay, people have money, and their money can buy half a street."

I said, "That's useless. You must know that burning someone to death can be solved with money. If you pay some money, it's a human life. It's not good for him in the future. Fate is more important than the sky, and it's about wealth."

Hebei asked me: "The third child still understands this?"

I said, "I don't understand, I just think it's not good to hurt people's lives."

It is best not to hurt people, especially life, when doing business.

12:30 Lin Yan and Qiuping came back and had dinner together.Telling Qiuping that the little stupid chicken was brought to her by her father, Qiuping was very happy and ate a lot of chicken.

After dinner, National Day and Hebei left, Qiuping was not a big class, and someone else took her place when she came, so she had to go back quickly.I chatted with Qiuping for a while, and told her that everything is going well at home, her father and mother are doing well, the harvest at home is also good, and Congratulations are going to school and studying well.

Qiuping said, "I'm a little homesick."

I said: "Persist for another two months, and go back together after the Chinese New Year."

Qiuping asked Lin Yan: "Old lady, do we have a holiday for Chinese New Year?"

Lin Yan said: "There is no holiday, but we can take breaks together. I have agreed with them. We will go home during the Chinese New Year. They will rest when we come back. Their homes are all in the city, so it's okay."

Qiuping said, "Then I have to stay at home for a few more days."

Lin Yan said: "We can't stay for a few days, we have to go to work on the sixth day."

Qiuping said, "Just a few days, it's not enough."

Lin Yan said: "That's not a lot. It's still about taking care of us, or we will have to come back in the third year of junior high school."

Qiuping said: "Hey, it's good to work anywhere, but you can't stay at home for a few more days during the Chinese New Year."

Lin Yan said: "Just get used to it slowly. I was like this at the beginning, and I'm used to it now."

Qiuping stayed for a while and went to work.

(End of this chapter)