The story of a cook

Chapter 221 Chatting with Classmates

Dinner is not very busy at night, and there is no food at seven o'clock, so I start to clean up.

Clean up the stove, and clean up each seasoning tank when cleaning up the seasoning table.I guess I didn’t have a chef here before, and no one cleaned the seasoning jars upside down. It was very laborious to brush. I used a steel wool ball to clean them one by one, and then added seasonings and placed them on the seasoning table. I looked at the rows of clean ones. The seasoning jar is also comfortable in my heart.

Oil Gu is also scrubbed inside and out.It took a little effort to brush the oil Gu, because it hadn't been brushed for a long time, and there was a lot of oil on the bottom, and there was an unpleasant smell.Using this kind of oil to fill oil, especially pouring the hot oil after frying into it, will produce a chemical reaction. Long-term consumption of the oil after the reaction will do great harm to the human body and cause liver disease.Therefore, there must be strict regulations in the kitchen. The chef must clean up the oil gu every day, scrub it clean, and throw away the settled oil bottom.

It took half an hour to brush the two oil Gus, put new oil on them and set them up. After looking at them, I was very satisfied.

Clean up the stove and seasoning table, and check the time to catch up, so I clean up the table behind me, take out the useless things in it and throw them into the trash can, keep the useful ones, clean them up and put them away, clean up inside and out Then it was time for dinner at nine o'clock.

At this time, Chef Wang came to me and said, "Master Tan, our family is like this. If you don't eat at night, you can go home from get off work at nine o'clock."

I said, "Really? Get off work so early?"

In other places, the earliest time to get off work is ten o'clock, but here I get off work at nine o'clock, which I didn't expect.But when I heard that I could get off work at nine o'clock, I was still secretly happy.

Chef Wang smiled and said: "It's okay if you don't get off work. The guests almost don't add food, and they don't come to the guests anymore. It's useless for everyone to stay here. They are just staying here. The chattering in this room is nonsense. You might as well get off work early."

I nodded and said, "Yes."

I'm a little tired from work, and I want to eat in the shop, but after hearing what Chef Wang said, I don't want to eat it after thinking about it, it's better to go out and eat a bowl of ramen and then go home.

At this time, I saw that Zhao Gang, the cold dish guy, had already changed his clothes and was about to leave, and the pastry chef had also changed his clothes and started to go out, so he went to change clothes and prepared to go home after get off work.

When I was changing clothes, the pastry chef came back to the kitchen and saw me changing clothes. She said, "Master Tan, you haven't finished changing your clothes yet. Xiaomei is waiting for you outside. She thought you were gone, so she told me to come back and see." look at you."

At this moment, I remembered that I promised to go out to eat with Zhou Xiaomei, and said to the master case: "It will be ready soon, let's go out."

After changing clothes, I went out with the pastry chef. I saw Zhou Xiaomei waiting at the entrance of the hotel, and Manager Feng was standing at the bar counter, as if he was reconciling the account with the bar counter, so he walked over to Manager Feng and said, "Sister Feng, I'm going back after get off work. gone."

Manager Feng was taken aback for a moment, then came back to his senses and said, "Okay, go slowly."

It is estimated that no employee has reported to her like this before after get off work, so she was a little dazed when she heard what I said.

When I came to the door, I went out with Zhou Xiaomei. After I came out, Zhou Xiaomei asked, "What did you say to Manager Feng when you came out?"

I said, "Tell her I'm off work."

Zhou Xiaomei smiled and said, "You're so funny, tell her after get off work."

I said, "She happened to be there, if she wasn't there, then I wouldn't say anything."

Zhou Xiaomei said, "You're pretty good at it."

I said, "What will happen to this, it's just a matter of one sentence."

Zhou Xiaomei said: "I remember when you were in high school, you were able to speak and run very fast."

I said, "I can't do it now, I can't run anymore, fat."

Zhou Xiaomei said: "You are fatter than when you were in high school, much fatter."

We walked and chatted, and when we came to a small restaurant in Ximen, I asked, "What do you want to eat?"

Zhou Xiaomei said: "Anything is fine, just chat with you for a while." Then she asked me: "Look at what you like to eat."

I looked ahead and saw a small dumpling restaurant, so I said, "Go to that dumpling restaurant."

She said: "His dumplings are delicious, we always come here."

Entering the dumpling restaurant, there are still two tables of guests.I sat down at an empty table, ordered a hot dish and a cold dish, and two plates of dumplings.

I asked her, "Do you drink?"

She said: "I saw my family, I must drink something."

I asked, "What kind of wine to drink, beer or white?"

She smiled and said: "We Beipiao people don't drink beer, come to Bai, you don't know that my family is a shochu."

I said, "I really don't know about this."

I only know that there is soju in their Xiaochengzi village, but I really don't know that it's made by her family.

"How do you know my phone number?" she asked.

I laughed, I have already answered this question twice for her, I told her yesterday when I called her that my aunt and my second sister-in-law told me, and now I am still asking.

I said: "I went home when my nephew got married two days ago, and your aunt came to my house and gave it to me."

She asked, "Did my aunt tell you to take care of me?"

"It's kind of like that." I said, "It seems that you don't need someone to take care of you now, which is very good."

"It's okay, I've been working here for almost two years." She said, "I came here in May last year, and I worked in a small restaurant before. After the small restaurant turned yellow, I came here, and I haven't left here."

I said, "What you do depends on the long-term."

She said: "The main reason is that I am used to working here, and I get along well with everyone."

When the food was served, we both poured a full glass of white wine.

I said: "We are both classmates and relatives. We met here unexpectedly and worked together. Come and have a drink."

She said: "It's not a big deal. I have been in the provincial capital for more than two years. This is the first time I see my family. Come and have a drink."

We clinked glasses and took a big sip each.

This is the second time I have seen my family members outside when I came out to work, and I am a little excited. She is not only a family member, but also a classmate who graduated from high school, and I feel very close.Especially when I heard her Beipiao accent when speaking, I felt very cordial.

I said, "You're not the same as you were in high school, you've changed a lot."

She said: "What changed? It's still the same, except that your hair has grown, your personality hasn't changed at all, and you still look like a tomboy." After speaking, she laughed, "Hehe, I remember that you were a year younger than me in the sports team. You run the [-]m and the triple jump, right?"

I said: "Yes, I am the [-] meters and the triple jump."

She said: "What impresses me deeply is that you love to play basketball. You play basketball well. It seems that we won No.2 in the city in high school, right?"

"Well, that's the case." I said, "I still hurt my leg that time, and I was limping for half a month."

She asked: "Who else is on our sports team?" Then she seemed to think of someone, and asked me: "Do you still remember the one from your family in Heshanggou, also surnamed Tan, what's his name? The one who ran 400 meters .”

I said, "Tan Glory."

She said, "Yes!" and asked, "What is he doing now?"

I said: "It seems to be dumping coal at home. I heard from my mother that he is married and his wife is Bei Guangfu."

She said: "They are all married? I remember that he is the most capable demon, he is a demon every day, and he still smokes."

I was a little ambiguous and said: "Yes, I haven't been on the sports team for a few days, and I can't remember some of them." There is one of you in the third year of high school who can run quite well, and his family is from Nanliang."

She said, "You're talking about that bastard Xia Cheng, don't mention him."

I laughed and said, "No, I'm talking about a woman, she's pretty thin, she ran 2 and [-], and won No. [-] in the city."

She thought for a while and said, "Oh, you're talking about Cui Tianzhe, the crazy one. Her dad runs a photo studio in town, doesn't he?"

I said, "Yes, that's her. I still have a little impression of her."

She said: "We were in the same class, and we had no contact after graduation. I heard that she married a rather old man."

I said, "Really."

She laughed suddenly and said, "I know why you have an impression of her, you two have fought, right?"

I said, "Yes, I did, and it was quite ruthless. Later, she found two gangsters from the society to beat me up and beat me up."

She said: "Pull it down, I remember that you beat those two little hooligans and chased them all over the playground." She continued: "Yes, I remembered, it seems that you were also beaten, and your nose hurts. He was bleeding, and your shoes fell off, right?"

I smiled and said to him, "You remember quite clearly."

At that time, I just joined the school sports team. During physical training, Cui Tianzhe and another team member stretched each other, and I was also doing stretching. For some reason, she said that I was in the way of her business, and it didn’t agree with us. Just make noise.She is a woman who is not as knowledgeable as her, so she didn't pay much attention to her, thinking that a few words would be enough, so she didn't take it to heart.

Who would have thought that this little sister, Cui Tianzhe, would find two hooligans from the town to come over to fight with me the next day, which meant to fight against my arrogance.So a big battle broke out in the school playground, and in the end I won miserably with the spirit of not being afraid of death.

It is quite interesting to think of that time now, and it is worth remembering.

She said: "It doesn't mean that you recalled the past bit by bit, if you didn't look at you, you wouldn't be able to remember." She said with a little emotion: "It's very interesting to think about the things that happened when I was studying at that time. Yes, at that time, I didn’t think about reading every day, just thinking about playing, or being in love, now it’s too late to regret it, and I don’t rush for anything.”

After speaking, she sighed.

High school has always been a pain in my heart, and I don't want to mention it.

That period of memory is always gray, and it is the clarity that I don't want to recall.

The dumplings are here, I'm a bit hungry, I ate a few dumplings, not to mention the taste is really good.

Drink with her while eating dumplings.

She asked me, "Are you married?"

I said, "No, I have a partner and I am planning to get married during the Chinese New Year."

She said: "I remember that you seem to have stopped studying after the second year of high school. How many years have you been out?"

I said, "It's been six years since I came out."

She asked, "You have been out for almost six years?"

I said, "Yes, it's been almost six years. After dropping out of high school, I worked at home for nearly a year. I saw that there was no way out at home, so I came out."

She said: "I went to my old aunt's house after I graduated. Your house is in the front yard of my old aunt's house. It's just up the slope. You seemed to come out at that time."

I said, "Yes, it's out."

She asked, "What does your partner do?"

I said, "Waiter, it's from the guest room."

She asked, "How did you two meet?"

I said, "I met you at a restaurant."

She asked, "Are there any students in your class who got married together?"

I said, "There is a couple, and they both seem to have children."

She said: "It's really possible, I thought it didn't happen?" Then she said: "I reflect on me and that bastard. I can make it, but I haven't made it yet. Hey-you know about me, right?"

I said, "I don't know. I'm out to work, and I'm not at home. I don't even know much about my classmates, and I don't like to inquire about things."

She said: "It's okay if you don't know. My business is almost a joke with us. If I have time, I will talk to you. Today we finally met, not to mention those disappointing things. Drinking, today is drinking."

She is still the same, not changed at all, in fact, I am also the same, not changed at all.

People can change their appearance and appearance, but their temperament and temperament are inherent and difficult to change.

As the saying goes, the bones that are born are the flesh that grows, and you can't change it. Once you change it, you will not be yourself.

(End of this chapter)