The story of a cook

Chapter 225 Zhou Xiaomei's Past Events

Back in the kitchen, National Day was already dressed and waiting for me. I asked him if I would go out to eat dumplings, but he said no, and went home to sleep.

After I changed my clothes, I went out of the restaurant and came to the dumpling restaurant from last time. I ordered dumplings and vegetables, and sat there waiting for Zhou Xiaomei.

It was a bit unexpected to meet the eldest and second brother, but it was normal after thinking about it.The eldest and second brother work in the office, which is just across the street.The nearby well-known hotel is Weishili. It is normal for him to eat here, and if he can't meet it today, he may meet it someday.

Last summer when he was working in Yangchun, the eldest brother and sister Wang went to eat barbecue, but he didn't go to the club when he was in the club, and he hasn't seen each other for nearly half a year now.The eldest brother and the second brother take good care of the eldest brother, they are brothers after all.The boss is still doing home interior lighting decoration, and he is doing very well. He has already taken the business to other places and stabilized it.I'm happy for the boss, at least I don't hang out in the society anymore, and I have my own things to do, so I can be regarded as a prodigal son.

People have to do their jobs properly and follow the right path in this life, and crooked ways are not a long-term solution, not to mention the Communist Party will not let it.In this life, you must not eat poisonous things, not do illegal things, not bully soft things, not be afraid of hard things, earn more money outside, and return home to be a wife.This is all business, nothing to be ashamed of.

A person can have no money, but he can't have no friends, nor can he lose his backbone.

Rely on friends when you are away from home, support your family by ability, and be a person by integrity and backbone.

You can't cheat others, and you can't do yourself a favor.

When you come to Weishili, you just cook, don’t worry about anything else, just prepare your own dishes.It seems that Wei Shili will have to be demolished at that time, it will be a matter of years and years, and it is estimated that it will be years after the current situation.

In the next year, if Weishili is really demolished, you will have to continue to find a job, continue to earn money, and continue to support your family.

I don't want to be rich and powerful in this life, just want to be safe and secure.

If you are not an ambitious person at all, don't do ambitious things. Your only ambition is to be a qualified cook.

So can these friends who cook with me now.Master Chen worked in Dadong as the head chef, and he did a good job.The fourth and second children are still in Shengmei. Although the business is not very good, but fortunately it is stable.After Li Jianhan had deviated from the track, he started to engage in another kind of entertainment work.There is also Wang Xiaodong, who used to work in Rose, and he is also a chef in a restaurant in Dadong, and his job is stable.The newly-acquainted Li Changqing was doing well in Shenhe, and he said he wanted to come over, but he never came.Brother Zhang Tao fried Cantonese dishes in a large restaurant along Xiaoheyan, which was also very good.

It's not bad that Master and Master's wife are recuperating in Hainan and living a leisurely life.

The current situation of the female friends I know is that Sister Zhao has parted ways with Li Na and is looking for a store to sell children's clothes by herself.She is okay in the clothing business, and she is suitable for it, so she can't go wrong.The five years of friendship with Sister Zhao can be regarded as real old friends.Sister Jin and Sister Ma, whom I met later, are both working in Yangchun. It is estimated that there will be no major changes. Neither of them will leave Yangchun. After all, they are relatives with the old lady. , doing everything, not to mention that Yangchun is still an old store with a solid foundation, and the business can't go wrong.

Sister Zhang, the eldest sister who washes dishes, is doing quite well in that large restaurant now, and Lin Yan said that she was also rated as an "excellent employee", which seems to be very good.Although it doesn't mean that whoever is there will work for a lifetime, but it is a good thing for the eldest sister to have a long-term and stable job. At least she doesn't have to go out to find a job, and she won't encounter hurtful people like Zhan Ze again.

Yanhua is fine now, she has a partner, and the partner treats her very well.In fact, Yanhua was deceived when she was young and didn't know much about love. Now that she has grown up and matured, it's time to reap her own happiness.She hasn't contacted me for such a long time. She should be doing well. When people live in happiness, they don't think about the past. It's all like this.

Zhang Li, this troublesome woman, is now working with Jin Hua in Sita.The management of the front desk is very handy for her. She is absolutely qualified as a manager and will be an excellent caterer in the future.I don't have any relationship with her, but she is definitely a qualified drinking buddy, drinking with her freely and talking freely.

Warn myself to keep a certain distance from her, and to restrain myself, because she is definitely a woman who dares to love and hate, even dares to reckless in front of love, does not keep her name, dare to do as long as she likes, this is a bit scary.

After waiting for 10 minutes at the dumpling restaurant, I informed the boss to start cooking the dumplings. After the dishes and dumplings came, Zhou Xiaomei also arrived.

"Wait in a hurry." Zhou Xiaomei sat down and said.

I said: "Don't worry, it won't be long, the sanitation is finished?"

"It's finished." Zhou Xiaomei looked at the dumplings and vegetables, and asked, "Did you want wine?"

I said, "Wait for you to order, you can order."

I ordered a bottle of white wine and each poured a glass.

Zhou Xiaomei asked: "Do you know the guest who came today?"

I said, "Yes, a big brother."

She said: "He always comes to the office. He is good at drinking. Every time he comes back, he brings his own wine. It is not easy to earn him some bottle cap money."

Most of the waiter's commission comes from drinks, that is, bottle cap money.Under normal circumstances, a beer bottle cap wine merchant will give the waiter fifty cents. If the price of liquor is different, for example: three yuan for black land, ten yuan for frosted old Longkou, 40 yuan for Wuliangye, etc. Most hotels refuse guests to bring their own drinks. Customers who know the boss sometimes bring their own drinks, so the waiters can't earn a commission on drinks.

I said: "He is familiar with Mr. Guo and is a comrade-in-arms."

She said: "Yes, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to bring his own liquor. Fortunately, some of them drink beer, and they can earn some money for beer bottle caps."

I laughed and asked, "How much can there be? They can't drink much beer."

"It's okay today. They drank more than a case of beer and got eight yuan." She was a little proud.

I asked: "How much commission do you earn in a day at most?"

"Most often—" she thought for a while and said, "I once sold three bottles of Wuliangye and forty bottles of beer in one day, all for a table of guests, and the sum was one hundred and forty."

I said, "Not too many."

"On that day, if it's like that every day, I'll post it." She giggled after she finished speaking.

I drank a glass of wine with her. She can drink quite a bit, and her drinking capacity is not inferior to mine.

We chatted for a while about other things, maybe it was because of drinking, we talk about wine, we talk when we drink, and maybe there is no one who can talk to each other outside, but this time when I met my family member and a classmate, she opened up the chat box Chatted with me.

"My classmates and teachers knew about my dating with Xia Cheng at school, and no one cared about it at that time. No one cared about our sports team, and treated our sports team as mischievous." She said.

I said, "Yes, I didn't stay on the sports team for a few days, and I stopped training after participating in the sports meeting."

She said: "Our rural high school is not like the No. [-] and No. [-] middle schools in other cities. They all study well. We don't study well, and we don't want to study. Heck, when we were studying, we didn't do other things. , I’ll think about who I’m going to engage in.”

I said: "My class also has them, but very few successes."

She said: "I remember the name of someone in your class. I forgot, I can't remember. He is very good-looking. Xia Cheng is a bad guy who still goes to tease people and asks me to fight him. I won't go later. teased."

I smiled, I didn't know about these things, and I couldn't remember who was beautiful in my class at the time. She might have remembered wrongly, and she wasn't in my class.At that time, I remembered that there was a beautiful girl in the third class, who could be called the school beauty, and was chased by many boys.

I said, "At that time, you were also a man of the hour at school."

"I can't, no one knows." He looked at me and said, "Although you are a year younger than me, you were known to all the teachers and students in the school at that time. You are right."

I shook my head, noncommittal, unwilling to improve things.

Seeing that I was silent, she went on to say: "At that time, it would be nice not to talk nonsense and study hard, so I wouldn't come out to work, hey——" She sighed, and then said: "It's okay to go out to work, don't say that college students are still Those of us who work part-time are all part-timers, they just study a few years more than us and are more educated than us, the rest is nothing, they have to come out to find a job after graduation.”

I said, "Well, almost."

She asked, "Do you know why I came out to work?"

I said: "I don't know."

She said, "It's a long story for a child to have no mother."

She dated Xia Cheng when she was in school, and they tasted the forbidden fruit at a special time, and they got engaged after graduation.

Xia Cheng's family opened a canteen in Nanliang, and she almost became half a hostess.After more than a year like this, the two families began to make arrangements for them to get married. At that time, she was already two months pregnant.Pregnant before marriage in the countryside is a dishonorable thing, but it is a pity that the house leaks and it rains continuously, Xia Cheng always hangs out with some people in the street, and after hanging around, he learns to sing in karaoke halls in the city to find girls.The young lady's allure was great and her service was considerate, which made Xia Chengle reluctant to think about leaving. In the end, things were revealed, and according to Zhou Xiaomei's temper, she was determined not to get used to it, so after the two families had a big fight, they broke off the engagement.

But Zhou Xiaomei was already two months pregnant, and although she didn't show her pregnancy yet, she couldn't hide it after a long time, so she went to a hospital in the city to find an acquaintance to have an abortion and abort the child.

She felt ashamed of herself, and she didn't dare to leave the house when she stayed at home, feeling aggrieved by herself.After nearly half a year of this kind of life, she finally decided to come out to work.

Zhou Xiaomei said: "At that time, I really couldn't stay at home any longer. I stayed at home all day and didn't go anywhere. I used to love to go to the fairs. At that time, I didn't even go to the fairs. If I met a lot of people in the last episode I won’t go up if I’m so embarrassed. I don’t even meet my second uncle’s child when they get married, it’s too embarrassing.”

I said, "Understandable."

"I guess I was depressed at that time, like a fool, I knew how to eat and sleep at home, and I didn't want to do any work, and I didn't like anything," she said.

"It's normal, you're strong enough." I said

"What do you mean by being strong? It means staying alive." She said: "Later, my brother said that I would not go out to work, and I don't need to earn any money. Maybe I would feel better when I went out. I thought about staying at home like a dead person. Why don't you go out for a stroll, maybe you can really feel better, and besides, my mother and the others would be annoyed when they see her at home every day, so I just came out like this."

I said: "This is not very good, seeing you like this is enviable."

She said: "Of course it's better now. It wasn't like that when I first came out. I gradually got over it and saw it. Now I don't think about anything, I just know how to work and earn money."

I said, "That's good, as long as you know how to make money, it proves that people are not stupid."

(End of this chapter)