The story of a cook

Chapter 239 Eating Hot Pot

It's the 25th of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye, and the hotel is on holiday.

Zhou Xiaomei went straight back to Beipiao.When leaving, she said that if she had time, she might come to his old aunt's house in the third or fourth day of junior high school, and she would stop by my house to have a look.I said that I went to my daughter-in-law's house on the fourth day of the junior high school and told her not to come to my house, and we would meet again when I came back.

There are still four days before the 29th. I don’t know what to do at home for these four days. If I don’t go to work, I really don’t know what to do at home.Fortunately, the National Day is also free at home, so I went to my house for a walk, and the two of us chatted to pass the time.

I asked National Day: "Will you go to work at your uncle's place after the Chinese New Year?"

Guoqing said: "Yes, my uncle has finished everything. This year, he will take over the job. He has design and copywriting. I used to learn from it, mainly learning decoration and helping to manage the site."

I said, "That's fine."

He said: "I have to get a driver's license first, and my uncle said I have to be able to drive by then."

I asked, "Can't you drive?"

He said: "Yes, yes. I always tinker with cars at home. I don't have a driver's license. I have to take a test."

I said: "Then you take one test, and you will use it at any time. Unlike me, I don't like cars at all. If you give me money, you won't learn. If you don't like it, it's useless."

Guo Qing said: "Actually, third child, you should also get a driver's license. It will be convenient for you to drive if you have a car."

I said: "If you don't want to learn, if you don't like it, let Lin Yan learn it. It's fine if there is someone in my family who can drive."

Guo Qing said: "You don't need to learn, you will regret it when the time comes."

I said, "I'll talk about it when the time comes. I don't want to learn now."

I don't like cars, I don't like cars at all, it has something to do with the car I used for a while when I was at home.

At that time, I didn’t study after high school. My uncle’s family had a car, Jiefang 141, and my second brother drove long distances in his family, doing jobs around and making money.His family is a ten thousand yuan household, and my family is a poor household, not equal.I remember that when his family couldn’t find a car follower, they thought of me. My old aunt didn’t want to use me. She wanted to use her niece’s son, but her niece’s son was younger than me, and his family conditions were good, so she didn’t want to use me. Do it, my old uncle asked me to follow the car, and said that he would give me five yuan a day, and I went.

It's not a good job to follow the car, even if you are tired, you have to follow the loading and unloading.If someone else loads and unloads with the car, there is an extra fee. My second brother said that he would not pay for his own work.At that time, I thought that he and my old aunt were real mothers and daughters, and in the old society this would be exploitation.Then I will do it too, because when the fifth sister was studying, I borrowed 50 yuan from my uncle's house, and I wanted to use the money from the car to pay back the borrowed 50 yuan.After I had been working for two full months, my second brother said that there was not much work to do now, so there was no need to follow the car and let me go home.I said that I have been with the car for two months, so let's count the money.My old aunt was there at the time, and she said don't forget it, just treat it as repaying the money I borrowed, and there is no need to pay back one top and one other.I was anxious at the time, and said that I would borrow 50 yuan from your family, and the money would be gone after two months of repayment.The old aunt said that your family had borrowed it before, so let's forget it together.

I don't know if I borrowed money before, but I borrowed 50 yuan from his family since I started living in my family, and I haven't borrowed a cent since then.I was trembling with anger and said, "Okay, let's settle the matter."

When I got home, I asked my mother if she had borrowed money from my uncle before.Mother said no, can your old aunt lend money like that?I wanted to go to his family to make a theory, but after thinking about it, at least when my father died when I was young, my uncle helped to arrange it. At that time, the eldest brother and second brother of my uncle's family were very kind to me, and the matter passed.

Since then, I have told myself that I will never drive in my life, and I hate cars.

National Day asked me: "My third child, Wei Shili will be relocated after the Chinese New Year, where are you going?"

I said, "I don't know yet, when I find it, I will find it."

Guo Qing said: "It's good to be a chef, but you can't do it for long, you have to find a job."

I said, "Isn't that what part-time jobs are like? No one can work in one place for a lifetime."

Guo Qing said: "When I have money, I will open a restaurant and put us good buddies together to work together. When I can't do it anymore, I will talk about it. If I can't do it, I will be laid off and have to look for work."

I said: "Then you should hurry up and earn money to be a big boss. Don't wait until the day you open the restaurant and we will be too old to cook. It's not in vain."

National Day laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't wait until then."

Chatting with the National Day has this advantage, chattering will make you feel relaxed, which is beyond the reach of many people.

Guo Qing said to me: "You have to be careful, third child. I think that Zhang Li is interested in you. Don't make a mess of it and let my third sister-in-law know. Then you will be finished."

I said: "It's nothing to do with her, it's impossible, your third sister-in-law and I can't be shaken."

"You'd better pay attention. The gentlemen are afraid that the woman will be entangled. At that time, they will not be able to tell the truth. Even if you don't mean it but they have it, you can't do anything if you cling to you." Guoqing said: "You know, men chase after you. Women, across the mountain, women chasing men, interlayer gauze, few gentlemen can control themselves, women post up and say a few intimate words, men can't stand it, and they just go straight to the road , it will be too late to say anything.”

I said, "What you said is that good men are afraid of idiots."

Guo Qing said: "I think Zhang Li is willing to be with you if you don't marry her, and if you don't have a family, you should cut off contact with her as soon as possible, so that she can't find you. When you get there, you will gradually forget about it, and if another man treats her well, then you will completely forget about it."

I said, "You are quite experienced."

Guoqing said: "It's not about bragging about being the third child, nothing else. If you want to say that National Day has a way of dealing with women, you can say that I also came out of the crowd of women. Without these two things, I can still be called a man."

I laughed and said, "You are quite a man."

National Day said: "Just drinking is not enough."

I said: "Drink and practice slowly. You really have to practice in the future. You have a lot of time to drink. When it comes to your uncle, since your uncle told you to learn to drive, he plans to train you well and let you be on your own. What can you do if you don't know how to drink?" .”

"Let's practice slowly when the time comes." Guo Qing said, "By the way, third child, let's go out to eat hot pot later."

I said: "What kind of hot pot do you want to eat? You can eat it at home. I will make it for you if you want to eat."

Guo Qing said: "Tell me, third child, this year I just worked with you at Visali for a few months to earn some money. I didn't earn any money before, and I didn't even have money to go home for the New Year. I know what I am. Li didn't quit me because of your face. If you weren't here, I would have quit. I thought about asking you for a drink and a meal. It just so happens that I have nothing to do today to eat hot pot, so let me express my heart. "

I looked at him and said: "You heard me right, I was touched by what I said." Then I said: "National Day, if I met you on the first day, I would be really moved by what you said, now you tell me This, do you think it’s interesting? You, when can you be more affordable, don’t do this with your buddies.”

National Day was a little embarrassed, and said: "I am sincere, you, see—"

"You won, don't talk about it, it's no fun just the two of us eating, and you don't drink." I said, "Look who is idle, call over to eat together."

Guoqing said: "Who is idle, and Hebei is not going to work and staying at home now."

I said, "Call him and see who else is there."

Guoqing said: "Then there is no one left. The fourth and second children both go to work, so who else can there be?"

I said, "Then let's be three."

When I got to the phone booth, I called Hebei on the National Day. Hebei heard that I was going to eat hot pot and said that I would be there soon.

That's how it is for a chef, and there are no entertainment activities. When I'm not working, my brothers get together to drink and chat, talk about women, and relax.At that time, the Internet was not as developed as it is now. You can play on your mobile phone, watch Douyin, send WeChat, etc., and fiddle with it all morning, and pass the time easily. At that time, there was nothing, even the mobile phone was only for making calls. No function whatsoever.

I came to the hot pot restaurant and ordered hot pot. After a while, Hebei arrived, and the three of them chatted while eating hot pot and drinking.

I asked Hebei: "How are you doing there?"

Hebei said: "Very good."

National Day asked: "Do you have a holiday?"

Hebei said: "It's a holiday, why don't you have a holiday, you go to sing during the Chinese New Year."

Guoqing said: "If I go to sing during the Chinese New Year, it will be very emotional. I will sit in the karaoke hall on New Year's Eve, hold a microphone in one hand, and put my arms around the lady in the other and sing about the love of the tracker. It will be so exciting."

Hebei smiled and said, "Then you go, I'll see how you live."

Guoqing said: "I won't go, I have to go home for the New Year, you talk to your boss, the Chinese New Year is not a holiday to continue to open, and you will continue to work at [-], if there are no customers, you will do as I said, with a microphone in one hand Singing the love of the tracker with one arm around the young lady, younger sister, you sit on the bow, elder brother, I will go ashore, and then your sister-in-law is at home holding the child in one hand and cooking dumplings in the other hand, look, how wonderful, chic—"

"Get lost—" Hebei happily replied.

I laughed and said, "National Day, you are the winner of this year's Best Injury Award."

Hebei said: "It's not only harmful to people, but also a calf. It's better not to eat it if he eats hot pot, and it's better to eat a bowl of noodles at home."

Guo Qing said, "Why is my hot pot so delicious? I'm inviting my third child. I asked you to come here as a companion, you know? I don't know what's going on."

Hebei said: "You are ordering me. My third job was also found by the third child. If not, this hot pot meal will be treated by the two of us together. When you pay the bill, I will take more."

Guo Qing said: "Why do you know how to calculate, that won't work, if you want to wait until tomorrow, the third child and I will not go to work tomorrow, please."

Just as Hebei was about to speak, the phone rang, and he picked it up to answer.

Hebei: "Hey, that one?—Xiaoying, what's the matter?—I'm eating hot pot with two buddies."

"Why, you want to eat too. Come on, it's in Sandaizi."

"Where? You should know this place. It's in Shengmei, not far from Shengmei. Do you still remember the morning market?

"—Yes, right here in the morning market, the first one, a small hot pot restaurant.

"—OK, you can take a taxi."

Hebei put down the phone, and Guoqing said, "Why, still hooking up, miss."

Hebei said: "Don't you always want to see my lady, I'll find you a lady here."

Guo Qing said: "Just make trouble, let's eat hot pot, what are you calling Miss, you pay for this meal."

Hebei said: "Look, it scares you, what a big deal, I'll pay for it!"

I asked, "Is that Yao Liying?"

Hebei said: "Yes, it's her. I can't call anyone else."

I asked, "How is she doing there?"

Hebei said: "It's okay, you get along well with me, and the little girl is quite good at it."

I said, "It's a pity, I've become a young lady."

Hebei said: "I have been working there for almost half a year, and now I realize that being a lady is not an easy task, and ordinary people really can't do it." Then he sighed: "Hey, it's not easy to do anything."

I said: "There is no way to say this thing. It has been like this since ancient times. Laughing at the poor but not laughing at prostitutes, ladies and prostitutes are all human beings. As long as they are human beings, the work is not easy, even if they lie on the kang at home and lose pie." Those who can lie still cannot eat.”

Guo Qing said: "I see, sometimes we are not as good as young ladies, and people can say that we can see it, but we can't see it."

After listening to the words of the National Day, it is a bit tasteful to savor it carefully.

(End of this chapter)