The story of a cook

Chapter 3--

Chapter 12 Reunion

Walking out of the noodle shop and walking to the street, I looked up at the sky, the sky was clear and the sun was very hot.

Think about where to go?I don't know many people, but those who can be called friends are Sister Wang, Yingzi, and Gu Zhiyi.

I don't want to look for a job in the labor market. I really don't want to stand there and let people pick and choose. I don't want to go to the labor market if there is a glimmer of hope.

I first called Gu Zhiyi and told him about being laid off. He said that he could stay at his place at night, and now he has no shortage of odd jobs.
Help to find, it is estimated that these two days can be found.

I was very happy to put down the phone. Although there is no place to do odd jobs, at least I have a place to live at night.

I didn't call Sister Wang and Yingzi, I was going to go directly to surprise them.

It's been four months since I left home, and I haven't taken a serious look at the provincial capital yet, so I just have time to appreciate it.

The May spring in the provincial capital is warm and the flowers are blooming. The colors of winter can no longer be seen, and the breath of spring is everywhere.The poplar trees on the side of the road reveal their delicate leaves, stretching and swaying in the warm wind.The grass on the ground is lush green, and the smell of soil makes people feel comfortable.The most conspicuous ones are the pedestrians on the street, who took off their thick winter clothes and wore colorful singles, enjoying the warmth of spring in the warm sunshine.Especially the girls, some of them have already put on their half sleeves, and they can't wait to wave to Xia Tian.

Spring always gives people hope.

Sitting on the bus, looking at the moving scenery outside, the initial excitement gradually calmed down.

I don't think there is anything to see, except that the high-rise buildings are still high-rise buildings, and the rest is the flow of people, which is not as good-looking and charming as the mountains and valleys at home.This season is the time to shovel the ground. The young seedlings in the ground have just grown, tender and swaying with the wind.Cultivate the soil on the back of the ridge on the roots of the seedlings to make the seedlings firm.

At this time of year, I get up early and take a hoe to shovel the ground.There are many hillsides, and the stones in the ground are picked out while shoveling the ground. Every year, there are every year, and the soil layer is thin, so there is no way.If you bump into a big rock when planting the land, it is easy to hit the plowshare.

When I came out of the house, I told my mother to wrap up all the land and not to plant it, and I didn't know if it was done.I post money to my family every month. The purpose of posting money is not only to give money to my mother, but also to tell my family that I am fine outside and don't worry about it.It's just that I didn't ask my family to write a letter. I was afraid that I wouldn't receive it if I wasn't working in the original place, so I asked my family to miss it.

I want to find a stable place to work, I can't work in this place for two months and another place for two months, so I can't receive letters from home, my heart is always hanging, and I can't work steadily.

What I miss most is my mother. My mother has bad eyesight. The root cause of my illness when I was young is that I am afraid of light. Cloudy days will be better and more comfortable.Last winter, I dug a well for my family, bought a submersible pump, and connected the pipe directly to the water tank in the outhouse, so that my mother could use water more conveniently, instead of going to the well to drill, the water would enter the tank as soon as I pushed the switch.

It took twelve days to drill the well.Two meters down from the ground is loess, and the bottom is full of alchemy rocks. It was hardened by one shot after another. After seeing the water, it chased down two meters. It is estimated that there will be water in the year of severe drought. Don’t worry. The well is dry.

There was no news from home for four months, and I didn't know what my mother was like. In addition to thinking about it, I was also worried.When I go out to do errands at home, unless I really can't come back, I will go home no matter how late it is. Only when I get home and see my mother can I feel at ease.Many people in rural areas are afraid of walking at night, saying that they may run into ghosts.When I first started to leave, I was also afraid and timid, but when I thought of my mother being at home alone, I didn't feel so scared, so I walked as usual.

Thinking of my mother, the street scene outside is nothing to look at.

Backed up two trains to Wuai Market.

The famous Wuai Market is the largest clothing wholesale market in Northeast China. Not only domestic clothing wholesales here, but also Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian clothing come here. After approval, the clothes are shipped to their own countries for sale.

The Wuai market in the 90s was still not standardized, like a super-large rural market.As soon as you enter, there are bustling people at first, and then there is a buzzing, buzzing noise.

There are restaurants all around the market, one next to the other.I started searching according to the address left by Yingzi, and when I found "Li's Bacon and Pancake Shop", it was already past lunch time, and there were no customers in the shop.

Sister Wang and Yingzi were very pleasantly surprised.Especially Yingzi, trotted into her arms, hugged me vigorously and said she missed me.

This girl didn't know how attractive she was, and when she threw herself into her arms, I was at a loss as to whether to hug her or not.The bulging chest made people feel distracted, and they blushed for a moment.

"Brother, I miss you so much." Yingzi raised her face, still hugging her little hands.

"It doesn't matter that you're here." I said, my face was blushing and my heart was pounding, and several waiters looked at me, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Do you know how much I miss you?"

"How much?"

"Hehe, even dreaming."

Yingzi laughed and let me go.At this moment, I was almost sweating. I have never experienced such enthusiasm. It was very embarrassing to lower my head and dare not look at the smiling waiters.

After sitting in the store for a while, he told the two of them about his layoff.Sister Wang complained that I was fighting with others, so I could only smile.Yingzi was clamoring for food, and I was hungry too, so I found a nearby snack bar and went in.

During the meal, Sister Wang asked me: "Then what are you going to do, and go to the labor market to find work?"

"Not yet." I said.

I told them about Gu Zhiyi helping me find a job.

Yingzi said: "Brother, if you find a job, you must tell me."

"Well, I promise to tell you." I said.

"You, why are you fighting with others? You also fight with several of them, so why break you?" Sister Wang complained to me again. This kind of complaint with sincere concern warmed my heart.

"Looking angry." I said.

"Don't fight when you are angry, don't always fight outside." Sister Wang said.

"Well, I won't fight in the future."

"Take care of yourself, we are here to earn money, not to fight." Sister Wang taught.

I nodded honestly.

Seeing me being trained, Yingzi smiled and said, "Have you seen it, I'm starting to take care of you, she always takes care of me like this."

Sister Wang glared at her, and then said to me: "Our odd job here is the chef's brother-in-law. He can only leave unless the chef quits. Otherwise, it's good to do odd jobs here."

"Don't worry, I just came here, if Gu Zhiyi can't find me, I will go to the labor market and look for it, this time I will find a restaurant with fried vegetables." I said.

"The cook's brother-in-law is annoying, he's always flirting, and so is the water case." Yingzi muttered.

"Who told my Yingzi to be beautiful?" I said to her.

"Am I pretty?"

"pretty."

After the meal, Yingzi said that he wanted to take a photo and take a photo together, fearing that he would not see her again in the future as a souvenir.I agree. Sister Wang said to go back and change clothes. She came out in overalls.

After Sister Wang left, Yingzi asked, "Brother, do you like my sister?"

I said, "No, that's your sister-in-law."

Yingzi looked at me and said, "One day when I went back to my hometown, you lived with my sister, didn't you? My sister told me all about it." After speaking, she stared at me very nervously.

This question has been bothering her since Sister Wang finished talking to her. She wanted to know what happened that night. In her mind, Sister Wang and I should have been there. I don’t believe what Sister Wang said didn’t happen. .

I smiled, touched her little head, and said, "What are you thinking about all day, you little head? If Sister Wang and I really slept together, would she still talk to you? If I can tell you, it proves that I have nothing to do with you." That."

After hearing this, Yingzi nodded speciously and said, "I think so." Then he touched my head and asked distressedly, "Does it still hurt? It's all blue."

"It doesn't hurt anymore."

"I'm not there, I'm here to help you fight."

"Your presence is not enough to cause trouble."

"I'm pretty good at fighting. No one dares to bully me at home."

He rubbed her head and said, "Girls are not good at fighting."

Yingzi stopped talking, and walked forward holding my arm.At this time, she was very happy in her heart, because her Brother Tan was by her side, and she felt safe, secure, and liked by the girl's heart.She likes this brother. Although he looks fierce, every girl hopes in her heart that her brother will be more fierce, more powerful, and make people afraid, so that she will not be bullied.

After walking a few steps forward, Yingzi suddenly asked, "Brother, are you here to see me or my sister?"

"I came to see you two." The question was inexplicable.

"If you don't believe me, there must be someone you really want to see, that's why you came here."

I didn't speak, just looked at her.This pure and charming girl in front of me makes every teenager's heart flutter, and I am no exception, although I don't look like a teenager.But I don't have that kind of heart for her, and I don't have the idea of ​​having a partner. She is just pure and beautiful, and I treat her as a younger sister.And she is just a kind of dependence on me, she can feel that she is not the kind of object, she just treats me as a reliable brother.

"Little girl, you are very beautiful. If you dress up and put on make-up, you are no different from a celebrity. I tell you a word, cherish yourself, protect yourself, and listen to Sister Wang in the restaurant. She will not let you suffer. "

"I know, you haven't answered my question yet?" She wanted to make sure who I was visiting.

"To see you two."

"Hmph!" She wrinkled her nose, "I know, you are here to see my sister."

"Let's see what you do."

"Why don't you come to see me and kiss me?"

I was startled, the little girl dared to say anything.

"Hee hee, I'm scared, I'm just kidding you, I told my sister hello, I would like to be with you." She said.

"You're just a little girl." Shaking her head, she thought that if someone had such a girl, it would be enough to worry about.

"I'm not young, I'm nineteen. Why are you like my sister, always saying that I am young, as if I haven't grown up?"

"You are young and not sensible yet."

"Why am I so ignorant, now I listen to my sister for everything, what she says is what she says."

"Better this way."

"Hmph, I know you two are good, and together you can bully me." Then he said mysteriously, "Come here and tell you something."

Thinking she was going to say something, she lowered her head a little, the little girl unceremoniously kissed her face, and giggled after the kiss.

I blushed and looked at her pretending to be angry as I touched the face she had kissed with my hands.

When Sister Wang came back after changing her clothes, she found a photo studio nearby and took a few photos.At that time, the photos couldn't come out, so I had to wait a few days.Sister Wang said that she would come to pick them up at that time, and she would take two when I came to see them again.

After taking pictures, I walked with Sister Wang and Yingzi for a while, and then separated when they went to work.

In the evening, I arrived at the Bolin Hotel where Gu Zhiyi worked. He told me the good news. His friend found me a place to do odd jobs, and I could go to work tomorrow.

He was very happy to hear the news, so he hurriedly bought him a drink without saying anything.

Chapter 13

Stayed in Bolin Hotel for one night, bid farewell to Gu Zhiyi the next day, followed the address he gave, came to Santaizi, and found the hotel - Shengmei Hotel.

Santaizi is located at the junction of Huanggu District and Yuhong District, north of the provincial capital, and further north is the suburb.

It is a special existence in Santaizi, the provincial capital, where China's largest fighter jet factory is located.The aircraft factory is very large, with more than 5 employees. The huge aircraft factory has spawned many subsidiary factories, and it is this aircraft factory that feeds the entire Sandaizi.

The aircraft factory is located in Santaizi, but administratively it is not under the provincial and urban management, but under the Ministry of Military Industry.The position of chief factory director is equivalent to the mayor of a province and city. They are at the same level, which shows the particularity of the aircraft factory.

Since the 90s, in addition to manufacturing fighter jets, various branch factories have also started producing civilian products.The bus and aluminum alloy manufacturing industries of the aircraft factory are very developed, and the buses produced are well-known in China, especially in the northeast region.Needless to say, the aluminum alloy has the support of the state, strong technical force, and the quality is the best in the country at that time, reaching the level that the supply exceeds the demand.

80.00% of the people in Sandaizi are employees of the aircraft factory. The factory has good benefits and has stimulated the economic development of Sandaizi. Therefore, there are more layoffs in other places in the provincial capital, and there are fewer workers in Sandaizi. Most of the laid-off workers are small factories with poor returns. .

Due to the particularity of Santaizi, it is different from the city, as if it exists alone.People living here are tough, love to fight, and have many older brothers.In addition, the benefits of the aircraft factory are good, and people have money and dare to spend. There are some in the city, and Sandaizi is also called "Little Hong Kong".

The economy is developed and there are many elder brothers, so the public security is naturally not very good, and many people don't like to come.At six o'clock in the evening, the taxi driver didn't go to Santaizi when he heard about it, because it often happened that he didn't pay money when he went to the place.

The aircraft factory is large and has many branch factories, all of which have their own hotels, guest houses, and in-factory hotels.Shengmei Hotel is one of the five in-factory hotels in the aircraft factory. It is a three-story building with a single family.

When I came to the hotel, I met the owner and chef.

The boss, surnamed Wang, is an employee of the factory, and manages the contracted hotel with his wife.

The head chef is very young, 24 or [-] years old, tall and thin, which subverts my perception that all chefs are fat.

I walked through the hall and led me to the kitchen. When I passed the hall, I was shocked to see such a large hall. I thought this is a veritable big hotel, and there are three noodles restaurants in one hall.It's even more eye-opening when you get to the kitchen. The dishwashing room is as big as a noodle shop, and the hot dish kitchen is even bigger, as big as two noodle shops.

The head chef told me what to do, to what extent, when to go to work, when to leave work, what rules to follow, etc., and then began to arrange my accommodation.

The place where I live is in a dormitory not far from the hotel, which is a single apartment in an aircraft factory.

There are many apartments like Santaizi, all of which were built with the help of the Soviet Union five or more years ago.Unified three-story building, each floor has a large corridor, the left and right sides are residents, [-] square meters of room.Single employees live here, and those who get married without a house also live here. As long as you look at the gas tanks at the door, they are young couples who just got married and don't have a house.

There is another kind of apartment, where three families live in one corridor, sharing one kitchen and one bathroom.

This is the epitome of an era and a true portrayal of an era.

After arranging the accommodation, I returned to the hotel and started my odd job career, taking the first step of learning to cook.

My job is to wash dishes, pick vegetables, wash vegetables, kill fish, clean up seafood, and clean up. In short, the work that others don't do is mine.

Every morning at 07:30 when I arrive at the restaurant, I cook porridge and warm steamed buns first, and then take the same dishes bought by the proprietress into the kitchen.The meat is put into the refrigerator, the live crucian carp, carp, grass carp, and eel are put into the fish tank, and the fresh and frozen goods are put into the pool to thaw.Large pieces of vegetables are placed on the bottom of the shelf, leafy vegetables are placed in baskets and arranged, and vegetables transported by air from the south, such as snow peas, broccoli, and cabbage, are placed in the vegetable freezer.

After finishing all this, it was almost nine o'clock. The front desk and back kitchen came to work, started to eat breakfast, and started the day's work after breakfast.

First pick and wash the vegetables. After picking and washing the vegetables, pack the chilled fish and small seafood, and then peel the potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and celery.Celery peels are the hardest to beat, they are silky and irritating when done.

It was past eleven o'clock after all these were done, and the guests began to serve in front.Move the plates to the case behind the chef, all kinds of plates are ready, otherwise it will be too late when the dishes are served.

Helping out when the dishes are served, the guests order fish and go to the fish tank to catch the fish, and when they come back, they start to clean up.Cleaning up was slow in the first few days, and I was always scolded by fire.There are two people in the water case. One named Shi Jun has a bad temper and always reprimands me.Just listen to the training, who told us that we can't do anything?You can't lose your temper at this time. If someone gets angry, we don't need to deal with it. After finally finding a job that can earn money and learn things, I cherish it very much.

You need to have a good ear when doing odd jobs, and you can pick up what the water case calls immediately without delaying the work.In the first few days, I didn’t know what some things were, and I took them wrong every now and then, and made a lot of jokes while being scolded.

After the chef finished frying the dishes and put them on the plate, I was responsible for serving them to the waiter, and then trotted back to the kitchen to wait for the next plate.One meal has to run back and forth fifty or sixty times.The water table will also help serve the dishes after serving them, but they will not help until they have cleaned up their own hygiene.

After running back and forth seven or eight times, the sweat came down. After a busy meal, I was covered in sweat, and my legs were sore from running.

After the meal is finished, the chef, the water table, and the cold dishes go outside the kitchen to cool off. Those who smoke smoke, and those who drink tea drink tea.

Dishwashing is not just washing dishes. I wash the small stainless steel basins (scientific name Madou), stainless steel square dishes, basins of various sizes, and pressure cookers for the kitchen side dishes.These things will fill up the three sinks used for washing dishes after one mouthful of food.The tableware waiting to come down from the front hall was piled up on the case next to the sink, one by one.

I was a little dizzy when I saw this scene on the first day. I stood in front of the pool and looked at it for a long time. Finally, I let out a sigh of relief and said, I am a lazy man with good hands. I am not afraid of too much work, but I am afraid of not doing it. As long as you do it, you will do it. When it's over.

After brushing until two o'clock in the afternoon, I finished brushing, stretched my waist, felt sore and sore, and looked at my hands, the blisters turned white, and the skin in some places was blistered.Not to mention not being tired, there is no work that is not tiring, but what can you do if you are tired, why don't you have to do it?If you don't do it, who will pay?Lying on the kang is comfortable, but unfortunately there is no pie in the sky.Still the same sentence, you can't be tired of work, as long as you persevere, you will win.

After washing the dishes, everyone else went back to the dormitory to rest after eating, so I ate, and I didn’t go back to the dormitory after eating. I found a place to sit for a while, smoked a cigarette, and continued to work at night.

The restaurant is not as busy at noon as it is at night, and there are so many guests at night that it is full.

My job is the same as lunch, but the time is longer than noon.

"Tan Zi, take a soup bowl." The chef shouted.

He hurried to the dishwashing room to get a soup bowl, and the chef poured the soup from Da Shaoli into the soup bowl.

I said, "I know this soup, it's called tomato and egg soup."

"Right, hurry up."

Pick up the soup bowl and walk towards the mouth of Chuancai, there is a waiter waiting at the mouth of Chuancai.

"Three things are in a hurry, hurry up!" The waiter yelled at me, then picked up the egg and tomato soup and left.

Go back to the kitchen and shout: "Slip three things and hurry up—"

"Stop yelling, I got it, it will be ready soon." Shui An said to me, looking very angry, and then handed the prepared three dishes to the chef on the stove.

"Tan Zi, go over and get me two potatoes, use them urgently." The cold dish chef called me.

Hurry up to the vegetable rack to get him two peeled potatoes, and then return to the case, another dish is finished, pick it up and leave quickly.

After a meal, it was like fighting a war, with a busy foot hitting the back of the head.

After seven o'clock, there will be no guests. The kitchen starts to be cleaned, and I go to the dishwashing room to wash the dishes.At this time, the sink was full of kitchen things, and the guests hadn't finished their meals, and the tableware hadn't come down yet.

Dinner starts at eight o'clock, and the kitchen staff gets off work after dinner. I can't do it, and I have to continue fighting.

The tableware in front began to be removed box by box, and the cases were quickly piled up. The cases couldn't fit on the floor, and they were placed halfway across the room.I started scrubbing box by box.

"Can you clean the cup and saucer first, so I can take them out and dry them?" said a fatter waiter.

"Okay, wait a minute, brush right away." I said.

"In the future, you should clean the cups and saucers first, and our waiter will dry them after you finish brushing."

"understood."

"Brush cleanly and rinse off the detergent foam, otherwise it will be difficult to clean and you will have to brush again."

"Well, it must be cleaned up."

There is no way, but the waiter has to manage it.

Fight until all the guests leave the store, all the tableware is washed, and all the floors in the kitchen are cleaned before leaving.

It was midnight when we left the hotel.

On the way back to the dormitory, ask yourself are you tired?tired!But is there a life in this world that is not tiring?
Maybe not.

If you don't want to live in poverty, and don't want to borrow money to live, you have to be able to endure hardships and be burdened.

I clearly remember that when I borrowed money for my fifth sister’s study, I was still short of 50 yuan. I went to a relative’s house who was very rich and thought that I could lend it to me. After I opened my mouth full of hope, they said lukewarm : "My family doesn't run a bank, so how can I borrow money from you? Besides, how can you repay the loan?"

After hearing this, I was very angry, and walked away without saying a word.

On the way home, I felt my throat was congested, unwillingness, anger, and grievances were surging back and forth in my chest like a flood, as if it was about to explode.I really felt the humiliation, the feeling of being looked down upon severely hit a teenager's self-esteem, the words of relatives and the eyes when they spoke were pierced into the body like knives, with unspeakable pain and indignation, and A struggle from the bottom of my heart.

However, after all, I am too young, still a student, or a child, those students like me can go to school without worrying about anything every day, and if they are wronged, they can go home and talk to their parents. There is a lack of oil and salt, things and things, and there is no need to worry about them. Those are the affairs of parents. They are only responsible for going to school.I can't, these are all my business, and I have to do it all before my mother knows these things.

The grievance in my heart can't be told to my mother, I have to act like an adult in front of her.I got home after climbing over the mountain ridge, and saw my father's grave. When I was young, I came to my father's grave. I couldn't control myself anymore, and wept silently.

I feel like I can’t take it anymore, and I even curse God in my heart, why all this is, you don’t have to eat if you can’t eat well, you don’t need to wear clothes if you don’t fit well, it’s okay to work hard, but why do you have to bear these things? Be looked down upon, ridiculed and dismissed?I just want to go to school, I just want to study hard, can such a wish not come true?
I can only cry happily in front of my father's grave.

Tears flowed, I seemed to see my father in my blurred vision, and stretched out my hand to touch my head with distress. At that moment, I felt the warmth, and I changed from a strong adult to a child——
It was too bitter, too difficult.

After crying, I felt much better. I kowtowed to my father, turned around and walked home, and told myself not to let my mother see it.

I was 16 years old that year.

Some people say that life is destiny, but I don't think so.Everyone walks on the path of their own choice. The path they walk is their own. It has nothing to do with others or fate.

The road will not be smooth and smooth, it must have ditches, ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, successes and failures, storms and rainbows, all of these are experiences, and this experience is life, that is, the so-called Life.

The road is made by oneself.

Be optimistic about your own life and walk your own path. This is life.

Chapter 14 Entering the state

A week after I came to Shengmei, I called Gu Zhiyi, Sister Wang and Yingzi and told them about my situation.Sister Wang and Yingzi were very happy when they found out, and said they would come to see me if they had time.Gu Zhiyi told me to work hard here and strive to become a chef.

This is also the intention.

21 is a bit too old to be a chef in a restaurant.Many people start learning in the kitchen at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and by the time they learn quickly, they are already kitchen chefs.
Master, even if the brain is stupid, it has already been used as a side dish.In the kitchen, the two side dishes are not as old as me, one is nineteen and the other is twenty, and I am 21 doing odd jobs, which looks a bit funny.Plus I look old, like 25 or [-], sometimes I feel embarrassed.

Since I entered the industry late, I should devote more time to study hard and cherish this rare opportunity.

The whole kitchen is run by the head chef, and everyone in the kitchen is found by him, including me.He reserved this odd job position for his cousin, and his cousin found me after working for a few days and getting tired.In fact, this is a two-person job. One should do odd jobs and the other does the dishes. The kitchen is covered. The two people's work is done by one person, so that they can earn more.

His cousin can't do it, but I can do it.

There are a total of six people in the kitchen, the head chef, one chef, two water tables, one cold dish, no pasta, and the staple food is quick-frozen dumplings, small steamed buns, and dried noodles.After the guests ordered the staple food, the chef processed it directly on the stove without pasta.

The chef's salary is more than 1000, which is very enviable to me. I wonder when I can earn more than 1000.

If you want to earn more than 1000, you have to learn to be a chef, and learn to be like a chef.

Money is too important to a child from a poor family. He dreams of earning money and making his family rich so that he will no longer be looked down upon.

When I was a stevedore, I always went to the snack department to eat. When I looked at the menu, it said dishes such as "pot-wrapped meat", "salted pork section" and "fish-flavored shredded pork". .So I have never seen pot-packed meat.

On the second day after entering the kitchen, I was standing at the dish delivery port, and saw the waiter come out of the kitchen with a dish and walked towards the front hall. When I passed the dish delivery port, I was shocked by the dish.What kind of food is so beautiful, orange, golden, and piled up so high, you will have an appetite just looking at it.The scent that floats over is so nice, sweet and sour, it makes my mouth water.

"Let me ask, what kind of dish is this?" I asked the waiter.

"Guobaorou, haven't you seen it?" She was a little surprised when I asked, as if she didn't know about Guobaorou, so why did she do odd jobs.

After she finished speaking, she took the pot and wrapped the meat and left.

After seeing this plate of pot-packed meat, I felt unfathomable about the chef's craftsmanship, and wondered what kind of craftsmanship it takes to make such a good dish.I strengthened my confidence in becoming a chef, and told myself that I must study hard, and I can cook such good dishes even after I become a chef.

In fact, it is a plate of meat wrapped in a pot, but it is the first time I have seen it.

After a week, my odd jobs became smoother, faster, and at attention.Because of my ability and no complaints, I was recognized by the head chef and the kitchen staff, and Shui An asked me to help me cut some simple ingredients such as peppers and carrots.

It’s getting hotter in June, and it’s even hotter in the kitchen when it’s hot outside. When it’s not busy, the water table and the chef go to the yard outside the kitchen to smoke and chat. I take advantage of this time to cut some simple things in the kitchen with a kitchen knife.In the beginning, it was slow and I always cut my hands. The most ruthless time I cut off the nails and the flesh of Xiao Banla'er's fingernails. It took a week for the pain to heal.

In this way, the work of washing dishes is still done, and the fingers are pasted with a band-aid, then wrapped with plastic wrap, and put on gloves.Rural children are not so delicate. They cut crops and collect firewood at home, and they are always pulled out by knives. There is no Band-Aid. If you sprinkle a handful of soil on the cut, the blood will freeze in a while, and it will be fine in a few days.It is said that rural children are solid, but they are not solid, they are trained in childhood.

The proprietress of the hotel is 40 years old, a housewife, and a very simple person.The boss has contracted the hotel, and she came to run it with the boss. The couple are going to work hard to earn some money and make life better.

When I cut my hands, she saw that I was working hard, so she came to help me wash the dishes and pick vegetables.

"Xiao Tanzi, do you want to learn how to be a chef?" the proprietress asked me.

"Think." I said.

"Learning to be a chef, look at the head chef, just 24, more than 1000 a month."

"So many?" Very envious.

"That's not so good. You are quite capable and affordable. If you work hard and learn, you can earn more than 1000 after you finish your studies."

More than 1000 is a great temptation for me, which is equivalent to earning at home for a year.

The proprietress put the washed dishes into the disinfection cabinet, and went back to the sink to continue washing. I hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, I can do it myself."

"Aren't you having trouble with your hands? I'm also idle when I'm idle. Let me help you wash some."

After the proprietress finished speaking, she began to wash the dishes again.

"Xiao Tanzi, where is your family?"

"Beipiao."

"Oh, in the western Liaoning area, your place is not rich, and there have been nine droughts in ten years, and you depend on the sky for food."

"Yes, it's a poor place, otherwise why would you come out to work."

"I have also been to the countryside before, and I am in Faku, and the place is also poor." The proprietress said: "It is not easy in the countryside, and it is not easy to earn money. My hometown is also in the countryside."

The sentence "My hometown is also in the countryside" narrowed the distance between each other, and I felt that she was a very good person.It's really good, warm-hearted, nothing to say.The clothes are very simple, the kind of people who can tell their age just by looking at the clothes on their bodies.Those who knew it was the proprietress, but those who didn't know really thought she was doing the dishes.

The proprietress is simple, and the boss is also very simple. She is more affordable, has no airs, and is a very kind person.I used to work at Minpin, but later I took a leave of absence to start a vegetable wholesale business and made some money. This time, I caught up with the contracting of the hotel in the factory, so I contracted Shengmei and started a restaurant.

The proprietress helped me wash the dishes, and told me to go with the waiter when I got off work at night. It was too late for the waiter to go back to the dormitory, so I agreed to come down.

There are a total of five waiters and a bar counter in front, three waiters live in the dormitory, and the remaining two waiters and the bar counter belong to Beisantaizi, and they live at home.So I washed the last table of tableware every night, waited for the waiter on duty to clean up, and went back to the dormitory together.

Finish my own work every day, and help the water table cut some simple materials.The ingredients are almost cut, so I want to order.

Taking out a piece of meat and preparing to slice it, Shi Jun happened to enter the kitchen and saw it.

He hurriedly said: "It is not good to cut the meat, the meat is very expensive, what should I do if it is scrapped?" After speaking, he took the meat away, and then he said to me, "I see you are very capable, so I ask you to cut it." It’s good to order peppers and carrots, and you can also cut up the meat. You cut the meat? What are we going to do with the water table when you cut the meat?”

Standing there in embarrassment, blood welled up.A five-year-old and three-year-old, who looks like a 25 or [-]-year-old boy, is being trained by someone who is younger than himself. I feel really uncomfortable, and I can't help it.I was so angry that I wanted to go up and give him a slap, my hands were trembling.But I held back, I knew what the consequences of slapping him would be--he would definitely be laid off.I thought it was hard to find a place where I could learn. If I can't follow my own temperament, I can bear it if I can, and the principle is to learn the skills. If he says a few words, he will say a few words.

If you want to be a chef, you must first learn how to cut vegetables and side dishes. If you can't pass this level, you can't be a chef.

As the saying goes, "studying art is worse than stealing art", it doesn't matter if you don't ask me to cut meat and side dishes, watch them carefully when they are working, see how they do it, and then write it down.In addition, I get up a little earlier every morning, and cut up all the ingredients that the water table needs to prepare every day, so that I don’t need to cut them when they come. I also practiced knife skills.

The daily work meal is cut and prepared by the water table. I take care of the work of cutting and matching the work meal, and they are happy to relax.

I like to eat shredded potatoes for work meals, because cutting shredded potatoes can improve knife skills, which must have been experienced by every chef.The potato shreds that were cut at the beginning were thick and thin, and they were not uniform at all, and they were scolded by the water case every time.If you scold me, you don't say a word. If you don't cut it well, no one will scold you if you cut it well.

I thought that you don't need to scold me now, and one day I will be a chef and ask you to serve me dishes.But when I thought about it, I couldn't help being funny. When I became a chef, he would already be a chef, so I couldn't scold him.

Everything is practiced diligently, and it will be powerful if you practice to a certain extent.

There is no shortcut to learn to be a chef, you have to move forward step by step.

It has been a month since I arrived in Shengmei, and I feel that I can work here for a long time, so I wrote a letter to my family, telling Fifth Sister the address and zip code here, and told her to write letters here.

When I wrote the letter, I felt homesick and missed my mother. After the letter was mailed, I looked forward to receiving a reply. The kind of waiting with expectations was a little anxious and a little apprehensive.Looking forward to the letter from home, eager to know what the family is like, what the mother is like, and afraid that after receiving the letter, there will be bad things written on it——
Just waiting anxiously.

After work this day, I came to the front desk after cleaning up. The attendant on duty, Wang Yan, also finished cleaning up, and went back to the dormitory with her.

"Brother Tan, since you don't talk much all day, you know how to work." Wang Yan said.

Wang Yan is a very quiet girl, her family is in Jinzhou, twenty.

"There's nothing to say, the work is still unfinished." I said.

"Brother Tan, are you married yet?"

"No."

"I thought you had a family." She laughed after finishing talking, and continued, "You are a bit late in learning how to cook. Usually, you are sixteen or seventeen."

"Well, it's a bit late, the stupid bird will fly first."

"I see that you are very knowledgeable, and you may be able to cook in two years."

"Then be brave, I'm afraid I won't be able to learn it in two years."

"Almost." She said, and then asked me: "Brother Tan, did the boss find you or the chef?"

"The chef is looking for it."

"I don't think you and the chef are in the same group. They don't take you with you for everything. They go out to play every day after get off work, and leave you to do the dishes by yourself, and they don't say to do it for you."

"I'm a master, not a dishwasher. It's my job to wash dishes." I smiled and said it indifferently, but I was still very grateful for her saying that.

"That's not the case. The proprietress sometimes brushes for you. You are the most tired in our family."

"I'm used to it."

"Today I saw the head chef looking for the boss. It seems that the hotel business is good and I want to add some money." She said.

"Oh."

"The boss didn't seem to agree, and said to wait another month. It seems that the head chef is very angry. Let me tell you, brother Tan, their chefs came five days earlier than you. Before they came, they were doing the dishes. Odd jobs are for odd jobs, two people, now you are alone." She complained for me.

"Well, I heard what the proprietress said."

"I don't see this kind of person, bullying people honestly, this is a clever way to make money."

"I don't want to learn some crafts." I said the truth.

"That's not like that. They just see you as honest, know that you want to learn to be a chef, and bully you."

"It's kind of mean, but it's nothing. I'm used to it now. It'll be fine when I can serve the dishes. When the time comes, I'll go out to do the water table, and then stick to it."

It feels good to meet someone who upholds justice. It's a bit like the feeling that I'm helping Xiao Sichuan with 50 yuan. I can't help but look at her differently.

The other two waiters who live in the dormitory are Tang Xiumei and Du Haiyan. Every time they escort them back to the dormitory, they hardly talk to me, especially Du Haiyan, who is good-looking and knows how to dress up. , one year older than me.People are very floating, and they look down on me, thinking that a odd job is worthless.

If you look down on them, you can look down on them, and you don't care, if the proprietress didn't say to send them back to the dormitory, she wouldn't bother to send them back to the dormitory.

Tang Xiumei is more mature and older, but she doesn't like to talk very much, as if she is dating the chef.

What I know is that Shi Jun likes Wang Yan a little bit, but Wang Yan doesn't like him, so Shi Jun is also very depressed.Another water case is in love with a waiter at the front desk, and sometimes they stay up late.Du Haiyan likes the cold dish master, but the cold dish master has a partner and works as a waiter in another restaurant.

I don't care about these things, but I go back to the dormitory every night and don't want to know.They are all young people in their 20s, full of energy, and have a high sense of curiosity and exploration about men and women. Love is an eternal topic, and they will never give up until midnight.

Chapter 15 I'm a Bandit

Since it is an in-factory hotel, most of the consumption in the store is inside the factory, and there are very few individual tourists outside.Every Saturday and Sunday when the factory is closed, there are not many customers in the store, and when there are no reserved seats, the workers leave work very early at night.

While waiting anxiously, I finally received a letter from Fifth Sister.

Fifth Sister said in the letter that everything was fine at home and that her mother was fine.My mother didn't rent out the land, but continued to plant. Up to now, there has been enough rain, and the crops are still growing well. If there are no disasters in autumn, there will be a good harvest.I can't help but complain to my mother, how good it is to rent out the land. When I'm not at home, my mother has to take care of it alone. Although I have my sisters to help, but according to my mother's personality, I will not stop going up the mountain.

Fifth Sister said that she had received all the mailed money, and that her mother had paid back part of the famine crisis, leaving some pocket money.Tell me that I don't need to send money home all the time, she is now earning wages, and she can provide her mother's pocket money.

The homes of several sisters are very good, so I don't have to worry about it.In the end, I was told to take care of myself, and it would be best to bring a daughter-in-law back, and my mother was happy.My fifth sister, the daughter-in-law said she would take it back when she said she would take it back?If it were so easy, they would all come out and get their daughter-in-law.

After reading it, I smiled confidently, knowing that my family is fine and my mother is happy with everything. This is what I miss the most.Now I feel relieved, I feel a stone falling to the ground, and my whole body feels relaxed.

After half a year, I finally received a letter from my family, knowing the situation at home, can you be unhappy?I am not so tired from working, and I have the urge to cheer.

Seeing how happy I was, the proprietress asked, "What's the matter, so happy?"

"Sister-in-law, I received the letter from my fifth sister!" Unable to restrain the excitement in her heart, she said with a smile.

"Oh, what did the letter say? Is everything going well at home?" The proprietress was also happy for me, she knew about my letter to my family.

"It's fine, everything is fine, and my mother is also fine."

"It's all good, don't worry this time, don't worry about it."

"not worried."

Only at this time did I really understand what a letter from home is worth ten thousand gold.

I am happy in my heart, happy in body and mind, and hum a ditty while working.

Du Haiyan was on duty today, and there was still a table of guests left. They cleaned up all the tableware that had been removed, and cleaned up the kitchen floor.Come to the backyard, light a cigarette, sit on a stool and listen to the cheerful calls of crickets around the wall in summer night.I didn't feel how good it sounded before, but now it sounds very pleasant.

After smoking a cigarette, I went back to the kitchen and saw a box of cutlery by the sink. Knowing that the last table of guests had left, I hurriedly cleaned up the box of cutlery and went to the hall. In the hall, there was nothing but the bar and the person who came to pick her up. I didn't see Du Haiyan outside, so I asked the bar counter where Du Haiyan was, and the bar counter said he was leaving, just left.

I couldn't help being a little angry, and didn't tell me when I left after I wanted to talk. I didn't want to ask me to talk, and I really didn't want to.After complaining twice, he walked out of the store and walked to the dormitory.

From the hotel to the dormitory, you need to cross Songshan Road, then there is a crossroad, turn left from the crossroad, and walk 400 meters on the small road.On the left side of this 400-meter path is an abandoned factory, and there are people working in it, as if they are looking at the factory building.There are several bachelor apartments on the right, and we live in the front one.

It's summer, and the trees on both sides of the road are full of branches and leaves, squeezing the already narrow road even narrower.There are only two street lights on the whole road, and the illumination is not enough. Walking on this road is very dim, and the shadows are indistinct.I really like to walk this way, especially at night, I can find the feeling of walking at home at night.

I walked forward for 50 meters, but I didn't see anyone. I thought maybe Du Haiyan had already arrived in the dormitory, so I didn't think about anything and continued walking.Before reaching the first street light, I heard a woman's cry from the left. Although it was very small, I still heard it. The cry was full of fear and fright.

The first reaction was to look in the direction of the sound, thinking in his head that there was a woman who would be robbed.

Ten meters away on the left side of the road, behind a few elm trees, I saw a woman being dragged in by a man. Du Haiyan.

There was no flash of light in my head, no loud shout, and no thought of that, I instinctively tightened my body, and ran two steps quickly.

When he got closer, he could see clearly that the man was hugging Du Haiyan from behind, with one arm around her neck and the other covering her mouth, and he stepped back.Du Haiyan struggled, pinching her bag with one hand and grabbing back with the other, trying to scratch the man, but the man dodged.

When the man saw me, I was already in front of me. There was no nonsense at this time, and I directly punched the man in the face. The man immediately said "Oops", staggered back, and Du Haiyan began to cover his face.He pulled Du Haiyan back, and when he let go, Du Haiyan also staggered and fell, so he quickly pulled Du Haiyan back.The man reacted quickly, and ran away while I, Radu Haiyan, was in the gap.

I didn't go after it, and I couldn't catch up with it. A good dog can't chase a scared dog.Besides, I couldn't chase after me, Du Haiyan grabbed me tightly, trembling because of fear.

At this time, she was very embarrassed, her hair was messed up, and her shirt was torn open, revealing the bra inside.The whole person was scared like a fool, and his eyes were frightened and dull.

Half a minute later, she hugged me and cried.It's good to be able to cry, it proves that you have recovered, otherwise people will be scared to death.

This time I was honest, after I finished crying, I tidied up my clothes, and every time I walked back to the dormitory with a distance of three meters away from me.

People, you only know how stupid you are after you have suffered a loss and been fooled.

On the weekend of the second day, a funeral banquet was temporarily hosted in the afternoon. It was just six o'clock after the get off work was over, and the boss said that it was off work, so everyone packed up and left.It was after seven o'clock after I finished rinsing the dishes, and I went back to the dormitory with nothing to do. I got in the car and went to Sister Wang and Yingzi.

It was nine o'clock when we arrived, and after waiting for a while for them to get off work, the three of us went out for a walk together.

Yingzi is not in a good mood, she doesn't want to be a waiter anymore, she wants to find a job in a factory.

Girls from rural areas go to work in cities, and most of them choose to be waiters.The reason is very simple. The waiters do not have high requirements and do not need a high degree of education. They just need to be able to write and open the menu. The rest is to be dexterous, bring the dishes ordered by the guests to the table, pour tea for the guests, and deliver the wine in time. The guests leave Finally clean up the hygiene, that's all.No standard service is required, and the requirements for appearance are not high, general appearance is fine.

Yingzi belongs to the kind of natural beauty, pure and cute, and charming.A beautiful girl like her will definitely be harassed by customers when she works as a waiter in a restaurant, which is why she doesn't want to do it.

I told her that she could go to the kitchen to learn how to make bacon pancakes with Sister Wang, but she said she didn't like to work in the kitchen, she didn't like it.

Sister Wang said to Yingzi: "Work in the restaurant first, and then leave when you find a suitable job."

Yingzi hugged my arm and bowed her head without speaking. Sister Wang continued, "I won't care about you anymore, but you must tell me when you go out. You are not allowed to go out alone."

Yingzi nodded in agreement. It seemed that she must have gone out secretly and was scolded by Sister Wang.She is a restless girl in her bones, and she really doesn't know what will happen in the future.

After strolling for a while, there was a small hot pot restaurant in front of it that was still open. Yingzi said that he wanted to eat hot pot, and the three of us walked in.

After ordering the hot pot, Yingzi wanted to drink, but Sister Wang refused.

"The last time you went out to drink secretly and vomited, didn't you know? Did you forget? No drinking, drink some drinks." Sister Wang said.

"Last time, I was upset and vomited when I was in a bad mood. Today, my brother is happy to be here. It's fine." Yingzi said
"That's not okay." Sister Wang refused, and said to me: "You don't know, last time a customer teased her, and she started having sex with the customer. I ran out to drink, and I couldn't find her, so I was so anxious."

Yingzi giggled and said to me: "Brother, do you know, the last time I came back from drinking, my sister cried when she hugged me, giggling."

Looking at Yingzi smiling happily, I feel that she is still a little girl who has not grown up. If she is at home, she should be pampered and spoiled by her parents, like a princess.Feeling distressed for no reason, I thought that if this was my younger sister, I would never ask her to come out.

Seeing Yingzi laughing, Sister Wang glared, "You're still laughing, I'm not mad at you."

Yingzi still wanted to drink, and begged: "Sister, let me drink, I won't drink too much today."

"Drink." Sister Wang said in a non-negotiable tone.

Yingzi looked at me with pleading eyes, and said pitifully, "Brother, let me drink, just one bottle. I drink a lot, and my sister knows."

Sister Wang smiled and said, "Just one bottle, don't drink too much."

Yingzi hurriedly opened a bottle of beer and quickly poured it for herself, fearing that Sister Wang would regret not telling her to drink it.

"Little brother, are you tired there?" Sister Wang asked.

"It's okay, not tired." I said.

"How many people are in the kitchen?" she asked.

"Six."

"How many waiters?" Yingzi asked.

I said, "Five."

"Your ones are quite big." Yingzi said, and then asked: "Is the waiter pretty?"

"It's okay, I didn't take a closer look." I said.

"Haven't looked at it carefully? Even if I looked at it carefully, I wouldn't say you. Are you afraid that we will know?"

I smiled and said to her: "I really didn't look at it carefully. I started working after work and went back to the dormitory after work. I didn't have time to read it."

"Brother, let me go to your place as a waiter, okay?" Yingzi asked.

"You still follow Sister Wang, I can't control you." I said quickly.

"Hmph, I know you won't let me go. In fact, you won't let me go. I'll go to work in a factory instead of being a waiter. Stay away from you two."

Sister Wang and I just laughed.

After drinking the wine, Yingzi's face flushed and she looked very excited. She held the glass and said, "I will leave you two in the future and go out to work by myself. I will stop being a waiter and go to the factory. Then you two don't miss me."

Sister Wang said: "Either you are going to the factory, or you don't want to be in front of me, and I will take care of you if you bother me."

"That's not it, I just like to go to the factory, eight in the morning and five in the morning, that's great." After speaking, he took the glass and touched Sister Wang with me, and drank the wine with a bow.

After she finished drinking a bottle, she opened another bottle while Sister Wang was not paying attention, and Sister Wang pretended not to see it.Although she didn't drink too much, she was also dizzy. She came out of the hot pot restaurant and helped her walk back.

When we arrived at the hotel and settled Yingzi down, Sister Wang came out to see me off and gave me the photo I took last time.

Sister Wang asked me: "What's wrong with Yingzi? She always wants to go out to work by herself and doesn't want to be with me."

I said: "Let's do this first, let her go out after she can take care of herself, at least you can rest assured."

"No, let Yingzi come to you. You take care of her, but she still clings to you."

"I don't know how to take care of people. Besides, she is a woman, which is inconvenient."

"Yingzi likes you very much, and she listens to you."

He hurriedly said to Sister Wang: "Stop, I'm leaving."

Sister Wang laughed, grabbed me and said, "I'm just kidding, I scare you, even if Yingzi likes you, I won't let you go. Look at you, you look like a bandit, not a good person at all."

I look like a bandit, and my banditry is genetic.During the period of the Republic of China, there were small coal mines everywhere in Beipiao, Fuxin, and Qinghemen. That area was the place where bandits were born. My great-grandfather had a beard, and my grandfather also had a beard. My grandfather was beaten to death by the Japanese.In my father's life, it was New China, and the bearded bandits were gone, but the blood was still flowing in my body.

Sometimes I think, if this was in the past, I would be a bandit.

Chapter 16

The summer in the provincial capital is full of enthusiasm in the heat, which makes people hate the heat while loving it.

The entire Songshan Road is full of three-storey residential buildings, gray and gray, with single apartments and three collective apartments with a kitchen and a bathroom.Shengmei Hotel is located in the middle of Songshan Road. In front of the door is the 217 bus station. There are two small shops next to it. Going further east is the No. [-] gate of the aircraft factory. Through the gate, you can see the overall model of a fighter jet spreading its wings. Fly, want to cut through the sky.

Du Haiyan's attitude towards me changed after she experienced the shock after get off work, but the impression she gave me was too bad, so she just kept her at arm's length.But if she didn't tell the story, firstly, it would have a bad influence on her, and secondly, it would cause panic to other waiters.Besides, this matter is not a problem to me, the past is the past.

I am very happy to go to work every day, mainly because I feel at ease after knowing that my mother is very good at home. My mother and fifth sister also support me to learn to cook, so I feel better and not so heavy.

Once a person has a goal, he will have a goal, and his boring life will start to become interesting.Although I started late, I can study hard and practice hard. I believe that as long as I work hard, I can learn to be a chef and earn money.

There is no other purpose for learning to be a chef, but to have a craft and be able to earn money to support the family.

Although I am a little busy and tired every day, I can learn something and cut vegetables with a kitchen knife. This is very good, and I feel that I am getting closer and closer to the chef.

It was very busy at noon and night every day. When the food was served, the kitchen was like a war. The waiters kept urging the dishes. Shi Jun and another water case were busy with the dishes. I helped them and had to serve the dishes ahead.Sometimes there are too many dishes, and customers will wait for too long and have to return the dishes in the end.Every time the food is returned, the boss is very upset. He talks to the head chef about the return of the food. The head chef said that the business is good, and there is no way to do it because there are few people in the kitchen. A water table and a chef, so that there will be no return of food.

The boss did not agree to the conditions proposed by the head chef, but the head chef remained the same.

My salary is two hundred and four. I know that I am doing the work of two people alone, and I haven't discussed the salary with the head chef.I don’t say it doesn’t mean he doesn’t say it. Every time he pays me, he says: “Tanzi, do you know? If I don’t need you, I can find two students. The students don’t need to pay wages. If you do a good job, I can use you.” Alright, let's do it well."

After listening to him, he just smiled and knew the meaning of his words, which means that if I don't do a good job, I don't need me, and I have to listen to him. I am not a child at the age of 21, and I can see everything clearly. If Shengmei Hotel is okay in the city, it is easy to find students, but it is difficult to find students in Santaizi. Tired, even if you find a student to work for two days, you will be exhausted.That is to say, I am getting older, and I still want to learn how to cook, so I can persevere.If I go he'll have to hire a scullery and a handyman, or else no one will do it like I do.

He is so calculating, and so are the people he leads.So far, I have only been chopping ingredients, work meals, and simple vegetables. The meat Shi Jun doesn’t even tell me to move. I can’t cut any shredded meat or sliced ​​meat. The only meat I can touch is chopped pork ribs and small stupid chicken.I can clean up the fish, but I can’t change the knife on the fish. For example, braised carp in brown sauce, king fish in braised sauce, saury in braised sauce, mirror fish in braised sauce, etc., the knife skills are very simple, and you can see it at a glance, but I am not allowed to move.

If you don't tell me to move, I won't move. I was a little angry at the beginning, but I was not angry at the end.Every time when cleaning these fishes, he gestured to change the knife with his hand, and he seemed to have a knife without a knife in his hand, and said with a smile that he had achieved the high level of water case.

I didn't need to clean up the goods in the first month, but I did it in the second month.For example, tidying up pork belly and fat intestines, at the beginning, it seemed dirty, but I gradually got used to it.

The three dishes made by the head chef are delicious, and every time the waiter withdraws the table, he will leave the three dishes alone.Because most of the work meals are potatoes, cabbage, and tofu, it is always annoying to eat.The waiters will save their favorite dishes to eat during work meals.One time, Wang Yan didn’t move much when she saw a plate of three dishes, so she kept it and gave me half of it. After eating it, she realized that three dishes were so delicious, so she had an impression of pork belly and fat intestines, and she was especially careful when cleaning them up. Be careful, and gesture how to change the knife.

The boss was born as a worker. Although he is the boss now, the simple and hard-working style of the workers still exists. In the words of the common people, it is still the same.A faucet in the kitchen was broken, a switch was changed, the sewer was connected, the chair at the front desk was broken, the door was broken, etc. All these tasks were done by him himself. I helped him when he was doing it, and gradually became his little follower.

There is a ten-year-old boy in his family who is in the third grade of elementary school. He eats at the restaurant every day after school and does his homework after dinner. I can explain math problems he doesn’t know. The little guy has a very good relationship with me. , always called Uncle Uncle.

People have feelings, and they know who they are after a long time.Whether it's practical or treacherous, smart or stupid, hypocritical or real, righteous or stingy, you know every bit of it, and you show it.No one is necessarily stupider than anyone else, and no one is worthless all his life. Otherwise, how could there be such words as great wisdom and stupidity and late blooming.

It’s been a long time, and everyone knows that I’m honest, I don’t have much to say, I get along well with the boss’s family of three, and the waiter at the front desk is also good.Only the people in the kitchen and I are still on guard, and it can’t be said to be on guard. In their eyes, I am just doing odd jobs, and there is no need to pay much attention to me, as long as I do my job well.The five of them always play together, eat and drink, and I am a non-staff.

If I don’t have the experience of being the head of a family, I might be angry with myself for being treated like this, but since I have been taking care of the family affairs since I was a teenager, I am familiar with their behavior. What I have experienced is impossible for them to experience, and I understand them. It is impossible to understand, so I understand, and I am not angry at all.

At the age of 21, I knew the hardships of life and what perseverance is too early. Their indifference and disapproval of me were nothing at all. The ridicule and ridicule I received were much more than this.

Everything needs to be taken care of. When I was learning bicycles at home, I had a feeling. When I first started learning, I made sure to find a wider and flat road to learn. But even then, if there is a brick or someone in front of me, I guarantee that Going towards bricks and people, why?Because the attention is not on the road ahead, but on the bricks and people.

Therefore, people must focus on the goal ahead, not on the obstacles, so that they can be confident and successful.

At the age of 21, I am in puberty, the impulse and fantasies towards the opposite sex are bound to exist, I am agitated and longing, I hope that there will be a beautiful girl, and I will love her.Whenever I think of these things, I feel beautiful in my heart, and feel hot all over, but when the hotness passes, I will calm down and think about myself. If I am so poor, will any girl be willing to marry me?This is a real problem. Premature maturity makes the rationality that should not appear always poured down like a pot of cold water when the passion is surging, mercilessly extinguishing the flame that ignited in the heart.

Don't think about it yet, focus on making money, pay off the famine at home first, then renovate the old house, tidy up the yard, and look like a living family.Learn to be a chef, earn more money, and then think about the daughter-in-law. It’s useless to think about it now. No one can marry me. Even if you fool around and lead the girl home, they will turn around when they see the jingle of poverty. Just leave, but it will only increase the sadness.

Don't think about anything, there are only two things in front of you, making money and learning skills.

Watching Shi Jun pursue Wang Yan, another water case and the waiter passionately in love, I don't have any ideas in my heart, what should I do.

The proprietress was very concerned about me, and asked me if I was in a hurry to see someone else?I said no rush.

The proprietress said with a smile: "He goes out to play with the waiter. It's boring for you to be in the dormitory alone. There are several waiters, and one of them is also there." I said, "My family is poor, and no one is with me."

"There's nothing to be afraid of being poor. Let's take it easy. When I married your elder brother, I had nothing. We lived a little bit." She said.

"I'm different from you. How can you say that you still have a job, which guarantees the harvest in drought and flood. I can't do it. I have nothing. I have to do it myself."

"It's good to learn to be a chef. In the future, chefs will be popular, and everyone will have to eat at any time."

"Well, don't you want to learn now?"

"Have a good time with the head chef, ask him to take you with you, and you will be able to cook in two years."

"Well, listen to sister-in-law."

She said: "Actually, your conditions are very good. There is only one mother and one brother in the family, unlike other people who have several brothers who don't have enough property. If a woman can see the long-term, she will look for someone like you. There is nothing to be afraid of being poor, you have never had a bad time with your heart.”

"It's good that I think like you. Now women are too sloppy, so I don't think like you." I said.

"I think the little Yin in front is pretty good, and her physique is not bad. In fact, you and her are everywhere."

The little Yin she was talking about was a waiter. She was tall and in good health. She was a fat beauty.Being able to work, it is not a problem to move two lunch boxes at once.

"No, I haven't thought about dating yet." I said.

"Already 21 and still not good? What are you waiting for?"

"No waiting, sister-in-law, I want to learn how to be a cook first, when to cook and when to cook."

"It doesn't take away from learning to be a cook when you have a date. One day, I will ask Xiao Yin to see if she has a date."

In August, the hottest month of the year, the aircraft factory began to take high-temperature holidays, and the number of guests in the hotel decreased a lot. There were only a few tables a day, and sometimes there was no table at all.

The boss said: "Let's also take a few days of high temperature vacation, everyone can rest."

Of course everyone is happy to hear that there is a holiday. The head chef asked, "Is there any salary for the holiday?"

The boss said, "No."

"If you don't get paid, you won't do it. We all quit." The head chef said.

"Okay, then you can withdraw." The boss said calmly.

As a result, everyone in the kitchen left except me.It stands to reason that I was recruited by the head chef, and he should take me with him when he leaves.The head chef told me that it doesn't matter where I do odd jobs, so here it is.It's nothing to throw me down, the most annoying thing is to deduct some of my salary, and I lost my temper unbearably.This time he didn't do anything, he just pulled his face down, and he gave me the money out of trouble.

After they left, I asked the boss: "Everyone has left, is there anyone when we open?"

The boss said: "Some people, they have long wanted to quit, and told me several times."

The proprietress asked me: "Xiao Tanzi, what are you going to do after the holiday?"

"I want to go home and have a look. The round-trip fare is quite expensive. Now it's not the harvest time, so I won't go back." I really want to go home and have a look, fearing that the job will be gone after I go home.

"If you don't go back, you will live in the dormitory. Every day you come to the hotel to eat, and I will be there every day." The proprietress said.

I nodded gratefully.

The boss asked: "Tan Zi, do you want to learn to be a chef?"

"Well, I want to learn."

"In the past few days, you go to the hotel owned by my friend to study. His food is good." The boss said.

As soon as he heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately said: "Is it okay? That's great."

"Yes, why not, it's a matter of one sentence." The boss continued: "But I have to go there the day after tomorrow. I will go out to do some errands tomorrow and send you there the day after tomorrow."

"Thank you."

I have to say that my luck is good, and I met good people when I came out. First, the boss who was doing the loading and unloading work was very good, and then Zhang Ge and the third sister didn't tell me. The current boss is still a good person, thank them.

I have nothing to do today and tomorrow, so I figured it out, went to see Gu Zhiyi today, and went to see Wang Jie Yingzi tomorrow.

When he arrived at Gu Zhiyi's place, he was busy and helped with some work.After doing odd jobs for three months, there are many places in the kitchen that I can get started with, unlike when I didn't know everything at the beginning.By the way, I also watched other chefs stir-fry. I feel that the dishes are better than Shengmei's, and they are more stylish.

After Gu Zhiyi got off work, he bought him a drink, and the two chatted by the way.In the provincial capital, he is the only male friend. We feel very cordial together, and he also has a big face, treating me like a younger brother.

I told him about the Shengmei Hotel in detail, and after hearing it, he said: "It's also a good thing to change the chef, and you can learn more."

I say yes."

"I have to go back to my hometown in two months." He said a little lonely.

"Go home, why?" I asked.

"The family wants me to go back and get married."

"It's fast? Will you come out after getting married?"

"Look, I want to come out. My family may not ask me to come back. If I get married, I have to have children. If I have children, I can't come out." He said helplessly.

I didn't say anything, if I can't get out of the family like him, I have to get married and have children at home and live a good life.

He sighed and said, "Look, it's actually pretty good at home. My girlfriend's father is the village chief, and the family conditions are good. After marriage, she will work at home."

Maybe it's because he's a few years older than me. He sees these things clearly, and the choice he made may be right.But I know that he doesn't want to be at home, he wants to wander outside, and use his ability to create a world.

Everyone who comes out to work hopes that he can do well outside and have a piece of sky of his own.The young heart is always restless, outlining the future in the enthusiasm again and again, squandering the priceless youth wantonly.

That was the last time I saw him. Two months later, he returned to his hometown. Before boarding the train, he called me and told me to work hard and strive to become a chef.

The first time I felt the departure of a friend, I felt very uncomfortable. I felt lost in my heart. I felt that this friend had gone away from my life, leaving nothing but his brother-like face and simple and honest smile.

(End of this chapter)