The story of a cook

Chapter 34 Prepare to go home
There is another month of Chinese New Year, and the sound of firecrackers is heard from time to time in the streets, and the air is filled with traces of the New Year.

Time flies so fast, it feels like a year has passed.

I went back home during a blind date in the first half of the year, and stayed with my mother for a few days. After half a year has passed, I feel a little homesick and miss my mother.

There is a high hall at home, and children do not travel far.

It is unfilial to leave my mother alone at home.There are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is having no descendants.After spending a year outside, I didn't even get a date, and when I returned home during the Chinese New Year, I had to accept three interrogations from my mother and sisters. Thinking about it, I felt a little uneasy and frightened.But no matter how apprehensive or frightened, I can't stop the desire to go home for the New Year.

If you have money or not, go home for the New Year.

The Chinese New Year is coming, and everyone is busy shopping, and the most frequently bought clothes are clothes.Buy it for yourself, buy it for your parents, and bring it back when you go back to your hometown, so that your parents will be happy.

I'm not in a hurry, because what the family lacks is not clothes, but money.

From childhood to adulthood, I don’t have much desire for new clothes every Chinese New Year. It’s not that I’m sensible, but I’m used to it after not wearing a few new clothes.It doesn't matter whether you wear it or not, it's the same for Chinese New Year.I remember that when I was in junior high school, I was not tall, and the clothes I wore were all worn by my sisters.What impressed me the most was wearing the pants of my sisters, with the door open on the side, which was quite awkward, and it was easy to be unable to unbutton the buttons when I was in a hurry to go to the toilet.This is the case with clothes. As long as you don't feel ugly, no one will say you are ugly. Beauty and ugliness are all in yourself, and have nothing to do with clothes.

There were snowflakes in the sky, and the first snow in [-] came without a sound.

Xueluo was soft and silent, and the whole world was quiet.

Looking at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, I am worried and melancholy.

Brother Feng came back from the outside, shook the snow on his body vigorously, and said to the boss: "Boss, I don't think the snow will stop today, and there are no people. It's Saturday. Let's have some food and drink."

"Drink at what time, wait for a while, in case there are guests." The boss glanced at the quartz clock on the wall, and the time was five o'clock in the afternoon.

"No one can come here, the heavy snow is at home." Brother Feng said.

"What do you want to eat?" asked the boss.

"Greedy dog ​​meat, stewed sauerkraut is fine, put two big bones."

"Where is dog meat? Let's stew some sauerkraut."

After the boss finished speaking, he called the fourth brother to stew sauerkraut, and Brother Feng went to the front.

"Third brother, go and see if Sun Mei is not in the store." The boss said.

"No, he dares to drink at this time in the store?" I said.

Brother Feng was very afraid of Sun Mei. If Sun Mei was in the store at this time, he would not dare to drink.I admire Sun Mei's ability very much. Since the opening, she can go to the factory every month to ask for money, unlike the previous boss who couldn't ask for money.Naturally, there are some gossips in it, and they are just talking, no one is going to get to the bottom of it.

There are some things that people know well, and often they pretend to be confused when they know well.

"Go and have a look." The boss said, he wanted to make sure.

When they came to the front desk, the waiters were sitting around the table, Zhang Ling was alone at the bar, and Sun Mei was not in sight.I asked the waiter if Sun Mei had come, and the waiter said that she hadn't come since she left at noon.

When I went back to the kitchen and told the boss that Sun Mei was not there, the boss said, "It's okay if she's not here, but I won't drink if she's here. Let her make trouble."

"This time you two drink, I won't accompany you." I said.Every time the two of them drink, they take me with them. Drinking with the boss is okay, but drinking with Brother Feng is a bit boring, so I don't want to drink.

"We are so boring." The boss said, "I don't want to drink with him either, Moji, if you don't drink, I won't drink either."

"Other things, ask the second child to drink with you two." I said.

"Don't call me, I'm not going." The second child immediately declared.

The fourth child finished stewing the sauerkraut, but the wine was not finished. Sun Mei called Feng Ge away, saying that everyone had a work meal and left work immediately after the work meal.

Unexpectedly, this was the result, and I couldn't help being overjoyed. The boss suggested a drink, and we responded together. The fourth stewed another dish for the waiter, and then started to drink.

After drinking, the boss locked the hotel door from the outside and started walking to the dormitory.

The snow is still falling, and the snowflakes are flying all over the sky under the street lamps, eloquently.

"Little brother—" someone shouted behind him, and the voice was Zhang Ling.

Stop, the boss and the second child continue to move forward.

Zhang Ling came over, took off the down jacket and hat, and said to me with a smile: "It's great when it snows, and it's not cold to walk outside for a while."

It's not cold, it's warm.

She held my arm, and we walked slowly, neither of us talking, enjoying the snow.

"I like snow at home, and I am willing to walk in the snow." She said.

"I like it too. I feel calm when it snows." I said.

"When I was young, I would run outside when it snowed, play hard outside, and be scolded if I didn't come home. I was not in good shape, and I couldn't catch a cold every now and then."

"Didn't you realize that you look like Lin Daiyu?"

"I'm much better than her."

"You two are blocked by walls inside and outside."

She pinched me and said, "Go, I'm in good shape now, just a little thinner."

I looked at her, the red mole between her eyebrows was very beautiful.

Withdrawing his gaze, he looked at the snow in front of him and said, "It's so soon, it's the Chinese New Year."

"Go home for Chinese New Year?" she asked.

I said: "Go back, why don't you go home, who doesn't go home during the Chinese New Year."

"I don't want to go back." She was silent for a while.

Thinking of what she told me about her, I know the entanglement in her heart.

"Sister, I don't know if I'm right, but I think you have to go home for the New Year."

"You don't want to go home, and you don't want to go home. You're afraid of being sad when you go home. Just take me, my mother promises to miss me every day at home, especially during the Chinese New Year, and looks forward to her old son going back to be with her. Have a reunion year together. If I don’t go home for the New Year, I can imagine my mother crying when she thinks of me at home alone. It makes me feel uncomfortable when I think about it, so I have to go home. I can’t make her sad, let alone Let her cry, if that's the case, I, a son, can't bear it."

"Actually, sister, you are the same. Your parents are the same as my mother. They miss you at home and hope that you will go back during the Chinese New Year. The family will have a good New Year. This year you are outside, they don't have to worry too much. What? If you don’t go back, they will be sad and shed tears. They have to eat their New Year’s Eve dinner with tears. I don’t know about you. Anyway, I can’t bear it. I’m afraid my mother will cry. In fact, you are the same too. "

Watching her eye circles slowly turn red, and tears flowed——
"Sister, I'll bring you one when I buy the bus ticket."

The next day the snow stopped and it was a bit cold.

At noon, the second child and the fourth child went to the mall, and the eldest child and we stayed in the lounge, he read novels, and I tinkered with the carving knife.

"Third brother, people buy clothes to dress up during the Chinese New Year, don't you dress up?" the eldest asked.

"If you don't dress up, you always dress like this." I said.

"Did you wear this dress back home during the Chinese New Year? Don't make people laugh." He said.

"If you like a joke, make a joke, and we don't care about it." I said, "It's not a joke if you don't joke that your clothes are worse than this. It's a joke to make jokes about your clothes." Look at what you're wearing, and say: "Besides My body is good enough, isn't it okay?"

"Okay, okay, isn't it new?" Lao Dao said.

"It's okay, I think it's good enough, as long as I go home for the Chinese New Year, my mother will be happy, it doesn't matter what I wear."

"That's true." He said, and then asked: "Aren't you going to buy something for your mother to take home? Why don't you just go back to visit my mother with nothing?"

"Of course I have to buy it for my mother." I said.

"Whether the money is enough or not enough, I have it." What he said made my heart warm.

"Enough." I said.

"I have a leather jacket at home. It's new. Tong Erbao bought it. I haven't worn it since I bought it. I'll bring it to you when I get home. You can wear it just right."

"You can wear it yourself, it's too expensive to afford."

"Look at your shriveled appearance, I don't ask you for money if I give it to you." He said loudly.

"It costs nothing more."

The boss is very kind to me and takes good care of me.I have been to his house, his house is in Xiaoheyan, a big house with three bedrooms and two halls.At his house, he saw a letter of appointment hanging on the wall. It was given to his father by the first mayor of the provincial capital. The old man was the director of the Eighth Bureau of the provincial capital.

Now that the old man has retired, he is paralyzed in bed due to hemiplegia, but he is very energetic and has a big back. He looks like a person who has been in the upper class for a long time.The eldest mother is a very cheerful and optimistic old lady who can smoke and drink some wine.

When I went there, the eldest daughter was doing homework, and the little girl was tall and very quiet. The little girl couldn't imagine that there would be such a messy father like the boss.

The boss has a strong background, and he came down from the front line of the old mountain. I don't know why he got mixed up with the society.

Zhang Ling went to the lounge and asked me to accompany her to the mall, I frowned and didn't want to go, it's not a good job to go shopping with a woman, it's more tiring than working.

"Can't you go?" I asked.

"No, you have to go with me, you persuaded me." She is still dependent on me.

"You find someone else."

"Who are you looking for? Everyone on duty has disappeared." Then he looked at me and said, "My dear brother, go with my sister. My sister even bought cotton shoes with you."

There are many people in the mall, most of them are buying clothes.Zhang Ling bought a coat for each of her parents, a coat for herself, and plans to buy a pair of trousers for her father.

I tried on the top when I bought it for her dad, and she said her dad was about my size.She chose a pair of casual jeans and asked me to try them on, and they fit well, so she bought them.After buying it, she asked me if I would buy it, and I said no, but she said she wouldn't buy anything for your mother?I said buy, but the ones here are not good, and I plan to go to the city to buy them in a few days.

"What should I buy for your mother? None of the ones here are suitable." She asked.

"Buy shoes, old lady's shoes." I replied.

"Let's take a look, if there is a suitable one, save it and go to the city."

"I've seen it a long time ago. No, it's said that the goods will come in two days. If they don't come in two days, I'll go to the city to buy them."

"Oh, really?" She said, "That's fine, I'll come with you in two days."

It's not too busy at night, there are no customers at eight o'clock, everyone cleans up and prepares to leave work.

The fourth child said that he would not go back to the dormitory today and would go home.The second child said that he also had something to do, and it was probably negotiating with Zhou Lan.

The boss looked at me and said, "It's just the two of us, what are we going to do?"

"Go back to bed," I said.

"You'll just tinker with your broken carving knife when you go back. What am I going to do? If you don't want to go to Sister Zhang's house."

"What time is it to go to my house, they are already going to bed early." I said.

"No, she won't sleep with anyone. I'll call her home first and ask. If she doesn't sleep, we'll go there."

The boss went to the front desk to make a call, and the fourth child said, "Third brother, look at the boss, don't tell him to drink too much."

I said: "Whoever drinks too much will not take the drink too much, he can drink more than anyone else."

The boss came back and said to me with a smile: "Third brother, it's done. Sister Zhang is making dumplings at home. Brother Sun works overtime today and gets off work at nine o'clock. It's just right for us to go."

"I'm not going home today." The fourth child said.

"Go back, I didn't include your share." The boss said loudly.

(End of this chapter)