The story of a cook

Chapter 344 Drinking and Relaxing
When I was about to get off work on October [-], Zheng Jiaqi called me in the kitchen and told me to go out for dinner after get off work.

I asked, "Where are we going to eat?"

She said: "Just find a small restaurant nearby to eat, don't you know which one is delicious?"

I said, "I haven't eaten here for a long time, and I don't know which one is delicious."

She said: "Let's talk about it when I get off work, and look for it first."

I have been in Linjiangxuan for more than three months, but I have never eaten outside. The only time I ate was at Mala Hero, which is a high-consumption place. If the boss didn’t spend money to beat me to death, I wouldn’t go there. Local food, we haven't reached that level yet, so we can't afford it.

The monthly salary is 2000 yuan, which is 500 yuan less than when she was in Laohan Villa. Lin Yan is still at home waiting to give birth and does not go to work. She feels a lot of pressure and dare not be extravagant in spending money.After the salary is paid every month, [-] yuan is left as pocket money and the rest is handed over, fearing that one day it will be accidentally spent in my hands.

Life without money is really hard. If you don’t want to have no money, you have to work hard to make money.

Lin Yan stayed at her mother's house, and didn't come back for Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. First, I was busy these two days and didn't have time to take care of her. Second, it was also the harvest season, so she could still help her mother-in-law at her mother's house. Do some work within my ability, my mother-in-law is harvesting autumn outside, she cooks at home, and can also help feed the pigs.

My hometown is also harvesting in autumn. Fortunately, the land at home is leased out, and my mother doesn't have to go up to the mountains to harvest crops.The last time I went back, I left 2000 yuan for my mother, which was enough for her to spend for a while.My mother doesn't spend much money at home, and she just saves money if she is given it.My mother has been frugal all her life and will not spend a penny indiscriminately.This time when she heard that Lin Yan was pregnant, she was so happy that she was from ear to ear. She probably started saving money for her unborn grandson (or granddaughter).

Brother Lin Yan's college entrance examination this year is not ideal, and he wants to review for another year and continue to take the exam next year.I support his admission to university. After all, there is no way out for farming at home. If he can be admitted to university, he has found a good way out for himself.

I didn't get to go to college and I hope someone else goes to college.

After get off work, I went outside the hotel with Zheng Jiaqi, Li Shuang, and Zhang Li, planning to find a restaurant for dinner.

Zhang Li asked me: "Old Tan, you have been here for a long time and still don't know which restaurant is delicious nearby?"

I said, "I don't know, I don't come out to eat either."

"I know how to save money." Zhang Li said.

"That's not true, but save if you can. You have to earn money for the baby's milk powder." I said.

"If you don't tell me, I'd forget. You are going to be a father. When will you be born?"

"It's early, around May [-]st of the Chinese New Year."

"That's not fast, we'll get there when we talk about it, everything is slow now, but life goes by fast."

The four of us walked along the street. There were many small restaurants on both sides of the street. Some of them were closed for get off work, and some were still open.There is a very popular one in front, and when I got closer, it was a barbecue restaurant. I haven't eaten barbecue for a long time, and everyone unanimously decided to eat barbecue.

There are many people inside, most of them are young people, there are employees who are off work from nearby restaurants, and some are employees who work overtime in nearby office buildings.

I ordered a lot of skewers, and Li Shuang was going to order a roast leg of lamb, but unfortunately they didn't have any, so I couldn't help but order a pot of Malatang.

Li Shuang said: "Linjiangxuan is really busy, I'm almost exhausted."

Zhang Li said: "As long as you are delicate, how can you make money if you are not tired?"

Li Shuang said: "Then his family is too busy, and it seems that they don't need money for food. I wonder what delicious food is there, so I eat it every day."

Zhang Li said: "It's an old shop with many main roads. Many people are willing to come to his house, and the food is not expensive."

Zheng Jiaqi said: "It's not that expensive. I don't think it's as expensive as Laohan Shanzhuang's dishes."

I said, "It's not as expensive as Laohan Shanzhuang. The main reason is that this is their own house and there is no rent. Others can't compare with this."

Zhang Li said: "There is no rent, but his family's other expenses are quite high, and they don't make much money."

I asked, "What do you mean by other expenses?"

Zhang Li said: "For example, in the field of maintenance, five people are supported. Under normal circumstances, three people are enough. There are also many people in the logistics area. There are three people for purchasing, one for accountants, one for cashiers, and one for storage. You Look at our security guards, there are four of them, if all of them are okay, they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, none of them are young, and they are all relatives, so they can't afford to offend them."

She shed tears a little while watching the Three Kingdoms, worrying about the ancients.

"I guess the boss can't help it. Four bosses, if you arrange one, he will arrange another, and there will be too many arrangements. No one is embarrassed." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"This thing is like this. Favors are favors. Business is business. If you want to talk about favors, don't get involved in business. It's hard to talk because it's in the way of face. Now it's making money. When you don't make money, you don't want to make trouble. It's a loss." Or buy and sell by yourself," Zhang Li said.

"You have enough to worry about. That's not your business. Let's just do our job well. Don't worry about that carelessness. Besides, worrying is useless. It can't change anything, and it makes yourself angry. What is the intention?" Li Shuang said to Zhang Li.

Zhang Li took a sip of the wine and said, "What can I do? I just look angry."

"It's useless to be angry. As long as we can't change it, don't change it. It's not too late to change it when we have the ability. Now it's much better than in the past. Take your front desk as an example. The waiters have a sense of service. Yes, customer satisfaction has improved, and customer complaints are much less than before, this is the achievement, you should first stabilize the current achievements and solidify them, and don’t rebound.” I said.

"There will be no rebound." Zhang Li said: "Last night, I told them not to rush for success, just stabilize the existing ones and let the waiters get used to it. Now lay the foundation and start working." Just take it easy."

"You think well, I admire you." I gave her a thumbs up.

"Admiration ass, just make fun of me. If I knew that his family's internal relationship is so complicated, I wouldn't come here." She complained a little.

"You didn't come here for his family, you came here for Master Tan, didn't you just want to be with him, everyone knows that." Li Shuang said with a smile.

"I know what's wrong, I'm here for Lao Tan, no way." Zhang Li admitted directly without hiding her point of view.

Zheng Jiaqi sighed in self-pity.

"If this person is unreasonable, ghosts will be afraid."

The four of us were drinking, and four young people came in outside. They were all front desk attendants of Linjiangxuan. They seemed a little embarrassed to see the four of us drinking here. One of the older ones said: "The leaders are all here. I'm eating, sorry to bother you."

Zhang Li invited: "You guys also come over to make skewers, let's go together."

The waiter said: "No, manager, you can eat yours, we will leave after eating some skewers."

One of the waiters was on the third floor, who was familiar with Zheng Jiaqi, and said to Zheng Jiaqi, "Minister Zheng is quite good at drinking."

"Why don't we have a drink." Zheng Jiaqi said with a smile.

The waiter smiled and said: "Someday, someday we will drink alone, I invite you."

Zheng Jiaqi said: "Okay, wait for you, you should drink less, it's not good for the little girl to drink too much."

The waiter said, "Don't worry, minister, I won't drink much, I'll only have two bottles of beer."

Four waiters sat down at a table not far from us and we continued to drink ours.

"Old Tan, the chairman said he would open a store in Japan and asked you to train the head chef, but he didn't say who he would call?" Zhang Li asked.

"I didn't say that." I said.

"Can I call you over?" she asked.

"Are you dreaming?" I said to her, "It is impossible to ask me to come over. I have only been here for three months, and there are many people who have worked here for more than ten years. It is not my turn. She has to arrange for her relatives to go over. "

Zhang Li said: "It's not necessarily true. No matter what you say, you have to arrange a capable past."

"We all know that going abroad is a good thing, and you can see the world if you earn a lot of money. If your boss doesn't arrange for your relatives to go, will you arrange outsiders?" I said.

"If you want, I will arrange capable ones."

I said: "That's you. We can't do it in Linjiangxuan. There are so many old employees waiting, and they are all fighting with the chairman. At this time, we have to arrange for old employees, and people close to me have to go there. Otherwise, it will be chilling, who else will follow you when the time comes."

At this time Li Shuang said: "Arrange no one, don't arrange for Du Dapeng to go, that kind of person will also embarrass the Chinese people if he goes out."

"He really offended you." Zheng Jiaqi said with a smile.

"Yes, it just offended me, just looking at him makes me angry."

"What's wrong? He teased you again?" Zheng Jiaqi asked.

"That's not true, how many more times do you need to tease me?" Li Shuang said angrily, "If he dares to tease me again, I'll tell him to know who I am. I'm not a vegetarian."

"Why, what are you doing to others?" Zhang Li laughed.

"Well, as long as you don't offend me, if you offend me, I'll let him know."

"I guess he knows what you are like now, so he doesn't dare to tease you anymore." I said.

"Better this way."

To say that Li Shuang is really like this, with a short temper, she can do whatever she likes with anyone she likes, but she can't do anything with anyone she doesn't like, with a distinct personality.

After we chatted, we came to the kitchen, Zhang Li said: "Old Tan, I think our head chef doesn't care about anything for a day, he just came to the office to drink tea and chat. It’s too leisurely to walk around in the kitchen.”

"He has been here since he opened his business, and he has made great contributions. Now he is qualified to be idle." I said.

"That's too leisurely, almost nothing to do."

"He can't control it either. The bosses of all the stalls in the kitchen are relatives of the boss, and their roots are harder than him. He manages and no one listens to him." I said, "I heard that Du Dapeng scolded him in front of the kitchen staff. After him, what happened in the later stage, it was just like that. When the ordinary employees don’t care, they are obedient. He is also very embarrassed now, he can’t care about those who make mistakes, and don’t care about the obedient ones. "

"If you don't want to offend people, it's better not to do it. It's more worry-free, and you won't offend people at all." Tang Ting said.

"Who will pay you if you don't do it, you can earn thousands of dollars a month, and you don't have to worry about anything else, just leave it alone." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"It seems easy to you." I disagreed with what they said, "Let's put it this way, you've been here for almost a month, and from what you've seen, let me ask you, is it good to be the head chef in our kitchen? "

Zheng Jiaqi thought for a while and said, "It's really not easy to be. The relationship in our kitchen is too complicated. It's not as easy as our front desk."

"It's not easy to be a head chef in our kitchen. The employees are all relatives of the boss. It doesn't matter who doesn't listen to anyone. It's useless to be a head chef. It's just a better name and more money. Don't do it." Li Shuang expressed the same opinion as Zheng Jiaqi.

"I wonder why you and your master don't become head chefs." Zhang Li asked.

"My master is not proper at all. I don't want to be one. I just want to practice my cooking skills here. You have to practice your skills in such a busy restaurant. I cook here for a year before going out to guarantee my skills. Much improved." I said.

"That's what you plan to do." Zhang Li looked at me, and then said, "It seems that you don't plan to work here for a long time."

"It's hard to say. If you are stable, you can work here for a long time. It depends on what will happen in the future." I said, "It looks good now, but no one knows what will happen in the future. This kind of family business is too variable. No one can guarantee that it will always be like this.”

"Actually, he is too rich. It doesn't matter to him whether he earns more money or not. Even if he quits now, he will still have enough money to spend in his life." Zhang Li said.

"Who knows, I have no money, and I can't rise to their heights. I don't know what they think, but I can see a truth from them. Do business by yourself, and resolutely don’t join forces.” I said.

Zhang Li asked: "You don't want to partner with me?"

I said, "No, we can drink and chat together if we don't, and we are still friends. If we get together, we may not even drink and chat together. If we don't, we won't even be friends. What's the point?"

"That's right, Lao Tan waits for you to open a restaurant and I'll wash the dishes for you." Zhang Li joked.

"That's not overkill."

"It's overqualified, as long as you take care of your food."

Zheng Jiaqi said to Zhang Li: "You are easy to talk, I thought I had to keep it under control."

Zhang Li said: "I don't need to live here, I will take care of him."

(End of this chapter)