The story of a cook

Chapter 402
Looking at Bao Peng, I seem to see the child of the third sister's family.

"I think you are also a filial child. You are not like other children who don't know anything. Listen to the master. From tomorrow onwards, we will not go to Internet cafes. This month, we will start buying clothes and a pair of cotton shoes for ourselves. Wait a minute If you save money every month, you can still pay back a month's salary when you go home during the Chinese New Year. You two have a monthly salary of more than 1000 yuan. You can buy something for your parents, your father, and your younger sister, and earn a year's income. The money is gone, so you can't go back empty-handed, and let the neighbors laugh at you, right?"

"Well, it's the master." He whispered back.

"You are a 19-year-old boy. If you were living in the past, you should be living alone. I said, don't be angry. Your father has a disabled leg. Every month you earn that little money to support your family, your grandfather, and you. My little girl goes to school, let’s not talk about getting money from home, no matter what, we can’t ask the family to give us money. You can’t get money from playing games, so you can only take money from it. Hearing you say that your family’s conditions are not too high. Well, you have to share some burdens for your father, Nineteen, it’s time for a man.”

I said, and he bowed his head and listened.

"If you go back this year to buy clothes for your mother, two bottles of good wine for your father, a pair of shoes for your grandfather, and a better down jacket for your little sister, they will be so happy. I shed tears, and I have to mutter in my heart even if I don’t say it on my mouth. My son has grown up and is sensible, and he knows that he loves his mother. Little brother, the master is optimistic about you, you are a good boy."

He raised his head slowly, and I saw that his eyes were a little damp.

"Come on, have a drink." I said to him with a smile while holding the glass.

"Master, don't worry, I promise not to play."

"I believe in you, otherwise I wouldn't go to the Internet cafe with you." I said, "I will teach you how to drink in the future. There is no man who can't drink."

He smiled.

"Hey, coincidentally, Master Tan is also here."

I turned around to look, and Sister Jiang and the hotel bar were also coming to eat, and Sister Jiang was looking at me with a smile.

I said, "It's a coincidence, you two just came out of the hotel?"

"At the end, the guests at this table were moaning. I told the waiter on duty to go home. Her home is far away, and it takes half an hour to ride a bicycle. I was on duty for her for a while before leaving. I was a little hungry. I went with Xiaona. Come have some dumplings."

I said: "Then sit down, it's better to catch up sooner than later, we just ate."

Sister Jiang said: "Together, someone happened to be drinking with me. Xiaona can't even drink a bottle of beer. Let's have a drink with you."

Bao Peng said: "It happens that I can't drink too. Manager Jiang, you can drink with my master."

Hearing Bao Peng call me master, Sister Jiang said: "When did Master Tan accept apprentices?"

I said, "All apprentices are brothers, that's what they call you."

Sister Jiang said to Bao Peng: "Bao Peng, you worship Master Tan as your teacher. Master Tan cooks well and has a good personality. It is right to follow him."

Bao Peng was clever and immediately asked me: "Master, do you accept apprentices?"

"No, I'm still hunting around for food. Why would I accept an apprentice." I said.

"Follow him if you don't accept him, you can follow him wherever he goes, relying on him." Sister Jiang gave Bao Peng a bad idea.

I said, "Sister, let's have a drink."

Children can be brought with them, but apprentices are not allowed.Still can't be someone's master, not qualified enough.

The more I work in the chef industry, the more afraid I am, and I find that my level is far worse than that of other masters.It's not like when I first started cooking on the stove, I felt that I could cook. I felt that cooking was nothing, and I started to feel dizzy. I don't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is.After continuing to work, I realized that cooking is not an easy task. I have a lot of knowledge, and my level is not enough.

When I was in He Yuxuan, I felt that I was very powerful, and I was a little flustered at that time.When I arrived at Laohanshanzhuang, I found that I seemed to know how to cook, that is, I just entered the profession of chefs.When I was in Linjiangxuan, I felt that I was a little bit beginner, and only then did I understand what a chef is.I'm not a chef yet, just a cook, a cook who can cook.If you want to reach the level of "teacher", you have to continue to practice, after all, you have to realize your own cooking skills.

Wu has martial arts, and cooks have cooking skills.

There is no one way to understand the Tao, and those who have achieved it are teachers.

A person's life is a process of experiencing, enlightening, and cultivating the Tao.

Many people say that life is a practice, and they agree with this statement. This practice is a life of enlightenment. In the words of ordinary people, it means living well, being a good person, and being a good person.

It is said to be a good person, but not so easy to do, how many people can resist the temptation not to make mistakes?How many people can truly be their true selves without hypocrisy?
The most difficult thing for a person is to keep one's heart, not to do things that violate conscience and morality, and to be a pure person.

I know I can't do it, I can only try to be a good person.

Sister Jiang is very good at drinking, which has something to do with her being a hotel manager for these years.Doing management work in a hotel, even if you can't drink alcohol, you can practice alcohol.The few women I know, Zhang Li, Li Shuang, Zheng Jiaqi, and Zhou Xiaomei can drink, and none of them can't.Especially Zhou Xiaomei, I can't get enough of her.

Xiaona and Bao Peng at the bar couldn't afford to compensate us, so they left early after eating the dumplings.

"Why are you still drinking with Xiao Bao today? Didn't Zhao Gang accompany you?" Sister Jiang asked.

"Zhao Gang went back to the dormitory. Xiaobao and I went to the Internet cafe. We were a little hungry when we came out. Come and eat some dumplings." I said.

"Are you still online?" She asked a little surprised.

"I'm not going, and I don't know how to surf the Internet. This is the first time I'm going to see the world." I said.

She laughed and asked me, "Do you want a wife?"

I said, "A little bit."

"Hehe, if you want a daughter-in-law, you can ask for leave and go home. It's not far from the provincial capital. It takes two hours by train to stay at home and then come back. There is no delay." She said.

"My daughter-in-law is not at home, but at her mother's house. My child is only six months old, and I am taking care of the child." I said.

"Your child is only six months old?" She was a little disbelieving, and then said, "I think about it, how can your child be five or six years old?"

I smiled and said, "I got married late, I didn't get married until I was thirty."

She said: "I see that you chefs are all married late."

I said, "Almost, there are also those who get married early."

"It's useless for you to think that your daughter-in-law will go home. If your daughter-in-law is not at home, even if you go back, you won't be able to solve the problem. Otherwise, sister will find you an iron man here." Sister Jiang joked.

I said, "No, I don't have any money to deal with irons."

"What money does Tiezi spend? It's called looking for a young lady when you spend money." Sister Jiang said.

I smiled and said, "Do you think I look like a person who can deal with irons? When looking for irons, you have to find someone who looks the same. Grandma like me doesn't like it."
Uncle does not love no one to find. "

"You are the only one who is looking for it. Now who is looking for the little boy, the little boy has no good intentions." Sister Jiang laughed first after she finished speaking.

Instead of entangled in this matter, I asked her: "Sister, where was your previous work unit?"

"The Bureau of Mines has managed the tap water, and now it is also suspended without pay," she said.

"Tap water is a good unit." I said.

"The unit is very good. I went to work early and picked up my mother's class. I went to work when I was seventeen. When I caught up with the layoffs at the unit, I directly applied for a suspension of pay and stayed at my job. I started to come down and do business with a few of my classmates. At that time, my sister was crazy, and the family conditions were good, so I couldn’t go to the small broken class. I made some money in business for a few years, which was much more than going to work. I saw that it was better than going to work. I decided what I said, no one cared , I don’t even want to go to work. A few of my friends separated later, some went out to work alone, and some went back to work. At that time, I met people in the society, and there was an older brother who opened a hotel, so I went to be a manager for him. That’s all. In [-], I can’t go to work even if I want to go to work now. The tap water in our Mining Bureau is under the management of the municipal government. Waiting for retirement to pull it down," she said.

I asked, "Then do you have medical insurance, old age insurance or something?"

She said: "Not now, but when I retire."

"That's okay." I said.

"Okay, I'm grateful to the Communist Party. I haven't worked in these years and the unit has kept it for me. At least I have old insurance when I'm old." She said.

I said: "You can all have a unit, and you will be guaranteed when you are old. You can't do it like me. You have to rely on yourself. When you are old, you have nothing. Now you have to work hard. If you don't earn money, you will earn it when you are old." If you don’t come, you will starve to death.”

"Now there are still people starving to death. When they are old, their children will grow up and they will feed them." She said.

"Sister, you probably don't even believe this. Do you believe that today's children can support the old? I don't believe it. It's okay for our generation to support the old." I said.

"You're telling the truth. Our generation still knows how to support the elderly. We can't say what will happen to our next generation. Now we're all like grandpas. It's hard to support ourselves. It's fine if we don't need us to support them after we get married." gone."

"So I have to work hard to earn money. I used to raise my children to look after my old age, but now I save money to look after my old age."

"We are all similar, and we will be the same when we get old." She said, "I don't have children now. It's good to have no children. It's easy. I don't want children in this life."

I said, "You can't live alone all the time, you have to find someone who suits you."

"If you don't look for it, why do you look for that? Live alone, and when you're lonely, you'll be an iron man. That's the thing between a man and a woman. They need each other. Don't expect to grow old together. The original spouse will not work. Halfway is even more useless. , all live in secret, if that's the case, it's better to be an iron man. Don't bother anyone when the old man can't move, it's good to stay in the nursing home, give the pension to the nursing home, someone will take care of you, and a group of old men The old lady is not bored together, and she likes to do whatever she wants when she dies. Anyway, she doesn’t know what to do when she dies. We don’t care whether it’s cremated or thrown on the mountain to feed the rabbits. In the next life, it’s still a matter of whether or not to care for the living. thing."

"Let's live a good life while I'm doing well now, live happily and live, don't wrong yourself, am I right Brother Tan?"

I said, "Yes, you are right, you really understand."

"I understand what I'm doing. I'm living a selfish way. I don't care about the things in my life." She continued: "People can't live too tired. Why do you make yourself so tired? I don't think about anything. Just eat enough and not hungry every day, just follow your own mood. I am [-] years old during the Chinese New Year, and I still think about the use of those. I am fine if I am not sick or disaster. I don’t have much money. I don’t have enough money. Yes, if there is a disease or something, there is insurance. I am enjoying it now. One day you come to my house and have a look. Don’t think that I have everything by myself. You will enjoy it. Going to work every day is like exercising and relaxing, and I am at home alone It's boring, go to work and be happy with everyone, and there's nothing to worry about, right?"

I said, "Yes, I am envious of you."

"Why do you envy me? Don't envy me. In fact, I envy you who have a family and a job. You have someone to accompany you when you go home, and you have children by your side. You also have a way to live. Don't envy anyone. We all have our own way of life. , also have their own difficulties, it is difficult for you to know yourself, you don’t have to say it all the time, and no one will do it for you, you have to solve it yourself. So don’t think about it, just move forward, you are all rushing to die , the destination is the same, no one should envy anyone, no one should look down on anyone, when you have money, you can’t take it with you, when you die without money, someone will carry it, if you cross the Naihe Bridge, you will be reincarnated in the same way. Those who can come back and live again, live this life well. Isn't it?"

"Sister, what you said makes sense, and my heart is open to hearing what you say." I said.

"Come on, talk to my sister when you have nothing to do. Don't always drink alone. When you drink, you want to say hello to me. I will tell you well. Maybe I will find you an iron man if I am happy. The woman I know But many, they are not ordinary people, they can live better than me, and they are nourishing." She said.

"It's fine to chat with you. I'm afraid we won't be good enough to chat with others."

"Hehe, that's because you haven't chatted with them, and they are almost rare." She said, "People, there is only a good look on the face, and it looks the same when the face is covered, so you can't tell the difference. If To be able to tell the difference between high and low depends on one's conscience, on whether one's actions are upright or not. In this life, if you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. If you do too many bad things, you won't be able to sleep. It doesn't look good."

"Let me tell you, brother, my sister is too particular, she has a good heart, and she is always deceived. One thing I can assure you is that she has never done anything wrong, never cheated anyone, and never cheated anyone." She Sighed, and then said: "Fucking let others lie, tell you that my sister actually hates you provincial men, just like Zhang Tao, how nice I am to him, he is also nice to others, throw me aside Now, when he regrets—he is not a human being."

After she finished talking, she still wanted to drink, so I said stop drinking, let's go back.

She's a little drunk.

(End of this chapter)