The story of a cook

Chapter 410 A New Year's Eve Dinner
There is no time in the kitchen, and a spring and autumn in a blink of an eye.

This is how the year came.

All the private rooms are fully booked at noon on New Year's Eve, and they all have New Year's dinner.

In the evening, only ten tables were reserved, all of which started at 04:30.After lunch, everyone prepared the ingredients for the evening without taking a break. It was almost four o'clock after they were ready. After a short rest, the guests began to come up, and then they fried the evening dishes, and waited until six o'clock when the dishes were finished.Then I started to clean up the sanitation. After cleaning up the sanitation, the local staff didn't eat and went home for the New Year. There were only me, Zheng Jiaqi, and the pastry chef in the whole kitchen.

I went to the front desk and asked Sister Jiang how many people were eating in the restaurant. Sister Jiang said that only the boss's brother-in-law and a passer-by were eating here, and the rest were going home to eat.

It's good to be close to home, you can go home for the New Year.

Sister Jiang asked Zheng Jiaqi and me to go to her house to celebrate the New Year, but I couldn’t say no, because the people who celebrate the New Year are all reunited with their own family members, so it’s not good to go to an outsider.Zheng Jiaqi also refused to go, and ate at the restaurant, and went back to the dormitory to sleep after eating, and the year passed.

The Chinese New Year is like this, one night, the thirty past year is considered to be over, if you are homesick, it will be a bit uncomfortable at the thirty night, I feel uncomfortable, sleep and wake up until the first day of the new year, everything has passed, and it is no different from ordinary days .

Seeing that Zheng Jiaqi and I didn't go to her house, Sister Jiang didn't force it. After all, she went to his brother's house for the New Year, and my father was at his brother's house.It's not like spending the New Year in your own home and you decide what you say.

Back to the kitchen to cook four dishes, the pastry chef cooked two plates of dumplings, Zheng Jiaqi cut two pig's trotters, and the remaining five of us were ready to eat.

It was already seven o'clock when we ate, and the guests withdrew one after another, all anxious to go home to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Sister Jiang came to our table after changing her clothes and said with a smile, "I'll have a drink with you and then go home."

I said, "Thank you sister, you better stop drinking, the family is waiting."

"Don't worry, just eat dumplings tonight, it's not time yet," Sister Jiang said.

Sister Jiang had a drink with us and left. When she left, she said that if her brother's house had dumplings early, she would come and pick me up with Zheng Jiaqi to her house for the New Year.I said there's no need to bother, and Zheng Jiaqi and I drank more, and went back to sleep after drinking.

After Sister Jiang left, the five of us continued to eat.The boss’s brother-in-law doesn’t drink alcohol, Chuancai’s baby is too young to drink alcohol, the pastry chef is okay, he can drink two bottles of beer, and Zheng Jiaqi and I drink the rest.

After all, it's Chinese New Year, and I'm happy.

The boss's brother-in-law said: "Master Tan, I can't drink wine, and I can't accompany you. I'll drink with you, and we two will drink one."

I said, "Okay, let's drink one."

Had a drink with the owner's brother-in-law.

"The boss went back to the countryside this morning. His father and mother are at his brother's place. He didn't live with him. He has to go back to accompany his father and mother during the Chinese New Year. When he left, he told me to accompany you. I can't drink too much. , Let's take the truth as the truth, don't pick anyone, I'm a good person, I'm not good at talking, don't pick me, eat and drink well." The boss brother-in-law said.

I said, "Look at what my brother-in-law said, no matter what my family chooses, I don't care, they can eat and drink well."

"That's good." The boss brother-in-law said.

"You can't drink wine, drink as much as we drink." The pastry chef joked.

Everyone knows the relationship between the two, and now they are living together. I heard that the boss's cousin is divorcing the boss's brother-in-law, and there is only a formality.

"That's okay, that's okay." The boss brother-in-law said.

Chuancai finished eating quickly, and ran to the Internet cafe to play in a hurry.

There are four of us left.

The boss's brother-in-law doesn't drink and is not good at talking, and the pastry chef doesn't talk very much. Zheng Jiaqi and I feel that there is no atmosphere. Seeing that the boss's brother-in-law and the pastry chef are still a little concubine, we decided to go back to the dormitory to drink.

The two of us said that we would go back to the dormitory to drink, which hit the two of them's arms, so we packed the food and went back to the dormitory with the wine and Zheng Jiaqi.

This is good, Zheng Jiaqi and I are the only ones in the dormitory.

The two also celebrated the New Year.

I held the wine glass and said, "I didn't expect it would be just the two of us on New Year's Eve. It will be a memory in the future." After speaking, I clinked glasses with her.

"It's quite memorable." She smiled.

Take a sip.

"Boss, did you call home?" she asked me.

"I did. I did it before dinner. My mother and my daughter-in-law are eating melon seeds while sitting on the kang," I said.

"I did it too. People don't care if I'm at home or not, as if I'm not there." She said and laughed.

I asked, "Where are your parents and your mother at your brother's house?"

"No, my father and mother are in good health, and they are living on their own. Today, my brother and his family of three went to my mother's house." She said.

"Your mother's house is busy today." I said.

"It's like this every year, but this year I'm missing." She said, "I didn't spend the New Year at home for the first year, and it felt pretty good."

"I've lived outside for four or five years, and I'm used to it," I said.

"It's really not easy in our line of work. People can reunite during Chinese New Year and holidays, but we can't. We have to cook for others."

"No way, who told us to do this."

"If you don't work as a restaurant in your next life, it's not a human job." She said fiercely.

I laughed and said, "There will be no restaurants at any time. You can see that people can do without clothes, but they can't do without food. As long as you don't leave the four major items of food, clothing, housing and transportation in business, you can't lose money."

"Business is divided into people. Some people make money, and some people lose money when they do it. It has something to do with IQ." She said.

Just as I was about to refute her, the phone rang, and it was Sister Jiang's call.

"Where are you two? A hotel or a dormitory?" Sister Jiang asked on the phone.

"Where's the bedroom." I said.

"Hurry up and go downstairs, I'll pick you up." Sister Jiang said.

"Pick us up? What are you doing?" I asked.

"What else are you going to do? I came out from my brother's house and picked you two up to my house to celebrate the New Year." She said.

"Sister, we're not going, we're drinking now." I said.

"Stop drinking, go to my house to drink, hurry up, I'm almost at your dormitory, go downstairs quickly, and finally get a taxi." Sister Jiang hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"Sister Jiang asked us to go to her house?" Zheng Jiaqi asked.

I said: "Well, take a taxi to our place and tell us to go downstairs." Then I asked her: "Will you go?"

She looked at me, which meant she wanted to go.

I said: "Let's go, Sister Jiang is also sincere, it's not good if you don't go, she has already come out of his brother's house."

I packed up with Zheng Jiaqi and went downstairs, waited at the entrance of the community for two or three minutes, a taxi came and stopped, and Sister Jiang poked her head out of the window and said, "Get in the car."

For this Chinese New Year meal, I changed three places.

Sister Jiang's house is a three-bedroom, one-living room. It is quite spacious, and the decoration is relatively modern and exquisite.The most attractive thing is the large fish tank in the living room, in which there are two silver dragons. It seems that they have been raised for many years. They are [-] centimeters long and alive.

"Sister Jiang, do you still raise fish?" Zheng Jiaqi asked.

"Oh, it was given to me by a friend, and I've been keeping it." Sister Jiang told us to sit down and tell us to eat the fruit on the coffee table. She went into the bedroom and changed into a piece of home clothes.

I said: "Sister, you haven't stayed at your brother's house for a long time, so don't you eat dumplings at his house at night?"

Sister Jiang said: "Don't eat, they eat by themselves." As she spoke, she turned on the TV, and inside was the Spring Festival Gala.Then he said: "Stayed there for a while, my dad fell asleep after drinking some wine, watching the Spring Festival Gala for a while, it was not interesting, and my sister-in-law also ignored it. Throw 500 yuan to my dad and tell them I felt uncomfortable and didn’t eat dumplings, went home to sleep, and then came out.”

"Double heart, you two, come to us in Fuxin, we can't ask you two to celebrate the New Year in the dormitory, we don't know each other, now that we know each other, we are still working together, and we get along so well, we must call you two to come My family has a good New Year, otherwise I don’t care much.”

Sister Jiang is interesting enough, she pays attention to people.

"Thank you, sister!" I said.

"Thank you, when the time comes, my sister will die, and maybe I will go to the provincial capital to find you." Sister Jiang said.

"You must find me in the provincial capital." I said.

Sister Jiang took out two bags of quick-frozen dumplings from the freezer and said, "I have everything ready-made. Let's cook two bags of dumplings. We have to eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year."

I said, "Leave it to me, I'll cook."

"Cook it, I'll heat up the pig's trotters." Sister Jiang said.

I went to cook the dumplings, Jiang Jie and Zheng Jiaqi took the dishes together.They were all ready-made, including peanuts, smoked pig's trotters, chicken feet, and stewed chicken. Soon, a table of dishes was prepared. Put the dumplings on the table, fill up the wine, and the three of them began to eat and drink for the New Year.

"Look, come to my house, right? Let's watch the Spring Festival Gala while drinking. It's so interesting." Sister Jiang said.

"It's like home." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"Come on, drink one." Sister Jiang said.

The three of us clinked glasses and took a sip happily.

The food for this New Year's Eve dinner was moved from the restaurant to the dormitory, and from the dormitory to Sister Jiang's house before the dust settled.

To be honest, I am very grateful to Sister Jiang, she is a good person.People asked Zheng Jiaqi and me to come to our house to celebrate the New Year because of love, not because of duty, we have to thank him.During the three months in Fuxin, Sister Jiang was the only friend I made.

It can be said that Sister Jiang does better than men.

Such friends are worth making.

The three of us chatted while drinking and watching the Spring Festival Gala. This is what Chinese New Year looks like.

"Sister Jiang, are you not afraid of living in such a big house?" Zheng Jiaqi asked.

"What are you afraid of? How old are you still afraid?" Sister Jiang said, "I am bold and not afraid."

"If I do, I'll be afraid." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"Can you not be afraid?" Sister Jiang said with a smile, "You are so good-looking, but someone entered in the middle of the night and stole you. I am a woman. If I were a man, I would definitely chase you."

Zheng Jiaqi said, "Sister Jiang, you look good too."

"What's so good about it? She's almost an old woman, it's her [-]th birthday," Sister Jiang said.

"It doesn't look like it." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"What's the difference? The crow's feet have come out, and the gray hair has also appeared."

"Sister Jiang, you are good at dressing up."

"It's the same way you dress, but it's not ugly, it's not good-looking." Sister Jiang said, and then said: "In the future, you two will come to my house if you have nothing to do. My house is just me and no one else. It's convenient to come to my house. He likes to drink, and when he drinks again, he will come to my house, making it seem that my house is still lively."

"That's so embarrassing, what if you come here someday?" Zheng Jiaqi joked.

"Sister is good at this. She never takes a man home. If she wants a man, she goes out to open a house and doesn't go home." Sister Jiang said, "Fuxin is a bigger place, and everyone knows when you open the door. Pull that ass."

"Yes." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"If not, you can move to live with me in the future. It just so happens that we are still companions." Sister Jiang said to Zheng Jiaqi: "We still hit it off, and I can have someone to drink with me when I come back from get off work at night."

"That's so embarrassing." Zheng Jiaqi said.

"What's the matter with embarrassment? I'm a woman, not a man. Besides, there are three houses in my house, and we live in one of them. It's not that there is no room." After finishing speaking, looking at Zheng Jiaqi, he said meaningfully: "Do you know, the main sister likes you,"

"I am willing to sacrifice myself."

Zheng Jiaqi said something that made people laugh.

(End of this chapter)