The story of a cook

Chapter 51

Gradually fell in love with Yaru.This is the true sense of liking a person, or the opposite sex.This kind of liking with love is the kind that wants to marry her home as a wife.

When I like someone, I will pay attention to her from time to time, observe her, care about her, and sometimes avoid her pretending to be indifferent.At this time, the strong self-esteem and sensitive inferiority complex began to play a role. Whenever I admit that I like Yaru, I can't help but wonder if she likes me?Will she accept that I am so poor?She said that her parents didn't want her to have sex outside when she came out, would she have sex with me?Or, does she dare?

This kind of mental torture always reminds me of her when I pay attention to her. When she looks at me, it seems like she has done something wrong and was caught on the spot, so she hurriedly avoided in embarrassment.

Sometimes I comfort myself in my heart, this is just a liking, not a relationship, she is so pure, clear like a puddle of water, let's keep this liking in my heart, everything will go with the flow, just don't care.

But this kind of liking is a kind of torment, although there is a hint of sweetness.

Going to buy steamed buns in the morning as usual, Yaru also followed.

Sister Zhang said, "Why are you going with me? Going to buy steamed buns is not to grab steamed buns. What are you going to do with those people?"

"I'll take a look and help you carry the steamed buns." Yaru said with a smile.

"I'll use you to carry the steamed buns. Brother Tan will do."

Yaru didn't speak, but followed behind.

"Yaru, you bastard, tell me, do you like you Brother Tan?" Sister Zhang suddenly turned around and asked.

"I don't like it, he's too fierce."

Yaru glanced at me and made a grimace.

"I just realized that you didn't even go to buy steamed buns before, but this time you go with Brother Tan and me. You don't go to buy steamed buns, you want to be with Brother Tan." Sister Zhang teased Yaru.

"That's not it. I just want to see where you buy steamed buns. I want to see the market. I haven't been to the market yet." Yaru quickly explained.

"Have you never been to Hanging Oven Cake?" Sister Zhang asked.

"I've been there."

"Have you ever been to the Diaolu Bing but not the market?" Sister Zhang was a little disbelieving, "The market is just in front of the Diaolu Bing, and it's only 100 meters away. You haven't been to the 100 meters? You're lazy enough."

Yaru laughed without saying a word, and when he walked to the hanging oven cake, he said to me and Sister Zhang: "I'm not going, you two go." After speaking, she went into the hanging oven cake.

Sister Zhang was taken aback for a moment, then she smiled and said, "You son of a bitch, why are you going to buy steamed buns with us, she's here to eat hanging furnace cakes."

Seeing that Yaru entered the hanging furnace cake, I was a little disappointed. I thought she and Sister Zhang said that she wanted to take the opportunity to buy steamed buns to stay with me for a while, but it turned out that I was thinking too much.I told myself in my heart that she doesn't like me, so don't be sentimental, and I should do whatever I want.

Sister Zhang and I came back from buying steamed buns, and Yaru was waiting for us at the door of the hanging oven cake, holding a piece of hanging oven cake in his hand and eating with relish.

Sister Zhang said: "Damn you bastard, why are you so kind today? It turns out that you are greedy for pancakes."

Yaru giggled like a greedy kitten.

I have never eaten hanging furnace cakes. During the lunch break, I came to have a look with curiosity, and I am going to eat one.

The sister-in-law was very enthusiastic and greeted her with a smile: "Tan Zi, why are you free to come over today?"

"It's okay to rest, come and have a look, and eat a piece of cake by the way." I said.

The sister-in-law asked the baker to bake two hanging oven cakes and brought over a bowl of chicken cakes.

The cake is authentic, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a very good taste.The chicken cake is tender, topped with minced meat fungus brine, very refreshing and tender.

The eldest sister came over with a plate of side dishes and said, "Eat some side dishes, dry cakes are not salty and heartburn."

"Thank you ma'am." I said.

"Thank you, we are all a family." The eldest sister said with a smile.

To be honest, I took a bite of the side dish and it was not tasty.Dried tofu and shredded kelp were hard and tasteless.Yugentou pickles are salty in addition to being salty, and the leftover boiled peanuts are okay.

I asked: "Who mixes this side dish in our family?"

The sister-in-law said: "Your eldest sister is mixing, I can't."

I said to my elder sister: "Eldest sister, I will mix two for you in the future and you can try."

"Then the relationship is good. Your sister-in-law and I don't know how to mix. Isn't there no one to mix? Just use me to drive the ducks to the shelves." The eldest sister said: "At first, I wanted your master to help me mix it. Why? It is said that it is also a master, and it must be delicious. Your second sister-in-law went back and told the masters that the master said that she could not do her job. How could she have time to mix side dishes? How much do you pay for a month? Did not ask them to mix."

"Tanzi, it would be great if you could help me mix it up. Eldest sister will make pancakes for you every day."

"The ones I mix don't necessarily taste good. Try mixing two tonight." I said.

Hanging furnace cake is enough for four small dishes a day, not many, I thought it would be fine after get off work every day, and it can be done in half an hour.

When I came back in the afternoon, I told Huang Ping about it. She was always worried about the side dishes. She was very happy to see that I was preparing to mix the side dishes.Tell her to give the key to the kitchen door to the sister-in-law, because the hanging oven cakes have breakfast, and they open at five o'clock every morning, and I haven't woken up yet.I plan to mix the side dishes the night before and put them in the freezer, and they will come to pick them up the next morning.

It is not difficult to mix a few side dishes, and start preparing after get off work at night.There are four in total: mixed with shredded kelp, mixed with dried tofu, mixed with mung bean sprouts, and mixed with shredded elm root.

Mixed side dishes are also very particular.It's not that small dishes are easy to mix, just mix them.Whatever you do, you have to be careful.Treat the side dishes like abalone or shark fin, the side dishes are delicious when mixed, and they have their own characteristics. The restaurant will draw a lot of attention because of an unremarkable side dish.The reason is very simple. For chefs, dishes have to be cooked with heart, no matter how big or small they are.If you go to a restaurant with a hot business, a free gift is made with care, and it tastes very authentic and unique. Many customers go there just to eat the gift.

Running a restaurant is easy.There is no big deal in the restaurant, it's all about the details.Don't underestimate a small dish, a free gift, a small dish of peanuts, and a small dish of shredded pickles. These are the key points that can retain customers.Often a big dish does not attract repeat customers, but a small plate of unremarkable pickles attracts many customers. This is the reason.

I was mixing side dishes, Yaru came in to see me working there, she asked: "Brother Tan, what are you doing?"

"It's side dishes." I said.

"Shall I eat it tomorrow morning? Don't you mix all the pickles you eat in the morning?"

She thought I was mixing pickles for the staff's breakfast tomorrow morning.

"It's not what we eat in the morning, it's a side dish of hanging stove cakes." I said.

"Diaolubing?" She was a little puzzled, and then asked: "Do you also care about the side dishes of the hanging furnace?"

"It's okay anyway, help them mix it up." I said.

"Oh, how many have you mixed?" she asked.

"There are not two of them, one is dried tofu and one is shredded kelp. Would you like to try it?" I said.

As soon as the little girl heard that she was eating, she picked up her chopsticks and started to taste. She first tasted shredded kelp, then dried shredded tofu, and said to me: "It's delicious, it's delicious, and it's better than their hanging oven cakes." It’s much more delicious, but their hanging oven cakes are not tasty, so I don’t eat them every time I go. When I go, I only eat cakes and egg cakes, and their steamed egg cakes are delicious.”

Then he asked me: "Brother Tan, can you teach me how to mix vegetables? I want to learn too. If I don't want to learn anything else, just learn these two. When I get home during the Chinese New Year, I will mix them for my parents and ask them to try it too." Taste my craft."

"Okay, I'll mess around every day, when the time comes, I'll teach you when you come over." I promised her.

"Okay, call me tomorrow when you are mixing, I'll come and learn, don't forget to call me."

He smiled at her and said, "Call you, I promise to call you."

"By the way, Brother Tan, I'll do the laundry later. Do you have anything to do?" She asked me.

I said, "No, thank you."

"I think your half sleeve should be washed." She said.

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

"Hee hee." She smiled and said, "I went to your room just now, and no one thought you were out drinking when I saw it? Seeing that your half sleeve was a little dirty, I went to drink with you, ha ha, not with you Said, go to wash clothes, come back after washing."

After she finished speaking, she left. Looking at her back, I was a little moved, wondering if she likes me?If I don't like it, I won't do my laundry.But she doesn't look like her, she just regards me as a friend, or a fellow villager——
While thinking wildly, I finished mixing the mung bean sprouts and elm root shreds, packed them and put them in the freezer.

When I came to the lobby, I saw that the guests had already left, and the waiter on duty was cleaning up, lighting a cigarette and sitting there to rest.After a while, Yaru came to sit down after washing the clothes, and asked with a smile: "Brother Tan, have you finished mixing?"

"After mixing, put it in the freezer."

"You mix it deliciously, don't sell it too much tomorrow." She was worried about whether it would be enough to sell it.

"It's okay, it's not enough to sell. I'll mix some more at noon tomorrow."

"Actually, I want to go to Hanglubing. At that time, I worked there when my aunt (big sister) didn't come. Later, when my aunt came, she transferred me to be a waiter. I don't want to be a waiter, and I have to wear skirts every day. , I don't like wearing skirts." She said a little aggrieved.

I said, "You are a good waiter."

"I don't want to be that, hee hee, I like to eat hanging stove cakes." After speaking, he looked at me, blinked and asked, "Do I just have a heart-to-heart?"

"Yes, you just have a heart-to-heart." I teased her.

"I'm all fat, and I eat it all." She sighed, which meant she was very helpless, and then asked me: "Brother Tan, do you drink every night?"

"Sometimes, drink some when you're tired from work." I said.

"I went to your room to get clothes just now, and saw that there was half a bottle of wine on your table, so I knew you drank every day."

"No, I don't drink it every day."

"My dad also likes to drink, and he drinks one cup every night. My mother doesn't want him to drink, and she has to cook for him. Sometimes I see my dad drinking and has no food, so I cook for him. My mother said I have no conscience, Said she cooks for me every day and didn't watch me cook for her, it's annoying."

When she said it was irritating, she had a wronged and helpless expression on her face, and she wanted to laugh when she saw it.

"When they went to work in the mountains, I was the one who cooked at home. There were dishes for every meal, and they said I wouldn't cook for her."

"Your mother said that on purpose." I said with a smile.

"I think so too." She habitually snorted, "Huh! My mother said that I don't face her, but my father. Everything is my father's good. The more she says that, the more I am close to my father, ha ha, Sometimes my father and I bully my mother together."

"Then your mother is still angry?"

"Who told her to always talk about me." She sighed after finishing speaking, "I miss my mother a little bit, and haven't been home for half a year."

"Don't you miss your dad?" I asked.

"Why don't you want to?" She looked at me and whispered, "I want to say I miss my dad, and I'm afraid you will be sad."

What she said warmed my heart. Looking at the simple girl in front of me, I felt a little more love in my heart, and my eyes softened.

"Brother Tan, you used to work in Santaizi, I heard that's the place where airplanes are made, isn't it?" she asked.

"Well, it's for airplanes, fighter jets."

"Have you seen it?"

"No, it's all made in the factory, outsiders can't get in."

Speaking of Santaizi, I thought of Shengmei, and I heard Liu Xiaoyan said that Shengmei's business is not very good, customers always complain that the dishes are not good, Feng Ge is looking for a chef everywhere.She gloated a little when she said it, but she didn't mean it, she couldn't do it if the boss wasn't there, you're beautiful, business should be bad.

The boss and I came to Rosezheng Feng Ge and Boss Zou had a very strange relationship, and they no longer interacted with each other.Knowing that Shengmei's business is not good, I feel very upset. After all, I have worked there for two years, and the two bosses are very kind to me. When I left, I made it clear to Brother Feng that I would leave even if the boss didn't leave. It's just a matter of time.Brother Feng also understood very well and was not angry at my leaving.

You can't say that someone is not good if you are not there, so I called Master Chen and asked him to help find a better chef.

(End of this chapter)