The story of a cook

Chapter 533 Untimely
As a chef working outside the home, I usually have nothing to do with work. After a busy day, I don’t feel homesick.When I was sick, I began to miss home, thinking how nice it would be to be at home, with a wife to take care of me, someone to bring water when I was thirsty, and someone to cook when I was hungry, that would be my life.

But after all these years, if you are sick or have a disaster while working outside, you will not tell your family members, for fear that they will miss it.Every time I called, I said that I was fine and nothing happened.

People who work outside are like this, reporting good news but not bad news.

This time the injury was not serious. The deepest part of the wound was half a centimeter long, and it was nearly ten centimeters long. For the first two days, I dared not walk on the ground because of the pain.Sister Ma takes care of me every day. She brings breakfast back from the hotel in the morning and sees that I finish eating before going back to work.At noon, we brought back lunch and we ate together. In the evening, she left early and came back with food.

Wang Hong also wanted to take care of me. She was too embarrassed to see Sister Ma take care of her, but she would come to see me every day.

"Sister, I'm going to visit the restaurant tomorrow." I said to Sister Ma.

"What are you going to do? You still have crutches in the aisle, what are you going to do, just stay in the house." Sister Ma said with an unhappy face.

I said, "It's nothing. I won't work at the restaurant. I just stand there and watch. If I get tired, I'll come back."

"Calm down, it's enough for you to go up and down the stairs, and you have to find someone to carry you, who can carry your big bastard?"

"I'm walking slowly with a cane, and I can do it myself."

"Okay, you'd better not move, if you open the knife, you will suffer, just stay in the room."

I thought to myself, let's not talk about it, and try it myself after they go to work tomorrow. If they can go downstairs, they can go to the restaurant to have a look.There is nothing wrong with the kitchen, and I communicate with Wang Yaxin and Zhao Xiaojun on the phone every day, and they will call me if something happens.

Bao Peng and Fang Lin came over after get off work, and the two children bought a lot of skewers.

"Master, you can't go downstairs, let's eat upstairs." Bao Peng said with a smile.

"I think it's because you two want to eat. He just got stitches, so he can't eat spicy food." Sister Ma said.

Bao Peng said: "It's okay, eat less, it's been three days, it's okay."

Fang Lin said: "Uncle, his skewers are delicious. There are pork tendons and chicken gizzards specially grilled for you. I didn't dare to put spicy ones." Then he said to Sister Ma: "Aunt Ma, lamb skewers, Your favorite food."

Sister Ma said, "I just finished eating and there is no place to eat."

"Grilled skewers don't take up much space, and I even bought beer." Fang Lin laughed.

"The two of you took it out to eat, knowing that your uncle can't drink, and seducing him with alcohol, I think you two don't want him to be well." Sister Ma said angrily.

Fang Lin didn't care, he put the skewers on the table, took out a skewer of meat tendons and handed it to me: "Uncle, eat."

He took out another string of mutton skewers and handed them to Sister Ma, "Aunt Ma, eat."

Sister Ma couldn't take it and said, "No drinking."

"Don't let my uncle drink it, let's drink it." The little girl said and opened the beer, and the three of them each had a bottle.

I asked Bao Peng: "Is there nothing going on in the kitchen these two days?"

"Nothing, not too busy, all very honest." Bao Peng said.

Then he told me, as he had heard, that Li Cheng was working on a construction site, and he looked a little silly.I asked him who he heard it from, and he said he heard it from the cutting board next to his side dish.I thought to myself which construction site I would go to when my legs recovered, and if not, I would bring Li Cheng back.

"Master, the two of us will go back to my house during the Chinese New Year, can we go?" Bao Peng asked.

"Yes, I will prepare two people for Chinese New Year, and you two will go back when the time comes." I said.

"Thank you master."

"Thank you, uncle."

It is also very happy to see that the two children can come together. It is also a marriage.

Seeing the three of them drinking beer, they were very hungry, so they asked for a bottle of beer, but Miss Ma refused. Fang Lin turned to me and poured me a glass. Miss Ma gave Fang Lin an angry look.

Bao Peng said: "Master, Yu Wenxue has been cooking on your stove for the past two days, and the cooking is quite good."

I said, "Really, do you also want to cook on the stove?"

He smiled and said, "I think so, why don't you think so."

"I will arrange for you to go to the stove and stew fish after the Chinese New Year." I said.

"That's good, and I'm kind of a fish stew," he said.
"While stewing fish, I learned how to fry seafood, and gradually it became a wok." I said.

"Hmm." He nodded.

Fang Lin asked: "Old uncle, what should I do after he learns to cook? Can't he always make dumplings?"

I joked: "You also learn to cook?"

"You can't learn to stir-fry. I want to learn how to make stuffing," she said.

"I'm not in charge of stuffing stuffing, the old man manages it directly." I said.

Bao Peng said to Fang Lin: "You make the dumplings first, and the stuffing master will be able to make them better than Master Gao. Let the master teach you when the time comes."

"Uncle, you can also make stuffing?" Fang Lin asked happily.

"Yes, learned." I said.

Bao Peng and Fang Lin went back after eating the skewers. Sister Ma complained to me and said, "You have to drink if you don't tell me. Drinking is not good for your knife."

I said, "It's okay, just a glass, or beer."

"Beer isn't wine, is it?" She gave me a hard look, "No one cares about you, whether you care or not."

"I won't drink anymore." I said.

"Okay, I've heard what you said many times." She waved her hand directly, "Take off the big trousers you're wearing, and change them. It's been several days, wash them."

"No, I'll wash it myself when my legs get better." I said.

"Excuse me? Hurry up, I'll go out first and put it here cleanly." She put the clean underwear and big trousers beside the bed, and went out.

Slowly changed the underwear and the big trousers.It’s okay to wash the big trousers, but I’m a little embarrassed to wash the underwear. After all, men and women are different. Although we are good, we are not good enough to wash the underwear.She didn't see the underwear when she entered the room, so she asked me where my underwear was, and I said I washed the underwear by myself, but she said what, I'm ashamed, I'm your sister, I'm almost fifty, and I'm still ashamed?After speaking, he lifted up the mattress, took out the underwear and put them in the basin together with the big trousers, and walked out. When he walked to the door, he turned around and said that he was ashamed now, so why not be ashamed to hug me like a child that day?

One word made me blush.

After a while, Master Li and Master Du came back to visit me after get off work, and told them that the old man wanted to train chefs, and that several restaurants would jointly hold cooking competitions.The two of them agreed after hearing this, and said that grass is expensive and has value in cultivation.

I said, "Let Cao Ligui bring out a cutting board boss, and then arrange him to fry the tail pot on the stove."

Master Du said: "Okay, Cao Ligui has been here for two years, we should let him cook. If he doesn't work in our house, he can be a chef in someone else's house."

"I see a few chopping boards working in our house, and they have become chefs when they go out. At that time, if our family raises their wages, it doesn't need to be too much. 300 yuan is enough. They won't leave. They fry at our house." It’s okay to use the end pot, and I’m still familiar with our dishes. Wait for half a year to cook on the stove, and then give it a little more, and you’ll be done.” Master Li said.

Master Du said: "That's the thing." He continued: "Didn't the old man disagree at the beginning? He has the final say on who should be trained or not. When he wants to be trained, he won't give them a raise, saying that we are the ones to train. He, give him a chance, he can’t raise his money, what if he runs away after training? If he doesn’t get a raise, will he run away? All rely on this little salary to support his family.”

I said: "I know two of them. One is Master Wang who was transferred from the bakery. At the time, the old man told me to take good care of him and focus on training. Master Wang is okay, he learns things quickly, and he is a nice person. But I know him. I want to be the head chef, so I'm going to call back to the new restaurant, Lao Zhao is the head chef of Northeast cuisine, Master Wang has to resign if he can't handle it well."

"There is also the fish stew master transferred from coarse grains. You both know that he has not been in our old shop for three months. It seems that he has left his job without a salary increase. I heard that he is doing very well in other places now. Three months a month Thousands, it’s only eighteen thousand in our house.”

Master Du said: "Our family has been cultivating talents for other families. Now the old man has realized that he has begun to train himself."

I said, "It's okay to cultivate now, it's not too late, and the new store has also opened, and we will really need people in the future."

"Brother, you mentioned a cooking competition. This time, several companies are competing together. How about the competition? There are dozens of chefs." Master Li asked.

I said: "For the selection, three chefs will be selected from each restaurant to participate. Six restaurants will make [-] chefs. It's the same as last time."

"When will it be?" he asked.

"When my legs recover, I will contact them. It will be next month at the earliest." I said.

Master Du said: "We will be traveling next month, everyone will not be busy, so we can have time to prepare well."

Sister Ma came back from the water room and saw Master Du and Master Li smiling and saying hello.

Master Li said to Sister Ma: "Sister Ma, I'm so jealous of my elder brother."

Sister Ma said, "You're jealous, you're jealous, go find a wife."

"Isn't it true that no one has taken a fancy to me? I'm waiting for your introduction." Master Li said.

"Look at how you're done. There are so many little girls with coarse grains. If you can't do this, you can't do that. You just know that drinking all day can make you a wife?"

Master Li and Master Du sat for a while, and then went back.

Sister Ma dried the tops of her trousers and underwear, and sat down by the bed.

"It's time for Master Li to talk about a daughter-in-law, she's a nice person," she said.

"Yes, there is a suitable introduction to him." I said.

"That's up to you. There's no introduction now."

"He's quite short, and he doesn't even dare to speak when he sees a woman."

"Did you look at it? That's because you didn't find the right one, and you dare to say anything when you meet the right one." She smiled and said, "Don't worry about other people's affairs. Once your legs are raised, you can have everything." Then ask: "Did you call your wife?"

"No, I didn't tell her to save her from worrying about it." I said.

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me, tell her that she won't be able to sleep, and she won't be able to come." She said.

I nodded.

"The woman who came here two days ago came with her husband. Did you guys work together before?" Sister Ma asked, she was talking about Zhang Li.

I said, "Well, we did it together."

"I heard from Xiaomei that you two are fine." She said, looking elsewhere.

"It's okay, colleague, I'm the head chef and she's the manager." I said.

"Xiaomei said that if you hadn't met your partner first, you two would have made it?" She looked away from other places and looked at me.

"Maybe—not necessarily, there's no way to talk about it." I said ambiguously.

"Do you have feelings for others?"

"Why do you remember to ask this?"

"It's okay, just ask, I care about you."

"Now she's fine, and so can I, as a friend."

She didn't say anything, I wanted to smoke a cigarette, she handed it to me.

"Wang Hong didn't talk much these two days, but just worked," she said.

"She's pretty strong, but she doesn't have a good old man." I said.

"How about introducing her to Master Li?" She asked suddenly.

I said, "I see enough, Wang Hong may not be in love with Master Li."

"That's right. Besides, Wang Hong is ten years older than Master Li. Master Li can't be willing."

"Sometimes age is not a problem, the main thing is fate."

"Age is also a big deal. It doesn't matter if a man is ten years older than a woman. If a woman is ten years older than a man, she will look older and not a good match."

"Who said that?" I asked with a smile.

"I haven't finished talking yet, who else would say, if you are single and I am ten years older than you, would you like it?" She asked with a smile.

"Yes." I said, "I promise I will, mainly because I am not single."

She sighed, and said leisurely: "Born at the wrong time, the heart is strong and life will not follow."

(End of this chapter)