The story of a cook

Chapter 604 Mother's Birthday
It is very normal for a hotel to change people. After so much experience, I have become accustomed to it.

After Yan Li and her husband left, Mr. Wang asked me: "Old Tan, what does Yan Li's husband mean?"

I said, "What do you mean? Cao Xiaojuan in the old store is not capable. It is normal for the boss to change the manager. I also have to change three chefs in my kitchen. Let's change from the provincial capital first."

Mr. Wang asked worriedly, "Should we be replaced too?"

"The two of us are directors here, and we don't do anything here. There are many directors outside, who are much more capable than the two of us. It's normal to replace them. The company is owned by others. If you change someone, you have to discuss it with us. ?"

"That's what you said. You can't work anywhere for the rest of your life. You can earn money wherever you go."

It can be seen that he still can't accept it, and he is unwilling.Reassuring him, he said: "It's useless to think too much, and you can do whatever you want. This is a normal understanding. The boss has his own ideas and his own style of play. Our task is to implement it. One day he said no, laughing." Shake hands and say goodbye, and we will still be friends in the future. People's fate is destined, and it's useless to think wildly, don't you know?"

He laughed.

The next week, the three chefs introduced by Yan Li's husband came. They tried the dishes and they were ok. They passed the test of their skills and sent away the three chefs from the provincial capital.They also have the intention of returning to the provincial capital. They are all family and business people. When they came here, they came here to earn a lot of money. After working for half a year, they were homesick and missed their wives and children. They told me that they wanted to return to the provincial capital. plan.This time, it happened that they not only fulfilled their wishes, but also met the requirements of Yan Li's husband.

Cao Xiaojuan was also replaced, but this woman is very powerful, and she became the manager of a large catering company the next day.It turned out that many restaurant owners came to Blue and White Pavilion to recruit people, and the chefs and managers of Blue and White Pavilion were very popular in the Binhai catering industry.It's just that no one told me before, I don't know.

The small fried yellow beef and two dry pot dishes were newly launched in four stores, and the customers reported that they wanted to be good, especially the small fried yellow beef, which had an excellent reputation and once again led the trend.It has been three months since the last launch of scrambled eggs with ground vegetables, fried boneless meat with dry pepper skin, and dried smoked tofu. Customers are looking to change their tastes and try some new dishes. Now is the right time to launch these three dishes to meet the needs of customers. Lock customers again.

The four stores sold yellow beef at the same time, and the [-] catties of beef distributed was enough to sell for a week. The purchasing department was notified to send another [-] catties in Changsha to ensure that there would be no shortage of goods.

The wild leek flowers sent from Inner Mongolia by a friend came to the old shop.A can full of jars, after opening, the strong smell of chive flowers wafts out, which is very attractive.I poured out a little and took a sip. The taste was really different, moderately salty and mild, and I could taste the fragrance of leek flowers, which was much stronger than the ones sold in the market.

Xianglong saw that he came over, picked up the bottle, smelled it and said, "This is wild chive flower. I pickled it at home, but I can't pickle it well. It's not as good as my mother's pickle. My mother's pickle is much more fragrant than this."

After he finished speaking, he took a sip and continued: "The taste is not as good as my mother's marinade. It's not delicious."

I couldn't help but my eyes lit up, and asked him: "Your mother knows how to pickle?"

"I know how to pickle. My family pickles every year. It's better than your chive flowers. Yours is salty." He said without peeling.

"Your mother's pickled food is better than this?" I asked.

"It's much tastier than this, but it doesn't work, no one in my house eats it."

"Can you ask your dad for the whole hour?"

"Why not? My family pickles a small pot every year, which is enough for a year. Isn't my family's grassland, wild leeks are picked one by one, and when they bloom, my mother pickles them one by one. There are."

Speaking of the prairie, he became interested, and continued: "In addition to wild leek flowers and shallots, we all feed them to sheep. Sheep love to eat shallots, and the mutton that eats shallots is fragrant and tender. The shallots are When we raise sheep, some people take shallots to the city and mix them up for eating, but people in our area don’t eat them.”

The young man from the prairie smiled foolishly after speaking.

"What else do you have?"

"What else?" He thought for a while and said, "We have a lot of grass. Every family has pastures, sheep, cows, horses, and camels. My family used to raise camels, but now they are gone. Every winter Kill the sheep, put it outside to freeze it, when you eat it, put a few pieces in the pot to cook, our lamb is delicious, I love our lamb, and lamb sausage."

"How do you cook the mutton?"

"Mutton is easy to cook, isn't it frozen? Just put it in the pot without adding anything, just cold water, add some salt, don't put onion and ginger, eat it when it is cooked, take the meat with your hands, it is delicious, dip it in It tastes better with leek flowers."

"I'm hungry for what you said."

"Not now, there is nothing to do in winter. I will take you to my house in summer when I have time. At that time, we will kill sheep by the river, and cook them directly by the river."

"Bring the pot to the river too?"

"Yes, there is a pot stand, and it is pulled by a tricycle. Go to the river to set up the pot and put it on the fire. There, the sheep will be slaughtered. After the sheep are slaughtered, they will be cooked immediately. After they are cooked, they will sit on the grass and eat them. While eating, they will drink alcohol. Singing is very lively." He said.

He described to me a beautiful picture of the grassland, people sitting on the grass, next to the small river, men drinking and eating meat, women singing and dancing——
Beautiful, you must go to the grassland to see it when you have time.

It was my mother's birthday on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, so I didn't go back, and I felt very uncomfortable.

My mother called Lin Yan two days before her birthday and asked if she could go back. She said no, the cold chain was busy at this time, and she worked overtime every day, and she would go back during the Chinese New Year.

My son is at home, let's celebrate my mother's birthday instead of us.

I always feel very busy, I don't know what to do all day, and I can't even go back to celebrate my mother's birthday.To put it bluntly, life is not good, life is good, there is a house, a car, money and business, and there is no such thing.

My mother is 76. To put it bluntly, one year is less than one year. If I want to celebrate her next birthday but fail, I will regret it to death.

You can wait for anything, only filial piety cannot wait.When the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, and the son wants to be filial but not to wait for his relatives, what is left to him is only regret and regret, as well as deep guilt.I couldn't think of this when I was young, but I realized it after I had children. It's true that I don't know my parents' kindness if I don't raise children.

I couldn't go back to celebrate my mother's birthday, so I called Fifth Sister. Fifth Sister said that she knew that Lin Yan and I would not go back.

"Mom is accompanied by her eldest grandson, so you don't have to worry about it," Fifth Sister said.

"Is Jia Heng not being naughty?" I asked.

"No, Jiaheng is sensible and not naughty at all. He went to the second sister's house with me yesterday. We came back after eating the chicken that the second brother-in-law killed."

"Did he say he was homesick?"

"No, I have a lot of fun playing here. It's easy to stay at home with my mother every day."

"That's good. I may not be able to go back during the Chinese New Year. I will go back to see my mother after the Chinese New Year."

"Okay, won't Lin Yan come back during the Chinese New Year? It's fine for her to come back. You can stay busy outside. After the Chinese New Year is over, come back and stay for two days."

After talking on the phone with Fifth Sister, I felt better and felt a lot more at ease.

Zhou Xiaomei called Li Shuang and said that she would come to my place for dinner at night. Li Shuang asked her when she would have dinner, and she said that today is my mother's birthday.

"Okay, Manager Zhou, you even remember the eldest mother's birthday." Li Shuang said.

"Listen to what he said, didn't he go home to celebrate his mother's birthday last year?" Zhou Xiaomei said.

"I forgot, and besides, I didn't come last year."

"I guess he's in a bad mood today, go over and accompany him and have a drink."

"Go, anyway, I'm going with my mouth and nothing else."

"You don't need to bring anything, I bought three catties of conch and a fish."

Zhou Xiaomei wanted to call me, but she gave up after thinking about it. She meant to come directly after get off work, not to surprise me, but to see what I could do, whether I was with other women Together.If she doesn't call, it doesn't mean that Li Shuang doesn't. Li Shuang quickly called and told me about having dinner with Zhou Xiaomei at my place in the evening, and wished her mother a happy birthday. He was very happy after hearing that.

In the afternoon, the purchase brought me the little stupid chicken, and I asked Zhang Zhicheng to stew it, and I was going to eat it at night.

Returning to the apartment after get off work, I put the stewed stupid chicken on the table and cooked two more dishes.First, Li Shuang came with a pack of cigarettes, saying that Hao Guangsheng bought it.Ask her to take it back tomorrow, and don't accept gifts from others.

Li Shuang curled his lips and said, "I'd like to send it to you yourself. If someone thinks about it, it's not a gift for you. Besides, I won't give you a gift. Something worth tens of dollars is not shameful enough."

Think about it, too, a soft Changbai seventy is not considered a gift, it is not good to give back to others, it seems that cigarettes are not good.

"Boss, Yan Li's husband went to Fisherman's Wharf at noon today. He doesn't look very happy, so he told Hao Guangsheng." She said.

"Why are you talking about him?" I asked.

"It's not a big deal, it means that a child didn't wear a hat before, which affected the image."

"It's nothing."

"Let's make use of the topic. I didn't watch him take care of things before. I don't know what's going on recently. He always comes to restaurants and always finds fault."

"He's the boss, it's normal to go to the restaurant to have a look, besides, he's started to manage the restaurant now."

After a while Zhou Xiaomei arrived, and when she entered the room, she said angrily: "Mr. Yan Li is really serious. He saw me coming out with conch and fish, and asked me if I paid the bill? Give me a moment, and I said I bought it myself. Do some cooking in the kitchen, why, pay the bill? He saw that I said that silently, and smiled at me. You two don’t know how pervasive that smile is. It seems to be——ah, let’s not talk, it’s a bit lewd.”

Li Shuang said: "Who told you that you look good, why doesn't he smile at me?"

Zhou Xiaomei ignored Li Shuang and put the conch and fish on the table.

I asked, "Is he still at the hotel tonight?"

"For dinner, they say they are accompanying customers, but those people always come." Zhou Xiaomei said.

I thought for a while and said, "Now that Yan Li's husband is involved in the management, you two have to respect him. Yan Li is pregnant, and there will be many things in the future. Her husband has the final say."

Zhou Xiaomei said: "Her husband is like that—hey, it's annoying to watch."

Li Shuang said quickly, "I think he came up to guarantee a big change of blood. Cao Xiaojuan is an example. Boss, you are the strongest now, and I think you will be the first to do it."

After she finished speaking, she looked at me with Zhou Xiaomei.

"A big change of blood is also normal. Once a gentleman and a courtier, I have been working here for three years. I am an old employee. I don't want to brag that my position is stable and my prestige is high. If Yan Li's husband takes over the management of the company, he can cooperate with me, or he can cooperate with me. Replace me, this is a matter of two opinions, not sure." I said.

Li Shuang asked worriedly, "Can Yan Li ask her husband to take care of her?"

"Nothing is impossible, they are husband and wife." I said.

Zhou Xiaomei added: "Yan Li is pregnant now, and she has already shown that she is pregnant. At most, she can come to the hotel for two months. When she has a baby, she can't manage the hotel. She has to take care of the baby at home for a year. Don't tell her husband to take care of anyone else." Tube?"

Li Shuang asked: "Then we all have to be laid off? I can't see her husband."

I smiled and said: "It's normal for us to be laid off. Why do you think about those things? It's not sure what's going on. Just do your job well. Are you afraid of being laid off, Sister Shuang?"

"Why aren't you afraid? It's not like the past, earning money is the most important thing." After finishing speaking, Li Shuang smiled, and said somewhat thoughtfully, "It's just right for me to be laid off. It's better to be laid off before the end of the year. I can go home to spend the New Year with my son. I miss my son. "

Zhou Xiaomei was smart, thought more, and said, "I don't think there will be any big moves a year ago, just change a few chefs, or just change me and Li Shuang, uncle, you have to wait until the next year to change."

I said: "It's all a matter of chance, don't talk about it, worry about it, drink."

"That's right, make trouble and drink." Li Shuang actively responded to the call.

"Uncle, happy birthday to your old mother!"

"Thank you!"

(End of this chapter)