The story of a cook

Chapter 73 Yaju's troubles

From the second day to the sixth day, the restaurant is relatively busy.

But it's okay, the guests who come here are all booked in advance, as long as the preparations are done, it's no big deal.In the past few days, I have become familiar with the operation of the stove. I am not as flustered as I was at the beginning. I have gradually become proficient in the production of some dishes. At the same time, my understanding of the dishes has also been greatly improved. understanding of dishes.

There is also a new understanding of the mastery of fire.Chefs do not have to use high heat to cook well, and sometimes dishes cooked on medium heat are better.The so-called heat is not only the control of the size of the fire, but also the control of the length of time, the amount and timing of seasoning, the control of temperature, and the collection of juice.

The production of a dish requires excellent basic skills on the water table and rich cooking skills on the stove, coupled with an understanding of the dish, in order to make a dish well, make it taste, and make it acceptable to guests.Otherwise, it can only be said that the dishes are cooked.

It is easy to cook the dishes well, even housewives can cook them well.For a source, cooking is not only about cooking the dishes well, but also making them delicious.

To what extent is it considered to be a good dish?

It is only good if everyone who eats this dish says it is delicious.

I was busy from the second day of junior high school until the afternoon of the sixth day of junior high school.On the afternoon of the sixth day, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li came back, and Miss Zhang at the front desk came back, and two waiters came back.

Boss, Xiao Liu and Yaru didn't come back.

When Yaru left, she said that she would come back after the [-]th day at home. As for the boss Huang Ping, she said that the boss called her on the [-]th day of the new year and said that she would quit.

It was expected that the boss quit, but when I heard that he really quit, I still felt a little bit uncomfortable.The two of us stayed at Shengmei together and came to the Rose Hotel together. This time he returned to Shengmei, which felt somewhat unreal.

Boss Zou and Huang Ping didn't say anything when the boss quit. I guess they were also angry, but they just kept silent.

Have to find a chef again.

Fortunately, it's the first month, so it's easy to find a chef.Chefs who went home for the Chinese New Year many years ago began to look for work when they came back after the New Year. It is still very easy to find a chef at this time.Huang Ping meant to find another chef, and then asked me to go to the stove and follow the cooking.This is a great opportunity for me, but after cooking on the stove for the past few days, I feel that it is better for me to practice more at the bottom.I told Huang Ping that I would not cook on the stove for the time being, and that I would go to the stove to cook after practicing for half a year.

Huang Ping said: "That's fine. The restaurant will be renovated in two months. This time, it will be well renovated to improve the restaurant's quality. When the time comes, I will find a better chef to take you with me. You should also learn from it."

I said yes.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, two chefs came. After trying the dishes, their skills were okay, so they stayed for use.Two more waiters came in front, and the restaurant began to operate normally.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, the eldest brother and the second brother came over. It was night when he came, and I went to have a glass of wine after I was busy in the kitchen.

The eldest brother and the second brother said that the eldest brother has returned to Shengmei, what is he doing there.

Tell me: "Tan Zi, you can work with Boss Zou, Boss Zou and his wife are nice people, very nice people."

I said, "Well, here I am."

"Call me if you need anything, don't you know my number?" said the eldest brother.

"I have your phone number." I said.

Boss Zou said: "What can I do here? If I have something to do, I just ask my elder brother to come over for a drink."

The eldest and second brother said: "If you ask me for a drink, I won't drink with you, but your small amount of alcohol will be poured before drinking. If you drink, you will drink with Tan Zi. If you drink with Tan Zi, you can drink together."

"It's fine to have someone in my family who can drink with you. I can't drink, and I can't drink with such a small amount of alcohol." Boss Zou said.

"When are you going to renovate?" The eldest and second brother asked Boss Zou, and then said, "Your store should also be renovated. How many years has it been?"

"Wait for a couple of months when the weather gets warmer before starting construction. It's cold now." Boss Zou said.

"Spend a little more money this time to dress up and look good." The eldest brother said.

"It doesn't need to be of higher grade, it just needs to be newer, otherwise no one would enter."

Rose Hotel is an old store on Taishan Road. It has not been renovated for more than ten years since its opening. It is indeed a bit old from the outside, and it looks like a store in the 80s.Years ago, Boss Zou said that the restaurant would be renovated after the next year, otherwise the store would be too old and customers would be reluctant to enter.This is the case with restaurants. Even the best decoration will become outdated after five years. If you want to attract customers, you have to redecorate.

The kitchen is full.

I wanted to go home and have a look, but I thought it was less than a month since I came back from home, and the year was over, and it would be a waste of travel expenses to go back. It would be better to wait for the hotel to be renovated and then go back, so that I could stay at home for a few more days.So I didn't go back to work.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Yaru came back.

To be honest, I miss Yaru very much during this time, and I think about it every day when I go to sleep.I don’t have time to think when I’m busy at work, but I start thinking when I have time after work.

Missing someone is hard work.

Yaru came back to relieve the pain of lovesickness.

That night Yaru came to the private room and sat there eating apples.Ask me: "Miss me?"

"Yes, very much," I said.

"I miss you too, and very much," she said.

"Didn't you say you would come back after fifteen, why did you come back today?"

"Isn't it just after the fifteenth day?" She said: "At first my brother and we planned to come back on the sixteenth day. My mother said that there were many people going out on the sixteenth day of the first month, and it was uncomfortable to ride in a car, so she didn't let us go. When Shi Qi wanted to leave, my mother said Shi Qi was a bad day and we didn’t go out, so she let us come back today. Ha ha, actually, my mother just wanted us to stay at home for two more days.”

"Yes, your mother just wants you to stay at home for two more days." I said.

Yaru said: "I don't want to come back when I stay at home. I eat ready-made food every day. Either my mother makes it or my sister-in-law makes it. I don't do anything. Sometimes I help wash the dishes. After eating, I just watch TV. , Sleep when you’re sleepy, eat when you wake up, look, I’m almost turning into a little fat pig.”

When I looked at her, she had indeed gained a lot of weight, and her little face was round.

I said: "It's better to be fatter, it means health."

She said: "Who says fat is good, but thin ones look good, and you guys like thin ones."

I said, "I don't like thin ones, I like fat ones, especially fat ones like you."

She threw the apple core into the trash can accurately and said: "I was terrified when I came home this time. The first two days were okay. I was at home all day, and my mother made delicious food. We went back On the third day, my family slaughtered pigs, and I was busy helping with the work, nothing happened."

"After a few days, people will start to miss you. I don't know what to think when I sit there. My mother calls me that I don't know, saying that I am stupid. I am stupid when I go out to work. Hee hee. Then my mother asked when I went to sleep at night. Did I have a date outside? I said no, my mother didn’t believe it, and said that I saw a date at first glance, and I was stupid for a day, and I didn’t know what to do. It’s guaranteed that the date has someone in his heart. I said no, my mother Don't ask any more."

Speaking of this, she glanced at me, and then said: "When my mother asked me, I was full of you in my mind, which was annoying. After a while, I thought my mother believed it and would not ask again. Who would have imagined it?" My mother suddenly asked him how old he is this year. I said 23 casually, and then I was stupid, and hurriedly said, who are you asking? How can you hide it from your mother?"

"Then my mother asked 23, where is your family? I said no, I don't know what you said, I said that he has no relationship at all, if you don't believe me, you can ask my sister-in-law. My mother said what I asked, and your sister-in-law didn't." Tell me. Anyway, I didn't say what my mother asked me that night."

After speaking, she still looked at me with lingering fear, as if she had experienced a big battle.

I said, "You tell your mother how good you are."

"I can't tell. If I tell my dad that my mom promises, my dad won't let me out." She continued: "You don't know that I was terrified in those two days, and I was afraid that my mom would ask me about it again." I go to my grandma's every morning after dinner, and stay with my grandma there, and I don't go home until it's almost dinner time. Hehe, I just hide from my mother, and my mother didn't ask me."

"In the first two days of the Chinese New Year, I washed the curtains and door curtains at home, and my mother didn't say anything. When I finished washing them and hung them out to dry, my mother said, "Wash it, I won't be able to wash it at home for a few days, and it's time for others to wash it and raise a daughter." What's the use, it's for nothing. I don't say anything, and my mother said when I didn't say anything, Yaru, what a strange thing. When I said this before, you always said that you didn't look for your in-laws, and you helped me wash and cook at home. What's wrong this time? Stop talking. I just pretended to be stupid, and said Mom, what did you say? I didn’t hear the wind just now. My mother scolded me and said that there was no wind coming from anywhere, so I just pretended not to hear it. Hee hee, that day It’s really not windy, the weather is fine, I said it’s windy—it’s interesting.”

She smiled like a child.

I said, "Your mother can tell, you might as well tell your mother."

She said: "If you see it, you can see it. I can't help but deny her."

"I won't know sooner or later." I looked at her and said.

"Sooner or later I won't know? You don't know. I can't get out this time. I guess my mother told my dad. My dad told me not to let me out this year when he was in the third grade of junior high school. Let me stay at home I don’t lack the little money I earned, and it’s useless to go out, so I just stay at home and help the family, and if there is a matchmaker, if it’s suitable, I’ll make a marriage.” She said: “I just said no. I just turned [-], I don't want to get engaged so early, my dad said that some people in their [-]s are married, so they won't let me out."

"Then how did you get out?" I asked.

She said: "I was nagging my dad every day, and finally my dad agreed."

I asked, "Your dad just wants to find you a husband's family at home?"

She said: "Well, my dad doesn't let me have sex outside, so I look for it at home."

I asked, "Then what shall we do?"

She said: "I don't know either. This time when I came back, my brother told me to come back and work in our restaurant first, and then he would find me another restaurant and not let me work in our restaurant. I didn't Promise, my dad won't let me out if he doesn't listen to my brother—"

She looked at me and said helplessly, "What are you talking about? My brother will find me another restaurant in two days and let me go to work in another restaurant."

I had a headache and didn't know what to do, so I asked, "What if you don't go?"

She said: "Then my brother told me to go home. I heard from my sister-in-law that my sister-in-law told me secretly that my father and my mother had discussed it. If they knew that I was dating someone outside, they would tell me to go home." , I have a matchmaker in my family, and they are waiting for me to go back for a blind date. The man’s house is not far from my house, which is the village next to my house. But I don’t know how to do it.”

I asked, "Do you like me?"

"I like it." She nodded.

"Want to marry me?" I continued to ask.

"I don't know, I don't want to get married so early, and I don't know if I have to marry you, but I just like being with you," she said.

"That's fine. I'll marry you when you make up your mind to marry me." I said.

"Can we just be friends like this now? Then my brother and my sister-in-law won't talk to my dad, and I don't have to go home. My brother can find me another restaurant and I'll go there. Then you can visit me , I'll come and see you too, okay?" she asked.

I said: "OK."

She looked at me and said: "My mother told me that she hoped that I would find a husband's family who was close to home and with better conditions. My dad wouldn't agree with me looking for my husband's family outside. If I don't listen to my dad, I won't want me in this life. My sister-in-law also said that I listened to my parents. She seemed to know about us, she I met Brother Zou's eldest sister, and we worked together before, but my sister-in-law said that your family's conditions are not good, and told me not to be with you."

"What about you, mainly what do you think?"

"I don't know, I really don't know, I'm getting sick of—"

She shook her head and said.

I can't force her, as long as she likes me, as the saying goes, good things never come, I already have the idea of ​​fighting a protracted war.

(End of this chapter)