The story of a cook

Chapter 78 Glorious Wounded
I returned to the provincial capital in a daze.

How would you describe yourself?I feel a little like a walking dead, I can't feel the pain in my heart anymore, and I feel a little numb.

I have experienced what it is to be heartbroken, and I also know what it is to want to cry without tears.

The most appropriate description is four words - broken heart.

People only realize that they have used too much love when they lose it.

Huang Ping asked me how I went to Yaju's house, and I said Yaru was engaged.

Huang Ping didn't ask any more questions, and neither did I.

My heart is a little dead.I can't accept the fact that Yaru is engaged, but I have to accept it again.Yaru is the girl I like, my first lover, and I love her deeply.

But God’s will tricks people, two people who love each other can’t be together——
Hearts are broken in accepting this reality.

Tell myself not to think about anything, Yaru is already engaged, and has become a partner with another man, he is no longer my lover, I can only bless her, wish her a better life in the future——
I was in a bad mood and didn't talk much all day.

Huang Ping saw that I was uncomfortable, and said to me: "Tanzi, don't think about anything now, just work hard and find a good one."

I said: "Second sister-in-law, I just want to learn the craft well now, let's talk about other things later."

The decoration of the hotel is almost completed, only the private rooms need to be decorated, the floor-to-ceiling glass of the large window in the front hall needs to be installed, and the roof needs to be waterproofed. After these are completed, the work will be completely completed, and then the recruitment of the front desk and the back kitchen will start. personnel.

Two days later, I started waterproofing the roof of the hotel.

Boss Zou knows how to waterproof. He called the workers in the factory, set up a large oil drum outside the restaurant, set up a fire under it, put asphalt into the drum, boiled the asphalt into boiling asphalt water, and then used the drum to clean it. The buckets were carried to the roof, one person poured asphalt water in front, and one person spread oily sticky paper behind.It's old fashioned waterproofing, that's what it was all about back then.It is much more convenient to do waterproofing now, and it is not as stupid and time-consuming as it was then.

After finishing the waterproofing of the roof, the floor-to-ceiling glass of the large windows has also returned, and the installation of glass has begun.

An glass is a laborious task. A large piece of toughened glass is twelve meters thick, two meters high, and nearly three meters long. It takes five or six people to lift it.After lifting the glass, first slowly drop the bottom edge of the glass into the wooden groove set by the carpenter, and everyone stands up the glass vigorously. Such a piece of glass is safe.

Installing this kind of large glass is a technical task in addition to requiring strength. If the person who lifts the glass cannot hold it together, he will twist it.They are all tempered glass. If it is broken, it will take a week to re-temper.

The first few pieces of glass were installed smoothly, a total of 12 yuan of large glass, the first 11 yuan was not much effort, but it was a bit troublesome when it came to the last piece.

The last piece was the biggest, 11 meters high and [-] meters long, and the six people couldn't even get it in when they carried it together.The [-] yuan glass was installed, and everyone's energy was almost exhausted, and they almost lost their energy.

Everyone rested for a while and started the second installation, but they still couldn't install it.

I looked at it, and the main reason why it couldn't fit in was that the worker who lifted the big corner of the glass was too weak, and he almost couldn't lift it in.So I switched places with him, he came to me, and I went to get the big horn.

The third time I started the installation, I lifted the glass and started to put it in the groove. It was a bit difficult at this time, and the angle was always difficult to find.

There are six people carrying the glass and myself. The master carpenter is in charge of quickly nailing wooden strips to fix the glass after it stands up. Boss Zou and Huang Ping are standing next to them. , neither of them can help.

This time I lifted the big glass corner, and I couldn’t stabilize the position after I lifted it. I was also very anxious. I knew that if it couldn’t be installed again this time, everyone would spend too much effort.

It must be installed this time.

I held up the glass and shouted: "Everyone work harder, hold on, it will be installed soon."

I lifted it vigorously, and this time the position was right at once, the glass fell steadily into the wooden trough, and I quickly shouted: "It's in the trough, everyone, please stand up—"

"one!"

"two!"

At this moment, the worker next to me should be bored, and I immediately felt the weight of the glass begin to press towards me, and my hands felt a little unable to support it.I knew that if I couldn't support the whole glass at this time, it would fall and shatter.

To be honest, I was still young at that time, so I yelled at everyone: "Finally put in the effort and go in, one, two, three!"

With all my strength, I finally stood up the glass.

Just when I was about to withdraw my hand, you may see that the glass has stood up. Before I pulled back the handle of the big corner, someone started to unload the force, and the whole glass was tilted halfway towards me. Centimeter, squeezed my hand that I hadn't had time to withdraw.

"what--"

I screamed in pain, the glass squeezed my right little finger, squeezed out a piece of flesh, blood flowed out.

At this time, Boss Zou immediately went up to take my place. I withdrew my hand and covered my bleeding right hand with my left.

It hurts to jump up high - it hurts so much.

Huang Ping next to her was a little panicked, and asked, "Seriously, Tan Zi, where is the crowd?"

"Fingers."

I grinned and said, and then ran to the clinic across the street.I had just entered the clinic and Huang Ping and Boss Zou arrived later.

The doctor at the clinic was terrified when he saw my hands covered with blood, and asked, "What's wrong?"

I said, "The glass is squeezed."

The doctor immediately took out gauze to stop the bleeding, the blood flowed out, and the gauze was soaked with blood immediately.It took about 5 minutes for the bleeding to stop gradually.

Then the doctor pricked my little finger with a test needle and asked me if I felt it, and I said yes.In fact, I knew that it was a small piece of meat that was squeezed out, and the bones were fine.

But the ten fingers connect to the heart, it hurts very much, it hurts every hop.

Huang Ping was a little worried, and asked the doctor, "Is your finger okay?"

The doctor said: "There should be nothing wrong, just squeeze out a piece of meat, nothing wrong."

The doctor wrapped my finger with gauze.

Huang Ping was still worried, and said to Boss Zou, "Let's go to the hospital to take a picture and see what it looks like."

Boss Zou said, "Okay, I'll go drive."

"No, it's fine." I said.

"It's all right, how do you know it's all right, go to the hospital and take a picture to see what's going on." Huang Ping dragged me to the hospital involuntarily.

I went to the hospital to take an X-ray, and when the X-ray came out, the doctor said: "It's okay, the bones are fine, go back and take care of them, it hurts the peripheral nerves a little, and it will be fine after it's healed."

Huang Ping and Boss Zou were relieved when they heard the doctor said everything was fine. I was honorably wounded like this.

The decoration of the restaurant is coming to an end, and the front desk staff and kitchen staff are being recruited.

A manager came to the front desk, surnamed Chen, female, in her 30s, very temperamental, I heard that she had worked in a big hotel and had a lot of management experience.

Huang Ping asked me: "Tan Zi, can you see this Manager Chen?"

I said, "How should I say this? It will take a while to know if it works. No one can tell if you haven't done it now."

Manager Chen first went to the store to have a look, and said that the decoration is very good and high-grade, but there is a lack of a seafood fish tank. She said that a restaurant of this level should have a seafood fish tank. It is seafood that makes money.

Boss Zou discussed with Huang Ping and decided to build a seafood fish tank.I found a fish tank maker and asked how much it would cost to make a seafood fish tank. The fish tank maker said [-].

Boss Zou asked me: "What do you think, Tanzi? Shall we do it or not?"

I said: "I don't know about this, but selling seafood is sure to make money. Why don't you find a chef first and ask the chef for his opinion."

"That's right, we haven't done it yet, just ask the head chef." Boss Zou said.

"Then ask Brother Huang to come over tomorrow and listen to what he has to say." Huang Ping said.

"Second sister-in-law, is the head chef already here? Who is it?" I asked.

Huang Ping said: "My surname is Huang. He is a master craftsman and his skills are quite good. You can watch it when you come tomorrow. Then you can learn from others."

"That's guaranteed." I said.

This is the best news I've heard since I came back from Yaru's house. Yaru's engagement has hurt me a lot. I've been very depressed recently. I told myself that I don't think about the partner in advance, and I should study hard. Craftsmanship is the business, and it is better to learn the art so that it is better to be a chef earlier than anything else. After becoming a chef, you will earn more money, and you will not be able to find what you are looking for.

I need to quickly enter another state to forget about Yaru's engagement, or my heart will be too uncomfortable.

Master Huang came the next day.

Master Huang is 50 years old, tall, more than 1.8 meters tall, and has a burly figure. He looks more like a policeman than a chef.After Master Huang came, he went to the kitchen to have a look. Huang Ping introduced me to him. He looked at me and asked, "How old is this year?"

I said, "23."

Master Huang said: "When you are young, it is time to grasp the craft."

After speaking, I went to the front hall to meet Manager Chen, and the two communicated for a while. Master Huang looked at the place where Manager Chen said he would install the fish tank for a while, and asked Boss Zou: "How much does it cost to make the fish tank?"

"Twelve thousand." Boss Zou said.

"That's expensive, you call him here and I'll talk to him." Master Huang then said: "The whole fish tank of our restaurant is a business, selling seafood to make money, but we have to think about it, we have to find a seafood raiser for the whole fish tank, that is. Seafood guy, he has to raise fish and seafood here, especially the small shellfish and seafood must be raised by a good person. If he can’t raise them well, he will lose money. It’s not low, at least a thousand yuan.”

When I heard that seafood farmers made so much money, it was higher than my salary.

Boss Zou and Huang Ping decided to build a seafood fish tank, after all, selling seafood makes money.So Master Huang negotiated the price with the fish tank maker. The fish tank maker knew Master Huang before, and finally talked about eight thousand, and Boss Zou agreed.

It was hard to find seafood staff. Boss Zou had a buddy who was waiting for work at home, so he called his brother and asked Master Huang to send him to another hotel to learn how to raise seafood.

I think Master Huang is very good. He can easily send someone to study in another hotel. He should be very famous in the chef circle.

I asked Huang Ping, "Second sister-in-law, where did Master Huang work before?"

Huang Ping said: "They used to work in big hotels, and I don't know the details. It was introduced by the chef of Taishan Hotel. I heard that the cooking is very good. I live in Taishan Community, which is close to our hotel. Just a few minutes." Then he said: "I don't cook anymore, I have nothing to do at home and I have nothing to do fishing, it was your second brother and the head chef of Taishan Hotel who went to find him, because he thought it was close to home, and it was boring to be idle at home, so he agreed Those who came here, they probably won’t do it after we start the business. Tan Zi, you can learn more while he is working in our house.”

"Well, I see, I'll learn more." I nodded.

As a chef like me, I want to learn the craft from a good master.There are a lot of chefs who learn to be chefs, but not many can learn from a master with good craftsmanship. They all work on the water table for a year and a half, and then go to the stove to cook. They learn from the master for a few months and then start cooking. cook.The general price of such a chef is between [-] and [-], a little better is [-], and that of the boss is [-].

Once a learned chef goes out to cook, the initial price is almost fixed.Everyone knows that you are paid [-] yuan. When you are not alive, it is [-] yuan for a friend to help you find a job. If you have [-] yuan, you will not find it for you, for fear that you will not be able to do it.

Fifteen to two thousand is a hurdle, and it will take at least five or six years to earn from one thousand to two thousand.From two thousand to three thousand is still a hurdle, and it will take five or six years.

I thought that if I went out to cook, I would have to pay 2000 yuan from the beginning, or else I would quit.

(End of this chapter)