The story of a cook

Chapter 82 Come Together

The hotel began to enter a plateau.The guests have stabilized, and the staff in the front and back kitchens have also basically stabilized.The so-called stability is relative. The restaurant is like this, and the turnover of employees is very high. You come today and they leave tomorrow. It has always been like this.

The high turnover rate of hotel staff has always been a problem, especially young people nowadays are unwilling to work in restaurants. They think that the work in restaurants is dirty and tiring, and the hours are still long. Many restaurants cannot find people.Take the waiters as an example. In the past, the front desk staff in restaurants were all young girls called waiters, but now they have to be called waiters—young girls seldom serve as waiters.

At lunch that day, Lin Yan, the waiter in front, brought a plate of corn with pine nuts to the kitchen and said that there were too few customers, so she asked for more.

I said, "This recipe has always been two cans of corn kernels, no more."

Lin Yan said: "There are not many customers, so you can add some more."

He looked at her and asked, "Do you have a date?"

She glanced at me and asked me, "Does it have anything to do with whether to increase the amount?"

I said: "It's okay, just ask. You go back first, and ask the food delivery staff to call you after adding."

To be honest, it was the first time I was so bold to ask a woman if you have a date, and I didn't know how to say it at the time, but it was embarrassing to say it anyway.

she went back.

Added another can of corn kernels to the plate of pine nut corn and re-fried it.

When I got off work at noon, I just left the restaurant and saw Lin Yan chatting with a woman outside. I walked up to them and asked Lin Yan, "Are you a classmate?"

Lin Yan said: "My classmate, come and see me."

I said: "Don't you go back to live every day, you two don't see each other."

She said: "My classmate has never been to our restaurant, so come and see what the place where I work is like."

I looked at her classmate and said, "You talk, I'm going back."

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the dormitory, and heard Lin Yan ask in a low voice behind him: "Who is it?"

Lin Yan said: "Our kitchen."

The guest left very late at night, and Lin Yan happened to be on duty. I thought it was almost twelve o'clock, so I asked her, "It's so late, do you dare to go back alone?"

She said, "Dare, it's okay, I'm bold."

I said, "It's almost twelve o'clock, let me see you off."

She looked at me and didn't say yes or no.

I sent her back, and on the way I asked her, "Where is your home?"

She said, "My family caressed me."

I said, "It's pretty close to the provincial capital, only [-] kilometers away."

She said, "Yes, less than eighty."

I asked, "What school did you study in the provincial capital?"

She said: "School of computer science, technical secondary school."

I said, "That's great, have you graduated?"

She said: "I have graduated, but it is difficult to find a job. Be a waiter first and then find a suitable one."

I asked, "What about your classmates?"

She said: "I didn't find a good job either, and I did everything."

I asked, "Then what major did you study?"

She said: "Computers, you can be a typist when you come out, it's all for nothing."

I said: "It's not in vain to learn. It's hard to find a suitable job. Find it slowly."

She said: "If it doesn't work, I will go to Guangzhou. Some of my classmates have gone to Guangzhou and said it is very good."

I asked: "What is your classmate doing in Guangzhou? Are you doing your own major?"

She said, "No, do something else."

I said, "Then you might as well stay in the provincial capital. If you find something that suits you, it's better than going to Guangzhou."

She said: "Look, my mother spent a lot of money on my education. I need to earn some money first."

I asked, "You are the only child in your family?"

She said: "I have three children in my family, I am the eldest, and I have two younger brothers."

I asked, "What does your brother do?"

She said: "My elder brother is staying at home and is also planning to work part-time. My younger brother is in school, first grade."

I said, "You are the boss of your family."

She said, "Yes, my boss."

I asked, "What about your father?"

"I don't have a father," she said.

I didn't continue to ask, and when I got to the place where she lived, she said, "I'm here, you can go back."

I asked: "Are you there? Which building do you live in?"

She said: "It's here, you go back, I don't want my classmates to see it."

I smiled and said, "Then I'll go back."

When I was working the next day, Sister Zhang, who was washing the dishes, asked me, "Tan Zi, did you send Lin Yan home last night?"

I said: "Yes."

Sister Zhang asked: "Send him home, do you like him?"

I said, "I like them when I send them home. Then I send many waiters back to the dormitory, and I like them all."

Sister Zhang said: "That's different. You are sending people home, which is different from sending them to the dormitory."

I said, "Why is it different? Aren't they all given away?"

Sister Zhang said, "I think it's different, you kind of like him."

I said, "Yes, I like her."

Sister Zhang asked: "Really?"

I mean it."

Sister Zhang said, "That's fine. I think Lin Yan is pretty good. She still graduated from technical secondary school."

I said, "I'm not bad at all, but my family is poor and I didn't go to school, or else I'm a college student."

Sister Zhang said: "Just blow it up, if you like someone, my sister will tell you."

At that time, I thought that Lin Yan was also good, so I said to Sister Zhang: "Okay, then tell me."

Sister Jin also listened to my conversation with Sister Zhang, and said, "I think that girl is pretty good, Brother Tan, it would be really nice if you get married with her."

I said: "With your good words, we can make it."

Auntie Wang said: "Xiao Tanzi should find a partner too, how old are you?"

Sister Zhang said to Aunt Wang: "Auntie, how old is your girl, I think she's pretty good."

Aunt Wang said, "How old are you? You're already 25, and you don't make any fuss about getting married."

Sister Zhang asked: "Then what does her partner do?"

Aunt Wang said: "Just like Xiao Tanzi, he also works as a cook."

Sister Zhang said: "Isn't that good? Nowadays, young people don't want to get married early. You don't have to worry about being old. You should get married when they have had enough fun."

Aunt Wang said: "What are you going to do? You're already 25, and you'll have children in two more years."

I didn't think too much about sending Lin Yan home at the time. I thought it was nothing to send off between colleagues when it was late, but I still had a little idea in my heart, that is, if I can, I should hang out with her. She is a bit like Yaru.It's not clear which part of her looks like Yaju, she looks a little like, and she also looks alike when she speaks, but she and Yaru are definitely two people, two completely different people.

When I sent her off for the second time, she asked me: "Do you want to have sex with me?"

I froze for a moment, for two or three seconds, and then said: "Yes, I want to have sex with you."

She asked: "Have you thought about it, my family is poor, don't you mind?"

I said, "My family is also poor."

She told me about her family.

She is the eldest in the family. Her biological father died of illness after her mother gave birth to her and her eldest brother. At that time, she was three years old and her eldest brother was one year old.Her mother took her and her elder brother and found another owner, a sick man. In order to have a home and a place to live, her mother could raise her and her elder brother, and this sick man The man got married, and after marriage, her mother had another child with this man, who is her current younger brother. When she was 16 years old, this man, also her stepfather, also died of illness.

His younger brother was in poor health when he was young, and he almost died of a serious illness when he was in the first grade of junior high school, but he is better now.Since the death of her stepfather, her mother has dragged the three of their sisters to live. Life is very difficult, but her mother is very strong, and the life is so difficult that she has to finish the technical secondary school.She said that now her mother is farming at home and raising a few pigs. Her elder brother has stopped studying and is working for a family selling steel products in their town.Her younger brother is in junior high school and is doing well in studies. Now she just wants to earn money and help her mother reduce the burden on the family.
She said: "My mother is too difficult and too tired. I don't want my mother to be too tired."

After listening to Lin Yan's story, I felt that her family was very poor just like mine.She is now just like my eldest sister in my family, she has to think about the family in everything, because she is the eldest in the family.

I told her that my family is also very poor, and told her about my family's situation, and finally said: "My family is better now, but I have not yet married. If you think it's okay, we will be together. It's okay, it's not about being poor." Fault, I will live a good life with you."

Maybe it's because of the same illness, maybe both of them are poor, maybe they both have experienced poverty, two hard-fated people came together like this, without flowers and moonlight, and without you and me, they came together naturally.

(End of this chapter)