The story of a cook

Chapter 91 Singing
Ever since Zhanze and the passerman had a fight, he hadn't contacted Yanhua again. In his words, Yanhua was too flamboyant and prone to accidents.In my opinion, it's not that Yanhua is too flamboyant, it's that he is timid and afraid of being beaten.Don't be afraid of being beaten if you want to get married, you have to show some chivalry.

Instead of dating Yanhua, he started spending all day with Sister Zhang, the dishwasher. The two of them whispered in the dishwashing room, presumably seeking comfort from Sister Zhang.Sister Zhang sometimes said that Zhanze was a nice person, but he was too small-minded and not manly enough.

Men don't care about men, as long as they can work well.

One day, Sister Jin came. It seemed that she had just finished the operation and her body was still weak.She came to see her son, and stopped by the kitchen to say hello to everyone.

I asked, "Sister Jin, are you done with the surgery?"

Sister Jin said: "It's finished, it's been almost a month."

I asked, "How do you feel now?"

Sister Jin said: "It's pretty good, it's almost the same after recovering, and then find a job to go to work."

I said: "Then why are you in a hurry, wait until you fully recover before you start working again, after all, you've been wounded by a knife, so let's take care of it for a few more days."

Sister Jin said: "The incisions are healed, let's take it easy, and you have to work to earn money."

I asked, "Are you coming back?"

Sister Jin said: "I'm not coming back. My sister found me a cleaning job in her restaurant. I'm not tired. Let's do it first. I can't do tiring work now."

I said, "That's okay, I won't be tired with your sister taking care of me."

I chatted with Sister Jin for a few more words, and then Sister Jin said hello to everyone in the kitchen, chatted for a while and left.When I left, she gave me a pack of cigarettes, thanked me for taking care of her when I was sick, told me to have time to go to the hotel where her sister worked, and invited me to sing.I said yes, I will go when I have time.

Sister Jin is also polite enough, she doesn't take care of her at all, she is a bit ashamed.

Not to mention, Sister Jin said that she had time to go to the hotel where her sister worked to sing, and it really came true immediately.

Within a few days, the restaurant opened for wages.Huang Ping also paid my salary. When Lin Yan borrowed money from me, she took a thousand from Huang Ping, but she didn't ask for that salary.

Huang Ping said: "Tanzi, the 1000 yuan was lent by your second sister-in-law. If you and Lin Yan really get married, it will be treated as me and your second brother. The 800 yuan is your salary, and the salary is your salary." , and that are two different things, you take it."

I said, "No, I can't have my second sister-in-law. You and my second brother have treated me well enough. I can't have this money."

Huang Ping got a little angry and said, "If you don't want it, you can leave tomorrow, don't do it here."

Seeing that Huang Ping was getting angry, I said, "How about this, second sister-in-law, I'll take 200 yuan as pocket money, and keep the rest with you, and you can give it to me when I go home for the New Year."

Huang Ping looked at me and said, "That's fine, I'll give you five hundred pocket money, and I'll keep three hundred for you."

After speaking, I stuffed 500 yuan into my hand and left.

It is a joy to get paid. At that time, I was looking forward to getting paid every month. After the salary was paid, I could post money to my family and have pocket money at the same time.The purpose of coming out to work is to earn money to support the family and change one's poverty.

The waiters and food passers at the front desk are all little girls and boys, and they are very happy when they get paid and get paid.At that time, I was tidying up in the kitchen when Manager Liu and Xiao Jinzi came over.

Manager Liu said, "Brother Tan, go sing after get off work."

I said, "Sing? Where can I sing? I can't sing either."

Manager Liu said: "Look at you, you don't have any sentimentality at all. We are getting paid today, and we are going to sing in front of us. Will you go in the kitchen?"

I said, "If you don't sing, you can drink. I won't sing. You can ask them."

When Zhan Ze heard that he was going to sing at night, he immediately said, "I'll go, I'll go, take me one."

Manager Liu looked at Zhan Ze. She didn't want to see Zhan Ze, so she said calmly, "You can go, but you have to pay."

Zhan Ze said: "It's okay to pay, I will take as much as you take."

Manager Liu told me: "Brother Tan, go, we don't have enough money if you don't go."

I said, "It doesn't cost much to sing, you are not enough."

Manager Liu said: "Brother Tan, it seems that you have never been to a karaoke bar. The cost of karaoke bars is very high. Our little money is enough to sing for an hour."

I said, "Then it's not enough for me to go, and I'm not rich."

At this time Xiao Jinzi said: "Uncle Tan, we are going to sing at my aunt's place, and my mother is also there. If my mother sees me and promises to scold me, my mother will believe you. You lead us there. My mother has to scold me when she sees you, and she can tell my aunt to waive our private room fee, isn't the money enough?"

When I heard this, it turned out to be the case, and I said, "It's good for me to go, and the karaoke hall is not run by our family."

Xiao Jinzi said: "Uncle Tan, you go and make sure it will work. My mother likes you. My old aunt listens to my mother. You can't do it when I go. You have to scold me."

Manager Liu also said: "Go, brother Tan, everyone is waiting for you, if you don't go, everyone will not be able to sing."

I thought about it, and felt that I shouldn't spoil everyone's interest, so I decided to go: "Then go, but let's talk first, I will drink when I go to the karaoke hall."

It was already ten o'clock at night after cleaning up. Lin Yan rode a bicycle outside and waved to me, and I went out.

She asked, "Is your family busy today?"

I said, "It's ok, it's the same as every day."

She said: "My house is not busy today, I will serve two private rooms, and the guests will leave after nine o'clock."

I said: "That's good, I invite you to sing today."

She said, "Singing? I'm not going, I can't sing."

I said, "I don't know how to sing either. I'm getting paid today, and the front desk clerk wants to sing, so he asked me to lead her to Sister Jin to sing. Isn't it saving some money?"

Lin Yan said: "Then I won't go, I don't know them, it's meaningless to go, and I don't like singing, you go."

I said, "Go ahead, I don't know how to sing either, just treat it as being with me."

Lin Yan said: "No, I get upset when I see Manager Liu, you guys go, I'm going home to sleep, I finally get off work one day early, I have to sleep well." Then he told me: "You go and drink less , don’t be like that day, no one cares about you if you drink too much.”

Seeing that she really didn't want to go, she didn't talk about singing anymore, took out the 500 yuan from Huang Ping and handed it to her, and said, "Today, I started funding, and this month you took all the money to go home. I opened five hundred yuan." Bai, you take the flowers."

She looked at the money in my hand and said, "No, I still have money to spend."

I said, "You only pay 400 yuan a month, and I will give you any money left."

Put the money into her hand.She looked at me, gave me 300 yuan, and said, "You have to spend money, just give me [-] yuan, and I don't spend much money."

I gave her another hundred and said, "Two hundred is enough for me. You girls spend a lot of money. Take it."

She looked at me and said, "Then I will take it. I owe money to my classmate. I will pay her back when I go back. Thank you."

I said, "Our family, what else can we thank you for?"

Lin Yan rode away on a bicycle. I looked at her back and found that she was the same as when I was at home and borrowed money for my fifth sister's study. She was a little lonely and a little helpless.

After get off work, the waiters went back to the dormitory to change clothes. After changing the clothes, the waiters were all gorgeous and full of vitality.

I saw Yanhua also come down, probably pulled down by the waiter.

The hotel where the Jin sisters work is in West Tower. To be honest, they have never been to West Tower, and they have always had a bad impression of that place.We took three taxis and arrived at the hotel of the Jin sisters - Summer Christmas.

When I entered the store, I saw the Jin sisters talking to the bar at the lobby bar. When they saw someone coming in, they looked at us. When they saw me, they were stunned. They probably didn’t recognize me. Wait until they see the person behind me. Xiao Jinzi probably remembered who I was, walked over and said politely, "Brother Tan is here."

I said, "Don't call me that, I'm not as old as you, so I have to call you sister."

She smiled and said, "It's all big brothers who come to us."

I said, "Today the hotel is open for wages, and everyone is eager to sing, so I came to you."

At this time, Xiao Jinzi asked: "Auntie, where is my mother?"

Sister Jin said: "It's in the lounge, you can go find her."

Little Jinjin went to find his mother.

There were ten of us in total, and Sister Jin arranged a middle package. After the arrangement, she said to me: "Brother Tan, let's sing. There is no room fee, but the drinks will cost money."

I said, "Thank you for the trouble."

She said: "Hey, Brother Tan, what are you talking about? I should thank you. My sister has troubled you a lot with you."

Xiao Jinzi and Sister Jin came in. The waiter and Sister Jin had a good relationship before, and they both went to talk to Sister Jin.

After a while, Sister Jin came over to me and said, "Brother Tan, I was missing you, so you came."

I said, "Otherwise, it's the two sisters who want to go together."

Sister Jin asked, "Why didn't you bring Lin Yan?"

I said, "She said she was a little tired and went back to sleep."

Sister Jin asked: "You two get along well?"

I said, "It's okay, Miss Jin, are you tired from working here?"

Sister Jin said: "It's not that I'm tired, I just stay up late."

I said, "Then you can pay attention to yourself and get more rest."

Sister Jin said: "It's okay, I just didn't get used to it when I first came here, but it's much better now." Then she said: "I will only work here for a few months. When my body recovers, I have to go out to mix vegetables. , Cleaning wages are low, and they can’t earn much.”

I said, "That's true, but it's a brisk job. You just haven't recovered yet. Do it first, and then go out when your health is better."

Sister Jin said, "Yes, that's what I planned too."

The waiter began to order songs and start singing. Sister Jin said: "Brother Tan, you guys play. I'm still in class. Go over and have a look, and come back later."

I said: "It's okay, Sister Jin, you are busy with your work, don't worry about us, this will cause you trouble."

Sister Jin said: "Don't talk about this, it's not troublesome, you guys play, I'll go first."

After Sister Jin left, Manager Liu came over and said, "Brother Tan, you should play a song first."

I said, "I can't sing, I'm tone deaf, you sing your songs, I drink."

Xiao Jinjin brought over a few bottles of beer and melon seeds.

I said, "Manager Liu, you sing, and I drink."

Manager Liu saw that I was not singing, so he went to sing with the waiter. I sat there and opened a bottle of beer and drank slowly.

One of the waiters can sing very well, but the rest can't.

Yanhua sat there and didn't sing. Seeing me sitting on the side drinking, she came over and asked me, "Brother Tan, why don't you sing."

There was music playing in the private room, and I couldn't hear it clearly, so I asked her, "What did you say?"

She approached me and said loudly, "Why don't you sing?"

I said, "I can't sing, I can drink."

She looked at me, picked up a bottle of beer, opened it, and said, "I'll drink with you."

I said, "Okay, let's have a drink."

At this time, Xiao Jinzi started to sing. He inherited Sister Jin's voice, and he sang very well. After singing a song, everyone started to applaud him.The Xian people are good at singing and dancing, and they sing so well.Everyone asked Xiao Jinzi to play another song, and Xiao Jinzi sang another song. It was sung in Korean. Although I couldn't understand it, it was nice.

Sister Jin came in, followed by two waiters, each holding a case of beer.

Sister Jin said: "Brother Tan, my sister said to add two cases of wine for you."

I quickly said, "You're very kind, thank you, Miss Jin."

Sister Jin sat down and opened a bottle of wine and said, "Brother Tan, here's a toast to you."

Had a drink with the Kim Sisters.

At this time, Xiao Jinzi was drinking with the food passer Zhan Gang, and the Jin sisters shouted at Xiao Jinzi, in the Korean language, which probably meant that Xiao Jinzi should not drink.Xiao Jinzi quickly drank the wine in the glass, and then waved at the Jin sisters, which meant that he stopped drinking.

Sister Jin turned around and said to me: "Brother Tan, take care of him when he is with you."

I said, "It's okay, Xiao Jinzi is quite obedient."

Sister Jin said: "My elder sister can't control him, she won't go to school when she is seventeen, and she has to come out with my elder sister."

I said, "It's all like this. Nowadays, children don't like to study."

Sister Jin said: "Yes, his father doesn't care about him. My sister is divorced, and the child has been sentenced to his father. His father knows how to drink every day, and he doesn't know how to take care of the child. The child has been with my sister for two years. .”

I just found out that Sister Jin is divorced. Sister Jin didn't say anything before, and everyone didn't know.

I said, "Mothers are reluctant to part with their children."

Sister Jin said: "Yes, my sister is soft-hearted. If I don't care, the father doesn't care what the mother cares about."

I smiled and said, "You don't have children, it will be the same when you have children."

Sister Jin sighed and had another drink with me.

I asked: "Aren't you busy? Don't worry about us, this time should be the busiest time for your karaoke hall."

The Jin sisters said: "It's not busy, there's nothing to do. We have a lot of customers on weekends. Like today's Wednesday, there are not many customers. All the regular customers come. There is nothing to say."

I nodded.

Sister Jin said: "The owner of our shop is the owner of the Yangchun cold noodle shop on Taishan Road, the one next to Hanglubing."

I was a little surprised and said, "Really? I really don't know."

I know the "Yangchun Cold Noodle Shop" on the left of Hanglubing, the owner is from the Xian nationality, but I didn't expect that this hotel is also opened by others, which is really unexpected.

Sister Jin said: "The old couple are rich. They bought this store, and then decorated it themselves, and gave it to their son."

I said, "It's amazing. If you don't tell me, you really don't know that there are such invisible rich people on Taishan Road."

The Jin sisters chatted a few more words and left. Checking the time, it was not twelve o'clock, so they didn't disturb everyone's interest.They sang their songs, I drank mine, and Yanhua drank by the side, chatting with her from time to time.

The waitresses didn't drink much, but Zhan Ze's younger brother, Zhan Gang, came over to have a drink with me.Little Jinzi made his old aunt dare not drink it.Zhanze only had two bottles of wine. Seeing Yanhua sitting with me, I was too embarrassed to come over and sing with the waiter over there. Manager Liu could have a drink, so he came over and drank two bottles, and then went to sing again.

Only Yanhua and I were left with two boxes of beer, drinking one bottle at a time.The beer in the karaoke hall is all in small bottles, and the wine bottles are small. Although the bottles are small, there are many of them, and it is easy to drink too much.

I saw that Yanhua had drunk six bottles, and I said to her, "Okay, it's almost done, don't drink too much."

She said: "It's okay, I haven't been this happy for a long time, it's okay to have a drink."

I said, "I know you can drink, but don't drink too much."

When it was almost twelve o'clock, Sister Jin came. She said that she got off work at this time every day and came to accompany us.Yanhua and I were the ones watching the drink, and the others were playing, saying to me, "Brother Tan, I'm not in good health, or else we sisters have to drink."

I said, "It's okay, you're welcome, Miss Jin, there are plenty of opportunities, and I'll drink it later."

I was chatting with Sister Jin, but I didn't pay attention to Yanhua. After a while, Yanhua whispered something in Sister Jin's ear. Sister Jin smiled, stood up and walked out of the private room with Yanhua.

After a while, Sister Jin came back and told me that Yanhua drank too much and vomited in the bathroom.

When I came to the bathroom, Yanhua was lying on the sink washing her face, she seemed to have just vomited.

I asked, "How is it now, is it uncomfortable?"

Yanhua said: "It's better, it's not so uncomfortable, but I didn't eat, I just drank, a little too much."

I said, "I'll take you back, you're really uncomfortable."

Sister Jin said: "Brother Tan, you can send her back."

Go back to the private room and call Manager Liu out, tell her that Yanhua is too drunk to send her back, and tell her to lead everyone to play for a while.

Manager Liu said: "That's fine too, Brother Tan, you need to find someone else, can you fix it yourself?"

I said: "It's okay, I can do it alone, you guys play."

Then I went to the bathroom, helped Yanhua out of the hotel with Sister Jin, took a taxi and walked back. When I was about to reach the dormitory, Yanhua said that she had a stomachache and was a little empty. She wanted to eat a bowl of noodles before going back, so she got out of the car. I found a noodle restaurant and went in to eat noodles.After eating the noodles, Yanhua's complexion looked much better, and she didn't feel so uncomfortable anymore.

I asked, "Is it better?"

Yanhua said: "It's okay, it's just that I didn't eat while drinking, otherwise this little wine is fine."

I said, "Yes, I can't drink alcohol on an empty stomach. Fortunately, it's beer today. If it's white wine, I'm doomed."

Yanhua said, "It's been a long time since I vomited from drinking, it's really uncomfortable."

I said: "Don't drink like this in the future, and suffer yourself."

She laughed at herself, and said, "I'm just making trouble for nothing, I'm used to it." Then she said, "They should still be singing there now, let's go, I don't want to go back now, lying on the bed and thinking about it." vomit."

I said, "You've already eaten a bowl of noodles, so you can't throw up. It's midnight and you should go back to sleep."

She looked at me and said, "Why don't you go back first, I'll walk by myself."

I said, "Walk by yourself? Pull it down, let me walk with you, I'll take you back, if something happens to you, I won't be able to tell."

She said: "What can happen to a man of my age."

I said: "I believe that other people have no accidents, you—" I looked at her and said, "I'm a little worried."

"Why am I a little worried?" she asked.

I said, "In the middle of the night, you are still pretty, can you walk on the street alone without accident?"

She just laughed: "Then nothing will happen if you don't accompany me."

I looked at her and said, "Let's go, sit in the small park behind."

He and Yanhua went to the small park behind.

It is said to be a small park, but it is actually an open space beside the moat, with many trees planted, and two stone tables and benches in the middle of the open space, where people stretch their legs and stretch their waists during morning exercises, so it is called a small park.Sitting down on the stone bench, he took out a cigarette and lit it.

Yanhua said, "Give me one."

I looked at her, gave her one, and gave her the lighter, and she lit it and smoked it.Judging by the way she smokes, she should have smoked before.

"I can smoke, just not all the time," she said.

I said, "Don't smoke if you can. Smoking doesn't do you any good."

She said: "I just smoke one when I'm upset, and I can't think of smoking when I'm not upset."

I said, "That means you're making trouble today."

She didn't speak, just sat there and stared straight ahead, I followed her gaze and saw nothing, just the tree, in front of the tree was the moat, and the river was shining darkly in the night.Looking back at her, she took a breath of cigarettes, her face was calm, and slowly, tears flowed from her eyes, slowly slid down her cheeks, and fell, one drop after another.

At that time, I couldn't figure out why women's tears came so quickly, and they flowed as soon as they were said, without warning.It was only after many years that I realized that when a person is sad to a certain extent, tears will flow out automatically, but when the heart is broken, there will be no tears—if you want to cry, you will have no tears.

I approached Yanhua and wiped away her tears with my hands, but as soon as I wiped them away, new tears flowed out.I went to wipe again, Yanhua took my hand off, buried her head in my chest, and cried, crying silently, her body twitched, her hands were tightly grasping my clothes, feeling that the flesh was a little bit pain.

She was crying like that, shed tears.

Gradually, she stopped crying, her twitching body slowly calmed down, her head laying on my chest did not lift up, and I heard her say: "Why is my life so hard——"

I don't know how to comfort her, and I don't know what to say.

It suddenly occurred to me that her experience was a bit like that of Zhang Ling.

Zhang Ling has come out of the shadows, she has not.

(End of this chapter)