The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 111 Good News

The weather in June is suitable and warm, neither too hot nor too cold, especially at night, it is refreshing.

The barbecue shop is filled with the aroma of cumin chili noodles, and the people who make skewers drink happily, calling the boss from time to time to bring wine and add skewers.

Brother Liu is already on the third bottle, and Lao Tan's Nongfu Spring has also drank two bottles.

The boss brought over a plate of edamame with a smile, and said generously, "Add a plate of edamame, Gada Ya."

Old Tan joked: "Drink two more bottles of beer, and add [-] skewers."

The boss smiled and went to work.

"The woman who came to see you the first two days, was the one you first met?" Brother Liu asked.

Brother Liu was talking about Yaru. He came to visit Lao Tan three days ago. After he left, Lao Tan briefly talked about his relationship with Yaru with Brother Liu.

"Well, first love." Old Tan said.

"Among the girls you know, I think she's the only one who looks pretty good. She looks like a living person, with a good personality and good looks." Brother Liu said.

Old Tan laughed and said, "Unfortunately, at that time, her family didn't ask her to find a partner outside—even if she asked, it probably wouldn't work. My family is poor, and her family couldn't possibly agree."

Brother Liu said: "Who is destined to be with whom for the rest of their lives. It is destined by God. You can't force it. You and Lin Yan are also very good. Look at your eldest son. He is sensible, self-reliant, and worry-free. Raise your son well. , you have completed the task."

"That's right, let's earn money for him now." Old Tan said.

Brother Liu took a sip of wine, and then asked, "Still like Lin Yan?"

"Well, it's still the same."

"Does she know you're sick now?"

"Understood, I don't work at home every day, so I can see it." Old Tan said.

"What did she say?" Brother Liu asked concerned.

"Hey, I didn't say anything, just told me to take good care of my illness. I look very happy. I stopped smoking and drinking, and I even cooked for the two of them. Everyone would be happy." Old Tan said.

"Lin Yan is a strong woman. Now it's called a woman man. She goes to work every day, earns a lot of money, and takes care of her children, which is also very tiring. Tell you brother, you can find a wife who lives a life, if you don't say anything else, just say yes Come on, son, it might not be a good thing for a son to follow you," said Brother Liu.

Old Tan nodded in agreement.

"Lin Yan is just too stubborn. Hey, she's still young. She'll be fine in two years. I know it's painful." Brother Liu comforted Old Tan.

"Well, I'm used to it. Every family lives like this, I stand out a bit." Old Tan laughed at himself, and then said: "This is good, no one cares about anyone."

"It's mainly about communication. You two can't communicate if you don't communicate. It's okay to communicate."

"Well, I try."

"You always meet women outside, and you always drink with them, and you come home in the middle of the night every now and then. No matter what, it's good if Lin Yan doesn't make trouble with you. If she goes out to drink with men and comes home in the middle of the night, You turned it over a long time ago." Brother Liu said.

"Yes, I have to be more careful." Lao Tan nodded and said.

"You are afraid of drinking because of your illness. Stop drinking, go home after get off work, spend more time with your wife and children, and it will gradually ease."

"Um--"

Lao Tan didn't want to mention Lin Yan.

But that's my daughter-in-law, so I can't help but mention it.

Sometimes I was tired, and when I got home, I really wanted to be gently caressed by a woman, but when I saw Lin Yan's cold face, I lost all thoughts.

Brother Liu is right, most of the people he meets outside are women, and the women in the restaurant don't give a good impression, they are very casual.He also works and communicates with these women, sometimes drinks, and makes some indecent jokes, which are easy to think of other things.

And these other things are people talking about.

The clear is from the clear and the turbid is from the turbid.

It is not easy to keep clean while working in a restaurant, there are too many temptations.

Old Tan was not outstanding, he was a bit gangster when he was young, but he looked old when he was middle-aged, except for his bald head that caught the eye, he had that kind of manliness on his body, he looked like a man.Not very attractive to little girls, but middle-aged women like him very much.

If you like it, you like it. Zhang Li is the one who can express love, and others can't.The main reason is that Lao Tan gives people a more decent impression. He has nothing else to do except work, and he doesn't talk much. In addition, he is a manager, and he is a leader. The employees have nothing to communicate with other than work. No gossip.

Those who know him know his two hobbies-work and drinking.

In these two matters he was neither male nor female.If there are achievements in the work, they will be praised; if they make mistakes, they will be criticized and punished equally by men and women, without mercy.I will never take it lightly just because I am a woman.

The same is true for drinking, as long as you can drink to your temper, you can drink it, regardless of gender.So if he drinks with a woman, almost no one pays attention to it, they all know who he is, and there are no such swindlers.

However, apart from those guests who drank with him, there were still many women among his colleagues.It's not that he doesn't drink with men, but that few men are willing to drink with him.

Wang Gang, Li Xu, Li Zhongqing, and Zhou Hongyou were small drinkers and did not drink liquor.After drinking together twice, I drank with him without fuss.

Zhang Li, Li Shuang, and Wang Hong are veterans who have experienced many battles. They can drink as much as him, and they are all white, so they always drink with them.

Of course, it’s not always drinking, only once a month, and the rest is to accompany guests.

To be fair and just, Lao Tan's illness this time was indeed due to overwork, but it was also due to long-term drinking.As the saying goes, if you don't borrow the cause, you won't get sick. This is the truth.

Smoking and drinking are two major killers of human health.

While Yanhua was busy in the new shop, she wondered why Lao Tan didn't come to eat today?Is there anything wrong?It won't be anything, if there is anything, I would have called earlier.

At this point, the bottle was finished earlier, did he go home?
She wanted to take a look at the clinic, but now it was lunch time and there were many customers, so she thought about it and went to have a look after she finished her work.

After seven o'clock, it was not so busy, Yanhua and Tuya explained, and then came to the clinic.The clinic nurse pointed to the barbecue restaurant next to it, Yanhua understood that Lao Tan and Brother Liu were eating skewers there.

Seeing Yanhua come in, Old Tan and Brother Liu both laughed.

Brother Liu said first: "For a change today, eat some skewers. I didn't ask him to drink, I drank it myself, he drank mineral water."

Yanhua saw that Lao Tan was really drinking mineral water, so she smiled and asked, "Aren't you greedy if you don't drink?"

"It's a little bit, I don't dare to take cephalosporins." Old Tan said helplessly.

"Quit it, take this opportunity to quit altogether, it's good not to drink, and your blood pressure won't be high," Yanhua said.

"Okay, listen to you, quit." Old Tan agreed.

Drinkers are not so easy to quit drinking, unless the doctor says, drink, don’t drink for three years, drink, six months!No matter how much he was addicted to alcohol at that time, Gadden quit immediately.

Sometimes doctors speak better than anyone else.

Lao Tan recovered from his illness, and the three of them were very happy. Yanhua stopped driving at night and drank a bottle of beer with Brother Liu.

The three chatted about the hotel for a while, and then moved on to Lao Tan's illness.

There are still heavy wet rales in the lungs, and anti-inflammatory drugs have to be continued, and it is estimated that it will take another half a month.Yanhua said that when Lao Tan recovered from his illness, he would go on a trip and relax.Lao Tan can't say that he can't go on a trip anymore, so let's put together the hotel first.

Of course Yanhua didn't let her go, saying that the illness was just right and she couldn't work right away, and needed to take care of her for a while, and if she committed another crime, it would be difficult to cure.

Brother Liu also agrees with Yanhua.

Lao Tan said: "I won't go out for a trip then, I will go home when I recover from illness, visit my mother, and stay in the countryside for a while."

"That's fine. The air in the countryside is good, so it's good for recuperating. Now that the farming is off, it's okay to go home and spend time with the old lady." Yanhua said, and then asked, "How old is your aunt this year?"

"Seventy-nine, eighty soon." Old Tan said.

"Then you have to go home and have a look, stay at home for two more days." Yanhua said empathetically.

"Where is the swallow? Where is the old shop?" Old Tan asked.

"Well, it's an old store. The old store is also busy today, and it can sell [-] yuan." Yanhua said.

"It's better to sell more and make money." Old Tan said.

Yanhua thought of something and said, "Old Tan, do you think our family should build a small central kitchen first and bring Wang Hong and Fang Jianjun up so that they can work more conveniently, otherwise it would be too much for them to work in the old store kitchen?" Crowded and a bit messy."

Lao Tan thought for a while and said, "It's a bit early to build now, there are just two stores."

"Sooner or later, it will be built. The third store is guaranteed to open this year, and it will have to be reorganized by then," Yanhua said.

"That's the thing. It's very strict to build a central kitchen alone. It's very difficult for the Food and Drug Administration. It's not easy to get it approved. If there is a storefront, it doesn't need approval. It's just a storefront kitchen, and there's nothing wrong with it.

This is how we do it. I have thought about it for the past two days. The third store has to go south, preferably in the Huangshan Road market, close to Taishan Road. In the future, the stores will be on the left and right, so that we can catch up.

For the third store, choose a larger place, more than [-] square meters, use [-] square meters as the storefront, and use the rest as the central kitchen. If the design is good, the office can be squeezed out.In the future, we are guaranteed to have an office space, which happens to be built together. "Old Tan said.

Yanhua said: "You're right, the central kitchen is strictly approved, and it's not easy to get down. But I don't want to build the central kitchen in the city, and neither does the office. We started from Santaizi. This is the base camp, and we can build it as soon as we build it." In Santaizi."

Old Tan smiled and said, "Santaizi has two stores, which is enough."

"Hehe, do you know why I told you this?" Yanhua asked excitedly.

"What?"

"The rent is due for another two months due to the local customs of our family. The business is not good, and the boss doesn't want to work anymore. I think I will rent it when I think about it." Yanhua said.

Old Tan opened his eyes wide.

This is undoubtedly good news.

It is [-] square meters for local people, and it is next to the old shop. If it is rented out, it will become a family. Adding up to [-] square meters, it is enough for everything.

Of course, this has to wait until after renting it out.

(End of this chapter)