The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 149 Sad Meng Meng

Xiaolong wants to tell Xiaohui's mother to see Xiaohui and the two get engaged, so she fulfills her wish.After talking with Xiaohui, I started to talk about it.

First, I told my master and wife about this.

Fang Jianjun and Wang Hong agreed with each other, and were a little moved.

Wang Hong said, "Xiaolong, you did the right thing. Have you told your parents?"

"Not yet, they can agree." Xiaolong said with certainty.

"When are you going to tell them?" Wang Hong asked.

"In the past two days, I plan to go home. If I can't speak well on the phone, I will talk about it in person when I go back." Xiaolong said.

"Yes, go back and talk face to face. Your family's conditions are good. If your parents disagree, you can talk about it. Don't play your temper, you know." Wang Hong instructed.

"Well, no." Xiaolong said: "My parents are kind-hearted and easy to talk to. If I tell Xiaohui's situation, they will definitely agree."

"That's good." Wang Hong nodded, thought for a while and said, "The Taishan Road store is about to open. It's busy these days. Xiaohui's mother looks like a good person. It's all uncertain. You have to hurry up." , it’s best to do it before the opening.”

"I thought so too. I'm going to go home tomorrow." Xiaolong said.

"Okay, let's go back, and ask Xiao Wang to come and replace you tomorrow." Fang Jianjun said.

Xiao Wang is a cold dish prepared for the Taishan Road store, and is now an intern at the old store.

Xiaolong's family lives in the suburb of Panshi, Jilin. His father is a bricklayer and works in the urban area all the year round, while his mother tends the vegetable field at home.The life is relatively prosperous, and belongs to the middle and upper class in the countryside.

There is only Xiaolong in the family, and even if he doesn't come out to work, he can afford to support him.Xiaolong was sensible and scheming when he was young. Due to his poor grades, he did not go to high school after graduating from junior high school, and grew vegetables at home with his mother.

The boy grew impatient and tired of growing vegetables. After half a year, he told his father that he wanted to go out to work with him as a small laborer.When I was working as a small worker, I went to a small restaurant for dinner with my father at noon every day, and became interested in food. I told my father that I wanted to learn how to cook, and my father agreed.

So I went out to work in a restaurant.

It was also fate, after I came out, I met Fang Jianjun, and I went to Aqiao Dumpling House.

Fate is a very wonderful thing. Many times we associate it with fate, thinking that everything is predestined, that there is a heaven in the dark, and it has been arranged long ago.

In fact, this is a sigh of good fortune and an acquiesce to bad luck. When it cannot be explained and countered, it is all blamed on God, so that the soul can get a kind of relief comfort.

Just like the cause and effect and reincarnation mentioned in Buddhism, everything has a cause and must have an effect, and sometimes the cause is planted in the previous life.

But no matter how you say it, we all look forward to the arrival of fate and see hope and good results.

At any time, people are looking forward to and expecting beauty.

The news of Xiaolong and Xiaohui's engagement began to be known to everyone when Xiaolong asked for leave and left home. Everyone was very happy and gave him a high evaluation of his decision, and some people even gave him a thumbs up.

It is normal for young men and women in love to get engaged, and those who are acquainted will send blessings.But Xiaolong's decision to get engaged to Xiaohui at this time has a meaning beyond the scope of ordinary engagement. It is a kind of responsibility, responsibility, love and filial piety.

This may be the true interpretation of love by an ordinary person.

When Yanhua came to the pastry room, Wang Hong was making the stuffing.

"Sister Hong, do you think Xiaolong has to come back after getting engaged to Old Tan?" Yanhua asked.

"Well, it's best if he's present. He's also Xiaohui's natal family." Wang Hong said.

"Xiaohui's mother has a lot of family members, we all do." Yanhua laughed.

"Well, it's mainly Lao Tan. The relationship is different. Xiaohui regards him as the elder." Wang Hong said.

"I'll call Lao Tan," Yanhua said.

"Let's wait for Xiaolong to come back. What if his parents don't agree? We've talked about this matter—from what he means, his parents have nothing to do with it—" Wang Hong said.

Yanhua thought about it for a while, and felt that what Wang Hong said was right, and now it was all their side's idea. After all, Xiaolong's parents had never met Xiaohui, so they didn't know what she was like.Finding a daughter-in-law is a big deal, although Xiaolong is fine, but the parents have to meet the girl before they can settle down.

"That's right. It's probably not a big deal. Everyone likes Xiaohui, and Xiaolong is willing." Yanhua said.

"It's nothing serious. Let's wait for Xiaolong to come back, and then call Lao Tan when you know the truth—" Wang Hong laughed suddenly, and said vehemently, "If Xiaolong's parents dare not agree, I'll find them Go, I still don't believe it!"

"Hehe, just calm down, people will agree or disagree after seeing you." Yanhua laughed.

When we blessed Xiaolong and Xiaohui, there was one person who felt very sad, and that was Meng Meng.

Meng Meng is a smart and beautiful girl. We knew her when the old shop opened four years ago, and she applied for a job as a dumpling worker.Because of her good image, Zhang Li wanted to ask her to be a waitress, but she quit, and Zhang Li felt sorry for it for a while.

She likes Xiaolong, otherwise she wouldn't have sex with Xiaolong.But the two did not have the same personality, and she felt tired, so she proposed to break up.

This is also due to their young age. At that time, Xiaolong was nineteen and she was eighteen, both of whom were full of novelty and desire for love, and they didn't fully understand it.I just think it's good to be together, looking for a feeling that makes people's ears blush and heartbeat.

When the passion passed, the love turned into normal, and reason began to take over the peak, it was painful and tormenting to find that the boy I liked was not Xiaolong.

After the breakup, she didn't fall in love again. Although the master wanted her to be his daughter-in-law, Yuelao wanted her, and the red line was hard to draw, so she gave up.

Everyone must experience the turmoil and restlessness of youth in the process of growing up, and it is in this immature experience that they gradually mature and grow up.

For three years, I worked in the same store with Xiaolong. Although we broke up, we are not lovers but friends. The relationship is very harmonious, and we often talk and laugh.When Xiaolong and Xiaohui came together, he also blessed Xiaolong.

After knowing that Xiaohui's mother was terminally ill, she felt sorry and sympathized for Xiaohui's mother, and donated 300 yuan.Tell Xiaolong that he wants him to spend more time with Xiaohui. At this time, Xiaohui needs companionship and comfort.

But when the news of Xiaolong and Xiaohui's engagement reached her ears, her heart ached for some reason, and she was also a little shocked.She accepts the fact that Xiaolong and Xiaohui are in love, but Xiaolong's decision at this time has to make her re-examine the boy she once liked-it turns out that he has a heart as precious as gold.

This is the same as when someone picks up a dirt-covered gold bump and removes the dirt from it, and finds that it is a gold bump after you discard it carelessly—regret, annoyance, and self-blame.

Especially when the people around him praised Xiaolong for his good work, his affection and righteousness, and being a man who could be entrusted to him for life, let alone the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, it was sore and painful.

She was happy for Xiaohui to find a good man, but also regretted that she lost her love.

This is a very contradictory and painful psychology, tormenting her, making her listless, losing the old smile on her face, and becoming taciturn.

She wanted to find someone to talk about the distress in her heart, but who should she find?After thinking about it, looking for classmate Li Juan?No, Lijuan is in love, so she will definitely bring that man with her when she asks her out. Seeing him being intimate and enthusiastic is even more uncomfortable.

Looking for Miss Tuya?No, Sister Tuya objected to her breaking up with Xiaolong from the very beginning, now she is slapping herself in the face and being reprimanded——
Who should I look for?

She thought bitterly.

Yes, looking for Master, Master loves me the most, treats me like a girl, and chatting with her will make me feel better.

After thinking of looking for Master, I went directly to Master's house without eating after work.

Wang Hong and Fang Jianjun were sitting on the sofa watching TV, when they saw Meng Meng coming, they hurriedly greeted them to sit down.Meng Meng didn't sit down, and said to Master: "Master, let's go out for a stroll."

Wang Hong saw that Meng Meng's complexion was not very good, and her mood was a little depressed, unlike the usual chattering and laughing, thinking that this girl must have encountered something embarrassing, so she got up, changed her clothes, and went downstairs with her.

The night in early autumn is very cool, the comfortable night breeze blows, and the long hair around the ear is lifted, with a little melancholy.

Meng Mengmeng spoke, but didn't know where to start. She was upset and just walked forward with her head down.

"What's the matter, girl." Wang Hong asked.

"Hmm - worrying." Meng Meng said.

"What's the matter?" Wang Hong asked.

"Master, let's have some wine." Meng Meng said.

Wang Hong looked at his apprentice in surprise, and thought what was wrong with this girl, how excited she was to drink?Look wronged.So he pointed to a small restaurant in front of him and said, "Okay, go to that one, that one is still open."

The master and apprentice entered the restaurant, ordered two dishes and ordered beer.

After drinking a cup, Meng Meng said, "Master, when the store opens again in Hohhot, I will be transferred there. I want to leave the provincial capital."

As soon as the little girl finished speaking, Wang Hong knew why she was upset.

"Because of Xiaolong?"

"Well—not all, just want to leave—"

Wang Hong smiled and said, "Your thoughts are all written on your face."

Being seen through by the master, Meng Meng said: "I just don't have the energy in my heart——"

"Silly girl, whoever is with whom is fate, you can't force it. You and Xiaolong are both good children. Although we are not together, we have been together before, and there is nothing we can't let go of." Wang Hong continued: "I know you What a pain, seeing that Xiaolong is planning to get engaged to Xiaohui before her mother passed away, he did everything well, he is a loving and righteous man, do you feel a little regretful?"

Meng Meng didn't speak, but nodded.

"Master will not give you regret medicine, and there is nothing to say. Others' persuasion is useless, and you have to think about everything yourself. Xiaolong is steady, calm, kind to people, and knows pain and heat. He is not you if you have no choice. I have no vision, and no one can say for sure about emotional matters. I didn't think about being able to get together with Lao Fang. I didn't see him when I pinched my eyes halfway. Thinking of getting divorced, I didn't leave either.

You just turned 21, a flower just blooms, and you are guaranteed to find someone you like.Xiaolong is good, but you two don't get along, isn't it nice to be friends now?Let me tell you, girl, I have nothing to regret when it comes to dating.Don't be afraid of your jokes, Master still liked Lao Tan back then, so just think about being with him, he is willing to divorce.

But then I thought it wasn't the case, the couple had a pretty good life, what are we?Besides, you can't do that.It's not bad with Lao Fang now, just treat me well. "

"I understand the truth, but it's just that I don't have the energy-to make trouble." Meng Meng said.

"What's the trouble? If Xiaolong doesn't decide to get engaged, doesn't he think so? He should be happy to have such a friend who values ​​love and righteousness. Just like Master, having a friend like Old Tan will be enough for a lifetime.

Some people can be lovers, some people can only be friends.People are satisfied, don't think too much, and you will get tired if you think too much.Sometimes it’s impossible to make people who are neither humans nor ghosts, and they can’t make friends until they can’t even get along with friends. How much? "Wang Hong said.

"Hmm - let me go to Hohhot if you have a chance, I like Inner Mongolia very much -" Meng Meng murmured.

Wang Hong looked at his apprentice distressedly, sighed, and said, "Okay, I will fight for you when the time comes."

(End of this chapter)