The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 161 Relapse
The night is cold as water.

There is no wind, and the temperature in November has reached below zero, and the exhaled breath turned into a cloud of white mist in front of him.

There were not many people on the street at this time, and it seemed a little deserted.

Lao Tan came out with Yaru and Wang Yanli from the hotpot restaurant, and was about to send them back to the dormitory.There were no more than 20 meters when he went out, and he felt his throat was hot and a little salty. Intuition and experience told him that blood was rushing up and he was about to vomit.

He swallowed hard, feeling dizzy, and pulled Yaru subconsciously.

Yaru stopped and looked at him, she could see the distress from his expression, and at the same time, she could see from the eyes that she didn't want Wang Yanli to know.Surprised, he opened his mouth and asked, "What's the matter?"

Old Tan shook his head.

Wang Yanli also stopped and looked at Lao Tan.

Old Tan kept his mouth shut, and smiled at Wang Yanli, which meant nothing.

Yaru saw that something was wrong with Lao Tan, so she said to Wang Yanli, "Yanli, you go back first, and I will accompany him for a walk."

Wang Yanli looked at the two of them, seemed to understand what was going on, smiled meaningfully, and said, "Don't bother you two, I'll be back."

Seeing Wang Yanli disappear from the corner in front, Lao Tan couldn't bear it any longer, spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the ground red.

"Ah—" Yaru exclaimed.

After spitting out the blood, I felt much better, but the blood was hot, and it irritated my throat when I vomited it out, and then I vomited two more.

Seeing Lao Tan vomit blood three times in a row, Yaru was frightened and asked nervously, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

Old Tan swallowed with some difficulty, wiped his mouth with his hand, and said, "It's nothing, it's an old problem."

Of course Yaru doesn't believe it's okay, this is vomiting blood, who is okay to vomit blood?

"Is it okay? I'm vomiting blood." Yaru said in a panic, "Go to the hospital."

"No, two days of infusion is enough, nothing to worry about, bronchiectasis, bronchiectasis, broken capillaries, extravasated blood." Old Tan said.

"Then there is still so much seepage? Go, go to the hospital quickly." Yaru didn't believe it, she felt that Lao Tan's situation was serious, and even wondered if he would die——
Old Tan cracked his mouth and smiled, startling Yaru, his mouth was all red after vomiting blood, bloody and scary.

"You don't need to go to the hospital. It's not like you don't know what's going on. You'll be fine after a few days of hanging the bottle. Buy me a bottle of water. My mouth is fishy." Old Tan said.

If Yaru was concerned, she would be in a mess. Besides, women can't see blood, let alone open their mouths to spit out, so they panicked.Hearing what Lao Tan said, he thought of the thing about him getting a bottle in the clinic before, and remembered that Lao Tan did have bronchiectasis, so he felt a little relieved.

I turned my head and looked around for a small supermarket, there was one in front of me, so I went in and bought a bottle of water.

Lao Tan rinsed his mouth clean, and the smell of blood disappeared, so he felt refreshed.

Of course, Yaru is worried about his situation. The nearby clinics are also closed at this time, and he can only wait until tomorrow if he wants to get a bottle.Fortunately, the pharmacy opened, bought anti-inflammatory and hemostatic medicine, and sent Lao Tan back to the apartment.

Old Tan's recurrence of bronchiectasis was directly related to being busy and tired during this period, and he was still a little anxious to get angry, so he broke out.Whether his disease is serious or not, the main thing is not to be tired, not to get angry, and not to smoke or drink.

To put it bluntly, quitting smoking and drinking can be half the cure, but if it is not easy to quit, both of these are almost his fate.

After waiting for Lao Tan to finish taking the medicine, Yaru said, "Old Tan, quit smoking and drinking once you're like this."

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

"It's good to promise everything. When the time comes, you should drink and smoke, and you can't quit anything." Yaru knew that Lao Tan was dealing with it, and then said: "You are just forty, and the child is only ten years old. Everything at home depends on you. What about you, you said that your body is like this, and you vomit blood at every turn, how scary—don’t think about anything else, you have to think about your son, even if it doesn’t work, you have to wait until he gets married—”

Yaru said that the circles of her eyes were a little red.

"It's okay, I'm in good shape." Old Tan said with a smile.

"It's okay! Look at you, bronchiectasis, vomiting blood at every turn, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and it is estimated that blood sugar can't be lowered. People with three highs. Your age is the most dangerous time, maybe at any time - just drink alcohol. Quit, and don't smoke!" Yaru said.

"Well, listen to you." Old Tan said again.

Yaru glared fiercely, and said, "You, you know everything in your heart, but you just don't do it. Blame me too, as long as I don't drink with you——"

"It has nothing to do with you. If you don't drink with you, you have to drink with others. I still don't drink?" Old Tan comforted Yaru.

"Drink less, can't you? I think you drink better now than when you were young. At that time, you drank, but not every day. Now you drink every day. After noon and evening, you grow on the wine table." Ya Ru blamed with concern.

"What are you talking about? You also looked at it. Most of the guests who came were familiar with them. They asked you to have a drink or two. You must have a drink, right? You all know that I can drink, and I'm still the manager. There's nothing I can do about it." Old Tan was helpless. said.

"You just said that you are not in good health and you are taking medicine."

Old Tan smiled and said: "Take medicine once or twice, and still take it? It's good to drink and drink. When people come to cheer, you have to have a drink or two with you. The restaurant is like this, and many customers drink. Come out - no matter how delicious the food is, you can come or not, it’s different when you become friends, if you don’t come, you will think about it, but when it’s lively, you have to think about it.”

"That would be fatal." Yaru said.

"Life is what you want, as long as you are in a good mood." Old Tan said.

"I see that you are very tired every day, and your wife is not here, and sometimes it hurts—" Yaru felt that she was saying something, and immediately added: "I can't see you for a day, and I am busy with the back after I am done." , running at both ends of the provincial capital Hohhot, you are alone in everything, not only me, everyone said that, Yang Zhijun opened his mouth, even if my third brother looked at him, he was tired."

Lao Tan felt warm in his heart, being understood and cared for was a kind of comfort and a kind of happiness.

"You guys think I'm tired, but I don't feel it myself. It's just that sometimes I don't have enough time—how can I say that I'm 20, and I've been working in catering for [-] years before I'm famous. Remember to tell you, come out When I was working part-time, I didn’t think about being a chef and working in the restaurant business.

When I first started working, my thoughts were simple, I just wanted to make money, live off the poor family, marry a wife, have a child, and bring my mother to the city to enjoy the blessings.You know what my family is like. At that time, I was poor and couldn’t get a wife at all. If I fell in love with one, I would—”

Old Tan glanced at Yaru, and Yaru looked at him.

The two said something with their eyes——
"Hehe, it's over, don't mention it." Lao Tan pretended to be relaxed and continued: "Later, he became the head chef and led the brothers to do it. To be honest, Lao Tan has never lost. Being able to bring the dead back to life. It’s not about being able to do everything, as long as you put your heart into it, you can do it well, this is what I have concluded.”

"You are quite capable, everyone admires you." Yaru said.

"At that time, I thought, I can do it, and my brothers can do it too. Those who didn't come out to work before Wanguan were poor and had no way out. They only came out to earn money. I lived at that time and knew What kind.

Not to mention ideals, they are not that noble or capable, but they just want to have as much ability as possible, so that the brothers who follow them can have a stable job, earn money to support their families, and live a good life.

Let's put it this way, Yaru, I think so, opening a store can arrange [-] to [-] employees, and these [-] to [-] employees hold hope for the dumpling restaurant, what hope?I hope to be able to do it in the long run, don't always change places, and start funding every month to solve the problem of supporting the family.

Because I was too poor to study, I had to go out to work.I don't want to see others like this, I don't want this to happen.Our family now has about [-] employees. I know what everyone is like. There are a lot of difficulties in the family. Some people even wait for a monthly salary to live——
I didn't have these thoughts before, and I didn't have them strongly, because I couldn't do it myself, I went around hunting for food, and I didn't have the ability.

Know what's on my mind right now?It's a bit of an exaggeration to say it, but I really think so.I just want to make the dumpling restaurant a success, open more stores, earn more money, and recruit more employees so that they can work here with peace of mind, unlike when I was looking for jobs all day long, which was precarious.It would be even better if it can be made like a state-owned enterprise, pay labor insurance for employees, and have pensions after retirement-hehe, I think about these things all day long, and sometimes I am happy when I think about them, and I don’t know how tired I am, so I work hard. "

"What you are doing now is good enough. You can guarantee the capital and the benefits are good. Do you know what the employees say?" Yaru asked.

"Say what?"

"They will stay in the dumpling restaurant for a lifetime, and they will not move the place."

"This is what I want." Lao Tan said with emotion: "It is easier to conquer the country than to defend the country. Now I am tense all day long. Damn it, two hundred people are waiting to eat——”

"Then don't be too tired, relax when it's time to relax." Yaru said with concern.

"Well, I'm not worried about business now. Our family's model guarantees to make money. The dumpling restaurant is down-to-earth. The common people like it. Ten years and 20 years don't bring down the brand. What I worry about is management. Without good management, no matter how good the brand is, it will be ruined. .To be honest, there is a shortage of people, including those who work and manage, especially those who manage.” Old Tan said heavily.

"Aren't you training Yang Zhijun and Mulan?" Yaru asked.

"I can't do it without them. They are the first echelon. What about the second echelon? You and Liangcai Xiaozhou have to get better. Once the central kitchen store is finished, you two have to be transferred to be in charge of delivery. Now you two We have to train successors, and we have to go back and forth in the future. We will open at least eight stores, maybe ten. Ten stores, ten stuffing masters and ten cold dish bosses. .”

(End of this chapter)