The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 170 What more can a woman ask for
The snowflakes fell silently, and the world was peaceful.

The provincial capital, this ancient and heroic city, at this time all the streets and alleys are shrouded in whiteness, quiet and warm.

After this snow, [-] will be over.God seems to know that the new year is coming, with a white snow to wash the dust on the earth, purify the air between heaven and earth, and give people a bright future full of expectations.

Yanhua finished the negotiation of the storefront in University Town, North Province, and transferred it at an annual rent of 25, and the rest was decoration.The house on Lingdong Street has not been settled yet, and I don't want to talk about it anymore. The boss is too gruff, like a woman.

On the way back, Zhang Xiangdong drove the car, Yanhua sat in the back, watching the snowflakes falling outside through the car window, feeling peaceful in her heart.

"Sister Hua, can Mr. Tan come back from the annual meeting?" Zhang Xiangdong asked.

"Should be able to. His cooking competition will be held on the [-]nd, and he will rush back when it's over. Isn't the annual meeting on the [-]th? Let's catch up." Yanhua said.

This is the first annual meeting held by Ah Qiao Dumpling Restaurant, and Lao Tan has to attend.

"Are you almost ready?" Yanhua asked.

"Well, it's all over, don't worry." Zhang Xiangdong replied.

"There are four stores. The old store has enough space. If there are more than five stores, we will not be able to open. We need to find a big place." Yanhua said.

"Yes, we have to find a big place for Chinese New Year."

"Bonuses are calculated based on points, right?" Yanhua asked.

"Yes, it's all based on points, and the employees have no objections. Our family has a good work point system, which is fair and just. Everything is based on points, and no one can say anything."

"The more you work, the more you get. If you work hard for a year, you should get a bonus. By the way, who gets the most bonus?" Yanhua asked.

"Xiaolong, he has 2 yuan for the whole year, which is 5000, [-] yuan more than No.[-]." Zhang Xiangdong said.

"Oh, Xiaolong is really good. He has been working in our family for three years. He is skilled in crafts, smart, capable of research, good in character, enthusiastic, and willing to help others." Yanhua immediately mentioned many advantages of Xiaolong, and then continued: "I have to thank him. If it weren't for him, the kitchen on Chishan Road would be on fire. I would be afraid to think about it."

Yanhua was talking about what happened last week.

There was an air leak in the open cooker in the kitchen on Chishan Road, but no one noticed it.When the head chef Xiao Gao arranged the chopping board to light up the little stupid chicken, the whole clay pot was on fire all of a sudden, and he threw the chopping board out of the stupid chicken pot in fright and ran out.

At that time, there were two other people in the Ming Dynasty, and they were also terrified. They couldn't remember to use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, and they ran out after seeing the chopping board run.

The flames of the entire clay pot instantly flew wildly, and the large glass in front exploded with a "click".

It happened that Xiaolong went to the vegetable room to get raw materials and passed by here. When he saw the fire, he immediately ran to the main pipe valve to close the valve, and then rushed over with a fire extinguisher.

After 3 minutes, the fire was extinguished, and Xiaolong made a great contribution.

"The Taishan Road store has been open for three months, so their bonuses are small?" Yanhua asked.

"Well, relatively speaking, less." Zhang Xiangdong said.

Yanhua thought for a while and said, "As long as the employees have no objections, it's fine. We take care of the dishwashing, cleaning, and vegetable picking in all stores. They are vulnerable groups. We can't make them feel that we only value front-line employees. Don't take them seriously."

"Don't worry, sister Hua, there are bonuses."

"That's good. You and Lili, Manager Zhang, and Zhongqing will meet again later, and nothing will be left behind—the family members of the employees are also called to participate. Tell everyone about this." Yanhua instructed.

"Well, it's all announced."

Yanhua felt that she had already instructed everything that needed to be said, so she found a relaxing topic.

"By the way, Xiangdong, how is your relationship with Lili? When will you get married?"

The young man blushed a little and said, "It's okay, it's good, but it's too early to get married, and wait another two years."

"It's not too early, your parents are already anxious to have a grandson." Yanhua said.

"Well—then we'll have to wait two years, don't worry."

Yanhua didn't say any more, looking at Xiangdong, she felt a burst of emotion in her heart.

Unknowingly, the dumpling restaurant has been in business for four years, and has grown to five stores with nearly [-] employees.

In the past four years, several couples have been married. Although they are not yet married, they are still very happy when they think about it.

Xiaolong and Xiaohui, Mulan and Yang Zhijun, Wang Hong and Fang Zhijun, and now Zhang Xiangdong and Qin Lili.

Seeing them in pairs is a sense of accomplishment.

I don't know how Zhang Li and Ren Qingyun are doing.Hey, Zhang Li is 45 and still alone, so she needs to find a partner.She has always loved Lao Tan, but the two of them are impossible, and if possible, they would not wait until now.

Fate, people's life is fate, who is destined to be with whom, you can't force it.

When Yanhua thought of Lao Tan, he thought of his illness, and murmured in her heart: Tired, the whole company is busy with him, and after busy work in the provincial capital, Hohhot, I can't be idle for a day, and my body can't stand it.

Swallow is still pregnant, and Zhang Yu has to take care of her. In Hohhot, Lao Tan is in charge of it alone—he has to be assigned a deputy, and he is not responsible for other things, just take care of daily life.

By the way, he has to be equipped with a trolley.He drank and couldn't drive, so he needed a driver.My head hurts when I think of his alcohol, and I can't quit. There are many occasions where I have to participate, and I have to drink when I participate. It's not the same thing if I don't drink.

Hey, I really don't want to ask him to drink.

It would have been nice if he didn't agree to go to Hohhot to develop at the beginning, but only in the provincial capital, so that he could be lighter and not as tired as he is now.Now that Hohhot has been laid out, we have to do it, and the catering market there is better than that of the provincial capital. It is in a rising period, and there is a lot of room for development, so we should vigorously develop it.

But Lao Tan's body——
This time, no matter what he said, he was told to rest for a while and take care of himself.

Zhang Li came to the Huangshan Road store after the regular meeting in the old store. Today there are fifteen tables for a banquet at noon. The district traffic police team ordered it.

As soon as she arrived, Li Shuang and Hua Qing were waiting at the door.

"Sister Li, would you like to comment? Is there such a thing? The friend introduced by Xiaotao (Meng Meng) agreed to be a waiter. This thin monkey fell in love with him. He cut off his beard and went to the kitchen to make dumplings." Li Shuang An unhappy complaint.

"It's not me cutting off the bullshit, it's what he wants." Hua Qing said triumphantly.

"Fart! If you don't lead them into the kitchen, can the two of them make dumplings? You also hypocritically said that learning how to make dumplings is good, at least it is a craft, and you can eat at any time. What is the future of being a waiter? If the number is too high, you can't do it. To put it nicely, just fooling the little girl there, if your daughter-in-law is not a waiter, you can get it?" Li Shuang unceremoniously scolded Hua Qing.

Huaqing knew he was wrong, so he laughed without saying a word.

"Just like your dead ghost master, he knows how to steal people from the front desk." Zhang Li said with a glare at Hua Qing.

"If you say him, just say him, don't scratch my master."

"That's right, my master is not like me."

Speaking of their master, Li Shuang and Hua Qing, the enemies, immediately stood on the same front, and their guns were unanimous.

Zhang Li was so angry that she ignored the two of them and went straight into the store, with Li Shuang and Hua Qing snickering behind her.Zhang Li turned around abruptly, and the two of them stopped laughing immediately, as if nothing had happened.

"I shouldn't have come." Zhang Li said bitterly, and continued to walk in after speaking.

"Should come, Skinny Monkey and I are looking forward to it." Li Shuang took two quick steps, went up to hold Zhang Li's arm and said affectionately.

"I didn't see that we were both greeted at the door." Hua Qing said with a smile on his face.

"Tch, I don't know who to greet."

After checking the preparations for the banquet, Zhang Li asked, "Are the dumpling gift boxes ready?"

Huaqing replied: "It's ready, a total of [-] copies, and the refrigerator." Then he suggested: "Our family should build a cold storage to freeze dumplings."

"If you have this plan, you will decide when your dead master comes back." Zhang Li said.

"That's ugly—not to mention, it's kind." Li Shuang joked.

"Usually the wife calls her husband dead ghost. It's a kind of nickname, dead ghost—" Hua Qing elongated the tone with a female voice, and the listeners got goosebumps.

Zhang Li had no choice but to stare at him again, and he knew what was going on, so he went back to work in the kitchen.

"It's snowing today, I guess we can't be too busy, why don't we go eat hot pot tonight?" Li Shuang said.

"Look, I have to go to the Taishan store in a while." Zhang Li said.

"Let's see what it means, do you have an appointment with that Ren?" Li Shuang asked.

"It's useless to have an appointment with him." Zhang Li said angrily.

Ren Qingyun really asked Zhang Li to have barbecue at night, but Zhang Li said that she didn't know what time she got off work, so she wasn't sure.

She and Ren Qingyun are now friends, although both of them know what this relationship means.In today's terms, two single middle-aged men and women get along together, as long as they don't have any big opinions on each other, they can be qualitative.

Eat a few times, drink and chat, and don't talk about marriage, just make do with each other under the condition of mutual approval, it's a natural thing, no one said anything.

It's just that Zhang Li is still hesitating.

On the one hand, her hesitation came from the shadow left by her first marriage, which made her feel a little fearful about the lives of the two of them.To be honest, we can understand this. Any woman who has experienced domestic violence has fear of family life, afraid of being beaten and hurt again.

This kind of psychology is contradictory. I long for a warm family life and the care and love of a man, but I am afraid that the man I choose again will be like that. When we get along, everything is fine, even obedient, but once we live together The truth is revealed——
On the other hand, she has Lao Tan in her heart.I know that I can't be with Lao Tan, but this man has already taken root in his heart. Whenever he gets along with other men, he can't help but compare him with Lao Tan. Old Tan is good, he feels uncomfortable, so he can't cheer up.

She once thought about trying with Ren Qingyun.

In all aspects, Ren Qingyun's conditions are good.The man is handsome and manly.Have an enviable job with stable and high income,
Three-bedroom house, divorced, daughter married, no burden.

This is the ideal man a single woman is looking for.

What more could a divorced woman ask for?

(End of this chapter)