The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 303 I really don't know
When Lao Tan returned home, he thought his son would be at home, but unexpectedly he was not.I called Lin Yan and said that my son had gone to Beipiao privately and wanted to spend the New Year with grandma at home.

"Then let's go back at thirty." Old Tan said.

"What are you thinking? I can't go back, my mother is sick." Lin Yan said.

"Mom is sick?" Old Tan was startled, and immediately asked, "What's wrong? What's going on?"

"When I came back from buying pig feed yesterday, I was riding an electric bicycle on the dam. I fell and my legs were swollen and I couldn't move. I still want you to come back and serve me." Lin Yan said.

"Oh, I fell, then you said you were sick."

"Isn't it a sickness if you fall--you're home?"

"Ah."

"Go to my mother's house and help feed the pigs and cook. Otherwise, I'll go back. I'm busy during the Chinese New Year. I can't leave. I have to deliver goods at night. You go first, and my eldest brother and the three of them will come back the day after tomorrow. , and then you come back." Lin Yan said.

"Oh, okay."

"How are you going? The road is bad and the highway is closed." Lin Yan asked.

"Think of a way. If you can't go today, you can go tomorrow. The snow will stop in the afternoon."

Everyone has double-layered parents, and the mother-in-law is also a mother.Although Lao Tan and Lin Yan have a bad relationship, after all these years, the husband and wife have not reached the point where they don't even recognize their mother-in-law.

Speaking of which, Lin Yan was also kind to Lao Tan's mother. Although she didn't go back to visit often, she did what a daughter-in-law should do.Get along well with the five older sisters, and always talk to each other on the phone.

From the perspective of outsiders, Lao Tan and Lin Yan are a harmonious couple, and there is nothing wrong with them.

Think about it when you are free, there are many couples like this around us, they live their lives as plain as water, have no passion for each other, look at each other although they are not disgusted, but it is definitely not appreciation and liking.

They are busy with their own affairs and rarely communicate with each other. Even if they meet every day, they seldom talk. They each complete the tasks agreed in the family, and then they go about their own work. Even if they sleep on the same bed, they are still two quilts.

Both entered the pure friendship of middle-aged couples.

It's just that Lao Tan and Lin Yan are more serious. There are reasons why Lao Tan always stays away from home, and there are also reasons why Lin Yan has a strong personality.It is difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong in matters between husband and wife. If there is no principled error, it can only be [-] big boards.

On such a day, even if the snow stopped the car, it was not easy to go on the road. Old Tan's Huaqing daughter-in-law called and asked for a van to take him to his mother-in-law's house.

Lin Yan's mother's leg injury is not serious, but it is very inconvenient for an elderly man in his sixties to be hindered in his movements.In addition, there are more than [-] pigs raised, and feeding is a problem.

Lao Tan waited on him for two days. On the afternoon of the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, his brother-in-law and his family of three came back. The younger brother-in-law also arrived the next day, so Lao Tan returned to the provincial capital.

After I came back, I walked around various stores and met old friends. In a blink of an eye, it was 29, and the next day was Chinese New Year.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Lin Yan arrived home, and the two talked about the New Year's event.

This time, there was something wrong with Old Tan. Yanhua was invited by Yanzi and Zhang Yu to go to Hohhot with Lao Deng to celebrate the New Year. Zhang Li and Zhongqing were left in the provincial capital.

Old Tan thought that Yanhua should stay when Yanhua was gone, so he told Lin Yan that the two of them lived in the provincial capital and went to Lin Yan's house on the first day of the new year.Beipiao doesn't need to go back, his son is a plenipotentiary.

Lin Yan disagreed and wanted to go back to her mother's house.

"Boss and second child are back, plus seven people including the old lady, the place to live will be crowded, we two will go back, where will we live?" Old Tan asked.

"You can stay here first." Lin Yan said.

Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, Lao Tan didn't want to be unhappy because of this matter, and have a bad time for the whole year, so he said: "Okay, listen to you, come back from get off work tomorrow to pick me up."

So it was settled.

But things always went wrong. The next day, brother Lin Yan brought his younger brother to the provincial capital to pick up his wife and children who flew over from Nanjing. He also picked up Lin Yan directly, leaving old brother Tan alone.

It was a lie that Old Tan wasn't angry, he couldn't figure out what Lin Yan and his two brothers-in-law were thinking, they clearly regarded him as an outsider.

To be honest, he was furious on the spot, his blood pressure soared, and he almost vomited blood.

When he saw the bright red blood on the ground, he calmed down and thought of what Lin Yan said when he called.

"I'll leave here first, you ask the driver to take you there."

He said, "What time is it? The driver is not a new year."

"Then let's take a taxi." Lin Yan also felt that it was wrong, and discussed it.

"Well -- that's fine, I'll celebrate the New Year at home by myself."

After talking, Lao Tan hung up the phone and lost all mood.

Thirty nights, thousands of lights, a peaceful New Year's Eve.

Lao Tan gave red envelopes to the employees of each store after paying New Year's greetings, and got himself drunk in the main store.

It was the second year when he woke up, and found that he was lying on his bed, and the room was full of the unpleasant smell of alcohol.

My head was a little heavy, but it didn't hurt, my eyes were dry and uncomfortable, and every joint in my body was paralyzed, and it was uncomfortable to move.

Thirst, wanting to drink water, a normal reaction of a drunk person waking up the next day.

I struggled to sit up from the bed, stabilized for a while, and then got out of bed when I felt that I was done, put on my slippers and went to the living room, picked up the mineral water on the coffee table and unscrewed the bottle cap to drink.

Under the warm and cool water, I feel much better and have a little energy.

At this time, he heard movement in the kitchen, and he heard human voices in the astonishment that had just risen.

"Woke up?"

The familiar female voice is Zhang Li.

He walked to the kitchen, and Zhang Li walked out with a plate of freshly cooked dumplings, and the two looked at each other.

"You—" Old Tan immediately understood what was going on, "You sent me back?"

Zhang Li smiled, walked around him to the living room, and said as she walked, "I don't have that ability, the three boys in the kitchen brought you up."

Lao Tan followed behind, scratching his head and trying to think about what happened last night, but unfortunately there was only a scene of drinking in the shop, and he couldn't remember how he got home.

"Drink too much, it's broken." Old Tan said embarrassingly.

Zhang Li put the dumplings on the table, turned her head and said, "I didn't see it, I was sober when I drank it, and I never refused anyone who came, and I couldn't persuade anyone, just drink and never get drunk."

After speaking, he walked back to the kitchen and brought back a plate of peanuts, along with vinegar and soy sauce.

"It's broken, why did you come back?" Old Tan asked.

"Zhongqing was driving, and three young men put you up." Zhang Li said.

"It's embarrassing."

"It's not embarrassing. Happy Chinese New Year? You gave full play to the spirit of having fun with the people last night." Zhang Li teased.

"Didn't you say anything wrong?" Old Tan asked vigilantly.

"Not really. When drinking, he speaks sternly, and he understands better than usual. He doesn't look drunk at all. When he comes out, he will die immediately—do you know if you fell down?" Zhang Li asked.

"I don't know, I just know that I came out, and I don't know anything about what happened after I came out." Old Tan recalled.

"I really don't know?" Zhang Li asked in disbelief.

"I really don't know." Old Tan said with certainty.

(End of this chapter)