The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 333
After Lao Tan finished talking about the matter with Yaru, Wang Shulan was moved and wanted to explore further, so she asked, "Is it still interesting to Liu Yaru now?"

Old Tan smiled, although he was a little helpless, but very calm.

He said: "No. Everything is in the past, it's good to keep a memory."

"She is alone now, does she have any ideas?" Wang Shulan asked seductively.

"I know what you mean, but I really don't." Lao Tan lit a cigarette and said, "They are all people who have experienced marriage. Become Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai."

"But the love between you two is quite touching." Wang Shulan said sincerely.

"Love loves people, marriage is realistic, and the days are long. Any touching love story will kill the enthusiasm in the real marriage. If you hold on, you will become daily necessities. If you can't hold on, no matter how good the romance is, it will be eaten away by the years and you will have nothing.

She and I—we are destined to have no fate—actually we don’t need fate any more, we two, how can we say—” Lao Tan took a puff of cigarette and let it out, looking at the space in front of him, he said: “She is more beautiful than Lin Yan. Know me, understand me, every time she returns to the provincial capital from Suzhou, or goes to Hohhot, she packs the suitcases, the clothes are folded upright, and even the underwear is in order——
No matter in Hohhot or Suzhou, she always cleans my house, stands at attention when it is clean, and takes care of everything I eat, without saying a word.Some people would believe that she is my wife. "

Wang Shulan nodded and said, "I heard that she is quite virtuous."

"When a man works outside, he wants a woman's tenderness and consideration when he gets home. If he can't get anything, he has to keep a low voice. It takes a day or two. No one can bear it after a long time."

Old Tan took a look at Wang Shulan, and continued: "I'll tell you a real case. On May [-]st, I trained the management of Qiao Gang Company. There was a woman in her thirties who looked strong and said nothing.

The talk that day was 'Family Harmony and Career Progress', she may have felt something, and she asked me to talk about her husband after class.She said that her husband must have someone outside, and he didn't want to go home after get off work.

I told her that there is only one reason why men don't want to go home, that is, going home equals pain, and being outside equals happiness.

Later, I met and chatted with his husband once, and her husband said that he didn't want to go home, but he didn't dare to go home.When I get off work, I get scared, check my phone first, some ambiguous information should be deleted, deleted, and subtracted, and I dare not enter the door until it is cleaned up.

Her husband said that it was not because he was afraid of his wife watching, but mainly because his wife was very suspicious and didn't believe it.

As soon as she entered the door, the wife was the chief of the investigation department first, and she checked it again.Then the director of the Public Security Bureau, no matter who they were, began to interrogate them.Then came the president of the court, who pronounced the final judgment.

Now her husband is sick, and he is afraid after work and doesn't want to go home.What if you don't go home?Make excuses and reasons, if you don’t, then lie, go back late if you can, or get drunk if you can’t. "

"Giggle—" Wang Shulan laughed.

"I told that woman that strict control over my husband is equivalent to cultivating a husband for others, and that I am my own husband if I control my future. Strict management is not treating my husband as a husband, but an obedient slave. Controlling my career is treating my husband like a child, a child Yeah never leave the fuck out.

She was a little confused, not sure if she understood. "

"You know everything, why don't you tell your wife?" Wang Shulan asked.

"A doctor can't cure his own illness, and the teacher's children may not all learn well." Old Tan said helplessly.

"Too---"

Wang Shulan nodded, then raised her glass and said, "Come, drink."

Unknowingly, the bottle of wine was finished, and the two chatted happily, as if they hadn't drunk.

Wang Shulan ordered beer again.

The cold beer suppressed the hotness of the baijiu, and the spirit of the liquor that came up was gone, and he was very energetic.

Women are interested in exploring other people's privacy. It is not appropriate to say that they are interested. They should be said to be hobbies or curiosity.Of course, it has to be someone you like and care about, and you won't listen to those you don't like.

After listening to Yaru, I still want to listen to Zhang Li.

Old Tan said: "It has nothing to do with her, and you know it, it's just that."

"I heard from Xiaomei that you and Zhang Li are very lively."

"Legend, legend, do you believe it?"

"I don't want to believe it. The whole group knows about the relationship between the two of you. It's not unbelievable."

Old Tan laughed and said, "We two—Tie Zi."

"It means you two—"

"You don't give me the impression of gossip."

Wang Shulan glared at Old Tan in a womanly manner, and said straightly: "It's not gossip, but that was in the past."

Her words reminded Lao Tan, the hand holding the wine glass couldn't help but stop, watched her think for a while, and drank the wine in the glass without saying anything.

Wang Shulan watched him all the time, seeing that he drank the wine without saying a word, his eye-catching bald head shone a little under the light, and knew that she could no longer ask about Zhang Li.

I felt a little remorse in my heart, thinking: He must think that I beat him with what happened that day, but I didn't think so——
She wanted to explain, but just as she was about to open her mouth, Old Tan spoke first.

"I know what you're thinking, hehe, I have nothing to do with Zhang Li, after knowing her after Lin Yan, there are some things I can't do——
It’s not that I’m good, maybe it’s related to my growth. In addition——I’m in true love with Lin Yan. We are both bitter melon eggs, a couple in need. It’s not easy for her to live with me, a poor man, and even have a son—— —” Old Tan said.

"---"

"You don't know what we were like when we were the poorest, renting a house of [-] square meters, the kind of three families with one kitchen, and there was nothing in the house except beds for sleeping and pots and pans for eating——
The child was born there, and when I was born, I had 1000 yuan in my hand, not even enough for a month's milk powder——
No way, I went to another place just after the child was one month old, just want to earn more money, so that the two of them can eat well and dress well——Sometimes I cry when I think about it, the child will leave before I come back, look at me It's unfamiliar to me, I don't know that I'm a father—”

Old Tan's voice became sad.

"No way, I have to live. I stay at home for a few days and then leave. After leaving, it takes another year——I didn't come back until my child was four years old. At that time, I had a little bit of money—"

"You're miserable—" Wang Shulan said.

"Hehe, people, there are blessings that can't be enjoyed, and there are no hardships that can't be endured." Lao Tan swallowed with difficulty, and said: "Everything has something to lose, and it is always in other places. Money is earned, but husband and wife The relationship is gone—it’s not that it’s gone, it’s—how can I say it, I’m also responsible.

At that time, I only knew how to make money, but had no concept of life. I felt that paying the money to the family would be considered as completing the task, and I didn’t want to take care of the family and children. I should drink and play, and I didn’t care.

I still think it's reasonable, and I'm quite a man, but now I think I'm an asshole-that's when Lin Yan started ignoring me.She ignored me and I ignored her, each went his own way, until now. "

"You two still have feelings." Wang Shulan said.

"I've lost that little bit of affection—life is plain, and I don't know how to cook, rice, oil and salt. What do you do when you become a chef? To be honest, I'm over forty and half my life is wandering. It's a career, but it's just a few taels of silver.

Once you get started, you can't stop, and you have to go down even if you grit your teeth. Hundreds of people are waiting to eat.

Sometimes when I’m tired, I want to take a rest, go home, let my wife take care of me, and feel comfortable——unfortunately, I don’t have this kind of treatment.I opened my mouth and said that the man dared not go home, and I did the same, and I was scared when I went home.

What is not wanting to go home?Home equals misery, being outside equals joy.It is truth to say this to others, and it is understanding to say it to yourself.Like the one who sings, what a painful realization—”

Lao Tan put the wine glass to his mouth and drank it slowly.

(End of this chapter)