The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 36
On the second day after Lao Tan came back, it started to rain lightly. The light rain began to fall in the morning, and it didn't clear up until noon. It seemed that it would last until night.

Brother Li next door didn't go to work. They got on the plane and handed over the work, and they hadn't reached their process when the plane got off the plane, so they could rest for a week.The two old men are fine at home, so naturally they have to make a fuss about drinking.

In the past, when the two drank, they cooked two dishes at home, bought a bottle of liquor and a few bottles of beer and started drinking.Now the women of the two families are not allowed to drink at home. The house is too small. In a room of [-] square meters, there is not much space except for the bed and a few simple pieces of furniture.Drinking in the house naturally requires smoking. The room is small, and the smell of smoke and alcohol will not go away for a while, and the wife and children are against it.

To be honest, there is no need for others to object, and I feel bad about it myself.

Brother Li bought an off-plan house, and there is still one year to come. Old Tan's family is waiting to move out and buy a house directly. Still a school district room.

The two discussed it and prepared to go out to eat hot pot.

Brother Li said, "Call Brother Liu."

Old Tan said: "He may be in the mahjong club now."

Brother Li said, "Call and ask."

Old Tan thought for a while, Gan Qika was hired by Xiaofeng, and he had to treat him to a meal.After two months of working in the Kanto family, Wang Ming did not fail to support him and brought many clients. Brother Liu also always came to support him, so he should treat them to a meal.

So he said to Brother Li: "Today, I'm going to treat guests. I'll invite Brother Liu, Wang Ming, and Xiaofeng. Anyway, it's okay if it's raining. Let's have a drink."

Instead of calling Brother Liu, I went directly to the mahjong club.Brother Liu, Wang Ming, and Xiaofeng were chatting there. When Lao Hei saw Lao Tan and Brother Li coming, he thought he was going to play mahjong. Become a bitter face.

Xiaofeng jokingly said: "What the hell, Brother Hei, it's not enough for us to come to cheer every day. Look at you, I will bring you one too."

Lao Hei blushed a little when Xiaofeng teased him, but no one could see the blushing, it was too dark.

Old Tan said: "Brother Hei, let's go together, if someone comes to play, I can call you, and you will come back when the time comes."

Wang Ming also said: "No one likes to go out of the house in this rainy day, no one comes, let's go, go drink."

Lao Hei was thinking about drinking, but also about business.Look at him like a rough man, he is shrewd, he is careful about everything, and he is a good hand in life.All this comes from his 15 years in prison, which is the result of the education of the people's government.

Old Hei, from Tiexi, has a formal job and a good future. He was in his twenties when the reform and opening up was first launched. Due to the influence of foreign factors and the temptation of money, he stopped his good job and went south to Guangzhou with his friends to explore the world.It's a pity that he met an unkind person and went downhill. He became a horseman under the famous Northeast Gang in Guangzhou at that time. He was killed in a gang robbery and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Due to his good performance, his sentence was reduced by five years, and he was released from prison in [-].After he came out, he lost everything and became an idler. He was taken in by Cao Jihong, the elder brother of Santaizi. He worked as a toll collector in the market for a year, and then opened this small mahjong club to make ends meet.

He was 28 years old when he was imprisoned, and he is 53 now.There was a son who was divorced after he was imprisoned, and his wife took the child to Shanxi. It is a pity that he cannot be contacted so far.

During the period of opening the mahjong club, I also fell in love with a woman, but I didn't last long.In his words, that woman is an eye for money, she will do anything for money, and she will do nothing if she doesn't give money.

Zhang Li is resting today. When she woke up in the morning and saw it was raining outside, she felt depressed and depressed.

It's hard to take a day off and catch up with the rain, bad luck!

She was very depressed yesterday.In the evening, the guests in a large private room on the third floor were very unhappy. First, they ate a hair in the stewed chicken and mushrooms.It was less than 5 minutes before the egg in the hospitality dish was still rotten, the guest was furious and scolded Hu Jing.

She went up to offer the guest an apology and a gift plate, but the guest didn't accept it and was going to refuse to pay the bill, and took the rotten egg to the Food and Drug Administration to sue them.

Of course, you can’t ask customers to bring rotten eggs to the Food and Drug Administration, then the Kanto family will become famous, not only the store will be sealed and closed for rectification, but within a week, the entire Santaizi will know about this, and they will have to say that the Kanto family has a good meal. Be careful, his eggs are rotten and still served to customers.

It's good to say that the customers have stopped, but they are determined not to pay the full bill, and only give half of the money.

Zhang Li found Wang Gang afterwards, and Wang Gang said that he was only responsible for the two problematic dishes, and ignored the others.Zhang Li said that the customer's half order was caused by the problem of the dishes, and the kitchen should bear all the responsibilities.

Wang Gang is of course unwilling to ask the kitchen to take full responsibility. He is the one who can't argue with reason. In the Guandong family, except Mr. Xu himself is the king, no one else is allowed to point fingers, so he said to Zhang Li unceremoniously: "There is something wrong with the dishes. I admit it, I pay the bill, I don’t care about other things, besides, what do you do at the front desk, you can’t explain to the guests? You’re dead!"

Zhang Li was so angry that she was too lazy to talk nonsense with such a person, so she went directly to the office to find Mr. Xu, told what happened, and asked Mr. Xu to give an explanation.

Mr. Xu was also very angry when he heard this, and comforted her a few words, saying that Wang Gang is just a bastard, belonging to a donkey, and he has to stroke his hair, but he can't do it if he chokes. He personally talked to Wang Gang and told her not to be angry.

From Mr. Xu's words, he could hear the meaning of being biased toward Wang Gang, so he didn't say anything.Comfort yourself, forget it, don't care about such a person, come here to make money, there is no need to be angry.I am willing to do whatever I want, anyway, I told the boss and let them solve it by themselves.Now that I am older, 42, I can open up to everything I want, so there is no need to be serious.If this was the case when he was young, he would definitely be clear and clear.

Because I was in a bad mood, I decided to take a day off after I came out of Mr. Xu's office to give myself a holiday and relax.

I didn't expect to encounter such a ghostly weather, raining, and worrying.

Lazy on the bed and unwilling to get up, he picked up his mobile phone and called his younger sister, telling her that she would not be at her house anymore.The original plan was to visit my little nephew, who is three years old and very cute. Since his actual age was less than two years old on his birthday, he didn't go to kindergarten, and his younger sister took it with him at home.I haven't seen you for three months, and I really miss the little guy.

Every time I go to the little guy, I will call my aunt and aunt, and I have to hug and play for a while.Of course, these are all based on the fact that you don’t go empty-handed every time. If you don’t buy some snacks, or toys or something, the little guy is not enthusiastic, and pouted to express his disappointment and dissatisfaction.

This kind of disappointment and dissatisfaction can't last long. After 10 minutes, I forget it. I get intimate with my aunt as if nothing happened. I warmly invite my aunt to play with my own toys, and take out the snacks bought by my mother to entertain my aunt. .Often at this time Zhang Li is happy and happy, and treats her little nephew as her own child.

She has always wanted to have a child, but fate is always playing tricks with this strong woman, and she has never achieved her wish.

Thinking of children, I can't help but think of Lao Tan.She remembered that when she was working in Linjiangxuan, she half-jokingly and half-seriously told Lao Tan that she wanted to have a baby with him.At that time, she really had this kind of thought, because Lao Tan occupied a big place in her heart, and it still does now.

When I said this at the time, there was an element of impulsiveness in it. If it is now, it will never be like this.It's not that he has no feelings for Lao Tan, but the reality is that he is not allowed to have children—he can't afford them.

A single woman with little savings and a monthly mortgage payment will go bankrupt if she doesn't work for half a year to earn money. What conditions do she have to raise a child?Have to starve to death?Even if you survive, what will you do afterward?Do you have to go to kindergarten? After kindergarten, you have to go to elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university—it’s scary to think about it.

It's not that you can't give birth, but you dare not give birth, and you can't afford to give birth if you give birth.

It's okay to be a rich woman, or have a husband who earns money to support the family, and it's not impossible for me to be safe and secure at home with my husband and children.

Thinking of children also reminds me of my first man.Yes, for better or for worse, a woman will never forget her first man for the rest of her life.Maybe it's hate, maybe it's love, maybe it's helplessness.

The first man, that handsome military representative, captured himself so easily.As the song sang, I was like a moth, knowing that there was a raging fire in front of me that could burn me to death, but I still jumped on it without hesitation——
As a result, he was injured.The man left a sum of money for himself and went back to his home in Beijing, but there was no further news.What makes people laugh is that he didn't hate that man, and silently knocked out the little life in his stomach——
Now that I think about it, I regret it. It would be nice not to kill the child. Now that I have my own child and become a mother, I think the child should be 19 years old.

Hey, it's too late to regret.

Now I start to hate that man.

I really shouldn't have aborted that child. God seems to be punishing the person who kills his life. He made his marriage meet a barren man, completely extinguishing the hope of being a mother.

It's okay to have no children without children, as long as you can live a good life.But this man didn't want to live a good life at all, and after knowing that he was infertile, he began to torture people like a pervert.The marriage that persisted for two years finally ended unbearably, and they became lonely again.

It seems that there is a very high-end title for single women nowadays, called single nobles.I am just single, not noble.

After all, she is a normal woman, just 42 years old, all her physiological functions are functioning normally, telling herself that she needs the companionship and care of the opposite sex all the time, longing for the nourishment and happiness of love.

During the day, the intense work makes people forget all this, but at night, when the endless darkness swallows you up, the emptiness, loneliness and heart-scratching impatience rush in like a tide, how much you want to have a man at that time Be by your side, get into his arms, and get a moment of loving comfort.

We will understand these things normally. A 42-year-old woman has a desire for love and physical needs, and she is also a human being.

The torment of loneliness at night was so unbearable that she sometimes had the urge to call Lao Tan.Impulse is impulsive, knowing what the consequences of making a phone call are, you are an adult, there are some things you can do, and some things you can't do.Once men and women cross that layer of relationship, the nature changes.

What's more, people are emotional animals in the final analysis, can they have no emotions after having that kind of relationship?What should I do if I have feelings?Who can act as if nothing happened.

Lao Tan is a good man who is serious about his work and responsible for his family. There are very few men like this.Now how many old men who have no irons outside?Not to mention the old men, there are women, it is already a common thing.I haven't heard people say that there is no iron outside, and it is better to live than a turtle.

In this life, I don't want to get married anymore, and I don't want children. I want to treat my younger sister's children better and treat them as my own children, not as a mother or an aunt.

There are men who have entered the Dharma eye and they don't live together. If they think about it, they will stay together for one night and solve their physical problems with each other. That's it.

Thinking of this beautiful face, I felt a little feverish, and felt ashamed of myself for having such a realistic and shameless idea.But it's normal to think about it. This is similar to the thinking of most single women. Many people have done this. They just think about it and don't break the law. There is nothing wrong with it.

But a man must be something he can look up to, and he doesn't feel anything if he doesn't look up to it.

Lao Tan's face naturally appeared in front of his eyes, with bald head, serious face, deep eyes, sonorous and powerful speech, passionate speech, devotion to work, and the domineering like a bandit.

This is the man I want.

It's a pity that it's already a famous flower.

I know this man too well. After more than ten years of getting along, I already know what each other thinks in their hearts. Sometimes they can know what the other person wants to say and express with just a glance.This is a tacit understanding reached through years of cooperation, and ordinary people cannot do it.

This tormenting man has had a partner since he met him. If only he didn't have a partner, I will definitely take him down.I tried my best, but this bandit kept pretending to be stupid, and at every critical moment, he dropped the chain and ran away.

I really don't know what a big old man is afraid of, and if he doesn't destroy his family, isn't it good to be tough?I won't give birth to him anymore, I just need to accompany me as long as I can.

Where can I find this beauty?Others want to accompany or not.

Thinking of Lao Tan made her teeth itch with hatred. She always thought that Lao Tan went to work in other places for five consecutive years to avoid herself.

This time, they cooperated again in the Kanto family, and when they just wanted to stop letting him go, they ran away again.

Hey, is this fate?

What is Lao Tan doing in this rainy day?It's been almost a month since I left and I didn't even make a phone call, that's ruthless.If you don't hit me, let's see what you are doing. If you have nothing to do, you can drink some wine and chat, and rest anyway.

So he picked up his phone and dialed Lao Tan's number.

(End of this chapter)