The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 425 Kindness Yaru
"We all know that he used to be a money-player, and he is still in his forties, so no one has ever talked to him." Zhao Min said: "My mother is honest, and she doesn't have any opinions, and there is really no way to take me and my younger brother. Son, I just listened to my grandma and uncle."

After Zhao Min's mother took her and her younger brother to marry, her stepfather was really kind to the three of them, as if they had returned to the old days.

When Zhao Min was fifteen, her body was torn apart, and she was a big girl, but it was a pity that she was lame.Everyone in the village said that if the girl hadn't been lame, she would definitely be beaten up.

Zhao Min studies well and wants to go to university.She knows that the university recruits lame people, and as long as they are admitted to the university, they will be able to support themselves in the future. This is her only way out.

When she was in the second and half semester of high school, she came home from the county high school on a weekend. On that day, her uncle fed the second child a full moon, and her mother took the younger brother to go, but she didn't come back that day.

In the evening, her stepfather, who had always been like a father, came back after drinking and launched a brutal attack on her.

She fought back.

The stepfather went crazy because of drinking, but he was also confused because of drinking, and he didn't succeed in the end.

At that time, she had no strength, and her stepfather was very frustrated. While scolding her, he whipped her with a bamboo stick and beat her with a rope with a hook on a tying cart.She rolled on the ground, with bloody scars on her stomach, ribs, and back——
"The next day my mother came back with my younger brother and saw me lying on the bed like a dead man, arguing with that beast—the beast was kneeling in front of my mother——
I lay in bed for a full month, and my mother waited on me every day, crying all the time.I asked my mother why she didn't leave this house, and my mother just cried, saying that your brother is still young——
At that time I hated my mother, if she didn't marry me and my brother to that beast, I wouldn't do that.

When I can go down the aisle, I will tell my mother to go to school and ask her to give me food and living expenses.My mother gave me [-], but the beast was afraid that it would not be enough, so he asked my mother to give me [-] more.

I didn't go to school with the money, and went straight out to work.

Over the years, I have done all kinds of work, picking vegetables and washing dishes in restaurants, washing rotten peaches in canning factories, and cooking for construction teams. When I was not here, I worked in a shoe factory. I was lame and easy to bully and wanted to take advantage of me, so I scolded him in front of everyone and quit. "

After listening to Zhao Min's narration for a while, Yaru asked, "Have you ever returned home?"

Zhao Min was silent for a moment, and the tears that had stopped filled his eyes again, and said: "I've been back, I've been back twice—I miss my mother, I miss my brother—woo woo, Aunt Yaru—"

Zhao Min got into Yaru's arms and cried again.

When Yaru returned to the courtyard, it was already dark, so she went directly to her room without turning on the light, and sat leaning on the head of the bed.

She was disturbed by what happened to Zhao Min, and she hasn't come out yet.She sympathized with the lame girl, and even felt distressed.On the way back, I wondered what I could do to help her?

Yaru is a kind person, and kind people have one thing in common, that is, they are sympathetic and helpful.

She thinks that what she can help is taking care of work and teaching skills. Others——she doesn't know what else she can help. If she can help, she will definitely help unconditionally.

"Hey——" she sighed, and said to herself: "The girl is so good, but she is lame. If she is not lame, she can find a good family—"

Her talking to herself reminded herself, she turned her head to look out of the window, it was already dark at this time, and the lights in Old Tan's house opposite were on.

Yaru let out a "huh", thinking he's back?Didn't you say that you went to watch your son's game? After watching the game, you took your son out to play. Didn't you play with your son for a long time?

She didn't know that Lao Tan had returned early.

Yaru washed her face first, and then came to Lao Tan's house with Zhao Min's business in mind.

Old Tan turned on the light after waking up to see that it was dark. When Yaru entered the room, he was peeing in the bathroom.I heard Yaru shout: "Are you back?"

"I'm back early." Old Tan said.

"Come back early? When did you come back?" Yaru asked wonderingly.

"A little while back."

"Didn't you take your son out to play?"

"No, the coach won't allow it, closed management." Lao Tan pulled up his trousers and pushed the door out, smiled at Yaru, and continued: "I'm sleepy after coming back, I just woke up after a nap."

"Have you eaten yet?" Yaru asked.

"Nope."

"I'll see if there's anything else to eat in the kitchen, and it happens that I haven't eaten either."

After Yaru finished speaking, she entered the kitchen, and after a while came out with a plate of dumplings and a plate of mixed dried tofu, followed by garlic, soy sauce, chili oil and vinegar, and a small plate of pickles.

Old Tan poured a glass of baijiu.

While eating, Yaru told Lao Tan the story of Zhao Min. The story was so detailed and emotional that she shed tears.

"Old Tan, do you know what I admire most about you?" Yaru asked, wiping away tears.

Old Tan was a little taken aback, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's the fact that you recruit the disabled to work. It's a good deed." Yaru said seriously and even a little excitedly.

"yes."

"Yes, you are right, I admire you."

Lao Tan joked: "If you admire me, don't leave, just stay here."

"It's not right to talk about it." Yaru glared at him and started to clean up the dishes.

Lao Tan made tea and sat on the sofa to watch Yaru clean the table, mop the floor, change the garbage bag, and tidy up the closet. Yaru's movements were natural and skillful, as if she was in her own home, and she was a virtuous and capable housewife.

Yaru noticed that Lao Tan was looking at him stupidly, and asked while arranging his clothes, "What are you looking at stupidly?"

Lao Tan didn't lie either, and said truthfully: "I see you work."

"What's the point of working?"

"It's a pleasure to watch you work. Sharang, straight, fast, clean, fast, good."

Yaru giggled and ignored Lao Tan.

Soon, Yaru finished the work in hand, walked to the sofa and sat down next to Lao Tan, picked up the tea that Lao Tan had poured for her and drank it in one gulp, and then poured another cup.

"You said it would be great if Zhao Min's child didn't have a limp, and he's still pretty." Yaru thought of Zhao Min again.

"No one is perfect---you like her so much, it's over if you accept her as an apprentice." Old Tan said.

"That's what she thought—I don't know what she thinks."

"You, the sympathy is flooding, whoever is pitiful wants to give all of his own. Let me tell you, it's easy to suffer like this."

"Let's suffer a loss, don't you say that a loss is a blessing?"

Old Tan laughed angrily, and said, "I'm not as disadvantaged as you are."

"How do you know I'm at a disadvantage? Don't talk about me, you have to be like me when you see me, and you don't know you yet."

Lao Tan nodded his head in recognition, and said nothing.

"I'll see her for a month first, and if it's okay for a month, I'll take her as an apprentice, do you think it's okay?" Yaru asked.

"Okay. Don't worry about the work, it mainly depends on the character. If the character is good or bad, you know it." Old Tan reminded.

"I think that child is fine, and I have seen it in the past few days."

"I'll take a look someday when you say so well."

As if she couldn't wait, Yaru said, "Come to work with me tomorrow."

"No, tomorrow my son will have competitions in the morning and afternoon, so I have to cheer him on." Old Tan said.

(End of this chapter)