The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 439

There is a kind of woman who will focus all her attention and love on the child after giving birth, and then ignore the existence of her husband.

The child is her whole, the only life.

Most of the occurrence of this phenomenon is related to growth experience.

For example, Lin Yan lost her father when she was a child. When she was three years old, her mother took her and her younger brother to remarry, and then her stepfather died again.Witnessing the misery of his mother's fate and the hardships of living people since he was a child, he knows that it is not easy for his mother to pull his three siblings into adults.

The mother's strength and independence, as well as her unyielding attitude towards life subtly infected and affected her, and gradually revealed her independent personality after having a child, especially when Lao Tan left the child when he was just one month old.

That was when she and her child needed the most care, and it was also the most difficult time for her and Lao Tan.Lao Tan's departure was heartbreaking, and she was absolutely unwilling to support Lao Tan and Lao Tan's departure.

But what can be done?If you want to live a life and raise a child, you have to earn money.

In fact, she and Lao Tan are the same kind of people.Lao Tan has no father since he was a child, and has experienced similar experiences to hers, even worse than hers.Both are strong, independent, and unyielding in their bones, and at the same time have fatal flaws-strong self-esteem and sensitive inferiority complex.

Both of them live and do things in their own way, with little communication.I hope that the other party understands, but I don't try to understand the other party.Even if you know that you are wrong and don't admit it, the other party doesn't understand and would rather continue to be wrong.

Lao Tan changed because he always led the team and forced himself to change.Lin Yan also changed, but very little, because she was accompanied by her son, which in some ways deepened her independent personality.

Of course, there are also personality reasons.

Lao Tan is open-minded by nature and doesn't stick to trivial matters, so he can see many things openly.Lin Yan is introverted, stubborn, and accepts the truth. She doesn't change her mind easily, so many things can't be ignored, and she often thinks in extreme directions.

Old Tan just did not talk, and did not take the initiative to communicate, Lin Yan felt that he was silently resisting.

The result is what it is now.

This winter is very cold.

On the second day after the beating, Lao Tan drove to Jining alone.

After the Jining store was renovated and expanded its business area, it has become the largest dumpling restaurant in Jining City. It is full every day and the business is very good.

Li Zhiwen and his mother both work here, and he does a good job cooking dumplings in the dumpling room.The shock of divorcing Meng Meng has subsided, and the young man has returned to his previous state. He is very energetic, looks more mature and restrained, and is developing in the direction of a standard man.

Lao Wang is also cooking dumplings with him. Lao Wang also works part-time as a maintenance worker. He can fix any minor problems in the store. If it can't be fixed, he will hire professionals.

Lao Tan chatted affectionately with the two for a while, and then came to the front desk.

Tong Xin and Huang Lijuan have prepared tea, and there is a girl, Huang Lijuan's classmate - Kang Min.Kang Min was still working on a food show on the TV station. She was going home to watch her children, and she came to meet her old classmates. Unexpectedly, Lao Tan was also there.

The two are old friends, and they each stepped forward to shake hands and greet each other, and then the four sat down and chatted while drinking tea.

"How much do you sell a day now?" Old Tan asked Tong Xin.

"An average of [-]." Tong Xin said.

"A lot." Old Tan said.

"Well, it's okay, it's considered high in Jining." Tong Xin's face was full of pride.

"You are now the boss of Jining."

"I don't dare to be the boss, it's so-so." Huang Lijuan made a showy low-key in a timely manner.

"Master Tan will stay for two more days this time, it's okay anyway." Tong Xin said, she always called Lao Tan Master Tan.

"Otherwise I wouldn't be able to leave. I called my uncle and told him to kill the sheep and leave after eating the sheep." Huang Lijuan said with a smile.

"Don't." Old Tan immediately stopped him when he heard about killing sheep, "What kind of sheep are you killing? If you want to do this, I will leave now."

Huang Lijuan said: "It's late, the mutton is probably in the pot now, I told him to kill it when you called."

"Whether it's a joke or not, I know it's better not to come like this." Old Tan laughed, thinking that since he had already killed it, he would eat it, and if he was polite, he would be fake.Then asked: "How many sheep does your uncle keep?"

"There are [-] of them, in the pasture in Beishan, let's go there in a while." Huang Lijuan said.

"Five hundred, that's a lot."

"It's okay. Raising sheep makes money, no less than I earn from running a restaurant. You'll know after a while. He's a landlord now, and he's taking care of the family."

When Lao Tan and the others arrived, Huang Lijuan's uncle had already cooked the mutton.

Lao Tan didn't enter the house first, and stood in the yard to look around.

The yard is quite large and built against the hills.

There are five large tile-roofed houses in the middle, and the sunshine room is connected to the front of the tiled houses, which is very grand.On the west side is the 20 meters long hay room, where the hay bales are neatly stacked.Behind the hay house is a sheepfold about [-] meters long, and the lambs are having fun in it.Outside the sheepfold is the pasture, and not far away is a leisurely flock of sheep.

There are two wing rooms and two garages on the east side of the yard. The doors of the garages are open. A black car is parked in one, and a Tainong four-wheeler is parked in the other.

The yard is clean, the ground is paved with stones, and the motorcycles necessary for shepherds are parked near the door.

Clothes were drying on the clothesline pulled up by two iron poles in front of the warehouse, and a border shepherd with black body, four hooves and snow-white face was tied to each of the two iron poles, and was happily gnawing sheep bones.

"It's cold outside, let's go to the house." Huang Lijuan called Lao Tan.

The first thing to enter is the sun room.

As soon as I entered, I was attracted by an attractive fragrance.

The dining table is placed in the sun room, with a pot of lamb just out of the pan, a large plate of steaming lamb blood sausage and lamb sausage, and a pot of fragrant haggis.

The sound of cooking was constantly coming from the kitchen of the main house.

Huang Lijuan's husband, brother-in-law, Tong Xin, Lao Wang, and Kang Min all stood at the table and waited for Lao Tan to come and sit down.Old Tan was a little embarrassed to see others waiting, so he hurried over to ask everyone to sit down.

Huang Lijuan poured wine for everyone first, and then said: "Everyone, you are welcome, there are no outsiders, let's eat meat first, and I will go to the kitchen to help my brothers and daughters-in-law serve dishes, and we will have a drink when we come back."

Huang Lijuan went to the kitchen, and her husband and brother-in-law warmly greeted her to eat meat.

Don't be too particular about meals in herdsmen's homes, the more authentic the better.

Lao Tan picked up a lamb chop and gnawed it. It was delicious, not smelly at all, and full of flavor.After a few bites of a lamb chop, he wiped his hands and started to eat lamb blood sausage and lamb sausage.The blood sausage is dipped in garlic sauce, and the meat sausage is dipped in wild leek flowers. The taste is not to mention, it is delicious.

After a while, Huang Lijuan came out with a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, put it on the table, then sat down, and said: "There is also a stir-fried celery powder. She makes it herself. I don't need it. Come, let's drink. Let's talk about it first, the meat is not good." Don't stop drinking after eating, and don't leave until the wine is dry."

Everyone laughed and took a sip from their glasses.

"Eat meat and eat meat. It doesn't taste good when it's cold, so it's hot." Huang Lijuan put down her wine glass to greet her, and gave her husband a piece of leg of lamb with a lot of meat, saying, "Give my husband a piece of meat with a lot of meat, and reward him for taking care of the children at home." Serving the elderly is meritorious."

Everyone laughed, her husband was a little embarrassed.

"Tell you my husband is good. He is my right-hand man and a good wife. Without his support, I can't dare to fight."

After Huang Lijuan finished speaking, she picked up the wine glass again, and said to her husband: "My husband has worked hard, and my daughter-in-law is toasting you, and I will show them how we drink together."

The woman sings and the husband follows, and the couple touch their wine glasses and it's done.

Because of drinking and being in a good mood, Huang Lijuan told a little-known story about her and her husband.

(End of this chapter)