The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 449 Life is wonderful and has nothing to do with the length of life
For half a month, Lao Tan and Wang Shulan lived a peaceful rural life.

Lao Tan takes two medicines a day, which are decocted soups in bags, just heat them up and drink them.

He quit smoking, but he did not quit drinking, and every meal he had two taels of ganoderma lucidum and ginseng wine.After Wang Shulan called and consulted the old Chinese doctor, she didn't stop her anymore. As the old Chinese doctor said, even if the disease is not cured, as long as the mood is good, it is good, not to mention that two or two drinks are nothing to Lao Tan.

Wang Shulan got up early every day to light a fire and cook on the kang.When she got up, Lao Tan also got up, folded the quilt and put it in the kangqin, then got off the ground, put on her shoes, put on a cotton hat and went out of the house, went to the east wall of the yard and carried the split wooden flaps into the house and put them in the stove. By the fire pit.

Wang Shulan boiled millet porridge, boiled eggs, hot steamed buns and salted duck eggs in a large pot. He cut the pickles sent by Yingzi's mother into two small dishes and took them to the kang table in the house, and then pulled out the spring onions from the basin on the window sill. Two, remove the roots, wash and put them on the table, and then go to the outhouse to get the sauce bowl.

At this time, Wang Shulan said distressedly: "Pick up the onion again——"

"The old sister-in-law has several pots, and I will bring another pot someday." He said.

The breakfast for the two of them was hearty, including millet porridge, boiled eggs, salted duck eggs, pickles, steamed buns, scallion dipping sauce, and garlic.Every two days, the steamed buns are replaced with large cornmeal pancakes, oil pancakes, and sometimes hand-rolled noodles.

After dinner, Wang Shulan cleaned up the dishes, and Lao Tan added coal to the heating stove, used a stove hook to stir up the fire, and then filled the kettle with water and sat on the stove.

Next, make a pot of tea and sit in front of the computer while drinking tea and watching the news.Watch the news for half an hour, then open the beautiful article to browse my previous works, and write new things by the way.

All he writes is about hotel management, and he doesn't know anything else, which is his old profession.

After Wang Shulan washed the dishes and chopsticks, she started to clean up the house, and it took an hour to clean up.After tidying up, sit on the sofa and drink a cup of tea, rest for a while, and chat with Lao Tan.

Every day at this time is about half past nine, the sun is warm, so the two of them go out for a walk.There are many places to go, such as the ski resort in Beishan, the farmhouse at the foot of Nanshan, or go to the village to walk the streets and alleys, listening to the crowing of chickens and dogs, and the neighing of donkeys and horses.

There are more than ten vegetable greenhouses in the farmhouse, it is convenient to eat fresh vegetables, and you can pick and buy them when you go to the place.There is a fish pond not far from the greenhouse. The fish pond is closed in winter, but there are fish in it, including carp, crucian carp, grass carp, fat head and squid, and it is convenient to eat fish.

As for stupid chickens and geese, needless to say, every family in the village has them, and if they want to eat them, they will kill them and send them to them.

Today is cloudy and windy, Lao Tan and Wang Shulan are not going to go out for a walk.

Yingzi's mother came with two bags, one with beef, the other with four big red radishes, and dried mushrooms that she dried at home.

"Old Wang's family slaughtered cattle in the morning. I cut off three catties of waist strips and two catties of buttocks. There are radishes in the cellar. You can make beef stewed radishes for Mr. Tan." Yingzi's mother said to Wang Shulan.

"Oh, thank you so much." Wang Shulan hurriedly thanked her.

"Thank you, hey, I'm late, otherwise I can buy a piece of tenderloin." Yingzi's mother was a little regretful, and then said: "This is the mushroom I picked up on the mountain in summer. It's not very good, but it's clean. I'll take it one by one." I picked it. I didn’t sell the mushrooms I came to collect. I thought about it and dried it and mailed it to you. This time, it’s just right, and it’s easy. You cooked it for Mr. Tan. I heard people say that eating mushrooms is good for cancer, especially wild ones. "

Wang Shulan looked at the beef, radish and mushrooms, and thought that she couldn't eat them for nothing, so she asked for money.

Yingzi's mother was anxious, and said: "The family has been doing well in the past two years, and it is not as difficult as the first two years. Both of us work in the farmhouse. Her father works as a watchman for [-] a month, and I work in the kitchen for [-] a month. , Add together three thousand and five flowers that can't be spent.

There is still land at home, and there is no money to be paid from the land, at least there is no need to sell food for food.

The family doesn't have much to spend, the children and adults make up for some clothes, buy some soy sauce and vinegar, and the rest is spent on human relations and medical treatment for her father.Most of the time is children's study, and you take care of it, which relieves us a lot of burden.

To tell you the truth, not only did I not need to borrow money to live on in the past two years, but I still have some burdens left.Have you seen my chickens?In the past, how dare you kill yourself to eat it? You sold it for money, but now you don’t need it. "

Yingzi's mother smiled contentedly, and then said: "When I enter the twelfth lunar month gate next month, I will kill pigs. I'm not afraid of your jokes. If her father breaks her leg, she didn't kill the New Year pigs. Every year during the New Year, she will cut two catties of meat to make dumplings, my son. Adults eat it to count as Chinese New Year."

Thinking of the sad things, Yingzi's mother shed tears, and then quickly wiped them off, saying: "Look at me, why are you talking about this, you and Mr. Tan must be there when the pig is slaughtered, don't go, eat fresh pork."

After Yingzi's mother left, Wang Shulan took out half of the beef and soaked it in water, put the other half in the refrigerator, and then went into the back room and said to Lao Tan, "Good day, I have beef."

Old Tan said: "Look, it's better to live in the countryside, with a human touch and a mix."

"The main reason is that I am popular."

"Well, you are very popular."

"In a while, I'll go to the shed to buy two catties of celery, and there's still a piece of beef left over to make dumplings stuffed with celery."

"If the weather is bad, go tomorrow, we will be together tomorrow."

"also."

Wang Shulan had nothing to do, she looked through the photos and videos of her little granddaughter on her mobile phone, and she began to think about the little guy, she couldn't help but shed tears.Afraid that Lao Tan would wipe it off quickly after watching it, he nestled on the sofa and endured to continue watching.

Lao Tan is writing an article "A Brief Analysis of Today's Small and Medium-sized Restaurant Management". This is the second part. The first part was posted on the Food World of Meipian the day before yesterday. After reading the hotel, they left a message saying that they have benefited a lot, and urged to read the following.

Old Tan wrote that he didn't hear Wang Shulan's movement for a long time, and thought she had gone out, but when he turned around, he saw that she was nestling on the sofa and looking at her mobile phone, concentrating on it, with a smile on her face.

"Where's the granddaughter?" Old Tan asked.

"Ah."

"Have you thought about it?"

Wang Shulan put away her mobile phone, sat up straight, and said, "It's kind of --- it's said that we kiss each other in the next generation. I didn't believe it at first, but now I believe it. I think about it when I don't see it."

Old Tan said apologetically, "Go back and have a look if you want to. I'm fine and can take care of myself."

"No, I'll be back in half a month." Wang Shulan sat up from the sofa and walked to Lao Tan, saying, "I don't worry about you being here by yourself. Besides, it's good to be here with you. I don't care if I don't look at you." After gaining weight, people also have energy."

"Thank you very much." Old Tan said sincerely.

"What are you thankful for? Fate, I owed you in my previous life, and I will pay you back in this life."

"I will pay you back in the next life."

"Hehe, if you really want to have a next life, it would be great. Everyone has to live a good life, and don't do bad things--I'm afraid that in the next life, you won't be able to be reborn as an adult. You said that there is no good in entrusting an adult, not to mention the troubles, and you have to work hard Going forward, the first half of the life is the parents, and the second half is the children.

It's okay to find a good partner, and it's interesting to live with knowing pain and heat, but if you meet someone who is not like that, you have to live alone, what's the point? "

"Try to live." Lao Tan said: "I didn't think about it before, but I only thought about it these two days. Take me as an example. I grew up poor and couldn't afford to go to school. When I grow up, I can't even be called a daughter-in-law.

One of the reasons for coming out to work is to get rid of poverty and let my mother live a good life; the other is to talk about a daughter-in-law outside, live together, and have children to continue the incense.

My first job was loading and unloading cement.I was exhausted on the first day, how can I describe it?It's simply not a human job, I gritted my teeth and my legs trembled to complete the act.

At that time, I thought about quitting. At that time, I thought of my mother begging for food to support the six of us. My mother said: What mother wants is not food, but life.This sentence has a great influence on me, so I stick to it.

In fact, when I’m in trouble, when I can’t keep going, I always think of this sentence my mother said——
Alive.
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It took me two days to understand what it means to be truly alive. If God does not let life lengthen, I will try my best to widen my life. Although life may be long or short, it is wonderful only if you understand how to live. "

(End of this chapter)