The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 533 Zhang Li Zhang Luo Shabu Hot Pot

Zhang Li's life after retirement is very leisurely.

Of course, the retirement mentioned here is not like the retirement of national civil servants, nor is it like the old-age insurance and pensions of enterprises and institutions, which can be paid every month.

After all, Aqiao is a private company and has not yet reached that level.

She doesn't have a pension but Lao Huang does. It's more than five thousand a month, enough for the two of them.In addition, she has saved a lot over the years, so she has no worries about her future life.

To be honest, she is a successful worker among the migrant workers. She retired at the age of 51 and has a car, a house and savings, so she doesn’t have to worry about her future life. There are not many people who have reached this level.

Not to mention Zhongqing, Huaqing Brothers and her. It's not that the two brothers earn less than her, but that they both have children, which means more expenses, and they have to struggle constantly.

This is also the reality that migrant workers from the countryside have to face.Not to mention other industries, so far the catering industry has not developed to the extent that it can provide employees with pensions.The so-called retirement means resignation, and the salary is gone.

For people in the system, there is retirement, but for migrant workers from rural areas, there is no retirement. They must earn more money when they can move, and plan for their old age.

Especially those who bought a house in the city and moved their household registration in. If the rural household registration is gone, the land will be gone. If they don't have a job in the city, it will be difficult to survive.

In this case, you can only force yourself to work hard, and you can't be idle all day.Having said that, it is not ordinary people who can buy a house in the city. Almost all of them can endure hardships and work hard, and their brains are not for nothing.

Like those people who rely on their parents to face the loess and their backs to the sky, sweat beads fall to the ground, and those who are hungry and earn hard-earned money to buy a house in the city, on the surface they live a life in the city, but if they don’t work hard, they will always live in the city. One day I have to sell the house and return to its original shape with a stick.

As the old saying goes, wolves eat meat everywhere, and dogs eat shit everywhere.As long as a person has the ability, he can do it anywhere, but if he is not capable, even if he goes to the whole palace, he will have to be eunuched as a useless eunuch.

When Zhang Li and Lao Huang came downstairs, the snow on the ground had covered their feet, and when they stepped on it, it was like stepping on cotton, making a soft creaking sound.

The two of them held hands and walked forward, greeted acquaintances, said a few words about Xue, and slowly left the community.

There are not many people on the street, sparse.Occasionally, when I walked the dog, the dogs were all put on cotton-padded clothes, afraid of freezing, and some even hugged them in their arms, which shows the degree of pampering.

In the past, dogs were used to guard homes and homes, but now dogs are pampered and protected, so they are called pet dogs.

From the bottom of my heart, Zhang Li has no objection to keeping a dog, and even likes it.But she can't bear to keep dogs as pets. This may be related to her experience of raising dogs in the countryside since she was a child. The dogs at that time were indeed guarding the house. family poverty".Now, with the advancement of the status of dogs, the possibility of this fine tradition continuing is not at all open.

The couple strolled to the small park, which is where they exercise every morning.The way they exercise is simple, that is, they walk in circles along the gravel-paved road in the center of the park, 300 meters per circle, [-] circles a day.

After walking around, go back, pass by the market, go in to buy vegetables, and then go upstairs to go home.

It's snowing today, and there are not many people walking around.

Every day, a leader with an MR3 strapped to his waist played music and led the team. The team consisted of four to 50 people, which was quite spectacular.The leader didn't come today, and the order was lost for a while, only a dozen or so people walked freely, which seemed a bit elegant.

"I'll go to the market to buy some beef in a while, and eat it in hot pot when it snows," Zhang Li said.

"Okay." Lao Huang nodded.

"Buy two kinds of green vegetables, and buy some enoki mushrooms and tofu skin."

"Ah."

"Is there any seasoning at home?"

"The leek flowers are gone, and there are others."

The two of them walked twenty laps, their bodies were sweating, and a cloud of white mist rose from the hot breath in front of them.

The snow is still falling, not too fast, and the foot sockets that have been stepped on are quickly covered by fresh snow.

The entire park, the entire street, and the entire city were shrouded in a vast expanse of whiteness.

When the husband and wife left the small park and walked back, they decided to invite Yanhua and his wife to have a hot pot together. It would be more lively, and Zhang Li hadn't seen Yanhua for a long time.

Near noon, Yanhua and Lao Deng came. The two of them did not bring their children when it was snowing. Another reason was that Zhang Li had no children, and she would not be able to have children in this life. Seeing the children was inevitable, so Yanhua left the children in the The family asked the nanny to watch.

Zhang Li has already prepared the hot pot, and will start eating when she arrives.

Lao Deng and Lao Huang are also particular now, drinking health-preserving wine like Lao Tan, but the two ladies are quite masculine, drinking hot and spicy Shao Shao.

Each of the four people has a small jug, which contains two taels of wine, and each of them has a small cup of three coins, which they pour by themselves.

People over fifty like to talk about the past when talking and chatting, especially when a few close friends get together, the topic of the past almost occupies more than half of the wine table.

The topic of the four of them naturally started with today's snow.

"I remember the heavy snowfall on the tenth day of the first lunar month in [-]. I couldn't even open the door when I got up in the morning. I had to use a shovel to shovel it." Zhang Li said.

"The snow was so heavy that the entire factory stopped working, and all the workers came out of the workshop to clear the snow." Old Deng said.

"I remember that I walked to work that day. All ten bulldozers in the factory were driven out, and the first road was pushed out, otherwise it would be difficult to go to work." Lao Huang said.

"The snow was so heavy that students suspended classes, factories closed, and even restaurants closed," Yanhua said.

"I remember that the buses started operating in the afternoon, and they couldn't get on in the morning," Zhang Li said.

"Let's not talk about buses, there are no taxis, and the whole traffic was paralyzed all morning." Old Deng said.

"What were you doing then?" Zhang Li asked Yanhua.

"At that time, I had just arrived in the provincial capital and was washing dishes in a restaurant in Danan," Yanhua said.

"At that time, I was in school. I was in the business school. The school didn't start until the [-]th day. I owed a lot and returned to school early, but the door was closed due to heavy snow. I honestly lay in the dormitory for a whole day. I was hungry. I remember clearly, only two packs of instant noodles and Most of the ham sausage." Zhang Li laughed happily after speaking, probably she was crying at the time.

Soon the four of them came from Xuelao to Santaizi. Lao Deng and Lao Huang were seated in Santaizi, and they only talked about history.

Zhang Li and Yanhua came from other places, and they described how they got to Santaizi, and there was a lot of embarrassment in it.

Of course, I didn't say anything that was too sad and personal, in case the two men thought about it too much.

This is how a person is in this life. Some things can be said to friends and parents, but not to the other half; some things can be said to friends and the other half, but not to parents.

Compared with friends, I talk the most, so it is said that one cannot have friends.

It was snowing outside, and the house was warm and cozy. There was steaming heat on the hot pot, and fat slices of beef and various vegetables rolled in the tempting soup.

The four of them are now in the second pot.

Yanhua's face glowed red from alcohol, she took off her thin sweater and was wearing short-sleeves, she said excitedly: "I never thought of opening a restaurant and becoming the owner, just think about it and live steadily, no There is a shortage of food and a lot of clothing."

Zhang Li joked: "It's good that I didn't think about it, but I accidentally drove it all over the country."

"That's not—" Yanhua was a little proud.

"Thanks to Lao Tan." Lao Deng said.

So the topic naturally shifted to Lao Tan.

(End of this chapter)