The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 547

Originally Zhou Xiaomei wanted to invite Wang Shulan and Lao Tan to Quanjude to eat roast duck, but Wang Shulan said it was not safe to go out to eat, even though the lockdown is lifted now, there are still risks, what if they happen to win a lottery?

Have to guard against, safety first.

What's more, you can drink as much as you want when eating at home, so you don't have to worry about not being able to go home.

At the dinner table, Lao Tan first talked about his physical condition. Wang Shulan and Zhou Xiaomei were happy for him and toasted respectively.

In a good mood, eating and drinking are delicious, especially with close friends.

To say that Old Tan's fate is good enough, most of the people with him are women, and they are all beautiful women. Although they are older than him, they have their own advantages and disadvantages.

To be honest, there is no such thing as a lecherous man, and Lao Tan is no exception.

There are two types of lewdness, one is the appreciative type, which is seen from a distance but not close to play; the other is the pure color, which wants to go to bed when seeing a beautiful woman, and the flirtatious and rascal type.

As the saying goes, there is no one whose shoes are not wet when standing by the river, and Lao Tan and Wang Shulan are like this.Although there was a distance between admiring each other at first, there were too many opportunities for two people to be alone together, so they had skin-to-skin kisses.

Strictly speaking, Lao Tan was cheating, and he felt sorry for Lin Yan emotionally. Although he and Lin Yan lived in a sexless marriage, he was the one who made the mistake first.

Of course not now - he's divorced.

The three of them are all good drinkers, and Zhou Xiaomei is the strongest. She hardly ever sees her drinking too much, as it is often said on Douyin—drinking all the time.

Old Tan was next, and he didn't dare to drink too much because he was sick, but half a catty was no problem for him.

Wang Shulan is relatively weak, but she can be regarded as a drinkable woman.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the faces of all three of them were flushed from the alcohol test, and there were more topics to talk about.

"I'm just wondering, you said it's good for you two to be together, but you're not together." Zhou Xiaomei said regretfully.

Lao Tan and Wang Shulan looked at each other with a smile, and communicated silently with their eyes, which means it's very good, you Zhou Xiaomei don't understand.

"Look, you two are still laughing, I'm serious." Zhou Xiaomei continued.

"The two of you must be together if they are good?" Wang Shulan asked with a smile.

"That's not true." Zhou Xiaomei replied.

"Not necessarily." Wang Shulan said: "There are many kinds of relationships between men and women. Those who get married are called husband and wife. They live under the same roof but always have different dreams in the same bed. Otherwise, it can be said that husband and wife are like birds in the same forest, and fly separately when disaster strikes.

Being ambiguous behind your lover's back is called extramarital affairs, although you don't live under the same roof but always in the same bed, you call it Chu Tiezi in your Northeast dialect, and it's called a broken shoe in your old dialect, and you can catch it and parade in the street.

Now it has become a normal phenomenon that is privately recognized, where can I justify it?But remember that extramarital affairs are always a double-edged sword, and you can't do it secretly at any time.I have made this mistake, and I have suffered a lot. "

Speaking of which, she lit a lady's cigarette, took a puff, and continued: "But there are really two people who love each other but are not together. The woman hates meeting before getting married, and the man hates meeting before getting married.

It's all true feelings and sincerity, the vigor of love is life and death, each side of the world is full of longing, the corners of the world are full of lovesickness, one heart has a deep lover's concern, and a relationship has an aftertaste of bitter coffee. Can you say that people are not love?It's just not together. "

"How did I find out that you were talking about you and my uncle?" Zhou Xiaomei said playfully.

"Giggle——" Wang Shulan laughed wantonly, and said, "Your uncle and I haven't reached that point yet, after all, we met late, and we don't have a pure emotional foundation.

The two of us are considered sisters and brothers, and we can also be regarded as confidante. As the popular saying goes, it is a relationship in life, so we should cherish it.Am I right?Old Tan. "

Old Tan didn't say a word, just smiled and picked up the wine glass to drink.

"If you don't speak, you'll admit it." Wang Shulan didn't care, and continued: "I hope you can be as honest as a child when you first got sick, and I'd rather serve you if that's the case.

snort!It's not you when you recover from the illness, and you start running around again, trying to catch people, but you can't catch them.I'm already at this age, and I can't make up my mind to follow you, and I want to live a few more years. "

"You still have my uncle in your heart." Zhou Xiaomei said.

"That's for sure, I admit it." Wang Shulan looked at Lao Tan and said, "It's the first time in my life that I am willing to serve a man, can I not?
But there is something, we can’t be together just because we have, if I still have Xu Wenqiang in my heart, when I was young, all the pictorials of him were pasted on the bedside, I would like to be with him, is it possible?
In fact, this is very good. I have something in my heart, and I can see each other from time to time. Isn't it good?I like the current life. I am free and alone, and I can take my granddaughter to dance square dance, and then go out with a few old sisters to travel and visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. It is quite fulfilling.

The only time I feel lonely is when my little granddaughter goes home to live, and there is no one to accompany her at night—but I am used to being alone all these years, and I am still not used to having someone, unlike when I was three or 40 years old , always want a man. "

"I don't believe you don't want men now. You've just grown up, and you're not in your seventies or eighties." Zhou Xiaomei said half-jokingly.

Wang Shulan didn't answer right away, she raised her glass to signal for a drink.Lao Tan and Zhou Xiaomei raised their wine glasses, and the three clinked their glasses to drain the wine.

"I think about it, but it's not strong, and it will pass in a while." Wang Shulan said: "At my age, I start to pick and choose, and I don't want to talk to people who don't feel right. Besides, I don't need anything now, so I will jump for two more I haven't had any problems in the past ten years, why are you looking for a man? Are you tired of yourself?"

"You really understand." Old Tan said.

"I don't really understand it, let's live like this." Wang Shulan took the cigarette from Lao Tan and lit it, and then said: "I am reading the Diamond Sutra and the Tao Te Ching now. I am a fellow practitioner of Buddhism and Taoism, and my mind has opened up a lot. A lot of things are not tangled."

"The Diamond Sutra says that all appearances are illusory, and it is the same principle as Lao Tzu's innocence and inaction. One is to destroy the appearance of the world, lift a blind eye, and let people get away from suffering and get happiness; the other is to directly teach the law and teach people the way of practice. Be a good person." Old Tan said.

"It's all enlightenment," Wang Shulan said: "In accordance with the old saying, if you don't know what you know, you don't know long. People under a certain age can't understand these things. Only experience can ponder them.

I also read it when I have nothing to do. I don’t understand a lot of things, but reading it is better than not reading it. At least I have learned to be magnanimous and not entangled.

It's really true that people know their destiny when they reach fifty. Before 50 years old, no confusion and confusion is self-made smartness, after 50 years old, the smartness is gone, I feel that it is just a child's play.I felt like I could see through everything, and I started to feel silly. "

"That's not stupid, it's called great wisdom and stupidity." Old Tan said.

"I don't know if I'm stupid or not, but I just feel that she is similar to my little granddaughter, with a little more childishness."

"You have enlightened."

"Hehehehe, are you still practicing Buddhism?" Wang Shulan gave Old Tan a charming look, and said, "Those old ladies in the countryside don't know the Diamond Sutra or the Tao Te Ching, and they don't even know the words, but their perception of life is better than that of the Tao Te Ching." We are all deep.

When I was traveling in Yunnan, I went to a village in a big mountain, where all the grandmas made offerings to Buddha at home, burning incense and kowtow on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.I asked them if they believed in Buddha, and they said they believed, and then I asked if burning incense and kowtowing to Buddha could bless them?
Guess what they said? "

"What did you say?" Lao Tan and Zhou Xiaomei asked at the same time.

(End of this chapter)