The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 592 Aunt Zhou Xiaomei

After returning to the provincial capital, Lao Tan was very sad.

My son went to a training camp, and when he came back the day after tomorrow, he was the only one left at home.There are still five days before his mother's birthday, and he is waiting for his son to come back so that he can go home together to celebrate his mother's birthday.

Unfortunately, on the second day, three positive cases appeared in Tiexi District, and two communities were sealed off, making it impossible to go back to my hometown.

He called Fifth Sister, and Fifth Sister said not to come back, and she had to stay at home when she came back, and she had to accompany her to do nucleic acid every day, which was not a crime.My mother is in good health, so don't worry about when it will stop and come back.

After putting down the phone, he had nothing to do. He called Zhongqing and asked Zhongqing to pick him up and go to the Provincial North University City store to have a look.

Opposite the Shengbei University Town store used to be Zhang Xiangdong’s first day of the Lunar New Year, but not now. The first floor has become a fruit supermarket, and the second floor has become a children’s drum training class.

"How many stores are there on the first day of the new year?" Old Tan asked.

"Four." Zhongqing said: "Business is not very good, so stick to it."

"Young and energetic, you know how to manage and don't know how to manage, so you've killed yourself. It's a good store, hey——" Lao Tan sighed after finishing speaking.

"The poor man must have something to hate. At the beginning, he didn't pay attention to our family. He opened it wherever our family opened. He insisted on killing our family."

"No, he is like KFC and McDonald's, companion. This is his cleverness. The decoration is the same as our house. If the guests don't look carefully, they think it's our house. The car stops and enters.

Can I come out after entering?No matter how you say, you have to eat a meal, right?Remember his family after eating well, and scold our family if it is not good.Ah. "

"He made good money for a few years."

"I don't know how to accept it when it's good. In the end, what I earn is lost. It's not a bad thing for him. It's not a bad thing for him. If you sharpen the edges and corners to get rid of the sharpness, and settle down, you will know the severity in the future."

"Not necessarily, that person—" Zhongqing said contemptuously, "It's enough."

Old Tan smiled and said nothing, turned around and entered the shop.

The store is a busy scene before the market opens: the waiters are cleaning, arranging tables, and arranging small items; the staff at the open stalls cut and match, put the processed semi-finished products into tableware according to the standard, and then put them on the booth.

Soon the dishes on the booth became scaled, forming a beautiful landscape.

Lao Tan came to the casserole stall.

The one who made the casserole was a [-]-something-year-old lady who said hello when she saw someone coming, and then she was about to introduce the dishes, but after a closer look, it was Lao Tan who stopped in embarrassment.

The eldest sister only cooks three dishes, which are fish head in casserole, baked old pumpkin in casserole and pan-fried meatballs in casserole.

The three dishes are arranged in three layers, each dish is filled with fifteen servings, and there are still four of each dish being processed on the clay pot stove behind the dish stall.

"Which dish sells well?" Old Tan asked.

"All good, the best is the fish head." The elder sister said.

"You make the soup yourself?"

"Well, I adjusted it myself."

"What time do you come in the morning?"

"Seven o'clock, the goods arrive and the people arrive."

The eldest sister spoke very confidently and happily, as if she had been brainwashed.Lao Tan's mood also improved after being infected, his face was no longer serious and frightening, and he now had a smile on his face.

He finished all the stalls one by one, and when he was about to go to the second floor, the store manager came in from the outside, greeted Lao Tan, and then accompanied him to the second floor for inspection.

"What are you doing?" Old Tan asked.

"A dumpling worker had acute appendicitis. He had an operation yesterday. I'll go to the hospital to see him," said the store manager.

"Do you have an escort?"

"Yes, Auntie Cleaning is here."

"Nursing well, don't let other family members worry about it. Are you from out of town?"

The store manager smiled and said, "The ones from your hometown, return it to your classmate."

Old Tan asked in surprise, "My classmate?"

"Well, it's Zhou Haixia, she said it herself."

"Zhou Haixia?" Lao Tan couldn't remember this classmate for a moment, and asked, "When did you come?"

"He came here years ago, why, you don't know?"

Lao Tan shook his head in shame, and then asked, "Which hospital are you in?"

"Seven thirty-nine, the one in front."

Old Tan lost the will to continue the examination, so he came down from the second floor and greeted Zhongqing to the [-] Hospital.Along the way, he thought about his classmates from junior high school and two-year high school, but he didn't think of this classmate named Zhou Haixia.Instead, I remembered many old family members who worked in the provincial capital of Aqiao, and planned to get together like in Hohhot.

This idea was quickly dispelled. The provincial capital is not as big as Hohhot. Some shops are nearly [-] kilometers apart, so it is inconvenient to go back and forth.

Soon the two came to the hospital and entered the ward, and saw Zhou Haixia herself.

Lao Tan really didn't know him.

"Haha, I don't know you. It's okay if you don't know each other. We haven't met before. I'm Xiaomei's uncle and aunt. She and I are classmates in junior high school." Zhou Haixia is very hearty, with a Beipiao accent.

"Oh—" Old Tan was stunned.

"My husband's family is from your village. I met your old lady. Your old lady is kind and kind. Now she has moved to your sister's house."

"Well, yes." Lao Tan nodded and asked, "Who is your husband's family?"

"Shanzui old Zhang's family, Zhang Shuguo is my husband, you should know him, you two are elementary school classmates."

After thinking about it, Lao Tan remembered that there was indeed Zhang Shuguo, an elementary school classmate from Shanzui, a small man who could run, and would be the first in the sports meeting.

"Yes, our primary school classmate, what is he doing now?"

"Like me, I also work part-time, but not in the provincial capital. He does exterior wall insulation, and he is in Changchun."

"Oh--"

"I got married early, my child is a girl, and I got married the year before last. You know that our family doesn't pay for a few acres of land, and the old ladies are either playing mahjong or just sitting around at home.

When the child is married, the few acres of land are not enough for one person to grow, and the air is blown away.Tell Xiaomei to find me a job, and then come to our house, almost a year. "

The quick-talking Zhou Haixia made Lao Tan think of the second sister-in-law in the backyard of her hometown. These two are really sisters, with similar temperaments and temperaments.

After coming out of the hospital, Zhongqing said to Lao Tan: "This Zhou Haixia can drink now, one catty is the bottom, two catties is not drunk, and I drink beer all the time."

"Same as Zhou Xiaomei."

"That's not right. You can still say that the voice is still loud, like an old man."

"How's work?"

"It's okay to work, Sha Leng'er is going to hurry up."

"That's fine."

"I heard from Hua Qing that she plans to bring her daughter and son-in-law over as well."

"It's okay to come over, but don't be in the same store. We Beipiao people work well, but we have a stubborn temper, and we can't agree with each other."

"It has this characteristic." Zhongqing said with a smile.

"In Manchuria, Beipiao was the place where beards grew. My grandfather had beards. He asked them to light sky lanterns. I also have a bit of beard gene. The society can save me, or else I would rob my house." Old Tan joked. .

"You can't, you belong to the chivalry."

"Hehe, I'm still a chivalrous man. It's good to be able to take care of the buttocks by picking vegetables. Let's go, go and drink in a better mood today. I heard that when I was a child, Mala Tang opened at the entrance of the subway. The skewers are very good."

(End of this chapter)