The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 599
When Lao Tan came to the barbecue restaurant, Sister Jin had prepared the frying pan and waited for him.

It was still the small private room last time, and the room was very warm.

Sister Jin poured Lao Tan some wine and asked, "Aren't you busy?"

"It's okay, not busy." Old Tan said.

"I was afraid you were busy. I didn't chat with you the day before yesterday. It's snowing today, and there aren't many guests. I guess there are not many tables tonight, so I called you." Sister Jin said, holding up the wine glass, "Come on, have a drink." One sip, we haven't drank together for many years."

"No, it's been twenty years."

The two clinked glasses.

Sister Jin took the fried meat slices for Lao Tan and asked, "Do you still have contact with Sister Ma?"

"No. I went to Yangchun when I came back from Binhai. She stopped working there and opened a small supermarket by herself, which is next to Yangchun. When I went there later, the supermarket was gone, so I lost contact."

"We also had contact when she opened the supermarket, and then called her to change the number."

The world is like this, we will meet different friends at different time nodes, and lose contact at different time nodes.When time passes through the annual rings, old friends will meet again. This is the value of friendship.

For those who work in restaurants, because of the instability of their jobs, they have very few permanent friends, and they make friends wherever they go.Once good friends meet again, it is like reuniting with comrades-in-arms, and I cherish it very much.

Every worker has this experience. Of course, it’s okay to have a bad relationship.

"Sister, haven't you found a partner all these years?" Old Tan asked.

"I found it, and after half a year, we won't be able to get together again." Sister Jin smiled, as if saying something casual, and then asked: "Is your child quite old?"

"Well, sixteen, I'm in high school."

"Boys and girls?"

"boy."

"Is it good to study?"

"Average, sports student, playing ball."

"He must be tall."

"is acceptable."

The two chatted about the family while drinking, and gradually chatted about some past events in Yangchun that year.

At that time, Sister Jin was young, beautiful, and tall. She didn't work in the kitchen at first, but paid for the goods.Later, Lao Tan's stir-fried vegetables and pickles sold well, and he couldn't do it alone, so the boss's aunt transferred her over.

It also answered that sentence - men and women are not tired of working together, the two of them cooperate well, and a deep friendship has been established in a few months.

Apart from the tacit understanding between each other, the establishment of friendship is mainly due to the fact that everyone is good, there are no such words, and no one will climb up on anyone if they do more or less.If there is a person who cares about every detail and doesn't bring it well, he will be angry and make trouble.

At that time, Lao Tan, Sister Jin, and Sister Ma were the best in the kitchen.Sister Ma lives alone in the community opposite the hotel.

Speaking of Sister Ma’s story, she was the second batch to go to Japan to work in the wave of going abroad in the 90s. She worked for three years and earned a lot of money. The price was that her husband couldn’t bear the loneliness at home and lived with other women. The daughter was also taken away.

There were quite a lot of such things in that era, but more Han men went abroad, and more Korean women went abroad, and most of the endings were the same.

The three of Lao Tan and the others got along well, so they always drank together, often at Sister Ma's house.

Lao Tan beat up Sister Jin's ex-husband who came to harass her, and also solved the troubles caused by her ex-husband for Sister Ma.It's not that Lao Tan Lu drew his sword to help when he saw injustice, he was also more cautious with sister Zhao's lessons learned, both times were carried out under the instigation of the boss's aunt, and it was over when the purpose of intimidation was achieved.

What they got in return is the respect of the two women and their support at work. The most obvious thing is that they don’t have to wash their work clothes and tidy up the stove by themselves, and they are kept clean every day.

At that time, Lao Tan had already rented a house with Lin Yan, but they were not married yet.The two lived a poor and happy life, full of longing for the future.

Lao Tan told Lin Yan about his contacts with Sister Ma and Sister Jin, and Lin Yan also knew the two, so she was very relieved.

Working in a restaurant is unavoidable for a cook to come into contact with women, and most of them are good-looking.Relatively speaking, restaurants are relatively open places, and there are a lot of incidents between men and women, so it's good to be able to control yourself.

This is not to say that human nature has fallen, but it is just a common perception caused by the special environment of catering service as a special industry-the waiter is always compared with the lady in the hotel, and the cook is called a hooligan.

Isn't there that saying, out of ten cooks, nine show off, and one doesn't show off.

Haha, there is no other way.

We are used to the phenomenon of pure friendship between middle-aged couples, as well as the impetuousness and secret or non-secret extramarital affairs of the people around us, so we hope to appreciate loyalty in novels, movies and TV, and weep for joy or sorrow.

But life is realistic, and reality often makes people helpless and want to break free, which is natural.

Just as people often pay more attention to some crappy stars than to scientific researchers who create value for society, they ignore the real, real and meaningful things, and even deceive themselves and others not to admit it, but to satisfy the distant and never-ending reality. Insatiable vanity.

When I return to reality, I have to continue to live day after day, and I can't get rid of it like suffering.

Some people live like this all their lives, bringing their so-called regrets to the grave; some people wake up and laugh it off, knowing that what they are living now is their life, so they love life even more.

Happiness is very simple, and happiness is not complicated. It is just knowing the heart, and others say it is useless.

When Lao Tan talked about having cancer, Sister Jin couldn't help opening her eyes wide, and asked how she was doing now with concern.So Lao Tan told her about his two-year anti-cancer experience, which was very embarrassing.

"Is everything all right now?" Sister Jin asked.

"Okay." Lao Tan said: "The main reason is that it was discovered early, and in the early stage, I was looking for a Chinese medicine doctor, otherwise it would not be cured so quickly."

"It scared me to death. My scalp felt numb when I heard it." Sister Jin pointed to her left breast and said, "Do you know why I stopped working in Yangchun? There was a tumor here, and I was terrified. At first I thought it was a breast gland." What about cancer?

Later, it was diagnosed that it was not an operation to cut it off. After the operation, I went back to my hometown to raise it. I was fine when I was recuperating. I wandered around the county town and found a store, so I rented it and opened a pickle restaurant. "

Half of Sister Jin's cooking skills are passed down from her family, and the other half is taught by Sister Ma. As for the pickles, she learned from Lao Tan.

Her small shop only sells three kinds of pickles: sauced pig's trotters, pig's ears, and sauced beef.Because of its good taste, it soon became a must in the county, made some money, and bought a house.

"Small cities are no better than provincial capitals. The flow of people is limited. How much can those people earn in a day? It is enough to eat and use, and there is a little surplus. But small cities have the same advantage, leisure. You don't have to be nervous like a provincial city. I'm always tensed, and I can't even sleep well." Sister Jin said.

"That is."

"If I don't relocate, I can still do it. If I relocate, I can't help it. Besides, I want to take a rest after working for these years. I can still earn enough money? Haha, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"I've been idle at home for half a year, and I'm free. It just so happened that Jin Zi took care of this barbecue restaurant. Seeing that I was idle, he asked me to come over to help cook the kitchen, and he gave me a lot, so I came here.

It’s right to come here without thinking, but if I don’t come, I still have to buy a store. What can I do with this epidemic, I have to pay for it. "

"But come here, where are we going to meet?"

(End of this chapter)