The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 603 Irritability
As Lao Tan expected, the two boys who robbed and raped were caught that night.

Let me talk about it here, it can be regarded as advice, people should not break the law at any time, rationality is the most important thing.The crime is not only related to oneself, but also to family members, as well as the victim and the family of the victim.

It's almost a new year, and it turns out that Lao Tan's prediction is correct. On that day, the turnover of Aqiao's 2 stores across the country exceeded 85 million, and the sales of dumplings alone reached [-], reaching the highest level in history.

On Xiaonian's day, Lao Tan was busy at the Taishan Road shop until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and soon fell asleep when he got home.

The next day my son rushed to his grandma's house, and Lao Tan offered to join him.

Looking at the bus going away, he felt a little lost, and felt that he was not at home—he still didn't know where and how to spend this year.

It was impossible to go back to Fifth Sister's house, and it was difficult to explain going back alone, which worried my mother and sisters.

Live at home by yourself?
It seems that it can only be so.

He asked himself whether it was sadness or fate, or a mistake, or a failure in life.

If I am in my twenties and thirties, it is okay, such a life is excusable, or it is chic.Aren't young people nowadays like this, single, not looking for a partner, living a good life and being extremely proud.

But I am 48 years old, and I am 47 years old, should I be like this?is this okay?

To be honest, this kind of life is good for some people. Without the siege of marriage, there will be no fetters, and they will live a life of freedom.If you want to drink, you can drink, no time limit, no place limit, if you get drunk, you can sleep on the couch, and when you wake up, tomorrow is tomorrow.

Friends are also casual and casual, especially the opposite sex, you can let go and make friends.If the bastard sees Mung Dou and meets his eyes, it will be a matter of drinking. After waking up, he smiles lightly and divides things up.

But is this good?
If it was easy to give an answer in the past, but now that people are middle-aged, even if they don't want to take responsibility, they can't help themselves. It's not so easy.

After all, he is a cook, and his life of more than forty years is almost forced out. Compared with successful people, he is nothing, and it cannot be counted.Being able to have today's thinking realm is purely the result of step by step.

Sometimes he also wants to swear, to return to the joy of being a cook.

But if he wants to do better, he must at least have a home.

The meaning of home is not only to have a wife and children, but also to have love and happiness.But how many can really be done?Not all of them are extravagantly seeking in dissatisfaction, but they can't get rid of the existence of reality, and they are content with the status quo and go with the situation.

Lao Tan didn't feel this way two years ago. Although there was no love between husband and wife at that time as now, he didn't feel homeless.Every time I come back from other places, I have a rush - to go home.

Although I didn't have a word with Lin Yan when I got home, I was down-to-earth and didn't feel like I was in trouble like now.

In the past, the two had no feelings, but they maintained a relationship; now that they have no relationship, they start to care about their feelings.

People, don't talk about how free and easy you are, as long as you live in a trivial reality, you can't escape the fetters of living at home. Don't try to live your life with surreal romance and unconstrained style, that's unrealistic.

Someone knocked on the door, Lao Tan went to open the door and saw that it was the deputy director of the police station and a lady in business attire, and let them into the room after being slightly taken aback.

Chinese New Year is approaching, the police station needs to highlight something, and the live broadcast of the TV station needs to promote something. If they want to talk about Lao Tan's rescue of Qin Lili, both of them can count as completing the task.

Old Tan laughed when he heard what he came here for, and said, "Forget it, it's not a crime. That's one of my former employees. It's not a rescue, and it's not a heroic act. If you report it, it's not good for her, after all, other than robbery And rape, she is a lesbian with a child, it is not easy.

As for me today, I don’t regard you two as law enforcement officers and news media, but as neighbors who live next to each other, and compare people’s hearts with our own.
As long as the case is solved, there is nothing to publicize. Let's not make the victim hurt again.

Since you are here, you can't make a trip in vain. In this way, it is also noon. Come to my shop to try dumplings. I just mixed two jars of good wine and tasted them. "

To put it bluntly, people's hearts are fleshy, and the deputy director and the reporter are also human, so they understand what they said. Seeing what Lao Tan said, he sold it as a favor—it would be easy to do business when he went back.

But Lao Tan's invitation is not allowed to participate, so what's the matter?It is tantamount to asking for cards and violating discipline.

Old Tan laughed, and first teased the deputy director: "It's fine if you don't go, but you have to return the condolence package that my family sent to your police station yesterday, which is a lot of money.

Seeing that you have worked so hard to serve people and give you some dumplings, now that there is something in the store, it is not up to you to ask you to solve the problem, it can't be justified.

Besides, how many years have we been buddies, you have eaten the dumplings made by me, and you have enough bribes, if you don't report you, you will be picked. "

The deputy director was neither embarrassed nor embarrassed, staring at Lao Tan with wide eyes.

Lao Tan then said to the female reporter of the TV station: "I promise to ask you to go back today so that you can deal with business. Our Aqiao has always focused on serving the community, and now we are still giving free dumplings to the elderly stationed for ten years. Positive energy?

Also, our closed store also does good deeds, making free box lunches for epidemic prevention personnel. Is this considered positive energy?
These can be reported, I will not stop them. "

It was already afternoon after dinner with the deputy director and the female reporter. After coming out of the restaurant, Lao Tan walked aimlessly on the street.

As he walked, he looked at the shops facing the street, which were no different from usual. If it was a new year in the countryside at this time, at least he could hear the sound of firecrackers set off by naughty children.But the city has not, and will not let it go.

He remembered that the Spring Festival of the year before last was spent in Beautiful Valley, accompanied by Wang Shulan——
Thinking of Wang Shulan, Wang Shulan's face appeared in front of her eyes, her smile was very clear and lifelike.He was stunned for a moment, thinking that Wang Shulan was not dead, but still alive——
But she is really dead, no one is there, there is only a cemetery and a tombstone.

Lao Tan fumbled for a cigarette, only took out a lighter, and the cigarette was gone.He looked for a tobacco shop, found it, and went in.

The owner of the tobacco shop brought him cigarettes, and he opened the box, took out one, lit it, and then walked out.The owner of the tobacco shop called him and said that he hadn't paid the money yet. He turned around and took out his mobile phone to scan the code, paid the money, and then said sorry.

The tobacco shop owner smiled and said nothing.

He walked out of the tobacco shop and continued to walk forward, laughing at himself as he recalled the scene just now, thinking that he slipped away, and his heart was not on his mind.

He felt a bit frozen in the head, and touched his head only to find that the cotton hat was not on. After thinking about it, he left it in a hotel.So I turned around and walked back, when the phone rang.

It was Zhang Li who called, saying that Jin Jin would invite her to drink tonight, and she had already made an appointment with Yanhua.

Old Tan couldn't say no, he just finished drinking at noon.

"He mainly invites you with gold, so what will you do if you don't go?" Zhang Li said.

"Please don't go, I can't drink." Old Tan said.

"I am sincerely asking you."

"That's not going either."

Zhang Li hung up the phone very simply, and the whole old Tan was momentarily dazed, with the phone stuck to his ear, dazed in a daze.

Ten meters in front of him, Zhang Li was holding his cotton hat and smiling at him, with Jin Jin standing beside him.

(End of this chapter)