The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 605: Sister Jin is here
Lao Tan smoked with a cigarette holder in a happy mood. To him, it didn't matter whether the cigarette holder was genuine or not. What he smoked was his mood and his disciple's filial piety.

This is the second cigarette that Huaqing had after he left. After smoking, he took off the cigarette holder and saw that it was really full of black cigarette oil inside. He wiped it with paper and muttered: It works, if it is not smoked directly Into the stomach.At the same time, conditioned reflexively, a promotional picture of smoking harmful to health appeared in front of my eyes - a contrast between a dark smoking lung and a non-smoking light red healthy lung.

It seems that smoking is harmful to the body but not beneficial.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Lao Tan sat at home alone in front of the computer, watching movies and drinking wine, very leisurely.

The movie is an old movie, "Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Child Elder" from the 90s of the last century.This movie reminded him of the scene when he went home to celebrate the New Year when he first came out to work.

At that time, the traffic was not well developed. Apart from a long-distance bus during the day, there was a train at midnight from the provincial capital to Beipiao.

The train arrived at Jinling Temple at Beipiao South Station in the middle of the night, and Lao Tan had to stay there for half the night. The next day, he took a small passenger to Beipiao, and then took a bus to his home.

Jinling Temple is a small station, and there are two small hotels with restaurants in front of the station.Every time Lao Tan gets off the train, he has to live in the house on the east side, which costs five yuan in the middle of the night.

The few houses in front of the small hotel are restaurants, and there are videos in it, all of which are martial arts and gunfight movies from Hong Kong and Taiwan.Those who stay and eat are free to watch, and those who wait for the bus pay a fee of two yuan per person.

After checking in, Lao Tan would order a plate of mutton stuffed dumplings and a pot of shochu, and sit in a corner while eating and watching videos. The one that impressed him the most was "Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Child Elder".

It is not important to look at the plot now, what is important is the memory.

At that time, I earned less money but was able to save money, and I went home for the New Year with a bright future and a warm heart.

The way home was so crowded that I had to struggle to get on the train.When I got in the car, I started to be motionless, crowded with people, with my chest sticking to my back, and I was sweating all over my body in a short time in the winter, making it uncomfortable to cover.

I still feel uncomfortable when I think about it now, as if I am in it.

Why were there so many people working at that time?Hey, it’s still poor. If you’re not poor, who will go out to work?Leaving home and business.

Still the same sentence, when people say what they say, when they cross a river and take off their shoes, they are all for living and eating for one bite.

Lao Tan's memories were transferred from the small station of Jinling Temple to the small station in the county where Yaru's family was located.

He went there three times in total.

The first time I went there with the purpose of proposing, I heard the news of Yaru's engagement when I was eating in the small restaurant opened by Yaju's future husband's family, but I couldn't be sure.

The next day, he went directly to Yaru's house, but it was a pity that he didn't see Yaru by accident, and her mother confirmed that she was indeed engaged, so he returned to the provincial capital in a daze.

The second time was three years later, he went to see Yaru with his arms in his arms.It's a pity that I didn't see it. Yaru and her husband fought with their children and went back to their natal home. They met Yaru's husband, an unpleasant man.

The third time was five years later, when he was working in Fuxin and went to Xiaozhan before leaving.At that time, Yaru was the proprietress of the restaurant run by her husband's family, and also opened a small hotel, which was run by both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

It was the first meeting between the two after eight years of separation. One is a wife and father, and the other is a wife and mother.The former lovers met in different identities. The years have taken away so many longings day and night, from fiery to hidden plainness.

Lao Tan stayed in the hotel opened by Yaru for one night. Yaru made a bed for him and changed a new quilt. Before going out, she said that although her marriage was unfortunate, she couldn't ask others to criticize her for the sake of her children.

Yaru is gone, and it will be another seven years since we meet again, which is already Aqiao's era.

"Dangdang" someone knocked on the door.

Lao Tan pressed the pause button on the computer, then left the room and went to the hallway to open the door.Sister Jin was unexpectedly standing outside the door, which was beyond his expectation.

"What's wrong? You're not welcome?" Sister Jin asked with a smile.

"Welcome, welcome, how can you not welcome?"

Lao Tan let Sister Jin into the house, Sister Jin looked around after entering, and asked strangely after looking: "Where are your wife and children?"

"I went back to her mother's house for the New Year," Old Tan said.

"Didn't you say that the three of them were at home? I thought the two of them were at home and bought a pair of sneakers for the child."

Sister Jin handed the shoe box in her hand to Lao Tan, looking a little disappointed, but also a little happy-to be honest, there is still a taboo for a woman to go to a man's house, even though the man is divorced.

Lao Tan looked at the shoe box, and the sign on it showed that the shoes were not cheap, at least one thousand and five.

"Buy these good shoes." Old Tan said.

"You have to buy a good one for your child to play ball, so as not to hurt his feet."

"Hey, I can't afford it. I only need one pair every two months, and the shoes cost four to five thousand a year."

"Hey, look at your scheming energy, isn't that my son?"

"It's not counting, the main thing is that my shoes rarely exceed a hundred."

Sister Jin entered Lao Tan's room, saw the food and wine on the table, and the still picture on the computer, and asked, "Would you like to drink alone at home?"

"It's nothing, just have a drink." Old Tan said.

"It's quite comfortable." Sister Jin then said: "Our store is on holiday, so I have nothing to do when I wake up in the morning. I will go to your house to have a look. When I walk to Tesco, I will buy a pair of shoes for your children. Why can't I be empty?" Let's get started.

I was afraid that you were not at home, so I didn't call you. I remembered your home when I sent you off with Jin Jin last time. Fortunately, I didn't go wrong. "

Sister Jin sat down in front of the computer, took the mouse and pressed the start button, Li Qiushui and Wu Xingyun continued to fight.

"I also like to watch old movies, isn't this Heaven and Dragon Babu?"

"Yes."

Sister Jin picked up the wine glass on the table, smelled it, and said with a smile, "I'll have a drink with you, it's okay anyway."

"I'll make two more dishes."

Lao Tan prepared the dishes and put them on the dining table, turned on the TV and selected a movie, and the two of them ate while watching the movie.

"Do you still remember acting in movies in the village when you were a child?" Sister Jin asked.

"Why don't you remember it?" Old Tan said.

"At that time, I can look forward to acting in a movie. If I hear that there are performances in other villages, I will run over to watch it after dinner early."

"I don't have that habit. There is a movie theater in the mine behind my house, which is a staff club. There are performances every week, and a ticket costs [-] cents."

"How is your home?"

"What's the matter? Look, fifty cents was considered a lot of money back then. You know, my family spent five yuan for the Spring Festival. I went to the movies for free, jumped in from the skylight of the movie theater toilet, and evaded fares. When I was young, I caught It’s no big deal, at most, I’ll be kicked out twice.”

"You guys used to shop around when you were young."

"Later, the manager of the movie theater made a bad move. He put butter on the skylight, which is the kind of lubricating oil that is put on the wire rope. It is not slippery and sticky. After that, no one dared to jump for fear of falling."

"There should be a well-developed movie theater in your house."

"How to say, my family is a mining area in the mountains, where coal is produced. The industrial households who work in the mines work, eat from the national treasury, and spend money every month. Waiting for the agricultural households like my family to die, there is not much land, the land They haven’t grown crops yet, most of them are poor, and my family is the poorest.”

"You can dump coal."

"Then there is no need for capital. What if there is no capital? In addition, the mine is not working anymore, the underground is completely empty, and there is no coal for a long time.

Hehe, in response to the old saying, 30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river. In the past, the industrial households were awesome, but now they are agricultural households. "

(End of this chapter)