The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 69

As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention but the listener has intention.Zhou Xiaomei said that she only wanted a child, which hit Zhang Li's sore spot.

Zhang Li's biggest regret is that she has no children.It's not that she can't have children, she is a normal woman with fertility.When I was young, I had a crystallization of love with the person I loved, but the one I fell in love with was a married man. That man could not divorce her and live with her, and the child was aborted.

Fate is bad. After marrying a second man for a year, it is found that the man is infertile. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to a woman.So he went around to seek medical advice and medicine, trying to cure her husband's illness.After a period of treatment, my husband had no effect, felt inferior, and had increased psychological pressure, so he began to behave abnormally, and gradually became suspicious of her.

In the end, domestic violence came with an unstoppable force, and she was often bruised and swollen.

The marriage lasted for two years and finally divorced.

No children, never been a mother, the biggest regret.

When working in Linjiangxuan, Zhang Li joked with Lao Tan that she would have a child with him, and that after the child was born, Lao Tan would not need to take care of it, but would raise it by herself.Although it was a joke at that time, but thinking about it now, it would be better if he took the initiative to have a good relationship with Lao Tan at that time, and the child is now six or seven years old.

Now I have the desire to have children but not the ability to raise children.I am alone, with a monthly salary of [-], a mortgage of nearly [-], living expenses of more than [-], and the remaining [-] is enough to raise children?Besides, giving birth to a child is not a matter of one person. First of all, there must be a man.

When I think of a man, my heart shudders. The shadow left by the domestic violence is always there, and sometimes I shudder when I think about it.But how can a man have children without a man?Even if you give birth, you can't afford it.

I am 43, and the other party I am looking for at this age has children, so I cannot agree to have children.

It seems that I am really going to be alone for the rest of my life.

After getting off the plane at Taoxian Airport, Old Tan Yanhua and Yanzi went straight back to Santaizi.

After arriving home, Yanzi took a hot bath, then lay comfortably on the bed and called Lao Feng, asking where he was.Lao Feng said that there was a meeting in the district and he had to come back at night.

Yanzi put down the phone and fell asleep. When he woke up at six o'clock in the evening, he was hungry, and Lao Feng hadn't come back yet, so he made something for himself.

When Lao Feng arrived home at almost nine o'clock, he obviously had a lot to drink and smelled of alcohol.

"What time did you arrive home?" Old Feng asked, throwing his coat on the sofa.

"The plane at eleven o'clock, it's almost three o'clock when we get home. Who did you drink with?" Yanzi asked, got up and poured a glass of cold water to Lao Feng.

Old Feng drank the water in one gulp, and said, "I drank it with the secretaries and village chiefs of Baodao and Shanggangzi. Wan Shan went to sing with them. I didn't go, so I took a taxi back."

"Excuse me, I can't sing, do you miss me?" Yanzi sat down beside Lao Feng and asked affectionately.

"Think, can you not want to?" As Lao Feng came to hug Yanzi, Yanzi really became a swallow and slipped into Lao Feng's arms.

Lao Feng wanted to make more intimacy, but Yanzi stopped him, saying that he smelled of alcohol, so he hurried to take a bath.Lao Feng had no choice but to hug his wife vigorously, then stood up and walked to the bathroom, asking as he walked, "How is the inspection going?"

Swallow said: "Very good, a lot of harvest."

"As long as there is something to gain, I'll take a shower first, and tell me about it later."

When Lao Feng came out of the shower, Swallow was already under the covers.Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and the two of you and I have done something affectionate and affectionate.

Old Feng leaned on the bedside, lit a cigarette, Yanzi squeezed into his arms, and told him what he had seen and heard in Wuhan, and his own plans.

"Old Feng, our dumpling restaurant is very good now, even if it is famous in Santaizi, I plan to wait for the cost recovery to open a second store, and also to be a chain. The woman in Harbin is also a dumpling restaurant, and now there are [-] stores shop." Yanzi said.

Old Feng asked, "Did you discuss it with Yanhua?"

"That's what she meant too," Swallow said.

"Did you tell Lao Tan?"

"Old Tan means that after the new year, it will be stable for another year, lay a solid foundation, and start again the next year."

"You and Yanhua don't know much about restaurants. The actual situation is there. If Lao Tan leaves the dumpling restaurant, he will be in trouble. The chef, the dumpling maker, and the front desk manager are all hired by him. Now it is equivalent to saying that the dumpling restaurant is open. He's holding it in his hand, you know." Old Feng said.

Swallow said: "It's a bit awkward to hear what you said. If there is no Lao Tan, there is no way to open a dumpling restaurant."

"That's right, what I mean is that you and Yanhua are also trying to figure it out. In addition, look at the employment and find two people of your own." Lao Feng said.

"It's not necessary." Yanzi said bluntly: "If you employ someone, you have to trust him. I remember that you said this."

A little embarrassed, Lao Feng snuffed out the cigarette, turned around and hugged Yanzi into his arms, and said, "But don't trust people for everything, you and Yanhua need to know something, besides, I don't recommend opening a branch, just This store is very good, enough to eat and use.”

Swallow said: "I won't open it right away. Those bosses say that the profit of a single store is getting smaller and smaller, and the only way to make money is through a chain. I think it's right. Look at Lao Feng. Everything is expensive now. The price of raw materials has risen, and the seasoning The price has risen, and the trotters are three hundred and fifty. Also, the wages of employees have been rising. It is estimated that it will be difficult to hire waiters for 2000 yuan by the end of the year. If everything goes up, the price of vegetables dare not go up. If it goes up, no one will eat it.

Now our family can see a profit of 60,000 yuan a month, and it will be good to see [-] yuan in the future, maybe even [-] yuan.What if there are two stores?Let's not count too much, just pay [-] yuan for one store, [-] yuan for two stores, and [-] yuan for three stores? "

"That's true." Lao Feng nodded, and then asked: "Let me ask you, what if you lose money by opening a second store?"

"Can you still pay with Lao Tan?"

"What if Old Tan quits?"

"It's impossible to quit, give him a raise, and besides, he's not that kind of person."

"Tell you that people's hearts are separated from each other, and no one looks at anyone's heart."

Swallow pushed Lao Feng down, and tilted his head back. From this distance, he could have a panoramic view of Lao Feng, and said, "Old Feng, I think you are a little worried about Lao Tan."

"It's not that I'm worried. I have nothing to worry about, but I just want to remind you, don't be the boss yourself, the restaurant will have the final say." Lao Feng said.

Yanzi stared at Lao Feng, trying to see something on his face, and summed up what Lao Feng said in his head——still thought that Lao Tan was not that kind of person, and felt that Lao Feng was thinking too much.

But Lao Feng's words undoubtedly made her think a little more, and her intuition told her that Lao Feng began to distrust Lao Tan, and this distrust obviously came from this trip to investigate.

She smiled, reached out and touched Lao Feng's face, and said, "Are you worried about me?"

Lao Feng felt as unnatural as if his tail was being stepped on, but the secretary for many years was not for nothing, but he was able to deal with this little embarrassment with ease.

"If you are worried about you, who can you worry about? Halfway through the couple, you are old companions, and now you are my treasure." Lao Feng said, smiling all over his face.

Women are easily moved by such words, especially when sleeping in the same bed.Yanzi didn't think much about it, thinking that Old Feng cared about him.

Yes, in a way, this is indeed a kind of care.

Husband and wife have a deep emotional foundation, have gone through ups and downs together, and have their own children. When people reach middle age, they may not have so much intimacy, but with invincible trust, what they care about at this time is to give each other more A lot of natural caring and considerate, often forget themselves.

If you are together later, you will often have a narrow thinking, thinking that the other party is just a companion, and what you care about is that this companion is gone, and it may be difficult to find another one.

The two didn't get a marriage certificate, they just lived together as a partner.

Lao Feng likes Yanzi in his heart and loves her, but he definitely doesn't have the same liking and love as he did for his original partner.He was able to invest in Yanzi largely because he felt that he had already been with him. Even if he married a daughter-in-law, he still had to give a bride price. Take no money.

At the same time, I feel that I can't live without this woman, so I care about it.Men, there are times when they are narrow-minded.Even if she knows that her woman won't mess around with other men, she doesn't want to see her go out with other men, and she doesn't want to hear women say that men other than herself are good.

Therefore, he felt a little taboo and disgusted with Yanzi's field trip this time.It's not that I don't trust Lao Tan, it's just that I don't have energy in my heart.
When Yanzi said that he wanted to open a branch, he felt even more uncomfortable. First of all, he thought that it must be done by Lao Tan, otherwise Yanzi would not have such an idea.Then he thought that if he really opened a branch, Yanzi would be very busy, and in his traditional thinking, women should not go out to show their faces. Although he always said that women should be self-reliant and self-reliant, but that was for others to hear, and it was not good for him. Agreed, I feel that women should stay at home and take care of their husbands and children, and it is best to be a little woman.

He sees that Lao Tan is in charge of everything in the dumpling restaurant, and he thinks that one day when Lao Tan quits, the people he finds will also quit, and the dumpling restaurant will have a yellow shop.This is what worries him.

What he means is that Yanzi will learn to manage from now on, and at the same time find two people who are not Lao Tan to arrange in the kitchen to learn how to make dumplings and dishes. In case Lao Tan leaves one day, someone in the kitchen will do these, just like before, Will not affect business.

There is nothing wrong with this idea, and the plan is normal.But it undoubtedly reveals the distrust of Lao Tan, and this distrust is based on Yanzi's adoring trust in Lao Tan. In other words, Lao Feng is a little jealous now, and he doesn't want his woman to trust others too much. Man, that makes him sick.

In particular, I have partnered with Yanzi before, this kind of marriage without legal guarantee is easy to break up, not to mention that I am more than ten years older than Yanzi.

He intends to get married with Yanzi, but he still has lingering fears when he thinks of the curse that hangs on the head of their old man from Feng's family.As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of what happens. He didn't have the courage to continue to lose his wife.

So he is very contradictory now, a bit regretful that he asked Yanzi to open a restaurant.

When there is no restaurant, there are no such things, and the swallow is by his side like a bird.Every day when you go home, you can eat delicious meals and enjoy meticulous and considerate services.It's no good now, Yanzi is busy with the restaurant, and he comes home later than him every day. When he gets home, he falls on the bed and sleeps. It's hard for him to chat.

Especially recently, when I go home late, I often come back after drinking, and when I ask, I say that I drink with the guests.I always go to restaurants and know what's going on. The reason why I call the proprietress over to accompany me for a drink is nothing more than thinking that the proprietress is pretty and I want to take advantage of the opportunity to drink.

This, too, was intolerable to him.

Also, Lao Tan made the restaurant flourish, and Yanzi always praised Lao Tan in front of him. At the beginning, he was okay and acceptable, but after a long time, he became a little jealous, and his heart became unbalanced——I will give you the money It's good for you to open a restaurant. If you talk about how powerful other men are, what am I?
Men, once narrow-minded, they are more serious than women, especially people like him who value face more than life, it is even more evil.

He was worried that Yanzi would fall in love with Lao Tan after being together for a long time, and he would be ashamed of himself.

(End of this chapter)