The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 86 Leisurely
The wind in May gently blows over the Horqin Grassland, and the grassland is green.The poplar trees on both sides of the river are lush and lush, and the flowing river flows out of the valley like a bright silver light belt, rushing to the distance.

There are many farmers plowing in the field in the distance. The sound of the planter has replaced the mooing of the cow. The old cattle that have been liberated are grazing leisurely on the grass by the river. In the distance, flick your tail.

Some cows ran to the river to drink water, and while drinking water, they did not forget to call their companions with a long cry.

"Moo-"

The national highway has become a tree-lined road. Passing drivers rolled down their windows and enjoyed the scenery while driving.From time to time, a flock of sheep passed by, so the driver had to slow down and wait patiently for the flock to pass by.

The big passenger from the provincial capital leading to Tongliao stopped on the side of the national highway, and Sun Haicheng was already waiting by the side of the road.The driver got out of the car, opened the cargo box and took out two seafood bags filled with oxygen. Sun Haicheng stepped forward to take it, greeted the driver, and handed over the prepared freight to the driver.The driver smiled and drove away.

Sun Haicheng walked to the door of the hotel with two bags of seafood. Tuya saw it inside and hurried over to open the door for him.After he came in, he opened the bag first, poured the seafood into the fish tank, and put the shellfish into the shellfish pond.

Tuya on the side said, "Seafood has been selling very well these two days."

"Well, not bad." Sun Haicheng measured the salinity of the shellfish pool water with a salinity meter.

"Do you know why it sells well?" Tuya asked.

"Your introduction at the front desk is good." Sun Haicheng praised at the right time.

"Huh, you can talk. The main reason is that our seafood is fresh, and there is no one in the street. Everything you want to eat comes to our house." Tuya said.

"Yes." Sun Haicheng poured out the water in the salinity gauge, and then asked, "Where is Master Tan?"

"I'm at Bart's house. Bart is cooking mutton today." Tuya said.

"The boss is still chic." Sun Haicheng said enviously.

The current Lao Tan is really chic, besides drinking with the guests, he just wanders around, and let Tuya and Sun Haicheng take care of the hotel affairs completely.

He is handsome, and Sister Yuan is even more handsome than him. She hasn't been to the hotel for almost half a month, and has been using remote control by phone.

That's right, it doesn't matter if she comes with Lao Tan here or not, so Lao Tan will take care of everything.

Factory Manager Gao and Lao Tan have a very good relationship, and they drink some wine and chat about family affairs when they have nothing to do.Gao, the director of Liaozhong, is also here alone, and it is easy for the two gentlemen to find a common language.This is the second time we have worked together, and we have a sense of identity, and we have naturally become buddies.

Director Zhang would sometimes come over and express his feelings, saying that it would have been better to keep Lao Tan in the first place, so as not to lose money.Lao Tan directly criticized him for having different ways and not conspiring with each other, and it is impossible for the two to cooperate.In fact, Director Zhang didn't lose money, he just worked hard for a year.

Two days ago, Zhang Li called Lao Tan and asked him how he was doing here and when he would go back.Lao Tan said that it is very good here, and he will go back in mid-June at the earliest.

Zhang Li said, "Boss Xu intends to ask you to come back."

"Hehe, he seems to have made a mistake. I'm not your employee. It's okay to ask me to go back." Old Tan laughed.

"Yes, please come back." Zhang Li also smiled.

"It depends on my mood. You know why I left, so I just went back without knowing why? Let me tell you, I am the emperor here." Old Tan said.

"That means there must be a few empresses." Zhang Li was a little pantothenic.

"necessary."

"Tch, I don't dare to borrow your guts. Seriously, I want you to come back. Now I'm stuck at 500,000. It's too annoying. Just come back and help me." Zhang Li said.

"No help."

"If you don't help me, I will have to beg for food."

Old Tan laughed and said, "It's okay, if that's the case, I'll take you with me. You bring the bowl, and I'll be responsible for shouting. You'll be responsible for the misery. Every bowl you earn is worth every penny."

"Get out!" Chi Zha came from the phone.

Lao Tan didn't talk about going back to the Guandong people, saying that we can talk about it after he comes down.After all, he can't leave now, and he can't settle anything, not to mention he still has a grudge against the Kanto people.

In the back of Bart's store, Bart's wife brought a basin full of good lamb to the table, including lamb legs, lamb chops, and lamb necks.Ask Lao Tan and Bart to eat first, and she will make haggis.

The mutton just out of the pan is delicious, without any smell, and delicious.

There is no need to add any seasoning to the mutton, as long as there is salt, preferably two fine grains of salt.

Inner Mongolia is very particular about eating mutton, especially if you go to a herdsman’s house, you must use a Mongolian knife to shave the meat off the bones, or the host will be unhappy.Therefore, if you are a guest at a herdsman's house for the first time, if you are not good at gnawing bones, it is best not to attack the spine and neck of the sheep. These two parts are not easy to gnaw or shave.

Also, if you gnaw the fan bone, you must use a knife to pierce a hole in the fan surface after gnawing it clean. This is the rule.

Bart and Lao Tan didn't pay much attention to drinking. They each drank tea cups, filled up the wine, and ate meat while drinking. They didn't respect each other, and each drank separately.

On the table, besides a pot of meat, there was also a large bowl of rotten pickled vegetables, a small bowl of wild leek flowers and a plate of garlic chili sauce.

The Han people pickled sauerkraut, while the Mongolian people pickled rotten pickled vegetables.

Rotten pickles are pickled together with kohlrabi, celery, carrots, peppers, and coriander, and some potatoes are also put in it.If it is autumn and winter, it can be fermented in five to seven days, and it can be fermented in three days in summer.It tastes sour and very appetizing, and eating the meat with your hands has the effect of relieving greasiness.

There are two essential things to eat mutton, one is rotten pickles and the other is milk tea.

Drinking a pot of hot milk tea after eating mutton is enjoyable and helps digestion.

Milk tea, called "Sutai eggplant" in Mongolian, is boiled from tea bricks and has a salty taste.Drinking milk tea is a traditional habit of the Mongolian people. In addition to quenching thirst, it is also a way to supplement body nutrition.

In pastoral areas, people are used to "three meals a day with tea and one meal".Every morning, the hostess will cook a pot of milk tea, and the family sits around drinking tea and eating fried rice.The tea is kept warm on a low heat so that it can be drunk at any time.Usually in the evening, the family has a formal meal.But three salty milk teas in the morning, middle and evening are essential.

When guests come to the Mongolian home, the hostess will warmly cook a pot of salty milk tea and serve it to the guests first. If it is not cooked, it is disrespectful to the guests and the biggest faux pas.

When the wine was half drunk, Tuya brought Mulan over.

Mulan is resting today, and she is going to have a drink and chat with Lao Tan.

Mulan has admired Lao Tan since she met her.As the saying goes, a good horse comes from its legs, and a good man comes from its mouth.Old Tan can do training, so his eloquence is naturally good.

We can think so, talent does not necessarily have eloquence, and eloquence must be talent.

Mulan admires Lao Tan's eloquence, admires his management, and at the same time appreciates his easy-going personality.In addition, when people reach middle age, their appreciation and liking for the opposite sex has gone beyond the limitation of appearance, and it is more about the charm of personality.

Although Lao Tan looks anxious, rough-looking, like a bandit, he is steady and mature, has an extraordinary conversation, is never rigid, and has a real temperament. In other words, he is quite a man, which is very attractive, especially for middle-aged mature women.

Without exception, Mulan is somewhat attracted to her.

The Mongolian women are unrestrained, enthusiastic and unpretentious. If they like it, they like it, so they come to find Lao Tan for a drink.

The two sisters chatted in the store for a while, but when Lao Tan didn't come back, Mulan asked Tuya to lead them over directly.

Bart also always eats at Meng's restaurant, and Mulan is acquainted, and there is no need for introductions or prevarications, and they sit down and drink together.

"Old Tan, are you still planning to go back?" Bart asked.

"Well, go back, I'm here to help Sister Yuan this time, and it's about the same now, I will take Tuya for two months, and then I will leave." Old Tan said.

"Your master is qualified." Bart said.

"Tuya is now three thousand and five thousand, and I will give her four thousand when I leave." Old Tan continued: "I have to take care of this place when I leave. As long as Sister Yuan is in charge, she doesn't have to worry about the personnel. I belong to the trusteeship." .”

"Then she has to pay you the management fee." Bart said.

Old Tan smiled and said, "Whatever you want, if the business is good, give some, if the business is not good, don't."

At this time, Bart's wife brought up the haggis, and Lao Tan asked her to have a drink together, and Bart's wife promised to pack up and come over.

Mulan asked, "Master Tan, are you going back to the provincial capital?"

"Well, go back in two months." Old Tan said.

"Take me, so I can learn from you." Mulan begged.

Lao Tan couldn't satisfy her request. When Lao Tan returned to the provincial capital to take over the kitchen, Mulan was the receptionist, so she couldn't take it with her.If the newly opened restaurant is okay, we can enter together.

"We do things differently. I work in the kitchen as the front desk, and we're not together." Old Tan said tactfully.

"Isn't it good for me to be the front desk? If we cooperate, you can still teach me." Mulan said.

"Hehe, don't you want to go to Hohhot? What's wrong? You don't want to go?" Old Tan changed the subject.

"I don't know anyone in Hohhot. What are you doing there? Do you work as a waiter first? Besides, there is no waiter as old as me." Mulan laughed self-deprecatingly after speaking.

Lao Tan suddenly remembered that Director Wu said that one of his comrades opened a restaurant in Hohhot and was planning to go to the dumpling restaurant to study, but there was no further information.Mulan is absolutely qualified to be a manager. If she really goes to Hohhot, she can go there first, and it should be fine.

I just don't know how Director Wu's comrade-in-arms restaurant is, and whether it is still open, I have time to ask and see what's going on, and if it works, I can introduce Mulan to it.

Coincidentally, Director Wu booked a table at the hotel at night, and Lao Tan told him about it.

Director Wu was the person in charge, so he called his comrades on the spot.

The restaurant of his comrade-in-arms is still open, and the business is average, not making much money.The main reason is that his comrade-in-arms is still in the coal business and has no time to manage the restaurant, so he is looking for a manager.

I am very happy to hear that there is a suitable one now, so I asked Director Wu to arrange it.

Director Wu also drank, and casually said that he would introduce another management master to help, and praised Lao Tan with his comrades.The comrade-in-arms was very happy to hear that, so he invited Lao Tan to come over to check the pulse of his restaurant and make adjustments.

Old Tan smiled wryly and introduced the job to others, but he didn't expect to include himself in it.

But Director Wu had already made the decision for him, so he readily agreed.

What is a friend, this is a friend.

(End of this chapter)