The story of a cook

Chapter 117 Meeting Jiu Mengzi Again

Everyone wants to have a happy marriage and a happy family, but there are unhappy marriages and broken families.

Being responsible for love requires loyalty and sincerity.

Being responsible for marriage requires responsibility and persistence, as well as commitment to the one you love.

As the old saying goes, the road to enemies is narrow, it’s not that enemies don’t get together.

When I was about to get off work at noon this day, I heard a squeak in front of me. When I came to the food counter, Sister Jin said that there was a customer who didn’t pay after the meal, and said that the waiter paid more for the beer, but she didn’t pay.

I thought of Jiu Mengzi who didn’t give money after the meal when the Rose Hotel first opened. He also said that the waiter would pay too much beer, so I beat him up and sent him to the police station.I wondered if it was him.

I asked Sister Jin: "Where is Auntie?"

The old lady has a bad temper and is well-known on Taishan Road, so she is not afraid of it at all.

Sister Jin said: "My aunt has gone back to rest, and she goes back to sleep at this time every day."

I just stood there for a while, and I couldn't see the situation of the table at the Fucaikou, so I heard the sound of jiggling.So go out and go there.

Hehe, it's a coincidence that he should die, he really is that Jiumengzi, after more than a year, I haven't changed, and he hasn't changed, it's still the same virtue.Standing there and shouting at the waiter, it seems very reasonable.

I laughed, and I honestly did.I really didn't expect to meet him in a barbecue restaurant. I thought that if I wanted to eat without paying, and wanted to touch porcelain, I would have to change my tricks.

I walked up to me unhurriedly, Jiu Mengzi looked surprised when he saw me, and immediately stopped shouting, just looked at me, as if saying, why did I meet you everywhere.

He didn't talk and I said: "What, I still don't give money!"

He said: "It's not that we don't give money, it's because we didn't drink so much beer, your waiter will forget about it."

I smiled and asked, "How many bottles are extra?"

He said without confidence: "There are not many bottles, only three bottles."

I said, "You're short of three beers, or—"

He immediately said: "No one is short of the price of three bottles of beer, but I am a bit suffocated. No one dares to pay me more beer wherever I eat."

I said, "What's the matter? You have to pay for the meal, and you still say that you are not short of money."

He was very good at playing tricks and said: "Brother, today is to see your face, if you don't work here, you won't give me the money."

I said, "Then I have to thank you for saving face."

This is how people are, they are not respected by bears, as long as you are reasonable and subdue him once, he will be afraid of you when he sees you again, afraid that you will beat him again.I reckon this kid has done it in other restaurants without paying for meals like this, and he has done it a lot, and he has succeeded, or else he would not be like this, and he would only do it in restaurants that have just opened.Restaurants that have just opened generally don’t want someone to cause trouble just after their restaurant opens. They all want to calm things down and not call the police if they can’t call the police. I really thought that your restaurant took advantage of people drinking too much and gave them extra beer.It is not a good thing to spread such a reputation when it first opened.

I also blame this kid for being unlucky, he ran into me again here, he didn't say anything, and he didn't show off like last time, he went to the bar to pay the bill and left.

When I went back to Fucaikou, Sister Jin asked me, "Master Tan, do you know that person?"

I said, "Know him? Let's just count him as acquainted."

Sister Jin said: "Oh, it seems that he is quite afraid of you."

I said, "He was not afraid of me, but the police station. I sent him to the police station."

Seeing Sister Jin's expression of disbelief, she went straight into the kitchen without saying anything.

This is a small episode. At that time, there were a lot of people touching porcelain in restaurants, which was not serious. Some of them broke the razor blades, took a small piece in their mouths, deliberately pulled the cheeks or tongues to bleed, and then I called the waiter and the manager over, saying that there was a blade in the dish, which pulled my cheek, and I had to go to the hospital for examination.Anyway, the mouth was full of blood and dripping suddenly, which looked quite scary. Some restaurants took them to the hospital.In fact, nothing happened at all, and it will be fine after two days at home.

At that time, there was no surveillance in the hotel, so sometimes you have to admit that you are unlucky.This kind of thing has also been experienced, and it has been sent to the police station for resolution.

Lin Yan said that his younger brother needs money to go to school, and her mother also needs some money to buy feed for raising pigs.

I said, "The money is with you, so you can take it."

"That's so embarrassing, it's all the money you earned, so I have to tell you." Lin Yan said.

I said, "No, you have the final say on money matters, as long as you set aside what we live on, and you take the rest with you."

She said, "Then I'll take it for my family."

"Take it, it's okay." I asked, "By the way, where is your eldest brother, what are you still doing there?"

She said, "I'm still working there. The boss treats him very well."

I said, "That's fine, isn't he still learning how to get a bus ticket?"

Lin Yan said: "We don't care about the bus ticket for him to learn, he has earned money himself, let him save money to learn by himself."

I said, "If you don't have enough money, get him some if you have it."

Lin Yan said: "Let's talk about it, he doesn't learn now."

At that time, Lin Yan and I were living a very poor life. Our wages were not high, we had to rent a house, and we had to support our family.We both had a hard life, but it was very warm and sweet.

Every morning when I get up for work, she has already left, and when I get home from get off work, she is already asleep.Every time I open the door and enter the room, it will be very light, but she will still wake up immediately, and then open her sleepy eyes and say: "You are back."

I said, "I'm back."

Before going to bed, she would give me a hug and say, "It all smells like chopped green onions."

I will kiss her on the face, and then go to wash, when I come back, she got into my arms like a kitten, and fell asleep.

I live on Lingdong Street, which is to the east of Beiling Park.The place where I work is on Taishan Road, which is not far from Lingdong Street, and it takes 15 minutes to ride a bicycle.On the way to and from work, I will pass the main entrance of Beiling Park, pass the main entrance of Beiling and go east to the east gate of Beiling. There is a sports college in the provincial capital at the east gate of Beiling. When I was studying, I was very good at sports. He is a sprinter on the school sports team and a member of the basketball team.Although I was studying in an ordinary rural high school, I also participated in the high school sports meeting and basketball game in Beipiao City every year, but it was a pity that I only participated once and gave up.At that time, I hoped that I could be admitted to the Institute of Physical Education and become a sports college student.

Every time I pass by the Institute of Physical Education on my way to and from get off work, I ride very slowly, looking at the school gate in a daze—I know that inside that gate is the so-called ivory tower, a place that many young people dream of.Four or five years ago, I was so eager to come here to go to school, to make my ideals and dreams come true here, but today, I can only look at the gate from the outside, and look at the youthful figures in the gate. , looking enviously——
Fate is not unfair. I can't experience the four years of life inside that gate, but I have experienced the wonderful four years of life outside the gate. The people inside went to that university, and I went to another university. University is huge and takes a lifetime to finish.

Taishan Road and Lingdong Street are connected, and the east end of Taishan Road is Lingdong Street.There are many restaurants, large and small, along the entire Taishan Road. Counting from the west, the famous ones are Yangchun Barbecue Restaurant, Rose Restaurant, Meiyuancheng Fat Beef, BJ Quanjude Roast Duck, Taishan Hotel, Youyuan Hotel, and the main gate of Beiling. Haizhongquan Restaurant, Bashu Restaurant, and the largest "golf club" in the provincial capital at the east gate of Beiling Park.I heard that it was opened by a boss in the provincial capital at that time. The club looked huge from the outside, with a golf course in the north and south, bowling alley, clubhouse, swimming pool, and high-end restaurants.Even the parking lot is very large, able to park a hundred cars.There is a sentry box at the gate, and security guards stand in front of the sentry box, wearing security uniforms, standing upright, a bit like a soldier on guard.Sometimes I would stop at the gate and look inside, thinking that it would be great if I could cook here for two days.

Although I am not good at cooking, I have not reached the standard of a senior chef, but I dare to think about everything, and I am very courageous.At that time, I was cooking in a barbecue restaurant every day, and I actually gained a lot. My cooking skills were honed, my cooking experience was greatly increased, and my understanding of dishes was further improved.I feel that the dishes I made are a bit like dishes.The cooking of dishes is like this. It requires the accumulation of experience and rich experience in the kitchen. Everything is practiced step by step. There is no shortcut to learn to be a chef. You can only move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner.

Being a chef is hard work.The barbecue restaurant is quite busy, and it takes two hours to fry the dishes on the stove when the meal is ready. I didn’t feel it when cooking on the counter, so I was busy cooking. When I got off the stove, I felt very uncomfortable in the back, and the sweat-soaked work clothes felt very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.There are still women in the kitchen, and they can't take off their shirts to cool off for a while, so they can only unbutton a few buttons to cool off.

It is uncomfortable to wear the work clothes soaked in sweat, and it is even more uncomfortable to wear the work clothes when they are dry.After the sweat stains dry, white salt spots are formed on the clothes, which are hard and very uncomfortable. Sometimes they irritate the skin, and there will be many small red spots on the back, which are itchy and scratchy.

Two hours after lunch, I sweated profusely, and my work clothes were soaked. In the evening, I sweated profusely again, and my clothes were soaked for more than two hours after dinner.

To be honest, being a chef is really hard work.

In fact, it is not easy for a person to do anything in this life, and there is nothing easy in the world. The so-called easy is relative, and it is not easy to compare and compare.

Life is not easy.

Some people believe in fate. In fact, what is fate? A person’s life is to move forward step by step from birth to death, walk through ditches and ridges, uphill and downhill, and finally look at the road he has traveled and the way he has lived. , good and bad is fate.God has no control over whether it is good or bad, and they are all responsible for themselves. A good life or a bad life depends on how you live, and it is not predestined by God.

In this whole life, one needs to have a purpose, to think about something, to know why one lives, and if one doesn’t even know why one lives, one might as well not live, because living is suffering.

At the age of 25, I still don't understand the truth of life, but I know that people need to work, earn money to support their families, live a good life, and respect their mother.

Want to say is there any ideal?There must be ideals. At that time, the ideals were very simple, that is, to enable myself to earn a lot of money, buy a house in the provincial capital, marry Lin Yan, have children, and live a good life.

The second is to make achievements on the road of chef, study hard and exercise hard, and become a famous chef before the age of 40. If you can save a lot of money, open a restaurant after the age of 40, so that you can have a business. Can live comfortably.

I never thought that I could earn a lot of money and live the life of a rich man. I never thought about it.

Maybe I really have no ambitions.

If we insist on lofty ideals, then there really was one.I remember that once my hair was a little long, the main reason was that I was busy for a week, and I was a little lazy, so I didn't use a razor to shave my head.I have been bald since I was loading and unloading cement. I have always shaved my head with a razor, and I have never been to a barber shop.I haven't shaved my head for seven days in a row. My hair is a bit long and I can't shave it with a razor, so I went to the barber shop to have it cut.

I went to three barbershops in a row and didn't push me, saying that barbershops don't push bald heads.

At that time, I was very angry, thinking that the barber shop only cuts the hair, so I had to shave my head.In the end, I came to a barber shop, and a woman received me. She asked me for ten yuan to shave my head bald.

It stands to reason that it's good, I should thank her for being able to shave my head, but I don't thank her at all, because she always looked disgusted and bored during the whole shaving process, and looked down on people who work in restaurants. And when she paid her, she also said: "You are from the hotel, you smell like oil."

At that time, I really wanted to argue with her, but in the end I thought, forget it, there is nothing to argue with this kind of person.But at that time, I told myself that one day I want everyone to know that our restaurants are worthy of respect, and our chefs can also stand upright and be a man. In my lifetime, I must create an influential restaurant. Powerful catering, so that children who come out of the countryside to work in restaurants can be like urbanites, stand upright, and no longer be looked down upon by others.

(End of this chapter)