The story of a cook

Chapter 145 The Story of Sister Ma
Don't do bad things for people, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

When people do things, don't be ignorant of your conscience. Don't be guilty. If you do too many bad things, there will be retribution sooner or later.

Say this not to others, but to yourself.

Beat yourself with this sentence every time you do something, and give yourself a wake-up call, telling yourself to do things with conscience.

You have to pay for everything you do, good or bad.Even if it seems that you didn’t pay any price at that time, you have already paid, such as character, such as honesty, these are all adding value or discounting your personality all the time. To a certain extent, the effect will appear.

A good result is that a good person lives a safe life, and a bad result is a failure in life.

We are not saints, and we all make mistakes, but we must correct them after making mistakes, instead of feeling indifferent and leaving it alone.What's more, some mistakes are something we can't afford.

Since the "Big Bones" incident, nothing happened in the kitchen, and they became more polite to me when I went to Cantonese cuisine.Don't be ignorant of flattery, people are polite to us, we have to greet them with a smile, after all, we work together in the same kitchen, we can get by if we can, not to mention that we are not grudges, and we know that we were a bit unreasonable at the time.

Sometimes I would stand behind Ah Hua and watch him stir-fry. When he saw that the cooking was well done, he would applaud and give me a thumbs-up. He would smile at me and say, "Master Tan, that's funny."

It's not that we don't know each other, it's just to respect each other. They are all working part-timers and go out to ask for money. There is no need to face each other like enemies.

During this time, I talked with my boss on the phone, and the boss said that he was no longer working in Shengmei, and his second brother contacted him for a job of installing lighting for the new community.In other words, he is now a small contractor, contracting all the home lighting on the construction site.This is quite profitable.The main reason is that the eldest brother and the second brother have energy, those real estate bosses give face, this light and profitable job is contracted to everyone, and the contract to the boss is also a favor.It is also a good thing that the boss is not at Shengmei Chaocai, and the fourth child directly takes over the position of the boss as Chef Zhang.When the second child is still making the cutting board, he is the only one who makes the cutting board. Once he gets busy, he will be very busy.

Master Chen still works in Dadong, and his master found him a hotel chef there.The hotel is called "Tianma Restaurant". I seem to have seen it when I was in the car. It is quite big, with two floors and more than 1000 square meters.Master Chen originally planned to ask me to go to cook. He heard that I was working in the club and he also worshiped Master Huang as his teacher, so he told me to continue working in the club and follow Master Huang to work hard and strive to become a chef as soon as possible.

Master Chen has always been very concerned about me, and I am very grateful to him in my heart. He is my guide on the road of being a chef.

I also talked on the phone with the eldest and second brother. The eldest and second brother heard that I work in the club and asked me to work hard here. At the same time, he also said that if you can leave after the New Year, you should leave and don’t work here for too long.I heard him say this without asking why, because it is very clear that if he wanted to tell me why, he would just say so, since he didn’t tell me why, he didn’t have to ask, and he promised to remind me for my own good.

The factory of Huang Ping and Boss Zou has always been profitable. Now the products are not limited to the provincial capital, and the metal spraying in other cities and counties is also processed in their factory. Sometimes they are too busy. It seems that they have made a lot of money.

Sister Zhang, who used to wash dishes in the hotel, went to work at Zhanze, and she still washes dishes. Lin Yan told me, but I didn’t say anything after hearing it. Sister Zhang shouldn't be working at Zhan Ze's place, why can't she tell.I don't like Zhan Ze. I don't like people like him. Maybe it's because I don't like Zhan Ze that I feel uncomfortable and unhappy when Sister Zhang works there.

Sister Ma at the barbecue restaurant called. Since she called her ex-husband last time, she felt that she owed me a favor and wanted to treat me to a meal, but she never agreed.After drinking with her and Sister Jin a few times, I became a little afraid of drinking with them. The first is that they can drink, but when they get excited, they won’t be able to hug them. My sister's eyes felt a little like she wanted to escape. Although she didn't look at me like that very much later, it still left sequelae and I was a little scared.

In addition, every time I drink with them, I have to wait until after they get off work at night. It was okay when I worked together before, and it was okay to go back a little later. Now I don’t work together. I get off work nearly two hours earlier than before. It would be unreasonable to go back so late, and it would be a silent harm to Lin Yan.

Lin Yan lives between work and get off work every day. Although the work is not very hard, it is not easy.She always felt that she was earning too little and wanted to earn more.Tell her that there is no rush, but the day of earning money will come later.I also know that her purpose of earning money quickly is to help her mother more, not to make her mother work too hard, and at the same time, she has to worry about his little brother going to school, which needs money.My money is in her hands, and she can dispose of it as she pleases.She is not a fool, and she will think too much in her heart. After all, we are not married, and we are not a legal couple. It is embarrassing to always give my money to her family.

I don’t have so many ideas, my idea is very simple, that is to go out to earn money to support the family every day, and it is enough to have a decent family when I come back. As for whether I can make a fortune, it depends on what I do.

In the past two days, Sister Ma sent me another message, telling me to come over, saying that everyone misses me a lot.

She said: "What the hell, Master Tan, is it so hard to treat you to dinner? I'm not dating you, and I'm not killing you. If I'm afraid your wife will tell you, I'll go over and talk to her."

No way, just say that time must pass.Sister Ma insisted that I set a date, so she told her that Laba would pass that day.

It’s almost time for Laba. Two days ago, Master asked me to open the raw materials for making Laba rice, such as glutinous rice, preserved fruit, jujube, lotus seeds, raisins, etc. In these two days, soak the glutinous rice and start making Laba rice.

On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, I cooked Laba rice for most of the day, and waited for the next day to sell Laba rice after it was ready.

Laba rice was sold very well on the day of Laba. There were more than ten bowls left when I got off work in the evening. I bought three bowls. Fortunately, the internal price was [-]% off, otherwise I couldn’t afford it.

Go home first after get off work, bring Lin Yan a bowl upstairs, and tell her, "Honey, Laba Rice, freshly made."

Lin Yan was very happy to see the Laba rice, and asked, "Did you make it yourself?"

I said, "Yes, I'll bring you a bowl. We won't be doing Laba today."

Lin Yan said: "Oh, that's great, I've had Laba rice."

I said, "Tell me something, wife."

Lin Yan asked: "What's the matter? Tell me."

I said, "I'm going out for a drink."

Lin Yan asked: "Who are you going to drink with?"

I said, "It's the back chef of the barbecue shop."

Lin Yan said: "Aren't they all women? Why, I started drinking with women."

I said, "Yes, it's drinking with a woman."

Lin Yan looked at me and said: "Don't drink until midnight, don't drink too much, don't chat with others, they are older than you, and they won't like you." Then he said a little puzzled: "I just wonder Why do they ask you to drink?"

After finishing speaking, he looked at me with scrutiny eyes and said, "You are not unusually bubbly. Say, did you help someone fight again?"

I laughed and said, "No this time, I just taught someone a little lesson."

Lin Yan said: "You, what's the matter? Why are you helping others fight when you're not there? Did they call you?"

I told the story of beating Sister Ma's ex-husband last time, and Lin Yan said: "I didn't hear what you said, he should be beaten, that man is really not human."

I said, "I promise you, I will never fight in the future."

Lin Yan curled her lips and said, "Your promise is useless. You still said you won't drink. No, you still drink. I don't listen to your promise. Remember to come back early and don't drink until midnight."

When they came out from home to the barbecue restaurant, Sister Jin and the others happened to be off work, and they still went to Sister Ma's house to eat frying pans. Sister Wang didn't go, because her daughter was on vacation, so she had to go home to accompany her daughter.Sometimes I don't understand why the Xian people love fried meat and barbecue so much. I can't do it. It's okay to eat once or twice, but I always feel tired after eating.

I took out two bowls of Laba rice, and Sister Jin and Ma were very happy to see the Laba rice.

Sister Ma said: "Master Tan, otherwise I still want to talk to you. For the sake of Laba rice, I won't talk about you today."

I said, "Thank you so much."

Sister Jin said: "It's the first time I've eaten Laba rice, it's delicious."

I asked, "Don't you Xian people eat Laba rice every year?"

Sister Jin said: "I don't eat it, and I don't spend much on Laba. It's just you Han people."

I said, "Oh."

After taking a sip of the wine, Sister Ma said, "Master Tan, you are really hard to please. I'll pass you three times."

I said, "Is there anything difficult to ask for? Isn't this here?"

Sister Ma said: "Now you are a master in a big place, and people in our small place are starting to look down on you."

I just laughed, didn't speak, and ate fried meat.

Sister Ma asked: "Did you not dare to associate with me when you heard that I am a young lady?"

I said, "Sister Ma, what are you talking about, am I like that?"

Sister Ma asked: "Then why do I have to tell you three times to invite you to dinner?"

I said, "I'm afraid of drinking with you now. You are too good at drinking. Every time I drink with you, I drink a lot. I wonder if you drink so much alcohol, don't you feel uncomfortable?"

Sister Ma said: "Anyone who drinks alcohol will feel uncomfortable, and it will be fine after a night of sleep."

I said, "You guys are still good, but I can't. Sometimes my head still hurts when I wake up the next day."

Sister Ma joked, "That's why you went home to be naughty."

I said, "Drinking so much wine and still being naughty, I fell asleep immediately."

Sister Ma said: "I'm sorry, no one will laugh at you even if you are naughty. We are all experienced, and we don't know what's going on."

I said, "Sister Ma, I'd better have a drink, I can't beat you."

Halfway through the drink, Sister Ma started talking about herself because of the alcohol.

She said: "My family and I met by myself. At that time, my family didn't agree. I just liked him. I had to be with him, and finally got married."

I said, "You guys are in free love."

Sister Ma said: "At that time, I was like a ghost. I couldn't listen to what my family said. They introduced me to many people. I didn't like any of them. I had to marry him. Finally, my family saw This is helpless, so I agreed. When we got married, we had nothing, and my family’s conditions were okay. At that time, my father was in business and had some money, so he bought us a house. This is it. This house is my house. bought."

Sister Ma pointed to the room.

I said, "That's fine, you two can live well."

Sister Ma said: "I want to have a good time." She seemed to be recalling, and said: "Don't tell me, we can work hard. I was laid off. He came down as a group at that time. It's not as good as me." Well. The two of us started to sell socks, insoles, and gloves at street stalls. Anyway, they are all low-cost things, and we have suffered a lot from selling what we earn.”

It seemed that Sister Ma wanted to continue talking, so she clinked glasses with her and took a sip of the wine.

Sister Ma said: "That didn't make much money. Later, he did business with his friend, dumping dried fruit, and earned some money. Later, his friend quit after drinking and having an accident."

Sister Jin asked, "What happened?"

Sister Ma said: "I hit someone with my car and spent a lot of money with him."

Sister Jin said "oh".

Sister Ma continued: "I was pregnant at that time, and I set up a stall on the street with my big belly in the winter, and I only stayed in the hospital for a few days when I was about to give birth."

At this time, Sister Ma had tears in her eyes, falling one by one, thinking about it, she was miserable enough at that time.Sister Jin took out a tissue and handed it to Sister Ma. Sister Ma wiped away her tears, smiled, and said, "If you don't want to mention it, you will cry when you think about it."

I said, "I understand very well, you are strong enough."

Sister Ma smiled and said, "It's just pretending to be strong. It looks like it's bluffing, but it's actually nothing. Sometimes I feel that I'm not as good as gold."

I just laughed and said, "You are really not as good as Sister Jin, she has a fake husband like me, and you don't even have one."

Sister Ma laughed and said, "You can still joke, I thought you weren't joking."

I said, "What's wrong with me, it's also quite humorous."

Sister Ma said: "After giving birth, I will take care of the child at home. He will work outside by himself, and he will not earn much money. It will not be enough. Sometimes I have to ask my mother for money. Life was really good at that time. Nervous, I remember that I didn’t buy cosmetics for a year, just a bottle of cream, just wipe it off and finish it. Later, the child was able to stop breastfeeding, so I wanted to go out to make money. At that time, I was almost crazy to want to make money. Just in time for some people to go abroad to Japan, and they said to go to Japan to earn money, so I wanted to go abroad to Japan. When I said that I wanted to go abroad to work in Japan, my family and his family all opposed it.”

Sister Ma took a sip of wine, and then said: "That's not okay. I just want to go abroad to make money. I don't know where I got the energy at the time. No one can say it's not easy. I just go abroad. It turns out that I have to go abroad." If you want to go abroad, don’t persuade me. I will start to ask for money.”

Sister Jin said: "Actually, at that time, it would be fine if you didn't go abroad, and you couldn't get a divorce."

Sister Ma said: "People don't have such eyesight. If you know about peeing on the kang, you will sleep in a sieve."

Sister Jin asked, "Then why did you leave the country? You don't have any money either."

Sister Ma said: "If you don't have any money, you can borrow it. Your sister and I are very popular, and I have a few good friends. I borrowed part of it. Later, my father and my brother saw that I was really determined to go abroad, so they took the rest. The money I paid was paid to me."

Sister Jin asked: "Then what do you do when you go abroad to Japan? Are you also in a restaurant?"

Sister Ma said: "What else can I do? They are all restaurants. They wash dishes, clean up, and do everything. At the beginning, they didn't make much money."

Sister Ma paused for a moment, and continued: "People who have never been abroad don't know that they want to go home when they go abroad. I was cruel enough at that time. I left when the child was only one year old. If I were killed now, I would won't go."

I said, "You were not wrong then."

Sister Ma said: "There is nothing wrong with it. I just want to go out to earn more money and live a better life. My husband and I disagreed when we dated each other. I am determined to be with him. If life is not good, I will die." It's a joke."

Sister Jin said: "You are also too strong, what are you joking about, who doesn't live life slowly, how can you dig a well with a shovel."

Sister Ma said: "I am short-tempered, my family is difficult, and I am not as good as others. I just want to live a good life and have money for a while."

After drinking with Sister Ma, she continued: "I work part-time in Japan, and I earn more by doing odd jobs than in China, but it is also tiring. I see that there are wine companions in restaurants. Many of them are Chinese, and some The girls of the young ethnic group are there to accompany the wine, and they all go out to work like me. They make a lot of money accompanying the wine. I think this is in Japan. I don’t know what they do at home. , not to be a lady, nothing to do, so I went to accompany the drink."

Sister Jin said, "It's fine if you don't drink with me."

Sister Ma said: "What's the matter with drinking, it's not about selling yourself, just earning money." After finishing speaking, she took a sip of wine, and then said: "Accompanying wine is to make money, and I earn a lot. gone."

I laughed and asked, "Is it because you have a big drinking capacity, and most people can't drink you?"

Sister Ma said: "Yes, the Japanese drink sake. It's boring, low alcohol, and it's all in small bottles. It's absolutely no problem for me to drink three or four bottles. I can drink ten bottles when I'm impatient. At that time, I didn't care about it when I was young. In fact, I am not bad looking, I was much prettier back then than I am now, I am good-looking and can drink alcohol, I can also communicate with customers simply, many customers come to me.”

Sister Jin said: "The main reason is that you are extroverted."

Sister Ma said: "Maybe, I have a carefree personality and don't have a good heart. But if I want to drink, I can still get repeat customers. Many of the guests I have accompanied come to me. In the first year, I borrowed it when I went abroad. I paid back all the money and earned more than 1 yuan."

Sister Ma said: "At that time, my family was very happy, and just counted the money at home. In the second year, I directly changed jobs and changed to a restaurant. I earned more than the first restaurant. I went to the restaurant every month. At that time, I was careful not to send all the money to my family. I kept some of it for myself. That is, when the Chinese New Year was approaching in the second year, my dad told me that he seemed to have someone at home. When I heard about it, I I was going crazy, I left my family and business abroad to earn money, but he was fine, spending the money I earned at home, and even fucking went out to find women, I wanted to kill him at that time."

Seeing how Sister Ma gritted her teeth, I knew how angry she must have been at that time.

Sister Ma said: "I called him and asked him. He hesitated at first, but then I asked anxiously. He said: You are there to accompany the wine and be a lady. I can't find a woman at home. I heard My head buzzed when I said this, thinking that this is over, I am afraid that my family will know that I am serving as a wine escort in Japan, if the family knows that the designated wine escort is no different from a lady, then it is over, no idea I really let my family know. I figured in my heart that anyway, he already knew that I was drinking with me in Japan. What the hell, I told him that I was drinking with him. What do you want? When he said divorce, I said yes , I will divorce when I return to China."

Speaking of this, Sister Ma clinked glasses with me and Sister Jin, took a sip, and continued: "It's only now that I understand that he didn't know that I was serving drinks in Japan at the time. When a woman goes to Japan to work, she will be said to be a hostess in Japan. At that time, he always heard people say, what is wrong with your daughter-in-law, and she is guaranteed to be a hostess for others in Japan, otherwise what? If he can earn this much money, he has a little faith. In addition, a man who hasn’t been around a woman for almost two years can’t help it. Not to mention men, just say that I haven’t had a man in the past two years, and I think about that too. .”

Sister Jin said: "He called and said that you were cheating on you as a wine host in Japan."

Sister Ma said: "He began to think that I was drinking with him in Japan, but he was not sure. He said that on the phone. Life."

Sister Jin asked, "Then leave."

Sister Ma said: "What's the matter? I didn't go back to China right away, so I remitted all the money to my dad. I worked for nearly half a year and earned some money. Later, I was arrested and sent back. After returning I left with him, but I couldn’t live with him. He found another one at home, and he just waited for me to come back and sign. I was about to have a child at the time, and the child hadn’t been around for nearly three years, and didn’t follow me. See I cried when I saw it, but he didn't give it to me. I didn't want it when I thought about it. If I don't want it, I don't want it. It's my girl, so I don't want it. Not wanting a child is my biggest mistake—"

For Sister Ma, I don't know whether to say right or wrong, and I don't need to say right or wrong at this time, all the experience is just one experience, and there is still a long way to go in the future.

(End of this chapter)