The story of a cook

Chapter 153
Half a month after the New Year's Eve was very peaceful, everything was moved from the original department, and nothing happened.

The salary was not opened in the second month. The finance department said that the group's funds were tight, and it would be opened later.I didn't say anything about the lack of salary. I don't have to worry about it with the master, he can make the decision.Zhang Hao looked very angry and complained.

Zhang Hao said: "If you don't get paid, you won't work. There is no one who doesn't pay for work."

The master said: "It's not that you are not paid, but everyone is not paid."

Zhang Hao said: "I don't care about them, I just care about myself. If I don't open for another week, I will find the finance department myself."

The master said: "Look at what you can do, you can find it yourself!"

Zhang Hao didn't say anything, but he was still very angry.

My situation is not very optimistic. If I don't pay my salary for two consecutive months, I will not be able to survive.After a year, the money will be almost spent, and the family does not have much money, so paying the rent will be a problem at that time.

When Lin Yan was working in Turtle City, she met a kid named Wang Hua. She wanted to learn how to be a cook and find an apprenticeship.Lin Yan asked if the club wanted students, and I said that students would be fine, but they would not be paid.Lin Yan said that it is okay not to pay, the main thing is to follow the study.I said let him come.

Wang Hua is from Hebei, only 17 years old, and speaks with a strong hometown accent.I am very happy to come to the club, because the club is big and the kitchen is almost as big as the Turtle City Hotel.In fact, Wang Hua is just young. If he was older, he would not have come to learn how to cook, because his uncle is the deputy district chief who just took office. Like the eldest brother and second brother, he is a young and middle-aged leading cadre trained by the government.

Wang Hua's uncle worked as a government employee after graduating from university. He met a woman with a good background. Later, this woman became his wife. This made his career smooth sailing, and now he is the deputy district chief.Wang Hua's hometown is in the countryside, and he came to work in the provincial capital mainly because of his uncle. His uncle saw that he was too young, so he asked him to exercise in a restaurant first, and then arranged other jobs when he was older.

I asked Wang Hua how his uncle treated him, and Wang Hua said he was very kind to him, and his aunt was also very kind to him.He said that his uncle was brought up by his mother, and his grandparents passed away early. At that time, his uncle was only six years old, and his mother raised him, so his uncle listened to his mother very much and respected his mother very much.

The salary for the second month is still not paid, not only our Northeast cuisine is not open, but also Cantonese cuisine is not open, and many kitchen staff are complaining about leaving.

Due to no business, the club closed the swimming pool, and the golf course began to close at the same time, leaving the restaurants and guest rooms still open.

Just arrived in March, Master said Mr. Du received an invitation letter from "Continental Hotel" in Hangzhou. Continental Hotel is going to hold a one-month "Northeast Cuisine Food Festival" and wants to invite a famous teacher of Northeast Cuisine Go there to cook Northeast cuisine for a month.

Mr. Du was going to send Master there, but at the same time he had to bring someone with him, otherwise Master would not be able to do it by himself.Master talked to me about this matter alone, and I knew what Master meant when he talked to me, so I said, "Master, take Zhang Hao, he has been with you for a long time."

The master said: "I wanted to take you there, but Zhang Hao is narrow-minded, he is still your senior brother."

I smiled and said: "It's okay, Master, take him there, I can just stay at home, there will be chances in the future."

The master said: "I guess you can agree, if Zhang Hao says nothing."

I said, "The main thing is that I'm not good at cooking, and I won't be able to help you if I go there, and it will cause trouble for you."

Master looked at me, smiled, and said nothing.

It would be a lie to say that there is such an opportunity and that you don’t want to go there. The Hangzhou Continental Hotel is well-known throughout the country, so it’s fine even if you don’t learn much from it.Sometimes people have to know the trade-offs. I can’t fight with Zhang Hao, and there’s no need to fight. If we fight over this matter, it will make outsiders laugh, and at the same time, it will embarrass Master.What if I go?It's nothing more than changing a place to work. It's the same as doing what you do here, and doing what you do there.It's better to stay at home voluntarily, and give Zhang Hao a favor in this way, and it will be easier for the master to do it.

It's good for me to stay at home, and I can cook on the stove, just to exercise myself.

Zhang Hao knew that he and his master were going to Hangzhou, so he was very happy. He said to me, "Tanzi, that's interesting. When I come back from Hangzhou, I promise to bring you Hangzhou specialties."

I said: "Hangzhou's biggest specialty is beautiful women, you bring me one."

Zhang Hao scratched his head and said, "If you can't bring it back, bring something else."

I said: "Okay, you can bring something, I want everything."

Master said to Zhang Hao: "You have to thank Tan Zi when you go back to Hangzhou. You can only go if he refuses to go."

Zhang Hao said: "I know, what else did our brothers say, it doesn't matter whoever goes."

The master said: "You can go and go, and keep your mouth shut when you go, and don't talk about it all day long."

Zhang Hao said: "Don't worry, Master, I will promise not to say a word all day, just work."

Master said, "That's the best."

Master and Zhang Hao went to Hangzhou, and Wang Hua and I were left at home.

The club has no business, and there are not many dishes a day, so the two of us can get busy.I wish I could be more busy, so that I can fry a few more dishes so that I can practice my skills.It's a pity that there is really no business, and it is too much to cook ten dishes a day.

Wang Hua said: "Brother Tan, I'm not busy here. There are still sea cucumbers. I want to learn how to distribute sea cucumbers."

I said: "Don't worry, it will be almost sold out in a few days, then go to the warehouse and get some sea cucumbers, I will teach you."

Wang Hua said, "Brother Tan, I see that Cantonese cuisine also sells sea cucumbers. They are different from ours."

I said, "They use Liao ginseng, also known as Korean ginseng, and we use topaz ginseng, which is higher grade than ours."

Wang Hua asked: "I want to learn how they distribute sea cucumbers, can I learn?"

I said, "Let me see. If the old miscellaneous master is fine there, you can learn it in the past. I am not familiar with the new master now. I will ask in two days."

Master Ah Fu did not come back after the Chinese New Year, and he changed to a miscellaneous master, also from Cantonese, named Ah Sheng, in his 20s, and he was not too familiar with him, but they just knew each other and nodded when they met.

I have never had much contact with Cantonese cuisine. Although I am in the same kitchen, I seldom communicate with them, especially after Ah Fu left.

I went over to find Ah Fa and said, "Ah Fa, that younger brother of mine wants to learn how to grow Liao ginseng from your family's miscellaneous master. You can do it."

Ah Fa readily agreed, and said, "Master Tan, no problem, let him come and learn."

To be honest, seeing Ah Fa agreeing so readily, I wondered if I had heard it wrong.

Ah Fa went on to say, "That's my cousin, my family."

It turns out that Master Shangza is Ah Fafa's younger brother, so he is willing to agree so readily.

Said to Ah Fa: "Thank you then."

Ah Fa said: "Master Tan is polite, it doesn't matter, we are good buddies."

I nodded and said, "Good buddy."

Wang Hua used to learn how to distribute sea cucumbers with the master of miscellaneous goods, A Sheng.

The club's business is not good, and they know more or less inside information.After the Spring Festival, a case occurred in the provincial capital, and the chairman of the club group was also implicated and investigated, which directly led to a rapid decline in the club's business.It is a bad omen that the club’s second month’s salary is not paid, but Master has gone to Hangzhou, so I can only wait for Master to come back and see how Master makes a decision.

What kind of club is not what I consider. What I have to consider is that Lin Yan and I will have a crisis in our lives if we don’t pay wages. We don’t have any savings. We made some money last year, but apart from paying the rent every month Lin Yan took some of it for her family, and spent some of it when she went home during the Spring Festival. When she came back after the Chinese New Year, she would have no money in her hands. If she didn’t get a salary, it would be a problem to live.

For the first time, I felt the crisis of my life.

In the past, even if I was laid off, I didn't feel any crisis. If I felt laid off, I would be laid off, and if I found another job and continued to work, I would be done.But this time it was different, I felt the responsibility—the responsibility of the family.If we don’t pay wages, we won’t have money to pay the rent, and if we can’t pay the rent, we won’t have a house to live in. Lin Yan and I will have to live on the streets.It is no longer the time for one person to feed the whole family without hunger. Now he is the head of the family and has to take responsibility for the family.

This is life.

I asked Lin Yan: "How much money does our family have now?"

Lin Yan said: "I don't have much money left, I have to pay the next quarter's rent soon, and I still have 200 yuan left after paying the rent."

I said: "It's okay, there are still three months to go after paying the rent, you can pay [-] a month, it's enough for you, don't worry about me." Then I said: "The main reason is that the club didn't pay wages, just pay wages. "

Lin Yan said: "If I didn't give my family money last year, the two of us would have more than 5000 yuan."

I said, "You have to take what you have to take. It's okay. Don't worry about it. I'll take care of the money."

Lin Yan said: "Wang Hao and the others seem to have no money, and paying rent is a problem."

I said, "Let's see, if they can't pay, let's find another cheaper house to live in."

Lin Yan said: "That's fine, we don't want a nice house, as long as it can accommodate people."

I gently touched her face and said, "You are wronged by being with me."

Lin Yan smiled and said, "I still feel quite happy."

With a wife like this, what can a husband ask for?

He held Lin Yan in his arms and hugged her tightly.

Lin Yan and we both came from poor children, so we don't care about suffering at all.It’s okay to suffer a little bit, but I’m afraid that if you can’t endure hardship, you can still gain, then it’s over.I never told Lin Yan about Wang Jing, I didn't want to ruin Wang Jing's good impression in Lin Yan's heart, sometimes I wondered what would I do if I met someone like Wang Jing?There is no good way, just break up immediately.

Yanhua called me once. She said that she went home to celebrate the new year, and now she went back to the old lady to continue working as a nanny. I asked her if she planned to be a nanny all the time. She said that it was impossible to be a nanny all the time, but I don't know what to do in the future, and I haven't thought about it yet.

It's not that she didn't think about it, but she really didn't know what she was going to do in the future.She is not a very assertive person and would be fine with someone who cares and loves her by her side.

Sometimes comparing Yanhua and Lin Yan, I think Lin Yan is more suitable to be a wife.

It's just a feeling, why can't I say it, it just feels like this.

In fact, Yanhua is also a very good wife. She may know how to care for her husband better than Lin Yan. Lin Yan is a rough person when it comes to caring for people, sometimes even thicker than me.I don't care much about people. Maybe I'm an old lump at home, and I'm used to being cared by my sisters. I haven't developed the habit of caring for others, and I don't care about people.

Fortunately, Lin Yan is relatively independent and never cares about some details, otherwise she would be really troublesome and would always be reprimanded.

Sister Zhao called me after she came back from Guangdong and said that she will be busy for a while recently, because she has learned a lot in Guangzhou this time, and she needs to digest it well.

Sister Zhao is doing well now, she has found her place in life, and she is starting to live for herself.

I am very happy for Ms. Zhao.

It would be great if Yanhua could be like Sister Zhao.

Yanhua misses an opportunity.

(End of this chapter)