The story of a cook

Chapter 174 Sending Zhang Li Home

During the working meal at night, Zhang Li asked me: "Master Tan, do you have time today?"

I was a little wary and asked, "What's the matter?"

To be honest, I feel a little afraid of Zhang Li. As long as she talks to me, I feel that nothing good will happen, so I try not to talk to her as much as possible.

Seeing my expression, Zhang Li was a little annoyed, and said, "Just tell me if you have time."

I said: "Yes."

She smiled and said, "It's okay, just take me home after get off work."

I said, "It's not raining or windy here, so you can't go back by yourself. Didn't you always go back by yourself before?"

She said, "Just asking you to send me off, it's not to kill you."

At this time, the proprietress said: "Master Tan, give Zhang Li a favor. She seems to be followed after get off work yesterday."

Seeing what the proprietress said, it was probably true, so she asked Zhang Li, "Is it true? Why are people following me?"

"Really, I'm still lying to you about this." Zhang Li said: "I walked in front after get off work yesterday, and there was a man behind me. That talent in the big market didn’t follow.”

I asked, "Have you seen what he looks like?"

Zhang Li said: "I looked back and looked at a shadow, I didn't see the face clearly, it was quite thin."

Scary murders have happened in Sandaizi in the past few days. Two women's heads were found in the public toilet at the terminus of Liulu Road.

Sister Li said: "We have such perverts here. I have met them in the middle of the night who only pick out women." Living in a compound, there is no room in the kitchen, and the underpants have to be hung outside after washing, and there is that pervert, hurting others, who specializes in stealing women's underpants."

Sister Zhang just laughed and asked, "What's wrong, yours was stolen?"

Sister Li said: "That's right, I lost both of them, and I don't know which one did it. I haven't seen a woman in my life. I want to be crazy about women. She is pure pervert." Just take the money and go out to find a lady to vent your anger and steal her panties—pervert!"

Sister Zhang said: "I have to pay attention to what you say. I haven't heard of such a thing in my compound."

Sister Li said: "Maybe it was done by people in your compound. No one steals in your own compound, and you can't afford to embarrass yourself if you catch it."

Sister Zhang said: "Nowadays there are all sorts of people. If you catch someone like this, you have to parade him through the streets. You have to beat him up."

I've also heard from Lin Yan about this matter. I haven't heard of any woman who lost her panties in the compound of my house. I guess she would be embarrassed to say so even if she did.

Santaizi is quite a mess, but renting a house in Santaizi is cheap, and many migrant workers like me like to rent cheap houses, so Santaizi has also become a gathering place for migrants.Like the compound where I live, most of them are rented houses by migrant workers. There are very few old residents, and those who live there are old men and women. Young people rarely live there.There are many outsiders, and it is inevitable that good and bad people are mixed. There are people who break into the house and rob the road in the middle of the night.

I sent Zhang Li home after get off work, probably because I was riding a bicycle fast, and I didn’t find anyone following me. When Zhang Li’s house was downstairs, I said, “Go upstairs and arrive safely.”

Zhang Li said to me: "Thank you, Master Tan."

I said: "You're welcome, you go up, I'll watch from downstairs, call me at the window after you go up."

Zhang Li said, "Then you wait, I'll go upstairs first."

Zhang Li entered the corridor, and after a while, the lights of the residents on the second floor came on. Zhang Li opened the window and stuck her head out, and waved to me. I waved to her and went home.

In the next few days, I asked Sister Li to open the menu. After she opened it, I checked it and filled in the gaps.Gradually, Ms. Li started to open all the menus. Every time she opened the menu, she also knew to check the vegetable rack and spice rack, check some common items, and open them if she found them missing.When opening the menu, the things that are most likely to be left behind are the onions, ginger, garlic, eggs, rice, flour, starch, sugar and other bulky things that everyone uses. After opening these, the rest is to check the raw stove Mechanism-made charcoal, some commonly used low-value consumables, such as steel wool, detergent, washing powder and the like.To put it bluntly, opening the menu is a careful job, be careful, check it and don't miss it.This work in the restaurant is the responsibility of the boss of the chopping board, and a qualified chopping board boss is the head chef of Ban Laer.

Big Brother still asked me at the beginning, and I always asked him to make up his mind, but gradually he stopped asking me and started to make up his own mind.

In fact, everyone can operate independently. I just made a mistake. I did everything by myself. I am afraid that others can’t do it well. Gradually, such a situation has formed that everything depends on me. If I don’t speak or make decisions, they will I don't know what to do, wait for me there.Now they are asked to decide and do everything by themselves, and they can do it, and they can do it better than before, because they are all operated by themselves, and I am afraid that there will be no mistakes.

This may be to give full play to the subjective initiative of the individual.

In the kitchen, I started to talk less and less, and shifted from pointing fingers to behind-the-scenes guidance, helping them as assistants, joking with them when I was free, adjusting the atmosphere, and relaxing.

When it was time to eat, I came to cook and fry a few dishes. After cooking, I would be their younger brother, helping Sister Li catch the meat. I watched him smoke, and after he finished smoking, he greased the smoked chicken heads, chicken feet, etc., and then brought them to the bar in front to set them up.Taste the old soup every two days, and when you need to add seasoning and replace the medicine package, remind Lao Meng, and Lao Meng will do it.

Sister Zhang's cold noodle soup and sauced beef have always been very good, so I don't have to worry about that.

No matter how powerful a person is, it is impossible to hold up a restaurant. Building a restaurant is a matter of concerted efforts.That is to say, no matter how powerful a person is, he will not be able to drive a few nails even if he is covered in iron. Only when everyone is powerful and can do their own work well alone will that work.This is the same as playing basketball. It is a game played by five people. They fight combined punches instead of simple straight punches or uppercuts.

After sending Zhang Li home for another two days, nothing happened, and no one was found following her.On the fourth day, I got off work and sent Zhang Li home as usual. When I started to turn to the street of the big market, Zhang Li pulled my clothes from behind and whispered, "That's the person."

I stopped my bicycle and looked back, and found a man standing across the road. When he saw me stop and look at him, he started walking towards the neighborhood in front.I told Zhang Li to wait for me for a while, and then started to walk across the road. The man saw me walking towards him and started running into the community. When I saw him running, I started chasing him.As the saying goes, "A good dog can't be chased by a dog that is afraid of it." I chased the man in the community and ran away early.I stood there panting for a while, looked around and saw no one, probably running away, or just lying around somewhere, he can look at me, but I can't look at him.

Light a cigarette, turn around and walk back slowly.

Seeing me come back, Zhang Li still had a nervous look on her face.

I said: "No, I can't run, I didn't catch up, let that kid run away."

Zhang Li said: "If I didn't catch up, I didn't catch up. I ran and fell down."

I said, "I can't do exercise all the time. I can't run, and I get panted after running for a while. I used to be able to run when I was in school, but now I can't."

Zhang Li said: "You are also fat now."

I look at myself, I am indeed a little fat, weighing 170 catties.

Zhang Li looked at me and said, "Let's walk, I'll push the cart to see how tired you are."

I laughed and said, "How can you push it, give it to me." I took the bicycle from her and asked, "Are you scared just now?"

She said: "A little bit, but not too scared, isn't there you."

I said, "You know now, it's wrong for a woman to be beautiful, don't you know?"

She said, "Am I pretty? I'm not pretty."

I said: "If you're not pretty, no one will follow. I haven't heard of anyone picking on Zhu Bajie and his second aunt to follow. I think I haven't seen a ghost."

She smiled and said, "You're really talking."

I said, "I'm used to it. I don't speak well. There's nothing I can do about it. Just listen."

She looked at me and asked, "Master Tan, are you bothering me?"

I said: "Why bother you, you didn't offend me, and I sent you home to bother you, there is nothing to do."

She said: "But I think you seem to be annoying me, and you always ignore me."

I said, "Hey, you're thinking too much, I'm like this, it's the same to everyone, it's not like you didn't see it."

She said, "I didn't see it." Then she said, "It's okay, as long as you don't bother me."

I said, "We're all colleagues, working together, so there's nothing annoying about it, no."

She said: "Yes." Then she patted me and said, "I envy your wife for finding such a good husband."

I laughed and said, "It's not that you are envious, I am a little envious of her. Why did such a good person like me fall into her hands? It's not fair."

She smiled and said, "Why, you still want to find another one to change."

I said, "I dare not, I want to live two more years."

He sent Zhang Li downstairs and watched her wave her hand from the window before returning home.

(End of this chapter)