The story of a cook

Chapter 177 Chatting with Zhang Li

After get off work in the evening, I was about to ride home when Zhang Li stopped me.

I stood there and asked her what was the matter, and she said, "Seeing that you have been a little unhappy these two days, sister will accompany you for a drink today."

I said, "No, I'm quite happy."

Zhang Li said: "Pull it down, I can see it, everyone in the store knows that you are unhappy, and no one dares to talk to you because of their old faces."

I said, "Really? Didn't notice."

In the past two days, no one has talked to me. It may be that I am in a bad mood and no one wants to talk to me. Every night when I open the menu, Sister Li doesn’t look for me. It seems that I really have a bad face and make people daunting.

Zhang Li said: "Let's go, sister will accompany you to have a drink today."

I said, "It's the first time I've heard you say the word sister, and I'm not used to it."

Zhang Li said: "Don't talk about what my sister said, and you won't let me talk about my daughter-in-law."

I smiled and said, "I won't drink today, I'll treat you another day."

Zhang Li said: "No, just today, I have changed shifts with my eldest sister, otherwise I will be on duty today."

I think I have to go with her and ask: "Okay, do you still want to eat skewers?"

Zhang Li said: "It's okay not to eat skewers, but I'm tired of eating them. What do you think you can eat?"

I said, "how about the two of us cooking hot pot today?"

Zhang Li said: "The hot pot in summer is not hot."

I said, "You don't understand this. You can cook hot pot on a hot day, sweat a little, and then cool down."

In the first two days, I had hot pot with Lin Yan, and it felt very refreshing, so I wanted to have another meal.Lin Yan doesn't eat mutton, so she didn't boil mutton that day, so she has to boil some mutton today.In addition, I also figured it out, I am not depressed anymore, and I also have the idea of ​​drinking.

He and Zhang Li went to the restaurant where Lin Yan had hot pot that day, and ordered hot pot.

After taking the first sip of wine, Zhang Li asked me: "What's wrong with you these two days, is there something wrong?"

I said, "It's nothing, nothing."

She said: "If you are fine, you can't do this, and you still slap yourself in the mouth."

I smiled, touched my cheek, and said, "It's really nothing, just scratching and beating my face."

She sighed and said, "If you don't say it, don't say it, and you don't want to tell me. If I were your wife, you would say it."

I said, "That's not necessarily true. You still don't understand me. If something really happened, I wouldn't even tell my daughter-in-law, so she wouldn't be troubled."

She said: "It's better to talk about something than to hold it in your stomach."

I said, "I don't have that habit, so it's fine."

Zhang Li looked at me and said, "You know, when you stood on the stove and slapped yourself on the mouth, I jumped. My heart hurts when you finished beating me. I feel that you are under too much pressure. I really want to help you." You share."

Seeing that she said so silently, she took a sip of wine.

Then said: "Thank you, I'm fine now, I just couldn't figure out something in the past two days, now I figure it out, I'm fine."

She said: "It's fine if there's nothing wrong with you. If you don't want to talk about something, it's useless to ask, and you won't say it."

I said, "You really care about me so much, I'm a little embarrassed."

She said: "I can't help it, look—" As she spoke, she pointed to her chest and said to me: "You are here with me now, and you don't even know when you came in."

I said to change the subject: "Don't tempt me, I didn't see anything, it's just big."

She chuckled and said, "You start to cover up again, you don't need to cover up, what you said that day was right, and I understand it, you don't have to be afraid."

I said: "I'm not afraid at all, you, you have a bright future, you are definitely a strong woman."

She said: "I can't be a strong woman, I just want to be a little woman."

I said, "You're done being a little girl, and you know it's not suitable for you, so just be a strong woman."

She said, "How do you know I'm not suitable."

I said: "Don't believe it, you will know when the time comes, this is fate, do you understand?"

She said, "Just fool me."

I said: "Drink a bar, and have a good time drinking with you."

The boiled mutton is okay, but it is a bit smelly. Looking at the mutton slices caught on the chopsticks, how can I reduce the smell?As the rinsing time lengthened, I found that the mutton was not too mutton, but the mutton oil sandwiched in the mutton slices. I tasted the mutton slices again and found that it was not like mutton. It is estimated that the mutton slices were fake.

Mutton can nourish the liver and eyesight, warm the spleen and kidney, nourish the blood and warm the meridian. It is suitable for children who are weak and always have a cold stomach. At the same time, if a woman is anemic after childbirth, it is good to eat some mutton.People with liver disease and high blood pressure can eat it, and it has a supplementary therapeutic effect.It is good for people to eat some mutton often. It can not only enhance their physical fitness, but also nourish the stomach, protect the liver, and enhance cold resistance.

In addition to shabu-shabu, mutton can be stewed, such as: mutton stewed with radish, mutton nourishes the stomach, radish smoothes the Qi, and lowers the flow of qi, which is effective for general stagnation of qi.Mutton and yam stewed with wolfberry is also a good nourishing dish. After eating yam, it moisturizes the skin and beautifies the skin. It is good for women to eat more.In addition, mutton can be grilled with saury, which is very fresh and delicious.If you eat mutton at home, it is not recommended to eat lamb. Lamb is tender, but after all, it is a lamb that was born in the same year. It has not yet grown up, and some nutrition has not been achieved.I think the delicious mutton is the two-year-old big mutton, which is called "knot" in Inner Mongolia. This kind of mutton tastes delicious and is rich in nutrition.When choosing mutton, the meat is light pink, greasy and waterless to the touch, which is better. If you want to eat mutton, it is best to buy it at a special mutton shop. It is more expensive, at least not adulterated.

Shabu-shabu is quite interesting. In summer, drinking white wine while shabu-shabu is very refreshing.

Zhang Li's drinking capacity is very large, which is comparable to mine. A woman who can drink so much can be regarded as a heroine.

I asked her, "Can you drink all the time?"

She said: "I don't know if I can drink, but I haven't been very drunk. I didn't drink when I was in school, and I started drinking when I was working in Sita. At that time, Jinhua led me to drink. Drinking is actually learned from her."

I said, "All Xian people are good at drinking, regardless of male or female."

She said: "Yes, Jinhua is quite good at drinking, no matter how white the beer is."

I said, "It's also related to the nature of her job. She is a drinking place."

She said: "I worked there for nearly two years. At the beginning, I was okay. As a waiter, I had nothing to do all day. I just delivered wine to the guests, cleaned and cleaned, and didn't meet the guests. Nothing happened. Wait. After becoming a foreman, it’s different. Sometimes I have to meet with customers. There are all kinds of customers who go there. The good ones are okay, but there’s nothing wrong with them. When I get angry, I quit."

I said: "It's right not to do it, you are not suitable to work in such a hotel."

She said: "In fact, it's very good to be a waiter in his family. His family's business is good, and the salary is paid every month. There is never pressure, and the work is not tiring."

I said: "Karaoke halls are generally not tiring."

She said: "His house is not all karaoke bars, they also have Korean food, and Korean food is quite famous in that street."

I said, "Really? I really don't know about this."

She said: "Actually, those karaoke bars in Sita are not what you think. Every family has a lady, but a lady is a lady, and a waiter is a waiter. They are two different things."

I asked: "Then is there any waiter over there who just does it and becomes a lady?"

She said: "There are also, but not many. Most of the waiters still don't want to be ladies. Only a small number see that the girls earn a lot of money and don't have to do any work. They earn money by singing and drinking with the guests. miss."

I said, "Learn from whoever you are."

She said: "Actually, it's not easy to be a lady. It's okay to accompany the guests. If the accompanying guests fuck up, some of them won't be able to get a tip and get beaten."

I said, "It's not easy to do anything."

She said: "When I was working, there was a laid-off eldest sister who was a lady there. Her family was very difficult. Her husband died in a car accident, and her child was still in school. She wanted to live with her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law was still sick, and the whole family relied on She earns a living by herself, and being a young lady can't do anything about it. Jin Hua takes good care of her, and the guests always make arrangements for her first, asking her to earn more money."

I said, "People like this should be taken care of more."

She said: "Yes, Jin Hua always takes care of her." Then she said: "One time the guest she accompanied caught her eye and asked her to come out with her. She never went out with the guest, and the guest thought they didn't give her a tip. I He and Jinhua went up to have a big fight with the guests, and finally asked for a tip."

I gave her a thumbs up and said: "Okay, I admire it!"

She said: "In fact, being a lady is also a human being. No one wants to be a lady from birth. It is because of the difficult life at home that they have to become a lady."

I said: "Yes, there is no one who wants to be a lady."

She took a sip of wine and said, "Since I quit Sita, I went to another hotel to apply for a manager. Don't tell me, there are really hotels that hire me. I thought no hotels would hire me."

I said, "You can do it. You are pretty, with a good image and temperament. At first glance, you are the manager of the lobby."

She smiled and said to me, "If you praise me that much, I'd like to hear it."

I said, "I'm not complimenting you, you're always like this."

She said: "Actually, I'm not pretty. I know that. It's okay to say that I have a temperament, and I also think I have a temperament."

I said, "You are not humble."

She curled her lips at me and said, "Why be modest? Is it useful to be humble? It's just the two of us. If you don't change your modesty, you won't be humble. Why are you still laughing at me?"

I was speechless by what she said.

She said: "I'm okay as a manager, mainly because I dare to manage and I can see the way."

I asked, "Which restaurant did you work as a manager?"

She said, "Lan Tingyuan, I'm working as a manager in Lan Tingyuan."

I have the impression that the Orchid Garden she mentioned is a pretty big hotel.

I asked, "How long have you been working there?"

"Nearly four years," she said.

I said, "It's been a long time."

She said: "What's the matter, you think you are like you, and you will leave after working there for two months, so you might as well not do it."

I said: "Our situation is different. You know that I am a cook. Anyone who is a cook would not want to go to a big place to cook. I am not very old. If I am older, it will be fine. Don't worry about it. At such a young age, I have to do it. Toss and toss."

She said, "At first glance, you are ambitious."

I said, "I don't have ambitions. I just want to see how far I can cook and how far I can be a chef in my life. Otherwise, I won't be reconciled."

She said: "You are not ambitious, you are too ambitious."

I said, "What kind of ambition is this? If I had ambition, I wouldn't be a chef. I would have tried to open a restaurant a long time ago. It would be great to open a restaurant. It's up to me to be my own boss. I can do whatever I want, and no one can control me."

She said, "That's not ambition, that's called business."

I said: "I don't have the brains to do business, and I may not be able to do business in this life, so I can be a cook."

She said: "I think you will develop very well in the future, so I will hang out with you in the future."

I said, "Don't, I don't have the guts, I'll follow you."

I chatted with Zhang Li a lot, and finally took her home after cooking hot pot. She said that she would cook hot pot without eating skewers in the future, and she was probably addicted.

(End of this chapter)