The story of a cook

Chapter 219 The Age of a Woman

The hot pot restaurant is very close to my house. The hot pot restaurant is on the street market of my house. Turn right and the first one is .
There was a telephone booth at the end of the market, and from a distance I saw Zhang Li standing there in a white down jacket, looking at me.

I smiled and waved to her and came closer.

Zhang Li asked sullenly, "Didn't you say you arrived first?"

I said, "I made a call just now, and it will take a few minutes."

She said, "Which little girl did you call again?"

I laughed and said, "I have to call the little girl? You can't call the guy."

She asked, "Can you still call the guy?"

I said, "I still called you, you are not a little girl."

She said, "I don't count, I'm not a little girl."

I said: "Who knows, I don't know if it's true, those who don't get married are all little girls."

She laughed, slapped me, and said, "I'll let you know today, to see if I'm a little girl."

I said, "Then you have to pay attention, you have to drink so much wine that I'm drunk before you can do bad things, it's not easy."

To be honest, I was a little stressed when I was with Zhang Li at the beginning, and I was afraid of her enthusiasm, because after all, I am a person with a partner, and if I have a partner, I should not have any contact with women who are not the target, that is not good.With the continuous contact with her, the pressure gradually disappeared, and we became out-and-out drinking buddies.

The hot pot restaurant does a good business in winter. The small shop has a total of eight tables, and there are already five tables of guests.

For those who work in restaurants, if you want to open a restaurant, don’t open too big a restaurant. A small shop like this is fine. A husband and wife shop, it’s a little harder for two people, but it’s very profitable, which is better than working for others.Thinking about it now, it would have been nice to have thought about it back then.At that time, I was stupid and knew that I would go out to work for others. I had no idea of ​​starting my own business at all, and I missed many opportunities.

Sit down at an empty table and start lighting the hot pot.

After ordering the hot pot, Zhang Li said, "A friend will come over in a while."

"Who? Do I know you? If you don't know me, I'll leave without disturbing you." I said.

Zhang Li said: "You know me, and I won't call you if I don't know you. Jin Hua, don't you know me? You even had a drink together. Didn't you and her sister work together before? Her sister still wants you to be a Where is my brother-in-law?"

I said, "Oh, her, what time did it happen."

"When did it happen?" She looked at me seriously and said, "Why, are you still thinking about it?"

I said: "I don't have any, what do you worry about the impossible?" Then I asked: "Is she not going to work today?"

Zhang Li said: "She went to work at five o'clock in the evening, and she came to see me when she knew I wasn't going to work. Maybe she wanted me to go to work with her."

I asked, "Aren't you unwilling to do there?"

Zhang Li said: "Yes, I'm annoying those customers who touch their hands. Jinhua said that it's not like that now, and when she goes back, she won't be a foreman, but a manager, just to help her take care of it. Her house has also renovated the third floor to expand business. , need a manager."

I said, "If that's okay, you can go back. It just so happens that you have worked there and are familiar with the business. Jinhua and you are two good sisters. They work together and communicate well, which is very good."

Zhang Li said: "I think the same way. If you can't do it, go to work, and you can't stay at home all the time. You don't support me."

I said, "I'm going to die in this life. I'll make an appointment in advance in my next life to support you."

Zhang Li said: "It's good for you. You have sent me to the next life all at once. It's not sure whether I can take care of the next life in the next life."

I said, "You'd better give birth to a little chubby pig. I'll do it. In my next life, I'll be a pig breeder."

After Zhang Li listened, she called with chopsticks.

After the hot pot and the ordered meat rolls, green vegetables, and meatballs were served, Jin Hua also entered the store. Seeing that Zhang Li and I were waiting for her, she said, "I'm sorry to ask you two to wait. It's not easy to take a taxi in cold weather." .”

Zhang Li said: "I didn't wait too long, you came just in time, and the food just arrived."

I said, "Actually, Zhang Li is inviting you today, and I'm an excuse."

Jin Hua sat down and said: "Don't say that, I called her in the morning and she said she was treating me to instant noodles at home. I don't know where I heard that you came back from my hometown, so I changed my name to eating hot pot. If it's just me Lend your light."

I looked at Zhang Li and asked, "Really? I'm so proud of myself?"

Zhang Li said: "You are so embarrassing now, I dare not go out to eat hot pot when you are not at home, for fear that you will scold me when you come back."

I said, "It's too direct, as if we are really a couple."

Zhang Li said: "It's a couple, why don't you admit it, see what else you think when my sister comes over."

I smiled awkwardly and said, "I won't talk to you anymore, let's have a drink."

Both of them are women who can drink, and they are also the group who get excited after drinking.I found that women don't drink anymore, and once they drink, they can drink more than men.Most of the women I know can drink, maybe because they work in restaurants, even those who can't drink can drink two or three bottles of beer.

Zhang Li asked me: "Where are you going to do this time?"

I said, "Go to the Vesley Hotel."

Zhang Li asked, "Is that the one at the west gate of Beiling?"

I said, "Yes, that's it."

Zhang Li said, "I don't think you can work there for long."

I was a little puzzled and asked, "Why don't you work long there?"

Zhang Li said: "Haizhongquan and Bashu restaurants at the main gate of Beiling have been demolished, and a small restaurant in the east gate has also been demolished, and the club you worked for is also demolished now. Think about it, those few restaurants in Ximen Are there any restaurants left?"

This time, the municipal government is making great efforts to rectify temporary buildings and illegally built houses. It seems that the sky is about to change.

I said, "Really, the commotion is so big this time? It's all demolished, even the club?"

Zhang Li said: "This time the municipal government demolished the illegal buildings because of the club you worked in. If you don't demolish it, who will be demolished? Now all the illegal buildings at the main entrance and the east gate have been demolished. What's wrong with the west gate? The west gate also has to be demolished." " Then said: "Look at Weishili, and the small restaurant next to it, they are all built against the west wall of Beiling Park. They are all illegal constructions and have to be demolished. If it was not demolished a year ago, it will be demolished in the next year.”

I thought about the same thing, and said: "My life is hard enough, why do I come across such restaurants."

Zhang Li said: "It's not that you have a hard life. There are many people who have a hard life this year. Many restaurants are demolished as long as they are illegal. Some waiters and chefs are laid off to find work, and you are not alone."

It was the same when I thought about it, and I said: "It doesn't matter what it is, a few days is a few days if you can work for a few days. If you can work until the Chinese New Year, that's the best. After the Chinese New Year, you can look for a new job when you are demolished. It will be easier to find a job after the New Year."

Zhang Li said: "It's easy to find your job. Anyone who knows you can contact you. You are good at cooking, and you are dedicated. The boss loves you. Especially you-"

I asked: "What else?"

Zhang Li said: "There is still mercy everywhere."

I saw that she smiled speechlessly, and Jin Hua also smiled.

I said, "I believe what you say about me. It's a little unreasonable to say that I'm merciful." I raised my wine glass and said to her, "Sister Zhang, it seems that I didn't drink well with you. Let's drink one. Liu De, don't say that in the future."

"cut!"

Clink glasses with me and take a sip.

After drinking, Zhang Li said: "Where you go to work in the future, don't perform so well. Work honestly, and no one will pay attention to you."

I said, "Okay, I'll listen to you. From now on, I'll pretend to be a fool wherever I go. I don't know what to ask, and I just work."

It happened that Jin Hua came and asked about her sister's situation. Last time, she said that she had time to visit her sister, but she never went there.

I asked Jinhua, "Where is your sister now? Is she still in Taipingzhuang?"

Jin Hua said, "Well, my sister is still working there."

I said, "That's okay, it took a long time."

Jinhua said: "I guess I will work until the end of the year. After the new year, my sister will stop working. She plans to open a small cold noodle shop and do it herself."

I said, "Okay, do it yourself, your sister can still suffer."

Jin Hua said: "My sister is now a man, and she treats my sister very well. That man takes money, if my sister has money to do it."

"How is that guy?" I asked.

Jinhua said: "It's okay, I just met once, she is older than my sister, and she is also from our Xian ethnic group, the daughter-in-law passed away in the first two years, and she has no children, so she is alone, quite honest, my sister said yes She's pretty good, and she's fine with my sister's children."

I said, "Just be nice to your sister and the child."

Jin Hua said: "Yes, if you treat my sister well and treat the child badly, it's okay, my sister can't be with him either."

Zhang Li asked Jin Hua, "How old is your sister?"

Jin Hua said, "38."

Zhang Li asked: "Then how old are you?"

"You said how old I am, why would you ask such a question." Jin Hua pretended to be a little angry, and said, "Tell you, Miss Ben is thirty-one this year."

Zhang Li said in disbelief: "You are already 31, I thought you hadn't arrived yet."

Jin Hua said: "It's as if I haven't arrived, as if you haven't arrived. You don't know that we are the same age, so you still ask me."

Zhang Li said exaggeratedly: "Oh! It's too scary. I'm already 31. How did you live? How did you become 31 before you passed?"

I said, "Both of you don't look like 31, you only look like 25 or [-], and you don't look as old as me."

Zhang Li looked at me and said, "You promise to hide your age, you look like thirty."

I said, "Yes, I'm thirty."

It is useless to argue with a woman on age, no matter what you say, she will feel that she is young.

People can't always be young, one day they will grow up, they will grow old, and they will leave this world.This is an inevitable law of the development of human society. At the same time, birth, old age, sickness and death are also natural phenomena of human beings, and no one can change them.What people can change is the width of the distance from birth to death and the quality of life. To live well and understand this time in this world is victory, and it is not in vain to come to this world once.

The vicissitudes of the world are ups and downs, how many people are calm?

Three cups of turbid wine in the world of mortals, how many laughs to watch the situation?

Don't be greedy, don't be foolish, don't hate, it's plain, there is a little truth.

(End of this chapter)