The story of a cook

Chapter 268 Eating Hot Pot with Zheng Jiaqi

I can be regarded as quick-witted, and easily resolved Zheng Jiaqi's embarrassing situation.This is better than wasting words with those three men, if it doesn't work out, you have to do it.Although I am not afraid of fighting, it is not good. Every time I fight, I am injured.

Riding a bicycle to the main street, I asked Zheng Jiaqi, "Where is your home?"

"It's not far from here, behind the Political Association Hall, where I live," she said.

"My home is in Santaizi, so I happened to drop by and take you home."

"Thank you!" She said, "Those three men don't look like good people at first glance, they just want to flirt."

I said, "Just call the police, the police will be honest when they come."

She said, "Why should I report such a trivial matter to the police? Besides, if I call the police, they will still have to snatch the phone from me."

I said, "It's also possible, then you can say they robbed."

"The phone has been snatched and the police can't call the police." She went on to say, "Where did you turn the car to, and what you said made me startled, didn't I react quickly?"

"Well, pretty fast." I nodded.

"What you said at the time, coupled with your expression, they really thought you were my husband." She said.

"Really, it means that my acting skills are not bad."

"Giggle" she laughed, "I'm completely confused, I guess those three men really thought you were my husband and came to pick me up, so they were also fooled."

I didn't say anything, just rode forward, went to the community behind the Political Association Hall, dropped her off at home, and went straight home.

After the rescue of Zheng Jiaqi, the relationship between her and me took a step closer. She started to talk to me and discuss with me what happened at the front desk.But she was hired by Boss Cao's wife, so we should keep as little contact with her as possible to avoid unnecessary trouble.

She told me that she wanted to invite me to dinner, but she declined politely. She didn't want to have too much to do with her, and she was not in the mood.

Boss Cao's daughter-in-law always comes over, but she doesn't go to the kitchen when she comes, she just stays in front.

Boss Cao left when she came, playing chess with the old men in the community outside, sometimes leaving the restaurant for a day without seeing each other.

Boss Cao’s wife didn’t mention the dumplings or the dishes. She just stayed in the front and participated in the reception when the guests came. Sometimes she would serve the guests, pour tea, and chat with familiar guests. .Most of the time, I help the cashier at the bar.The bar counter said that many customers were very angry when they checked out, because the bar counter had the right to wipe out the change for the guests before the boss’s daughter-in-law did not participate in the cash register. , but too many odds and ends dare not wipe, the bar does not have that right.At the end of the day, sometimes more than 430 yuan will be wiped out.Only the boss and the manager have the right to give discounts to guests, not the bar. If the bill is waived, only the boss has the right.

The discount and zero change cost an average of 200 yuan per day.

Boss Cao’s daughter-in-law hardly allowed change at the bar, sometimes not even a dollar change, which made the guests very angry, and some customers just stopped coming.

This is very hurtful.The guests came and ate very well, the service was also very good, and everything went well, but when they finally gave the money, they made them angry, and all the previous efforts were in vain.If you can't do it, you just can't do business.Money is not earned in this way. We can earn 50 yuan for a table of guests. If we work hard and can earn 55 yuan, then we will earn 45 yuan and give up [-] yuan of profit. This is business. way.

Doing business is the same as being a human being. The road should be wider and wider, not narrower and narrower.

Zheng Jiaqi didn't accept what Boss Cao's daughter-in-law did, but after all, she was a relative and still worked for others, so it was hard to say anything.Zheng Jiaqi asked the boss's daughter-in-law about discounts for guests, and she was not very happy, which made Zheng Jiaqi a little embarrassed.

It's better that I can't get in touch with Boss Cao's wife when I work in the back. Zheng Jiaqi is different. As long as Boss Cao's wife comes, she will stay at the front desk. Zheng Jiaqi has to face it every day. She is more troublesome than me.

At first she drank some wine with the guests, but later she stopped drinking with the guests—a bottle of beer was also paid for.

One day at the end of October, when I was not too busy, Zheng Jiaqi came to me and said, "Brother Tan, it's too troublesome, let's have a drink tonight, I invite you."

I wanted to refuse, but I thought about rejecting him several times, and I felt a little bit sorry for not going, so I said, "Okay, where are we going to drink?"

"There is a Sichuan hot pot restaurant in my house. I heard it is very good. It is open until midnight every day. Let's go there." She said.

"Okay, let's go after get off work."

I came to that hot pot restaurant after get off work, the business was really good, and there were many customers.What attracts me is that the overall decoration of his house is very good, very stylish, it looks simple, but once you enter, you can feel the cultural atmosphere of Sichuan.Sichuan Opera masks are hung on the wall, and each dining area is decorated with Sichuan-style wooden enclosures, and the service staff's costumes are also unique to Sichuan, and the large teapot in the waiting room is very atmospheric.

All kinds of hot pot seasonings are placed in front of the dining area, all free of charge, which was not available in other hot pot restaurants at that time.This is convenient for the guests and makes them very satisfied. The free ones are attractive.

I ordered a spicy pot with Zheng Jiaqi.Women can eat spicy food in hot pot restaurants better than men.

She can drink very well, but she doesn't drink liquor, only beer.She ordered beer and I ordered liquor.The hot pot was served, and the sliced ​​meat and green vegetables ordered came up one after another, and they began to add meat and green vegetables to the hot pot, chatting while brushing.

Zheng Jiaqi said: "Brother Tan, I've wanted to drink with you for a long time, but you have always been disrespectful and always looked down on me."

I said, "How can it be? The daughter-in-law is very strict. She has to go home on time and on time. When she gets home late, she kneels on the washboard."

"It's better not to lie. Who doesn't know that your daughter-in-law doesn't care about you at all. You just don't want to drink with me. You think I'm a relative of the boss's wife and draw a clear line with me." She didn't believe me at all.

"Hehe, it's kind of mean, I don't get along with the proprietress." I said directly.

"Actually, you're overthinking it. I'm somewhat related to the boss's wife, but we all work for other people. We use other people's money and money to help others eliminate disasters." She said, "She is the boss here, not here. Fucking her is nothing, in the end we spent a long time together, am I right?"

She was right, that's how it is for part-time workers. If you do it for you, you are the boss, and if you don't do it for you, you are nothing.

"Yes, you're right." I agreed.

Clinked glasses with her, she drank it, and I took a sip.

She is one year older than me, maybe because she sees that I am getting old, she keeps calling me brother Tan, just call me, it's just a title.

"Brother Tan, I heard that you are quite good at drinking."

"It's okay, I can have a drink."

"Then let's have a good drink today, you drink a glass of white, I drink a bottle of beer, how about it?"

She is quite calculating.

I said, "Whatever you want, drink as much as you can, don't fight for alcohol, drink it well."

She said: "Now I'm making a fuss, the proprietress doesn't know how to manage the restaurant, and she's always pointing fingers. I think the restaurant will die in her hands sooner or later."

"That's their business. We will give any advice we can, and it's their business whether they listen or not." I said, "Let's drink. It's better not to talk about the restaurant. Don't worry about it."

"I'm talking in vain, worrying about nothing, the emperor is not in a hurry for eunuchs, but he just can't hold back his mouth."

She seemed to be a straight-talking person.

I laughed, the situation in the restaurant is like this now, Boss Cao doesn't care too much, probably because he doesn't want to get angry with his wife.

"I come out to eat to have fun, and I don't chat about restaurant matters when I'm at work. I don't talk about work when I'm drinking, and I don't drink when I'm working, right?" I said.

"Yes, drinking is not about work, come, drink."

The hot pot is spicy and delicious.

She got a little hot from eating, so she took off her coat and put on the little shirt inside.

It was better if she didn't take it off, and this one almost became the focus of the man eating hot pot in the restaurant.The pretty face, the proud figure, and the turbulent waves in front of him undoubtedly catch people's attention and make people's imagination run wild.

She didn't care, she was still herself.But the men couldn't take it anymore, their eyes aimed at her intentionally or unintentionally, matching the expressions on their faces, they had the desire to eat people immediately.

Noticing the perverted eyes of the men around you, tell her: "You have successfully attracted most of the men."

She glanced around, and many men immediately withdrew their lewd gazes, and then sat upright, looking like a gentleman, as if they had just slipped away accidentally before.

She withdrew her inspection gaze, like a queen.

"Look, watch out for the eye of a needle."

I said, "You're poisonous, you'll get a needle's eye at a glance, and it's too lethal."

"I can't help it, I'm used to it, and I don't want it to be so big, even if it grows so big, I can't help it, I can't cut it off." After speaking, she glanced at her chest.

I said: "This is the capital of your women. Some women want to grow up, but they can't grow up. Otherwise, there would be no breast augmentation."

She said, "I don't think you look like those men."

"I'm immune to beautiful women." I said

"In vernacular, I guarantee that your daughter-in-law is prettier than me, so you look at me like an ordinary person, right?" she asked.

"My daughter-in-law is not as beautiful as you. The main reason is that I can't just marry a beautiful one. One is that I can't afford it, and the other country doesn't allow it, right?" I said, "So I know Don’t think about the impossible, just appreciate it.”

She looked at me and asked, "Seriously, what does your wife look like? Isn't she beautiful?"

I said, "It's not pretty, it's just a street person, it doesn't look like a mountain, it doesn't leak water, and it's okay to live."

She said: "It's enough to live a life. Women don't need to be beautiful, and they don't need to be eaten."

"That's right, when the time comes, I still want to find a beautiful one, just like you girls. They say that they don't pick men's looks. When the time comes, I don't want anyone to give Zhu Bajie. You also like handsome guys, who are handsome." I went on to say: "No one wants someone like me. We know what we are, so we don't have those extravagant thoughts. It's better to be an honest person than anything else."

"You don't look like that. What a man, I like you like this. You feel safe and reliable."

"Really, being praised by a beautiful woman, I feel so excited, drink one."

I drank a lot of wine with Zheng Jiaqi, and when I sent her home, the aisle was a little shaken, but fortunately, I still knew where the door was and could find it.

When the wine was about the same, she said the reason for her divorce. The reason was very simple. She had been married for three years and had not conceived. Both of them went to the hospital for an examination. Just divorced.

(End of this chapter)