The story of a cook

Chapter 396 Work in Fuxin

I took the child from August to September, and took care of the child for a whole month.

When it was almost October, my mother-in-law called and said that Zhihao and his wife were worried about BJ's business, and returned to BJ in September. The child was left at home and asked Aunt Lin Yan to take care of her, and she would pay 1000 yuan a month.Aunt Lin Yan stopped watching the child for half a month, saying that she couldn't control it, so she sent it to her mother-in-law's house.First of all, it was the busy season of autumn harvest, and the mother-in-law had to raise pigs while harvesting the crops. She couldn't take care of the children by herself, so she wanted to ask Lin Yan to go back to her mother's house to take care of the children.

I couldn't help admiring Zhihao's couple, the child was willing to leave it at home two months after it was born, and went back to BJ to do business.When can't the money be earned, do you have to be so anxious?
Lin Yan wanted to go back to her mother's house to help her mother-in-law look after the children, so she asked me to take care of it.I said as long as my son is not hungry, I don't care about the rest.I can imagine what it's like when my mother-in-law is at home now, and I'm so busy hitting the back of my head.If I don't ask Lin Yan to go back, she has to go back. Even a girl feels sorry for her mother. She can't watch her mother suffer.She went back to help with the children, and the mother-in-law was free to harvest autumn and raise pigs.

In this way, Lin Yan took the child back to her mother-in-law's house.

My body has almost recovered and I can work.If you can work, you have to find a job to work and support your family.

Most of the jobs introduced by friends are from other places.There are also those in the provincial capital, but they were not very ideal after looking at them in the past.There are two ways to work in other places, one is in Fushun, the other is in Fuxin, and I finally decided to go to Fuxin.

The reason for going to Fuxin was that Yaru was in Fuxin. I didn't want to meet her when I went to work there, but I just felt that Fuxin was more friendly.

The hotel in Fuxin is called "Fire Phoenix" Hotel, which is a very good hotel in FX City.Fuxin, like Beipiao, is a place where media is produced. In the past two years, the underground media has almost been dug, and the economy is not good.The restaurant needed two chefs, just in time for Zhao Gang and Zhang Jun to come down, Zhang Jun and a master went to BJ to develop, and I took Zhao Gang to Fuxin.

Fuxin is an area, adjacent to Beipiao, and larger than Beipiao.Fuxin developed very well in the first few years. The Northeast Xiaofengman Hydropower Station is located in Fuxin, and it is also well-known.Affected by the general climate in the past few years, everything is not good, and layoffs have become a common occurrence, and it is normal for Fuxin's economy to be bad.

Fuxin is not far from my hometown, and the border of Fuxin is just across the Yakniu River from my home.I remember that when I was studying, I listened to the weather forecast on the radio, which was broadcast by Fuxin Station, which was more accurate than our Beipiao.When my grandfather was alive, he was the head of the twelve kilns of Qinghemen in Fuxin, and he was also very prestigious for a while.I am a little familiar with Qinghemen, having delivered sleepers to a small private coal mine there, and secondly familiar with Dongfuxin, which is FXMGZ Autonomous County. This is my first visit to FX City, and I used to pass by by train.

FX City is [-] kilometers away from Dongfuxin and [-] kilometers away from Qinghe Gate. In the past, it was a battleground for military strategists and a transportation hub in the Northeast.Although FX City is a third-tier city, there are quite a lot of rich people, all of whom have made money in the first two years.There are only four Humvees in the provincial capital, but there are twelve in Fuxin. Thinking about it, you can tell whether the people in Fuxin are rich or not.Of course, this is only a small number of people. Compared with the provincial capital, the real rich people are still incomparable. These rich people in Fuxin can only be called nouveau riche and small local tyrants.

The business of the Fire Phoenix Hotel is booming. In the past, two chefs came from the provincial capital, and they were too tired to work for a month.After Zhao Gang and I came here just in time for the National Day on October [-]st, we were so busy that we decided to go back and quit, and survived for the sake of Qian.

The overall area of ​​the hotel is more than [-] square meters, with a second floor and a kitchen in the basement.

There are five cooks in the entire kitchen, five chopping boards, four lottery tables, one for cooking, two for pastry, and two washing dishes.The cold dish operation room is open on the second floor, and two chefs are in charge.

The boss is a man in his 30s with a lot of brains. He used to work as a chef in the provincial capital, and later returned to Fuxin to open a small restaurant. After earning money, he invested in this hotel.The hotel opened a year and a half ago. It was very popular when it opened, and the owner made a lot of money.It is said that men learn to be bad when they have money, which is true.After the boss made money, he divorced his ex-wife and got together with the hotel manager at the time.The hotel manager is also a ruthless person. In May of this year, he took away all the money earned by the hotel and has since disappeared.

The boss was beaten back to his original shape at once, and started to start all over again.

It's time and life.

The amount of wealth a person possesses is matched by his own virtue. No such great virtue cannot carry such a great wealth. Even if the wealth comes, it will be lost, because the wealth is not yours.

Therefore, it is said that virtue carries things.

Fuxin's catering industry is not as developed as the provincial capital and Binhai. After all, it is a third-tier city and has not yet reached that level. Compared with the provincial capital, there is a three-year gap.The dishes do not pay attention to the shape, as long as the quantity is large, affordable and delicious, at the same time, there are more meat dishes and less green vegetables, and the seafood is some freshwater fish, and sea fish is rarely eaten.In the provincial capital, pork knuckles and braised meat are rarely ordered by customers. Only at wedding banquets, knuckles and pork knuckles are still the main dishes in Fuxin, and pig heads are also very popular among customers.The boss said that Fuxin is now at the level of the provincial capital in the first three or four years. The amount of food must be large, and more meat and vegetables are eaten by the common people. A few vegetables are enough, but no broccoli, snow peas, or celery If customers don’t order these southern green vegetables, if they want to serve them, they will serve dishes made of eggplant, potatoes, peppers, and Chinese cabbage that our local people love to eat.

Zhao Gang and I are in charge of making Northeast dishes, next to us is the stew chef, next to the stew chef is the Sichuan cuisine chef, who is from Sichuan, and then the head chef of the fried seafood.The head chef is a local who worked in Binhai before, and started cooking Binhai seafood after returning to Fuxin.Looking at the seafood products he made, it is estimated that he has not worked in Binhai for a long time. Like me, I just saw Binhai seafood and watched how other Binhai chefs operate it, but I have never actually done it.After returning to Fuxin, he said that he had worked in Binhai and became a seafood chef.I tasted the seafood dishes he made, which was quite a bit different from that of Master Binhai.We come here to make money by cooking, so it’s fine to cook our own dishes well, and it doesn’t matter to us whether other people’s dishes are good or bad, as long as the guests approve.Maybe the customers are used to this kind of seafood, and they still don't accept the pure Binhai seafood.Take my four dishes in Binhai as an example. They sold well when I was there. After I left, Da Liu wanted to continue to sell them. I handed over those four dishes to Master Wen. Master Wen couldn’t make them. My taste was not accepted by the guests, and the four dishes that came and went were also cancelled.

Master Shangza is a local, his surname is Chen, and his name is Chen Gang.This guy is nice, he looks very simple and honest, he and the boss have been friends for many years, and they worked together in the kitchen together.Later, the boss opened a restaurant and became the boss, and he continued to work in the kitchen as a handyman.The boss treats him very well. Although he is not the head chef, he has higher prestige in the kitchen than the head chef and earns a higher salary than the head chef. If there is any problem in the kitchen that the chef can't solve, he will go to him to solve it.Although he is better than the head chef in the kitchen, he is very low-key, cheerful all day long, and he can be with anyone, and the younger brothers are willing to be with him.

Zhao Gang and I cook in the kitchen every day. After cooking, we go back to the dormitory to sleep. We don’t have any spare time activities. We hardly go to the front desk and rarely talk.Our idea is to earn a few months of money to go back to the provincial capital for the New Year, and we have no plans to develop in Fuxin.Now Zhao Gang has a partner in his hometown, and he has to go home to celebrate the New Year.Our family of three also had to go home for the New Year.

It was late autumn when I worked in Fuxin for the second month, and the weather was cold.

After working for a month, I have become familiar with the people in the kitchen and the production of restaurant dishes. I am no longer as handy as when I first came here, and I have also adapted to the whole environment.

We live in a three-bedroom apartment not far from the hotel.Few people live in the dormitories, and the restaurant workers are all locals, and their homes are so close that even if they live in the suburbs, they can ride a bicycle for half an hour to get home.In the kitchen, only Zhao Gang and I live in the dormitory, and the rest of the waiters at the front desk live in the dormitory.I share a room with Zhao Gang, and the conditions are not bad.

The chopping board that served me the dishes was a middle-aged man in his 30s. His surname was Guo. Everyone called him Lao Guo.The late marriage may have something to do with his appearance, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and a wretched look.He doesn't look like a nice guy, but he's actually a nice guy with a warm heart.You can think of me when you see him, he and I belong to good people who are put off by looks, but he looks like a hooligan and I look like a bandit.

There are two women in the noodle shop, a master and a younger brother. The master is older, 33 or 24, and the younger brother is a woman of [-] or [-], who has just been married for a short time.The boss's cousin-in-law works at the restaurant and helps out with the pastry every day. He has a good relationship with the older pastry chef. It should be Tie Zi.The boss knew about this, so he didn't say anything. It seemed that the relationship with his cousin was not very good. If it was good, he would have said it long ago, and he could still watch his cousin's husband looking for iron under his nose.

The owner's cousin's wife looks very kind, with a medium build, and she doesn't talk much all day long.I live in a hotel at night, help with odd jobs during the day, and seldom go home, and my relationship with my wife is not very good.When I first arrived at the hotel, I was not very familiar with it. Every day when I met at get off work, I just smiled and nodded and called my brother-in-law.After a long time, he knew that I love drinking, so he would save up the wine left by the guests and bring it to me, telling me that it was all good wine, so he threw it away blindly.

I seldom go to the front desk. I don’t even know the waiters at the front desk after working for a month. I just know that there is a lobby manager in front of me, a woman, surnamed Jiang, in her 30s, not tall. She looks like Zheng Jiaqi, but Zheng Jiaqi is taller than her. , and prettier than her.Although she is not very beautiful, she can dress up very well, and her style is a bit like Miss Zhang of Santaizi.If you don't look at the appearance and look at the dress, it is very tempting. A man's self-control is almost easy to fall.

Shangza Chen Gang said that Manager Jiang is an old man in the catering industry in Fuxin. He has worked in several hotels, and many guests are familiar with him.Now that I am a little bit older, there are not so many guests. When I was young, there were many guests, and whoever I went to could win the fire, and I was also a hot person.

This is mainly due to the fact that FX City is not a big place, and everyone who does catering knows each other. Whoever knows more people can attract the main road. When the main road comes, business will naturally follow.

There is a reason why Manager Jiang is able to thrive in Fuxin's catering industry.Her elder sister's husband is the leader of the Mining Bureau. Fuxin is a place where coal is produced. It is easier to be a leader in the Mining Bureau than in the city. He has contacts and resources, and it is easy to do something.Her uncle is the leader of the traffic police team. If there is anything wrong with the traffic, she will be able to deal with it, so many people give her face. Many people go to that hotel to eat and spend in whichever hotel she works.

A big place has the development of a big place, and a small place has the advantages of a small place, and each has its own way of survival.

The boss is hardly in the store, and sometimes he doesn't see anyone for three or four days.If he comes, he doesn't say much, he goes to the kitchen to look around and then leaves.Chen Gang told me that the boss doesn't like to talk, and he used to say a few words, but since the previous manager took the money and left, he didn't say much.I am still looking for that woman, trying to get back the money I took away.If he can't see the boss for a week, then he must have received some news that the woman appeared somewhere, and he went to find the woman.Just never found it.

The hotel business is very stable, with a turnover of 5000 yuan a day.This kind of business does not make much money in the provincial capital, but it is very profitable in Fuxin.The rent here is cheap, the price of raw materials is also cheaper than that of the provincial capital, and the labor cost is not high. The salary of Zhao Gang and I in the kitchen is considered high, and the salary of the rest of the people is not too high.In this way, the hotel will have to settle accounts, and the boss will have to make a net income of 120 yuan every month.[-] a month, [-] million a year, okay, rich man.

The boss came to the hotel to find me and Zhao Gang, and asked us to serve some of our own dishes.I brought out the four dishes in Binhai, and Zhao Gang made four home-cooked dishes.Our two dishes were not very good at the beginning after they went up, and it started to get better after a week. The sales volume of each dish is about [-] copies per day, which is enough for the two of us to make our own dishes.

During this period, the old man Binhai called me to ask if I was in good health, and told him that I was in good health.He asked me if I was at work, and told him I was working in Fuxin.The old man asked why he didn't do it with him?Tell him that frozen shoulder is good, it needs to be taken care of, and the weather in Binhai is too humid, I'm afraid it will happen again there.The old man said yes, and went to him when he was fully recovered.He asked me to help find a cook, and it happened that Brother Chen Gang was not working, so he introduced Brother Chen Gang to the old man.

Binhai is very good, but I still have lingering fears about Binhai. I have just cured my frozen shoulder, so what if I still go there again?Spending money on medical treatment is a trivial matter, and the crime is hard to bear.

There is a Hongfu dumpling restaurant next to the hotel. The restaurant is not big, but the business is very good.The restaurants in Fuxin have a characteristic that they stop accepting guests at 08:30 in the evening, no matter whether they are large or small restaurants, they do not accept guests.When I asked, the chef got off work at [-]:[-], but why would he receive guests if no one cooks after the chef gets off work?This is also the case when you think about it.

Huofenghuang kitchen eats working meals at 08:30, and leaves work after eating working meals.Sometimes I want to go out and find a small restaurant for a drink, but I can't find it. Fortunately, Hongfu Dumpling Restaurant opened, so I always go to his house to have a drink.His dumplings are homemade stuffed dumplings, and the way of making them is also the same as homemade dumplings, which is very affordable.I like to eat dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut from his family. Zhao Gang and I are enough for one catty each time.The braised dried tofu in his house is delicious. The dried tofu is very thick, as thick as three sheets of dried tofu in the provincial capital. The braised sauce tastes very good.A pound of sauerkraut stuffed dumplings and a plate of braised dry tofu. I drink and Zhao Gang doesn't drink, and we eat very well.

Vegetables in Fuxin are cheap, 40 yuan for a catty of dumplings, and 28 yuan for a plate of braised dried tofu. If it is in the provincial capital, it would cost more than [-] yuan, but here it is [-] yuan.

Not only is the price of vegetables cheap, but the prices of goods are also cheap, and the house prices are not high.Take the dormitory we live in as an example, three bedrooms and two living rooms, 2000 yuan per square meter, which would cost 600 yuan if we were in the provincial capital.The dormitory is rented, and the monthly rent is only 20 yuan, which is too cheap.The area of ​​the hotel is [-] square meters. It belongs to the retail market. The location is good. The annual rent is only [-] yuan, which is simply free.

Living in a small city is also quite good, with low levels of consumption and less pressure.Zhao Gang said that it would be good if he worked in Fuxin, the consumption is low, and he can buy a house after working for a few years.Or work in the provincial capital, live in Fuxin, earn money from the provincial capital and go back to Fuxin for consumption.Tell him that it is best to talk about a daughter-in-law in Fuxin. If the daughter-in-law is not from Fuxin, it is not good to settle down in Fuxin.

When it comes to looking for a wife in Fuxin, I think of Yaru. If I and Yaru were married, I would probably work in Fuxin and live in Fuxin. Maybe our children will grow up.

Everything is fate, Yaru and I have no fate, there is a relationship in life where we met, knew each other and fell in love, but there was no marriage to become husband and wife.

(End of this chapter)