The story of a cook

Chapter 477 Drinking with Manager Chen
I said to Manager Chen: "Sister Chen, I didn't think so much about coming to Binhai. I just wanted to find a stable job and cook well. Have you ever been the head chef? I have. I am Linjiangxuan Dumpling Restaurant in the provincial capital. I am the head chef of the first branch of Laohanshanzhuang's national chain store. I introduced the first chef of Northeast cuisine in our old store, and Lao Chen was also introduced by me. It has a close relationship with our family. Before I have been working in our family for a month, and I am familiar with our family. I know why Lao Chen didn’t do it this time. I don’t tell everyone. It stands to reason that it should be Master Du who takes over as the chief chef. It’s not my turn. Because I also know why I should be the head chef. Since I am the head chef, I should work hard. I can do everything. It is safe to be a chef, but now I can’t be a chef. I have to be the head chef, which is fine.”

Speaking of this, I looked at her and said seriously: "Sister Chen, now we are starting to form a team. Everyone recognizes your ability. I admire you very much. Let's work together once and make the old store a reality. Aim for more than coarse grains.”

"Actually, Lao Tan, I am willing to cooperate with you. You are the person who does things." She said.

I smiled, lit a cigarette habitually, and said: "I admit that I am a person who does things. I like to do work. When I come out, I do work. I earn some money to support my family. If I don't do work, who will pay me?" Yeah, it's not my sister."

"You are quite affordable." She smiled.

"That's the way it is. If you don't give money, no one will do it. There is no such thing as a free order." I said: "Since the boss has given money, we have to do it. As for how much to give, it is up to me, not the boss's decision." Forget it. How much ability you have and how much profit you make. One day it will become the negative equity of the company, and you will be swept away like ordinary employees. This society is so realistic, let alone any credit, credit is remembered , not to talk about it. I just recognize one thing, if I can make a profit today, I have value, and if I can’t make a profit today, I have no value.”

"You're being realistic, it's true," she said.

"What I said seems to be a bit inhumane. In fact, it is like this. There are not many human relationships at work. If you talk about human relationships, the work cannot be completed or done well. Therefore, work is work, and human relationships are human relationships. When we go to work, we only Talk about work, let’s talk about relationship after work. There is a saying that there is no big or small after work, and there are rules at work. This is true. Therefore, when you do management, you must separate work and relationship, or you can’t do it well. Work can't maintain a relationship."

"The little guys who follow me know what kind of person I am. I am very strict with them when I go to work. I hardly even have a smiling face. What I often tell them is that going to work is like going to work. Don't make fun of work. Make fun of work. Good job. Do whatever you want to do after work, no one cares if you pierce the sky, as long as you have the ability."

"Old Tan, you are quite right. This is how you have to do your job." She said, "It would be great if Lao Chen could think like you."

"Old Chen is fine too." I said.

"His ability is far inferior to yours. He has never been a chef before. You know it in the old shop. If it weren't for the two of us helping him, he would have been laid off." She said.

"That didn't work either," I said.

"He did it all by himself, and he can't blame others." She said: "I didn't watch the later stage and I got excited, and I couldn't listen to what I said, as if I was fooling him."

"Don't mention him, let's not talk about him after everyone has left." I said.

"Don't be angry, you don't know Lao Tan, I'm good enough to him, he was a chef when he first came here, and he's not very good at cooking, if I didn't protect him, he would have gone back." She said: "But old Chen was very good at coming, so he coaxed the old man. The old man liked him very much, and later made him the chef of the bakery."

I said, "He is the head chef because of your face, and he wouldn't be able to if he didn't take your face."

She said, "That's true, there is my reason."

I said: "Sister Chen, don't be unhappy if you say something, you are just too kind to Lao Chen."

"I admit that you said this, and you are really kind to him." She said, "I know that Old Tan, the house he lives in is mine."

I said, "Sister, you really got together for love."

She took a sip of her wine and said, "How else can you say women are stupid."

"It's not stupid, after all, it's what I like, and it would be the same for me." I said.

"What's the use? Now that he's home, he's still living with his wife and children. He's a family." She said leisurely.

"This is a fact, and it cannot be changed." I said, "An extramarital affair is a double-edged sword. If you hurt yourself, you will hurt others. Just look at it."

"It's so easy to see-"

She sighed when she finished.

"I haven't experienced it, but I think whether it's an extramarital affair or a one-night stand, it requires affection and dedication. When two people are together, they feel sweetness and happiness. When they are apart, they need to be treated correctly. If you say no Suffering is fake, everyone will suffer, but the past is gone, you can only let go of what is not your own, only those who let go will leave memories, and those who don’t let go are all pain, and you torture yourself.” I said.

She looked at me, didn't speak for a long time, thinking about something.

Didn't bother her, drank by himself.

Before I knew it, the two bottles of liquor were almost gone.

It didn’t happen to me and I didn’t feel it personally, so that’s all I can say. Most of the time, people can only persuade themselves, and other people’s persuasion is just sympathy, or they have to say it out of face.

I have not experienced extramarital affairs.The relationship with Lin Yan is very good, she didn't do anything sorry to me, and I can't do anything sorry to her.Although the two of us have not lived together for more than three years, this is not the reason for my cheating.

Is there any temptation to work outside?Yes, can I not?A bad grasp may make mistakes.

I also want to be as chic as Lao Chen, but I know that there will be a price to pay.If it's just for sex, then it's easy to solve, just find a young lady.

But I really have no experience in finding a lady. The only time I was looking for a lady was to be persuaded to be good.

Now Zhang Li is doing well, living her happily married life, and is actively trying to have a baby.She is a memory, a good one.

Now I have my family and she has hers, which is fine.There are fewer phone calls with her, and trying not to disturb her is the best way to maintain friendship.

Finish the rest of the wine with Manager Chen, and then end the fight.When she came out of the hotel, she was a little drunk and staggered a little in the aisle. She asked if she wanted to take her back, she said no, and took a taxi back by herself.

Came to the street and called a taxi, she got in and left.

Manager Chen talked about her family situation.The lover works in the street and is a civil servant, and the daughter is studying in college and graduated during the Chinese New Year.The relationship between her and her lover is good, neither good nor bad, no one cares, each has his own way.Her lover has her own woman outside, she knows, and she doesn't care much about it. In her words, it's useless to care about it. Now there are a few men who don't have women outside, as long as they don't destroy the family.

Her husband doesn't know about her and Lao Chen's affairs, I don't think they don't know, but they just don't want to care about it.

The current situation between many couples is like this. When they are over forty, the passion has faded, and there is no attraction between them. The home has become a place to hide and sleep. Both parties maintain it rationally and politely, in the name of children.

I don't know if I will be like this when I am over forty.

After inspecting the goods the next morning, I told Wang Yaxin about the discarded equipment in the kitchen backyard.

He said: "That's okay, it's from our kitchen, so stay here."

"Don't you need to tell Accountant Cui?" I asked.

"Don't tell Lao Cui." He said: "I'll sell the rags of our house. The old man told me that I don't have to hand over the money for selling rags. Let me keep it to buy two packs of cigarettes. We are not that person, no I hold my own money, and every time I hand it over to Accountant Cui, he takes it back to account. This time, it’s okay, I don’t need to hand it over to him, just hand it over to you.”

I said: "Don't give it to me, save it with you, and use it as the activity fund for our kitchen. When there is any activity, you can have money to buy prizes."

He said, "It's okay to let me go, I'm not corrupt."

"There is not much money in total, so there is no chance of corruption." I laughed.

He said: "Old Tan, now that you are the chief chef, arrange someone to inspect the products. How can there be a chief chef who inspects the products every day?"

I said, "I'm fine, let's see."

When I came to the kitchen, it was Li Fushun and Yu Xuexue who unloaded the goods today. They were dividing the raw materials on the cutting boards.

"Boss, I don't think there's anything to do with the inspection. I'll come later. You can sleep in the dormitory for a while." Yu Wenwen said.

"No, I'm used to it." I said.

"I can't sleep either, I wake up at seven o'clock every morning," he said.

"Really? Get up that early?" I asked.

"I wake up early, for several years, mainly because I also go to bed early, and make sure to fall asleep before eleven o'clock every day." He said.

I said, "Then you slept really well."

When I came to the vegetable room, Aunt Caicai had arrived and was choosing vegetables.There are two people who choose the dishes, both in their 50s, one is from Shandong and the other is from Sichuan.

The two of them smiled at me when they saw me, and continued to work.

I said, "The food has been okay for the past two days, nothing frozen."

"No, it's all good, but the potatoes are a bit sloppy." Aunt Shandong said.

"A lot?" I asked.

"Not many, there are five or six in a bag." She replied.

I said, "That's okay, I can accept it, but if there are more than ten, it's not good, and I have to return it."

"Not that many, just five or six," she said.

I said, "You two came here at eight o'clock. It was very hard work. In this way, you will get off work at eight o'clock in the evening. After eight o'clock, there is nothing to do. You can leave work after cleaning up."

"Get off work at eight o'clock?" Aunt Sichuan asked, "Can it work?"

"Why not? You two don't have to stay until nine o'clock. In fact, you two have nothing to do after seven o'clock at night, and all the dishes are finished. You are sitting here. It's quite cold. Eight o'clock Just go back." I said.

"Then thank you, chef."

"No, you two just choose the dishes, don't delay things, clean up the hygiene."

"Don't worry, Chef, we promise to clean up."

I said: "Remember the leeks used for pastry, pick and wash them one day in advance and control them, it is necessary."

"Don't worry, I told you and me that day when we hit you, we just cleaned it up like this. Look at that basket of leeks, it was washed out yesterday, and it's all dried after being washed overnight. There's no water at all, and it's not rotten."

The leeks used to make dumplings are washed the first day and the water is controlled for the best effect the next day. They used to be used on the same day of washing, but now they are changed.

From the vegetable room, I went up to the second floor and came to the dumpling room.Lao Yang, the noodle maker, was making noodles with a noodle press, and greeted me with a smile when he saw me.

"Here comes the chef."

I nodded and saw that the safety net of the noodle press had been installed, so I asked, "Isn't it a little difficult to install the safety net?"

He said: "It's okay, it's okay to get used to it, it's safe."

I said, "Safety must come first at all times."

Come out of the pastry room and come to the cold dish room.The cold dish room is very clean, and all kinds of tools are placed in designated places, according to regulations.At the position where the scissors are hung, there are two labels for the scissors, and only one pair of scissors is hung. Obviously, one pair of scissors was not in place when the market closed last night.Looking around, I found the unreturned scissors in the fresh-keeping box where the seaweed shreds were soaked on the vegetable shelf. It is estimated that someone used the scissors to twist the seaweed shreds. After twisting, the scissors were habitually still in the crisper box and forgot to return. Bit, I got caught.

From the cold dish room to the stuffing chopping room, the old couple who chop stuffing has already come and is cutting celery there.

"It's pretty early." I said.

"Oh, chef, it's getting late, I have to cut it quickly, yesterday the stuffed celery was sold out." The old man said.

"Brother, you come early in the morning, leave early in the evening, and get off work at eight o'clock." I said.

"Can it work?" he asked.

"Okay, there's nothing to do after eight o'clock, so I'll just stay here and go back to the dormitory." I said.

"Then thank you chef." He said.

"No, thank you, you can finish your meal and go back to the dormitory to eat at night, you don't need to wait here." I said.

"That's strange."

"Going back early is going back early, you have to clean up the hygiene, and then leave when everything is in place." I said.

"Don't worry about the chef, the two of us promise to do this job cleanly and quickly."

(End of this chapter)