The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 20 The Village Chief Secretary
The street where the Guandong people live is called Wanfang Road, which is under the management of Tian Yitun.

In the past, Wanfang Road was full of bungalows, and behind it was a paddy field. The city began to expand in the 90s, and a developer wanted to buy this piece of land. The village head Li Wanshan and the secretary Feng Shimin did not agree. Together, the two decided to develop the village on their own, which was regarded as leaving a fortune for the villagers.

Now it has become a high-end residential area.

To the east of the Yellow River Street, and to the west of the Guandong People's House, this area is a commercial outlet.The people in the Kanto area are close to each other, and there are supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, karaoke halls, hotels, bathing centers, etc. next to each other.Very prosperous, it is the center of Tianyitun.

The village head, Li Wanmin, is a man in his fifties, a native of Tianyitun.He looked like Zhang Fei from Three Kingdoms, carefree, vulgar, and lacking in quality.Don't be fooled by his things, he is meticulous and meticulous.Even the district chief had to be careful when dealing with him, and if he couldn't get it right, he would be caught in it.

Secretary Feng Shimin was originally from Xiakanzi Village, but later came to Tianyitun.Mentioned in the provincial capital, Kanzi Laofeng's family is well-known, and the common people respect them somewhat.

The Feng family, the hereditary guardian of the royal family's mausoleum, a child of the Eight Banners.Ever since Huang Taiji was buried in Beiling, the Feng family has guarded the tomb here for generations.After the founding of New China, Beiling was taken over by the government as a royal cemetery, some clan members became public family members, and some clan members were still farmers.

The Feng family does not show the mountains and does not leak water. The family is not big, but the family is well-off.I heard that the ancestors received a lot of rewards in the early years. In addition to the yellow and white things, there are also personal accessories given by the emperor, empress, prince, Baylor, Gege and others when worshiping the ancestors. They were worthless in the past, but now they are worthless Can make a fortune.

Feng Shimin is well-mannered, he joined the party when he was young, and he is a man of culture.Be kind to neighbors in the village, keep aloof from the world, and have a high prestige.When his father was alive, he was the village secretary. After his death, he was elected by the villagers and appointed by the district, which was hereditary.

Because of his culture, he has a better understanding of world affairs than ordinary people.When the developer bought the land on Wanfang Road back then, he and Li Wanmin discussed that they could not sell the land owned by the young and old in the village, and had to save some of their property.Instead of selling it, it is better for the village to invest in its own development. First, the villagers live in high-rise buildings, and second, it provides a guarantee for the common people-the annual rent of the stores and markets is not a decimal, and it is more profitable for the villagers to share it with the villagers than farming.

So there is the current Wanfang Road.

The prestige of the two in the village is extremely high, and they are the two of them every time there is a general election.

The main reason is that the two of them are not greedy, and they have already entered a well-off life with enough food and clothing. It is better to live a good life if they are greedy for those who are useless and will not bring them with them when they die.

Wang Ming's father was an old political cadre in the aircraft factory, full of ink, went to private school with Feng Shimin's father, and was a good friend.The two families have been friends for a lifetime, and the friendship is profound.Wang Ming and Feng Shimin played together since they were young, throwing temper tantrums, drinking some wine together, chatting about their family and country, talking about the past and the present, to pass the time.

Li Wanshan was drinking tea at Feng Shimin's house, when he received a call from Wang Ming asking him to drink, both of them were good wine drinkers, and they were old friends with Wang Ming, so they readily agreed to go happily.

The two got to know each other after they came, and the Kang table was a bit too big to sit on, so everyone moved to the floor table.

Li Wanshan was dressed as a farmer, and he didn't look like a village chief at all.After sitting down, he opened his voice loudly: "Don't say it, this whole thing is quite distinctive, like a farmyard."

"It was originally a farmyard, didn't you watch the little donkey pull the mill?" Wang Ming said.

"It's pretty good. Like that, it's better than Laogen Villa. Even though Laogen Villa is owned by a celebrity, no one does it well." Li Wanshan said realistically.

Feng Shimin became a little slow. He said: "Opening a restaurant is also divided into people. It doesn't mean that you can open a restaurant if you do well in the entertainment park. If you want to do business like that, no one else will. Now there are quite a lot of people in the entertainment industry who open restaurants. I don't think so. A few good ones. Do what you should do, money is not earned by one person, you have to leave a way for others to make money."

Brother Liu said, "That's right."

Lao Tan was the head chef of Laogen Villa back then, and he did a very good job. If it wasn't for SARS, he could continue to do it.If the boss at that time didn't sell the villa, it would be the same as Chishan Restaurant, which is Santaizi's iconic restaurant.

Lao Tan is the host, so he naturally wants to greet everyone warmly.

"Let me raise a glass. Today, my brothers and sisters are giving my brother face. At the same time, I am very happy to meet Brother Li and Brother Feng. Beer wine and vegetarian dishes are not a respect. I am the youngest, so let me do it first." Old Tan raised his neck and drained the wine in the glass .

Wang Ming and Brother Liu did it, and Li Wanshan and Feng Shimin had been through battles for a long time, so it was no problem to drink alcohol, so they did it with their necks up.

Yanhua and Yanzi were left, Lao Tan just wanted to say that the lady is free, Yanhua raised her wine glass as if nothing had happened and dried up, Yanzi could only look at the wine in the glass and worry.

Wang Ming said with a smile: "Yanzi, if you can't drink, you can ask someone to help you. Don't you have neighbors?"

Yanzi glanced at Feng Shimin who was sitting next to him.

Feng Shimin, a descendant of the tomb guards.Grandpa lost his wife in his early years, and later married a woman, but he didn't make it to the end. After five years together, he fell ill and passed away.

Like his grandfather, his father left first, and then married a woman and left after five years.

The fate of the grandparents and grandchildren is surprisingly similar. His wife passed away ten years ago, and after being introduced by others, he lived with the second woman for five years and left too.

There is a daughter who is married and has a family.

It is inevitable that I am alone, and my daughter is filial, so I advise him to find another one, who has a companion and a caregiver by his side.As the saying goes, no matter how good children are, they are not as good as half-way couples, and he also has that thought.

The fortune teller said that the guardian of the mausoleum is lonely and his fate is hard. It is not bad to have heirs in his life.If you don't live with ordinary women for a long time, unless you are particularly hard-nosed, you will have to be restrained to death.

It doesn't work if you don't believe in fate. The fate of the three generations is the same, as if it was destined by heaven.

Feng Shimin felt that this might be the case, and if he found someone else to spend a few years with him and die without a problem, it would hurt him and be a crime, so he gave up his plan to find a wife.

Li Wanshan said that the old man can't do without a woman by his side, and gave him advice that it's okay to find a woman. The unknown matchmaker is marrying and getting a marriage certificate.Now implement this, man, how can there be no iron?If I didn't have a tigress, I would have looked for it earlier.

Feng Shimin thought about the same thing, and his heart became lively.

I am 55, widowed, and no one laughs at finding a partner.If two people are in the same mood, it will take more than two days, and if they are not in the same mood, it will take two days less. It is better than one person.Don't ask how to take care of yourself, you can cook for me, wash your clothes, take a tablet of medicine and pour a glass of water if you have a cold and fever, and if it is serious, just send it to the hospital.Otherwise, my daughter is always thinking about it, running back and forth every three days, and people have to go to work to live.

But it seems that all women know that he ordered his wife to be tough, and kept him at arm's length, which made him very depressed.

When he sat down just now, he took a look at Yanzi, thought it was pretty, and his heart moved a little, but he immediately canceled it, because Yanzi was too young, more than ten years behind her.

Swallow always plays mahjong in the mahjong club, mingling among men, looking a little dusty.As a 41-year-old single woman, it is impossible not to think about her own future.

41, no longer young, now there are men who like it, after fifty, there will be no one.I have played and played in this life, and I have been hurt and hurt, and I have experienced everything that should be experienced.Don't ask for anything else, just like Yanhua, just find someone who can earn money to support yourself.

If I can find it, let alone three meals a day, I would be willing to make four meals a day, and I would just serve the old man at home without doing anything.How about playing mahjong? At that time, playing mahjong was just boring for entertainment.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand, you still have to have a family and a gentleman.

The village secretary looked good, in his fifties, he couldn't tell he was a farmer, but he looked like a teacher at first glance.Those who speak slowly and softly are cultured and qualified.The size is okay, there are 1.7 meters three, it is not good-looking, but it is not ugly.

At this age, appearance is not important, as long as you are good to yourself.

It's not good to be in the society with such a person, you have to be more delicate, like a woman from a good family.

She is really a woman from a good family, except for her original wife, the only one who really sleeps is a man, and now she doesn't have any contact with her anymore.It makes people feel that they are not serious, but they are not that kind of people. There are still principles in matters between men and women.

Thinking of this, Yan Zi got upright when she sat down, and said to Feng Shimin like a little woman, "Brother Feng, I can't do it in one gulp, and I don't have the capacity to drink too much, so help me drink some."

Feng Shimin blushed.

What Wang Ming said just now was meant to be ridiculed. They are old buddies, so they know what they mean.So he said to the swallow: "You can drink it as you like, and give it to me if you can't drink it."

Yanzi just took a sip, and there was more than half of the glass left. Feng Shimin showed his manliness and finished the rest.

The atmosphere of the whole wine table is very good.

Old Tan can drink, and he talks a lot when drinking, and he tells a couple of jokes from time to time, which makes everyone laugh.

Li Wanshan is a mild-mannered person, and he is more speculative with Lao Tan, and the two quickly started to drink with each other.After drinking five glasses of wine in a row, he raised his glass again and said, "Brother, I'm glad to meet you today. Brother will always come here in the future. When you come, you must drink with brother."

"That must be." Old Tan replied readily.

Li Wanshan said to Yanhua who was sitting next to Old Tan: "Your brother and sister, take it up too, brother and you two will drink one."

Yanhua's face turned red to the base of her neck.

Lao Tan immediately said: "Brother, she is not my wife, my sister."

Li Wanshan blushed a little, he thought Yanhua and Lao Tan were in the same family.Wang Ming didn't make it clear when he introduced it, and Yanhua was sitting next to Lao Tan, looking like a little woman, which could easily be misunderstood as a couple.

"I'm sorry, don't blame those who don't know, big brother punishes himself with a cup."

Li Wanshan, a straightforward person, picked up his wine glass and drank it.

Often when two people meet for the first time, they become friends because they flirt with each other, share their feelings, and chatter together.At this time, Lao Tan and Li Wanshan were like this.

The two drank a lot of wine, Li Wanshan took advantage of the wine to pull Lao Tan and said that he couldn't help him with other things. In the future, everyone in the village would come to the Guandong family for weddings and funerals, and his brother would be the head chef here. must help.Also, as long as Lao Tan works here, he will rent the house to people in Guandong, and if Lao Tan quits, he will rent it to others.
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The drinking party didn't end until [-]:[-].

Wang Ming, Brother Liu, Li Wanshan, and Feng Shimin were all a little drunk, Lao Tan took them to the gate, called Brother Liu and Wang Ming a taxi, and asked Wang Ming to take Brother Liu home.

Yanzi helped Feng Shimin take a taxi and left.

Li Wanshan's house was nearby, so he walked back directly.

Yanhua was left, slightly drunk.

Her house was in front, Lao Tan sent her downstairs, watched her go upstairs and started to walk back.

(End of this chapter)