From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 213 Arranging Accommodation

Everyone in the shop was a little surprised when they heard that Xia Hui took the initiative to go to the food stall.

Feng Zonggu, who was sitting leisurely aside, also looked at Xia Hui carefully.

Chen Anbang couldn't help but said: "It's quite hard at the food stalls, and it's not very safe for you, a girl, to go to the train station at night."

Xia Hui looked at Chen Anbang and said, "What's wrong with the girl? Besides, I'm not alone. Isn't there my uncle and you?"

Shen Rongsen chuckled and said, "This girl has quite a fierce personality."

Xia Hui looked at Shen Rongsen and said with a serious face: "I came here just to learn something. To learn cooking well, you must go to the front line. Food stalls can directly contact customers. I think that is the real food stall." The front line, so I want to go to the food stalls and learn the craft from my uncle."

Feng Zhengming said: "If you stay in the shop, you will have the opportunity to go to the stove and learn the craft, and my third brother should be able to teach you better than me."

Xia Hui immediately said: "Nonsense, I asked before I came here. Master Shu's craftsmanship is amazing. You went to challenge the master of Jubinyuan by yourself."

As soon as Xia Hui said these words, everyone in the shop couldn't help laughing.

Yang Bin smiled and said, "Hahaha, didn't expect that? Your reputation has spread far and wide."

Wei Xiuling said: "That's for sure. Master Xiao Feng's craftsmanship is definitely one of the best in Quancheng."

Feng Zhengming looked helpless: "Why do you even know that I went to Jubin Garden to exchange cooking skills?"

Sun Hai said seriously: "Almost all the students studying cooking in the vocational school know that it was spread by a few classmates in Quancheng that the master chef of Jubinyuan lost to a young owner of a restaurant."

Feng Zhengming asked: "Do you know that the young boss is talking about me?"

Xia Hui immediately said: "Isn't it obvious? You run a dry rice shop, and since you are so young, uncle, it must be you."

Sun Hai nodded and said, "We heard someone on the train say that you must eat a handful of meat when you go to Quancheng. To eat a handful of meat, you must eat it at the Feng Family Restaurant."

Xia Hui echoed: "Yes, uncle, everyone knows that your craftsmanship is good."

Feng Zhengming thought for a while and said: "My skills are really not as exaggerated as the rumors. My third brother's skills are no worse than mine."

Yang Bin was obviously watching the fun and not taking it too seriously, so he immediately said: "No, although I am the third senior brother, my craftsmanship is definitely not as good as yours, the younger junior brother. I still have this self-awareness."

Feng Zhengming, his third senior brother, made a show here, and immediately looked dumbfounded.

"Third brother, can we stop joking?"

Yang Bin said cheerfully: "I'm not kidding, I'm telling the truth. If you don't believe me, ask everyone."

Seeing this situation, Feng Zhengming naturally understood why there was no need to ask everyone?

If you ask, everyone will definitely say that Feng Zhengming’s skills are better.

Feng Zhengming could only change his explanation: "I admit that my cooking skills are not bad, but I am just good at it myself. I am not good at teaching my disciples. I think you can learn more from Master Yang."

Before anyone could speak, Feng Zhengming added: "Besides, the food stalls are quite busy at night, so I may not have time to teach you anything."

Chen Anbang couldn't help but said: "I'm not busy all the time at night. I think I can learn something at the food stalls, and I've made rapid progress at the food stalls during this time."

Feng Zhengming looked at Chen Anbang and then at the other people present, and suddenly felt that this was what everyone had agreed upon? Deliberately make sure to bring in new apprentices.

Finally, Grandpa spoke.

"Okay, I think it's better to do this. The four of us will take turns going to the food stalls, so that everyone can have the opportunity to learn from the two masters and see who is better taught by the young Master Feng or Master Yang."

Yang Bin immediately said: "Grandpa arranged it well."

Others also agreed.

Xia Hui and Sun Hai also agreed to this arrangement.

When Feng Zhengming saw that everyone agreed to this arrangement, he could only agree to allow the four apprentices to go to the food stalls alternately.

Seeing that Feng Zhengming agreed, Xia Hui immediately said, "Uncle, I will go tonight."

Feng Zhengming asked: "You just arrived today, why don't you take a rest first?"

Xia Hui said enthusiastically, "No need to rest."

Sun Hai echoed: "We can work directly without taking a break."

Feng Zhengming had no choice but to say: "Okay, Xia Hui and Chen Anbang will go to the food stall with me tonight. Sun Hai, you and Lao Shen will stay in the shop."

After assigning work for the evening, Feng Zhengming looked at Xia Hui and was a little worried about how to arrange a place for her.

When the master informed Feng Zhengming that two apprentices were coming, he did not tell Feng Zhengming that there was a female apprentice like Xia Hui.

So Feng Zhengming rented a two-bedroom apartment for his two apprentices and Yang Bin to live together.

But looking at it now, it seems a little inconvenient for Xia Hui to live with Yang Bin and Sun Hai.

Xia Hui is a girl after all, it's not that Yang Bin and Sun Hai have any bad thoughts about her.

Since two men and one woman live together, it might be inconvenient to get up and go to the toilet at night.

What's more, Feng Zhengming felt that the third senior brother and the female apprentice lived under the same roof. What if his sister-in-law knew about this? He didn't even know how to explain it to his sister-in-law then?

Feng Zhengming was also very honest with everyone, and shared his troubles about arranging where Xia Hui would live.

After hearing this, Yang Bin quickly said: "If you didn't say it, I almost didn't realize it. It's okay for me and Xiao Sun to live in that two-bedroom apartment together. You can't let Xiao Xia live there. If she goes, your sister-in-law will definitely not be willing to live in it if she knows it." .”

After Xia Hui heard about the issue of residence, she was very straightforward and spoke directly.

"Why don't you let me live in the shop? I think the dressing room inside the shop is quite big. I can put up a camp bed in the dressing room. I can live in it."

"No."

Almost everyone disagreed unanimously.

Sun Hai then said: "I still live in the store."

Yang Bin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Xiao Sun, you are really stupid. You live in a shop. Where does Xia Hui live? Come with me to live in a rented house? Then I can't tell my family clearly."

Xia Hui said again: "It doesn't matter. I can live in the shop. I locked the door at night, so it will be fine."

Everyone still disagreed. Although Xia Hui had a very fierce temper and she was tall, and her arms were obviously muscular because she was a chef, she was a girl after all, and it was indeed a bit unsafe to live in a shop.

Feng Zhengming looked at Duan Sufen and first thought, could he stay at Duan Sufen's house?

But I thought that Duan Sufen was that Yue Rui's mother.

Although Yue Rui is not in Quancheng now, who knows when he will come back?

Thinking of what Yue Rui had done, Feng Zhengming mentally rejected the idea of ​​letting Xia Hui live at Duan Sufen's house.

Duan Sufen's home was not suitable, so Feng Zhengming naturally looked at Wei Xiuling.

Wei Xiuling also happened to look at Feng Zhengming, and she immediately guessed what Feng Zhengming was thinking.

"If Xiaoxia doesn't think it's far, why don't you come and stay with me at my house? My daughter and I live together in my house now. Even though it's a bit far from here, it should be fine for the two of us to go back together in the evening." Wei Xiuling After saying that, before Xia Hui could speak, Feng Zhengming spoke first.

"Sister, you guessed what I meant wrong. When I saw you, I was thinking that you might as well rent a two-bedroom apartment. Sister, you can move here with your daughter, and Xia Hui will live with you."

Wei Xiuling was a little surprised and said, "This, this doesn't work."

Feng Zonggu spoke again: "Why not? I think just follow what Zhengming said. Xiaowei, you move your daughter here and find a kindergarten for her here. It's not better than leaving your daughter at a neighbor's house every day before you rush to work. Okay?"

Wei Xiuling is a widow. Her husband used to be a driver. He had an accident while driving a year ago.

She was able to get cheap soda to sell soda at a stall in South Railway Station precisely because of the care her husband took in his factory.

She came to work for Feng Zhengming, and every night when she went back to pick up her daughter from her neighbor's house to take care of her, she was asked to leave earlier.

This also made Wei Xiuling feel a little bit regretful.

Sometimes it would take Feng Zonggu to urge her several times before she would leave earlier.

Before leaving, be sure to wash the dishes in the sink.

So when Feng Zhengming saw Wei Xiuling just now, what he was thinking was that now that a female apprentice like Xia Hui came over, she also needed to arrange a place to live.

It's better to let Wei Xiuling move here and live near the dry rice shop with Xia Hui.

Also, as grandpa said, find a kindergarten here for Wei Xiuling’s daughter.

When Wei Xiuling heard what Grandpa Feng said, she looked at Grandpa Feng, and then looked at Feng Zhengming.

She was really touched.

Originally, she and Feng Zhengming just met by chance at the South Railway Station. They just happened to set up a stall together, but in the end, they received such care from Feng Zhengming.

After a while of silence, Wei Xiuling said with a little cry: "Thank you, thank you grandpa, thank you boss."

Feng Zhengming smiled and said, "Sister, didn't I tell you that you don't need to call me boss? I call you eldest sister and you call me little brother. From now on, you will be my sister and I will be your brother. Why are you being polite to your brother?"

Feng Zonggu also said: "Yes, you will be siblings from now on, so you don't have to be polite."

Feng Zhengming then thought about it and said to the third senior brother: "Third brother, I think otherwise, let the eldest sister pick up the child tonight, and she and Xia Hui will live in the house I rented, and you and Sun Hai We'll make do in the shop for a few days, and when we rent a new house, you can move in."

Yang Bin immediately agreed: "No problem, it's okay if we don't rent a house. Xiao Sun and I are two men. I think it's good to live in a shop."

Sun Hai immediately agreed: "Yes, Uncle Yang and I can live in the shop."

Chen Anbang thought for a while and asked, "Can I live in the shop together?"

Feng Zhengming asked strangely: "Aren't you going to live at your brother's house?"

Chen Anbang said embarrassedly: "I always find it inconvenient to live in my brother's house, especially when I go home late at night, which will disturb my nephew's sleep."

Yang Bin smiled and said, "Isn't that good? Xiao Chen will also come over and live in the shop with me and Xiao Sun from now on."

Feng Zhengming was somewhat embarrassed to let the third senior brother live in the dry food shop.

However, Yang Bin didn't wait for him to speak and said directly: "We are living like this now. It is not easy for you to make some money. Save some money and wait until your sister-in-law brings the children here next year. Then you can rent a house for us."

In the end, the issue of accommodation was settled.

Feng Zhengming rented a two-bedroom apartment and asked Wei Xiuling to bring her daughter over to live with Xia Hui.

Yang Bin took Sun Hai and Chen Anbang to live in the dry rice shop first.

In the afternoon, Xia Hui first sent her luggage to the rental house, and then accompanied Wei Xiuling home to pack her things. By the way, she also picked up Wei Xiuling's daughter from the cooking shop.

Although Wei Xiuling's daughter is only four years old, the little girl is very sensible.

Probably because Wei Xiuling often leaves her daughter at a neighbor's house. The little girl is really not afraid of strangers at all.

In addition to being relatively new to everyone at the beginning, I mostly stayed with my mother.

After getting to know everyone for a while, I became unafraid of people and smiled happily at everyone.

Moreover, the little girl likes Feng Zonggu very much. After getting familiar with him, she is even willing to play with Feng Zonggu all the time.

Feng Zhengming took Chen Anbang and Xia Hui to prepare food for the food stalls. After having dinner with everyone in the dry rice shop, they rushed to the train station together with their things.

The dry rice shop also started to open at night. In order not to disturb everyone's work, Feng Zonggu took Wei Xiuling's daughter and sat at the cashier.

Wei Xiuling originally wanted her daughter to obey her grandfather and stop running around.

As a result, it turned out that my daughter was very well-behaved. She sat on Grandpa's lap and looked around curiously.

She was relieved.

Feng Zhengming led Chen Anbang and Xia Hui to the train station.

First unload the things from the car, and then start erecting the food stall shed.

Xia Hui is indeed a cook, and her strength is not inferior to that of Chen Anbang.

Even when holding up the tarp, Chen Anbang didn't need help at all. She and Feng Zhengming could stand alone and rely on their height advantages to hold up the tarp directly.

Chen Anbang watched Xia Hui keep rushing to work, which made him feel as if he had nothing to do.

After the food stalls were set up, Feng Zhengming asked everyone to sit down and rest for a while.

Xia Hui was full of energy. When she saw a wave of people leaving the station, she immediately asked, "Uncle, there are so many people leaving the station, do you want to shout a few times to attract customers?"

Seeing Xia Hui's excitement, Chen Anbang couldn't help but joke: "Then you shout."

As a result, Xia Hui did not hesitate at all. She stood in front of the square, cleared her throat, and shouted directly to those who were leaving the station.

"Hey, if you want to eat, come and take a look. The food stall here has handfuls of pork, five-spice boneless pork trotters, Sixi meatballs, and various meat and vegetable stir-fries. Don't miss it if you pass by."

Xia Hui's voice is really full of energy.

Chen Anbang was stunned when he heard this.

I felt that her voice was definitely comparable to Feng Zhengming's shouting.

Then Xia Hui shouted, which naturally attracted the crowd leaving the station to look this way.

Seeing such a dashing young girl shouting for customers to eat, naturally attracted a large number of passengers out of the station to flock to Feng Zhengming's food stall.

Chen Anbang exclaimed in disbelief when he saw a lot of people coming in all of a sudden.

"Is that an exaggeration?"

(End of this chapter)