The story of a cook

Chapter 30 Pure Friendship
I took Sister Zhao back to the hotel. Since it was the weekend, there were very few guests. In addition to the cold weather, not many people went out to eat. There were no guests before eight o'clock in the evening.Sun Mei said to pack up and get off work early, and get a good night's sleep at home.

In the morning after get off work, Master Xing said to go home and have a look. Xiaoliang's family also belonged to Dadong, so he and Master Xing stopped by, and they left together.Li Haina's second brother and I came to the front desk after changing clothes, Zhang Ling stopped me.

"Little brother, the jacket is very good, and it looks a lot more handsome." She said.

"Look at what you said, it seems that I was not handsome before." I laughed.

She smiled, "You—"

That means I'm not handsome, a little shock.

"Little brother, isn't it your own sister?" she asked.

"No, former colleague." I said.

"It's so kind to you, you two won't be a partner, right?" She asked with a smile.

"No, how can it be, it's my sister." I said.

Li Haina and Zhou Lan came over and heard my conversation with Zhang Ling.

"It's your sister? Who would believe it?" Li Haina said, with an expression that believed that I was lying and deceiving,

"I believe." I said.

"I haven't seen you in half a year. It's amazing. Come out with a sister."

Her words were a bit harsh, and there was a sour taste at the same time. She didn't like her tone, so she frowned.

"You're not allowed to make friends anymore?" I said.

"It's too fast." She continued with that tone.

"Anyone who meets Tan Zi is willing to make friends with him, it's normal." Zhou Lan said, and then said to Li Haina: "Let's go, we have to do laundry when we go back."

When the two of them left, Zhang Ling smiled.

"See, someone is jealous," she said.

"No, I'm not that attractive," I said.

"You are not likable, but you are lovable."

"If it was so easy, my kids would be making soy sauce." I joked.

"Look at your beauty, let's go, let's go back together."

After leaving the hotel with Zhang Ling, the cold wind outside made him shiver.

"Seeing that your sister is only 24 or [-], she is quite young." She said.

"She's 32," I said.

"32?" She was a little disbelieving, "I didn't see it." Then she asked, "How did you know each other?"

"I met him when I was working in Tiexi."

"Aren't you a partner?" This was the second time she asked.

"No."

"It looks like you are the object."

I didn't speak, and I didn't want to explain, because the more I drew, the darker it became.

"Do you think there is a pure friendship between a man and a woman?" she asked, walking forward a moment.

"I don't know. The 'everyone' in the book can't understand this matter. If you ask me, I don't know. Besides, you are a teacher, so I should ask you."

She looked at me with a smile.

"Actually, you can't answer it either." I said.

"How do you know I can't answer."

"Because I debated this issue with my classmates when I was studying, but there was no result. My understanding is that whether you have a pure friendship is all in your heart, and it is all your own business. If you are pure, flowers will bloom; Being haunted by love. Both are tormenting things, just ignore it."

After she finished speaking and continued to move forward, she pulled me back and looked at me seriously.

"I didn't expect that, I met an expert today, enlightened." She said.

"There's no such thing as an expert. If you had my experience, you'd say the same thing."

"Tell me about your experience."

She straddled my arm.

"Ask you something." I stopped and asked her with a smile, "What were you thinking when you took my arm?"

"You didn't think about anything?"

"Crossing your arms is something only between lovers, so you don't think about it?"

"Go, just kidding, I'm your sister, do you know?" She pinched me angrily.

"Hey, look at it. You didn't think about anything when you held my arm. You thought it was my sister, so there was no mess in your heart. Then we are siblings, a pure friendship. If you hold my arm If you think about the object, then you won't say it's my sister, and take me as your lover, which belongs to a love relationship. This friendship is not impure, but sublimated, right?"

"You have a point," she said.

"So it's useless to ask others whether the friendship between men and women is pure or not. It's better to ask yourself than anyone else."

"That makes sense." She nodded.

"Let's go, sister, it's so cold, you're not afraid of the cold, I'm still afraid of the cold."

"You're still cold in new clothes." She said angrily.

"Frozen feet, I don't wear cotton shoes, I haven't bought them yet." I said, "I have to buy cotton shoes tomorrow, my feet are too cold."

In this world, there is no love without reason, and there is no hate without reason.Love and hate are always intertwined and entangled. Sometimes love begets hate, and sometimes hate begets love.

It is the same as the cause and effect taught by Buddhism, where there is a cause, there is an effect, and where there is an effect, there must be a cause.

People in the world are blinded by one leaf, and often get stuck in it and cannot extricate themselves.

Zhang Ling called me when I got off work at noon the next day.

"Wait for me for a while, I'll settle the account and go with you," she said.

I was blindsided all of a sudden, and stood there and asked, "Come with me? Why are you going?"

"Aren't you going to buy cotton shoes?" She said.

"Oh, I forgot again if you didn't remind me."

I forgot to buy cotton shoes again, if she didn't say anything, I went back to the dormitory directly.The main reason is that I didn't freeze while working in the kitchen all morning. If I did, I would have remembered it earlier.

She finished putting up the tent and was going to buy cotton shoes with me. When I walked to the hotel door, Li Haina stopped me and said that she wanted to say a few words to me, and Zhang Ling walked away.

Li Haina said: "I'm not going to have sex with you anymore, you are too flamboyant."

I was taken aback by what she said, as if we had been dating before.

"Are you going to have sex with me?" I asked her directly.

"I used to have that kind of meaning, but now I don't want to." She said.

"That's good, we're still friends."

"We were friends from the beginning," she said, and then asked, "Zhang Ling, what are you two doing?"

"Go buy cotton shoes."

"Buy it for her or for you?"

I pointed to my feet and said, "Didn't you see that I'm still wearing single shoes, buy them for me."

"Then why didn't you ask me to buy it for you?" She was a little unreasonable.

"You didn't ask me about the shoes. I forgot to buy cotton shoes. She reminded me."

"How about you, that sister bought you a jacket yesterday, and today this sister bought you cotton shoes, how happy you are."

She spoke in the tone that I hate again, and I frowned habitually.

"If you think too much, everything will change when it comes to you."

"Did I think too much, the facts are in front of me, I have to believe it."

I laughed and asked her: "Chinese people kill Japanese devils, is that also called murder?"

"Don't tell me things that I don't understand, I just know to call sister first and then sister, and take Lala as daughter-in-law."

She used social rhetoric here.

"Then call me brother first and then brother, and finally, do you have to call me husband?" I asked her back.

She gave me a hard look, then turned and went into the private room.

Zhang Ling asked me on the way to the mall: "Did Hana think too much?"

I said, "I don't know, she said she won't have sex with me anymore."

"Then why don't you hurry back and explain to her." Zhang Ling stopped and told me, looking very anxious.

"Explain, we don't have a date at all. She said she is not going to have sex with me." I said, "Do you think I am dating her?"

"You are already 22, are you not in a hurry?"

"Can you not be in a hurry? My mother is old and needs someone to take care of her at home."

"How old is your mother?"

"62."

"You were born when your mother was forty?" she asked.

"Well, my mother is old enough."

"Then your mother is home alone now?"

"Well, I'm alone at home, my sister and the others are taking care of me."

"Then you should really get married and call yourself a daughter-in-law now. Your mother can't be alone at such an old age."

"Yes, my mother can't have no one around." I said: "You also know that if you are poor in the countryside, no one will give you a daughter-in-law, and you will think your family is poor. It is difficult for me to find at home. It's not easy to find, we can't lie to people, we know what's going on in the family, we have to tell the truth about our partner, sister, tell me, is there anyone willing to get along with me in my situation?"

She said nothing, and I sighed.

"I think it's quite clear. It's best to find a wife at home. As long as I don't think I'm poor, and be filial to my mother, it's fine. After getting married, she will serve my mother at home, and I will work outside to earn money. We both have a good life."

"Outside you will also meet like-minded people. I am not saying that women who work outside are not good, but you also know that outside is too realistic. It is impossible for them to go home with me. People who run wild outside do not want to stay at home. Don’t look at the object when it’s fine, but if it’s not real, it’s not good if it’s real, it’s all yellow.”

"You can buy a house in the city and bring your mother here." Zhang Ling said.

"You're right. If I had the strength to buy a house in the city now, I wouldn't go out to work. I can pick and choose to find a wife at home, and everyone is willing to find me. The main reason is that I don't have the conditions now. I can't buy a house." It’s not up to that level yet.”

"I also like beautiful women when I see them, but I just like them in my heart, and I can't date them. Being in a relationship is a good thing, and my mother hopes that I have a partner. I have a relationship with someone, and the real chapter will come Come home with me sometime to see the situation of my family, or if you haven’t come home with me, once you hear me tell you about the situation of my family, 90.00% of the girls will not be with me——"

"It doesn't matter to me if I'm gone. If my mother knows that the person I'm dating is poor because her family is poor, she will definitely feel uncomfortable. She doesn't want to think about anything else. I guarantee that people think our family is poor. I am not capable as a mother. I haven't saved any wealth for the child, and now the child can't even be called a daughter-in-law-do you think her old man can not get angry?"

"Now my idea is to quickly learn how to be a chef, earn more money, and live a better life at home. I don't have a partner now, but it's better to give my mother hope than to make her uncomfortable. Wait until life is better. Calling a daughter-in-law is not a simple matter, you say it's not Miss Zhang."

"That's what you're talking about. If you talk about it, I can't tell you. I think that if you meet a woman who is willing to spend the rest of your life with you, you don't have to wait for you to be a chef. You can get married when you meet. Once you get married, your mother will feel at ease."

"That's what I want most."

(End of this chapter)