The story of a cook

Chapter 41
The taste of the New Year in the city is not as strong as at home, maybe it is like this in the city.

There are few people on the street, and there are fragments of fireworks on both sides of the street.Only innocent children are playing hard, making childhood carefree in the taste of the year, and leaving good memories for the years to come.

Santaizi is better than the city. The sound of firecrackers can be heard from time to time on the street, as well as the red lanterns hanging on the door opening, which makes people feel the joy and peace of the Spring Festival.

When I came to Shengmei, there were two red lanterns hanging at the door, and couplets were pasted on the doorposts on both sides.The door is open, push the door and go in.

Brother Feng was sitting on the chair in front of the bar, smoking a cigarette, seeing me come in with a smile on his face, and greeted me kindly.

"The third child is back."

"Brother Feng, Happy New Year!" I went up to greet the New Year enthusiastically.

"Happy Chinese New Year, happy Chinese New Year." Brother Feng said hurriedly, took out a red envelope from his pocket and gave it to me, and said, "It's Chinese New Year, give me a red envelope."

I am very happy to accept it. This is the first red envelope I received this year, and it is probably the only one. I would like to say thank you to Brother Feng.Chatted with him, he just came here not long ago, after dinner at home, Sun Mei was called by some friends to play, he was bored at home, so he went to the hotel to have a look.

Tomorrow the hotel will open for business. Go to the kitchen to check, check the ingredients in the refrigerator, and send a list to Brother Feng for replenishment.It is estimated that there will not be too many customers tomorrow, and the goods in the market are not complete. Tell Feng Ge to buy what you have, and you will not buy if you don’t have it. The customers will not be too picky.

Brother Feng said that Zhang Ling came back at noon and is now in the dormitory, and asked me to make some food and take it home.Unexpectedly, Zhang Ling would come back so early, so she cooked two dishes, cooked some quick-frozen dumplings, said goodbye to Brother Feng and went back to the dormitory.

On the way back, I thought Zhang Ling came back so early, didn't she have trouble with her family?Otherwise, she wouldn't have come back so early, and she would have to stay at home for a few more days. When she left, she told me that she might stay until the tenth day of the lunar new year, and she came back today only on the fifth day of the new year. I couldn't help feeling a little worried.

Zhang Ling was lying in bed hungry and uncomfortable. It had been ten hours from getting on the train in the morning to getting off the train, then taking the bus back to Santaizi, and then returning to the dormitory from the hotel. Nothing but a sausage.I was so hungry just now that I couldn't take it anymore. I went outside to buy something to eat, but I didn't expect that the two small shops nearby were closed, and none of the snack shops were open, so I had to come back with a flat stomach.

We all went home for the New Year, and the whole apartment was empty and quiet. Walking in the corridor, I could only hear my own footsteps, which was a bit intrusive.Usually, the corridor is very lively at this time. Some people go to the water room to wash clothes, some stand at the door chatting, and some turn on the tape recorder. Na Ying's singing wafts back and forth in the corridor.

There is no sound now, only silence.

After confirming that it was indeed me standing outside the door, Zhang Ling opened the door. She was very happy to see me and gave me a warm hug.

"I heard that you didn't eat, so you cooked two dishes and cooked dumplings. How about it? It's interesting." I said.

"Enough." She said, "I'm starving to death, none of the small restaurants outside are open, and the canteen is also not open. I just ate a leftover sausage." She was a little pitiful, then looked at the vegetables and dumplings and said: " No wine."

Go back to the men's dormitory and get the wine.

"Little brother, isn't your mother doing well?" she asked.

"Very well, the old lady is in good health." I replied, and then asked, "Are your uncles and aunts all well?"

"Well, you are in better shape than me, but a little thinner."

"Think what you think."

"Yes, especially my mother, who cries at every turn, and my father feels bad when she cries." She said, her mother's expression of reluctance when she came out of the house appeared in front of her eyes, and she was a little sad.

"How long did you stay at home?" I asked.

"Think about it." She said: "My parents are both teachers. There are many people visiting my house to pay New Year's greetings these days, and there are also many relatives in my family. They always come to pay New Year's greetings. I am not at home and I have to stay with them. , They always ask me this and that—” She sighed a long time when she said this: “Hey—he just came out.”

Understand her feelings and ask: "Would your mother and father be willing to come out?"

"I don't really want to, but I look good. I'm much more energetic than when I was at home. The main reason is that I know I want to leave, so I let me out." She laughed happily after she finished speaking, and then said : "Actually, they are also embarrassed to see me entertaining those people at home."

The people who understand me best in the world are my parents. No matter how old I am, I am still a child in the eyes of my parents, and I will feel distressed.The same is true of our Zhang Ling. Although she is 28, she is still a daughter who has not grown up in front of her parents when she returns home.

After taking a sip of wine, she smiled and said, "Little brother, on the second day of junior high school, my mother told me carefully that I was 28, and I should have a partner. Seeing that I didn't respond, she said what's wrong with this girl, she will stay outside for a year Why are you so stupid. I just laughed and told her that you don't know that you girl is stupid."

"She listened to me and looked at me, she didn't make a sound, and she didn't smile anymore. Seeing that she didn't smile, I felt very uncomfortable--she was shorter than me, and her white hair was much more than before, almost half It's-"

She paused for a moment, her voice choked up.

"It was uncomfortable at the time. I felt that I was ignorant, and she was worried about it at this age. Hey, it was very uncomfortable." She smacked her lips to keep her tears from falling.

At this time, I didn't know what to say, so I picked up the wine glass and touched her.

She put down the wine glass slowly, looked up at me, the sad expression gradually disappeared, replaced by tranquility and relief, and said softly: "I feel like I have grown up all of a sudden, and I found that I was naive, ignorant, and self-willed before."

"I don't know I'm an adult until I see my parents getting old," I said.

"Yeah." She nodded, and then smiled, "Hehe, seeing my mother is uncomfortable, I said that I met someone outside. She immediately recovered, and she didn't feel uncomfortable anymore. Ask me where is my family? How old is it? What does it look like?" How are you doing to me? Asked all of a sudden, I was trying to fool her, but her question confused me, and I didn't know how to answer."

I laughed, and said to myself that I didn't lie when I went home, and if I lied, I would be the same as her, I don't know how to do it.

She looked at me and smiled, but she was not angry, and said with a smile all over her face: "Humph, I can't help it. I introduced it to my mother according to your situation. I didn't expect my mother to believe it." After she finished speaking Looking at me maliciously.

I stopped laughing, looked at her blankly and asked, "It can't be true, can it?"

She panicked for a moment, and immediately adjusted herself again, saying: "Really, this is still a lie, and I couldn't think of anyone else at the time, and the first person who appeared in front of me was you."

I was suddenly a little nervous and asked her, "Then, what did your mother say?"

"She didn't say anything, just turned around and left."

I took a breath, relaxed my nervous mood, and quickly lit a cigarette.

"My old aunt came in the third grade of junior high school. Seeing that I was fine, I told my mother that she wanted to introduce someone to me." She said.

"Good."

"My mother said that Jialing was having sex outside, but she didn't know what it was. The two of them said it in the kitchen, thinking I didn't know, but I was listening to it." She laughed and continued: " My old aunt was still puzzled, and asked my mother if it was true, and my mother said it was true, Ling told me herself, so there is still a fake? It’s just that she is younger than her, just 23.”

"I couldn't help laughing when I heard my mother and her two talking. I thought about it, and this time I'm serious. What if I take it back to show them, and then I won't reveal it." She said with a smile on her face. He looked at me intently, wanting to see what I had to say.

"After two months, you will say that you can't get along, or it's over." I said.

She was a little disappointed, but she didn't show it, and said, "Hehe, I thought so too. It never occurred to me that we would like to go together."

Before he knew it, he ran out of a bottle of white wine. He was a little tired after riding the car all day, so he said goodbye to her and went back to the dormitory.

The next day, everyone came back from the kitchen except for the second child. After the new year, people were full of oil and water, and there were not many customers in the store.Sun Mei didn't come, and Brother Feng called her a few times in the evening. He seemed very angry, and told the boss that the store would be closed if there were no customers at seven, and then drove away.

At seven o'clock, there were indeed no guests, so the boss asked the fourth child to cook four dishes and go back to the dormitory to drink.

In the past, four people drank together, but now the second child is no less alone, and I feel like there are shortcomings.

"I don't know if the second child will be able to come back. Is that crumpled kid sick? She started getting divorced after a few months of marriage," said the boss.

"We can't make do if we don't go together." I said.

"I guess if the second child can come back, his wife will be enough." The fourth child said.

"His wife can also come back." The boss said based on his many years of experience: "Looking at his wife's eyes, I can't keep it."

The fourth child became curious and asked, "Boss, how did you see that?"

"Women's eyes are big and watery, and they move at every turn. Don't worry, such a woman can't be kept. She looks honest, but she is actually crazy." The boss said.

"Boss, don't analyze blindly, good people tell you to finish the analysis." I said.

This analysis of the boss feels a bit one-sided. According to him, the second daughter-in-law is a flirtatious person, a bit like Pan Jinlian, but it doesn’t give me the impression. I think she is a woman with a lot of personality and opinions. She is naturally beautiful. , but there is another personality in his bones, a bit like a man, but it has not been developed.

"Third son, don't believe it." The boss said to me: "If you don't believe me, just watch it, it's 100% like that. The second daughter-in-law just came out, we are a regular restaurant, let her try in the Miss Daisy restaurant, no In two months, you have to be the eldest sister."

"According to you, the old daughter-in-law is not doing her duty." I said bitterly.

"It's not irresponsible, you have to subdue her. If you subdue her, she will stay with you for the rest of her life. If you can't, she will be like the second child." The boss took a sip of wine, and then said: "That girl You can't be a daughter-in-law, but it's okay to be an iron son."

"Boss, do you have iron?" The fourth child asked.

"Who doesn't have irons? If you don't have irons, you are still called a man?" The boss was a little proud, and his voice was high.

"You just blow it from there, and I haven't seen you coming here for a long time." The fourth child didn't believe it.

"It used to be, but now I don't want to talk nonsense." The boss lowered his voice, lit a cigarette casually, and said in a serious tone: "If you meet someone who is suitable, if you are in the right mood, find someone to live a good life and stop talking nonsense. "

The boss is a bit heroic and lonely, he should have been all-powerful before.

After a glass of wine, the boss and I poured another glass, and the fourth child stopped drinking and started drinking.

"Looking at you reminds me of when I was young, when I was a bastard, I didn't know how to live, so I just fucked nonsense. If there is any dissatisfaction, I will do it, and I will pull it down." The boss said.

The fourth child asked: "Boss, weren't you very majestic at that time?"

"Of course, wherever you go, you will be awesome, and everyone who sees you will have to nod and bow, so that you can do it." The boss regained his energy when he mentioned the past, "If you meet someone who is better than you, just do it, and send it to the hospital after you finish it. If you go to the hospital and refuse to accept it, you still do it. Do you know what it’s called? It’s called "returning to the furnace".

"The police won't arrest you?" the fourth child asked.

"Why don't you arrest me?" The boss raised his eyes, and then said, "What are the police doing? If they don't arrest you, will you be kept?" After speaking, he smiled, "The police are also rapers. Don't go when they are doing it. Wait until you are almost done. Guaranteed, run as soon as the police car sounds, and run away when they arrive."

"You haven't been caught before?" The fourth child asked in disbelief.

"Why didn't I get caught before, I always get caught fucking." The boss said: "At that time, everyone knew who was fighting, and I couldn't catch you at your house."

I said, "If you don't go home, you'll be fine."

"Are you still not going home?" The boss glared at me, and then said: "Just a few people, they are all registered at the police station, and they can't get away from the temple if they run away. It's okay to catch them anyway, and they will be released after a few days. come out."

"In the later period, I didn't like to come out when I went in. I got to know the old police well there, and I didn't do much work. It was pretty cool to help them manage the prisoners." The boss finished talking and took a sip of wine. Boss, the family members of the prisoners give cigarettes to me, I will take a few boxes first and then give them to them."

The fourth child asked, "What about eating?"

The boss said: "Eating is the same, it's all the stuff, steamed buns, steamed buns, and Chinese cabbage."

"Is there really corn bread?" The fourth child had a naive expression.

"What do you think? That's a prison, not a hotel, what's the matter? I'll make some dumplings for you."

The eldest stared wide-eyed, and the fourth and I laughed.

"It's good to have steamed buns. Don't mention it. Sometimes I really miss the steamed stuffed buns. They are big and eyeless. I don't know how they steam them, but they are delicious." The boss laughed, and then With deep feeling, he said: "No matter how delicious the corn bread is, don't go in. If you go inside, you will not be a human being."

The boss is indeed a man of the provincial capital.

There is one sister and three brothers in his family. His eldest brother was the boss of the Eight Great King Kongs in the early years, and he was a pure gangster.When his father was locked up in the cowshed in the [-]s, his elder brother was beaten to death in a fight with a Tiexi gangster.

His second brother and his sister are good at studying and have both been admitted to university. They are not the same as him and his elder brother.

He has been fighting and fighting under the influence of his elder brother since he was a child, and he became famous in Dadong when he was fifteen or six, and his old man couldn't control him, so he couldn't send him into the army.After he came back from the army, he became even more ruthless—everyone who has experienced the baptism of war has blood in him.

The most powerful fight he fought caused a sensation in the entire provincial capital. There were more than 200 people on both sides, and more than 400 policemen were dispatched.The scene at that time was very spectacular. The people and horses from both sides smashed together, the killing sound was loud, and the police guarded the outside.The boss said that they were all red-eyed at the time, and the police didn't dare to come forward, so they could only surround them and don't tell them to run away.

In one fight, several people were killed, 53 people were seriously injured, 32 people were disabled, and countless people were slightly injured.

The boss was arrested, and his old man didn't even want his own official in order to get him out of it. It was also because of his incident that he got a hemiplegia and retired early.

That time the boss was fatal, and the lightest one caught was sentenced to ten years, and the rest was sentenced to no term. The three leaders were directly shot.

After the boss came out, his daughter-in-law divorced him, and he stopped mixing in the society, and began to work as a chef in peace.

(End of this chapter)