The story of a cook

Chapter 55

Huang Ping's due date is getting closer, and she seldom comes to the restaurant.Boss Zou seldom comes here. He goes to the store to collect bills every night, and stays with Huang Ping at home most of the time.

The restaurant is almost managed by the boss.

The boss is in charge, and Liu Xiaoyan is a bit bully.After all, she was young and didn't know the severity, and felt that the boss could cover the sky with one hand in the store, so she started to be arrogant when she spoke, as if she was above the manager.

Sister Wang has been working here for a year and has done a good job. She turned a blind eye to Liu Xiaoyan at the beginning and didn't care much.But Liu Xiaoyan gradually became arrogant, and Sister Wang resigned in a fit of anger.

At dinner, the boss said a few words to Liu Xiaoyan. Liu Xiaoyan felt that she was right, and quarreled with the boss.

Liu Xiaoyan refused to accept the boss at all, and said to the boss: "You want to hit me, hit me, if you have the ability, beat me to death!"

The boss didn't hit his hand, picked up the wine bottle and threw it on the ground, then went back to the house to smoke.

When the two of them got into a fight, everyone didn't have a good meal, so they withdrew after a few mouthfuls.

Seeing that the old man is so arrogant, he wants to go over and persuade a few words, think about it and forget it. At this time, both of them are angry. That's good, so he led Xiao Lizi into the kitchen to mix vegetables.

Yaru also followed in and asked, "What can I do for you?"

I said, "No, just the two of us, you stay here."

Yaru walked up to Xiao Lizi and asked, "Xiao Lizi, where are you from Fuxin?"

"My family's in Xinqiu, not far from your house." Xiao Lizi said, and then asked: "Does your house raise a lot of pigs? My dad always goes to your house to buy pigs, and my dad messes around with pigs."

"There are a lot of pigs in my house, and many people raise pigs."

"Does your family raise pigs? If you raise pigs, I will ask my dad to buy them from your house. The price will be higher."

Yaru smiled and said: "My family only raises one, and save it for the New Year. My parents are still waiting for me to go back to eat pork."

Xiao Lizi scratched his head and smiled honestly.

After mixing the side dishes, turned off the gas, water and electricity, and left the kitchen, Xiao Lizi said to me: "Brother Tan, you can rest, there is still one table of guests left, I will watch here."

"No, you're quite tired too, go back, I'll just stay here." I said.

Xiao Lizi is quite tired after a day's work, he is not happy all day, and calls him for any odd jobs in the kitchen.

"I'm not tired, and I won't be able to sleep when I go back. It's better to stay here for a while. You go back to rest. I'll call you if the guests want anything."

I didn't insist anymore, I didn't eat well at night and felt a little hungry, so I asked Xiao Li, "Would you like a drink?"

Xiao Lizi shook his head and said, "I don't know how to drink, I'm allergic to alcohol."

I went into the kitchen and took some of the side dishes I had just finished mixing and prepared to go back to the house for a drink.

"Do you just eat side dishes and drink?" Yaru asked, seeing that I had only brought a few side dishes. She meant that you have to order two decent dishes for drinking, so how can you drink with side dishes.

"That's fine, that's fine." I said with a smile.

"Why don't you go out and grill some skewers and bring them back, that would be great, the skewers are no better than your little dish."

When Yaru said it, she smiled without saying anything, knowing her little thoughts, and said to her, "Go out and bake some."

She was smirking when I told her she was playing tricks on her.

"Brother Tan, you drink first, I'll go buy it." Xiao Lizi was clever, and walked out after saying that, I hurriedly paid him, but he didn't want it, so I forced it into his hand.

"I'll go too." Yaru happily left with Xiao Lizi.

As soon as I got back to the house, I heard someone shouting outside: "Where are you going?"

It's the boss's loud voice.

"Wherever I want to go, you don't have to worry about it." Xiao Liu's voice.

Then came the sound of footsteps one after the other.Looking out of the room, the two of them had already left the hotel and headed for the traffic post.

Shaking his head, the boss has enough to suffer, and he has to suffer for such a small partner.In the last two days, Huang Ping asked my boss if he knew Liu Xiaoyan when he was in Shengmei, and how did he find such a young one.

"The two of them are not easy to fight. Xiao Liu is too young and willful, but Brother Xing has such a bad temper!" Huang Ping shook her head, not optimistic about the two of them.

"I don't care who I am, the boss is the only one who is young enough to grind him down. He has bullied women for the first half of his life, but he has to be bullied by women for the rest of his life. That's his fate."

"Tan Zi, you can see how old you are just now."

"This has nothing to do with age. It's mainly because I have many older sisters. I started to resolve family disputes for my older sisters when I was in my teens, and I know how the couple live."

"Look how lucky you are, five sisters, how good your sister is, if you have five brothers, it will be over, and you won't treat you as well as your sister."

"Well, how nice my sister is."

Huang Ping and the others have four sisters, and she is the youngest.Her eldest sister and second sister stayed in the countryside when they went to the countryside, and they are doing well now.Her third sister was in the provincial capital, divorced, and had partnered with a man.His parents are still alive, and his elder brother is taking care of him.

Huang Ping is more affordable, and her personality is a bit like a man. In comparison, she handles things better than Boss Zou, standing at attention and being humane.Boss Zou is too businessman-minded, and more interested in profit. In ordinary people's terms, it's a bit of a matter of using people forward and not backward.His friends got along well with Huang Ping, and some of them only got along with him because of Huang Ping's face.

Just after drinking half a glass of wine, Xiao Lizi and Yaru came back.

Yaru took a handful of skewers and came in with a smile, and asked her, "How many skewers did you leave for Xiao Lizi?"

"Keep it, he likes to eat squid, I don't like to eat it, so I gave him all the squid." Then I looked at me as if thinking of something, and asked, "Do you like squid? If you like it, I'll get you some." Come back, hehe, I forgot about you."

"No, I don't eat squid." I said.

Yaru didn't come back for several days after she left the house for the last two days, but both of them knew that they liked each other with a tacit understanding. Although they didn't pierce the last layer of window paper, they already knew each other's feelings at a glance.

Working in the kitchen every day is no longer boring, and my heart is full of joy, humming ditties while working, with a bright smile on my face.This is the feeling of being in love, the heart is beautiful, the mood is joyful, everything is pleasing to the eye, and you don’t feel tired when you do anything. Every few hours when you don’t see Yaru, you will think about it and try your best to stand at the kitchen door and look at her. At a glance, I saw her smiling at me sweetly, as if the air was cheerful.

After getting off work every day, it was still the same as usual, sitting in the hall and carving flowers after mixing vegetables, and Yaju came to sit with me after finishing her own affairs, and talked endlessly about the interesting things about her at home.He said how naughty he was when he was a child, and ran to his old uncle's house when he got into trouble, afraid of being scolded at home, and would not leave by his grandma.And how to fight wits and courage with the fat pig in the pigsty who always screams, and finally the fat pig succumbed to her shovel.

Sometimes Yaru would be very quiet, sitting quietly without saying a word, watching how I turned a radish into a flower, or she would put her chin on her hands and look at me motionlessly with a smile on her eyes.

Pick up a bunch of tendons and eat and drink.

"You also like to eat meat tendons." Yaru asked.

"Well, I like to eat." I said.

"I like to eat it too. Meat tendons are chewy. I eat it so cute. It's better than meat skewers." She finished eating a skewer of meat tendons quickly and said to me, "Brother Tan, you're only 23 and you're just like this." I love to drink, and when you get old, you will be like my dad, you won’t eat without wine.”

"Really? If you don't like it, you won't drink it in the future." I said.

"It's either that you don't like it, or that you don't drink it every day. I don't like you drinking it every day."

"When did you start caring about me?"

"Oh, I'm talking about drinking." She wrinkled her nose unhappily, and then said, "My dad just drinks, and his stomach hurts every time he moves. It's no wonder that he doesn't hurt when he drinks. My mother said that he was short of alcohol, hehe, are you also short of alcohol?"

"Yes, I'm short of alcohol too."

"My mother bothers my dad to drink, and when my dad drinks, she moans, and she moles hers, but my dad doesn't listen, and keeps drinking. You say she annoys my dad to drink, and she gives my dad a drink, and people drink her It's annoying, isn't it a bad thing?"

"The couple are like that, so are my second sister and my second brother-in-law. My second brother-in-law likes to drink, but my second sister is annoying, so I still give him drinks."

"My brother also drinks, but my sister-in-law is so strict that he doesn't dare to drink."

"The two of them just got married. Your brother listens to your sister-in-law. Wait two years and try, but you can't control it."

"Brother Tan, will you be the same then?" she asked.

"I'll listen to you."

"Go!" She gestured to me with the bamboo stick in her hand, and then said, "I don't object to drinking, just don't drink too much. My dad is tired after working as a bricklayer outside for a day, so my mother will make him two." Let him drink some wine to relieve fatigue."

"Will you cook for me?" I asked with a smile.

She blushed, pointed at me with a bamboo stick and said, "Don't say such things again, and you won't be allowed to drink." After she finished speaking, she quickly ate the skewers and ignored me.

Yaru ate very quickly and finished eating the skewers in a short while.Then I started to clean up, took the garbage to the kitchen, and said after returning: "Xiao Lizi locked the door and went back to sleep."

After finishing speaking, he touched his stomach and said a little worriedly: "I eat too much, and I still gain weight, what can I do."

"You don't look fat, you can't tell, the second sister-in-law is called fat." I joked.

She giggled, "That's pregnant, and I'm not pregnant, I'm fat." Then she comforted herself: "If you are fat, you can get fat, as long as you are not hungry."

Yaru is not fat. Compared with other waiters, she is well-proportioned and has a healthy wheat-like complexion.There is a kind of beauty in the faces that resemble XJ people.

She turned around, looked at my sheets and said, "Soak the sheets tomorrow and wash them for you, they're dirty."

I said, "It's okay, not too dirty."

"Wash it up, it's okay after get off work, you and Xiao Lizi are mixing vegetables and I happen to be doing laundry, and I have someone to keep company."

"Thank you."

She pointed two fingers deep in me and said: "Twenty strings of meat tendon, one string must be missing."

"Okay, twenty skewers of pork tendon."

"It's almost there."

After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, and when she walked to the door, she turned around and asked me, "Brother Tan, do you think that you can dream about anything during the day and at night?"

"Yes, I think about it every day and dream at night." I said.

"I don't know what I will dream about today? I had a dream yesterday. I dreamed that you were fighting with someone. They beat you and wanted to kill you with a knife. I woke up in shock and never fell asleep again. I wanted to come and see Look at you, I dare not."

"Why don't you have a good dream, dreaming that I was beaten by someone, I can't beat others." I said.

"Maybe I was thinking all day yesterday, if you dare to bully me, I will let my brother beat you up, that's why I dreamed that you were beaten, hehe, let's go, go back to sleep."

After speaking, he opened the door and left.

(End of this chapter)