The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 224 What Is It Even Better Than Animals?
The old man's funeral was arranged by Zhou Xiaomei.

Of course, she couldn't handle it like the person in charge. Following the instructions of Lao Tan who was inspecting in Yiyang and her own wishes, she silently did all the necessary matters until the old man was cremated, buried, and entertained relatives and friends who came to express their condolences. After the banquet.

After everything was done, Cao Jiadong, this man seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, with a tired face on his sad face, sitting on a stool, smoking one cigarette after another.

There are still tears on the faces of the two sensible children. Xiaojun is standing, looking at the portrait of his grandma. Xiaoying is a little tired. like.

But the child is too sleepy, adults can't stand the tossing for several days, let alone a four-year-old child.

The child was startled suddenly, his whole body trembled, obviously he couldn't hold back his bewilderment, and he woke up immediately again, his big watery black eyes were frightened and sad.

Zhou Xiaomei went to pick Xiaoying up from the chair and put her on the kang, trying to put the child to sleep.

The child lay down obediently and closed his eyes, but his little hands were holding on to the corner of his aunt's clothes.

Zhou Xiaomei stood on the ground, looked at the child, then looked at Cao Jiadong, and comforted: "My condolences are changing, and I am quite tired. Let's take a rest—I'm back."

Cao Jiadong got up to send out, Xiaojun followed behind, Xiaoying also got up from the kang, went down to the ground and followed out of the house.

The afternoon sun, with the warmth of autumn, sprinkled in this small courtyard full of sadness, a little gray and desolate.

After leaving the small courtyard, Zhou Xiaomei told the family of three to go back, and then walked forward alone.Go to the end of the alley, turn left, it is still an alley.Out of this alley is the main street, and one mile further is the Jinqiao store.

When Zhou Xiaomei was walking forward, she heard footsteps behind her and couldn't help but stop and turn around.

Xiaojun took his sister's hand and ran to the front.

"Go back quickly, you don't need to see Auntie off." Zhou Xiaomei said.

The two children with filial cloth on their arms looked up, making people feel unspeakably distressed.

The two children looked up, and the next moment they both knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed to the kind Aunt Xiaomei with pure gratitude and piety——
Zhou Xiaomei was so shocked that she quickly squatted down and hugged the two children tightly into her arms——
At this moment, she burst into tears.

After Lao Tan and Zhang Li arrived in Changsha, they did not stop, but took a small passenger and rushed to Yiyang.

It was already dark in Yiyang, and Lao Tan didn't contact the owner of Rice Soup Taste right away. He first found a hotel to stay in, and planned to go there directly the next day.

Zhang Li tidied up briefly in her room, then went to Lao Tan's room and asked him to go out for dinner.

The two of them hadn't eaten for nearly nine hours. They were really hungry. They found a small restaurant near the hotel and ordered two simple dishes. When Lao Tan was ordering wine, Zhang Li stopped him and told him to pay attention to his health.

"Drink less, and drink a little more to relieve fatigue." Old Tan asked for a reason.

"I'm telling you, Old Tan, that I won't go out with you for the rest of my life. It's purely suffering." Zhang Li complained, but didn't stop her from ordering wine.

This time, under Lao Tan's suggestion, I didn't take the plane, but the train.The reason given by Lao Tan is that you can see the scenery by train, which is equivalent to traveling.Zhang Li thought so, so she listened to his suggestion.

Little did they know that the 24-hour journey from the provincial capital to Changsha, even though she was sitting on a soft sleeper, made Zhang Li tormented enough and complained endlessly.There are indeed scenery along the way, but it was night when I passed by, so I didn't see it.

When I entered Changsha, there were beautiful mountains, but it was a pity that I passed by after a while, and passed without waiting for appreciation.

"No one asked you to come along, you did it voluntarily." Old Tan laughed.

"I think you did it intentionally—forget it, I don't care about it with you. You will investigate yours starting tomorrow. I will play with mine and we will not be together." Zhang Li said.

"Okay, listen to you."

Zhang Li put a piece of meat into her mouth, followed by a mouthful of rice, and swallowed it without much chewing.

So is Lao Tan.

"By the way, why do you have two rooms?" Zhang Li asked.

"Don't two people open two rooms?" Lao Tan asked back.

"Cut! Prudish." Zhang Libai glanced at her, and then said, "I'll live in your house today."

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and touched Lao Tan's cup, without looking at Lao Tan, he took a sip on his own.

Old Tan didn't speak, and picked up a glass to drink.

To be honest, Zhang Li's heartbeat quickened after she said "I'll live in your house today", and she drank to cover up her shyness.It’s just that after he finished speaking, he saw that Lao Tan didn’t pay attention to him, and was annoyed in his heart. He put down his wine glass and looked at Lao Tan’s bald head, and said: “Sometimes people should write bigger characters, out of line, and don’t always feel aggrieved.”

"Am I aggrieved?" Old Tan asked.

"Who knows? Thousands of miles away from home, no one knows what you want to do, what's wrong? You still want to find a lady in the middle of the night?"

Old Tan smiled and said, "Don't tempt me, I can do anything if I drink too much."

Zhang Li picked up the wine glass again and said, "It's okay, I'll drink more, I'm drunk, I don't know anything."

Looking at the bold woman in front of him, no matter how manly he is, Old Tan couldn't help his heart fluttering, his imagination running wild, and even an intimate picture of the two lying on the bed appeared in front of him.

Desire makes people bold, and the fire of desire can burn one's body.

If you want to have wind and rain, you must roar with thunder and lightning.

But the two of them are adults after all, and they are not casual in their bones. They can talk freely, and things may not be done naturally.

Two people who really love each other, if one of them has a family, then there will be a gap between the two people, although invisible, but invisible, it will appear when they want to get close, and at the same time there will be Morality and conscience.

This is not as casual as a man spending money to find a lady, it's just a transaction.

In the face of beautiful love in the world, desire is the sublimation of emotion, and after the joy of physical integration, there are also responsibilities and commitments, as well as heavy love.

The two of them didn't drink too much. After returning to the hotel, Zhang Li took a shower first, and then lay comfortably on the bed to watch her mobile phone. She wondered if Lao Tan could come over.If you come over, will you just——
Hmph, it's just him, he won't come if he's killed, he looks tall and mighty, like a bandit, he's timid, he can't be a hooligan.

When I thought of this, I couldn't help laughing, and relaxed my body to the soft bed. After a while, this silly woman fell asleep.

This situation is easy to remind people of a joke circulating on the Internet.It is said that a boy and a girl stayed in a hotel, and before going to bed, the girl seriously told the boy not to be dishonest, if he dared to bully her, he would be a beast.

The boy was obedient and lived in peace all night.

When she woke up the next morning, the girl saw that she was intact, so she went up and slapped the boy.

The boy was stunned by the beating, and asked why he was beaten aggrievedly.

The girl said, "You are worse than a beast."

Zhang Li, like the girl, wanted to call Lao Tan a beast, and Lao Tan was just like the boy—worse than a beast.

The next day, Lao Tan contacted the owner of Rice Soup Flavor. Unfortunately, the owner was preparing for the opening of the franchise store in Shenzhen, not in Yiyang.boss on the phone

Li enthusiastically expressed his welcome to Lao Tan's arrival, and at the same time apologized for not being at home, and immediately arranged for the general manager at home to receive Lao Tan.

Although it is a pity that the boss is not at home, it does not affect the inspection.

After waiting at the hotel for half an hour, the general manager came.

The general manager is a man in his thirties. The first impression he gives is that he is handsome, and then he is capable and shrewd. He looks like he is in management.

The general manager's name is Wang Zheng, and he is still half-laer from the provincial capital—he has been a soldier in the provincial capital for seven years.After being demobilized, he returned to his hometown of Yiyang. Instead of working in the unit he was assigned to, he became a teacher of the owner of Rice Soup Weiwei, and started catering from then on.

Wang Zheng enthusiastically led Lao Tan and Zhang Li to the old store, introduced them to the store manager and head chef, and then began to lead the tour.

The rice soup-flavored old store has [-] square meters, with the first and second floors, and looks like a farmyard as a whole.

"Our family mainly cooks local dishes from the farm. We don't cook the big dishes in the hotel. Most of the raw materials are brought from the countryside. They are all home-cooked. They are authentic and the guests like them very much." Wang Zheng introduced.

It's just ten o'clock, and the guests haven't arrived yet, and the staff are making preparations before the meal.

The waiters wiped the table and mopped the floor, set up the table swiftly, and greeted them with a smile when they passed by. They were very polite and comfortable.

A girl who looked like a foreman came over with three bottles of mineral water and gave each of the three people a bottle. Zhang Li wrote down the details and praised them admiringly.

"Our waiters have the right to give gifts to the guests, and the foreman has the right to waive orders, so that the employees have the feeling of being the masters of the house and have a sense of pride in their hearts. Hehe, this is also learned from Haidilao, not our first." Wang Zheng said modestly .

It can be seen that he, the general manager, is very satisfied and proud of the performance of the employees, and his face is full of confidence.

Every catering person is very enthusiastic and proud of coming to visit and inspect.The reason is simple. If you do well, someone will learn from it, and if you don’t do well, who will come?

It is said that peers are enemies, how should I put it, it cannot be said that it is the old Huangli. In today's information-advanced era, peers communicate with each other and learn from each other is a shortcut to improve yourself. If you stay behind closed doors and build a car, you can only lag behind and be beaten, and finally be ruthlessly eliminated.

Learning is useful at any time, including being learned by others.

(End of this chapter)