Chapter 447 Waiting for the Lantern Festival (2)
Ji Xue played checkers with Ji Xia for a while, ate two candies, then went to the room to change clothes, leaving Ji Xia to stay in the living room and watch TV.
The TV can only watch Central Television 1 and Central Television 3. Their cable TV has not been renewed, so there are only a few channels that can be watched, but Ji Xia still watches it with gusto.
Her parents were worried about letting her go out to play when she was young, but there was no TV to watch at home, and there were no books suitable for her age, or she had already read all she could read. No one was with her at home except Ji Xue, and now Ji Xue was going out.
Jiang Feng took a look around the sisters' house while they were playing checkers. It was a house with three bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom, and a small balcony. It had all kinds of furniture and was well decorated. Jiang Feng couldn't understand anything else, but he could tell that Ji Xia's floor was of good quality.
Both sisters have their own small rooms. The area of the house is at least 120 square meters. Jiang Feng feels that it is larger than his home.
Jiang Feng made a reasonable guess that when Ji Xia's father was still running a restaurant, the business of their restaurant should be quite good. The money earned must be more than his original healthy snacks. After all, Ji Xia's house prices are much more expensive than those in City Z.
Ji Xue changed into dark clothes. These clothes were from last year. She is growing taller every year. The clothes from last year were obviously smaller on her body and looked tight as if she was wearing a tights.
She really couldn't find any clothes that fit her better. The two new clothes she bought this year were all white. She had also helped in her family's restaurant before, so she knew that white clothes would get dirty quickly in that environment.
"Xia Xia, sister has gone out beforehand. When you come back in the evening, you stay at home and watch TV by yourself. Don't run out." Ji Xue warned.
"Sister, can I read the "Little Princess" on your bookshelf again?" Ji Xia asked.
Ji Xue was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, she remembered which book "The Little Princess" was. She felt a little strange and asked, "Xia Xia, do you understand it?"
"I don't understand." Ji Xia said honestly, "But I want to be a maid like Sara (the heroine of The Little Princess)!"
Ji Xue was completely stunned. After a long time, she slowly said, "Xia Xia, why do you want to be a maid?"
Jiang Feng was also stunned and stared at Ji Xia curiously.
Unexpectedly, Ji Xia's childhood dream was so different. Other children at this age wanted to be astronauts, astronauts, and scientists, but Ji Xia actually thought of being a maid. Fortunately, Ji Xia later changed her ambition and wanted to open a breakfast shop. Compared with maids, opening a breakfast shop was a lofty ambition.
"Sarah used to have a lot of beautiful dresses, and she could eat a lot of candies and snacks. But then she didn't have any, so she became a maid. But after she became a maid, she was the same as before. As long as Sarah and I are the same. If we work as maids in school, we can go shopping for dresses in the summer and buy cakes with our parents on weekends, as before." Ji Xia said.
"The Little Princess" is a children's novel that is not very children's style. Ji Xia only understood the superficial meaning of the book and felt a little bit empathized with it.
Ji Xue didn't know how to answer Ji Xia, so she could only smile and say to her: "Then there's no need for Xia Xia to be a maid. My sister can be a maid."
"I'll leave first. If you're hungry first when sister comes back in late Xiaxia, you can heat up the morning steamed buns yourself and eat half of them," Ji Xueyao said.
"Yes." Ji Xia nodded, "Sister, please come back soon."
Jiang Feng went out with Ji Xue. In fact, he didn't quite understand the meaning of Ji Xia's words just now, but he could tell that Ji Xia had definitely misinterpreted the original work.
After leaving the door, Jiang Feng realized that Ji Xia's house was quite high. It was on the 6th floor and there was no elevator. It was quite difficult to go up and down the stairs.
The location of the community is good, and there is a bus stop at the door. Tan's Restaurant is not far from Ji Xue's home. You can get there in 20 minutes by taking the bus without changing trains. It's no wonder Ji Xue chose to work here.
As an expensive private restaurant, Tan's Restaurant is small in size and has a decent decoration. It really doesn't look like a private restaurant.
Ji Xue had obviously come here to ask about her before. The landlady knew her, and she didn't react much when she saw Ji Xue coming. Her attitude was even a bit dismissive.
Ji Xue went to talk to Master Tan's daughter-in-law, obviously discussing specific treatment, while Jiang Feng wandered around the Tan family restaurant.
Tan's Restaurant is not large, and there are not many tables. Counting Jiang Feng on the second floor, there are only six tables in total. It's no wonder that Watan Huadiao Chicken was hard to come by back then, and reservations could be queued for months or even months. Go in a year.
There are only six tables in total. Even if Master Tan’s son and daughter-in-law wanted to make money, they would not be able to kick out the diners who had just started eating. Even if they could really do something like urging diners to eat quickly, Master Tan wouldn't be able to do it alone, given his age.
Jiang Feng glanced around and was surprised to find that there was no one in the kitchen of Tan's restaurant. Master Tan's daughter-in-law was the only one in the store. Master Tan was not there, so he must have gone back to rest.
Jiang Feng looked at Tan's small restaurant from the inside out, even the warehouse where things were stored. When he went back to find Ji Xue, he found that Master Tan's daughter-in-law had taken Ji Xue to work in the kitchen.
"First of all, I have to tell you. Our restaurant is not closed for one or two days a week like other restaurants. Our restaurant has no closing time. You have to come here all year round, including the two-day Lantern Festival. , don’t delay my work for two days.” Master Tan’s daughter-in-law first sounded the alarm to Ji Xue.
"You are an apprentice. Apprentices know that you are learning something. The 600 yuan a month is given to you because of your young age and family difficulties. Apprentices in other stores only care about food but not money."
"I know." Ji Xue said.
"It's good to know. Since you have to work here, you have to be diligent. Do whatever you see. Don't let others call you. Take the initiative. Whether it's chopping vegetables, washing dishes, cleaning, wiping the table, do whatever you can. , and then get off work after finishing the get off work. No one is allowed to leave until the kitchen is clean, even after the meal is finished.”
"Our old man is a famous chef. If I hadn't seen that you are young and honest, and don't look like you are here to steal someone's skills, I wouldn't have let you help in the kitchen. Keep your eyes open when you are doing things, and don't look around. Don't think about it all day long and want to learn something secretly. Click on that. You are an apprentice. I will teach you something when you should be taught. Don't learn what you shouldn't learn. If I find out that you want to learn something secretly, I will tell you to throw it out immediately. "This is Master Tan's daughter-in-law. After a long series of words, Ji Xue was given a blow.
"I know." Ji Xue said.
Seeing Ji Xue being so obedient, Master Tan's daughter-in-law nodded with satisfaction: "Then let's start working first. Today is a trial without any pay, but I can take care of your food in the evening. All the vegetables over there have to be cut. It seems that you haven't washed it yet. Wash the vegetables first, and then cut them. You cut the vegetables in front of me when you came that day, right? I remember that you cut them well. Forget it, show me after you finish cutting them to save me. Misremembered.”
"Okay." Ji Xue said.
Master Tan's daughter-in-law left the kitchen.
Ji Xue started to wash the vegetables. Looking at his movements while washing the vegetables, it can be seen that she is not very skilled and does not wash vegetables often.
In fact, this is normal. Even if Ji Xue's family originally owned a restaurant, it would not be possible for the boss's daughter to go to the restaurant to help wash the dishes.
Jiang Feng rarely washes vegetables himself. Their family has Comrade Wang Xiulian, a master dishwasher, but others basically have no chance to wash vegetables. Comrade Wang Xiulian is proficient in the violent vegetable washing method. Although the washed vegetables do not look very good, they are very clean and fast.
Ji Xue was washing vegetables in the kitchen, while Jiang Feng was watching from the side. When Ji Xue washed the two pots of vegetables and cut them into half, the kitchen door was opened again.
An old man with gray hair came in.
That is, the late red case master Tan Weizhou, the founder of Wa Tan Huadiao Chicken.
When Tan Weizhou was alive, he was most famous for two things, one was the flower-carved chicken on the tile altar, and the other was his unfilial son Tan Lin.
In a sense, Tan Weizhou's unfilial son who falls in the eyes of money and is unwilling to learn his father's cooking skills is more famous than his Huadiao Chicken. Jiang Feng had just joined the Beiping culinary circle, and other chefs shared old dishes from the culinary circle with him. The ones Jiang Feng ate the most were Master Tan's and his son's dishes.
After so many years, the Shandong cuisine chef circle is eating the Cantonese cuisine chef's melon. You can imagine how widespread and popular this melon was back then, and how famous it was in the chef circle.
All in all, in one sentence, Tan Lin is a representative figure of unfilial descendants, lying on his father's body to suck blood until a year before his death.
Compared with Tan Lin, Jiang Weiming's eldest son can be regarded as a filial son and a worthy grandson.
Jiang Feng remembered that Tan Weizhou was in his early 70s when he died, so Tan Weizhou should be around 65 years old now.
Because of overwork, Tan Weizhou looks far older than 65. He is very old, and his gray hair has become the youngest part of his body.
Tan Weizhou saw a little girl chopping vegetables in the kitchen. He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Alin's wife, who is this little girl in the kitchen?"
The daughter-in-law ran over with a smile on her face and said enthusiastically: "Dad, this is the new apprentice."
"Apprentice? You are too young at this age, not as big as Wenwen." Tan Weizhou was a little dissatisfied.
"Dad, this girl is in a special situation. Her parents are seriously ill, and she also has a younger sister. The family is really in trouble, so I feel sorry for leaving her here. Don't look at her young age. Her family used to be I have also learned a lot from running a restaurant, so I can help you cut vegetables and so on, and there will be no problem at all," the daughter-in-law explained quickly.
"The one before me was Sister Hong. She didn't want to come because she was too tired and troublesome. I really can't find anyone during this Chinese New Year. You know my body. I can't bear this burden. I've been here for a few days. My shoulders are so sore. Don't ask Tan Lin to help you in the kitchen. He can't even be seen until dinner time. I feel tired from serving our whole family every day." But he said it sincerely.
Tan Weizhou wanted to say something, but he swallowed it again and could only sigh: "Then let's do it."
"Okay, Dad, thank you for your hard work. You should be more cautious when cooking. After all, although this little girl's family is pitiful, she doesn't know everything." The daughter-in-law had a smile on her face, and she seemed a little unhappy when she saw Tan Weizhou. He quickly changed his face and said, "Really, where did this damn girl Wenwen go? She asked her to come to the kitchen to help out and then ran away to who knows where. I'll catch her back for you!"
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After saying that, he ran away.
Ji Xue had already put down the knife and looked at Tan Weizhou nervously.
"Girl, it's okay, you...just keep going." Tan Weizhou forced a smile and walked heavily to the cooking table. (End of chapter)