Chapter 448 Waiting for the Lantern Festival (3)
Tan Weizhou's cooking movements are very slow. It looks like a video that has been adjusted to 0.5 times speed. He does everything slowly, with the slowness of an elderly person.
Jiang Feng glanced at the wall clock when he was wandering in Tan's small restaurant. It was not yet 4 o'clock. Generally, restaurants only open after 5 o'clock. Private restaurants are more casual, even at 6 or 7 o'clock. It has just opened and no diners will say anything.
Tan Weizhou has been busy since 3 o'clock, just because he is the only chef in Tan's restaurant.
Compared to Ji Xue, who is responsible for washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, doing other chores, cleaning, and even washing dishes, Tan Weizhou actually has a lot more work.
In order to prevent outsiders from copying Tan Weizhou's Huatan Huadiao Chicken, Tan Lin and his wife never let others participate in the preparation of the Watan Huadiao Chicken. They even wished that every dish would be handled by Tan Weizhou only, regardless of whether the 60-year-old Tan Weizhou was in good health. Eat well.
It would be better to give birth to a son like this than to have a barbecued pork.
In the middle of the process, Jiang Feng left the kitchen and walked around the front desk, saying that he was going to pick up Wenwen, probably the daughter-in-law whom Tan Weizhou's granddaughter had called to help. She was sitting at the front desk laughing and watching TV, forgetting what she just said. Er Jing.
When Jiang Feng returned to the kitchen again, Ji Xue had already finished cutting the vegetables and washing the bowls - the remaining bowls after Tan's restaurant opened at noon had been piled in the sink without being washed. Jiang Feng didn't know that Tan Lin and his wife What are they thinking about every day? Do they still want Tan Weizhou to be responsible for washing dishes?
What Jiang Feng didn't know was that Tan Lin was certainly not so whimsical as to allow his 60-year-old father to wash the dishes after cooking, but he had a daughter.
Tan Wenwen has been washing the dishes for a long time since the helper Sister Hong that she hired before resigned until Ji Xue came to work today.
Tan Lin can not only exploit his father, but also his daughter.
Ji Xue finished washing the dishes and didn't know what she could do.
Tan's Restaurant has a good reputation in the city. Anyone in the catering industry knows about it, and Ji Xue has heard about it a long time ago. She was a little afraid of Tan Lin's wife, and a little afraid of Tan Weizhou.
"Master Tan, I...what do I need to do now?" Ji Xue asked.
Tan Weizhou had been making preliminary preparations for the flower-carved chicken on the tile altar and hadn't noticed what Ji Xue was doing. When Ji Xue asked him something, he looked towards Ji Xue and found that Ji Xue had not only cut the vegetables but also washed the dishes.
"Little girl, actually you don't need to wash..." As Tan Weizhou said it, he suddenly remembered something, and the expression on his face seemed a little tangled, "If you want, just wash it."
"What about me now?" Ji Xue then asked.
"Can you cut meat?" Tan Weizhou asked.
"Yes!" Ji Xue nodded eagerly.
"Cut that piece of beef into shreds," Tan Weizhou said.
Ji Xue started cutting the beef.
Ji Xue was immersed in cutting the beef seriously, and she didn't notice that Tan Weizhou actually stopped what he was doing to watch her cut. Tan Weizhou looked at it for a while, and his original serious expression relaxed a lot, and he continued to do his own thing.
It wasn't until after 5 o'clock that Tan's Restaurant began to receive guests who had made reservations in advance. Tan Lin's wife came in several times to ask about the dishes, but she had no intention of helping. She went out after asking every time. When the dishes are ready, Ji Xue brings them out. She has two jobs: kitchen staff and waiter, but she never gets two wages.
Tan Wenwen finally arrived at Tan's Restaurant at around seven o'clock. She came to wash dishes. As soon as Tan Wenwen stepped through the door of Tan's Little Restaurant, her mother grabbed her and dragged her into the warehouse, scolded her, and then rushed to the kitchen to help. Tan Wenwen had a sullen expression throughout the whole process until just before dinner, and had no communication with Ji Xue.
It wasn't until after dinner at eight o'clock in the evening that Tan Lin arrived late with his son. Tan Lin is the only two children, Tan Wenwen is a few years older than Ji Xue, and his son looks to be a few years older than Ji Xia. The age difference between the Tan siblings should be about the same as the age difference between the Ji sisters.
Dinner was still cooked by Tan Weizhou. It was quite sumptuous, probably because of the Chinese New Year. There were all kinds of fish, meat and seafood. The plate of boiled shrimps in the center of the table was even more beautifully arranged.
"Why did you come back so late? You went out to fool around and took your son with you." Tan Lin's wife was dissatisfied. Tan Lin came so late and no one helped with the dishes. Although he only served 6 tables, she still felt very dissatisfied. .
Although she was dissatisfied with her husband, Tan Lin's wife was still smiling when facing her son. The smile she showed was the most sincere and brilliant smile Jiang Feng had seen since he saw her today.
"Ruirui, did you enjoy your father's trip to the zoo today?"
"Happy!"
Tan Wenwen watched from the side and his face became a little gloomier, obviously sulking.
"Didn't the zoo close at 6 o'clock? Why did you come back so late?" Tan Lin's wife's face changed instantly when she faced Tan Lin.
"It's not like Ruirui was clamoring for barbecue, but he ordered it but didn't eat it, so I ate it alone. Let me see what I'm going to eat today. Oh, dad, why are you cooking this for the Chinese New Year? This boiled shrimp is usually Can't you try a new way to celebrate the Chinese New Year?" Although Tan Lin doesn't work, he is quite demanding.
After complaining about the food on the table, Tan Lin noticed Ji Xue. The last time Ji Xue came to apply for a job, Tan Lin was there. When he saw him coming, he knew what had happened and dragged his wife into the warehouse without saying a word.
The door was not closed tightly.
"Then the girl came today?" Tan Lin asked.
"Yes, you came this afternoon. Why aren't you happy? I don't usually see you helping out in the store. I'm exhausted from serving dishes all day long, and I have to go to the kitchen to wash and cut vegetables. That damn girl Wenwen ran off to nowhere today and didn’t come until after seven o’clock.”
"Who wants to hear this from you? How about she being in the kitchen this afternoon?" Tan Lin was obviously impatient to hear his wife's nonsense.
"What's going on? I don't know. I'm not in the kitchen."
"You didn't stay in the kitchen?" Tan Lin suddenly raised his voice, and the people outside could hear it more clearly. "You just let that girl stay in the kitchen with dad all afternoon? Do you know if she came to sneak in? She is a peep, so you are so confident in letting her stay with dad?”
"What can a little girl learn secretly?"
"What are you learning secretly? Today's girls are very smart. They look honest on the surface, but they may not know what they are like behind the scenes. I remember that her family owns a restaurant, and people who work in the same industry are enemies, do you understand?"< br>
"Okay, okay, why are you speaking so loudly? Be careful to be heard by people outside. I'll go to the kitchen and stay there tomorrow. You're in the store or you're outside."
"Isn't there Wenwen? What am I doing in the store?"
"..."
The couple chatted animatedly in the warehouse, but people outside were extremely embarrassed. Tan Weizhou had a sullen face and Ji Xue blushed, not sure if it was because of shame or anger. Even Tan Wenwen, who had been unhappy before, seemed a little embarrassed at this time. He was too embarrassed to look at Ji Xue. He could only pretend to be deeply attracted by the dishes on the table and kept staring at the plate of boiled shrimps.
Tan Rui was young and didn't react at all. He sat at the dining table and waited for the meal to be served.
After a while, the couple came out of the warehouse with their faces as usual, completely unaware that the wonderful conversation between them had been clearly heard by outsiders.
"Well, boss, can I pack some food and take it home to eat? My sister is still at home. It's too late now. My parents are not at home. I'm afraid that she will be scared to stay at home alone." Ji Xue whispered, Keep your head down.
Tan Lin's wife was a little unhappy and said in a bad tone: "We have run out of packing boxes in the store."
"I have a lunch box in the kitchen. You can use my lunch box to pack it back and return it to me tomorrow. If you want to pack it in the future, you can bring your own lunch box." Tan Wenwen suddenly said.
"Thank you."
"There are still some over-fried leftovers in the kitchen. You can pack the dishes in the kitchen." Tan Weizhou said.
"Thank you."
"Dad, why did you over-fry it when you were cooking? What a waste. Besides, if you over-fry it, just put it on the plate and take it out so that everyone can eat it together." Tan Lin had something else to say at this time Said.
Tan Weizhou glanced at him: "Didn't you say it before, don't let me fool you with leftovers?"
Tan Lin coughed awkwardly.
Tan Wenwen led Ji Xue into the back kitchen and took out a pink plastic lunch box from the cabinet.
"I usually use this lunch box to bring lunch to school when I go to school. My grandfather doesn't trust me to eat the food in the cafeteria. He always feels that the food in the cafeteria is unclean." Tan Wenwen explained.
There was a plate on the cooking table with some leftover vegetables from Tan Weizhou's frying. In fact, they are just some leftovers. The taste is the same, but the appearance is not good, and it is not convenient to put on the plate. There are both meat and vegetables, and they are piled together on the plate like a hodgepodge.
Tan Wenwen helped Ji Xue scoop half of the lunch into the lunch box, then poured all the dishes into the lunch box and handed the lunch box to her.
"Go back quickly. I didn't talk to you just now not because I had any objections to you, but because I was in a bad mood. Thank you for helping me wash the dishes for lunch." Tan Wenwen said.
"Thank you." Ji Xue whispered, smiling at Tan Wenwen. (End of chapter)