Chapter 675 The magnificent calm
Jiang Feng cheered up and prepared to listen to the story.
This kind of tender moment when the elderly reminisce and talk about the past is a good time for juniors like them to have fun, and they can't get in the middle of the conversation anyway.
All the dishes on the table were removed, and Xu Cheng also showed his hard work, simplicity, diligence and housekeeping in line with the core values of socialism and packed up the remaining steamed chicken with straw mushrooms and braised white fungus.
All the ingredients for this swallow-wing banquet are provided by Xu Cheng. In a sense, it can be said that it is Boss Xu’s treat.
After the dishes were removed, the waiter served a serving of almond tea per person, and then brought out two plates of snacks. Jiang Feng originally didn't plan to eat anymore. To describe his current situation as having food stuck in his throat would be mild. He felt that his stomach had just undergone a physical experiment. He had an empty stomach. First, he added some bird's nest and shark's fin stock to the bottom, then stuffed abalone and sea cucumber to fill the middle and lower parts, then added chicken, duck, fish and vegetables to fill it up, and finally poured in the soup. Fill the gaps.
Jiang Feng proved to everyone with practical actions that the capacity of the stomach is like water in a sponge, and there will always be some if you squeeze it.
When Jiang Feng saw the almond tea, he felt that the sponge was dry. When Peng Changping told Jiang Feng that he had made the almond tea before, Jiang Feng felt that some more water could be squeezed out of the sponge.
Jiang Feng struggled to pick up the spoon, scooped out a spoonful of almond tea filled with raisins, sesame seeds, and chopped peanuts, and took the first bite.
Second bite.
Third mouthful.
……
The bowl of almond tea was not big, but it was definitely not too small. Jiang Feng originally only wanted to take a few bites to taste the taste, but he ended up eating all the desserts. Unknowingly, his stomach was not prepared at all. .
Zhang Zhiyun watched helplessly as Jiang Feng, who had already pushed out of the battlefield, started to fight again, full of energy and with an amazing stomach capacity. He was greatly surprised and admired, and sighed: "Brother Feng, you can really eat."
Jiang Feng nodded lowly, but he didn't dare to open his mouth.
Can't open mouth, food will fall out.
Also, my stomach hurts a little.
He no longer overeats.
Except for Peng Changping's cooking.
While Jiang Feng was eating and drinking too much, Zhang Chu's story process had deviated from reality and started to develop into a magical plot.
After Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang went to the countryside as educated youths, Cao Guixiang's cooking skills were useless, but Zhang Chu's carpentry skills shone brightly. With this skill, Zhang Chu helps the party secretary repair the table today, repairs the chair for the accountant tomorrow, repairs the door of the village barn the day after tomorrow, and repairs the fence of the brigade leader's house the day after tomorrow. After being separated from the village, he can only play in the mud. Cutting hogweed and digging wild vegetables The children used rotten wood to make simple wooden toys that would break after playing with them for two days. They donated them for free and took no money. They became very prosperous in the village. In just two months, it became a village with ten miles of land. There is no one among the most popular educated youths.
From then on, Zhang Chu lived a happy life of working the least and earning the most work points. Although he was slightly squeezed out by other educated youths, he had a wife, so what was he afraid of? Even Cao Guixiang had the most leisurely life of watching the valley. warehouse work.
"If it weren't for the fact that my educational level was so low that I had just graduated from elementary school and had forgotten everything I learned and couldn't even write a few words, I might have been recommended to the workers, peasants, and soldiers to go to college back then!" Zhang Chu said. So he started bragging.
Jiang Feng:...
"Then why didn't you come back when the educated youth returned to the city?" Peng Changping asked.
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Chu's expression changed. He thought about it and said, "It's not...it doesn't matter."
When Cao Guixiang resigned as an educated youth and went to the countryside, the street office arranged a temporary job for Cao Guixiang's younger brother as a street sweeper in order to compensate Cao Guixiang's family. Cao Guixiang's parents may have really felt guilty and wanted to make amends. The first two years were pretty good, and they would send Cao Guixiang some good things that couldn't be bought in the countryside every few months.
But guilt will soon dissipate with time.
The correspondence between Cao Guixiang and her family became less and less. Even if Cao Guixiang took the initiative to write letters, the replies she got were often just a few perfunctory words. The longest reply she got later was when Cao Guixiang wrote to tell them that she was planning to have a divorce with Zhang. Chu got married in the countryside.
It was a letter of strong rebuke, in sharp contrast to the letters of blessing and gifts sent by Peng Changping and others.
You know, that year, Qin Guisheng spent more than half a year's salary and a huge amount of money to go to a department store to buy the most expensive dress he could afford, which was more expensive than a watch, and sent it to Cao Guixiang as a wedding gift - he was already married at that time. , the wife is not Amin.
The parents of Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu did not even send a grain of brown sugar.
Since then, Cao Guixiang and her family have basically lost communication.
Later, the educated youth returned to the city. Although Zhang Chu was prosperous in the village, he had no connections in the city. At that time, Zhang Chiyuan and Zhang Siyu had already been born. Cao Guixiang originally wanted to go back to Peiping so that it would be more convenient for the children to go to school, but the letters he sent fell into the sea with no reply.
Even their biological parents refused to help, and relatives of Peng Changping and Qin Guisheng's families were eager to return to the city. Everyone wanted to find connections, but everyone lacked connections. Cao Guixiang didn't want to trouble her master and senior brother by writing a special letter, so she stayed in the village with Zhang Chu. She did not try every means to find a relationship like other educated youths, even if they abandoned their wives and children, they had to return to the city.
Zhang Chu was just lucky, or maybe the party secretary and accountant had too many broken tables, chairs, cabinets over the years, and they owed Zhang Chu a lot of favors. When Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu were wasting their time in the village for less than two years, the party secretary and accountant helped Zhang Chu find a job as a carpenter in the county town.
After Zhang Chu's family moved to the county town, Zhang Chu worked as a carpenter, and Cao Guixiang also picked up his old job and worked as a chef in a newly opened restaurant in the county town. With the help of Cao Guixiang, the restaurant took only half a year to defeat the only state-owned restaurant in the county, became popular in the county, and once became a legend.
When Zhang Chu said this, Xu Cheng also added a few words with a shocked look on his face. In the early years, when he traveled around the country looking for small shops hidden among the people, he had also heard the legend of this shop. This shop was only very prosperous. After a few years, the boss suddenly closed the business and went to other businesses, which made him very regretful.
Then Zhang Chu told him that the boss changed his job because Zhang Chiyuan was going to elementary school and their family moved to the city. Cao Guixiang resigned. Cao Guixiang's former boss was quite nice. In order to thank Cao Guixiang for helping him earn money in the past few years and making him a mysterious legend, half of the money spent by Zhang Chu's family to buy a house in the city was paid by Cao Guixiang's boss. The remaining half was the salary saved by Cao Guixiang. Zhang Chu's savings in those years were only enough to buy some furniture for simple decoration.
At this point in the story, no matter how you listen to it, it is the story of the rise of a generation of catering industry tycoons.
Then Cao Guixiang became a full-time wife.
One is that there are two children in the family. Cao Guixiang deeply feels that the brother and sister have neither carpentry talent nor cooking talent. They are afraid that they will starve to death if they pursue crafts in the future. The only way out is studying. The other one is It's because she is not an ambitious person to begin with.
With Cao Guixiang's craftsmanship, even if she goes to a night market to sell Malatang, she can become the Queen of Malatang in a short time, then open a store, open a chain, become bigger and stronger, and finally open a restaurant. Even if she doesn't want to start a business, with her skills, she can choose from any restaurant across the country. No matter which restaurant she wants, she will be given the best treatment as a chef.
But she didn't.
The magnificent story of Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu came to an abrupt end when they entered the city.
Zhang Chu continued to work as his carpenter and became famous. Then as the carpenter industry became increasingly scarce, he retired smoothly and became an old man who drank tea, played chess and raised his grandson every day.
Cao Guixiang became an ordinary housewife, buying vegetables, cooking, dancing, chatting and drinking tea every day. From time to time, she would go shopping and climb mountains with other housewives. When she got old, she would send her grandson to tutoring classes whenever he wanted to go shopping.
Maybe it's because there was a period in their lives that was too exciting and bumpy to make a choice, so when it came time to choose, they all chose the dullest and most ordinary way to live.
I don't want to be a successful person, but I want to be able to live in harmony with my family and people.
If Peng Changping hadn't returned to China and Zhang Chu had come to see Peng Changping, Zhang Zhiyun might never have known that his seemingly ordinary grandparents had such a wonderful life.
Zhang Zhiyun was completely stupid, and so was Jiang Feng.
He didn't know why, but he felt an inexplicable feeling of relief when he heard Zhang Chu talk about this.
Peng Changping also had a look of relief on his face. What he and Qin Guisheng were most worried about in the years when they lost contact with Cao Guixiang was that his junior sister was not doing well in the country, living an unsatisfactory life and having no relatives to support her. Now that he knows that she lives a happy life like every normal and happy old lady, he has no regrets.
"Then...how did Junior Sister leave?" Peng Changping asked the most critical question.
Zhang Chu's eyes darkened: "I was unlucky. When I was crossing the road to buy groceries in the morning, a large truck was speeding and I was killed on the spot. That's fine, there is no pain."
Peng Changping sighed.
Cao Guixiang's story is over.
Jiang Feng's side mission is not over yet.
He just listened to Zhang Chu's talk, and he and Zhang Zhiyun were stunned for a while, but they didn't understand why Zhang Chu felt it was a pity that he couldn't treat Peng Changping to a meal with the flavor of Shunhe Building at Shunhe Building. .
He thinks it's a wedding reception, but the game tells him it's not.
What's wrong?
What else is missing? (End of chapter)