When Ji Xue returned home with the lunch box, Ji Xia was still the only one at home, and there was an empty plate on the table, presumably Ji Xia had already heated the steamed buns and ate them by herself.

Ji Xia was reading a set of news at nine o'clock in the center, and there was a copy of "The Little Princess" on the coffee table.

Seeing that Ji Xue was back, Ji Xia turned her head happily, and her sleepy eyes suddenly opened up: "Sister, where did you go to play? Why did you come back so late? I have to fall asleep." ”

"I went to the same school, and I stayed a little long, I'm sorry Xia Xia, I let you stay at home alone for so long. The first thing Ji Xue did when she came back was to pour the food in the lunch box into a plate and put it in the microwave to heat it, and then wash the lunch box in the kitchen.

Ji Xia didn't watch TV anymore, ran to the kitchen door with a blank eye, poked out a small head, and watched Ji Xue wash the lunch box.

Ji Xue asked, "Haven't Mom and Dad come back yet?"

"His mother came back before, picked up her clothes and went out again, she said that her father was going to be hospitalized for both days, and she was going to the hospital and couldn't come back. Ji Xia said, pointing to the plate on the dining table, "Mom pressed 50 yuan under the plate." ”

The 50 yuan is naturally the living expenses of Ji Xia and Ji Xue in the past few days.

Ji Xue nodded: "What did Xia Xia eat at night?"

"I ate 4 pieces of candy, and half a steamed bun left over from the morning. Ji Xia said.

"Xia Xia is hungry, my sister brought you food, and it's still hot in the microwave. Ji Xue turned off the water and shook the lunch box in her hand, "You can't eat more sugar, you can only eat 6 pieces a day, otherwise Xia Xia will have tooth decay and it hurts." ”

After scaring Ji Xia, the food in the microwave oven was also hot, and the sisters sat around the dining table and began to divide the meal.

Although it is a fried leftover, with Tan Weizhou's cooking skills, even the leftovers are extremely delicious leftovers, and Ji Xia highly praised today's dinner.

"It's better than Dad's cooking!"

Ji Xue was tired after being busy for a long time, and Ji Xia was even more sleepy, so the sisters went back to their rooms to sleep after eating and washing.

Jiang Feng could only sit on the sofa in the living room in a daze to spend the long night.

In the next few days, Ji Xue went to the steamed bun shop downstairs every morning to buy vegetable buns and steamed buns, told Ji Xia to get up, go to work at Tan's restaurant, get off work, pack meals and go home, and start a new day.

On the first day, Tan Lin's daughter-in-law went to the back kitchen for a while, staring at Ji Xue to see if she had any thoughts of stealing teachers. But she only stared at it for one day, and from the second day, Tan Lin's daughter-in-law didn't get involved in the back kitchen much.

Tan Lin himself said that he was not at ease but was unwilling to come to the store, his daughter-in-law was originally a lazy and slippery person, so she naturally did not want to stare at people in the back kitchen, after all, she always had to do some symbolic work in the back kitchen.

In the next few days, Jiang Feng also figured out the personnel structure of the Tan family's restaurant.

Tan Lin is a supernumerary person who will not appear in the Tan family's small restaurant except for meals, and Tan Rui is the same. Tan Rui's daughter-in-law is a supervisor who only appears in the Tan family's small restaurant, but does not work. Tan Weizhou is the only cook, Ji Xue and Tan Wenwen are both handymen, one takes money and the other does not take money, to a certain extent, Tan Wenwen is the worst person in the entire Tan family's small restaurant.

In the first few days, Tan Wenwen often slipped out as soon as she was caught, anyway, if she was caught, she was just scolded, and her parents would not really beat her.

After Tan Wenwen and Ji Xue got acquainted, they found that as long as she slipped away, all the work became Ji Xue's. Not only in the back kitchen, but also in the front of the dishes, cleaning, tidying up tables and chairs, which were originally her mother's jobs, as long as her mother is not happy, these jobs are also Ji Xue's.

Since then, Tan Wenwen has been walking away a lot less, anyway, when she is working, she can still pull Ji Xue to chat, and sometimes sneaking out to play is not necessarily more interesting than chatting with Ji Xue.

By the 5th day of Ji Xue's work in the Tan family's restaurant, that is, the day before the Lantern Festival, Tan Wenwen had already begun to talk to Ji Xue about everything.

Of course, Tan Wenwen is complaining to Ji Xue about her parents most of the time.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, that is, the Lantern Festival, Tan Lin didn't know what kind of wind he smoked and had to take his wife and son to go shopping, so only Tan Wenwen and Ji Xue were left in the store. Tan Wenwen couldn't run home to watch TV, so she could only pull Ji Xue to sit at the front desk and complain to her about her parents' partiality, complaining while snorting her mother's melon seeds, as if as long as she finished her mother's melon seeds, she would take revenge on her mother.

So she not only swallowed herself, but also pulled Ji Xue to swallow together, the more she snorted, the better, so that her mother had no melon seeds to eat tonight.

"My mom is really, isn't the Lantern Festival a festival? Why do you want to open a store, she doesn't work herself and throws all the work to us, how good it is to watch TV at home." Tan Wenwen expressed her dissatisfaction with the fact that she couldn't watch TV at home during the Lantern Festival and was dragged to work in the store.

Ji Xue swallowed melon seeds while listening to Tan Wenwen's complaints.

"Ji Xue, how did your family celebrate the Lantern Festival tonight?" Tan Wenwen asked.

"My mom was going to take care of my dad in the hospital, and my sister and I were going to go to the supermarket to buy her some chocolates when I got back in the evening. Ji Xuedao, his mouth is like an invisible melon seed machine, constantly entering the melon seed kernel and spitting out the melon seed skin.

Tan Wenwen nodded: "It turns out that your sister likes to eat chocolate, my brother also likes to eat this thing, I like to eat potato chips, but my mother always only remembers to buy chocolate for my brother and forgot to buy me potato chips." ”

In fact, Tan Lin and his wife have never shortened Tan Wenwen's food and clothing, but they can't make a bowl of water even, so Tan Wenwen complains. For example, Tan Wenwen has to come to the store to help wash dishes, chop vegetables, do chores, etc., Tan Rui only needs to be responsible for eating, drinking, and watching TV happily at home, and can also go to the aquarium, zoo, and playground from time to time, where Tan Lin always forgets to take his daughter.

"I remember my mother said that your family also runs a restaurant, usually your father will let you go to the restaurant to help?" Tan Wenwen asked.

"There used to be times when I would go, my dad would teach me how to cook, and my sister wanted to go too, but she was too young and my mom wouldn't let her go. "Monsoon slopes.

"That's good. Tan Wenwen showed an envious expression, "My grandfather also wanted to teach me how to cook before, but my father didn't let me." ”

"Why?" Ji Xue didn't understand.

"He was afraid that when I learned the craft and grew up, the craft would become someone else's family, really, he didn't learn it himself. Tan Wenwen complained about his father and was ruthless, "He doesn't learn by himself, and he doesn't allow his grandfather to teach others, what is the reason." ”

Ji Xue continued to eat melon seeds.

Tan Weizhou never shy away from anyone when he made tiled potter carved chicken in the back kitchen, just like Ji Xue didn't shy away from anyone when he was making bricklayer carved chicken in Taifeng Building, this dish is not something that can be learned by watching and stealing from the side.

Unless the master teaches him by hand, he won't be able to learn even three points of this dish.

Therefore, Jiang Feng felt very ridiculous about Tan Lin and his wife's strict defense. This has to be how little cooking knowledge and don't care about his father's steps of making tile altar carved chicken, so that Ji Xue can steal the tile altar flower carved chicken just by looking.

"But Ji Xue, you're actually quite powerful. Tan Wenwen said.

"Huh?"

"At the beginning, our store would also hire cooks, and several of them wanted to learn from my grandfather, but my grandfather didn't like them, and even disliked the dishes they cut. Later, my parents were afraid that they would steal from school, so they stopped hiring cooks and hired handymen instead. Tan Wenwen explained, "My grandfather likes the dishes you cut, and he smiled when he saw you cut beef yesterday." ”

Ji Xue could only nod and continued to eat melon seeds.

Tan Wenwen sighed again as she spoke: "It's a pity that you are only here during the winter vacation, and when school starts, I have to wash the dishes when I come back from school." My mom definitely didn't want to wash the dishes, so she kept them for me to wash when I came back from school. ”

Ji Xue finally swam ashore from the sea of melon seeds, stopped what she was doing, and said, "I'm also here at school." ”

"School is also in session?"

"Hmm. ”

"You're not going to school anymore?"

"No, it's gone. ”

"Great, then I'll come back after school to help you, and I'm going to trouble you to wash the dishes before I come back, I hate washing the dishes the most." Tan Wenwen said with a smile, she is only a junior high school student, and she can't understand the concept of dropping out.

If it weren't for the fact that she didn't have to work at home without going to school, Tan Wenwen actually wanted to choose not to go to school in her heart.

Ji Xue reluctantly smiled at Tan Wenwen.