The hotel is called the Nine Songs City Hotel, equipped with a double glass door that is not common in this era, and the interior decoration is magnificent, carved beams and paintings. There is a large table of solid wood, surrounded by leather seats.

The black marble floor tiles on the ground floor are illuminated, the top is a large European chandelier, and the walls are decorated with solid wood shelves, on which are placed vases and fanned antiques.

The waiters are all little girls with a height of more than 1.7 meters, wearing red embroidered cheongsam, revealing white and tender thighs when they walk, and the high heels make most people in this era dizzy.

followed the waiter to a dining table, several people sat down, Li Zhonghua took the menu and looked at the order, Xiaohong and Xiaowei shook their heads left and right to see the freshness.

The whole hall has hundreds of square meters, looks wide and magnificent, there are stairs upstairs, the second floor is full of private rooms, go in and eat nothing is 2,000 yuan, ordinary people really can't afford to consume, in this era, that is the place to throw money, 2,000 yuan, is almost a year's salary of a national worker.

The kitchen of the hotel is in the basement of the building, just below the lobby of the hotel, and a corridor from the back door of the hotel is the hotel staff dormitory, with men on the left and women on the right, two floors, the foreman and the chef live above, and the waiters and handymen live below. There is a step down from the side of the corridor of the staff dormitory, and the kitchen is the kitchen all the way down, and the underground kitchen in Fengtian is more common, and many larger restaurants are like this, and the oil smoke is directly discharged to the roof with an exhaust fan.

Li Zhongguo ordered, returned the menu to the waiter, and asked for a pot of tea, the waiter turned around and twisted his waist and left, Li Zhonghua turned his head and said to Xiaowei: "The waiter here has a salary of tens of thousands of dollars a month, but you can't do it, you can go to the kitchen to do a small job, and it is not bad to be a chef in the future, the small worker also has two or three thousand yuan a month, the chef has five thousand foundations, the chef can be tens of thousands, and the chef is tens of thousands, quite profitable, and has face, and is also a character wherever he goes." ”

Xiaohong's eyes widened and asked, "Really, it's so good to cook, and it's more than you earn at work?"

Li Zhonghua smiled and said: "The main thing to go to work is to be stable, and if you really want to make money, going to work is the worst." Now that I come out, I actually earn more than I do at work, but I am not stable, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it for a long time. If you really become a chef and become famous, you won't change the factory director, just the head chef of this restaurant, who has more than 100,000 yuan a year, and doesn't do any work, just take care of the people below. ”

Xiao Wei glared and said, "More than 100,000 a year, more than 10,000 a month? My God, the people in the city are really rich, and they can give so much for cooking." ”

Li Zhongguo laughed and said: "Do you think anyone can do anything? Cook well, you have to be famous, you have to have someone in your hand, you have to be able to support the kitchen, what does the restaurant rely on to make money? It's not that you rely on chefs, so it's normal for chefs to earn more, Xiaowei, if you really plan to stay in Fengtian, I advise you to find a place to learn how to cook, the average restaurant chef has a few thousand a month, if you become famous, then there is no top, how much is him." Now there are famous chefs in our province, which are not hundreds of thousands, but millions a year. ”

Xiaohong excitedly grabbed Xiaowei's arm and said: "Learn, learn, Xiaowei, just learn this, you can still make money, you can still make good food, how good, and not tired, you are so tired on the construction site now, how much do you earn in a year." ”

Xiaowei said: "It's a lot, now I can open three or four hundred a month, and I can live well for the first five or six hundred, which is no less than the number of workers in the factory." ”

Xiaohong said: "The chef is thousands a month, I didn't listen to Uncle Li." Anyway, you have to stay here with me, just learn this, oh devil brother, you can cook me whatever I want to eat when it's over, okay?"

Xiao Wei scratched his head and thought about it, nodded hesitantly and said, "Okay, I'll go and learn." I haven't even cooked bud rice stubble rice, can I do it?"

By the time a few people came out after eating, it was already two hours later.

It's not that a few people eat slowly, it's that there are many people in the restaurant, and the dishes are a little slow.

This meal opened Xiaowei and Xiaohong's eyes and exposed them to the lives of people in the city.

A plate of venison, a thin twenty slices, three hundred pieces, a small dish of red sprouts, at home is the wild vegetables eaten by the family, here it costs forty yuan, fry a plate of pegs and vegetables eighty, this meal cost more than nine hundred yuan, that pot of tea is one hundred and fifteen, let Xiaowei know that he will feel pain in the future.

This is a profound imprint, and the chrome imprint is in Xiaowei's mind.

He never thought that people could still live like this, and money could be earned like this, this was a completely different world from the county, big cities, buildings, big hotels, and even people passing by on the street had a completely different feeling.

This is the provincial capital.

Thinking about the parents who were digging mud in Shankakali, thinking about the workers who were moving bricks in the county, and looking at Xiaohong, who was smiling, Xiaowei suddenly felt that he really should do something, and if he came, then fight, if others can do it, I will definitely be able to do it. He clenched his fists secretly.

After leaving the hotel and getting into the police car, Li Zhonghua said to the driver: "Go to Beisi Road." ”

Then he twisted his head in the passenger seat and said to Xiaowei: "How is it? See? Our card is too small, and we have to come out." Xiaohong is going to stay here for four years, and this is the opportunity. Work hard, after four years, you may be able to stand and become a provincial city, haha, when the time comes, my uncle will come to borrow light from you. ”

Xiaohong also stared at Xiaowei with big eyes, looking at Xiaowei hopefully.

Xiao Wei's heartbeat accelerated in an instant, and he felt a little pressure, but he still nodded heavily and said, "It's okay, uncle, look at it, it's definitely possible." ”

Xiaohong smiled with satisfaction, very happy. Li Zhonghua shook his head silently, how could it be so easy for the mountain people to get out of the city if they wanted to get out, but he still said: "Okay, that's okay, Uncle is waiting to eat your Chef Zhang's dishes." Ha ha. ”

In fact, in addition to a few main roads in Fengtian in 90, the road surface was not as wide as in later generations, most of them were two-way two-lane, but there were few cars in this year, and it seemed wide.

However, the biggest feature of Fengtian or the northeast is that the road is straight, horizontal and vertical, east and west are streets, north and south are roads, positive grid distribution, it is not easy to get lost, as long as you have a house number, you can find it anywhere. Even if you miss one or two intersections while driving, as long as the direction is good, it is easy to go back.

Soon, the car arrived at the North Fourth Road.

The car stopped on the side of the road, and Li Zhongguo got out of the car with Xiaowei and Xiaohong, and walked into a community that looked a little shabby.

This area is full of old buildings, which look like they have been for decades, and they are indeed decades old, all of which are Soviet-style tube buildings built in the fifties.

Although it is old, it is still much better than in the county. Many trees have been planted inside and outside the complex.

In the 90s, there were still a lot of trees in Fengtian City, the streets and alleys, the buildings in the factories outside the factory, and the side of the road, were full of tall trees, and in the middle of summer, there were boulevards everywhere. Later, as the city grew, there were fewer and fewer trees.

After entering the community and turning a corner, Li Zhonghua took Xiaowei and Xiaohong directly into the door of a building, went up the dark and narrow stairs to the third floor, and knocked on an old wooden door.

"Brother Liu, sister-in-law, are you at home?"

I knocked a few times, and waited for a few minutes before I heard footsteps inside, and a woman's voice came out: "Who?"