Chapter 32: A Dinner Worth Hundreds of Millions (I)
Rest days are always good for people who live in this concrete forest and try to make ends meet, and the days at work are as sad as storms and thunderstorms, especially for Li Qiao, who is also a 5-to-9 citizen and has children.
So whenever he is ready to go to work, Li Qiao is always reluctant to give up on Li Xiaoqiao, and the father's love hidden in his heart bursts out at this moment, even the stinky face that usually looks at this little child is full of doting expressions at this time, hugging her tightly for fear of suddenly disappearing from his side, but Li Xiaoqiao obviously Li Xiaoqiao has no appreciation for his father's strong fatherly love, and struggles to rush towards Grandma Chen, who is just walking, as if a fighter plane is taking off.
However, as a father who can tolerate all the mistakes of his children, how can Li Qiao care, at this moment, the complex emotions in his heart, a thousand words full of love, turned into a sentence - Xiaoqiao, dad doesn't want to go to work!
"Daqiao, go to work?" Grandma Chen walked over with a smile.
"Yes, Yangzi went to school?" Li Qiao put down the child, and the little kid immediately ran to Grandma Chen's side, hugging her calves, compared to Daddy who didn't let herself watch TV at every turn, she preferred Grandma Chen, who didn't grab the remote control with herself, although Grandma always let herself eat when she couldn't eat snacks, and she hiccuped!
"I went very early, and a few classmates I knew in the building went together. Grandma Chen hugged Li Xiaoqiao with a smile, and the joy in her eyes could not be concealed: "I look at Xiaoqiao, they are all so old, and they will be almost three years old in a few months, and they will be more well-behaved at that time." ”
Li Xiaoqiao raised his hand at the right time: "Well-behaved~"
Well-behaved uncle, he ate and drank enough from Grandma Chen's house last night, and was ready to go back and have a good night's sleep, but this little aunt and grandmother didn't know where she heard it from, she had to listen to her own story, Li Qiao had been mixed in college for four years, and his stomach was clean, and he was caught with his hands, and he told a story about Snow White, and the result was that the gourd baby and Cinderella made it together.
As a consumer, Li Xiaoqiao was naturally very dissatisfied, pouting for a long time, Li Qiao thought that this little aunt was going to cry, and was about to be comforted, but this little fart child was excited to tell the story of the Pleasant Goat and the gray wolf, starting from the first episode, until midnight, sleeping and talking in his sleep, the gray wolf invaded the green grassland again, beep ...... Li Qiao still remembers that this seems to be the one hundred and twenty-seventh episode!
"Then I'll go first!" Recalling this difficult night, Li Qiao burst into tears, waved his hand to Grandma Chen and Li Xiaoqiao, and went downstairs, rode the little electric donkey and set off.
When he came to the kitchen, Li Qiao saw Chen Fatzi sitting on the counter, peeling green beans in his hand, followed by a few cutting apprentices, talking about meat jokes, speaking of excitement, several people laughed from time to time, as a father who was already a child, Li Qiao shook his head hatefully, it seems that he has to get out of the mud and not stain in order to teach the child well!
And the fat man Chen who was peeling green beans happened to see Li Qiao entering the house, and couldn't help shouting: "Daqiao, ask you a riddle, these children are too young to see the world." ”
"Let the horses come!" Li Qiao immediately said.
"Women's panties, hit a snack. Fat Chen said with a smile, and the other chefs couldn't help but look at this side with a smile.
"It's not easy, jelly...... Damn, the pure and immaculate Lao Tzu is polluted. Li Qiao replied without thinking, and when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but feel quite frustrated, and he learned from the pain, he must not be recruited next time, if he accidentally said it in front of the child in the future, wouldn't it ruin my glorious image of being tall, stern, loving, humorous, elegant, and handsome in the child's heart.
"Brother Qiao has seen the world!" Chen Wei, the lotus boy, slapped the horse's ass with a lewd face, but unfortunately slapped it on the horse's hooves, and his head was slapped with Li Qiao's horse's hooves.
"What are you doing, it's almost time to start, everyone is in place. "Brother Biao already knows what these bloody animals are talking about.
The group immediately dispersed and returned to their places, and as usual, after a while, a snowflake-like list flew in, with at least six or seven dishes per man, and this was just the beginning.
However, everyone has worked in Huaijiang Hotel for so many years, and they all know that the business of Huaijiang Hotel is good, and they are used to such a busy work, not to mention that the salary is two or three percent higher than that of the general hotel, plus bonuses, five insurances, everyone is also happy to be busy, after all, busy means that the kitchen has money to earn, and can afford to pay their wages!
Li Qiao, who was about to go to dinner, took out the old man's mobile phone with a black and white screen to look at the time, and found that there was a missed call, which was called by Grandma Chen, and called back: "Is there anything wrong with Granny Chen?"
"Oh, it's the little guy peeing his pants, I just want to ask if you have any children's clothes there?" Grandma Chen's voice came from the other end of the phone, as well as Li Xiaoqiao's giggles: "I don't have any children's clothes here, I'm afraid she will catch a cold, so I'll ask." ”
"Oh, that's right, there's newly bought clothes in the cabinet in my bedroom, you can just go over there, I'm sorry for you. Li Qiao smiled bitterly, after all, it was a child, and it was still not worry-free, he listened to the child's laughter, and could almost imagine Li Xiaoqiao's movements rolling on the sofa on the other end of the phone.
"Thank you, it's all from the neighbors, oh yes, Yangzi came back at noon and asked me about you, saying that he wanted to learn cooking skills from you. Grandma Chen smiled.
"Okay, I'll teach him as soon as I have time after work. Li Qiao also replied without hesitation.
Suddenly, Lao Xu, who was cooking on the side, saw Li Qiao making a phone call for so long for the first time, and his face was full of spring breeze, so he couldn't help but say: "Daqiao, who are you talking to, is it a girlfriend, don't hide it, but bring it to everyone to see!"
"you!" Li Qiao hung up the phone and found a place to sit down with his meal: "It's the child who pees his pants, and the neighbor calls to ask if I have any clothes." ”
However, as soon as his voice fell, Chen Wei, Lao Xu, Chen Fatzi, and Lao Yang on the dining table all leaned forward and backward with laughter, almost not shedding tears, and even Brother Biao couldn't stop laughing: "It's like it's true, don't act, I made a few excuses and took it seriously, is this what you said!"
Looking at their undisguised "ridicule", Li Qiao couldn't help but be speechless, so he had to bow his head to eat, but in his heart he kept calculating, what I said was very fake? Dude, I was in the drama club when I was in college, but I was a man who claimed to be able to win the Annie Award! No, I didn't act!
There are more orders in the afternoon than in the morning, so when everyone is busy to get off work, they are almost dizzy, and a few of them are so suffocated that their bladders are about to burst, but Li Qiao is a little surprised, he used to be similar to other chefs, but I don't know why, since I came back to work, whether I was tired or unwell, I never appeared on my body again.
"Is it the role of parenting aerobics?" Li Qiao couldn't help but be stunned, there are a total of fifteen movements in aerobics, and he has now been able to stick to the fifth, and his originally thin body has also appeared muscle lines at the moment, the amount of food, and the mental head has improved a lot, Li Qiao can't quite understand, but no matter what, good health is always a good thing!
When it was time to get off work, the cooks packed up their belongings one by one, said hello, and went to the locker room, and today's duty fell on Li Qiao's head, due to the last time he asked for leave many times, Li Qiao's duty time was hidden, this will come back, how can he be let go.
There are also the lotus boys on duty, Chen Wei, two matching boys, called Wang Zijun and Lin Cheng, both apprentices, these young people have a good relationship, and they also have a good relationship with Xiao Chu in the ward.
"Xiao Chu, you've all been there, how is it?" Li Qiao held a cigarette, it stands to reason that you can't smoke in the kitchen, but there are few people in the busy and huge kitchen, and no one eats late at night, so it doesn't hurt if you don't find out about smoking, Li Qiao threw a few sticks to them.
In addition to Wang Zijun, who doesn't know how to smoke, Lin Cheng and Chen Wei took it directly, Chen Wei followed Li Qiao to learn his posture very well, and the smoking movements are a bit similar, but Li Qiao is a brother in the kitchen in addition to Brother Biao, and he belongs to the existence of seniors in the minds of several of their junior apprentices, and when he saw him ask, he was quite excited: "I went to see, this kid is recovering well, he received the money, and said that he wanted us to say thank you to you, and I want you to eat when I am discharged from the hospital." ”
"Please, fart!" Li Qiao smiled, maybe the children of the poor are in charge early, and these children will keep those even sporadic kindness firmly in their hearts: "Clean up, it's so late, there are no guests, remember to be careful when you go back to the dormitory at night." ”
When several children heard this, they all grinned, and at this moment, a rush of footsteps rushed into the kitchen, only to see Xia Tanya, who was wearing professional clothes, hurriedly walked in, scared the two children who were still smoking and quickly stepped on the cigarettes.
"Why are there no people?" Xia Tanya looked around anxiously, as if she didn't notice that they were smoking, and there was a hint of despair in her beautiful eyes.
"It's time to get off work, naturally there is no one!" Li Qiao was still smoking a cigarette, and the old god was there.
As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Tanya immediately said resolutely: "No, I don't care, you hurry up, in the No. 35 box on the fifth floor, there is a table of dishes, the menu is here, and I will give you two times the bonus for one person when I finish it." ”
The three boys behind him glanced at each other, all with expressions of surprise, but Li Qiao glanced at the handwritten dishes, many of which were high-end dishes that Huaijiang Hotel did not have, just a dish of boiling cabbage, it was a big project, but Li Qiao quickly retracted his gaze and said jokingly: "Big boss, the duty time is only ten minutes, these apprentices are still children, let them finish such a difficult table of dishes, even child labor is not used like this!"
"Triple bonus!" Xia Tanya did not hesitate, and directly took out a stack of thick old man's heads from her leather bag.
The eyes of the three apprentices lit up, but Li Qiao didn't look at the stack of bright red yuan, still holding a cigarette, nonsense, the difficulty of this table dish is not much smaller than that of the Tang Dynasty roast tail banquet, even a master with forty years of experience has to be careful, you can imagine the difficulty.
"You ......" Xia Tanya gritted her teeth and stared at Li Qiao, but Li Qiao was still unmoved, and after waiting for a long time, Xia Tanya threw away the leather bag in her hand, rolled up her sleeves, and struggled to turn over the cabinet to open the gas valve, and saw that she was going to do it herself.
But Xia Tanya had no experience at all, so she pressed the fire to the end at the beginning, and the flames rushed up, frightening Xia Tanya to panic, and at the same time she only felt that her body was light, as if she was flying, away from the flames and then falling steadily to the ground.
When I turned my head, I saw Li Qiao with a helpless face, and the words that the master in the kitchen often said to teach novice apprentices: "Clumsy, go to the side." ”