Chapter 3 A bowl of clear noodle soup
"I miss your night, I wish you could be by my side......" The ringtone of the mobile phone interrupted Qin Feng's somewhat confused thoughts.
"Hey, hello!" Qin Feng looked at the unfamiliar number a little strangely.
"Hello, is it a small restaurant?" came a slightly deep voice.
"Yes, do you need anything?" Qin Feng replied politely.
"Can you make me a bowl of clear noodle soup?" the man's voice was expectant.
"Yes, but do you have any requirements, when are you going to eat?" Qin Feng replied after thinking about it.
"Ordinary clear soup noodles are fine, can I eat them at night?" the man asked.
"Yes, but you'll have to come after five o'clock in the evening, and I need to prepare. Qin Feng looked at the crisper in the kitchen and found that the miscellaneous bones in it were still there, so he agreed.
"Okay, thank you, I'll come after five o'clock. The man hung up.
Qin Feng ordered a song, put down his mobile phone, thought about it, went into the room again, took out the notebook and small speaker, put them on the cash register, ordered a song "Red Sun", and went into the kitchen to prepare. "Even if fate is upside down, even if fate is twists and turns, even if fate threatens you to be boring......" Li Keqin's somewhat passionate voice came from the stereo, making the empty restaurant a little less deserted.
Qin Feng took a pork barrel bone and the bones that were removed from the taro dumplings at noon, found a big crockpot, blanched the bones all over the water and put them into the crockpot, cut two slices of ginger, added a little white vinegar cooking wine, filled it with water, covered the lid and boiled over high heat, and then simmered and didn't care. I took out a bag of flour from the cabinet, added salt, eggs, and dough and woke up, rolled it out with a rolling pin, folded it into thin strips, and made two bowls of handmade noodles. After getting ready, I cleaned up a little and went out of the kitchen.
Looking at the bustling crowd at the door and listening to the singing in his ears, Qin Feng suddenly felt that such a day was also very good, not in a hurry, not in a hurry, not in a hurry, not in a hurry.
Two hours passed quickly, and it was close to five o'clock, Qin Feng entered the kitchen to remove the impurities from the stewed bone broth, making the soup appear clearer, and the kitchen was filled with the strong aroma of bone broth.
"Is the boss there? I ordered a noodle before. "At the door walked a young man who was a little haggard but dressed in good spirits.
Qin Feng poked his head out of the kitchen and took a look, and found that it was one of the two men who had come to the restaurant yesterday, and said with a kind smile: "Hello! After saying that, Qin Feng went back to the kitchen.
"Okay, thank you!" the young man sat down at the front, listening to the sound of "I just say goodbye to my home at the bottom of the mountain, I really don't want to let the tears stay easily, I thought I was not bad and I wouldn't be afraid...... his mind was a little trance.
Under Qin Feng's boiling water, he put some seasoning in the bowl, made a big spoonful of bone broth, took two small green vegetables in the fresh-keeping cabinet and blanched them in the water, added a spoonful of cold water into the noodle pot and continued to boil, then took out the handmade noodles and poured them into the bowl, put two green vegetables and sprinkled some green onions and served them out, which was very simple but very hard.
"Hello, your noodles, do you need alcohol? Qin Feng took a pair of chopsticks and a spoon and brought them to him.
"Then get me a beer! Thank you!" the young man said as he took Qin Feng's bowl.
Qin Feng turned around and went to the freezer to get a bottle of beer, then went to get a cup and handed it to him, returned to the cashier and changed a light song.
"My name is Zhang Yaohua, I am a salesman, I haven't been home for several years, I should say that I dare not go home, I came to this city with a dream, I told my mother that I will make a lot of money to buy a big house so that she can live a good life. Zhang Yaohua took a sip of soup and ate two chopstick noodles and poured a sip of wine, as if he was talking to Qin Feng and talking to himself.
Qin Feng didn't speak, just listened quietly.
"When I came to the city, I worked a lot of jobs, even as a waitress in a restaurant. I was a little lost, the meager salary every month made me a little bitter, a little gloomy and a little lost, although the consumption here is not as good as the first-tier cities, but it also made me a little difficult. Later, I heard from a friend that doing sales is more profitable, as long as you can talk better, it is better than ordinary jobs, so I found a job in real estate sales, because this commission is high. ”
Zhang Yaohua finished eating the last noodle, drank the soup and poured another glass of wine and continued: "Sales is not as easy as I imagined, not only customers are not easy to pull, but even colleagues are not so easy to get along with, after all, everyone cares about performance...... I didn't blindly stay in the sales office, and often carried leaflets and materials to various communities, offices, hospitals, schools...... As long as it is possible to buy a house, I will run. Although it was a bit hard, the effect was obvious, and I was soon appreciated by the leaders. Although life has changed for the better, I feel more and more tired, I really want to go home, go back to eat a bowl of clear soup noodles cooked by my mother, and listen to my mother's nagging, but I dare not go back, I can't pass my own level.
I was in pain, often drinking alone in a bar, and I often remembered my mother's expectant voice on the phone: 'Yao, come back often when you have time, mom misses you......' and I couldn't stop wiping my tears. I wanted to go back and see, but then I thought that I had nothing and couldn't face her, so I tied knots one knot after another for myself, and I couldn't untie them. Zhang Yaohua put down the wine glass and cried like a child.
Qin Feng took a pack of tissues and handed it to him, turned around and went into the kitchen to cook another bowl of noodles and served it to him.
"I know it shouldn't be like this, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it's good to be happy, but I just can't let it go. Zhang Yaohua wiped his tears, glanced up at Qin Feng, picked up chopsticks and ate slowly.
"Alas...... Let's go back and see her, I want to raise her but I don't want to wait for her!" Qin Feng said with a sigh.
"Hmm! thank you!" Zhang Yaohua wiped his mouth after drinking the last soup, took out a hundred yuan from his wallet, put it on the table, got up and went out.
Qin Feng didn't chase him out to find money, because he knew that Zhang Yaohua was a proud person. Looking at his no longer decadent back, Qin Feng got up and cleaned up the table, returned to the kitchen and cooked all the taro dumplings at noon for dinner, and went out after eating.