When leaving the office, Chen Mingyu also sighed secretly: Zhang Lingfang, Zhang Lingfang, I have already given you a chance, since you are not willing to grasp it, then don't blame me for being unkind to you.

After the two of them left the police station, Cao Man asked, "Brother Mingyu, where are we going to eat?" ”

Chen Mingyu said: "Guests are as you please, tonight is your invitation, you can go wherever you say." ”

Cao Man said: "It's a little late today, let's not go to the city, I'll invite you to dinner at the Wei Family Hotel, how about it?" ”

Chen Mingyu said: "Let's not go to the Wei Hotel, right?" ”

Cao Man asked, "Why?" Weijia Hotel should be the best hotel in our town, right? ”

Chen Mingyu said with a smile: "The Wei Family Hotel is indeed the best hotel in our town, but it has almost become a designated hotel for all units in the town, especially at night, eighty percent of the people who eat there are people from various units, and they will definitely meet acquaintances when they get there, and then all kinds of entertainment will be indispensable, and we won't be able to eat well." ”

"You're right, I'm negligent on this point, you have just become the deputy mayor now, and there must be many people going to drink with you and pat you on the back, and then there will be nothing to do with me." Cao Man quipped.

"You, laugh at me again! I'm just a temporary deputy mayor, how can so many people look at me in their eyes! Chen Mingyu smiled, "Otherwise, let's find a small restaurant to sit down." ”

Cao Man thought for a while and said, "I have a neighbor who just opened a small restaurant some time ago, and the relationship between our two families is very good, and I often ate at their house when I was a child. By the way, their daughter's name is Huang Jing, one level younger than us, you should know her, right? ”

Chen Mingyu said with a smile: "They are all from the villagers, so close, of course I know." ”

Cao Man said: "Then let's go and cheer them on." ”

Chen Mingyu naturally had no opinion, and said, "Okay! Aren't Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang both cannery workers, Huang Jing shouldn't have graduated from college yet, how did their family open a restaurant? ”

Cao Man said: "The efficiency of the canning factory is not good, since last autumn, they can only get the minimum living expenses every month, which is not enough at all." This year, the situation is even worse, their factory can no longer receive orders, and they are idle anyway, so many workers in the canning factory have come out to find a way out. ”

Chen Mingyu couldn't help but feel a little gloomy in his heart, once upon a time, Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang were both regular employees of the cannery, with a stable income and decent status, and their family conditions were absolutely top-notch in Shuangmiao Town, I don't know how many people envied their family.

But now, they are reduced to the point where they are not paid and have to work as self-employed to make ends meet.

In addition, Chen Mingyu knows that with the development of the market economy, the drawbacks of state-owned enterprises are becoming more and more obvious in some completely competitive fields, and they are no longer the opponents of private enterprises, and in the future, there will be more and more phenomena in which small state-owned factories such as county canneries cannot continue to operate.

In a few years, there will be an unprecedentedly serious wave of layoffs, many workers in state-owned enterprises have been bought out of their working years, forced to leave the warmth of the system, and can only enter the market to find food, some people in the fiercely competitive market, reborn from the ashes, become the mainstay of society, while some people have been crushed by the wheel of fortune, become the bottom of society.

However, all this is inevitable, and this is the pain of reform.

Chen Mingyu followed Cao Man to this small restaurant located at the north end of the market, and saw that this restaurant only had a façade, and there was almost no decoration, and there were several tables and round stools in it, which was indeed very simple. Above the door, there is a homemade wooden plaque with six large characters written on it: "Huangjia Mutton Soup House".

Maybe it's still relatively early, and there are no customers in the store yet.

"Aunt Huang!" Cao Man shouted after walking in.

A woman with the image of a typical middle-aged rural woman immediately walked out of the kitchen inside, wiped her hands on her apron and said, "Ah, it's Xiaoman, sit down!" Sit down! ”

"Aunt Huang!" Chen Mingyu also greeted with a smile.

"Ah, you are ......" Aunt Huang felt that Chen Mingyu was very familiar, but she couldn't call Chen Mingyu's name all of a sudden.

"Aunt Huang, he is Mingyu, the son of Uncle Zhengmin." Cao Man introduced.

"That's right! Right! Mingyu! I haven't hugged you since you were a kid! In the past few years, you have gone to school outside, I haven't seen you much, I have the impression that you are still a child, you have grown so big! I heard you're back at work, right? Aunt Huang said.

"Yes, at our police station." Chen Mingyu said.

"The police station, that's good! That's nice! Aunt Huang said repeatedly, looked at Chen Mingyu and Cao Man with a smile on her face, and praised, "I remember that the two of you have been very good since you were a child, and now you have graduated from college and have formal jobs, what a good match!" Are you sure when you're going to get married? I'm going to have a drink of your wine! ”

Cao Man's face turned red and said, "Aunt Huang, we are not in love. ”

Aunt Huang said with a smile: "Xiaoman, you are such a big girl, are you still shy?" Haha, sit down! Sit down! If you want to eat, I'm giving you a free one today! ”

Cao Man said: "This is not good, Aunt Huang, we are here to cheer you on today!" ”

Aunt Huang said: "Oh, if you want to cheer for Aunt Huang, you will come often in the future!" I have to give you a free today! I won't ask you what you eat, you can sit down, I'll let you taste my best mutton soup, and when your Uncle Huang comes, he will let him fry two dishes for you. I'm okay with mutton soup, but I'm really not good at cooking. ”

Chen Mingyu definitely wouldn't let Aunt Huang entertain, but it didn't make sense to argue now, so he said, "Okay, Aunt Huang, then we must have a good taste of your craftsmanship today!" ”

Not long after, Uncle Huang also returned to the store with two bags of vegetables, and they naturally exchanged pleasantries.

Chen Mingyu saw that Uncle Huang was just forty-four or five years old, but his hair was already gray, and his face was also very vicissitudes, looking very old. And his clothes are also very shabby, and they are all Lenin clothes that were more popular in the seventies and eighties.

It can be seen that the life of Uncle Huang and his family is indeed difficult.

Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang are both enthusiastic people, he fried a green pepper shredded pork for Chen Mingyu and them, and also made a garlic sprout back to the pot meat, and Aunt Huang boiled them two large bowls of hot mutton soup, and the ingredients were very sufficient, all large pieces of mutton.

In the countryside of this era, two large bowls of mutton soup and two meat dishes are indeed very rich!

Moreover, their craftsmanship is also very good, although it is not full of color and flavor, but it is also very authentic, especially the mutton soup, the soup is fresh but not fat, the meat is tender but not cotton, it is indeed very delicious!

There were no other customers in the store, so Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang sat on the side and chatted with them.

"Uncle Huang, Aunt Huang, your craftsmanship is really good!" Chen Mingyu praised.

"Yes! Especially the sheep's head soup made by Aunt Huang is so delicious! Cao Man also praised.

"If you like it, come back often!" Aunt Huang said.

"I'm sure I'll be here more often! Moreover, not only do I come often, but I also have to promote the teachers at our school so that they can come here for dinner! Brother Mingyu, you also have to help with more publicity! Cao Man said.

"That's for sure!" Chen Mingyu said with a smile, "Such a delicious mutton soup must be recommended to the big guys, and it's not enough to just enjoy the food by yourself." ”

Uncle Huang, Aunt Huang, and Cao Man all laughed.

"Uncle Huang, Aunt Huang, I think your craft is quite professional, have you learned it?" Cao Man asked.

"Where have you learned, both of us are halfway monks, and we have lived for most of our lives, I really never thought that one day we would open a restaurant, hehe......" Uncle Huang's tone was full of vicissitudes and helplessness.

"Can the cannery's business still improve?" Cao Man asked.

Uncle Huang shook his head and said, "To put it mildly, the canning factory is now like a patient with cancer, and there is only his last breath left. ”

Aunt Huang said: "I heard that the county is going to invest a sum of money in the canning factory for technical transformation, but I don't know if it's true or fake? ”

Uncle Huang said: "The problem of the cannery is that it is broken at the root, what is the use of light technology reform? Again, a patient with cancer may have a little effect if he spends money on hospitalization for chemotherapy, but if he wants to save the patient's life, it is impossible! ”

After Uncle Huang said this, the atmosphere immediately became a little dignified.

After a while, Chen Mingyu asked, "Uncle Huang, how is your business here?" ”

Uncle Huang said: "It's okay, there are still a lot of people who come here to drink sheep's head soup, and it is estimated that they will be on the verge soon." ”

Aunt Huang glanced at Chen Mingyu meaningfully and said, "Business is okay, it's just ......"

Uncle Huang gave Aunt Huang a look, and Aunt Huang immediately swallowed the second half of the words into her stomach.

Chen Mingyu keenly saw the look that Uncle Huang gave Aunt Huang, and wondered if they were in trouble?

At this time, several young people dressed as workers walked into the restaurant, and one of them shouted: "Brother Qiu, four bowls of mutton soup, ten steamed buns, and two fried vegetables." ”

"Okay!" Uncle Huang replied and said to Chen Mingyu and them, "You eat first, let's go and get busy." ”

Chen Mingyu said: "Okay, Uncle Huang, Aunt Huang, you go and get busy." ”

Aunt Huang said enthusiastically: "If you still need anything, just shout." ”

Chen Mingyu smiled: "Okay." ”

After Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang entered the kitchen inside, Chen Mingyu asked Cao Man: "Aunt Huang didn't finish her words just now, did they encounter any trouble?" ”

Cao Man said: "This is the first time I've come, I don't know." Find a time, I'll ask them. ”

Chen Mingyu said: "Okay." ”

Cao Man smiled: "What? Do you want to help? ”

Chen Mingyu said: "Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang are such good people, if they are in trouble, they must help!" ”

Cao Man said: "It seems that you are still a good-hearted person, not bad!" Not bad! ”

Chen Mingyu smiled: "Thank you for the compliment!" ”

Cao Man took out a piece of paper and wiped the sweat on his face, saw that Chen Mingyu also had dense beads of sweat on his forehead, and said: "Now that the weather is really hot, I sweat after drinking a bowl of mutton soup." Brother Mingyu, you sit here, I'll buy two bottles of Jianlibao! ”

Chen Mingyu smiled: "So polite, please eat, and please have a drink?" ”

Cao Man stroked the hair on his forehead and said, "Of course! I call it a full service, haha......"

After speaking, Cao Man stood up.

Chen Mingyu also stood up and said, "I'll buy it." ”

Cao Man said: "It's okay to say that I'm in for a treat, how can I let you buy it?" ”

Chen Mingyu smiled: "Give me a chance to perform?" Then he took out his cigarette case and said, "I haven't smoked for a while, it's really suffocating, I'll go buy a drink, and smoke a cigarette on the way." ”

Cao Man pursed his lips and said, "I think you want to act fake, and you want to smoke to be real!" Brother Mingyu, how old are you, you have become an old smoker! Well, in order to punish you, let you go! ”

Chen Mingyu took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Thank you Xiaoman for giving me a chance to perform!" ”