After accepting the contract, Zhang Jin said hello to Hai Jufu and wanted to turn around and leave. The old branch secretary hurriedly opened his mouth to leave guests: "Xiao Zhang, you see it's noon, why are you in such a hurry?" Let's go, go to our house with my uncle and have dinner before leaving."

Zhang Jin hurriedly shirked it, raised the contract he had just received in his hand and said, "Uncle Hai, I really don't need it." Am I in a hurry to find the construction team to help me get this piece of land? I tell you, I really can't wait now."

Of course, the old branch secretary didn't believe Zhang Jin's words, and thought he was being polite, so he made a tiger face: "Xiao Zhang, we will be villagers in the next few years, but we can't be so polite." Listening to my uncle's words, I will talk about it after eating at my uncle's house, and I can't be in a hurry for a while. Besides, aren't you just building a house and digging two acres of fish ponds? There are also people in our village who go out to do construction, just wait for me to call them and call them back to help. You can rest assured, they are all villagers who don't spend much money, and they must be strong, no one dares to cut corners or anything, and it won't fall in a hundred years. ”

Zhang Jin saw that the old branch secretary let the guest let him really go, and he was embarrassed to forcibly shirk it again, so he went back to his home with the old branch secretary half-pushed.

The small courtyard of the old branch secretary's house is very lively, the loofah beans climbing in the yard are verdant and verdant, a few lychee trees are full of red and gratifying fruits, and the old hen leads a group of chickens to peck and plane in the yard...... The vivid scenes made Zhang Jin dizzy as soon as he walked into the yard. Under the cover of the loofah and winter melon shelves, a row of four large tile houses with red bricks and bright tiles are bright and joyful.

"Uncle Hai, your home is so big and beautiful. When the time comes, when my house is built, if there is a house like yours, I will be satisfied. After the old branch secretary drank away the big black dog that saw the stranger pounce on his house, Zhang Jin praised it without words.

Someone praised his family, of course Hai Jufu was happy in his heart, but he smiled on his face, and said modestly and politely: "What's beautiful?" Aren't all these farmers like this? You're used to living in the city, so when you come to our country, everything is new. Besides, this Haiwozi village is not valuable, as long as it doesn't get in the way of others, no one cares how you want to build a house. My yard is not big, and when you get acquainted with it, you will know that the yard in this village is much bigger. ”

As he spoke, Hai Jufu shouted while leading Zhang Jin into the house: "Wazi Niang, there is a guest at noon today, go kill a chicken to give us wine." "This baby mother is naturally Hai Jufu's wife.

The old branch secretary was very enthusiastic about hospitality, not only instructing his mother-in-law to kill chickens and add vegetables, but also specially brought his next-door neighbor, a man in his forties named Haigensheng, to accompany the guests.

Aunt Hai is a neat woman, and she is very neat in killing chickens and cooking. Before Zhang Jin, the old branch secretary, and Hai Gensheng could say a few words of greeting, the hot meal and the slightly turbid local liquor were already on the table. After some thought, several people sat around the table, staggering.

Although this Aunt Hai's craftsmanship is not as good as her own master-level cooking skills, the table full of peasant dishes is still very satisfying. All kinds of green vegetables such as cabbage and cabbage are grown in their own yards, which are not only fresh, but also absolutely free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the purest green vegetables; The pork is a local pig killed by another villager in the village a few days ago, which was grown up on leftovers and grass, and has absolutely no hormones; The chicken is a freshly killed free-range chicken, and the fish is a wild fish that Haigensheng just touched in the river this morning......

Zhang Jin ate in his mouth, muttering in his heart: "Just this table of dishes, don't look at the delicacies of the mountains and seas such as lobster and abalone, but if it is placed in those shops with a little bit of decoration in the Shenzhen market, it will be at least a few hundred larger." This green food is good, it's really fragrant"..., eating fragrant farm dishes in his mouth, looking at the TV, telephone, refrigerator, and sofa in the house, Zhang Jin sighed in his heart: "In the end, it is an economically developed area, and even Haiwozi, a relatively poor village in southern Guangdong Province, seems to be living well, compared with the villages in northern Guangdong, it is already heaven and earth, not to mention those poor places in western China." ”

Just when Zhang Jin sighed with emotion and exchanged cups with the big brother Haigensheng who accompanied the guests, the phone of the old branch scrivener rang.

After the old branch secretary confessed to Zhang Jin, he ran to answer the phone. The phone was picked up, and before the old branch secretary could say a word, his voice suddenly rose up: "What did you say?" Eight thousand? You came out of the Great Hall of the People? Slaughtering people is not like this, we don't need you anymore, we can't find another one? As he spoke, he angrily dropped the phone down. After sitting back in his seat, he didn't speak, just took the wine glass in front of him and drank it down. Obviously, this old and spicy old man is now having a fire in his belly

Seeing Hai Jufu's angry look, Zhang Jin was a little stunned and didn't know what to say. However, Hai Gensheng, who was pulled by Haiju Fula to accompany the guests, seemed to know something, and asked tentatively: "Uncle, what you said on the phone is about inviting the master, right?" Quite a few words"

Haiju nodded with great blessing, and said in a rough voice: "Yes, that fat man is stupid when we rural people are stupid, isn't it?" The original said good haode, but now it has to be changed, and the price has more than doubled at once, and it costs eight thousand a day, how can there be such a slander. It's a big deal, we don't need him, let's replace him."

"Uncle, this fat man is indeed a little too lacking in morality. This is a matter of things, and the hexagram is temporarily changed, isn't this a deception? It's like a human thing, but if you really don't need him, it's too late to find someone's time? Don't delay the big thing of the second baby" Haigensheng was also very angry when he heard what Hai Jufu said, but he was still a little worried at the end.

In a word, Hai Jufu was also a little sad, the wrinkles between his brows were twisted into a Sichuan shape, panting roughly, carrying his bamboo cigarette from the side and lighting it up, and he didn't speak.

Seeing Hai Jufu looking like he was in trouble, Zhang Jin, who was confused, couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Hai, is there anything difficult?" Tell me, maybe I can help? "After all, we have to get along together for at least a few years, and Zhang Jin also feels that Hai Jufu is a good person, so he plans to help if he can help.

Hai Jufu realized that there were still guests on the table, so he hurriedly put the bamboo cigarette holder aside, and reluctantly put on a smiling face and said, "It's okay, it's okay, come and eat, eat." ”

However, Haigensheng, who accompanied the guest, explained the problem of Hai Lao's branch secretary.

It turned out that the Haijufu family had two sons, the eldest son was older than Zhang Jin, in his thirties, and he had already married a family and lived alone. Some time ago, I partnered with a few villagers to buy a fishing boat, and most of the time I was floating on the sea, and I only returned to the village once in a few days.

And the second son, that is, the second baby that Haigen said before, is just 22 years old this year, working in a factory in Huishi City, and has a target, and he planned to return to Haiwozi Village on June 6 to hold a banquet and get married. I contacted the master of a restaurant in Huishi to come to the village to operate, and it was originally said that haode was three thousand a day. But it's the end of May, and seeing that the day is coming, the master suddenly changed his hexagram, and he must change it to eight thousand days, otherwise people won't come. Eight thousand yuan is not a small amount for Hai Jufu's family, and this is only the price of one day. Naturally, he refused to back down, but seeing that the day of joy was only a few days away, he suddenly made such a show, and if he recognized the price like this, he was really aggrieved and distressed. If you are about to change people, you are too in a hurry, and I am afraid that the good haode wedding banquet will be messed up. This dilemma naturally made the old branch secretary of Haijufu, who had a somewhat stiff temper, feel angry. …,

After Hai Gensheng introduced the situation, he said embarrassedly: "Brother Zhang, you are from the city, and the people in the city are also familiar, see if you know any master who can introduce us to us." Although Hai Jufu was a little embarrassed to ask for help because of his first acquaintance, but when things were on fire, he didn't stop Hai Gensheng's words, and he looked at Zhang Jin with a look of anticipation.

Zhang Jin's mind moved, and he laughed: "So that's it?" I don't know any chefs, but I'm pretty good at cooking. Otherwise, I don't want you to pay for any work, and when the time comes, you can ask your second son and new daughter-in-law to toast me two glasses of wine and light two cigarettes. ”

Although Hai Jufu and Hai Gensheng didn't know Zhang Jin's profession yet, they looked polite, with a pair of half-framed eyes on his face, and his hands were white and tender, and he didn't look like a chef with a 'big head and a thick neck', so they naturally thought that Zhang Jin was joking.

"Xiao Zhang, you really like to joke, this chef who does the village banquet is not like cooking at home, just two dishes and bowls. The wedding banquet in our Haiwozi village is a major event in the whole village, with six flowing water banquets in three days. The whole village has more than 100 households and can come, plus more than 200 relatives, at least 200 people, adding up to at least twenty or thirty tables. On the first day, there were eight dishes and eight bowls per table, nine dishes on the second day, and three meats, three vegetables, one soup and one soup on the last day, and there were at least seven or eight hundred dishes. That's going to be a cauldron, and even if it's like that, you're going to have to make sixty or seventy pots, what can you do? "For Zhang Jin's words about wanting to be a master, Hai Jufu naturally doesn't believe it 100,000 and doubts it 1 million.

As a grandmaster-level chef, how could Zhang Jin be troubled by the problem of big pots and small pots, so he didn't hesitate and responded angrily: "What? Uncle Hai doesn't believe it? It's not blowing with you, whether it's a big pot or a small pot, there are really not a few chefs in those restaurants who are better than me, don't believe it? Let's try it now. ”

Zhang Jin's encouragement made Aunt Hai, the wife of the old man Hai Jufu, who had never spoken at the table, also a little moved. One is because Zhang Jin swears that what he said is true, and the other is because the wedding banquet of his second son is indeed imminent, and the reliable cooking master has not yet been found, so he also hesitated to ask for his opinion from the old branch secretary of the main heart of the sea: "His father, this matter is indeed too late, otherwise let's let Xiao Zhang try?" ”……，