189 So you are the god of the stove!
I finished serving Diao Dashuai, but I was disgusted by his left eye, and I vomited violently when I returned to the kitchen. Seeing this, Jin Dasco came over and asked me, "Xiao Zhai, are you okay?" β
I finished spitting, shook my hand and said, "It's okay, I'll get used to it when I spit and spit it......"
Seeing that I didn't look scared, Jin Dasco also nodded and said, "That's good!" Let's keep serving! β
I agreed, wiped my mouth, and picked up a plate of ghost food to send to Diao Dashuai. That night, nothing went wrong. Diao Dashuai and his group of subordinates finally drank high, supported each other and left, saying that they would not "eat and drink for nothing" and just confused the past. Jin Dasco and Xu Dawan didn't go up to stop him from asking for money, and they both looked quite helpless.
Old was frightened, but soon woke up. According to him, this is not the first time such a thing has happened, but this time he was unlucky and was bumped into by him. Jin Dasco didn't blame Lao Shi, but Xu Dawan didn't let him go, and deducted half a month's salary from Lao Shi as a punishment.
I'm just as pitiful. After working part-time in the ghost market, I rushed back to school non-stop, took a shower, changed clothes, and had breakfast, and I didn't even have time to go to bed and lie down, so I had to start the third day of internship.
Today seems to be no different from the previous two days, we are still doing the same boring things, only Xu Yuan continues to get "room for progress". She's now a full-time pourer and temporary assistant to the head chef, and spends almost the day following Pedout around behind his ass, occasionally running errands, and not having to clean up with us.
But after dinner, we finally had the opportunity to "visit" Tianjia's kitchen. Because from tonight, the kitchen will also be cleaned by us!
The kitchen of Tianjia Hotel is really big! The whole kitchen is actually divided into three rooms: one is a Chinese kitchen, one is a Western kitchen, and one is called "water table", where live poultry, live fish, and seafood are generally slaughtered and cleaned before being put on the case. There is a row of stoves on the left and right sides of the Chinese kitchen, and two rows of large long tables in the middle for side dishes. In the kitchen, there are various ovens, ovens, and counters dedicated to making pastries.
The nine of us were divided into three groups, each cleaning a kitchen, and I was assigned to the Chinese kitchen. But as soon as I entered, I felt that something was wrong. In one corner of the kitchen, there is a stove god seat, and offerings and wine are also placed. It is normal to offer the god of the stove in the kitchen, but there is a thick black gas lingering on the god of the stove, which is particularly abnormal! Is it a god or a ghost?
Since there were still many people when I first entered, I couldn't take a closer look, so I asked Tony privately: "Why does Mr. Pedut also believe in the Chinese god of the hearth?" β
Tony smiled and said, "Your observation skills are not bad, there is a story in this!" Mr. Peydut must not believe in Chinese ghosts and gods, but the truth is that he can't help but believe it! β
"How?" When I heard him say this, I was also interested.
"I also heard from people in the kitchen that serving the stove god in this kitchen was actually the habit of the former Chinese head chef. When Pedut came, he wanted to get rid of it! "But as soon as the Stove God seat was removed, all sorts of strange things began to happen in the kitchen, such as the inexplicable breaking of a row of dishes in the middle of the night; Another example is that there are rats in the kitchen, and you can't catch them all; Another example is that all the live fish in the fish tank of the water platform died overnight! Pei Dut couldn't find out the reason for these things for a long time, and our domestic chef finally persuaded him, so he offered it again. What a coincidence! After the stove god is restored, the strange things in the kitchen are gone! Interesting, you say, is it interesting? β
"In this way, it seems that we still have to have the blessing of the Stove God!" I laughed and agreed. But if it's really like Tony said, I guess this "Stove God" is not a good kind!
In order to find out, I deliberately stayed to mop the floor after cleaning to the end. Everyone else stretched out to rest, leaving me alone in the kitchen. At this time, before I could run over to look, a red-faced ghost came out of the stove god's seat, and he picked up the offerings and ate them, and drank the wine. I guess he thought I was the only one left, and I couldn't see him, so he didn't hide and hide.
I saw him eat a few bites, so I smiled and said, "It turns out that you are the god of the stove!" β
"Poof!"
The red-faced ghost was startled by me, and the sip of wine in his mouth immediately squirted out. He looked at me stunned, looked around again, and then pointed to himself and asked, "You were talking to me just now?" β
I said, "Yes! Now who else is there but you, that is, me? β
The red-faced ghost looked at me suspiciously, and said, "Why can you see me?" β
"I have yin and yang eyes."
"Oh!"
The red-faced ghost frowned again and asked, "You're not going to run to the foreigner and give me out, right?" β
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "It depends!" β
"See what's going on?"
"Let's talk first! Tell me how you got here. β
The red-faced ghost looked me up and down, and suddenly sneered inexplicably: "Aren't you just an intern, I've been nervous for a long time!" β
"What's wrong with the intern?"
The red-faced ghost waved his hand contemptuously and said, "Anyway, you won't be here for a few days, and talking won't work, so don't be boring!" β
When he said that, I was more serious. I said, "You look down on me so much? Aren't you afraid that I will go to Mr. Peydut to complain? Or what if I do have a chance to keep it? β
"Flutter!" The red-faced ghost seemed to have heard some funny joke, "No kidding! Still retained? Daydream about you! β
When I saw that he didn't look like he was teasing me, I didn't get annoyed, but took out a tomato from the vegetable basket next to me and threw it to him, saying, "Hey, I'm really joking with you!" Don't mind, I don't know anything when I first arrive, so tell me about it! β
The red-faced ghost caught the tomato, took a bite, and the bright red juice splashed in his mouthful, as if it had been stained with blood. He urged: "Want to trick me? Okay, you go to the kitchen and help me with that bottle of red wine! β
I hesitated for a moment, but then I thought about it, anyway, there are a lot of strange things in this kitchen, and it is indeed not the wine I secretly drink, just take it! So, I walked to the western kitchen next door, took a bottle of cooking wine from the wine cabinet, handed it to the red-faced ghost, and said, "There is no good wine over there, so you can drink this!" β
The red-faced ghost pulled the stopper and said, "It's just wine, I've never been particular about it!" He craned his neck and took a big "grunt" before putting down the bottle in satisfaction.
"What do you want to talk about?" He asked.
"Let's talk about yourself first, why don't you stay here?" I think it's better to talk to him first, get closer to him, and then ask him some insider things.
"Hey, don't mention it!" The red-faced ghost shook his hand and said, "I used to be a decorator, and when this hotel was renovated last time, I followed a few fellow villagers here to install air conditioning for them, but I accidentally fell from the upper floor and died!" β
"Then why don't you follow your coffin?"
"Coffin? Where do I have a coffin? The red-faced ghost smiled bitterly again, "There is no one left in my family in the first place." When a cousin who brought me out saw that I had fallen to my death, he went to ask his boss for compensation. But when he got the money, he didn't even think about transporting my bones back to his hometown to return to his roots, so he simply sent them to the crematorium and burned them, and he didn't even bring back the ashes! β
"And then?"
Later, I thought about it, anyway, I have been miserable in my life, and I have never had a good life. Since you are a ghost, why don't you stay in this hotel and enjoy the life of the rich! So, I wandered around the hotel looking for a place to stay, and finally found that there was something good to eat and drink in the kitchen, so I stayed. Actually, I am not greedy, and if I am given some offerings and wine every day, I will be satisfied. The previous head chef was a Chinese, he was very good at being a person, and the offerings on the Vesta position were changed every day, so I stayed in it and waited until there was no one to eat at night. As a result, a yellow-haired foreigner in the back removed my stove god position! β
"So you're going to trick or treat them?"
"Then you have to teach them a lesson!" The red-faced ghost glared at him and said, "You know, I usually do my job!" It's not too much to eat their offerings every day, right? β
"What are you doing?" I asked with a smile.
"I'll catch rats for them! Also catch cockroaches, spiders, mosquitoes, flies! I wasn't idle all night, I'm not idle! The red-faced ghost said angrily.
I couldn't help but nod and said, "Indeed, I haven't found any rats, insects, mosquitoes and flies in this kitchen since I came in, and you deserve to eat this offering!" β
"Someone has finally said something fair!" The red-faced man slapped his thigh and shouted.
I saw that he seemed to have a good impression of me, so I asked tentatively, "Brother, is it true that you just said that we interns don't have much hope of retaining us?" β
The red-faced ghost took another sip of wine, spread his hand to me, and said, "What did I lie to you?" I've been in this hotel for five or six years, and now it's the so-called 'international management route'. From the general manager down, the management is basically foreigners, including the catering department. I'll count it for you: catering director, foreigner, M Chinese; Head chef, foreigner, F national; Western Chef: Foreigner, Y Chinese. When I got to the Chinese chef, I was finally Chinese, but I didn't speak much in the kitchen. Everything has to be listened to that Peduth! β
"There's nothing wrong with foreigners, right? After all, they have a lot of management experience......"
"!" The red-faced ghost suddenly cursed with a swear word and said disdainfully: "These foreigners are serious on the surface, but they actually look down on us Chinese, as if they should be higher than us!" β
I heard him talk about this, and I also thought of Peduth's attitude towards us, which was indeed quite arrogant. However, I still didn't want to jump to conclusions too early, so I tried to change the topic, and asked the red-faced ghost again: "We can't take care of those high-level things, brother, you said that staying in this hotel and working as a chef can make progress?" β
The red-faced ghost shook his head and said, "Don't think about being beautiful! You interns come and go too much and want to stay? No relationship is impossible! Let me tell you, there is no shortage of people in the kitchen now, and I said that I would reserve a place for you, but that was just fooling you! β
I exclaimed, "Wouldn't it? Why is that? β
"The reason is simple! Whenever there is a large team or meeting in the hotel, the kitchen is too busy, so I will temporarily find you interns to come over as cheap workers, and drive them away when they run out! I've seen this kind of thing a lot! β
The red-faced ghost didn't notice that my face was getting more and more ugly, and he was still complaining: "And even if you stay, you still have to have a relationship to get promoted, just relying on good craftsmanship and hard work is fooling people!" Aside from these foreigners, the cousin of the Chinese chef is now one of the shareholders of the hotel. And several second chefs are either apprentices of the head chef, or they have gone through various relationships to go up. Not to mention the rest, there is a lotus chef who has been mixing for ten years to get a side dish chef, and the oldest side dish chef is still a side dish chef for ten years! β
The red-faced ghost's words reminded me of Zhang's apprentice again. Because he has a famous master, he can not only learn superb skills, but also get a lot of help in competitions and job hunting. But how can a small intern like me, who has no background, have the capital to compete with others?
In fact, my requirements are not high, as long as there is a level playing field, everyone can rely on their ability to work hard to pursue progress, but such an idea from now on, is definitely a very naΓ―ve idea, or almost a luxury!
My mood hit rock bottom in an instant, and all my ambitions were in vain. That's when the red-faced ghost finally sensed that something was wrong with my expression. He coughed a little embarrassed and said, "I'm telling you this for your good, and that's the truth......"
I smiled reluctantly and said, "I understand!" I'm just a little lost, but I still have to thank you for telling me this, otherwise I would still be stupidly deceived and I don't know! β
"By the way, speaking of deception, you have to remind your little beauty!" The red-faced ghost suddenly added, "I don't know what her name is, it's the one who follows Pedout around all day!" β
"What's wrong with her?" I wondered.
The red-faced ghost made a disdainful expression and said, "Pei Dut is very!" I don't know how many waitresses and interns in this hotel have been tricked into bed by him! Every time he used the excuse that he wanted to promote them, or keep them, but after playing with them, he didn't admit it! β
"He's so mean?" I said angrily.
The red-faced ghost nodded, "Anyway, you just remind her, it doesn't hurt!" β
As we got to this, I saw Tony walk in from the outside. He asked me, "Is the floor mopped?" When the sanitation is done, you can go! β
I promised, "All right! Then I put my tools away and prepared to leave. As I was leaving, I quietly gestured "OK" to the red-faced man, indicating that I had received his advice. He smugly raised the bottle and gestured at me.
Ten of us interns took the bus back to school together. After getting out of the car, I deliberately walked to Xu Yuan's side and said softly: "Xu Yuan, I have something to say to you, can I go back to the dormitory slowly?" β
Xu Yuan felt a little surprised, after all, since I "politely refused" her confession last time, the two of us haven't spoken again. Eventually, though, she nodded and followed me to the side where no one was.
At this time, I noticed that her face was a little red, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. It is said that she also broke up with her boyfriend recently, and I am afraid that I will be misunderstood by talking to her so "blatantly". Unfortunately, what I was going to say to her was still not what she wanted to hear.
I said, "Recently, did Pei Dut arrange for you to pour wine for the leader, and often take you into the kitchen?" β
Xu Yuan was really stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect me to talk about this. But she nodded and replied, "Yes! Mr. Pedout was very good to me and taught me a lot of things! β
"Did he ever mention wanting to be alone with you?"
"What do you mean?" Xu Yuan frowned and asked me, "He didn't mention this request to me, what do you mean by asking?" β
I scratched my head, this kind of thing is really not easy to say, but I feel uneasy in my conscience if I don't say it. So, I said to her carefully: "I heard some rumors from the 'staff' in the kitchen of the Tianjia Hotel that Pei Dut often makes a little bit of a fool of himself about female interns. I'm afraid you'll suffer his loss, so I just want to remind you that you don't mean anything else! β
Xu Yuan bit her lip, her face cloudy, "Who would tell you these words?" Is it Tony? β
"It's not."
"Who's that?" Xu Yuan stiffened her little face and asked me.
"I, I can't say ......"
"Do you think I'll believe what you say?" Xu Yuan finally pulled down her face and became angry, "You just entered the kitchen for the first time today, and someone is willing to tell you this kind of gossip news?" I've been in so many times, why don't I see anyone come and talk to me? What exactly is your purpose? β
I quickly shook my head and explained, "I don't have any purpose, I just want to remind you!" β
"Don't kid yourself!" Xu Yuan shouted, "Why do you always want to hit me like this? Can't you see me? If you want to grab a reserved spot with me, you can just say it! Don't be so vile and shameless to speak ill of Pedout behind your back! β
"I, I didn't!"
"You have it!" Xu Yuan said indignantly, "Zhai Zisheng, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person, please stay away from me in the future!" Hum! β
I watched Xu Yuan turn around angrily and run away, feeling a little helpless. It's over, and now the misunderstanding between me and her is even deeper! Alas, it's hard to be a good person!