Chapter 21: An Ordinary Day
Yannan Old Street, located in a relatively remote place, is far away from the county seat, and belongs to a very ordinary town - Shengmu Town.
How ordinary can it be? This, even Uncle Bai Zheng Gui can't answer, ask Lin Mu, Lin Mu will only smile politely at you.
Most of the people who live on this old street now are old people, and young people can't keep them, they have poetry and distance in their hearts, and if they can't write poetry, they go to a distant place. As a result, this street and even the entire Shengmu Town have a very serious aging trend, which also gives Zheng Gui a headache every day - the taste of this old man is a problem......
As people age, there are also great changes in this aspect of taste. There may be many people who think that the food eaten by the elderly is relatively light, but this is not the case.
In the first few days when Zheng Gui first opened a restaurant here, he attached great importance to the opinions of diners because he wanted to accumulate popularity and develop repeat customers. Uncle Bai has always been hearty and generous, so he secretly gave Zheng Gui a few tricks to deal with an old man like him.
The years are a pig-killing knife, and it has hit the taste with a critical blow......
Ahem, the years are not forgiving, and people's sense of taste will slowly deteriorate with age, affecting the elderly to feel the taste of food, so there will be many elderly people who cannot taste the true taste of food and feel that the food is very light.
Uncle Bai shook his head, so there are many old people who like to eat things with heavy tastes, but in fact, this is not good, and too heavy tastes can easily affect the health of the elderly. Uncle Bai specially told Zheng Gui that it is very simple to really want to make money, the food is delicious, and there must be a lot of people who come to eat, but if it is not for money and does not want to be bound by this market, then pay more attention to health, and the choice is in your own hands.
After listening to Uncle Bai's advice, Zheng Gui also thought deeply for a long time. The menu on the second day was mainly plain, with traditional home-cooked dishes and pickles as auxiliary ingredients, although the number of people that day was still small, Zheng Gui could observe with the naked eye that more and more diners appeared at breakfast every morning.
Uncle Bai also appreciates Zheng Gui, these days, it is rare for a boss to have such an idea, so in private, Uncle Bai often recommends this shop to other old people.
Although Zheng Gui's craftsmanship is indeed not good, but under the strong recommendation of Uncle Bai and some old people, the breakfast shop has gradually become a unique signboard of this old street.
At the beginning, with Zheng Gui's three-legged cat kung fu, the only thing to do was to focus on traditional breakfasts such as porridge and fried dough sticks, but as the reputation of the breakfast shop grew, some students who lived around it or went to Shengmu Elementary School sometimes came.
At this time, Zheng Gui began to panic. There are only porridge fritters and the like, and they can't be packed, so it's hard to be welcomed in such an environment.
That day, under the inspiration of that little boy, Zheng Gui also suddenly realized. Who said that only the elderly live here, although most of them are there, but there are also people of other ages.
It just so happens that my wife has nothing to do in her mother's house, and since the knot in her heart has not been untied, it is easy to say that she was deceived into becoming the boss lady.
I have to mention that the proprietress really has nothing to say about her craft, the first day was fine, people just asked Zheng Gui curiously, and Zheng Gui also answered truthfully.
As a result, Zheng Gui and the proprietress were startled the next day, and there were too many guests......
The two of them were busy until half past eight, and they barely had time to rest. However, I slowly got used to it, got used to the life here, got used to the diners here, and got used to the unique memories from this old street.
Lin Mu smashed his mouth, swallowed the bun in his mouth, and poked the black cat who was burying his head in the food basin on the side, "Hehe, what do you think?" ”
But after poking the cat's butt several times, except for the tail moving, the head was not raised, Uncle Bai patted the cat's head gently, "Hehe, you Brother Lin called you." ”
"Meow?" Hehe finally raised his head, looked back at Lin Mu with a blank face and poked his ass.
"Meow!" Lin Mu pulled his legs and ran home, and the cat behind jumped up and chased after Lin Mu.
The only pet dog yogurt in the breakfast shop of "Wangwang Wang......" just got up and was about to go downstairs, and when he heard the movement here, he immediately became excited, shaking his head and rushing over.
Speaking of yogurt, it's a story dog.
Its relationship with Hehe can't be described as an animal, after all, yogurt grew up watching Hehe......
That's right, hehe, before being picked up by Uncle Bai and going home, the yogurt had already stayed in the breakfast shop, and the day after it was picked up by Uncle Bai, the two of them also met in the breakfast shop.
Coincidentally, it is said that the yogurt was also picked up, and later I happened to meet Zheng Gui's family who was celebrating the New Year in the countryside, tossing and turning, and came to the breakfast shop, which became the signature mascot of the breakfast shop.
Because of their common experience, the relationship between the two small animals has always been very good. It is often seen that the two of them can patrol the old streets one after the other after eating a good meal at the breakfast restaurant, and by the way, they can see if they can mix some snacks after dinner.
Lin Mu is a stupid person, he often doesn't like to lock the door when he goes to the breakfast restaurant to eat, but there are still a lot of small dried fish at home. As a result, Lin Mu's house became the hardest hit area of the theft of this old street.
Uncle Bai has also taught him many times that he can't always steal Lin Mu's things, so he can change a few of them......
Ahem, that's wrong, I'm going to bring some yogurt to eat, I can't eat it all by myself......
Lin Mu: "...... Uncle, are you serious? ”
But Hehe is indeed a lot more restrained, and now he has begun to become a street fighter with yogurt, hehe is the boss of this old street, and yogurt voluntarily follows Hehe and becomes Hehe's little brother.
Uncle Bai also sighed long after knowing this, "This dog messes with a cat every day, and he's happy all day long, this is a disease......"
This cat and dog chased Lin Mu all the way to his house, and he didn't know what method Lin Mu used, after these two living treasures entered Lin Mu's house, they didn't fight when they should have been beaten, and they didn't bark when they should have screamed.
Uncle Bai looked out of the store curiously, only to see Hehe gnawing something like a fish in his mouth, and yogurt scurrying around happily with a small bone in his mouth.
Uncle Bai shouted at Lin Mu, "Xiao Mu, don't give it too much, if you eat too much, it will come for a few more laps of morning jogging tomorrow morning." ”
Hehe's mouth was stunned, probably because he accidentally bit his tongue, and he didn't even finish the fish, so he immediately spread his legs and ran to Uncle Bai. Halfway through the run, I thought about it, turned around and put the little dried fish that was almost the same bite, and then ran to Uncle Bai.
The diners in the breakfast shop also laughed when they saw this scene, hehe glanced at them, turned his head and lied to Uncle Bai.
It caused everyone to laugh again......
There is nothing special today, it is still the same as on weekdays, there is no one in the store at about nine o'clock, Zheng Gui rarely has time to sit down in his seat and rest.
Hehe and Yogurt didn't know when they ran out together again, Lin Mu didn't have classes in the morning, didn't have to go to school, and didn't go home now, sitting in the breakfast shop to chat with Uncle Bai and Zheng Gui.
Uncle Bai is an old regular, even if the breakfast shop is closed, he can rely on it, and he doesn't leave now, sitting next to Lin Mu and listening to the two of them silently, and from time to time he also picks up a teacup and takes a sip of tea.
"Xiao Mu, are you okay at work?" Zheng Gui asked as he handed Lin Mu a cup of tea.
"Huh? Thank you. Lin Mu took the tea, "I didn't get used to it at first, but now it's better." ”
"Then the salary or something has been negotiated?"
"Well, I went to the principal and showed him a letter of introduction, and he said yes."
"That's good, but, Xiao Mu, who introduced you here? You never told us. ”
Lin Mu was drinking water, and when he heard Zheng Gui's question, he suddenly choked and coughed a few times, "Ahem, that, he won't let me say it, I promised him to keep it secret." ”
When Uncle Bai heard this, he suddenly became interested, and deliberately said loudly, "Who? It's so mysterious, have you lived here before? ”
Lin Mu thought for a while and nodded.
Uncle Bai glanced at Zheng Gui with a complicated face, Zheng Gui didn't answer, took a sip of tea, and looked blankly at the outside of the store.
Outside the breakfast shop, two figures flashed quickly, the front was black, the back was white, one black and one white, one in front and one behind, you don't have to guess to know that it is the two two goods.
The corners of Uncle Bai's mouth twitched slightly, "This hehe, I want to be trained again when I go back!" As if he suddenly thought of something, he turned his head and asked Lin Mu, "By the way, Xiaobai is okay at school?" ”
"Don't worry, uncle, this kid is very fine, and he will get acquainted with the class in a few days, so no one needs to worry about it at all." Lin Mu could see that Uncle Bai deliberately wanted to divert the topic just now, and this matter was probably related to Zheng Gui, so of course he had to cooperate with him.
"That's good, you watch more at school, and I'm a lot more relieved."
"Then Uncle Bai, don't forget to invite me to dinner, haha!"
Uncle Bai glanced at Lin Mu, "Just your skin......"
Time flies, if it weren't for the proprietress reminding Zheng Gui that it was time to cook, the three of them would still be able to chat awkwardly all day, of course, they all sat at someone else's house until noon, and this meal would definitely be able to be rubbed.
After eating, Lin Mu slept at home for a while, and after being woken up by the alarm clock, he packed up his things again and rushed to the school to prepare for the afternoon class.
Walking on the old street, my shadow leans on the wall next to me, the sun hangs in the sky, and from time to time it will be obscured by the clouds that drift in and lose its brilliance, and the shadow will become blurred.
Looking back on the past few days when I first came here, I didn't know anything, I could only rely on the help of my old classmates to get along here, and now I can barely live the life I want, and I am very satisfied.
As for why he wanted to help his old classmates keep secrets, Lin Mu didn't know.
The afternoon class is not too busy, as a psychology teacher, it is not a very tiring profession, after the last class in the afternoon, I didn't wait for the end of school, I went home first.
There are too many people after school, and the students who go home and the grandparents who come to pick up the children are crowded at the school gate, and it is difficult to go out.
I had a casual meal in the evening, and I kept preparing for class in my bedroom. The wind outside was a little cold, Lin Mu closed the window, finished preparing for class, looked at his mobile phone, it was already nine o'clock in the middle of the night, Lin Mu simply washed it and went to sleep.
I didn't sleep well in the middle of the night, vaguely as if I heard a lot of people shouting, and heard a sound similar to an alarm bell, Lin Mu didn't care, turned over, and fell asleep again......