I took a tour of their cafeteria, which is where the classes are taught live, under the guidance of Don Juan. More than a dozen stoves are lined up, with large iron pots of various models on them.

In the past few years, more and more people have learned to be chefs, probably with the rapid development of the catering industry, whether it is part-time employment or opening their own restaurants and starting their own businesses, there seems to be more and more people.

I have a distant cousin who also studied in cooking school, and he said that he didn't really learn much. Many times like other secondary schools to take theoretical classes, in fact, there are not many opportunities to do it in person, most of the time to watch the master cook, hands-on.

Of course, the knife skills are still somewhat practiced, and you will always make some progress in cutting radishes and potatoes there every day.

I think that the chef's skill is not something that can be obtained on paper after all, and whether the taste of the food is good or not, you can't see it just by reading a book, or you still have to rely on your own hands and brains to explore the experience through practice.

The biggest significance of paying for cooking school training is, in my opinion, that it is easier to enter this circle. When looking for a job, the school will recommend you to do an internship in a restaurant with which you have business dealings, and you can often get a recommendation from teachers and seniors for your job.

In today's society, everything you do is about personal connection, and the field of chefs is intensifying with the competition. In some places, graduates from different cooking schools are also divided into factions, and there are fellow brothers and sisters in the unit, so it is probably easier for you to gain a foothold; If you're going to be working in a hotel where you've already had a head from your culinary school established there, you'll have more opportunities to mention it.

We passed a tree-lined road and entered an old Soviet-style office building built in the 60s.

Walking through the dimly lit corridor to the third floor, Don Juan stopped in front of the door of a room with the door number of the principal's office, knocked a few times, slammed it a few times, and shouted a few times: "Principal Zhang! Is Principal Zhang there? Principal Zhang! "Still no one opened the door.

"Wouldn't it?!" We looked at each other, and I asked Don Juan, "You wouldn't have made an appointment before, would you?" Running so far without saying hello? ”

"I've been here a lot, I'm too lazy to call later, every time I come at this time, sometimes even if Principal Zhang is not there, I can settle the account directly to the finance office, you can rest assured."

Don Juan looked a little sure, "Their financial manager is young and quite beautiful, let's go, take you to see the beautiful woman." ”

ran to the financial room, only a cashier girl was there, and the accountant Xiao Wang was not there. Tang smiled and said to the little sister, "May I ask if Wang Meinu is there?" ”

"Not there." The girl's face was expressionless.

"Will she go back to the office in the afternoon?"

"It's not coming." Her tone was still hard.

In normal times, she usually says, "Manager Wang is not here, when will I come back, what is your matter?" Don Juan felt that something was wrong, "So is she going out on an errand or on a business trip?" ”

"She's not working here."

Don Juan was dumbfounded, "Huh!? That's been a long time, why? ”

"You call her and ask her if you're okay." The cashier gave him a cold look.

I thought to myself if Tang Yi had just said, "Beauty, may I ask if that miscellaneous little king is there?" I'm going to do something about advertising money. "Maybe it's better, it's not so wordy.

Nowadays, it is popular to call people "handsome guys and beauties" when they meet, which is already commonplace, and people will not go to their hearts when they hear it, but if you call Xiao Wang a beauty in front of the cashier's little sister, you have to worry about people feeling uncomfortable. She may wonder if I am not worthy of being called beautiful enough in your mind, or have become the opposite of beauty? Naturally, there won't be any good looks for you.

It's like if you're with a few civil servants, or you don't call your position, and you see someone in uniform calling the boss as before liberation; If you want to call your position, then you must be careful that a bowl of water is flat, and when you see Deputy Director Li, you must also call Director Li, and remove that sub-word, otherwise you will offend people.

A few days ago, I went to Chuxiang Daily to do business, and I received a business card from a leader in the advertising department, and there was a line of small words in parentheses after the title of deputy director: Enjoy the treatment of the department.

I looked at Don Juan's appearance and suddenly wanted to smile, "Brother Juan, it seems that you really brought me here for a trip today." I can't do anything. ”

Don Juan hehe: "Let's go, I'll take you to find the legendary madman, which can be regarded as a cultural landscape." ”

To say that the other two scenic spots on the "New Matai" route of Star City still have some places to go, many people who come to Star City from other places will also make a special trip to Mawangdui to see the female corpses and cultural relics unearthed from the thousand-year-old Han Tomb, or go to Taiping Street to explore the former residences of Mrs. Jia and some modern celebrities.

The question is, what do we go all this way to Xinkaifu to see? Farm stay? It doesn't seem to have much of a special character compared to other places.

If you want to ask about the specialties of Xinkaifu, I am afraid that there is only the nursery rhyme that the people of the old Star City are familiar with: "The crazy woman of Xinkaifu does not take a bath, there are lice women; The oil mite on his body, and the lump on his face...... "Lump is a pimple thing like pimples, acne, and acne."

It is said that this nursery rhyme has been widely circulated since the 60s, and the madwoman is indeed a person, who lives in Xinkaifu, but wanders around, often appearing in all corners of the southeast, northwest and northwest of Star City.

As for the reason for her madness, there are different theories, but the most credible one I have heard is that of an old comrade who has worked on the judicial front.

It is said that she was originally a family wife, and her husband was a Kuomintang officer, but after he fled to Taiwan in 49, he was not heard from, and a son she raised independently later died of poverty and illness in the famine year in the early days of the founding of the Republic, and then became insane.

In the late 90s, once passing by Dongtang on a bus, the elderly man pointed to a middle-aged woman on the side of the road outside the window and shouted to me, "Look, this is the crazy woman chatter of Xinkaifu!" (Chatter, often used as a particle to reinforce the affirmative tone in Xingcheng dialect.) ）

Until today in the 21st century, there are still people who say that they have seen her "fairy track" in such and such a place, or post on the Internet to tell about their "chance encounters" with her, and there are many followers. She has become an immortal legend like Lao Tzu outside Hangu Pass or Zhang Sanfeng in the sea of clouds in Wudang.

Of course, this may also be true, according to this year, she is also in her 70s, not to mention that in today's world, crazy and stupid people may often live longer, because they live in their own world.