My third year as a soldier coincided with a critical moment in the process of modernization.

At that time, the central authorities judged the hour and sized up the situation and announced a major disarmament, and the "Jibu Division" to which I belonged became the key target of the reorganization of the military region, and was finally downsized into the "Jibu Brigade." I, along with many of my comrades-in-arms, was discharged early.

After that, I went to Hebei with the old squad leader, and he went to Shandong. Although they were still in contact with each other, they never met again.

From then on, I left the barracks for which I had fought and returned to my hometown, took off my military uniform, put on a white coat, and put down my steel gun (okay!). Actually, I haven't touched the gun a few times), and continued to pick up the rice spoon.

Relying on the "skills" given to me by the old squad leader, I began my long career as a cook.

In the first few months, I worked in a restaurant in the city, and with the skills I had accumulated during my cooking class, I quickly found a good job and could have earned a good income.

However, I quit my job after a short time, because I found that the restaurants in this place were too unelaborate and I couldn't get along with their "habits".

When I was in the army, the old squad leader often taught us that this cook pays attention to a conscience, and at that time, he also cooked for his own brothers. Naturally, how to taste and how to match, how to match nutrition, and I didn't think about profit at all.

But when I got to the local area, I found that the principle in the business field is to look at "money" completely! As long as there is profit, it must be maximized!

For example, the restaurant where I work is already the best hotel in our county, but even so, the canned drinks they serve are all about to expire, and they will never buy nine cents and five pounds of rotten vegetables if they can use nine cents and five pounds.

Actually, I can accept and understand that they do this, after all, do they do business! Cost savings are the most important thing.

But what I never expected was that I was shocked to find out later that they dared to give their guests "zombie meat" and gutter oil!

I won't explain much about gutter oil, everyone knows the downsides. But compared to this "zombie meat", it's really a small thing!

The so-called "zombie meat" refers to imported beef and mutton smuggled from abroad.

At first glance, you may think that this restaurant is good for our Chinese compatriots, and it also gives us imported food. A small plate of meat dishes is filled with imported beef from the United States and Brazil, and it sounds like face.

But in reality, that's not the case at all.

Don't think that this imported meat is better than domestic meat, in fact, on the contrary, this kind of meat is called zombie meat because they are leftovers eaten by foreigners, the most inferior quality, and even the dead cattle and sheep corpses, after simple disinfection treatment and sold to us Chinese.

To put it bluntly, it's all foreign garbage!

Moreover, you can't eat anything fresh like this. Those meats, often unsalable, have been frozen in cold storage for more than ten years, and they are real cattle and sheep "zombies"!

On the most exaggerated occasion, I even saw Russian lamb tested in 1981.

So what is that concept? That is to say, the age of this meat is older than me, don't talk about me at that time, even "Russia" was not born, and the former Soviet Union has not yet collapsed! Who would dare to eat such meat, who knows the truth?

Later, I couldn't stand it anymore, as the so-called out of sight is pure, so I found an excuse to resign, and decided to go back to the village to rest for a while, and then think about it in the long run.

Moreover, I found that my three years in the army had completely changed my soul, especially the pure teachings of the company commander and the squad leader, which made me regard the word 'conscience' more important than anything else.

Maybe because of this, I seem a little out of place with this somewhat impetuous society.

Fortunately, the owner of the hotel seemed to understand my thoughts. On the last day before I left, he gave me an extra month's salary. He also patted me on the shoulder and said, from the army to the locality, there is a process of adaptation, if you want to come back, we are always welcome.

I know that his words are an affirmation of my culinary skills. Also a suggestion to me.

That night, I bought an early ticket to my hometown, and then I went to the hotel dormitory to pack my things, and I worked until night, when I turned over and lay down in bed to rest for a while.

But I don't know why, my heart is in a mess, as soon as I close my eyes, all the memories of the army time pass through my mind like a black and white movie, and I can't sleep after lying in bed for a long time.

I always feel like something is going to happen

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, I tossed and turned in bed, sweating profusely, and finally simply stopped sleeping, sat up with my head on my head, and went to the bathroom to take a cold shower, which made me feel much more comfortable.

After that, I went to the front desk of the hotel in a leisurely manner, wanting to "exchange feelings" with the girl on night duty, and kill time by the way.

But I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the front desk, I really encountered something!

When I walked into the lobby of the hotel, I suddenly heard a noise at the front desk. There was also the sound of girls crying.

I immediately sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly looked in the direction of the front desk, and found that there were four men, who were entangled with the beautiful waiter at the front desk. During this period, a man was even more excited, loud and rude, and slapped the table at the counter.

I know, the front desk has met the owner who found fault. In my experience, those four people are either drunkards or hooligans!

So I rolled up my sleeves and was about to go over to relieve the siege.

After all, I am a soldier who has just been discharged from the army, and the hot breath of my son in the barracks is still there, and this hotel treats me well, and I have no less "exchange feelings" with the little girl at the front desk on weekdays.

Now that someone is finding fault, I, as a former chef and a former soldier, can't help but take a hand.

So without even thinking about it, I walked straight over and suddenly put my body across the people and the front desk attendant.

My appearance surprised the four men very much, especially the three men in black suits, who couldn't help but take a step back, their faces changed drastically, and they seemed to be very jealous of my appearance.

"Brothers! Tell me something, don't be embarrassed by a little girl. As I spoke, I turned to look at the beautiful waiter with a grateful face, and continued to boast: "Xiaohong, what the hell is going on! And brother said! Brother is in charge of you! ”

The front desk on duty was called Ye Xiaohong, and as soon as this girl saw me coming, she immediately grabbed my arm like a life-saving straw and told me what happened.

It turned out that tonight, this little matchmaker worked as usual, on the night shift, and at about eleven o'clock, she sent off the last wave of guests and was about to close down.

But at this time, the restaurant suddenly broke into these four people, and as soon as they entered the door, they said that they were hungry and wanted to have a meal.

However, according to the regulations of our hotel, after sending off the last wave of guests at about 11 o'clock, the entire hotel will be closed, and naturally it will not be able to accept customers. And at this time, the chef is already off work, even if he entertains them, he can't fry the dishes.

So, Xiaohong, who was on duty, had no choice but to politely refuse their request.

The final result is obvious, they are still unrelenting, saying "Since the restaurant is open, you have to pick up customers, so that your boss has no cook, so what restaurant do you still open." "Kind of nonsense. In the end, I actually started to scold my mother.

As soon as I heard this, the anger came up. I thought to myself, doesn't this clearly show bullying? Fortunately, Lao Tzu came, otherwise my beloved Xiaohong wouldn't have been bullied into a little green by them?

At that time, I turned my head, pointed at the fiercest one of them, and shouted very seriously: "Brother, I will give you two hundred yuan, can you eat elsewhere?" Don't make trouble."

The meaning of my words was very clear, in the face of the man who made a lot of trouble, I confessed, and chose to pay out of my own pocket to calm the matter.

Actually, you can't blame me for that.

After all, the man I was talking to was a head and a half taller than me, full of muscles, and the man's figure was very burly and strong, and his face with a peaked cap was not clear, but it also felt eerie.

But at this moment, the man sneered, and then stretched out his big hand and grabbed my shoulder suddenly.

Immediately after, I felt a tremendous pressure penetrate my shoulders!

I felt in a piercing pain, feeling that my weakness had not been effective, and that the man was determined to make trouble.

But I'm not afraid when it comes to the end! Since he relies on his burly figure, he toasts and doesn't eat and drink! Come on!

The moment he pinched me, I did the same, and quickly reached into my jacket pocket.

There's the Swiss Army Knife that I never leave.

When he joined the army, he also learned martial arts, and he also won a ranking in the division's martial arts competition. Don't look at me as thin and small, but my knife is enough to abolish this big and three thick man. Of course, this is my killer move, and it is a last resort

But at this time, the man said something that made me cold to the bottom of my heart!

"Your knife can't deal with me! If you dare to pull it out, I will strangle you! ”

Listening to that cold voice, my heart chuckled! I thought to myself that this is over, I know what I'm going to do before I move, it seems that I have met a master.

But at this moment, the man suddenly let go of me and said something that surprised me even more!