The ideal is very plump, the reality is too skinny, and the outside world is not what Shi Keqi imagined. Before, when my grandfather talked about the outside, he always talked about drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl, or the bloody battle of the golden iron horse in the yellow sand, or the strategy of marching and arranging the army;

Shi Keqi left Shijia Village to bring not much silver, to the outside to find out some useless news, some people know that Huangshan Siyi is a thief, but no one knows, no one knows the whereabouts of the broken arm man, and soon the silver two are finished.

How to survive has become the most urgent thing in front of him, he thought that he would go outside with his ability to at least worry about food and clothing, but while inquiring about things while recruiting workers is not smooth, at first I wanted to be a bookkeeper, to see that there is a recruitment of good treatment, only a few conditions: the imperial examination is preferred, literacy is second, and then it is required to understand the economy and do accounts.

He thought that he had never taken the imperial examination, but he knew more words than ordinary people. He went to apply for the recruitment in a hurry, but was politely invited, he didn't even know how to do the accounts, and the way of the economy was a mess, and the master didn't want this kind of raw hand.

Thinking about being a nurse again, when he was recruited, he said that he had killed a mandrill, and the face of the manager of the interview changed color, which was the color of suspicion when he saw a liar, so he found a practitioner and made him a big horse as soon as he got his hands on him, and before Shi Keqi could explain that his internal injuries had caused him to lose all his kung fu and something like that, he kicked him out of the door.

Coolies under the wharf, can't push the chicken bus, weak, walking OK, try to carry a sack, who knows that just carry people and things into the river, fortunately, there are many people who are familiar with water at the dock, and the two of them got him up casually. This time, without waiting for the steward to speak, Shi Keqi bowed his head and drove away.

A month has passed, and Shi Keqi's internal injuries have not improved at all, there is not much money left, and he has not found a suitable livelihood. On this day, I entered the provincial capital Xiangzhou in a trance, the provincial capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is the state, there are several prefectures under the state, the government is in charge of several counties, and the county has a few to more than a dozen towns, depending on the prosperity of the prefecture and county, and the number is decided, and the same is true for the villages below the town.

Xiangzhou Mansion is the center of Xiangzhou, and it is also the prefecture directly administered government, and the provincial capital of the Southern Dynasty is called the county, and the other levels are the same.

Shi Keqi looked at the busy street and paid attention to the advertisement. After a few wide avenues that can be passed by four carriages, not far from a tall stone plaque called Osmanthus Fang, see a two-story building, is looking at the splendor, look at the carved dragon and depict the phoenix on the side, open two doors in front, a plaque with a length of more than a few feet and a few feet wide inscribed with gold characters "Xiang Yage".

If you get a little closer, you can see a wooden plaque made of wood with a piece of red paper attached to the door.

Shi Keqi guessed that it was a recruitment notice based on many experiences, and when he walked forward, he saw that the red paper was written in large letters about a shopkeeper and a handyman, and the conditions needed were written in small characters. He smiled bitterly, the only one who met his conditions was a handyman, so he asked the waiter at the door, and walked into the store to find the shopkeeper for an interview.

At this time, it was the beginning of the hour, there were no diners patronizing, the shopkeeper was behind the counter crackling and crackling, Shi Keqi walked to the counter, the shopkeeper was aware, raised his head and looked at him, the young man in front of him looked very delicate, but his face was pale, his hair was messy, he was carrying a bulging burden, and there was a thin layer of dust on his clothes.

The shopkeeper quickly came to a conclusion: Well, this is a boy from the countryside looking for something to do. Then he took the tone, and asked slowly and very concisely, "What's the matter?" ”

When the shopkeeper looked up, Shi Keqi had already seen his appearance clearly: a roe deer with a long head, two beards on his lips, and a blue-purple silk dress. Shi Keqi squeezed out a smile and stammered a little, "It's for a handyman."

The shopkeeper nodded, left the counter, walked closer with a figure-eight pace, carefully glanced at Shi Keqi up and down, and said: "My handyman needs to be hard-working and capable, not afraid of dirty and tired, healthy, never make trouble, good-tempered and obedient, and it doesn't matter if he is familiar with his hands." ”

Shi Keqi promised that there was no problem, and handed over an identity document that he had taken early. The shopkeeper took one hand, shook it in the air, squinted and looked at it for a while and found no problem: there was a large seal of the local county government household registration on it, and the certificates of the guarantors and elders in the village were drawn.

"Your name is Shi Keqi, right, the food and silver in the store are one or two or five dollars a month, and you can take care of food and housing, what do you think. "The shopkeeper deceived him into being a foreigner, and he had no recommendation from the tooth line, and his salary was lower.

"No problem, I can start working today. "Shi Keqi doesn't care about the salary now, he is almost out of money to eat, and he can't take care of too much.

The shopkeeper straightened up, the corners of his mouth twitched, indicating that he was passing, and turned his head sideways and called out to someone to arrange Shi Keqi.

Xiang Ya Ge is a medium-sized restaurant, the kitchen currently has five people, a chef, a small kitchen, two kitchen workers, a handyman, four running hall guys, one sweeper, the shopkeeper's wife and brother are in charge of important positions such as purchasing warehouses, and the shopkeeper's surname is Niu Zi and the account room.

Originally, there were five guys running the hall, and there were two kitchen handymen, because a guy and the handyman had a dispute with the shopkeeper and left, and now the kitchen handyman recruited Shi Keqi, the guy has not been recruited for the time being, and I don't know if the shopkeeper is still recruited, so the actual number of people in the restaurant is thirteen.

The business of the store is still booming, the kitchen chef surnamed Zhu, is relatively obese, but he cooks a good dish, one of which is the best dish "braised lion's head", which has reached the highest level in the provincial capital, and is more attractive to low- and middle-income customers. Xiao Chu is his apprentice, also surnamed Zhu, the two are related, everyone calls the chef Master Zhu, and calls him Master Xiao Zhu. Master Xiao Zhu led Shi Keqi to settle in the small wing room in the backyard of the restaurant, and there were already two people living in the room, plus he was three.

After settling Shi Keqi, Master Zhu took him to the kitchen. The length of Xiangya Pavilion is six zhang and three zhang wide, five stoves are lined up on the right, a large board in the middle, two small pools at the back, there are bamboo pipes to bring water in from the outside, and there are black lacquer cabinets on both sides to place all kinds of dishes, chopsticks and plates.

There are two stoves on the five stoves for stir-frying, one for stewing, one for steaming rice and steaming vegetables, and one for boiling water; there are four vegetable piers on the cutting board, and more than a dozen small baskets of various colors are used to assemble materials; a hot water sink is mainly used to degrease and clean the dishes and chopsticks, and a cold water sink is used for cleaning the dishes and chopsticks and washing vegetables for the second time.

After Shi Keqi settled down, Master Xiao Zhu took him to the kitchen, he spoke more kindly, and explained the things that the handyman needed to do one by one, such as washing dishes, washing vegetables, cleaning and adding fire, etc., which can basically be done by one person. At this moment, the two cooks put the washed ingredients and side dishes on the foot-thick wooden vegetable pier, and skillfully cut the thick kitchen knives made of pig iron, making a "bang-bang" sound from time to time.

Master Zhu inspected the kitchen an hour ago, and then drank tea in the private room in the backyard, and generally did not step into the kitchen again without a guest ordering, and there were still a few quarters of an hour before the guests arrived.