019: Swallow [Maha's Story]
The Kerston system, the entire galaxy has only six planets.
It is blessed with three equally large planets rotating in the center, and three small suns revolving around the three planets on the outermost side.
A group of meteorite belts wrap around the outermost side to fend off meteors, forming a perfect galaxy architecture.
The four seasons here only vary with latitude and longitude, and the three stars are all hot summers at the equator, and there is a difference between spring and autumn from the equator to the north and south poles, and the poles of the north and south poles only exist in winter.
The three planets are called: the Red Star, the Yellow Star, and the Blue Star.
All the plants on the red star are red, and the vines dye the planet red.
There are many large areas of desert on the Yellow Star, and the yellow sand stains the planet yellow.
More than ninety percent of the blue stars are oceans, and the sea dyes the planets blue.
Among the three planets, the people of Tyrone County are intelligent creatures, and no other creatures have developed intelligence.
The ancestors of the people of Tyron relied on the gravitational pull of the centers of the three planets to invent the spherical ship.
This spherical ship itself does not have the ability to fly, but it can rely on gravity and some external propulsion to reach one star from the junction of three stars.
Rely on spherical ships to transport and exchange resources on the three planets, so as to continue to support each other's development and growth.
Maha grew up living on the red star in the Kerston system, in a dilapidated hotel called Red.
The location of the Red Hotel is above the equator of the Red Star, one of the few flat areas where spherical boats can travel between the other two planets, the Air Pier.
The Red Hotel has a bungalow as a tavern and a three-storey lodging area behind the bungalow.
There are one hundred and eight rooms, but almost every room has only one meter by two meters of activity space, which is enough to lie down and sleep.
In order to maintain and operate the Red Hotel, as long as it is a money-making business, the proprietress Ma Qi will do almost anything.
Breakfast is sold in the morning, fast food at noon, and in the evening the old hotel and bar, during which 24-hour accommodation is provided, and of course, this improper special service.
But even so, the gold dollars earned are not very much.
There is no way out, there is a slum behind the whole wharf, which is a historical problem.
The most lacking in the air dock is coolies, who come from the slums, accustomed to having money to drink and have fun, and going to the dock to move goods when they don't have money.
The coolies have no ambition, they work day by day, and when they have money, they squander it, and when they have no money, they are hungry and have no strength, and they will be in debt.
Maha's mother, Ma Qi, is a very good old man in this area, and she carried this red hotel from her family.
For coolies who really have no money, they have food and shelter, so they have a lot of headless debts, and Ma Qi always says that the other party will pay it back.
Maha often asks, "Mom, how did I get here?" ”
Ma Qi just smiled: "You were born to me." ”
"And what about Dad?" Maha asked again.
Ma Qi has never shied away: "One day I drank too much, and I had you." ”
Just as debt is headless, many feelings do not have a clue.
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The people of Tyrone County reached adulthood at the age of 40 and lived an average life expectancy of 150, with the oldest reaching 222 years.
Maha was brought up by Ma Qi since he was a child, did not receive any cultural education, once hired a private school, but in the whole environment of the hotel can not study at all, Maha likes to mix with the coolies at the docks.
Mother Ma Qi knows that no matter what Maha does, Maha can only follow the coolies in the future.
This is the only child himself, although he has the heart to inherit the Red Tavern to Maha. But Maha, who works as a coolie, may not be able to keep this red color.
So when Maha was eighteen years old, Maggie handed Maha over to Gang Damu, the only chef in Red.
The hope is that Maha can learn to cook and cook, and it is better for a chef to be the owner of a hotel than to be able to move goods for the hotel.
Cooking is a luxury. Although there has been a civilization for tens of thousands of years, it is only in recent years that there has been a mature food system and design structure.
The era of Ru Mao's blood drinking has just passed, and science has just seen the prototype.
The reason is also very simple, in the perennial war, Huang Xing discovered a valuable energy similar to oil, and Huang Xing recently gave up the war and reluctantly unified itself, and began to mediate with the red and blue stars.
The three planets of red, yellow and blue have finally ushered in peace, and people have begun to consider higher dietary pursuits from hunger.
When there was no war, people began to learn to make everything they could eat more delicious and nutritious after they had calmed down.
But until then, cooks had only served nobles and soldiers.
The former was to satisfy the nobles, and the latter was to give the soldiers who went to the battlefield the strength to fight.
Nowadays, there are more cooks, but the level is uneven.
Chef Oki is the only chef in the Red Hotel, and he has a special identity.
His cooking skills are from Huang Xing's military camp, he belongs to the field man, and now he is a deserter.
In the era of the battlefield, during the day, cold weapons were practiced, and when the meal was ordered, he withdrew from the battlefield and burned the fire to cook.
It is impossible to guarantee that every meal is delicious, but it can ensure that the amount is full.
Da Mu always smiled bitterly and said, "My brother who ate my breakfast in the morning made his share at noon, but he may not be able to eat it." ”
The coolies love the rice cooked by Oki because they are full of energy because of the cheap price.
And the proprietress Ma Qi has also been adhering to the small profits and quick turnover, just to continue the red business.
Da Mu is a treasure picked up by the proprietress Ma Qi, and when I saw Da Mu, I only thought that he was a beggar who was about to starve to death and did not dare to enter the hotel.
After giving him something to eat, the other party asked if he could stay and cook.
Ma Qi didn't doubt it either, and let him into the back kitchen.
After tasting the other party's craftsmanship, Ma Qi instantly felt that what he had done over the years was not swallowable at all.
Whatever it is, it's delicious.
Now when Ma Qi asked Maha to just follow him, Maha was almost a hundred unwilling.
But what Ma Qi and Ma Ha don't know is that Da Mu is even more unwilling.
But the proprietress Ma Qi once saved her life, but now the proprietress Ma Qi has spoken, and she can only admit this matter.
The reason for Maha's reluctance was simple, most of the guests he saw were coolies, and he couldn't see how tired they were from carrying goods outside during the day on spherical boats. You can only see the various expenses and pastimes after the guests get their salaries and come back. So in Maha's stereotype, coolies are his dreams.
thinks that coolies are just playing and playing, and like themselves today, as a still Maha is carefree, and there is money to spend.
As for the money? Of course, the old customers of the hotel all know Ma Qi and Maha, and they know that it is not easy for a widow, so they take care of Ma Ha and treat them as their own children. There are bits and pieces of spare money that can't be spent, and they will also be given to Maha, especially when he is drunk.
This idea must be wrong, under Ma Qi's continuous education, three or four rattans have been smashed, which makes Ma Ha willing to learn to cook.
With a rebellious mentality, Maha felt that being a cook was a waste of his life, why should he start by washing dishes and touching the greasy dishes of those leftovers.
Da Mu is a rough man, and he can be regarded as able to control Maha with a set of troops.
Although Maha learned to cook, he could do almost half a bucket of water, but at least he followed the study, and the days passed day after day.
It was the third month, and Maha went from washing dishes to cutting meat, washing vegetables, peeling and adding firewood.
From day to night, after the return point to start selling alcohol, you can get a respite.
The coolies came back from their hard work at the cargo dock and sat in the tavern and drank round after round. If you still have money to spare, go to the back and sleep, and if you don't, sleep directly in the tavern.
If you have more money, you can have fun.
Gang Damu made sure that there were no guests in the kitchen to cook, so he stewed the remaining ingredients on two large plates and served them to the dining table, one plate for the proprietress and his buddy, and one plate for Maha and himself.
The chef always finishes up, and everyone comes out and sits in the corner and starts eating.
Maha finished washing the last wave of dishes and arrived in the hall, and his body smelled, and since he became a cook, he felt more and more uncomfortable day by day.
The guests start to get busy when they arrive. The guests had time to catch their breath when they had rested.
Maha looked at the two plates of food and everyone who had already started to eat to lose his temper, took off his apron and grabbed it in his hand: "Mom! I quit! ”
There are still guests in the tavern, but on weekdays, the tavern is lively and noisy, everyone is watching the play, and no one cares about Maha's temper.
Ma Qi put down the tableware and stepped forward quickly, washed the towel on his shoulder, and wiped Ma Ha's face as soon as he finished wiping the table: "What's wrong, you have a temper?" ”
"I kind of get it, what is cooking? I'm just a handyman! I'm wronged! I haven't made a single dish until now! Maha's temper softened immediately when he saw his mother.
Ma Qi asked, "Didn't you teach?" ”
"I've always had an idea in my heart that there will be no accidents in three days. No broken plates, no food wasted. I'll teach him, and I'll start teaching him to wash the dishes from the first day. Half a year has passed, and there is a lot of time to work hard in one day, but it has never exceeded two days, let alone the three days I expected, so I didn't teach anything. Oki explained.
"I don't want to learn, he just doesn't like me!" Maha angrily threw away his apron.
Da Mu pulled a large plate of stew in front of him directly in front of him, and began to eat the food in the entire plate.
Maha saw it and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
"Don't you want to be a chef? Haven't made a single dish until now? The kitchen is right in front of you, go in and do it yourself! The ingredients inside are all yours, and you can eat your own when you finish serving them. Damu waved his hand.
Maha rolled up his four sleeves and rubbed his hands together and went into the kitchen.
Damu shouted, "I just have one request, I will eat everything I make." ”
In a moment, Maha came out with a plate of black substance and placed it on the table.
Mother Ma Qi saw it and asked, "You did this?" I might as well not eat it. ”
Maha was in a daze, looking at what he had made. Obviously, I learned it secretly following the order in which Damu cooked, so how did I come up with such a thing?
Da Mu sneered: "Waste of food, in the army, the head will be cut down and buried in the sand." ”
Mother Ma Qi sniffed it, pinched her nose with her hand, the taste was not right, and hurriedly picked up the plate and poured it towards the trash can under the table: "Forget Maha, apologize, study hard with Teacher Damu, and insist on not making mistakes for three days......"
The stubborn Maha grabbed his mother's hand with his hand, took the plate and put it on the table. I watched as the blackened food was stuffed into my mouth one bite at a time, and I vomited several times during the process.
But in the end, the plate was eaten clean, and even the plate was licked clean in front of Damu.
Maha had a temper and showed the plate.
Da Mu could see it, and after a moment of thought, he smiled, and pointed to the location of the kitchen: "Boy, don't say I didn't give you a chance, come in with me." ”
"it!" Maha shouted angrily.
"Aren't you going to learn how to cook? Kowtow to the teacher! Oki got up and walked into the kitchen.
Ma Ha was at a loss, and his mother Ma Qi patted Ma Ha's head: "Hurry up, don't go in and apprentice quickly." ”
At the end, the cabinet that Oki never let people open unlocked with a key, and inside the cabinet was a stack of seven helmets.
Maha, who thought it was some kind of treasure, looked at the seven helmets and was puzzled.
Damu knelt down and pointed to Jean Maha to kneel as well.
Maha looked at a cabinet of helmets and asked, "What is this?" ”
"Do you know why I can't get used to you? Because you're wasteful, but do you know why I'm taking you as an apprentice today? Oki asked rhetorically.
"Because I didn't waste it, and I finished eating the unpalatable?" Maha is anxious, but not stupid.
"The way you just ate, you remind me of the old days. I'm just going to tell you about it, you know? Why do I look down on waste, when I was still in the army. In Huangxing, there is no food everywhere in the yellow sand. When we are in a hurry, we eat the enemy, and even the dead ourselves......" Damu said at this point, and he stopped talking.
Maha was dumbfounded, and Damu smiled: "You won't feel disgusting when you make a delicious meal, so this is a test of the chef's level." We couldn't waste anything, we really couldn't survive at that time, and there were only seven of us left in the team, so we thought about running away. At that time, it happened to retreat to the air terminal of our country. There was a spherical boat at the pier and we stupidly passed by. Using tools to pry open the hatch, the two men pushed out a certain speed, and then pulled into the spacecraft hand in hand and closed the hatch. ”
Maha asked, "What are you talking about?" ”
"We didn't understand so we made a big mistake, do you know why the spherical boat only takes off at night? Because the spherical ship cannot fly on its own at all, it can only rely on gravity to push from one planet to another in the shortest distance. There was only one trip a day, and we stupidly took off at the farthest end. Gravity threw us off the planet, and we crossed an even larger amplitude. Originally, the distance between planets that could be reached in half a day, we had to walk for sixty-three days! Luckily, we ended up being hooked by the towing boat to the Red Star, otherwise I really don't know what would have happened. When the spherical boat opened, I was the only one left. And then there's the seven helmets in front of you. The people on the docks were startled, and I ran out with a knife and six helmets. Daki said, looking down at his helmet.
Six companions plus their own helmets, seven of which are now here.
"Why me? The reason why I survived is because only I can cook. What they can't eat, I don't feel sick with it. So I've always felt that cooking is sinful, but today I'm going to teach you one last in front of my brother. Da Mu said this, lowered his head and slapped the ground with his four hands.
This is a gesture that represents a request for forgiveness, and Maha vaguely understands something in combination with everything that Oki said before.
There was something that could not be said more, and Maha lowered his head and slapped his hands heavily on the ground.
Da Mu watched Maha's movements and laughed: "Okay, I will hand over everything I will to you in the future." ”
Da Mu helped Ma Ha to get up, and Ma Ha also understood something: "Master, I promise that I will never waste it from today onwards!" ”
Damu locked the cabinet that contained his secrets: "Starting tomorrow, you don't have to waste it." Don't do anything, just stand by and watch me do it. Memorize my movements, no matter what dish is ordered outside, I will go through the process for each dish. When you can get a dish straight out of the word, start working. But the ugly words are said in the front, if you don't make it delicious, you can eat it all yourself. ”
"No, I'll do the chores!" Maha shouted.
Oki smiled and got up to leave.
Leaving Maha stunned, looking at the closed cabinet and reminiscing about what had just happened.
Is Oki good at cooking? Delicious! Why is it delicious? It's to swallow what you can't swallow.
This is the original intention of Oki to learn to cook, and it is also something that must be learned as a battlefield man.
And I have to learn from Damu, that is, in order to learn this ability of the other party.
Is there a future for learning from such people? Definitely, because the other party can swallow what he can't swallow.