Early the next morning, Silly Zhu first sent the rabbit to Wu Changan, and then went to the rolling mill. Today, I want to go to Director Tian's house for a birthday banquet, and I need to ask Director Tang for leave first, mainly because I am afraid that I will need to make a reception meal at noon, and I will not be able to find myself when the time comes

"Director, take a day off today, Director Tian of the Security Department invited me to make a birthday banquet for his mother, the old man's 60th birthday, I thought it was a big deal and agreed" Silly Zhu knocked on the door of Director Tang's office and said directly after entering

"Director Tian? You kid can, when I celebrate my 60th birthday, you kid must cook me a table of dishes, otherwise I won't let you kid go", Director Tang nodded after hearing Silly Zhu's request

"Okay, then you hurry over, I'll ask someone else to make up for you."

After getting the reply, Silly Zhu didn't continue to grind in the cafeteria, there were more things on the menu that Director Tian gave that needed to be prepared in advance, and he still went early, and it was in his hometown in the countryside, although it was not far away

When Silly Zhu arrived at the place, it was already 9 o'clock, Director Tian took Silly Zhu to the temporary kitchen in the yard and then confessed, and he also needed to receive other guests to let Silly Zhu be busy first, what needs just say, there were already 3 men and two women looking at about 30 years old at the scene, saying that the main family paid to come out to help

There are not a few famous dishes in the menu given by Director Tian, all of them are some old BJ people like to eat, rock sugar elbow, green onion fried mutton, toon fish, etc., elbow is Director Tian spent a lot of money to ask for talent to buy, today the banquet opened 18 tables, Director Tian himself has 8 tables, the rest are some old friends and younger siblings and some neighbors, Director Tian brothers and sisters 7 people, Director Tian is the eldest brother is 44 years old this year, his mother was born at the age of 16, his father went early, Director Tian joined the army when he fought in the early years, After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he regained contact with his family

Originally, the organization arranged for him to go to the south, but Director Tian felt that his old mother was old, and he had not been by his side to fulfill his filial piety when he joined the army in the early years, so he decided to stay in BJ to support his mother's retirement. In the end, he was assigned to be the director of the security department in the rolling mill, and in the early years, the director of the field was married very late, and it was not until the surrender of the small day that he was introduced to the marriage by the organization, and his wife was assigned to the street office as the director after being a soldier, not the street office where the stupid pillar was

The younger brothers and sisters of their own family also have a good job under the arrangement of Director Tian, they are all workers, and they originally wanted to take their old mother to the city to care for the elderly, but the old people did not agree, saying that their father was buried here, and their roots were here, and they went to the city for fear that your father would be lonely and could not find a way home, Director Tian had no choice but to agree that his mother was in the countryside, but he still arranged for the youngest brother to work in the automobile factory outside the city, close to home, and it was convenient to take care of his mother at home

These are all things that Uncle Wang told Silly Zhu 2 days ago. Although Silly Zhu can name these leaders in the factory, he is not familiar with much, and Secretary Liang is not familiar with it, mainly because Secretary Liang is too upright, Silly Zhu has been in the factory for 2 years, Secretary Liang has never let Silly Zhu do reception meals, and rarely go out to eat at public expense

Looking at the dishes on the table, the stupid pillar feels very kind, the stupid pillar is also an old BJ person, the He family has lived in BJ for generations, at least the 3 generations in the stupid pillar cognition are in BJ, the stupid pillar has not seen his grandparents, and his mother's relatives have not seen it. I asked when I was young, but my mother told me that it was gone, and Silly Zhu didn't know what it meant to be gone, so I didn't care, and when I was a little older, I realized that I now have no direct blood elders except for my father

Today, Director Tian prepared 12 tables, each table is 8 cold and 8 hot, and the cold dishes are peanuts, cold cabbage heart, fried spring rolls, cantaloupe, sauced beef, fried toon fish, green onion and ginger Songhua egg, and cucumber dipping sauce

Among them, this melon is not really a melon, it is made of crisp cucumber shreds and sweet pear shreds, and finally add a little sweet and sour hawthorn shreds, these things are added together, and the final fragrance is very similar to the melon, so it is called the melon. This is a dish that old BJ people often eat in the summer

Silly Zhu fried the spring rolls first, after all, they need to be cooled, and this thing can't be eaten when it's hot. The eldest sister who called the helper to help pour the oil from the pot, and when the oil temperature was right, go in and fry it, and finally wait for the spring rolls to turn brown and put them in the basin for later use

While frying spring rolls, the stupid pillar here also asked the three of them to put the sauced beef and peanuts on the plate first, and they had to fry the fish later, so they could only let the three of them do it themselves, and the stupid pillar who saw the three of them in a hurry also felt that there were not enough people, so he asked Director Tian to call over and let three more people come over to help

Director Tian asked his cousin and cousin to come over to help, a total of 6 people came, and the temporary kitchen suddenly became lively and coaxing, and when the stupid pillar was still frying toon fish, the others had already put the cold dishes on the plate, and it was only 10 o'clock when they left the table early. The old BJ here is about 11:30 o'clock, the hot dishes are not suitable for this time to fry, there are a few big dishes in the hot dishes prepared today, rock sugar elbow and green onion fried mutton These are to be prepared in advance, the silly pillar has already stewed the elbow in advance when he came, and he can do it when the time comes

Today you need to make 8 hot and 8 cold, and the cold dish is ready to be hot. The menu given by Director Tian includes rock sugar elbow, fried lamb with green onions, meatball soup, fried lamb tripe, shredded apples, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, and a steamed pork, which is also the most troublesome dish besides elbows

Burst lamb tripe needs to be cooked and eaten, take boiling water and scald it a few times before it can be served, the old BJ people like coriander with sesame sauce to eat belly, the steamed pork is almost steamed, it takes an hour, now steaming is the most suitable for other dishes, and so on after the feast is fried, it is also urgent

The smell of elbows filled the courtyard. The table has been set, relatives and friends sit at the table and chat after paying their birthday greetings to the old birthday star, and the children are shuttling and playing in the crowd. Silly Zhu hurriedly sat on the chair and smoked a cigarette, watching this scene with great envy, he had never had such a scene in his memory.

The He family has almost no relatives and friends, and He Daqing has been going back and forth for many years, but there is only one time during the Chinese New Year, and there are very few in normal times. The happiest time for Silly Zhu was when Yushui was just born and his mother was still alive, at that time, although his father's salary was low, but his family's life was very happy, his mother took his sister to do housework at home, his father worked outside, he was in elementary school at the time, and he had a meal to eat when he went home every day.

I forgot when I didn't get this kind of life in my memory, probably after the death of my mother, my father He Daqing came home and slowly became very few, plus my brain was not bright at the time, and I often fought with people of the same age in the yard, Xu Damao was the most beaten by himself, this person owed, often said some words that were indebted, and slowly he and Xu Damao became bickering as soon as they met.

The rain is even worse, she was less than 2 years old when her mother left, and her father became even more cold-blooded and neglected the family after that, and the rain can be regarded as growing up by herself, but she used to take care of the rain by herself as long as she could live. The departure of his father made Silly Zhu have the burden of the head of the family on his shoulders, if He Daqing did not leave his life, it may be a new look, and he will still be an apprentice in the restaurant until the end of the apprenticeship and start to go to work and stir-fry, and then when he is old enough to marry a wife and have children, his sister does not need to support himself.

By 11 o'clock, Silly Zhu had sorted out and prepared to stir-fry. Rock sugar elbow and tamales have to be on last, the first dish is to make shredded pork in Beijing sauce, and then to pull apples, fried lamb tripe, these are fried in a big pot, and the big pot can only be stir-fried with a big spoon

Soon it was time to open the table, many helpers were busy carrying the board through each table of dishes, first on 8 cold dishes, the Tian family's birthday banquet was very richly prepared, usually there were one or two meat dishes at the banquet, this time there were 2 meat dishes just cold dishes, and everyone was looking forward to the hot dishes behind

Soon in everyone's expectation, the first hot dish was served on the table, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, a dish that everyone is more familiar with, it can be said that it is the signature dish of the old BJ people, everyone can't wait to move the chopsticks, and soon the dishes on the table are almost eaten, this era has less oil and water, it is not easy to eat meat once, and the speed of serving the dish cannot keep up with the speed of everyone's eating for a while. Soon the second dish of shredded apples came up, which was a dessert, and the apples were put in it with sugar frosting. This is followed by a third course of lamb belly

In the admiration of everyone, the dishes on the table were quickly wiped out, and the stupid pillar had to speed up, and immediately the fourth dish of fried lamb with green onions was served, and then it didn't take long for the tamales and rock sugar elbows to be served, and the last dish was meatball soup

When Director Tian came out to toast, it happened to be the first hot dish on the table, and he was very satisfied with seeing everyone eating so quickly, and he couldn't help but urge people to urge the food to be served quickly, seeing that everyone was very satisfied with the decision, Director Tian was a little happy about the decision to invite Silly Zhu to cook today, and he was also a little grateful to Silly Zhu, and he had to toast a glass of wine later

After all the dishes were served, many helpers had not eaten yet, and Silly Zhu stepped up to make a table for everyone to eat together, and when the food was almost finished, Director Tian came over to toast, and Silly Zhu hurriedly returned the salute

"Director Tian, you are too polite, I am a cook, then you deserve to come and respect me in person, I salute you for this glass of wine, and at the same time wish your mother a blessing like the East China Sea Shoubi Nanshan"

Hearing the kind words and blessings of Silly Zhu, Director Tian nodded with satisfaction, and left without leaving an extra glass of wine, after all, he still had his own friends to receive

When everyone started to clean up, Silly Zhu didn't plan to stay longer, and asked people to tell Director Tian that he was going to go back, and Director Tian's wife hurriedly brought someone over

"Master He has worked hard for you today, my mother and my family are very satisfied with today, let me bring you a thank you, this is 100,000 yuan, don't take it too little"

Silly Zhu didn't refuse when he heard it, he himself came out to take on private work just to make money, and it seemed a little false to say other kind words, so he simply took it generously

It's been nearly 2 o'clock since I came out of Elder Tian's house, and it's been a little hot these days, and I'm going to buy some watermelons to take back. In the summer, there are no other fruits, just watermelons and peaches, so buying some watermelons and soaking them in well water is better than anything else

When the silly pillar returned to the courtyard, the others had not yet gotten off work, and the aunts who did not work in the courtyard sat at the door chatting, doing manual work by the way

"Ah, why did the stupid pillar get off work so early today, why did he come back at 3 o'clock?"

"I took leave today, I didn't go to work, I went out to help cook", Silly Zhu didn't have anything to hide and said it directly

Hearing that the stupid pillar went out to cook, everyone was also envious, and listened to their own old men say that every time this stupid pillar took on private work, how could he get 50,000 100,000, and this month he came 4 times and 5 times higher than his own monthly salary, no wonder people said that the cook industry was good, and he Daqing often went out to pick up private work when he was in the past, but He Daqing brought food every time he came back without money, why didn't this stupid pillar bring vegetables.

didn't pay attention to the others, Silly Zhu went straight back to his house, and after dealing with the rabbits at home, his sister He Yushui also came back from playing crazy outside

"Brother, are you back?" He Yushui asked in surprise when he saw He Yuzhu

Silly Zhu didn't pay attention to He Yushui's problem, but just asked him to hurry up and wash his face and remove the sweat on his face, a girl is crazy every day, she has no girl's temperament at all, how to marry like this in the future

When the master came back, Silly Zhu shouted to the rain who was reading the villain's book: "Rain water, go and bring the knife, cut a watermelon and eat it, it's hot to death." The master will eat the watermelon first, and I will cook later, the rabbit meat needs to be made quickly, and I am afraid that it will stink tomorrow if I don't do it."

After the rain brought the knife, Silly Zhu took out the watermelon that he had soaked in advance when he came back from the bucket, and when he was cool after eating the watermelon, he would go back to cooking. The weather is hot, all the residents of the courtyard are now eating late, and they have dinner one after another at 8 o'clock, and everyone goes out of the house to sit at the door or under the big locust tree in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness. Children are running around and playing, while adults are talking about new things they have heard recently

Time flies very quickly in this kind of light days, in the blink of an eye, more than half of August has passed, and the learning situation of the silly pillar has also been significantly improved, the master feels that the silly pillar has been basically mastered, and the rest is practice, the old Taoist priest usually has time to take the silly pillar out to show people, and by the way, he explained some situations to the silly pillar that he had not seen

In the following days, the silly pillar began to learn divination, "Divination refers to divination or divination, including divination, auspiciousness, three kinds of surveys, in the Chinese inheritance of thousands of years, divination can be divided into six Yao, Liuren, plum blossom easy number, Qimen Dunjia, Taiyi Shenshu, etc., our sect inherited six Yao, Liuren, plum blossom easy number, Qimen Dunjia also has hunting but is not proficient, divination and physiognomy are related, physiognomy is through the face, body and bone physiognomy to speculate on good fortune and misfortune, divination to the Book of Changes as a theoretical basis, through the combination of heaven, people, The three realms of the earth are mutually restrained and inferred from good luck and evil

And the selection of auspicious is represented by Qimen Dunjia, through the layout, cloth fighting, spells and other methods to deal with things, our legend of the fighting method is actually a kind of Qimen Dunjia, in ancient times Qimen Dunjia is actually used in many military wars, Guiguzi, Sun Bin, Zhuge Liang is one of the representatives

The measurement bureau is through the technique of the twelve fortune hexagrams, which is the elephant mathematics to calculate the country's political fate, qi number, and historical change law, and the technique of the twelve fortune hexagrams is what we call the twelve heavenly stems. In short, the art of divination is vast and profound, and you should treat it with reverence and not act impulsively."