As soon as Zhao Mingding arrived home, Zeng Xiaorou's text message arrived, with only five short words: mobile phone for you. Zhao Mingding thought about it and replied with four words: Thank you for not being sensitive. Zeng Xiaorou replied with another text message: I have helped a lot, and I should keep my promise. Zhao Mingding remembered what Uncle Qing had said, sighed, and replied: It is better to be respectful than to obey your fate. Thank you very much! Zeng Xiaorou replied: This is the attitude it should be.

Zhao Mingding's mobile phone was accepted, but he was confused about the words "has helped a lot". A trip to her house is a busy time, what is going on? Could it be that this little girl has something to cover up for herself? A woman's heart, a needle under the sea, is really unpredictable.

Early the next morning, Zhao Mingding was hesitating whether to go to Wei Jiumei's house, he heard the sound of the motorcycle, stopped at the door, and then sounded Zhang Bao's voice, shouting loudly "New Year's greetings", Zhao Mingding hurriedly greeted him, only to see Zhang Bao smiling, followed by a slender girl, about twenty years old, with a shy expression, one hand tightly pulled Zhang Bao's sleeve, saw Zhao Mingding, cherry lips slightly opened, and said: "Brother Zhao, Happy New Year!" "It's a provincial accent.

"Huang Li, my girlfriend." Zhang Bao saw Zhao Mingding's puzzled face, and hurriedly introduced, "A native of Fuzhou, Fujian." ”

"Happy New Year, brother-in-law!" Zhao Mingding waved his hand, made a gesture of please, invited Zhang Bao and Huang Li into the house, poured tea and water, and was busy.

"You talk, I'll help grandma cook." Seeing her grandmother coming out of the room with rice in a basin, Huang Li hurriedly got up and followed, ignoring her grandmother's persuasion and insisted on helping. Zhao Mingding's brother-in-law heard her heart fluttering, and her face was full of red clouds.

"Don't let the smoke spoil this thin skin and tender meat." Grandma laughed.

"How can I be so delicate." Huang Li took the basin with rice in her grandmother's hand and said with a smile, "I'll come to stir-fry later, so you can taste my craftsmanship." ”

"Seeing that you are about the same age as me, but the girlfriend you are looking for is so young, to be honest, did you use any shady means?" Zhao Mingding saw Huang Li and her grandmother enter the kitchen and joked with Zhang Bao.

"What, red eyes? If you have the ability, you can also go fish for me to see. Zhang Bao squinted his eyes and smiled evilly. When Zhao Mingding heard this, he couldn't help but froze, and the figures of Zeng Xiaorou and Wei Jiumei quickly flashed in his mind.

"So, you're indirectly admitting?" Zhao Mingding also laughed evilly.

"I'm such a handsome and dashing person, do I still need to use means to find a girlfriend?" Zhang Bao's face was frugal, and he said, "We are Jiang Ziya fishing, and those who wish to take the bait!" After speaking, he laughed, and saw that Zhao Mingding's face was uncertain, so he stopped laughing and said, "This is a long story, I'll tell you when I have time." ”

"Don't talk about pulling down, what kind of appetite is hanging." Zhao Mingding feigned anger.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't be angry!" Zhang Bao saw that Zhao Mingding was "angry", and immediately said with a smile on his face, "Didn't I say it's okay?" You really are! As he spoke, he picked up the kettle and filled Zhao Mingding's teacup with hot water, and added some hot water to his teacup, and then he opened his mouth to tell the story.

"Five years ago, at noon on a hot summer day, I had just come out of the construction site and was about to go back to my dormitory to rest, when I saw a crowd of people surrounding the door of a food stall, and from inside came the voice of a woman crying and pleading, mixed with the voice of a man scolding. I squeezed in and saw that it was a middle-aged woman of about forty years old holding a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old who was asleep, sitting on the ground in front of the food stall and crying, begging the man who was scolding to give some money to take the sleeping girl to the hospital. Zhang Bao took a sip of water from the teacup, his face without a smile.

"From the mouth of the crowd, I learned that this middle-aged woman has worked in this food stall for three years, and has not received a penny of wages, the girl who is sleeping is the daughter of a middle-aged woman, and she is having a high fever, and the scolding man is the owner of the food stall, not only does he not want to send the girl to the doctor, but also drives the mother and daughter away, and does not give a penny of salary, saying that the mother and daughter have eaten and drunk for nothing in his house for three years, and did not charge them for food, which is merciful enough."

While she was making a noise, she saw the sleeping girl's body convulse, and the middle-aged woman screamed in fright, crying loudly, heartbreaking, and helpless. When I saw it, I couldn't take much care of it, so I rushed forward and pinched the girl's acupoint, and at the same time beckoned the onlookers to come up and help, pinching the tiger's mouth point of the girl's hands. A kind person handed over a wet towel and asked the middle-aged woman to help her daughter wipe her body to remove heat and cool down. After a while, the girl stopped her convulsions, woke up, and called her mother weakly, and everyone was relieved. I saw that although the girl had woken up, her whole body was hot, her face was burning red, and I was afraid that she would not be able to go to the hospital, so I called a roadside motorcycle, sent the mother and daughter to the hospital, and gave them the salary of 3,000 yuan that had just been paid in their pockets. After a doctor's examination, it was a mosquito bite and acute encephalitis, but fortunately it came in time and there was no major problem, and it only took a few days of injections to be cured. I listened, and then I was relieved to leave. ”

"Due to the rush of the construction site, I got up early every day and was so tired that I quickly forgot about it. A week later, at noon, as soon as I walked out of the construction site, I saw a mother and daughter walking towards me, kneeling in front of me and kowtowing to me. I was startled, and quickly pulled them up, the workers on the construction site didn't know what was going on, so they came around, and the foreman was alarmed, and after asking about the situation, I saw that the middle-aged woman was grateful, and the construction site just needed a cooking master, so they left their mother and daughter, I saw that the girl was still young, and couldn't do heavy work, so I paid to help her open a small shop on the construction site, selling some tobacco and alcohol, etc., her mother said that there was no way to repay, and she wanted to give me the girl as a daughter-in-law, I couldn't shirk it, so I had to agree. ”

"That's it?" Zhao Mingding asked.

"That's all!" Zhang Bao replied.

The meal was served quickly, although it was some home-cooked dishes, but Huang Li's craftsmanship was really good, with all the color and flavor, not worse than Zhao Mingding's grandmother's craftsmanship, especially the stir-fried vegetable core, which was full of color and flavor, shiny and shiny, and did not turn yellow at all. The home-cooked tofu is even more flavorful, tender and delicious, not salty or light, just right.

"The skills of the intermediate chef are okay, right?" Zhang Bao looked at Zhao Mingding's gobbling up and asked with a smile.

"What? Intermediate chef? Zhao Mingding asked in disbelief. The chef certificate is divided into five levels: primary, intermediate, senior, technician and senior technician, and there are requirements for age and working experience.

"Huang Li's mother has a senior technician chef certificate, and a dish of boiling cabbage is mouth-watering." Zhang Bao said regretfully, "It's a pity that she has something to do temporarily and can't come, so she can only wait for the next time!" ”

"You're deliberately coveting me, aren't you?" Zhao Mingding scolded with a smile, "Say, what are your intentions?" ”

"I don't want to ask you to write a few words until it's true." Zhang Bao smiled, "Huang Li's mother runs a restaurant, and I want you to inscribe the name of the restaurant." ”

"Oh?" When Zhao Mingding heard this, he was interested. Five years ago, I was a penniless worker, but five years later I ran a restaurant and had a Level 5 chef certificate, how much effort did it take?

After eating, Zhao Mingding laid out the paper, wrote down the three big characters of "Drunken Immortal Building", and made a couplet: the bamboo leaves are poured in the cup, and the peach blossoms are smiling. Zhao Mingding learned calligraphy since childhood, all bodies have both, especially like "Planing Dragon Yan Tablet", the effort spent is also the deepest, the three words of the drunken fairy building and the couplet are strong, dangerous and solemn, the penmanship and knot of the word are very changeable. The strokes are strong and powerful, although they are quite subordinate to regular script, showing the uniqueness of subordinate and regular scripts. Although the starting strokes are divided into square and round, the strokes are extremely heavy. It is pitched and tilted in technique, sparse and dense, and the posture is strange and comfortable in structure. The overall layout is proper, sparse and dense, the hole is up and down, and there is a sense of expectation, giving people a kind of beautiful enjoyment.

"Good word! Good word! Zhang Bao and Huang Li took the words written by Zhao Mingding, smiled from ear to ear, and applauded again and again. With Zhao Mingding's words and Huang Li's mother's cooking skills, it really complements each other, the business is prosperous, and it is natural to make money every day.

"Brother Zhao, let me tell you a secret: there are three shareholders in this Drunken Immortal Building, and you are one of them." Huang Li said with a smile.

"Oh?" Zhao Mingding didn't know what to do, and asked, "Just wrote these words for me?" ”

"No, it's not." Huang Li explained, "Brother Zhang Bao said that receiving the grace of people dripping water should be reciprocated by the spring. Three years in junior high school, two years in high school, every month's food is you carry rice from home to the school to him, a year is a thousand yuan, five years is 5,000 yuan, so when we opened the store, Zhang Baoge helped you invest 5,000 yuan, he himself 5,000 yuan, me and my mother two 5,000 yuan, a total of 15,000 yuan, opened a food stall, and then the business got better and better, this food stall was changed to a restaurant, and the dividends to you, Zhang Baoge saved it in the card, 200,000 a year, a total of 800,000 in four years, you are in ...... Your consumption in the Xiaoyao Palace is actually ...... In fact, it is your own dividend money that is spent. At the mention of Xiaoyao Palace, Huang Li's face turned red for no reason and became stammering.

"You...... You ......" Zhao Mingding turned around and pointed at Zhang Bao, unable to speak for a while. Good boy, he pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and deceived the whole class. And such brothers are the real brothers who share weal and woe. Zhao Mingding wanted to refuse, but thought that Zhang Bao would definitely not agree, and if he resigned, it would be too pretentious, so he smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "Let's go, take you to Wanhe!" ”

"To my sister-in-law's house?" Zhang Bao rolled his eyes and asked with a smile.

When Huang Li heard this, she immediately came over and said with a smile: "My sister-in-law must be very beautiful, right?" ”

Zhao Mingding listened, rolled his eyes, and looked helpless.