Chapter 7 Rifle Restaurant
Early the next morning, Fuchen left the City God Temple and continued to look for work.
After another day of shopping, when I happened to walk in front of a restaurant in the afternoon, I couldn't help but look inside.
It just so happened that a guy who was about his age was holding a piece of paper and was about to stick it on the wall.
When Fuchen looked at the sticker, he also saw the content on it, and it turned out that "Laifu Restaurant" was looking for a kitchen helper.
"Hello, can I give it a try?"
Fuchen stepped forward to greet the guy with a smile.
The guy looked at the floating dust for a long time, and at the same time the floating dust also looked at each other.
I saw that the other party was half a head taller than Fuchen, with an earthy yellow dress on his body, a towel on his shoulder, and an earthy yellow hat on his head.
However, the other party looks upright, his face is much whiter than ordinary people, his eye sockets are very deep, and his eyebrows are very close to his eyes, and a pair of one-word eyebrows go up obliquely, and his eyes are sharp and sharp.
If you change your clothes, the other party will be a noble son.
"Come with me. ”
The guy looked at the black boy in front of him and said indifferently.
Walked through the lobby and came through the back door to a courtyard.
I saw more than a dozen people wearing aprons in the courtyard busy coming and going, some people killing pigs, some washing vegetables, and some shouting loudly.
Fuchen followed the man through the busy crowd to a chaise longue under the eaves on the opposite side.
There was a fat man lying on the recliner, but he covered his entire face with a puff fan, and he couldn't see his expression clearly.
"Old man Xu, someone has come to apply. ”
The guy said to the fat man lying on the chaise long.
I saw that Old Man Xu took away the fan with his hand, still lying down, lazy, Mrs. Xu is in her fifties, not counting, but she is indeed fat, and there is a lot of fat on her face, but it is not very good, with a few locks of beard in her mouth and her eyes.
The guy left after greeting Old Man Xu, leaving Fuchen standing respectfully in front of Old Man Xu, and Old Man Xu looked like she hadn't woken up.
After a while, the guy had already walked away, and Mrs. Xu slowly came to her senses, sat up, bent over, and reached out to pick up the small teapot and pour tea into her mouth.
"How old are you, can you work, can you endure hardship?"
After sleeping and drinking, he carefully looked at the dust in front of him, but his face showed some disappointment.
"Fourteen, yes. ”
Fuchen replied respectfully and affirmatively without much thought.
"Fourteen years old, how much strength can you have, little brat, you go. ”
Old man Xu continued to lie down and prepare for sleep.
"Hey, I can endure hardships, have strength, and I'm not small, and I've been a soldier for two years. ”
Fuchen hurriedly said to Mrs. Xu, as soon as the words came out, she regretted a little, she actually told the matter of being a soldier, she was a deserter.
When he was nervous in his heart, Old Man Xu became interested in it instantly, but Old Man Xu was always staring at him, and the uneasiness in his heart became even more urgent.
"You take that half of the pig to the kitchen. ”
Old man Xu pointed to the group of pigs that had just been killed, and he also walked there, and in an instant, the busy people also put down their work in their hands to see the excitement.
Fuchen looked at the half of the pork in front of him, which was not very big, about a hundred catties, and was falling obliquely on the wooden board with a hook.
Hanging in this way is to let the residual blood of the bled pig flow down, and secondly, for better dissection, when processing the internal organs, it can be scraped down, and then splashed with water a few times to wash it clean.
Fuchen looked around the half-hanging pork on the shelf for a while, because the internal test was facing himself, so Fuchen held the belly and back of half of the pork with both hands, and turned the half of the skin around with a force.
A man next to him picked up a piece of cloth and handed it to Fuchen, who took it and spread it on the pig.
Fuchen turned around and leaned on the half of the pig, holding the plank with both hands, and pushed forward hard, and the half of the pig and the plank were carried on the back by Fuchen.
Fuchen bent over, and Old Man Xu gave the man just now a gesture.
The man and the two men took the hook one by one, and the other two carried the plank from the back of the floating dust and put it in its original place.
"Good!"
"Come on!"
The crowd around instantly erupted in cheers.
Fuchen bent over and carried half of the pork on his back, and his hands firmly grasped the back and abdomen of the pig, feeling a little difficult.
However, in the midst of everyone's shouting, it was also a job, so I took a breath and raised my right foot and walked to the kitchen.
The people around consciously gave way to a road, and the people in the kitchen with spoons and knives all ran out to watch.
Fuchen carried half of the pork to the kitchen step by step and put it on the board.
"Old man Xu, this kid can do it. ”
The man said secretly to Old Man Xu just now.
"You come with me. ”
Old man Xu ignored the man, and walked out after saying a word to the panting floating dust.
After Old Man Xu went out, the people who watched the excitement greeted Fuchen warmly, which also put Fuchen's nervous heart down.
After the floating dust squeezed out of the crowd and came to Old Man Xu, Old Man Xu was still sitting on a recliner with a teapot in his hand.
"Come over tomorrow, eight taels of silver a month, including lunch, not shelter. ”
"Thank you, Xu ...... Xu ......"
Fuchen thought that everyone called him Old Man Xu, but he didn't know the specific name, and when he saw that the other party was not an ordinary chef, he was stuck in the symmetry for a while.
"Just call me Old Man Xu, and bring a piece of meat back when you go back. ”
After looking for five or six days, I finally found a place to live in Dongning City, and I currently sleep in the City God Temple at night, and go to work in the "Laifu Restaurant" during the day, so that I can persist until the days of accepting apprentices in Chaoshen Mountain.
In fact, it also proves the words of the abbot of the Sangha that no one cared too much about you before.
Suddenly, Fuchen thought that he forgot to ask the abbot of the Sangha Association how long it would take for the monks to accept disciples, and when he thought of this, he thought that it would be better to wait for the money to be paid and then go to Mingjing Temple to worship the Buddha, and then ask the old monk.
Fuchen carried pork out of the "Laifu Inn", thinking that Xiaoqing wanted to eat mung bean cake, and he had already wandered around the street.
When I returned to the City God Temple in the evening, in addition to the pork and mung bean cake in my hand, Fuchen also bought some other food.
Xiaoqing ate mung bean cake with a happy expression, and everyone also had dinner together, celebrating that Fuchen had found a job.
The next day, Fuchen went to the "Laifu Inn" early in the morning and did some chores in the kitchen under the arrangement of Old Man Xu.
The guy who brought in the floating dust finally knew his name, called Zhao Changan.
Zhao Changan is a very indifferent person, and everyone in the store is basically not familiar with him, so he can't talk about how good the relationship is.
happened to be busy one day, and found that Zhao Changan lived in a slum shack near the City God Temple, and the floating dust had more and more contact with him.
Maybe it's because they're too young and they're the same age, and slowly the two get together.
The strong man who helped the floating dust to take the hook in the back kitchen of the restaurant called him Lao Huang, so that he had a good knife work, and he was responsible for slaughtering any big animal in the kitchen or carving any decoration on the plate.
The old yellow man is very easy to get along with, and even often talks about his skills to Fuchen, and often pulls Fuchen to watch him perform.
Old man Xu heard that he was a famous chef in Dongning City, and he often asked him to cook when he went up to the city lord's mansion and down to rich businessmen, and Laifu Restaurant also became a famous restaurant in Dongning City because he became a famous restaurant.
Old man Xu often teaches the chefs to stir-fry, and when he goes out to cook, he will take him with him when he sees Fuchen doing things neatly.
Slowly, the floating dust learned some skills in the back kitchen of the restaurant.
Life has been so busy and happy since then, and Fuchen has slowly grown up in this ordinary life.