Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's happy salted fish life

The middle-aged woman smiled slightly, took the vegetable basket, and said while choosing vegetables:
"My old man! Since I ate your cooking the day before yesterday, it's over, and I can't eat the food I cooked.

I have no choice but to invite you here, and me!Come to help you, and learn some cooking skills by the way, you don't mind! "

"hey-hey!"

He Yuzhu smiled very honestly and said:

"Look at what you said, that's my honor! Don't call me Master Xiao He anymore. If you don't mind, just call me Xiao He or Zhu Zhucheng. The leaders of the factory and the elders in my yard, That's what they all call me."

"Okay, then I'll call you Zhuzi! If you don't mind, you can call me Aunt Lan or Old Sister in the future!"

The middle-aged woman is very easy-going, always smiling and talking.

"Alright, Aunt Lan."

He Yuzhu quickly replied, he didn't think about currying favor with any leader, but there is always no harm in having a good relationship with the leader, not to mention that they have always been very polite to him.

Xiao Chen, who was outside the kitchen, saw that the chief's lover was helping to choose vegetables, so he hurried into the kitchen to do something, but he didn't know what to do, so he just stood by and watched in a daze.

According to the prepared ingredients, He Yuzhu quickly prepared four dishes and one soup.

Hey, this is the standard configuration of the village chief!

Xiao Chen and Aunt Lan walked out with a tray, while He Yuzhu sat in the kitchen drinking water.

In my memory, there are many rules for chefs. Although people are very polite to him, he is a cook and cannot go to dinner with others.

So he just sat in the kitchen and waited to see if there would be more.

After a while, Xiao Chen returned to the kitchen, looked at He Yuzhu who was drinking water, and said:

"Master He, why are you still sitting here! The chief asked you to have dinner together."

"Ah! No, no, this is against the rules."

He Yuzhu said while waving his hand to refuse.

Xiao Chen shook his head, smiled slightly, and said:

"The chief guessed that you would not go. He said that if I couldn't invite you, he would come over and invite you in person."

"Ah! Ouch! Go, go, go, hurry up, why don't you let the chief come to invite me!"

As He Yuzhu was talking, he quickly got up and followed Xiao Chen to the outside.

Following Xiao Chen to the restaurant, the chief and his lover, Aunt Lan, were already sitting at the table. Seeing them coming in, the chief quickly waved and said:

"Come on, come on, Zhuzi, come and sit down."

"Hey!"

He Yuzhu agreed, walked over quickly, and sat on the chair a little lower.

The chief smiled slightly, looked at He Yuzhu very amiably, and said:

"For me alone today, let you come over and cook for me, it won't delay your work!"

He Yuzhu quickly replied:

"No, no, there are not many things in the kitchen, I have arranged everything, and I will come out after lunch, there will be no delay."

"that's great!"

The chief nodded and said something, raised his wine glass, looked at He Yuzhu, and said:

"Come, have a drink with me. There is no one else today, so don't be restrained."

"it is good."

He Yuzhu readily agreed, picked up the wine glass in front of him, stood up and drank it up.

"Sit, sit."

The chief called He Yuzhu to sit down, put the wine glass on the table, and said:
"I told you not to be restrained, let go a little bit, and treat me as your coworker and your friend."

"Hey, good."

He Yuzhu nodded in agreement, picked up the wine bottle and poured wine for the chief.

The chief seemed to be in a bad mood. After saying a few polite words, he seldom spoke, but toasted frequently.

After drinking for three rounds, the chief's face was obviously flushed, he drank the wine in the glass, put the glass on the table vigorously, sighed and said:

"Hey! Tell me, why do people who have worked together for many years have such a big gap in their thinking and concepts! It is always impossible to work together."

There is some helplessness and some sadness in the chief's words.

Aunt Lan saw that her husband was a little melancholy, so she quickly picked up the wine glass and said:
"Old man, we agreed not to mention business or unhappy things today, come and have a drink with you."

He Yuzhu looked at the appearance of the old couple toasting together, feeling a little emotional and envious in his heart, he put down the chopsticks in his hand, and said:

"Chief, Aunt Lan, I have a little story, I wonder if you would like to hear it."

The chief pointed to He Yuzhu and said:
"Oh! Let's hear it."

"Hey!"

He Yuzhu agreed and spoke slowly:
"There were three brothers, the eldest was blind, the second was deaf, and the third was lame.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the three brothers made an appointment to watch lanterns together.

The deaf led the blind, and the lame followed.

After watching the lanterns, the deaf man said, alas!This year the lights are on but the guns are silent.

But the blind man said, you are wrong, this year is the cannon fire but the lights are not on.

The cripple immediately became anxious when he heard this, and he said angrily, "You two Gua Wazi, Gua Xixi's, this year's lights are on again, and the cannons are ringing again. This is the road, and it's a bit uneven." "

"Ha ha."

The chief smiled happily, not because of the story, but because what the cripple said at the end was deliberately spoken by He Yuzhu in the dialect of the capital of Shu.

The moral of the story is very simple, and the chief can understand it as soon as he hears it. He thinks that the young man in front of him is not only a good cook, but also a person with some knowledge, otherwise he would not be able to tell such a suitable story.

The key point is that he is very clever, knowing that he is from Shudu, he deliberately used the Shudu dialect to end the story.

This little story of He Yuzhu and a sentence in the dialect of Shudu made the chief laugh out loud. Aunt Lan and Xiao Chen were also very happy. The chief frowned all day long, and they were also anxious!

After the laughter, the chief seemed a little happier. He looked at He Yuzhu and said:

"Zhuzi, are you sure you are a cook who has only studied for a few days? Are you sure you are a native of Kyoto?"

"Yes! I didn't like going to school since I was a child, so I learned to cook from my father. I am a native of Kyoto. My Shudu dialect was learned from my senior brother, who is from Shudu."

He Yuzhu answered unhurriedly, thinking, I am not only from Shudu, but also from Shudu in 2021, but dare I tell you?If you found out, what would you do if you pulled me out for an exhibition!
A short story and a burst of laughter brought the people at the dinner table closer.

After the meal, the chief asked He Yuzhu to stay with him to drink tea and chat with him. He became more and more fond of this young man and became more and more friendly.

The two were drinking tea and talking. Seeing that the padded jacket on He Yuzhu's body had been patched several times, the chief asked his lover to bring him two sets of clothes.