Raising a Family [Rebirth]

Wen Rui followed the sound and saw a 25-year-old man with an ordinary appearance. His upper body was naked and he smelled of oily smoke.

Liu Mingyang next to him said, "Brother Chu, are you done?"

"Ah," the man's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, he wiped his hands and sat down next to the two of them, "This is?" He glanced at Wen Rui and then at Liu Mingyang to introduce him.

"Oh, this is a friend I met part-time. His name is Wen Rui. He is now tutoring children." Liu Mingyang introduced him to Wen Rui again, "This is our head chef, Chu Hao."

When Chu Hao heard his joke, he smiled embarrassedly, "What nonsense, what kind of chef, don't listen to his nonsense."

Wen Rui smiled gently: "I know it's a joke."

Liu Mingyang: "By the way, I heard from my aunt that you are leaving?"

"Ah, yes." Chu Hao said nonchalantly. He stood up and went into the house, and came out after a while with three bottles of beer in his hand. I'm going to go back and take care of him for a while. Come, one bottle per person." He said and stuffed the wine into Wen Rui's hand.

Wen Rui repeatedly refused, refusing to get the wine.

Liu Mingyang took the wine and advised him: "Take it and take it."

Wen Rui's attitude is very tough: "No, I don't know how to drink."

Chu Hao said: "You have already stepped into the society. Smoking and drinking are for socializing. Don't you know that business in China is negotiated at the wine table? If you can't drink, learn to drink. Who knows how to drink at first?"

Liu Mingyang also chimed in, Wen Rui didn't take it for a while, and it didn't matter if he didn't take it.

Seeing him hesitate for a moment, Chu Hao stuffed the wine bottle into his hand.

"Hey? I didn't have a wine screwdriver, forget it, just open it." Chu Hao directly opened the wine bottle with the edge of the table.

Liu Mingyang gritted it open with his teeth.

Wen Rui didn't know what to do with his bottle of wine, and it was Chu Hao who opened it for him.

Liu Mingyang asked Chu Hao: "Then you don't need to resign?"

Chu Hao took a few sips into the wine bottle, as if he was drinking plain water.

"The old man has stomach cancer," Chu Hao said with regret, "There are still eight or nine months to live, I just want to go back and spend more time with him after not working for a few months. Anyway, I still have Young, when can't you work?"

Wen Rui lowered his eyes, not knowing what to say.

"I'm sorry." Liu Mingyang didn't expect this to be the reason, he just heard what his aunt said today.

Chu Hao was a little annoyed: "I just don't want him to go in such pain. My sister called me and cried, saying that he was in so much pain that he couldn't sleep at night, and he didn't even dare to say a word, for fear of disturbing them to accompany the bed. You say... This person suffered so much for the first half of his life, how come he still can't enjoy happiness in his old age?"

Wen Rui felt that the atmosphere was very depressing. He was not good at comforting others, and he didn't know how to face others' sadness. He only hoped that Uncle Li would come over soon.

Liu Mingyang also faded away from his usual laughing and joking appearance, he frowned and asked, "Then why don't you go back earlier? It's important to take care of uncle."

"Here~" Chu Hao pouted his mouth at the sign at the entrance of the restaurant, "The job offer has just been posted, and I haven't found a chef to take over yet, so I can't ignore it and leave."

Wen Rui glanced at the boss who was still sweating profusely in front of the grill, and said, "The boss can take care of it in a short time, right?"

Liu Mingyang rubbed his nose in embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "You don't know, my uncle's business depends entirely on Brother Chu's craftsmanship. My uncle can't cook, he can only do some barbecue. It turns out that the cook cooks It doesn’t work. There are few restaurants in the town, but it’s not that there are no restaurants. Everyone is unwilling to come here to eat, and the business has been taken away by other restaurants. The situation improved after Brother Chu came.”

Chu Hao added: "I'm usually in charge of lunch and dinner, and the boss is in charge of grilled skewers and supper, but it's already September, and the barbecue can't be done for long, so I can only make money from lunch and dinner. I'm staying here anyway. It's been more than a year, and the boss and the wife have treated me very well, I can't be so heartless, I'd better wait for someone to take over before leaving."

"Then it's probably not easy to find." Liu Mingyang shook his head, who would come to the countryside to find a job when they have nothing to do? "However~ Even if someone applies for the job, it's useless if the cooking doesn't taste good."

He was a little worried. Don't look at his aunt smiling in front of outsiders and looking like nothing happened. In fact, she whispered and complained in private. big.

"I think you two cook very delicious." Liu Mingyang paused suddenly, he looked at Wen Rui suddenly, and said happily, "That's right! Aren't you good at cooking?"

Chu Hao sneered when he heard the sound: "Do you think being a chef is so easy? You usually cook at home. You don't need to save on seasonings and so on. You can add as much as you want to it. Can the dishes you make taste good? Cook a dish alone It doesn't matter, but it's like the kind of big pot dish that is fried at noon, you use the right seasoning, not only the taste but also the amount."

"Besides, it takes strength to hold such a big pot. And you usually don't have to rush to cook, but the cook is different. There are so many people and so many dishes, you can't make the guests wait anxiously, and you can't cook slowly. , the fire is turned on to the maximum, you have to pay attention to the heat, most people can definitely burn the vegetables with such a big fire. There is also cutting vegetables... so many vegetables you cut slowly, then you have to cut until the year of the monkey, when you are a cook The first step is to practice sword skills."

Although this is a very good job, Wen Rui didn't have that idea. On the one hand, he was considering what the head chef said. He hadn't been a cook for almost four or five years, so he might not be able to handle it. At night, when the restaurant was busy, he couldn't take care of both.

Liu Mingyang's shoulders slumped: "I'm naive. Forget it, let's go one by one, don't think about it anymore."

The three touched the wine bottle.

Wen Rui took a sip, and the taste made him frown. He was a little puzzled, how could someone drink so much that the wine was so bad.

The three of them drank half a bottle.Wen Rui heard the sound of the horn, and he turned his head to see that Uncle Li was driving over.

Wen Rui stood up immediately: "I'm going back, see you." After speaking, he was about to put down the wine bottle in his hand.

"Hey, let's talk about it after you finish drinking." Chu Hao pointed to the wine that he had only drank a small half, and said half-jokingly, "Brother, if I buy you a drink, you will really lose face if you don't drink it. Hurry up." The time is just blowing away, it’s not much.”

"This..." Wen Rui looked at Uncle Li and then at the half bottle of wine, feeling stuck for a while.

"We'll drink with you." Chu Hao gulped down his bottle of wine after finishing speaking.

Not to be outdone, Liu Mingyang drank the rest of the wine in one go.

"Oh, why are you so shy?" Two people pulled him and refused to let him go, "Do one! Go one! Quick!"

He stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling face, and Wen Rui was so enthusiastic that he couldn't show his face to them. He was embarrassed to keep Uncle Li waiting, but just said: "I have a stomach problem, so I can't drink too much. I'm really sorry today."

Seeing that the other party brought out the stomach problems, the two curled their lips, feeling bored.

Wen Rui nodded apologetically: "You two, we'll talk when you have time. I'll be leaving first." After speaking, he left.

He also knew that he made the other party uncomfortable like this, but he really didn't like this feeling, but the other party was "warm and hospitable", so he couldn't find any faults, and he didn't know how to flatter him if he didn't drink.