Mr. Minguo's kitchen

After the rare heavy snowfall last winter, Xiaocao had already stayed in Yuejia Restaurant for half a year.Yuejia Restaurant is the best restaurant in this backward town.In the past six months, he has been upgraded from a dishwasher to a helper in the restaurant's back kitchen. Because the talent for cooking is hard to describe, Xiaocao naturally cannot be the apprentice he applied for at the beginning.He is only responsible for cutting things on weekdays. Unlike his terrible cooking skills, his knife skills are called geniuses, which is why the restaurant owner kept the child.Because of his good looks, he occasionally also serves as a plate handler when there is a shortage of manpower.

Growing up in an orphanage, he naturally never knew that in addition to being edible, food should also be delicious in color, fragrance and taste.Although he has been obsessed with cleanliness since he was a child, which is what people often call the "rich man's disease", for which he was often laughed at by other people in the orphanage, but that's just a limited range of attention. If you don’t eat it, others will naturally want to eat it. The picky eaters in the orphanage will just starve to death.

The owner of the restaurant is a smooth guy who wears glasses. In addition to being sympathetic to Xiaocao, he promised Xiaocao because he saved money by recruiting child labor.

One day in August, he suddenly asked the grass that was wiping the table, "Do you want to go to school, kid?"

Still holding a dirty rag in his hand, the thin little child stood in front of the hotel owner and could only reach his shoulders - the owner was not tall, he raised his head and pursed his mouth, and his black eyes were clearly eager , but he obviously has a sense and calmness that does not meet his age, "I have no money, and I don't have a registered permanent residence."

His household registration was originally linked to the orphanage, but the dean left suddenly, leaving this problem left over from history.Even if the household registration can be resolved, the country's compulsory education has not yet been implemented in their small place, so the high tuition fees are a natural moat.

The boss drank some wine today, and it is rare for him to show kindness, or he has been pleasing to the child for a long time, anyway, he finally promised Xiaocao: "Your salary is really not enough. In this case, I will pay you here first, and then I will start from salary. Buckle inside. You go to school during the day, and continue to help in the restaurant on weekends and evenings. People, it’s better to have a diploma, if it weren’t for the young people who went to the countryside..." The boss muttered in his mouth, but he didn’t listen clear.

Xiaocao naturally agreed, but he didn't expect much. There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. He had already fully comprehended this truth through a difficult childhood life at a young age. Maybe the boss forgot it when he sobered up.

However, he never expected that the hotel owner would actually help him solve the household registration problem. Before the start of school on September [-], he would pay his salary in advance and ask him to pay the tuition tomorrow.

On the day of registering, Xiaocao stayed up and cleaned the table for half the night. When he woke up the next day, he put on the cleanest clothes.The restaurant owner asked him if he wanted to change his name, but he nodded without hesitation, and neatly wrote down the words "Lin Weirui" on the paper with a pencil.

Because the characters are very complicated, the clerks of the Public Security Bureau couldn't recognize the characters at first.The hotel owner also laughed and teased him where the name came from. He told them that he found it in a dictionary. The adults all laughed, but no one believed it.

What he didn't say was that he took it for himself when he was four years old.

Most of the children in the orphanage were abandoned since they were young, and there are also older children who lost their parents due to accidents and no relatives are willing to take over.Among these children is an eight-year-old older sister who was educated before.

The other children envied her for going to school, and pestered her to tell stories in the school. After she finished telling the stories, she taught everyone to read and write. The children in the orphanage were used to being wild, and few of them listened to them. They were all novel at first, but then everyone dispersed Only Lin Xiaocao, who was only four years old at the time, wrote down every word she said.

That year, someone just donated books to the orphanage. There were several thick Xinhua dictionaries in it. Because there were no pictures and only words, no children rushed to read them. Lin Xiaocao became its owner.Thanks to that sister's enlightenment, he has an excellent memory and learned the dictionary by himself in three months, and then searched the dictionary to give himself a name, a name that only he knew.

The school-educated sister once said—

"The name Xiaohua Xiaocao is easy to remember, but it will be laughed at by others in school. Adults like to choose names with many strokes..."

According to the old dean, Lin Weirui was picked up in the grass behind the orphanage on a snowy night. It was New Year's Eve, just after midnight, and children are usually allowed to watch the year before they can go to bed.When the old dean sent the children back to the house to sleep, they heard crying in the grass. The baby’s lips were purple when he was found, and the crying sounded like a newborn cat. It’s not quiet at night and the sound absorption after snow is probably heard. less than.

The dean hurriedly carried the little baby to the hospital. Thanks to his hard life, he survived such a toss, because he didn't have much money at hand. He just hung a bottle of glucose and was taken back to the orphanage and became a member of the orphanage. .It was first discovered in the grass, and the dean had never been to school. His surname was Lin, so he was named Lin Xiaocao, and he also hoped that he would grow tenaciously like weeds that can be seen everywhere.

When the household registration clerk asked about the date of birth, Lin Weirui's child answered straight-forward, "...the first day of the first lunar month."

He was picked up by the old dean after midnight on New Year's Eve.

Lin Weirui changed his name, paid his tuition, and was taken to class by the teacher. Over sixty strangers looked at his pale washed clothes and the rag bag in his hand with surprise in their eyes.The child who was watched looked calm and unwavering.

He is the oldest kid in the class, but he has the best grades.

Later, the local headmaster promoted the role model in order to spread the stars, so he was allowed to take the skipping exam and became the youngest sixth grader.From elementary school to junior high school, high school, and university, the name Lin Weirui is the number one in age that many students of the same grade can't match.His deeds were also talked about by the students of the same grade. Gradually, no one called him "the broom star without parents", no one pointed behind his back, had strange eyes, and regarded him as a virus.

When a person becomes an insurmountable existence, everyone can only look up to him.Even if he was once as low as dust.

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The snow that spanned the year of Renzi and the year of Guichou gradually stopped. At the first time of snowfall, the sky was the coldest. Ye Honghu hugged the person on the imperial concubine chair by the waist. The person did not struggle, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if sleeping. caught.

Lu Yuduo, who was replaced by everyone because of his good card skills, was playing with Browning in his hand. Seeing this scene, he suddenly got up and walked outside.It's not up to this master to take care of himself. The young people nowadays are so powerful that they can't accept the old man. Fortunately, the old man has the most powerful service!

What is that person doing now?Does anyone accompany him for the New Year?Or one person is sad, no one cares about his warmth and coldness, he just goes to see it, it is enough to look at it from a distance.

There was someone visiting his lover on a snowy night in that room, and Ye Honghu came into the room in this room, and put the man gently on the bed. He pushed back the broken hair covering the man's face, revealing the overly fair cheeks underneath, which were full of drunken red, like a smear of powder The gauze covers from the cheeks to the back of the ears.

Ye Honghu quietly stared at those closed eyes, he knew how captivating and mind-blowing these eyes were when they were opened.

Because he's been watching this man for many, many years.

Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are not as good as a single star in your eyes.

After a long time, he lightly kissed the sleeping man's forehead, and said in a low voice, "Happy birthday, Rui Rui."

There were three very light clicks outside the door, Ye Honghu opened the door and took the hangover soup brought by the steward, and the steward said to the master in a low voice: "Marshal, Liu Ye has just left the house in a hurry."

Ye Honghu blew the soup in his hand to cool down, and only asked lightly: "Alone?"

The chief steward shook his head, "The subordinates followed." Ye Honghu ignored him after hearing this, and ordered him to send someone to send the young master back to the house, and the others also arranged to rest in the mansion for the night. A voice came from inside the room, "Ye Honghu...", the chief manager saw his handsome man flash back into the room without saying a word, smiled and helped them close the door.

"Are you awake? Drank the hangover soup, huh?"

Lin Weirui shook her head slowly, hugged the quilt, tilted her head, and looked innocent. Ye Honghu was furious when he saw it, but the other party didn't know it. Instead, he looked at him and suddenly said: "I had a dream before."

"Nightmare? It's okay, I'm here, it's all fake." His voice was reassuring.

Lin Weirui didn't answer his question, but stood up suddenly on the bed, and said to the person holding the hangover soup: "Come here."

Ye Honghu had never seen his daughter-in-law look like this when she was drunk, no matter in the past or present, it was a novelty for a while, so I had to watch it for a while.

The person on the bed was waiting impatiently, seeing that no one could come, he called softly, "Fourth brother."

Fourth brother...Ye Honghu's Adam's apple rolled, and when he approached him, he still looked like Liu Xiahui, and said softly, "What's wrong?"

"Come here again." Lin Weirui called him.

Ye Honghu followed suit, and the distance between the two was less than a foot.Lin Weirui lowered her head suddenly, and then Ye Honghu felt a warm touch on his forehead, beautiful and careful, but fleeting.

There was a bang, as if the Tusu wine just now reached the internal organs and suddenly burned.

Lin Weirui didn't notice the strangeness of the person in front of him. Don't look at him sober on the surface, and his words are well-founded, but in fact he is already drunk. Ye Honghu also knows that he is drunk. If he is not drunk, how could he behave like this.

Lin Weirui asked stubbornly: "You said before that as long as I kiss you, you will tell me the answer to "The Concubine Sighs Again."

At the gentleman's banquet in Xiangcheng, Lin Weirui was forced to sing a song on stage. The tune was very strange. It was different from Peking Opera, and it was not the modern song "New Drunken Concubine" by Mr. Li Yugang, which was popular all over the country.It was actually a piece composed by one of his customers.That gentleman is a famous musician and a loyal fancier. He used a singing method close to modern songs and integrated Peking opera singing. He wrote such a song with four different characters, but it has a unique charm. It is purely for self-entertainment. But not lose those famous songs.

But Lin Weirui is quick to learn everything and has a bright voice. That gentleman once pestered him to sing this song.After the gentleman's banquet, those friends gathered around Lin Weirui to discuss it, and it was also because the song was really of great quality.

The smile on Ye Honghu's face finally fell, watching him remain silent, the snow stopped outside, everything was quiet, only the sound of firewood burning in the fireplace remained in the house, Lin Weirui was drunk, but insisted on an answer, urged him, " Fourth brother, don't play tricks."

Ye Honghu had no choice but to help his swaying body to sit back on the bed, covered his bare ankles with a quilt, and said softly: "Fourth brother never cheats on you. Why do you know, because... I have heard of it."

I have heard you sing, over and over again, mesmerized, like falling into the river of forgetfulness.