Rebirth of the third-rate cook

half life

When Li Dongmo met Meng Wanyang, Li Dongmo hadn't joined his company yet, and Meng Wanyang wasn't a cook yet, but the two of them did meet in a restaurant.

Li Dongmo, who was a sophomore at the time, was a frequent customer of a western restaurant outside the school, and Meng Wanyang was a waiter in that restaurant.

Li Dongmo would go to that western restaurant for lunch every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, not because of how delicious the food was, but because it was expensive enough, and such a standard was rare in that era. Students can afford it every day, and because of this, there are no people in the restaurant all year round, and it is very clean.

It was this cleanliness that Li Dongmo liked, so once there was the last class in the morning and the first class in the afternoon, he didn't bother to go home, and ordered a simple meal in this quiet western restaurant to kill a noon.

Coincidentally, Meng Wanyang worked the afternoon shift on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the evening shift on the fifth and sixth, and had a rest on Monday.Therefore, in Meng Wanyang's eyes, Li Dongmo is a brat who burns money every day.Of course, there was no such thing as a bear child in those days. It was just that in the western restaurant where there were no people, you could see a student every day at noon, and he was a good-looking and well-dressed student. It was hard not to remember it.

Li Dongmo ordered set meal a every time he came, and never changed it. Meng Wanyang couldn't help curling his lips when he heard meal a for the nth time, "Meal a is sold out today, I suggest you change to bcdef."

Li Dongmo raised his head and glanced at Meng Wanyang when he heard the words, then flipped through the menu deliberately, and said solemnly, "There are only four types of menu, abcd, and no ef."

Meng Wanyang let out a chuckle, "It's enough to change the collocation. You need to be flexible and innovative. How can you have a fixed mindset? You are also a college student, right? It's not good to have such a rigid thinking." In fact, Meng Wanyang and Li Dongmo are the same I'm [-] years old, but I didn't study anymore after finishing high school. I have worked in the society for more than a year, and I always like to speak to students in a preaching tone.

"Are you the chef here?"

"Obviously not, have you ever seen a chef come out to take orders for customers?"

Li Dongmo really wanted to say, there is such a thing, in those high-end private restaurants, the only chef will come out to order, in order to better meet the requirements of the guests.Of course, he didn't say anything in the end, but just closed the menu, "Then listen to you, click f."

Meng Wanyang didn't show any timidity, and complied with a smile.

As a result, what Li Dongmo ate that day was an unidentifiable bowl of rice. Although it didn't look good, it tasted amazingly good.

Of course, when Li Dongmo knew that the so-called rice bowl was actually Meng Wanyang's leftovers, it was already a long time later. At that time, the two of them could already meet and say hello like ordinary friends. Let's talk for a while.

"So, the thing that makes me think it's not bad is actually just a platter of leftovers?"

"Don't look down on leftovers, the working people are the most able to turn leftovers into magic, just like fried rice, let me tell you, only fried leftovers are delicious!"

Fate is very mysterious, just like Li Dongmo and Meng Wanyang, all because of the leftovers.

Later, when Li Dongmo went again, he would not order meal A again. He would eat whatever Meng Wanyang recommended to him, and sometimes he would exchange lunch with Meng Wanyang, even though Meng Wanyang's lunch was just the simplest lunch box he brought.

"Actually, you have a talent for cooking, why don't you learn to be a chef?" Once, Li Dongmo couldn't help but ask after finishing Meng Wanyang's boxed lunch.

And Meng Wanyang rolled his eyes, "I'm such a big man, I don't want to do the work around the stove."

When Li Dongmo left that day, he said, "A big man should do a skilled job, and shouldn't waste time on this kind of job that anyone can do."

Li Dongmo, who said this, didn't know that Meng Wanyang had three jobs a day plus all kinds of odd jobs in order to provide for his father to see a doctor and take medicine, and his younger brother to go to school. item to study.

However, if you want to talk about Meng Wanyang, you may be rebellious, and you were so angry at Li Dongmo's words that day. In Meng Wanyang's eyes, Li Dongmo is just a young master who doesn't know the sufferings of the world. , I like to point out the "Bang Zhuang Dao" everywhere, but Meng Wanyang's temper has come up, and he really can do anything.

When I arrived at the store the next day, I fought hard with the chef, insisting that the other party accept him as an apprentice. The other party only thought that he had convulsions, but he didn't want to. I just ran to the kitchen, and I would hand over something to start with. Over time, although I didn't explicitly accept him as an apprentice, I also started to ask him for some basic things.

Later, the western restaurant closed, and the two lost contact. Li Dongmo continued to study, and Meng Wanyang changed to a Chinese restaurant to continue working part-time and learning skills.

Until that day, Meng Wanyang, who was returning home from the night shift, found Li Dongmo unconscious in an alley.Without hesitation, he took him back to his rental cabin.

"Heh, after a long time of trouble, I was indirectly involved in a wealthy kidnapping case?" Meng Wanyang poured a glass of water for Li Dongmo who woke up, "Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital?"

"Need not."

"Then do you want to contact your family?"

Unexpectedly, this time Li Dongmo was silent, neither saying yes nor no.

After watching it for a long time, Meng Wanyang felt that he could not understand the thoughts of rich people, shrugged his shoulders, and went directly to the kitchen to make supper.

"Although I don't know what you're thinking, but I think you need to eat something now." As he spoke, he pushed a bowl of fried rice with eggs in front of Li Dongmo, and ate the instant noodles himself.

Li Dongmo took a look at the bowl of fried rice with eggs, "I thought supper should be something easy to digest."

Meng Wanyang snorted, "Should I serve you a bowl of noodles? Or simmer some porridge? Don't choose, just this bowl of fried rice with eggs, you can still eat my supper tonight and breakfast tomorrow!" See Li Dongmo frowned incomprehensibly, and Meng Wanyang ordered with chopsticks, "Originally, boiled rice is my supper, and boiled eggs are my breakfast tomorrow, but now it's all this bowl of egg fried rice, eat it quickly, Don't tell me that you have a bad stomach and can't digest." After finishing speaking, he ignored Li Dongmo, ate the instant noodles in two or three mouthfuls, and swallowed the noodle soup in another mouthful, finally sighed in satisfaction.

Li Dongmo didn't have so many hypocritical problems. He silently picked up a spoon and ate food. After taking two bites, he suddenly raised his head, "It's delicious."

Meng Wanyang was taken aback for a moment, then grinned, "That's right, I'm already at the level of a chef in a big restaurant, so naturally I can't be worse."

Li Dongmo didn't answer, but continued to eat the bowl of egg fried rice quietly.

In fact, what Li Dongmo said was delicious does not mean the standard. After all, the chefs of the Li family are all chefs from five-star restaurants, but this bowl of egg fried rice made Li Dongmo feel for the first time that the food is not about exquisite appearance. The taste is excellent, but lies in the warmth behind the meal.

He didn't tell Meng Wanyang that after knowing that he was kidnapped, his father didn't want to pay the ransom to redeem the person, but intensified the suppression of the other party, vowing not to bow his head.

He didn't know whether his father really didn't care about his life or whether he was absolutely sure that he would be fine. He didn't want to know, and he didn't want to find out again. These turbulent disputes were not even worth the current situation. A bowl of egg fried rice made him feel at ease.

"I'll give you the food, but I won't give you the bed. I'm a person who has to get up early tomorrow to work. I'll lay the floor for you. If you like to sleep, you won't sleep."

"I don't choose."

Meng Wanyang showed his white teeth in a smile, "That's good."

The so-called evil fate means that no matter how they go around, even if they are unintentional, they can still have such an opportunity to get involved after losing contact, which also lays the foundation for the follow-up of the two people's entanglement for a lifetime.

Later, when Li Dongmo was kicked out of the Li family, Meng Wanyang grinned and asked him, "Will I be the one to support you from now on?"

"I think, for now, yes."

"Hey, this feels really cool!" Meng Wanyang immediately took out all the cash from his wallet and patted it on Li Dongmo's hand, "Then from now on, I'll take care of you!"

Li Dongmo didn't even look at it, he just put it in his pocket, "I want to hug me, but there is no end."

"Then why don't you hurry up and count whether you're losing money or not?" Meng Wanyang raised his eyes.

Li Dongmo embraced the beaming man and kissed him, "I sold myself for you, no matter what, I earned the deal."

"Hey! It really is a profiteer."

Although the two looked relaxed in the face of such a situation, the days during that time were really miserable. Li's father banned the two of them in almost all the fields he was involved in, and Meng Wanyang lost his original job. There, big restaurants didn't dare to use him, but he was quite open to it, and worked as a cook in a snack bar, receiving a fixed monthly salary to support the two of them.

However, although it was bitter, those days were the days when both of them felt the most at ease.

Later, Li Dongmo sold the little shares in his own group and opened a small restaurant called Dongyang, and Meng Wanyang was the chef of the restaurant.

It's not a luxury hotel, but a poor restaurant near the school, with a sense of a farm. It's just that in that era, people didn't have any idea of ​​farmhouse entertainment, but the quality and price were cheap, and the business was pretty good.

In addition, although the Li family's business scope is extensive, it does not involve the catering industry. This can be regarded as leaving a loophole for the two people, allowing them to find a place to survive in the cracks where they are suppressed everywhere.

And when Li's father finally decided to ruin his son's business, Dongyang was no longer a small restaurant. Not only did he open a lot of chain stores in the local area, but even franchise chains in other provinces and cities.

After so many years of tempering, Li Dongmo, although not as rich and powerful as his father, has also developed the ability to deal with him.

After that, Meng Wanyang participated in a TV live broadcast of the Chef King Competition and won the championship in one fell swoop, which made Dongyang's name an instant hit and its development momentum was overwhelming.

The father and son had been in a stalemate for so many years, and they had no choice but to give in. After all, it was Li's father who offered to make peace, and proposed that as long as Li Dongmo left an heir, he could turn a blind eye to the matter between him and Meng Wanyang.

In Meng Wanyang's view, in order to have a child, Li Dongmo must have another woman, and that woman must have a status.With Meng Wanyang's previous temperament, he would jump up before Li Dongmo, but this time Meng Wanyang didn't make a fuss. He accompanied Li Dongmo all the way to today. In terms of what it means to abandon the Li family, it cannot be said that he suddenly became hypocritical, but that when a person reaches a certain age, thinking about problems will no longer be as simple as when he was young.

After all, as a father, such a request is not too much, but as a partner, he cannot accept such a request.

So, this time, it was Meng Wanyang who made the decision for Li Dongmo.It's a pity that Li Dongmo knew Meng Wanyang too well. Seeing that he didn't turn his back on the spot, he turned black first. He didn't go anywhere for the next few days, and followed Meng Wanyang every step of the way. Finally, he caught him in the middle of the night and wanted to say no. Meng Wanyang left without saying a word.

"Didn't you say you would take care of me?"

"Well, the benefactor is getting tired of crooked, change the taste."

"Do you believe this?"

"Believe it or not, it doesn't matter, as long as there is a reason."

That time, Li Dongmo didn't talk nonsense, he directly took Meng Wanyang's luggage, dragged him straight to the airport, booked the nearest flight to the United States, and flew directly to the United States with a dizzy Meng Wanyang.

At that time, Meng Wanyang knew about test-tube babies for the first time, and knew for the first time that a child could be conceived without any contact between a man and a woman.

"So, it's not difficult to want a child. I even thought about keeping your child as my Li family's child."

Meng Wanyang thought, what kind of affection could make the man in front of him make such a decision?And if I don't give in one step, what kind of situation will I push this man I love so much?

"No need, as long as you are still mine is enough. The child will naturally keep you. Anyway, I have a younger brother, so my family doesn't need me to inherit the incense."

It's just that Meng Wanyang didn't know until his death that Li Dongmo had kept his child after all. He was afraid that if he kept his child, he would make the same decision as his father when faced with what happened to him back then. , but if it was Meng Wanyang's child, he was absolutely sure that he would never bear it.

"So, when you get there, even if you know the truth, don't blame me. I just love you with my selfishness. I love you and Wu, so that I can treat everything related to you with tolerance. Dongyang, Mingyue, and yours Family members, apprentices... Do you think that you have been following such a person for so many years? Unfortunately, even if you regret it, you have no chance. When I get over this matter, I have to go over there to pester you. You agree I have lived my whole life, but I have only fulfilled half my life, so you can hide wherever you want!" Li Dongmo said while touching Meng Wanyang's tombstone with his hand, and then stood up.

"It's time for me to go back. I've been out alone for too long. Recently, that kid Mingyue is watching me closely, as if I can't bear it. Okay, let's not talk, and come to see you in two days."

Along the path of the cemetery, Li Dongmo walked forward step by step. Behind him was the afterglow of the setting sun, but only the shadow of a person on the ground was illuminated, dragging so long, so thin, and so lonely.