Chapter 59
Chapter 57 Fifty-seven cups of green tea
Wen Rugui’s letter was sent to Tong Xuelu’s house, not to the state-owned hotel.
Therefore, Tong Xuelu received the letter after get off work.
Seeing that the letter from the letter was warm and gentle, she was also surprised.
I didn’t expect that he would even think of writing a letter!
She just thought of this last night.
Before the book was worn, technology was already very advanced, and everyone used mobile phones for communication, and few people had the patience to write letters.
Since she has crossed into this era, she must feel the things of this era.
Tong Xuelu opened the envelope, and there was only one letter inside.
“Comrade Tong, see the words like the face. I am very happy to see you on Sunday. The white fungus syrup tastes very good, and Comrade Tong’s cooking skills are as good as ever.
After I returned to the base, I stayed in the laboratory except for sleeping. The weather turned cold. Comrade Tong should always pay attention to his body. The military coat is still a bit thick now. I have extra cloth tickets here. Comrade Tong can use it to make some moderate thickness. clothes.
I don’t know if Comrade Tong feels it strange to write letters in the same city? I am very worried, please be sure to write to me and let me know. ”
After reading the letter, Tong Xuelu couldn’t help but raise the corner of his mouth.
It seemed that someone had stuffed a piece of candy in the mouth, and the sugar melted, sweetening from the mouth to the heart.
Wen Rugui really surprises her time and time again. The letter is simple and does not contain any ambiguity, but he shows his concern for himself everywhere.
She looked at the cloth tickets, and there were ten of them!
Many families have only one cloth ticket a month, but he sent her ten at a time!
Wen Rugui is so kind to her!
Ten cloth tickets are nothing in future generations, but they are rare in this age, and even more rare is his intention.
It reminded her that it was hot and hot in her heart.
The point is that this person is not as dumb as she thought.
He left a question in the tail, which made her have to reply, and he would write again when she replied. In this way, the two were contacted.
Woo, it’s so cunning and cute.
Tong Xuelu didn’t reply immediately, and Wen Rugui sent her ten cloth tickets. She wanted to send him something.
It’s not practical to make clothes and shoes because she can’t do it.
What she is best at is cooking.
She thought about it, and decided to buy some ingredients from the supply and marketing agency tomorrow, and then make some snacks for him and send it over.
Tong Xuelu folded the letter and put it away, and when she looked back, she saw Tong Mianmian sitting on the bed reading a little man’s book.
I don’t know if she understands it, staring at the book with big eyes, and the two little jiaos keep spinning in circles.
The pair of little feet were white and tender, and they were too soft to make people’s hearts tremble.
She leaped over and gave her a big kiss on the cheek.
Xiao Tuanzi seemed to be taken aback, staring with big eyes, his mouth opened into an O, as if he was startled by Xiaolu, very cute.
Tong Xuelu couldn’t help holding her again and kissed her twice.
When she first realized that she was wearing books in the 1970s, she really felt very cheating in her heart. She lived well in modern times, so why let her wear books to a cannon fodder?
Now she suddenly felt that wearing a book was pretty good.
There are little cuties like Tong Mianmian, and big cuties as warm as home.
that’s nice.
**
Going to work the next day, Meng Qingqing still looked sullen.
Tong Xuelu didn’t ask her again, because she couldn’t say it.
She focused on Liu Dongchang.
Liu Dongchang seemed to know that he was observing him, and he deliberately showed her a proud smile.
That simply disgusted Tong Xuelu, she always felt that something was going to happen.
At noon, Fang Jingyuan came to the restaurant for dinner again.
After eating, she couldn’t help complaining: “You don’t have to rest every day at work, and I can’t go to your house to find you!”
Tong Xuelu squinted at her: “You actually want to go to my place to eat delicious food, right?”
Fang Jingyuan’s face flushed slightly: “I won’t go empty-handed. If I go there, I will definitely bring my own ingredients!”
Tong Xuelu felt that although Fang Jingyuan didn’t speak well, she was not bad and was a friend to make friends with.
She thought for a while and said: “I will make some snacks today, peanut crisps and chili sauce. If you want, I can make one for you, and you can come and get it tomorrow!”
Fang Jingyuan’s eyes lit up suddenly: “Really? Xuelu, you are so kind, I want it!”
With that, she quickly took out food stamps and money from her pocket and stuffed them.
Tong Xuelu wanted to give it to her, but Fang Jingyuan didn’t want to take advantage, so she threw the money on the table and ran away.
When she got off work, Meng Qingqing was still her cousin who came to pick her up.
After seeing her leaving, Tong Xuelu went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy peanuts, flour, and sugar.
After returning home, she put the peanuts in the pan to dry fry, fry them and use a rolling pin to crush them, then add oil, egg liquid and flour to mix and knead the dough together.
Then cut the dough into ingredients and press it into a round cake, and brush the surface with a layer of egg liquid. When it is done, she takes it to the next door Wei’s house to bake.
There is a barbecue in the Wei’s yard, which is very convenient for baking biscuits and the like.
She plans to find some free time to build one in her yard.
Taking advantage of the gap between roasted peanut crisps, she went back to make chili sauce.
The red hot pepper is grown by the Wei family next door, and the reward is to give them a bottle when the time comes.
Before going out today, she washed the red hot peppers and put them in the yard to dry them. They were completely dried by now.
Chili sauce is not difficult to make. Chop red hot peppers, add garlic, ginger, sugar, salt, and then add sesame oil to the pot to heat.
She made six bottles of chili sauce in total, two bottles from Wei’s family, two bottles from Wen Rugui, one bottle from Fang Jingyuan, and one bottle at her house.
The chili sauce is spicy and refreshing. Whether it’s cooking or noodles, just add some chili sauce to make it very delicious.
In the evening she made lo mein for everyone to eat.
The Wei family is full of praise for peanut crisp and chili sauce.
The General Backyard, Fang’s house.
Fang Jingyuan’s mouth was nourished by Tong Xuelu, and now she feels very tasteless after eating at home.
Fang’s mother looked at her lazy and worried: “Jingyuan, why don’t you eat? Is it something uncomfortable?”
Fang Jingyuan shook her head: “No, I think this dish is not delicious! Mom, don’t rush to scold me, if you have eaten Xuelu’s dishes like me, you will also say it is not delicious!”
“Xuelu’s food is really delicious, and she said that she would help me make a peanut crisp and chili sauce tomorrow. She is so good!”
Fang’s mother felt strange: “When did you start to get so good? The two used to fight like black-eyed chickens every day.”
Fang Jingyuan: “Hey, she used to be young and ignorant. Now I think she is very good, especially the food she cooks is really delicious! If I were a man, I would definitely marry her!”
Fang’s mother: “…”
When Fang Wenyuan on the opposite side heard this, she raised her eyes and glanced at Fang Jingyuan, Tong Xuelu’s face suddenly appeared in her mind, and her heart suddenly became a little irritable.
He saw that Tong Xuelu hadn’t come to him before, thinking she was trying to catch him.
But now it has been three months since she left Tong’s house, and she never came to find herself again!
Does she really dislike herself anymore?
But how is this possible?
She has liked to follow her **** since she was a child, and she has liked him for so many years, how can she let it go?
Fang Wenyuan’s inspiration flashed suddenly, and his mouth raised a smile.
Tong Xuelu really likes him!
It’s just that she has changed her method now, changing into a roundabout way to please his family!
Thinking of this, Fang Wenyuan’s mood suddenly improved.
**
After two days of malaise, Xiao Liu finally got up to drink water and eat rice today.
Tong Xuelu breathed a sigh of relief.
This chicken was sent to her by Wen Rugui, she didn’t want to let it die so easily.
The chef’s research time suddenly moved forward.
After she cooked the food at noon, she set off for research.
Before going for the research, she went to the post office to send the things and letters.
She walked into the post office and heard a woman shouting into the phone: “Zhou Yan, you go to death! I want to break up with you!”
After speaking, she hung up the phone and ran away crying after paying a dime.
Looking at her back, Tong Xuelu felt that Zhou Yan seemed to have heard the name somewhere, but couldn’t remember it for a while.
But time is running out, and she didn’t think much about it.
After sending the things, she hurried to the verification point.
The place for the verification is a large kitchen, with three judges, and the three judges unanimously pass, then you can get the certificate of the chef.
Those who take the test have to pay 50 cents for the registration fee, and the ingredients can be bought from the large kitchen.
The test subject is to make a meat dish and a vegetable.
Thirty people came to take the test, except for Tong Xuelu, all men, and all men over 30 years old.
When a group of men saw Tong Xuelu, their eyes showed contempt.
“Anyone can come to take the exam nowadays!”
“Maybe people just have more money?”
“A lot of money is not a lot of money. To put it bluntly, I don’t know how high the sky is! Where can I cook at a young age and I am still a woman!”
“No, the food that my family cooks is almost impossible to eat!”
Tong Xuelu’s face was faint, and he didn’t even look at them.
Seeing that Tong Xuelu didn’t say a word, everyone laughed more and more unscrupulously, engraving the words looking down on the woman on his face.
Tong Xuelu ranked twentieth. The nineteen men who entered in front held their heads in, and all came out with their heads down.
When everyone saw this scene, they couldn’t help but become nervous.
The person who finished the exam did not leave, waiting outside, wanting to see who will be the first to get the chef’s certificate today.
Soon it was Tong Xuelu’s turn.
One of the judges asked: “What are you going to do today?”
Tong Xuelu said: “Meat dishes are fried meat with peppers, and vegetarian dishes are hot and sour potato shreds.”
The three judges shook their heads after hearing this. They felt that these two dishes were too common and it was difficult to make a colorful dish.
The group of elders outside also grinned, thinking that the woman really couldn’t get into the kitchen.
Can it be delicious if you actually make stir-fried pork and potatoes with peppers?
Know that they choose either braised pork or steamed fish.
Tong Xuelu ignored the ridicule around him, and started cooking after just a few words.
Soon everyone found something was wrong.
Everyone thought that Tong Xuelu was young, and she must not even be able to handle a kitchen knife, but she picked up a kitchen knife like a wind.
The action is very swift, without a sudden pause, cut the potatoes into shreds.
No one of the big masters outside can do such a quick action.
“Look at her cutting vegetables, there seems to be two things.”
“Yeah, I didn’t choose to make potato shreds, but shreds weren’t fast enough or evenly!”
“Good chop does not necessarily make it delicious. Otherwise, why doesn’t the state-run restaurant in Beijing have a woman as a chef?”
Tong Xuelu was very focused on cooking, and didn’t pay attention to the surrounding sounds at all.
When she threw the chopped green onion, ginger, and garlic into the frying pan, an overbearing fragrance instantly spread.
The three judges were stunned, and so did the elders outside.
“It smells good!”
“This smell is too attractive, I feel hungry!”
The two dishes were quickly prepared, and the whole kitchen was filled with rich aromas.
The three judges picked up the chopsticks and quickly picked up a chopstick.
good to eat!
Really tasty!
The fried pork with chili is spicy and refreshing, the pork is tender and chewy, and the hot and sour potato shreds are sour and hot.
If it weren’t for candidates at the back, they would like to have a bowl of rice now!
They took a few chopsticks and put them down reluctantly, and then without any discussion, they unanimously gave Tong Xuelu ten points.
Tens is the highest score, let alone those who took the test before got three points, none of them!
The person who took the previous exam got the highest score of seven, but that person had a judge who scored four points, so he failed.
The judges stamped the chef’s certificate and gave it to Tong Xuelu.
“Comrade Tong, the food you cook is delicious, I will go to your restaurant for dinner when I turn around!”
“Me too, especially the hot and sour potato shreds, it’s just too flavorful! You can’t grab it with me later!”
“I like that fried pork with chili. It’s rare that pork can be so tender!”
The elders outside saw this scene, their eyes widened, and their eyes were filled with disbelief.
At the same time, everyone’s faces were hot for a while, which was painful from being hit.
None of their elders got their certificates, but the girl they looked down on did get them.
And the scores are rolling over them.
Thinking of what they had just said, they suddenly felt more pain in their faces!
After thanking the judges, Tong Xuelu calmly walked out with the master certificate.
Walking past a group of big masters, she said in a gentle voice: “What can a man do, he can’t have children, and now he can’t even cook food. To put it bluntly, there is no egg!”
The faces of a group of men were red and white.
Although they didn’t know what the last sentence meant, they knew that the woman was laughing at them.
Nineteen people went in, but none of them got the master certificate.
It’s really embarrassing!
They dare not look down on women anymore!
After coming out of the research center, Tong Xuelu was ready to go back to the hotel.
In fact, she would be fine if she didn’t go back, but she was a little worried about Meng Qingqing.
At this moment, a man and a woman came to face each other.
The man was holding a child in his hand, and the child was lying on the man’s shoulders, covered with a wide dress, which was tightly covered, only the hair on the head was exposed.
They seemed to be on the way. The two lowered their heads and rushed forward, just when they ran into Tong Xuelu who had come out of the verification point.
Tong Xuelu lowered her head to think about things and didn’t see them, so she almost fell to the ground after such a collision.
The man quickly apologized: “I’m sorry for the eldest girl, I didn’t see you in a hurry, are you okay?”
The woman next to him also quickly apologized, and both voices were heavy.
Tong Xuelu was about to say it was okay. The man was hit just now, and a gap was exposed in his clothes. Looking at it from Tong Xuelu’s angle, he just saw the child’s arm.
The arm was white and tender, in sharp contrast with the skin tones of the two couples.
The man looks like in his forties, is tall, with crab-eyed eyebrows and dark skin.
A woman in her thirties is short, with triangular eyes and high cheekbones, thin lips, and dark skin.
The two of them resembled the traditional peasant image, dusty, and looked very honest and acquainted with each other.
The woman watched Tong Xuelu staring at the child, and quickly pressed her clothes down.
She stepped forward to block Tong Xuelu’s sight: “This is my youngest son. I have caught a cold and fever in the past two days. We brought him to Beijing for medical treatment. Now I have to hurry home. You are fine with my eldest daughter. Just go!”
Said that before Tong Xuelu agreed to leave.
Tong Xuelu rushed out to block their way: “You can’t go!”
The man didn’t expect that she would suddenly run out to block the way, and said pitifully: “Big girl, please don’t embarrass us country people!”
The woman wiped her eyes with her hand: “Big girl, do it well, we bought a train ticket. If you do this, we will not be able to catch up!”
Seeing that the two couples were so pitiful, pedestrians pointed to Tong Xuelu to persuade them.
“Big girl, you haven’t been bruised, why don’t you let people go?”
“That’s it, you see that the couple is anxious, so let’s get someone to take the train!”
Oh huh, pretend to be pitiful, right?
Who can’t!
Tong Xuelu frowned, her eyes flushed suddenly: “It’s not that I’m not unreasonable, but they stole my money!”
The man glared at him with a fierce look: “You fart! When did we steal your money!”