Life is a Game

Jiang Feng cheered up and was ready to listen to the story.

This kind of old people reminiscing about the past and talking about the warmth of the past is a good time for them, the juniors, to eat melons, and they can't get in the way anyway.

The dishes on the table were all removed, and Xu Cheng also played a little role in hard work, simplicity, diligence and thrift in housekeeping, which is in line with the core values ​​of socialism, and packed the remaining steamed chicken with straw mushrooms and stewed white fungus.

All the ingredients for this table of swallow-winged banquet were provided by Xu Cheng. In a sense, it could be said that it was Boss Xu's treat.

After the dishes were withdrawn, the waiter served another almond tea per head, and then two plates of snacks. Jiang Feng originally didn't plan to eat any more, but his current condition could be described as mild if the food blocked his throat. He felt that his stomach had just gone through a physical experiment. He had an empty stomach. He first added some bird’s nest and shark’s fin broth to the bottom, then stuffed abalone and sea cucumber into the middle and lower part of the filling, then added chicken, duck, fish and vegetables to fill it up, and finally poured it into the soup Fill in the gaps.

Jiang Feng proved to everyone with practical actions that the capacity of the stomach is like the water in a sponge, there will always be crowding.

When Jiang Feng saw the almond tea, Jiang Feng felt that the sponge was dry. When Peng Changping told Jiang Feng that the almond tea was made by him earlier, Jiang Feng felt that some water could actually be squeezed out of the sponge.

Jiang Feng struggled to pick up the spoon, took a spoonful of almond tea full of raisins, sesame seeds, and crushed peanuts, and took the first bite.

Second bite.

The third bite.

...

The bowl of almond tea is not big, but it is definitely not too small. Jiang Feng originally only wanted to eat a few mouthfuls to taste the taste, but after eating desserts, he swallowed them all. Before he knew it, his stomach was not at all prepared. .

Zhang Zhiyun watched Jiang Feng, who had already pushed out of the battlefield, start to fight again. He was alive and well, with an amazing stomach capacity. He was greatly surprised and admired, and sighed, "Brother Feng, you can really eat."

Jiang Feng nodded in a low-key manner, he didn't dare to open his mouth.

Can't open mouth, food will fall.

And, my stomach hurts a bit.

He no longer overeats.

Except for Peng Changping cooking.

Just when Jiang Feng was overeating, Zhang Chu's story progress had deviated from reality and began to develop into a magical plot.

After Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang's educated youth went to the countryside, Cao Guixiang's culinary skills were useless, but Zhang Chu's carpentry skills shined brightly. With this skill, Zhang Chu helps the branch secretary repair the table today, the accountant repairs the chair tomorrow, repairs the gate of the barn in the village the day after tomorrow, and repairs the fence of the captain’s house the day after tomorrow. The children who cut pigweed and dig wild vegetables used rotten wood to make simple wooden toys that would break after two days of playing. They donated free of charge and did not take any money. They were so prosperous in the village that they only took two months. It has become one of the most popular educated youths in ten miles and eight towns.

Since then, Zhang Chu has lived a cool life of paying the least work and earning the most work points. Although he is faintly squeezed out by other educated youths, he has a wife, so what should he be afraid of? Warehouse work.

"If it weren't for my low level of education, I would have been a graduate of elementary school and had forgotten all my words and couldn't write a few words. Maybe I would have been recommended for workers, peasants and soldiers to go to college!" Zhang Chu said. He blew it up.

Jiang Feng: ...

"Then why didn't you come back when the educated youth returned to the city?" Peng Changping asked.

Zhang Chu's face changed when he said this, and after thinking about it, he said, "Isn't it...it doesn't matter."

When Cao Guixiang resigned as an educated youth and went to the countryside, the street office arranged for Cao Guixiang's younger brother to work as a temporary street sweeper in order to compensate Cao Guixiang's family. Cao Guixiang's parents may really feel guilty and want to make up for it. The first two years were pretty good, and they sent Cao Guixiang some good things that couldn't be bought in the countryside every few months.

But things like guilt will soon dissipate with time.

Correspondence between Cao Guixiang and her family became less and less. Even if Cao Guixiang wrote letters on her own initiative, the replies she received were often only perfunctory words. Chu got married in the countryside.

It was a fierce reprimand letter, in stark contrast to the congratulatory letters and gifts sent by Peng Changping and others.

You know, that year, Qin Guisheng spent half a year's salary and a huge sum of money going to department stores to buy the most expensive dress he could afford, which was more expensive than a watch, and sent it to Cao Guixiang as a wedding gift - he was already married at that time , the wife is not Amin.

But Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu's parents didn't even send a grain of brown sugar.

Since then, Cao Guixiang and her family have basically lost communication.

Later, the educated youth returned to the city. Although Zhang Chu was doing well in the village, he had nothing to do with him in the city. Zhang Chiyuan and Zhang Siyu were both born at that time. Cao Guixiang originally wanted to go back to Beiping so that it would be more convenient for children to go to school, but the letters he sent fell into the sea and there was no reply.

Even the biological parents refused to help. Peng Changping and Qin Guisheng also had relatives who were eager to return to the city. Everyone wanted to find connections, and everyone lacked connections. Cao Guixiang didn't want to write letters to bother her seniors and seniors, so she stayed in the village with Zhang Chu instead of trying every means to find a relationship like other educated youths, even if they abandoned their wives and children, they had to return to the city.

Either Zhang Chu was lucky, or it could be that too many desks, chairs and cabinets had been broken by the branch secretary and accountant over the years, and they owed too much favor to Zhang Chu. When Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu had been in the village for less than two years, the party secretary and the accountant helped Zhang Chu find a job as a carpenter in the county.

After Zhang Chu's family moved to the county town, Zhang Chu worked as a carpenter, and Cao Guixiang also picked up his old profession and went to work as a chef in a newly opened restaurant in the county town. With the help of Cao Guixiang, it only took half a year for that restaurant to defeat the only state-run restaurant in the county, becoming popular throughout the county and becoming a legend for a time.

When Zhang Chu said this, Xu Cheng interjected a few words with a look of shock on his face. He had heard the legend of this shop when he traveled around looking for small shops hidden among the people in the early years. After a few years, the boss suddenly closed down to do other business, which made him very regretful.

Then Zhang Chu told him that the boss changed jobs because Zhang Chiyuan was going to primary school and his family moved to the city. Cao Guixiang resigned and quit. Cao Guixiang’s former boss was quite nice. In order to thank Cao Guixiang for helping him earn money in the past few years and making him a mysterious legend, Cao Guixiang’s boss paid half of the money for Zhang Chu’s family to buy a house in the city. The remaining half was Cao Guixiang's accumulated salary, and Zhang Chu's savings in those years were enough to buy some furniture for a simple decoration.

The story has progressed to this point, no matter how you listen to it, it is the story of the rise of a generation of catering tycoons.

Then Cao Guixiang became a full-time wife.

One is that there are two children in the family. Cao Guixiang deeply feels that the two brothers and sisters have neither carpentry talent nor culinary talent. In the future, if they take the road of craftsmanship, they will starve to death. The only way out is to study carefully. It was because she was not an ambitious person.

With Cao Guixiang's craftsmanship, even if she goes to a night market to set up a stall to sell Malatang, she can be sold as the Queen of Malatang in a short period of time, then open a store, open a chain, become bigger and stronger, and finally open a restaurant. Even if she doesn't want to start a business, she can choose any restaurant in the country based on her skills, and she can go to any restaurant she wants, and no matter which restaurant will give her the best chef treatment.

But she didn't.

The magnificent story of Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu came to an abrupt end in the city.

Zhang Chu continued to be his carpenter, and became a little famous, and then retired smoothly as the carpenter industry gradually became scarce, and became an old man who drank tea and played chess every day and took care of his grandchildren.

Cao Guixiang has become an ordinary housewife. She buys vegetables, cooks, dances, chats, drinks tea every day, and goes shopping and climbing mountains with other housewives from time to time. When she gets old, she throws her grandson to a remedial class whenever she wants to go shopping.

It may be because there is a part of their life journey that is too exciting and bumpy to allow for choices, so when they have a choice, they all choose the most ordinary and ordinary way of living.

I don't want to be prosperous and rich, but I want firewood, rice, oil, salt, and family harmony.

If Peng Changping hadn't returned to China and Zhang Chu came to see Peng Changping, Zhang Zhiyun might never have known that his seemingly ordinary grandparents had such a wonderful life.

Zhang Zhiyun was completely stupid, and so was Jiang Feng.

For some reason, he felt an inexplicable sense of relief when he heard what Zhang Chu said.

Peng Changping was also relieved, he and Qin Guisheng were most worried about losing contact with Cao Guixiang in these years, that his little junior sister was not doing well in China, life was unsatisfactory and he had no relatives to support him. Now knowing that she is living a happy life like every normal and happy old lady, he has nothing to regret.

"Then...how did Junior Sister leave?" Peng Changping asked the most crucial question.

Zhang Chu's eyes darkened: "It's bad luck. When I was going to buy vegetables in the morning, when I crossed the road, a large truck was speeding, and the person disappeared on the spot. That's good, there is no pain."

Peng Changping sighed.

Cao Guixiang's story is over.

Jiang Feng's side mission is not over yet.

He had heard so much from Zhang Chu just now, and he was stunned to hear it with Zhang Zhiyun, but he couldn't understand why Zhang Chu felt that it was a pity that he couldn't invite Peng Changping to have a meal with the taste of Shunhe Building in Shunhe Building .

He thinks it's a wedding reception, but the game tells him it's not.

What is wrong?

What else?