My 1979

The fat man's chef is an old man in his sixties, Xuyi, who specializes in Huaiyang cuisine. I think he was hired by the hotel at a huge price back then.

Under normal circumstances, in order to prevent the disciples from starving to death, the master always has to hold back, but this old master did not do it at all. On the one hand, the fat man is indeed a good young man.

The fat man is focused on everything, he studies seriously, he can listen to everything he says, add as much salt as possible, weigh the pot a few times, and he will never cut corners or cheat.

On the other hand, the fat man is simple-minded and has no tricks to play. If he is asked to beat one egg, he will never beat two eggs. If he is asked to put in three ounces of oil, he will never use an extra drop. The master can rest assured.

Besides, if the old master is about to retire, he will have a good reputation in the future if he teaches such an apprentice.

Therefore, stupid people have their own stupid blessings.

Fatty was very satisfied with all this.

However, He Zhou was dissatisfied. In a small county like theirs, a chef who worked hard could only earn three to four thousand yuan. Such a salary was about the same in an ordinary family, but for a family like Fatty who was living in a muddy nest, it was far from enough. Far from enough.

His plan was to give the fat man a hand once he got acquainted with him, but he was helpless at the moment.

After thinking about it, I pressed the cigarette butt against the tree and threw it into the trash can. I looked at the fat man and waited for his answer.

The fat man's reaction was always half a beat slower than that of a normal person. After hearing He Zhou's words, he scratched his head and said, "No problem."

Chu Dong said, "Let's go together."

Taking the lead into the Internet cafe, the fat man followed him carelessly. When he entered the door, he bent down and raised his head to avoid being hit by the door frame.

Four children sat side by side, wearing headsets, clicking on the keyboard with one hand, moving the mouse with the other hand, and shouting.

Chu Dongpo patted his shoulders one by one and raised his fingers at them. When they turned around, what they saw was Fatty's moving mountain of meat.

They wanted to curse, but the fat man's height of over 1.9 meters and weight of more than 300 kilograms scared them so much that they dared not speak.

A kid with earrings boldly said, "Brother, what's the matter?"

Chu Dongslope said, "Come out and stop talking nonsense."

The four children ignored him and looked directly at the expressionless fat man. Every time the flesh on the fat man's face trembled, they fell silent.

"Come out." The fat man pointed at them.

The four children looked at each other, then slowly moved their chairs and walked out, hunched their shoulders and drooped their heads. They followed the fat man out of the Internet cafe and walked into a remote intersection. The more they walked, the more frightened they became. The pace is slower.

When he was about to turn into an intersection, Chu Dongpo impatiently pushed a child from behind. Just as the child was about to turn around and scold him, he was pulled over by a child in front of him. When he turned around, he found that he was standing next to a doorway in front of him. There were five or six people standing there, staring at them eagerly.

The fat man ran up to He Zhou very proudly, as if he wanted to take credit. He Zhou wanted to pat him on the shoulder, but unfortunately he couldn't reach it, so he could only pat his armpit and praised, "It's not ugly."

The fat man grinned from ear to ear, extremely happy.

Wang Dong, Chu Dongpo and others had already forced the four children into the corner. He Zhou walked over and said to the boy with earrings, "You are the boss, right?"

Chu Dongpo said, "This is the guy who spit in the morning."

"Brother, brother, we don't know." The situation was weaker than others. The boy with earrings naturally had to give in and said with a smile, "My dad is a black boy. You see, he only cares about his face. Don't argue with me."

He Zhou had never heard of this person. He looked at Chu Dongpo. He was not afraid of offending someone he couldn't afford to offend. He was just afraid that he would be a relative of his seventh aunt and eighth aunt, which would hurt his face.

Chu Dongslope said, "I think I am some great person. I am transporting coal by the river. Where do you get the confidence to let your kid have five people and six people every day?"

Seeing the disdainful attitude of the other party, the child with the earrings immediately let go of his neck with a fawning smile on his face.

Chu Dongpo turned his head and whispered to He Zhou, "But I am really close to your family."

He Zhou looked puzzled.

Chu Dongpo said, "Hei Hai is from your second uncle's family, and he and your second uncle are cousins."

He Zhou sighed, "Hey, there are several relatives popping up from every corner."

The county town is so small that if you just pick up a few people on the street and try to get on top of each other, you can always draw some connections, such as the brother-in-law of the neighbor of the fifth aunt's nephew, or the brother-in-law of the seventh aunt's classmate.

He was no longer surprised.

Chu Dongslope said, "What should I do?"

He Zhou said to several children, "This way, I won't beat you without taking action."

Several children were overjoyed.

Before they could say thank you, they heard He Zhou continue, "You have learned how to slap each other in a permutation and combination, that is, each person will receive three slaps on the face. Do you understand?"

The four children looked at each other, a sly look flashed across their faces, and gave each other a 'you know' look.

Chu Dongpo said, "Don't be stunned. Start early and finish early."

The boy with earrings turned around and said to the boy with hair wax next to him, "Hold on, I'm going to do it."

In order to show that he was not fooling others, he put up a posture and was ready to strike, but when the slap finally landed on the other person's face, it was very clear and crisp, without a trace of muffled sound.

Just as he was about to spank the second child, he was pulled over by Chu Dongpo. Chu Dongpo said dissatisfiedly, "This one is not successful. You are fooling me. I tell you, if you are not serious, even if you spank until tomorrow morning, it will not count. It will not count." It’s all for nothing, if you like it, I’ll spend it with you.”

The man with earrings had something in his mind and didn't dare to argue, so he slapped the man with wax again. The sound was quite loud, but the man with wax didn't even move his neck.

"You're not using any force. What's the point of saving energy?" He Zhou pointed at the fat man next to him and said, "Would you like him to give you a demonstration? Can you feel the strength and heat?"

Looking at the fat man whose arms were thicker than his legs, the man with earrings shivered in fright. The palm of his hand was bigger than his face. How could he bear the slap?

Therefore, he knew in his heart that it would be impossible not to be serious this time, and he would definitely satisfy them.

He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and without saying a word, a slap landed on the waxed man's face.

The waxed man couldn't stand firm and almost fell to the ground. He covered his painful cheek with a look of disbelief on his face. Where is the promised brotherhood?

I bet the so-called brotherhood is just paper!

His face was full of dissatisfaction!

After the man with earrings finished beating him, he had no time to care about his emotions. He just kept looking at He Zhou, Chu Dongpo and others, hoping to get a look of approval.

He Zhou said, "That's it, continue."

After receiving the affirmation and encouragement, the man with the earrings was overjoyed, and he swung at the other two people one after another with the same force as before.

Little did he know that his three little brothers were already very angry.

Chu Dongpo said to the waxed man, "Okay, go ahead and do it. I warn you, no favoritism is allowed, and you must be fair and just."

The man with hair wax couldn't wait for a long time and slapped the man with earrings. The man with earrings stumbled and sat on the ground. He wanted to scold him, but he looked at He Zhou and the others and had no choice but to endure it.

The hair wax man slapped the other two boys in turn, but the force was much lighter than what he slapped on the earring boy and the earring boy on them.

He Zhou and others pretended not to see it.

This gave the hair wax man and others a misunderstanding. The earring man clearly did it on purpose. Usually this kid is very sarcastic!

Everyone took turns to go up and exert heavy energy on the thin cheeks of the man with earrings.

The man with earrings had snot and tears coming out of his nose. In the end, He Zhou looked a little unbearable, waved his hands and said, "I won, bye bye."

He waved to Fatty and others, turned around and left.

Fatty said excitedly, "They started fighting."

He Zhou turned around and saw the four children arguing loudly, obviously still thinking about who had exerted the most force just now.

He teased, "This is human nature."

Coming out of the alley, Chu Dongpo asked everyone to enter the canteen. Those with cigarettes would get cigarettes, and those with drinks would get drinks.

He Zhou poked the fat man with his foot, "Don't just stand there, go in and get me a bag of soft drinks, and you can buy a bottle of Coke yourself."

The fat man patted his shriveled pocket and said sheepishly, "I don't have any money, not even a dime."

Afraid that He Zhou wouldn't believe it, he turned the bottom of his pocket out and showed it to He Zhou.

He Zhou was amused by his stupidity and pointed at Chudong ramp, "Did you see that there are people paying for it? If you want to eat or drink anything, you can just go in and get it. Do you understand?"

Chu Dongpo also waved at the canteen and said, "Fat man, come or not. If you don't come, you won't have a share."

"Here it comes, here it comes." The fat man happily ran into the canteen with his fat body swinging, almost hitting the door frame.

After a while, he came out with a pack of cigarettes in one hand and an empty Coke bottle in the other.

He Zhou took the cigarette and said angrily, "Drink less Coke. Are you going to lose weight? You will also eat less food in the future."

The fat man said, "I'm losing weight."

He gestured with two fingers and said, "Now I only eat two bowls of rice per meal."

He Zhou rubbed his forehead helplessly. The two bowls the fat man had were not ordinary people's two bowls, but two big bowls. Most families no longer use those bowls.

"Do you want to go to work later?"

The fat man was still immersed in the delicious taste of Coke. Before he could say anything, he was chatted up by Wang Dong, the incisor.

The front door said, "He hasn't rested for half a month. He is really a fool. His so-called master is also a swindler, and he is colluding with the hotel owner. I made an appointment with a few friends at their hotel in the evening, and he was so stupid As you know, when they saw me, they stopped doing anything and started talking around me. As soon as I said a few words, Chu Dongpo called me. He insisted on following me, and I couldn't let him come.

The restaurant owner couldn't stop me. He was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he didn't dare to stop me anymore, so he asked him to follow me. "

He Zhou said, "I said, Fatty, you should rest for two more days. If the restaurant owner dares to trouble you, just tell me and I will peel him."

The restaurant was owned by one of Li Pei's cousins. If it weren't for Li Pei's sake, he would never have said anything to her.

Their family also has a lot of businesses, which can be regarded as cross-field operations, but they only have few restaurants and hotels. Most of the few ones are joint stockholders, and they are mostly concentrated in places like provincial capitals and Pujiang. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to do it. Let a fat man go to a small restaurant like this and feel cowardly.

Thinking back then, it was probably because his mother didn't take it seriously and mentioned it to Li Pei's mother casually, and then Duan Mei didn't take it seriously either, so she found such an unreliable hotel.

The fat man just grinned and didn't say much.

Everyone didn't run far away. The nearby barbecue stalls were set up one after another. They chose a popular food stall, ordered wine and food, put together two tables and sat down around them.

Everyone came and went and drank until about nine o'clock in the evening.

After drinking, He Zhou said to Chu Dong, "Put the car here. Don't drive it again if you drink like this."

Chu Dongpo burped and said, "I still have this score, so we will leave first."

Over there, Big Teeth had already stopped two taxis, and everyone on the way got into one.

The fat man was the only one left holding the sheep bones and gnawing on them. If He Zhou hadn't been there, few people would have regarded him as a friend, so when everyone left just now, no one was willing to say hello to him.

He Zhou handed him a bottle of wine and said with a smile, "I work in the kitchen every day. You can't eat anything, but you are so rare."

The fat man said, "The boss said that I would go bankrupt if I gave him food. The master looked at me and wouldn't let me eat."

While talking, he didn't forget to take a bite.

He Zhou said, "Put the wine up and let's take a sip. I have some free time at the moment. Tell me what you want to eat tomorrow. I'll treat you to it."

His cup had already been raised, but the fat man didn't know much about the world. When He Zhou said he wanted to drink, he picked up the cup without touching it and poured it directly into his throat.

He Zhou had no choice but to drink alone, without caring at all. After all, he had known him for more than a year or two, and he already knew his character.

The fat man drank a bottle of beer, patted his belly and said, "Okay, I won't eat anymore. Let's go."

The fat man left immediately, leaving no room for He Zhou to react. He Zhou hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?"

The fat man pointed in the direction of the traffic light and said, "I'm going to school."

He Zhou said, "Why go to school in the middle of the night? Are you confused?"

The fat man said seriously, "I don't have a clue."

He Zhou said dumbfounded, "Then why are you going to school? Don't even look at what time it is now? Come on, follow me, and sleep at my place tonight."

The fat man shook his head and said, "I'm going to pick up my sister from school for self-study."

He Zhou asked, "What grade are you in in Qufu? What classes are you taking this summer?"

He had to admire the fat man's father's ability to come up with names. He just appropriated place names out of laziness and simplicity. His son was named Quyang and his daughter was named Qufu. The names still sounded decent.

The fat man scratched his head with his greasy hands and said, "I don't know. I'll pick you up when you get home on Saturday night."

He Zhou thought for a while and said, "Let's go together then, I'll accompany you."

After walking for a while, he remembered and asked, "How many hits?"

The fat man said, "One hit."

He Zhou said angrily, "Hey, I really can't say anything about you."

He quickly stopped a taxi at the intersection and pulled the fat man in, "It's three or four miles away. It takes at least half an hour to walk. When we get there, your sister will probably be impatient to wait."

The fat man asked hurriedly, "What should we do?"

He Zhou shook off his hand, "So let's take a taxi."

The fat man said, "I didn't bring any money."

The driver looked at the two people and was about to speak, but he heard He Zhou say he was rich, so he didn't speak.

The car stopped at the school gate, just in time for the students to finish school, and they were walking out of the school gate in twos and threes.

He Zhou paid the fare, got out of the car and looked inside the school.

There was only one building in the school that was lit. There were street lights in sections, and the rest was completely dark. He couldn't even see a person clearly, so he said to Qu Yang, "Go inside and find your sister. I'm here." This is waiting.”

Qu Yang, however, did not move. He stood with his arms raised like a javelin. Within a minute, a girl emerged from the crowd of students, running and shouting, "Here it is, here it is."

He Zhou has known Fatty's sister Qu Fu for many years, but he always treated her like a little brat and paid no attention to her. Later, she went to college and never saw her again. Now that she suddenly saw her, he finally felt the words "female" The "Big Eighteenth Change" makes a lot of sense.

With his slender figure and dark eyes, he was absolutely unwilling to use such tacky words as 'beautiful' to describe her.

He joked, "I dare say you are tall, and you have this advantage."

Qu Fu said, "You are just short. If you were taller, you would have noticed it by now."

He Zhou said, "You are so courageous, even your brother dares to make a joke."

Qu Fu sniffed his nose and said with a smile, "Have you two been drinking?"

She knew that her brother basically had no friends, and the only one who cared about him was He Zhou, so she was willing to call him Brother Zhou to maintain friendship for her brother.

"Drink, three bottles, I drank alone." The fat man never interrupted, he was very anxious. At this moment, he finally got a chance to answer, and he kept saying, "Chu Dongpo forced everyone to drink, and He Zhou drank 8 Bottles, Qianshan drank 11 bottles, Lao Kui drank 9 bottles, Chu Dongpo drank 6 bottles, Zhang Long drank 12 bottles..."

"Then Chu Dongpo is being naughty." Qu Fu interrupted his brother at the right time. This kind of operation was already familiar to him.

The fat man nodded excitedly, "Yes, yes, Chu Dongpo is very clever."

He was stunned for a moment before speaking, then took out a plastic bag from his arms, handed it to Qu Fu and said, "This is for you."

Qu Fu opened the plastic bag, smelled it, and said with a smile, "The leg of lamb is so fragrant."

Only then did He Zhou understand why he ate the sheep bones so quickly. It turned out that this kid had secretly hidden some of them, but he didn't know when.

He smiled and said, "Your brother really dotes on you."

Qu Fu said proudly while chewing, "Of course, you really think he is stupid."

The fat man pouted and said, "You are the stupid ones."

"Of course he's not stupid." He Zhou said it sincerely. He grew up with Fatty and knew him very well.

A few years ago, in order to obtain subsidies for people with disabilities, I took Fatty to get a disability certification. What made me sad was that he was not even rated as a Level 4 intellectual disability. I couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.

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