Chapter 4: Follow Shazhu's path and leave him with nowhere to go
Chapter 4: Follow Shazhu's path and leave him with nowhere to go (First update)
In Wang Dong’s memory.
The Chen family usually eats cornmeal.
This cornmeal is not the cornmeal of later times.
It is flour made from corn along with the corn cob. The steamed bread made from it is not only hard but also very choking in the throat. Its only advantage is that it can help you stay hungry.
Erhe flour is a flour made by mixing corn flour and white flour in a certain proportion.
Compared with corn flour, the steamed bread made with two-grain flour is not only soft but also not choking and very fragrant.
White flour is the most delicious of the common staple foods in Beijing, but it is also the most expensive.
In the coming years when materials will be in short supply, you may not be able to buy them even if you have money.
For ordinary people, it is a good day if they can eat white flour dumplings during the Chinese New Year.
So the Chen family’s food standard tonight is very high, second only to the meal during the Chinese New Year.
Maybe it was the first time he ate steamed bread made of two-grain flour, or maybe it was because his stomach had been dry for years, but Wang Dong suddenly had a big appetite and ate it very happily.
But in later life, he was a chef after all.
From a professional perspective, the meal my aunt prepared tonight can only be considered home cooking at best.
Do not……
It's probably worse than home cooking.
Although the dish is stewed with oil residue, there is still very little oil and water.
Seeing Wang Dong eating several steamed buns in a row, he became more and more energetic, and the atmosphere at home became better and better.
After having a good meal and a few drinks, Chen Dehui finally turned the topic to the workstation that everyone in the yard was paying attention to.
"Dongzi..."
"What do you want to do after entering the steel mill..."
"It's a pity you're not a veteran, otherwise you could stay in the security department!"
"Less work, higher pay!"
Wang Dong had thought about this question before the meal, and he answered with surprise at everyone: "Uncle..."
"I'll go to the kitchen to be a cook..."
"why?"
Uncle Chen's eyes widened. He had never thought that Wang Dong would choose such a place, and immediately asked back.
"You're not a cook, what are you doing in the kitchen?"
Aunt Li also frowned and interrupted: "Dongzi..."
"The kitchen is not a good place..."
"He Yuzhu in the courtyard is a cook... He worked as an apprentice for three years before he was hired as a full-time employee. Not only is he exhausted, but his salary is also very low!"
Perhaps because she was going to be Wang Dong's wife in the future, Chen Jun rarely spoke.
"Dongzi..."
"I don't think there's much future in being a chef..."
"Why don't you choose another job!"
Seeing that everyone was against him working as a cook in the kitchen, Wang Dong quickly put forward the reasons he had already thought of.
"Uncle...Aunt...Sister Jun..."
"It takes several years of apprenticeship to become a full-time worker in the kitchen of a steel mill."
“It’s tiring and the salary is low…”
"But if I pass the exam and become a level nine chef, with my uncle's job position, I can get a permanent job in the kitchen..."
"Before I came to Sijiu City, I learned cooking from an old man who was in charge of the kitchen in the village. I will definitely have no problem passing the ninth-level chef exam."
"It seems like there's an exam every two days!"
"If I pass the exam, I'll go to the kitchen..."
"If you fail the test, go to another workstation..."
Uncle Chen didn't say anything, but Chen Jun still frowned, feeling that there was no future in being a chef.
Wang Dong continued: "Sister Jun, I think being a cook is still the fastest way to become a cadre!"
"Working as a fitter in a steel mill to learn a trade can improve your work rank and salary, which sounds good, but you can only be a worker for the rest of your life, unless a miracle happens."
"Look at the uncles in the yard... they are already level 7 or 8 workers, but they are still ordinary workers!"
"As long as you cook well in the kitchen, constantly improve your cooking skills, and take on more apprentices, you will soon be able to become a kitchen team leader or even a director..." "That's a worker-to-cadre transition, a veritable cadre status!"
Wang Dong actually had two reasons in his mind that he didn't say out loud.
Only by being a cook, and a good cook, can you have frequent contact with the leaders of the steel rolling mill.
The more you interact with your leaders, the greater your chances of getting promoted.
Just like the silly guy in the TV series.
Someone with such a bad temper can be the canteen director, let alone myself.
If you work as a worker in a workshop with more than 10,000 people in a steel rolling mill, you may not even be able to say a word to your leader for several years, so how can you get promoted?
Another reason is to take revenge on He Yuzhu...
I was injured last night because of him.
Wang Dong’s principle in life has always been: I will not offend others unless they offend me; but if someone offends me, I will definitely offend them.
He Yuzhu has already hit me at the door, there is no reason not to fight back!
He felt that the best way to fight back was not to fight back head-on.
Instead, he followed He Yuzhu's path and left him with no way to go.
It just so happens that I’m also a cook.
I believe that with his cooking skills and knowledge in the future, he will definitely be able to crush He Yuzhu.
Now He Yuzhu is just an ordinary chef who cooks big pots in a steel rolling mill. He is learning cooking skills secretly. He has never come into contact with cheat sheets and is not in charge of a small kitchen.
Wait until I enter the kitchen.
Not only should we block his access to stir-fry, but we should also make it impossible for him to learn cooking skills secretly.
Seeing that everyone still had a skeptical expression, Wang Dong decided to use a big move.
"Uncle...Aunt...Sister Jun..."
"There is no basis for what you say..."
"Tomorrow I will personally cook a meal for you..."
"If I do well, I will take the exam. If I don't do well, I will go to the workshop..."
"Is this okay?"
Seeing that Wang Dong was so confident and had decided to cook the meal himself, Chen Dehui decided to give him a chance and see what he could do.
If he really has this skill, it is not impossible for him to be a chef. After all, being a chef will not kill you.
As for whether you can become a cadre, that is a matter for the future.
No matter what, you have to secure your job first before you can talk about the future.
…………
Early the next morning, Wang Dong went out with the New Year's money he had saved for several years.
It doesn't look like much, only one dollar and thirty-six cents, but it is a huge sum of money.
With the box, you can buy at least 15 kilograms of corn flour, enough for an adult to eat for several days.
But today Wang Dong doesn't plan to use the money to buy food.
In this age when everything requires a ticket, fish and mountain game are the only meat that can be obtained by one's own means, and without a ticket.
Yan Fugui, who lives next door, often supplements his family income by fishing, which can be said to be the only legal way to obtain meat.
There is no need to think about prey.
Whether in his previous life or in his last life, Wang Dong had no hunting experience.
Moreover, hunting requires guns, and Wang Dong has no way to get these equipment.
Fish are different.
Before traveling through time, Wang Dong's favorite thing to do was fishing, besides being a chef, otherwise he would not have been single for decades without finding a wife.
Because he is a chef, he prepares all the baits he uses for fishing himself.
Not to say it’s better than what you buy outside, but it’s not bad either.
In this age when earthworms are commonly used as bait, the bait you prepare yourself is definitely several times better than ordinary earthworms.
I spent one dollar to buy a fish hook, a float, and a fishing line...
After spending three cents to buy some materials for making bait, Wang Dong went straight to the river and started his fishing career.
(End of this chapter)