Chapter 19 Section 17

After lunch, Lily played for a while, and then said she was going back.Helen saw that the restaurant was no fun, and she didn't force her to stay, so she just asked Lily if she wanted to bring something home for dinner. Lily said that the fried prawns just now were delicious and wanted to order one.Helen was going to the upper shelf of the refrigerator to get the flour-coated prawns, but BENNY had already picked up a few and put them into the oil pan. Helen stood there, watching him carefully flip the fried prawns in the oil pan, as if afraid of frying them.When his carefulness was applied to her, she felt so ironed, as if all the little folds in her heart had been ironed.Now that he uses this carefulness on Lily, it's a bit like a hot iron suddenly hit her heart, with a tingling feeling.

After a while, he took out the fried prawns, drained the oil, packed them in a white lunch box, and put two sauces specially made with prawns in it, then packed them and brought them out give her.She felt that he was trying to hide it, why didn't he give it to Lily himself?I have to give it to her first, making it look like an order. She sent Lily out of the restaurant, and asked jokingly, "How is it? Who did you fancy?" Lily said with a smile: "It's all good. They don't look like the native Cantonese. They are not Malays with dark skin, protruding mouth, and sunken nose. Benny said his surname is Zeng, and he is a descendant of Zeng Zi. In the past, our ancestors fled from the north to Guangdong."

"It's all good, can't we all go to bed?" Helen herself was also funny. One of the gains from working in a restaurant for a period of time is that she can speak "restaurant mandarin". I have never heard of the word "pao" before, but now I am familiar with it, and it comes out in no time.The reason is that the word "pao" is really vivid.If you use "love", it seems to be too serious; if you use "talk", the heat is not enough; if you use "chasing", you can express the urgency of the mood, but only "bubble" can express the kind of attack from all directions, overwhelming, persevering, Soft and tough momentum.

Lily said: "The boss is a citizen, but a little short; SAM is of acceptable height, but a bit feminine; that little Malaysian boy seems to be in poor health. BENNY looks good, but unfortunately he is not a citizen, only has a green card—" "You even found out about that?" "It's not something shameful, why do you need to inquire? They want to pick you up, so they will rush to tell you about it." Helen thought, BENNY didn't rush to tell me these things, it seems there is still a difference.She tentatively said: "Then——just go to BENNY." "Well, tomorrow night there will be a Chinese dance in University A. JOE told me, but he refused to go with me, probably because he was afraid that it would affect his ability to pick up girls. Ask BENNY if he would like to go. If so, I will drive him tomorrow. Dress up, no one can see that he is a restaurant, and it is more than enough to pretend to be a master."

Helen said: "He may not be able to go, because I have a rest tomorrow. If he leaves, no one will answer the phone, and no one else will take orders." "Then who can you change your vacation with? If you change to another time to rest, can't he go? I know that restaurants are generally not busy on Sundays, mainly on Friday and Saturday." Helen thought for a while and said, "I'll go and change the rest time with someone else. I'll go to work tomorrow and ask him to go to the dance with you." After Lily left, Helen went back to the store, took out the money, and wanted to pay for the order Lily ordered. BENNY shook his head and said, "No need—"

Helen was still insisting, he pushed her hand, as if asking her to take the money back.She quickly retracted her hand, put on a matchmaker's posture, and asked, "How is it? What's your impression of my ROOMMATE?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "The voice on the phone is very nice." She thought that he probably thought my voice on the phone was unpleasant.She herself also felt that her voice was not pleasant and coquettish.It may be that I have been a teacher for several years, and my voice is a bit loud. No matter how many people are in the audience, I speak like I am talking to a large classroom.

She asked: "Is her real voice not pleasant?" He didn't answer directly, and after a while, he said, "The teeth are a bit black." She thought, what's the matter with the black teeth?Does it mean that the sound is nice, but unfortunately the teeth are a bit dark, so I would rather listen to it on the phone?No matter what it meant, she found that when she heard him say good things about Lily, she felt very disappointed, but when she heard him say bad things about Lily, she felt a sense of relief in her heart. She felt that she had never been so despicable and shameless, and she had never been depressed because of jealousy.When that Li Hong came to Li Bing, she never felt uncomfortable when the two of them flirted with each other. She just hoped that they would do everything thoroughly, and not scare anyone to death if they didn't want to be a ghost.

I never thought that at the age of thirty-six, I would become jealous instead, and it was because of such a little boy.She felt that this kind of jealousy was completely out of the control of her brain. Her brain could control her not to show this kind of jealousy, but it couldn't control her not to have this kind of jealousy.She decided to rein in the precipice, or she would fall to pieces. She told BENNY about the Sunday night dance and asked him if he would like to go.He shook his head: "How do I get there? I can't leave the restaurant—" She suggested: "I'll change tomorrow's rest with someone. I'll take it here tomorrow, and you go to the dance."

He smiled strangely and asked, "What do you use?" Seeing that she didn't understand, and didn't go further on the topic, he just said, "I'm not here, who will make the frying pan? There are so many things To—fry—” "I can blow up. If I can't, I'll ask the boss for help." She said, she went to the boss and asked if she could change the rest time with someone. The boss said: "I just want you to change the time. In the past, Sam was off on Sunday. After the old man who delivered the food left, Sam couldn't rest. After you came, I originally wanted Sam to have a rest on Sunday. But I was afraid that you would be HAPPY with your husband, so I gave you Sunday. If you are willing to change it, it’s just right, because I will be cooking chicken on Monday.”

Helen knew that the "cooking chicken" mentioned by the boss meant PROCESSING the whole chicken.The store usually buys a whole chicken, which is cheaper, and then the boss and Ah SAM cut the chicken into eight pieces, and different parts are used for different purposes.Chicken legs are cut into small pieces to make sesame chicken; chicken wings are wrapped in flour to make fried chicken wings; there is a long clean meat on the chicken breast, which is dug out to make chicken skewers.The rest of the chicken breasts are cut into slices to make kale chicken or something.Even the removed chicken skeletons are useful, boiled in a soup pot, and used to make soup when cooking.

Only the boss and Ah SAM can "cook chicken" in the store. BENNY has always been in the front desk and doesn't know how to do these things. Ah GAM is a handyman and doesn't know how to do these things. The boss immediately told Sam that Auntie can change the rest time with you, and Sam has no objection, anyway, it doesn't matter which day he rests. Ah GAM was very happy to hear this, and asked Helen if he could take him to his girlfriend's aunt's house when she came home on Sunday night, where he lived and his girlfriend also lived. Helen asked for the address and thought it was not difficult to find, so she agreed, and congratulated Ah GAM by the way: "You and your girlfriend live at her aunt's house, so you came to America this time for nothing." The boss said: "Why didn't you run in vain? Do you think he will be able to play there? No way, his girlfriend dumped him a long time ago. It was her aunt who wanted to rent out a few rooms and asked the tenant to help her pay for the house. He lives there. Ah GAM is a fool, he must spend hundreds of dollars a month, and go back there once a week. It’s far away, and he doesn’t have a car. Living there can’t win back NINA’s heart. Stupid Hurrah." Helen didn't expect Ah GAM to be so infatuated with her love, usually with a smiley face, she couldn't tell it at all.In this way, only BENNY has no wife or girlfriend in the store, no wonder they all get out of the way when they see BENNY going to see Lily. She didn't want to ask more about Ah GAM, so she went back to the front and told BENNY that the rest time had been changed.She persuaded him: "Go to the ball and have fun. You have been working in restaurants for many years and never take a break. How can you have the opportunity to meet girls?" He stared at her with rounded eyes, giving her the feeling that he was staring at her again.She didn't know what he meant by looking at her like this, and looked at him incomprehensibly.The two of them stared at each other for a while, and he looked away first, imitating her tone and said: "Go to the ball and have fun, you can meet boys—" She almost said "I'm already married, what kind of boy do I still meet", but she thought of her own FAKERESUME in time, so she swallowed the words that came to her lips and changed it to: "Two girls running to dance? What does that sound like?" He seemed to ask casually: "Why didn't you ask your 'little boy' to accompany you?" She was taken aback: "Which 'little boy' am I?" "'Dangyan' is that 'little boy' Luo who lives with you." She was taken aback. Could it be that Li Bing called the restaurant and was picked up by BENNY?But she remembered that she never told Li Bing the phone number here.Could it be that Li Bing called her residence and was picked up by her two ROOMMATEs, who told Li Bing the phone number here?But why did BENNY call him "little boy"?Only people have said that Li Bing looks like a terrorist, but no one has said that he looks like a boy. Seeing her standing there silently, he sang Jacky Cheung's: "Why is your voice sharp tonight, and your hair is messed up again? It seems that after a strenuous exercise, I leave, and when I look at my watch, I don’t know what’s going on. Have you been there tonight?with him playing the old tune quietly You're broken, say it's about night, it makes your hair messy Acting like a baby in a hurry: I dare not be frivolous behind my back Enough playing, please reveal You did something wrong, messed up your hair, messed up your coping It's too much, the shirt is turned upside down (Where did you go yesterday?)..." This song is in Cantonese. It is about a boy who finds out that his girlfriend is having a tryst with her old lover. After returning, she treats him very well, which makes him see the flaw.The song has a brisk tune and short sentences, and it really sounds like a jealous lover blaming his girlfriend.Helen had listened to it several times, but couldn't understand the lyrics, so she took out the lyrics in the cassette and looked at them, so she knew what he was singing. She wondered if he found out that she actually had a husband and lied to him, so he sang this song? He sang as he walked to the ice room behind, his feet following the rhythm of the song, stepping on a kind of cheerful dance step.She guessed that he must be very good at dancing, especially disco, because his waist and hips twist very flexibly, and his movements have a strong sense of rhythm, very similar to the kind of people who will use their feet to "find ideas" when they hear dance music. people.It is estimated that he still wants to go to the dance very much. Maybe if he goes to such a dance a few times, he will meet some girls and find a girlfriend. She felt that he was too wronged for him to stay here and run a restaurant.She always thinks that he is a very smart person, he should be able to do a bigger and better career, and he should be able to find a smart and beautiful girlfriend, the key is to have a chance.As long as he has the opportunity to contact girls, there will be girls who will fall in love with him. He took the chicken wings out of the freezer, and danced all the way back.She had never seen him so lively, maybe it was because Lily came here today.She thought that the other three boys had at least a girlfriend, a young lover, a fake wife, etc., but he seemed to have nothing, and he was a "bare commander".She sympathized with him very much. It must be difficult for a boy of twenty-five or six years old without a girlfriend. Seeing her looking at him, he stopped singing and dancing, and asked, "How is it? Admit it or not?" "Admit what?" He sang again: "Admitting that you did something wrong made your hair messy, your coping messed up, it was too much, your shirt turned upside down." Then he said in Cantonese, "Where did you go to Biandu yesterday?" Because the last sentence is a sentence in the lyrics, she actually understood it, and replied: "I didn't go anywhere yesterday—" "Who is that 'little boy'?" "Which 'little boy'?" She reluctantly asked, thinking in her heart how she should deal with him if he mentioned Li Bing.For some reason, she didn't want him to know that her husband hadn't run away. "'Dang Yan' is the 'little boy' Luo who called the restaurant." "How do you know he's 'Baby Face'? Did you see him?" "I—do I still need to see it?" He seemed a little annoyed, "As soon as I heard it—I knew he was a 'little boy'." She didn't dare to ask "Little White Face"'s name, and was only thinking about how Dai would spread the lie.If she had known that the people in this restaurant were so nice, she wouldn't have told those lies in the first place.Those lies were all for them to hire her, and now it seems that they would have hired her if they hadn't lied at the time.But now that the lie has been told, they can only continue to tell the lie, otherwise they will know that she lied when she first came here, and they will see her clearly. She was in a hurry to recruit, when she heard him say: "No—maybe you are with that 'little boy'—" She didn't know if she heard it wrong, she looked up at him, and found that he was staring at her again, and said with a bit of domineering: "Did you hear that? You are not allowed to be with that 'little boy'."