Chapter 40 Section 38

Helen and JOE had a verbal exchange, and felt extremely happy, and it was the first time that they tasted the joy of not caring.Her daughter has gone to Beijing, and JOE can't find Li Bing now. If she can persuade Li Bing to change his phone number, JOE will never be able to find Li Bing, and she doesn't have to be afraid of him complaining. She thought that Joe must have been terrified this time, because people like Joe want to take advantage of it, but are afraid of losing money.If he could hurt someone else without hurting himself, he must be willing to do so.But if he knows that if he hurts others, he will be hurt by others, he will not dare to be so rampant.

That night, she slept very sweetly, dreaming that Mimi had signed in, and she took Mimi to the plane, but the plane looked like a train, with sleepers one by one.She thought, it's really improved now, and there are sleeping berths when flying.Mimi was standing on the berth, jumping and jumping excitedly, she yelled in fright: "Don't jump! Be careful to touch your head!" But she shouted a little late, and Mimi had already touched her head. She woke up in shock, not knowing where she was.Ever since she had a child, she has often had these "unlucky" dreams. Either the child fell or fell ill, or the child fell ill.One of the most horrific dreams she had was that she had lost her baby.

Sometimes she took the child on the back seat of the bicycle and went to the park or somewhere to play, but after she rode to the destination, she looked back and saw that the child was no longer there.Sometimes she took the train, usually at night, and she took the child off at a small station to buy eggs from the hawkers. When she got on the train and the train started, she found that the child hadn't come up. Every time she had such a dream, she woke up crying. Even though she knew it was a dream, she still had a terrible picture in her mind, which could not be shaken off for a long time, that is, her child was sitting alone in a vast and silent crop field Crying and shouting, the surroundings were pitch black, there were no figures, no lights, and some beast's eyes were shining fiercely in the darkness.

Fortunately, today's dream was not so scary, it was just that Mimi bumped her head.She was lying on the bed, calculating Mimi's itinerary and they should have arrived in Beijing early, but Li Bing hadn't called yet.If he didn't call, she wouldn't be able to contact them, and she wouldn't know if they had a sign-in card.She prayed for her daughter, thinking, if Mimi gets the sign-in card this time, it means that prayer has an effect, and I will start to believe in religion. She closed her eyes, trying to sleep again, but couldn't.She has lived here for a few days, and has already touched the patterns of several young men, and she has formed a corresponding pattern herself.Every day when she comes back, she goes straight to her room, closes the door, and it is an independent world.She took the time to take a bath every time, and then went out to report so that they could go to take a bath, because they got instructions from BENNY and dared not take a bath in front of her, for fear of running out of hot water.

BENNY originally said to ask them to wash it the next morning, but how can that work?Everyone has worked in the restaurant all day, and the kitchen is hotter than the shop outside. How can you ask others to sleep like that all night before taking a shower?She explained this to them, and BENNY told them to wait until she was done washing. After taking a shower, she stayed in her room, and basically didn't go out except to get water from the refrigerator.Sometimes she would bring a bottle of water to her room, and it was even easier, not going out at all.So after taking a shower, she didn't bother to bother, so she put on a pajamas with a melted coat, and she was mainly active in her own room anyway.She also told those boys not to wear shirts for her, saying that what you were like before, you should do what you are now, so as not to make it too restrictive.

BENNY added a telephone in her room. He said that if she took the phone off the phone and left it in the room overnight, it might run out of power the next day and make calls impossible.So he bought another phone, which was also cordless, and put it in her room. After she finished calling at night, she could put it on the phone to charge. She lay there quietly, thinking wildly for a while, then lost her mind again, slept for a while, then got up, and drove a few people to the restaurant to go to work. After noon, LINDA called again, still looking for JACKIE.Helen recognized her voice immediately, so she called BENNY to answer the phone.He took the phone this time and didn't run outside because he was frying sesame chicken and couldn't leave.She went to snatch the iron clip for frying things in his hand, and pointed out with her finger, meaning to let her fry, so that he could go outside and make a phone call.But he refused, so he stood there with the phone between his hands and spoke, but in English.

She was embarrassed to stand in front of him and listen to his phone calls, so she consciously went to the back of the kitchen to help.Maybe BENNY was making wontons just now, because there was a bowl of minced meat on the chopping board, and half a pack of wonton wrappers was placed there, and the wonton wrappers were covered with a wet towel. She lifted the towel and wanted to help wrap the wontons, but she found that they were for FRIEDWONTON, and she couldn't wrap them well.I don't know what's going on, the skins are all the same size, and she herself feels that they are wrapped like that every time, but why are they all different when they are wrapped.

So at her level, she can only wrap wontons that are used for wonton soup. That kind of wontons are boiled in soup anyway. Fried wontons are all wrapped by BENNY, and they are not sold very much, so once a week is enough.Looking at the kind of wonton wrapped by BENNY, it seems very simple. He holds a white plastic table knife in one hand and a wonton wrapper in the other, scrapes some meat stuffing on the wrapper with the plastic knife, folds the wrapper diagonally, or whatever Once rolled, it becomes a beautiful wonton, with two big ears and a bulging belly, standing on a plate. She has also learned it a few times, and every time BENNY taught her hand in hand, but it is really "ten skills are easy to learn, and one skill is rare". She just doesn't understand the "how to roll", so she can't wrap it well.The wontons she makes always look like a dog's head with drooping ears, not stretched, nose and eyes crowded together, not good looking.

Seeing that she could not make this kind of wonton, she went to help cut carrots. Ah GAM taught her to cut carrots into small jagged pieces with a special tool, and then cut them into thin slices with a knife. In many dishes will be used. She found the tool and began slicing jagged chunks of carrot.She tried not to listen to the content of BENNY's phone call, but the voice of him talking to LINDA was still unstoppable in her ears.It's a pity that the kitchen is quite noisy, there is the sound of the range hood, the sound of cutting vegetables and fried rice, the singing sound from the small tape recorder, and sometimes the sound of talking, and there is still a little distance between her and BENNY. So I can't hear you well.

Faintly, she heard him often mentioning "double Oseven" and "James Bond" and so on, and she thought that the two of them were probably talking about the movie 007.She thought it was a bit interesting for the old lovers, so she managed to make a phone call with LINDA's husband behind her back, but they were talking about movies, and instead of talking about love movies, they were talking about 007 where the male lead beats women. After a while, I seemed to hear them talking about "baby".She heard it intermittently, because sometimes he mixed in some Cantonese, and sometimes his voice dropped again.However, Cantonese seems to be mainly used for swearing, "kaitai" and "kaitai", just like how he puts oyster sauce in his cooking, he puts it all the way, whether he should put it or not.

She listened to it a little bit, then added her own imagination and conjecture, and made a story. She felt that they were talking about a baby they had before. She could hear the interference from the woman's family, and the two had to separate. But what happened to that BABY, she didn't hear clearly.I only know that this conversation is about that baby, as if I was trying to find that baby, and said that it would be good if I found it. She was dumbfounded, so they had a child before?Then why is LINDA's father so cruel?To separate them?Just for a restaurant and $100,000?This is the United States, how come there are such feudal and backward parents? She doesn't know how much a restaurant is worth because she doesn't know how big it is.I heard from the boss that they spent more than 80,000 yuan on the decoration of this restaurant, but if they want to sell it now, it may only sell for 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, because most people don’t want to buy an old restaurant for fear of bad feng shui and reputation. No, I can't make money.In a word, if the restaurant is so profitable, why would you sell it? She thought, adding 100,000 yuan to a restaurant, it would be about 200,000 yuan. At the salary level in the United States, it is the salary of a person for three or four years.For the money, are you willing to sell your daughter? She took the opportunity to go to the bathroom to peek at BENNY, and saw that he had the phone clamped around his neck, and he was flipping the sesame chicken with the iron clip in his hand.Judging by his expression, it doesn't seem like he is reliving the old relationship, but he seems to be in a hurry to do something.She wondered if LINDA's current husband found out that his wife had a child with BENNY, so he was looking for trouble for LINDA? She immediately sympathized with LINDA. It is really unfortunate to have such a greedy father.Now that the current husband knows about it, he must hit and scold LINDA.What she sympathizes with most is the child. I don’t know if they gave the child to others, or LINDA’s parents decided to give the child to others. In short, she feels that the child is not with Linda now, otherwise she wouldn’t be in such a hurry Looking for a child. In either case, the child is poor.She is also a mother herself, and she can understand LINDA's mood.Maybe young mothers care less about their children, but after all, they are their own flesh and blood, so it is difficult not to care about them completely.She felt that Benny was abnormal in this regard. He gave her the impression that he was a very gentle and kind person, but how could he give his child to others?Maybe it was too young?middle School student? After a while, she heard BENNY's voice getting farther and farther away, and knew that he was walking outside the restaurant while talking on the phone.She pretended to go out to see if there were any guests, walked to the front desk, and saw him standing outside the restaurant door on the phone, where the sesame chicken had been fried.She stood at the counter for a while, no one came, and went back to the back of the kitchen to chop carrots. She used the special tool to cut the carrots into small pieces, so she took the kitchen knife and started slicing the small pieces.Right on the tangent, BENNY walked in, as if very angry, angrily scolding whomever he was scolding: "What the hell!" Then he saw her chopping carrots, came up and said, "Put it down, put it down, don't cut your hands." She felt that his attitude was not as usual today, so she ignored him.He hurried to the front of the store again and picked up the phone again.This time, he seemed to be arguing, speaking impassionedly, and speaking in Cantonese, but he quickly walked out of the restaurant to make a phone call. When he came back from the phone call this time, he stubbornly told her not to cut it, saying that if you want to help, just make wontons and don't cut your hands.She also said stubbornly, "You know I can't make wontons like that, but you still want me to make them?" He seemed a little absent-minded, and ran back to the front to make a phone call.She thought, it must be about the child, otherwise he wouldn't be in such a hurry. She had almost cut up a whole bunch of carrots before he finally finished the call.She didn't know if he had made one long phone call, or just a few not-so-long phone calls to a lot of people.Anyway, he looks like he's done calling, because he's back in the back of the kitchen and making wontons. Maybe she didn't cover the wet towel covering the wonton skin just now, and one corner of the skin was dry and cracked.He looked at the wrapper and asked, "Binger opens the table *&*&*U*$%#$?" Then he threw the wonton wrapper into the trash can. She didn't understand the whole sentence, but she understood the words "Binger opened the table" and guessed that he was asking who opened the towel and didn't cover it properly, and wiped out the wonton wrapper.She was very angry, thinking that he must know that she had opened it, and who else would open that towel?Then he was scolding her.How much is half a pack of wonton wrappers worth?Is it worth scolding her for "opening the stage" for this matter?Isn't that calling her a "slut"? She has been suffering from anger for the past two days, but she doesn't know whose anger it is, she is suffering from anger anyway.Now that he scolded her like this, she couldn't bear it any longer, walked to the front desk without saying a word, took her small bag and car keys, and walked towards the back door of the restaurant. She didn't see BENNY.She didn't care where he went, she walked out of the restaurant through the back door and drove away. She drove in a daze for a while, not knowing what she was doing, nor where she should go now, should she just pack up and go back to City B now?She seemed very reluctant in her heart, but if she didn't go back to City B, where could she go?Finally, she realized that her things were still in the APT, so she decided to drive back to the APT first and pack up her things. Now she has the key to APT, which was left by the boss when he left, and BENNY gave it to her.She opened the door of the APT with the key and began to pack her things. She kind of hoped that BENNY would call her, even if he didn't say sorry, as long as he told her not to leave, she would run back to the store immediately.But he didn't call, which means he doesn't think he scolded the wrong person. Most of her things are still in the same condition as when they moved here, either in boxes or in plastic bags. She only brought out some necessities, so they were put away quickly.But as soon as she picked up the suitcase and walked out the door, tears came out, because once she left, she would never see BENNY again. She didn't expect that this part-time job would end like this, maybe she shouldn't be so angry because he scolded her once?But she thought, it doesn’t matter if I’m angry or not. Mimi will come to the United States in a few days. . But he has his own life, he not only has his future, he also has his past, she is just a passer-by in his life.Out of sympathy and kindness, he took care of her and cared about her, but she actually developed some attachment to him, she was really ignorant of herself. She sat there crying for a while, then ran to the boss's room to find a piece of paper and wanted to write a few words to him.But she thought about it for a long time, but she didn't know what to write. What happened in the past few days confused her brain.In the end she wrote a few words, not to him alone, but to them all.She thanked them for their care and help these days, saying that she will never forget them, and then she signed "silly auntie". She wrote the note and put it on the table in front of the boss's bed, so that BENNY would see it when he came back to settle the accounts at night.Then she left the door key on that table too, because the door could be locked from the outside without the key.She was about to leave when the phone rang. She thought it was Li Bing calling, so she rushed to pick up the receiver, but she heard it was BENNY: "What-swrong, baby? Why did you run back to the APT? I looked for you everywhere, and I thought you-went to Wal-Mart to buy things, but you-you haven't come back for so long. What happened?" She thought, don't you know it yourself?She said angrily, "It's nothing—" "Are you angry, areyoumadatme?" She didn't say a word, and she felt that she shouldn't lose her temper. Even if he scolded her, it was because she did something wrong, and his "open stage" was often talked about. It can be said that most of the time it was just It's a modal particle, it's not necessarily a curse, at least it's not as serious as "slut". "I'm mad at you because you scolded me," she said. He was extremely wronged: "Where did I scold you? When did I scold you? Is it scolding you to say you are stupid?" "But what you said today was not stupid, what you said was——those two words." "'Start'? But I didn't say you—" "I opened the towel, why aren't you scolding me?" "I don't know you uncovered it," he seemed anxious, "You misunderstood, I really didn't scold you, I thought it was Ah GAM or Ah SAM—" She didn't say a word. In fact, she believed in her heart that he wasn't scolding her, but she didn't know what to say now.He asked, "Then what are you—running off like this—going—to do?" "I'm going back to City B—" He yelled anxiously: "No! Pleasedon-twalkoutonme! Don't leave now, just stay at the APT and calm down." Seeing that she didn't say anything, he said, "Don't do this, people who beat restaurants can't talk. It’s swearing, nothing else, just catchphrases. And I’m not talking about you, I didn’t know you opened that towel. I-msorry, baby. I-msorry,” She smiled and said: "I-msorry, too." "I-m sorry three." "What are you sorry for?" "I-m sorry five."