Chapter 2 second quarter

Hengxing Restaurant is located in the prime location of Lianhua Xincun Commercial Street. The main dish of this restaurant is fried crab, so it is called Hengxing Restaurant. The feature of crabs walking sideways is used as a signboard by this restaurant.Lumen City is rich in seafood, but the way of eating it is different from that of Guangdong. For example, fried crab is a unique way of eating. The fresh crab is cut open and fried with various seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic, which not only retains the deliciousness of the crab. Taste, and the taste is very strong, suitable for both north and south, so the customers of this restaurant are thriving and the business is booming.Although it was past dinner time, Hengxing Restaurant was still full of diners.The boss sat on the chair behind the cash register and watched the renminbi snowflakes falling into the cash drawer, his teeth glistening on his lips with joy, his face looked like a horse in heat.

If the boss is happy, it means that the waiters and chefs are sweating non-stop, and there seems to be a wolf chasing after their buttocks.The waiter Li Shasha is a rural girl with a very urban name. Like thousands of rural girls who go to work in the city, the one thousand yuan she gets every month is not only compensation for her hard work, but also compensation for her departure from home. The bitterness of her life, the material foundation that supports her hope in life.For this negligible salary of one thousand yuan, she has to keep a smile on her face that makes her cheeks sour and her cheeks stiff. Although there is nothing worth laughing about, she still has to stop Laughing, he kept saying polite words to those diners who were qualified to sit at the table and gobble up: welcome, sorry, please slow down, welcome again and so on.When she was at home, she never said this kind of talk to her parents, but here she always talked about it like a nun chanting scriptures.Li Shasha and the other waiters had to keep running during working hours. Firstly, in order to feed as few people as possible, the boss precisely pressed the number of waiters to the limit that each waiter had to run to cope.Secondly, if they don’t keep running fast during working hours, the boss will definitely scold them for being slippery and lazy, and they just want to get money and don’t work. money.Of course, if you are scolded, you must never return the words. The result of returning the words is just two words: leave.There is no way, there are so many Chinese people, labor has always been a buyer's market, the price is not only unaffordable, and the competition is very fierce, which makes Chinese bosses absolutely strong and Chinese workers absolutely weak.In order to allow customers to have satisfactory service at any time, in order to prevent the boss from swearing at people, and in order to survive, Li Shasha can only run between the dining tables with tired smiles on their faces.

Li Shasha woke up this morning with her right eyelid twitching non-stop. People in her hometown believe in the superstition that "the left eye jumps for money, and the right eye jumps for disaster", so Li Shasha has been terrified since she went to work.Chef Xiong Bao vowed to comfort Li Shasha, saying that her hometown's statement was wrong, and her hometown's statement was reversed. It should be "the left eye jumps disaster, the right eye jumps money".Not only will Li Shasha not have any misfortunes today, but if her right eyelid dances well and happily, she may even get rich.Li Shasha was still cautious, she would rather believe what her hometown said than trust Xiongbao's comfort, for fear that she would really do something wrong and be unlucky.She knew very well that for a person like her, the chance of getting rich was very slim, especially at this time and place, wanting to get rich was just daydreaming.

Xiong Bao is the chef's real name and surname. His surname is Xiong. His father respects the upright official Bao Zheng the most. When he had a son, he added his surname and Bao Zheng's surname to make his son's name.Xiong Bao's father ignored that when these two surnames are added together, the meaning will completely change, just like milk coffee and tomato egg soup, although they are both good things, they are not a thing when they are mixed together.When he grew up, Xiong Bao tried his best to change his name, but he couldn't change it anyway. Everyone liked his name, and even the police uncle at the police station who had the right to change his name said that it was the name he saw. It is a pity and troublesome to change the one with the most distinctive features and the fewest duplicate names. If Xiong Bao insists on changing it, he must ask Xiong Bao’s father for his opinion, because the name was given by his father, and the copyright belongs to his father. Without the approval of the copyright owner, if it is changed, the police uncle cannot bear the responsibility for infringement.

The police uncle is Xiong Bao's father's teammate in the teahouse, and his friendship with Xiong Bao's father is longer than that of Xiong Bao for 20 years.Xiong Bao didn't dare to let the police uncle find his father. He knew that his name was his father's most proud spiritual product in this life. If he changed it without the authorization of the copyright owner, his father might change his appearance along with it. —he must be beaten to death.So I had no choice but to endure the humiliation and continue to let everyone in the world who knew him call him a "bear bag".Bear's temperament is not bear at all, not only not bear, but also a bit hot, which may have something to do with Sichuan people being very spicy since childhood.By the way, Xiongbao is from Leshan, Sichuan.Sichuan, a land of abundance, has produced great men, beauties, delicacies, and of course famous chefs.Although Xiong Bao is the chef of the rampant restaurant, he is not yet able to reach the status of a famous chef, and is working tirelessly to become a famous chef.

There are a lot of guests and business is good tonight, so the front office waiter like Li Shasha has to run around in the kitchen and the front room to pass and serve the food.According to the division of labor, people like Li Shasha who are good-looking and have practical service experience are only responsible for serving the food in the front hall, that is, after the food delivery person delivers the food, they will take over and deliver the food to the customer's table according to the table number on the menu. , and at the same time close to provide services for diners at any time.The work of serving dishes at the distance from the kitchen to the front hall is carried out by workers who are almost as tall as they are and have shorter service hours.This is a normal situation. There are many guests today, so Li Shasha has to break the boundaries of division of labor and extend her work scope from the front hall to the kitchen.Even if she doesn’t extend it, there’s nothing she can do. Customers don’t care who is serving the dishes and who is the waiter. As long as they can’t wait, they will yell at the waiters. When a customer yells, a waiter like Li Shasha will immediately have to say: “Mr. Ms.) Please wait a moment and I will go to remind you..." Then, no matter whether it is true or not, you have to turn around and run to the back kitchen to show the guests. Ma'am) I'm sorry, I'll be fine soon."

The treatment in the private room is higher. There is one waiter who is dedicated to watching the tables, and one waiter in the lobby has to take care of five tables, which is busier than the waiters in the private room. , Otherwise, you will be scolded, scolded by the boss, scolded by the guests.When Li Shasha saw those ruffians tonight, she became even more convinced that it really was a right eye jump, not a right eye jump as Xiong Bao said, because she met those ruffians again, and those ruffians He also intends to find fault with her. The reason why the ruffians find fault is very simple. They went to drink in the box two days ago, and it happened that Li Shasha was serving in the box that day, and the ruffians insisted that Li Shasha drink with them.The restaurant has rules, and Li Shasha also has dignity. No matter according to the rules or for the sake of dignity, she can't drink with them.At that time, Li Shasha told them very tactfully and politely: According to the regulations of the restaurant, the waiter is not allowed to drink with the guests, and she does not know how to drink.As a result, those ruffians slapped the table and called the owner of the restaurant over, yelling and forcing the owner to express his opinion: the restaurant's rules are more important, or God's rules are more important?

Under such circumstances, the boss dared not and was unwilling to provoke these ruffians. He knew that they were ruffians and not God, but he had no choice but to say that God's rules were of course high, so the ruffians asked Li Shasha to obey the rules set by God and accompany They drink.Li Shasha has been working in the restaurant for several years, and she knew what would happen to her if she accompanied these gangsters to drink when they were drunk, so she had to apologize and decline repeatedly.Originally, I thought that the boss would come here to help solve the problem, but I didn't expect the boss to persuade Li Shasha to meet the demands of the ruffians and have a few drinks with them.Li Shasha is a rural girl with the values ​​and stubbornness of a rural girl. She comes out to work to earn money, not to drink with others. However, she dare not categorically refuse guests, let alone the boss , she had no choice but to pick up the wine glass.Those ruffians coaxed and yelled: "Drink, do it, I'll give you a service fee..." "Fuck it, there's no one in this business who doesn't accompany drinking..."

If those ruffians don't want to coax you at this time, and don't humiliate Li Shasha with the words of giving you a service fee, Li Shasha will take a sip from the cup, and then pretend to be so hot that she is coughing and begging for mercy, so that both parties have a chance to step down.However, the booing of those ruffians made Li Shasha rebel psychologically.At that time, she didn't know where the courage came from. She put down her wine glass, turned around and escaped from the box, hid in the women's toilet and wiped away her tears.Later, Xiao Mao who heard the dishes said that the boss gave those ruffians a 50% discount to appease them.Li Shasha was nervous for a few days, fearing that the boss would pursue her for escaping alcohol, but the boss didn't mention it again.

Today, these guys came to eat and drink again, and they were expecting Li Shasha to serve in the lobby. They didn't go to the private room, so they wanted to trouble Li Shasha in the lobby.At first, she thought the tablecloths were not clean, and the cups, bowls, chopsticks and spoons were not sanitized, so Li Shasha changed the table and set it up again.It was even worse when ordering food. Li Shasha stood at the table for half an hour, and five or six of them only ordered four cold dishes.Li Shasha asked them what hot dishes they wanted.They said no, and they will order what they want to eat while drinking later.Li Shasha has to take care of five tables by herself, but these people ask her to pour tea and wine for a while, order hot dishes instead of ordering them all at once, and add a hot dish after a while. , just to trap her on this table and not be able to move.As soon as Li Shasha went to other tables, they started yelling, as if a terrorist attack had taken place in the lobby, causing the guests around to look sideways in horror.

Li Shasha knew in her heart that they were here to find fault.But she had no choice but to serve them with all her heart, and secretly prayed in her heart that they would not make too much trouble.Those few people had almost finished their drinks, and they also ordered hot dishes, such as fried crab, Dongpo elbow, Kung Pao chicken, braised crucian carp, lettuce in oyster sauce, and finally ordered a pot of eel and winter bamboo shoot soup.Fearing that they would make trouble, Li Shasha went to the kitchen and told the chef Xiong Bao that the dishes for the table should be cooked and served first.Xiong Bao readily agreed, and Li Shasha felt relieved. She only hoped that the dishes would come as soon as possible, and that these guys would eat as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible, and everything would be fine. The bear buns were very interesting. According to Li Shasha's instructions, the vegetable soup was served in a short while, and the ruffians began to gather around the dining table like wolves to eat.Seeing that they were eating intently, Li Shasha took time to take care of other tables.While taking care of other tables, Li Shasha glanced at the ruffians from time to time, just in case they needed it.After those guys gobbled it up, Li Shasha suddenly saw one of the fat bald men take out a plastic bag, and then took out a dead mouse from the plastic bag. Li Shasha was dumbfounded and astonished. Put them into the pot of eel and winter bamboo shoot soup like dumplings.Immediately, the guy fished out the soaked dead mouse with chopsticks, and shouted loudly: "What is this? Is your eel still hairy?" Li Shasha was dizzy and couldn't help retching.