"So you agree?" Bai Ruozhen asked in surprise.
Old Li waved his hand and said, "That's settled. But we can cook more in the afternoon. You understand what I mean."
"I understand," Bai Ruozhen said with a grin, "but can I bring some occasionally?"
Old Li laughed and said, "No problem."
Not to mention Bai Ruozhen, even other people would often bring home some steamed buns and rice or something. It wouldn't be noticeable for them to do so, since one of them was a cook and the other was the chef in charge.
The two of them agreed that when Bai Ruozhen returned to the kitchen, he had nothing to do, and Lao Li told the other chefs about their conversation. The other chefs were relieved, but at the same time they thought Bai Ruozhen was stupid, and that someone didn't want to be a chef.
If you want to be lazy, be lazy. If you want to order some dishes, order some dishes. Just don’t compete with them for the chef’s position.
Because they had a tacit understanding, Bai Ruozhen stopped doing other work and just waited to cook for everyone after dinner.
The chefs who served the food felt it was unfair at first, but they kept quiet after asking Lao Li. They said that there were delicious dishes to eat every day, so they could just work more. Didn’t they work the same when Comrade Xiaobai was not here, and the food was not good? If you calculate carefully, they still made a profit.
Bai Ruozhen was very happy. He could earn a salary by cooking and have free time at other times. He only had to cook three meals a day, which was not difficult at all.
Hehe.
At noon, Bai Ruozhen watched others busy themselves, and sat on a small stool in the kitchen to watch them work.
The boys in the cafeteria who wanted to see the pretty girls found that the pretty girls no longer came to get food, and the ones who came to get food were the older sisters and aunts as before. They immediately became unhappy.
"Where's that pretty girl?"
Someone couldn't help but ask Aunt Fat, and the other boys immediately quieted down and pricked up their ears to hear the answer.
Auntie Pang glared at me and banged the basin with a large spoon, making a clanging sound. "If you don't want to eat, go away and don't be an eyesore here."
After being scolded, the boys didn't dare to ask any more questions and just hoped to see him at the next meal.
The boys were disappointed when they didn't see the girl for several days.
Bai Ruozhen, however, found this life quite pleasant. Gu Changqing had gone to the Northeast, and she would go to get off work and come home every day, then secretly leave some food for Gu Xiaoli to eat outside the kitchen. In the evening, Gu Changlan would buy vegetables, and she would just stir-fry them and steam some buns every now and then. The only thing she hadn't adapted to was not seeing Gu Changqing anymore.
Bai Ruozhen felt that she missed her brother Changqing.
After October 1st, Bai Ruozhen gradually felt cold. Gu Xiaoli took advantage of the weekend to go to Gu Changlan's place to make cotton clothes for Bai Ruozhen. As for autumn clothes, Bai Ruozhen bought ready-made clothes directly from the department store.
Bai Ruozhen remembered that she hadn't written a letter home since she started working, so she went to buy some stationery to write a letter home. Just as she finished writing, Gu Changsong brought her a letter from home.
The letter was again from Bai Liqiang, and it mentioned that Bai Lishan was in much better health and ate more. There was also a letter from their eldest sister, Bai Ruoxin, who had returned home, saying that life in Guizhou was difficult, that she didn't have enough to eat every day, and that she had to do extremely heavy labor every day. She begged their parents to find a way to bring her back. Bai Liqiang also mentioned that he had heard their mother secretly crying when he got up to go to the bathroom that night, but they had no way of stopping their mother from going to the countryside, and they were even more powerless to do anything about bringing her back.
Bai Ruozhen didn't know what life was like in the mountains of Guizhou, but she was actually happy to hear that Bai Ruoxin was not doing well. She felt that people like Bai Ruoxin should go to the most heartbreaking place, so that the local life could teach her the importance of family. If possible, she really hoped that she would never see Bai Ruoxin again in this life.
Bai Ruoxin wrote a letter to her family, stating that she would go back during the Chinese New Year. She also said that she was now working in the school cafeteria and earned a salary every month. She also sent her first month's salary along with the letter. Except for some pocket money, she sent it all back home. Not for anyone else, but for Bai Lishan and Li Qiulan. She couldn't just ignore her family.
After the letter was sent, Bai Ruozhen went to work every day and returned to Gu Changlan's dormitory after get off work. He occasionally went back to Xiahe Village on weekends to visit Zhu Guixia and the others and Qiu Lanying. The rest of the time he stayed in Gu Changlan's dormitory.
It was not until November that Bai Ruozhen finally saw Gu Changqing again when she was off work. Gu Changqing's hair was messy and he looked like a beggar. He was wearing the same tattered cotton jacket he wore when she first saw him in Yancheng. He was riding a bicycle and leaning against the wall outside the school. When he saw her, he smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.
Bai Ruozhen was stunned for a moment and then ran over. Then the boys in the cafeteria saw the pretty female comrade in the kitchen running towards a man in tattered clothes.
It's simply the standard setting of Beauty and the Beast, a flower stuck in pig manure.
As for Comrade Gu Changqing, who was described as pig shit, he was still immersed in the joy of seeing the object and had no idea that he had become pig shit.
However, Bai Ruozhen suddenly stopped when she was three steps away from him. Oh my God, how long had it been since her Chang Qingge had taken a bath?
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