Life is a Game

When Ji Xue returned home with the lunch box, Ji Xia was still the only one in the house, and there was an empty plate on the table, presumably Ji Xia had already warmed up the steamed buns and ate them.

Ji Xia was watching the 9:00 o'clock news of the central set, and there was a copy of "Little Princess" on the coffee table.

Seeing Ji Xue came back, Ji Xia turned her head happily, her sleepy eyes widened: "Sister, where did you go to play? Why did you come back so late? I'm about to fall asleep."

"I went to my classmate's house. I stayed for a long time. I'm sorry, Xia Xia, to let you stay at home alone for so long." The first thing Ji Xue did when she came back was to pour the food from the lunch box into the plate Heat it in the microwave, then wash the lunch box in the kitchen.

Ji Xia didn't watch TV either, and ran eagerly to the door of the kitchen, poked her head out, and watched Ji Xue wash the lunch box.

Ji Xue asked, "Did Mom and Dad come back yet?"

"His mother came back before, picked up the clothes and went out again. She said that Dad will be hospitalized for the next two days, and she can't come back to live in the hospital." Ji Xia said, pointing to the plate on the dining table, "Mom pressed the plate under the plate. 50 yuan."

The 50 yuan was naturally Ji Xia and Ji Xue's living expenses for the past few days.

Ji Xue nodded: "What did Xia Xia eat at night?"

"I ate 4 candies and half a steamed bun left over from the morning." Ji Xia said.

"Xia Xia, are you hungry? My sister brought you food, and it's still heating in the microwave." Ji Xue turned off the water and shook the lunch box in her hand, "You can't eat too much sugar, you can only eat 6 sugars a day, otherwise President Xia Xia has tooth decay and it hurts."

After scaring Ji Xia, the food in the microwave was ready, and the two sisters sat around the dining table and began to share the food.

Although it was leftovers from frying, but with Tan Weizhou's cooking skills, even the leftovers were extremely delicious. Ji Xia highly praised today's dinner.

"It's better than what Dad cooked!"

Ji Xue was tired after being busy for a long time, and Ji Xia was already sleepy. The two sisters washed up after eating and went back to their rooms to sleep.

Jiang Feng could only sit on the sofa in the living room in a daze to spend the long night.

For the next few days, Ji Xue went to the bun shop downstairs every morning to buy vegetable buns and steamed buns, and told Ji Xia to get up, go to Tan's restaurant to work, after get off work, pack the food and go home, and start a new day.

On the first day, Tan Lin's daughter-in-law went to the back kitchen to stay for a while, staring at Ji Xue to see if she had any plans to steal her teacher. But I only stared at it for one day. From the second day on, Tan Lin's daughter-in-law didn't get involved in the back kitchen very much.

Tan Lin himself said that he was worried but he didn't want to come to the store. His wife was a lazy and slippery person, so she didn't want to stare at people in the back kitchen. Do some work.

In the next few days, Jiang Feng also figured out the personnel structure of the Tan family restaurant.

Tan Lin is a non-staff member who is unlikely to appear in Tan's small restaurant except for meals, and Tan Rui is the same. Tan Rui's wife is a supervisor who only appears in Tan's small restaurant, but does not work. Tan Weizhou is the only chef, Ji Xue and Tan Wenwen are handymen, one takes money and the other doesn't. To some extent, Tan Wenwen is the worst person in the whole Tan family restaurant.

In the first few days, Tan Wenwen often sneaked out as soon as she was free. Anyway, if she was caught sneaking, she would just be scolded, and it was impossible for her parents to really beat her.

After Tan Wenwen and Ji Xue got acquainted, she found that as long as she slipped away, all the work would become Ji Xue's. Not only in the back kitchen, but also in the front, such as serving dishes, cleaning, and arranging tables and chairs, was originally done by her mother. As long as her mother is not willing, these tasks are also Ji Xue's work.

Since then, Tan Wenwen has been running away less frequently. Anyway, he can chat with Ji Xue while working. Sometimes sneaking out to play is not necessarily more interesting than chatting with Ji Xue.

By the fifth day of Ji Xue's work in Tan's restaurant, which was the day before the Lantern Festival, Tan Wenwen had already started talking with Ji Xue.

Of course, Tan Wenwen complained to Ji Xue about her parents most of the time.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is the Lantern Festival, during the lunch break, Tan Lin had to take his wife and son to go shopping for some reason, so only Tan Wenwen and Ji Xue were left in the store. Tan Wenwen couldn't run home to watch TV, so she could only drag Ji Xue to sit at the front desk and complain to her about her parents' partiality. While complaining, she ate her mother's melon seeds, as if as long as she finished eating her mother's melon seeds, she would take revenge on her Damn.

So she not only ate it by herself, but also took Ji Xue to it together, the more the better, so that her mother would have no melon seeds to eat tonight.

"My mother is serious, isn't the Lantern Festival a festival? Why do you want to open a shop? She doesn't do the work herself and leaves all the work to us. How nice it is to watch TV at home." I watched TV at home, and expressed dissatisfaction with being dragged into the store to work.

While eating melon seeds, Ji Xue listened to Tan Wenwen's complaints.

"Ji Xue, how is your family celebrating Lantern Festival tonight?" Tan Wenwen asked.

"My mom is going to take care of my dad in the hospital. My sister and I are living alone. I'm going to buy some chocolates for her in the supermarket when I go back at night." Ji Xue said, her mouth is like an invisible melon seed machine that keeps feeding melon seeds. Spit out the melon seeds.

Tan Wenwen nodded: "So your sister likes to eat chocolate, and my brother also likes to eat this thing. I like to eat potato chips, but my mother always only remembers to buy chocolate for my brother and forgets to buy potato chips for me."

In fact, Tan Lin and his wife have never been short of Tan Wenwen's food and clothing, but they can't make a bowl of water level, so Tan Wenwen complains. For example, during weekends and winter and summer vacations, Tan Wenwen has to come to the store to help wash dishes, chop vegetables, do chores, etc. Tan Rui only needs to be responsible for eating, drinking, playing and watching TV happily at home, and can also go to the aquarium and zoo from time to time The playground is a place that Tan Lin always forgets to take his daughter to.

"I remember my mother said that your family also runs a restaurant. Does your father usually let you help out in restaurants?" Tan Wenwen asked.

"I used to go sometimes, my dad would teach me how to cook, and my sister wanted to go too, but she was too young and my mother wouldn't let him go." Ji Xue said.

"That's great." Tan Wenwen showed an envious expression, "My grandfather wanted to teach me how to cook before, but my father refused."

"Why?" Ji Xue didn't understand.

"He is afraid that when I learn the craft and grow up, the marriage craft will become someone else's. Really, he doesn't learn it himself." Tan Wenwen complained about her own father without mercy, "He doesn't learn it himself , Grandpa is not allowed to teach others, what is the reason for this?"

Ji Xue continued to eat melon seeds.

Tan Weizhou never shy away from anyone when he made the tile-painted chicken in the back kitchen, just like Ji Xue didn’t shy away from anyone when he made the tile-painted chicken in Taifeng Building. can learn.

Unless the master teaches by hand, otherwise this dish will not be able to learn even three points.

That's why Jiang Feng found it ridiculous that Tan Lin and his wife were strictly guarding against each other. How ignorant of culinary skills and careless the steps of his own father's cooking of Watan Huadiao Chicken must be, to think that Ji Xue can secretly learn Watan Huadiao Chicken just by looking at it.

"But Ji Xue, you are actually pretty good." Tan Wenwen said.

"Um?"

"In the beginning, our shop also hired help cooks. After hiring several of them, I wanted to worship my grandpa as a teacher. My grandpa didn't like them, and even hated the vegetables they cut. Later, my parents were afraid that they would learn from them. Please help the cook, and hire a handyman instead." Tan Wenwen explained, "My grandpa really likes the vegetables you cut, and he laughed when he saw you cut the beef yesterday."

Ji Xue could only nod her head and continue eating melon seeds.

Tan Wenwen sighed again while talking: "It's a pity that you are only there during the winter vacation. When school starts, I will have to wash the dishes when I come back from school. My mother definitely doesn't want to wash the dishes, so I keep the dishes for me to wash when I come back from school."

Ji Xue finally swam ashore from the ocean of eating melon seeds, stopped her movements, and said, "I'm here when school starts."

"Is school starting?"

"Um."

"You don't go to school anymore?"

"No more."

"Great, then I will come back to help you after school starts, and I will trouble you to wash the dishes before I come back. I hate washing dishes the most." Tan Wenwen said with a smile, and she is only a third-year student. Students, unable to understand the concept of dropping out of school.

If it wasn't for not going to school and having to work at home, Tan Wenwen actually wanted to choose not to go to school.

Ji Xue reluctantly smiled at Tan Wenwen.