Chapter 96 Meeting Liang Ladi for the first time

The next day is the weekend.

However, Wang Jianye has made it a habit to get up early.

So I didn't sleep in. After waking up, I got dressed and took the time to wash up.

There were a lot of leftovers from last night, so Zhang Lan heated them up in a pot this morning and then steamed a few steamed buns.

After breakfast, Wang Jianye suggested, "Mom, Tingting, you haven't been to my house yet. Come on, I'll take you there this morning."

Zhang Lan had this idea in mind.

After all, Wang Jianye has been living at home for so many years, and now he has to move out suddenly. Naturally, he has to go and see the environment in person before he can feel at ease.

Wang Jianting naturally had no objection.

So Wang Jianye took them and Wang Jiannan, Wang Jianwen, Wang Jianwu and others and walked to the Qianmen courtyard.

"Is this it? It looks pretty good."

Zhang Lantou came back to this place.

I'm quite satisfied with this location.

Wang Jianye took out the key from his pocket and went into the house.

The whole family followed him in.

"Oh my, why is this cabinet crooked?"

Zhang Lan noticed the cabinet against the wall and immediately walked over to move it and adjust it.

"Is it crooked?"

Wang Jianye didn't notice it. After he brought all the furniture back yesterday, he thought it had been arranged neatly. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Lan came, she still noticed something wrong.

"You see, now is the right time."

Zhang Lan took a few steps away from the cupboard, took a look and commented.

Then Zhang Lan picked up the broom and started sweeping the floor.

"Mom, please take a break. This room has been cleaned up."

"Why should I take a break? Look at how dirty your house is. How can anyone live there?"

Zhang Lan couldn't stand it and saw work everywhere.

But in Wang Jianye's eyes, these places are pretty good and there is nothing to clean up.

Wang Jianye came into the room and sat down to rest.

After Zhang Lan came to this room, she didn't rest for a moment.

After she picked up the broom and swept the floor, she borrowed a rag from her neighbor, wet it with water, and wiped the tables, chairs, benches, cupboards, trunks and other furniture.

While working, he also told Wang Jianye: "When you have nothing to do after work, clean up the house yourself. Don't make it look like a pig sty. How can people live here?"

"I know, Mom."

Wang Jianye said helplessly.

The sisters Wang Jianting and Wang Jiannan next to him were laughing secretly.

Wang Jianwen sat obediently in the house, but Wang Jianwu couldn't sit still and went for a stroll in the yard.

There is a pretty little girl in the yard.

Wang Jianwu couldn't help but walk over to her and asked, "My name is Wang Jianwu, what's your name?"

The little girl glanced at him and then hid back into the house.

Wang Jianwu felt a little sorry for it. He saw that the girl was pretty and wanted to know her name.

But when the little girl saw him coming, she was scared away.

"What are you doing?"

Wang Jianye also came to the yard and asked Wang Jianwu curiously.

Because Wang Jianwu had been staring at someone else's house.

"Oh, nothing."

Wang Jianwu wandered off to somewhere else.

Wang Jianye looked towards the house that Wang Jianwu had been staring at and saw the little girl behind the window.

Isn’t that Yu Li’s sister Yu Haitang?

Is this kid Wang Jianwu interested in her?
OK, you have good vision.

In the play, Yu Haitang is the most beautiful girl in the steel mill, and many people are chasing after her. But Wang Jianye didn't care, because Wang Jianwu and Yu Haitang were still children at that time, and nothing could happen.

"Master Wang, you work in a restaurant, right?"

Suddenly hearing someone calling him, Wang Jianye turned around.

I saw a woman about thirty years old.

Isn’t this... Liang Ladi?
Wang Jianye recognized it immediately.

Liang Ladi is the heroine in the TV series "People Are Iron and Rice Is Steel". She worked as a welder in a steel mill. Now she is a widow, raising four children, three sons and a daughter, by herself. It is not easy.

However, Liang Ladi is not like Qin Huairu in the play. Qin Huairu does not work hard, but instead tries hard to control men. She has been an apprentice all her life and can never get a regular job.

However, Liang Ladi relied on herself and gradually became a senior welder and raised her children on her own.

(In the TV series "Man Is Iron, Fan Is Steel", Liang Ladi's appearance timeline is 1963, and the current timeline of this book is the winter of 1952. In order to make the plot reasonable, the story of Liang Ladi in the original TV series was moved to the present)

"Yes, I am the cook of Fengze Garden."

Wang Jianye nodded to Liang Ladi and said.

Liang Ladi asked curiously, "I heard them say that this house was arranged for you by your hotel, so your cooking skills must be very good, right?"

"It's OK. I'm the second stove now."

Seeing that Liang Ladi didn't understand, Wang Jianye explained: "Second chef is a level of chef in our restaurant. The levels of chefs from low to high are apprentice, third chef, second chef, and head chef.
The chef at the head chef level is the face of our Fengze Garden, and is the signboard. Many customers come for the head chef, and I am just a second chef who helps the head chef. "

"Oh, you are amazing. You are so young, but you have already become a second-class chef."

Liang Ladi was surprised and couldn't help asking, "I see you are only twenty years old this year?"

"I'm twenty. After the New Year I'll be twenty-one."

Wang Jianye nodded and said.

Liang Ladi was even more surprised. "You are only 20 years old, and you have become the second chef. In a few years, you will become the first chef, right?"

Wang Jianye smiled and said nothing.

Liang Ladi asked again: "Can you accept a disciple now?"

"I am now the second stove master, and I am qualified to accept apprentices."

"Oh, that's how it is……"

Liang Ladi said nothing more.

I was thinking of letting my eldest son become Wang Jianye’s apprentice and learn cooking from him.

Because the eldest child in Liang Ladi's family, named Damao, is already thirteen years old and stopped going to school two years ago.

Now I am doing odd jobs outside and I don’t have enough food to eat.

Liang Ladi really wanted Damao to learn a skill, which was better than doing odd jobs without knowing anything.

After much thought, I decided that learning cooking would be more appropriate.

When Liang Ladi heard that a chef had moved into the courtyard, she came over to ask if she could take Damao as her apprentice.

But when she saw that Wang Jianye was so young, she felt a little worried about handing Damao over to him, thinking that he was not very reliable.

So he didn't directly ask Wang Jianye whether he was willing or not. He thought that he would wait until he got to Fengze Garden to find out more about Wang Jianye and then make a decision after he found out clearly.

……

It was a great weekend.

The next morning, Wang Jianye came to Fengze Garden to work.

"I don't know if I can also gain experience points by teaching my apprentices. At my current rate of gaining 50 experience points a day, it will take me a month to complete my third goal. It's still too slow."

Wang Jianye wants to improve so much.

I am not satisfied with my current rate of progress.

"I'll try again when I have a disciple."

Wang Jianye thought to himself and continued to work on the task at hand.

When it was almost time to go to work, Wang Jianye didn't see Sha Zhu.

So he came to Sha Zhu's senior brother Cao Xiaodong and asked, "Brother Cao, where is Sha Zhu?"

"He was fired."

Cao Xiaodong replied.

(End of this chapter)