Chapter 14

"Xiaoe Jie, sorry to keep you waiting."

Dressed, Cao Weiguo opens the door quickly.

Lou Xiaoe is wearing a lake-blue woolen coat, with fair skin and a pretty appearance.

Lou Xiaoe says crisply: "I'm really sorry, Damao went out to show movies, and I don't know how to change the light bulb, so I can only trouble you."

Cao Weiguo smiles: "What trouble is there in changing a light bulb? It's just a matter of moving your hands."

Following Lou Xiaoe to the Xu family, Cao Weiguo steps on a chair and changes the light bulb in a few strokes.

Lou Xiaoe pulls the light string, looks at the glowing light bulb, and says happily: "Thank you, Weiguo."

Cao Weiguo jumps down from the chair, claps his hands, and smiles: "A small effort, Xiaoe Jie is too polite."

Lou Xiaoe turns and enters the kitchen, taking two eggs out of the pot.

"Weiguo hasn't eaten breakfast yet, eat two boiled eggs."

Cao Weiguo retreats hurriedly: "Xiaoe Jie, these eggs are too precious, you keep them to nourish your body."

This is not Cao Weiguo exaggerating; in this era, eggs are scarce materials.

Many families don't get to eat eggs all year round.

Lou Xiaoe pretends to be angry: "Weiguo, you came over early in the morning to help, and you're still being polite to sister over two eggs."

Cao Weiguo explains: "Xiaoe Jie, why would I be polite to you? I drank some alcohol early this morning, and now I have no appetite. Let's keep them for next time. I'll go wash up first, it's time to go to work."

Pushing Lou Xiaoe's hand holding the eggs back, Cao Weiguo runs out of the Xu family nimbly.

He helped Lou Xiaoe change the light bulb out of kindness, not to take advantage.

Returning home with a washbasin and toothbrush to the water pool, Qin Huairu greets him with a smile.

Cao Weiguo doesn't speak, brushes his teeth and washes his face, and returns to the room to go to work.

Seeing this, Qin Huairu stomps her feet angrily: "Hey, really turning your face and not recognizing people."

Last night he was lecherous, and this morning he is pretending to be cold.

Walking to the rolling mill all the way, he meets the canteen director before reaching the gate.

Cao Weiguo greets him with a smile: "Director! Good morning!"

The canteen director walks over with a full face of smiles: "Weiguo, I have something to discuss with you."

Cao Weiguo says: "Director, if you have something, just order me."

The canteen director says: "It's like this, your cooking skills were praised by the workers yesterday. Deputy Director Liu of the logistics department wants his nephew to apprentice under you and learn a skill to support his family."

Cao Weiguo doesn't answer immediately after hearing this, and the canteen director doesn't urge him.

After all, apprenticing to learn a skill is no small matter.

"A teacher for a day, a father for life" is not an exaggerated joke.

Apprentices entering to learn skills must respect the teacher and treat them as a father.

A master teaching skills must also be dedicated and responsible, treating them like children.

Cooks take culinary skills as the foundation of their life, and every family regards their own skills as treasures, not easily taught to outsiders.

Deputy Director Liu also wanted to send his nephew to apprentice under Shazhu, but was rejected by Shazhu.

After eating Cao Weiguo's food yesterday, Deputy Director Liu wanted his nephew to learn from Cao Weiguo.

That night, he brought gifts to the canteen director's house, asking the canteen director to come forward and bridge the gap.

It was also because he drank a lot of alcohol with Cao Weiguo yesterday, plus the gifts Deputy Director Liu brought were not few.

The canteen director patted his chest and agreed while dizzy.

Waking up early in the morning, the canteen director felt a burst of regret, but he had already patted his chest, so he was embarrassed to break his promise.

Waiting for Cao Weiguo at the gate early in the morning, he only hoped that Cao Weiguo could give him some thin face.

Cao Weiguo is not resistant to accepting apprentices, and he didn't agree readily just to keep up appearances.

This matter is not big, but it involves the favors of two directors.

Agreeing easily would make the favor seem unimportant.

Seeing the canteen director a bit anxious, Cao Weiguo says righteously: "Director, you have taken care of me a lot. For your sake, I agree verbally. Let him come over to try first. As long as he is sincere in learning, for your sake, I will also teach him seriously."

Hearing this, the canteen director is overjoyed and pats Cao Weiguo on the shoulder: "Weiguo is sensible."

Cao Weiguo giving him so much face makes the canteen director very happy, and after leaving a few good words, he rushes to the logistics department.

In the rolling mill kitchen, Li Dong is showing off Donglaishun's instant-boiled mutton to the people in the kitchen.

Hearing that Cao Weiguo treated guests at Donglaishun and served six plates of mutton, everyone envies and swallows their saliva.

In this period when even corn buns can't be eaten, being able to eat mutton until full is something they can't even dream of.

What makes people even more envious is that the mutton is Donglaishun's mutton.

If they could eat a meal at Donglaishun, they could brag about this for a year.

"Chef Cao is really generous!"

"This handwriting is extraordinary!"

"Donglaishun, this is a time-honored brand that even leaders and celebrities like to go to."

"I heard Donglaishun's mutton is cut as thin as paper, and it tastes fragrant and tender."

The people in the kitchen talk more and more greedily, swallowing their saliva non-stop, envious and regretting that they want to slap themselves.

How could they be so short-sighted, following Shazhu to be stupid and offending Cao Weiguo.

Cao Weiguo has good culinary skills, is generous, and knows how to be a person; his status in the kitchen will definitely not be low in the future.

If they hadn't stood on Shazhu's side, maybe they could have eaten a meal of Donglaishun's instant-boiled mutton yesterday.

The people in the kitchen regret it endlessly, while Shazhu and his two apprentices have ugly faces.

Shazhu mocks: "Cao Weiguo is famous for being stingy in the Courtyard. Treating guests at Donglaishun is just buying people's hearts, letting you work like cattle and horses for him."

Li Dong is young and vigorous, immediately retorting: "Shazhu, you are just using a villain's heart to measure a gentleman's belly. Ma Hua and Fatty have been working hard under you, but I haven't seen you treat them to a good meal."

This sentence is extremely piercing, and Ma Hua and Fatty's faces are even uglier.

There is no harm without comparison!

Ma Hua and Fatty are apprentices under Shazhu, and they don't dare to go west when Shazhu tells them to go east.

But when Shazhu cooks, he either avoids people or keeps a hand, never teaching them real skills.

Working hard to listen to orders, but not getting half a benefit. ===== CHAPTER 16 =====