Chapter 9

"Sister Lou E, kept you waiting."

Dressed, Cao Cao Weiguo opened the door quickly.

Lou Lou Xiaoe was wearing a Longtan Lake-blue woolen coat, her skin was fair, and her appearance was pretty.

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

Cao Cao Weiguo smiled: "What's the trouble with changing a light bulb? It's just a matter of moving your hands."

Following Lou Lou Xiaoe to the Xu family, Cao Cao Weiguo stepped on a chair and changed the light bulb in three or two strokes.

Lou Lou Xiaoe pulled the light string, looked at the glowing light bulb, and said happily: "Thank you, Cao Weiguo."

Cao Cao Weiguo jumped down from the chair, clapped his hands, and smiled: "It's just a small effort, Sister Lou E is too polite."

Lou Lou Xiaoe turned into the kitchen and took two eggs out of the pot.

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

Cao Cao Weiguo backed away hurriedly: "Sister Lou E, these eggs are too precious, keep them to supplement your body."

This wasn't Cao Cao Weiguo exaggerating; in this era, eggs were scarce materials.

Many families couldn't eat eggs all year round.

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

Cao Cao Weiguo explained: "Sister Lou E, why would I be polite to you? I drank some wine last night, 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 back Lou Lou Xiaoe's hand holding the eggs, Cao Cao Weiguo ran out of the Xu family nimbly.

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

Returning home with his washbasin and toothbrush to the sink, Qin Qin Huairu greeted him with a smile.

Cao Cao Weiguo didn't speak, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and went back to the room to go to work.

Qin Qin Huairu stomped her feet in anger: "Hey, really turning your face and not recognizing people."

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

Walking all the way to the steel mill, he met the cafeteria director before reaching the gate.

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

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

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

The cafeteria director said: "It's like this, yesterday your cooking skills were praised by the vast number of coworkers, and Deputy Director Liu of the logistics department wants his nephew to apprentice under you and learn a craft to support his family."

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

After all, apprenticeship is no small matter.

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

Apprentices enter the door to learn art, must respect the teacher, and treat them as a father.

The master teaches the art, must also be dedicated, just like treating children.

Cooks take cooking skills as the foundation of their lives, and every family regards their own skills as treasures, and will not easily pass them on to outsiders.

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

After eating Cao Cao Weiguo's meal yesterday, Deputy Director Liu wanted his nephew to apprentice under Cao Cao Weiguo.

That night, he brought gifts to the door to find the cafeteria director, asking the cafeteria director to come forward and bridge the gap.

It was also blamed that he drank a lot of wine with Cao Cao Weiguo yesterday, plus the gifts Deputy Director Liu brought were not small.

The cafeteria director patted his chest and agreed in a dizzy state.

Waking up from the wine early in the morning, the cafeteria director felt a burst of regret, but he had already patted his chest, and he was not easy to break his promise.

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

Cao Cao Weiguo was not resistant to accepting apprentices and teaching art, and he didn't agree readily, just putting on airs.

This matter was not big, but it involved the human feelings of two directors.

Agreeing easily would make human feelings seem unimportant.

Seeing that the cafeteria director was a little anxious, Cao Cao Weiguo said righteously: "Director, you have taken care of me a lot; for your sake, I orally agree, let people come over and try first, as long as they are sincere in learning art, for your sake, I will also teach seriously."

The cafeteria director was overjoyed when he heard this, patting Cao Cao Weiguo on the shoulder: "Cao Weiguo is enough."

Cao Cao Weiguo gave him so much face, the cafeteria director was very happy, and after leaving a few good words, he rushed to the logistics department.

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

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

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

What made people even more envious was that the mutton was Donglaishun's mutton.

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

"Master Cao is really atmospheric!"

"This handwriting is amazing!"

"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 tastes fragrant and tender."

The people in the kitchen talked more and more greedily, swallowing saliva constantly, envious and regretting wanting to slap themselves.

How could they be so shallow and follow Sha Zhu in being stupid and offending Cao Cao Weiguo.

Cao Cao Weiguo's cooking skills were good, his shots were generous, he knew how to be a person, and his status in the kitchen would definitely not be low in the future.

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

The people in the kitchen regretted it, and Sha Zhu and his two apprentices had ugly faces.

Sha Zhu mocked: "Cao Cao Weiguo is famously stingy in the Sihe Academy; he treats guests at Donglaishun to buy people's hearts and let you work for him like cattle and horses."

Li Dong was young and energetic, and immediately retorted: "Sha Zhu, you are a villain's heart, a gentleman's belly; Ma Hua and Fatty have been working hard under you, how come I haven't seen you treat them to a good meal."

This sentence was extremely piercing, and Ma Hua and Fatty's faces were even uglier.

There is no harm without comparison!

Ma Hua and Fatty were apprentices under Sha Zhu, and Sha Zhu told them to go east, and they didn't dare to go west.

But when Sha Zhu cooked, he either avoided people or kept a hand, and never taught them real skills.

Working hard to listen to orders, but not getting any benefits.