Silly Zhu's Moving: The Old Neighbor's Nightmare

Chapter 51 Squad Leader Zhao Gets Criticized

The couple didn't say anything after receiving the money and quietly left the school. It's likely that Uncle Ma had given his wife some instructions.

Liu Guangtian was originally going to be severely punished by the school, but Sha Zhu found Principal Guo and promised to give the school a sum of money anonymously.

Used to replace damaged tables and benches in school offices and student classrooms.

In the end, Liu Guangtian was only punished by having to write a self-criticism. After all that was done,

Sha Zhu went to Yu Shui's homeroom teacher and asked for Yu Shui to have the afternoon off.

With the two-day weekend, you can learn martial arts from your master at his house or play with Lele, which will help you feel better.

Sha Zhu left the school, his body soaked with rain. He rode his bicycle back to the steel mill's kitchen.

"Hey, isn't this rainwater? Pillar, why did you bring rainwater with you?"

Aunt Liu, with her sharp eyes, was the first to spot the brother and sister who had entered. Those chatting idly in the kitchen all turned to look.

"Hi, it's nothing, I just went to school."

"My classmates got into a fight, and Yushui got caught up in it too, so I asked for leave for Yushui and brought her over," Shazhu said.

He Daqing often brought Yushui over when he was here, so Yushui was familiar with the place and knew everyone.

The rain stopped when we got here. The people in the cafeteria seemed to like the rain.

"Zhu Zi, come here for a second," Squad Leader Zhao, who was in the small canteen, heard Sha Zhu's voice and came out to call him.

"okay."

Hearing Squad Leader Zhao call him, Sha Zhu tossed the rainwater to the chattering kitchen staff. He answered and went into the small canteen.

When Squad Leader Zhao saw Sha Zhu come in, he said, "Zhu Zi, I heard from your dad that you were already working in the kitchen at Fengzeyuan before you joined the steel rolling mill. How are your cooking skills going?"

Sha Zhu thought to himself, "Could it be that the special meal I prepared for the boss at lunchtime didn't satisfy him?"

When Sha Zhu asked for leave, Squad Leader Zhao was in the kitchen preparing special meals for the leaders.

He said, "Alas, I haven't mastered it yet, I haven't even graduated. I'm just a junior cook."

Prepare some side dishes like vegetables for customers who order food, and also make a soup.

I hadn't even learned how to cook hearty dishes like meat when my dad got me a job filling in at the steel rolling mill.

I'm still living at my master's house, learning my craft from him.

"Of course, cooking a big pot of food for the workers is no problem." When Squad Leader Zhao heard what Sha Zhu said, he felt an indescribable disappointment.

I prepared a special meal for my boss at noon today, but he barely ate any of the food on the table.

After those leaders left, he was severely reprimanded by Zhang the Fatty, the newly arrived canteen manager.

Try to find a solution yourself; if you can't, then step down and let someone more capable take your place.

Let those who are capable take the job; if all else fails, let yourself go out and find a better cook.

With my mediocre skills, where am I supposed to find a good chef? I don't even know anyone like that.

Who would want to work in a factory if they were a decent cook? Only He Daqing was hired by the factory manager. If you're so capable, why don't you, the canteen manager, find someone yourself?

The squad leader was removed from his post after only two days. If I had known this would happen, I would have preferred to let Master Yang take over.

Seeing Zhao, the squad leader, looking so worried, Sha Zhu chuckled to himself. He didn't want to serve those big shots either.

Let's have Squad Leader Zhao take the lead; let's give Squad Leader Zhao some advice.

"Squad Leader Zhao, although my skills are not yet perfected, and I haven't even graduated yet..."

But I've learned two special skills that I can teach to Squad Leader Zhao.

That's right, the recipe for this seasoning was passed down from my master, and I can't possibly teach it to you.

"I can just go to my master's place more often when you're cooking and get some for you." Sha Zhu gave Squad Leader Zhao a glimmer of hope.

"What special skill do you have, Zhu Zi? Tell me," Squad Leader Zhao asked impatiently.

"It's the boiled fish served in those fancy restaurants, and the pickled fish with sauerkraut that my master improved."

I can teach you the method, but I can only provide you with the marinade and base ingredients.

If your boss asks you to cook again, make these two dishes your main dishes, and just make do with whatever else you have.

Anyway, if you have one specialty, you can make a living. Since you have this one unique skill, I don't think your boss will do anything to you.

After hearing what Sha Zhu said, Squad Leader Zhao thought to himself that this was the only way out.

Learn it first, use it to get by, and if it doesn't work out, we'll see. If all else fails, I can always go back to cooking for the workers.

Nowadays, factory cooks usually just stir-fry a large batch of vegetables.

Cooking meat on a small stove ensures it's cooked through, and adding some common kitchen seasonings to season it is already quite good.

Back when He Daqing was around, he would bring his own homemade recipes and seasonings when cooking for the leaders. Squad Leader Zhao, however, didn't have those recipes.

Squad Leader Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Isn't tomorrow Saturday? I'll ask the purchasing agent to buy me two fish. Zhu Zi, you can teach me how to catch them then."

At this point, Squad Leader Zhao paused and said, "By the way, Zhu Zi, what kind of fish do we need? Do we need any other side dishes?"

Squad Leader Zhao had to pay for the fish and side dishes himself, but he had no choice in order to learn the craft, which made him very distressed.

"Grass carp, common carp, or silver carp are all fine. For side dishes, just some bean sprouts and pickled cabbage will do. The kitchen has everything else," Sha Zhu said after thinking for a moment.

"Okay, no problem. I'm counting on you, Zhuzi. You'd better teach me well tomorrow. Once I've learned it, I can make it and let the leaders taste it."

If we still can't pass the test, the cafeteria manager will send us a different cafeteria supervisor.

"Our good days in the kitchen might be coming to an end soon." In order to learn the skills, Squad Leader Zhao encouraged Sha Zhu.

Actually, Sha Zhu didn't want to change the class monitor either; things are fine as they are now.

At least they're all acquaintances, so it's easy to ask for leave to do some errands. If a less-than-ideal class monitor were to come, Sha Zhu would have to go through a lot of trouble to get rid of him.

"Okay, I'll definitely explain the process to you clearly from beginning to end tomorrow."

"If you're worried about not being able to remember it, just prepare a notebook and write it down. Practice it a couple more times and you'll be fine," Sha Zhu assured him.

After agreeing on the study schedule for tomorrow, Sha Zhu left the small canteen and started gossiping about things at the factory with the kitchen staff who were chatting together.

"Did you know what? I heard that a large quantity of supplies will be arriving at our factory tomorrow, which means we'll have more overtime work to do," Aunt Liu said excitedly.

With more overtime work, not only can we eat a few more meals at night, but we can also get more overtime pay, which makes everyone happy.

"Really? Who told you that?" said Aunt Li, who was sitting next to me. Aunt Li was also a long-time employee.

She's not usually very talkative; she spends most of her time making cornbread and steaming buns with Aunt Liu.

There's also Uncle Ma. These three, aside from the cook, are the ones who spend the most time in the kitchen.

The other apprentices and temporary workers mostly listened to their gossip, occasionally chiming in.

"Could this Uncle Ma be that Ma Hua kid's father?" Sha Zhu thought to himself.

Could this talkative Aunt Liu be related to Liu Lan? Anyway, Sha Zhu hasn't seen either of them in the kitchen.

"I have a good friend who works in a supplies procurement warehouse. She told me..."

Our factory needs to hire another batch of workers to meet the deadline.

"It seems to be some equipment made for the volunteer soldiers on the front lines." Aunt Liu's voice trailed off when she mentioned the front lines.

"Silly Zhu has strong mental strength," Aunt Liu said when she spoke to the volunteer soldiers on the front lines.

One temporary worker was exceptionally focused, which contrasted sharply with the behavior of the other temporary apprentices.

Sha Zhu noticed that the man's hands were unconsciously clenched into fists. Sha Zhu wondered if there was something wrong with this person.

After all, there have been frequent reports from some factories recently that they have been sabotaged by spies in various places.

We'll have to find out about this kid's background later. Then Aunt Liu continued,

"It's a pity my daughter is two years too young to work in the factory, otherwise I would have used my connections to get her into our kitchen."