What caused this?

Author: Er Meow Go to bed early

What caused this?

This kitchen is too dirty!

The conditions at the construction site are limited and there is not even a gas tank.

The stove was made of bricks, and a huge iron pot was built in the middle. The water in the pot was even still inside, and there were a bunch of flies surrounding it, buzzing around.

The dirty water in the swill bucket next to the stove was not even poured out, and it gave off a disgusting smell.

Although Li Tiedan had told her that the environment at the construction site was not very good before coming here, Xu Nan never expected that it would be so bad.

She seemed to have found the reason why the workers at the construction site went to the hospital en masse yesterday.

With the environment like this, it would be strange if people don't eat it and there will be problems.

Keeping the kitchen clean and hygienic is the most basic thing.

Xu Nan now regretted her impulsive decision. She looked at Li Tiedan standing aside with suspicion and asked.

Li Tiedan was actually looking at Xu Nan, and the two looked at each other. Although he was not thin-skinned, he just felt embarrassed at this time.

How did he know that there would be such a scene in the kitchen?

He is a supervisor himself, and usually hangs out at the construction site. If he hadn't brought Xu Nan over to find the way today, he wouldn't have even entered the kitchen on weekdays.

The master yesterday was also a temporary worker. The previous master resigned due to family matters, so the manager at the construction site hired a temporary worker to cook for them.

The last time he came to the kitchen was half a month ago. At that time, the kitchen was obviously kept very clean by the chef.

Why did we get to where we were yesterday? How did this beautiful kitchen end up like this?

In a daze, Li Tiedan came to his senses again and saw that Xu Nan had already rolled up his sleeves and was starting to clean up.

This was absolutely unavoidable. Li Tiedan hurriedly stepped forward to hold her back, speaking in an urgent tone:

"No, no, no, no, this kitchen is so dirty, please stop cleaning it. I'll ask someone else to come and clean it."

It’s a joke, although Xu Nan is here to cook, but asking a little girl to clean up such a mess, isn’t that obvious bullying?

He snatched the brush used to clean the pot from Xu Nan's hand and threw it aside.

Then he pointed to the room next door, which was specially used to store ingredients. The ingredients needed for today’s cooking were piled there:

"You go to the room next door to look at the ingredients first, and then decide what to cook today. I'll let others come and clean up here."

After Xu Nu heard this, she looked at the state of the kitchen. If she was left to clean it by herself, she didn't know how long it would take to finish it.

She thought for a moment, nodded and agreed to Li Tiedan, and they went to look at the ingredients together.

The room where vegetables are stored is not big, only a few square meters, and can barely be regarded as a storage room.

The storage room didn't even have a door, just a piece of cloth hung at the door to block it.

Li Tiedan pointed to the vegetables piled on the ground and said to Xu Nan casually:

"You can arrange it yourself. Just watch and cook the ingredients on the ground."

"I only have one request, as long as it is clean and hygienic. Don't be like the chef yesterday who sent people to the hospital."

"It doesn't matter if it tastes good or not. We are a bunch of rough old men at the construction site. We don't care about that. As long as it can fill our stomachs, everything else doesn't matter."

After speaking, Li Tiedan looked at Xu Nan who was standing aside studying the ingredients. He hesitated for a moment, lowered his request again, and added:

"Well, remember to cook the ingredients until they are cooked."

This is his minimum requirement!

For no other reason, no matter how he looked at it, Xu Nan didn't look like someone who knew how to cook.

Xu Nan didn't know what Xiao Jiujiu was in Li Tiedan's heart. After hearing these words, he just felt a little baffled.

There was a ping-ping-pong-pong sound behind him. Xu Nan looked towards the kitchen and saw that someone was cleaning up the kitchen.

She withdrew her gaze from the kitchen and glanced at the ingredients piled on the ground. After a rough study, she said to Li Tiedan:

"Is it okay to have four dishes, two meat and two vegetarian dishes?"

"sure!"

Li Tiedan has no requirements for Xu Nan, the only thing he hopes is that he can be cooked.

…

In the kitchen, Xu Nan was cutting eggplants with a kitchen knife.

She prepared four dishes based on the available ingredients:

1.Di Sanxian

2. Guobaorou

3. Stir-fried bean sprouts with leeks

4. Stir-fried pork slices

After washing the eggplants, she cut them into evenly sized hob shapes and put them into a large basin for later use.

After cutting the eggplant, she turned around to start processing the potatoes. The potatoes were in the storage room. Xu Nan was about to get up and move them when she saw the young man who had been sitting by the stove bounce up from the stool in an instant.

He looked at Xu Nan as if he had any orders.

For a moment, Xu Nan was startled. The room was so quiet that she even forgot that there was someone in the room.

When Li Tiedan left just now, he was worried that Xu Nan would be too busy by himself, so he specially selected someone to come over and help her.

It happened that Xu Nan didn't know how to light the stove, so he left him alone to light the fire.

The young man looked like he was on call at any time. When he saw Xu Nan going to the storage room, he asked loudly:

"Can I help you with anything?"

He was too enthusiastic, which made Xu Nan feel a little embarrassed.

She looked at the young man in front of her and wanted to speak but didn't know how to address her, so she asked him:

"What should I call you?"

The young man touched his head and looked at Xu Nan. Seeing that she seemed to be older than him, he said:

"My surname is Zhang. Sister, just call me Xiao Zhang. If you need any help, just tell me."

Xu Nan nodded after hearing this. With the kitchen knife in her hand, she pointed to the storage room aside and said to Xiao Zhang:

"Please help me go to the storage room and take out the potatoes."

Xu Nan was afraid that he wouldn't be able to move it alone, so he wanted to follow him.

Xiao Zhang looked at it and waved his hand:

"Don't worry, sister, I know that if a grown man can't even lift a bag of potatoes, wouldn't it cost him everything!"

"Just wait here, I'll move back right away."

Seeing his sworn look, Xu Nan took back her step. She glanced at the wall clock on the kitchen wall and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock.

It also took a lot of time waiting for them to clean up the kitchen.

Li Tiedan just told her that meals at the construction site usually begin around twelve o'clock.

That proved that she only had more than an hour to prepare.

Xu Nan thought about the dish she was going to make today. Stir-fried bean sprouts with leeks was not bad. It was very simple and only took a few minutes to make, so she planned to start with the complicated one first.

At this time, Xiao Zhang also came back from the storage room. He put the potatoes on the ground next to the chopping board and asked Xu Nan what else he could do next.

Xu Nan looked at the potatoes on the ground and thought that peeling them was a big project. Time was too tight and it would be difficult for her to finish it by herself, so she asked Xiao Zhang:

"Can you peel potatoes?"
Chapter completed!