A Cook's Daily Life at a 1960s London Inn

Name: A Cook's Daily Life at a 1960s London Inn
Author: Weaving Clouds with Brocade

六十年代伦敦旅馆的厨娘日常

by Weaving Clouds with Brocade (提花织云锦)

Status: Completed
Length: 238k Words
Genre: Romance
Era: Modern Era
Updated: 3mo ago
Source: JJWXC

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Synopsis

Romance: London, 1963. She transmigrates into the body of a country girl. Her suitcase is stolen, she can barely speak English, and she almost gets hauled off as a lunatic.

He's the Chancellor of the Exchequer's secretary: arrogant, restrained, and speaking as if reading from an official document. After one look at her, he decides she's the "mentally ill woman who escaped from an asylum" in the newspaper.

Later, he lends her his handkerchief and pops a piece of candy into her mouth. Her cheeks puff up like a hamster's.

He says, "Stop crying." She gives a couple of little whimpers.

The corner of his mouth lifts, as if he's just completed an important duty.

After that, he always has orange-flavored hard candy in his pocket. When he wants to hug her, all he can manage is to ask tactfully, "Do you miss your mother?"

The London fog is thick, but his eyes are the color of smoke. She always spots him in a crowd.

Career: The staff at the Fionce Inn

The dog-eyed, snobbish boss, Ball, has one great wish: for his nearly bankrupt inn to attract a few more upper-class guests instead of poor people who stay one night in single rooms without bathrooms.

The dignified, elegant landlady, Lily, loves working part-time at the theater every day. Her greatest wish is to become an opera singer, though at forty-eight, she's now a bit-part extra's understudy's understudy.

Uncle Tom, the alcoholic cook, often gets drunk and collapses in the kitchen while guests are ordering, driving them away in anger.

The maid, Shirley, disappears for a week every month and dreams of becoming a professional painter. Unfortunately, her main job is still waiting tables.

Betty, a local who can't speak English (and a transmigrator), dreams of having a room facing the Thames with a little garden behind it, so she can see the sunset after work instead of the moon.

The innkeeper leads four runaway horses, and together they "work as one" to rescue the inn from the brink of bankruptcy and the need to survive on rental income alone. (A lot of the credit goes to Betty, who took over his restaurant.)

Down-and-out little cook becomes the Chancellor's secretary

Theme: Be happy every day

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Why do I have to swallow the words every time I write a plot? The writing is so incoherent and hard to read! Now a time-traveling mother suddenly appears. This doesn't help the story at all... It just exists to satisfy the heroine's need to meet her mother. It was said before that my grandma was just born, but now my mother has come to time travel. In that era, if a person appeared out of thin air, he would not be suspected? Then I didn't say a few words to my mother, gave her something and left. As I mentioned before, being targeted by the official people, the heroine herself also thought, how could she dare to go back? What if it hurts the people in her hometown? She did things without thinking at all. It was also a special era at that time. You are a foreigner and you speak fluent Chinese. Don't Lily Barr and others doubt it? It would be a good idea to go back to visit relatives with great fanfare and not arrest you as a spy. Also, on the train, it was written that others would pay attention to the heroine, but then nothing happened? What is the meaning of writing this paragraph? I didn't pay attention to my luggage when taking the train. There is also a heroine who is irritating to watch as she writes, her courage is slow and wonderful, and she is special at another time! Cowardly! I don't resist at all when facing some people… I hope the author can look back at it after you finish writing it and suggest an overhaul.
3 likes4mo ago
Roy and Hals feel like Humphrey and Huck 🐶 even though they are from the Treasury Department
1 like4mo ago
I don't quite understand why the heroine doesn't look for her own husband, but instead looks for her friend's husband (although she is also a friend)
1 like4mo ago
I always feel like a chapter is missing 😂 This time method is too sudden, right?
1 like5mo ago
In fact, in the 1960s, I felt that I shouldn't have come to my door. That era was too sensitive, and the whole family would suffer a big disaster.
1 like5mo ago
Hahahahaha. I really didn't expect this plot
1 like5mo ago
Baby clothes?! What did i miss
1 like5mo ago
Why do I feel like I'm a kid?
1 like5mo ago
There is actually no need to write it like this here. It is very dangerous for her family in China. This is the early stage of the epidemic. In a few years, there will be chaos. It is too high-profile, and it is not in line with common sense?
19d ago
Can the author revise the article? It's a mess and the order is not smooth. It's like piracy [fear]
4mo ago

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