I got up early in the morning, washed up, took out a small mirror, looked at it, he felt satisfied before going out, although the sun rose early outside, the fog still did not disperse, giving people a hazy feeling. The breakfast shop was already overcrowded, and the people in line lined up from the door of the store to the edge of the street, and the business was really hot, and several employees inside quickly picked up the soy milk fritters, and urged the master inside to hurry up and continue to fry. Seeing this, Liu Li smiled and followed the queue behind, but there were always some people who kept cutting in line as if they were in a hurry to eat and go home to mourn, and everyone was full of resentment, but they had to turn a blind eye and bow their heads to play with their mobile phones. After waiting in line for more than 20 minutes, Liu Li came out with three fritters and a cup of soy milk in his hand, eating while walking all the way. After eating, he threw the garbage into the trash can, and waved his fingers to take a taxi.

As soon as he got in the car, he was stunned, and the taxi fare started at fifteen yuan. It means that no matter how close you go, as long as you get on the bus, it will be fifteen yuan, but he still compromised, after all, he couldn't find that location and didn't even know which route to take the bus. In one day, he went to many hotels and restaurants, but was politely rejected for various reasons, some disliked him as a foreigner, and some said that the grade was too young to do heavy work, and he did not dare to accept it for fear of problems. Some say that there is no shortage of people at this time. He suffered a lot of eyes and ridicule, but he still endured it, smiled one by one, went out and sat on the ground outside, began to smoke, and sighed in his heart when he looked at the last place on his phone that he hadn't been. Correct the mentality, beckoned again, and said directly as soon as he got in the car: "Fuxing Hotel." ”

Located in the center of Xicheng, the four-star hotel has become the leading leader in the city with its high standard of catering service and dish quality. The employee benefits are extremely high, and the salary is second to none, with an annual income of more than five million or more, and the guests who come to eat are not idle people, but all of them are big people or officials in the society. To say that the business here used to be average, but once a big man came here to eat and squandered hundreds of thousands of yuan, and the hotel immediately became famous in the entire S city in half a year. The people who come here to eat are often honest bigwigs. People sighed, and they were also guessing who it was, and some insiders revealed that it was the person who killed the surname and controlled it in the dark, so this Fuxing Hotel is like this.

Liu Li got out of the car and looked at the Fuxing Hotel, which was extraordinary, with a golden appearance and a majestic atmosphere, and the fortune trees on both sides came in a row. The reception staff was actually a foreigner, his face was neat and meticulous, he was dressed in a suit and tie, his hair was combed shiny, and when he saw someone coming, he immediately bent down and bowed, the corners of his mouth rose 45 degrees, and he showed eight teeth, and he smiled and spoke Mandarin that was more standard than Liu Li: "Sir, do you have an appointment?"

Liu Li coughed to hide his embarrassment: "I saw on the Internet that you are recruiting chefs here, I'll come and try it." ”

The foreigner nodded and still smiled, "Then come with me!"

Liu Li followed behind and shuddered, this smile was good to see once, and he was a little disgusted when he saw it twice, because it felt very fake. As soon as he entered, he was even more in the groove, the decoration inside was more exaggerated, the inside was as big as the square, such as the diamond-shaped lamp hanging on the ceiling, the green potted plants were of all shapes, and the middle fish pond rockery, there were gold and silver Arowana swimming in it. He saw that he had seen this fish on the Internet, so he recognized it, and secretly thought that stealing one casually would be worth more than 10,000 yuan. The brown marble does not have the liveliness of light colors, nor the calm and domineering of dark colors, and the rich brown color gives people the feeling of a cup of hot cocoa in the cold wind, so warm that it can dispel the biting chill. The mottled texture that lingers on the surface is like a unique mark carved by the years on the coffee-colored marble, which is very compatible with the whole decoration. There is no table in the whole hotel hall, all are private rooms, the decoration of the private rooms is all different, the breath of money fills his body and mind, under the leadership of the foreigner to the elevator, the whole hotel is divided into five floors are all to receive guests, and the basement is the kitchen.

The kitchen was in full swing, and Liu Li saw that there were more than 20 chefs wearing white chef clothes and high hats. The foreigner led him to a middle-aged man who was sitting on a small stool peeling potatoes with a fleshy face and a fierce look in his eyes.

"He's the executive chef of the restaurant, tell him, the chef is an apprentice. He left.

The chef threw down the knife in his hand to peel potatoes and looked at Liu Li quietly. This gaze is deep and seems to be able to see through people, Liu Li was shocked by his body, his breathing became rapid, and he forcibly stopped his body from trembling. After a long time, the chef stopped looking at him, picked up the knife again, and began to peel the potatoes. He stood a little embarrassed, but he couldn't leave, and his eyes turned to the cooks.

After standing for half an hour, the chef laughed and threw the knife away in his hand: "Xiao, come and peel potatoes...... You come with me. ”

Liu Li smiled and followed him, and came to a room where there were small cabinets that looked like places to change clothes.

The chef asked, "What's your name?"

He hurriedly replied, and asked his age, Liu Li was silent for a long time and said, "16." ”

The chef lit a cigarette and sighed, "It came out at such a young age?"

Liu Li's heart was cold when he heard this, because it was the same before he stopped, and he said in his mind: "Chief chef, don't look at my young age, but I suffer hard, and I can do any dirty talk and tiring work." I'm a quick learner, and I'm really a good cooker at home, and I'm very diligent and I know what to do without being told. ”

The head chef smiled and showed his yellow teeth: "I don't know how many times I've heard this kind of thing, maybe I can hear it every day for 30 years as a chef." ”

Liu Li sighed in his heart and continued: "No matter how much I say, it is also illusory, I hope you will give me a chance, a chance to prove myself." When the time comes, you will know at a glance whether what I said is true or false......"

The head chef smiled and said, "Why did you come out? I don't think you have a local accent, what are you doing running so far?"

A trace of loneliness appeared in Liu Li's eyes: "My mother is sick and needs money, a lot of money." I dropped out of school directly and wanted to earn some money to treat her, S City is more prosperous and rich, I just came here, learning a craft or something, it only occupies a layer, my purpose is to have a job to make money, as long as I can make money, I am not afraid of hardship. ”

The chef stared into his eyes for a long time, and found that there was only truth in his eyes, and there was nothing to deceive to fight for sympathy. He said, "What do you want to do? I have Chinese and Western food here, and Chinese food is divided into eight cuisines, but I only have Sichuan food and Cantonese food. There are hot dishes, steamed dishes, cold dishes, and snacks in Chinese food, and you have to start from the bottom no matter what you do. ”

Liu Li looks calm on the surface, but his heart is already happy, he thinks about it and thinks that he still cooks Chinese food, after all, foreign food is not his ideal type. He thought for a moment and said, "Then can I start from the bottom and learn them all?"

The head chef laughed: "You think beautifully, choose one and learn that." You can't learn miscellaneous before you don't have fine, otherwise it will be useless. ”

Liu Li smiled and said, "I'll learn cold dishes, I can't stand the heat of hot dishes and steamed dishes." ”

The head chef laughed evilly: "Okay, it's good to cook cold dishes." But I'll greet you here first, and I'll send you two sets of clothes tomorrow when I come and pay a deposit of five hundred to me. The probationary period is one month, and the salary is three thousand. If you don't go to work today, I'll take you to hand it over to the cold dish boss. ”

Liu Li didn't understand what he meant by this evil smile, but he still followed him out a few doors to the cold food room, and he tilted his head to take a closer look. On the left is the sashimi room, and you can see the inside through the large glass outside, and the three people inside are busy working. One person is fiddling with flowers and plants, one person is chiseling ice, and one is slashing down with a three-striped fish of about six catties. The slender knife seemed to be silky, cutting the fish in half and making it small. On the right is the snack room, in which two big fat men and two thin men are inside. The food made of flour and other things has different shapes, Zhu Bajie, and other mythological characters, Three Kingdoms characters, and various cartoon characters or two-dimensional people are pinched out and placed on the plate by one of the fat people. Liu Li was dazzled and sighed in his heart.

Entering the cold food room in the middle, there were five people in it, but there was a bearded man sitting on the bench watching them work. The chef was not embarrassed to see that he ignored himself, and he said, "Minister, I will leave this person to you." ”

After saying that, he seemed to be disgusted and left, and the man known as the minister glanced at Liu Li and said weakly: "Okay, you can see how they do things first! Tomorrow at eight o'clock on time, you will be late for work and deduct money, and there will be no second time at fifty at a time." ”

He continued to tilt his head as if he was sleeping, and Liu Li sighed secretly: "Are all the big guys here so arrogant?"

He watched carefully as the men were busy, and one of them put the marinated vegetables on a sticky board and began to cut them. The other one chopped coriander and green onions, and the one on the far right took a heavy knife to chop the boiled bones, took out the bone marrow intact and threw the bones directly. There were also two people discussing something with a spice box in their hands, and the man who cut the green onion seemed to be dazzled, and he wiped his eyes with the corner of his clothes, and looked back at the minister smartly. Seeing that the minister seemed to be asleep, he put the chopped green onions in the refrigerator and wanted to go out, but Liu Li blocked the way, he looked up and asked, "Who are you and why are you here?"

Liu Li saw that he was about the same age as himself, so he smiled and said, "I'm new." ”

The man stretched out his hand and pulled him out, until he stopped in a place where there was no one, let go Liu Li took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag and handed over one. He said, "You're going to come to work tomorrow?"

Liu Li nodded, and the man took out an ashtray from the corner of the ground, and it seemed that people often came here to smoke.

"My name is Ling Xiao, what about you?"

Liu Li replied to him and said: "In our cold dishes, there are not many rules, you can eat and play if you want, but there is one thing you remember, you can't use the boss's knife." ”

"Why, is his knife very valuable?" Liu Li wondered.

Ling Xiao smiled bitterly: "I've been here for half a year, I've seen too much, and once the cub in the sashimi room used his knife." He almost didn't kill anyone, and the chef didn't blame him for firing the one who was beaten. And our buddy who was making spices just now was also scolded for seven days after using it, and everyone was scolded for being autistic. But you don't have to worry that you'll be given a new knife when you come, just take it and sharpen it yourself. ”

Liu Li smiled: "Thank you!"

Ling Xiao smiled evilly: "No thanks, do you want a dormitory?"

Liu Li nodded: "I didn't rent a house, only a dormitory." ”

Ling Xiao snorted: "Yes, tomorrow you come over and I'll take you to the dormitory, there is no one above me and you can live." ”

The two of them were smoking cigarettes and chatting, and Liu Li learned from him that the two seasoning workers in the entire cold dish room were the second-in-command, that is, the middle workers, plus Ling Xiao and the two vegetable cutters next to him were all miscellaneous. Liu Li asked: "Then plus I have four miscellaneous people?

Ling Xiao shook his head: "No, there is one who is leaving." Otherwise, where will recruit people, maybe you come over and leave tomorrow when he finishes it. ”

Liu Li looked thoughtful, Ling Xiao got up: "You go back! The minister asked you to stand with you, and you were drunk, and I stood stupidly like this for a day when I came. ”

After speaking, he went back to the cold food room, kept muttering in his mouth, and flashed a strange smile: "It's not easy to finally have someone to accompany me...... Hahaha. ”

Liu Li didn't hear him mutter, just thinking about what he just said silently in his mind, in his opinion, this Ling Xiao was a warm-hearted person. He believed him, and when he saw that the minister was still dozing, he went straight back to the hall.