Chapter 1: Rebirth
Sun Lin was reborn.
Before he was reborn, he was waiting for a call from Michelin headquarters to decide if he could take off three Michelin stars for his restaurant, and the moment the phone rang, he was reborn.
It was the beginning of July 1999, not long after he took the college entrance examination, and he only filled in the application the day before yesterday.
1999 was the first year of the expansion of the college entrance examination, and Jiangdong Province also tried to take the college entrance examination first and then fill in the volunteers.
This year's college entrance examination essay topic, Sun Lin has always remembered it very clearly, "If Memory Can Be Transplanted", he ghostly wrote a fantasy.
The head teacher scolded him severely at that time, such a deviant is definitely zero points.
So, when evaluating the score, he only dared to estimate 20 points in his composition, plus other subjects were also underestimated, and the total score was only estimated at about 500 points.
His results are exactly two models, the two are proper, and the one is also hopeful, but he didn't expect the college entrance examination to be derailed.
For this, he has been in a bad mood these days.
However, after being reborn, Sun Lin knew very well that in his previous life, he was not only admitted to Benyi, but also to Jiangdong University, which ranked among the top schools in Jiangdong Province.
He was lucky to meet Bole, with a perfect score in the college entrance examination essay, and other subjects also performed at a high level.
On the day I got the admission letter, the whole family was crazy, especially Sun Lin's parents.
Because Sun Lin's mother has been sick, the family is very poor and often looked down upon, perhaps this is the only time in his parents' life that they have raised their eyebrows.
In fact, it was the only time.
Because, fate really loves to play tricks on people.
In the previous life, Sun Lin's father, Sun Hua, borrowed money everywhere to make up for tuition, and rode a bicycle overnight to borrow money, but he ate a few closed doors, suffered a few cold eyes, was angry and anxious, fell into a ravine on the road and broke his legs, and his mother Huang Yuxiu's anxious old illness recurred, and the whole family fell into a heavy haze.
It was his father's fall that made Sun Lin tear up the university admission letter and go out to work with his friends to earn his parents' medical expenses.
Since then, Sun Lin's life has embarked on an unexpected road, with ups and downs for more than ten years. And not going to college has also become his obsession and demon. He worked hard to prove his excellence, and once won two Michelin stars and became a legendary celebrity chef. But he had lost so much, and now that he thinks about it, he really looks like a fool. Sun Lin was filled with joy and sorrow, and the trance after rebirth completely disappeared.
The sad thing is that everything in the previous life has come to an end completely, and no matter how much nostalgia you have, you can only choose to forget.
And happily, he was born again and could start all over again.
These days, his father Sun Hua worked three jobs, working day and night, hoping to earn Sun Lin's tuition, but he fell yesterday and recuperated at home.
Thinking of his father, Sun Lin's eyes were full of tears.
His father was a hard-working but up-and-coming man, who worked hard for his family, because he didn't go to college, and he was always very self-blaming and depressed, and died two years before he was reborn.
My father worked very hard, and when he joined the army and was demobilized, he came back and arranged for a state-owned shipping company, and later he couldn't stand being squeezed out to be a village chef and open a restaurant, which was famous far and wide, and his family conditions were also very good. But later, when he went to Haizhou to open a restaurant, he encountered a setback, and after going bankrupt, the family moved back to Haidong, and the family road also fell into the middle.
Although my father has been working as a village cook in recent years, and his income is better than that of ordinary part-time workers, my mother is not in good health and needs to spend money, and the family has been living a tight life.
The frustration of his father is due to Liu Feng, the dog thief, and Liu Feng is the apprentice of his grandfather Huang Rentian back then.
Sun Lin's grandfather, Huang Rentian, was born in the Huang family of Haizhou Wang, and was once a famous chef in Haizhou.
The Huang family was a well-known big capitalist in Haizhou and even Jiangdong, who fled to Britain with a large amount of property before liberation, and then spread out. However, Huang Rentian is a side relation, and the relationship is already far away, so he has not been able to follow the past.
Huang Rentian, who stayed in China that year, was criticized and locked up in the cowshed, and was almost not tossed to death, and finally took the opportunity to escape to Xiangjiang in the 70s, and then went to the United Kingdom.
The one who almost killed his grandfather during the turmoil was his grandfather's eldest apprentice Liu Feng. I don't know for what reason, Liu Feng has always been unable to get along with the Sun family, and it has only stopped in the past two years.
But Liu Feng once said to Sun Hua that he would never want to open a hotel in Haizhou in his life.
Liu Feng is now a famous chef in Haizhou, who opened the largest and most luxurious hotel in Haizhou, and developed in Shanghai in his last life, with a net worth of more than one billion.
Therefore, this Liu Feng is not something that the Sun family can compete with at all.
Sun Lin clenched his fists, don't worry! Father, in this life, everything will be left to me.
I believe that God let him be reborn in order to make up for all his shortcomings and regain everything he lost.
Sun Lin turned on the light, walked into the room, and looked at his haggard father with a smile.
Hello, Father, it's good to see you again.
Sun Hua's dark cheeks are thin, his cheekbones are prominent, his beard is sparse, and his eyes are a little cloudy.
He supported himself with his arms and wanted to sit up, but was stopped by Sun Lin.
"Dad, lie down for a while, I'll make you a bowl of noodles. ”
Sun Lin walked to the kitchen, in addition to making noodles, there were also some clams at home, and he was going to make a clam tofu soup.
The clams in Haidong County, Haizhou, have the reputation of being the freshest in the world, and one-third of the country's exports are from Haidong.
In summer and autumn, there are two or even four tides a day, so it is the season to dig clams, and the clams at this time are also particularly delicious.
Raise it with warm water for a period of time, and the clam's sand will be almost vomited, and then shaken for a while, the clam will spit out the last sand, rinse it and set it aside.
The memories of his previous life gathered in Sun Lin's mind little by little, and then became vivid.
The tender white tofu is cut into cubes, the orange carrot is cut into strips, and the yellow dried bamboo shoots are cut into sections, and the dosage is very precise.
Wash the iron pot and add water and ginger slices.
Firewood was placed in the stove of the earthen stove, and Sun Lin kept touching the edge of the iron pot with his fingers to calculate the temperature.
In his previous life, he hadn't used an earthen stove for several years, and although this body had a lot of experience in using an earthen stove, he still needed to get used to it for a while.
Cooking is very dependent on calculations, dosage, time, heat, etc.
After the water boiled, Sun Lin put the carrots and dried bamboo shoots into an iron pot, and after boiling for less than a minute, he put in the more tender tofu.
When it is almost cooked, boil the pot and put the clams, cover the pot and continue to cook.
After that, add cooking wine, salt and pepper to taste, and sprinkle with chopped chives when it comes out of the pan.
In this process, the steps cannot be reversed, and the timing of putting in the clam and cooking wine must be very accurate, otherwise, the umami of the clam soup will be diluted by the fishy smell.
Sun Hua listened to Sun Lin being busy in the room, relieved in his heart, and sighed secretly, his son is good at everything, he is excellent at learning, he has followed him to cook since he was a child, and his level is not lost to him at all.
Sun Lin, who found his senses, had already started to make noodles, and after the noodles in the pot floated in the steaming pot, he continued to boil in cold water, and at the same time, he put salt, lard, and soy sauce in a large bowl in turn, and the spoon shook little by little, and the ingredients were very fine, and then used clam soup to wash away.
At the same time, he was also scrambling eggs on the small pot, and the yellow and tender eggs gave off a tangy aroma.
The noodles are out of the pot, the scrambled eggs are poured and sprinkled with chopped green onions, just the neat shape of the noodles, the bright color of the eggs, and the tender green of the green onions can already make people's appetite move.
The room was filled with a strong scent, washing away the faint smell of old rotting wood.