A small town 30 kilometers from Seattle, Washington, USA.

There are many plastic tables and chairs on the lawn, and there are a few barbecue grills on the small sundeck on the side, and about twenty or thirty young men and women are talking and laughing loudly, which is a temporary celebratory dinner.

"Don, I want an omelette here!"

"Good!"

"Tang, I want a large plate of takoyaki here, put more of it, don't feed the cat!"

"Got it!"

"Tang Jun, is the fried fish ready?"

In the corner of the small sunbath, there are small gas canisters and kitchen utensils shelves, and the only man with black hair and black eyes in the crowd is controlling several pots.

The man was about twenty years old, and he looked okay, but because he was very thin, his cheeks were thin and angular.

With a slightly moxican-style short hair that young people like now, and a white chef's uniform, 178 is not very tall, but because of his figure and clothing, he gives people a feeling of being long and capable.

There was a lot of celebration around, but his eyes were extraordinarily focused, looking at a few mouthfuls of pots was like looking at a beloved woman, and the surrounding noise was not in his ears at all.

Takoyaki is not a real octopus, but stir-fried ham sausage.

This kind of ham sausage meat has a high water content, and the meat will be very fragrant when fried with more water, and it will shrink slightly when fried with more water.

Tang Hai's knife is very sharp, and his knife skills are also very handsome, half of the small ham sausage does not move, the other half is broken from the middle, and it is broken again at 90 degrees, and soon more than 20 look the same as before, and the thumb-sized small ham sausage goes down to the wok.

The aroma of fried meat spreads suddenly!

The omelette is not simple, a few eggs are beaten into the bowl first, stirred casually, and seasonings such as green onions and salt are placed.

The kitchen utensils for the omelette are a strange pan, shaped somewhat like a domestic aluminum lunch box from 30 years ago, which is a square, black non-stick pan.

If you pour all the eggs into it, you will only be able to pour about 70% of the eggs first because the eggs are too thick to get cooked to the top, and once the lower layer is cooked, you will fold it with chopsticks, just like a quilt.

Wait for the army to be folded to the very corner, then pour in the remaining eggs, and then fold them again.

Tang Hai operated the stir-fried takoyaki with his left hand, shook the omelette pan with his right hand for a while, and flipped the chopsticks to stack the 'army quilt' for a while.

By the time all the sausages have turned into octopus shapes, the thick 'army quilt' omelette is baked.

There was also a strange smell coming from the pot next to it, it was the smell of fried fish, but it was more fragrant than the usual fried fish!

The omelette and takoyaki were taken out and served, and then the two slices of fried fish meat from the third pot were removed. These are two pieces of tilapia, the largest fish exported to the United States by China in the early years, and now the United States has raised it on a large scale on its own.

Americans don't eat carp because they have a lot of spines, but tilapia is different in that it has no spines at all. Freshwater fish is much cheaper than marine fish, and tilapia is not inferior to marine fish in terms of meat quality.

After taking out the fried fish, Tang Hai moved the knife again, and a 'butterfly' appeared on the white plate, if you look closely, you will find that this 'butterfly' has been cut into forty or fifty parts.

The three plates were all sprinkled with the last seasonings, Tang Hai put out the fire, took off the chef's coat, and walked towards everyone with the plates.

"Don, your cooking skills are really, no, it's this!" A man in his thirties and forties, with a sunny smile on his face, picked up the octopus with a fork and put it in his mouth, chewed it heavily, with an expression of extreme enjoyment on his face, and stretched out his thumb to Tang Hai.

"This omelette is crispy and crispy, and the seasoning is clearly layered, even if you go to a top hotel, you can do it!" An older white man eats an omelette, moves slowly and methodically, and is clearly well-mannered.

"This fried fish! It's soy sauce! It has a very simple taste! It's like my mom made it for me when I was a kid! However, the umami of this fish is better than when I was a child! Tang Jun, even in Hokkaido, your cooking skills are top-notch! The last person to eat the fried fish was a blonde woman with black eyes, and judging by her exaggerated expression and tone, you knew that it was a Japanese girl.

The cheapest street stir-fried takoyaki, the most common home-cooked fried egg, and the simplest fried fish have been transformed into the most delicious delicacy in the hands of Tang Hai!

Tang Hai was an apprentice of a top chef in New York a year ago, and the master was too busy in time, and even asked him to help directly, Tang Hai's cooking skills were actually already above the master.

But his current clothes are not worn, they are very old, and some things have caused him to wander to this small town and enter this organization.

He didn't care too much about the three of them praising his cooking skills, but the shock and satisfaction on the faces of the three of them when they ate made Tang Hai feel comfortable from his soul to his bones!

A top chef, isn't this the most important thing?

"Peter, I heard that you won the 'Most Outstanding Worker' award before, with a prize of 280,000 yuan?" The 280,000 yuan Tang Hai said is US dollars!

Peter, 38 years old, is a cleaner by profession and is mainly responsible for river cleaning.

Peter became a river cleaner 15 years ago at the age of 23.

Domestic garbage, industrial waste, etc. in the United States have emission and recycling standards, and the recycling rate is more than 50%, but this does not mean that there is no need for sanitation workers.

In the United States, appliances such as household appliances cannot be littered, and they must be recycled by relevant personnel, which is not low, and it may not be profitable to sell them. Therefore, it is often seen that some Americans directly put the old ones in some specific places when replacing household appliances, which is equivalent to giving them to poorer families.

Some families are not of sufficient quality, so they simply throw them into the river.

Not only scrapped household appliances, but also rubber tires, auto parts, and even some household garbage.

Cleaning up the river is much more troublesome than doing it on the street.

Peter's first job was river cleaning, and then he fell in love with environmental protection, and worked for 15 years, from a young man in the prime of life to middle age.

He didn't just do it himself, he started an organization called 'River Clean', which has grown into a company with thousands of members.

Tang Hai was wandering in the United States during this time, because he was a black household and had a criminal record in the bureau, so even if he had super cooking skills, he couldn't find any good jobs.

He first went to the sausage factory to make sausages, mainly to sell to blacks, and the meat used was mostly scrap, so he could accept it, but then he found that there was dead beef in the meat, and the meat was spoiled, so he really couldn't understand his conscience, so he resigned. Because he realized that he was a black household, the boss didn't give him much money, just $50.

As a result, the $50 was robbed by a black uncle!

The destitute Tang Hai was penniless and could not afford to buy food. Fortunately, he still has the skill of fishing, and if there is a craft, God will not let people starve to death.

Tang Hai rummaged through the trash can and found something that could replace the fishing line, found wood to make a 6-meter fishing rod by himself, dug up earthworms, used rotten wood to make floats, burned a needle to make hooks, and fished in the evening when the fish wanted to store food overnight, which solved this extremely difficult first meal.

Then he found some garbage in the river, and the people who sold it to recycling companies estimated to make a few dollars.

Then Tang Hai had two professions, fishing and picking up rags......

It was also his luck that he met Peter on the third day.

Because of the good cooking of the hand, Americans mention Chinese, either think of kung fu or think of food, Tang Hai relies on his cooking skills, and the backbone of the cleaning organization mixes well.

Peter was no ordinary man, and there were not many people who could develop the rag-harvesting industry to his level.

He set up a lot of small competitions to motivate the members to clean up.

The Most Interesting Garbage Award, the Most Valuable Garbage Award, and the Highest Recycling Rate Garbage Award...... It is held every once in a while.

Tang Hai won the third prize once, the prize money was 200 US dollars, he was elated after winning the prize, and only realized after a while that he seemed to be having too much fun?

Picking up garbage can make it so interesting, it's really a champion!

His team has cleaned up many rivers over the years, and he has been doing this dirty job for 15 years, and finally won the 'Most Outstanding Worker' award, which is $280,000.

That's what Tang Hai asked about.

280,000 yuan, according to Peter's character, will definitely not be exclusive, and will definitely take out a part of it as a member bonus, and then buy equipment and the like. Tang Hai was thinking about how much he could get.

"It's really 280,000 yuan, but there are 9 other people who also won the prize, I talked to them, they are all very good people, I decided to share part of the prize money with them to do environmental protection work, and the rest is mainly used to buy some big equipment, and some are left for backup, as well as to do activity funds or something."

Tang Hai's eyes darkened instantly, he didn't expect Peter to have such a noble sentiment! Do you also share bonuses with others to do environmental protection? This kind of idealist mind, Tang Hai really can't fathom.

Sure enough, if you plan to rely on other people's charity, you can't get by.

"Don, this is the extra salary for you to be in charge of the kitchen today, and Peter said that your craftsmanship is great." After the meal, a tall middle-aged white man found Tang Hai and handed over the ticket.

$50.

This person is the one who eats fried eggs slowly, has a good relationship with Tang Hai, and I heard that he has a wide range of connections, and he can be regarded as the second-in-command of the organization.

"Thank you Peter on my behalf." Tang Hai accepted the money, which was the income of his labor, and he took it without the slightest pressure.

Bill looks a bit like the killer Leon in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and Bill is obviously more 'sensitive' to some things than Peter's idealist.

"Your cooking skills are great, I have a friend who has opened a restaurant, it seems that there is a shortage of manpower, I will help you ask another day."

Tang Hai glanced at him.

"Thank you."

Tang Hai is gone.

Tang Hai lives near a small river that flows into a large river in Seattle and then into the Pacific Ocean.

The reason why Tang Hai came to work here is because he heard that the rent here is cheap. After arriving, he realized that he didn't inquire clearly, cheap is cheap, but he has to pay a year's rent at a time, and he has no money.

At first he lived in a sausage factory, then in various abandoned buildings, and when Peter learned of this, he let him live in this small cabin by the river, which was also a temporary base for the organization.

When he returned home and lay on the bed, Tang Hai still had a smile on his face, but there were tears in his eyes.

His family was in a small town in southern China, and when he heard that the United States could make a lot of money, he said goodbye to his parents and came with the black boat. People like him are called human snakes or piglets.

He was a hard-working man, and because his family was poor, he was more gluttonous, and since he came into contact with the chef industry, he quickly learned to cook.

If it weren't for something, he estimated that he would be a chef in a five-star hotel in two or three years!

Now he can actually go home, as long as he finds a random big city policeman and gives him a slap, he will definitely be repatriated.

But after learning a skill, he made a bold statement, where did he slip back with a gray face?

Turning out the box with the hidden compartment of the bed board, there are more than 2,000 US dollars inside, Tang Hai has saved money for a year, which is equivalent to a lot of RMB, but in the United States, this money is actually useless.

"It's too hard for black people to make money." Tang Hai sighed.

He was a little hungry, and the small shop nearby could solve the problem of supper for 3 US dollars, but Tang Hai was reluctant to think about it.

In the morning, he laid a 'shrimp pot' in the nearby river, and thinking that he should have a harvest, he went out to see it again.

"The harvest is actually good!" Lifting the homemade shrimp pot with gauze, there were actually thirty or fifty river shrimp in it, the smallest one was thumb long, Tang Hai's eyes suddenly lit up!

When he reeled in the line, he accidentally stepped on the moss, his foot slipped, and then he lost his center of gravity......

He fell into the river and seemed to hit something on his head, and he couldn't move for a while, and slowly sank.