Lunch is very simple, just stew two pots of vegetables plus steamed buns and boiled water. But Sun Chen, who was hungry, felt very fragrant when he ate it.

"How? Isn't that easy to do in a restaurant? Leng Yue looked at her son's gobbling appearance, and distress flashed in her eyes.

Since childhood, even if their husband and wife have worked hard, they have never let him do much housework, even if he participates in work, he is also easy to work, and today during the whole meal, his son has not rested, and has been running around outside, which is really a great effort.

"It's okay, Mom, I just didn't feel the rhythm at the beginning, and I was a little in a hurry." Especially when he first started to receive guests, he couldn't know the coordinates of the table marked with more than a dozen number plates in the restaurant, and he made mistakes several times.

The lobster fried on this table was sent to another table by him, and the shredded pork that no one had ordered was served by him.

When encountering such a thing, the good-tempered guests will wave their hands and smile and say that it doesn't matter, and then they can change it, and those with a bad temper will say that they will make a mistake if they only order a few dishes, and they will never come to eat again.

"You can meet any kind of person when you work in a restaurant, they don't accommodate you like your family, and some people talk very badly." Huazi has a deep understanding of this.

If it weren't for the fact that he had encountered a few particularly difficult guests who made him stutter under nervousness, he would not have dared to hold back in the kitchen by now.

However, it is not without benefit to hold back in the kitchen, and after playing him under the boss for so long, he already knows everything about the side dishes of those dishes.

As for the cooking method and the simple process, he also understands it clearly, and now he only needs to practice on the boil.

Today's big pot dish is made by him, although this kind of rice has relatively low requirements for cooking skills, but he has also tried his best to make the taste delicious.

Sun Chen listened to Huazi's words and felt the same way, although he usually has less contact with people, but he is not the kind of senior otaku who is isolated from the world, and he still understands a little bit of basic human feelings.

And his original intention of coming to the restaurant to help was not to entertain guests outside all the time, what he really wanted to do was actually the work of his father Sun Jianjun.

But if he suddenly brought it up, it would definitely scare his parents.

Because since he was a child, in addition to cooking instant noodles, he has never even made the simplest scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Sun Chen was not like this in the original world.

's mother died early, and his father Sun Zhou was loved and cared for, but he had to be driven to work in the town by his grandmother Sun Yang every day to make money, and he couldn't take care of it at all.

At a young age, he and his younger sister Erniu have to get up every day at dawn to work.

After cooking on the fire, feeding the pigs and chickens, and sending the family to eat, clean up the yard, and then carry a basket to cut the pigweed.

Grandma Sun Yang is mean, a little unsatisfactory to her, she scolds their brothers and sisters, and often punishes them for not being allowed to eat, Sun Chen racks his brains every day to think about how to keep the second girl from going hungry under his grandmother's nose.

In between the tasks that his grandmother had instructed, he went down to the pond to catch fish, went up the trees to dig birds' nests, picked elm money, acacia flowers, and even dug up a sweet grass root with Da Zhuang, as long as he could think of it, he ate it all.

People dig grass roots as snacks, but he digs grass roots, but he really thinks that sweet taste can offset a little bit of hunger in his stomach.

Come to think of it, it's really pitiful. I don't know if the other Sun Chen can stand it after he gets there.

By the way, when he was sick, he was separating from his family, dragging a sick body, and he definitely couldn't follow Uncle Tieli to hunt in the mountains. It is impossible to expect grandma to have any compassion and be able to be a day late, and it is impossible to drive them out, but fortunately, there is still a Da Zhuang family, at least they can help their brothers and sisters a few times.

But he didn't regret falling into such a situation at all, if he hadn't seen his grandmother's personality in time, he and Erniu would have grown up in the future, and he wouldn't have been sold by her one day, for the future of the third uncle, she could do anything.

Even her father, Sun Zhou, in her eyes, is just a labor force that can be driven by her at will. Let her really love her as a son, except for the third uncle Sun Bin, there is only the eldest uncle Sun Qi.

……

The days passed leisurely like this, and Sun Chen's body gradually became accustomed to the labor intensity in the restaurant, and the work became easier.

With more of him to help alone, Sun Jianjun and Leng Yue are not so tired. However, Sun Chen found that the two of them were not as relaxed as he expected.

Several times Sun Chen saw that when his parents turned his head to look at them, they would always show an expression of wanting to say something, and they would immediately retract it when they found him looking at him.

Their hearts are related to themselves.

……

On this day, before the guests came, Sun Chen was sitting on the ground and spoke to his parents, "Dad, Mom, are you two hiding something from me?" ”

"No, no, you stay with us all day now, is there anything at home that you can hide from you, can you still not know?" Sun Jianjun said.

"Well, I think so, too." Sun Chen nodded, "Then you're just worried about me?" ”

"Ahem," Leng Yue was picking up the water cup, about to take a sip of water, but her son's words made her choke on the water at once.

And Sun Jianjun stopped talking just now, pursed his lips and kept silent.

"Ah Chen, actually, your father and I are really worried about your affairs these days." Leng Yue pondered the wording, "We think, you are tired of doing your original work, and you want to do something else to distract yourself, and the time of more than two months has been almost scattered, do you want to find some other work to do?" ”

To be honest, Leng Yue has never felt how unsightly the work the couple is doing now. However, in the past two months, the inquiries of the neighbors have gradually made her regret that she easily agreed to help her son in the restaurant.

Neither of them has any skills, and their education is low, so they can't find other better jobs, but deep in Leng Yue's heart, they still want their only son to be able to do as decent work as possible, and give them two faces glory.

A college student who graduated from a dignified school, now he is willing to be reduced to running in a small restaurant, and this person is still their son, Leng Yue's heart is actually very lost.

But she has always loved her son, and she couldn't say anything to force her son to change his mind, which caused her hesitation to be abnormal during this time.

After telling her husband these words, Leng Yue could see that although he didn't say anything at the time, she also acquiesced in her heart that she could persuade him to choose his career again one day.

"Actually, even if you don't open your mouth today, I'm going to discuss it with you." Sun Chen said, "I think my father's posture is quite handsome when he stir-fries, and I plan to be a chef like him, okay?" ”

"Uh......" Sun Jianjun and Leng Yue suddenly found that they couldn't say anything when they were asked by their son.

Isn't it good to say? just doesn't have any big skills, but in the eyes of his son, Sun Jianjun has always maintained a particularly tall image, and now he denies what his son said, as if he indirectly denied himself.

But do you want to say okay?

If you really say yes, it is equivalent to right, does my son's proposal just now express his stance and support him to be a chef like himself?

Sun Jianjun has never faced such a dilemma.

It's not that he looks down on the profession of chef in his heart, but he has been a chef for more than 20 years and deeply understands the hardships involved.

Not to mention that he has to get covered with oil smoke every day, the smell can't be washed off, the green tendons on his legs and stomach burst out, and the varicose veins are getting worse and worse, just the faint pain in his wrist after finishing work every night makes him hesitate.

There are more or less occupational diseases in all walks of life, and chefs are the most numerous.

Perennial fumes will make their stomach much more fragile than ordinary people, and the years of upheaving will not only make their wrists painful and unbearable, tenosynovitis, frozen shoulder, and even ankylosing spondylitis, lumbar disc herniation, which every chef has to face in the future.

"I still say the same thing, you have to go by yourself in the future of your life, no matter what decision you make now, you will have to bear the consequences."

Sun Jianjun's words were tantamount to acquiescing to Sun Chen's decision.

"Then I'm going to help out in the kitchen from tomorrow?" He said tentatively.

"Well, come on!" Sun Jianjun nodded. The son has a stubborn temperament, and when he recognizes one thing, he wants to persevere to the end, but this character is not an advantage for the cooking skills he wants to learn.

……

From the next day, Sun Chen's daily work became to help choose and wash vegetables, and Leng Yue was replaced to entertain guests outside.

In the past two months, in addition to entertaining guests outside, he has followed his father to the market every morning to buy vegetables, so he also knows a lot about the ingredients needed in the restaurant.

But when it got to the kitchen, he didn't pay much attention to what was going on with it, and he had to learn it all from scratch.

Scraping the skin, picking leaves, removing the roots, and soaking the hair, he is busy like a spinning top, but every day he can know one more ingredient and know one more way to handle the ingredients, he will feel excited.

Seeing that his son was full of energy, Sun Jianjun's face became more and more smiling. Because after his observation, he has been able to determine that his son really likes this profession from the bottom of his heart.

And seeing the father and son talking and laughing in the kitchen, Leng Yue gradually relieved.

Even if the son doesn't do what kind of decent work, what is it? The family is harmonious, and they can even go to work together, how many people can't envy it!

A month later, Sun Chen began to touch the board.

At first, he just helped cut some potato pieces, eggplant strips, green pepper pieces, etc., which didn't require any technical content, and slowly, when they were eating by themselves, Sun Jianjun would deliberately ask him to cut some shredded potatoes, shredded green peppers, shredded carrots, etc.

From the beginning of the thickness and fineness, to the final thickness of uniformity, it took Sun Chen half a year to do it.

Then, Sun Chen spent three months memorizing all the side dishes of the stir-fry on the restaurant menu, so that when he shouted a dish outside, he was able to accurately grasp the various side dishes he needed at the first time, and he was able to handle everything neatly with his hands and feet.

After studying for almost a year, Sun Chen hadn't touched the edge of the pot yet, which made him a little frustrated.

However, Sun Jianjun is particularly satisfied with his son's progress. No matter which industry it is, the most important thing is the basic skills, just like building a house, only when the foundation is well laid, it is possible to build a high-rise building on this foundation in the future.

……

On this day, Sun Chen was using a blade to fish.

A month ago, he started learning how to handle meat like chicken, duck, and fish. Cutting shredded meat, sliced meat, he practiced for a month, and today is the first day to slice fish.

The fish bones are very sharp, and if you are not careful, you will be pricked in the hand, so he took a clean cloth and held the fish down.

At the beginning, the fish fillet was a little thicker, and Sun Jianjun told him to be thinner. But Sun Chen didn't grasp that degree well, and the fish fillet was too thin.

At lunchtime, Sun Jianjun made these fish fillets processed by Sun Chen into sauerkraut fish, and specially picked out two pieces of fish meat with different thicknesses and placed them in front of Sun Chen.

"You see, the same heat, because your ingredients are not evenly processed, the ripeness is not the same, right? The thin one is going to be boiled, and the thick one is still a little red in the middle, so I picked out the thin ones and deliberately put the pot a little late! ”

Sun Chen peeled it off and looked at it, and nodded, "Got it, pay attention in the future." ”

Sun Jianjun is also very satisfied with his son's attitude, he will never hold his neck and justify his mistakes with himself. If you are wrong, you are wrong, and you can correct it later, but it makes no sense for you to grit your teeth and refuse to admit it.

……

After another half a year of training, Sun Chen finally got a chance to go to the stove.

Although he only made working meals for them, Sun Chen showed twelve points of enthusiasm.

Fried potatoes, fish-flavored shredded pork, and fried meat with beans, although it is a simple dish, Sun Chen is still a little busy under the command of Sun Jianjun.

"This is what people say about the high eye, and any thing that has not been done by people who have never done it will think that it is very easy when they look at others doing it. And you think, 'Oh, this is not difficult, you have to put it on me, you will definitely do it more beautiful than him!'" When they do it, they will know that it is just easy to see. ”

Sun Chen nodded, particularly agreeing with this.

He usually saw Sun Jianjun stirring the pot there, and he seemed very relaxed, and he tried it cautiously today, but he almost turned all the dishes in the pot upside down, and then he could only turn it over with a spoon in aggrieved.