Chapter 001: Noon Sun
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In the early morning sun, a young man, only 1.68 meters tall and relatively thin, slowly ran through the clean streets.
However, in Japan, a man who is a junior high school student is not too short, even if he is a prospective graduate of the third year of junior high school.
However, compared to his other identity, for the middle school men's basketball player, the height of 1.68 meters is a bit insufficient.
The man is 15 years old this year, his name is Wang Zhengyang, his father Wang Dafu is a purebred Chinese, and his mother Yuriko is a native of Tokyo, Japan.
Like many Chinese families, his father, Wang Dafu, runs a Chinese restaurant, but this restaurant in Kanagawa's Chinatown is not a small restaurant, but a well-known local food restaurant.
The two-story building is dedicated to the Chinese restaurant called "Wang's Restaurant", with the front shop and the private rooms on the second floor belonging to the restaurant, and the back shop specializing in meat.
It mainly sells pork, mutton, beef, and all kinds of offal foods that are difficult to buy elsewhere.
Wang Dafu is good at all kinds of meat food, especially the delicious offal is a must, coupled with the large quantity and low price, so the customer flow of Wang's store is very large.
At the beginning of 93, Japan experienced the second large-scale economic explosion after the war, but unfortunately all this was an illusion, and only a few years after the Great Depression came again, known in history as the "Heisei Winter".
At this time, whether it is white-collar, blue-collar, middle-class or rich, Wang's hotel is the right choice for them.
Family gatherings, corporate dinners, and private dinners are all areas where the restaurant excels.
Wang Zhengyang, who finished exercising in the morning, also returned to the store at this time, when their family had no money earlier, a family of five lived on the second floor of the store, and the second floor at this time had already been transformed into a private room.
Wang Zhengyang opened the shop and began to clean up, and the street was quiet at this time, with occasional passers-by walking by in a hurry.
The back kitchen of the restaurant was already full of people, and seven or eight men were busy in the back kitchen, when they saw Wang Zhengyang walking in.
"Good morning, big brother!" Everyone stopped what they were doing and said hello.
These busy people in the kitchen are basically Wang Dafu's apprentices, some Chinese and some Japanese. Wang Dafu never looked at nationality, only talent and character.
Among the many apprentices, Wang Zhengyang, as a son, is the absolute first, when he was five years old, Wang Zhengyang walked into the kitchen with a knife and slaughtered the first chicken in his life.
Since then, the names of the Wang family have been sung throughout Chinatown.
In the morning, Wang's Restaurant only serves steamed buns, tea eggs, soy milk and millet porridge, and there are three kinds of steamed buns: green onion and meat filling, onion meat cubes, and tofu and cabbage vermicelli.
Each bun is very big, because the ancestral home of the Wang family is Jiaodong, so the specialty is big buns.
Takeaway and dine-in are provided, and one large bun is basically enough for ordinary women, and two buns for men with larger appetites are about the same.
However, it is often seen that someone buys more than a dozen and takes them away, which is brought by office workers to colleagues, and most of this kind of work is compulsory for new employees.
At this time, in the busy kitchen, a person was looking at Wang Zhengyang nervously, and Wang Zhengyang was stuffing a big bun into his mouth at this time.
The white, tender and steaming buns were bitten off by Wang Zhengyang, and in an instant, the juice mixed with the pork belly entered his mouth, and his mouth was full of fragrance.
This is a bun with onion meat pieces, and the meat pieces inside are made of good pork belly, fat and thin, marinated with onions to taste, and then filled in as a bun filling.
Wang Zhengyang quietly finished eating the first bun, and then picked up the next one, this is the green onion pork filling, which is different from the onion meat pieces, the taste of the green onion pork is more delicate, and the soup is not as rich as the onion meat pieces.
The soup was more locked in the filling, and Wang Zhengyang still finished eating one without any expression.
Next is the vegetarian stuffed buns, the buns with cabbage and tofu vermicelli because the ingredients have been blanched in advance, resulting in no excess juice at all.
On the contrary, it was very refreshing, and after eating the buns in his hand in two bites, Wang Zhengyang looked at the man standing next to him and smiled.
"It's delicious, it not only maintains the original flavor of the ingredients, but also uses unique ingredients to match different flavors!" Wang Zhengyang patted the man's shoulder as he spoke: "It's okay, Brother Bao, ask someone to take it out!" ”
"Okay, I'll go!" The person standing next to him is commonly known as Ah Bao, who is in his 30s. is Wang Dafu's hometown in Jiaodong, and he is also a migrant worker in Japan.
But he was lucky, he worshipped Wang Dafu as a teacher, if he didn't count Wang Zhengyang, he should be the third!
is regarded as an apprentice, and he is a good cook in China. But even so, he was apprenticed under Wang Dafu for three years.
Recently, I'm going to go out as an apprentice. Wang Dafu's other two apprentices have already set up their own doors, while Ah Bao is more special, he has no capital, even if he is an apprentice, he will continue to stay in Wang's restaurant as a chef.
However, there is still a clear difference in the income of apprentices and chefs, so Po has been working hard!
And Wang Dafu also intended to teach him the kung fu in his hands, which made him officially become the second-in-command of the kitchen in just three years.
Wang Dafu is undoubtedly the top spot in Wang's hotel, and Wang Zhengyang's identity is very special, although his skills are no worse than his father, but after all, the age is there, and the main thing is to study!
Studying, stir-frying, and playing basketball are Wang Zhengyang's life for so many years, compared with the monotony of the previous life, he feels that his life is comfortable and beautiful now!
Wang Zhengyang can be regarded as a cross-generation, in the previous life, he was entangled with basketball all his life, and he became famous when he was young, and he has a physical quality that is not inferior to that of blacks.
Tall and long-armed, full of explosiveness! At the age of 17, he was selected for the national junior team and became truly famous in a game against the United States U18!
It was a humiliating defeat, and the national youth was bloodied by the American team for more than 30 points, but Wang Zhengyang was the only shining point and fig leaf in that defeat!
36 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals, 5 blocks and 0 turnovers.
This is a statistic that even the most discerning commentators can't find fault, and as a scoring guard on the court, Wang Zhengyang did everything he could.
broke the opposite front, but due to the deviation of the overall strength of the national junior team, the weakness of the inside line, and the collective inaccuracy of the outside pitchers, all Wang Zhengyang's efforts came to naught.
Before Wang Zhengyang tried his best and was finally replaced due to physical exhaustion, the national junior team bit the score fiercely, and the lag never exceeded ten points.
But after Wang Zhengyang got off the court, the situation changed abruptly, and in just five minutes, the national youth team lost 20 points!
If it weren't for the coach pressing Wang Zhengyang on the chair, he couldn't help but play again.
Although he failed, the media still put the title of "the core of the men's basketball team in the next ten years" on his head, and even foreign universities sent scouts to check his status.
You know, it was the late 90s, and even the NBA didn't know about it in China.
Everyone believed that this man would be a future superstar, but except for himself.
Confused, stubbornly believing that the defeat was his fault, he decided to make himself stronger.
The non-stop exercise day and night increased the burden on his body, and finally during a certain training, he collapsed on the sports field.
A "torn cruciate ligament", a superstar killer injury, found him, and the medical standards of the era and his family were not enough to support him in a perfect repair operation.
In this way, the once highly anticipated teenager disappeared from the public eye, and this disappearance is three years!
No one knows how much he went through in the past three years, and when he came back, the handsome boy disappeared and was replaced by a scruffy, unkempt man.
The only thing that hasn't changed is that his eyes are still full of desire to win!
That year, Wang Zhengyang was 20 years old! The team in his hometown gave him his first professional contract!
A few years later, the basketball player known as "Desperate Saburo" officially stepped onto the professional arena!
He's back, throwing away his talent and back with a purer form of basketball!