Many years ago, there was no such person as Old Li Tou, only a young man named Li Changsheng.

Li Changsheng was an orphan, but he was lucky enough to be adopted by a family when he was very young.

The adoptive parents are not bad to him, but they have a common problem of being parents, that is, they hope that their children will develop in the direction they set, study hard, take the test for fame, and then find a virtuous wife, have another lovely child, and live a simple and happy life.

It's a pity that Li Changsheng is not a reading material, he prefers to drill into the kitchen and ponder and eat all day long compared to those boring books and rhetoric.

This is a taboo in the family, they still expect this adopted son to soar in the future, how can they watch him give up his good future to become a useless cook?

So, the adoptive father began to go crazy, and the adoptive mother played with crying, in short, he was not allowed to be interested in the kitchen anymore.

Almost everyone has had a rebellious period when they were young, and the more your parents don't let you do anything, the more you want to do it, desperately trying to prove that you're right.

The same is true for Li Changsheng.

It's just that he is not the biological child of his adoptive parents after all, and after fighting with them for a few months, the adoptive parents directly tore his face and kicked him out of the house, saying that Quan Dang raised a white-eyed wolf.

Li Changsheng was a little frightened at first, he was not without feelings for his adoptive parents, but after his continuous efforts to try to redeem it, he found that the other party was determined to recognize him again, and he had to leave the town where he had lived for more than ten years with sadness.

Li Changsheng, who had become a person again, was both lonely and a little excited, because no one would stop him from learning to cook.

In order to realize their ideals, teenagers have endured some hardships, and in order to earn money, they have to do all the hard work, and finally save enough money to go to the capital.

Yes, he is going to the capital, which is the most prosperous place, where there will be the best chefs, and he is going to learn from his teacher.

Although he has some talent, he was not born in a culinary family, and he has never undergone formal training, so let alone the apprentice who wants to be the best chef, even if he wants to go to the back kitchen of a restaurant, it is difficult.

Fortunately, he is a tolerant person, and he has a kind of strength that does not admit defeat, as long as he finds an opportunity, he will seize it desperately.

The largest restaurant in the capital recruited a helper in the back kitchen, and Li Changsheng tried all the ways to finally succeed in getting in.

That's three years.

Although it was all hard work, not to mention the stove, he was not even qualified to touch the knife, but he never gave up, always practiced secretly, and finally, the opportunity fell in front of him.

This day was also a coincidence, the second chef and the third chef went to drink together the day before, but the collective drank high, and none of them came to work in the restaurant on time, seeing that it was about to start business, it was impossible for the chef to be busy alone, and he was so angry that he scolded there.

Li Changsheng mustered up the courage to recommend himself, and cleverly said that his adoptive father was a cook, and he had been exposed to it since he was a child, so he should be able to help him.

The chef is also crazy about lack of people, and he really can't find a suitable person to replace him at this moment, so he has the mentality of giving it a try, and let him give it a hand, and then, he found a good seedling.

What happened later was that it came naturally, Li Changsheng has been down-to-earth and capable in the past three years, plus he is indeed talented, and the chef is a lover, after testing him for a while, he accepted him as an apprentice and began to teach him cooking.

Learning to cook is a very hard thing, you have to start with the basic skills, no one can directly touch the spatula at the beginning of learning to cook, some people who are not talented have learned for five or six years and are still there to hone the basic knife skills.

As mentioned earlier, Li Changsheng is a talented person who can endure hardships, so in just five years, he can basically become a teacher, and all the things that a chef can teach have been taught.

It happened that he was also old and wanted to go back to his hometown to retire, so he directly recommended him to the owner as a chef to inherit his mantle.

In his early twenties, he became the chef of the largest restaurant in Beijing, and Li Changsheng was in the limelight for a while.

This person, once he succeeds, he is easy to float, and Li Changsheng has not escaped this law.

After two years as a chef, he felt that the restaurant could no longer be satisfied with him, and he wanted to enter the palace to be the imperial chef, and to be the best among the imperial chefs.

When the proprietor of the restaurant learned that he had this idea, he privately persuaded him to think clearly, saying that the palace was not suitable for him, and if he felt that there was something unhappy in the restaurant, he could say it generously, and he would definitely help solve it if he could solve it.

But Li Changsheng is a stubborn person, he can't listen to it at all, but he feels that the owner is afraid that he won't find someone to replace him after he leaves, so he deliberately blocked his way and directly turned his face with the kind-hearted owner. There is no mistake

In order to enter the palace, Li Changsheng began to look for a way, he still saved some silver in the past few years, and when the silver was almost spent, the way was finally found, and through the recommendation of the head of the imperial dining room, he successfully entered the imperial dining room.

When he really entered the palace, he realized how naïve he was at the beginning, and regretted even more that he didn't listen to the owner's words at the beginning, and mistook the kindness of others for the liver and lungs of a donkey.

But it was much more difficult to get out of the palace than to enter it, and the complexity in the palace was beyond his imagination.

In order to live well, he began to change, learned to calculate others, learned to flatter, and learned to stand in line.

He chose the most favored concubine as his master, and he also succeeded in making the other party accept him, and finally reused himself again and again.

When he relied on his own strength and the power of the concubine, he finally became the best imperial chef in the entire imperial dining room, something that no one expected happened, the concubine fell, and as the concubine's "loyal walk, dog", he was naturally implicated.

The prison was so dark and terrifying, Li Changsheng, who had fallen from the clouds to dust, thought that it would be impossible for him to get out in his life.

Seeing the people who were arrested with him fall one by one, he went from fear to confusion and finally numbness.

The numb are trapped in the prison, the numb eats unpalatable meals every day, and the numb waits for death.

Maybe his life should not be extinguished, but he ushered in a day of peak and turn.

That day, a wounded man was thrown into his cell, and when he saw the man lying motionless on the ground, he kindly helped him and fed him some water.

The man woke up and called his name directly, he didn't expect the other party to know him, but he didn't know this man in his memory.

"You don't need to know who I am, someone will come to take you away at night, and then send you out of the capital, you remember to go far away, stay incognito, don't let anyone know that you are Li Changsheng, and don't mention what happened in the palace to anyone."

The man's words made Li Changsheng confused, he wanted to ask what was going on, but the man refused to speak anymore and closed his eyes directly.

In the evening, sure enough, a jailer came to open the door and took him out, then changed his clothes, and then quietly sent him out of the prison and handed him over to a eunuch.

The eunuch led him directly down the path to a secluded place, where a carriage was parked, and after letting him sit in the carriage, the eunuch drove to the city gate.

There was a curfew at night, and the city gate would not be opened, but the eunuch didn't know what means he used, and the soldiers guarding the city actually opened the door for them and left directly in the carriage.

It wasn't until he was some distance from the capital that the carriage stopped, and then the eunuch pulled him out of the car, handed over a very large burden, and instructed: "Remember to go far, change your name and surname, and it's best not to come to the capital again!" ”

Li Changsheng is still confused until now, he has no idea why things have become like this, who saved him?

When he pulled the eunuch who wanted to leave and asked, the eunuch frowned and said, "It's good that you can pick up a life and come back, why do you ask so much?" Hurry up, don't be discovered! ”

"Father-in-law, please tell me who rescued me, even if I can't repay the favor now, I should know the name of the father-in-law, so that I can pray for him in the future, right?" Li Changsheng pleaded.

The eunuch was so entangled by him that he couldn't help it, so he dropped a sentence: "You once saved someone's life with kindness, but now it's just a blessing." Then he quickly drove away in the carriage.

Have you ever been kind enough to save someone's life? Li Changsheng became more and more confused when he listened, he really couldn't remember when he had saved others.

But the only person in the know had already left, and it was impossible for him to return to the capital, so he had to sigh, put his burden on his back, and went on the road silently.

In addition to two sets of clothes, there were two thousand taels of silver tickets and some broken silver, plus a road guide and a letter to the county magistrate of a remote town.

After Li Changsheng opened the letter and read it, he realized that the person who saved him was actually the chief eunuch Sun Gonggong next to the emperor, and then suddenly remembered that when he first entered the palace, he accidentally found that Sun Gonggong's diet was manipulated, and he was still an upright person at that time, so he immediately told Sun Gonggong.

I didn't expect that the unintentional actions of the year were rewarded today.

In the direction of the capital, Li Changsheng bowed deeply and sincerely.

Since then, there is no Li Changsheng in the world, in a small remote village, there is an old man with a strange temper, who claims to be surnamed Li, but refuses to say his name, so everyone calls him Lao Litou.