Bai Xiaohe, who came from a good family, lost his schooling because of his father's debts from real estate development. Bai Xiaohe had no choice but to work as a dishwasher in a restaurant. He used his intelligence and hard work to make a successful comeback. In the end, he became the owner of a chain of stores.
1
A family tragedy caused Bai Xiaohu to lose his schooling. He left his home and wandered the neon-lit streets alone.
The lights on the street in the front room glittered, the restaurant was full of people, the table after table yelling, the sound of boxing and guessing, and their mouths eating wriggling, so that Bai Xiaohu look at the eye, the conditioned reflexes immediately let his intestines issued a gurgling sound.
Bai Xiaohe couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva into his belly. He had not eaten for two days.
He was hungry for a bowl of noodles in hot soup, even if it was boiled in plain water with just a little salt sprinkled on it. At the moment he felt a little dizzy and his legs were trembling weakly. He thought of the little girl selling matches and wondered if he would starve to death on the streets like that little girl selling matches.
Like a stray dog, he wandered by the door of the hotel, and with supplicating eyes he waited for someone who had pity on him to give him some poor charity.
Finally he curled up helplessly in a corner by the hotel door.
Thinking of his former superior family conditions, he felt a little sad in his heart. He felt a feeling that life is like a dream.
At closing time, Cuiguo went out and was about to push her bicycle to her home when she saw a teenager, who was Bai Xiaohe.
Cuiguo kindly, she led Bai Xiaohe into the house and asked him where he was from.
Xiaohe said his hometown is Yongcheng.
Cuiguo also asked where Yongcheng?
Xiao He said, Yongcheng Lu Lou.
Cuiguo said, I am also from Lulou.
Cuiguo brought a bowl of noodles to Bai Xiaohu, and also added a poached egg.
Bai Xiaohe gobbled it up, and Cuiguo looked at the poor boy and asked him how many days he hadn't eaten.
Little Crane did not say anything, just ate vigorously.
Cuiguo advised him to slow down, slow down. Little Crane finished a big bowl of noodles and sweat broke out on his head.
He looked at Cuiguo again with those wandering eyes, and Cuiguo understood that the boy had not eaten enough.
Cuige ran to the back of the kitchen to find some steamed buns and small dishes. Perhaps the bowl of noodles gave Bai Xiaohe some strength, he looked at Cuige and gratefully called out: "Sister, thank you."
Cuiguo smiled and said: "Why don't you study? So young to come out to mix."
Little Crane said: "Sister I'm not small, I'm eighteen years old."
Who would believe it, you are a child. Cuiguo said: "Eat well hurry to find a place to stay, so late, your parents can not find you should be anxious."
Bai Xiaohu reveals the difficult to say, he said the two days are under the viaduct night.
He has not eaten for two days. He said his father owed a huge debt for engineering work, leaving a family in disrepair.
He came out this time because he wanted to work to earn money to support himself. Cuiguo looked at the boy in front of him and wondered if he was telling the truth.
Cuige packs up a room on the second floor of the hotel for Bai Xiaohe and lets him stay there for one night.
Little Crane looked gratefully at Cuiguo and said, "Sister, you are really a good person."
"Sleep first, something tomorrow." Cuiguo looked at the childish face of Bai Xiaohe heart can not help but think of their own once upon a time to go out to work.
Although she is now the boss of the hotel, but she is also step by step slowly over.
Cuiguo settled down Bai Xiaohe, put down the shutter, walked a few steps she was not assured, back to the second floor to Bai Xiaohe said: "If there is something on her phone." She gave her cell phone number to Bai Xiaohe again. The hotel's landline phone is on the glass cabinet at the front desk.
Bai Xiaohe went up to the second floor and lay down on a bed made of temporary benches.
He looked at the ceiling, thought a lot of heart, he thought he must give the kind sister tomorrow, he wants to stay here, to work for her, even if it does not give money, as long as the food on the line. Little Crane thought of thinking into the dreamland.
2
Bai Xiaohe woke up when the sky was already bright. He got up in a panic and walked up the second floor stairs. As he was descending the stairs, the roll-up door opened.
A man in his forties walked over. The man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, just slightly dark skin, and a pair of strong hands were carrying a large pocket of Shanghai green and potatoes toward the store.
When Bai Xiaohe saw him, he didn't know how to address him, and was in a state of fear, when he heard the man say, "Little master, come here, come here, and help unload the vegetables down the road." The tone of voice is urgent but not rude.
Bai Xiaohe then remembered that he was working to find a job.
The sister has not yet come, this may be the boss. Xiaoche thought of striding to the electric car, winter melon, green pepper, green onions, ginger, garlic all kinds of things.
Xiao Crane is helping to take the vegetables when Cuiguo rode his bicycle and stormed over.
Cuiguo saw Bai Xiaohe helping with the dishes and smiled and said: "Little brother, this line of catering is quite bitter, can you stand it? I see that you look tender and I'm afraid you can't hold out."
Bai Xiaohe panicked and said: "Sister, I just want to give you a part-time job, I want to give you a job, I don't want to pay, as long as there is food on the line." Bai Xiaohe said earnestly.
Cuiguo smiled and said: "You child, for the sake of the hometown I have to let you eat, but you are so small, I'm afraid I can't do it for a long time."
Little Crane said: "Don't worry, sister, I'll work for a long time."
At this point, the darker man spoke up: "Let him try first." Later, he said: "Little handsome, you will call me Lao Cai on the line. You don't want to be outgoing, we are all old folks. I'll let Cuiguo help you find some work clothes, and you can work here first. If you think it's a good fit, you can do it. If not, you can find another way. Wages and the back of the kitchen on the same staff, a month, the base salary of two thousand, overtime pay another calculation. Two days off a month, and a full attendance bonus. You just came, you are not familiar with anything, first from the dishwashing start to do it."
Lao Cai in that de de de de when, Cuiguo has been from the upstairs storage room to find the work clothes. The overalls were half-new, and there was a small oil stain on the front placket. Little Crane put on the overalls, pulled out his pockets, there are still children playing with the rest of the glass ball, glass ball ball center has a red jade-like glass flowers, reflecting the heart of a small crane a flurry of tremors, he would have been a playful child, the family's change of heart so that he became a dishwasher, think of it, his eyes almost flashed out of the tears, he is very grateful to the boss's wife of this family, he also misses his parents, he did not know that his He also misses his parents, and he wonders how his mom and dad are doing in that car tire factory in the south.
3
Bai Xiaohe got dressed and tied his apron and walked into the back kitchen, where the employees came one after another, and Cuige arranged for Xiaohe to go to the dishwashing room. It was a narrow and small place, and even turning the corner was a bit of a struggle.
There are several sinks in the dishwashing room, respectively, the green vegetable pool, meat pool and dishwashing pool. There is a big bucket of detergent under the dishwashing sink.
There are several kitchen knives hanging on hooks on the wall, all labeled, for cutting meat, for cutting green vegetables, for cutting cooked food, and for cutting raw food. Cutting fruit. Next to the knives is a quick cage with a large handful of chopsticks that are hot.
Bai Xiaohe was not in a hurry to wash the dishes first, because it was not yet time to eat, the guests had not yet arrived, and there were no bowls to wash. In this awkward time he can not be idle, he has to find himself some work to do.
He was a smart kid, he had work in his eyes. He did not need to Cuiguo instructed him, scrambled to pick up vegetables, either washing potatoes, peeling potatoes, or peeling green onions and cutting julienned ginger. Said he is a dishwasher, in fact, he is a handyman, he does everything. When he thinks of the foreign debt owed by his father, he is scared in his heart.
He doesn't know when he'll be able to pay off his debts.
He also has a younger sister who is in her first year of high school, and he can't afford to let her miss out on school.
He remembered the moment he left the school gate, the school teachers are bitter to stay him, his class teacher even in order to stay him to give him out of the school fees, the whole class in order to stay him, some of them shed tears, he knew that it was the true feelings of the flow, his classmates parents heard of his family's affairs, and even want to give him donations to let him read, but in the end, Bai Xiaohuer still refused.
He declined the kindness of many people, and rode more than seventy kilometers from the city's key high school back to his hometown, where he bought a few pounds of pears for his grandfather, who has bad lungs, with a small amount of scholarship money left in his possession. When he handed the pears to his grandfather, he burst into tears.
He felt that it was his son who had ruined his grandson's future.
Bai Xiaohe said goodbye to his grandfather, said goodbye to his parents, and came to the provincial capital alone.
He has never been out of town, this is the first time. The world outside used to make him long for it, but he didn't expect it to be so cruel.
He didn't have much money on him, so he had to starve and look at the job ads on one store after another.
When he went to people's doorsteps and asked either that they were full, or that they were not recruiting.
He couldn't understand why they still put up a red paper to cheat people if they weren't hiring. Sometimes he wanted to tear the paper off, so as not to let him see the disappointment.
The street is a place where Bai Xiaohu feels like a "Sharpshooter" on TV.
In the end, he was asked to do advertisements, but he couldn't even find a space to live, and he felt that he had nothing to learn.
This is also the reason why he insisted on dropping out of school, even if he got into the university so what? Bai Xiaohe looked at the square those square dance crowd heart a loss.
The good thing is that he bumped into his hometown Cuiguo.
4
Cuiguo restaurant began to people, the chef opened the gas stove. The sound of range hoods and gas stoves burst out at the same time with a whirring sound, fiery, spectacular and exciting.
The chef is a young man in his early thirties, handsome and tall, pawing the spoon to stir-fry with a beautiful posture, dashing movements. Hot pan cool oil, cut vegetables in the pan three paw two, small iron pan was he used an iron spoon operation tinkling, a plate of straight and froze vegetables instantly out of the pot.
Turn off the fire and fire without hands, left thigh up, the switch of the gas stove used freely, as if the thigh is the switch commander-in-chief.
This young man surnamed Li, called Li Longji. The name of an emperor.
The young man is very handsome, does not look like a chef, but he is a master of cooking.
Lao Cai is also a chef, Cuiguo's husband, many years of chef career, so that he lumbar muscle strain, strength, there is no way to hire another chef Li Longji.
Bai Xiaohe looked at the frying of Li Longji, heart secretly admire. I thought to myself when I can learn a good hand like him. Bai Xiaohe is very seriously washing dishes, the heart always think of Li Longji. He thought he would like to meet him sometime.
5
The weather is getting cooler, the greasy bowl soaked in cold water inside the slippery. Although the use of detergent, but still not easy to wash off the oil stains. Cui Guo has thought of many ways to do this, and later installed a water heater. After half a year of washing dishes, Bai Xiaohe's hands are detergent etched all over the face, a pair of white student hands faded from the original luster, became coarse and brown.
The two thumbnails of Xiaohe seem to have deteriorated. He felt that the nails could never grow out. Cuiguo bought a few pairs of rubber gloves for Little Crane, but Little Crane found it inconvenient to wear them and could not stick to them. Cuiguo looked at Crane's hands and said, "It's not easy for Crane, from now on you have to be careful with your hands and wear gloves when you wash the dishes. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
Cui Guo's husband, Lao Cai, is always suffering from back pain, sometimes so painful that he can't work, and when there are many guests, Li Longji is too busy to do it alone, and Bai Xiaohu is always there to help. After half a year, Bai Xiaohe has learned to weigh the spoon, and he fried out of the dishes taste very unique, guests like to eat Bai Xiaohe fried dishes.
Ma Po Tofu, shredded pork with green pepper, leeks and chives, fried waist, Bai Xiaohe did very well. The old Cai and Cuiguo are also very optimistic about Bai Xiaohe, and gave Xiaohe a raise in salary.
Bai Xiaohe used his saved wages to buy a few books to learn cooking, and he practiced while the theory, and soon became unique in the store.
Lao Cai's back is getting worse and worse, and he needs to be hospitalized. Cuiguo also has to go to the hospital to take care of Lao Cai, and Cuiguo wants to give the store away. Bai Xiaohe said, such a good old store, dished out a big loss. Cui Guo sister if you trust me, I give you support.
Cui Guo looked at this young man, heart is very touched. Cuiguo always thought that Bai Xiaohe is not ordinary, he is a person who can do great things.
Bai Xiaohu went to the bank and took out a loan to buy Cuiguo's restaurant, because Lao Cai needed money for his operation.
The cook, Li Longji, didn't leave and is still working as a cook in this store, with a salary five hundred dollars a month higher than when Cuiguo was the boss.
Bai Xiaohe is not a big man, but he has a good head on his shoulders and a good eye. He also gave the restaurant a new name, "White Crane Restaurant."
On the day of the opening, he called his mom and dad, who were working far away in the south, and his dad laughed and scolded him on the phone.
Mom was also crying with joy.
Two years later, Bai Xiaohe's restaurant has opened five chain stores in the city and the province, with fifty employees. His mom and dad have also long returned from the south to help Bai Xiaohe.
The bright lights of the evening, the overall three-story hotel people come and go, dignified and beautiful waitresses to lead the guests into the elevator, into the private room. The private room on the third floor above is decorated in an antique style. The chef was dressed neatly, and the whole restaurant was clean. The dishes made were exquisite and elegant, making people salivate at the sight.
Bai Xiaohe is always thinking of Cuiguo sister and his family, he will often visit them. They changed their profession and opened a supermarket in the city. The sixth chain store opened when he asked Cuiguo sister to cut the color.