The story of a cook

Chapter 392
After returning home, Brother Li saw my condition and said that there is an old Chinese doctor in the No. [-] Hospital who is very good at acupuncture and moxibustion. Now that he has retired and opened a clinic at home, he told me to go to him for acupuncture and moxibustion.

I went to the private clinic opened by the old Chinese doctor. The old Chinese doctor looked at my condition and took the pulse.

"Young man, you have too much anger, plus long-term cooking, frozen shoulder caused by bad environment, and lumbar muscle strain, you need to recuperate." The old Chinese doctor said, and then looked at my body. Shoulder, and then said: "The one who gave you acupuncture is a beginner, and the acupoints are not accurate. If they are accurate, you can move within the same day." Then asked: "Where did you get this treatment?"

I told him about the treatment process in Binhai.

"I rely on you to come back, if you still treat it there for a month, you won't be able to get better." The old Chinese doctor said, "You have frozen shoulder caused by long-term cooking. You didn't pay attention to it before, and you didn't take it seriously. Accumulate a little bit and start to erupt when you meet the trigger. Your constitution is phlegm-damp constitution. You just arrived at the seaside to catch up with the severe humid weather in summer. The evil has invaded, and the internal fire is raging, so it won't be able to move."

What he said was right, he did light the fire when he first arrived in Binhai, and his mouth had a lot of blisters.

I asked, "Then, with my physique, can I not work in seaside cities?"

"I've gone, why can't I go?" He said, "Just pay attention. Frozen shoulder is just an inflammation. Once you get rid of the inflammation, you'll be fine. You broke out while working in the coastal area. If you don't work there, go to another place." You just have to pay attention to it in the future.” Then he continued, “You didn’t just get this disease today, you’ve always had it, but it didn’t manifest itself, and you didn’t pay much attention to it.”

"How long will this last for me?" I asked.

"Hurry up, I'll make you move in two days, and your arms will be fine for five days. After you're done, don't cook. You'll be raised at home for a month, and you'll go out to work when you're completely healed." The old Chinese doctor said.

I said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, let me tell you, young man, don't hurt yourself when you're young. Injury is a lifetime thing. I think you've got it. Frozen shoulder is a common disease. It's not a big deal, but your waist Muscle strain is quite serious and cannot be cured, so it needs to be recuperated for a period of time, did you do strenuous work when you were young?" the old Chinese doctor asked me.

"Carrying cement." I said.

"I said yes, I didn't feel what was going on at the time. In fact, I already had a back injury. I couldn't feel it when I was young. I felt nothing. Now I can find it. It should be connected with the shoulder. If you don't have lumbar muscle strain and shoulder pain Zhou Yan will not be so serious, at most it will be fine after two days of pain and anti-inflammation." The old Chinese doctor said.

My waist was tired from carrying cement when I was a stevedore. At that time, I couldn’t do it. I had to do anything to make money.

I started acupuncture and cupping at the old Chinese doctor, not to mention, it took effect on the same day, and I felt that my left arm could be lifted a little bit, and the pain was not so great.You have to be an old Chinese doctor, and you can find the acupuncture points accurately, and you can use the needle every 10 minutes after the needle is inserted. When you use the needle, you can feel numb and sore, as if there is a stream of air in it.This is beyond the reach of the doctor at Binhai Hospital.

The old Chinese doctor said that within two days I could move my arms, which seemed achievable. I couldn't help admiring his medical skills.At the same time, the fee of the old Chinese doctor is not high, only 30 yuan, and it costs [-] yuan to do it in Binhai.

After returning from the clinic, I called Lin Yan and told her that she had returned from Binhai.She asked me why I came back, and told her about my illness.She said that she wanted to come back to see me, and told her to stay at home first, and then come back when my arm is better, so that I can serve her.She said that was fine, and told me that it was good to take care of the children in my hometown. The five sisters took turns to go back to help with the children. The mother took care of her and the children almost meticulously.

She asked me when I would go home, and I said that I would recover from illness when I went back, and my mother and sisters had to take care of me when I went back in this state, and I felt uncomfortable.In addition, when the body recovers, I have to continue to find work, and I can't stay any longer.

I have no conditions to wait, and I can't afford to wait.

The old Chinese doctor has very high medical skills. After acupuncture and cupping, the left arm can really move and lift up the next day. Although it is not very flexible, it is much better than the first two days.The right arm is completely healed, and everything is fine.

The old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine told me to cure my frozen shoulder first, and also treat my lumbar muscle strain by the way. It can only be a palliative treatment, and it cannot completely remove the root. If you want to remove the root, you need long-term maintenance.Illness is not acquired in a day, nor does it go away in a day.Getting sick is like a wall falling down, getting rid of a disease is like spinning silk.

He said that my lungs were not good by taking my pulse. The bronchi was inflamed, which might be due to pneumonia when I was a child.I did suffer from pneumonia when I was a child, and it was not treated quickly. The root cause of my illness has never been cured.He told me that it is best to quit smoking, if you can't quit, smoke less, take some anti-inflammatory drugs often, and exercise regularly if you have nothing to do.

The old Chinese doctor told me that my body is overdrawn. What is overdrawn now is physical strength. After two years, I will start to overdraw my energy. all good.The outbreak of frozen shoulder this time is a signal from the body, so we should pay more attention to it in the future.

I also know that my body needs to rest. I have been working for more than ten years, and I haven't had a good rest for a few days.But when I think that I don’t have a house, savings, or car, and my son has just been born, I feel a lot of pressure, and I dare not rest even if I want to.

Looking back on the road we have traveled in the past ten years, it is really hard.When I first came out, I worked as a stevedore carrying cement. After carrying cement for 26 days, I earned my first salary.Then I went to work at a small noodle shop on Beisi Road, where I met Yingzi and Sister Wang, and now I can’t find them both, but I will never forget them for the rest of my life. Those were the first friends I made in the provincial capital .Now I still clearly remember Yingzi's face, what she said when she left, and that nostalgia.

I met Bu Zhiyi at the noodle restaurant, and he introduced me to the chef industry, and he became a noble person in my life.

Then I went to Santaizi Shengmei Hotel, worked here for two full years, and met Master Chen, Li Jianhan, Zhang Tao, Li Yanhua, the boss, the fourth child, the second child, Li Haina, Zhou Lan, Feng Ge and Sun Mei.Shengmei Hotel is the starting point of my career as a chef. Here I turned from an odd job to a chopping board, and I have a real understanding of cooking.That is to say, here my salary slowly increased from 240 yuan for odd jobs to [-] yuan for the chopping block. At that time, I was the highest salary in the chopping block.

When I was working in Shengmei Hotel, I formed an indissoluble bond with Santaizi and settled in Santaizi ever since.

When I quit Shengmei Hotel for the first time, I went to Xinchuang Restaurant in Tiexi, where I met Sister Zhao.At that time, Sister Zhao was still a weak woman, and she still remembered the scene when he was kneeling on the ground with his hair pulled by a man.

Sister Zhao is really nice to me, just like my sister. From being a waiter to selling clothes at Wuai Li Na and now opening a children's clothing store by herself, she has really matured and is no longer the weak woman she was at the beginning. The years have left marks on her face, but maturity has given her a unique charm.

This is the smell of a woman.

Later, I followed my boss to the Rose Hotel on Taishan Road, where I worked for three years.Here I met Sister Zhang who washes dishes, Sister Jin who does barbecue, Aunt Wang who makes pastry, and Yaru, the first lover in my life.I met Lin Yan and finally became my wife.Here I met Master Huang, Yanhua, Li Changqing, Master Li, Wang Xiaodong, and Sister Zhang at the bar, Brother Gao who raises seafood, Boss Zou, Huang Ping, the second eldest brother, Sister Tiezi Wang of the eldest second brother, etc. , These people have been deeply engraved in their lives, and they will never be forgotten.

The Rose Hotel is where my culinary skills began to grow. The three years here have given me a lot of training, and it is also through the three years of training here that I have a deep understanding of restaurants.

Rose Hotel has left too many memories.The deep love with Yaru, the entanglement with Yanhua, and the love between Harvest and Lin Yan——
Afterwards, he did not leave Taishan Road, and worked in Yangchun Barbecue Restaurant for half a year. Here, he made Yangchun’s special smoked pig’s trotters, which is still his family’s specialty. The seasoning is pretty much the same.I met Sister Jin and Sister Ma in Yangchun, and because they both beat people, they are both their ex-husbands, which is funny to think about.

Yanhua was the first woman to say that I tortured people, and Sister Jin was the second.Now Yanhua has her own home and married a man who is three years older than her. The couple is doing well. I heard that she also has a child. I wish her the best of luck.Sister Jin returned to her hometown and rented a store in their county town to sell fresh vegetables and smoked flavors, and she lived well.

After coming down from the barbecue shop, I went to the golf club and worked there for half a year.The biggest achievement in the club is to worship Master Huang as a teacher. From then on, Master took me on the road of a real chef.Following the master not only learned the craft, but also learned to be a man. Since I took up the management position, I found that I have become more and more like the master.

After leaving the club, I moved my family from the city to Santaizi, and then went to work at the Blue House.I met Zhang Li at the Blue House, this terrible woman.The relationship with Zhang Li has always been difficult to define. If I had known her before meeting Lin Yan, maybe we would have gotten married and become husband and wife.Fate is like this, some people appear as husband and wife at the right time, and some people appear when there is no fate and become confidantes.

After coming down from the Blue House, I went to the Weishili Hotel, where I met Zhao Gang, Zhang Jun, and my senior sister Zhou Xiaomei.Zhao Gang is now the head chef, and Zhang Jun is also the chef. When they met, Zhao Gang was a cold dish and Zhang Jun was a cutting board.Now they can both.At that time, Zhou Xiaomei was still a waiter, and now she is the foreman of a private club, and she will have better development in the future.

Taking over the Heyuxuan Dumpling Restaurant is my real sense of managing a kitchen as a head chef.The work at He Yuxuan is remarkable. At that time, I thought it was very successful. Looking back now, I found that I had many shortcomings at that time, especially in communication. I did everything according to my own ideas. Ignoring the meaning and feelings of the boss, this is also the fundamental reason for coming down from He Yuxuan.

In He Yuxuan, he initially completed his own recipes, and also developed his own prototypes of dishes.Having a clear understanding of kitchen management and gradually getting into the management state is the biggest gain.Zhou Xiaomei was trained in He Yuxuan.I have a partiality for Zhou Xiaomei. She is the niece of the second sister-in-law in the family. She has the status of a fellow villager and a relative. In addition, she is from a school, so she should be taken care of.At that time, I also wanted to take care of Qiuping, but Qiuping was not suitable for management, she was suitable for what to do.In He Yuxuan, I also met Zheng Jiaqi, a very feminine woman.

He Yuxuan made me enter the chef circle in the provincial capital, and I met many chefs. At that time, I was a little famous in the chef circle.

It was an accident to take over Laohan Villa. If you don’t know Santaizi Zhang, you may not be able to take over Laohan Villa.I met Sister Zhang, met Sister Wu through Sister Zhang, and Sister Wu and Mr. Wang from Laohan Villa were classmates, so I took over Laohan Villa.Laohan Villa is a very good company, and Laohan Villa in Santaizi is the first chain in the country, and being the head chef of the first store is something to be proud of.

The final failure of Laohan Mountain Villa was due to the arrival of SARS. Fortunately, Mr. Wang did not lose money, and he made a lot of money by changing hands of the mountain suit.

I met Li Shuang at Laohan Villa, and since then, a golden triangle of Zhang Li, Li Shuang, and Zheng Jiaqi has formed at the front desk, which has continued to Linjiangxuan Dumpling Restaurant.

I came to Linjiangxuan to work to strengthen my cooking skills, I didn't intend to do management, and I ended up doing management.

Working in Linjiangxuan is not very happy, but I have greatly improved my management. I have a comprehensive view of the problem and a big picture.

When I was working in Linjiangxuan, I became a chef in the provincial capital, and became friends with many chefs. At the same time, my horizons were broadened and my circle of friends expanded.By communicating with these well-known store chefs, I learned a lot from them.

People are learned.

In more than ten years, from a young boy who just came out, he became a man with a family and a business. Time flies, and the ruthless years leave behind not only the growth of age, but also the aging of appearance and deep understanding of life. deep feeling.

Life has always been full of sunshine, and it is beautiful to be alive.

In more than ten years, I have changed from an odd job to a chef. I earned 240 yuan a month from the beginning to 3000 yuan a month now, which is not bad.

Gaining love, getting married and having children, this is the greatest success.

One should not force too much in this life, just as the old Chinese medicine said, it is better to have a good physique than anything else.

After more than ten years, it's time to take a break.

But when I think of my newly born son, I feel that I can't rest, at least not now, and I have to continue to struggle.Although there is a problem with the body, rest and treatment is enough. After he recovers, he has to find a job and continue to work. He can't cultivate for a year or a half like the old Chinese medicine said, or his son will have to drink northwest wind.

If I didn't suffer from frozen shoulder this time, I should have been working in Binhai.I have been working in Binhai for more than 20 days. I feel good. I just got to know Binhai Seafood, and I am just familiar with the taste of customers. I am about to serve two more dishes. Can come back sadly.

The catering industry in Binhai is better than that of the provincial capital, which has something to do with being a tourist city.At the same time, the restaurants in Binhai are more developed than the provincial capital. Take the food stalls as an example, they are more advanced than the provincial capital. Customers ordering dishes at the exhibition stalls is more intuitive than looking at the recipes, and the ordering speed is also faster.In addition, there are food exhibition stalls, and at the same time, there are orderers who specialize in ordering dishes, that is, salesmen. They are responsible for the marketing of dishes in the store. Waiters can concentrate their time and energy on service work.

It's a pity that I can't work in Binhai this time. I will definitely go there again in the future, otherwise I will be unwilling.

Now the main task is to maintain a good body, and then fight in the rivers and lakes when the body is good.

For nothing else, to give Lin Yan and her son a beautiful home.

(End of this chapter)