Yang Huairen always felt that this young man was a person with a story, so he inquired tentatively, "You said that your ramen skills were learned secretly, can you tell me about it?" ”

The young man suddenly laughed, but he didn't shy away from it, and told the story of his stealing ramen as if he were chatting with a diner.

It turned out that his name was Lai Xiaonian, he was sixteen this year, and he was born when he was a child, so his parents gave him such a name.

His parents are also snack vendors, and they used to sell soup cakes, but their parents are not skilled in their craft, and they have never learned cooking seriously, so the reason why they sell soup cakes is just to make a living in Tokyo.

At first, not to mention shops, there were no fixed stalls, so they carried the burden and sold along the streets in the slums of the city and in the coolie concentration market, although they could not make a few dollars, but they could also ensure that the family of three had food and drink.

Lai Xiaonian was most impressed by the days when he was a child and walked the streets and alleys with his parents, getting up early in the morning and returning late in the evening, his father's burden was carrying tables, chairs and benches at one end, and the young him at the other, while his mother was carrying the stove and dough.

The poor have two meals a day, but these two meals are very important, and if you don't eat one meal well, you will either have no energy to work or you will not be able to sleep at night.

Therefore, although the soup cakes made by Lai Xiaonian's parents taste average, they are expensive because they are really good, and there are many regular diners.

When Yang Huairen heard this, he inevitably remembered Wang Xialian's coming, Wang Ji soup cakes were also made up of average taste, so with Lai Xiaonian's narration, it was easy to produce a warm picture in his mind of a couple of two people carrying a stall and children walking the streets and alleys to sell soup cakes.

Later, as Lai Xiaonian grew up, his parents did not have extra spare money for him to study and read, so he began to help his parents when he was six or seven years old.

As he grew up day by day, the burden on his mother's shoulders was finally transferred to his shoulders, and at the same time, as his parents grew older, it became more and more difficult to maintain the long distance from morning to night, from Dongcheng to Xicheng.

So Lai Xiaonian secretly vowed that he would take all the burden of his parents on his shoulders, so that his parents could live a better life.

But he thinks that the soup cake business like his parents will not make any difference, because the soup cakes they make really don't taste good.

So Lai Xiaonian inquired around, looking for a somewhat famous restaurant or restaurant that accepted apprentices, thinking that he would first go to others to learn some skills, accumulate some capital, and then find an opportunity to open his own shop.

The young man's ideas were wonderful, but reality once again cruelly rejected his sweet dreams.

Last year, if you want to say that the hottest restaurant in the city, it must be Suiyuan, and Suiyuan's original signature beef noodles are actually a kind of improved soup cakes.

Lai Xiaonian felt that learning to make ramen was something he could be good at and like, so he volunteered to go to Suiyuan to recommend himself, wanting to become a primary school apprentice in Suiyuan's back kitchen.

But Suiyuan's employment rules were formulated by Yang Huairen very strictly, even if it was a junior apprentice who helped the cook, or a little second brother who ran the hall, the requirements were very strict.

The minimum requirement is to have at least two years of experience in this industry, and no one with any experience is not required.

And even if Lai Xiaonian can really enter Suiyuan as an apprentice, he must sign a death contract with a length of at least five years with the garden, although Suiyuan is not like some restaurants, only give apprentices food and shelter but do not pay wages, but the wages for apprentices can only meet the needs of a person's life.

Lai Xiaonian is the only child in the family, and he has to take care of his parents and the stall at home, and he can't complete a job that stays in the restaurant for a long time.

Later, he went to many other restaurants to apply, but none of the restaurants were willing to keep him, and even some restaurants rejected him directly when they saw him, and laughed at him for looking like this, for fear of scaring the guests who came to eat.

Lai Xiaonian was very sad, his physical defects were brought out of his mother's womb, not something he could decide, and he never complained about his parents who had always loved him.

So he made a bold decision, not to let him be an apprentice, he wanted to learn to make ramen, even if he was stealing, he had to learn the ability to make ramen, and then work his own, and in the future, he would open a noodle restaurant, just open the restaurant that laughed at him, and make them yellow.

The young man's idea is very interesting, but it also shows that Lai Xiaonian is an ambitious person with a kind of tenacity in his character.

Later, when he had time, he secretly climbed over the wall to go to the restaurant called Tianwaitian that laughed at him to take a peek, and after a long time, he saw a lot, and in this way, he learned the ability of ramen.

However, because this skill was learned by peeking at it, and it was not a systematic study, he could learn the simple method of making ramen dough, and he could learn the basic techniques of ramen, but it was impossible to learn the real skills and the recipe for boiling beef soup.

Yang Huairen heard that Tianwaitian was not one of the thirteen restaurants that cooperated with him, he had the original impression that Tianwaitian had a good name, the boss was quite sensible, he had never caused him trouble since the cooperation, and the monthly dividends were paid on time, but he didn't expect that the shopkeeper hired by Tianwaitian would look down on people.

It's not strange to think about what happened to Lai Xiaonian, there are many people in this world, there are all kinds of people, they hate the poor and love the rich, the ugly and the beautiful, it is human nature, who dares to say that he is a noble person?

After learning the skills of ramen, Lai Xiaonian began to look for a fixed stall, carrying the burden to sell around, which was not a long-term solution.

He used his family's savings to buy some tools, tables, chairs and benches needed to open a fixed stall, bought pork bones, and boiled new pork soup.

There are also two types of ramen for customers, Yangchun noodles for those with poor noodles, and tonkotsu noodles for those who have a little more money to choose from.

In the morning, he set up a stall on the side of the street where there were many regular customers, and in the evening, he came to set up a stall in the small food square of Zhouqiao Night Market, and his parents also followed him to help him.

In the beginning, there was not much improvement in business, there were so many regular customers in the morning, the number of bowls sold every day was almost fixed, and there was no money from the poor.

And in the night market at night, the flow of people is more, but there are more food stalls in the night market, and there is more competition.