Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Sun Aimin actually considered his sister-in-law's proposal.

According to Yuan Jie, after she fell into a coma in her previous life, Sun Aimin also experienced unemployment and selling his house.

The main reason for his unemployment was that he took too long leave during that period, which made the hotel owner somewhat dissatisfied.

Sun Aimin's salary was 3,000 yuan a month, which was considered high-income at the time. Due to his famous cooking skills, some guests would come to the hotel and specifically ask for the hotel's signature dishes made by Sun Aimin.

At that time, Sun Aimin had an apprentice named Wang Gang, who followed him for several years and learned some real skills from Sun Aimin.

During the time he was on leave, Wang Gang volunteered and said that he could basically replace Sun Aimin's position.

The boss asked Wang Gang to cook some of Sun Aimin's best signature dishes, and the color, aroma and taste were almost exactly the same.

What’s important is that Wang Gang’s previous salary was 800 yuan per month, but replacing Sun Aimin only requires a salary of 1,200 yuan, which is really a good deal.

In this way, Sun Aimin soon became an unemployed vagrant.

Yuan Jie said that this apprentice named Wang Gang did not do well later on, but after the news of the baby-swapping broke out, relying on his former master-apprentice relationship with Sun Aimin, he was hired by the Zhan Jinhua gang and became the main force in spreading rumors and slandering Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin on the Internet, and made a fortune from it.

However, there is always a price to pay for doing bad things. During the ten years of fighting against the Zhan Jinhua gang, the Sun and Yuan families collected a lot of evidence against these small minions. Before the large-scale kidnapping gang was arrested, Wang Gang was sent to prison and his illegal gains were confiscated.

Recently, hotel manager Hao Daqing contacted Sun Aimin again and said that he had something to discuss with him.

He took some time to go back to the hotel and entered the manager's office. He found that not only Hao Daqing was there, but also Wang Gang and the hotel's boss were there.

Sun Aimin asked in confusion, "What do you want to see me about?"

Wang Gang replaced Sun Aimin as the hotel's head chef. It has been almost two months now. After enjoying the power, it is very difficult for him to put down his airs. He looks like a smug villain.

When he met Sun Aimin, he no longer greeted him with a smile as before and called him "Master" all the time. Instead, he had a stern face, as if Sun Aimin owed him tens of thousands of dollars.

Sun Aimin automatically ignored this ungrateful villain and focused his eyes on manager Hao Daqing and the big boss.

Hao Daqing spoke first: "Ai Min, I haven't seen you for a while. Stop standing and sit down!"

His attitude was quite enthusiastic, completely devoid of the disgusted tone that was in place when he was fired.

Sun Aimin wanted to see what these people were up to, so he said indifferently, "Just say whatever you want to say. I'm very busy right now, and there are still many things waiting for me to do."

When Hao Daqing heard Sun Aimin say this, he thought, could it be that a competitor had poached him? He seemed to have forgotten one thing: Sun Aimin was no longer an employee of the hotel, and he was free to go wherever he wanted.

He asked Sun Aimin: "What are you busy with now? Can you chat with us? You said you were away these days and we all missed you. Why don't you consider coming back to continue working?"

When Sun Aimin heard this, he laughed. Looking at Wang Gang who was sitting next to him with a gloomy face, he had some guesses in his mind.

He touched his chin and deliberately said in a long tone: "Continue? How much are you going to pay me? If the price is right, I will consider it!"

The original salary of 3,000 yuan was already one of the best in that era. Sun Aimin asked this, which must mean he wanted more salary before he was willing to come back.

Hao Daqing thought, I didn't realize you have such a big appetite. But he didn't dare to say it out loud, so he just asked, "How much do you think is appropriate?"

Sun Aimin replied: “I don’t think any amount of money is appropriate. Think about it, the salary you paid me was already high enough, and you found someone with a better value for money, and you kicked me out.

If I ask for a higher position, I probably won't be able to do it for long. By the time those people under you steal my skills, there will be nothing for me to do. I don't have time to do this.

But if you encounter any difficulties, I can help you think of a solution! "

Sun Aimin's words hit the nail on the head. They were really in trouble.

The big boss, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up at this moment: “Xiao Sun, you are a smart man, and your cooking skills are also this!”

He gave Sun Aimin a thumbs up and continued, "We were not thoughtful enough in the previous matter. Please don't blame us. When we open a business, we must consider many aspects."

He glanced at Wang Gang and said, "Your apprentice has taught well. He has learned about 80% of his skills from you, right? But a master is a master. It will take a few more years for the apprentice to catch up with you, let alone surpass you.

You have worked here for several years, so we are old acquaintances. Even if we cannot continue to cooperate in the future, we are still friends! My brother has really encountered some troubles recently.

There is a picky customer who came here once in the first three months. He came here to do business that time and he happened to eat the dishes you cooked in our restaurant and he couldn't forget them. Now he has time recently and came here from another place just to have a taste of this dish.

The dishes Xiao Wang made look almost the same as yours, but the customers could tell from the taste that they were not made by the same person. Can you do me a favor and make another table for this customer? I will pay you."

Before Sun Aimin could speak, the big boss added, "Oh, by the way, I heard Xiao Wang say that there is a seasoning in the kitchen that you prepared yourself? Xiao Wang has been with you for several years and still hasn't learned it. Can you teach him again?"

Sun Aimin had guessed that this would happen. His seasoning was made by mixing more than 20 spices together and grinding them into a fine powder, just like the thirteen spices, but because there were many types of spices and they were precisely matched, the dishes he made had a very unique aroma.

Every time he asked the kitchen to buy the seasonings he needed, he would take them home and prepare them, then bring them back to the hotel and let the kitchen use them directly when cooking.

The amount of this seasoning that Sun Aimin makes each time is enough for the hotel kitchen to use for a month.

When Yuan Jie got into trouble, he had just made the seasoning two days ago. With the help of this seasoning, Wang Gang was able to get away with it.

When the seasoning was almost used up, he began to work out the ratios of the various seasonings on the kitchen purchase list, but after trying many times, he still couldn't get the taste right.

This made him very angry, and the young cooks and assistants in the kitchen also suffered as a result, and they became Wang Gang's punching bags every day.

He had only been the head chef for less than two months, but the people in the kitchen were already complaining. They missed the good-tempered, handsome Chef Sun who could teach them real things with all his heart.