Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

After visiting the front hall, Sun Aimin and his son visited the kitchen. Sun Aimin was very strict about the hygiene management of the kitchen and set up corresponding work standards for the two chefs, Li Haisheng and Sun Qi, and even the two helpers.

From its opening to now, in just over a month, Sun Aimin's Huimin Restaurant has become very popular among surrounding residents because of its affordable ingredients, good taste, and frequent special dishes.

In addition, the Luo family spared no effort to help promote the restaurant, and some customers from far away came to visit. This made Huimin Hotel's business very popular, with a high turnover rate and daily sales of nearly 10,000 yuan.

It would be very rare for a small shop like this to achieve a daily turnover of 10,000 yuan even after 20 years.

At ten o'clock, the shop opened on time. It was not yet lunchtime, but several tables of diners had already arrived. They were worried that they would not be able to get a seat if they arrived at noon.

Sun Aimin asked Grandpa Sun: "Dad, my restaurant occasionally launches special dishes. Now that you are here, are you interested in showing off your skills?"

Mr. Sun has been cooking for decades, but when it comes to cooking, he still gets excited. He enjoys the process of creating delicious food.

Seeing his youngest son asking this, the old man really couldn't sit still anymore and was ready to do something big later.

He hasn't shown off his skills for quite a while, ever since he grew old a few years ago and stopped following his two sons to prepare village banquets.

He thought for a moment and said, "I'll go to the kitchen first to see what ingredients are available and then decide what to cook!"

As he spoke, he walked quickly towards the kitchen.

He was planning to make a dessert today. Seeing that the kitchen had glutinous rice flour, white sesame seeds, chocolate lava fillings and other ingredients used for making desserts, he decided to make an innovative dish called "Chocolate Lava Sesame Balls".

He first mixed glutinous rice flour with some white sugar, added hot water and stirred until there was no dry powder. Then he kneaded the flour into a smooth dough, put the dough into a bowl, covered it with a lid, and let it rest for 20 minutes to allow the water and flour to fully blend.

Then, take out some dough, roll it into long strips, pinch it into several small pieces of even size, flatten the small pieces with your hands, wrap the chocolate filling in it using the method of wrapping glutinous rice balls, and roll them into smooth small balls.

Finally, roll a layer of white sesame seeds on the surface of the round ball, and fry it slowly in a pan over low heat until the sesame balls float and swell up and the surface is golden brown. The snack is then ready.

Grandpa Sun had made this kind of exploding glutinous rice balls before, but this was the first time he used chocolate filling.

After it was made, several people in the kitchen tasted one each. The glutinous rice balls were crispy and sweet, not sticky to the teeth, and hollow inside. When you take a bite, you can see the chocolate filling still flowing, and the color is very tempting.

Grandpa Sun prepared all the ingredients, wrapped the glutinous rice balls in advance, covered them with plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. When diners ordered food, they could just take it out and fry it over low heat, which saved time and effort, and also had the three major elements of food: color, fragrance and taste.

Sun Aimin immediately wrote today's special dishes on the small blackboard at the cash register. The price was five yuan, and there were ten in each serving. With such ingredients and such a price, it could be said to be quite affordable.

Soon, some customers ordered special dishes and praised them after eating them. Some diners felt that one portion was not enough and packed up another portion to take away when paying the bill.

The diners’ affirmation brought Mr. Sun a great sense of accomplishment, and he kept smiling.

After Sun Aimin picked up Sun Mian from school at noon, Grandpa Sun suddenly had another idea. In addition to frying some sesame balls for his grandson, he also made honey-glazed yam and boneless chicken wings with potato core for him. Sun Mian ate with great relish, and his little mouth was as white as honey. He praised Grandpa Sun so much that his face was full of wrinkles.

Looking at the lobby that is constantly packed during lunch and dinner time, and the bills at the cash register ranging from dozens to hundreds, Mr. Sun is impressed by the spending power of city dwellers.

He feels that even though reform and opening up have been going on for nearly 20 years, there is still no golden age of making money everywhere. For craftsmen like them who have passed down the craft from generation to generation, there will definitely be a broad world waiting for them to fight and explore.

He is old and can no longer fight, but his family is prosperous, with many children and grandchildren. They are still young and there are endless possibilities in the future.

This further strengthened his determination to let the eldest and second sons move to the city for development. After returning this time, this matter will soon be put on the agenda.

In the evening, Sun Aimin asked Sun Qi and Li Haisheng to work in the store as usual and close it at nine o'clock in the evening. He then took Sun Mian, his father and brother to the Luo family again.

The Luo family's nanny has learned a lot of cooking knowledge and skills from Sun Aimin during this period, and her cooking skills have improved greatly. Tonight, this meal was prepared by the nanny alone.

After the two families finished their meal, Luo Changgeng and Old Master Luo took all the Sun family members upstairs and into the study.

Sun Aimin had already informed the Luo family in advance about what they were going to discuss today. At this time, the Luo family father and son were already eager to see the treasure hidden by the Sun family.

When he got upstairs, Grandpa Sun unstitched the stitches of his bulging backpack layer by layer, and then removed several layers of cloth before revealing the contents.

The ancient book was about one finger thick, undamaged, antique, and full of age. It was rare that it could be preserved so well after hundreds of years.

When Old Master Luo saw this ancient book, he could not hide his excitement. He gently stroked the cover of the ancient book and muttered: "This treasure is really rare, but I don't know how valuable the contents inside are."

Then, he carefully turned the pages of the book, and what caught his eyes was neatly written in small regular script, mixed with many traditional Chinese characters.

Old Master Luo had read quite a few ancient Chinese medical books, so he had no difficulty reading them.

It records many medical records and the corresponding medicinal diet recipes. In addition to the medicinal diet, it also records some lost Chinese medicine recipes, with medical records, treatment plans and treatment results.

Sun and his son did not know medicine, so they had never read this ancient book and did not know that there was such a treasure in it.

For the Luo father and son, it was like a gold ingot falling from the sky and hitting them on the head.

Old Master Luo said, "This is really a good thing. Some of the prescriptions in it are only heard to have miraculous effects, but they have long been extinct. I have lived to this age and have never seen them. I didn't expect that they were hidden in here. Brother Sun, tell me, is the bond between our two families deep?"

Grandpa Sun smiled and said, "This is not an ordinary fate. Originally, no one in my family had studied medicine for several generations, and I knew nothing about Chinese medicine. I was worried that I would let down my ancestors.

Who would have thought that our little grandson, who was stolen from us, would end up becoming a doctor? It is better to give it to you than to keep it in our house. Besides, my little grandson wants to learn from you, so it can be considered as passing it on to him, which does not violate the teachings of our ancestors. "