How to properly upload images in laravel 5.6?

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Laravel

Good afternoon ! How to properly load images using standard laravel tools? First, I generate a symbolic link to the public folder in storage / app using the standard command from the php artisan storage:link documentation, then I create a symbolic link storage in the public folder. Now when my files end up in storage/app/public they will also be in public/storage. So, and now when I load the picture with the standard "store" method, this method will generate the path for me like this: "public/KMJQzZou4a6X3dZaPxtAV11j6LhpgHq8N9MpuVOg.jpeg" and, accordingly, then I will save it to the database, now the question is:$request->file('avatar')->store('public')
{{ url($kitchen->img) }}
When I want to pull this image out of the database, its path will lead to publc/...imageName, but the funny thing is that I don’t have any public folder in the public folder)) There is only storage. I would be happy if you suggest options how to fix it))