From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 638 Confess Identity
The next morning, when Feng Zhengming and his friends got up, they smelled the fragrance as soon as they opened the door.

The people from the Ma family had already gotten up and prepared breakfast for Feng Zhengming and the others.

This really touched Feng Zhengming and others, especially Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong.

The wedding banquet has not started yet, but the Ma family has been treating Feng Zhengming and his family to delicious food and wine every day these days.

Even the breakfast this morning is different from the breakfast yesterday.

It can be seen that the Ma family really attaches great importance to Ma Qixian's wedding banquet.

So after seeing Feng Zhengming's craftsmanship, the family really hoped that Feng Zhengming could help them prepare the wedding banquet.

I saw Feng Zhengming and others coming out.

Ma's grandmother immediately greeted with a smile: "Xiao Ma, are you guys up? Hurry up and wash up, and come to eat."

Ma Qixian's mother also greeted him: "Yes, Xiao Ma, these pancakes are just out of the pan, you guys eat them first."

Feng Zhengming looked a little embarrassed.

"Grandma, Auntie, you are so polite. We are the ones who cook for your family, but you are the ones who cook for us every day. We are so embarrassed."

Grandma Ma still smiled and said, "It's okay. You guys were just passing by. I delayed you because of my eldest grandson's wedding. We are sorry to bother you."

I have to say that the people in the Ma family are really very nice.

It can be seen that they are usually very nice to others.

So Ma Guoqiang’s house is considered the most beautiful in the village.

The key point is that Ma Guoqiang and his wife can take such good care of their parents.

From the cheerful expressions of the Ma family’s grandparents, it can be seen that the two elderly people live a fairly stable life.

Ma Guoli arrived just after I had breakfast.

"Xiao Ma, why don't we go to the market again today? Maybe we can buy some pork elbows."

Before Feng Zhengming could speak, Grandma Ma spoke first.

"Okay, don't go. We don't have that much. Just share the pork you have. Xiao Ma and the others just had breakfast. It's too tiring for you to pull them along."

Grandma Ma’s words surprised Feng Zhengming and the others.

As a result, Ma Guoli also agreed with his mother's opinion.

"Okay, then I'll go around the village myself and buy it if I can. If not, I'll divide the elbows and do what Xiao Ma said yesterday."

Only then did Feng Zhengming have the chance to speak.

"Uncle, you don't have to go. I contacted a friend today and he should be able to deliver the things to us."

After hearing what Feng Zhengming said, everyone in the Ma family looked at him strangely.

Ma's grandmother asked, "Xiao Ma, you said you contacted your friends and asked them to send something over? What did they send?"

Feng Zhengming smiled and replied, "Grandma, I went to the city yesterday and called my friends. They said they could help me buy pork elbows and some other things. They will deliver them to us today."

These words made the Ma family even more stunned.

For a moment, the people in the Ma family really couldn’t tell whether what Feng Zhengming said was true or not.
Not long after, a man came to the door of the Ma family, panting and trotting.

"Feng, is Chef Feng here?"

I heard someone outside the door calling "Chef Feng".

Ma Guoli went out immediately and looked at the stranger who ran to the door panting.

He immediately responded: "My family's last name is Ma, there is no one named Feng, and there is no such thing as Chef Feng. Did you come to the wrong place?"

The person at the door was stunned, and then repeated the address he had received.

Ma Guoli was also stunned when he heard this.

"Is it really my brother's house?"

At this time, Feng Zhengming came out.

"Yes, that's it. Didn't they say it would be delivered in the afternoon? How come it was delivered this morning?"

When the other party saw Feng Zhengming, he immediately smiled and walked forward to shake hands with Feng Zhengming.

"I heard that you, Chef Feng, were in a hurry to use it. My car was heading north, so I turned here. The stuff is at the entrance of the village. I'll go and get it for you."

Feng Zhengming quickly followed the other party: "Let's go together."

Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong, who were still in the Ma family yard, heard what happened and hurried out.

Under Ma Guoli's surprised gaze, Feng Zhengming and the others followed the people who came to the door of their house and left the village.

Not long after, Feng Zhengming and his friends returned from the village entrance carrying large and small bags of things.

The people from the Ma family watched Feng Zhengming and his team carry back a bunch of things in bags.

The whole family was stunned.

Only after Feng Zhengming sent the delivery man away did he return to the Ma family.

This time, the Ma family looked at him and didn't know how to start the conversation.
Obviously, the Ma family now knows that Feng Zhengming is not called "Ma Ming".

Then contact the delivery person and call him "Chef Feng".

Look at the large and small packages that were delivered.

No matter how dumb the people of the Ma family are, they can probably guess who the person in front of them is at this time, right?

In the entire province of Qilu today, is there a young man who can be called "Chef Feng"? There must be only one person.

Feng Zhengming.

Ma Guoqiang's youngest daughter finally couldn't help but speak first.

"You, are you really Feng Zhengming? The champion of the Shandong cuisine national cooking competition?"

Seeing that his identity had been revealed, Feng Zhengming was too embarrassed to continue hiding it.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide my identity. I just didn't want to cause you any trouble. And this time I really wanted to help your family organize this wedding banquet."

The people of the Ma family were silent again.

After a long while, Ma's grandmother spoke again: "Oh, you are really the top scholar. How can we let you organize the wedding banquet for our family?"

When grandma said this, the Ma family was in an uproar.

The whole family was very polite to Feng Zhengming.

They all expressed their gratitude to Feng Zhengming, and their words were even a little incoherent.

Ma Guoli, on the other hand, was relatively calm. He stood aside and thought for a while.

"You are the top chef, so, how much should we pay you?"

Feng Zhengming smiled and refused: "Uncle, no need to pay. I never intended to charge you. I have been eating and drinking for free in your house these few days. I will prepare a wedding banquet for you as a reward."

After hearing what Feng Zhengming said, Grandpa Ma spoke up.

"No, no, you are the top chef, how can we not pay you?"

The people in the Ma family also said that they must pay the wages.

Feng Zhengming still refused with a smile.

"You really don't need to pay me. You can just think of me as someone who came out for a trip and passed by your village. I had some free time and felt like showing off my skills here."

After hearing this, the people from the Ma family didn’t know what to say?
Ding Yuan spoke up at this time: "You don't have to be embarrassed. The chef doesn't do anything rashly. He prepared a wedding banquet for your family because he really likes the atmosphere of your family."

Gao Yongfu echoed: "Yes, your family is really united. The chef said he would give your family a reward."

Hou Dong couldn't help but say, "The chef usually charges a lot for preparing a wedding banquet."

Feng Zhengming quickly stopped Hou Dong and stopped him from continuing.

"Okay, Hou Dong, that was in Quancheng, in Huiquanlou. This is in someone else's village, and everything is provided by them. They also feed us with good food and drinks every day. Preparing a wedding banquet for them is nothing."

Hou Dong also realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant."

Seeing this situation, the Ma family also understood that Feng Zhengming would definitely not accept the money. Moreover, Feng Zhengming was such a powerful master chef.

He even bought back the pork elbows that the Ma family didn't buy.

I also bought some other things for the Ma family that they had not prepared.

It has to be said that the Ma family felt that they really might not be able to pay so much money.

The key point is that even if money is given, it seems to be not enough to compare with this friendship.

Finally, it was Ma Guoli who spoke up: "Thank you, Chef Zhuangyuan, for preparing this wedding banquet for my nephew. In the future, as long as you need my help, I will definitely help you. I will do anything for you."

Feng Zhengming didn't take Ma Guoli's words to heart at the moment.

He always felt that this wedding banquet should be held for the Ma family.

It was just a spur of the moment idea of ​​mine to add a little fun to this trip.

It was not until many years later, when Feng Zhengming least expected it, that Ma Guoli returned the favor he had received today.

Ma Guoqiang pulled his son over, and the father and son promised that they would help as long as they could in the future.

Feng Zhengming smiled and agreed: "Okay, if I need you in the future, I will definitely not be polite to you."

After revealing his identity, all the necessary preparations for the wedding banquet were completed.

The next period of time is from morning to evening.

Feng Zhengming brought Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu, Hou Dong and the Ma family together.

It can be said that they went all out and carefully prepared all kinds of dishes for the wedding banquet.

Some dishes need to be cut, stewed, and braised in advance.

Feng Zhengming almost always cooks the food himself and prepares everything in advance.

Working with Feng Zhengming also allows everyone to witness his rough style of cooking large quantities of food at one time.

For example, for the elbow, Feng Zhengming asked someone to follow him outside the village.

Next to the small pond outside the village.

Just build a fire pit with stones.

Then the fire is lit with wood.

Then put a large wire mesh grate on top and put all the elbows on it to roast.

The surfaces of the elbows were all burnt black.

They also used iron buckets to draw water from the nearby pond and heated the water in the buckets next to the fire pit.

After the elbows are completely burnt black, soak them all in the water heated in an iron pot.

Take the opportunity to scrape and clean all the burnt black parts on the surface of the elbow.

All the elbows were scraped and cleaned, and Feng Zhengming and his team took the clean elbows back to the Ma family.

Afterwards, Feng Zhengming evenly applied honey water on the surface of each elbow.

I also used a syringe to prick the skin on the elbow.

Wait until the honey water has dried up, then fry the pork elbows one by one in the oil pan.

Fry the surface until it changes color, and then take out the elbows one by one.

Afterwards, start stewing the fried and colored pork elbows in the soup that has been prepared in advance.

The cooking method is rough throughout, not to mention that someone from the Ma family.

Even Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong had never seen him.

But Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong knew very well that Feng Zhengming's approach was correct.

Although the method is rather crude, it is indeed a very effective way to cook pork elbow.

As for making the four-happiness meatballs, the Ma family members have to help chop the meat filling.

Feng Zhengming quickly stopped them from chopping the meat.

"Don't chop it, don't chop it. Cut the meat into small dices like this. Cut all of it into small dices like this. Don't chop it into meat paste."

After Feng Zhengming demonstrated, Grandma Ma led her daughter and daughter-in-law to start dicing the meat.

The women of the Ma family worked together and cut the wood very quickly.

It didn't take long before two large basins of diced meat had been cut out.

Then Feng Zhengming roughly chopped the diced meat in a basin with a knife.

Then he started to season it. After demonstrating to Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong, he asked the three of them to pound the diced meat in the basin together.

This is real physical work, and the three young men, who had served in the military, were all sweating while doing it.

The men of the Ma family saw that it was really hard work, so they took the initiative to help replace her.

This continued until two large basins of diced meat were beaten into sticky pieces.

Feng Zhengming was teaching Grandma Ma and the other women in the Ma family how to make big meatballs.

“You can put some water on your hands, then use your palms to roll it into a ball, alternate hands, and then sprinkle a layer of flour on the surface before frying it in a pan.”

After Feng Zhengming's instruction, the Ma family members learned it quickly.

Then a group of people gathered in front of the big oil pan, made meatballs and put them into the pan.

This scene is really very interesting.

Grandma Ma said to her family with a smile.

"We will do this together during the New Year in the future. It's so much fun to work together like this."

Naturally, all the younger generations of the Ma family happily agreed.

Although they have all agreed, it is hard to say whether they can really do it in the future.

After the meatballs are fried, Feng Zhengming puts them into the prepared stew.

In this way, the two main dishes of Four Happiness Meatballs and Pork Elbow are ready.

Completed two important dishes.

It can be said that the wedding banquet is already half completed.

For the people in the village, a wedding banquet is considered a success if there are four-happiness meatballs and pork elbows.

As for other dishes like beef, pork ribs, and various types of chicken and fish, they are actually considered supporting roles on the banquet.

Next, Feng Zhengming fried the carp himself.

All the carps were marked with beautiful patterns by him.

Then after coating with batter, fry it in a pan until it is set and then take it out.

The fish will not be fried completely until crispy at this time.

Just fry all the fish first, and then fry them again until crispy at the wedding banquet tomorrow. Then pour the fried sweet and sour sauce on them, and you can serve the sweet and sour carp directly on the table.

Feng Zhengming and his team, together with the Ma family, were busy all day long until the evening.

Finally, I have prepared everything that needs to be prepared.

Looking at the more than fifty tables of sumptuous dishes prepared by Ma Guoqiang's family.

Ding Yuan, Gao Yongfu and Hou Dong couldn't help but sigh that this wedding banquet was really unique.

The Ma family expressed their gratitude to Feng Zhengming and others again.

Instead of asking Feng Zhengming and the others to continue helping with the cleanup, they let the four of them eat and have a good rest.

The remaining things that needed to be packed up were all packed up by the Ma family themselves.

Feng Zhengming knew that the people in the Ma family would not be able to sleep well that night.

(End of this chapter)