The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 155 Teaching and Staff Welfare

The whole roasted pig's head is rosy in color and has a complete sauce color. Qinhuai does not need to use force when picking it up with chopsticks. It feels like just a little force and a slight push, and a piece of fat but not greasy, well-cooked, and chewy pig's head meat will come out.

The meat is also coated in a gelatinous sauce.

The taste is quite mellow.

Very domineering.

This is a standard banquet dish, salty with sweetness, heavy in oil and salt, full of fat and energy, with a dark color and a strong taste. Both visually and sensorily, it can give people the most primitive joy of eating meat.

It is completely different in style from the crab meat lion head and the braised silver carp head. If Qin Huai was an ordinary person who had never eaten the three-head banquet, he would definitely not think that these three dishes could appear at the same banquet.

But now, when Qin Huai took a bite of steamed bun and a bite of meat, and the carbohydrates and fats were fully blended, he felt that this was how it should be.

Delicious is king!

I ate Qinhuai steamed buns and pork head alternately and could not stop. After every few bites of meat, I had to eat some stir-fried vegetables to clear my mouth, so as to avoid eating too much greasy food and having acid reflux the next day.

Qin Luo had experienced this kind of thing before.

When Qin Luo was in the first grade of junior high school, there was a period of time when he was particularly craving for pork elbows. It might be because he saw a TV series in which the protagonist ate a big pork elbow, and he kept clamoring to eat it.

Qin Congwen made a promise to Qin Luo that if she could improve by 10 places in the final exam, he would take her to eat. Unexpectedly, Qin Luo really improved by 11 places in the final exam, exceeding the target and winning the pork elbow.

Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong didn't have time, so they asked Qin Huai to take Qin Luo there. As a result, the restaurant was not chosen well. The pork elbow in the restaurant Qin Luo chose was a little greasy, so Qin Huai only ate two bites. Qin Luo ate the whole pork elbow that was as big as his face.

Then I got tired of eating it, had acid reflux, vomiting and diarrhea, and gastroenteritis. On the first day of the holiday, I went to the hospital to get an IV drip.

From then on, Qin Luo never mentioned the word "elbow" again.

That was probably the only time in Qin Luo's life that he was injured by eating something.

Having seen negative examples, Qin Huai seemed very reserved when eating the roasted whole pig's head. He was not like he was at the welcoming banquet the night before, when he was so full that he felt the taste of food coming up as soon as he opened his mouth, and he only ate three steamed buns.

Qin Huai felt that he was really different. He had seen the world and could just taste such delicious food.

The remaining roasted whole pig head was not wasted. If Zheng Siyuan couldn't finish it, Huang Anyao would have some. The young master was not picky. As long as there was food, he didn't mind adding the leftovers.

The young master even finished off the last bit of soup in the dish by dipping it up with his steamed buns.

When Huang Shengli arrived at the kitchen, he saw his own son looking so miserable that he almost licked the plate.

Huang Shengli: …

Is the guy in front of him really his biological son?
Didn't I pick the wrong one back then?
He has been eating and drinking plenty of food and drink over the years, so how could he become so useless now?
Huang Shengli expressed his incomprehension, but he had no choice but to accept it. After all, he only had this one son and there was no way to change him even if he wanted to.

Huang Shengli showed his signature teacher smile and said in a warm voice, "Xiao Qin, how are you today? Are you adapting to the work?"

"I heard that Gong Liang added you on WeChat at noon? If he harasses you on WeChat, just pretend you didn't see it and don't reply to him. If he sends you a red envelope, just accept it. If you have any problems, feel free to come to me. Zheng Da and I will help you solve it."

When Qin Huai heard Huang Shengli say this, he knew that he and Gong Liang were really childhood friends.

Money can be collected, but work cannot be done. There is nothing to criticize about this, this is a true childhood friend.

"Today we are going to learn how to stir-fry vegetables in a new way," Huang Shengli said, signaling with his eyes to his apprentices to clear a few stoves.

Soon, the stove was cleared and the vegetables were brought in and processed.

"Today you not only watched me cooking, but also watched others cooking. I remember that you have a good relationship with Huang Jia, Dong Shi, and Dong Li. You should also be familiar with Wang Jun. Let's have another one... Lao San. You should have talked to Qi Tian as well. That's all."

Huang Shengli's third apprentice Qi Tian and Qin Huai are really unfamiliar with each other. Qi Tian's family is a family of chefs. He learned the cooking skills from his elders by practicing basic skills since he was a child. Later, he became Huang Shengli's apprentice through connections. Among Huang Shengli's disciples, his level is second only to Huang Jia.

He has a cold face and doesn't talk much. Qin Huai and him have basically no interaction. During the two days he stayed in the kitchen of Huangji, he said no more than 5 sentences.

Huang Shengli didn't let Qin Huai do it, and asked Qin Huai to stand aside and watch as the people he named fried vegetables one by one.

Huang Jia started first.

As Huang Shengli's top disciple, Huang Jia has received 80% of Huang Shengli's teachings. He can cook top dishes such as roasted whole pig's head, which is the most challenging for fire skills, and can also do basic training such as stir-frying vegetables.

Not to mention that he had just fried a plate of vegetables for Qin Huai as a staff meal at noon today.

Huang Jia’s fried vegetables were quite beautiful, just as delicious as the staff dishes served at noon.

The movements are beautiful, the control is beautiful, the flipping of the spoon is beautiful, the dish coming out of the pot is beautiful, and the food in the pot is also beautiful.

If you have to find something wrong, it's that his vegetables may not be perfect.

However, to make a perfect plate of stir-fried vegetables, one must control the heat and time to the millimeter. Even Huang Shengli cannot guarantee that every plate of vegetables he stir-fries will be perfect.

In a sense, there is no perfect dish in this world, and you can find problems if you want to, because you never know where a great chef will pop up and make a more perfect dish.

"Try it." Huang Shengli asked Qin Huai to taste the dish.

Qinhuai tried it and it was just as delicious as the one at lunch.

Huang Jia leaves the stage and Qi Tian comes on.

Qi Tian stir-fried vegetables with an expressionless face.

His movements when frying vegetables were not as beautiful as Huang Jia's, but they were cleaner and neater. Compared with Huang Jia, Qi Tian was a more pragmatic chef.

Many chefs like to learn some fancy skills. They don’t necessarily have to use them, but they can show off when they can be used.

But Qi Tian is obviously not that kind of chef. When showing off their cooking skills, chefs usually make their movements more casual without affecting the quality of the food in the pot. Qi Tian is completely the opposite. His movements are not casual at all. It feels like he has 100 plates of vegetables to fry, so he has to hurry up and work.

Soon, Qi Tian’s stir-fried vegetables were out of the pot.

The stir-fried green vegetables are equally beautiful, and even prettier than Huang Jia’s.

While Qi Tian was working quickly, he even took the time to arrange the dish slightly.

"Try it." Huang Shengli said.

Qin Huai tasted it.

good to eat.

It tastes different from Huang Jia’s greens.

In terms of taste, Qi Tian’s stir-fried vegetables are crisper, and the degree of crispness is well controlled. It’s the kind of crispness that would be a big mess if it’s not cooked through.

Qi Tian left calmly and Wang Jun started to stir-fry vegetables.

As Huang Shengli's disciple with the worst cooking skills, Wang Jun's stir-fried vegetables lived up to his reputation.

With his level, he really can't be the stove chef at Huang Ji.

If we say that Huang Jia and Qi Tian's stir-fried vegetables have their own merits but are both equally delicious and impeccable, then Wang Jun's stir-fried vegetables can be found to have many faults.

The time of high heat was not well controlled, the action of flipping the spoon was not clean enough, so the vegetables were not heated evenly, and the juice seemed to be slightly insufficient before serving...

If I were to be picky, I could find at least 10 problems with this plate of vegetables.

To put it in simple terms that the general public can understand, the stir-fried vegetables are not as good as those cooked by Zheng Siyuan.

Although Zheng Siyuan is a plain pastry chef, his cooking skills are quite good, especially in basic cooking such as stir-frying vegetables.

When Zheng Siyuan was practicing cooking as a child, the amount of vegetables he fried was calculated by the basket every day.

This time, Qin Huai took the initiative to taste it without Huang Shengli telling him to do anything.

Not quite.

If you serve a plate of vegetables like this and sell it at the price listed on the menu, the customer might complain.

But it’s much better than the 10-yuan stir-fried vegetables next door to Qin’s Breakfast Shop, and the basic plates of Huang’s Restaurant are still here.

The next one is Dong Li.

Then there is Dong Shi.

Qin Huai was surprised to find that Dong Shi was not bragging. When it comes to cooking vegetables, Dong Shi is actually better than Dong Li.

Although Dong Shi chatters all day long and talks nonsense, and what he says doesn't sound very reliable, he is keen on gossip and likes to chat with people at work, but he is really capable.

You can slack off, but you can't really be a sucker.

Finally, Huang Shengli fried a plate of vegetables for Qin Huai.

When put together with the vegetables cooked by Huang Jia and Qi Tian, ​​these vegetables can instantly beat the other two’s.

A plate of stir-fried vegetables that will make picky eaters all over the world who don’t like to eat vegetables say to their mothers: “Mom, I want to eat stir-fried vegetables!”

There is no harm without comparison.

Yesterday Qin Huai knew that Huang Shengli was a good cook and that the vegetables he cooked were excellent, but he didn't feel it as intuitively as he did today.

If you are good at cooking, you can really do whatever you want.

Qin Huai began to understand why Gong Liang liked to take advantage of others so much, and would come up to him whenever he had the chance, trying to get a few delicious dishes to eat.

My childhood friend has great cooking skills, so if we can’t have a three-head banquet, three plates of stir-fried vegetables will be fine.

"Do you know why I asked each of them to have a stir-fry with you?" Huang Shengli asked.

Qin Huai thought for a moment: "Is it because each of them has his own style?"

Huang Shengli paused and thought, I have prepared so well, how can I still say my words?
Huang Shengli did not ask any more questions and said directly: "Huang Jia is my first disciple. He has been practicing basic skills with me since he was a child. I personally taught him his cooking skills, techniques, concepts, and dishes. He can be said to be the chef whose style is most similar to mine."

"Qi Tian learned his craft from a master. His style was developed before he became my apprentice. Although he has been learning from me for many years, you can clearly see that his cooking style is completely different from Huang Jia's."

"Wang Jun is a self-taught person. He used to have many bad habits. I have taught him for many years and he has improved a lot, but he still retains some habits. These habits often cause him to make small mistakes where he shouldn't make mistakes, so his cooking skills are not very advanced yet. However, he is able to endure hardships. I believe that with a few more years of practice, his cooking skills will achieve a very big breakthrough."

"You should be most familiar with Dong Shi and Dong Li. Xiao Jiu is lively and Xiao Ba is calm. They are both still very young and haven't formed their own styles yet, so their personalities are clearly reflected in their cooking skills."

"In terms of talent, Xiaojiu is much better than Xiaoba, so even if he gets a little lazy occasionally, his level is no worse than Xiaoba's. He is a chef with his own ideas, knows how to draw inferences from one example, and dares to question authority. Even if he thinks what I teach him is not good, he will secretly change it. Look at how he can flip the spoon to make it turn out, he has his own ideas."

"Xiao Ba is relatively methodical. He learns whatever he is taught and does whatever he is told. This is good, but it is also bad. In this respect, he is very similar to Huang Jia. This is also the reason why Huang Jia cannot take over my class now."

"When learning to cook, a chef should not have too many ideas of his own, but he should not be too opinionless either. The master leads the way, but the practice is up to the individual. During the learning stage, the master lays the foundation for the apprentice and teaches the apprentice how to do it. But there will come a day when the master can no longer teach. At this time, if you still expect others to teach you, it will be difficult to become a true master."

"Huang Jia only learned 80% of my level. He has no way to learn the remaining 20% ​​and has to figure it out on his own. It's the same for me. I only learned 60% to 70% of my master's level. I haven't figured out the rest in all these years."

"Zheng Da and Zheng Siyuan both told me that you are a chef who is very good at imitating others. Zheng Da even worried that if you just keep imitating others, you won't be able to develop your own style and you will encounter a lot of difficulties and suffer a lot if you really want to become famous in the future."

"I had this concern at first, but after watching you study for a day yesterday, I no longer have this concern."

Qin Huai looked at Huang Shengli.

"I don't feel like you're doing a complete imitation."

Qin Huai:?
Qin Huai wondered if Huang Shengli had an inexplicable filter when looking at him. To be honest, Qin Huai sometimes felt that his ability to imitate was terrifying.

He still can't figure out why he could imitate Zheng Siyuan's apple-faced fruit so perfectly.

"You try it." Huang Shengli said. Qin Huai started to stir-fry the vegetables.

One set after another, just like yesterday, each set had different technical errors.

Qin Huai was just dissing Wang Jun for his poor cooking skills, no wonder he is the worst cook among Huang Shengli’s nine disciples.

Now the vegetables he cooks are not as good as those cooked by Wang Jun.

When his vegetables were put together with Wang Jun's, it seemed that his were cooked very poorly.

Although his cooking was really bad.

Oh, this intermediate level is really difficult to upgrade.

But the dough seems to be upgraded.

Qin Huai was not very concerned about the skill levels and proficiency levels given by the game system, because Qin Huai knew his own level very well. He didn't even need to look at the rating of the game system. He knew whether he had made progress or regressed.

When the game system was first awakened, the speed at which one could make dough was as slow as a snail's pace, with basically no support.

For such a long time, the proficiency in dough making and seasoning has been at a ratio of 2:1. If you think about it carefully, you will know that this is totally unreasonable.

With the types of snacks Qin Huai makes every day, the dough is fermented many more times than seasoning, definitely more than twice.

Therefore, Qin Huai guessed that this proficiency is not like leveling up in a game, where you gain experience by killing monsters. Or it is a very rigorous leveling up in a game, where you lose different experiences by killing different monsters.

The more difficult the dough is, the more experience you will gain. If you just knead the dough with your eyes closed without any technical skills, you will get less experience, or even no experience.

This is reasonable from the perspective of cooking and learning. After all, no matter how hard a high school student works on mental addition and subtraction within 20, his math grades will not improve at all.

Qin Huai has been making Guoer for some time. The difficulty of making dough may be a bit high. The proficiency of this skill is increasing rapidly. It is estimated that it will be upgraded in another seven or eight days.

Qin Huai put the fried vegetables on a plate.

There is a qualitative leap between the primary and intermediate levels of heat. Is there such a leap between the intermediate and advanced levels of dough fermentation?
If he came to Huang's and practiced hard for 10 days to control the heat, but the heat remained unchanged while his dough-making skills improved by leaps and bounds, would that make the famous teacher Huang Shengli become autistic?

Qin Huai pushed these messy thoughts out of his mind and continued to concentrate on stir-frying the vegetables.

Oh, these vegetables don’t look good.

It's really hard for you to serve these poor quality vegetables on Huang's plates. You probably never serve such bad vegetables before.

Plate after plate of vegetables are produced like an assembly line.

Huang Shengli stood by without saying a word, giving any instructions or demonstrating. He just stood there quietly, looking at plate after plate of vegetables.

Dong Shi, who was watching from a distance, couldn't help but ask: "Master, why didn't you do anything after demonstrating it once?"

"He asked us to demonstrate to Qin Huai. Isn't it to show Qin Huai the wrong cases, then the correct cases and learn from the master? At this time, shouldn't we take advantage of the victory and demonstrate to Qin Huai a few more times so that he can reflect and find the mistakes?"

"I wasn't prepared when I went up to fry just now, so I didn't make many mistakes. I'm ready this time. I've prepared three common mistakes made by novices, and I'll show them to Qin Huai all at once!"

Dong Shi felt that he understood Huang Shengli's ideas very well, and when he became a master in the future and taught his disciples, he would definitely become a famous teacher.

Dong Li: ...

Dong Li was too lazy to pay attention to his younger brother. It would be a waste to give such a good cooking talent to his younger brother. It should be given to Wang Jun.

"Master didn't ask us to demonstrate wrong things to Qin Huai. He wanted Qin Huai to see how vegetables cooked by different chefs in different styles look like, and how the heat affects these basic dishes." Huang Jia, as the eldest brother, explained patiently.

"Ah?" Dong Shi shook his head. "This is too difficult. Qin Huai is a novice."

Dong Li was simply unable to bear the sight. He really wanted to drag Dong Shi inside to take a closer look at the vegetables that Qin Huai had cooked.

Say it again, what newbie?
Do you remember what kind of shit you cooked up when you were a beginner?

"Teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Different people have different teaching methods. This teaching method is not suitable for us but it is definitely suitable for Qin Huai." Huang Jia said with a smile. Seeing that Dong Shi was still leaning forward to say something, he interrupted the spell directly.

"Mr. Gong probably sent a WeChat message to Qin Huai, but Qin Huai didn't reply. He just called me and asked me when Huang Ji plans to serve new noodles and whether I can reveal tomorrow's white pastry menu."

"He also asked me about Qin Huai's situation, saying that Qin Huai must not be able to adapt to Gusu after just arriving."

"Xiaojiu, you know his style of doing things. After all, you are sweet-talker, and every year during the Chinese New Year, you get the biggest red envelope."

"Tell Qin Huai later that he should not make noodles for Mr. Gong so early in the morning, and do not tell him that Huang's breakfast is now provided, otherwise he will definitely eat three meals a day."

"If you really have nothing to do, call Mr. Gong and tell him that Master's condition is more serious. It would be best if he can't cook for two or three months. Remember to hide the fact that Master secretly went fishing a few days ago."

Dong Shi: ...

"Big Brother, I remembered that Master seemed to have asked me to go to the warehouse to take inventory. I have something to do, so I'll leave first!"

Dong Shi slipped away.

The crowd of onlookers quieted down.

Wang Jun silently gave Huang Jia a thumbs up, indicating that the eldest brother was the one who had the solution to deal with the younger disciple.

Qinhuai's teaching continues.

After he finished frying a bucket of vegetables, Huang Shengli let him take a break and then demonstrated how to fry them twice. Without saying much, he simply picked out two obvious shortcomings that Qin Huai had shown and that should be corrected, and asked Qin Huai to continue practicing.

At 4 pm, the pleasant cooking practice ended.

Qin Huai, who was so busy stir-frying the vegetables that he could hardly lift his hands, shook his arms and felt that it had been a fulfilling day.

"Don't go back yet. There's a bone-setting shop nearby where the masters are very skilled. Gong Liang has already opened a card for you and topped up 2 yuan. You should go there every two days to get a massage to relax your muscles, to prevent you from hurting your body from practicing too much." Huang Shengli said.

"Ah?" Qin Huai was confused.

No, he hadn't started to get close to Gong Liang yet, nor had he tried to build his favor with him, so how could he get the card directly?

"Every chef at Huang's has one," Huang Shengli said. "Gong Liang owns 50% of the shares of that bone-setting shop."

Qin Huai understood the self-cultivation of the sales champion.

It would be a shame to not make two noodles for Gong Liang.

"Thank you, Master Huang. You have worked hard today." Qin Huai said respectfully.

"It's my duty. I'm so lucky to have a talented student like you as my teacher. Even if I'm too sick to get up and have to move my bed to the kitchen, I'll still teach you." Huang Shengli said with a smile. Seeing that Huang Jia had already set up the small table for him to drink tea, he walked towards it.

Qin Huai went to the changing room to change clothes and went home happily.

After changing back into his regular clothes, Qin Huai opened his phone to check the newly received WeChat messages.

Gong Liang sent seven or eight messages.

Don’t read the sales champion’s nonsense for now.

The message Luo Jun sent back is more important.

Luo Jun: This means that there has been a turn for the better in his tribulation. If nothing unexpected happens, he will succeed in this life.

Eh!
Qin Huai called back directly and waited for a few seconds before Luo Jun answered.

"How long are you going to stay in that damn Gusu? I wake up on time every morning now, and there is no tangerine peel tea to drink when I wake up. I finished watching the last TV series I followed, and this fantasy drama is so ugly. The heroine has died twice, but she hasn't really died yet. Do the screenwriters nowadays know how to write a plot?" Luo Jun's voice was full of resentment for not being able to drink tangerine peel tea and annoyance because the TV series was not good to watch.

Qin Huai: "...Maybe, it will take more than two months."

"What???"

Luo Jun's voice on the other end of the phone almost pierced the sky: "More than two months, why don't you wait until I die before coming back?"

The monster who has stayed in the human world for 92 years speaks with a firm tone.

"How about you... come to Gusu and live for two months?" Qin Huai tried to adopt plan B.

Luo Jun decisively refused: "No, no."

"You'd better wait until I'm dead before coming back. What's the matter with calling?"

Qin Luo quickly said with a serious face: "I want to ask what does it mean that the tribulation has turned around?"

"That's literally what it means."

Since they were talking about serious matters, there was no more sound of the TV series on the other end of Luo Jun's phone. I guess he had pressed the pause button.

"You really have the physique to absorb monsters. You've only been in Gusu for three days and you've already met a new monster. Remember what Chen Huihong and I told you, monsters will continue to reincarnate after failing the first tribulation, gradually losing their memories until they forget everything and become like Qu Jing. You also thought you were a normal person, but some of your behaviors were affected by obsessions."

"Correct."

"Generally speaking, it is basically impossible for spirits to pass the tribulation in their last life. But in the process of reincarnation, if you are lucky, you can pass the tribulation successfully without waiting until the last life to encounter that so-called straw."

"The one you just met should be the one who gave you this opportunity."

"There are actually quite a few such spirits. When many spirits reach their third life, if they have forgotten a lot of memories, they will forget that they are spirits, but they will still have residual memories from previous lives in their minds."

"At this time, the spirit may forget its obsession, but accidentally do something that can resolve the obsession, or meet someone who can help it resolve the obsession, and then it will be in this state of awakening."

"This is probably the situation you are facing. Basically, you don't need to worry about this situation. Unless there are any twists and turns, he will definitely succeed in overcoming the tribulation in this life."

Qin Huai was still a little puzzled and asked, "This situation sounds good. There are residual memories but you won't be trapped by them. Theoretically, the success rate of overcoming the tribulation should be very high."

Luo Jun: "...This is just in theory. In most cases, people go to extremes. Either they are regarded as crazy, or they themselves think that there is something wrong with their brains. Isn't Chen Huihong a typical example?"

"Although she was a bit unlucky and her life was indeed short in the past few lives, didn't she live a normal life in one? What's the point of living a normal life? Didn't she go to extremes and die suddenly at work? Is there a normal person who can do such a thing?"

Qin Huai was somewhat convinced.

"Then I... don't really need to worry about it, right?"

"Have you triggered the mission?" Luo Jun asked.

“Triggered.”

"You may still have to take care of it. After all, you have met him. Maybe you are the twist."

Qin Huai:......

It's slander, pure slander, he just made a noodle, he didn't do anything else!

But Qin Huai certainly still had to complete the task. It was rare to encounter such a clear task, and the task reward was also good. It would be a pity not to complete it.

The most important thing is that Gong Liang is really generous, and he gave a card of a bone-setting shop worth 2 yuan. Although everyone in Huangji's kitchen has a card, which can be regarded as an employee benefit, Qin Huai is not a formal employee of Huangji.

I just don't know if if I help Gong Liang awaken, Gong Liang will repay me by designating him as one of the heirs and letting him inherit 10% of the estate.

Qin Huai walked into the bone-setting shop with good wishes.

"Huang's, Qinhuai, spend money!"

(End of this chapter)