The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 186 The Birth of King Juan

"Do you have any more Sanding Buns?"

"Youyou, how long will it take for the next batch of Sanding Bao to be ready?"

"All the steamers have been used, haven't they?"

"Xiao Huang, send another announcement to the group ordering group. Our store has stopped accepting group orders since 45 minutes ago. The Sanding Buns in our store are overwhelmed with orders today, and we don't have the staff to deliver the food. Also, let me emphasize that the Sanding Buns will only be sold until 1:30 p.m., not even a minute later!"

"Hello, hello, I'm Huang Xi, the foreman of Yunzhong Canteen. Oh, the ingredients have been delivered, right? That's great, you guys are just in time. I'll have someone go get them now."

"Xiao Huang, Xiao Chu, find two people who don't know how to make dumplings to go outside to receive the goods, and then change clothes and go to the kitchen to help prepare the ingredients. Is Xiao Liu back? I remember she makes pretty good dumplings."

"It's said that there are only two subway stops left."

"Okay, everyone has worked hard today, so get moving and don't let your own links down. Master Qin said that everyone who works today will get double pay, and those who come back from vacation will get triple pay. When Master Qin returns to Gusu in a few days, we'll have a day off for team building, and we can go to the hot springs and relax."

"..."

Under Huang Xi's arrangement, the Yunzhong Canteen, which might have been busy and anxious, prepared and served meals in an orderly manner. There were long queues inside and outside the canteen. The queue for buying buns stretched from the canteen to the roadside outside the canteen, and there was no end in sight.

Among the people queuing, there are white-haired old men and women, healthy-looking grandpas and aunts, the owner of the convenience store opposite, office workers who took half an hour off from get off work to grab the buns, passers-by who just happened to be unaware of what everyone is queuing for but were really free so joined the queue, and errand boys who have important responsibilities.

When the Sanding buns were in great demand, Qin Huai didn't expect that Huang Xi had no experience and except for limiting the purchase quantity of the first batch of buns, there was no purchase limit at all afterwards.

The unlimited purchase has brought savings to the hospital's orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, emergency, inpatient department, and gate security guards. The errand boys return with full loads, and when the next batch of orders is received, the Yunzhong Canteen will restart the rule of limiting purchases to five per person.

The errand boy accepted this well and called the order owners one by one to inform them. The order owners were used to it (there was a purchase limit on tangerine peel tea before) and canceled the order and placed a new one.

Then the errand orders for the Yunzhong Canteen line really exploded.

At 11:30, at least half of the people in the queue were errand boys wearing yellow and blue clothes.

But this is just the beginning of the real explosion of orders.

Because the office workers in the office buildings near Yunzhong Canteen usually get off work at 12 or even 12:30, and the lunch break time is determined by the company's conscience. It can be as short as an hour, as long as an hour and a half, or even as long as 40 minutes. Those office workers are the main consumers of lunch and dinner in Yunzhong Canteen on weekdays.

It can be said that if Huang Xi had not made a good overall plan, arranging all the kitchen helpers and waiters in the lobby who could help out and make dumplings to work in the kitchen to assist Qin Huai, and applying to Qin Huai to double the daily salary, calling back to work the employees who were on leave today, and contacting the supplier in advance to ask them to rush to deliver another batch of ingredients for the Sanding Buns, the Yunzhong Canteen would probably be in chaos today.

These are all things Qin Huai knew Huang Xi had done.

Qin Huai, who is at the center of the storm and works like crazy but is not under much pressure: He really found a treasure when he recruited Huang Xi!

After working at Huangji for such a long time, the best business philosophy Qin Huai learned is that professional work should be left to professionals.

He is a chef and his only responsibility is to make snacks.

Huang Xi is the foreman of the Yunzhong Canteen, so it would be right to entrust the overall arrangement of trivial matters to Huang Xi.

The same is true in Huang Ji, the chef is in charge of the kitchen, the foreman is in charge of the lobby, and the only one who is not capable of doing the job but is forced to do so is Huang Anyao. But it cannot be blamed entirely on him, after all, he is the young master and can't cook, if he doesn't participate in management affairs, the young master will really have no face at all.

The result of forcing the young master to participate in management affairs is that the marketing plan is extremely poor, the suppliers are not the best, and the locust flower honey they buy is not even as good as the one that Grandma Ding gets.

Sometimes Qin Huai deeply felt that Huang Anyao was not suitable to be the young master, and Huang Anyao was more suitable to be Xu Cheng - after becoming financially independent, he would eat, drink, play and write food reviews every day.

Although Huang Anyao can't cook, he is quite good at eating. He is very knowledgeable and has a lot to say about delicious food.

Huang Xi was a qualified foreman, so Qin Huai was very confident in handing over everything except making dim sum to her. Even if the cafeteria and outside the cafeteria were already crowded with long queues, Qin Huai could calmly direct all the helpers in the kitchen to do this and that in an orderly manner and serve meals in batches.

Master chef Qin Huai works calmly.

The helpers were not calm at all.

Helper No. 1 Qin Congwen and Helper No. 2 Zhao Rong looked at Qin Huai's indifferent expression and skillful movements, and they felt so distressed that they were about to cry.

Qin Congwen held the basin and mixed the stuffing frantically. Because he worked too hard, beads of sweat covered his forehead. Looking at Zhao Rong, who was making dumplings so hard that her hands were almost covered with afterimages, he said with heartache: "Huai Huai has suffered so much in Gusu for more than a month!"

Zhao Rong chimed in enthusiastically, "When did our Qin's breakfast shop ever sell so many buns? Huai Huai always worked for two hours and rested for one hour. Fortunately, I didn't listen to my brother and send Huai Huai to that Wei Guan. Huai Huai was only in high school at that time. If he had been sent there, he would have suffered so much!"

Qin Congwen yawned and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it's a good thing I didn't send him off. I noticed it the day Huai Huai came back. He was so tired and thin!"

"It's all my fault. I don't have good skills and can't help Huaihuai knead the dough!" Qin Congwen wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet.

An Youyou, who had been standing next to Zhao Rong making dumplings, said: …

Was her memory inaccurate, or was it because the weather was colder and Qin Huai was wearing more clothes? Why did she feel that Qin Huai was not thinner but a little fatter this time?

and……

An Youyou turned her right hand around, which was a little cramped from making buns for several hours straight. She glanced at Zhao Rong, who had made more buns than she did, and then looked at Qin Congwen, who had been making buns before and was now frantically mixing the stuffing.

There are also Chen An and Li Hua who have been dicing and never stopped.

Pei Xing was staring at the cooking temperature of the fillings in several large pots with his eyes almost popping out.

Not to mention the other helpers who never had names, who received double wages today and extra commissions. Just looking at the sales volume and unit price of Sanding Bao, even someone who has failed math since first grade can imagine how high the commissions will be today.

Although everyone knows that as an ordinary helper, you will definitely not get much commission.

but……

What if?
To be fair, Yunzhong Canteen does not treat its employees harshly when it comes to paying commissions. As a helper, An Youyou was able to get a salary of 8000 yuan last month because she worked long enough and received a high commission.

Motivated by money, everyone works very hard and wants to achieve 150% efficiency.

Under such circumstances, An Youyou felt that Qin Huai didn't seem that busy or tired.

Qin Huai is a master chef and only needs to be responsible for technical work. He will not be responsible for the real dirty and tiring work.

Thinking of this, An Youyou's eyes lit up.

That’s great, she wants to be a master chef in the future!
In this way, she can put in the least effort and earn the most money. One day, she will be able to afford a house in Yunzhong Community and move in to become a homeowner. She will no longer have to ride an electric scooter to work, but can walk directly to work!
An Youyou continued to make dumplings excitedly.

Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong noticed that An Youyou suddenly became very excited: ...

Did the kid drink coffee?
Next time I have to tell Youyou that we who sell breakfast cannot drink coffee at this time. Getting up at two or three in the morning is already very early, and drinking coffee is not enough for the body.

By 2 o'clock, when the sales were completely finished, every employee in the Yunzhong Canteen was so tired that they almost collapsed on their chairs.

Huang Xi announced that he would not sell Sanding buns after 1:30 p.m., but the kitchen could not really close at 1:30 p.m. The wrapped buns had to be steamed, the kitchen utensils and machines had to be cleaned, and the kitchen waste had to be disposed of.

Even Huang Ji, whose business hours have long been criticized, stops taking orders after 1 p.m., and the kitchen staff usually have to wait until after 1:30 p.m. to get off work. Pei Xing felt as if he had returned to the days when he was an apprentice at Zhiweiju.

As a distant relative of Pei Shenghua, a famous Huaiyang cuisine master, Pei Xing was able to enter Zhiweiju through connections and also found a good master.

The price of being a disciple of a famous teacher is competition. It is very competition, especially for those disciples of famous teachers who are not talented enough and have to enter through the back door.

Those who are talented enough only need to work 12 hours a day, while those who are not talented enough have to work 13, 14 or even 15 hours.

Moreover, the kitchen doesn't care who you are related to. Everyone who comes in is an apprentice or a disciple, and you make a living by your skills. People with less skills are more likely to be laughed at, and need to work harder, so they are more likely to become the king of the roll.

Pei Xing just couldn't stand making dim sum every day in Zhiweiju, and he wanted to make dim sum 365 days a year. When he felt that he had been successful enough, he looked at his colleagues and found that they were more successful than him, so he decided to go back to his hometown and find a job that paid well, was leisurely and close to home.

The money was good and it was close to home, but it was free...

Pei Xing admitted that the days when Qin Huai was away were indeed quite leisurely.

But today, Pei Xing felt like he was back to a familiar battlefield. He relived the hard times when he was an apprentice. Even the work he was doing today was the same as when he was an apprentice. The chef in the kitchen was the same as every chef he had met when he was an apprentice.

Calm, cool, gentle, and skilled.

Damn it, Pei Xing felt that he couldn’t control his urge to roll at all.

He was obviously very tired now, so tired that he just wanted to sit on a chair and rest. But when he saw Qin Huai standing up and walking towards the steamer, he just wanted to rush over to give Qin Huai a cup of tea and say: Master Qin, you must be tired, have some tea and take a rest.

He didn't even want to talk about Master Xiao Qin.

Because Master Xiao Qin is disrespectful to the master chef's skills.

Pei Xing lay in the chair in pain, looked up to the sky and sighed deeply.

Li Hua, slumped in another chair: ...?
Is it so tiring? Is it so difficult to curl? Who taught you?
Li Hua asked Chen An in a low voice: "What kind of tea does our Master Qin like to drink? Pu'er, Longjing, Tieguanyin or herbal tea? I remember that Master Qin is from Guangdong Province."

Chen An: "...I'm not sure about this, but if you want herbal tea, Master Qin might prefer hand-made lemon tea."

Li Hua: ???
Chef Qin, who loves hand-made lemon tea, walked to the steamer and wanted to find the helper who set the alarm clock to determine the time when the buns would be ready to come out of the pot, so he asked when the last batch of buns would be ready.

The last batch of buns were employee benefits.

Everyone was exhausted after working the whole morning and afternoon, and could be said to have not eaten or drunk anything. Qin Huai specially left the last batch of buns for everyone to eat all at once.

There is also tangerine peel tea, which is cooking in the pot. You can drink as many cups as you want. If you can’t finish it, you can pack it up and take it home.

If you think that the three-diced buns and tangerine peel tea are not enough, there are 40 servings of pigeon stewed with Tianma in the stew pot. Qin Huai knows that the taste of pigeon stewed with Tianma is average, but the therapeutic effect is good, it is a food tonic, improves eyesight, and is good for the eyes.

The biggest problem with Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon at the moment is probably that the level made by Qinhuai is not very high, resulting in low buff production efficiency.

Qinhuai’s current cooking method for pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata can only produce D+ grade at best, and it cannot even produce C- grade.

If the heat is not good, the quality of the stew is doomed to fail. Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon is also Qin Huai's least popular dish in Huang Ji. The sales volume is mediocre and only 40 to 50 servings are sold every day. People who order this dish basically do so to take care of Chef Qin's mood.

According to the meticulous analysis of Huang Ji diners, Chef Xiao Qin's pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata does not taste very good, but the ingredients are sufficient, the price is very cheap, and it appears on the menu every day, which shows that Chef Xiao Qin himself likes this dish very much.

It is just because of the mismatch of profession that the quality of the dishes is poor. For Chef Qin, stewed pigeon with gastrodia elata is not an ordinary dish, it is a hobby, a passion, and Chef Qin's pursuit in red cases.

Although it doesn't taste good, it is really good value for money.

Master Qin works so hard to make snacks for everyone every day. What's wrong with having a few hobbies?
It’s not expensive, so just order one and support Chef Qin’s interests and hobbies. Is it difficult to make him not feel so disappointed?
According to people familiar with the matter, old diners living near Huang Ji have a special group for ordering Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon. There are subsidies for ordering Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon at Huang Ji. The subsidy is so high that group members can order a serving of Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon with the money they would spend on buying a pigeon at the vegetable market.

There are only two requirements for joining the group: proof of consumption at Huang Ji for more than three consecutive years, and a guarantee to order Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon once a week.

According to another chef named Dong who did not want to reveal his name, the group owner's surname may be Gong.

Putting this digression aside, Qin Huai felt that the Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon he made should have a buff that took effect.

However, the buff of improving eyesight and calming the mind is more abstract. Improving eyesight can be understood as relieving eye fatigue and making the eyes feel comfortable. Calming the mind can be understood as being in a good mental state. The above can all be attributed to a good rest, so people feel refreshed.

Everyone knows that stewing pigeon with Gastrodia elata is a food tonic, but whether it is effective and whether you believe it or not is a different matter.

Qin Huai walked to the steamer: "The last batch of three... Ouyang?! Why are you here?"

Ouyang had been in the kitchen for three hours, squatting beside the steamer without moving, with eight different alarms set on his phone. He was extremely nervous the whole time, afraid of missing the time to take the food out of the pot: …

"I came at 11 o'clock, didn't you see me for a moment???" Ouyang's question was heartbreaking.

"No." Qin Huai answered very honestly.

He was kneading dough and mixing stuffing at the kitchen counter, almost becoming a bun-making god. How could he have the time to look at the steamer?

In the whole process of making buns, steaming buns is the least technical step. Just put the buns in the steamer, set the time, and anyone who knows how to read the alarm clock can do it. Qin Huai didn't even look at Ouyang during the whole process.

"When did you come?" Qin Huai asked.

"11 o'clock." Ouyang felt like crying. "I came here when your store was full of people running errands. I wanted to see if there were any buns for me to eat, but I didn't get any. Uncle Qin told me that the kitchen was a little busy and asked me to come in to help. After I came in, I never left again."

"I wanted to sneak a couple of buns while they were steaming, but they were too hot. And I don't know why, but when I stood in the kitchen, I suddenly had a sacred sense of mission. I was responsible for protecting every bun. Stealing is absolutely not allowed."

Qin Huai was deeply moved for a moment: "Good brother, no more words, I will make you elm bark steamed buns in the afternoon."

Ouyang chuckled and said, "Can we not eat the elm bark buns?"

Qin Huai:?
Who are you? You are not Ouyang. Ouyang would never say this.

"I want to eat some fruit." Ouyang smacked his lips. "After eating so many snacks yesterday, I found that the fruit you brought back that day was the most delicious. The elm bark buns are delicious, but I had enough yesterday. Now I want to eat some fruit."

For some reason, Qin Huai even felt a little relieved when he heard Ouyang say this.

It's so touching. Although Ouyang has a unique taste, he has basic aesthetic standards when it comes to eating snacks.

He can tell the essential difference between grade A dim sum and grade B dim sum.

"I understand what you mean, but you may not be able to eat it these days."

Ouyang:?
"It's like this, the filling of the guo'er is not made by me. If you want to eat guo'er of the quality I had that day, you have to go to Gusu."

Seeing that many people are concerned about my full attendance, I want to explain that the starting point is to have leave notes, which can be exchanged with points. Under normal circumstances, I can exchange four leave notes a month. Under abnormal circumstances, I can use the leave notes of the next two months. At most, I can exchange 12 leave notes a month.

So my full attendance is still there (sure)

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(End of this chapter)