The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 292 Fishing Law Enforcement
The noon time period is when the Yunzhong Canteen has the most customers dining in.

Although the skills of the chefs at Yunzhong Canteen are average, the food is cheap and of good quality. In addition, Yunzhong Canteen has gained a great reputation in the neighborhood because of Qin Huai's craftsmanship, so business has always been good.

Business was particularly good at noon today. At 12:3, the cafeteria was full of people.

According to information from insiders, Yunzhong Canteen will serve four-happiness dumplings for lunch today.

Not every regular customer has time to eat Four Happiness Tangyuan in the morning. Many office workers eat and clock in on time, leaving themselves only two minutes to buy breakfast. In order to avoid being deducted money for being late, they have no time to eat a delicious new product even if they discover it.

These people were planning to come early tomorrow morning.

The result was a pleasant surprise, it was sold at noon as well.

Many office workers who had the excuse to leave early showed up at the Yunzhong Canteen before 12 o'clock for various reasons and ate hot four-happiness dumplings.

Admittedly, Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls are expensive.

But there are also cheap ones, such as the new carrot cake.

The radish cake costs 5 yuan per portion, which is 2 yuan. It is freshly fried, golden and crispy, and looks great.

For those that don’t look good, you can get one free on sale, 5 yuan for 4 yuan, which is a great value for money.

Although the ones that don’t look good are because they are not fried well or the heat is not right, some are not fried long enough and the skin is not crispy enough, and some are fried too long and become black, which are obviously failed products at first glance.

But it doesn’t matter, buy 1 get 1 free, what else is there to choose?
Failures are delicious too!

This radish cake is simply delicious, with a good taste, freshness and a strong radish flavor.

Many office workers enjoy a bowl of four-happiness dumplings and a portion of radish cake together.

Qin Huai was also eating.

Qin Huai did not eat the four-happiness dumplings. He sat in his usual good seat in the corner by the window on the second floor and ate a normal meal.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, braised lion's head, pork with preserved vegetables and stir-fried pork with peppers are all very normal home-cooked dishes. It's a pity that they are too homely and taste far inferior to the home-cooked dishes made by Cao Guixiang.

Qin Huai had developed a picky taste for home-cooked meals after eating them at Cao Guixiang's house for a few days. He found it difficult to adapt to such ordinary home-cooked meals at first and could only look at the photo album on his mobile phone to quench his thirst.

The photo album on my phone is full of photos Qin Huai took before dinner some time ago.

Every dish made by Cao Guixiang is delicious and looks great. It tastes even better and makes people drool just by looking at it.

Qin Huai was munching on ordinary braised lion's head without any taste. He looked up at the office workers around him who were busy eating four-happiness dumplings, chewing and chewing, and even eating a piece of radish cake in between the dumplings. He felt that he was out of place among them.

Alas, sometimes I really envy them for not having eaten the home-cooked meals made by Cao Guixiang, but being able to eat the four-happiness dumplings and radish cakes made by myself.

Just when Qin Huai was feeling melancholy, Ouyang came over excitedly with a tray of food.

Qin Huai glanced at Ouyang's plate.

Two bowls of four-happiness dumplings, three plates of radish cakes, three three-piece buns, a plate of peach pastry, and a basket of steamed beef dumplings.

It can be seen that the hand-made lemon tea shop is indeed profitable, and Ouyang has become wealthy.

"Old Qin, it's different now that you're back. There are so many more things to eat in the cafeteria." Ouyang said happily and put down his plate. Qin Huai quickly reached out with his chopsticks and took a steamed beef dumpling from Ouyang.

Put it in your mouth and chew.

general.

Li Hua understood more than Pei Xing, but he did not have Qin Huai's abnormal talent. He was not a super genius who could understand everything the teacher said and make immediate progress after doing it.

I did some subtraction but not much, it's a bit restrained.

"Really?" Qin Huai silently picked up the Ouyang Special Hand-Made Lemon Tea that had been prepared for a long time from his seat and put it on the table. "Drink some."

Ouyang glanced at the lemon tea, a little confused: "What is this?"

"You specially prepared the hand-made lemon tea for me this morning." Qin Huai smiled and squeezed out the words from between his teeth, "Drink it, drink as much as you want."

Ouyang: ...

That special drink he made this morning...is it this colour?
Ouyang didn't think much about it, he took the lemon tea and took a big sip. The lemon tea was just taken out of the freezer a few minutes ago and was a little cold. Ouyang first gasped at the coldness, then smacked his lips and asked excitedly:

"How is it? What do you think of my research on this new product? Isn't it delicious?"

"It has a unique taste and rich layers. This is the inspiration I got from the four recipes you gave me yesterday. It combines four flavors in one, making it a masterpiece."

As he spoke, Ouyang took two more sips of the soup, picked up his chopsticks and started eating the steamed beef dumplings.

"But it's not very stable now, and the color isn't pretty. Once I make some improvements, it will definitely sell like hot cakes!"

Qin Huai:......

No buddy, is there really nothing wrong with your sense of taste?

Sometimes some of your tastes really scare me, are you really a human being?

Qin Huai looked at Ouyang deeply and asked, "Do you often have some inexplicable dreams? Do you feel that you have some memories that don't belong to you? Do you often feel that you are not yourself?"

"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes or tasks you want to complete?"

Ouyang:?
No game prompt sounds.

Qin Huai continued to steam the dumplings with some disappointment, and said, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything just now."

"Don't develop new products, just mix your drinks."

"Listen to my brother's advice, the restaurant industry is not suitable for you."

It's not unfair that you lost 660 million by running the fish hotpot restaurant.

Ouyang didn't quite understand what Qin Huai was talking about, but considering that Qin Huai always did this, and even had the habit of imagining that he had a game system that would issue tasks, Ouyang understood it.

Maybe I got up too early in the morning and was under a lot of work pressure, so I started talking nonsense.

Ouyang considerately picked up another steamed dumpling for Qin Huai and buried his head in eating the glutinous rice dumpling.

Still delicious dumplings!

It’s much more delicious than the glutinous rice balls I had in Suzhou!
I have money now. Two bowls are not enough. I’ll have another bowl later!
"By the way, Qin Huai, do you want to taste the food this afternoon? If you do, tell me. I'll close the takeout order."

"You don't know how many cups of drinks... fruit tea I mixed this morning. The takeaway orders kept coming in. The delivery guy even asked me why there were so many orders because I was having a promotion for the opening of the new store."

Qin Huai said, "I won't try it this afternoon. I'll try it after I finish cooking in City A." "Don't worry, I'll definitely find you for the food tasting."

Qin Huai could foresee that making the double crab buns would be a long and tedious process, so who else could he turn to if not Ouyang?

There are people who eat bigger than Ouyang, but there is really no one who is more tolerant than Ouyang.
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In the afternoon, Qin Huai and Cao Guixiang had a video call to cut radishes and teach online.

Only after he really started practicing knife skills did Qin Huai realize that knife skills were indeed basic skills.

A major characteristic of basic skills is that they must be practiced continuously. Before they are mastered, if you stop practicing for even one day, you will regress a lot.

This is something that requires a lot of effort and time, and there are no shortcuts.

Qin Huai, however, did not practice his knife skills yesterday, so he felt much less skilled at cutting radishes in the afternoon. No matter how he cut for the first 20 minutes, something felt wrong.

While Qin Huai was cutting radishes, An Youyou was still frying radish cakes. It was time for Chen An to get off work. Now An Youyou was eating the radish cakes while instructing her to control the time to flip them over.

"Is it my hallucination? Why do I feel like the boss's radishes aren't cut as well as mine?" An Youyou murmured.

Chen An who was eating radish cake silently: It’s either your hallucination or I am not as good as you.

But Chen An didn't say anything, just looked at the pot: "Turn it over, and you poured too much oil, you can pour less next time."

An Youyou quickly withdrew her gaze and turned over.

On the Qinhuai side, the mobile phone holder was placed on the kitchen counter. The wooden holder made by Zhang Chu himself was very stable and did not shake.

In the video, Cao Guixiang is basking in the sun in the park. The background is lush green bushes. The flowers have not bloomed yet, and the green alone looks very monotonous.

"Xiao Qin, don't you feel that you have lost your skills after stopping for a day?" Cao Guixiang said with a smile, "Sword training is like this. You have to practice every day, even if you only practice for 30 minutes. You have to take ten steps back if you stop for a day. You can't be lazy."

Qin Huai said helplessly: "So Master Cao, you deliberately told me to have a good rest when I get home and not to practice sword skills, so that I can experience the price of laziness, right?"

Cao Guixiang smiled shyly, covering her mouth: "I am using this method to remind you so early on so that you can learn it. It is better than learning it later when you really suffer a great loss because of laziness."

"How does that saying go? People can never teach people, but things can teach people once they are taught."

Qin Huai:......

Master Cao, you have changed. You were not like this before.

You've learned how to dig a hole for me to jump into.

"Focus more. When I'm chatting with you, your eyes must not be fixed on the phone. Don't be affected by my words. Your ears can listen to what I say, and your mouth can answer, but your eyes and all your attention should be on the chopping board, on the knife, and on the radish you are going to cut." Cao Guixiang raised her voice to remind her.

"The kitchen is a very noisy environment. As a boss or a chef, there will be many distractions and people will come to you unexpectedly. But no matter what it is, it cannot affect the dish you are making."

"Why do many apprentices cut their hands when practicing knife skills? It's because they lose focus and are distracted. The master has muscle memory, so he may not cut his hands even if he closes his eyes, but the apprentices don't have that level."

"Nowadays kitchen knives are so sharp that cutting your hand is no small matter. Although when I was learning cooking, my master often said that you will learn your lesson after cutting a few times, but who would want their apprentice to really learn such a bloody lesson?"

As Qin Huai listened, he couldn't help but look up at his phone again.

"You're distracted again," Cao Guixiang warned. "Listen to me with your ears, but keep your attention on the kitchen knife."

"Master Cao, this is simply a sting operation." Qin Huai was used to taking Huang Shengli's online classes, but had never taken an online class like Cao Guixiang's.

Cao Guixiang’s offline teaching and online teaching are simply two different modes.

"I was just fishing for law enforcement." Cao Guixiang glanced at the sky and felt that the sun was too strong in this place, so she moved to a cooler place to continue basking in the sun. "I caught it right away. I didn't expect the fish to be so easy to hook."

Qin Yu Huai: ...

Qin Huai didn't say anything either, just cut the radish silently.

"Yes, that's right. This is what I want you to do, that you listen to me, but only with your ears, while your mind is focused on cutting vegetables."

Qin Huai:......

"Yes, it's better. It's in this state now."

"Keep going for two more days, and in a few days you'll be able to chat with me while cutting radishes. Xiao Qin, you don't know that Yunyun and Qingqing will miss you so much after you leave."

"They used to only come to my house for dinner on weekends, but now they can come during the weekdays when you are here. Yesterday, Qingqing kept asking her mother when you would come back to practice cutting radishes."

"Lao Li, who sells radishes, asked my son Zhang yesterday why he stopped buying radishes, saying that if he thought they were too expensive, the price could be reduced by 8 cents. I knew that my son Zhang paid too high, but he was still arguing with me, saying that wholesale radishes are not that expensive."

"In fact, it was only after you left, Xiao Qin, that I realized that there was no need to take all those radishes to the pig farm. We could keep some of them at home to make kimchi. I am also quite good at making kimchi. When the educated youth went to the countryside, there was a female educated youth from Sichuan in our production team. I learned how to make kimchi from her."

"But Yunyun doesn't eat spicy food, and Lao Zhang and I don't really like kimchi. I haven't made kimchi in many years, and I don't know if my skills have gotten rusty."

"When we were in the production team, Lao Zhang and I lived on pickled vegetables. We ate pickled vegetables and made wild vegetable porridge every day."

"Oh, by the way, Xiao Qin, when did you go out to cater?"

Qin Huai had been trying very hard to focus on the radish. When he heard Cao Guixiang suddenly cue him, he stopped cutting the radish and looked at his phone helplessly: "Master Cao, you are too deliberate."

"There's progress." Cao Guixiang squinted her eyes as if she was looking at the radishes Qin Huai had cut. "The phone is a bit far away and the picture is not clear. Bring it closer so I can see."

Qin Huai brought the phone closer.

"Not bad. You didn't let what I just said affect you. You cut the radish the same as before." Cao Guixiang nodded approvingly, "Keep cutting, just like before. I say mine, and you cut yours."

"You can answer my questions if you want."

Qin Huai had already begun to adapt to Cao Guixiang's unique video teaching method. While cutting vegetables, he slowly organized his words: "The birthday party is on the 19th. I plan to arrive in City A on the 18th."

"Mr. Han hasn't contacted me yet, but the flight tickets and accommodation have been arranged in advance, and the deposit has been paid 50%."

"I haven't taken over the catering service yet so I don't know the specific process. I'm still thinking about whether I should take the initiative to contact them. After all, there's more than just me as the chef for the birthday party. There are also two senior chefs for the red meat."

"Compared to the two seniors in charge of the red cases, I feel like I am just a superfluous addition. And I don't have many snacks to make, so I wonder if there is anything that needs to be communicated to me in advance."

Qin Huai was distracted and cut a very bad slice of radish.

"I'm distracted."

"A normal banquet white menu is indeed an extra, but since Mr. Han has paid such a high price, you should also show your sincerity and attitude. It is best to contact the other party in advance."

"Don't worry too much about the other things. As for the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls, I believe there are few plain-cooked chefs on the market who can make them better than you."

(End of this chapter)