The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 315 Vegetable and Meat Buns

Faced with Qin Huai's sudden interview, the employees in the kitchen remained calm, as if they could guess what Qin Huai wanted to talk about with An Youyou.

In fact, everyone can guess it.

It's nothing more than a promotion and a pay raise.

Qin Huai values ​​An Youyou, and An Youyou is good at flattering people. Every time she makes a statement, Pei Xing is so angry that his back teeth are broken. This fact is no secret in the Yunzhong Canteen.

And An Youyou does have some good points.

Able to endure hardships, willing to work, willing to work overtime, a nuclear-powered ox and horse, a company veteran, and also has a good name.

Yes, in the eyes of many employees, An Youyou’s biggest advantage is that she has a good name that is remembered by the boss.

The disadvantage of being remembered by your boss is that your boss only remembers you, and will subconsciously call on you when he needs to order people around or run errands. The advantage is that your boss really remembers you, and will give you priority when there is an opportunity for promotion and salary increase.

Of course, the former is a common situation, while the latter depends on the boss's conscience.

Qin Huai is obviously a boss with a conscience.

The above sentence is Pei Xing's heartfelt words. Pei Xing suggested hanging this sentence in the kitchen, and marking it as said by him. It would be even better if he could add a sentence saying that Qin Huai is Pei Xing's most respected chef.

After cutting the radish into shreds, Qin Huai took a photo and sent it to Cao Guixiang, asking Master Cao to check his work, and then started making vegetable and meat buns.

Let Qin Huai make the C-grade vegetable and meat buns, which is definitely a dimensionality reduction attack.

Qin Huai is not bragging, he can now make C-grade buns with his eyes closed.

Well, closing your eyes might not be an option, but turning a blind eye is definitely an option.

Because he had seen Jiang Weiguo's detailed process of making vegetable and meat buns in his dream, Qin Huai didn't even watch the video tutorial. He told An Youyou to take a few helpers to chop the fillings and then start kneading the dough.

Admittedly, the fillings made by An Youyou and the others were not very good, but the vegetable and meat buns did not require too high knife skills for the fillings themselves. It was just diced fat and cabbage, and they just had to be chopped up.

It’s just that the seasoning is a little more difficult.

Jiang Weiguo had limited ingredients when making vegetable and meat buns, so he only used the most basic salt for seasoning. But in a way, salt was enough. Adding too many seasonings to this simple bun might be superfluous.

Soon, Qin Huai prepared three large pots of stuffing.

Theoretically, Pei Xing and Li Hua had already finished get off work at this time, but neither of them left because they were really curious about why Qin Huai suddenly started making such normal, simple, and even crude buns.

When Qin Congwen was still selling steamed buns every morning, he would mix some other ingredients into the cabbage buns, such as diced mushrooms to enhance the flavor. This pure cabbage mixed with diced fat and meat buns can be said to be the most vegetarian bun among vegetarian buns.

Qin Huai is making dumplings.

An Youyou was making dumplings with him by the Qinhuai River.

Pei Xing and Li Hua volunteered to work overtime because they didn't want to leave after get off work, so they made dumplings at the kitchen table a little distance away from Qinhuai.

Pei Xing stared at An Youyou's back with great jealousy, and said angrily: "What is An Youyou trying to flatter again? Why is she so close to Master Qin when she's making dumplings, but we're so far away!"

Li Hua felt that Pei Xing might be a little abnormal because he couldn't win against him and An Youyou either. He calmly wrapped the buns and said without raising his head, "Master Qin wanted to talk to An Youyou about a promotion and a raise. Isn't it normal for him to deliberately call her over to wrap buns with him and chat with her and ask her what she thinks?"

Pei Xing: "Damn it, why can An Youyou get a promotion and a raise but I can't?"

Li Hua:?
A salary increase is understandable, but a promotion is...

Aren't we the top chefs in Yunzhong Canteen? Where else do you want to rise? To the level of Master Qin and become a boss? Young man, you are going to rebel.

Li Hua shook his head and ignored Pei Xing.

Today, Pei Xing lost to me again in asking Master Qin for advice, and lost to An Youyou again in flattering him. He has become abnormal. It is better not to provoke him.

On Qin Huai's side, Qin Huai was indeed chatting with An Youyou. It was a kind of intimacy-seeking chat, the kind only for spirits.

An Youyou also guessed that she might get a promotion and a raise, and she was extremely happy.

"Youyou, how far is it from where you live now to our cafeteria?" Qin Huai asked.

"Only 10 minutes!" An Youyou said happily, "Master Qin, can I still fry the radish cake from now on?"

An Youyou was a little worried, fearing that her job change would cause her title of Carrot Cake Sister to disappear.

"Of course." Qin Huai said that based on our relationship, especially your identity as the three-legged golden toad, as long as you want, all the radish cakes in our Yunzhong Canteen will be made by you.

Qin Huai felt that it was time to start asking serious questions: "What are your plans for future work?"

An Youyou was stunned.

Qin Huai added: "Do you have any goals you want to develop or anything you want to learn? I know you've been practicing knife skills recently, but practicing knife skills is a very long process after all. You can't help chop meat and cabbage in the kitchen for the rest of your life. Is there anything else you want to learn?"

An Youyou understood that the boss was asking her if she had any ambitions.

Bosses like employees who are persistent, determined, able to endure hardships and have lofty ambitions!

"I want to be a breakfast chef like Chen An!" An Youyou said loudly, "I live nearby now, so I get up early and work fast. I can make dumplings, siomai, fried dough sticks, and wontons. In fact, I can knead the dough, but I'm not good at it. I'm not as good as Master Qin. No one lets me knead the dough."

"But Master Qin, don't worry. I will definitely study and practice hard. The first thing I do when I get home every day is to knead the dough. Every morning I eat noodle soup made from the dough I knead myself."

Qin Huai:......

How did you go from thinking that begging was the best job in the world and that no other job could make money as quickly as begging to thinking that your life ambition was to be a breakfast chef?

How much psychological trauma did Jiang Weiguo's steamed buns cause you? Did Jiang Weiguo get rich by selling steamed buns?
"Very good, very ambitious." Qin Huai encouraged, "But don't overwork yourself. By the way, I have recently arranged some employee benefits for everyone. When will you take a day off?"

"This Friday."

"Tomorrow you go to Sister Xi to get the medical examination ticket. Do you know Doctor Qu?"

"know."

"I'm going to have a physical examination at Dr. Qu's hospital. Please come to the store before you go, and bring some snacks to Dr. Qu for me."

"Okay, Master Qin."

After talking about work, Qin Huai wanted to change the topic to life. After thinking for a while, he asked casually, "Youyou, I remember you said last time that you wanted to save money to buy a mobile phone, tablet and computer. Have you bought them?"

"I bought a tablet. I bought it as soon as I got my salary this month." An Youyou's eyes lit up when she talked about this. "The screen is so bright and clear. I can watch TV series very clearly. It's much clearer than when I use my mobile phone!"

"Do you go out to play during your break?"

"No, I usually practice my knife skills at home during my rest time! Really, I worked very hard. I bought a lot of radishes and cut them at home." An Youyou said this very sincerely, and she was almost raising her hand to swear, with the words "I want a promotion and a raise" written on her face.

Qin Huai:......

Not necessarily. Our cafeteria doesn't adhere to the 996 schedule or require employees to be on call 24 hours a day. It's different from the companies in the nearby office buildings.

"Don't feel stressed, Youyou. I remember you told me that your family used to run a breakfast shop. I haven't met many people in the same business in all these years. Tell me more about it."

Qin Huai's skill in asking questions improved day by day as he got to know Gong Liang and Chen Gong. If Gong Liang and Chen Gong could more or less tell that Qin Huai was asking questions and just picked out things to say in order to cater to Master Qin's habit of listening to gossip, then An Youyou couldn't tell at all.

The child is very honest and says everything that can and cannot be said.

From the breakfast business in their town to her father cutting corners, he was reluctant to use lard or vegetable oil when making the buns. Every time he made buns, he bought the oil at a very cheap price at the big market, which resulted in their buns always having a stale and strange smell. His father even had to add extra spices to cover up the smell.

As a result, this approach not only failed to reduce costs, but instead increased the cost of purchasing spices. However, it was a blessing in disguise, as his father discovered a completely new recipe for vegetable buns - those randomly added spices went perfectly well with their vegetable buns, and were especially popular with folks from all over the place, making their breakfast shop business booming.

This directly led to An Youyou having to get up at 2 o'clock every morning to chop stuffing. After graduating from junior high school, she chopped stuffing day and night at home. She chopped until An Youyou felt like vomiting whenever she smelled the stuffing of their family's vegetable buns.

An Youyou didn't treat Qin Huai as an outsider, and she told him their family's unique recipe as soon as she opened her mouth.

An Youyou even told him about how she had no money when she first came to Shan City to look for a job, and she wanted to ask around to sell her family's secret recipe, but ended up not being able to sell it at all.

In response to this, Qin Huai said that he would never reveal any secret recipe to An Youyou before An Youyou awakened.

Of course, there is no secret recipe to reveal. In Qin Huai's opinion, the snacks he knows how to make are not secret recipes. They are all made naturally if you have enough skill points. At most, there are some small tricks. If you can't make them, it must be a problem of strength.

With An Youyou’s current level, it is highly likely that she will not be able to understand the production process of any dim sum.

After all the buns were wrapped, Qin Huai heard only one conclusion. It was exactly the same conclusion as before.

An Youyou is very short of money, loves money, and loves spending money, so she doesn’t have much money in her pocket.

She really lived a life that was difficult for a three-legged golden toad to achieve.

After talking with An Youyou, Qin Huai found that there was actually nothing wrong with what Luo Jun said in the video call before, it was just a little too radical.

When it comes to An Youyou, it is indeed necessary to help her awaken through direct promotion, salary increase and material assistance. An Youyou is a spirit who has her obsession and desire written on her face and never shy away from showing them.

She just wanted to make money, a lot of money so that she could live a wealthy life and preferably have enough money to spend on wine and women.

She actually doesn't care how she makes the money. As long as she doesn't get arrested and suffer in prison, An Youyou has a very low bottom line when it comes to making money. She doesn't even mind selling her family's exclusive recipe.

If you want to make her wake up, making her rich is the most direct and effective way.

But this method must be used in moderation.

It can't be too abrupt, nor can it be too easy. An Youyou's moral bottom line on making money is not high to begin with, and if she can get something for nothing, her bottom line will be even lower. It's hard to guarantee that she won't go astray and affect her tribulation.

What Luo Jun said about giving away a house and money directly would definitely not work. An Youyou must be able to get a promotion and a raise through her own labor, and use the employee benefits that she did not have before but can have now to allow An Youyou to live a better life.

Qin Huai felt that he had probably figured it out.

Qin Huai watched An Youyou put buns into the steamer. The first batch of buns was almost done.

Pei Xing and Li Hua Qin Huai did not let them leave, and asked them to wait until the first batch of buns were steamed and taste them before leaving.

Luo Jun and Chen Huihong were already sitting by the window. The last cup of warm tangerine peel tea in the cafeteria was placed in front of Luo Jun, and next to the tangerine peel tea was a cup of iced coconut No. 1.

Luo Jun took a sip of warm tangerine peel tea and a sip of iced coconut No. 1. Qin Huai looked at him from afar through the window and felt that the old bird would have diarrhea tonight.

However, seeing that Luo Jun looked like he didn't know who had offended him and he looked like he had eaten dynamite, Qin Huai thought it would be nice for him to drink his ice drink with tangerine peel tea to clear away heat and reduce internal heat.

It was getting dark outside.

No matter how you calculate it, it's already night at this time.

The first group of guests who came to Yunzhong Canteen for dinner had finished their meal and were ready to leave.

Luo Jun looked at Chen Huihong who was sitting opposite him and eating melon seeds with great displeasure, and angrily drank a big mouthful of Coconut No. 1: "Chen Huihong, can you please stop sitting opposite me and eating melon seeds?"

Chen Huihong calmly spat out the melon seed shells: "I can only sit opposite you, no one else dares to sit here except me. It's almost time for dinner, you can't occupy a table alone and affect Xiao Qin's business, right?"

After saying that, Chen Huihong pointed to the window and said, "Look at Youyou, she works so hard. If Xiao Qin hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have guessed that she was actually a three-legged golden toad."

"Keep your voice down."

"Don't worry, there's no one around. If anyone hears me, they'll think I'm talking about the plot of a novel."

"you……"

"Hey, the buns seem to be ready! I'm going to buy some buns, how many do you want to eat?"

"2."

Chen Huihong excitedly went to queue up.

In addition to Chen Huihong, many people who were watching the window also found that the buns were ready. Many people saw Qin Huai making buns in the afternoon. There is a consensus in Yunzhong Canteen that as long as the buns are made by Qin Huai, it means that the buns must be made by Qin Huai.

Since Qin Huai stopped being a breakfast chef, the frequency and quantity of his steamed buns have dropped significantly. He only makes a little each time, and two batches are sold out in less than 10 minutes. Not to mention the office workers in the nearby office buildings, even some residents of the Yunzhong Canteen have not eaten buns for several days.

Now that so much has been done, everyone is just starving for food.

The first lady in line asked excitedly: "What kind of bun is this? A three-piece bun? Give me 10!"

That's so heroic.

"It's not a three-diced bun, it's a new vegetable bun introduced by Chef Qin, and it's only three yuan each." The waiter at the window smiled and said, "Auntie Liu, don't worry, the steamer hasn't been brought back yet."

When Aunt Liu heard that Qinhuai was making vegetable dumplings, she became even more excited. Vegetable dumplings are delicious and cheap.

Chef Qin makes dim sum every day. It is good to have more varieties, but the cost is also high. The 68 yuan bowl of Four Happiness Tangyuan is good in every way, but it is too expensive. The residents of Yunzhong Community are rich, but it does not mean they don't care about money.

Many times, the elderly people would sigh and say, "Oh, it's too expensive," while at the same time they would try hard to chew the food a few more times to get their money back.

The mung bean cake is also good and cheap, but the quantity is too small to grab. 333 kilograms of mung bean cake a day is not enough for customers to grab. There are many office workers nearby who may not come to Yunzhong Canteen for lunch or dinner, but they will definitely come here to buy some mung bean cake to take away.

In their words, if they can't eat mung bean cake as afternoon tea while working in the afternoon, there is nothing to look forward to in that day.

Now Qinhuai is selling cheap dim sum again, simple vegetable buns, and Aunt Liu almost cried for joy.

"Vegetable buns are great, give me 20 of them!" Aunt Liu said excitedly.

"Auntie Liu, can your family finish 20 vegetable buns? Then I'd say 10, there are quite a few people behind you." The waiter kindly reminded.

Only then did Aunt Liu realize that she almost bought too much because of her momentary loss of composure. It was a close call, she was just a hair's breadth away from being brought to justice.

"I said it wrong just now. 10. Give me 10." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

As he was speaking, Baozi arrived.

The steamed buns were brought to the window for sale, both the buns and the steamer. An Youyou and others who participated in making the buns had already had their first bite.

The buns are very hot just out of the pot.

But it doesn't matter, An Youyou has experience selling breakfast at home since she was a child. As long as you can hold it in your hand and blow it continuously, you can eat it after blowing a few times. The vegetable buns are not like the red bean paste buns, the fillings are hot. As long as you bite it carefully, you won't burn your tongue.

An Youyou was the first to speak.

A small bite.

The skin of the vegetable and meat buns made by Qin Huai this time is very thin.

In the dream, the skin of the vegetable and meat buns made by Jiang Weiguo was very thin. It was not for the purpose of having a thin skin and sufficient filling, but because An Youyou bought less noodles and ordered more cabbage.

The dough isn’t a little smaller, and the wrapper isn’t a little thinner so it can’t be wrapped completely.

The advantage of the thin skin is that even if An Youyou just took a small bite, she could still feel the filling of the bun.

The filling for the steamed buns is very monotonous, but not particularly bland or lacking in richness, and at the same time the taste is decent.

It is an ordinary vegetable bun, but it tastes much better than ordinary vegetable buns.

The diced fat adds a hint of fat and meat flavor to the plain cabbage stuffing.

An Youyou just thought that the bun was really delicious.

Obviously, this is just an ordinary vegetable bun, and the taste is not particularly outstanding. It is far less delicious than the three-diced bun, five-diced bun and red bean paste bun made by Qinhuai, but An Youyou just thinks this vegetable bun is delicious.

It tastes particularly satisfying, and even makes you feel a little happy.

An Youyou felt the happiness of getting paid even without working while eating, although it is impossible to get paid without working.

"Master Qin, the vegetable buns you made are so delicious. I have never eaten such delicious vegetable buns! If my dad had this skill, even if my mom only gave me 100 yuan a month... no, 500 yuan, I would be willing to get up at 2 o'clock every morning to help my dad make buns!"

Pei Xing:!
What?! There is such a way to flatter someone!
Qin Huai smiled and said, "Really? I'm really honored. But you chopped the stuffing for the buns, and you also contributed to the buns being so delicious."

"By the way, Youyou, I plan to promote you to the position of assistant foreman starting from next month. Your basic salary will increase by 1500 yuan per month, and there will be an additional 600 yuan subsidy, and an additional 2% commission for frying radish cakes."

"Thank you, Master Qin, but what is a foreman?"

"Don't worry about it. It's just a 1500 increase in basic salary."

"Thank you, Master Qin!!!"

(End of this chapter)