The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 348 The Awakened Monster

After a simple wash, Qin Huai walked into the kitchen.

The soup Cao Guixiang makes is usually clear soup, as she mainly uses clear soup in her cooking. However, the three-shred shark fin requires golden soup, which is chicken broth that has been made into a golden color, so Cao Guixiang actually made two pots of soup.

Qinhuai can only use clear soup to cook chicken noodle soup.

A bit extravagant.

Before kneading the dough, Qin Huai secretly took a sip of the clear soup.

fresh.

Very fresh.

Impeccably fresh.

The most important thing about soup is its freshness, which brings together the flavors of all the ingredients. In theory, no matter what dish you cook, as long as you pour a spoonful of soup on it, the taste of the dish will definitely be good.

Cao Guixiang's soup-making skills are superb. At first glance, the clear soup looks very clear, just like bubbling water. After Qin Huai took a sip, he took another sip, feeling unsatisfied, before he began to knead the dough.

Zhang Chu, who seemed to be sitting in the restaurant playing with his phone but was actually secretly looking into the kitchen, saw Qin Huai secretly drinking two sips of soup and whispered to Cao Guixiang: "Xiao Qin has the same problem as me. When I was still in Qiu County, every time you made soup, I couldn't help but go to the kitchen to secretly drink a few sips."

Cao Guixiang: ...

Cao Guixiang said helplessly, "How dare you say that you, as a father, took the lead in stealing soup, and Chiyuan and Siyu followed suit. I worked so hard to get a pot of soup ready, but when I entered the kitchen and found you guys stealing soup, only half of the pot was left, not even enough to cook."

"You couldn't even cook two of the three dishes you promised Siyu for her birthday. Your daughter cried all night until her voice became hoarse. It's all your fault."

Zhang Chu could only scratch his sparse hair embarrassedly and smiled flatteringly: "It's my fault, it's all my fault, wife. I've scolded you for so many years. Don't scold me again in front of Xiao Qin later."

Cao Guixiang was amused by Zhang Chu's reaction: "You also know how to be embarrassed, have you finished the mobile phone holder I asked you to make for Xiao Qin?"

"It's done, of course it's done. I was afraid one wouldn't be enough, so I made two. When the time comes, Xiao Qin can put one in the cafeteria, one at home, and one in his bag. I deliberately controlled the weight of the one he carries with him, so it's lighter than the first two."

Cao Guixiang nodded with satisfaction and continued to watch Qin Huai kneading the dough from a distance.

After frying the yam for 5 days and kneading the dough again, Qin Huai felt that he had returned to his comfort zone. Everything was so easy to do, and the familiar Master Qin was back.

With Qinhuai’s current level of dough kneading, making hand-kneaded dough is definitely something that only requires hands.

Soon, three portions of noodles were ready.

Cook noodles.

With Qin Huai's current high-level cooking skills, there will definitely be no problem cooking the noodles. As long as he doesn't fall asleep while cooking and let the water dry up, the pot of noodles will not overturn.

But he was still a little nervous.

Because after the noodles are cooked and rinsed with cold water, they need to be rinsed again in clear soup, and that time is the essence.

Previously, Zheng Siyuan used the broth prepared by Huang Shengli to cook chicken noodle soup, and the noodles were so delicious that he couldn’t stop eating them. Now he uses the clear broth prepared by Cao Guixiang.

Slip.

Qin Huai wanted to take another sip.

It’s really delicious.

The downside of having a good tongue is that Qin Huai can feel how delicious a dish is more than others. Of course, if the dish is particularly unpalatable, he should be able to taste it more unpalatable than others.

Ordinary people, such as Qin Luo, can definitely taste the difference between Huang Shengli's soup and Cao Guixiang's soup. Qin Luo can tell you with certainty that Cao Guixiang's soup tastes better, but if you ask how much better Cao Guixiang's soup tastes than Huang Shengli's, where it tastes better, and how it tastes better, Qin Luo can only say that she can feel a little but not much.

She can tell you by her appetite that she can drink 4 kilograms of Cao Guixiang's soup, but only 3.2 kilograms of Huang Shengli's soup.

3.2 kilograms is the limit of Qin Luo's soup, but Cao Guixiang's soup can allow her to exceed her limit.

Qin Huai was different. Cao Guixiang's clear soup was too delicious for him. Every minute and every second that the clear soup stayed on the tip of his tongue was the ultimate delicious enjoyment. If conditions did not allow it, Qin Huai would not want to call her master but grandma.

Zhang Zhiyun and Chang Qingqing are really two enviable kids.

Qin Huai was cooking noodles nervously.

The noodles are out of the pan.

【Longevity Noodles Grade A+】

Who in my family understands? The longevity noodles are just like the clear soup, which is a great treat for everyone.

To know the value of A+ grade dim sum, just look at how Xu Cheng praised Guo'er in "Knowing Taste".

Qin Huai brought three bowls of noodles to the table, and the aroma filled the air.

Full of the aroma of clear soup.

Zhang Chu stared at the noodles with his eyes wide open. It can be seen that Zhang Chu has eaten a lot of delicious food over the years, but this is the first time he has eaten such awesome noodles.

Cao Guixiang herself had never expected that noodles cooked in clear soup would turn out like this. She was a little stunned when she picked up the chopsticks. She paused for several seconds before saying, "If my master knew that I cooked noodles in clear soup, he would definitely scold me."

Qin Huai was already slurping his noodles. Hearing what Cao Guixiang said, he quickly bit off a noodle and asked a little embarrassedly, "Did I say something stupid? Master, I'm sorry, I didn't know that clear soup can't..."

Cao Guixiang interrupted Qin Huai, took a big bite of the noodles, and said vaguely: "What does my master know about noodles? He is just a cook and doesn't know anything about plain pastry. Xiao Qin, tell me in advance next time you come back, I will prepare the soup, and we will eat like this every morning!"

"Hmmmm!" With his mouth full of noodles, Zhang Chu, unable to utter a word and only able to make affirmative sounds, nodded frantically.

Qin Huai:!
"Don't worry, Master. I will practice kneading the dough diligently when I go back this time, and strive to make better hand-kneaded noodles worthy of your soup next time!"

Did you hear me? The heat, the filling, and the knife skills. I'm going to practice kneading the dough when I get back. Do you know how to add some?
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After eating a luxurious yet simple breakfast, Qin Huai rested for half an hour and went to the kitchen to cut the remaining yam.

It won’t take long if you just cut it and don’t fry it.

After cutting the yam, Qin Huai quickly cleaned up the kitchen. He and Zhang Chu moved a stool and sat at the kitchen door to watch, while playing with their mobile phones for the first time in a long time.

It’s been a long time since I last played with my phone.

Qin Huai first showed some concern for Wang Jun's relationship status, and then learned that poor Sixth Brother had suffered another emotional setback and returned to being a single dog. He silently lit a candle for Wang Jun and asked Dong Shi to continue to follow up and report, and he would keep paying attention.

After caring about Wang Jun, Qin Huai read all the news about "A Loving Family" in the past few days and found it quite lively. Chen Huihong initiated 6 video calls and shared four cool novels. Luo Jun asked Chen Huihong 17 times if she was sick. Qu Jing mentioned that Yunzhong Canteen had not sold rice cake soup for a long time. The night before yesterday, she cooked a pot by herself but accidentally burned it. After Chen Huihong learned about it, she went to Qu Jing's house and brought the pot of rice cake soup to Luo Jun's house to share.

Chen Gong just asked if it tasted bad, and nothing happened next.

Luo Jun didn't scold Chen Huihong for being sick in the group because of this incident. He probably scolded her to her face.

After caring about the recent lives of the spirits, Qin Huai started to review memorials on WeChat Moments, giving likes and comments. After all this busy work, it felt like he hadn't played with his phone at all, and when he looked at the time, it was almost 11 o'clock.

Just when Qin Huai was about to open the video software and watch an episode of a variety show to relax, Zhang Chu's phone rang.

"Hey, Lao Shi, you're here, right? And you brought some stuff with you. Oh, you're here, so what did you bring?"

"Got another batch of Luzon Yellow? My Guixiang is a little tired from cooking recently, so she may not have the energy to make shark fin dishes. The quality is pretty good. I'm afraid there won't be such good quality around the year. Send it to me first. Okay, okay, I'll pick you up downstairs."

"You also brought two bottles of good wine? Oh, why are you being so polite? I'm not drinking with you today, I'm just having a casual meal."

"Did you buy some fruits? Just bring some fruits next time. Enough of that, I'll come down to pick you up." Zhang Chu was about to come down after hanging up the phone. Qin Huai quickly followed him and said that he could help carry the things.

When they were leaving, Zhang Chu told Qin Huai that there was no need to go downstairs together, as there were only so many things that two people could carry. Then Zhang Chu and Qin Huai saw five large boxes of fruit, two boxes of wine, and four gift boxes of Luzon Yellow downstairs.

Qin Huai: …redefine a little fruit and two bottles of wine.

Boss Shi is very young, at least younger than Qin Huai imagined. Qin Huai doesn't know exactly how old Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang are, but they are definitely old enough to be called grandpa and grandma, after all, Zhang Zhiyun is already in junior high school.

Before, the two of them called Boss Shi "Old Shi" all the time, and Qin Huai thought that Boss Shi was older than them. But when they met, Qin Huai found that Boss Shi looked at least 15 years younger than Zhang Chu.

Boss Shi looked to be in his forties, and dressed very casually, in a shirt, shorts, and flip-flops. He was chubby and seemed to have a particularly good temper. When he spoke, he smiled with his eyes narrowed into slits, and it was obvious that he lived a wealthy life.

Zhang Chu must have talked about Qin Huai with Boss Shi on the phone. Boss Shi knew who Qin Huai was and greeted him warmly when he saw him.

"Xiao Qin, right? Lao Zhang and Master Cao often tell me about you. My name is Shi Dadan, and everyone calls me Lao Shi. You can call me that, too."

"Master Cao said you run a community canteen. If you need seafood supply, please tell me at any time. I can also deliver to Shan City. The price is affordable and the quality is guaranteed. We are all family. I will definitely give you the lowest price. If you want good products, please tell me. I have the widest network of contacts!"

Qin Huai always thought that Lao Shi was referring to his age, but he didn't expect that Lao Shi was just a nickname.

"Is it not a good idea for me to call you Lao Shi?" Qin Huai hesitated.

"There's nothing wrong with it. When I was in my early 20s, everyone called me Lao Shi. Don't look at me because I'm chubby now. I looked young when I was young. When I was 20, I looked like a boy of 18 or . Plus, I left home early. I followed the villagers to do business when I was or . I was only when I opened a restaurant in Qiu County. When I went out to do business, everyone thought I was a greenhorn who was easy to bully, and they were too lazy to talk to a kid like me. So I asked everyone to call me Lao Shi. If you look young, just use an older name." Shi Dadan said happily.

Qin Huai nodded, called "Lao Shi" awkwardly, and then started to move the fruits.

Move it in batches. It is impossible for three people to move all the things upstairs in one go.

When she came back to carry the first two boxes of fruit upstairs, Cao Guixiang was already cooking the last dish. She heard the noise and stuck her head out to take a look. She was surprised to see the two large boxes of fruit in Qin Huai's hands.

"Is this the fruit that Lao Shi mentioned?!" Cao Guixiang's voice was a little broken.

"There are three more boxes." Qin Huai said silently and went downstairs to move them.

After everything was moved, Qin Huai felt that he could eat a cow.

Although I only spent less than an hour cutting yam in the morning, I still worked hard. I'll reward myself with an extra bowl of rice.

The lunch dishes are: three-shredded shark's fin, imperial meat, abalone and pigeon eggs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried water spinach and old duck soup.

Cao Guixiang said she would just cook a dish of braised pork, and save the clear soup with willow leaf bird's nest that she didn't make today for tomorrow's braised pigeon eggs and shark's fin. But in reality, she cooked the braised pork and made Wanfu meat, and the pigeon eggs didn't make it until tomorrow, so they were paired with abalone and made into a dish today.

Shi Dadan rubbed his hands excitedly, and first ordered himself a bowl of shark fin rice with three shreds, the same way Zhang Zhiyun ate it. Then he picked up a large piece of Wanfu pork and placed it on the rice, and took a big bite.

He ate a bite of meat and a bite of shark fin rice, enjoying the delicious food with a happy expression on his face.

"Guixiang, how nice it would be if you could continue to be a chef in the restaurant? I don't need to open a restaurant. I can give you the restaurant and I'll be a shareholder." Shi Dadan sighed in a nostalgic tone after taking the first bite, "When we were in Qiu County, our cooperation was so good. Our restaurant was even reported in the newspapers. If it were still open now, it would have to be a time-honored brand, and maybe even a chain."

Cao Guixiang was also eating rice, but it was fried tomato and egg rice. Hearing what Shi Dadan said, she couldn't help but smile and shook her head: "If Tan's cuisine can be opened as a chain, we two will be the first and the last."

"Then it would be great if you could open a private restaurant. Private restaurants are making a lot of money now. Have you heard of Fenyuan in Peking? The prices there are even more outrageous than ours back then. I thought the prices we set back then were crazy. I was worried every day that a customer would see the prices and slam the menu in my face. But the last time I ate at Fenyuan, I realized that we were too conservative back then."

"But that private restaurant is very well decorated and is located in a courtyard. The chef's skills are also impeccable. I think it's in the top 10 of some ranking list. It's pretty impressive, but I don't think it's as good as you. If you were to participate in that ranking list, you would definitely rank higher than him."

"I've been retired for so many years, what can I compare to?" Cao Guixiang picked up a piece of Wanfu meat for Qin Huai, "Xiao Qin, just put more of what you want to eat in your bowl. Lao Shi eats very fast, and the food on the table may be gone in the blink of an eye."

Shi Dabing chuckled, revealing a simple but greedy smile.

Qin Huai hurriedly quickened his eating pace.

"By the way, Lao Shi, Lao Zhang and I stayed in the countryside and Qiu County in the early years and rarely went out. You were still doing business at that time and traveled outside a lot. Have you ever eaten double crab buns? They seem to be a snack from Suzhou." Cao Guixiang asked.

Qin Huai just opened his mouth to say that given Shi Dadan's age, it was very likely that he had never eaten double crab buns in the state-owned restaurant in Gusu. Whether from his appearance or Shi Dadan's self-introduction just now, Qin Huai could guess that Shi Dadan was more than 15 years younger than Zhang Chu and Cao Guixiang.

After all, Shi Dadan was only 18 when he opened the restaurant in Qiu County, and Cao Guixiang's son Zhang Chiyuan was already in elementary school at that time.

Double Crab Buns had not been sold in the state-owned restaurant for several years. When Xu Nuo bought the recipe of Double Crab Buns and gave it to Master Jing, Zheng Da was not yet qualified to make fermented glutinous rice steamed buns on his own. Just estimating the timeline, Qin Huai suspected that Shi Dadan was not yet born when the state-owned restaurant sold Double Crab Buns.

Qin Huai's words were still unsaid when Shi Dadan naturally followed up with a sentence: "Double crab buns? I've had them before. They're a snack from a long time ago. They were made by Master Jing from a state-owned restaurant in Suzhou."

Qin Huai:?!

Shi Dadan actually had eaten it and knew it was made by Master Jing.

No, aren't you a local born and raised here and your family has been fishing for three generations? Do people in Suzhou also have fishing families for three generations?

Qin Huai began to doubt his arithmetic ability, judgment and memory. What went wrong? No matter how he calculated, it was impossible for Shi Dadan to have eaten the double crab buns made by Master Jing at his age!

Maybe the shock on Qin Huai's face was too obvious, so Shi Dadan saw it directly. Shi Dadan first looked at Qin Huai in confusion, then suddenly froze, put down his chopsticks, took out his phone and said enthusiastically: "Come on, Xiao Qin, let's add WeChat first, I scan you or you scan me?"

Qin Huai took out the QR code, still figuring out what went wrong, and the two added each other as friends.

The first sentence Shi Dadan sent was.

AAA Seafood Wholesale Mr. Shi: A spirit? With memories? Which life?
Qin Huai: ????

Qin Huai looked at Shi Dadan in shock, and Shi Dadan gave him a calm look, saying, "Let's chat on WeChat, don't make it public."

Qin Huai: I’m not a monster. The situation is rather complicated. We can talk about it later.

Qin Huai: You are...the second life?

AAA Seafood Wholesale Mr. Shi: Yes, and I’m awake, hehe.

AAA Seafood Wholesale Shizong: [Picture]
A blushing emoticon.

Qin Huai:......

Qin Huai didn't know what to say for a moment. After thinking about it, he silently pulled Shi Dadan into the group of loving family.

'Qinhuai invites Mr. Shi from AAA Seafood Wholesale to join the group chat'

Chen Huihong:? Xiao Qin, you added me to the wrong group, right?
Qin Huai: Yes, he woke up.

Chen Huihong: ???

Luo Jun: ? ?

Qu Jing:?
Chen Gong: Welcome (>▽<)
AAA Seafood Wholesale Mr. Shi: Wow, there are so many of you, and you actually have a group. I didn’t know that before! Hello everyone, hello everyone!
AAA Seafood Wholesale Mr. Shi: [WeChat Red Packet]
Qin Huai decisively grabbed a red envelope, got 66 yuan, and said that the boss was generous.

"What are you talking about?" Cao Guixiang asked, looking at Qin Huai and Shi Dadan with some surprise. She obviously didn't understand why the two of them were chatting so happily on WeChat that they even skipped their meals. This was not their style.

"Old...Old Shi sent a red envelope." Qin Huai said concisely.

Cao Guixiang understood: "This is Lao Shi's personality. Just accept it and eat first. The food won't taste good if it gets cold later."

Qin Huai quickly put down his phone and started eating.

Shi Dadan also switched back to his simple and honest but good-eater mode and ate with big mouthfuls.

Cao Guixiang is right.

He eats really fast!
(End of this chapter)