The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 365 Promise (Part )

Xu Nuo accompanied Shi Dadan all the way to his residence before returning.

Shi Dadan also lived in the staff building of the cotton mill, but it was a single room. The room was only about 10 square meters, just an ordinary small single room, with very simple furniture, no appliances, and no private bathroom. At first glance, it looked even worse than the promised room.

However, Shi Dadan obviously doesn't care about this. As long as he can have carbohydrates for every meal and sleep under a bridge, it's fine. Not to mention that he now has a single room to live in. What is there to be dissatisfied about?

The first thing Shi Dadan did after returning to his residence was to wash his lunch box, then wash his face, change his clothes (another set of work clothes), sit cross-legged on the bed and read his elementary school textbooks.

Shi Dadan barely read a few pages of a book in the sunset, and quickly fell into a drowsy state, and his eyelids began to fight. Without any hesitation, Shi Dadan turned on the radio, turned the volume to the minimum, lay down, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.

In less than a minute, snoring sounds began.

Qin Huai: ...awesome.

This is really awesome. Shi Dadan was also lucky that when he was overcoming the tribulation in his first life, he met Xu Nuo, a reincarnated spirit, who helped him arrange work and provided him with food and drink.

Otherwise, with my current state of relaxation, I can forget about going to the city. If I want to be myself, I can only be a wild man in the mountains. If I live long enough, maybe I can be discovered by local villagers and reporters decades later and film a few episodes of Approaching Science.

Shi Dadan, who had an excellent sleep quality, slept almost all night. Qin Huai's range of activities this time was very limited. He just stayed in Shi Dadan's single room and watched him sleep all night. He even counted how many times he turned over in his sleep.

After waking up, Shi Dadan first washed and dried the dirty clothes he had taken off yesterday, then put the lunch box into his bag and went to work happily.

Shi Dadan left home very early. Although there was no clock in his room to check the time, Qin Huai estimated that he left home before 7 o'clock. The dormitory area and family quarters of the textile factory were not far from the factory area. It took no more than 20 minutes to walk to the factory. Shi Dadan was definitely early for work at this time.

Qin Huai followed behind Shi Dadan and watched him walk into the textile factory early in the morning. The security guard standing guard at the door also looked accustomed to him coming to work so early. Shi Dadan did not go to the motorcade, but went straight to the canteen warehouse. He even had the key to the canteen warehouse.

Qin Huai watched Shi Dadan open the warehouse door and take out the bucket and ladle.

Qin Huai:? ? ?
Then Qin Huai watched Shi Dadan carry a bucket and run straight to the pool to get some water. He then carried a full bucket of water and ran to the vegetable field not far away and began to water the fields diligently.

At this time, Qin Huai couldn't help but sigh that it was really a perfect match for his profession.

As a child who had been farming at the Sanmalu Children's Welfare Institute since childhood, Qin Huai could use his very experienced experience to judge that Shi Dadan did not know how to farm at all.

The water was basically poured randomly, a little here and a little there, completely based on his mood, and the weeding was also done casually. But Qin Huai had to admit that all the vegetables in the vegetable fields that Shi Dadan had watered grew particularly well, and each one was so full of vitality that it seemed like it was trying its best to grow.

Dang Kang's auspicious beast buff is indeed a bit too powerful.

While Shi Dadan was watering the fields, the people in the canteen started to work. When he finished his work in the fields, the smell of breakfast was already coming from the canteen. Shi Dadan finished his work in the fields almost on time and went to the canteen with his small bag on his back to get his breakfast.

Eat less for breakfast, two meal tickets for two servings of rice, very thick bean and grain porridge and steamed corn bread, and two large vegetable buns given by the canteen chef as a gift.

Qin Huai watched Shi Dadan finish his breakfast in no time, wash the lunch box, and then happily go to work with his bag on his back.

Xu Nuo was right. Shi Dadan was very cautious when driving. Even if there were no pedestrians on the road, Shi Dadan would not drive very fast. Moreover, he would check the vehicle carefully before setting off, check the destination and the cargo list, and keep an eye on all directions while driving. He had the word "caution" ingrained in his bones.

No wonder the team leader took a fancy to Shi Dadan.

Shi Dadan was helping the meat processing factory deliver goods to the production team today. Before he left, Qin Huai heard that the meat processing factory didn't have enough drivers, so they borrowed some from the textile factory. This situation seemed to be quite common.

The delivery route was also very simple. He first drove to the meat processing plant to load the goods, then went to the production team, and then returned empty. Shi Dadan did not delay along the way. He set off early and did not stay in the production team for lunch. Instead, he took a few white flour buns and returned, leaving himself plenty of time to catch crabs.

Friends who have experience in catching crabs know that unless crabs are so abundant that they overflow from the river, they normally have to be caught like fishing or with a crab basket.

Dang Kang is obviously not in a normal situation, and Dang Kang who has not yet completed his failed tribulation is even less so.

Shi Dadan brought two bamboo baskets, which he found in the canteen warehouse in the morning. He found the two largest ones.

Then Qin Huai saw him find a relatively remote stream with clear water where crabs could not be seen with the naked eye. He walked to the stream carrying two bamboo baskets.

After placing the bamboo basket in the stream, Shi Dadan returned to the car and sat there waiting, eating steamed buns while waiting.

Qin Huai wanted to go to the stream to see, but the distance was not enough to see, so he could only stand by the car and wait for Shi Dadan to finish eating the steamed bun.

Shi Dadan didn't move after finishing his steamed bun. Probably because he thought the sun was nice and he could take a nap, he leaned back in his chair and dozed off comfortably.

Qin Huai:......

Isn't this how you catch crabs? Just throw the bamboo basket into the water without putting any bait in it. Is this reasonable?
Half an hour later, Shi Dadan took practical actions to prove to Qin Huai that this was reasonable.

After a short nap, Shi Dadan stretched comfortably, walked down from the truck and headed for the stream. Qin Huai couldn't wait any longer, and rushed ahead, and was stunned at the first sight.

The two bamboo baskets that were empty half an hour ago are now filled to the brim with fish, shrimps and crabs.

Qin Huai:? ? ?
Damn, I suddenly want to go sea fishing with Shi Dadan. Qin Huai suddenly understood why Shi Dadan liked sea fishing so much and went out to sea fishing every few days.

If he were Shi Dadan, it would be hard for him not to like sea fishing. What a magical experience it is. He is the darling of nature.

Shi Dadan took out the two bamboo baskets as usual and picked out the things.

He didn't want fish, shrimp, or crabs that were too small or didn't look plump enough. Even when he was scooping out the fish, shrimp, or crabs in the bamboo basket, none of them ran away, letting him choose. They were so well behaved that it was unbelievable.

At this moment, Qin Huai finally understood why Shi Dadan told Xu Nuo yesterday that his predecessor said that there was only one chance to overcome the tribulation and he should cherish the opportunity and eat more delicious food in the human world.

According to the concepts of the compassionate and ruthless paths summarized by Chen Huihong, Dang Kang, a relatively unintelligent beast that doesn't like to think, is obviously very suitable for the ruthless path.

As long as I don't enter the world, everything will be easy. I have never wanted to be a human, nor have I ever integrated into the human race, so it will be easy to overcome the tribulation.

The most serious survival problem for many ordinary and weak monsters is no longer a problem for Dang Kang. With such a buff, there is no possibility of starving to death. As long as you want and don't care about the quality of food, you can go deep into the mountains and forests and live for more than ten or even several decades. It is easy.

According to this logic of overcoming the tribulation, Shi Dadan's tribulation is indeed difficult.

He could have followed the path of ruthlessness like his predecessors, and come to the human world like most plant spirits and successfully overcome the calamity. However, he was lucky, but also unlucky, to meet Xu Nuo, who was also a spirit. Xu Nuo took him into the human world, but he did not completely integrate him.

Luo Jun was indeed right, the difficulty of the spirits' tribulation was relative. Shi Dadan's tribulation didn't seem very difficult, but for Dang Kang, it was already quite difficult.

Shi Dabao picked and chose, and finally picked out half a basket of fat crabs. He put the bamboo basket on the car and returned.

After returning to the motorcade, Shi Dadan did something that was not very honest. He made an excuse that the meat processing factory wanted him to sign a receipt and slipped away in advance. Then he ran to Xu Nuo's house openly carrying a bamboo basket.

Running wildly all the way, the wild boar charged.

When I ran downstairs to Xu Nuo's house, I was seen by a few aunties who were chatting while washing clothes. The aunties also looked at each other with their eyes and then complained:
"Look, Xu Nuo is cheating a fool again."

Qin Huai:......

Well, in a sense, Xu Nuo's reputation has really been damaged.

When Shi Dadan arrived at Xu Nuo's house, Xu Nuo was kneading dough. Seeing Shi Dadan coming, he asked, "Why are you leaving get off work so early today?"

Shi Dadan chuckled and said, "I found an excuse to slip away, but Brother Liu didn't notice."

Qin Huai: ...Brother Liu saw through it, he was just too lazy to expose it.

Xu Nuo didn't say anything, but pointed to the kitchen: "That's great. I've chopped the meat once, so you can help me chop it again. Just chop it as hard as you want, and the finer the minced meat, the better."

When it comes to chopping meat, sometimes using a lot of force can work wonders.

Shi Dadan nodded to show that he understood, and walked into the kitchen and started chopping the meat. He used so much strength that the chopping board made a banging sound. Qin Huai was afraid that Shi Dadan would break the chopping board for Xu Nuo's family today.

It would be a shame not to use all that energy to make hand-made beef balls.

Qin Huai did not go into the kitchen, but stayed in the living room watching Xu Nuo kneading the dough.

To be fair, Xu Nuo's dough kneading skills are really not bad. Qin Huai even feels that Xu Nuo's dough kneading skills are better than his own. He is a standard, mature, and experienced pastry chef.

He kneads the dough beautifully.

Qin Huai was watching intently from the side, and even wanted to learn it. While watching Xu Nuo kneading the dough, his hands couldn't help but move.

To be fair, Xu Nuo was not the best dim sum chef Qin Huai had ever seen. Both Master Jing and Jiang Chengde were much better than Xu Nuo. But Xu Nuo was probably the dim sum chef who was closest to Qin Huai and slightly better than him. Qin Huai could fully understand Xu Nuo's steps and ideas, so he watched him most carefully and attentively.

"Xu Nuo, do you really want to be a chef in a state-owned restaurant?" Shi Dadan was probably too bored chopping meat, so he started chatting.

"Often," Xu Nuo said. "This is just an excuse. I don't want to listen to my dad and continue to study for college, nor do I want to work in a textile factory." "If I work as a chef in a state-owned restaurant, I can make more snacks and dishes, and practice and consolidate my skills. In today's world, it is very important to learn a skill, just like you learn to drive and I learn to make snacks. Having a skill will keep you from starving."

"So what do you want to do? Do business? Or open a restaurant? I heard that some people are starting to open restaurants secretly. How about you open one secretly too?"

Xu Nuo thought about it seriously and said, "Probably not. I don't know what I want to do. I don't have any idea. And I think it's highly unlikely that I will succeed in overcoming the tribulation in this life. To be honest, I'm not lying to you. It's not that I feel ashamed not to tell you what my obsession is. It's just that sometimes I really can't figure out what my obsession is."

"I don't know whether I hate my own powerlessness or whether I am unwilling to give up. You know the tribulation of our auspicious beasts. It is either easy to succeed, or if it fails, it requires a suitable opportunity. I don't know where my opportunity is."

Such a difficult question was obviously beyond Dang Kang's knowledge. Shi Dadan chopped the meat for a long time and thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of how to answer it. He had no idea at all and it was possible that he didn't understand it at all.

"I don't know, but you are so much smarter than me, you will definitely be able to survive the tribulation!"

Faced with Shi Dadan's mindless trust, Xu Nuo could only smile and continue kneading the dough.

After Xu Nuo finished kneading the dough, he walked into the kitchen and stood beside Shi Dadan, watching him chop the meat for a while. After confirming that Shi Dadan's great strength was working miracles, he began to process the crabs, that is, to take out the fresh crab roe.

The technique is very sophisticated and mature, and you can tell at a glance that the chef has extensive experience in extracting crab roe.

Then comes the seasoning.

He moved swiftly, without any hesitation when adding seasonings, and controlled the amounts very carefully. You could tell he was very confident.

After Xu Nuo finished processing the crab roe, he asked Shi Dadan to stop, mix the crab roe and pork together, beat two eggs into it, and season and stir again.

Basically at this step, the meat filling is ready and all you need to do is roll out the dough and make the dumplings.

Then Xu Nuo did something Qin Huai didn't expect. He lit the coal stove and started heating oil in a pot.

Qin Huai:?
Does the filling of pork and crab buns also need to be stir-fried or boiled?
Qin Huai watched Xu Nuo fry the stuffing.

It didn't seem like he was frying the fillings for dim sum, it was more like he was cooking a dish called pork with crab roe.

Even at the last moment, Xu Nuo added some starch to the dish.

Very fragrant.

It’s the aroma from cooking.

Shi Dadan stood by and swallowed his saliva, then asked in a silly way: "Xu Nuo, is this still the stuffing for steamed buns? Why do I feel that this is more delicious than the stir-fried pork in the cafeteria?"

"The stuffing of the steamed buns I ate in Hangzhou was made with this idea in mind. You can't make the stuffing as a stuffing, you have to make it as a dish and then wrap it in a steamed bun."

Shi Dadan obviously didn't understand.

Xu Nuo was used to Shi Dadan not understanding, so he explained it in a way that Shi Dadan could understand: "It's just like if you want to be a driver in a fleet, you can't just learn how to drive. After learning how to drive, you must also learn how to repair cars. If the car breaks down on the road and you can't repair it, you won't be able to deliver the goods."

"But in fact, a driver can only drive if the car is of good quality and does not need repair. Your team does not have this condition, so if you want to drive, you must be able to repair the car."

"It's the same with this bun. If you make it like an ordinary bun, it will just be an ordinary bun. It's because the filling is like a vegetable, stir-fried meat, that it tastes special in the end."

Shi Dadan still didn't understand.

Xu Nuo continued to explain: "When you are driving, do you think about what to do if the car breaks down on the road and cannot be repaired?"

Shi Dadan shook his head: "I must learn how to repair the car before I can set off, and I will check it before I set off."

Xu Nuo nodded: "The same is true for this bun. You must be able to wrap the stir-fried pork into the bun filling before you can make it. The idea behind it is different from that of ordinary buns, so you can't use normal ideas to make it."

"When a normal person makes this bun, he would definitely think about how to use the red pastry method to make white pastry, thinking about how to blend them together and how to strike a balance. This idea is correct, but if you keep thinking like this, you will easily get stuck in a dead end."

"Of course there is no problem with fusion, but the prerequisite is that the dim sum chef who makes the buns must have high enough skills."

"In my opinion, the most innovative thing about this bun is that the chef is clearly showing off his skills. He is telling you that my cooking skills are good, and my cooking skills are even better. I made a delicious bun filling from a good dish and put it in the bun, and I can still make delicious buns. Isn't that amazing?"

"So should we merge or not?" Shi Dabing was even more confused.

"It's all right." Xu Nuo said, "That's what I think."

"If the chef's skills in both white and red pastry are very high, then of course it's better to combine them. But if the chef is just a simple white pastry chef and his skills in red pastry are not that high, then he shouldn't think too much about it."

"Because no matter how you make this bun, it's right. It's a unique bun."

"I've been making dim sum for so many years, but this is the first time I've eaten such an unusual bun. It feels like I just put a delicious dish into the bun stuffing, what can you do to me? It's delicious, it's a bun, it's unique and unconventional."

"Just like Yuan Mei said that crab roe cannot be eaten with shark fin, but crab roe and shark fin are famous dishes. Some good dishes just don't make sense."

"Who is Yuan Mei? Is he from our factory?" Shi Dadan asked.

Xu Nuo: "...It doesn't matter. Actually, I have an idea."

"what idea?"

"When I was in Hangzhou, I heard that the pastry chef who made this bun really liked to sell the recipe, so I wanted to buy it at a high price."

"Then give this recipe to Master Jing."

"Originally, this bun was supposed to be stuffed with sea cucumber and crab roe, but I don't have the skills to do that, so I could only make the ordinary crab roe pork bun into a bun according to this idea. But I really like this dim sum, and I think if it was Master Jing, he would definitely be able to make it."

“It can even be improved.”

"I think Master Jing must be very happy when he sees this dessert recipe."

Shi Dadan listened for a long time and grasped a key point that no one had expected: "Xu Nuo, you are amazing!"

“You haven’t paid for the recipe for this bun yet, but you know a lot about it.”

Promise:…

Xu Nuo looked away with a guilty look on his face and whispered, "Actually, I wanted to buy it, but the exclusive ones were too expensive and I didn't have enough money, so I spent 160 yuan to let the dim sum chef explain it to me."

"He saw that I was young and that I wasn't a serious chef. He thought I wouldn't be able to learn it just by talking, so he agreed."

Shi DaDa:? ? ?

"You spent 160 yuan just to listen to a few words. How much does the prescription cost?"

"1000, but I think I can bargain."

Shi Dadan took a deep breath.

"It's too expensive. I'm still hesitating. So I thought I'd use the recipe to make pork and crab roe stuffing first while I'm hesitating, to see if it's worth spending 1000 yuan to buy the recipe."

After hearing what Xu Nuo said, Shi Dadan's eyes changed instantly when he looked at the stuffing in the pot. He felt that this was no longer just ordinary meat stuffing fried with crab roe, but meat stuffing fried with crab roe worth 1000 yuan.

Shi Dadan swallowed his saliva.

He pointed to the pot and said, "I want to taste it first."

Xu Nuo handed Shi Dadan a spoon. Shi Dadan scooped a full spoonful and put it into his mouth, swallowing it in one gulp, nodding affirmatively while chewing.

"good to eat!"

“Fried meat, delicious!”

Xu Nuo: "What fried meat is delicious, this is the stuffing for steamed buns!"

“It will be delicious when it’s made into buns!”

Qin Huai left the memory.

(End of this chapter)