The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 171 Dreaming is faster (asking for monthly tickets!)

After finally making normal crab roe steamed buns, Qin Huai immediately decided to press on and made another batch.

A new batch of siomai is also normal.

Qin Huai was so moved that tears were about to flow.

In order to share this joy, Qin Huai immediately took out his mobile phone, adjusted the filter for food photography, took a delicious and beautiful photo of crab roe steamed buns, and sent the original photo to Qin Luo.

Calculating the time, Qin Luo will be out of school in about half an hour.

Based on Qin Huai's understanding of Qin Luo, Qin Luo would take out his mobile phone the moment he walked out of the school, and he might even not wait to get on the bus to go home.

Sure enough, half an hour later, Qin Luo sent Qin Huai a bunch of emoticons with tears on their faces.

Luo Luo: Wuwuwuwu, brother, you are back, right? I know you are the best to me. You made salted egg yolk siu mai, right? Okay, okay, I will take the bus back to eat now!
Luoluo: Brother, wait for me, don’t let Brother Yang eat it all!
Luo Luo: Brother, are you still here? Are the shaomai in the steamer? They won’t get cold, will they? Brother, I want to eat 12 shaomai. The shaomai that dad made are too bad. I haven’t eaten shaomai for a long time [crying]
Luo Luo: Brother, did you go back to sleep? Please reply to my message, brother, is Shao Mai still there?

Luo Luo: Brother! I just called mom and she said you didn’t come back. Where are you? ! ! !

Even through the phone screen, Qin Huai could hear Qin Luo's heart-wrenching voice.

Qin Huai, who had finished his massage and was sitting in the bone-setting shop eating a fruit platter, replied calmly.

Qin Huai: It’s crab roe steamed buns, which I made today.

Qin Huai: No, I'm in Suzhou. When this semester is over, if you do well in the final exam, I'll take you to Suzhou during the winter vacation, and you can eat at the back kitchen door of Huang's Restaurant.

Sitting on the bus, holding his phone, Qin Luo was filled with sadness: QAQ
Since entering high school, Qin Luo has been eating a lot of cakes without eating much snacks. Class exams, midterm exams, final exams, and monthly exams are all cakes. Of course, Qin Luo did not live up to Qin Huai's cakes and basically did not do well in the exams.

The only thing I did okay in this month's exam was that I wasn't in the bottom 10, but Qin Huai was not in Shan City this month, and Qin Luo couldn't come to Gusu, so the cakes could only be saved for the holidays.

Qin Luo sadly began to scroll through his Moments, while mentally dissing his second brother for only knowing how to make empty promises.

I'm almost full from eating so much bread every day.

Qinhuai: [Picture] [Picture] [Picture] [Picture]

Qinhuai sent several pictures of the welcoming banquet and the special meals prepared for employees.

Qin Huai: Come to Suzhou during the holidays and I will find some tutors to give you lessons. Study hard and you will not only have snacks but also these dishes to eat.

Qin Huai: I’ll share half of my employee meal with you.

Luo Luo: !!! Brother, I love you ()
Qin Luo, who was full of pancakes, said: I like the pancakes drawn by my brother the most!

We in the Qin family love to eat staple foods!
After drawing the cake, Qin Huai ate the fruit platter for a while. He thought the tangerines in the platter were good, so he asked the clerk for two and put them in his pocket to take away.

After Qin Huai left, the clerk took photos of the fruit platter left over by Qin Huai and recorded how much of each fruit he had eaten.

On the second day, Qin Huai continued to practice the filling of crab roe steamed buns.

Huang Shengli did not give in, and Zheng Da was defeated again.

However, Zheng Da was not obviously discouraged this time. It must be because yesterday's teaching made Zheng Da realize that the effect of the teaching video he watched was not as good as he imagined.

Qin Huai noticed that Zheng Da had changed his teaching video.

In the previous video, a female teacher was giving the lecture, but now it has become a male teacher, and the content of the lecture has also changed from expression to how to interact with students.

Qin Huai wanted to tell Zheng Da, "Master Zheng, please don't make it hard on yourself. You are so dumb that you probably won't be able to give lectures. Everyone has their own teaching methods. Some people rely on talking, while others rely on doing."

Zheng Siyuan has also learned in this way for so many years, which shows that Zheng Da’s teaching method is not completely ineffective. It mainly depends on the students’ own comprehension.

Qin Huai felt that he had a good comprehension ability and would definitely be able to explain it without a teacher.

And in this regard, Zheng Da will never be able to beat Huang Shengli in his life.

Qin Huai really wanted to persuade him.

But Zheng Da was so engrossed in watching the video that Qin Huai opened his mouth and decided to give up.

As long as Master Zheng is happy, he is a teacher and there must be a reason for him to do this.

The stable basic training lasted for two or three days. On the fourth day, Huang Shengli felt that it was Zheng Da's turn to come on stage. He argued with Zheng Da for the sake of politeness, but lost to him and retreated behind the scenes.

While Zheng Da and Huang Shengli were arguing casually, Qin Huai noticed that Gong Liang didn't come today.

Gong Liang came in the morning to have breakfast, but disappeared at lunch time. There was no order for box 888, and now Huang Shengli and Zheng Da were almost done arguing, but Gong Liang didn't move his ergonomic chair to sit at the kitchen door, which was very unusual.

Does the boss have work to deal with today?
I am so touched that Gong Liang finally started working!

Seeing Zheng Da reciting two opening remarks from the lesson plan in the memo on his mobile phone, Qin Huai collected his wandering thoughts and began to teach seriously.

Teacher Zheng spent four whole days writing lesson plans. Whether they are useful or not, just listen carefully first.

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"Master Qin, our store has received a new batch of tangerines. I see you like them very much. You can take this bag of tangerines home to eat."

As usual, when Qin Huai finished his fruit platter and drank some tea at the bone-setting shop and was about to leave, the shop's deputy manager came out with a bag of tangerines in his hand.

The orange tangerines may have a few green pieces occasionally, of different sizes and irregular shapes, but these tangerines that don’t look good often taste better.

Qin Huai took it readily and asked, "Your boss... I mean Mr. Gong, is he on a business trip today and not in Gusu?"

Not only did Qin Huai not see Gong Liang at the kitchen door in the afternoon, but when he got off work, he specifically asked the foreman Gong Liang whether he had booked a private room for the evening, and the answer was no.

This is a rare thing. Gong Liang has always used Huang's as a canteen. If students don't come to the canteen to eat, they must have gone home for the holidays.

The deputy store manager said that this question was really difficult for him, and said: "I don't know about this. We rarely see Mr. Gong throughout the year."

Qin Huai just asked casually and didn't expect the deputy manager to give him an answer. He planned to send a WeChat message to Gong Liang to check on him after he got home.

Today's trial of making crab roe siu mai went very smoothly, and the quality was not much different from the previous few days. Qin Huai knew that his learning of making crab roe siu mai was on the right track and entered a stage of steady improvement.

There is no difference between this time and last time because the improvement is not enough.

Once Qin Huai has mastered all the basics of making crab roe steamed buns, Huang Shengli can hand over the teaching work and let Zheng Da be fully responsible for the teaching of crab roe steamed buns.

When entering this stage, all Qin Huai needs to do is practice more.

Just practice cooking more.

Qin Huai set a time limit of one week for himself. He felt that within a week at most, he could completely get rid of his identity as a crab man and find a chef who was good at handling shrimps and crabs to help him in Huang Ji.

By that time, it will be impossible to make crab roe steamed buns as leisurely as I do now. I can only make two batches slowly in an afternoon and taste them carefully.

Those good days are gone forever.

When learning to make pastry enters the stage that requires a lot of practice, quality is not that important. Instead, quantity, which is comparable to assembly line production, is what matters.

What Qinhuai needs to do is to make batch after batch continuously like making fermented glutinous rice steamed buns, strictly calculating the time between each step and making it as seamless as possible without any time to rest.

I hope that by then people at Huang Ji won’t vomit from eating the crab roe steamed buns.

Eating A-grade or even S-grade crab roe steamed buns for a month is a pleasure, but eating C-grade crab roe steamed buns for a month might be torture.

Qin Huai said that he would work hard and try his best to improve the C-grade crab roe steamed buns to the level of B within a month, even if it was B-.

In this way, after eating C-grade crab roe steamed buns for a month, you can eat B-grade crab roe steamed buns for another half a month.

Yes, Qinhuai plans to make crab roe steamed buns for a month and a half. The specific level of the crabs depends on when the crabs are off the market.

The key to crab roe siu mai is to have good crab roe. This dim sum is a seasonal dish.

When Qin Huai realized that crab roe steamed buns were actually a seasonal offering, he had reason to suspect that the reason Gong Liang could only eat crab roe steamed buns for a month was because the crabs were out of the market after a month and there was no crab roe to make steamed buns for him.

It is now mid-November, when crabs are at their plumpest. By the end of December, crabs will be completely off the market, and Qinhuai will also say goodbye to crab roe steamed buns.

There is not much time left for Qin Huai.

If he fails to complete Gong Liang's task before the crabs go off the market, he will probably have to wait another year until September of the following year when the crabs are on the market before he can make crab roe steamed buns.

Qin Huai was even a little glad that he was not a procrastinator. Before he really understood the two ingredients of shrimp and crab, he never realized that crabs were seasonal. His family rarely ate crabs, and even if they did, they mostly ate seafood.

If Qin Huai did not wait for Zheng Da to come back and ask Zheng Da to teach him how to make crab roe steamed buns, but delayed for half a month until December to ask, then the time left for Qin Huai to learn how to make crab roe steamed buns would become very short, and this task would most likely be delayed until the second year.

Ordinary crab roe steamed buns definitely cannot satisfy Gong Liang’s taste buds.

During the time Qin Huai had been in contact with Gong Liang, he also realized that although Gong Liang was not very good at speaking, he was very picky about food and did not tolerate him, only eating what he liked.

Gong Liang doesn't have a filter for food like most ordinary people do. This filter refers to the filter that the chef brings to the food. Take Qin Luo as an example. Qin Luo is a person who is very good at adding filters to food. For Qin Luo, as long as it is made by Qin Huai, especially when Qin Huai specially learns to make it for her, it is delicious.

This deliciousness is not literal deliciousness, but the deliciousness of brainwashing. Even if the quality of the snack is only average, a C-level or D-level snack, Qin Luo will automatically brainwash himself to upgrade it to a higher level.

Ouyang could do it too. When he was helping Qin Huai taste the soup, he brainwashed himself a lot, and it was very successful.

Chen Huihong and Luo Jun also had some of the same feelings. Because they had a good relationship with Qin Huai and considered Qin Huai to be one of their own, they were always particularly tolerant when eating the snacks made by Qin Huai.

Not to mention the regular customers of Yunzhong Canteen, every cup of Seven-flavor Dehumidifying Tea sold is evidence of their love for Master Qin.

But Qin Huai felt that it was difficult for Gong Liang to do this, or perhaps it was because Gong Liang was a very tolerant chef.

This is not to say that Gong Liang is not tolerant. Gong Liang's tolerance depends on the situation. He can be tolerant of potential stocks, such as Qinhuai's crab roe steamed buns and Qinhuai's Tianma stewed pigeon, but he will not brainwash himself.

He is not tolerant of many dishes that represent good memories, such as steamed buns with fermented glutinous rice wine and roasted whole pig's head.

Huang Jia's skill in roasting a whole pig's head is quite good, even compared with many similar chefs on the market, but Gong Liang thinks it is not good enough.

Zheng Siyuan’s wine-fermented steamed buns were actually pretty good, consistently at C-grade and occasionally at B-grade, but Gong Liang didn’t think that was good enough.

In Gong Liang's case, you can do something better but you can't do it. It just doesn't work.

Therefore, Qin Huai knew very well that if he wanted to make crab roe steamed buns that would satisfy Gong Liang, he had to make them better than Zheng Da's.

What’s the quality of Zheng Da’s crab roe steamed buns?

Qin Huai thinks there should be an A grade.

Qin Huai couldn't make A-grade dim sum, he couldn't make any of them, he knew that very well.

The reason why the dim sum cannot reach A-level is probably purely because of insufficient numerical values. Qinhuai's dough making and stuffing preparation are both advanced, and crab roe steamed buns only require these two skills. Qinhuai's seasoning has the highest panel value among all his skills.

In a sense, crab roe steamed buns can be said to be the best dim sum made by Qinhuai.

Qin Huai guessed that advanced skills were not enough to make A-grade snacks, and that at least master-level skills were required.

During this period of time, Qin Huai has been practicing making stuffing, and his proficiency in making stuffing has improved by leaps and bounds, and now it is (7666/100000).

The progress bar hasn't even passed 1/10 yet.

Thinking of this, Qin Huai sighed deeply.

Difficult to handle.

No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to complete Gong Liang's side quest within this year.

As expected, there are no easy tasks given by the game system. This task, which seems to be the simplest and clearest, is actually the most difficult to complete.

Qin Huai began to think that it was more likely that he had earned more than 93000 filling experience points within a month and a half. Or it was more likely that he had raised Gong Liang's favorability to the same level as Luo Luo's within a month and a half, so that Gong Liang would trust his snacks as Luo Luo did without thinking, and automatically beautify and add filters.

Qin Huai thought all the way.

When he reached the door of the unit, Qin Huai felt that dreaming was more suitable for him.

There is everything in the dream.

When Qin Huai walked to the door of the unit, he found that the door was wide open today. There was a small truck parked next to it. There were two large boxes on the truck, which looked like refrigerators, televisions, etc. It seemed that someone had moved in.

Hey, there are actually people moving into this neighborhood.

Qin Huai was a little surprised.

He has lived here for some time and has some familiarity with the neighborhood.

This is an ordinary old community, the house price is not high, it is not in the school district, and the property is so-so. The residents are relatively old, and there are many elderly people with children living here. In the eyes of many people, such a living environment means noise and troubles, and young people are unwilling to move in.

There are no office buildings or business districts near the community, and it is not close to a subway entrance. There is a bus stop, but not many people take the bus these days.

If Huang Ji wasn’t opened right opposite this community, the housing prices in the community would probably be a little lower.

It's a rare thing to see new residents moving into such an old neighborhood.

Qin Huai walked home.

Then he discovered that the new tenant seemed to be his neighbor.

There had been no one living next door to Qinhuai before.

The door next door was wide open, and movers were going in and out to put furniture in place. Qin Huai took a quick look inside. It was a bit messy, with a lot of cardboard and plastic strips on the floor, but the furniture was all brand new.

Extra-large TV, solid wood tables and chairs, exquisite screens, and beautiful porcelain.

Rich people.

"Remember there are still a few things that haven't been moved up. If anyone has time, go downstairs and take a look. Xiao Wang, I'll leave this to you. I need to go back home and persuade my wife to move in with me. When I come back, this house should be ready for occupancy, right?"

"Okay, Mr. Gong, don't worry, there will be no problem."

Mr. Gong?
Qin Huai stood at the door and looked out, just in time to meet Gong Liang who was coming out.

Eyes facing each other.

They both knew what the other was thinking.

They both gave fake and polite smiles.

"Master Qin, you're off work. Thank you for your hard work. What a coincidence! I thought it was a bit far and inconvenient to come to Huang's for dinner every day, so I bought an apartment opposite the community. I didn't expect it to be next door to your house." Gong Liang was so surprised that it seemed like they had met by chance.

Qin Huai silently complained in his heart that you even take care of the cleaning of my house, changing the fruits and snacks every day, and you can still be so calm and pretend that you don’t know where I live. You are indeed a gold medal salesperson.

"That's such a coincidence, Mr. Gong, will moving here affect your normal work?" Qin Huai asked with concern.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. To be honest, my company is quite close to here. And it's more comfortable and at ease to live here. I lived nearby when I was young. Look, it's in that direction. It's a pity that the houses over there have been demolished a long time ago, otherwise I would definitely move there."

"Master Qin, since you are back from get off work, you should rest quickly. I will ask them to keep the noise down so as not to disturb your sleep."

"By the way, what are we having for breakfast tomorrow morning?" Gong Liang asked.

"Crab roe steamed buns." Qin Huai said, "I plan to make crab roe steamed buns every morning in the future. I'll practice more."

"By the way, Mr. Gong, I wonder if you are free in the afternoons for the next month or so. If you are free, I would like to ask you to come to the store often to try the crab roe steamed buns I make and taste how they taste."

“I believe you must be very professional in eating crab roe siu mai.”

These words really touched Gong Liang's heart.

"It's okay if you don't have time. If you don't mind, I'll bring some back when I get off work. It just so happens that you've moved next door, so it'll be convenient for you to try them."

Gong Liang felt that it was the right choice for him to buy the house quickly.

There is no chef in the entire Huangji who is more willing to cook for him than Qin Huai.

"What's there to mind? It's good to have something to eat. I'm just waiting to eat. Don't worry, I'm absolutely a professional when it comes to eating crab roe steamed buns!" Gong Liang assured, patting his chest.

Tomorrow he will ask his assistant to buy all the previous years' issues of "Taste" and study them hard.

Qin Huai watched Gong Liang leave.

Qin Huai couldn't gain more than 9 experience points in stuffing preparation within a month and a half, nor could he raise Gong Liang's favorability to the same level as Qin Luo's. He could only follow his usual method and let Gong Liang participate in the food tasting.

The food tasting allows Gong Liang to taste the process of his hard work and progress.

I hope Gong Liang can lower his standards a little bit because Master Qin has really tried hard.

begging.

Qin Huai savored the taste of the crab roe steamed buns made by Zheng Da, opened the door, and went home.

Forget it, it’s faster to dream.

There is everything in the dream.

Just dream tonight and complete this side quest in your dream.

I’m asking for monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~

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(End of this chapter)