The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 204: Unauthentic Melon

After the meal, Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu almost ate themselves into Haimo Lao waiters, frantically pouring water for Qinhuai. They only ate a few bites of Qinhuai dishes, and drank a bellyful of Huangji's free tea.

After Qin Huai finished eating, he began to wonder if this was a trick set up by the mother and daughter to make him eat less.

Huang Shengli prepared 8 dishes, all of which were not small in size. Since there were only 6 people at Qinhuai's table, they naturally couldn't finish them.

Adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, the Gong family enthusiastically packed up and even took away the soup. Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu almost turned against each other in order to fight for the ownership of the big boiled dried bean curd.

After finishing his meal, Gong Liang went to the kitchen to discuss the details of tomorrow's three-head banquet with Huang Shengli. Xiao Liu tried to mediate the dispute, but unfortunately got involved in the food distribution dispute between the boss's family. Gong Baozhu and Guo Mingzhu asked Xiao Liu to divide the boiled dried shredded vegetables fairly and impartially. Xiao Liu panicked and wanted to find the young master to help, but found that the young master Gong Liye had already slipped away to pay the bill and ran away, so he could only grit his teeth and divide the food.

As for Qinhuai.

After watching this wonderful show, he left quietly, preparing to return to the kitchen to chat about gossip and start practicing the fire.

As a result, he was stopped halfway through his journey by Gong Liye.

"Master Qin...Master Qin." Gong Liye was a little embarrassed and quietly handed Qin Huai a small can of tea. "I just heard from my dad that you have started drinking tea recently. This is the good tea I bought some time ago. If you like it, I have some more and I will send it to you in a while."

Qin Huai accepted the tea leaves and looked at Gong Liye, waiting for him to say the next words.

Qin Huai and Gong Liye had basically no contact, and had only met twice. Giving gifts was Gong Liang's job, and now Gong Liye had taken over his father's job, so he must have something to say.

"I have another unwelcome request."

"Can you make white sugar cake? When I was a child, I often ate white sugar cake sold by an old lady at a stall in front of the school. After I grew up, I never ate that kind of cake again. I know you are good at cooking, so I would like to ask you..."

No game prompt sounds.

This means that Gong Liye is most likely a 100% pure human being.

"White sugar cake, I can make it. Add me on WeChat. When you are free, let me know and I will make it in advance." Qin Huai agreed immediately.

If Gong Liye hadn't told Qin Huai, he would have forgotten that he could make this kind of simple everyday pastry.

When Qin Luo was very young, he loved to eat simple pastries such as white sugar cake. Later, when Qin Luo grew up, he began to drool at the palace fighting dramas, and white sugar cake was banished to the cold palace. Qin Huai hasn't made white sugar cake for many years.

Just take it out for practice.

If it tastes good, I will prepare it for Xu Cheng tomorrow.

These two days, Qin Huai made for Xu Cheng the palace snacks that Qin Luo used to love to eat. They had fancy names but simple looks. It was time to make some simple snacks for Xu Cheng with simple names and simple looks.

When Qin Huai returned to the kitchen, he was surprised to find that the six people from Zhiweiju were still working.

Work voluntarily and proactively.

Seeing Qin Huai coming back, the helper who had been working for Qin Huai all morning poured tea on his own initiative, and then returned to the kitchen counter to continue kneading the dough.

"What's going on?" Qin Huai grabbed Dong Shi, who was standing outside the warehouse and eavesdropping on the conversation between Gong Liang and Huang Shengli, and asked.

"Mr. Gong wants to eat a larger pig face." Dong Shi said.

"I'm not asking this, I'm asking that." Qin Huai held the teacup in his left hand and pointed at the people who were working overtime with his right hand.

"Oh, you mean Gu Li and the others? All the people from Zhiweiju are like this." Dong Shi glanced at the white case area, and then thought of something, and lowered his voice, "Here I have a melon from Zhiweiju, but it's not authentic. Do you want to eat it?"

"Eat!" Qin Huai said it didn't matter whether it was true or not, he would make his own judgment.

"Gu Li and his friends were ostracized this time." Dong Shi said, "Master Tan has five direct disciples in total. Tan Weian is the third senior brother, and Gu Li is the youngest junior brother."

"Master Tan had been unable to cook since three or four years before his death, and he spent the last year lying in the hospital. As soon as Master Tan passed away, his first and second apprentices left Zhiweiju and went to other restaurants. Last year, his fourth apprentice also left. Now only Tan Weian and Gu Li are left."

"In fact, this rumor has always been around, and this time it was directly confirmed. Look at the six people who came this time. Except for Gu Li and Tan Weian, the others are ordinary apprentices. They don't even have a master. Isn't this a sure thing that they are being excluded?"

"Then why can't it be that Tan Weian wanted to help because of the good relationship between Master Zheng and Master Tan, so he brought his junior brother and volunteered to help?" Qin Huai asked.

Qin Huai's question stumped Dong Shi. Dong Shi thought about it and felt that it made a lot of sense, so he nodded.

"I also think this is a high possibility. Zhiweiju has so many chefs coming in and out every year. Now that Chef Tan is gone, it's normal for his disciples to develop outside."

"It's okay to exclude Gu Li, but Tan Weian is Master Tan's grandson, how could they exclude Tan Weian as well? This gossip must be fake, I'll tell the gossip group later." Dong Shi said as he was about to take out his cell phone.

"Why exclude Gu Li? Is Gu Li often excluded? In fact, I felt very strange this morning. Logically speaking, Tan Wei'an is the best cook and the most senior among the six people. He is also the grandson of Master Tan. In theory, he should be the most famous. But I feel like many people's attention is on Gu Li. They all look at Gu Li first."

"What happened to Gu Li? Is he famous?" Qin Huai asked.

Dong Shi then realized that Qin Huai, as a pure amateur, did not know many of the recognized facts in the culinary circle, as well as what everyone considered common sense.

Dong Shi immediately started to explain the science.

Gu Li is Tan Wenyan's last disciple and also Tan Wenyan's most famous disciple. The reason for his fame is not because of his high talent, but because he is clumsy enough.

Gu Li also comes from a family of chefs. His father is the chef of Guanhelou, and is also a well-known chef in Suzhou, ranking 67th in the famous chef list. His mother is a white case chef, and she didn't make it to the famous chef list, but as a rare female chef, she is also famous in the Jiangnan area.

Under normal circumstances, people of this background would get scripts written by young geniuses like Zheng Siyuan, or almost always by young masters like Huang Anyao.

But Guli happens to be a combination of these two people.

He is not very talented, but he loves cooking and insists on becoming a white-casserole chef. His parents are helpless and can only use their connections to get their son a job at Zhiweiju through the back door.

In Zhiweiju, a place where a brick could produce several famous pastry chefs, a student like Gu Li, who has mediocre talent, was directly highlighted as a super poor student, and a poor student with connections.

It was such a poor student who was noticed by Master Tan Wenyan, who had devoted his life to studying traditional dim sum and restoring the dim sum recipes that had been lost for many years, and was accepted as his last disciple.

"To be honest, Gu Li's poor talent is well-known in the culinary circle. As long as he is a disciple of a famous master, no matter whether he is a famous chef or a famous chef, they will know it. But he is just poorly talented, so we can't throw all the dirty water on him. In the past few years, there have been rumors that his parents got him a backdoor, so Master Tan reluctantly accepted him as his last disciple."

"He said that Master Tan accepted him reluctantly, so he never taught him the skills and let him lay the foundation. While others were laying the foundation, he was laying the foundation. After others finished laying the foundation and started to learn skills, he was still laying the foundation."

"This is simply fabricated and out of thin air. Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that an apprentice is the face of the master. Especially for a master like Master Tan who has been famous for a long time, it is absolutely impossible for him to accept an apprentice for such a ridiculous reason and then delay the apprentice."

"But it is a fact that after Gu Li was accepted as an apprentice by Master Tan, he practiced the basics for many years. It is basically difficult to find a second apprentice with less talent than him among the famous master's disciples. After a long time, he became famous, and it was not a good reputation. Basically, everyone laughed at him and looked down on him."

"In fact, if he had been born a dozen years earlier, the situation might not have been so bad. Master Tan's health was not good for a year or two after Gu Li finished practicing basic skills, and he did not learn much. After Master Tan left, it should be Tan Weian who taught him."

"It's like this at Zhiweiju. If you have a master, you learn from him. If you don't have a master, you can only learn from here and there. When others are teaching their apprentices, you can stand far away and watch and learn a little bit."

"Gu Li's situation is worse than those without a master. At least they can stand in the corner and watch openly. It would be too embarrassing for him to stand in the corner and watch like an ordinary apprentice, but Master Tan has passed away."

"As far as I know, Tan Weian's skills are only average. What my senior brother teaches is not as good as what our master teaches. There are many masters in Zhiweiju who are real masters." "If Gu Li is a genius, those masters will definitely teach him enthusiastically and proactively, but he is not like that."

Dong Shi didn't say anything further.

Qin Huai understood.

Gu Li's current situation is that although he comes from a famous family and is a direct disciple of a large sect, his master has passed away and he has not learned much skills. He has status and seniority but no strength, and it is easy for him to be laughed at behind his back.

This is a perfect template for the protagonist of a cultivation novel who makes a comeback!
"Master Tan was right to have him practice the basics for many years." Qin Huai said, "If he doesn't have the talent, he can only practice the basics as much as possible, so that when he practices other dim sum in the future, he may be able to master them all."

"Is that so?" Dong Shi didn't quite understand, and felt that since Qin Huai said so, it must be right.

"Then shouldn't I also practice my basic skills? Master always scolds me for not having solid basic skills."

Qin Huai: ...You should first learn to keep your mouth shut when cutting vegetables, and not get distracted while chatting.

Dong Shi wanted to say something else. The details of the three-head banquet in the warehouse had been discussed between Huang Shengli and Gong Liang. Gong Liang came out with satisfaction and saw Qin Huai standing at the door of the warehouse. He said enthusiastically:
"Master Qin, are you free tonight? I'll visit you around 7 o'clock and bring you some good tea."

Qin Huai thought that Gong Liang and his son had the same idea of ​​gift giving, and nodded: "I plan to try making four-happiness dumplings at home tonight, and I will definitely be home at 7 o'clock."

Gong Liang was moved again on the spot, and even wanted to take back the tea he gave to Huang Shengli last month and give it to Qin Huai.

"Xiao Qin, you rest for another half an hour. We will start practicing the fire after half an hour." Huang Shengli said with a smile.

"Okay, Master Huang."

Huang Shengli went out after he finished speaking. Qin Huai guessed that he was going to the bone-setting shop next door to get some light massage for 20 minutes.

Dong Shi wanted to talk to Qin Huai about some gossip, but Qin Huai was more interested in Gu Li, the protagonist of the gossip he had just heard, and strolled over to Gu Li with a teacup in hand.

Gu Li is making Ruyi rolls.

There was a finished dish on the kitchen counter, which was slightly cool, and Gu Li was making the second one.

Qin Huai took a look at the finished product and thought that regardless of how it tasted, the shape of the Ruyi roll was quite nice.

This is a standard fried snack. The meat filling is wrapped in egg skin, and the egg skin is wrapped in flour. It is rolled into a cloud shape, cut into thick slices, and fried in a pan until golden brown.

But it looks like the Ruyi roll is in the shape of a Ruyi, which is a standard dish as its name suggests. Qin Huai searched for the Ruyi roll when searching for the Four Happiness Tangyuan and the Qianhua Palace Lantern Bun in the toilet, and found that this dim sum is one of Chef Tan’s signature dim sum. It was once a dim sum for the Mongolian vassal banquet in the Manchu-Han banquet. After it was lost for a time, it was restored by Master Tan according to ancient books.

While searching, Qin Huai also saw a picture of a Ruyi roll made by Master Tan posted by a netizen. Each slice of meat had clear cloud patterns on its cross section, which was very beautiful.

As for what Gu Li did in front of him...

Qin Huai took a careful look at it and could only say that the ingredients of the Ruyi roll were very good. The meat filling was wrapped in egg skin and fried, so it must taste good.

Qin Huai glanced at Gu Li again.

Gu Li is chopping vegetables.

Qin Huai discovered in the morning that Gu Li, as a disciple of the master who came out of the King of Rolls training camp, worked very slowly. He was slow in all aspects, kneading the dough slowly, chopping the meat slowly, rolling the noodles slowly, wrapping the fresh meat mooncakes slowly, and even speaking, nodding, and making expressions slowly.

This seems to be his personality. He has to think for two seconds before doing anything.

He works slowly but meticulously.

Qin Huai watched Gu Li cutting vegetables for a while and found that his knife skills were also quite good.

I don't think he had also laid the foundation for knife skills. As a pastry chef, Gu Li's knife skills are quite good.

At least his knife skills are 179 blocks ahead of Qin Huai, whose proficiency level is only 10.

After looking at it for a while, Qin Huai suddenly pointed at the Ruyi Scroll and asked, "Can I try this?"

Guli paused while chopping meat, looked up, hesitated for a few seconds, and nodded.

Qin Huai picked up the chopsticks.

It's cold, this snack should be ok when it's just out of the pan.

eat again.

It seems like a bit too much Shaoxing wine was added to remove the fishy smell.

Chew again.

Guli’s cooking time is also pretty good. Fried dim sum really tests the chef’s cooking time, especially the Ruyi roll, which needs to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. A slight mistake can lead to a huge mistake.

"You can eat it with some pepper salt." Guli silently brought over a small stack of pepper salt.

Qin Huai dipped some and found that the taste was indeed better.

If I have to say what the problem is, it's probably that the noodles are not very good.

At first, Qin Huai saw Guli kneading dough and thought that the Ruyi roll was meat wrapped in dough, but it turned out to be meat wrapped in egg skin, with a layer of paste on the inside and outside.

A thin layer of dough is rolled inside the egg skin, and a thick layer of batter is applied outside. If this is the method, what Qin Huai said at noon is actually not quite right. Such a thin layer of dough really needs to be very soft.

If Qin Huai had to give a rating to the Ruyi Scroll in front of him, he would give it a C-.

Gu Li has a good foundation, but it is only a good foundation. He needs to practice more, a lot of practice, to bring his good foundation into play.

"I was wrong before. I didn't expect this snack to be like this." Qin Huai said, "There is nothing wrong with your kneading the dough. You should knead it until it is soft."

Gu Li nodded without saying anything.

"But I still suggest you use a little more skill. No matter what the dough is, if you knead it too rigidly, the result will not be very good." Qin Huai pointed at the dough on the side. "In the words of Master Zheng, the dough kneaded in this way has no soul."

"Also, you put too much Shaoxing wine in the filling of this Ruyi roll, and the ginger flavor is a bit too strong."

"The others are pretty good, and their knife skills are much better than mine."

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