The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 256 New Year Holiday Plan
In an atmosphere where people practice more dishes, the Spring Festival is getting closer.

For high-end restaurants like Huangji Restaurant, which has good business, there is no rule of closing during the Chinese New Year. In fact, very few restaurants will close during the Chinese New Year. Among all holidays, the Chinese New Year is undoubtedly the best time for restaurant business.

In order to make money, the boss will keep the restaurant open. In order to make the employees work hard and avoid mistakes, he will often give out additional bonuses on top of triple the salary.

Huang Ji’s bonuses are undoubtedly generous.

Huang Shengli will give one copy, Zheng Da will give one copy, and Gong Liang will add another copy.

In Dong Shi's words, since he was accepted as Huang Shengli's last disciple, he has never eaten New Year's Eve dinner at home on New Year's Eve. If he can go home to eat a meal before the seventh day of the first lunar month, it means that the schedule is good that year, and the brothers take care of him and his brother and let him go home early to celebrate the New Year.

Dong Shi and Dong Li are young and both single, so they don’t have the pressure of dating or the worries of taking care of their families. As long as the red envelopes are generous, they don’t need to rush to take a holiday. The precious New Year holiday before the seventh day of the first lunar month is reserved for colleagues with families, and singles can’t get it.

Every year on New Year's Eve, Dong Shi would happily count the red envelopes one by one, counting his own and then his brother's, and then he found that his brother's red envelopes totaled more than his. After being sad and upset, he turned his grief and anger into motivation and decided to practice cooking hard in the next year to get more red envelopes than Dong Li. As a result, he spent the first day of the New Year idling around and gossiping as usual.

Everyone at Huangji knows that this year’s red envelopes will definitely be thicker than in previous years.

It’s nothing, business is just too good.

It was an ordinary Thursday, the weather was average and the temperature was relatively cold, but Huang Ji's business was still booming, with long queues of customers buying dim sum and dining in as usual.

The atmosphere of the Spring Festival is already strong on the streets. Many businesses have hung up festive red lanterns and posted notices of price increases for the Spring Festival. There are many more citizens wearing red scarves and red gloves on the streets. Many customers who have successfully queued online and come to Huang Ji for dinner by bicycle take off their thick red scarves as soon as they enter the store.

Even Huang Anyao, without being reminded by others, spontaneously purchased a batch of festive decorations, couplets and Chinese characters for "Fu", intending to paste Chinese characters for "Fu" on every window of Huang's in a few days. Then a waiter with a good sense of aesthetics pointed out that this way of pasting was too ugly and vulgar, so he had to settle for the next best thing and hang the decorations in every corner of Huang's.

Huang Anyao gave two extra "Fu" characters to each of his employees. Even Qin Huai got two, which shows how many Huang Anyao bought.

Because Huang Anyao gave everyone two Chinese characters for "Fu", the topic of conversation that day naturally turned to the Chinese New Year.

Although Huangji’s Chinese New Year celebrations are the same every year - from the Little New Year to the first month of the lunar year, and then taking New Year holidays depending on the work schedule.

But there are also some things worth talking about, such as red envelopes and the New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve.

Every year on New Year's Eve, Huang Shengli will personally prepare a New Year's Eve dinner, a super large table, which can be eaten by all Huangji employees. Huangji will not extend its business hours on that day, and will close on time. Locals who need to go home can leave work on time and go home to catch the New Year's Eve and the second half of the Spring Festival Gala. Those who don't want to go home can stay at Huangji and have a New Year's Eve dinner together.

Some activities were held in the past two years, but the activities were organized by Huang Anyao and the response was not very good. Everyone felt that there was no need for such activities, so they were simply cancelled.

No matter how busy business is, we always have to eat something good during the Chinese New Year.

Dong Shi was chattering excitedly about the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve.

"The New Year's Eve dinner in the past two years was very lively. The master cooked, Uncle Zheng made plain snacks, and Mr. Gong gave out red envelopes when he was in a good mood. A red envelope contained 1000 yuan and he gave it to everyone he met."

"It was a little quiet last year. There was too much work on New Year's Eve, and Master was a little tired. Later, Master's back injury relapsed, and everyone thought it was caused by the injury on New Year's Eve."

"No one was in the mood to eat at that time. The eldest brother wanted to send the master to the hospital, but the master said there was no need to go to the hospital during the Chinese New Year. The eldest brother and the master almost quarreled in the kitchen. Later, Mr. Gong sent out red envelopes for 5 minutes to ease the atmosphere."

"But the New Year will be better this year. It will definitely be more lively this year. Oh, Qin Huai, when are you planning to go home?"

Qin Huai calmly wrapped the dumplings and said without even looking up, "On the 6th, we'll go back on the th day of the lunar year."

"The tickets have been bought."

Dong Shi felt a little regretful: "It's so early, then you won't be able to get the red envelopes from Master, Uncle Master and Mr. Gong. We only give out red envelopes on New Year's Eve."

Qin Huai paused while wrapping the dumplings, and looked up at Dong Shi in silence: "Is this the point?"

"And more." Qin Huai's voice was clear, his expression numb, and his eyes swept over the people around him. "Is the New Year holiday some gossip worth hearing? Why are all of you gathered around me?"

Tan Weian, Huang Anyao, Huang Jia, Dong Li and other onlookers all smiled awkwardly and embarrassedly, and stood still without moving.

Zheng Siyuan, who was helping Qin Huai chop the meat filling opposite, was chopping the meat calmly with a normal look on his face.

On the contrary, Gu Li, who was practicing silently like a background board not far away, froze his hands, retracted his eavesdropping ears and continued to make snacks.

Qin Huai was helpless.

This is not the first day that he has been making Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls. To be honest, from the day he decided to start making Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls to now, he has probably spent even longer making Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls than making Crab Roe Siew Mai.

The car has been turned over long ago, the research has also ended, and all that remains now is the boring repetitive practice.

Qinhuai makes a lot of four-happiness dumplings every day.

During working hours, the only snack Qin Huai needs to make is Guoer. By now, Qin Huai has become very skilled at making Guoer, and has basically reached the point where he can shape and color it with his eyes closed, forming muscle memory.

Correspondingly, the production speed is also much faster.

But Huang Ji’s customers are constant.

Huang's restaurant is fully staffed every day, and the number of customers cannot possibly increase. Guo'er is a snack that each dine-in customer can only order one portion. After Guo'er's production speed increased, Qin Huai suddenly had some extra time.

Previously, this time was used to make other snacks as a change, but now all this time is allocated to the four-happiness dumplings.

Qinhuai has to make lots of four kinds of four-happiness dumplings every day.

The Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls itself is not some fancy snack. It does not have a fancy production process and does not have a gorgeous appearance. Apart from its nice name, its essence is actually just a big glutinous rice ball.

Qin Huai really couldn't understand what was so worth watching about making glutinous rice balls.

When he was a child, there were some elderly grandmothers in Qiu County who would make handmade glutinous rice balls every day and sell them to nearby neighbors. They would sit by a small table and rub the glutinous rice balls in a basin every day, and no children would like to come over to watch.

The children would rather play in the mud and play hopscotch than watch, which shows how boring the production process is.

What's going on? Is it because the Chinese New Year is approaching and Huang's business is busy, and Wang Jun hasn't had time to go out on a date with his girlfriend recently, resulting in no fresh gossip for everyone to eat, so during the break he was so bored that he ran over to watch me make dumplings?
Is it a bit too boring?

If it really doesn't work, just negotiate with each other yourselves, don't be so idle.

Qin Huai remained silent and everyone looked at each other.

Everyone knew very well that not taking a break during this kind of break and instead gathering in the kitchen to watch others make dumplings was somewhat abnormal.

But there is no way, I am just too curious.

Everyone really wants to know why Qin Huai is still practicing making the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls like crazy, and what exactly does he want the Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls to look like.

The dumplings are now delicious!

It’s better than 99% of the dumplings on the market.

This level of Four-Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls, when sold at the gate of a primary school, can defeat all the breakfast shops and breakfast stalls at the school gate and cause a river of blood. The dumplings are worshipped as the God of Breakfast by the children, and the owners of other stalls rush into the crowd to buy them while cursing in their hearts.

Huang Anyao doesn't know how to cook, but he thinks he can eat to some extent.

At least I would say that.

In Huang Anyao's opinion, Four Happiness Tangtuan is not really a high-end dim sum, it is just a very common and affordable dim sum. Its lower limit is very low, and its upper limit is not high either. It is a dim sum that can be found on the streets at any time and eaten occasionally.

What's so good about this kind of dessert?

Qin Huai has been in Huang Ji for so long that everyone is more or less aware of Qin Huai's habit of making dim sum.

The fact that he practices dim sum shows that there is a lot of room for improvement in dim sum.

Although Master Qin is fickle-minded and easily attracted to new things, his professional ability is definitely obvious to all. As long as Master Qin has practiced the dim sum crazily, he will eventually achieve great success.

The fact that Master Qin is able to make it shows that this dim sum has value for improvement and room for breakthrough.

This is the selection by Master Qin. Many times, everyone doesn’t know how this dim sum can be improved, but as long as Qin Huai practices, everyone firmly believes that this dim sum will be able to be improved in the future.

Zheng Siyuan is the number one believer in this idea.

Now Zheng Da no longer practices making four-happiness dumplings, and he goes out every day after work at noon. Zheng Siyuan is too lazy to argue with his father, so there are fewer four-happiness dumplings in the refrigerator at home, and Zheng Siyuan's mother and sister are less stressed about eating dumplings.

You no longer have to be afraid of glutinous rice balls filled with various fruits, and you will no longer give glutinous rice balls to others whenever you get the chance.

Of course, Zheng Siyuan is still practicing making the Four-Happiness Tangyuan, following Qin Huai's pace and practicing all four flavors.

After get off work at noon, he did not go home, but stayed in Huang's kitchen to help Qin Huai chop the meat.

The current situation is that Qin Huai is frantically practicing the Four Joys Glutinous Rice Balls, but he doesn't know when he will be able to make a breakthrough, when he will be able to make a glutinous rice ball with fresh meat fillings that matches the other three sweet fillings. Qin Huai himself can't find the direction and can't figure out the reason, let alone explain it to others. When discussing with Zheng Siyuan, they mostly just discuss the matching of the four kinds of glutinous rice balls.

Therefore Qin Huai said nothing and just did it silently.

In fact, Zheng Siyuan didn't know what Qin Huai wanted to make the glutinous rice balls like, but since Qin Huai was practicing it, there must be a reason for it. Zheng Siyuan helped Qin Huai while studying it silently.

The others were even more confused. They had no idea what Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan were doing, but these two people were indeed making four-happiness dumplings every day, and there was no difference in the dumplings they made every day.

I can't figure it out, so I can only look more. At first I looked secretly, and now I look openly.

It can be said that no one in the kitchen now knows why Qin Huai has not yet given up on the old and abandoned the Four Happiness Dumplings in favor of the Double Crab Buns, but everyone believes that Master Qin must have his reasons for doing so.

Everyone believes in Qin Huai more than he does in himself.

After some time, the Four-Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls will surely be reborn and become a better version that will amaze everyone.

Qin Huai, who was inexplicably trusted by everyone, was making dumplings in a boring way.

In fact, Qin Huai himself found making dumplings boring.

Master Qin, who is easily bored with old things and easily loves novelty, really hates making the same snacks every day. Sometimes, when he is halfway through making Qinhuai glutinous rice balls, he really wants to knead the dough to make some fermented glutinous rice steamed buns or sanding buns. If all else fails, mung bean cakes, glutinous rice cakes, osmanthus cakes, crab shell yellow, donkey rolls, pea yellow, and hibiscus cakes will also work.

In short, as long as it’s not four-happiness dumplings or fruits, it’s fine.

The heat training after wrapping the dumplings has become a seasoning.

Bored Qin Huai felt that it was time to start chatting about some gossip.

I don't know why everyone is so free, but since we are here, let's chat for a while.

"When will you take your annual leave this year?" Qin Huai asked.

Seeing that Qin Huai actually asked him, Dong Shi answered excitedly, "This year it will definitely be after the seventh day of the first lunar month. At first, when Sixth Senior Brother broke up, I thought it would be my brother and I's turn to take a break on the fifth and sixth day of the first lunar month. Now Sixth Senior Brother has just started dating, and it's the time to spend the New Year to strengthen his relationship with his girlfriend. If he's lucky, he can take a break on the eleventh or twelfth day of the first lunar month. If he's unlucky, he may have to wait until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to rest."

"It's nice to rest after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I don't have to visit relatives and friends and can just lie down when I get home. I like resting after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month the most."

"Qin Huai, what do you do when you go home for the New Year?"

"Make snacks." Qin Huai said, and after thinking for a while, "Make steamed buns, steamed bread, rice cakes, steamed dumplings, rice rolls, and all kinds of sesame cakes, beef patties, pork patties, and mutton patties."

"In previous years, the ones I made were very mixed, but this year it should be much better. I plan to go home and make four-happiness dumplings in a rush this year."

Everyone:? !

What is the secret of Four-Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls that we haven’t figured out yet? We have to rush home to make them during the Chinese New Year!
"What about you, Tan Weian? When will you have a holiday for the New Year? By the way, your exchange should be over. The New Year is almost here, so shouldn't you go back home?" Qin Huai asked Tan Weian.

Tan Weian was taken aback when he was suddenly called out. He had never expected that he would become the center of gossip just by being a bystander. He quickly said, "It's time to go back. Boss Su has urged us several times."

"But I don't think there's any rush. There's still some time before the Chinese New Year. If you go back on the 6th, we'll go back on the 6th too. We'll be working anyway."

Huang Anyao asked curiously, "Is Zhiweiju closed for the New Year?"

"Like you, we take turns to rest." Tan Weian said, "But we won't be open all day on New Year's Eve. We'll close at 5pm. Locals can go home for the New Year, and those from other places usually ask for leave a day or two in advance to go home. There are fewer people during the New Year, and some chefs also have to go home for the New Year, so the variety of dim sum sold during the New Year will not be too many, and the quantity will not be large."

"It doesn't matter where you work. If Qinhuai has such exchanges in the future, you don't need to contact Boss Su. Just tell me and I'll get some people for you. It doesn't matter if it's far away. There are many people in Shan City who are willing to go."

Tan Weian almost directly told him that if your Yunzhong Canteen needs helpers to do odd jobs next year, please contact me as soon as possible.

After all, going to other restaurants to do odd jobs might just be pure odd jobs, but coming to Qinhuai to do odd jobs will definitely allow you to learn real things.

Master Qin brings his sister to taste the dim sum that everyone practices making every morning.

"Okay, I'll contact you if I need you." Qin Huai agreed immediately.

This was definitely not a courtesy. Qin Huai felt that he would most likely really need it at that time.

The helpers at Zhiweiju are so professional.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

After the Chinese New Year, Qin Huai's study and exchange with Huang's will be over. When he returns to Yunzhong Canteen, Qin Huai is afraid that he will not be comfortable making snacks without capable helpers.

Alas, he is no longer the original Master Qin, he is now Master Qin.

When Master Qin enters the kitchen in the morning, he will feel thirsty if he doesn't drink a cup of hot tea first thing in the morning.

Qin Huai smacked his lips.

A sharp-eyed Zhiweiju helper immediately brought a cup of warm tea.

"Master Qin, have some tea and take a break."

Qin Huai took the teacup, took two big sips, and suddenly remembered that everyone was talking about when to go on holiday, but some people had already gone on holiday early to go home for the New Year.

Those people were Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong.

The Yunzhong Canteen far away in Shan City has been without a boss since two days ago.

The boss is in Suzhou for exchange, the boss's sister is taking extra classes in Suzhou, and the boss's parents are back home for the New Year. The entire Yunzhong Canteen has entered a management-free mode, relying entirely on the employees to come to work, leave work, manage, and purchase goods on their own initiative.

The main focus is trust.

Qin Huai sent a message to Huang Xi, asking about the New Year holidays in Yunzhong Canteen. Qin Huai usually didn't care about this kind of thing, Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen helped to deal with it, but since they had just talked about it, Qin Huai decided to pay attention to the holiday situation of his own canteen.

What if Dong Shi suddenly asks during the chat later: Qin Huai, how do you arrange the New Year holiday in your cafeteria?
What if he, as the boss, can’t answer?

You have to ask clearly first.

Huang Xi replied immediately and sent a schedule.

Qin Huai took a look and was surprised.

The waiters took turns during the Chinese New Year. Chen An took a few extra days off because he was going back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year. He did not go to work from the 27th day of the Chinese New Year to the 6th day of the first lunar month.

Chen An was a breakfast chef. During that period, most of the office buildings near the Yunzhong Canteen were on holiday, and those that were not on holiday had to adjust their days off and work shifts. The customer flow dropped sharply, and it was no big deal for the canteen not to sell breakfast, so Zhao Rong approved the leave.

Li Hua is a local, but he has a family and needs to spend the New Year with his wife and children, so he does not go to work from New Year's Eve to the second day of the New Year.

Huang Xi will not go to work on New Year's Eve, the second and third days of the Chinese New Year.

Only Pei Xing, who had no partner and did not need to go back home for the New Year, and who lived very close to the canteen, was fully present during the New Year period.

Even An Youyou took holidays on the third and fourth days of the Chinese New Year, probably because she wanted to rest for two days.

In the end, Pei Xing took on everything for Yunzhong Canteen.

Qin Huai was very touched and sent a WeChat message to Pei Xing.

Qin Huai: Thank you for your hard work during this period. I will return to the cafeteria after the New Year. If you have any questions about making dim sum, please feel free to tell me and we can discuss it together.

Pei Xing was almost moved to tears when he received the news.

Although the boss hasn't sent him a private message for two months and three days, and his replies in the work group were very perfunctory, the boss still has him in his heart!

Master Xiao Qin has me in his heart!

Master Qin saw all his efforts!
Thinking of this, Pei Xing kneaded the dough even harder.

"Pei Xing, isn't it time to get off work? Why are you kneading the dough again? Has your off-get off work time been changed?" Li Hua asked.

Pei Xing: "...I don't want to leave work so early today, so I'll make an extra batch."

"We made a few more but couldn't sell them all. The uncles and aunts are all in Gusu and haven't come back yet. Not many people buy snacks in the evening."

"...Don't worry about it. If I can't sell all the ingredients, I'll pay for it myself. I just like making snacks."

(End of this chapter)