Chapter 124: Apple Noodle Diced Baozi Grade B

After leaving the memory, the first person Qin Huai saw was Luo Jun, sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Oh, what a familiar posture.

Luo Jun glanced at Qin Huai: "Finished watching? What dish was it?"

Qin Huai opened the game panel to check the illustration Complete Guide.

Name: Luo Jun

Species: You You Bifang

Status: On the verge of losing memory

Memories: 2/3

Recipes: Chen Pi Tea, Apple Noodle Diced Baozi (click to view details)

Gifts: None

He clicked on Apple Noodle Diced Baozi.

【Apple Noodle Diced Baozi Grade B】

Creator: Jiang Weiming

Dish Details: A creative work from the youth of Jiang Weiming, a renowned chef now retired in the Shu region. To satisfy the picky tastes of the wealthy patron who supported him, Jiang Weiming made a decision that went against his ancestors' teachings, mixing bun filling into noodle buns to create a 'hanging a sheep's head while selling dog meat' version of noodle buns; unexpectedly, the taste was quite good. Consuming this dish carries a certain probability of tasting the flavor of love. (The worse the coloring technique, the more uneven the color, and the higher the probability.)

Daily production limit: (0/520)

Qin Huai:...

He was truly done with Luo Jun's lovey-dovey dishes.

With production limits like this, one being 1314 and the other 520, was his game system trying to confess his love or something?

Was having a wife really this permissive?

Who wouldn't have a wife in the future!

With a wooden expression, Qin Huai read the dish details aloud to Luo Jun, who listened very calmly, then took out his phone and transferred 100,000 yuan to Qin Huai.

"For the last one, draw ten more sheets," Luo Jun said, then hesitated for two seconds before transferring another 50,000.

"Draw fifteen sheets; when I was outside reading the newspaper, you definitely went inside to watch," Luo Jun added. Clearly, he knew exactly what kind of plot was required to unlock the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi.

Qin Huai was starting to look at Luo Jun with new respect.

Any normal person learning this would die of social embarrassment on the spot, wishing they could dig a hole to bury themselves in and then build a house on top of it, yet after witnessing the entire process from start to finish, Luo Jun could calmly extract the key information and place an order for drawings; truly worthy of a You You Bifang who had mixed in the human world for 92 years.

Qin Huai went to place an order with Bing Bing Bing Bingzi, first transferring an 8,000 yuan deposit, then sending a voice message describing the scene; while describing it, he went to the kitchen to help himself to some fruit, cutting himself a fruit platter.

Not bad, the fruit Zhang Zhang Shumei bought was quite good, very sweet; no wonder Chen Chen Huihong liked to come to Luo Jun's house to mooch meals.

On Bing Bing Bing Bingzi's end, a long time passed after receiving the money without any message; it was only after Qin Huai had eaten half his fruit platter that a "Received" finally arrived.

Bing Bing Bing Bingzi: Boss, I've received all the requirements; since the character status has been modified, I might not be able to provide you with the draft until tomorrow morning.

Bing Bing Bing Bingzi: Just out of curiosity, which author wrote this novel? Is it a custom commission? This plot is quite interesting; is it a sweet story?

Qin Huai: Don't worry about it, just draw it.

Bing Bing Bing Bingzi: Okay boss, received boss, I understand boss, I will definitely submit the manuscript tomorrow boss.

Luo Jun threw a glance at Qin Huai: "Settled?"

"Settled, the draft will be ready tomorrow," Qin Huai said with a smile, continuing to eat his fruit platter.

"Can you actually make the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi?" Luo Jun continued to ask.

This question somewhat stumped Qin Huai.

Regarding the production process of the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi, Qin Huai had actually seen most of it within the memory; the only part he hadn't seen was the dough-kneading process, but even that could be judged by the state of the dough.

He hadn't expected this noodle bun to actually be Grade B.

It wasn't that he doubted Jiang Weiming's skill; the dish details also stated that Jiang Weiming was a renowned chef now retired in the Shu region, so anyone worthy of the title 'renowned chef' certainly had no issues with their culinary level; he simply felt that Jiang Weiming might not be very proficient in pastry work. To say nothing else, Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan's pastry skills were definitely better than Jiang Weiming's.

Based on Qin Huai's understanding of Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan, Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan's pastry level should also be between Grade B and Grade A; for pastries he was extremely skilled at, like flaky cakes and fresh meat mooncakes, he might even reach Grade A, but for ordinary pastries, it should be Grade B, or perhaps a poor Grade C.

Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan's noodle buns should also be around Grade B.

Yet the noodle bun in this recipe was also Grade

B.

This indicated that Jiang Weiming had used other elements to compensate for his deficiencies in pastry work, forcibly pulling the grade up.

Like scoring 150 in math and 30 in English, averaging out to 90 points, which is a passing grade.

And what Jiang Weiming used to raise the grade of the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi was very obvious—the filling.

More precisely, it was the stir-fried filling.

Qin Huai could tell that Jiang Weiming's stir-fried filling technique was very good, but he hadn't expected it to be this good.

As for Qin Huai's own stir-fried filling technique...

He could only say he had some, but not much; although he had been practicing hard recently to refine his soup stock and had brought his heat control to the intermediate level, he still couldn't make the Dream-Fulfilling Sesame Cake because Luo Jun still found the meat filling he stir-fried to be objectionable.

Given the difficulty of the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi, it wasn't very realistic for Qin Huai to try to use his pastry work to pull up his low score in stir-fried filling.

The difficulty coefficient of the noodle bun was right there; wanting to improve it in a short time was less practical than diligently practicing stir-fried filling.

Qin Huai hadn't expected that after going around in circles, the problem would still end up being heat control.

Oh, this damn heat control.

Seeing Qin Huai remain silent, Luo Jun paused the TV drama he was watching, turned around, and asked: "No way, you can't even make buns?"

"Is this an ordinary bun?" Qin Huai replied, "This is a Grade B bun shaped like a noodle bun."

The disdain in Luo Jun's eyes was nearly overflowing: "Why are you so useless? You can't even compare to little Jiang; back then, little Jiang only opened a small private restaurant on a street corner, yet you've opened such a large canteen."

Qin Huai:... The 'little Jiang' you speak of is now already a retired renowned chef.

"Do you still have contact with Master Jiang Weiming?" Qin Huai asked.

He felt that since he had already asked Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan to teach him finger techniques, asking Zheng Zheng Zheng Siyuan to teach him heat control as well would be a bit excessive; moreover, he already had Huang Huang Huang Shengli as his online heat control teacher.

If all else failed, he could use Luo Jun's connections to contact Master Jiang Weiming; after all, this bun was made by him, so perhaps he had some little tricks for stir-fried filling.

"Haven't been in contact for over 60 years," Luo Jun said, "Don't even know if he's still alive."

"Ah?" Qin Huai was stunned.

"Tao'er and I only stayed in the Shu region for a little over two years; later, Tao'er heard her parents might have gone to Shancheng, so we came to Shancheng, and I haven't left here since."

"When leaving the Shu region, I gave little Jiang a sum of money to buy his pastry recipes; he seemed to have opened a small restaurant there; later, when he got married, he even asked someone to send a letter, but I didn't go; calculating now..."

"If he's still alive, he'd be 90."

Qin Huai felt he should just honestly watch the tutorial videos.

Qin Huai had one last question to ask.

"That carrot-filled bun, ah no, the Apple Noodle Diced Baozi, can you really not taste the carrot flavor?"

Luo Jun looked at Qin Huai as if he were an idiot: "Carrots taste so bad; how is it possible not to taste them?"

"However," Luo Jun pressed the remote control to continue watching TV, saying carelessly, "that bun was quite delicious."

"Little Jiang's craftsmanship was indeed passable."

Qin Huai: Tsk tsk tsk.

(End of Chapter)