Chapter 178

"Little Master Qin, was Gusu fun?"

"Little Master Qin, are you used to living in Gusu?"

"Little Master Qin, we missed you to death during the days you were away!"

"Little Master Qin, you came back just in time. Teacher Ding's in-laws came yesterday, and she must have the best and freshest Sophora flower honey!"

"Yo, I see Little Master Qin has lost weight. You must make up for it well after coming back from such a long distance. My family happens to have an ancestral recipe for food supplements."

"Forget it, where did your family get an ancestral recipe for food supplements? Doesn't your family just have a recipe for children who don't eat to open their appetite? Eating hawthorn slices."

"What do you know? My family has plenty of ancestral recipes!"

"Little Master Qin, don't listen to them, my family..."

"Little Master Qin..."

The grandpas and grandmas in the cafeteria swarmed up, and the scene was very chaotic for a while. Even the owner of the convenience store across the street poked his head out excitedly, took out his phone, and snapped wildly at Qin Huai's back, as if he were a dedicated and responsible professional paparazzi.

Under these circumstances, Qin Luo immediately turned into a professional bodyguard, blocking in front of Qin Huai, dragging the suitcase with one hand and clearing the way with the other, while shouting: "Make way, make way."

Attracting sporadic passersby to stop and watch, thinking which celebrity had come.

Passersby felt a bit strange, how could a celebrity come to a community cafeteria? What kind of new publicity method is this, and the fans are all middle-aged and elderly people.

Don't understand, don't understand.

Cloud Canteen's top-tier Qin Huai, under the escort of bodyguard Qin Luo, successfully entered the cafeteria with his suitcase.

Qin Huai didn't expect there to be so many people in the cafeteria.

Qin Huai knew very well that there were many grandpas and grandmas chatting in the Cloud Canteen every afternoon before because it was hot and everyone wanted to rub free air conditioning. In the middle of summer, staying anywhere was staying, and staying in the cafeteria could also grab random drops, killing two birds with one stone.

He didn't expect that even if he wasn't in the cafeteria, the grandpas and grandmas would still be willing to stick to the cafeteria.

What is the difference between this persistence and Huang Shengli no longer cooking, but old diners of Huang Ji are still willing to come to eat?

So moving!

At this moment, Qin Huai's eyes were moist.

Qin Huai took the suitcase from Qin Luo's hand and looked at the familiar faces one by one.

Xu Tuqiang, Grandpa Qian, the grandma whose name he couldn't call, the grandpa whose name he couldn't call, the... whose name he couldn't call.

Qin Huai indicated that he was indeed a bit unfamiliar with everyone after staying in Gusu for a month.

But it doesn't matter, it won't be unfamiliar soon.

Qin Huai cleared his throat, as if to announce something major. Everyone didn't speak, staring at him, their eyes full of expectation and joy.

"Everyone... have you eaten?"

"No, no, ever since Little Master Qin you went to Gusu, we haven't had snacks to pair with tea when we chat in the afternoon!"

"Yes, yes, there is no tangerine peel tea either, and it's not fun when chatting."

"I haven't been able to buy steamed buns for more than a month, and my little granddaughter doesn't want to come over after school anymore."

"Mine is the same. Every time she comes over on the weekend, the first sentence she asks is if Grandpa has steamed buns to eat today."

"Mine..."

Qin Huai coughed twice to interrupt everyone's discussion and said with a smile: "It just so happens that I brought some fruit embryos. The quantity should be enough. I'll change clothes and go to the kitchen to steam the embryos now, and distribute one to each person."

"Did Luo Luo, send a message to your Brother Yang."

Qin Luo:?!

Brother, wasn't that box of embryos brought for me?

If I distribute one to each person, how many can I eat?

Qin Luo was very confused, Qin Luo was very sad, Qin Luo didn't want to send a message, but Qin Luo did it.

Except for Qin Luo's relatively changeable expression, everyone in the cafeteria was full of joy, as if it were Chinese New Year.

Of course, this joy was limited to the lobby.

In the back kitchen that no one paid attention to, there were actually two dedicated pastry chefs who hadn't finished work yet.

Of course, there were actually a few helpers behind these two pastry chefs. But as everyone knows, in movies and TV shows, these helpers don't have names; they can only be Helper A and Helper B, background NPCs passing through the protagonist's world, so there is no need to focus on them.

Having worked in the cafeteria for more than a month, already received a month's salary, got along with colleagues, familiar with many residents of the Cloud Residential Area, and even called out the names of more than half of the grandpas and grandmas in the cafeteria today, Li Hua and Pei Xing:?

If all the grandpas and grandmas present haven't eaten, then whose stomach did the snacks they made this afternoon go into?

Can those of you who were chatting enthusiastically outside before look behind the glass for a moment? There are two dedicated pastry chefs in the kitchen who haven't finished work yet!

These two people are also the pillars of the Cloud Canteen!

More than half of our cafeteria's monthly turnover is supported by us!

We are important NPCs who have only appeared once, only met the boss once, but have names!

Grandpas and grandmas, you can't completely ignore us just because Qin Huai is back!

When Qin Huai wasn't there, you were quite fond of eating our snacks.

Pei Xing and Li Hua looked at each other, and both saw two words on each other's faces.

Supporting role.

Pei Xing looked at Li Hua again.

Ordinary appearance, ordinary name, plain supporting role.

He, ordinary appearance, protagonist surname, a supporting role with hope of becoming a protagonist!

Pei Xing shook his head proudly and continued to make peach cakes.

There is less than two hours before getting off work. Make more peach cakes for the last few batches of snacks so they are easy to sell at night.

Li Hua:...

Is Pei Xing's middle-school disease acting up again?

Forget it, it doesn't matter, let's work.

When Qin Huai changed his clothes and entered the kitchen, Qin Luo had already taken out the embryos from the suitcase and was even eating crispy cakes.

Qin Huai counted the embryos according to one for each person, two for Ouyang, and two for Qin Luo, and steamed them directly on the steamer. He let Qin Luo put the rest into the freezer, and then went to the water tank to pick crabs.

Qin Huai, an expert in picking crabs, saw at a glance that the quality of this batch of crabs in the water tank was very good, almost on par with the goods Huang Ji bought daily. It could be seen that Huang Xi had tried her best to adjust to the best goods on the market. It's just that it's time for crabs to go off the market, and no matter how good the goods are, they can't compare to half a month ago.

Enough.

After the filling preparation proficiency increased by 32,000, Qin Huai's filling preparation level could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds. Poor ingredient quality is an objective factor. Under the existing conditions, Qin Huai has the confidence to make crab roe shumai that is not embarrassing.

After all, the new employees are watching in the kitchen.

Actually, it's not new anymore, but Qin Huai is seeing Pei Xing and Li Hua for the second time today. When he first entered the kitchen and saw the two, he was even a bit unable to tell who was who, and couldn't match the names with the people.

Not to mention the background helpers; he didn't even know their names.

"Hello, Boss." Professional worker Li Hua greeted first.

"Hello, Boss." Pei Xing followed closely.

"Hello to you both." Qin Huai nodded, and the three of them greeted each other with the feeling of strangers meeting for the first time.

Qin Huai hadn't thought about the new employees in his own cafeteria at all during the month or so, but his two new employees had always been thinking about him.

Without Qin Huai knowing, he was actually already a little famous in the pastry chef circle.

The news that a powerful young pastry chef had come to Huang Ji had spread throughout the southern pastry chef circle.

Compared with the prosperous and flourishing savory dishes, the pastry dishes have been lacking successors for these years, basically relying on the masters of each family to cultivate apprentices themselves, and there are very few famous wild paths that don't know which corner they drilled out of.

Qin Huai, this kind of real wild path, is no different from a flat thunder.

Many pastry chefs have quietly gone to Huang Ji to buy Qin Huai's snacks. The evaluations are all very good.

The craftsmanship is beyond reproach, delicious, quite delicious, there are not a few types, the quality control is done well, the only drawback is that the overall difficulty is not high, the most difficult is the five-diced bun, and the chef himself is not very proficient in finger techniques, and does not make shapes for snacks at all.

It must be a wild path.

That is to say, there has been no cooking exchange meeting recently, otherwise the pastry chefs from various provinces and cities in the south would definitely gather together to chat about gossip and discuss whether this new chef at Huang Ji is Zheng Da's closed-door disciple.

If he really is Zheng Da's closed-door disciple, Zheng Da's life is too good. He gave birth to a good son, dug up a good seedling, and this second half of his life is destined to retire gloriously on the book of merit.

In fact, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for Li Hua and Pei Xing, who have left the Jiangnan area but semi-withdrawn from the core circle and chose to return home to retire, to be so well-informed.

But they have their own methods.

Li Hua has withdrawn from the core circle, but his master hasn't.

Not to mention Pei Xing, he is a relative of Pei Shenghua. As a well-known Huaiyang cuisine master, Pei Shenghua is more famous for his title of "Melon King" than his cooking skills. In the southern cooking circle, whether it is savory or pastry, there is no gossip that the Melon King cannot eat. Real gossip, fake gossip, second-hand gossip, water-injected gossip, the Melon King eats them all and doesn't refuse anyone.

If you have a melon, just ask the Melon King.

During the month or so, Pei Xing and Li Hua have quietly eaten many melons about the boss who is far away in Gusu.

True or false, legendary or bizarre.

A bit reliable: Qin Huai is Zheng Da's closed-door disciple, who went to Gusu to learn art.

A bit outrageous: Qin Huai didn't like Zheng Da and was accepted as a closed-door disciple by Huang Shengli.

Legendary: Qin Huai didn't worship a master at all, and Zheng Da and Huang Shengli loved talent and passed on everything they had. He is now in a high position at Huang Ji, covering the sky with one hand, and was also favored by a famous rich businessman who wanted to marry his daughter to him, accompanied by his family's vast wealth as a dowry, simply a Dragon Overlord male lead in the world.

Bizarre: Qin Huai is a conspirator, pretending to worship Zheng Da as a teacher so that Zheng Da would take him to Huang Ji, win over everyone to deceive the young master of Huang Ji and get 50% of Huang Ji's shares. Now Huang Ji has bitterness that cannot be spoken.

Gossip is like this; there are all versions, starting with a picture, and the rest is all compiled.

For employees, the more melons about the boss, the better, and the happier they eat. Therefore, during the month or so, Pei Xing and Li Hua have been closely watching Qin Huai's news, judging the truth of these melons in their hearts, and thinking about whether Qin Huai really got 50% of Huang Ji's shares and whether they have hope of being transferred to Huang Ji to work.

Huang Ji's salary is well-known in the industry.

Li Hua felt that if he could go to Huang Ji to work, it wouldn't be impossible to return to Gusu.

Both of them were quietly sizing up Qin Huai.

Qin Huai didn't pay attention at all; he was making crab roe shumai.

In the month or so he spent at Huang Ji, what Qin Huai improved the most wasn't filling preparation, but his concentration when cooking.

The back kitchen of Huang Ji is actually very noisy.

The back kitchens of large restaurants are like this; there are many people, many things, and many divisions of labor. When it's time for meals, the kitchen relies on roaring to speak, and the helpers and runners wish they had two more legs so they could walk faster.

Even if Qin Huai's cooking station is by the warehouse, it's impossible to be really quiet.

Not to mention when practicing in the afternoon, when everyone was still looking at the freshness, there were always many people passing by and watching Qin Huai cook in the kitchen, whether he was practicing heat control or seasoning.

At first, Qin Huai would be affected, but later he got completely used to it.

No matter how many people are around and how noisy the environment is, as long as he starts making snacks, Qin Huai doesn't care much about the things around him.

Concentration is a basic criterion that a good chef must achieve.

Li Hua and Pei Xing were initially because of curiosity and really hadn't seen the boss, so they couldn't help but secretly size up Qin Huai. Later, it wasn't secret anymore; it was direct looking, looking openly, and if it was too far, they had to put down the work in their hands and lean closer to look.

They were both very familiar with the crab roe shumai Qin Huai was making, and there were masters at Zhi Wei Ju who made crab roe shumai very well.

But it wasn't made like this.

Crab meat, crab roe, shrimp meat, plus a small amount of seasoning that wouldn't affect the taste of the three at all; those who know the ropes know how deep the doorway here is.

How great the difficulty is.

And Qin Huai did it very skillfully.

Qin Huai didn't cook like Zheng Da, who was plain and unadorned. No matter how high the difficulty or how flashy the skills Zheng Da used, it looked just like that in the eyes of laymen.

Although Qin Huai didn't have many tricks, his movements were graceful and clean, looking more awesome.

The Great Way is simple. Although Zheng Da's movements were also simple, they weren't simple enough, so they didn't look good.

Qin Huai was too simple, so simple that people felt that this must be the style of a master, that it is always like this, looking plain and unadorned, but actually hiding mysteries, killing with one move.

And Li Hua and Pei Xing happened to be insiders.

The two of them weren't blind; they had eyes and could see how high the seasoning difficulty of this dish was by looking at the ingredients and seasonings. Looking at the speed of Qin Huai's movements, they knew how skilled he was at making this dish.

So skilled that he was almost making muscle memory.

The two couldn't take their eyes off it. Li Hua was slightly restrained, at least stretching his neck to watch while absent-mindedly making Begonia cakes. Pei Xing simply wished he could press his eyeballs on Qin Huai's hands and look at them frame by frame, not even making peach cakes, almost moving a small stool to sit beside Qin Huai.

Time passed second by second. Qin Huai was mixing the filling and didn't look at the time, but kept it in his heart, lowered his head and said: "Did Luo Luo, the fruits in the steamer should be ready. Pick them all out and put them on a plate. I'll color them later; I'm too busy."

Qin Luo went to lift the steamer.

Qin Huai raised his head, originally wanting to ask Li Hua and Pei Xing who had time to help roll the shumai skins, and by the way, wrap some shumai, as he was busy coloring the fruits and couldn't handle it, but found that both were staring straight at him.

Qin Huai:?

Pei Xing and Li Hua:...

Honest Li Hua's face turned red immediately.

He knew his behavior was a bit like a helper stealing art, very impolite, and didn't look like he had any quality, but he really couldn't help it.

Not to mention Pei Xing; when he realized what he had done, he wished he could dig a hole and bury himself.

Qin Huai reacted for a while and instantly realized that the two were watching how he made crab roe shumai, and asked with a smile: "Are you two interested in crab roe shumai?"

Both nodded embarrassedly.

"If you are interested, I can teach you, but these crabs are about to go off the market and there is no crab roe. And I will go back to Gusu in a few days, so it definitely won't work in the near future. Why don't I teach you when the crabs come on the market in September next year? Do you have anything else you want to learn?" Qin Huai asked.

He felt this was a very good way to narrow the relationship with employees.

Pei Xing and Li Hua were both stunned, not expecting Qin Huai to have this attitude.

"Can I learn anything?" Pei Xing asked tentatively.

When Zheng Da contacted them and recommended them to work at the Cloud Canteen, he did mention that they could learn snacks from Qin Huai at the Cloud Canteen. But this kind of thing is the same as the salary between 2k-6k on the recruitment software; it's written like this, but in reality, it's definitely not 6k.

"Anything I know is fine," Qin Huai said.

"Can I learn apple dough fruits too?" Pei Xing asked. He knew Qin Huai could make apple dough fruits; many guests at the Cloud Canteen had eaten them, and he had even seen photos.

"Actually, I only know the shape of apple dough fruits, and I haven't learned the specific seasoning formula systematically, so I might not be able to teach it now, but fruits are fine."

Qin Huai pointed to the fruits Qin Luo took out: "Wait until I finish coloring, you can taste it. If you like it, I can teach you after the New Year."

Once learned, they can be launched in the Cloud Canteen. Qin Huai believes Pei Xing has this level.

Pei Xing:!

Li Hua:!

"So do you have time to help me roll the shumai skins, and by the way, wrap the shumai?" Qin Huai asked.

"Have time, of course have time!" Both said in unison.

"I see your snacks aren't finished yet. Will it delay you from getting off work?"

"Not delayed, absolutely not delayed!" Both said in unison again.

"Our pastry chefs' off-work time is originally fluctuating," Li Hua said.

"Yes, I like delaying getting off work the most," Pei Xing said.

Qin Huai:?

Our pastry chefs are really all a bit perverted.

(End of chapter)