Chapter 245: Is this reasonable?

The normal-tasting Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan shattered the unnamed grandma and also warmed Ouyang in the kitchen.

Ouyang even tasted a feeling of surviving a disaster on this Tangyuan.

Tears welled up; Qin Huai's sudden practice of Tangyuan these days wasn't wanting his life, but really having a historic breakthrough, so he had to seize the time to practice.

Fortunately, Qin Huai couldn't read minds, otherwise Qin Huai wouldn't mind making Ouyang's nightmare come true in these two days.

Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan was made to taste normal. Qin Huai knew it was time to tell Zheng Siyuan and Tan Weian this good news, letting all members of the Hundred-Fruit Filling research team share this joy together.

The next morning, Qin Huai got up early and went to Huang Ji. When he arrived at the back kitchen, Tan Weian and Zheng Siyuan hadn't arrived yet, and only Gu Li was in the whole kitchen.

Gu Li was making Ruyi Rolls, and was wrapping them. Looking at this step, he had been doing it for a while.

Qin Huai was a bit surprised. It was only 7 o'clock now. Gu Li's Ruyi Rolls reaching this step meant he had already come at 6 o'clock. Plus the time to prepare ingredients in advance, and Gu Li's efficiency wasn't high, and his movements were very slow...

He probably got up and prepared to leave before 6 o'clock.

If Qin Huai remembered correctly, Gu Li had to wait for Huang Ji to finish ordering before practicing dim sum additionally every time, leaving work after 10 o'clock.

Leaving work after 10 o'clock, getting up before 6 o'clock, buddy, you are even more roll-heavy than imagined. Every day, except for eating and sleeping, you are making dim sum.

996 is considered a casual work mode compared to him.

Gu Li was also a bit surprised to see Qin Huai come so early. He looked at the Ruyi Rolls that had just been wrapped in batter, hesitated for a few seconds, washed his hands, and made tea for Qin Huai.

Then he walked to Qin Huai and asked: "Master Qin, you came so early today, there must be something to do. May I ask if there is anything I can help with?"

Qin Huai really needed Gu Li's help.

Help him be a helper to make Hundred-Fruit Filling.

Qin Huai came so early today specifically to make a batch of Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan first. The amount didn't need to be large, just over a dozen. (Too little is also not easy to make)

When Zheng Siyuan and Tan Weian tasted what normal Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan tasted like, the slightly bizarre story Qin Huai made up would increase a bit of credibility.

Gu Li was a very professional helper. Although he didn't work fast, his basic skills were very solid, and his knife skills were very good. Qin Huai asked him to chop the nuts and dried fruits, and Gu Li went to Tan Weian's kitchen counter to chop, chopping them finely and carefully, very seriously.

Qin Huai was boiling sugar.

After these days of trying, Qin Huai had found the approximate dosage of winter melon sugar. A dosage that looked very much like a lethal dose, but the sweetness was just right after pulling the sugar.

Sweetness must be sweet; Hundred-Fruit Filling is originally a sweet filling, and it would be against the laws of nature if it weren't sweet.

Having made Hundred-Fruit Filling for so long, Qin Huai was already very skilled at boiling sugar and pulling sugar. When Qin Huai's preparation work ended, the dried fruits and nuts on Gu Li's side were also all chopped.

The whole Huang Ji back kitchen was filled with the sweet fragrance of winter melon sugar.

Tan Weian, who had just walked to the kitchen door, was stunned. Was his nose hallucinating? How did he seem to smell the terrifying fragrance of boiling winter melon sugar?

That sweet and greasy taste made Tan Weian think directly of Hundred-Fruit Filling, and then he shivered.

Who is it? Who is doing such a sinful thing in Huang Ji's back kitchen early in the morning?

Tan Weian walked into the back kitchen in horror and found it was Qin Huai and his junior brother.

Tan Weian closed his eyes in pain.

Junior brother, how could you also be an accomplice?!

Seeing Tan Weian come, Qin Huai hurriedly called him: "Tan Weian, you came just in time, hurry up and come over to help, help me make some glutinous rice skin."

Tan Weian hurriedly stepped forward to be an accomplice together.

When rubbing the glutinous rice skin, Tan Weian quietly glanced at Qin Huai's side and found that the dosage of winter melon sugar and lard was much more exaggerated than before, so he could only dare not open his eyes, hoping it was his hallucination.

He didn't even dare to think that the previous Hundred-Fruit Filling was already very bad, and now the Hundred-Fruit Filling with so much winter melon sugar added would be bad to what extent.

His worry these days was indeed correct. Qin Huai was psychologically perverted due to too much work pressure. He could control it before, but now he couldn't control it directly, and he was ready not to let anyone in Huang Ji go early in the morning.

Tan Weian's glutinous rice skin was rubbed halfway when Zheng Siyuan came.

The sugar had already been boiled, and the fragrance of winter melon sugar in the kitchen had dissipated a lot. Zheng Siyuan smelled the taste only when he walked into the kitchen. Seeing Qin Huai making Hundred-Fruit Filling, Zheng Siyuan excitedly walked up quickly to see what the recipe was.

"Why use so much winter melon sugar?" Zheng Siyuan frowned.

In Zheng Siyuan's view, adding so much winter melon sugar was a more heretical practice than the previous random attempts.

"Because I got some new inspiration a while ago and found that winter melon sugar is actually the main ingredient of Hundred-Fruit Filling," Qin Huai explained, "You will know why after you taste it when it's done."

"Is the glutinous rice skin ready?" Qin Huai asked Tan Weian.

"Ready, ready," Tan Weian hurriedly handed over the glutinous rice skin, stretched his neck and carefully looked at the amount of Hundred-Fruit Filling, "How many is this amount for?"

"Not many, less than 20," Qin Huai said.

Zheng Siyuan didn't stay idle either, helping to wrap Tangyuan, and finally even helped boil them directly.

This batch of Tangyuan was improved by Qin Huai on the basis of yesterday's success.

For Qin Huai, Tangyuan is not a difficult dim sum. As long as the direction is found, it is galloping on the road to success, and the speed of progress is absolutely rapid.

Last night, Qin Huai was able to make normal-tasting ordinary Tangyuan.

Today, he wanted to make a Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan that would not be eliminated by the times and could barely be called a good taste and quite distinctive.

Tangyuan rolled in the pot.

Out of the pot.

Zheng Siyuan served the Tangyuan, not in small bowls, but all in a large basin. Everyone was watching from the side, no one took a bowl first, and Qin Huai even took out his mobile phone from his pocket and started counting down.

3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Although Tan Weian didn't understand why it was 3 minutes and 50 seconds, he wasn't a fool. He could roughly guess that Qin Huai was counting down for the Tangyuan to cool down and be edible. In order to look like he was very busy, Tan Weian silently went to get bowls and spoons, distributed a set to everyone including Gu Li, and then stood at the end himself.

This way, he didn't have to be the first to eat when eating Tangyuan.

Qin Huai watched the time.

3 minutes and 49 seconds.

3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Time is up!

"Can eat," Qin Huai said.

During the waiting period, the rest of the Does Zhi Wei Ju chefs all came. Everyone didn't work and silently gathered on the side to watch.

Gu Li was in the first place.

Gu Li thought about it, only scooped a Tangyuan with a large spoon, blew it twice without any hesitation, and took a bite. Under everyone's expectant eyes, he said not very surely: "The taste..."

"Is okay."

Tan Weian widened his eyes.

Junior brother, you have really changed! You are not only an accomplice now, you have also learned to flatter!

Gu Li also couldn't believe his sense of taste, and carefully savored it: "Sweet but not greasy, the taste of winter melon sugar is a bit heavy but not abrupt, and the nuts have a different taste when chewed in the syrup."

"Can you taste other tastes?" Qin Huai asked.

Gu Li nodded: "Can taste almond and peanut taste, but other candied fruit tastes can't be tasted, only a unified sweetness can be tasted."

That's right!

This version of Hundred-Fruit Filling wants a unified sweetness!

After yesterday's attempt was successful, Qin Huai thought about whether to highlight the taste of nuts or the taste of other candied fruits. Combining Master Zhou's recipe, Qin Huai felt that the focus should be on nuts, and candied fruits play more of a role in increasing sweetness, so that the sweetness does not unify into the sweetness of winter melon sugar.

Gu Li is a professional white-case chef with a normal sense of taste. If he says it's okay, then it must be really okay.

Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan scooped up a Tangyuan one after another and started to taste.

Just as Gu Li said, now winter melon sugar is the absolute protagonist of Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan, almond and peanut are supporting roles with names, and others are all extras.

However, this supporting role A, almond, seems to want to steal the show, so some scenes have to be deleted.

After deleting, the okay Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan can become a good-tasting Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan.

As for the delicious Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan, more precise ingredient adjustment is needed.

"Your idea of covering most ingredients with winter melon sugar is good, but the almond taste seems a bit heavy, the sweetness is just right, should the dosage of lard be increased when boiling sugar? I feel the taste is not round enough," Zheng Siyuan discussed seriously.

"These can be tried and changed slowly. I feel that the overall train of thought now is no problem at all. I have tried it a few times at home these days, and now it is the most successful version. The dosage of winter melon sugar should be the amount of this version, no need to change," Qin Huai discussed while eating.

Zheng Siyuan nodded: "Although this method will make the ingredients seem a bit chicken-rib-like, it is still a balancing technique."

"Actually, my dad secretly complained and complained to me at home that it is impossible to achieve unity with normal methods with so many raw materials. The best method is to cover all other tastes with one or two prominent tastes." "My dad tried a few times, but there was no result. Seeing that you were not researching Hundred-Fruit Filling, he was too lazy to try."

"Where did you get the inspiration to cover all other tastes with winter melon sugar?"

Tan Weian, who silently scooped one, ate it, and didn't dare to speak, asked curiously.

Qin Huai knew that he was about to start his performance.

"Actually, Mr. Gong, Master Huang, and Master Zheng had already told us the answer at the beginning."

Zheng Siyuan & Tan Weian:?

"Still remember when I first asked about Hundred-Fruit Filling, their most unified impression of Master Jing making Hundred-Fruit Filling back then was that Master Jing used a lot of winter melon sugar, so much that he didn't have enough of his own, and Master Zheng even ran home and stole 5 jin?"

Both nodded together.

Zheng Siyuan only felt incredible: "You thought of this method just by this? Hundred-Fruit Filling originally needs to use a lot of winter melon sugar. I always thought it was because materials were scarce back then, and my dad emphasized it specifically for exaggeration."

"Of course not, I actually got the inspiration when I was chatting with Did Luo Luo a while ago."

Qin Huai knew that it was easier to convince Zheng Siyuan to get inspiration from Qin Luo than from anywhere else.

"Isn't Did Luo Luo going to have winter vacation soon? This girl is greedy to death, thinking about the New Year before the vacation, and hasn't even taken the final exam yet, and she was nagging me on WeChat about drinking my grandma's bean soup when I go back for the New Year."

"You may not know that in our hometown, it is very popular for the elderly to drink bean soup during the New Year, intending to ask for a good omen."

"Legend has it that in a village under another city, there was a centenarian many years ago. His children were filial, and every festival and the old man's birthday, they would look for different beans, count 100 of each bean to boil soup for the old man, intending to live a long life."

"Later, this old man really lived a long life, living to be over 100 years old."

"This custom of boiling bean soup spread, and the more types of beans used, the better, 100 of each, the more types, the better the meaning, the deeper the blessing."

"Every New Year, my grandma wants to ask for a good omen, but the soup boiled with many types of beans is bad to drink. So she usually only puts a few types of beans or just boils mung bean soup, and drinks more red bean soup, the meaning is the same."

"Did Luo Luo mentioning bean soup reminded me that many times the variety of food is not to make the dish delicious, but because the more variety, the better the meaning."

"Think about it carefully, Master Jing made two types of dim sum on the day of Mr. Gong's birthday, Thousand-Flower Palace Lantern Bun and Four-Joy Sweet Rice Balls, all of which are dishes with excellent meanings. By the same token, Hundred-Fruit Filling Sweet Rice Balls uses such complex raw materials, the purpose may not be to make the taste better, but for the meaning."

"So I was inspired, combined with the hint of using a lot of winter melon sugar, and felt that it should be this train of thought, and practiced at home for a few days."

"Look, this road is feasible, should we follow this direction..." Qin Huai deliberately paused, leaving time for Zheng Siyuan and Tan Weian to echo.

Tan Weian was a bit confused. He felt that what Qin Huai said made sense, but he didn't understand.

He felt that Qin Huai seemed to be making up a story to fool him, but this logic seemed very smooth, and he couldn't think of why Qin Huai wanted to make up a story to fool him.

He didn't understand.

He didn't understand why someone could summarize such an amazing train of thought through the clues of winter melon sugar and chatting with his sister on WeChat.

Is this a genius? Is this the world of a genius?

When Tan Weian's grandfather, Master Tan, was still alive, he always told Tan Weian that although his talent was okay, there was still a big gap compared to a real genius. Tan Weian always felt that his grandfather was a bit boosting others' morale and extinguishing his own prestige.

How could there be a big gap, at most a little gap.

Now Tan Weian felt that his grandfather's words were true.

Zheng Siyuan suddenly realized: "So that's it, it's me who didn't think of this layer."

Tan Weian:???

Not buddy, you just accepted it like this?

Qin Huai chatted with his sister, and it was still about the New Year, and the Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan broke through. Is this reasonable?

"Being able to think of such a method and make delicious Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan, worthy of being a grandmaster," Zheng Siyuan sighed.

"Yes," Qin Huai agreed, "I feel that with our level, we can at most make it taste okay. Wanting to be outstanding on such a basis, the difficulty is indeed too high."

Tan Weian:???

No, you guys just discussed the next part so happily?

The previous part was just brushed over so lightly?

Are the brain circuits of you geniuses so magical? So able to accept? So understand each other?

Tan Weian quietly moved away from the two, walked to Gu Li's side, and asked: "Junior brother, did you hear what they just said? Do you understand? Do you think this is reasonable?"

Gu Li continued to make Ruyi Rolls and said calmly: "Don't understand, but since Master Qin and Master Zheng both understand, it means this train of thought should be correct."

Tan Weian:...

Tan Weian went to make dim sum with a face full of question marks.

Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan didn't stay idle either. Zheng Siyuan didn't come to Huang Ji in advance. As soon as he came, he made Tangyuan, boiled Tangyuan, ate Tangyuan, and discussed, which delayed a lot of time. Making wontons would definitely be too late.

Qin Huai took the initiative to propose that Zheng Siyuan didn't need to make wontons this morning, he would make chicken soup noodles, rubbing noodles was faster.

Zheng Siyuan loved chicken soup noodles and agreed on the spot, saying he wanted to eat two bowls.

He hadn't eaten chicken soup noodles for many days.

Without having to make breakfast, Zheng Siyuan simply went to work early, helped Qin Huai be a helper, and kneaded a batch of dough for Guo'er.

Now the only people in Huang Ji's back kitchen who can help Qin Huai with this kind of help are Zheng Siyuan and Zheng Da.

At 8:40, Dong Shi came to Huang Ji for breakfast excitedly.

As soon as he walked into the kitchen, Dong Shi was pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Huai was making breakfast this morning, and there were chicken soup noodles to eat, great!

What a beautiful day!

If he could eat a bowl of chicken soup noodles made by Qin Huai in the morning, Dong Shi felt that even if he couldn't hear the latest gossip about the Sixth Senior Brother dating during the break at noon, he wouldn't feel sad.

"There are Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan over there. If you have an appetite, Dong Shi, help me taste one and give some opinions," Qin Huai said casually.

Dong Shi's sense of taste is very good, and he is good at talking, but he has a bit too much nonsense, so he is a very good taster.

Dong Shi: (=°Д°=)

Sure enough, all gifts are secretly marked with a price.

The price of eating chicken soup noodles this morning was actually having to eat a Hundred-Fruit Filling Four-Joy Tangyuan before eating chicken soup noodles.

Forget it, eat it.

Just treat it as for the friendship between him and Qin Huai.

Dong Shi walked to the basin with the appearance of being ready to die, wanting to pick a small one to scoop out, and then found that the Tangyuan in it were about the same size, so he could only pick one he felt was small.

The Tangyuan was a bit cold.

But it didn't affect eating.

Dong Shi took a bite.

For the sake of friend... eh?

This Tangyuan!

It's actually a bit delicious!

If Dong Shi had eaten this taste of Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan a year ago, he would only say it was okay. But now it's different. Now Dong Shi has eaten many Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan that are bad to the bone and ordinary.

Now suddenly eating one that tastes okay.

Immortal product!

Simply an immortal product!

How can there be such a delicious and normal Hundred-Fruit Filling Tangyuan in this world!

"Qin... Qin Huai, did you make this?" Dong Shi was shocked.

"Yes," Qin Huai was still rubbing noodles and didn't look up, "Didn't I have a new train of thought a few days ago? I've been practicing for the past two days. How is it, the finished product is okay, right?"

"Okay, too okay!" Dong Shi was very supportive.

The next second, Dong Li came to work.

"Brother!" Dong Shi rushed up directly, like a happy husky, excitedly said, "Brother, I think that rumor is true. Qin Huai must be working hard every night when he goes home and not sleeping to make dim sum!"

"Go eat that Tangyuan quickly, that's the evidence!"

Qin Huai:?

Who is spreading such rumors about him outside?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 246 =====