Chapter 290: Any recommendations?

The method for Four-Joy Tangyuan has been written many times in the previous text.

Qin Huai made Four-Joy Tangyuan according to many identical descriptions that had appeared before.

Sometimes Qin Huai had to admit that Luo Jun was a very thoughtful old bird; many times you don't need to tell him anything, he would take the initiative to let Zhang Shumei prepare everything that could be prepared.

The ingredients for Chen Pi tea were placed by the sink.

The bag of glutinous rice flour was placed on the kitchen counter.

The sesame sugar filling and red bean paste filling that Qin Huai mailed over two days ago were all thawed and placed on the kitchen counter, covered with a cover.

Preserved fruit and nuts were next to the bag of glutinous rice flour.

Even the pork was freshly bought this morning; it was the most suitable part for the meat filling of Four-Joy Tangyuan, placed in the most conspicuous position on the top shelf of the refrigerator, visible as soon as the refrigerator door was opened.

By the way, next to the pork was a fresh pigeon that had already been processed.

Qin Huai first stewed the Chen Pi tea and then started making Four-Joy Tangyuan.

After more than a week of knife-work training, Qin Huai's Four-Joy Tangyuan couldn't be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds, but it could be said to be exactly the same.

His knife-work training didn't increase his knife-work proficiency; it was purely a matter of scattering his cultivation and retraining.

It's just that the scattering of cultivation and retraining in martial arts novels is about the proud son of heaven being beaten into the mud, losing all his martial arts, and having his bones destroyed. Then he experiences thousands of hardships, at least 5 episodes of TV drama plot, at least 500,000 words of water in novels, encounters various opportunities, and it's best to meet a few confidantes or good brothers, suffers all the cold and warmth of the world, and finally obtains peerless martial arts to show off and slap faces.

This wasn't Qin Huai's plot.

Qin Huai didn't have any cultivation to scatter.

He just forgot his previous worthless wrong basic skills, started learning again from holding the knife as a beginner, returned to zero, and practiced knife-work for a few days.

When Qin Huai held the knife, he felt that he should also be considered a professional chef with half a formal training.

This movement, this exertion of force, this feeling of flowing clouds and water, this simple chopping of preserved fruit and nuts.

Master Cao, your unnamed disciple has learned!

Qin Huai was happily chopping preserved fruit in the kitchen, and then started chopping meat. Chen Huihong was secretly looking inside from outside the kitchen, eating fruit salad while whispering:

"Luo Jun, why don't you let Zhang Shumei help Xiao Qin chop the meat? You know Xiao Qin's meat-chopping level; it's just a little better than mine."

Luo Jun: "...... Blame me?"

"How many Four-Joy Tangyuan have I eaten in total? The Four-Joy Tangyuan you brought back from Gusu were only divided into 8 jin for me; during those few days of the New Year, Xiao Zhang went back, and I also gave her 3 jin; there was no one at home to boil Tangyuan, and I burned the pot myself; how would I know what meat is needed."

Luo Jun wished he could spray a mouthful of fire to burn Chen Huihong together: "You still want me to write an experience summary; why should I write an experience summary for Qin Huai? Am I the kind of person who writes experience summaries?"

"You aren't writing..."

"I am writing a bad review!"

In order not to laugh out loud, Qu Jing could only stuff rice cake soup into her mouth frantically.

An hour later, the temperature had cooled down, and the Chen Pi tea and Four-Joy Tangyuan, which were just right, were brought out of the kitchen by Qin Huai at the same time.

The TV in the living room had already been turned off. Luo Jun was sitting at the dining table gnawing on cherries, watching Qu Jing peel pomegranates with small clips.

Chen Huihong was also watching from the side, eating melon seeds while watching, occasionally swiping a few pomegranate seeds from the small basin full of pomegranates that Qu Jing had already peeled and stuffing them into her mouth.

"Mr. Luo, with the current situation of your legs and waist, you really need to go to the hospital for regular physical therapy. I was still hearing Sister Hong say two days ago that you haven't gone out for these few months, sitting at home for a long time without moving, and you are so old. You are not a Bi Fang now; you have a human body, even if your body is stronger than ordinary humans, you are still 92; don't avoid the doctor."

"Physical therapy that should be done still needs to be done; you have already paid the money, haven't you?"

Qu Jing persuaded Luo Jun while peeling pomegranates, persuading in a gentle voice, not caring whether Luo Jun listened or not, because her attention was entirely on the pomegranates and she didn't look at Luo Jun at all.

Luo Jun gnawed on cherries without expression. Seeing Qin Huai come out of the kitchen with a tray in his hand, he straightened his waist.

"Four-Joy Tangyuan and Chen Pi tea are ready; they are both at the most suitable temperature and can be eaten directly." Qin Huai walked to the dining table. Qu Jing hurriedly stood up and helped Qin Huai put the bowls on the table.

Two bowls for each person.

There were only 4 chairs at the dining table in total. Luo Jun and Chen Huihong sat together, Qin Huai and Qu Jing sat together. In front of Qin Huai's position, there was also a banana with a standard appearance, beautiful color, and not a single black spot.

Qin Huai picked up the banana almost at the same time he sat down and started eating.

Luo Jun started to taste the Chen Pi tea.

At Luo Jun's place, let alone A-rank Four-Joy Tangyuan, even S-rank Four-Joy Tangyuan had to be ranked behind Chen Pi tea.

Luo Jun only took one sip and faintly praised: "Your craft has not been learned in vain; it is stronger than before."

"It might be because what you drank before, Mr. Luo, was sent across provinces, and the flavor was already far worse than before when it arrived." Qin Huai still had self-knowledge.

His Chen Pi tea was still D+ rank; the rank wouldn't lie.

Luo Jun didn't speak and continued to drink.

Chen Huihong had already started eating Four-Joy Tangyuan, playing with her phone while eating; her phone interface was impressively a memo, and in the memo was the Four-Joy Tangyuan eating experience she wrote during the New Year.

Seeing that Chen Huihong had started eating Tangyuan against the memo, Qu Jing followed suit, took out her phone, and flipped to the eating experience she wrote.

Qin Huai:......

No, how much do you all distrust A-rank Four-Joy Tangyuan!

He reiterated again, A-rank Four-Joy Tangyuan and B-rank Four-Joy Tangyuan are simply not the same kind of Four-Joy Tangyuan!

Four-Joy Tangyuan is a standard combo skill, 1+1+1+1 > 4; even if the other three don't change and only one is upgraded, filling the short board, the overall flavor and eating experience will have a qualitative improvement.

Clearly, Chen Huihong and Qu Jing are not eating this qualitative improvement now, because they are still eating the bean paste filling Tangyuan in the previous order, then the sesame filling, and only then will they eat the meat filling.

Chen Huihong ate very fast.

She should be hungry.

Qin Huai didn't eat at all; he just stared at Chen Huihong, waiting for her to eat the meat filling Tangyuan.

Today is the first day of his Master Xiao Qin's return like lightning; he wants to prove his strength in front of these three spirits, proving that his diligent study and hard practice during the entire New Year were not in vain.

Chen Huihong scooped up the fresh meat filling Tangyuan.

Chen Huihong opened her mouth.

Chen Huihong bit off a small half.

She started chewing.

Her expression started to change.

She was about to open her mouth to speak.

This is it!

"Eh." Chen Huihong looked at the Tangyuan in the spoon with some surprise; the meat filling was wrapped in glutinous rice skin, and after being boiled, especially when looked at by a layman, you couldn't see anything.

"Xiao Qin's culinary skills have really improved; this meat filling Tangyuan is much better than before."

Then Chen Huihong couldn't wait to chew, chew, chew, sweeping away the meat filling and eating the last hundred-fruit filling.

With a bowl of Tangyuan in her stomach, Chen Huihong still drank two mouthfuls of the tasteless soup with lingering interest, praising: "Delicious, this time it's truly delicious."

And then there were no extra words and expressions; Chen Huihong continued to drink Chen Pi tea.

Qu Jing's speed of eating Tangyuan was much slower than Chen Huihong's; Chen Huihong started drinking Chen Pi tea, and Qu Jing had just managed to finish the meat filling one.

Because of her personality, Qu Jing herself was not a person with extroverted emotions, and after awakening, she just changed from being withdrawn to being an introverted normal person.

"Delicious." Qu Jing expressed affirmation for today's Four-Joy Tangyuan, afraid that her barren language would appear a bit perfunctory, looking at Qin Huai very sincerely, firmly saying, "It's really especially delicious." "Much better than before, I... should I go back and write a new review for you?"

Qin Huai:......

Although he was praised, why did he always feel that he didn't return as a king as expected?

"No need, no need." Qin Huai waved his hands repeatedly, "Four-Joy Tangyuan practice can stop here; no need to write a review; wait until I start practicing Jiang Mi Rice Cakes, then you can write a review."

Jiang Mi Rice Cake is a recipe touched out from Qu Jing's memory; she is the most qualified to comment.

"Okay, I will definitely write it seriously." Qu Jing nodded with a smile.

Luo Jun's tea party lasted until after 6 PM before ending. The 4 people didn't talk about any nutritious important topics, didn't talk much about spirits, just purely shared their New Year life.

Luo Jun's New Year life was boring and dull, spent watching dramas, watching movies, and writing bad reviews.

Qu Jing didn't fare much better; she didn't dare to tell Luo Jun and Chen Huihong about visiting her biological parents for fear of revealing the truth; the rest was on duty at the hospital, and there was no exciting medical trouble worth talking about.

The medical trouble in their neurology department seemed so plain compared to the medical trouble in other departments, not to mention that they were a private hospital, and the medical trouble itself was relatively plain.

Qin Huai was also very bored, only making Tangyuan and chopping radishes.

The most exciting one was Chen Huihong; compared to Ouyang sending his whole family to the hospital on New Year's Eve, Chen Huihong was inferior, but not much behind.

She sent herself to the hospital on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Maybe it was influenced by Qin Huai's cooking, or maybe it was because she ate too many delicious steamed buns at Qin Huai's place last year, making her feel that Chen mother's buckwheat steamed buns were really unpalatable, and she expanded.

Chen Huihong took the initiative to volunteer on the first day of the Lunar New Year, saying she wanted to cook a meal for her family, and then gave herself three cuts on her hand while chopping vegetables.

None of them were serious; just stick a band-aid on it.

When cooking, she didn't control the heat well; it was either not cooked or burned, and the problem wasn't big.

The real problem was in boiling soup.

Chen Huihong boiled a large pot of radish and pork rib soup.

And then she forgot.

The kitchen caught fire.

She was gloriously injured in the process of fighting the fire and went to the hospital on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Finally, the tea party ended in Luo Jun's: "Chen Huihong, if you want to die, you can jump off the building directly; there is no need to enter the kitchen; don't think about entering my kitchen in the future!"

What a warm and happy tea party.

After the tea party ended, Qin Huai originally wanted to go home and lie down to play with his phone, ending a happy day. As a result, before he even walked to the unit door, Qin Huai suddenly felt that it was a pity that he didn't eat white rice today; during these days at Cao Guixiang's house, Qin Huai fell in love with eating main meals, and the thing he looked forward to most every day was eating.

After all, who can refuse a home-cooked meal personally cooked by Cao Guixiang?

Home-cooked dishes with rice, one bite of dish and one bite of rice, pouring the dish soup on the rice, slurp.

"Slurp." Qin Huai thought and was hungry.

Qin Huai decided to go to his own canteen to appreciate whether the chef had been lazy in these few months and whether the culinary skills had regressed.

The Yunzhong Canteen at 6 PM is the second busiest time of the day.

For ordinary workers, there are many choices for dinner; eat something good when paid, and eat something casual at home when not paid. The ordinary meals in Yunzhong Canteen are considered cheap among the fast-food restaurants nearby and are the first choice for many workers after work.

Even in the days when Master Xiao Qin was away, office workers would still choose to come to Yunzhong Canteen to eat a plain meal, sitting in a familiar seat and sighing about the happy times when they could eat snacks to their heart's content.

There were especially many office workers in Yunzhong Canteen tonight.

Everyone had received the news that Master Xiao Qin had returned like lightning.

Around 3 PM, he appeared briefly in the Xiao Ou Hand-beaten Lemon Tea shop for a period of time, then disappeared, suspected to be an advertisement for Xiao Ou Hand-beaten Lemon Tea.

However, there were photos and videos as evidence, which encouraged many new and old diners, and everyone had already started looking forward to breakfast tomorrow morning.

Only after losing do you know how to cherish the beauty of the past; for many diners who couldn't go to Gusu, the time when they could eat buns and snacks personally made by Master Xiao Qin every day was like a dream.

Now, the beautiful dream is back!

An office worker named Xiao Zhang, who had no name, came to Yunzhong Canteen to eat after work as usual.

Xiao Zhang's company management was very strict; he couldn't look at his phone for more than 30 seconds during work hours, and couldn't go to the bathroom for more than 5 minutes. Plus, Xiao Zhang had a meeting all afternoon and was physically and mentally exhausted, so he was one of the few old diners who didn't look at the group news.

When Xiao Zhang came, he noticed that the Xiao Ou Hand-beaten Lemon Tea opposite Yunzhong Canteen seemed to have opened, with many customers and long queues.

When Xiao Zhang entered the shop, he still sighed in his heart; everyone said milk tea was hard to sell, but there was still such a popular milk tea shop; this area of Yunzhong Canteen was truly a geomantic treasure land.

"Handsome, what do you want to eat?" The waiter serving dishes asked enthusiastically.

Xiao Zhang looked at the dishes that hadn't changed much in a few months and said without interest: "Stir-fried pork, stir-fried eggs with tomatoes, cauliflower, and another bowl of seaweed soup."

"Alright." The waiter served the dishes nimbly, "There are also peach crisps made by Master Pei this afternoon in the shop, do you want two pieces?"

"Give me two pieces."

Xiao Zhang took the tray and started looking for a seat.

Just then, he heard the young man behind him ask the waiter serving dishes in a joking and familiar tone: "Pei Xing's shortbread has to be sold until 6 PM to be sold out; has he been lazy and unpopular recently?"

The familiar voice made Xiao Zhang look more than once.

Just one look, and Xiao Zhang was stunned.

Qin Huai, wearing a mask, was pointing at the stir-fried tomatoes with eggs and telling the waiter to serve more, pouring the soup on the rice.

"Ma... Master Xiao Qin!" Xiao Zhang's voice trembled.

For a moment, his tears almost fell.

Master Xiao Qin, do you know what kind of breakfast we ate during the time you were not in Yunzhong Canteen!

In the days without you, I couldn't eat the snacks you made for lunch, and the food didn't taste good!

"Shh." Qin Huai made a shushing gesture, "Don't make a scene; I haven't started work today."

Xiao Zhang hurriedly closed his mouth.

"Remember to come to the canteen for breakfast earlier tomorrow; there are many new products tomorrow, and dining in is more delicious." Qin Huai said with a smile, "You can also patronize the Xiao Ou Hand-beaten Lemon Tea shop opposite when you have time."

"It's especially delicious!"

"Definitely!" Xiao Zhang said excitedly, trying to lower his voice so as not to attract others' attention, making others think they were just friends who happened to meet while serving dishes.

"Any... any recommendations?" Xiao Zhang asked.

Qin Huai: "Don't drink lemon tea with strange flavors."

"Strawberry, coconut milk, blueberry, and mango, highly recommended."

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