Chapter 319: Vegetable Meat Bun

Facing Qin Huai's sudden talk, the employees in the kitchen all looked very calm, as if everyone could guess what Qin Huai wanted to talk to An Youyou about.

In fact, everyone could indeed guess.

Nothing more than a promotion and raise.

Qin Huai valued An Youyou, and An Youyou was good at flattering, and every time she made a statement, she could make Pei Xing bite his back teeth, which was not a secret in the Cloud Canteen.

And An Youyou indeed had merits.

Can endure hardship, willing to work, willing to work overtime, nuclear-powered cattle and horses, company veteran, and a good name.

Yes, in the eyes of many employees, An Youyou's biggest advantage was having a good name remembered by the boss.

The disadvantage of being remembered by the boss is that the boss only remembers you, and if he wants to use people or run errands, he subconsciously calls you. The advantage is that the boss really remembers you, and he will prioritize you when there is a chance for promotion and raise.

Of course, the former is a common situation, and the latter depends on the boss's conscience.

Qin Huai is clearly a boss with a conscience.

The above sentence is Pei Xing's heartfelt words. Pei Xing suggested hanging this sentence in the kitchen, and it must be marked that he said it. It would be even better if he could add a sentence that Qin Huai is the pastry chef Pei Xing respects most.

After cutting the radish shreds, Qin Huai took a photo and sent it to Cao Guixiang, asking Master Cao to check the homework, and then started making vegetable meat buns.

Qin Huai making C-level vegetable meat buns is definitely a dimensionality reduction strike.

It's not that Qin Huai is bragging, he can definitely make C-level buns with his eyes closed now.

Well, closing his eyes might not work, but opening one eye and closing one eye is definitely okay.

Because he saw the detailed process of Jiang Weiguo making vegetable meat buns in the dream, Qin Huai didn't even watch the video tutorial, ordered An Youyou to take a few helpers to mince the filling, and then started kneading the dough directly.

Honestly, the filling made by An Youyou and others is not good, but vegetable meat buns don't have high requirements for the knife skills of the filling itself, just fat meat cubes and large cabbage, just mince it.

It's just that the difficulty of seasoning is slightly higher.

Jiang Weiguo only used the most basic salt when making vegetable meat buns with limited ingredients. However, to some extent, salt was enough. This kind of simple bun might be counterproductive if too many seasonings were added during seasoning.

Soon, Qin Huai adjusted three large basins of filling.

Pei Xing and Li Hua theoretically should have been off work at this time, but neither of them left, because they were really curious why Qin Huai suddenly started making such normal, simple, and even simple buns.

Before Qin Congwen insisted on selling buns every morning, he would mix some other ingredients in the cabbage buns, such as mushroom cubes to enhance freshness and flavor. This kind of pure cabbage mixed with fat meat cubes buns can be said to be the vegetable bun among vegetable buns.

Qin Huai is wrapping buns.

An Youyou is wrapping buns with Qin Huai on the side.

Pei Xing and Li Hua wrapped buns at the kitchen table at a distance from Qin Huai because they were unwilling to leave after work.

Pei Xing stared at An Youyou's back very jealously and said angrily, "What flattery did An Youyou make again, how come she wraps buns so close to Master Qin, and we are so far away!"

Li Hua felt that Pei Xing might be perverted because he couldn't roll himself or An Youyou, so he wrapped buns calmly without raising his head, "Master Qin wants to talk to An Youyou about promotion and raise, so he deliberately called her to the side to wrap buns together, and chatted to ask her meaning, isn't it normal?"

Pei Xing: "Damn, why can An Youyou get a promotion and raise but I can't?"

Li Hua:?

A raise can be understood, but a promotion...

Aren't we both the highest level of pastry chefs in the Cloud Canteen now? Where do you want to be promoted to? Promoted to the boss of Master Qin? Young man, you are going to rebel.

Li Hua shook his head and stopped paying attention to Pei Xing.

Today, Pei Xing lost to himself again in asking Master Qin for advice, and lost to An Youyou again and again in flattery, and has become perverted, so it is better not to provoke him.

On Qin Huai's side, Qin Huai was indeed chatting with An Youyou, a chat to get close, the kind specifically for spirits.

An Youyou also guessed that she might get a promotion and raise, and she was so happy.

"Youyou, how far is the place you live from our canteen?" Qin Huai asked.

"Only 10 minutes!" An Youyou said happily, "Master Qin, will I still fry the radish cake in the future?"

An Youyou was a little worried, worried that her job change would also change the title of Radish Cake Sister.

"Of course." Qin Huai expressed that with our relationship, especially your identity as a Three-Legged Golden Toad, as long as you want, the radish cake in our Cloud Canteen will belong to you in the future.

Qin Huai felt that he could start asking about business: "Do you have any plans for your future work?"

An Youyou was stunned.

Qin Huai added: "That is, do you have any goals you want to develop or anything you want to learn? I know you have been practicing knife skills recently, but practicing knife skills is a very long process after all. You can't help mince meat and cabbage in the back kitchen for a lifetime, is there anything else you want to learn?"

An Youyou understood, the boss is asking if she has ambition.

Bosses all like employees who have perseverance, perseverance, can endure hardship, and have high ambitions!

"I want to be a breakfast chef like Chen An!" An Youyou said loudly, "I live close now, get up early, and work fast. I can wrap buns, wrap shumai, fry dough sticks, and wrap wontons. Actually, I can also knead dough, but I can't knead it well, and Master Qin doesn't let everyone knead it."

"But Master Qin, don't worry, I will definitely work hard to learn and practice. I have been kneading dough every day when I go home during this time, and I eat dough slice soup made by myself every morning."

Qin Huai:...

How did you change from thinking that begging is the best job in the world, no job can compare to begging, to your life ambition being a breakfast chef?

How much psychological shadow did Jiang Weiguo's buns cause you? Did Jiang Weiguo get rich by selling buns?

"Very good, very ambitious." Qin Huai encouraged, "But don't be too tired. By the way, I got some employee benefits for everyone recently. When are you off?"

"This Friday."

"Go to Xijie to get the physical examination voucher tomorrow, do you know Dr. Qu?"

"Know."

"Go to Dr. Qu's hospital for a physical examination, come to the store before you go, and bring some pastries to Dr. Qu by the way."

"Okay, Master Qin."

After talking about work, Qin Huai wanted to turn the topic to life. After thinking about it, he asked casually: "Youyou, I remember you said you wanted to save money to buy mobile phones, tablets,

"I bought a tablet; I bought it as soon as I got my salary this month." An Youyou's eyes lit up when she mentioned this. "The screen is so bright and clear; watching TV shows is especially clear, much clearer than when I watch on my phone!"

"Do you go out to play when you're resting?"

"No, I practice my knife skills at home whenever I'm resting! Really, I'm very diligent. I bought a lot of radishes to cut at home," An Youyou said very solemnly, almost raising her hand to swear, with "I want a promotion and a raise" written all over her face.

Qin Huai:...

That's really not necessary. Our cafeteria isn't one that insists on 996 or requires employees to be on call 24 hours a day, unlike the companies in the nearby office buildings.

"Don't feel pressured. Youyou, I remember you telling me that your family used to run a breakfast shop too. I haven't met many peers in all these years, so tell me about it."

Qin Huai's ability to coax information out of people had grown day by day since he met Gong Liang and Chen Gong. If Gong Liang and Chen Gong could somewhat tell that Qin Huai was fishing for information and were only saying what they could to accommodate Master Qin's habit of loving gossip, then An Youyou couldn't tell at all.

The child was honest; she blurted out everything she could and couldn't say.

From their town's breakfast business to her father cutting corners—not wanting to use lard or good vegetable oil for the vegetable baozi—every time he bought oil for the baozi, he bought it at the big market at a very cheap, low price, which caused their baozi to always have a strange, stale smell, and her father had to add extra spices to cover it up.

As a result, doing this not only failed to lower costs, but the cost of buying spices actually went up. However, it was a blessing in disguise; her father discovered a brand-new recipe for vegetable baozi—those few spices added haphazardly were a perfect match for their vegetable baozi, and they were especially popular with the villagers from all around, making their breakfast shop business boom.

This directly led to An Youyou having to get up at 2:00 AM every morning to chop filling. After graduating from junior high, she chopped filling day and night at home, chopping until An Youyou wanted to vomit the moment she smelled the filling of their vegetable baozi.

An Youyou didn't treat Qin Huai as an outsider either; she opened her mouth and revealed their family's secret recipe.

An Youyou even told him about how, when she first came to Shancheng to look for work and had no money in her pocket, she wanted to ask around to sell their family's secret recipe, only to find it couldn't be sold at all.

Regarding this, Qin Huai stated that before An Youyou awakened, he would absolutely not reveal any secret recipe to her.

Of course, there weren't any secret recipes to reveal anyway. In Qin Huai's view, the dim sum he knew how to make didn't count as secret recipes; they were all things one would naturally know how to do once their skill points were sufficient. At most, there were some small techniques, and if one couldn't make them, it was definitely a matter of ability.

At An Youyou's current level, there was a high probability she wouldn't understand the production process of any dim sum.

After all the baozi were wrapped, Qin Huai only drew one conclusion. The exact same conclusion as before.

An Youyou was very short on money, loved money, and loved spending money even more, so she still didn't have much money in her pocket.

She really lived the life that a three-legged toad would find very difficult to live.

After talking with An Youyou, Qin Huai discovered that what Luo Jun said in the video call earlier wasn't actually a big problem; it was just a bit too aggressive.

In treating An Youyou, one truly needed to help her awaken through direct promotions, raises, and material help. An Youyou was a spirit who wrote her obsessions and desires on her face and never shied away from showing them.

She just wanted to make money, make a lot of money, money that would allow her to live a wealthy life, and preferably money that would allow her to live a life of luxury.

She didn't actually care much about how this money was specifically earned. As long as she wasn't caught and sent to sing "Tears Behind Iron Bars," An Youyou's bottom line when it came to making money was very low; she wouldn't even mind selling her family's exclusive recipe.

To make her awaken, making her wealthy was the most direct and also the most useful method.

But this method had to have limits.

It couldn't be too abrupt, nor could it be too much like a pie falling from the sky. An Youyou's moral bottom line when it came to making money wasn't high to begin with; if she could get something for nothing, her bottom line would be even lower, and there was no guarantee she wouldn't go astray, affecting her tribulation.

Luo Jun's suggestion of directly giving her a house or money definitely wouldn't work. He had to let An Youyou achieve promotions and raises through her own labor, using employee benefits that she didn't have before but could have now to let An Youyou live a more comfortable life.

Qin Huai felt he had probably figured it out.

Qin Huai watched An Youyou put the baozi on the steamer; the first batch of baozi was almost steamed.

Qin Huai didn't let Pei Xing or Li Hua leave; he told them to wait for the first batch of baozi to be steamed and taste them before leaving.

Luo Jun and Chen Huihong were already sitting by the window. The last serving of warm Chen Pi tea in the cafeteria was placed in front of Luo Jun, and next to the Chen Pi tea was a cup of iced Coconut No. 1.

Luo Jun took a sip of warm Chen Pi tea, then a sip of iced Coconut No. 1. Looking from afar through the window, Qin Huai felt that the old bird would definitely have diarrhea tonight.

However, seeing Luo Jun looking like someone had provoked him or he had eaten gunpowder, Qin Huai felt that his drinking iced beverages with Chen Pi tea was actually quite good—it cleared heat and reduced internal fire.

The sky outside was already turning dark.

At this time of day, no matter how you calculated it, it was evening.

The first batch of guests who came to the Yunzhong Cafeteria for dinner had already finished eating and were preparing to leave.

Luo Jun looked very unhappily at Chen Huihong, who was sitting across from him cracking melon seeds, and took a large, angry gulp of Coconut No. 1: "Chen Huihong, can you not sit across from me cracking melon seeds?"

Chen Huihong calmly spat out a melon seed shell: "I can only sit across from you; besides me, no one else dares to sit in this seat. It's almost mealtime; you can't just occupy a whole table by yourself and affect Xiao Qin's business, right?"

After finishing, Chen Huihong pointed to the window: "Look at Youyou, how diligent she is at work. If Xiao Qin hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have guessed she was actually a three-legged toad."

"Keep your voice down."

"Don't worry, there's no one around. Even if others heard, they'd think I was talking about a novel's plot."

"You..."

"Hey, the baozi seem to be ready! I'm going to buy some baozi. How many do you want to eat?"

"Two."

Chen Huihong went to line up excitedly.

Besides Chen Huihong, quite a few people who were paying attention to the window also discovered that the baozi were ready. Many people had seen Qin Huai wrapping baozi in the afternoon. In Yunzhong Cafeteria, there was a consensus: as long as the baozi were wrapped by Qin Huai, it meant these baozi were definitely made by Qin Huai.

Ever since Qin Huai stopped being a breakfast chef, the frequency and quantity of him making baozi had dropped significantly. Every time he made them, he only made a little bit; two batches would be snatched up in less than 10 minutes. Let alone the office workers in the nearby office buildings, even the residents of Yunzhong Cafeteria hadn't eaten baozi for several days.

Now that he had actually made so many, everyone was practically waiting to be fed.

The middle-aged woman in the first spot asked excitedly: "What kind of baozi are these? Are they San Ding Bao? Give me 10!"

That was truly bold.

"They aren't San Ding Bao, they're the new vegetable baozi launched by Master Qin, only three yuan each," the server at the window said with a smile. "Liu Ayi, don't be in such a hurry, the steamer hasn't been brought back yet."

Hearing that Qin Huai had made vegetable baozi, Liu Ayi was even more excited. Vegetable baozi were good; vegetable baozi were cheap.

Master Xiao Qin made dim sum every day; while having more variety was certainly good, the cost had also gone up. The 68-yuan-a-bowl Four Happiness Tangyuan was good in every way, except it was too expensive. The residents of Yunzhong Residential Area had money, but that didn't mean they didn't feel the pinch.

Many times, the elderly would sigh, "Sigh, it's really too expensive," while chewing hard, chewing a few extra times to "chew back" the money.

The mung bean cakes were also quite good and cheap enough, but the quantity was too small, and they couldn't be snatched up. 333 jin of mung bean cakes a day simply weren't enough for the guests to fight over. Many office workers nearby didn't necessarily come to Yunzhong Cafeteria for lunch and dinner, but they would definitely make a special trip to buy a portion of mung bean cakes to take away.

In their words, if they couldn't eat mung bean cakes as afternoon tea while working in the afternoon, there was nothing to look forward to in life.

Now that Qin Huai was selling cheap dim sum again, and it was the simple, unadorned vegetable baozi, Liu Ayi almost cried with joy.

"Vegetable baozi are good, give me 20 vegetable baozi!" Liu Ayi said excitedly.

"Liu Ayi, can your family finish 20 vegetable baozi? Let's say 10 for now; there are quite a few people behind you," the server reminded her kindly.

Only then did Liu Ayi realize that she had almost bought too much due to a momentary lapse in composure. That was close, so close; she had almost been "justly executed."

"I misspoke just now, 10, give me 10," Liu Ayi said with a smile.

As they were talking, the baozi arrived.

The steamed baozi were brought to the window along with the steamer for sale, and An Youyou and the others who participated in making the baozi had already eaten their first "private meal."

The freshly steamed baozi were very hot.

But it didn't matter; An Youyou had experience selling breakfast at home since she was a child. As long as her hands could hold them and she kept blowing, she could eat them after blowing a few more times. Unlike red bean paste baozi, the filling of vegetable baozi wasn't piping hot, so as long as she was careful to take small bites, she wouldn't burn her tongue.

An Youyou opened her mouth first.

A tiny bite.

The skin of the vegetable and meat baozi Qin Huai made this time was very thin.

In the dream, the vegetable and meat baozi Jiang Weiguo made had very thin skins, not to achieve the goal of "thin skin and thick filling," but entirely because An Youyou had bought too little flour while the cabbage was too much.

If the dough wasn't small and the skin wasn't thin, she couldn't finish wrapping them.

The benefit of thin skin was that even though An Youyou only took a light, small bite, she reached the filling.

A very monotonous, but not particularly bland, not rich enough, yet still decent-tasting baozi filling.

It was an ordinary vegetable baozi, but it tasted much better than ordinary vegetable baozi.

The diced fatty meat stained the plain, bland cabbage filling with a hint of oil and meat flavor.

An Youyou only felt that this baozi was truly delicious.

Clearly, this was just an ordinary vegetable baozi, and the taste wasn't particularly outstanding—far from being as delicious as the San Ding Bao, Five Ding Bao, and red bean paste baozi Qin Huai made—but An Youyou just felt this vegetable baozi was delicious.

Eating it gave her a special sense of satisfaction, and she even felt a bit of happiness.

An Youyou felt the happiness of getting a salary without having to go to work, even though it was completely impossible to get a salary without working.

"Master Qin, this vegetable baozi you made is truly too delicious; I have never eaten such delicious vegetable baozi! If my dad had this skill, even if my mom only gave me 100 yuan a month... ah no, 500 yuan, I would be willing to get up at 2:00 AM every morning to help my dad wrap baozi!"

Pei Xing:!

What?! There's such a way to suck up!

Qin Huai said with a smile: "Is that so? Then I am truly honored. However, you chopped this baozi filling, so you also have a share of the credit for the baozi being so delicious."

"By the way, Youyou, I plan to promote you to assistant foreman starting next month. Your basic monthly salary will increase by 1,500, plus an extra 600 yuan subsidy, and you'll get an additional 2% commission on the pan-fried radish cakes."

"Thank you, Master Qin, but what is an assistant foreman?"

"Don't worry about it, anyway, your basic salary is going up by 1,500."

"Thank you, Master Qin!!!"

(End of chapter)