Chapter 325: Someone Else Made the Buns

"Then have you eaten any particularly delicious crab roe snacks?" Qin Huai asked directly.

Qin Huai knew Wang Gensheng's personality very well. The biggest characteristic of Old Man Wang, who was upright all his life, was that he spoke his mind and answered every question. As long as it was something he felt could be said and had a clear conscience, he would definitely say it. If it couldn't be said, he wouldn't make up excuses and would say directly that it couldn't be said.

Old Man Wang was just that honest.

To get information out of Old Man Wang, no tricks or paving were needed; just go straight to the point.

As Qin Huai expected, Old Man Wang began to think seriously. About two or three minutes later, Qin Luo had finished the bowl of crab roe mixed noodles in her hand and mixed another bowl herself, before Old Man Wang spoke slowly.

"It should be the double-crab buns I ate when I was young." Old Man Wang's eyes were full of nostalgia. "A friend invited me to eat them; I only ate them once. It's really nostalgic."

Qin Huai was a bit surprised. The friend Wang Gensheng mentioned must be Xu Nuo. If Wang Gensheng had a second friend who could afford double-crab buns, then the friends Accountant Wang made when he was young were too wealthy.

However, Qin Huai didn't expect that Old Man Wang had only eaten double-crab buns once.

Looking at the task description of Old Man Wang, Qin Huai thought that Old Man Wang either had never eaten double-crab buns, so he wanted to eat them once in Huang Ji to make up for his regrets, or he had eaten double-crab buns many times, couldn't eat them now, and wanted to find the taste of the past.

He didn't expect that he had only eaten them once.

It seems that double-crab buns must be very delicious to make Old Man Wang miss them for so many years.

"What exactly is the taste? I've been researching the recipe you gave me recently. To be honest, just looking at the recipe, I can't really tell. Do you still remember what the double-crab buns tasted like? Can you tell me in detail? Were they made with fresh crab roe or crab roe paste? What month did you eat them?"

"January." Old Man Wang said very definitely. "My birthday is in early January, and I ate the double-crab buns on my birthday."

That would be the crab roe paste version.

"As for the specific taste..." Old Man Wang thought carefully again. He often doubted whether he had Alzheimer's disease, and it wasn't without reason. Old Man Wang was old now, and his memory was much worse than before. Although he liked to recall the past, he always talked about the same few things over and over again.

If there were new listeners who wanted to hear new things, Old Man Wang would tell them that he couldn't remember for a while.

"It's a bit like this." Old Man Wang tried to combine his unclear memory with the current crab roe mixed noodles to describe it in detail. "It's... the crab roe flavor is very rich, but it's also a bit light."

"Very fragrant. One bite, and you can see the filling is oily, the kind of oil from yellow crab oil, but it doesn't feel oily at all when eaten."

"The texture is relatively mellow, just like eating salted egg yolk with flowing sand, but it's much fresher than salted egg yolk."

Old Man Wang's adjectives were relatively vivid. Qin Huai understood it roughly; it should be double-crab buns made with crab roe paste that hadn't added too many spices and had been thickened with starch, and then re-stir-fried like today when making the filling.

Wait, Zheng Siyuan didn't know the recipe for double-crab buns made with fresh crab roe, but the recipe for crab roe paste definitely wouldn't be wrong. Unless Zheng Da learned it wrong or changed the recipe secretly, but with Huang Shengli's corroboration, even if Zheng Da changed the recipe, it would be impossible to hide it from Huang Shengli.

Zheng Siyuan's recipe for crab roe paste was to add a lot of spices to make the taste very strong and complex. Wang Gensheng's food review here was that the crab roe flavor was very rich, but at the same time a bit light, indicating that the taste wasn't strong and the auxiliary ingredients weren't complex.

The two people's statements were contradictory.

Qin Huai looked at Wang Gensheng seriously for a few times. He believed that Old Man Wang would definitely not lie, unless he remembered it wrong, but Wang Gensheng's memory wouldn't be that bad.

But Zheng Siyuan had no reason to lie to him either.

Zheng Da also had no reason to lie to Zheng Siyuan.

Qin Huai had the answer in his heart.

What Zheng Siyuan said was true, and what Wang Gensheng said was also true, but the double-crab buns Wang Gensheng ate back then weren't made by Master Jing at all; someone else made the double-crab buns.

If this was the case, the idea of making double-crab buns couldn't follow Zheng Siyuan's idea. It had to follow Wang Gensheng's idea; he was the issuer of the side quest and also the taster of the double-crab buns, so his needs had to be satisfied.

Qin Huai didn't expect that brushing up on Wang Gensheng's favorability would also bring unexpected joy. If it weren't for today's conversation, he would have taken so many detours.

"Thank you so much, Old Man Wang." Qin Huai said with a smile, his voice full of gratitude, and this gratitude wasn't fake. "Are you free this afternoon?"

"Ah?" Wang Gensheng, who had stuffed a mouthful of noodles into his mouth, was stunned, then reacted, licked the crab roe at the corner of his mouth, and swallowed the noodles. "Yes, yes, I'm free anytime."

"Your Old Man Wang is retired now; all I have is time!"

"Then I have to trouble you, Old Man Wang, to come over every afternoon to taste the crab roe paste. I plan to make crab roe paste first, and then make double-crab buns after the crab roe paste is right."

"Is today's crab roe mixed noodles to your taste? If it is, every day after you finish tasting the crab roe paste, I will make you another portion of crab roe mixed noodles, so you don't have to come here specifically just to taste the sauce."

Wang Gensheng, who was upright and honest all his life, couldn't withstand this temptation, laughing until the corners of his mouth almost split to the back of his ears, saying: "How can this be? How does that saying go? I'm becoming someone who eats and takes."

"It should be."

Wang Gensheng just wanted to slurp another mouthful of noodles; this feeling was too happy, so happy that he wanted another bowl of crab roe mixed noodles.

"Then I won't be polite, Old Man." Wang Gensheng said happily, continuing to eat noodles happily.

Qin Huai also quietly left Wang Gensheng's side, glanced at Luo Jun and Chen Huihong, who were eating noodles and whispering and communicating privately, and walked to Zheng Siyuan's side to tell him about his discovery just now.

Of course, he couldn't say it directly; he had to make up a new reason.

Making up reasons was what Qin Huai was best at. Since the game system was activated, what Qin Huai was best at was talking nonsense.

"How are today's crab roe mixed noodles?" Qin Huai asked.

The noodles in Zheng Siyuan's bowl were almost at the bottom, and he said faintly: "Quite good."

"But I prefer chicken soup noodles."

"Make them tomorrow morning. Have you discovered that with current raw materials and technology, it is already possible to make crab roe paste and fresh crab roe not very different? You don't need to add too many seasonings, and you can retain the flavor of crab roe for a long time, as long as the raw materials are good enough and the cost is high enough." Qin Huai began to hint.

Zheng Siyuan followed Qin Huai's hint and continued: "It is like this, so I have been thinking about why my double-crab buns in the afternoon were not successful. Is it because I love to pursue heavy ingredients too much, so that I deviate from the seasoning that bun filling should have?"

"I think so too." Qin Huai had an expression of "I knew you understood me, brother." "The crab roe paste version of double-crab buns is a derivative of normal double-crab buns, because crab roe couldn't be obtained for a long time, so it was a production method that had to be adopted."

"There wasn't that condition back then, but now there is. I'm thinking, can the crab roe paste version of double-crab buns not use heavy ingredients, adopt the production idea of the original version, reduce the use of seasonings and auxiliary ingredients as much as possible, the simpler the better, the more prominent the original flavor the better."

Zheng Siyuan was shocked.

Although he had already violated the ancestors' decision very much, he didn't expect that he could violate it like this.

Zheng Siyuan was silent for thirty-something seconds before asking uncertainly: "Can it?"

"Try it. Anyway, there is so much crab roe paste, so it's not a waste to try. Didn't you say before that this crab roe paste is large and enough? If the cost is high, it's high; it doesn't matter. At worst, add a noodle dish to Yunzhong Canteen in the future: crab roe mixed noodles."

"Just sell it for 168 or 188 a portion, and you'll get your money back."

Zheng Siyuan:...

"Okay." Zheng Siyuan nodded, then try it tomorrow. On the other side, the conversation between Chen Huihong and Luo Jun also came to an end.

The two didn't talk about anything; they just observed Wang Gensheng and analyzed Wang Gensheng's current state.

Luo Jun rarely went out on weekdays and basically hadn't seen Wang Gensheng, so he naturally had to look a few more times now that he met him.

"By the way, Luo Jun, why did you suddenly go out to eat crab roe mixed noodles today? I thought you would let Xiao Zhang pack it and take it back." Chen Huihong sighed. "Is it because the weather is better recently, and you want to go out and sunbathe? You are not someone who sunbathes."

Luo Jun swallowed the last mouthful of crab roe mixed noodles calmly, didn't speak, took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the empty bowl. The empty bowl with no noodles left, only some residual crab roe paste, was the highest affirmation of the taste of crab roe mixed noodles.

Luo Jun sent the photo to the "Love Each Other Family" group, adding a sentence:

The taste is good; some things are better made and eaten on the spot.

Luo Jun put down his mobile phone, showing an expression of "you are not good enough to fight me": "So what if you are eloquent? You can only look at pictures in the group."

Chen Huihong:...

It could be seen that Chen Gong caused great damage to Luo Jun last time, making Luo Jun so angry that he went out to eat in person, just to take a picture and send it to the group to anger him.

After sending the photo, Luo Jun got up and shouted to the outside: "Xiao Zhang, pack another portion of crab roe mixed noodles, going home."

"Very well, Mr. Luo." Zhang Shumei, who had been sitting at the kitchen entrance ready to serve at any moment, hurried to the window to pack the order, holding a Coconut No. 1 from the Xiao Ou Hand-Beaten Lemon Tea shop in her hand.

Luo Jun left gracefully.

Chen Huihong looked at Luo Jun's back as he left and sighed: "Why do I feel that he will go out to eat every day just to take pictures in the future."

"Jingjing thought of so many ways before but didn't let Luo Jun go out. It turns out that just angering him is enough."

Chen Huihui also finished the noodles in her bowl and asked Chen Huihong with some misunderstanding: "Mom, what is angering or not angering Grandpa Luo? Why anger Grandpa Luo?"

"This is not important; it's mainly for the sake of Grandpa Luo's health." Chen Huihong smiled and fooled her daughter. "Huihui, are you full? Do you want another bowl?"

"Full!" Chen Huihui licked her lips. "Mom, should we pack a portion for Uncle? Aren't we going to play at Uncle's house tonight?"

Chen Huihong thought about it and finally decided to endure the pain and pack her own late-night snack portion for her younger brother, and went to pack it too.

People with normal appetites basically finished eating at this time, leaving only Ouyang and Qin Luo eating heartily.

Seeing both of them eating crab roe mixed noodles as if taking revenge, Qin Huai couldn't help but remind: "There will be crab roe mixed noodles to eat every day in the future; don't eat too much at once and hurt yourself."

Hearing that there would be crab roe mixed noodles every day, but because she exposed the fact that she hid her mobile phone because of today's crab roe mixed noodles, Qin Luo was even sadder and decided to eat another bowl.

Hearing that there would be crab roe mixed noodles every day, Ouyang was overjoyed and decided to eat another bowl to celebrate.

Qin Huai:... Are you two reincarnations of Taotie and Dangkang? So able to eat.

Of course, in the end, Qin Luo didn't succeed in eating 8 bowls. Zhao Rong didn't let her eat when she ate the 5th bowl. Mainly because Qin Luo had a dark history of eating too much and vomiting. Although the last time she vomited was when Qin Luo was in elementary school, it was hard to guarantee that this child wouldn't break through her physical limits and vomit again because she was too sad about having her mobile phone confiscated.

In the end, Qin Luo and Ouyang each ate 5 bowls, 1:1 tie.

Ouyang, who was full, was in no hurry to go back to the shop to make fruit tea and make money. Recently, Xiao Ou's hand-beaten lemon tea shop was too profitable, and the boss started to play big, not selling fruit tea after dinner—the boss had to go to the gym to exercise and lose weight.

"Ouyang, let's discuss something." Qin Huai walked to Ouyang's side.

Ouyang said very readily: "You want to drink fruit tea, right? What flavor? I'll make you a 2L super-large size!"

"Not drinking now. It's like this: Yunzhong Canteen might sell crab roe mixed noodles in the morning and evening in the future."

Ouyang was overjoyed again: "Can eat in the morning too!"

Look, this is the arrogance after making money; he didn't even ask the price and just wanted to eat.

Ouyang was also living a wealthy life that truly belonged to a rich second generation.

"Don't you feel that crab roe mixed noodles are too monotonous to eat alone, and easy to get tired of after eating too much?"

"Yes, I felt this way when I ate the 4th bowl. I could have eaten another bowl, but I was really a bit tired of it, so I didn't eat after eating 5 bowls." Ouyang nodded frantically in agreement.

Qin Huai:... Not brother, you... forget it.

Qin Huai continued: "Don't you think you should pair it with something to drink?"

Ouyang agreed very much: "It should be paired with something to drink to relieve the greasiness."

"I think your shop's lemon tea and fruit tea are quite good." Qin Huai smiled slightly. "Opening at 8:00 in the morning is too late. I'm used to eating breakfast before 8:00; you guys open a bit earlier, at 7:00 or 7:30."

Ouyang: o(°△°|||)︴

Tears of not wanting to get up early for work flowed in Ouyang's heart, but he didn't dare to show it, because he also wanted to eat crab roe mixed noodles in the morning.

Crab roe mixed noodles are really delicious; the noodles are chewy, the crab roe is salty and fresh, the sauce is wrapped around the noodles and sent to the mouth, full of the fresh fragrance of crab roe, and then chewed lightly.

Slurp.

How can there be such delicious noodles in this world? Crab roe mixed noodles are really a great invention!

Ouyang wanted to eat another bowl again; he suddenly felt that it wasn't greasy anymore.

In order to be able to eat crab roe mixed noodles in the morning, and to be able to eat more without getting tired, Ouyang nodded painfully:

"Okay, isn't it just opening at 7:00? Open!"

"But brother, can I make a cup for you every morning first, and then come over to eat crab roe mixed noodles before officially opening?"

"Of course, Zheng Siyuan and I are counting on you to help us try the dishes."

"Eat more, don't be polite."

There is enough crab roe, and enough noodles.

Qin Huai indicated that once he really started making crab roe paste, it would be that kind of secondary processed crab roe paste, and he and Zheng Siyuan would make it for a few hours every day, in such a large quantity that they could turn Yunzhong Canteen into a crab roe mixed noodle specialty store.

Uninformed passersby would think that this shop specializes in selling crab dishes, and the crab roe flavor could drift from the shop to the opposite side of the road.

Don't ask; asking is the self-cultivation of a pastry chef with a large output.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 326 =====